Why You Wouldn't Last 24 Hours in the Ice Age

Minus twenty degrees, a wind that never stops, and a cave lion somewhere out there. Tim has 24 hours in the Ice Age, with no food, no shelter and no idea how to make fire. Would you last until morning? The people who lived here did, and by the end of this video you'll know how. Tim's watch drops him on the mammoth steppe of southern Russia, on the banks of the river Don, more than 20,000 years ago, in the coldest stretch of the last Ice Age. In one day he learns how Ice Age humans survived: bone needles and fur clothes, why fat mattered more than meat, a horse hunt by the frozen river, cave lions and woolly mammoths, a blizzard, fire from flint and pyrite, and a night inside a house built from mammoth bones. 0:00 Stranded at -20°C 0:50 The Last Glacial Maximum 1:24 Hour 1: The endless wind 2:43 Hour 2: Don't eat the snow 3:32 Hour 3: Meeting Ice Age people 4:51 Hour 4: Bone needles and furs 6:31 Hour 5: Why fat beats meat 7:56 Hour 6: Scraping hides 9:01 Hour 7: Horse hunt on thin ice 10:27 Hour 8: Cave lions and mammoths 11:54 Hour 9: The blizzard 13:55 Hour 10: Fire the hard way 15:26 Hours 11–13: The mammoth bone house 18:02 Hour 14: Music by the fire 19:14 Hours 16–21: The longest night 21:51 Hour 22: A world about to vanish 22:53 Hour 24: Back home Would you have eaten the bone marrow? Tell me in the comments. Subscribe to see where Tim's watch throws him next. Sources: Pryor et al. (2020), the mammoth-bone circle at Kostenki 11, Antiquity: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.7 Clark et al. (2009), The Last Glacial Maximum, Science: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1172873 Tierney et al. (2020), Glacial cooling and climate sensitivity revisited, Nature: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-26... Seguin-Orlando et al. (2014), the Kostenki 14 genome, Science: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa0114 Toups et al. (2011), clothing lice and the origin of clothes, Molecular Biology and Evolution: https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msq234 Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... "Canon in D for Two Renaissance Harps", "Canon in D Major", "Dark Times", "Immersed", "Satiate - only strings", "Sneaky Adventure", "The Path of the Goblin King"