How Did Humans Invent Bed?

What Did Ancient Humans Sleep On Before Beds? 200,000 years ago, our ancestors were already building beds, and hidden inside them was a defense against an enemy you can barely see. In this video: • Why sleeping on bare ground was a slow fight against the cold • How chimps, gorillas and orangutans build a fresh bed almost every night • The Hadza study: only 18 minutes when everyone was asleep at once • The 200,000-year-old grass beds of Border Cave, laid on a layer of ash • Insect-repelling leaves and the people who set their own beds on fire • Neanderthal bedding, the "made bed" of Ohalo II, and sleeping above the dead at Çatalhöyük • Stone beds of Skara Brae and the raised wooden beds of ancient Egypt Chapters: 0:00 Sleeping with nothing at all 1:00 The ground is a thief 1:41 How great apes build beds 2:40 Fire and the night 3:05 The 18-minute discovery 4:16 Border Cave: the oldest beds 5:44 Bug-repellent mattresses 6:17 Why burn your own bed? 6:57 Neanderthal beds 7:16 Ohalo II: someone made their bed 8:07 Çatalhöyük: sleeping above the dead 8:31 Skara Brae's stone beds 8:54 Beds on legs in ancient Egypt 9:16 So what did they sleep on? Watch next: Why Didn't Predators Eat Sleeping Ancient Humans? [   • Why Didn’t Predators Eat Sleeping Ancient ...  ] Sources: Wadley et al. (2020), Science: earliest evidence of grass bedding at Border Cave, South Africa Wadley et al. (2011), Science: Middle Stone Age bedding and site maintenance at Sibudu, South Africa Samson et al. (2017), Proceedings of the Royal Society B: chronotype variation and night-time vigilance among the Hadza Cabanes et al. (2010), Journal of Archaeological Science: phytolith evidence for Neanderthal bedding at Esquilleu Cave, Spain Nadel et al. (2004), PNAS: grass bedding at Ohalo II, Israel Çatalhöyük Research Project; Historic Environment Scotland (Skara Brae) The scenes in this video are animated reconstructions based on archaeological evidence. Some details are interpretations by researchers, not certainties. how did ancient humans sleep how did early humans sleep how did humans sleep before beds how did humans invent bed #ancienthumans #humanevolution #prehistoric #anthropology #history #Zenn #Axen #Mack #Ink Explainer #Explain In Paint #Stickly #Basically Primitive #Runic #Whatlume #Neon Rush