What were Humans doing 1,000,000 years ago?

[@intricatic]

They were doing stuff that made an order of magnitude more sense than what we're doing right now.

[@LucasSommer]

Order of magnitude

[@Crabchann]

I like this comment.

[@intricatic]

@@LucasSommer ...anti-semantic. ...anti-simant?

[@peterenevoldsen7199]

They struggled to survive.

[@necurrence1776]

Cool comment 😂 but yes, most of what we do now is killing time

[@smokeystarr]

To me this is an extremely fascinating period in history. Would love to see more.

[@goodwillhumping7904]

prehistory

[@Trathien-]

@@goodwillhumping7904 there is no such thing

[@goodwillhumping7904]

@@Trathien- i guess my dictionary is either broken or erroneous

[@TastyChevelle]

@@goodwillhumping7904 You're broken and erroneous

[@goodwillhumping7904]

@@TastyChevelleso witty and smart. you must be popular at parties

[@paradoxworkshop4659]

Mostly sitting around complaining that kids don't have respect for elders these days, and that they don't make things like they used to.

[@godparticle3833]

Watch the video about ten thousand years ago, not really much to talk about a million years ago

[@dadrising6464]

Considering that we are among the first generarions whose life differs in any meaningful way from the life their grandparents lived, thats probably a new thing.

[@healthiswealth1452]

Crazy to think I had a relative 1 million years ago,

[@jounisuninen]

Well, you didn't.

[@healthiswealth1452]

@@jounisuninen why not

[@BeeHash]

Your great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandparents were fish.

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

It's so amazing to think of functional humanoids living 1 MILLION years ago on this planet. Considering history as we know it has only been around maybe 10,000 years, this is really mindblowing to me. One wonders if they had a developed language with articulated words and how much they spoke, or if they spoke at all.

[@Foxxie55]

There's no history around to point that there were any humanoids around.. Demonic scabs dream up this BS and put it out as fact, when they have no proof. What does one history book, the Bible say about humans.. Adam and Eve the first - then a flood - then the tower of Babel. Government all around the world today is this Mystery Babylon, that the Bible speaks about that will be destroyed in the end of this age, which is about to take place.. Revelation 12 "The Great Sign" of the pregnant woman in the sky/heaven took place on 23 Sept. 2017. This has started the countdown for the end times before Jesus comes back down to earth to rule over from Jerusalem.. WAKE UP People... Time is short. ASK Jesus to save you or suffer of what's coming upon earth..

[@Homo.sapiens.sapiens2001]

No 10000 maybe maximum 3000 bc

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

@@Homo.sapiens.sapiens2001 I'm talking about human ancestors and proto-humans. Not just within recorded history.

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

@@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999 People used to say that monkeys are mythical creatures

[@blueways6699]

100k+ yr old monoliths/structures all throughout the world.

[@curiodyssey3867]

Dude the production value of your videos have vastly improved since your started...you're blowing up so fast...almost brings a tear to my eye

[@gregbors8364]

Kids - they blow up so fast 😢

[@dirtedirte8771]

It’s literally cut and paste ….

[@curiodyssey3867]

@@dirtedirte8771 LMAO would love to see you create a video. Then come back and tell me it's just cut and paste Didn't you learn as a young adult not to talk about s*** you don't know a thing about?

[@weseehowcommiegoogleis3770]

Was that an offer to go on a Date?

[@R-Lee-]

Do you know this guy personally?

[@NORTH02]

“Human” does not only refer to our species. Most anthropologists refer to other species in our genus as humans as well. Therefore, homo erectus can be referred to as a human as with the other hominins in this video.

[@VicksasT]

Living spaces of prehistory please

[@hughjunit2503]

If you could go back in time to live out your life, what time would you go back to????? I'd say about 20,000 years ago for me would be like heaven. Mega fauna, clean Earth and a much simpler time

[@VicksasT]

@@hughjunit2503 lots of death lol

[@hughjunit2503]

@@VicksasT true. But what a sight it would be eh???

[@VicksasT]

@@hughjunit2503 omg yes dude building a cabin 20,000 years ago with, like what you said, megafauna!! It would probably have to be a tree house lol

[@ebonyblack4563]

Oh, well, this reminded me how much a backlog of your work I've missed. Life gets crazy sometimes, and now and then looking at the distant past can be deeply grounding. Thank you for your work.

[@larrydirtybird]

This video is great to watch if you’re stoned. The voice is so calming in the music is so mellow that I really felt like I had drifted in an out of prehistoric times.

[@hillsofwi]

Enjoyed the narration. Calm and informative. I look forward to more content.

[@ashermirgrumpymind1866]

Have you ever played the game ancestors: the humankind odyssey? It a wonderful game about evolving from different species of hominids that i think you should check out

[@nobodyinnoutdoors]

watching him play and add commentary would be a series i watch

[@ashermirgrumpymind1866]

@@nobodyinnoutdoors me too

[@danb1618]

@@khyatisharma8944 🤷🏽‍♂️ 🤔

[@Murphys_Law9]

I made it to Lucy

[@DarthTalon66]

Ark survival

[@mundanestuff]

It's always surprising to me how many hominids lived in parallel with each other around the world all throughout history. Our line literally was never alone on the planet as the only human species. Maybe not even today.

[@daverose2012]

Around 5 other species lived alongside us 50,000 years ago

[@casualcausalityy]

Homo Floriensis was around until about 13,000 years ago. There was a comet strike about 12,800 years ago that may have ended our cousin's stories

[@KathySarich]

⁠@@casualcausalityySounds like the Laschamp excursion about 42,000 years ago, which they figure is when the Neanderthals went extinct. It’s about every 12,000 years that we face a bigger cataclysm, smaller ones on the half cycle of 6,000 years.

[@josephjohnson6849]

@@casualcausalityy wasn't that in the younger dryas era, when much flooding happened

[@jonasdavies1806]

I think my high school maths teacher was indeed a neanderthal, he had much hair all over his body, can use basic tools, wore a leather jacket usually, walked on two legs, had a prominent brow ridge too.

[@rocroc]

One thing that is very interesting about your videos is the number of people who watch them and provide strong feedback about how much they enjoy them. It tells you that as a culture, we want to know about our past and how we became what we are today. At the same time, you don't see much on TV about our past even on channels that should generate this kind of information. You could easily take the material you develop to television and it would be a big hit. I know the kids love this stuff as well as the adults but those who carry the big viewer stick have no interest. Time to replace those folks making the decisions.

[@ianstuart5660]

For sure. Guess it doesn't have the high entertainment value compared to typical television!

[@hughjainisis1683]

I am so fascinated by our species of humans interacting with other species. It would’ve been wild to be the first sapiens to encounter a neaderthal or denisovan tribe.

[@corilia9529]

Cro magons met Neanderthals.

[@213kilacali]

Our instinct would’ve been to kill them, we just hard wired to view the unknown as threat.

[@czimisieu8337]

It will be the same for the first cyborgs encountering us

[@stevehuggett2098]

What, before we attacked and wiped them all out you mean?

[@hughjainisis1683]

@@stevehuggett2098 he literally said there's no evidence we attacked them and pushed them to extinction in the video dum bass.

[@eatsblades]

I like the relaxed and informative delivery. Good video 😊

[@deadcatbounce3124]

It's the rate of change in humans that is truly astounding, especially the last 100,000 years or so.

[@kalrandom7387]

With accepted history is to be believed, the past 10,000 years is astounding.

[@eugeniaskelley5194]

@@kalrandom7387 I agree.

[@u235u235u235]

@@kalrandom7387 yes, you know. mostly because of farming tech (cultivation, seed domestication, irrigation, crop rotation) leads to cities, which leads to specialization and more tech.

[@scambammer6102]

what change? Homo sapiens have been anatomically identical for 200,000 years.

[@u235u235u235]

@@scambammer6102 lol someone knows. exactly.

[@bakkila99]

Man I remember I use to watch Trey the Explainer all the time and then KZbin recommended your channel when you were first starting out and I’ve been a fan since! You guys had a lot in common with how you explained things and the content you put out. Trey has become not as frequent of a poster, but I still follow them and enjoy their content. But you more than definitely have helped fill the void! I’m Hank you for your great work and I look forward to a lot more in the future!

[@NORTH02]

Trey is the best

[@nogoodgod4915]

I still watch Trey almost every night before I fall asleep!

[@paulanthony5274]

Are you really called Hank or has that pesky predictive text been at it again?

[@Gameboy-Unboxings]

Hey, Hank. 👋🏻

[@peterzinya407]

@@NORTH02 Nice vid. Too bad not one word of it is true. Man just popped onto the scene about 12,000 yrs ago.

[@nogoodgod4915]

Yay

[@ThinkHarderPlz]

Me too!!!

[@cynthiashepherd7754]

Me too

[@marsh2537]

Pause

[@julianshepherd2038]

You should be attached to a sports team you don't play for like a norm.

[@nostalgio697]

Weird

[@itsapittie]

A few months ago I saw a video of some Kalahari hunters armed only with spears taking a fresh kill from a couple of lions. The way they explained it, it was a matter of having enough men (3-4 if I remember correctly) and not moving in such a way as to provoke an attack. They just slowly moved closer and closer until the lions got nervous and moved away. There's no reason to think our distant ancestors couldn't have done something similar. Prehistoric humans may not have been as much at the mercy of their environment as they are often depicted.

[@johnpauljones9310]

Homo Erectus hunted in packs armed with stone hand axes. Also interesting to note is that every fossil thigh bone of homo erectus had the tell-tale ridge line that today only shows up in extreme long distance runners. This meant that being hunted by homo erectus meant being run down until exhausted, then pounced on and cut to pieces with stone hand axes. What a brutal way to die. If that's what prehistoric lions faced, no wonder they would just give up the kill.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Every single video you make is better than the last. This is a broadcast quality doco, fantastic work 👍😁

[@MarlboroughBlenheim1]

Except it’s factually wrong as there were no humans one million years ago!

[@mtndew157]

This is quality af

[@sipioc]

As someone who found your channel recently and watched the old videos first, you are really coming into your stride my friend! Excellent work!

[@brainworthy]

My grandfather was a fisherman and so was my father. Boy, has my life style changed in one generation. It took a million years for me to become an overnight success. As humans we are lucky that we did not become extinct hundreds of thousands years ago like many other species did. At one point there were very few humans on earth. Now, there are too many !

[@ianstuart5660]

Yes, great point!

[@jimc4839]

Far too many. That will be our demise. We owe our existence to the natural world and are destroying it at an exponential rate.

[@drips1030]

It's certainly a shame for the planet that we didn't expire. I firmly believe (and wish) we had. We don't deserve it.

[@holdthis4279]

🤓​@@drips1030

[@cswanson4476]

And just one species left. “And then there were none.”

[@memybikeni9931]

I would go back to the time that Stone Henge was being built, and ask them to move it a few hundred yards, it’s way too close to the A303.

[@1pcfred]

Stonehenge was built in 1959 so you wouldn't have to travel too far. At least the Stonehenge as it stands today was built then. Go look it up. There's pictures of them doing it and everything.

[@crossstitchmatches]

​@@1pcfredyou mean the restoration the started in 1958?

[@1pcfred]

@@crossstitchmatches 1958 is very close to 1959 so there's a strong possibility there.

[@comments2840]

Your voice is soothing to hear and well paced (not too hurried.) Not showing yourself or any live contemporary personage in the video makes the content of the video good for meditation. Those are the best qualities for a documentary.

[@dreday6320]

I swear you make videos about my exact thoughts. I've always wondered what humans did 1 million years ago.

[@drips1030]

I'm sure many also have the same thought. You're not exclusive 😂

[@alannohlgren]

Thanks, man. Your videos always fascinate & stimulate my imagination in the most compelling way. After a couple of anthropology classes back in the early 70's, I was sorely tempted to follow that path, & would have been happily productive doing so. But music, & jazz specifically, won out, & the beautiful soft sciences which touch your field were left behind, as pertains to me. Thank you again for bringing it all back so artfully. I look forward to your future productions, so please, keel it up!

[@kevinwilson2082]

Jazz.......ahhhhhhhhhhh! You did the right thing Alan. Kevin

[@chompachangas]

Fascinating. I often wonder what our oldest ancestors were up to, what they were like. We are a species with amnesia.

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

Without a written record from so many years ago we will never know exactly what was happening Amnesia? No. An oral account will only go so far and then it becomes garbled and embellished, to whit: The Buybull!

[@wingedhussar1453]

Just imagine all the tribes or even cities and civilizations

[@GenericUsername1388]

​@@wingedhussar1453 1 million years ago there were no "cities". The concept hadn't even existed yet

[@wingedhussar1453]

@@GenericUsername1388 when did I say millions of years

[@GenericUsername1388]

@@wingedhussar1453 the title of the video.

[@stevoplex]

I don't remember much, but it was mostly boredom punctuated by terror and then we ate a lot of food.

[@GenericUsername1388]

It's amazing to think these people were just like us, going about their days making food, washing clothes etc and had no idea the legacy thwy would leave on the world and potentially the universe

[@teyanuputorti7927]

Great video very informative and clear to follow

[@jasonpercy184]

I'd like to see the Archaic period of the eastern United States . Some really awesome cultures and tool assemblages during that period . I'm going to watch whatever you make though. Your videos started out good but keep getting better. Always love to see a new one .

[@dave.p153]

They've only been there 20000 years to an Australia and that's absolutely nothing lol

[@MrMegamike2k]

Pre Cahokia civilization would be interesting to learn about.

[@andrewblake2254]

@@dave.p153 Actually 60k...at least.

[@dave.p153]

@@andrewblake2254 I was being a smart aleck so remind did the guy say 20000 years ? apparently the Australian Aborigines have been here for anything from 60 to 80 thousand they think now

[@andrewblake2254]

@@dave.p153 Some archeologists claim 120k, but that is disputed.

[@VicksasT]

Omfg thank you bro🧡 I needed this today

[@issamint3499]

As always another great video! I wish they could all be an hour in length but I know that’s unrealistic, you’re just very talented!

[@peterzinya407]

Whats unrealistic is the false info in the vid.

[@dudeman7826]

@@peterzinya407 what are you on about ?

[@peterzinya407]

@@dudeman7826 go back to sleep

[@dudeman7826]

@@peterzinya407 ?

[@sweettrak4221]

Have you considered lava flows in Africa as the source of fire? For example, constant flows occurring along the rift valley where humans simultaneously evolved

[@travismoss3492]

this could have some merit.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

nature provided fire before man found ways to create it....

[@marilyncornell2194]

How quiet it must have been back then

[@DMUSA536]

And pitch black nights

[@213kilacali]

Not a phone in sight everyone living in the moment.

[@emre2658]

@@213kilacali😂😂

[@kobebarka8633]

Your videos have rapidly become a stable of my thirst for knowledge. Thank you so much for all of your hard work and dedication!

[@Morristown337]

After knowing what we have accomplished in the past 12 thousand years; it seems insane to assume that over 100,000 years of good climate that man did not accomplish as much or more then we do now before the younger dryas event (or the flood stories) knocked man back to the stone age 12K years ago. There is NO way it took man hundreds of thousands of years to master fire.

[@scambammer6102]

@@Morristown337 "man" isn't a thing. There are dozens (probably hundreds) of hominid species going back 7 million years or so. Try watching the video and learn something.

[@Morristown337]

@@scambammer6102 Try watching Randal Carlson sometime. The oldest homo-sapian which is over 99% like us goes back 800,000. I am not caught up in all the part man part monkey bullshit. Evolution only goes back to family. All dogs and wolfs can be traced back to 1 canine but a dog does not become a cat or vice versa. Even though we are only 1 DNA chromosome from a monkey there are no monkey to people growing a chromosome. Mankind is very much a thing and as I am one its hard to say that I don't exist. Carbon 14 dating is not able to date back over a million years so how exactly do you know this?

[@scambammer6102]

@@Morristown337 don't waste any money on higher education

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@scambammer6102 seem to recall something about "Lucy"....mother to us all....

[@ayy2193]

wild to think how many human storylines there have been through all those time points

[@Emmanuel_Ramirez717]

Exactly what I was thinking 💯🌌

[@chiricahuaapache5132]

There has only been one. We come from Adam and Eve.

[@angelicdexter]

Damn, you're back! I've been looking forward to this and you never fail to amaze

[@kaanjel]

Your voice is so soft and soothing, I could listen to you all day.

[@jounisuninen]

Talking s-t softly ...

[@banzaii4422]

I love this!! perfect before sleep, love your voice and work man!

[@heritageoutdoorsproduction2460]

Another awesome installment from you yet again! I personally would find a video covering the origins and migrations of Proto indo Europeans/later indo Europeans throughout Eurasia and the culture shifts attributed to that time!

[@andrewblake2254]

You will find more on that in the linguistics topics. There is a stack of evidence there and it combines with genetics. See also yamnaya people.

[@alexanderrosenzweig888]

Good to see another video about our early ancestors. I was waiting for one of those to come 👍👍👍

[@eljanrimsa5843]

Our ancestors were still in Africa during that time. These were some relatives from a different species wandering off on the same trail that our own lineage would also take 900000+ years later.

[@raylivengood8040]

Another great escape into the distant and perilous past. Thanks for the content 🙂

[@twalk6164]

very educational and well narrated. thanks for this great overview of our past.

[@rljpdx]

great video again. subbed. the outro music gave me pause to giggle a bit, but only because i imagined that tune outro'ing anything lol. like when i turn my back and start walking off into the sunset, my mind blares in extravagant tones the non-haunting melodic outro of "What were Humans doing 1,000,000 years ago?".

[@pete6705]

I think it would have been interesting to see life back then before TikTok and IG. I'd love to know how our great ancestors were able to express themselves and connect with others without social media apps. And also to know what kind of fashion trends there were back in those days

[@jasonaguilera3536]

How old are you 12?! Dude this is all new lol, people would go outside to speak to people. Read news papers or simply converse amongst peers to spread information. Life is sad, we’re all getting to the point of Big Brother. Constantly being watched and monitored. “Adding” cancel culture to get you stay in line. Not speaking out and simply being a sheep. It won’t last, mankind wasn’t meant for slavery.

[@MomoKunDaYo]

I was born in 1995, and it's not all that different if you avoid those social media sites to begin with.

[@nbenefiel]

We didn’t have computers when I was a kid. We used to actually go out and play.

[@petehoover6616]

Baldness is an ancient trait that vastly increases heat transfer. I found out in my forties taking a couple of 20 somethings to a Texas beach and ran rings around them while they sat and complained of the heat. The reason smoke follows you around a campfire is the top of your head pours heat out like a chimney and that air is drawn from around you. A bald man draws more smoke than a fully-haired man. Weirdly, from a distance a naked white man with black hair and a hairy back and no tan line has the same coloration as an otter, which is what he looks like. As for small brains; in the 80's Steven Spielberg put out a puppet series named Dinosaurs! and at the end of one of the episodes the characters mentioned that they are mathematically superior to mammals because having four toes instead of five they live in a hexadecimal world. And hexadecimal translates directly to binary. They can do calculations by counting on their toes impossible for mammals, who must memorize tables of numbers. I have pet birds. I play musical instruments. Sometimes the birds sing with me. If you play the same song again a bird who is into it will cheep at the same place in the music each repeat (try it! A wild bird will do) By listening to their chirps you can see their interpretation of musical phrasing. Odd numbers of beats per measure seems to interest them. A right handed bird or a left handed bird could not fly. Birds are binary and ambidextrous. (not the New Zealand Wry-bird, an exception) My birds have brains the size of beebees. Yet scientists have found they have a 45-word vocabulary that we can distinguish, and they understand a question about their desires gives them the right to a choice. (Do you want out? YES! we want to play! NO! I have eggs I am sitting on! This works and psychologists have not tested it because they can not handle empowered animals) Then again the society of chickens held a meeting: they were tired of predation on their young and asked humans for help. The humans offered protection in exchange for slavery. This free chickens live rare and in fear in their jungles but slave chickens have taken over the world. It's what worries me about Russians.

[@allenwood4771]

What an absolutely AMAZING word salad!

[@joeduff8761]

All over the place my dude

[@kalrandom7387]

Nice factoids dude

[@thomasfoss9963]

Wow--- And that's why we always brought a bald guy with us on our 10 day wilderness trips as the designated "Smoke Choker"-- whose ONLY job was attracting the billowing clouds of smoke we generated to keep the black flies, and mosquitos at bay, so we could get the important tasks done around our camps!!!!!!

[@thomasfoss9963]

Get yourself a lyrebird, they will drive you nuts in 20 minutes mimicking virtually every noise they hear, from conversations to construction sounds in vivid detail!!!!!!

[@hikingdawn8640]

Can you please tell me a bit more about the image you showed of the hominid skull inside of the predator’s jaw?? Where was that found? What was the predator? And what hominid was it? Thank you for your awesome lessons!!❤

[@shakewait7612]

Great video. Excellent content! One suggestion I have is for you to write your own captions instead of the auto-generated ones from KZbin. In the video you used some words and terms I haven't heard before and the auto-transcription didn't do me any favors trying to understand what it is you said. Cheers!

[@DoggosAndJiuJitsu]

I’m 100% sure there were cave paintings where someone left a hieroglyph of “lol youre art suks!” directly below and a bunch of other cavemen drawing thumbs up next to the comment.

[@normieuser]

I wish i was born 1 million years ago, one with nature and at peace with the universe

[@whiskeytango9769]

And struggling for survival every single day.

[@kalrandom7387]

Why can't you be now? If you just want to live their lifestyle drop all your stuff and walk into the woods, there's plenty of places around the world where you could just live without the trappings.

[@normieuser]

@@kalrandom7387 I wish i could go live in the woods but nearly all of them are destroyed and long gone 😐 the few remaining woods its illegal to go and live in them. modern society keeps you a prisoner of the system and rat race, no way to escape but i do what i can

[@thomasfoss9963]

While you're out there enjoying nature, You'd be consumed by a large saber- toothed tiger, or a cave bear!!!!

[@normieuser]

@@thomasfoss9963 It would be the absolute highest honor to me to be eaten by a great carnivore of the past and be used for their sustenance. Absolute win/win

[@jakec5618]

What do you think caused humans to develop exponentially at a certain point ? It seems like for a while it was linear, then around a certain time development become exponential ?

[@KathySarich]

Industrial Revolution and we found and started using coal and crude oil, I’d say.

[@nekrataali]

A couple of things: 1) The ability to create fire. 2) The invention metal tools. 3) Reading, writing, and oral tradition that let information pass down from one generation to another. Even though humans have been using fire for hundreds of thousands of years, our ability to create fires from scratch (using flint or friction) has only been around ~200,000 years (give or take). Fire is an incredibly useful tool not just for cooking food and for warmth, but for doing a lot of labor. For example, since our ancestors didn't have saws, they couldn't cut a tree in half easily. But they could burn it in the middle to turn large trunks into smaller pieces. Fire allows you to create pottery to store food long-term. Metal tools were another large step because they're just better at cutting than stone tools. They're better for hunting, can be turned into complex shapes, don't break as easily so you don't have to remake or repair tools so frequently, etc. Reading, writing, and oral tradition is what allowed these technologies to spread a lot quicker. Complex systems of storytelling are often overlooked in these discussions, but accurately passing down information orally meant you could remember things without having them recorded elsewhere. All of these things led to exponential development and eventually two of humanity's most important inventions: interchangeable parts and the printing press. The proliferation of these two inventions has led to more expansion of human knowledge in the last 2,000 years than the previous 200,000 years combined. The modern printing press and interchangeable parts as we use them today have led to more developments in the last 500 years than the last 5 million.

[@7eventh]

I’d love to learn more about the hardships prehistoric humans faced that was every day for them. Do we have any stories (based on their fossils) of individual lives from then?

[@joeyhunter842]

Those hardships pale in comparison to the hardships of corporate USA and the ass kissing, back stabbing politics necessary to advance within.

[@VitezRafael]

I cant imagine how they lived withouth smartphones.

[@-whackd]

We have completely frozen bodies where we've done nitrogen isotyping and know 100% of their diet.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@-whackd agriculture changed everything...the greatest discovery in human history.....

[@-whackd]

@@frankpienkosky5688 Gave us tooth decay, shorter stature, rickets, bone loss, and created a feudal slave society.

[@readmycomment4696]

Missed your soothing voice. Thanks for new upload. Excited to watch now as I lie in my bed ending the day...

[@norml.hugh-mann]

You'd smell 'em an hour before you saw them

[@ramire7heavenz252]

😂. Actually they'd smell us wearing Channel #5 in the savanna.

[@williamromine5715]

We have a tendency to romance the "one with the world" of ancient people. I doubt it gave them a very warm and wonderful feeling. Finding food and shelter took up most of their time. They were constantly having to be on the lookout for preditors who very dangerous. I don't think they had much time to contemplate "higher" elements of life. Very good video.

[@oongieboongie]

The same fear they would get from a predator is what we today get when doing a speech in front of a big crowd.

[@williamromine5715]

@@oongieboongie Actually, I never had any problem giving a speech before a large crowd. I found it tougher speaking to a small group. A thousand people are just a blur. Ten people is a different matter. They might know more than I know, and they are more likely to let me know that fact.

[@oongieboongie]

@@williamromine5715 Same thing. Everything is more trivial today yet the physiological responses remain the same.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

just watch one episode of "Naked and Afraid"....it should give you a clue......

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@williamromine5715 defending a thesis is always fun......

[@kalrandom7387]

Was having one of them sleepless nights a few nights ago turned on some classical music to float on to try to sleep. And I wondered how important music became in our evolutionary development. Excellent video sir. What was the red screen with the yellow exclamation for?

[@Livingproof0823]

I think the red screen represents a local of visuals of the times and events he was describing.

[@theflyingdutchguy9870]

music is a crazy one because we have no idea how long we have been making music. and if other hominids made it. its one of those things we may never know much about.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@theflyingdutchguy9870 virtually all primitive cultures feature some form of "music".....

[@hamzah5643]

Who else wants to go back a million years, to an ancient grandma ancestor of ours, give her a hug, and tell her, her kids long down the line have walked on the moon, your struggle and love for your kids have made us do things that look impossible.

[@XB10001]

They wouldn't understand.

[@hamzah5643]

@@XB10001 you understimate the instinct of a grandma, this will be your downfall

[@XB10001]

@@hamzah5643 that's even sillier than your first statement. That instinct exists because you get to KNOW your descendants.

[@hamzah5643]

@@XB10001 no, you jus have a broken family, and also, you are gay

[@XB10001]

@@hamzah5643 No, and no. It's actually the opposite of that. Your resentment is very clear.

[@deborahpaulin1188]

Great video! I earned my undergrad degree in Anthropology in 1985. This is a great update.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Oh, hey, another North02 video! Hurray! I've missed your videos, man - you do an amazing job with these things!

[@ancesthntr]

What were our ancestors doing a million years ago? Probably wondering what their descendants would be doing in a million years. 😜 More seriously, this was a very well-done and informative video.

[@Roboheart1119]

Hey great video man. I really liked this one. It’s so fascinating- the concept of deep time and who we were, when we were

[@dionysise5008]

Just discovered this super interesting channel!!

[@Fjdb1648]

We need more videos like this 🫡

[@richx9035]

It’s really a big picture story - the human story. Chance and circumstance play a significant role.

[@karanmodhvadia]

It’s 1 AM , have no idea why i’m watching this. But it is worthwhile.

[@sriramwriting]

The content of your videos brings me much peace of mind. Thanks.

[@roylilly4252]

That is as I have read about for many years very well done....thank you

[@davidgriffiths7696]

A charming and original presentation.

[@chriscapablanca3491]

Thinking about hunting and what I would do here . . . . barbed stone is challenging to make, easier to make from wood. Stone is needed if you want both a super strong spearpoint that is super sharp and reusable. But for fishing you don't need a barbed tip that is super strong. So if wood was used primarily for barbed spears and stone for throwing spears it might account for the lack of barbed stone tools in the fossil record. Barbed stone tools are not that necessary and are very hard to make relative to the other options.

[@junebyrne4491]

I will tell you how much I like your channel. I carefully watch all the ads to help your. Algorithm. 😅

[@laffytiffy4730]

Not y’all having a candid picture of our ancestors at 2:15 😂😂😂😂

[@wingedhussar1453]

The movie quest for fire sure does show a world how it was back then

[@janbaltes2863]

Mostly not chilling. But sometimes they probably chilled.

[@nivin4787]

This channel is a gem 🌟🌠keep it up NORTH 02

[@4Beats4Me]

Thanks for another tastefully done beauty. So respectful, so easy to know and be all the more curious and eager for the next one. Congratulations on your European studies!

[@DrBe-zn5fv]

a voice of this quality on YT is like cool fresh water

[@darrencorrigan8505]

Thanks, NORTH 02.

[@chrisweidner4768]

My guess building huge monoliths, being able to visit one another globally and living free and happy lives.

[@nc8507]

I like how you "broke character" to give the poor turtles some love.

[@rbeneveds]

Oh to be “one with the world” again. Sure there would be struggles but we would appreciate so much more!

[@brax2364]

What were they doing a million years ago? I dunno…. Maybe looking for food?

[@christophercousins184]

Excellent, once again. Great documentary beautifully done

[@jimatmile56]

A+, Well done, I enjoyed this video very much. Thank you.

[@dwainkitchel1316]

as to the which are human question: it seems Lee Berger's(teams) work on Naledi has turned up some interesting discovery's about the impressions that sinus cavities leave in skulls/fossils and how that relates to being human. expect to see much more on this soon.

[@bumpedhishead636]

I suspect one of the reasons for the scarcity of fossil remains is that it is actually quite rare for bones to become fossils. Most bones are broken into tiny shards by scavengers long before they can become fossils, and the rest eventually disintegrate into dust.

[@tedkrasicki3857]

North America should have mountains of hard antlers and bones. The voles and mice nibble at them as this is their source of minerals. It has all been recycled by life.

[@alexbowman7582]

One of the things which may have driven some Homo Sapiens is that they’re what you could call upwardly mobile. Many early humans and modern humans are seemingly content living a subsistence hunting existence with a mostly stable population and lifestyle for millennia but Eurasian Homo Sapiens seem to have developed improving societies with farming, towns and widespread cultural links leading to modern societies.

[@csjrogerson2377]

Not sure about the adults but kids have never changed over the 1000 millennia. They will be pulling the sabre tooth tiger kittens tail, drawing on the walls of their bedroom cave, throwing big rocks at the woolly mammoths and poking their sister in the bum with their newly knapped spear tip.

[@marclbishop]

I love your compassion for the turtles.

[@gentrynewsom2080]

Here on Turtle Island USA the Clovis people were hunting and gathering and became the Ojibwe Tribe...trail blazers from the eastern continent .

[@ElRayDelRio]

And what struck me was that Camels were originally creatures of the west 😮. I always thought camels belonged to the middle east or Africa

[@Xenoyer]

The topic of the human use of fire is interesting to me. A lot of times I like to think about the first time a human did some act. Like the first human being to ever make and realize a flaked stone has value. With fire, I wonder what it was like for the first human being to conquer their fear and take hold and control fire. Fire must have been a frightful thing in many ways for them. They may have taken advantage of animals burned in a fire as a food source, and they also probably fell victim to the fire as well. They had reason to fear fire. So try to put yourself in their place as they reached out, in fear, and took hold. That act was, in my humble opinion, one of the bravest acts ever to have taken place in human history.

[@sarah3796]

Fascinating!! Great videos!!!

[@driftwoods2229]

Would be really interesting to see a video on what made us all look so different. From European, Chinese, Indian, Hispanic

[@michaellastname4922]

Another question: what were humans doing during the last interglacial? (See Wiki: " Eemian / Marine Isotope Stage 5e (130-115 thousand years ago). The preceding interglacial optimum occurred during the Late Pleistocene Eemian Stage, 131-114 ka. During the Eemian the climatic optimum took place during pollen zone E4 in the type area (city of Amersfoort, Netherlands). Here this zone is characterized by the expansion of Quercus (oak), Corylus (hazel), Taxus (yew), Ulmus (elm), Fraxinus (ash), Carpinus (hornbeam), and Picea (spruce). During the Eemian Stage (from about 128,000 BCE until 113,000 BCE), sea level was between 5 and 9.4 meters higher than today[4] and the water temperature of the North Sea was about 2 °C higher than at present.")

[@formulajuan6038]

Another excellent video.

[@BeRightBack131]

Newly subscribed. Excellent videos. Thank you.

[@kevinhanley2012]

The book "ON HUNTING" is a pretty good treatise on what we have become today and the association with the natural world that we subliminally seek while we live in a milieu that denies our primitive roots.

[@jeffreyrobinson3555]

Ogg was leading a party calling for spear control. Opp wanted free access to spears, cNN was saying spears were never envisioned stone tips and the first spear makers would be terrified of stone points

[@jasonz7788]

Awesome thanks great work Sir

[@whitesun264]

Thank you for sharing that was brilliant. That really helped clear up my understanding. Particularly that Homo Sapiens evolved in Africa, departed (later than other humanoid species) where they then encountered other humanoid species in other parts of the world who had departed Africa in earlier migrations, I hadn't understood or been able to make sense of that before .(last 1-2 minutes of the video)