What Did Ancient Humans Do Before Houses Existed?

#humanhistory #archaeology #prehistory Where Did Humans Live Before Houses? All research and sources are linked below. 📚 RESEARCH & SOURCES: ▸ Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel: "Evidence of Hominin Control of Fire at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel" (2004, Science) by Naama Goren-Inbar et al. Burned flint, wood and seeds dated to roughly 790,000 years ago. ▸ Repeated fire use: "Continual fire-making by hominins at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel" (2008, Quaternary Science Reviews) by Nira Alperson-Afil. Evidence that fire was used again and again at the same site. ▸ Terra Amata, France: "A Paleolithic Camp at Nice" (1969, Scientific American) by Henry de Lumley. The original report of hut-like structures on the French Riviera. ▸ Ohalo II, Israel: "Stone Age Hut in Israel Yields World's Oldest Evidence of Bedding" (2004, PNAS) by Dani Nadel et al. Brush huts, hearths and plant remains from a 23,000-year-old hunter-gatherer camp beside the Sea of Galilee. ▸ Kharaneh IV, Jordan: "Twenty Thousand-Year-Old Huts at a Hunter-Gatherer Settlement in Eastern Jordan" (2012, PLoS ONE) by Lisa Maher et al. Huts built from wood, shrubs and reeds, with repeated occupation. ▸ The Natufians and early settlements: "The Natufian Culture in the Levant, Threshold to the Origins of Agriculture" (1998, Evolutionary Anthropology) by Ofer Bar-Yosef. Stone-house villages built by hunter-gatherers around 12,000 years ago, including Nahal Ein Gev II. ———————————————————— PLACES MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO: ▸ Gesher Benot Ya'aqov: A site in northern Israel with some of the earliest evidence of controlled fire, about 790,000 years old. People kept coming back to the same fireside. ▸ Terra Amata: A site in southern France where archaeologists reported oval shelters up to about 15 meters long, some of the earliest signs of deliberately built living spaces. ▸ Ohalo II: A 23,000-year-old camp on the shore of the Sea of Galilee with brush huts and hearths, built thousands of years before farming. ▸ Kharaneh IV: A site in Jordan, about 20,000 years old, where groups returned again and again and stayed for months in huts made of plant materials. ▸ Nahal Ein Gev II: A village of stone houses near the Sea of Galilee, built by hunter-gatherers around 12,000 years ago. ———————————————————— 🎨 Animation by Curio ———————————————————— #ancienthumans #huntergatherer #prehistory #humanhistory #archaeology #stoneage #anthropology #history #explainer #animation #education #paleolithic #shelter #origins #home