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How Many Hours Did Ancient Humans Actually Work?

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How Many Hours Did Ancient Humans Actually Work?

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Somebody went to the Kalahari with a stopwatch and timed it. The answer was about two and a half hours a day, and it started an argument that is still running. This video gives both sides honestly: why that number is too low, what it misses, and what the real difference actually is. Then the part that matters — why nobody in that world worked more than they needed to, what storage changed, and why early farmers ended up shorter, sicker and busier than the foragers they replaced. 00:00 Somebody counted your hours 00:30 Somebody counted theirs too 02:30 The thing that actually differs 05:00 Why we did it anyway 07:30 The full basket 09:30 A day that ends