What Would Happen If You Spent 24 Hours as a Human From 100,000 Years Ago?

You wake up cold, in a cave on the southern coast of Africa, next to a dying fire and twenty people you've never met. For the next 24 hours, you're a human being who lives 100,000 years ago. Could you survive the day? Hour by hour: a 200,000-year-old kind of bed, a language you can't understand, a seafood breakfast timed by the Moon, walking miles like the Hadza, a landscape that's a supermarket with no labels, a hunt that fails, something moving in the tall grass, the oldest paint workshop in Blombos Cave, stories around the fire, four kinds of humans on one planet, and a night sky most of us have never really seen. Then the part that's not hypothetical: your body today is basically the same body that woke up in that cave. Sources: 200,000-Year-Old Beds Analyzed in South Africa (Archaeology Magazine): https://archaeology.org/news/2020/08/... Sibudu Cave – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibudu_... Blombos Cave – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blombos... ASU team detects earliest modern humans (Arizona State University): https://news.asu.edu/content/asu-team... Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools (Arizona State University): https://news.asu.edu/content/early-mo... Hunter-Gatherer Energetics and Human Obesity (Pontzer et al. 2012, PLOS ONE): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art... Hawkes, O'Connell & Blurton Jones – Hadza hunting (University of Utah PDF): https://content.csbs.utah.edu/~hawkes... Firelight talk of the Ju/'hoansi (ScienceDaily, Wiessner 2014): https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases... Natural Sleep and Its Seasonal Variations in Three Pre-industrial Societies (Yetish et al. 2015, PDF): https://gurven.anth.ucsb.edu/sites/se... New World Atlas of Artificial Sky Brightness – news release (National Park Service): https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/06-10-2... Longevity Among Hunter-Gatherers: A Cross-Cultural Examination (Gurven & Kaplan 2007, PDF): https://gurven.anth.ucsb.edu/sites/se... Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbr... Every episode takes one wild "what if" and drops YOU right in the middle of it, with real science and simple hand-drawn animation..