Not necessarily ~where~ humans found water – I understand it was lakes, streams, etc. – but our bodies seem so unnaturally built for hunching over a lake and drinking water. We don’t have 4 legs like other animals so we can’t do it very easily and I imagine it would hurt your back to be leaning over water like that. Did they scoop it up with their hands or something? I’m just curious if anyone definitively knows the answer to this. Thanks
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We have no way to know for sure.
But, natual human stature and build say it was most likely from a squatting position, either by cupping the hands, or using a leaf, or other rudimentary item for a cup, like chimps.
Around 14,000 BC, we started to figure out pottery, around then were our first early cups. But its safe to say, we were using hollowed out Gourds and animal bones well before that. Some of our earliest tools were probably water containers, most likely made of gourds
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