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I think an early human would struggle with the WAIS-III IQ test, which is the gold standard in psychology, but so do a lot of people from non-anglo-saxon cultures, and a debate rages about whether that test - and other tests - measure 'real' intelligence.
Neanderthals were our closest relatives, rather than our ancestors, which sort of underlines the point. Our closest living relative is probably the gorilla, and whilst we might know a clever gorilla when we see one, their intelligence is different from ours, but we can recognize it as intelligence nonetheless.