The Anomalous Watcher

Humans have existed in this world for two million years, yet only the last few thousand years of that time have mattered. So what were we doing before then? We huddled in crowded caves like wild animals, gathered around campfires and trembling with fear of the things we didn't understand, whether the eerie, ever-changing spirits of the East or the bird-headed, human-bodied beings of the West.