A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ADAM AND EVE

It's midnight, you're not even hungry, and somehow the whole tub of ice cream is gone. Blame a forager who lived 30,000 years ago. For almost all of our history, Sapiens lived as hunter-gatherers. In Part 3 we spend a day with them: who they lived with, what they ate, how many hours they worked, what they knew, what they feared, and what they believed. We visit the dog buried in a woman's arms at Ain Mallaha, the painted cave of Lascaux, the Cave of the Hands in Argentina, the bead-covered graves of Sungir, and the darker sites of Jebel Sahaba and Ofnet. Then we ask the biggest question of all: what happened behind the curtain of silence? Watch Part 2 first: The Tree of Knowledge Chapters 0:00 Intro: the midnight fridge 0:50 I · The Stone Age Mind 1:40 II · One Big Family? 2:55 III · The Wood Age 4:57 IV · The Original Affluent Society 10:17 V · Talking Ghosts 12:38 VI · Peace or War? 14:04 VII · The Curtain of Silence 14:59 So what was it like? Sources & further reading • Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — chapter 3, "A Day in the Life of Adam and Eve" • Marshall Sahlins, "The Original Affluent Society" (1966; in Stone Age Economics, 1972) • Davis & Valla 1978, Nature — the Natufian dog burial at Ain Mallaha (Eynan), northern Israel • Hill & Hurtado 1996, Aché Life History: The Ecology and Demography of a Foraging People • Trinkaus, Buzhilova, Mednikova & Dobrovolskaya 2014, The People of Sunghir (Oxford University Press) • Crevecoeur, Diller & Sheppard 2021, Scientific Reports — new study of the Jebel Sahaba cemetery, Sudan • Lascaux (France) and the Cueva de las Manos (Argentina), both UNESCO World Heritage Sites #Sapiens #HunterGatherers #StoneAge #HumanEvolution #Prehistory #AnimatedHistory