Why A Caveman Would Outsmart Us

Thirty-six thousand years ago, an old hunter in Ice Age France could read a whole story in a few marks in the mud. That same night, a woman painted horses on a cave wall so alive they almost seem to move. So were ancient humans smarter than us, or are we smarter than them? In this video, we spend a day with a caveman family in Ice Age France and follow the real evidence. We look at brains that got about 10% smaller over the last 30,000 years and London cab drivers who memorize about 25,000 streets. We see the paintings of Chauvet Cave, the world's oldest known cave art (a hand stencil in Indonesia at least 67,800 years old), a 73,000-year-old drawing from Blombos Cave and tiny 54,000-year-old arrowheads from Mandrin Cave. There are stories remembered for more than 7,000 years, and Ayumu, the chimpanzee who beat university students at a memory game. Then we look at two explorer disasters, Burke and Wills in Australia and the lost Franklin expedition in the Arctic, and what they reveal about the real secret of human intelligence. Chapters 0:00 An Ice Age tracker and a cave painter 0:55 Were ancient humans smarter than us? 1:31 What your phone does for your brain 2:11 London cab drivers and GPS 3:10 How big were ancient brains? 3:41 Why our brains got smaller 5:33 A day in Ice Age France 8:12 Lost in the fog 8:54 A song that works like a map 9:27 Chauvet Cave 10:10 The oldest cave art in the world 10:32 The oldest drawing, glue and fire-treated stone 11:42 Tiny arrowheads at Mandrin Cave 11:58 Crossing the sea to Australia 12:21 Tracking, the oldest science 12:41 Stories 7,000 years old 13:15 Ayumu the memory chimp 14:13 The Burke and Wills disaster 15:23 The lost Franklin expedition 15:58 Our collective brain 16:33 How Tasmania lost its knowledge 17:05 Toddlers vs. apes 17:38 Are IQ scores rising? 18:18 So who is smarter? 19:36 Back in the valley 20:20 From songs to smartphones Watch the full story of how the first people crossed the sea to Australia:    • Видео   If you were dropped into the Ice Age tomorrow, which skill would you struggle with most: tracking animals, finding safe plants, or making your own tools? Tell me in the comments. #IceAge #HumanEvolution #Prehistory