Primitive man less intelligent than us?

Do you think "Primitive" man are far less intelligent than the humans of today?

What if a man/woman with the same "IQ" of normal humans today was born in a "primitive" world, without knowledge of anything but their own instincts, and the knowledge of the "primitive" humans around them. Do you think this person could accomplish more than the common "primitive" man could? Is our superior "Intelligence" just a illusion, since we never discovered everything we were taught, but that our "inferior" ancestors discovered, little by little?

Do you think YOU could discover the properties of fire/plants (farming) without previous knowledge of these subjects, just using your basic human knowledge? Do you think you could invent important things such as the wheel, wagon, irrigation and weaponry?

Do you think Billy Bob that lives down the street could discover fire if he, and no other human had previous knowledge of its properties? Do you think the young girl that served you your coffee at the local Cafe could? Do you think Stephen Hawking could?

>>6
Perhaps.  But do you know how to bring down a Mammoth with a spear?  Or operate a highly sophisitcated farm that did not damage the surrounding ecology?  Or build stone buildings, on sand, that after 4000+ years have sunk only 1/4 inch (as opposed to the Empire State Building, which has sunk 3 inches in 100 years)?

>>1
Intelligence is intelligence, and is limited not by experience, but by imagination.  An ancient Greek Shoemaker/Inventor, Heronas, build what is possibly the world's first steam engine, computer (yes, I said computer - powered by sand and pully, believe it or not), and shares the spotlight with the invention of the rapid-fire Bow Gun (an invention created almost simultaneously by the Chinese).

Cocoa can be found inside certain Egyptian Mummies.  Cocoa only grows in South America.  Therefore, someone was smart enough 3,000 years or so ago to build a ship and create shipping lanes across the Atlantic Ocean.

Moai statues on Easter Island.  Carved from volcanic rock, these monoliths weighing anywhere from 75-270 tons, were transported from their mine to the coast and situated facing west several miles away.  A few years ago an archeologiest showed how these statues could have been moved and set-up by people who only possessed basic tools by using a crude timber/pulley system.  The only fault with his revelation was that he had to import the wood from South America, because there has never been vegetation on Easter Island capable of being used to transport and situate these statues.

Today, we assume we are greater than our ancestors.  The sad part is that only the last few thousand years of our existance was recorded, while everything else is conjecture and hypothetical.  It's worth to note that some legends state that Humankind has existed in its current form not for the past 20,000 years, but for 100,000 years - that humanity has risen in status and intellect, only to be crushed by either arrogance or natural calamity...only to start again.  We supposedly live in the 5th cycle of humanity, according to these legends.