How Did Humans Sleep Before Beds?

From grass laid over ash in a South African cave 200,000 years ago to the memory foam you'll sleep on tonight, every human bed has answered one brutal question: how do you stay alive while you're unconscious? You Will Learn: • Shorter but Deeper Sleep: Why humans sleep less than any other primate studied, yet a bigger share of it is REM, and how fire, shelter and group sleeping made that trade possible. • The 200,000-Year-Old Bed: How people at Border Cave laid grass over a layer of ash, likely to block ticks, then burned the old bedding to build the next one. • Bug-Killing Leaves: How 77,000-year-old bedding at Sibudu was topped with river wild quince leaves that contain chemicals that kill insects and their larvae. • Headrests, Demons & a Folding Bed: How Egyptian headrests were believed to guard the head against demons in the afterlife, and why Tutankhamun was buried with the ancestor of the camping bed. • First Sleep, Second Sleep & the Night Watch: The debate over whether humans naturally woke at midnight, and why across 220 hours of Hadza nights, every adult was asleep at once for just 18 minutes. If you enjoyed this deep dive into the history of sleep and ancient human survival, hit the like button, subscribe for more breakdowns, and leave a comment sharing what topic we should cover next! Click here to Subscribe : https://bit.ly/4cUqJcD Contact (For Business enquiries) : allrounder2578@gmail.com