When Two Tribes Collide | Origins: The Journey of Humankind

Two tribes come together -- an encounter which usually ends in violence -- but when early man learns to trade instead of fight, both tribes benefit.
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[@WealthEngineering]

In my humble opinion, I believe this is the most important and sacred moment in human's history... Humans have learned to trade resources instead of killing for it... That moment saved countless of lives and was a catalist that founded great societies...

[@wsol80]

It's a shame that many of us went back to killing for resources.

[@rots3123]

@@wsol80 that's why generation factor matters, their tribe elders was already experience war for resources earlier on their lives and they became wise that they want to know this other way without bloodlust. so then they bespoke peace of trading for the generations to come and this prevented killings for resource.

[@tanyalake9152]

@@rots3123 - The masses still aren't, actually, awake. The younger generations are also/still brainwashed to believe otherwise.

[@blackpowderkun]

First trade probably gone like this, mountain tribe lived with alot of rocks and learned to craft tools but lack food, forest tribe became good hunters and foragers but lack tools, so they decided to trade. I say humans traded first before they learned war.

[@EroticOnion23]

@@wsol80 there's not enough resources for all, that's why

[@Euclib]

I'm gonna tell my kids this was the first episode of Shark Tank

[@goylanddefree80]

I want a series like they did vikings but with cavemen

[@PastPresentFuture360]

Completely agree. But less dramatic and more stark, almost that western-like quality of Conan the barbarian (original). And minimal CGI.

[@christophersnedeker2065]

Yeah.

[@ancientdarkness3102]

@@PastPresentFuture360 that'd be the greatest thing ever

[@omegawilliam95s36]

Season two is when they discover fire.

[@ancientdarkness3102]

@@omegawilliam95s36 might as well, but it'd probably be better if the humans involved were sapiens, so that they can talk

[@TheJoker137]

One of the most well shot, designed, and acted historical recreations I've seen! Great work!

[@TeamDiscus]

Are you seious? This scene is the definition of a cliche.

[@TheJoker137]

Yeah but do you remember recreations in some of the History Channel shows from the early 2000s? Some of those were way worse than this. And this is about early modern humans trading, where else are they gonna take it? I guess I don't think I get how it's cliched.

[@marcorazal]

Chance Parker agreed

[@TeamDiscus]

Well this hole idea of the "primitive man" talking and acting as if they'd had a stroke or concussion, wearing leather rags and acting primitivley. And in this case trading valuable knife and spearheads for meat. They would have to prepare that meat right away so that it dosnt spoil. I dont know the context of this video. Do they speak the same language? Have they been in conflict with each other before? Is this the first time they meet? Why is the whole tribe there during the meeting? Why cant they hunt they're own food? And so on. The whole situation seems so unplanned and dangerus from they're perspective. So "unprofessional" i get that sometimes things just hapen. But this... What im trying to say is that im tired of that whenever there is an illustration of stoneage people they are pretty much always displayed as dumb and primitive and lacking of social skills and kulture. Or it's a forced scene like this one. It's a bit cartoonish. Cliche. It's ok for a little entertainment but it's not realistick IMO.

[@TheJoker137]

TeamDiscus TeamDiscus Well I can't exactly speak to the language used but if they are trying to portray the speech of early modern humans it probably didn't quite sound like English, French, or Spanish. As for trading meat for tools that does make some deal of sense because meat was incredibly valuable because it was hard to acquire. Look up "meat sharing" (and wade through whatever weird porn that gives you lol) and you'll see that it's something that modern apes do as an expression of culture and social hierarchy. Those higher up chose who they share meat with. We can infer that early man likely did the same thing so trading meat would have been a big deal. It was important part of our diet at the time because it was one of the only sources of fat. As for leather rags, there are places in the world where the native people are pretty sparsely clothed so that didn't seem that bad. I don't know you so you very well might know all this stuff anyway but I think it sheds light on the point. As for the tension, it may just be for dramatic effect but that trade negotiations can be matters of life and death and could end in someone getting killed.

[@chaoticneutral7573]

Tribesman: Is this meat good ? Tribe leader: give it to our Sniffer

[@komicsreviewer8505]

Sniffin' them straps!

[@THE______TRUTH]

that's a pretty nice spear tho.

[@Sean0845]

That's what I was saying

[@JohnnyRebKy]

Though

[@sakshamawadhiya1465]

@@JohnnyRebKy ok boomer

[@t.mitchell9135]

It can be yours for the super low price of six easy payments of 19.99 buffalo tenderloins!

[@j_hitta0591]

@@JohnnyRebKy this is internet slang bruh not a spelling bee you must be living like the people in this video If you don’t know what internet slang is

[@500days5]

WE HAVE THE MEATS!

[@isaiahclayton3131]

500 Days At Arbyss

[@donnamitchell243]

😅😅😅

[@adamstone897]

Talk about cultural communication

[@cViRuSc]

hey you pleas can you subscribe to my channel

[@richradtylr4]

Adam Stone, I support free trade.👳

[@adamstone897]

Richrad Tylr I think it's best to use fair trade rather than free trade because we've seen how corporations take over the economy through free trade so as is depicted here, if both sides can't agree on terms, then there was no point in trading.

[@adamstone897]

Ponyyish Free trade is for bourgeois! Fair trade is the only way to trade without bilking anyone in the process

[@YY-ug9mv]

Good that they didnt slaughter them and get the meat back after they traded their weapons.

[@tonychicoya727]

Nah he was probably like I'll just let him keep it, I'll make another one & we about to eat good lol 🤣🤣

[@Lucas_Simoni]

I think it was a habit for them at some point not to kill each other, because it is beneficial to them to keep them alive and keep trading. It benefits both parties not to kill each other. They probably would create a military alliance to even save each other from other tribes because of their trade partnership. And here we are in the 21st century with all this awesome tech and international trade because they choose not to kill each other all the time.

[@thecalling1452]

In a world like that you are trying to avoid conflict and injury for your tribesmen if you can, grievous injury usually results in death...

[@aadixum]

Yeah, and risk losing many people, and relationships.

[@donjuan69420]

We humans take life for granted... We should be happy they didn't nuke each other.

[@gamechaser94]

Ezekiel Elliott this is from the future where we had to stsrt over

[@donjuan69420]

Terrell Cary so Africa was the only continent that survived?

[@SplashAttackTCG]

No, they would have nuked each other. They would have traded them, or the meat guy will offer more meat for more nukes.

[@jimmyshousevideos]

I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.

[@schwanzuslongus1147]

James Perhaps you're thinking you're being treated unfairly?

[@NewMessage]

"Hey.. I'll give ya a ham sammich for an hour with yer daughter..." is the more likely trading that was going on.

[@symetryn]

I think thats exactly the reason they didn't take more women for the trade one just to check if the meat is fresh

[@aaronrodgers5852]

@Jakhiir Well you don’t know that. It is very probable though, they may have asked or demanded for that.

[@trackerjacker5467]

@@aaronrodgers5852 I doubt it. Without the existence of birth control technology that kind of exchange would’ve just resulted in more mouths to feed.

[@aaronrodgers5852]

@@trackerjacker5467 Could go both ways, more mouths to feed or more hands to help. The second option was a benefit ancient tribes often looked forward to.

[@tudordumitrache4644]

So ,you wanna tell me that prehistoric people did not speak modern english with american accent ??

[@bench-xpre55]

Bri'ish Accent.

[@mal_3157]

Nope, English is the default language of the world, even back then

[@osamaqtaitat]

The dinosaurs also spoke english

[@shaunmckinney521]

Next you're gonna tell me the romans weren't British

[@christophersnedeker2065]

You probably could have gotten more for that many good spear points.

[@kalakritistudios]

I thought the same but I think food and spear both were pretty scarce.

[@JohnDoe-bh2lp]

During drought or hard times food's more valuable than weapons you probably can't use

[@louisgandionco]

I think language become more developed when humans learned how to trade with other tribes.

[@slothnation2635]

This series looks awesome

[@rots3123]

that's why generation factor matters, their tribe elders was already experience war for resources earlier on their lives and they became wise that they want to know this other way without bloodlust. so then they bespoke peace of trading for the generations to come and this prevented killings for resource

[@FrshJurassicPrnceYA]

“I’ve altered the deal, pray that I don’t alter it any further!”

[@Satfenfilms]

The idea that ancient humans fought one another all the time is just modern prejudice.

[@trapidtrap2612]

​@mwatuwangoma3415you high? They did have war just like us. And last I checked spears, sticks and stones aren't as advanced as modern technology. If anything we're more peaceful. We use much more diplomacy and have world spread laws.

[@bigevil1001]

I can’t tell if you’re joking.

[@crusaderknight4792]

This

[@ryanmurphy6528]

My only question is how is the chief rockin a beer gut 😂😂

[@Arrowtone]

Cause the chief’s always ate first and to their fill

[@msgaming6130]

Meat for Dragon Glass? but winter is coming...

[@floriath]

I thought they were going to trade women

[@whiterabit09]

Looks like they only have one... not the most accurate depiction... the writer is probably gay.

[@chrisward1133]

White man would have taken all the women and given them STDs and traded his small pox for the meat

[@Bruh-hq1hx]

@@chrisward1133 this is a depiction of the stone age where no people had been able to archieve colonialism

[@christophersnedeker]

When groups came together they probably traded, held rituals and intermarried.

[@matthavens6638]

Morgan freeman looked young in this. what year is this supposed to be?...

[@matthavens6638]

Jesus... you are illiterate. I'm not white or a Christian you dumb fuck....and it was a joke. You have no sense of humor ....are you inbred?

[@matthavens6638]

But I'm black as well and I love Morgan freeman. The guy looks like a younger Morgan freeman. So I made a joke about it being him, especially because he is in a ton of stuff

[@extraordinarytv5451]

minimum 50,000 B.C

[@jesus2639]

Worst trade ever. Around 30 flint heads and a good spear for essentialy 1 deers weight in food. Spear heads take forever to make.

[@BranMan10]

First ever ripoff in history

[@jesus2639]

@@BranMan10 fr

[@JohnDoe-bh2lp]

Maybe one tribe lived where flint was easily accessible while one lived where deer were plentiful so they could spare the flint and the other tribe had meat to spare too and everyone benefited

[@BranMan10]

@@JohnDoe-bh2lp Economics 👍🏾

[@AyoolaSalako]

Why didn't they think of this in Far Cry Primal?

[@marquisroberts3142]

Spear looks like it’s worth a lot more.

[@InvalidUser_]

In reality the other guy would have never asked for the spear unless he wanted a war

[@rollitupmars]

In desperate times food is more important than

[@nathan84216]

1:41 The captions said “Sango got tattoo”

[@RussUno]

Seeing the painting on their faces make me think that what if face paints are traditionally made because of the paints these guys had?

[@Samael66638]

1:41 sango got tattoo 😅😅🤣🤣

[@zen9822]

i thought it was a drug deal, the ammount of coccaine in their body made me think that

[@Matthew-ge6pj]

VACnation trading drugs since 1127 lol

[@argyrendehringterimksaccu174]

@@Matthew-ge6pj VAC ban where?specVAC

[@olliecherpuzi5045]

All the meat, AND HIDES for a spear. I get the investment mindset but they need a new master of trade.

[@christophersnedeker2065]

One spear might pay for itself and then some in hides and meat.

[@sundiataatakakranzambi]

Gotta remember this is a depiction of early humanity. A spear-like that would have been high technology.

[@crowbar4929]

Trump could have gotten that tribe a way better deal.

[@drcrow5767]

Crow Bar I like your name

[@WealthEngineering]

😂😂😂 That's funny

[@j_hitta0591]

Biden would’ve shown no mercy 😂

[@edgychico9311]

When high schoolers meeting another high schoolers from the other side be like :

[@robbin0000]

The language they speak is like Stone Age Nahuatl.

[@giacomomarin7387]

when two tribes goes to war, a point is that all you can score

[@worldaround6520]

Gracias por la video, Excellent video.

[@rinos7902]

Its not an accurate depiction , but its the best we can think of .

[@yeshuasage3724]

It is an accurate depiction bcuz the human brain had to develop to a point where they solved their quest for resources in a way other than to pillage and rob

[@DonXXXPrince]

that was beautiful

[@leegrady5458]

3:10 The Man Nod™

[@sneakysasquatch6014]

The Chad face

[@john_i39]

If that was China and USA Today . China be like "I want your F35"

[@squiddi1393]

USA be like, I want your cheap labor in exchange, but the deal never went through, and China steals the F35 anyways.

[@mirsad96]

Why would anyone want to buy the least cost effective war machine in human history?

[@squiddi1393]

Miki Seius because they can't make their own, or can't spend money on militarization. Even though it seems meh in comparison to other jets, there are still very very few countries in the world that have a better jet, and even if they do the f35 is still a good addition to their Air Force.

[@mirsad96]

CHINA? Really?

[@gpheonix1]

+Squiddi Well hold on i thought i heard that f35 were just as good as what I'm assuming was the f22. I heard despite apparent lack in maneuverability pilots were able to compensate for it after getting the hang of the aircraft. Just curious really and I'm hoping you'll be more updated on the subject.

[@NinjaSushi2]

That was intense!

[@sergemoktali7948]

How did they manage to have all this meat without weapons? Animals are in big troubles now they got them

[@mimorisenpai8540]

They can crafted it again

[@evrettej]

Damn i was kinda hoping it was going to go south. Anyone else wanted them to go at it?

[@larrymaze]

Same

[@exousia01]

Please enable your videos here in the philippines

[@lizen888]

Better then fight video

[@solomonarbc]

1: "I want the spear too!"; 2: "[wut?] No!"; 1: [shows a lot of meat]; 2: [f*** it, i just made a fancy one to look tough: the wood is probable rotten and the stone is lime with a lot of dirt on it]; 1: [yeah, well the meat is of communal stray dogs, with mange]; .. trade through information asymmetry since forever. 1,2: "wut?".

[@jozulik1]

And then he killed him with his weapons

[@TurtleStranger]

The arms trade in Africa is older than we think

[@coreyguyholmes6054]

That was a dramatic drug deal

[@PungentMango]

Awesome video

[@healthymindhealthybody9692]

Historically, there were instances where Aboriginal peoples in Australia were subjected to forms of forced labor and exploitation by other Aboriginal groups before Europeans had arrived. Paintings depicting Aboriginal tribal wars are significant cultural and historical artifacts that provide insights into traditional Indigenous warfare practices and social dynamics. These artworks often capture scenes of conflict, ceremonial battles, or rituals associated with warfare among Aboriginal groups in Australia. The paintings may vary in style and technique based on the region and the cultural traditions of the specific Aboriginal group. They serve as visual records that not only depict the events of tribal wars but also convey cultural values, spiritual beliefs, and the relationship between different clans or tribes. These artworks are valuable not only for their historical documentation but also for their cultural and spiritual significance within Aboriginal communities. They offer a glimpse into the complex social structures, strategies, and rituals surrounding warfare among Indigenous peoples before European colonization.

[@brayanfisk8769]

Those stones look like real money

[@priyanshudash7437]

I love this channel!

[@CHlEFFIN]

So amazing

[@milwaukeebrewers6337]

is this actually real footage or a reenactment

[@MatthewTheStrogg234]

Milwaukee Brewers seriously?

[@lordmaler1091]

It is real. I recorded it myself. Great times.

[@milwaukeebrewers6337]

@@MatthewTheStrogg234 no one has a sense of humor I guess lol..

[@MatthewTheStrogg234]

@@milwaukeebrewers6337 sarcasm must’ve been lost on me lmao, forgot about this comment and it gave me a laugh 😆

[@DustKingArchives]

This is fire

[@tommyklein4050]

It’s seems like it has the same tension as a major drug deal.

[@InvalidUser_]

This is played out as more tense than it probably was.

[@Budguy68]

This is still going on in Africa but with AKs.

[@badaboys2098]

What africa has to do with it ? Stupid

[@presidentofkenya6896]

😂😂😂

[@Andrew-fv4sj]

“Yo how much for the bluetooth speaker?”

[@sen7167]

Very nice

[@Kinso0o0]

They feels it like they were in a dangerous drug deal

[@evilsonic9999]

Time to party weeeeeee

[@yudy92]

I enjoyed this.

[@adkinsyum]

Why meet headlong? There would surely be individuals that could mingle freely between groups, right? Guess never know

[@Calvin_ISKCON]

Goddamm that was intense af

[@jamiewaters4135]

just came here to see the racists comments. did not take long to find them.

[@MariaNI-yf1bz]

HolyKnight Clown i came here to see the we wuz kangz comments. did not take long to find them

[@TortaGuy12]

Welcome to youtube lol

[@Governmentiscorrupt]

What an advanced race.

[@XxXshockXxX100]

that was intense

[@cjmx3918]

Finessed him for the spear smh

[@safeysmith6720]

We will use the meat for feast, for our military aristocracy.

[@jlexstheself-proclaimedart2056]

i dont think that is how primitive humans trade encounter happen.... think about this, we human, soccialy, smile and laugh alot.we can know someone is happy or not by just seiing their face exspresions. and i dont think acting tough by forcing to take the spear from the head-chief hand is soccialy polite.... maybe most of them just talk a lot and smile alot..

[@LordOfDaCyborgMOOSE]

News: "...trade negotiations between the valley people and the hill people concluded today with the successful...."

[@cloudAce46521]

the sad part is people will watch this and assume this is representative of all African civilizations

[@impalabeeper]

I'm gonna leave a comment here to save this thread and see if this turns to another internet comment war.

[@whiterabit09]

Faith in humanity restored

[@rawnclark]

facts.

[@GreatLake-Blake]

WE WUZ KANGZ

[@MariaNI-yf1bz]

planetOriginal sheeeeiiiitttt

[@gerardgarcia1797]

Only 138202's BC kids will know these..

[@caioatila669]

Amazing scene!

[@AK-sq5nc]

Stone age mafia

[@baileygregory9192]

The art of the trade deal

[@fij715]

MEAT IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS

[@bismarck9938]

I thought they will kill each other damn it!

[@JAMBALAYATALKS]

We still do this but it’s via FB and IG now🤔

[@Greyalien587]

Where’s the next episode , I know the group with the meat is plotting

[@DV-fi4dy]

THE CAPTIONS

[@DixiMouly]

Is this only this short scéne or its a film

[@YoungtadaRachii]

Finally thank you Jesus. No black blood was shed. This was worth watching. I swore something animal was going to happen to offend me.

[@abesingha]

Negotiation and business

[@bca-biciclindcuaxel7527]

In reality the ''lost tribe '' would open a Bank, tax both tribes and if they don't like it,it will start a war between them just to sell spears for profit :))

[@johannesvonmalos7505]

what language were they speaking?

[@badaboys2098]

They speak European

[@clair233]

does it get better than this

[@mistycloud4455]

The greatest tribal conflict of our time will be between Americans left and right

[@КлетусКеседи-и1о]

HOLY, that is amazing.

[@soumyea]

I thought he was going to stab him in the back😩

[@tensio4926]

Bad deal, that spear isnt gud weapon, they need knives, even though its too advanced for them xP

[@bjarkerugsted7539]

pretty much the same way Europe works, just in a different scale with different objects though... :)

[@y274]

Where are these tribes from

[@prathameshkale9011]

where are the white walkers?

[@ZurNa-gd2hy]

Think,peaky blinders but in actient world

[@YaBoiBrendo]

All of that food and those hides for one spear?

[@cumearllee4089]

What language are they using

[@Darkfreed0m]

What kind of tribe can't hunt their own meat?

[@frutson]

free market capitalism fucking rocks