Traditionally, it is thought that the Paleolithic was the worst time period to live in. Only rudimentary technology existed, people were at the mercy of the elements and wild animals, everyone walked around with weapons, ready to bash eachothers' head in at the slightest provocation, and women were little more than sex slaves and walking wombs.
The only positive depictions of this period usually only came from naive sources which either identified this period with the Garden of Eden from a religious perspective, or utilized Noble Savage fantasies which appropriated and misunderstood cultures which are hunter-gatherers in the present-day or have been a few centuries ago.
However, nowadays I'm running into an increasing number of sources on the internet, which either state that the Paleolithic was actually the best period to live in, or that everything between the Paleolithic and the 20th century was worse than either.
I can't cite any sources, as I have encountered this topic only to a cursory degree yet, and a lot of sources are biased towards ideologies whose core tenets include depicting the Paleolithic in a positive light, such as Anarcho-Primitivism, the Paleolithic Diet, or the Urban Caveman Movement, but unbiased sources usually point out that human remains from the Paleolithic reveal people who were in a better health and condition than virtually any remain which came from the Neolithic or even the 19th century, average human height and dental health for example only reaching Paleolithic levels by the 20th century.
There are also sources which try to reconstruct what Paleolithic society and culture must have been like. These usually state that the "Mad Max with sticks and stones" vision of the Paleolithic is inaccurate, and things like Patriarchy, Slavery, and casual violence were things that were developed after the Neolithic Revolution, while Paleolithic societies were generally egalitarian.
Another surprising thing I encountered is that RationalWiki, a website which is heavily biased towards a pro-Science and pro-Technology viewpoint, and which points out logical fallacies including such things as "appeal to nature" and "appeal to tradition" in every topic which it covers, also has a largely negative view of the Neolithic Revolution, seeing it as a point of origin for malnutrition, material inequality, the exploitation of people, and misogyny.
What are your views about this topic? Have you encountered these revisionist views of the Paleolithic yet?