Misconceptions About the Stone Age
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- Learn the real stories behind the original paleo diet, Stone Age dentists, and cavewoman hunters.
Host Justin Dodd (@juddtoday) breaks down some common myths and misconceptions about the Stone Age.
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It’s hard to tell where Justin ends and that wallpaper begins this week! Love it!
He's developed camouflage capabilities. He's evolving, just like a Pokemon!
His entire shirt is made with the pieces upside-down on the fabric.
I'm visually impaired and it took me a second to realise that that wasn't just a floating head.
@@pricklypear7516 the distinction is the kinds of dinosaurs on the wallpaper and his shirt.
Uh oh. Send in the D Class.
One of my favorite observations about the stone age and the past in general: "They weren't stupid, they just lacked knowledge." They had to learn the basics that we learn as children. Biology, chemistry, engineering. How do you learn how the human body works when you don't have the resources we have now to rely on? They had to do it without textbooks or the internet and then pass it on to later generations so that they could start from a place of higher knowledge.
ancient humans were just as smart, they just didn't have the benefit of all that previous generation knowledge being written down and easily passed down and easy to reference
Individually we are still Stone Age. If there's ever a disaster we better hope the people that know stuff survive. Imagine asking around your group of survivors who knows how to make metal from scratch nobody okay we're Stone Age who knows how to make fire nobody we are screwed
@@tolfan4438 - We've drifted so far from the real world - the trouble with rising so high is that when we fall the resulting crash is a hall of a lot harder.
"We don't need to know how to do it, we can always look it up online" - until you can't get online, and then you're buggered. This is what happens when we let machines do our thinking for us!
ps: it's also why I favour Scouting and other similar organisations: learning to survive without tech.
"They weren't stupid, they just lacked knowledge." - that deserves to be famed and hung up in museums!
very agree, they are the pioneers of what we know today
We have found a twist of yarn in a cave that dates back between 41,000 and 52,000 years. That along with an ancient needle found in a Denisovan cave makes me think they knew nalbinding which a precursor to knitting and crocheting. So maybe they had mittens and socks and warm undershirts and leggings. Blankets and scarfs and hats are also a real possibility. The preconceived notion that they wore nothing but ragged unshaped unsewn furs is a misconception.
The reason we call it the stone age is because only the stones survived. It's likely homo erectus, and all temperate/northern human species since, wore tailored clothes of cured hides. Necessity -> Invention.
the oldest socks found were from egypt, and they were knit so similarly to modern socks! they had 2 toe sections, so they were worn with sandals :)
@@Demobius Egyptian socks were made by nalbinding not knitting. They made them out of some crazy colors too! What's interesting to me is they wore socks and sandals but they depicted themselves as barefoot in almost all their paintings. It's like they knew even though socks and sandals are very comfortable it looks stupid.
Chilly Honey I’d beat my 1999 Honda Civic DX THEY DID. Why? Well, TRY M LASTING/SURVING MUCH LESS HUNTING FOR MORE THEN 1 HOUR BEING 100% naked in IN A MOUNTAIN WITH TEMPERATURES OF -20 Degrees.
Socks may have served the same role as slippers, seeing as it's too hot for them during the day, and wearing socks may have helped keep their beds clean
Stone age beats Shear age beats Papyrus age.
Bronze shears
And Papyrus age covers Stone age... and round and round we go.
Noooooooooi
Papyrus beets battlestar galactica
Priceless!🤣
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What about that hunting gathering isn't necessarily "primitive" or "stupid" just because some societies never reached the iron age doesnt mean that they messed up, it only means they never needed to.
Hunter gatherer cultures in Africa actually have more genetic diversity anywhere else on earth. One theory behind that is that consistently had better survival rates than agricultural society, due to factors like a greater food supply, and not being exposed to as many diseases from agriculture.
primitive - prime - first - the way people first lived. If hunting and gathering is what the first humans did, then it is primitive. You could also consider it on a technological developmental continuum: the place people start. If what we do now is done because it's a smarter way than what we used to do, then yes, by comparison, that which is primitive is less smart by a long stretch (i.e. stupid) than what we do now. There are some ifs to consider in there, but we think that for a reason. "Needing to" might be primarily what leads to improvement. "Necessity is the mother of invention"
@@davidmhh9977 what are you talking about? The established reason behind lower diversity in Africa is because of the founder effect. Small founding populations usually have less diversity than the parent population. That's why the further out you get from the original split the less diverse the population. For example, Eurasia has less diversity than Africans, but Native Americans have even less haplotypes than Eurasians.
@@davidmhh9977 also they were highly mobile as they didn't have a field of crops to stay and take care of. First sign of trouble they could just bugger off somewhere else.
@@andrew348 higher genetic diversity in Africa not lower. It has more separate haplogroups in the whole continent than in the rest of the world.
Make no mistake, Stone Age people also had means of medical anesthesia. Not cereals, but poppies were the first plant to be cultivated - and not make poppy seed rolls. It is also known that where neither poppy nor hemp grew, they used mushrooms instead.🤪
Yeah they must have had a wide cultural knowledge of plants, especially ones useful in cooking and medicine. There are plants today even that only indigenous and tribal groups know how to use. We underestimate just how important cultural knowledge has been for us.
Appreciate this video. We don't have to look far to see what stone age people were like, at least I don't where I live in Alaska. Some of the local villages didn't have but rare contact with the modern world as short a time ago as 40-50 years. The Tlingit of Southeast Alaska, stone age people, carved 100 foot canoes that they used to sail as far as California and even pushed them over White Pass and into the Yukon drainage to raid the interior tribes and white invaders. They had fine art and extremely fine weaving of Tlingit blankets and waterproof hats and bowls made of cedar bark.
acorns made up an important part of our diet, prior to agriculture. you have to leech the tannins though, and eventually they worked out how to keep the bugs away that normally inflicted 95% of collected acorns. it has a very good nutritional profile, after you leech tannins away.
The Native
Peoples of California relied heavily on acorns. It appears that they tended oak trees whose acorns were naturally low in or free of tannins. Oaks have been the target of domestication efforts to breed tannin free acorns. All have failed due to multiple Gene's controlling the amount of tannin. Acorns have been a fall back food for centuries
Chestnut blight eradicated the vast chestnut forests of eastern North America. It eliminated a huge food source for many species. Sudden Oak Death may do the same on the West Coast.
Something about learning that they used spices broke my mental conception of stone age life. Idk why that specifically did it, but it made me reevaluate a topic I never gave much thought to.
Thanks!
But were they actually "using" spices to get distinct flavors the way we do today? They were, after all, hunter/GATHERERS. Isn't it more likely that anything edible ended being eaten? Obviously, at some point they isolated certain flavors to complement other bases and began to fine tune their combinations, but I'm willing to bet that this didn't happen until the Neolithic. When they became more agrarian, they could depend on certain foods at certain times (but their choices were a LOT more limited, so focusing on flavor might have become important). Not until they settled in one place could they store, rather than carry, these flavorings. Actual cooking vessels wouldn't have been common until then, either. The Neolithic is still the Stone Age, but it's way more comparable to our modern life than is the Paleolithic.
@@pricklypear7516 from my admittedly limited research, they appear to have been eating spices with limited nutritional value and only in comparatively small amounts, so that wouldn't be consistent with eating just anything edible they could get their hands on but would be consistent with them being used as we use spices today
@@pricklypear7516 this is such a strange comment to me. Where do you think spices came from? And you're aware that stone age people were human beings right? Like their brain worked the same way yours does now
@@pricklypear7516 well they had taste buds like we do. Our taste buds are there to tell us when something is bad to eat (tastes bad) or whether something is good to eat (tastes good). Its highly likely that they would have sought out the tastiest food they could. Herbal medicine is a big thing still today and while some doesnt work, a very large amount does and has been verified by science.
"Neanderthal Booty Call" would be an excellent band name.
I was unsure where the wall paper stopped and the shirt started. Great episode.
4:15 there's both that baked "bread" goes back 35,000-30,000 years if you count evidence found in some ancient Australian aboriginals campsite to be bread. Also that's the earliest evidence of earthen ovens too.
The Americas were in the "stone age" when Europeans arrived. They had a rich complex society that was only missing advanced metal working. In no way was it any less complex than others. We just don't find the evidence as much of it deteriorates over time.
Exactly the same applies for the Australian Aboriginal people. They where definitely Stone Age people but had a very advanced society and the women collected most of the food as the men hunting the animals could be somewhat unreliable at times. They were highly educated and most of their Dreamtime stories are very familiar with our Christian western laws.
@Avery Christy There was a recent paper which posited that the purer nature of copper deposits which were being used by the copper culture in North America resulted in less efficient copper tools than those enjoyed by copper age peoples using natural alloys elsewhere in the world. So for the NA culture the copper tools were not a clear improvement over stone tools (in fact may have been worse), required more work to produce, and were ultimately selected against.
Do not forget about gold. Which was the main reason the America's got conquered in the first place. Had the Aztecs not so much gold, the conquest probably would have been much more slower or even would not have happened at all. It's the gold that made the conquest profitable.
@Avery Christy Jewelry etc became the major use over time with copper tool production subsiding. That was MUCH later in the copper use history though, thousands of years.
Any references on that "2-3 years" claim? Copper was still being used ornamentally and ritually at the time of European contact.
This was pretty well put together! Glad I found your channel!
Another great misconceptions ep. Thanks!
Another misconception, possibly even affecting this video, might be that 'Stone Age humans were mostly homo sapiens, with a few neanderthals thrown in.' In fact the most prevalent humans for the greater part of the stone age were homo erectus; before about 300k years ago there were no homo sapiens, and before about 430k years ago no neanderthals.
Great video though, thank you!
H. Erectus, Neanderthals, Heidelbergensis, Denisovans and Sapiens are al seen as humans.
@@PieterPatrick you haven't even read my comment properly, otherwise you wouldn't need to give that reply
@@Clearlight201 Correct.
With the number of people only washing their hair with water nowadays and still looking great, and so many in the past (like Victorian women who had gorgeous hair but only washing them once a month cause they brushed the natural oils around), one big depiction of stone age people I'd love to see researched more is how dirty they were. It just doesn't make sense. Hunters nowadays make sure they don't smell. A people solely relying on hunting and gathering, not attracting predators and not alerting prey would be essential. They could easily wash in the rain like all other animals. It is when religion came in, especially Christianity where a few choice verses about not washing, that might have made all of Europe go dirty and afraid. Other cultures weren't like that. Asians, Muslims, Egyptians, the Americas all have tales about how abhorrent they found Westerners (aka people who didn't wash). But it seems our images of Stone Age are only built from that perspective, the Western one. Food for thought.
I'm curious which Bible verses you're referring to. Thanks!
Going by how dirty my grandsons get in no time flat, I’d say people then were pretty dirty and smelled “human”. In order to hunt, they may have disguised their humanness by rubbing the manure of the target animal onto themselves. 😬
I never shampoo or condition my hair. Sure I have short hair but still you can’t really tell the difference (actually looks weird shampooed).
In fact up to the Renaissance Europeans washed their clothes in urine, only when we came in contact with Islam during the Crusades did we grasp concepts like hygiene, medicine, and surgeries
I think you'll probably find your biggest "myths" are regarding the paleolithic. -Especially in the more colder latitudes.. -Quality glacial water, megafauna kills that could be "refrigerated" in icy water (or with ice/snow) for extended periods. Stefan Milo (channel) made a good point regarding the conspicuous over-crafting or over-knapping of stone tools going way back in time. So if they're skilled enough to excessively, conspicuously over-knap their stone implements, then perhaps they may have been somewhat extravagant at other endeavors as well. As the date for arrival of early Homo sapien is now almost 300k years ago, what large clan would not put up at least!!! semi-permanent lodgings near lakes and near other desirable water/fishing-convenient locations.. I think even our early Homo sapien ancestors would've been smart enough to realize it wasn't necessary for everyone!! to be on the hunt, and probably more advantageous to leave some members permanently "posted" or accommodated at the lakeside lodges. -Just makes sense. Of course, this is all just speculation. But, hey, I speculate. I'm Homo sapien:..
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
Great and fascinating video. Your content is super solid. That wallpaper has kind of a dentist office vibe going on though.
Good flow, good content, you're doing it right friend
Thanks for mentioning a few other places besides England. On thing I've noticed is that many if not most mentioning of the Stone Age only talks about England. What? There were no Stone Age people living in Europe, North or South Asia (Siberia, Mongolia, China, etc.? Only England in all the planet? Or has no other part of the planet found or looked for Stone Age people? How were Stone Age people living in other places?
At least my impression is that I've very, very rarely heard about those living in other places.
Maybe other reports just haven't been translated to English?
I've noticed this Britano-centric and Euro-centric trend as well with prehistory.
Correction: Our basic needs have NEVER CHANGED. Whether by creation or something else, we've always had the same needs.
In the first myth you introduced another misconception...
That they would've had no anaesthetic.
Surely they would have known of some plant-based numbing agent?
In any case, it's an odd assertion.
Came here to say this, and we've known plants that were CNS depressants for a while too. What our ancestors would have trouble with is dosage, which at best they could eyeball it.
Imagine how much medicine might have been lost due to ancient over-consumption. The mythic Soma comes to mind.
That Neolithic house in North Yorkshire (10,000 years old as you mentioned) is currently listed for £799,990. A 'fixer-upper' but with a grand view of the moors and close to all the shopping and dining Harrogate has to offer. Viewings by prior appointment only!
Justin, I thoroughly enjoyed your show today. My daughter enjoyed your upside down print on your aloha shirt 😋
Good video. Thanks for sharing. There was a lot that I did not know.
I wonder.... there was a small number of European mummies found in northern China and Siberia. I do not remember how old they said the burials were but the bodies had woven and dyed clothing and other goods indicating a more active trade and level of civilization.
Supposedly the bodies were buried during the early bronze or late Neolithic times. Not sure but it could fit in with the other items you mentioned in this video.
It is interesting that these ancient societies were more advanced than we think, and more like us than we know.
I did notice that one of the cave painting archers is a little thicker through the pelvis than the others.
This is a frequent point of debate between me and friends. The intelligence of stome age humans.
My friends think they were idiots compared against modern people. I disagree...and feel...if we went back in time and took an infant with us to the modern world... It would ne able to become a doctor or engineer .. use computers etc. They think it would be stuck...and limited. So sad. So vain.
If we went back in time without our iPhones, we’d be dead next day
@@jandrews6254 well..
It's lime that silly show...ANCIENT ALIENS...where George Noori says "I dont think so." on question of whether Stone/Copper Age people could build the Pyramids without alien help.
I certainly believe...in the billions of galaxies of the universe...that life of some kind has either happened...is happening...or will happen. But..intelligent life? The odds drop dramatically. And technologically advanced life... The odds drop even further. And the of those hypothetically intelligent and technological races evolving during our own existence...even further. And the odds of said race being in our neighborhood of universe...even further. And coming here...for any reason..Sorry. The chances...the odds are too slim.for me to believe it.
I think it is just a cop out...hubris.
Much like when organized religion says God works in mysterious ways.... They cant explain or justify...So they cop out and pass the buck to God and Aliens.
Exactly what method would one use to test one's theory regarding the proposed lack of intelligence of stone age humans?
this is an excellent series.. thank you... now I know why people want to bring back the woolly Mammoth.. dish washing..
I'd love to see a misconceptions video about waste and recycling. Whilst boring at first thought, it actually is relevant to just about EVERYONE and there's a lot to learn about how we can recycle and how our waste should be managed as a civilisation
they can do a whole episode on the myth of recycled plastics.
across the andes chain & inca empire, trepanning holes were covered with tampered metal plates, mimicking the modern method of installing plates under replaced skull sections
I think the queens of the stone age did well in the circumstances
This guys shirt is perfect camouflage for his backdrop.
Holy Cats! With that shirt, you almost disappear into the wallpaper behind you.
Defines time period for the Stone age. Immediately starts using an example from the Bronze age.
Says preconceptions about the Paleolithic are wrong, proceeds to give examples from the Neolithic.
Really interesting video. I learned a lot - something I really get a kick out of. So, thank you!
For lovers of this time in history, look at the BBC channel Horrible Histories. It's a kid's programme which is much loved by parents, grandparents and uni students. It's incredibly accurate about everything it deals with (had actual historians advising) and is hilarious. Lots of gore, fart and poop jokes - it is (mostly) aimed at kids after all.
Anyway, they did a brilliant song about the stone age, sung by their most handsome actor, which explains the basics of the time, what went on and the differences between the different eras during it. I don't know if it's on its own in an upload, but it's definitely in the third season song compilation. It's really great musically, as well as educationally. I thoroughly recommend it! (Actually I thoroughly recommend the entire series.)
Is it related to the books by Martin Brown, Terry Deary and others? Because I loved those as a kid.
Who is your favourite, Mathew Baynton or Ben Willbond?
I believe if you give a large group enough time to figure things out they will come up with skills, tools and technology to make life easier. We probably haven’t even scratched the surface on what they knew.
If a group of us were set down in a random wild place we'd likely all die. It took a lot of experimentation and thought to get as far as mesolithic, even.
@@mikeharrison1868 Of course. When I say time, I do not mean a lifetime.
WAIT! At 1:12, "The two incisors had HOLES CHISLED into them"??
CHISLED?
Are you serious?
Isn't "chiseling" the process of forcefully striking (with a hammer) a skinny cylinder device in order to violently chip away at a material?
Could a human jaw withstand such a violent process?
Is it possible they drilled it instead of chiseled it?
Perhaps the ancient folks had already found certain plants that numbed their gums, for privative dentistry or to quell gum aches, like clove or even natural opiates.
Where did you guys get a picture of me camping?
8:35
You should do an episode on how people thing technology is a new thing, not taking into account things like the Antikythera mechanism. Or what different cultures were doing at that time.
Another misconception was those hides around their waist. Without doubt, the hides were worn around their shoulders and torso, where they would do some good.
Your shirt clashes with the wallpaper 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We've progressed and regressed.
We've discovered and learned so much, but also lost and forgotten so much.
We need to stop underestimating our ancestors
The stone age would technically start with habilis or rudolfensis right?
I like how your shirt matches your dinosaur wall paper.
Anaesthesia... People have known about Opium, Henbane and other powerful natural drugs for a very very long time, so don't doubt that Stone Age people could also have had anaesthesia, It's strange to assume that they didn't.
The word is pronounced "Nee-ander-TALL" not "thall." The -thal part means "valley," where an early man's body was discovered. It is a German word.
So many people mispronounce the word that many are now spelling the word for this species/subspecies "Neandertal," to help in pronunciation.
That is quite the shirt/wallpaper combo
Are you trying to blend into that wall with your shirt?
When I think of the Stone Age, I think of Age of Empires and fire up Steam.
0:24 - Yes, yes, it's trepanning!! It's definitely not because I put a mattock/pickaxe through the skull whilst excavating! :D
Pttt-chukK - Memorable sound!!
could you please start listing your sources
I saw a few videos and articles that said that some species of monkey have entered their stone age.
History only goes back as far as there are written sources. Before that there is prehistory.
The only thing keeping up from finding out what Neanderthals looked like is ethics. We currently have the ability to clone one. The only questions is whether it would be ethical to do so. And frankly, I'm not sure it wouldn't be. The concern is that the Neanderthal child would suffer needlessly just so we could answer a few questions. But I seriously question the claim that he (or she) would suffer at all! He would be a celebrity from birth, and so extreme;ly well cared for, treasured, and when an adult could live the life of a rock star even if his mental capacity was sub-standard. But there is actually no reason to believe his mental capacity would be less than ours. The Neanderthals might have dies out because of the difference in cultures, or instincts, neither of which would be likely to much affect a Neanderthals raised today in a modern human society. So let's do it!
Perhaps when modern humans entered Europe they took pandemics with them that ended the isolated Neanderthal population. Similar to when Europeans moved to the Americas and Australia and the indigenous populations were decimated in a short space of time.
Neandertal brains were larger than ours, though they may have been organized differently. They solved the birth canal problem with an elongated skull instead of sutures. I suspect they died out because far too many women died in childbirth.
How about a show on cancer misconceptions?
That one scene in Quest for Fire.
it only makes perfect sense that the evidence that has survived is from the time that the thing was most prevalent. oh course things had to be around for a long long time before it became popular enough to be numerous enough that one piece can get trapped in time for us to find
Who said they did not have anesthesia?
Which Stone Age? The Paleo, the Meso or the Neo?
6:12 - There's a misconception that archaeologists discover how people lived. In reality, they only discover how people died; everything else is an educated guess based on that.
Most of the archeological records and evidence isn't corpses, and we absolutely can tell things about how someone lived from a skeleton.
Often, we know more about how someone lived than how they died, even. No clue where you got that idea.
One of the most biggest interpretation issue of the "stone age," Earths gravity versus anatomy of species, that longated crouched dragging body form, wasn't flimsy posture, instead a more horizontal grip, to a gravitational grip of lighter mass world, thus evolving a 5 limb bodies (tails and small hands) from a lacked moon or size, to offer polarity, which slowed the Earth spin into a more heavy realm, that now requires vertical balance postures. Giants lost there stance from these changes as well. The logic of skull shape was also misunderstood of them being less craftsmen, smart or advance with no technology abilities, before any cataclysmic event.
The gravity of the earth is a result of its mass which has not significantly changed in billions of years, since the collision that caused the moon to coalesce from the early earth. Tails are not limbs but an extension of the spine. Upright posture is about 5 million years old in hominins based on the fossil evidence of hip bones and skulls. There were no "gisnts" (presumably "giants") in human evolution. The evolution of hominin skulls is far better understood than you seem capable of understanding. The evolution of technology is likewise very well documented, from found objects to simple stone tools in the earliest hominins.
@@garykeenan8591 which collision are you concluding, if any mortal has claimed today as witness? Such an event would change, but never required to be radical nor instant, also giants can link with human evolution, if gravity was to adjust again, bodly size will require adjustment in range shape, the way a larger version of found fossils, that your in deniel, for the convenience of "hominin" skulls theory, If larger dinosaurs bodly shape, to excist rendering today, would've required a lower gravity strength which is why tales skulls became the horizonal formation anatomy formation. The giant doors and infastructure in many far historical empires along with hieroglyph statues, demonstrates the changes.
"Neanderthal bootie call" 😂😂😂
Misconceptions about stone age society. A lot of debate exists around how it was organized, from the economic aspects to the social hierarchal. That men were the dominant leaders since the dawn of humanity for instance
We do tend to think of "the stone age" as being a single unit, broken into three main subunits. For a period stretching two million years, and that covered the entire earth, there couldn't have been just one way of doing things - local practices would have changed, evolved, morphed over and over again. So pretty much anything could have been possible.
A documentary about anthropology showed that the women of the San people provide the most food with their gathering, because the hunting men are not always successful. It is also the women who choose their partner. They have no concept of physical beauty; they just chose a single man that’s a good hunter. My guess is, that they don’t have narcissists in their tribes, because that level of selfishness only thrives in modern society.
Anthropology and history suggests that patriarchal heirarchies didn't come to become so dominant until the development of sedentary agrarian civilizations. We see much more diversity in structure among societies that are closer to the hunter-gatherer origins. From what we can tell a lot of the notions of gender rolls people have of the past are largely just projection of modern biases backwards.
As for economics, we can pretty conclusively say, however, that the conception of money in any form we would recognize today (as in the kind you would use to exchange for normal day-to-day goods) neither existed nor arose out of barter systems, which were generally completely absent within a tribe. Instead, we find goods and services to move by a mix of of the same behaviors we still find today among family and close friends:
1-Heirachal obligations (like those between parent and child) where each has an entirely different kind of obligation to the other but without any kind of implication like with a trade that the things given could be weighed against each other, much less that the people in question were even of equal enough status to even conceive of trying.
2-a mutual aid without accounting that merely is dependant on means and need
3-a kind of gift economy where people just give each other things and the receiver is socially obligated to give back something of roughly equivalent value at some later time (much as friends may do today with owing each other favors)
Barter only seems to have happened between tribes or between people who hated each other in the same tribe.
Currency and markets don't really come about until you have governments and armies and coinage specifically is very much an invention of the state to facilitate things like armies.
For more, I recommend David Grabber's _Debt: the First 5000 Years_ which only goes back so far, yes, but does a good job of blowing a lot of the myths we had about things back then wide open, because a lot of the things we ascribe to stone-age peoples are way newer than we tend to think.
@DynamicWorlds I read Margaret mead, an anthropologist who studied tribes in New Guinea. It was the women and children who provided the food to the tribe, by foraging each day for firewood, eggs, birds, fish. Setting traps and snares, using woven nets to catch fish and birds. Which obviously indicates they had developed twine and weaving for nets and baskets, also had hollowed gourds, to carry what they had gleaned.
The hunters couldn’t just sit around chipping flints and sharpening sticks into spears. They’d have been too weak to move! Also, humans aren’t carnivores, we need vegetable matter as well. Such a pity that the baskets and nets the women must have had weren’t as durable as the flints used by the hunters.
@@dynamicworlds1 what I find the most fascinating is that Engels in his book "the origin of the family, private property and the state" predicts all this through sheer reasoning. Ofc a lot of details are missed such as how long humans have existed and what species and races really are, but the points still stand. At some point, due to lineage only being verifiable through women, they had to have held the top position in human society at one point
Misconceptions about Australia?
From the laughable (they ride kangaroos to school)
To the Hollywood inspired (they all sound like crocodile Dundee)
To the fact that as a nation, Australia is younger than America.
.. and all living things are trying to kill You.. that Australia?..🥺🥴
... you mean you guys DON'T ride kangaroos?
@@Stevie-J yupp..😨.. just like I thought.. 😩
@@Stevie-J Also, you don’t use punctuation a lot?
I wonder if you have forgot that peoples have been living on the continent for over 50,000 years and it is only the white Australian that sees it as a nation from the establishment of the penal colony in the late 1780's, they view the people of the land don't exist, the Aboriginal was only seen as exiting and given the vote in the 1960's.
so beer was like what is served in English pubs...
i see the graphics got a hot little facelift...love!!!
very good
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Sometimes, means of construction, writing, math and education have been lost along with Roman Concrete and Norse steel forging. Bet there is some medicine in there too.
Misconception #1 is held by too many anthropologists and related denizens of prehistory: they too often believe that they actually *know* what they can't possibly know.
If you look at the meta-pattern of corrections over recent decades, then their inability to properly address and deal with inherent lack of info is consistent. And it and continues even today.
Unless you're my barber, you're not operating on me!
So closer to the Flintstones than we think ...
So my ancestors bumping uglies with Neanderthals is the reason I cook like a vampire in the sun? Thanks, grandpa Grug.
COOL WALLPAPER!
...no wooly mammoth dishwashers? 😟
Is it also a misconception that they had no form of anesthesia in the stone age?
Why was Able’. Offering to God accepted and not Cain’s? Able brought all the meat for the barbecue, Cain brought the bread and the beans, but he forgot the beer.
The myth of the all powerful chief. In reality, in stone age cultures, a chief is merely a communication hub. There was no, "no work no eat" policy. People only worked about 4-5 hours a day, and did it with family.
We have one about now with weed being legalized I imagine
if you could take a stone age man and somehow transport him to now, he would fit right in (given a few months to a year to adjust)
remember that the only difference between us and them is 1000s to millions of years of people figuring things out. one discovery leading to another which in turn leads to another and so on
I bet they did have a pain blocker…..poppies….cocoa leaves….and other substances surely had been discovered early on
Well they had willow bark, from which aspirin is derived
Dude, your flamingo is upside down.
Facially Neanderthals looked quite different - with their large "bun shaped" skull, much larger brow ridging and dramatically larger eye orbits. Picture them as adapted for cold weather and night work. It is currently faddish to imagine Neanderthals as much like us - but the fossil record indicates otherwise - they were quite dissimilar.
They looked similar enough for us (homosapiens) to boink’em out of existence 🤣
Instead of a ritual, maybe after a head injury headache is helped, why not try it on a migraine.
Interesting wallpaper.
Meet the Neolithic modern stone-age family.
Ok but the Neolithic sounds like Bronze Age mentality with Stone Age tools. Do you have any misconceptions about the Paleolithic?
I observe that you have forgotten the Polynesians , Micronesians and Melanesians in the Pacific, (large part of the earths surface were 'stone age' or stone tool people that Europeans only had major contact from the 1760's and later. There are peoples in Papua New Guiana that only had contacts with Europeans as late as the 1940's. The New Zealand first nation peoples, The Maori, used stone and wood until the visit of Capt. Cook in 1760's. All the Pacific peoples lead well organised societies, mainly matriarchal until a forced change by Victorian English missionaries. From over many thousands of years there developed in the Pacific the fast, large voyaging canoes that crisscrossed the ocean to the north to the south and to south America. These peoples used traditional navigation which is observational and connectional. Read up the Hukalea in Hawaii of its voyaging and navigation.
Many traditional peoples, such as First Nation in North America, Central and South America lived , developed calendars, mathematical systems, astronomic observations which were destroyed by religious intolerant , conceited 'civilised peoples' from Europe whose only concern was gold, saving souls for Christ and looting and pillaging. No concern about knowledge obtained over thousands of years of testing and observation, discussions on philosophy, how to develop a society with out metal and without beasts of burden or building construction using massive stones. This is still happening and encouraged today.
Did Stone-Age people have such excellent camouflage as the host?
The long lost green brother
Yaaaas Michelin five star Stone age meal!
I have a hole in my skull due to intracranial hypertension. I probably would have paid a caveman for the same treatment.
flintstone style
Dry cured, that wouldn't be bacon- that would be jerky...
Metal breaks down in about 500 years how could we expect to find metal tools after a certain point when they are turning to dust?
Doesn't take 500 years - my '76 VW Dasher turned to dust in 4 years.
The iron pillar of Delhi enters the chat.
@@1pcfred I mean sure if it was a massive hunk of iron tended by worshipers his 76 vw would still be around. I mean all the tiny bits that would show how advanced we once were.
@@jeremiahdela9461 the worshippers actually made the pillar deteriorate more. There's a fence around it now so people cannot touch it anymore.
That shirt's fabric is upside down.
Neanderthal “booty call” hardly, most inter species offspring was most likely he resulted of nonconsensual mating.