General sources: Chris Scarre (2018) The Human Past. Fourth Edition. Klaus Schmidt (2012) Gobekli Tepe: A Stone Age Sanctuary in South-Eastern Anatolia. Marc Van De Mieroop (2016) A History of the Ancient Near East. Third Edition. Amanda H. Podany (2014) The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction. Video References: Stefan Milo (2019) How bad was the Younger Dryas? Causes-Megafauna-Civilisation. References: Gautney and Holliday (2015) New estimations of habitable land area and human population size at the last glacial maximum. Journal of Archaeological Science. Watkins (2010) New Light on Neolithic Revolution in south-west Asia. Antiquity. Revedin et al. (2010) Thirty thousand-year-old evidence of plant food processing. PNAS. Spivak and Nadel (2016) The use of stone at Ohalo II, a 23,000 year old site in the Jordan Valley, Israel. Journal of Lithic Studies. Groman-Yaroslavski et al. (2016) Composite Sickles and Cereal Harvesting Methods at 23,000-Years-Old Ohalo II, Israel. PLOS ONE. Snir et al. (2015) The Origin of Cultivation and Proto-Weeds, Long Before Neolithic Farming. PLOS ONE. Maher et al. (2012) Twenty Thousand-Year-Old Huts at a Hunter-Gatherer Settlement in Eastern Jordan. PLOS ONE. Ramsey et al. (2018) Risk, Reliability and Resilience: Phytolith Evidence for Alternative ‘Neolithization’ Pathways at Kharaneh IV in the Azraq Basin, Jordan. PLOS ONE. Maher et al. (2015) Occupying wide open spaces? Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer activities in the Eastern Levant. Quaternary International. Grosman et al. (2016) Nahal Ein Gev II, a Late Natufian Community at the Sea of Galilee. PLOS ONE. Liu et al. (2018) Fermented beverage and food storage in 13,000 y-old stone mortars at Raqefet Cave, Israel: Investigating Natufian ritual feasting. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Richter et al. (2017) High Resolution AMS Dates from Shubayqa 1, northeast Jordan Reveal Complex Origins of Late Epipalaeolithic Natufian in the Levant. Scientific Reports. Arranz-Otaegui (2018) Archaeobotanical evidence reveals the origins of bread 14,400 years ago in northeastern Jordan. PNAS. Eitam et al. (2015) Experimental Barley Flour Production in 12,500-Year-Old Rock-Cut Mortars in Southwestern Asia. PLOS ONE. Grosman et al. (2008) A 12,000-year-old Shaman burial from the southern Levant (Israel). PNAS. Dubreuil et al. (2019) Evidence of ritual breakage of a ground stone tool at the Late Natufian site of Hilazon Tachtit cave (12,000 years ago). PLOS ONE. Olszewski (2012) The Zarzian in the Context of the Epipaleolithic Middle East. International Journal of the Humanities. Rosen and Rivera-Collazo (2012) Climate change, adaptive cycles, and the persistence of foraging economies during the late Pleistocene/Holocene transition in the Levant. PNAS. Lorenzo Nigro (2014) The Archaeology of Collapse and Resilience: Tell es-Sultan/Ancient Jericho as a case study. ROSAPAT 11. Dietrich et al. (2012) The role of cult and feasting in the emergence of Neolithic communities. New evidence from Gobekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey. Antiquity. Dietrich et al. (2017) Feasting, Social Complexity, and the Emergence of the Early Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia. In book: Feast, Famine or Fight?: Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity. Dietrich et al. (2019) Cereal Processing at Early Neolithic Gobekli Tepe, southeastern Turkey. PLOS ONE.
Just some constructive criticism here. I hope you take it as such. No ill will meant. The true start is at 9:46. Why such a long convoluted preamble of talking about what you are going to talk about, in future tense about the past no less. That was jarring, and so unnecessary. And more dates. Please more dates. What is more important when talking about history than the date? It's so frustrating watching so many of these documentaries where they jump from time to time and treat dates as incidental to be mentioned here and there. I wish all history documentaries kept a permanent timeline on screen always displaying the date(or approximation) they are covering in that moment. But overall good documentary and thank you for the effort.
Those ancient villagers didn't realize that if they would just collect 500 food and 200 gold they could level up to the Castle age at their town center then have Knights to fight with.
@@vanillajack5925 What I meant is, the common ancestor of both mammals and fish would be an organism that is technically neither a mammal nor a fish. So, semantic disagreement
Fascinating. I really like the way the presenter is not bound to any narrative, but freely states if something is unknown. The sign of a real historian.
Yeah too bad so much of Academia really doesn't think that way like all of the water erosion on the pyramids people won't believe that they're older than they think. They found all those underground cities from hundreds of thousands of years ago and no one will admit that there was civilization before ours that had to come in and go. Civilization that lived through these ice ages a quarter of a million years and you really think there wasn't any other civilization that explored this world people are nuts it only took us a couple of thousand years why do you think it couldn't happen before and got an erased from some sort of climate change
nickolas reyes the only thing is we would be able to track if there was ever a previous civilisation like ours from co2 levels although there are no quick or much noticeable rises in co2 from our past. Unless there was an advanced civilazion that somehow lived their live completely different to us and didn’t go to the levels of harmful industrialisation as we did so higher co2 levels wouldn’t show up. Who knows though if we got wiped out by an asteroid or flood right now, then in around 10000 years or more there might not be any evidence we were even here either
@@Aithis. Given what we know of geology and biology, as far as we can tell, it should be close to impossible to not notice signs of current-level human civilization, for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years into the future, should we be wiped out and someone actually bothered to look. All the right angles of our buildings, for one, are exceedingly unlikely to be confused with natural formations - certainly not on the scale we've produced them, and a good amount of them would be preserved for millions of years to come, given their sheer size and number, never mind the presence of such on all continents. Plus, all the vast quantities of tools/clothing/cemeteries we'd be leaving behind - if even a tiny fractions are preserved/fossilize, it would take effort to not connect the dots. There's also circumstantial evidence, such as domestic animals leaving tell-tell traces in the fossil record. Never mind our mile-wide trash heaps, or, come to think of it, piles and piles of nuclear waste packed nice and tight underground in dozens of sites, worldwide. Heck, the Moon Lander and Neil Armstrong's foot prints might survive a few epochs themselves, given the lack of an atmosphere on the Moon (though micro-meteorites will eventually disturb them... but that lander's pretty sturdy). Actually, given the huge amount of geostationary garbage that we currently have in Earth's orbit, I wouldn't be surprised if a detectable amount of such would still be glaringly detectable for a few thousands, if not millions of years from now. So, no. We've definitely left our mark here. And for the same reasons we would have found signs of earlier advanced (post-industrial at the very least and likely bronze-age or later) civilizations already.
@@Aithis. ever heard of C14. The decay rate has been constant until we increased it at Trinity. This proves there was no nuclear power in the past. That is not to say that there was no leverage or hydrological based complex civilisation in the past. Only that there is no evidence. However an absence is not a proof. Best stick to been the God of your favourite empire building game
Imagine how rich and old our culture is, evolving for thousands and thousands of years before recorded history. The amount of information on our ancestors we'll never know is simply unfair. Civilizations, cultures and histories remaining unknown for all time.... all that's left are pieces and gravel.
"...My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away" (Shelley).
@@LindaLinda80Linda I beg to differ tbh. The internet has been able to record all human culture for the past 30 years. It's essentialy a giant archive of 21st century humanity. I could see future humans researching the the internet the same way we do archeology now
There were multiple civilisations before ours, that rose and fell over the millennia, just as there were multiple cataclysmic events, that divided different eras. Last one was atlantean, and we don't even remember that it really existed.
I find the period between 11,000BCE - 1,500BCE exceptionally fascinating. Your video really could take the place of an introductory course it’s that good.
it's actually the really obscure part of our history, hence the interest it triggers but the story just doesnt make sense.. domesticating wolves ? killing entire species ? we were supposed to be less than 2millions over the entire planet... how did we do that? makes no sense im not saying i have the truth, im just pointing out the inconsistencies of this theory... btw.. anyone said pyramids ?
@@EvilSapphireR I'm willing to disagree about that, since it probably really depends on your social hierarchical status. If you're in one of the lowest groups of modern society life may have been more interesting 10.000 years ago rather than now. I personally feel like that most humans would have been better off without civilisation for most of human history. It's only been these last 100 years that civilisation has improved the position of everyone in large areas on the globe.
The history channel on RU-vid is actually very good, there isn’t a single good thing on cable tv so its not fair to call them trash because its the networks fault.
I wish time travel was real. It would be so interesting to go back in a time and see all these ancient prehistoric places when they were new and thriving with our ancestors.
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I love these videos, the thing that fascinates me the most is the fact that so many people lived before writing was invented, and we will never know the names of these people, we will never know their stories, they are a mystery that probably will never be unraveled to us. This part of our history is the most unknown to us and i love that about it. Thanks for the upload, histocrat
@@IblameBlame Exactly! I also love philology and thinking about how all these people had different languages that we will never know and we will never be able to speak them..
@Chimpin Out this is a weird narrative to drive since we have several examples of pre-modern cultures that allowed a non-binary gender system. Hate really is just a you thing, not some natural human instinct for you to pretend is justification.
To any aspiring RU-vid creators: see how this channel uses real sources and has done their own research? Be like this channel, not the ones that just do a few quick google searches and watch a few RU-vid videos and then regurgitate what they found.
@@WarbossFraka I don't assosiate partners with god...before noahs flood the same thing happened just like this. People saying gods a myth n science made everything...this next catastrophic will be the next. Its already been 1500 years since the last prophet n noahs got destroyed 1600-2000 years after creation. So the wrath of God should happen within the next 10 generations after us or sooner.
Thanks for the video. I am so fed up with RU-vid suggesting all these conspiracy history videos; ancient aliens, hidden history, unbelievable ancient technology. And the videos have millions of views and worst part the viewers believe them to be facts. Saddens me, but I'm glad to have your videos
I must say I sometimes watch that kind of videos, just for entertainment, to see what bizarre ideas and 'connections' they've managed to conjure up this time. Thinking about the number of people that actually take that #@$%! seriously is less fun, though.
Some of those conspiracies are amusing to entertain as possibilities. I think Hollow Earth and Agartha are pretty cool. Even involved Nayzees in Antarctica!
For anyone who like me is absolutely in love with stone age anthropology, I strongly recommend the Earth’s Children book series by Jean Auel, beginning with Clan of the Cave Bear. Though fiction, Auel paints the world of the Paleolithic with a vibrant brush bringing to life this ancient realm with a level of detail Tolkien himself would have found harrowing. You’ll learn about ancient technologies and methods while being immersed in cultures and live so rich that it can sometimes be hard to remember they are works of imagination. They are the very thing that sparked my fascination with stone age anthropology
Wow man, I don't know why I've been missing your show but this is presented as well as any big documentary. The only difference is you don't get the budget to present on location. Great work!
I think it's worth contacting Netflix, Amazon and the like and telling them how much we enjoy these documentaries, and suggesting that they work together to produce a series. It is honestly such good work that deserves a bigger platform and budget.
Brilliant. Unbiased and detailed account of human civilisation citing science, geology, archaeology and physical evidence. Plenty I didn't know or wasn't certain about. Fabulous production.
Yeah but cocoa is a plant too. And so are cereals. Or grains or whatever. So really when I imagine wild grains and those wild grains are Cocoa Puffs. I’m alright with it
Essentially agriculture grew out of harvesting grasses that grew on plains as the snow receded from the last ice age. Makes me wonder if our fascination with preening our lawns is a subconscious return to those skills.
I'm shocked that this channel still has under 100k subscribers, out of all of my nearly 300 subscriptions this channel has gotta be in the top 5 keep up the good work Histocrat
Its interesting how little we really know about the dawn of early human civilization. I mean this video goes from 20,000 bc to 3,000 bc in a matter of seconds.
@@888jackflash It's all relative though, isn't it? I'm sure they had plenty of exciting things within their own sphere of existence (just maybe spread out over longer timeframes relative to us now).
Just like the start of evolutionary history, most natural processes start out very, very slowly and then gradually build momentum over time. There were way less people on the planet back then and like another commenter said, things moved much more slowly. If you look back at the beginning of life on earth, it took literally BILLIONS OF YEARS just for life to evolve past single cellular organisms. However, in more recent evolutionary history (within the past 100 million years, say) we have had multiple mass extinctions, dinosaurs came and went, the first humans appeared, and all sorts of MAJOR major stuff happened!
The tower certainly could be defensive. Defensive towers are common inside settlements and walls too, a fallback point, to protect a powerful person, to protect supplies, or all three. An ancient keep as such. I know it's a more modern thing but if you can build a tower it's not a huge jump to see it can be used defensively from the inside of the wall.
That's why we are all here... gotta figure out how they did it... then again, it's going to be harder with all the nuclear reactors, bombs, chemical residues, and contaminated soil... but we'll figure it out and when life expectancy shoots past 25yrs in the year 21688, humans will do it all again
if you nerds want to help continue civilization, become self sufficient, independent, reliant on yourself. think about why cities are left wing... they're dependent on farmers hundreds of miles away. collectivism is what you're against if you're for civilization.
This is one of the most entertaining and enlightening anthro documentaries i've ever seen -- better than big budget stuff airing on big tv networks sharing this with everyone I know
The discovery that you CAN cache foodstuffs for use months hence is a tactic that various species have used since ... we don't know how long ago. Modifying available materials to enhance food storage was probably a very important discovery. Whether it happened before or after the development of language ... good question. A hypothesis (with obvious discoverable archaeological artefacts) : packing sun-dried tubers into sun-dried clay casings ("clay" sense : fine-grained mud ; I am a geologist and mean *no more* than "contracts and hardens on dehydration" in the word "clay") might be an originator of the idea "dried clay stores things edibly" turning towards the origin of pottery. I'd look for broken fire-hardened mud-brick food parcels adjacent to middens. Which is something that could easily be overlooked in previous excavations. (My culture, English with Irish flavour, still retains memory of "small prey baked in a clay jacket" in the category of "food".) That's a hypothesis - with a testing observation built in. Which in itself is a recommendation for this video - it provokes TESTABLE hypotheses. There are 2 recent (after this video was published?, or close ; the presenter cites a find also mentioned in the "discovery" paper) finds of "quern" stones (plant grinders) with attached smashed starch grains, from Italy, underlaying the ca.40kaBP "Campanian Ignimbrite" of the area. Whatever else, these show that processing plant matter (for food? GOOD question) was a habit, 30-odd ka before Göbekli Tepe etc. Agriculture had a LONG history before the ~10ka BP evidence from the Levant.
This is well thought out and presented. The gradual transition to agriculture over a long period of time was propitious and prepared our ancestors for the changes in climate that came shortly thereafter. Well done!
I absolutely love this. I can only imagine the different cultures that lived all over the globe not just the ones we have found. After all if the water level was so much lower it stands to reason that alot of villages and towns would be underwater now. Thanks for posting this.
I always assumed most of human history is forever lost duo to the evidence being all underwater/underground, and even that perhaps the oldest civilizations we know about maybe were just outcasts that ran for the (at the time) hills and lived in limited conditions for the time
@@kora4185Eh, it's not that hard to check. There's a Greek (2k not 10k years ago) ruins dig site outside my house in Odesa, but further away, where now's seaport that russians bomb weekly, was a settlement before the sea level raised even further.
I have been doing research for my fantasy book set in a bronze-age technological setting, when I first stumbled across your channel. This is amazing and you should keep up the good work, I love the focus placed on ancient stone, copper, bronze and iron age people.
It's just so strange thinking how life used to be basically the same for thousands of years, whereas now you can scarcely keep up with all the changes in society. Modern civilization has really only been around for the last few hundred years. Before that people lived for thousands of years exactly the same as their ancestors
I was thinking the same thing recently - that most generations of parents, children, even grandparents, probably experienced more or less the same lifestyle and technology (within their respective lifetimes), up until relatively recently. The advances didn't change things within the span of a few generations - only over hundreds or thousands of years. That must have meant that family units and social groups were just fundamentally much tighter knit and had more in common.
Information didn’t spread then like it does now let alone 200 years ago. It was difficult to spread cultural advances very far. Thus Hunter gatherers being around thousands of years post domestication.
@@somsoc_ Perhaps it wasn't the exact same. Don't get me wrong I'm not being some crackpot theorist but it's entirely possible that's just not the case. Perhaps it's just the fact the history we really know to a decent enough level is just the 2500 years or so. We know bits and pieces before that with the Egyptians, Minoans, Indus River Valley, West Africans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Norte Chico, China and of course Ancient Sumer but we really don't understand it enough to concretely say that before that humans lived the EXACT same for that godamn long. Historians and Scientists usually base 'facts' on a mixture of actual facts and pretty accurate estimations based on what we know of in history and science so far. But here it seems as if they've completely chosen to just assume that the world was the godamn same for MILLENNIA. It's interesting to think of what we've missed or will never know without sci-fi's favourite gimmick (time travel) during the late prehistoric period that may actually instead be the early historic period (if we're basing it on written record). What could have been and gone truly is FASCINATING.
Gobekli Tepe is indeed fascination. It's like a lens in time that focuses the most primitive of times into the birth of what we now call civilization. I wish information on Gobekli Tepe was easier to find and more plentiful, so I greatly appreciate your efforts making this wonderful video which will doubtless raise much needed attention to it.
I am confused my eyes must be deceiving me - the hue of these people are all pink or white - are you kidding everyone with your profile- who are your Patrons??
1 Out Of 7.7 Billion your eyes see - so please explain what you believe or what you see that I’m missing - I am of European heritage in case your wondering- having traced my history record to 1600s I know my ancestors. Kentish Cow hearers/Farmers
Imagine how many ancient settlements have been lost forever. Stone wasn't the only building material people used, but that's all that would be left of the really ancient stuff.
School is just to set your feet on the path of learning. You are only limited by your own limits. I saw a story on something that peaked my interest and would go find a book or two. Which led me to another spark and so on. I am 65 and still look up things that catch my eye. You never stop learning.
Depending on your age, there might have been a simple lack of information on this time period. Most of the sources used in this video are less than 10 years old. There's also the issue of priorities for a given curriculum. Teachers only get so much time to teach their material.
They just wanted to really make sure you know that Hitler was really bad and that you think that tribalism and borders are not modern, so that the political motives of the people who manage the curriculums can be brought on with the help of the children they indoctrinate.
That's because it is. History education is disappointingly weighed towards modern history, even in university its hard to find classes on ancient history outside of the archeology department.
Well, I've discovered a new channel to listen to while studying! Thanks, it actually really helps me focusing (+ I'm kind of learning something new too!)
The Hindu Epic Ramayana clearly mentions Vega as a Pole star. which was true around 12000 BCE because the axis of the earth wobbles. This epic was clearly written long before the civilizations mentioned here so something does not add up.. the Gangetic plain had much more advanced civilization around 12000 BC. Unless ancient Indians knew about the wobble of the axis.. this would have been a pretty hard thing to make up.
That is all from a story developed around 500 B.C, from people who went to india around 1500 B.C. Earliest known evidence of vedic civilization is not in the gangetic plains but west to that river, in north india. Indus valley is the earliest known civilization in the whole subcontinent. I know you are very eager to say than ancient indians went to mars too, but do you see "fools" written on our foreheads. The shift in geographic poles is slower than the tectonic shift, and can be scientifically observed from the effect of changing magnetic fields. Last significant reversal happened about a million years ago. What does ramayana say about the gondwana land? Lol
Congratulations for this meticulously researched archeological documentary about an extremely remote era, which is likely to remain largely mysterious, given the absence of precise data pertaining to the pre-pottery age. Particularly fascinating are the massive T shaped structures displaying images of numerous animals, without any indication of habitats and/or burials in their vicinity. It is beyond reasonable conjecture the reason behind their purpose, which required so much manpower, time and effort for their construction. Even more enigmatic, in my view, is the apparently deliberate entombment of the entire site after it was decided to fully abandon the area… Why?
probably something religious / proto-philosophical. At the end his explanation for the abandonment is that new religions arose around the new forms of living (different from nomadic hunting and gathering). Maybe later rulers decided to get rid of this old religion?
Thanks for your reply, Drumsgoon. At this point, all we can do is to conjecture about this bizarre issue, where any guess is probably as good as the next one. However, if you were to follow my point of view for a moment, taking into account the immense amount of physical, temporal and industrious resources required to build Gobekli Tepe, I can scarcely imagine that one day, "out of the blue," some leaders (for lack of a better term) of that primitive, hunter-gatherer society just "decided" to entomb that huge cryptic venture! Moreover, keeping in mind that it must also have taken a great deal of additional manpower, time and effort to bury the entire, huge area, I just cannot begin to imagine what could possibly have induced any group of Homo sapiens to pursue such an absurd path! Cheers!
@@Drumsgoon Thanks for your reply. At this point, all we can do is to conjecture about this bizarre issue, where any guess is probably as good as the next one. However, if you were to follow my point of view for a moment, taking into account the immense amount of physical, temporal and industrious resources required to build Gobekli Tepe, I can scarcely imagine that one day, "out of the blue," some leaders (for lack of a better term) of that primitive hunter-gatherer society just decided to entomb that huge cryptic venture! Moreover, keeping in mind that it must also have taken a great deal of additional manpower, time and effort to bury the entire, huge area, I just cannot begin to imagine what could possibly have induced any group of Homo sapiens to pursue such an absurd path!
If the timeline lines up, the careful entombment of sites like Gobekli tepe could be a direct consequence of the Younger Dryas event. The people wanted something to survive their end, and made preparations to ensure at least a small portion of their lives endured. The universal obsession with cosmology could be a result of destruction coming from the sky, whether by solar events or cosmic impacts. It seems every ancient culture was aware and deeply connected to the heavens, and if destruction came often enough, an almost racial memory of those events would be passed down. I believe humanity has evolved at least to something approaching the steam age at least once if not several times in the past, and only because of the relatively simple materials and long timescales involved are bits of evidence so scarce. We don't need "ancient aliens", humans are and have been extremely clever beings, more than capable of great achievements all on their own.
Domestication means that earlier and later humans weren't on a level playing field, the biology of the environment around us got easier and easier to work with over time. I didn't appreciate that before.
This may sound wierd, but anyone else fantasizes about living on the time period talked about in the video? A feeling that modern society has become too complex, stressful and overcomplicated and you'd just wanna move into simpler times where all the things were still undiscovered.
Yeah, but not for long. Constantly hungry, not knowing where next week's food was going to come from, women dying in childbirth all over, diseases that were mysteries, and any infection could lead to a slow, painful death. If you survived all that, you were likely to die from rotting teeth before you were 50. So, no thanks. You can keep it.
Their teeth were healthy, They most of the time had no problem with gathering and finding food, only in the winter obviously. The rest is true @@maartenvandam344
@@maartenvandam3441- Human biology makes it so that if you consistently eat less during a week then someone who eats more during a week the one who eats less will get hungry less often. Truthfully speaking hunting a single deer would have lasted one man many months upon end. 2- Women dying from childbirth was indeed an issue. That said having the process done in a clean area with constant sanitation helps greatly in reducing the risk. Remember most of the time women gave birth in the equivalent to modern barns with doctors who didn’t wash their hands ever. Ironically if you did go back in time using your own knowledge of sanitation could fix this issue in a small region. 3- Most of the disease were the same as the ones today but they were fewer of them. Big thing is hoping you don’t get something that can’t be cured with antibiotics. Otherwise as you said your basically fucked. 4- Teeth would not be an issue as long as you keep up modern brushing habits. Most teeth issues back then was because people didn’t brush. Additionally back then people didn’t eat as much sugar if your diet contains less sugar your teeth will be taking a lot less damage. This means teeth rotting you to death should not be an issue and even if it was ancient people did have rough medical technics to remove teeth. Worse come to worse you’d be stuck eating soup for the rest of your life. 5- The age you’d die at relates to how clean you keep your environment. This includes food, drinking water, cleaning water, living area and so on. Assuming you have a solid supply of food and don’t catch an incurable disease you’d be able to live until 70 maybe even 80. Remember most deaths came from a lack of understanding of the importance of cleanliness in those olden eras.
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The Egyptians would have said a moon landing culture had alien assistance because a Saturn V is clearly too massive to have been built by 400,000 workers.😂
@@IvorMektin1701 I am sure that's what any civilization after us will actually think about us (if humanity still exists until then). "There is no way they built the Eiffel Tower with their primitive technology - it must have been aliens!!" Hell, there are probably some delusional people right now who think this, since some honestly believe that everyone but themselves are aliens anyway…
crazy to think, anyone of us watching this video, could've easily been one of those early humans, living thousands of years ago. we just happen to exist today and now. quite trippy when you think about it.
We honestly can't know how many times Farming, and Herding was developed. There's no records, of course (That's what pre-historic means) but in the hundreds of thousands of years before our first evidence was fossilized, evidence of farming, and animal husbandry doesn't really leave fossils. Not ones that last for tens of thousands of years, let alone hundreds of thousands. In the introduction, they kind of skipped through several stages. People settled down, started planting crops... Then, they started having enough food to make large cities, with commerce, and writing. However, they could have easily gotten to the gardening stage, ran into an Ice Age that no longer made it possible, then thousands of years later, the climate became more temperate again, and somebody realized what seeds do. Again. You don't even need stone tools to dig a hole, and drop a peach pit in. Beans sprout all on their own in favorable conditions. There's wild fields of Hemp, right now, simply because Hemp is hardier than whatever it might have to compete with there, despite several countries actively looking for hemp to beat it back (Because some varieties can be used as a drug.) The USDA has satellites, and helicopter mounted sensors looking for Marijuana, and they keep finding wild fields of hemp. That are still growing without human interference, simply because it's a hardy plant. There's seeds specifically designed to pass right through mammal's digestive tracts, so a tribe of about 30 Hunter gatherers could camp for a season, eating fruit, then come back to find a bunch of trees when they returned to that perennial camp. (Without even realizing why that area became so rich in those fruits, the animals that feed on them, and the honeybees that pollinate their flowers.) I'm not saying any of this ever happened, but it could have happened, without leaving any fossils when you've got millions of people, and hundreds of thousands of years. Also, there's ants and other invertebrates that do natural farming, and have before humans walked the Earth.
Right. There are Sumerian cities that had advanced infrastructure and have completely disappeared. Hard to say what has not taken place as far as early agriculture.
Other people with a time machine: I'm your granddaughter Me with a time machine: "put the hoe down and get back to hunting and gathering, I don't want to work in a a cubicle anymore."
Wow. Another great video. Well worth the wait, and imo worth the hard work you put in. I especially loved the new art & images you've been able to add. A vast improvement in the overall impact of the subject. I continue to find it fascinating how much rituals, spirituality and mythology can impact society. Makes me even think of Terence McKenna's theory. (Tho I'm still not completely convinced of that). I'm looking forward to the next 2 parts of this series. Great, great video!
It’s amazing to think that these civilisations emerged at around the same time, due to agriculture, is it possible that these early civilisations were actually in contact with each other somehow , through travelling people??
Wonderful series! Is "The" Histocrat a single person, or a group? Who voices the commentary? Is he the author of the material? Kudos to whoever he/they is/are!
Amazing documentary. Great content to inform the public about how deeply mankind's fate is tied to global/regional climate changes, the capacity of human societies to adapt, and the role of technology and organizational structures to manage our evolving needs. We better start expanding our Civilizations to other planets, moons, and asteroids in our Solar System in the Age of the Anthropocene. Kudos! .... 🤔📚🖖👣😎
