"Benga was brought to the Bronx Zoo (aka the New York Zoological Gardens) by Samuel Verner, an explorer who discovered Benga in Africa and brought him back to the United States. Once at the Zoo, Benga was displayed in a cage at a ‘Primate House’ exhibit. The floor of his cage was scattered with bones to suggest its inhabitant was a fearsome cannibal. Unlike other exhibitions of humans that occurred in this period of history, Benga was not housed with others of his own kind, but rather made to share his cage with another ‘primate’: an orangutan called Dohong."

From Science Alert

“It was insane, utterly unsustainable,” says Leary. “We tend to think of people during the Neolithic as somehow being at one with their environment, but they appear to have been just as bad as we are. They were clearing, felling, digging, and consuming their environment at an unsustainable rate in building these huge projects.”

on NationalGeographic.com