What Filled the Hours Ancient Humans Weren't Hunting?

A hunt only took 4-5 hours. So what did ancient humans do with the other 12 hours in their day? Turns out, hunter-gatherers worked less than 30 hours a week — and spent the rest of their time on something anthropologists almost never talk about: storytelling, grandparenting, unsupervised play, and deep rest with no deadline attached. This video explores research from Marshall Sahlins, Richard Borshay Lee, Polly Wiessner, Robin Dunbar, Kristen Hawkes, James Woodburn, and Peter Gray to explain why our ancestors' daily rhythm looked nothing like ours — and what that says about how we spend our own hours today. If you enjoyed this, subscribe for more deep dives into human history, evolution, anthropology, and psychology — told through hand-drawn stick-figure animation. #AncientHumans #HumanEvolution