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@SLBLADE

Жыл бұрын

I love this video buddy fantastic job.. I've found a 300 million year old siltstone ocean bottom floor with face, cresent 🌙, Egyptian symbol pyramid crystal . It's world changing please look at the moonstone in my playlist.. happy holidays bro!!!!

@complimentbot7015

Жыл бұрын

@@SLBLADE "300 million year old" "Egyptian" something doesn't add up here.

@SLBLADE

Жыл бұрын

@@complimentbot7015 I know it doesn't, at all!!!!! Agreed 👍

@complimentbot7015

Жыл бұрын

@@SLBLADE a conspiracy theorist? Do tell

@SLBLADE

Жыл бұрын

@@complimentbot7015 no sir just a dude that found it in a creek seriously happy holidays Bud!!!! It maybe alien not Egyptian idk

It's amazing to see how much has changed in paleoanthropology, and how much we've learned since I was in college fifty years ago. Great video! Keep them coming.

U said “humans are too slow to chase animals for hunting “ True humans are slow we can run further than any other animals and this how we first hunted “persistence hunting”

I'm impressed by your growth in making these pieces. The texture and depth of this particular episode are great and on focus. Good job indeed.

@Preciouspink

10 ай бұрын

I’m a helpless week animal in a nuclear misled silo, me and my mate could theoretically destroy most of the earth’s surface.Thusly,after we launch our shit the people in the receiving target area will be pissed and will also launch their own thermo nuclear arsenal. I may be a naked ape but I can fuk up your whole day.

Thanks NORTH 02....we all enjoy your good work.

as a lifelong lithics collector and researcher I found that really interesting and even I learnt something. your voice is so laid back. made learning seem very relaxed. chill on my man. chill on

This was one of your best! That's saying a lot because your content is always so well done. Thank you

@mickymaust2059

Жыл бұрын

Legos 🤔

@gequitz

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Good to refresh my knowledge, and seems accessible for newbies too

Your series is simply fantastic. Thank you for the unbiased and factual input you have included in the series. Its unusual to find subjects where all sides are represented equally without favoring one viewpoint over another. Also when you make a statement that is not backed by solid evidence you state it as a possibility not as a fact. Well done you have gained a new fan. I look forward to more from you. Thank you

Adding the first use of controlled fire would have been a great milestone in this video. I love your content!

@radagast6682

Жыл бұрын

There is some evidence that Homo Naledi used fire.

@LuisAldamiz

Жыл бұрын

True, very true. Fire was the first tool most likely.

@colatf2

Жыл бұрын

@@LuisAldamiz what about pointy stick or fish hook or raft/canoe

@LuisAldamiz

Жыл бұрын

@@colatf2 - The two latter ones are clearly much more recent, definitely the fishing hook is. Pointy stick is something that some chimps and crows use but some animals also use rocks to open nuts and shells, often in a clearly planned manner, so IMO pointy sticks and random rocks are pre-human, controlled use of fire is specifically human, almost definitorily human.

@garethbaus5471

Жыл бұрын

​​@@LuisAldamiz fishhooks due to their small size are extremely unlikely to survive very long, and despite that we have preserved fishhooks from over 20,000 years ago, it is quite reasonable to assume they are significantly older than that although it obviously isn't known how much older than that they might be.

I enjoy gathering Aterian points. A video on the North African Capsian culture, or the Iberomurasian culture would be interesting.

@NORTH02

Жыл бұрын

Where you from

@Flavv_Sav

Жыл бұрын

when you gather Aterian points, do you mean you just randomly find them in random caves or do you find rocks (idk what material is Aterian points is) and carve them?

@LuisAldamiz

Жыл бұрын

Aterian is older than "Iberomaurusian" (I now prefer Oranian culture because we learned it was not related to Iberia in any way, only very indirectly via West Asia) and both are older than Capsian. I gather that the only relation among them is NW African geography. But granted that Tamazgha deserves a bit more paleo-love.

What common modern day item would you most like to be found by the humans in 10,000 years?

@procrastinates

Жыл бұрын

Microplastics

@utubeu8129

Жыл бұрын

McDonalds coffee cups, prophylactics, and drug needles.

@monakw

Жыл бұрын

The jewelry I made.✌

@twonumber22

Жыл бұрын

a Far Side calendar

@ElPresidentepe

Жыл бұрын

Bible, perhaps

"The reason i do not believe any other animal has entered the stone age is because there is no evidence". I laughed out loud when you said this because it is a perfect sentence and i dream to be this excellent

@maureenj.odonnell4438

Жыл бұрын

Me too!

@atlantic_love

11 ай бұрын

Perfect sentence in your opinion. If you wish to be excellent, then you may want to brush up on your grammar. Bless your heart.

@localbod

11 ай бұрын

@@atlantic_love You are hilarious. Advising someone to brush up on their grammar and at the same time forgetting that if clauses are followed by a comma.

@quetzalcoatlz

11 ай бұрын

​@@localbodman I love when I see this happen. The person's high as a kite sniffing their own ass. Much like the teacher's pet, raising their hand up for every question to be "smarter," than everyone else.

@titolino73

11 ай бұрын

Can you make an example please?I don't understand what you mean ....thanks !

I'd like to thank you for making this series and your other videos that I've watched. Especially appreciated is your attention to scientific facts. It must be a very time consuming research process that sets you apart from many other you tube presentations. Please keep up the good work it's very greatly received and incredibly entertaining. Once again thanks.

Unlike stone artifacts from the Oldowan era requiring minimal practice or training the Acheulean period was a remarkable breakthrough in that generational knowledge was needed to model such precision knapping techniques. This type of accumulated knowledge strongly suggests verbal communication was used to teach such intricate methods. Excellent video - like button smashed!

@LuisAldamiz

Жыл бұрын

Yes but they tended to repeat the same model over and over like forever: they lacked creative imagination, something that only really blooms with the arrival of our species (even Neanderthal Mousterian techno-culture was relatively repetitive and lacked imagination relative to our highly diverse and innovative techs).

@utubeu8129

Жыл бұрын

try watching an instruction video and turn the sound off, Many do it due to crappy music ect. you can learn much by just watching. Verbal communication is unimportant and possibly a detriment.

@virutech32

Жыл бұрын

@@utubeu8129 while copying by seeing works just fine, language is definitely not a detriment to that process.

@jasonborn867

Жыл бұрын

@@LuisAldamiz Agreed Homo Sapien technology advanced rapidly, but not sure Neandertals were originally using birch pitch to haft their points. It's true our species showed greater innovation, but that's not to suggest earlier species didn't have technological breakthroughs.

@LuisAldamiz

Жыл бұрын

@@jasonborn867 "Halve"? "Haft" you must mean. In any case, I don't mean that Neanderthals were not somewhat creative and quite smart: they were and they did diversify somewhat within the Mousterian basic tech (and at some point even learned blade tech: Chatelperronian) but they seem rather conservative and less creative compared with our species, which was experimenting with quasi-metallurgy (heat retouch) and extremely sophisticated bone tools in Africa since quite early days and then of course the notorious blade tech (mode 4, Upper Paleolithic) and other associated innovations like dog domestication, the needle or the (probably decisive) atltal or dart propeller.

Another quality production. Thank you for your work, it is appreciated 🙂

....and a mighty voice echoed across the world, ' Try banging the rocks together,guys.' The rest is history....

Your voice was just awesome! So calm and relaxed 😌 This video is perfect for Winter Solstice day (21 December 2022)

@matthewkashnig3061

Ай бұрын

Lol. Yes dude puts me to sleep but interesting too

Humans are able to chase down prey, albeit slowly. We won't win in the sprint but will outlast most of them walking rapidly or jogging.

I love your work and I love your voice its really relaxing! Whatever videos you do or if you decide to do new stuff keep at it its all good.

Another great video.. I've always had a love of geology and it never ceases to amaze exactly what you said about how tools made of stone look so similar to any old stone! Thanks for your chilled manner of narration, and thorough coverage of your subjects. They make my day 👌

Thank you for another great episode!

Your transitions are fantastic! Love the quality and thoughtful content. Always look forward toward your uploads, thanks for uploading for us!

This video is inspiring and peaceful. Thank you for the work you did.

Prehistory and events in places that didn't really have proper civilizations like the Tollense River Valley Massacre are so fascinating

I’ve already watched this twice, had to come check if anything new, loving rewatching this. To North 02 and all commenters happy holidays

I love your videos. I didn't know anything about these topics and now I know so much and learnt to appreciate our ancestors over the vast stretches of time. I used listen to popular science on physics but there's nothing new there for me anymore, but now I have this. Keep up with the good work. I'll chip in to support you at some point.

Thanks so much for these great videos you've made. My son and i really enjoy spending our evenings watching these. Thanks for taking the time to make them interesting and very soothing to watch.

This was a very well done video! Excellent quality, from research, to writing, to imagery, to production quality, it all comes together perfectly!

@280SE

Жыл бұрын

Calm down it’s just low quality slide show images with a script 😂

So awesome. I enjoyed seeing the artifacts that you are talking about, it's hard to find a lot of information with reference points to the artifacts, so you did a good job! Thanks. 👍👍

Could you ever make a video on all of the different Caves our ancient human buddies utilized and lived in?

@slappy8941

11 ай бұрын

That's thousands of caves.

Always so happy to see a new video from you!

Oldowan tools were found on Socotra Island in 2008. This has HUGE implications for the age of all technologies that would have been baseline for them to have gotten there.

@maureenj.odonnell4438

Жыл бұрын

Tell me more, please!

@charlemagnesclock

Жыл бұрын

@@maureenj.odonnell4438 I highly recommend Daniel Everett's work on the development of complex language by H. Erectus. He discusses the implications of the Socotra Oldowan finds with respect to that interest in his 2017 book "How Language Began." He does not dig too deeply into the implications for the technologies, but focuses on the language requirements to work with the technologies that must have been. There are two ways to get to Socotra. One is from the horn of Africa and the other is from the coast of the Arabian peninsula. Travel from the horn of Africa is the shorter distance because of the three intermediate islands along the way. The distance travelled varies quite a bit depending on the assumptions made about sea level. But, Oldowan technology lines up best with a very warm period, which would have made sea level quite a bit higher than it is now - perhaps as much as 150 meters. That may have been enough to eliminate with intermediate islands, or at least reduced them to mere specs in the ocean. So we could be talking about a blue water crossing of as much as 160 kilometers, and perhaps more. There's some variance here. Island hopping at current sea level puts the longest passage at about 75 kilometers, give or take. But perhaps more importantly, the currents can be pretty strong in the area. Everett argues in favor of an Arabian departure because of the currents. All we have is conjecture, and it is not always easy to determine how best to apply Occam's Razor in these situations. So, what we have is a need for blue water watercraft capable of transporting a viable human population. I have a hard time seeing a large tree being felled and hollowed out to make a blue water canoe with Oldowan technology. Occam nudges us in the direction of a large steerable raft. That means cordage, lots of it, and of a very high quality. It also implies an ability to stock provisions. So while the surviving evidence for these skills only goes back a couple tens of thousands of years, Socotra is telling us to think in excess of 1.5 million years. The challenge of course is that we are talking about key artifacts that are highly unlikely to have survived or left their traces even if we are looking for those traces. Now that said, we are talking about what we can detect with current technologies and methods. So if a rope or raft that is 1.7 million years old somehow managed to leave a trace of its existence, what would that trace look like? What and where should we look? Those are probably questions that will have to be answered by future generations.

@ONLYFOREXX

Жыл бұрын

@@charlemagnesclock imagine the ocean. Thousand of things probably older and nobody knows.. or some people just over look

I'm sure that long before stone tools we had wooden tools which were identifiably crafted fairly precisely. We humans have a bodypart which can be used to whittle wood with great precision, although some difficulty with hard types of wood: our fingernails. Alternatively sticks can be rubbed against rough rocks to sand them into a shape, which is effective enough that even with access to a modern pocketknife sometimes it's worthwhile. Break a stick well, sand it with a rough rock, and make some finishing touches with your very own fingernails and you can make very fine tools, no crafted stone tools required. Edit: you mentioned chimps biting sticks to get sharp edges, and I can't believe I didn't even think of teeth while writing a comment about a bodypart that can be used to make wooden tools. Between breaking sticks, using your teeth, and using your fingernails, you could probably make fine wooden tools just with your own body parts.

I resently found your channel. Great videos! I'm looking forward to watching more of your work!

this is the morning to binge North 02 content. really enjoying your stuff. thanks.

I'm blown away by how they got all this real time footage of early humans building these tools!

@mrkiky

Жыл бұрын

Thank goodness we had camera technology back then. Now I'm really curious of what humans looked like and what they did before cameras, but unfortunately it's impossible to know.

@smol6134

Жыл бұрын

@@mrkiky you joke?

One of the biggest differences between us and any other animal, we carry things from pkace to place. Nothing else does this.

This video is so good north keep it up

4:05 I was thinking about something similar at the start of the video. "Those that came after." Imagine being born into the second technological species on earth. Learning about ancient humans that died off million of years ago. Maybe even finding out that they left Earth to colonize space when it "died" because of us. I'm sure this won't happen, but it'd be a cool story.

Keeping the cough in at the end was a nice touch 👌🤣 I'm watching this right now while sick, so I feel you. Excellent video as always, and your voice held out until the end 👏

Hope you have a great time in Italy! I spent a year in central Italy learning the language and just having a wonderful experience. The experience has served me very well over the years and the memories have stayed strong and vivid for many, many years. Congrats on this channel-I have been with you since the beginning and I’m just thrilled to see the growth! Buona fortuna per il tuo viaggio in Italia! Ne sono sicuro che troverai molte cose bellissime e avrai la tua mente espansa in modi che ora non puoi imaginare. La vita è bella e pensata per essere goduta al massimo

I appreciate you leaving the coughs in at the end 😂 As a vocalist in a band, I know the struggle

Hey North 02! I'm sorry you got sick. Thats just no fun. Love your videos! Do them when you can. I personally will stay subscribed. 😊

Thank you for your very interesting and well done blogs. I do enjoy listening to them very much! Until the next have a nice day!

Thanks, that was the most interesting 26 minutes of my day. I wonder if stone tools were favoured for millions of years because they cannot be improved upon, given the time & technology required for making a metal version.

Dear North02, I really like your videos and they are always well made. Would you consider making a video on Ancient India or Ancinet Humans in India? I think India is often overlooked in the archaeological community, and there's much to learn.

@magiwarwolf1

10 ай бұрын

I absolutely agree. Such a vibrant and complex culture, intricate mythology, and pride among them. Not to mention the fantastic food. I would love to learn more and have it presented in this format.

Another fascinating video thank you North

I love your work it's very informative.

Good video buddy. Well put together and such an interesting topic.

Excited to see this episode!

I find your content fascinating. I'm always looking to learn more about our origins. Thank you

Thank you for making this informative and interesting video despite your illness. Speedy recovery.

thank you so much North 02!

I like this channel, calms me down & easup my stress, every time I listen to, make me realize we're just talking animals

Wonderful as always

Can we get an update on homo naledi with new proof of fire inside of the cave?

A superb, detailed and factual documentary! 😲👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😊Well done my friend you go to the top of the class, beautifully narrated and exemplary researched too! 👍👍

Fantastic vid. Beautifully Informative. Lovely tone, great items to see. Those hominids you talk of, they are ancestors to us all ay, Reminded me that we really are one big family . Great work cuz

Much more then I expected, fascinating!

Underrated channel 👍

Very informative presentation on a fascinating topic! Thanks.

I love learning about ancient history and evolution. I can see humans evolved their weapon choices like they "upgraded". You can really see how far we've gone and its amazing.

Your voice is always amazing. Such a pleasure to listen to. Wonderful content. What surprises me is how similar technologies developed in disparate places at the same time. Thoughts?

Another rad video, man!

Good as usual.My only criticism,one that has previously been noted,is that humans ,because of our ability to sweat,can exhaust prey,antelope etc,by persistant hunting,running animals to exhaustion.This technique,which has been used since very ancient times is effective.It has been used up until recent times by the San and other hunter groups in Africa.

@jredmane

Жыл бұрын

Hominins more basal than H. erectus we're not generally as efficient runners as erectus and subsequent members of genus Homo, including ourselves, so it's possible the oldest tools were used by species who didn't customarily engage in persistence hunting.

@jamesm1

Жыл бұрын

@@jredmane yeah our evolutionary ancestors got most of their meat from scavenging lion kills and such. Stone tools were useful for cutting meat and to get bone marrow, etc..

@davidfiler7439

Жыл бұрын

And yet in some parts of the world modern man has still to master the use of a keyboard's Space Bar!

@loke6664

Жыл бұрын

That wouldn't leave any artifacts though which is what this episode is all about. So it certainly is an interesting topic but not the right one to discuss here.

@davidfiler7439

Жыл бұрын

@@DG-iw3yw And to do so whilst not understanding a single word of any of it.

Love your content, cheers!

Great video, thanks north

So, another lesson for North 02 in not using the implied preconceived notions: it is natural to imagine that someone made a fine "needle" blank, and then meticulously drilled through a very thin blank to make the eye of that needle. It would be more common sense that the let's say, 3" x 1/4 inch blank was drilled through at one end, and then grinding the blank into needle shape around the pre-drilled hole.

Wonderful video, as usual

Very good content North O2. I still think about our conversation about the lack of hominids in North America. My continued interest in the topic is taking me back to school and hopefully a long career in Paleoanthropology. At least that's my dream. Once again, thank you for the content and fueling my interests.

Great video man. Awesome. Liked and subbed.

Get well soon! Nice touch at the end, I love Bossa nova.

Oh a cup of coffee and mu favorite channel. What a morning! Thank you.

Another great video. Thank you

Too cool, thanks for sharing this with us big dog!

Happiness is a NEW North 02 Video

bro sounds awesome thx this info was insanely cool

This was the most interesting video I've seen on youtube in a long time.

That was very interesting, thank you!

The random ad that played was titled 'Meet Pointy', a POS system, but it stays under the video and I thought it was amusingly appropriate for this video

Could it be that you used the beginning of the text before? Or did I have a déja vu? Anyways, you're still my favorite channel before sleep. Thanks again!

Really fascinating!

You mentioned Throwing spears and bows, but when would slings and slingshots be created...? Is there any evidence that remains in the archaeological record ? Thank you for all your wonderful videos.

@PassTheSnails

Жыл бұрын

Can’t remember if it was his channel or a different one but I remember hearing that slings, being mostly made of plant fiber and other biomatter, were pretty much completely absent from the record for that reason. I can’t say for certain but i’d imagine that the stone pellet ammunition would be the best evidence of slings if any were to be found

I appreciate how you always mention that something is the oldest found acknowledging that it takes a technology time to develop into the technology found.

These shows sure make me question if we are doing "being human" right as a whole. Why are we the only animals who have to pay other members of our species just to exist. Who says we're supposed to be living in houses they we don't build? who says we should be driving cars or using computers that 99% of us could never build if given all the parts? Who says we are supposed to go to work to make this paper that they could make endless amounts of if they wanted, but they don't? why are we like we are? The weed i smoked before this only enhances my curiosity.

The oldest stone tools were found by professors at my school and talking to them about it is so crazy

Just carry on with the conversation, I love listening to you with a whiskey and a nice smoke.

I really like the artwork of stone age scenes at the beginning. I know them all from a book I was devouring as a kid.

Chimp anvils can be identified. We should step up efforts to find very early hominem anvils.

Incredibe video!! Can I ask what the outro music is?

I dig that jazzy tune at the end.

Cool across the board tool's Thank you for the video 👍

The voiceover is very calming❤️❤️❤️

fascinating. great stuff

Good explanations.

Great work

stone hooks.... come on!... stone hooks!.... unbelievable amount of work and skill... wow!

I always wonder how people first learned to do things, especially metalworking.

A good and informative video, I most enjoyed it.

Don’t really know really what to say. You are brilliant and your hard work is so appreciated. By the way in the south west of England we have copper and tin mines that are older than 7 thousand years. You have to watch out so you don’t fall down them!