What Happened If You Didn't Share Your Kill? | Ancient Survival Rules

You spend all day tracking an animal, bring it down alone... and you're not allowed to keep it. So what happened to ancient hunters who refused to share their meat? For most of human history there were no police, no judges and no jails. Just a few dozen people around a fire who all knew what you did. Anthropologists who lived with hunter-gatherers like the Ju/'hoansi of the Kalahari, the Hadza of Tanzania and the Ache of Paraguay found an unwritten law, and a punishment system that worked in quiet, frightening steps. In this video: Why sharing meat was really a form of insurance "Insulting the meat": how the Ju/'hoansi mocked every successful hunter on purpose The 4 steps of punishment, from jokes to exile Why being pushed out of the group was a death sentence The surprising reason the most generous hunters had more children 0:00 You're not allowed to keep your kill 1:10 Why meat had to be shared 2:32 Insulting the meat 4:00 What happened if you refused 5:13 When the group ruled the strongest man 6:19 Was sharing really about fairness? 7:27 The hunters who gave the most 8:25 The oldest law humans ever invented Watch next: Why Losing Fire Was a Death Sentence in the Ice Age:    • Why Losing Fire Was a Death Sentence in th...   The 5 Predators That Hunted Ancient Humans at Night:    • The 5 Predators That Hunted Ancient Humans...   Roko Explains tells the strange, dark and surprising story of how our ancestors survived. Subscribe so you don't miss the next one. #ancienthumans #huntergatherers #prehistoric