Did Ancient People Really Do Nothing for 100,000 Years?

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• DR

  @DrJoelDuff · 11 days ago · pinned

  Yeah, I realized near the end of recording that I was once again mispronouncing  DenEEEEEsovan. I've said it incorrectly too many times before I heard the correct pronunciation to change my brain.

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• LD

  @LDrosophila · 11 days ago

  100,000 years of survival alone is a metric of success

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• AL

  @AllYourMoneyNowKid · 11 days ago

  Adam Smith had the answer: The division of labor is limited by the extent of its market

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• MA

  @mateuszg3049 · 11 days ago

  For the vast majority of the last 100,000 years—specifically, for about 90% of that time—humans lived as nomadic hunter-gatherers. They painted caves, carved figurines from mammoth tusks, and made musical instruments (bone flutes).

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• NI

  @nicolasfranco6490 · 11 days ago (edited)

  When he finds out they had beliefs completely different from Christianity, but equally legitimate, Ken's head will explode.

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• WI

  @willaimhopkins2172 · 11 days ago

  Honestly, a lot of early technology doesn&apos;t preserve well without some form of writing, which is a problem for long time development as well as archeologists looking back in time. Which leads to the common problem of people like Ken Ham, he assumes we know more than we do. There could have been a lot of technological advances, it&apos;s just all the advances were of things we&apos;d never expect to see evidence of in the first place.<br><br>The interesting thing is that there is a middle ground between pure hunt &amp; gather and full sit in one place farming that this group of Denisovans could have been doing, and we might not have evidence of it. You can sow the hardy wild seeds of plants you already gather in places you know you will return to, to make your gathering job easier. if the plants do not &apos;domesticate&apos; then the seeds might not look any different when they rarely preserve, and if the location they do this is a long way away from the caves we find their remains at, we&apos;d never see evidence of it either.

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• CA

  @CasperLeChat · 11 days ago (edited)

  The obvious lesson, both from biological evolution and human technological progress, is that both areas are governed by positive feedback loops. &nbsp;<br><br>Change is extremely slow while genetic capability/human knowledge is scarce, then change begins to accelerate at an ever increasing rate, as both these systems build on their own capacities.

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• MU

  @muskyoxes · 11 days ago

  Maybe a little pushback, presumably these guys experienced a range of conditions, struggling to survive one season, leisure time available other seasons. &nbsp;So they&apos;d experience both &quot;we need to get better at this&quot; and &quot;i have time to see if i can get better at this&quot;

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• BA

  @barracuda861 · 11 days ago

  You&apos;re talk about tools brings me to the idea that we still use a hammer. A hammer is a very good tool. But it hardly changed through out history. Yes we made different types but the main thing is a handle and object at the tip for pounding.

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• BA

  @barracuda861 · 11 days ago

  I&apos;m sure as hunter gatherers the seeds were more for eating at that time. They probably didn&apos;t have the foresight to plant them. Like you said they would have had to stay in one place for a lot of seasons to do planting. They would have to understand that the seed would make another plant, then the animals eating their crops would be a problem.

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• TH

  @The_Mandarin-1 · 11 days ago

  The prehistory humans learned how to survive in their environment. This in itself is a huge accomplishment. Most modern humans could not survive a week in the wilderness even with modern clothing and tools.

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• TH

  @TheCakeIsNotaVlog · 11 days ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8vmSy2CTbo&amp;t=28">0:28</a> hiding in bushes so massive cats didn’t eat their faces. &nbsp;It’s really not that hard to understand, Ken

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