Which very high quality crafts are you referring to? Every pre-agriculture artifact I&#x27;ve seen looks to have been made by a modern three year old. The only impressive thing I&#x27;ve seen come from pre-agriculture society is agriculture.<p>Have you ever done long-distance backpacking or similar outdoorsmanship? Even with modern outdoors tech, conditions are often really rough. Pre-agriculture people were even worse off. It was very much brutal. They also had to contend with unchecked disease, malnutrition, and lethal weather.<p>Does a life of &quot;just chilling&quot; sound tolerable to you? These people had no intellectual pursuits, nothing to strive for. If certain parts of humanity hadn&#x27;t developed agriculture and eventually industry, humans would just keep rolling around in the dirt and dying at 50 until an asteroid took us out of our misery.