When Our Simplest Invention Killed 95% Of All Men Alive

Roughly seven thousand years ago, something erased the majority of men from the human gene pool. Not a plague. Not a famine. Something else entirely, and the evidence is still sitting in your own DNA. We dig into the genetic study that first uncovered this bottleneck, the mass graves across Neolithic Europe that back it up, and the invention sitting at the center of it all, one so ordinary you would never suspect it. #Archaeology #Genetics #Prehistory #AncientHistory 00:00 Intro 00:38 The Genetic Signal 04:47 Farming and Property 06:02 Where the Bodies Are 09:25 Four Sites 14:24 Weapons Without Armor 15:47 Why Only Men 20:23 Outro