When Did Ancient Humans Actually Start Dancing?

You're in the car, or the kitchen, and a song comes on. Your foot starts tapping before you've decided anything. It feels like nothing, a tiny reflex you'd never call important. But moving in time with other people might be one of the oldest tricks your body knows, and the reason behind it has nothing to do with fun. Most people assume dance is entertainment, something humans added once there was spare time and spare food. This video takes that apart. A lab study on strangers walking in step. A 40,000 year old bone flute pulled out of a German cave. A communal healing dance still practiced by the San in the Kalahari tonight. Bare heel marks pressed into clay deep underground. Each one chips away at the easy answer, building toward why exhausted, hungry foragers would ever burn precious energy moving in unison for nothing they could eat. #AncientHumans #Prehistory #HumanEvolution #Archaeology #DeepTime