What Did Ancient Humans Do When They Were Bored?

Food was gathered by early afternoon and then there was nothing. No text to read, nowhere to be, nothing arriving. Eleven hours of it, every day, for a whole life. This video covers what came out of that: a block of ochre carved with a pattern that means nothing, shells carried twenty kilometres inland and drilled into beads, handaxes made far better than they needed to be, and the games. Plus what the research says boredom actually does to a mind, and what we removed when we removed it. 00:00 You have not been bored in years 00:30 The oldest pointless object 02:30 What boredom actually does 05:00 The games 07:30 We removed the gaps 09:30 Four minutes