What Did Ancient Humans Do For Fun?

Ancient humans weren’t just hunting, eating and sleeping. Archaeology shows they wore jewelry, brewed beer, threw giant feasts, nursed sick puppies, gambled and painted in the dark, just because it felt good. 🦴🎶 In this video, we open 10 evidence files on what ancient humans really did for pleasure, from 140,000-year-old shell beads to a 45,000-year-old cave painting. And the plot twist at the end might make you jealous of your Stone Age ancestors. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 A flute carved in the ice age 0:55 Evidence File #1: Jewelry 1:35 Evidence File #2: Cave beer 2:15 Evidence File #3: Feasts 2:48 Evidence File #4: Honey raids 3:25 Evidence File #5: Kids drawing on walls 3:55 Evidence File #6: The sick puppy 4:27 Evidence File #7: Stories by the fire 5:00 Evidence File #8: Dice and games 5:30 Evidence File #9: Cave art 5:59 The plot twist 6:42 The final file 💬 Which of these would you have enjoyed most? Tell me in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe to Stick Age History for more evidence files on how our ancestors really lived. Next: How did ancient humans go to the toilet? 📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING • Bone flutes, Hohle Fels & Geissenklösterle caves, Germany • Shell beads, Bizmoune Cave, Morocco • Natufian beer residues, Raqefet Cave, Israel • Feasting burial, Hilazon Tachtit, Israel • Honey-gathering rock art, Cuevas de la Araña, Spain • Children’s finger flutings, Rouffignac Cave, France • Dog burial, Bonn-Oberkassel, Germany • Wiessner (2014), firelight talk among the Ju/’hoansi • Game board and dice, Shahr-e Sukhteh, Iran • Pig painting, Leang Tedongnge, Sulawesi • Dyble et al. (2019), Agta forager leisure time #AncientHumans #StoneAge #History #Prehistory #Archaeology #StickFigure #HistoryExplained #education #history #stickman