Where did paleolithic humans sit/sleep?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/13zrptx/where_did_paleolithic_humans_sitsleep/

created by MadisonGecko on 03/06/2023 at 22:20 UTC

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It seems like in the modern day, people can hardly imagine a world without comfortable chairs to sit on for most of the waking day. But obviously, long ago there was a time before chairs as we know them.

Were our prehistoric ancestors just sitting on logs, rocks, and the ground for all the parts of the day they were resting? Were they uncomfortable most of the time, or were they just used to it? Are we just soft in the modern world?

Obviously we can't really know what paleolithic peoples were doing in this regard, but is there any information on this subject we can glean from biology, ethnography of modern hunter-gatherers, or archaeological evidence?

I also invite uneducated speculation. What do you think it would be like to live in a world with no truly comfortable surfaces to sit or sleep on?