10 Weird Things Prehistoric Humans Did to Survive Winter

Grass in their shoes, lamps that burned fat, houses made of mammoths and fish left to rot for weeks. Ten weird things prehistoric humans did to survive the Ice Age winter, and one theory that says they may have slept through it. ⏱ CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 0:40 #10 Grass shoes 1:26 #9 Fat lamps 2:12 #8 The needle 3:07 #7 Spark stones 4:00 #6 Mammoth houses 4:54 #5 Bone grease 5:41 #4 Rotten fish 6:31 #3 Stomach salad 7:22 #2 Chewing leather 8:09 #1 Hibernation 8:59 How they beat winter 📚 SOURCES: ▸ South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology — Ötzi and his shoes ▸ de Beaune (1987) — Paleolithic lamps, including the Lascaux lamp ▸ Denisova Cave bone needle — Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Novosibirsk (2016) ▸ Toups et al. (2011), Molecular Biology and Evolution — body lice and the origin of clothing ▸ Sorensen, Claud & Soressi (2018), Scientific Reports — Neanderthal fire-making ▸ Pryor et al. (2020), Antiquity — the Kostenki 11 mammoth-bone circle ▸ Outram (2001), Journal of Archaeological Science — bone grease rendering ▸ Boethius (2016), Journal of Archaeological Science — fermented fish at Norje Sunnansund ▸ Hardy et al. (2012), Naturwissenschaften; Buck & Stringer (2014), Quaternary Science Reviews — El Sidrón plants and stomach contents ▸ Frayer et al. (2012), Laterality — tool scratches on front teeth ▸ Bartsiokas & Arsuaga (2020), L'Anthropologie — hibernation hypothesis at Sima de los Huesos #prehistory #iceage #ancienthumans #neanderthals #history