The Craziest Ways Ancient Humans Survived Winter

How did ancient humans survive winter? Without heating, ancient humans and prehistoric humans of the Ice Age built mammoth bone houses, sewed fur clothes like Ötzi the Iceman, and invented ancient heating from the Roman hypocaust to ondol. In this video, we explore: ▸ A 20,000-year-old ring of 64 mammoth skulls at Kostenki ▸ Why Neanderthal bodies were built for the cold ▸ Bone needles and the first fitted clothes ▸ Ötzi's goat-hide coat, bearskin hat and grass-stuffed shoes ▸ Inuit caribou furs and snow houses ▸ Roman hypocausts, Korean ondol, the Chinese kang and the Russian stove ▸ Cows as heaters, hot bricks and nightcaps ▸ The Little Ice Age and the Thames frost fairs Chapters: 0:00 Intro: the mammoth bone ring 0:40 Built for the cold 1:10 The first sewn clothes 1:30 What Ötzi wore 2:36 Inside the mammoth bone houses 3:08 Mezhyrich: 400 years in one house 3:30 Inuit furs 3:56 Snow houses 4:34 The Roman hypocaust 4:59 Ondol, kang and the Russian stove 5:33 Living with the cows 6:04 Winter nights in bed 6:21 The Thames frost fairs 7:18 Your home tonight Old Bones Explained: how ancient humans did the everyday things you never think about. 📚 Sources: Pryor et al. (2020), "The chronology and function of a new circular mammoth-bone structure at Kostenki 11", Antiquity O'Sullivan et al. (2016), "A whole mitochondria analysis of the Tyrolean Iceman's leather provides insights into the animal sources of Copper Age clothing", Scientific Reports South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, "Ötzi's clothing", iceman.it Vitruvius, "De Architectura", Book V (baths and hypocausts) Royal Museums Greenwich, "The River Thames frost fairs" Museum of London, frost fair printed cards (1683–84) #ancienthistory #history #iceage