Stories from the Stone Age - 2of15

[smallshinybeetle]

They dont look Levantine at allll

[kaylocksrv]

9:31 the guy has jeans =)))

[Tenshionnanoko128]

Very interesting documentary! :)

[TheHolyMongolEmpire]

Reading the comments is excruciatingly painful. The amount of ignorance is astonishing.

[Snipe4261]

People who still live in tribal cultures today in arid regions are not nearly as filthy as these actors. Its not as if they spend all day rolling around in the dust. And whats with the guys who are clean shaven?

They weren't "instinctively creating a balanced diet"! They were eating what was available and gathering from every source they could find, environmental restrictions that early humans evolved to survive with, which are adaptations that still affect us today.

Backwards thinking morons.

[weldorn]

ok, that's it, i'm going to start a new world in minecraft

[porkupine73]

Some inconsistencies which bother me in these videos. For instance, they have these wonderful mortars, yet they are supposed to have baked their flatbread on dirty chunks of rock? And why are they all continually dirty, with dreadlocks? Just things like that. I don't know why the film makers make these decisions.

[thethrowaway1000]

@porkupine73, you only have to look at the bush living abo's in Australia and they're filthy, they stink and their hair is full of knots and dirt. The food they eat is full of ash and charcoal by simply tossing meat onto embers and then raking it out half cooked with a stick. They only swim for fun or to get cool on a hot day. They don't wash and they don't forage for aromatic plants to mask their smell. I doubt the stoneagers in the past were much different.

[porkupine73]

@thethrowaway1000 Not all 'stone age' people live in the way you depict the Australian Aborigines. What I'm suggesting is that the film be consistent with the evidence of the material culture that is known from the archaeological record. Look at the neatness with which they made their mortars. I think the Natufians were quite a bit different from the Aborigines, or at least from the picture you paint of the Aborigines. I see your point, but I don't agree.

[kovona]

@porkupine73 Dreadlocks is a universal hair style that's prevalent in many cultures around the world, and in places like India, they hold a spiritual & religions meaning.

Bathing was an activity that was rarely practised by most ancient and medieval people, with the exception of the Egyptians (who bathed twice a day) and Greek/Roman cultures. It requires time and a convenient water supply, something most early people depending on where and how they live might not have.

[kovona]

@porkupine73 A flat rock is basically a primitive pan, I don't see the problem with that. Bear Grylls did the same thing with meat on an episode. A mortar was needed because its the only efficient way of milling grain. You can't expect them to invent an oven straight up seeing how they were still half-nomadic, and pottery is fragile and bulky. And as before, washing dishes might not had been a high priority with the aforementioned water problem.

[khaydsz]

where did they get the dog?

[MrSchpankme]

@khaydsz .. from the wolf

[MrARock001]

I would hope that we as a species could or can rely on at least this much skill should all our technology fail.

[SuperGreatSphinx]

The Stone Age is nearly contemporaneous with the evolution of the genus Homo, the only exception possibly being at the very beginning, when species prior to Homo may have manufactured tools. According to the age and location of the current evidence, the cradle of the genus is the East African Rift System, especially toward the north in Ethiopia, where it is bordered by grasslands.

[SuperGreatSphinx]

The closest relative among the other living Primates, the genus Pan, represents a branch that continued on in the deep forest, where the primates evolved. The rift served as a conduit for movement into southern Africa and also north down the Nile into North Africa and through the continuation of the rift in the Levant to the vast grasslands of Asia.

[SuperGreatSphinx]

Starting from about 3 mya a single biome established itself from South Africa through the rift, North Africa, and across Asia to China, which has been called "transcontinental 'savannahstan'" recently. Starting in the grasslands of the rift, the ancestors of man found an ecological niche as a tool-maker and developed a dependence on it. Homo erectus, the predecessor of modern humans, became a "tool equipped savanna dweller."

[Evilmokeynomnom]

Once upon a time the History Channel programs were informative and interesting. Now they're just crap reality shows and tabloid-style "documentaries".

[rockynanach]

Nutufians my ass, what a fanciful theory

[scatts38]

they needed a few full blood australian abbo,s to play the part .

[pucksterz12]

"allhistories" is the most complete channel with the best collection of history shows I came across so far on youtube. Thanks for your effort in posting these great shows here!

[HOXHOXHOX]

7:30

first piercing in history xD

[TechnoManiac2]

2 or more people got hit by an sling shot.

[RomanWildernesOfPain]

1:41 Looks like present-day sub-saharan Africans in the act. Not much has changed in 12 million years with them.

[gandhistears]

presumably the women knew they were going to be on tv some millenia later & made sure they covered their chests-

[EltonJThe]

@gandhistears Well, we don't know when clothing was invented or why, LOL! Honestly, clothing is a satanic institution.

[ashutoshmikku]

@gandhistears

And men shaved their beard too. with flints presumably.

[fairlanejay]

all animals were harmed in this film, and then eatin... lol

[HistoryYou]

I don't know why people try to romanticize the lifestyle of nomadic humans. If you wish you lived back then you can pack up your things and live off the land without the benefits of modern civilization today; tell us how that works out. You may have greater "freedom", but existence in this life is about about survival. Just as in any society there are always downfalls and benefits to the lifestyle, and honestly the benefits of education, technology, and modern medicine outweigh the downfalls.

[EltonJThe]

@HistoryYou They romanticize them because it's the style. What is missing is the Planet Saturn in the northern sky, though. Since I learned that the Planets Saturn, Venus, and Mars dominated the Neolithic Sky, everytime I watch these and they say they have no idea where the wheel came from I want to make them watch Symbols of an Alien Sky over and over again until they get it in their minds that the Wheel was a Neolithic Invention.

[ajlee35]

the average life of a stone age person was about 40 years. the average lifespan when they first domesticated things and formed cities dropped to only 30 because of disease.

[N00bcrunch3r]

@ajlee35

It depends on what part of the stone age you are talking about. In Africa during the ice age, the average lifespan was around 20.

[thoostorm4]

@N00bcrunch3r fuck africaiam watching this

[caganb]

I wish I lived back then. Life was sweet. No cellphones, computers. Hunt and fish all day.

[1x93cm]

why do all these documentaries portray early man as dirty stinking hoboes? I mean really, do they think people back then didn't jump in the river every once and a while to wash up? Did they think they didn't braid eachothers hair and beards and shit? I mean look at the native americans. They even had different clothing styles and they were pretty much stone age....

[1x93cm]

meh...it ain't pretty....but I'd rock it like that

[mummyswig]

jeans pants at 9:31 :)

[Coffeeisnecessary]

@mummyswig I'd like to see the bloopers (when the rocks hit the camera man!) 1:43

[mrutubeisms]

i time traveled to the stone age.... with bob marley

[olsenmor]

uhm...Why do they take the grain from one bowl 2 another all the time...Seems pointless

[akdude182]

@olsenmor it was part of a prosses to remove the husks from the grain.

[LGrey8]

@olsenmor Its called winnowing.

When you crack the grain, the husk or chaff is still left, kind of like a nut shell. But the chaff is much lighter than the grain itself, so if you pass the grain from one bowl to another, the wind will blow it away, and the actual itself grain will fall into the bowl.

It is a method of cleaning the grain

[olsenmor]

@LGrey8 Damn, stone age people werent 2 stupid. If i had to live away from everything for a month i sure wouldent figure that out. :)

[jmm1233]

this is making me hungery

[abujabi]

another great human breakthrough: shampoo

[LuxxyLux1]

@poisenwell fucking mofo

[k1llk1ngph30n1x]

omg you are all retarded.

[LuxxyLux1]

@poisenwell i dpnt know what asshole you came out of but i imagine its pretty ugly

[LuxxyLux1]

@poisenwell wow a clown now your laughing b/c your dad jizz is all over your face

[LuxxyLux1]

@poisenwell ha tough guy ha ha yeah you say that

[LuxxyLux1]

@poisenwell he said to go fuckyourself dumbass

[alldamnnamesaretaken]

Why can't we get such high quality documentaries on the history channel?

This really is a gem

[TheMedievalMan]

@alldamnnamesaretaken Because the History Channel sucks... pure and simple.

[BostonBruinsOWN]

@alldamnnamesaretaken i actually first saw this on the history channel well parts of it

[wompasdub]

@alldamnnamesaretaken because it's the history channel... ALIENS

[ViriathusVingathor]

@alldamnnamesaretaken

Where is the USA,or the UK praised here,nowhere,so,no chance.

[AFilmDirector]

is this abc's production?

[reggie18b]

"They (sic) humans; that's all you have to know. " This comment tells you everything you need to know about left-wing people, who like to decide on our behalf what we 'need to know.' If all people had taken this attitude we would still be living in the era of 'God created the world in seven days, that's all you need to know.'

[reggie18b]

@poisenwell 

[TemplarX2]

@poisenwell Go fvck yourself.

[TheBananafudge123]

thank you

[TheBananafudge123]

do they actulay have domesticated animals or are they just guessing?

[HomoGnosticus]

@TheBananafudge123

good question

[HomoGnosticus]

Were they white or dark skinned? 

[TemplarX2]

@HomoGnosticus They humans; that's all you have to know. Stop poisoning everything with racial crap.