BREAKING NEWS - 'Oldest Bow Outside Africa' Discovered in Sri Lankan Cave // Prehistoric Asia

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[@ajithsomarathna1433]

I am from Sri Lanka. 1. Actually our prehistoric evidence goes to 1,25000 yesrs ago. Stone tools were founded in “Iranamadu Formation” and “Bundala formation”.. 2.Then “Balangoda Human” evidences go to 48,000-30,000. 3.Banana seeds were founded in Hortan plains (10,000)- Agricultural evidence. 4.Letters were founded in Anuradapaura ( 6 Century BC). And many more... There are so many prehistoric sites here. Even we are little island we have huge density of prehistoric and historic monuments. Sources: 1.The Prehistory and Protohistory of Sri Lanka - Dr Siran Deraniyagala 2.The prehistoric monuments in Sri Lanka. 3.Upper pleistocene fossil hominids from Sri Lanka 4.Epigraphia Zeylanica 5.Royal Asiathic Society Research ..and many more..

[@KA-pq3yz]

Ajt Smn Yah, people in in power never told or teach that facts in school . Thanks

[@swlondonguy264]

Thanks for sharing, very informative.

[@mver191]

Acoording to some Islamic writers, Adam came from Sri Lanka.

[@intenselyrich3517uk]

yes it makes for poor teaching when we haven't been given truths all along ..but that's how the powers that be keep us down n blind us from truths. this is the awakening of humans before its too late .. we are finding out more n mors truths n see the government's for what they are. liars n truth destroyers. read n learn n prepare for the future. have back up plans xxx

[@homersimpson7068]

@@mver191 Yeah, that's not really History or even Pre-history, it's myth.

[@lladnarkram9563]

50,000 years ago they didn't need boats to reach Sri Lanka, the sea levels were 150m lower and they probably walked across.

[@cyclicalcycler993]

Yep and so did the animals, detailed studys of Tigers migrating...

[@harindaeranga7434]

Sri Lanka is a historical Paradise 😍 and the culture amazing 🤩

[@auraajah3072]

The vedder tribe

[@dreamdiction]

Small stone points from 64,000 years ago found in Sibudu cave in South Africa are suggested as the oldest evidence for the use of the bow and arrow in Africa, but this is highly speculative, it is more likely that bows in Africa only began after the influence of contact with Arab slave traders. As late as 1880 the African bows were weak, they could only be used on small animals at close range. The colonial era documented experience of African tribal wars, involved spears, shields, clubs, but no bows and arrows.

[@oddjam]

Imagine the things that have happened over the last 50k years that we'll never know about.

[@yodasmomisondrugs7959]

Wasn't much going on worth mentioning.

[@gsalien2292]

The first French colonists arriving at Jekyll Island met a group of natives called the Temecuan that were described as about 7 feet tall and possessed a recurve style bow.

[@mver191]

According to some Islamic writers, Adam came from Sri Lanka and was a giant.

[@taterkaze9428]

I've thought for some time that the bow & arrow was developed ~50k years ago. Spear hunting is labor-intensive. So is art. My theory is that the efficiency of the bow & arrow created free time while also ensuring consistent food supply. The first art appears ~40k years ago. By ~30k years ago cave art, venus figurines, and flutes appeared. The bow & arrow would also have made hunting safer than with spears, as it enabled killing from a greater distance and a shift to small game. This would have increased human longevity and enabled both greater learning and more time to transfer knowledge to the next generation. It was the invention that enabled our modern development.

[@sonoransaguaro3786]

thanks for some more informative info on the bow.

[@Section5_CdnIntelService]

The bow probably developed from a child's toy or a method of starting fire.

[@blueboxkid526]

This dude never gets around to actually talking about the bow does he?

[@joeasher2876]

There was no bow found, just "arrow heads", (organic material rots fast in a forest) which is why it's still a debate about whether they are arrowheads or from something else like a blow dart which he addressed but he didn't address whther they could have been used in an atlatl which seems more likely than blow dart tips... But the title "oldest possible arrowheads found" does not sound as amazing as "oldest bow found".

[@melvinvines2238]

Work with the history of Assyria aka assur, the check the history of ELAM, the Israelites. We read he went north-east, all African aka non white non spanish but black history......

[@Therealpiratepete]

Intriguing, thought provoking, and very well presented.

[@AVOIDAVOIDVOID]

Cool, neat, and very swell.

[@trey85031]

It's amazing how widespread the bow was, it is not an easy tool to master

[@gustavgnoettgen]

Or even to make as well as the arrows

[@gustavgnoettgen]

@Iconoclast pottery? What did they use instead?

[@ColdHawk]

I love to ponder what the very first guy to come up with a bow was thinking. What combination of events led to the first launch of an arrow from a bow? How many times did that happen before someone had the great idea of using it to bag game, or was that the first thought? How many would-be bow hunters quit in frustration before the first animal was killed with a bow? You know, we are a weird and wonderful species.

[@gustavgnoettgen]

@@ColdHawk really strange part. I can only imagine a melee weapon like flexible rod, a whip or crop, and something weird from there. I guess that spears came first but were not the orign of bow and arrow.

[@rahowherox1177]

@@gustavgnoettgen I'm thinking a snare tied to flexible bent tree with baited trigger, flinging a rabbit (ala 1st season Simpsons).

[@danhnguyen-fn9eb]

You keep saying that the place was a wet juggle environment 50,000 years ago. That might not be the case. At that time a lot of the planet's water was locked up in the Ice up north. Ocean levels would of been much lower(300-400ft) so the Island might possibly of had a land bridge to India. There's no doubt the place was forested but I doubt it was rain forest at that time. Those bone and stone points are very interesting though. And this place sheds a little more light on our extremely long lost history. Good deal.

[@rockyroad2143]

Tailored clothing? Whoa that dude at the intro had some mighty serious Hobbit feet. I always wonder how many people were trampled by mammoths during hunting. That must have been an intense up close and personal life or death experience. Our ancestors were so incredibly resilient and tough.

[@mver191]

That is why they hunted mammoth from higher areas or just drove them off cliffs with fire and noise.

[@parrotraiser6541]

During the Ice Ages, Sri Lanka was almost certainly a peninsula of India, due to lower sea levels. South Asia was probably a lot more comfortable than Europe was at the time.

[@Dionaea_floridensis]

Really glad you made this channel, I thoroughly enjoy it

[@robertspies4695]

Interesting but I was expecting to see a "bow" I guess your claim is based on interpreting small shaped stones as being arrow heads. They could have been small spear heads for hunting or fishing. How was the dating done?

[@bakters]

@Dan Ryan I thought about what you wrote for a while. It turned out, I mostly disagree with your arguments. 1. I agree that those finds look like points, but I don't think they look like arrow points. Why? They are crooked. Arrows are light and fly bad with a crooked point. Those finds look like rough and ready products with as little effort put into them as possible. Probably because they were lost often *and* they were functional without any more work put into them. That suggests an atlatl dart to me. The darts are so heavy, that a tiny point will not affect it much, even if it's not hafted perfectly. 2. I agree that thrown spears and darts need to be of certain sized, but it does not mean that the points on them need to be big too. People used foreshafts, which can be as slender as need be, with point of any size in front. They fly fine. 3. The opinion of scientists may is of obvious value, but I also value the opinion of actual practitioners. Ryan Gill is the closest thing to a professional primitive hunter we have right now. He argued that the finds are quite possibly very often misclassified. What he thinks were knives is classified as a spear point, what he suspects was an atlatl dart point is often classified as an arrow point. He got there because he actually and regularly hunts with this equipment. Stone is brittle. Okay, this is bone, not stone. Fine. But bone does not cut well, so having a big point does not give you much. A big point will only exponentially increase the forces on the hafting area, which would require more care in hafting. It would limit the penetration potential too, simply because it's wider. So what would you gain from a big bone point? Lots more effort and worse performance. A small point makes way more sense. A dried bone with some oomph behind it will go through a fresh bone. At least it would do it better than bare wood, so it makes some sense. 3. Finally, last but not least reservation. 46 Ky BP (or thereabouts, I forgot) is *extremely early* . How come the bow did not spread *immediately* ? It should... So basically, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. We don't get anything resembling one here. Anyway, I think those are points hafted on light foreshafts. Either thrown spears or darts. It just makes sense. I've looked at the map, and it seems they had bamboo. What stopped them from getting a bamboo javelin and attaching a small hardwood foreshaft to the front? Easy to do on a bamboo, no need to drill anything. You could get by with one or two good javelins/darts and a bunch of easily produced and easily replaced foreshafts. Monkeys are small. The spear doesn't need to go deep in order to kill one.

[@bakters]

@Dan Ryan "20,000 year old cave paintings" Dating cave paintings is hard, man. Does it check out with the theory of this guy from Prehistory decoded channel? Yeah, it's a bit out there (it revolves around prehistoric Zodiac), but it seems to be consistent with a lot of the finds. To the point, that we could at least try to date paintings by their contents. I'm just curious if it fits. "We see no evidence of widespread bow and arrow use until 10,000 years later." That's why I'm inclined to at least initially assume that's the time the bow and arrow was invented. It's a simple theory, which is always good. "I personally think it was discovered independently multiple times." I don't. Good inventions tend to spread so quickly, that we usually have trouble figuring out where they happened. For example, we know when the wheel was invented, but we don't know where. It appears everywhere at the same time. "they already used bows with strings for fires and drilling holes and they were using darts as projectiles. The technology was already there, someone just had to put it together. " So how come the bow was never invented in Americas? It was introduced there by the Eskimos. The Clovis and such lived and hunted both continents for thousands and thousands of years, they lighted fires for the same amount of time, yet they never combined the two. If it was so easy, they would have. But they did not.

[@bakters]

@nuren "But they don't use darts. Maby darts were never used in Sri Lanka." You could say the same about North America, where atl-atl use did not survive the contact with bow and arrow. Bows are just better. With that said, I'm not claiming that those points must have been hafted on darts. It simply seems more likely to me. Bow is so much better, that if Sri Lankans had it so far back, it should spread wildly.

[@joeasher2876]

@Dan Ryan Why is an atlatl not considered as a possibility?

[@bakters]

@Dan Ryan They dated a small, previously unknown set of figures *and* they admit that the whole painting was modified many times. They don't even mention bows. Even if they are there, we can't tell how old they are, until they specifically sampled the charcoal from the bow painting itself (or thereabouts). 20 Ky BP is still to early for me to easily accept. Less impossible than 46 Ky BP, but only by a smidge.

[@StigEtDump]

Pete, when you talk about people in boats hugging the shore, and show a map to go along with it, could you use one that reflects the coast line in the period.

[@ee34343434343]

There is no reason to assume humans came by boat. More likely the first waves simply followed the coastlines and beaches on foot. A food rich highway east. Not until the Wallace line would they need boats .... to reach Australia.

[@StigEtDump]

@@ee34343434343 Indeed, this is both possible and likely, but the coast would be the same either way

[@ensys1000]

@Dan Ryan i think you are pointing towards an area these dna statisticians are making a big mistake. By disallowing connectivity of lands direcly through sea lanes, i think they get their knickers in a jumbled twist never knowing why. If those grandpas could kill a lion thru collective effort, it should not have been too difficult for them to cobble together something that floats with much less screaming and shouting. and then few thousand years later something that sails. They certainly did not need be in the office on time. They had plenty of time in their hands.

[@kelleren4840]

I mean, Australian Aboriginals have the longest known, continuous civilization in history, dating to around 50,000 years. So it makes perfect sense that Sri Lanka (which is right along the coastal sea-route from Africa to Australia) has some incredibly old, interesting stuff. People would have been established in Sri Lanka far before they would have made it to Australia.

[@sedwillful]

Africans have a history extending over 250k.

[@kelleren4840]

@@sedwillful I mean, yes, if you're counting humanity as a whole. Australia is unique in that it's the longest living, continuous civilization, same culture, customs, identity, etc. It's sorta like saying humans have been in Europe for like, ~50,000 years, but the English today are not the same civilization as the Picts, and the Picts were not the same as the proto-indo-european groups. So humans have been in Africa far longer than Australia, you're dead right, but we have had countless new civilizations emerge and disappear in that time, where the Australian Aboriginal civ has been continuous for 50k years.

[@sedwillful]

@@kelleren4840 not quite, those first sapien sapiens to arrive in Australia were African migrants. Admixed populations are 6500yrs old for Eurasia and 5000yrs old for modern Europeans Wilde S, Timpson A, Kirsanow K, et al. Direct evidence for positive selection of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation in Europeans during the last 5,000 y. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014;111(13):4832-4837. doi:10.1073/pnas.1316513111

[@sedwillful]

@@kelleren4840 South Africans have a continuous culture that dates back over 100k with Adam's Calendar being a prime example, its over 75k bare minimum. Along with the Khoisan people and those blacks who went to India.

[@kelleren4840]

@@sedwillful as a man of science I suspend my previous claims until I can do more research! Cheers on the reference and topics to look in on!! I'll certainly dive more into it!

[@gilday5405]

50,000 years, 2 earth wables, large animals become extinct, ice ages came and go. Nothing is the same. Forrest to desert.

[@FxUxCxMx]

Ice caps are melting beyond recovery. Life will go on but our way of life is about to change. Nothing with ever be the same again.

[@Xander1Sheridan]

@@FxUxCxMx that's idiocy. The ice caps have vanished completely before, and rather recently too. It is called a cycle. We are still colder than the average temperature of the Holocene.

[@unclejoe7466]

@@FxUxCxMx The climatic shift at the time the ice caps last melted may have resulted in humans, such as we are today. slate.com/technology/2014/12/the-last-time-the-arctic-was-ice-free-in-summer-modern-humans-didn-t-exist.html Easy come, easy go?

[@FxUxCxMx]

The north poles ice sheet in arctic circle is different but related to glacial flows from the ice age. I was referring to this next era were we have no north pole ice sheet and biomes across the planet shift into something different. At this point in its progress the ice sheet is barely half a meter is some places. We already see a new shift in polar bears moving south and interbreeding with grizzly bear. Something different is on the horizon. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oauZiKuKfZKjadE

[@jarod466]

@@FxUxCxMx, nothing is ever the same.

[@mver191]

Pretty sure the Amazonian tribes also hunt with bows. So you can hunt in dense jungle with it.

[@deanbuss1678]

Good to hear from you, Pete Kelly Keep us updated.👍

[@mikewendland4982]

Almost 9 minutes into the video before a bow and arrow are mentioned. Then, at 10:32, finally a photo of possible arrowheads!

[@deborahromilly2766]

Beautifully done, thank you very much Pete.

[@elbat5946]

So proud of you Pete! Came a long way buddy, thanks for all the great vids! Love your Viking stuff, please do more.

[@crynolyn]

Fascinating stuff ! Thank you for all the time you put into these

[@valdasendriulaitis50]

The fact that the oldest bowl arrow heads in existence was found in Sri Lanka doesn’t mean that the first bowl ever invented was invented in Sri Lanka. All that this means is that the oldest bowl in existence that we know of 👉 comes from Sri Lanka. We have no way of knowing who on planet Earth was the first inventor of the bow and where he actually lived on the planet earth. I also think that we need to stop referring to Neanderthals as not being Homo sapiens . If we could breed with Neanderthals Then they were fellow human beings Who were simply of a different race of Homo sapiens. We all on planet Earth apart from sub-Saharan black Africans have direct ancestors ( great great great grandparents) who were of the Neanderthals / Denisovan race . Doing this glaciation cycle the sea levels were at least 95 m lower than today, making Sri Lanka not an island ☝️but attached by land to the Indian subcontinent by way of the Dhonishkoti strip . Our ancestors walked into Sri Lanka.

[@KathleenMcCormickLCSWMPH]

Nice to wake up to this! Thanks! Puts things in perspective....

[@dsm5d723]

Those wanting to downplay the possible use of arrows in dense brush and forest forget what the prime protein source would be: anything in the trees. When I ran a predatory giraffe simulation, this is what I got: using the blind spots of prey from beneath to ambush them. Monkeys, lemurs, birds and other tree dwelling targets would be seen, and then technology unfolds, like nature scratching a survival itch. Why is it hard to imagine our ancestors shooting up for dinner? Especially in places where they probably climbed trees for tropical fruit. The same physics apply to throwing a spear on the savanna. Or spearing a fish from land.

[@emilholm9410]

Great vid as usual! but wouldnt water level have been low enough back then for Sri Lanka to be a penninsula on the indian sub continent=

[@jarod466]

Yep.

[@dudesweet1535]

Yes. It wasn't till a few hundred years ago when the water made it an island. There is actually a underwater bridge that can still be crossed as the water is only 3 feet deep

[@sajeevadissanayake4797]

50ķ years ago Sri Lanka would have been a peninsular of the Indian subcontinent and you could have walked from Malaya to Australia with just a couple of short ocean crossings required. The narrator doesn't seem to be aware of this.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Bark and dug out canoes are just slightly newer than chipped stone tools.

[@ensys1000]

@@sajeevadissanayake4797 I cannot see any basis for this comment. Whether Lanka was an island or not, was not relevant to what he says, nor did he bring that in at any point in his narration.

[@naimulhaq9626]

People migrated from Ethiopia/ Somalia region to southern Arabian peninsula. By about 40,000 years ago they learned to live off fishing and sailed out into the ocean. A migration still going on. People from Africa turn up in India, where they are called forest people. Gujrat had a huge accumulation of these people and by 10,000 bp they remember the sea swallowing up the land and the town of Dwarka, where a great man gave the Yadava prople their religion, called Sanatan. They became civilized and prospered and multiplied and spread all over India. They are 70-80 % of present population of south Asia.

[@julians7268]

The quality of this content is amazing. Doesn't he get his own footage too? Even if he drew stick figures it would be amazing.

[@danscalone8110]

Always informative. Thank you

[@ferdi5407]

Most interesting! Thank you!

[@donalddench608]

Wasn't there a land bridge to Sri Lanka 50,000 yrs ago?

[@sahansithumina1920]

As sri lankens, we believe there was one. The current city Mannar in Sri Lanka to Rameshvaram in india. Still today can see the hundreds of sand islands among them. We call it Adam's bridge. There is a mountain called Adam's peak in SL. Christians and Muslims believes that Adam crossed the island by Adam's bridge. There's an actual footprint on the mountain top. Buddhists believe that was lord Buddha's, others believe it was Adams.

[@ensys1000]

Apparently there is a Portuguese account done in 1400AD saying it was walkable - during some months of the year may be. And a powerful storm washed a section away. I am sure Portuguese prevented it from getting repaired. But then afterwords other parts too were gradually lost. And now is a submerged remnant.

[@TheMileswin]

This raises many questions. The aboriginal people of Australia didn't have the bow & arrows which would indicate they came to Australia before 50,000 years ago before this technology was available.

[@Shaden0040]

50 thousand years ago Sri Lanka was a penisula attached to southeast India. between 5 and 0 thousand years ago it became an island. You can still see the causeway between the two land masses extending underneath the waves.

[@dsm5d723]

4: 57 A whole city named after Peter Falk? Awsome.

[@dougg1075]

DSM 5D weak:)

[@irajayrosen4792]

Eye roll lol

[@claystanislaw2281]

I know that until very recently, the Holmegaard bow from Denmark was the oldest bow ever found

[@Januroma]

Srilanka still have some Un discovered spots in land down under.. Fa hian cave still not totally discover.

[@fgialcgorge7392]

If it's in doubt by archeologists whether people may have hunted with bows in the thick jungle...amazon tribes? Also, any bow hunter would tell you, if you know your surroundings and where you can get shots a bow is ideal for thick jungle, much better than a spear or atlatl. You have to get close to use a bow relatively speaking but it gives you better range and punch than a blow gun and you don't need the room required for a spear or atlatl. That's not to say they weren't accompanied by spear wielding members of their tribes but a bow gives you abilities the others simply do not. In the open plains, in my opinion as a primitive hunter, if you are chasing down or ambushing a herd of plains animals, a group of hunters, as many as you have, launching projectiles with atlatls into a heard is far more efficient and effective. Particularly if you can drive them towards a narrow pass or block an exit. In the jungle, I'd take a bow 19 times out of 20 if I know the area. I'm guessing many of these early people stayed in the area and knew it like it was their backyard.

[@helenabrus191]

Maybe Sri Lanka wasn't so wooded and tropical so it would have been easier to use a bow.

[@anasevi9456]

how the hell do you go through all that and not once think to mention the Veddahs? lol

[@mver191]

Because the Vedas are an European-Northern Indian tradition.

[@Janith1980]

@@mver191 That is not he is talking about. There are a people called Veddas in Sri Lanka. They are genetically related to the natives in Australia also. You can do a google search and find out.

[@altpapapi]

Pete Kelly, I love your voice. Thanks for all the wonderful videos both here and at History Time. Hoorah! Great job!

[@Eljefe003]

I very much enjoy these, but I think you do need to discuss, especially for this time in south and southeastern Asia, the reduced sea levels during he last ice age. Sri Lanka was possibly a substantial peninsula. Indonesia also.

[@Goosebelldog]

Wonderful video :3

[@mehdhinawaz4381]

Read about Balangoda man, caves and other sites dates back to 38,000 BP, and from excavated skeletal remains to 30,000 BP, which is also the earliest reliably dated record of anatomically modern humans in South Asia

[@louisputallaz7556]

This bow was discovered in the 1980’s and I’m hearing about now ? How stoned was I ?

[@richard66754]

Love me some Pete Kelley channel! Thank you for making this content!

[@fredperry9235]

Great video

[@vanuaturly]

Bone points are great and all, but that's not a discovery of a bow. Evidence for archery, perhaps, but there are lots and lots of very early points. The holmegaard bows are still the earliest definitive bow. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmegaard_bow

[@richardyoung5217]

People could have walked to Sri Lanka. Water levels were lower and there was an island chain linking Sri Lanka and India.

[@123456wasp]

Cool video, really makes you wonder. 😎👍

[@verdantpulse5185]

Amazing preservation of bone artifacts from a tropical area.

[@cherno2232]

3:17 ehhhm I think that bow is stung up backwards ....

[@Campbellteaching]

Where do you get all of your video clips from?

[@sumedaillangakoon7658]

Our good doctor 🙂 big fan of your channel....

[@aidansharples7751]

I imagine they are sampled directly from blu ray. knowing copyright rules you can gather clips from a few documentaries.

[@jordanbell4736]

Stock footage together with actual images zoomed in for a motion effect.

[@arianrezaie4729]

Where do you get your history news

[@M.M.83-U]

very interesting.

[@mariansmith7694]

Yes, ADAPTABILITY, Cooperation, Resilience, Survival.

[@chrisbflory]

Am I the only one who read “meanwhile... somewhere in ‘MERICA!”

[@a.westenholz4032]

Really interesting find. While I think it a bit much to conclude that it was actually evidence of bows and arrows, I'd rather give them more credit by merely saying that all we know is that it is almost certain evidence of a projectile of some sort, and they might have invented something else that could fire a projectile type that would leave those "arrowheads" behind. What matters is that they were making a projectile type weapon at that date.

[@ramthian]

Great!. Thanks.

[@friscostreetstories5403]

Considering Sri Lanka is off the coast of SA, it makes sense there has been humans there since the beginning of Homo Sapiens.

[@lakshmangunasekara9401]

I have visited the so-called 'Fa Hien cave' which is certainly an impressive site. This documentary does not adequately depict the cave itself: a giant hilltop cavern with many archaeological ground layers from early pre-historic tribal dwelling to probable late medieval monastic site that, then, continues into the modern era. While the cave does have an old Sinhala local name, which I forget, local historians say that the legend connecting with medieval Chinese Buddhist monk-pilgrim-scholar, Fa Hsien, began in the modern period and there is no indication whatsoever the Venerable Fa Hsien (a real person whose Sri Lankan visit is amply recorded by himself and others). The documentary, while failing to depict the cave itself and the distribution within of various human occupation eras, also misrepresents other aspects of hominin prehistory. Early hominins certainly hugged the Arabian sea coastline during their several thousand-year slow trek from Africa to South Asia, But they coould NOT have come across the Arabian Sea by 'boat' using the Monsoon winds! Sailing of any kind was likely by Homo Sapiens much later and not at all by the earliest Hominins. I will not question the veracity of the actual archaeological claim of finding traces of use of bow & arrow but I am open to that possibility. Fa Hien Lena is certainly proven to be among the earliest Hominin findings in South Asia.

[@lladnarkram9563]

Check out Adams bridge.

[@mathewritchie]

Bow`s were obviously not needed for human conquest of the planet,humans had already reached central Australia @ 50 thousand years ago and did not have bow`s untill quiet recently ,only a few tribes on the north coast had any.

[@paddypointhound1688]

bows have been in use all over the world for thousands of years,many examples can be viewed...but not on this video,...epic fale!

[@sonoransaguaro3786]

I have to agree. Out of all the excellent, researched videos you've done, HALF of which I have on my playlists, this is the first Dud, Pete! No bow... just time filled with "...much ado about nothin"!

[@janicestevens8469]

Wonderful!

[@Shaden0040]

Every continent on Earth... Except for Antarctica.

[@CovfefeDotard]

I love learning about human prehistory

[@harishv902]

Still now I didn't see the oldest bow in this video!

[@jbrown8601]

A lot of the old ideas about the past are eurocentric, which makes sense due to the scientists being European. For that reason the tropics were ignored, thankful now scientists see there was alot going on in the tropics. Humans in general like warmer and wetter climates.

[@debbralehrman5957]

Thanks

[@sajeewakalamba1796]

Here is another article kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5CypamgqJaHiqM

[@thirumurthy9122]

Vedan or hunters Dasa of srilanka, naikkan of iran, naik of Indian west coast, nayakar of South India , naidu of Andhra , Patnaik of Odisha

[@sahansithumina1920]

We sri lankens call them veddah

[@Al-vy1fv]

Best of 15 minutes and 40 seconds

[@dantaylor2086]

if I wanted to watch a video of Sri Lanka I would have clicked on that

[@ericgamble2517]

what about the bow? i was waiting to see it or maybe more information. very speculative.

[@littleandre4957]

In Russia modern objects like screws and doorknobs are found in rocks that are supposedly billions of years old.

[@zoothief]

Halfway through vid and still no mention about the first bow and arrow

[@auraajah3072]

The mitology of epik Mahabarata and batarayuda

[@erikarredondo6470]

Awesome

[@intenselyrich3517uk]

the earth was as Eden .of course there'd be bountiful lands back then it was 1 block of land ..they'll have easily migrated from the belly of Africa xxx

[@archiesauls3672]

What part of the Bible did God split the continents?

[@intenselyrich3517uk]

i know of past civilisation n their confections to us i know in lemuria we made a pact to bring heaven to eartjh which is why were here now to observe this after all those lives we put into making it happen n ensuring above all we make it happen. i have no interest in how man defines age of ancient sites. its the energies that are of interest to me honey 🤗💕💖 xxx

[@intenselyrich3517uk]

@@archiesauls3672 the bible has had so much redacted from it so it makes little sence. the information we need for ascension, almost all the women n their testiments have been removed as well as many others. the bible is but a stepping off point from to the truth within urself. ppl want to resrict themselves coz weve always been repressed. the idea is to liberate ourselves with ascension. the world leasers puppeteers want s to keep them in power.

[@TylerZ91]

Discovering how to make foods soft has been very bad for our teeth amd skulls so many people habe cramped up crooked teeth braces teeth removed to make room and shit its terrible if you look into it 13:54 look at those teeth you think they had a dentist or toothbrush? Those teeth are so strong look at jamaican people beautiful strong teeth

[@francissreckofabian01]

Were bows found in Australia too?

[@azzasix7843]

No

[@USAACbrat]

Fishermen blown offshore were the first explorers.

[@corey8420]

How do we know "man kind" came out of Afica? Is it because that is where the oldest remains have been found? Have there not been recent discoveries in Siberia, Greece and Asia that have called this long standing belief into question?

[@connlaffan6232]

Yah but how are defining Man - kind at what point did the ancestors of modern humans become Homo Sapiens. The fact is even if the dates of human inhabitation of Eurasia are pushed back a great deal. It wont change the fact that human ancestors originated in Africa

[@corey8420]

@@connlaffan6232 To me does it not seem like it's the oldest we have found. Like the Clovis theory for north American (for those that don't know claims earliest humans arrived in the America's 13,000 years ago). Now the bones with spiral fractures found in San Diego County California put humans at 130,000 years ago. My point is we only know what we know. There is alot we don't know and alot of blank spaces filled in. Dinosaurs were once thought to be bones from giants.

[@admiralsquatbar127]

@tore springare Your spelling in English is better than my Swedish.

[@mikedavis8499]

How many times have I seen the caveman shot

[@mver191]

Free stock footage lol.

[@Paleoman-fy4ue]

Love the channel, however I've noticed there are copious amounts of excepting speculation as fact in the archeological community .

[@CarlosSanchez-my7zg]

Well, archeology presents things as fact to build up some baseline. It disproves itself every day.

[@tombombadilofficial]

*New shit has come to light.*

[@garyhewitt489]

You don't wonder 1000km offshore hugging the coast lol I know it don't fit the narrative, but 50000 years ago mankind was making sea going voyages of considerable distances

[@johnfoster6412]

Not every continent. Pretty sure there was no prehistoric settlement of Antarctica... unless Aliens of course...

[@TheBcambron]

How about the story of "Monkey Men"- "with tails-" (??Neanderthals or ???Denisovans...) building a bridge to Sri Lanka that can still be seen underwater on Google Earth?

[@Cyndayn]

Folk myth

[@Jean-yn6ef]

💚

[@beachboy0505]

Mercia, you Midlands I think

[@gilday5405]

Whish the experts would tell how the big stones were moved.

[@alexruddies1718]

Depends where and what were the available resources.

[@flyingeagle3898]

They have, and they are usually pretty simple explanations with lots of evidence, its just less interesting than wild speculation

[@garychynne1377]

interesting

[@brettwilson5473]

no bow in Australia

[@teneresand]

'Oldest Bow Outside Africa' ??? The oldest found bow is not even FROM africa... It is from northern europe. And here they do not even HAVE a bow!

[@bobrinck1]

Where is the bow?

[@ramthian]

Love you guys ok xxx.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

The Kelly's seem to have a fascination with helmets.

[@Fuzzmo147]

Just like most blokes mate😆