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How's it goin' Kayleigh? I really dig your recent topics and the direction you take them. Also, I see u r still as beautiful as u r intelligent. You r proof that a pretty woman with a big, juicy brain is a gift from God!! If you REALLY want to study Neanderthals, my schedule is open, send me an email!! And, u r correct about Neanderthals getting a bad rap. I'm actually kind of hot, highly intelligent and have no brow ridge. I have some more cool ideas for future videos. Lot's of odd, interesting historical finds out there, waiting to be exposed...
I found supporting you as a channel member technically easier than Patreon. My question is this. Does patreon allow a larger contribution than channel member? As for your comment about being yourself. Always be yourself. But if you can’t, then be a fox. Always be a fox.
Stop Voice typing although I agree with your premise that a hello by the way although believe with your promise that Neanderthals have had to be smart and I believe that they were smart. Were they as smart as us who knows that doesn't seem to be but it doesn't necessarily that's just conjecture cuz there is no definitive on something like that. But the facts using the example how they lived in a very cold climate extremely brutal climate which is true and that they had to hunt large game. That proves nothing in Flores how many intelligence goes. You can take the wolf they hunting packs they communicate to each other during the hunt and they take down huge game themselves. Can I take $100 elephant and hoe but need to put in the neanderthal lol. So just trying to bring a points out that if you use something like that as I think we have intelligence it can be shot down. I'm not shooting this down because I don't believe they're intelligent I'm not giving you an example of their intelligence either. Just giving you astop trying to use your example to kind of give a proof for an example of their intelligence to someone that is non-believing in their intelligence this would not move them to our side at all. Because again they were I just named the wolf. You can name other animals that do the same. Insects that do the same and all the points that you made as a proof of intelligence. Anyway please stay safe it's crazy out there and the I gave you this point for my side of you agree with you but I only meant it in the most respectful way Cecilia us, about the blind bedroom guitar oh
Actually they were just dumb primate apes who were not smart otherwise they would still exist just like the rest of the apes that lived long ago and still exist.
There never were many Neanderthals, so I think it is more likely they were absorbed into the population than died off. This has happened with a number of ethnic groups in our own time.
Aloha Chris, If I might ditto or otherwise support your point here! The "absorbed" theory is a well written (and documented - at least from what I have read over the years), but often ignored, theory. It does make sense though and is near impossible to prove. But I do wish I was there! Aloha
@@lenabreijer1311 Sounds like you don't like the modern world then. Did Europeans (and by extension the West) do things that we should be ashamed off. Yes our ancestors did. Hopefully we've learned. But don't think that everyone else on the planet has lived in peace and harmony throughout history.
Kayleigh, I love your attitude and humor, your humility, and intelligence. I hit 30 last year as well, and I'm itching to go to school for anthropology finally. You have a gift of breaking down things to the layman's understanding. Some channels like North02, are similar in content,he has an almost ASMR quality. Your gift is being real, relatable. Talking to to average Joe and spreading knowledge in ways they can understand. Please never stop doing what you're doing, you're an inspiration 🙂
What fascinates me is how they worked out how to weave, make nets for fishing and preserve food. They must have been constantly looking forward. This shows how intelligent they must have been. They seem to have constantly been pushing forward.
Always interested in the Neanderthals! I think they were much more sophisticated than they’ve been given credit for. Thanks for another wonderful video!
I also think that Neanderthals have been vastly underrated. They were every bit as human as anyone alive today. We know that some Neanderthal groups buried their dead. They could make fire as needed. They could innovate as their synthesis of pitch adhesive shows. They didn't leave the sick and elderly members of their clans out to die but instead cared for these individuals. Skeletons have been found that showed that in life the person would have died much sooner if not for the care they received from their fellow Neanderthals. And we now know that Neanderthals were very likely the first cave artists in Europe. In addition, evidence from islands in the Mediterranean says that they could sail ( or at the very least raft). That is huge since seamanship is more complex than many realize. All that speaks to their humanity and is the reason I refer to them as homo sapiens neanderthalensis and not just homo sapiens. neanderthalensis.
Ooga. Fank you for vote of confidence. Me go now. Hunting done, now me must drag wife home by da hair and put many sons in her. Rawr! -A concerned Neanderthal.
I suspect that Neanderthals were smarter than homo sapiens. I suspect also that many of the great "discoveries" of sapiens were in fact stolen from them. Modern humans are the most dangerous animals in the world, and they were then too. In a combination of breeding them out(both by breeding "with" neanderthals, whether this be forced or voluntary matings, plus breeding fast and crowding them out of favoured areas, and active pursuit of neanderthals to chase them out, humans succeeded in killing off their cousins.
But they didn't look like modern europeans as most artists a trying to represent them now. That skull Is closer to Aboriginal Australian In shape. They would have looked like a light skinned version of them.
I love your defense of the Neanderthals. It's passionate yet informed. I do remember reading accounts of them being "dumb brutes", and then evidence started coming out about the cranial capacity of their brain case and the technologies they used. I've watched several of your "Hominid" videos, and they've all been very informative.
This channel has been, by far, the best discovery I have made all year. Thank you for all your time and effort with your videos and the research that goes into each one. I hope that 2022 is an even better year for you and I can't wait to see the videos you create and the adventures you get up to. I'm wishing you a very happy New Year, Kayleigh.
When my family all did genetic testing a few years back I was dismayed to find out I had more neanderthal DNA than anyone else in my family. I feel a lot better now. Thanks for shedding light on this and using your open mind and energy to make an interesting video.
Neanderthals were EXTREMELY intelligent MORE SO than ANYONE today !!! The PROOF is in there large EYEBROWS. The bones under the eyebrows NEVER stop growing. This means that they reached EXTREMELY long life spans into SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS. This is told in the Bible. Neanderthals were nothing more that homo-sapiens that reached EXTREME ages. How intelligent do you think YOU would be if you remained healthy and lived for 2 or 3 HUNDRED YEARS !!! Or, quite possibly 7 to 9 HUNDRED YEARS !!! They have grossly underestimated their life span based on the same TYPE of information that made us think they were stupid, Ape-ish MORONS. HUMANS survived long enough to GET US HERE where we THINK we're SOOO intelligent that NO ONE CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT A 7-11 or a GROCERY STORE. With food shortages coming.... LETS SEE HOW WE DO !!!
I'm happy to have added in a very small part to your channel. I have used some of your content to spark thought provoking conversations with friends and family... I hope the road ahead of you continues to reward you as it does me and mine... Happy 2022
Kayleigh, I found your comments toward the end of the video really reached out to me. So I subscribed. Keep up the good work, never loose that desire to learn new things and share that knowledge with others. Thank You!
Kayleigh .. Wishing you and your family a "Very Happy New Year" and really looking forward to all the future upcoming videos you have to offer .. I'm a long time subscriber and always share your videos with many friends,family and social medias. "Thank you kindly for all you do"
You and your channel have grown so much over the last couple years, keep up the amazing work. I'm confident everything will come together for you soon, who could resist! Happy new year 🎉
_YOU_ made 2021 "one of the best years of [your] life"! Through creativity and hard work. Thanks for all the superb content, and I look forward to seeing more in 2022. Happy new year!
Thank you Kayleigh. You do manage to always keep it interesting. Neanderthals have been given a bad rap. You have made a good case for reevaluating the stereotypes held for more than a century and a half. Not bad at all! Stick with it, keep breaking new ground. We support you and hope 2022 is great for you.
I appreciate how thoroughly you research your videos, and that you stick to facts without engaging in wild speculations. It's gratifying too see how well-viewed your channel is!
Oh, i remember another thing! I think there is evidence that Neanderthal made fish hooks, and do fishing! Fish hooks are almost like art, and if Neanderthal make fish hooks, then this is very much extra confirmation that Neanderthal make strong cordage for fishing line, and maybe, maybe, maybe, even Neanderthal make boats? There is no evidence that Neanderthal make boats, but, fish hooks at Neanderthal site make for interesting guesses and speculation, and also the kinds of fish remains found can tell what kind of fishing Neanderthal can do. :) I might be getting early modern humans and Neanderthal mixed up with some articles with this, but, it is something to look into.
Wow great vid,Kayleigh. The procedure for making birch bark glue is a rather lengthy and somewhat complex procedure. I would love to know how long it took to come up with the process. Great watch, I loved it. I am so glad TH-cam recommended your channel. Oh, that bone tool for hides looks like the same style of hide scraper that my relatives still use to work hides.
your confession was quite moving. that said, the idea of a 3 way comparison between neanderthals, denisovans and moderns -- esp. re. intelligence, skills, habits and health -- is intriguing. I hope it engages your interest and attention.
Well dang, that was personal connection at the end. As a channel watcher, thanks for crossing that content creator curtain and just waiving , "hi," at us. Back to the topic presented though, I share the same opinion that Neanderthals most likely taught modern humans as we expanded out into their domains. 2) I watched either a Discovery ep or Timeline ep where they produced a model of the Neanth. voice box and used a vocalist to attempt to emulate possible sounds Neanderthals made - I felt a bit of bias was presented, or a presentation that left Neanths as screechers.... not exactly buying that cup of coffee, especially when there are active languages on this planet that use clicks, pops, whistles, teeth-tongue chirps, and guttural throat clearing at different octaves. I by no means can present Neanderthal speech for scientific study, but I can keep an open mind.
Thank you Kayleigh. I have more Neanderthal DNA Than 98% of the general population, according to a commercial testing site. I’ve always suspected there was more to know about the relationships between our ancestors and their contributions to each other. And thank you for being the translator for and between us and the sometimes incomprehensible science. Love you. Best.
I've heard it said that moving and divorcing are some of the most stressing things a person can go through. It can break people to the point that they just give up and care about nothing, themselves included. I'm grateful to see the efforts you put in to this channel. There's nothing I don't like about it and it puts a smile on my face every time I watch... I'd bet money the Neanderthal could communicate very effectively. I doubt it's possible to achieve the things they accomplished not being able to. If I had to guess, their demise was probably brought on by disease. like what happen to the Aztec after the Spanish showed up.
Thank you for the very interesting content, I have always been interested in prehistoric man, and the theory of evolution, I could also watch and listen to you all day long
You did an amazing job. I always think "it's ancient genius theory,. not aliens". We are more capable than we will ever know. Have the best New Year ever.....
Maybe the Intelligence in humans were triggered by Meeting with other Human subspecies. Er know developement happened mainly in the meeting between differentiere cultures through tribes.maybe that is also the secret behind the developement of our brains and bodies
It seems to me that 4% neanderthal dna would require a LOT of interbreeding over years. They communicated with one another, intermarried, and learned from each other, seems to me. Just like they recently discovered 23,000 year old footprints in NM recently, shattering the stupid myth of 12,000 years for human occupation of new world, I celebrate your challenging (especially biased)dominant paradigms. Keep up the good work Kayleigh. You provide an excellent resource and trust me, you're valued and I hope you get to do what you dream in 2022. Happy new year to you too!
11:00 I'm working on a story set around 43,000 years ago about a group of Neanderthals and a group of Homo sapiens co-existing in Paleolithic Europe and I'm creating two conlangs for each groups. But since we know very little about what sounds Neanderthals could actually make, it is quite hard to come up with a satisfying version of the conlang for me. Do you have information on that topic?
Another great video, definitely learnt a few things and corrected some misconceptions in my mind. Relatively new to the channel, but it's been a pleasure learning with you. Thank you Kayleigh and happy new year. 🙂
Clearing land for grass to Attract game animals is still a form of farming. I am proud of my neanderthal roots, without them we would not be who we are today.
@@mpetersen6farming involves cultivating land, planting seeds, maintaining the growing plant, and harvesting the plant. How is that the equivalent of clearing land to attract large game animals?
There’s so much we still don’t know and probably will never know about these ancient species. However, it is important to take what we DO know and piece it together like you have in this video. Thanks again for the research and hypothesis you bring to the table.
Species might not be the most correct word to use in relation to Neanderthals, as we interbred with them which means they too were human, you cannot cross breed with a different species
I appreciate and enjoy your videos. I especially like the fact that you don't put in a lot of irrelevant and distracting movie clips and unrelated images. Just listening to you year made me feel for you. Best wishes in the next and future years.
I read somewhere, you may want to verify, they may have created boats and sails long before humans. I ran across this about a decade or two ago and was surprised many people still hold on to the old concept of Neanderthals. Thank you for doing this.
Neanderthals were EXTREMELY intelligent MORE SO than ANYONE today !!! The PROOF is in there large EYEBROWS. The bones under the eyebrows NEVER stop growing. This means that they reached EXTREMELY long life spans into SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS. This is told in the Bible. Neanderthals were nothing more that homo-sapiens that reached EXTREME ages. How intelligent do you think YOU would be if you remained healthy and lived for 2 or 3 HUNDRED YEARS !!! Or, quite possibly 7 to 9 HUNDRED YEARS !!! They have grossly underestimated their life span based on the same TYPE of information that made us think they were stupid, Ape-ish MORONS. HUMANS survived long enough to GET US HERE where we THINK we're SOOO intelligent that NO ONE CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT A 7-11 or a GROCERY STORE. With food shortages coming.... LETS SEE HOW WE DO !!!
@@XaviRonaldo0 At least one island, Crete has been an island for at least 5 million years. and Cyprus has been isolated for a similar length of time. Neanderthal tools have been found on both islands. Since neither island has been connected to land since before humans evolved, during Neanderthal times, the only way to get there was by sailing or rafting.
@@harrietharlow9929 Most of the Greek Islands were part of the land bridge between mainland Greece and Turkey, but the water around Crete is deep. Atlas Pro has a video on TH-cam on Ice Age Sea levels.
Kayleigh makes a solid case for Neanderthals intelligence and if you’ve ever spent much time in the wilderness it doesn’t take long to learn important skills. The Neanderthals must have learned so much over time from nature, lightning, lava, water, rocks, bugs, vines, plants, animals (dead and alive) and yes even art. Awesome channel!
Neanderthals were EXTREMELY intelligent MORE SO than ANYONE today !!! The PROOF is in there large EYEBROWS. The bones under the eyebrows NEVER stop growing. This means that they reached EXTREMELY long life spans into SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS. This is told in the Bible. Neanderthals were nothing more that homo-sapiens that reached EXTREME ages. How intelligent do you think YOU would be if you remained healthy and lived for 2 or 3 HUNDRED YEARS !!! Or, quite possibly 7 to 9 HUNDRED YEARS !!! They have grossly underestimated their life span based on the same TYPE of information that made us think they were stupid, Ape-ish MORONS. HUMANS survived long enough to GET US HERE where we THINK we're SOOO intelligent that NO ONE CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT A 7-11 or a GROCERY STORE. With food shortages coming.... LETS SEE HOW WE DO !!!
Thankyou miss. Another excellent lesson. I tend to see their development as basically the same as ours. Everything that has been developed was really only to simplify or improve something already being done. So why wouldn't they realise they could collect some seed in one place and plant it at a more convenient place for instance. If they are sitting around a fire at night they would talk to each other. With such a long time frame of Neanderthal existence, I think it's a bit blinkered to consider them as not developed more.
Hoi Kayleigh, een heel goed 2022 gewenst en blijf vooral dit soort videos maken. Educatie is en blijft belangrijk en je doet daar een bijdrage aan. Maak 2022 beter dan 2021
Right on, @History with Kayleigh! Please keep informing the general public on history, evolution and topics you find interesting that you would like to share. 😃 I hope you have an awesome New Year! I'll be here all 2022( well unless I die cause I'm twice your age, lol) to continue my support and looking forward to your videos. 😊
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! I missed a few videos during Christmas and I'm catching up now. This is an awesome video to start my catch up with Kayleigh :)
They had a larger skull/brain cavity, must count for a lot. Birch bark/glue, they knew how to control fire, bet they were good cooks too. Most things were discovered by accident and they remembered exactly how they did it. Yes, they didn't die out, they would simply have "mixed" with the upcoming homo sapiens.
Yep, and evidence is consistent with us bonking bilaterally and sharing DNA. Therefore must have been biopsychosocially similar, evolutionarily constructive, compatible and attractive to each other.
I think there is a natural denial on the part of us today, because we value intelligence so much, to completely dismiss the possibility that a species more intelligent than us could have gone extinct.
@@MarkVrem Yes, in those times they lived on their wits and had to make every single last thing they required (there were no shops!!). I love working at my workbench, there is a very high satisfaction factor and so it must have been for those people, they were first and foremost craftsmen. Doubtless today there are many who do not have that basic skill and with that a loss of common sense seems to go hand in hand.
Or, after they passed their higher intelligence on to the southern migrants through interbreeding, they were wiped out along with all the megafauna they depended on for survival. Unfortunately, this discussion becomes very political and is discouraged.
Wow. I am so glad I watched your video all the way to the end. You shared so much vulnerability. I wasn’t expecting that but I feel closer somehow. Thank you for that and this topic. Also I wanted to say to you I was stationed at the ancient city of Ur for a year back in 2010. It’s amazing. I learned so much about it, the mythology about Sir Leonard Woolley and even Agatha Christie. You touched on much of it. Great work. May I ask, did you ever see evidence of the Neanderthal gestation period? When I was around 12 (1980) I recall my friends and I talking about it and gleaning, on our own, that it helped lead to their demise. If it’s longer than ours, it’s a disadvantage right? Last thing, I’m old, take it from me kid: you are beautiful, you are talented and charismatic to the nines. Be comfortable with needing only you and happiness will follow. Thank you so much… I love your work
About the farming Neanderthals I have an intriguing explanation : they were not clearing forests for farming but for hunting reasons: Step 1: clear or burn a very large forest chunk ( or just use an existing meadow ) Step 2: build a very long fence around it, maybe just with brambles ( bushes with thorns ) Step 3: Use it like a big trap for wild animals or just put herbivore animals inside and easily hunt them when necessary. Step 4+: If you also build inner brambels walls in a checkered pattern or with funnel features ( like some cave art depiction suggests ) you can move herds from a grass depleted enclosure to the next one and hunt them even more easily... Greeatings form Italy Happy new year Kayleigh, keep on doing what you are doing... you are great! Andrea
I talked to a (Dutch) Experimental Archeologist some years ago and he told me that we have not reproduced the exact way how birch bark pitch was produced by the primitive people. Not sure if there is any progress on that subject since then but... People often forget that these people (Neanderthals or modern humans) were absolute masters of their environment. They knew how to do stuff that we have forgotten a long time ago. They survived for thousands of years to prove that.
Bonjour I appreciate You Your channel Enjoy your subjects Your application in keeping it simple while raising our awareness on what was that contribute in forging our world 🌎 Thanks From Quebec Canada
All succesful hunters and gatherers have a very keen sense of observation. It's not just pattern recognitions, but recognizing what various factors impact the forecasted potential outcomes. Once that mental process is engaged, then innovations are only restricted by time, chance, and the local natural resources.
I always thought that Neanderthals had much more going for them than what is granted them. I live in Canada and can only imagine how they must have survived the various Ice ages. No one with out some intelligence and skill set would have been able to have such a long existence. The Norse community on Greenland died out because they failed to learn from the Inuit. The same with various early Europeans who ended up dead, with resources abounding if they knew how to harvest them. Early Humans travelling into Europe with the receding ice would have much to learn from the Neanderthals. Peace and Love and best wishes Kayleigh.
Interesting video, and smart to document your sources. Congrats for all your positive accomplishments in 2021, and for making History videos I actually enjoy watching. Wishing you all the best in 2022. Thanks 👍🎉😎
The thing pretty much everyone fails to realize is innovating is hard, and that is now with all the materials, knowledge, and people available. Imagine what it would be like with a measely fraction of everything we have, it would take a long time and it did.
One of the effects of clearing forests (with fire, judging by the charcoal remains) might well have been the growth of bushy berry-bearing plants like raspberries and blackberries. They need more light than forests afford. Pollen analysis would presumably reveal that.
In her last video on Neanderthals, she linked to the study which suggested clearing of land, and it was based on a lack of pollens in the area. It wasn't based on evidence of burning, but just that there were no pollens.
@@rainyday6430 I went ahead and read up on the specifics. The area was just one valley basin and was compared to nearby mountains and valleys which did have pollen remains over the same time period. So it doesn't look like any sort of natural disaster. Also, my first post was kinda wrong in that they only looked at tree pollens.
Pollens are often only found in either dry areas where they would not rot/be decomposed, or lake beds etc, with minimal oxygen and basically no decomposition. In all other areas pollens, wood etc usually just rots away. There is a reason you don't see 10,000 year old dead trees still standing in the forest, besides fires.
@@LostCylon The papers did actually mention a lakebed in their location as lacking pollens. So it sounds like they got that covered. I actually thought calling the sight a lakebed was a possible weakness in their argument so didn't mention that part. But read the actual papers yourself and report back again to let us know what we still might be missing. You seem well educated and unbiased so your further feedback would be most welcomed.
Just found this channel tonight, and I’m loving the content! As someone who’s 2% Neanderthal myself, I enjoy learning about my ancient ancestors. I do think they were far more intelligent than people gave them credit for, and I think the more we dig, the more proof of that we’ll find. And I do subscribe to the theory that they were simply bred out of existence by early Homo sapiens, especially since I’ve heard the theory that Neanderthals possibly had fewer children and a smaller population in general.
Great video .. Love the perspective. And a whole hearted good luck to your success. Yes travel travel travel .. Surfing allowed me to go to the most amazing places. And I am so grateful now for all the growth my journeys to find waves has brought me. Aloha & mahalo
Hang in there, Kayleigh 🤗 I knew that you'd had things happen this year, but not that it was that trying a year. You enjoy making these videos, and I like watching them :) And you have a cat :) Cats are good when things go awry. My five helped me through tough times. Have a great NYE and see you in the New Year. I hope that it's a good year for all of us :)
"Exactly", I reply to your fire discussion, "the friction method is a good one." Plus it leaves about nothing to be found even a few years later, much less decades, and centuries afterward. I like to postulate that the best societies of the past are the ones 'we' can not detect because they left no trace. They used what was needed and made only a little mess while they were about it. Perhaps they smiled as they looked at the sky and the land and the creatures. And then died, and were churned back into the soil from which they and we came. And it kinda did not matter much if future generations knew about them or not. They were content.
I totally agree. Just because we don't have lots of detritus from their lives doesn't mean they weren't intelligent. It takes a tremendous amount of knowledge and skill to live in sync with nature, as well as insight to appreciate it. Must say, I like your description better. ✌️😎
I doubt they thought about it that way. Large amounts of cultural remains really require a settled life story. If you are traveling between different ranges over the course of the year and are carrying everything you need on your back or in our hands you are pretty much only going to carry what you really need. Also all your technology is based on stone, wood and bone.
Another excellent and informative video. I very much enjoy learning about our human origins. I am very excited what New discoveries await with more data from DNA 🧬 and possibly better extraction/decoding technology allowing scientists to get information from bones and other sources. Hopefully some more complete fossils of Denisovans or find new hominid species related to modern humans
Thanks very much Kayleigh. I follow your videos/posts and they are so informative. I've loved history and dug up my fathers garden when I was 7, dug/assisted at my first Roman Villa aged 12, joined Salisbury Museum on the strength of their "digging crew" aged 21 and at the age of 75 still find prehistory and archaeology simply fascinating and absorbing. Over the years I've met a good few archaeologists such as Prof. Atkinson, Piggott and Hawkes. I live 6 miles from Stonehenge and recall seeing Prof. Piggott and his dig there in '52. Keep the videos coming, thank you so much. PS. I could send you my leaflet on Avebury henge (entitled, ten thousand years of history), its available in pdf form should you like a copy.
Great video! So glad to see that Neanderthals are getting the credit that they deserve. They were truly remarkable people. I love the thought that Neanderthals taught humans how to make bone tools and possibly to make cave paintings. We homo sapiens sapiens thinks entirely too highly of our species. I am absolutely proud to be a Neanderthal-human hybrid because the Neanderthals were an intelligent, empathetic, sensitive people. Just subscribed as well.
First, to echo several people below -- Thank you. This is one of the better subscriptions I've made in 2021...and 2020, to be honest. Well done. Second, I don't think that it's time to rehabilitate the image of Neanderthals -- I think that it is long past time to rethink everything written after about 1810. I don't know what happened, but the "educated" population of the West rapidly became progressively dumber: There is no way to defend ideas like Phrenology or Eugenics, then or now. Period. These are self-evidently "quack" science, yet they remained as cornerstones until the 1940's, and we are still stuck with their hangover effects. S.T.E.M. are the only areas with even passing logic during that century-and-a-half, and the biases created by trying to moralize indefensible beliefs has led to all kinds of utter stupidity, which is why all of my textbooks from as late as the early-90's describe Neanderthals as barely-capable cavemen......And if anyone doubts this, I invite you to ponder why it took a Graham Hancock to tell you about Gobekli Tepe, a decade after its minimum age was determined.
This is interesting. I'm curious about the archeological digs done in the area around the Black Sea, or under it. I know Bob Ballard, of Titanic fame. did some explorations but never heard what he found.
Wow. I learned so much more about you in the past few video uploads. Particularly this one. I hope that your life gets better(I'm still playing catch-up obviously from watching this vid Sept 2022) & that you are in a happier place now. I get it, to some degree. I've felt safer in my cave, than venturing out to explore the world, so I'm super stoked that I get the impression that you have grown spiritually & emotionally braver, in facing & exploring the world. I wish I could do that too, some day. You are an inspiration ! Bless you *hugs*
@@HistoryWithKayleigh - super! :) I think it is really fascinating subject! It is also strange to think there are times when there was maybe 4 or 5, or even more different kinds of humans/human ancestors existing all at same time, so maybe modern humans tell scary stories around fire about the smart two legged wolves with knives, or "claws of stone" to frighten children ... or maybe, interactions could be basis for some old myths about trickster animal spirit gods? That is just speculation without any support because I like to imagine things like that. I think it is a little bit sad that all we have now is just modern humans ... but, that is also not entirely true, because archaeology still lets all these other people "talk" to us ... if we know how to listen. :) It is also probably better that they have gone away, because we don't have best history of way of treating some people, and there would be time when Neanderthal, or any other gets put in zoo like the times that some primitive indigenous people have got put in zoos for "civilized" racist European society to gawk at.
@@konstantinavalentina3850 very interesting comment, I think the same thing. I will also go as far and say maybe they cross bred and made other variations like bigfoot or something. There is something primordial, a fear so deep that it's instinct when you see them, no other feelings in the world is close
Thanks again for another wonderful video. No telling how sophisticated the Neanderthals were. 700,000 years is a lot of time to develop skills! I really enjoy your comments at the end. It feels like having coffee or a cocktail with you...very nice! Good luck in the upcoming year, I'm sure you will gain lots of supporters, you've got a winning combination.
If, as is very likely as I am of Scandinavian descent, I'm 4% Neandertal, my existence is proof that the Neandertalers are not extinct. They were subsumed back into the 'Modern' lineage we call Homo Sapiens sapiens. This cross-fertilization gave 'Modern' humans many genetic strengths (and weaknesses) enabling them to survive in very different landscapes than Africa provided. I also suspect that the living-skills needed to thrive in periglacial landscapes that modern humans used were invented by the Neandertalers, giving the newcomers a short-cut to world-wide radiation, adaption and thus survival success. Acheulian core tool manufacture was a necessary precursor to the more complex core and blade technology of the Upper Paleolithic. The transmission and improvement of this stone-working among Neandertalers suggests a strong need for complex communication skills. I also suspect that the Neandertalers invented fitted clothing to survive the periglacial environments they inhabited. So my Northern hardiness I attribute to my Neandertal ancestors. That survival is a testament to intelligence, adaptability, strong social bonds (ie Shanidar cave burials) and a tool kit well-adapted and evolving to meet varying social needs and climatic conditions. Once again, a cogent analysis, K. Your fresh thinking based on evidence and careful speculation makes your iconoclastic work valuable in the often racist stew we call Anthropology.
The vast majority of modern human DNA (96%) seems to be attributed to 'modern' humans...but, if cross-breeding is attested and obviously viable, how Much of the 96% is simply a common 'Modern' and Neandertaler inheritance? For all I know, I could be +50% Neandertaler, with much of my DNA identical to 'Modern' humans. To me, this is the elephant in the room of human DNA research well worth investigating.
I never thought about them being dumb just different. We have many generations of things worked out for us ahead of time. example very few people would know how to mine, melt, form steel and make a car. We don't think about it, just take it for granted.
I could watch and listen to Kayleigh talk about ancient history for hours, beautiful and charismatic with a passion for the subject that really shines through. Thank you for the excellent content. Also I'm a sucker for big naturals.
I've always thought, even as a kid before any of the DNA work was done that they joined Homo Sapien tribes or groups. It made sense to my young brain that they started to disappear as modern humans expanded their range into neanderthal range. I'm 36 now and a bit of an amateur anthropologist. I am of the opinion that there were commonly mate exchanges and if I remember correctly male modern human to female neanderthal matings that resulted in pregnancy were much more likely to survive than male neanderthal to female modern human. That in my opinion is most likely what lead to the neanderthal downfall and why the very last ones we know about were at Gibraltar, the furthest reaches of Europe. The neanderthal groups were probably disappearing because they couldn't conceive regularly with modern human females. They were already, relatively speaking, small in number. Not having offspring, or weaker offspring with their numbers would have been a catastrophe. I don't believe it was extermination like many do. Usually when humans find a new group of people they trade, atleast at first. I don't think our ancestors would have been much different and were more than aware they probably shouldn't mate with siblings and cousins regularly. Good video, I do agree. I'm looking forward to your Denisovan video.
Hi Kayleigh ... it's been a pleasure watching & joining in with your channel this year ... incase you don't upload anything tomorrow, I'd like to wish you all the best for the New Year & all of 2022, hope you manage to make your dream move to England ... Steve, Lancashire, UK ☺
I, myself proudly carry a high percentage of Neanderthal genes and believe that they are integral to my successful life. It’s not for everyone but it’s worked for me.
Many modern humans carry Neanderthal DNA. They are my direct ancestors. A "modern human" is a mix of multiple archaic human populations. Obviously the Neanderthals are no longer a distinct independent group but their children live on in the modern era. I strongly suspect that the Neanderthals had a very low population size due to the ice age. They had to contend with limited resources and harsh conditions. Each Neanderthal group/clan/family was probably spread out over a vast geographic range. The population in Africa was probably a lot bigger and absorbed the isolated communities of Neanderthals as they spread out from Africa.
There were Neanderthal's in North Africa. Mediterranean was a lake when Neanderthals had a whole flint tool making village in Morocco. They were never numerous and the end of the Ice age hit them harder than the folks in the equatorial zone
@Grim FPV Out of Africa makes the most sense. It fits the fossil and genetic evidence. IMO the definition of a "modern human" needs to be updated. We are a mix of multiple different kinds of human.
@Grim FPV Because, Homo Sapiens evolved in Africa. Europe and Asia had populations of different species. Homo Neandertalensis, Homo Denisova, etc. Homo Sapiens spread out of Africa and mixed/replaced the archaic species in Europe and Asia.
@Grim FPV They had hominids, yes. But, not Homo Sapiens. The oldest example of the species Homo Sapiens is from Africa and date from 315,000 years ago. Homo Heidelbergensis was in Europe at that time and had not yet evolved in to Neanderthal.
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If you REALLY want to study Neanderthals, my schedule is open, send me an email!!
And, u r correct about Neanderthals getting a bad rap. I'm actually kind of hot, highly intelligent and have no brow ridge.
I have some more cool ideas for future videos. Lot's of odd, interesting historical finds out there, waiting to be exposed...
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As for your comment about being yourself. Always be yourself. But if you can’t, then be a fox. Always be a fox.
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They lasted over 300,000 years in a brutal climate hunting huge game. They had to be smart.
Stop Voice typing although I agree with your premise that a hello by the way although believe with your promise that Neanderthals have had to be smart and I believe that they were smart. Were they as smart as us who knows that doesn't seem to be but it doesn't necessarily that's just conjecture cuz there is no definitive on something like that. But the facts using the example how they lived in a very cold climate extremely brutal climate which is true and that they had to hunt large game. That proves nothing in Flores how many intelligence goes. You can take the wolf they hunting packs they communicate to each other during the hunt and they take down huge game themselves. Can I take $100 elephant and hoe but need to put in the neanderthal lol. So just trying to bring a points out that if you use something like that as I think we have intelligence it can be shot down. I'm not shooting this down because I don't believe they're intelligent I'm not giving you an example of their intelligence either. Just giving you astop trying to use your example to kind of give a proof for an example of their intelligence to someone that is non-believing in their intelligence this would not move them to our side at all. Because again they were I just named the wolf. You can name other animals that do the same. Insects that do the same and all the points that you made as a proof of intelligence. Anyway please stay safe it's crazy out there and the I gave you this point for my side of you agree with you but I only meant it in the most respectful way Cecilia us, about the blind bedroom guitar oh
@@gordonpeacman2126 actually they were much smarter than ancient humans. Only when interbreeding happened did both become more advanced
@@justinsane7128 I have to agree with that!
Actually they were just dumb primate apes who were not smart otherwise they would still exist just like the rest of the apes that lived long ago and still exist.
@@Peculiar223 would you say the same about all the Native American tribes that died off?
There never were many Neanderthals, so I think it is more likely they were absorbed into the population than died off. This has happened with a number of ethnic groups in our own time.
happening to Europeans
Aloha Chris, If I might ditto or otherwise support your point here! The "absorbed" theory is a well written (and documented - at least from what I have read over the years), but often ignored, theory. It does make sense though and is near impossible to prove. But I do wish I was there! Aloha
@@lenabreijer1311 you are a loser
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Sounds like you don't like the modern world then. Did Europeans (and by extension the West) do things that we should be ashamed off. Yes our ancestors did. Hopefully we've learned. But don't think that everyone else on the planet has lived in peace and harmony throughout history.
@@lenabreijer1311 take your genocidal mindset somewhere else
Kayleigh, I love your attitude and humor, your humility, and intelligence. I hit 30 last year as well, and I'm itching to go to school for anthropology finally. You have a gift of breaking down things to the layman's understanding. Some channels like North02, are similar in content,he has an almost ASMR quality. Your gift is being real, relatable. Talking to to average Joe and spreading knowledge in ways they can understand. Please never stop doing what you're doing, you're an inspiration 🙂
What fascinates me is how they worked out how to weave, make nets for fishing and preserve food. They must have been constantly looking forward. This shows how intelligent they must have been. They seem to have constantly been pushing forward.
Always interested in the Neanderthals! I think they were much more sophisticated than they’ve been given credit for. Thanks for another wonderful video!
Thank you Barry!
I also think that Neanderthals have been vastly underrated. They were every bit as human as anyone alive today.
We know that some Neanderthal groups buried their dead. They could make fire as needed. They could innovate as their synthesis of pitch adhesive shows. They didn't leave the sick and elderly members of their clans out to die but instead cared for these individuals. Skeletons have been found that showed that in life the person would have died much sooner if not for the care they received from their fellow Neanderthals. And we now know that Neanderthals were very likely the first cave artists in Europe. In addition, evidence from islands in the Mediterranean says that they could sail ( or at the very least raft). That is huge since seamanship is more complex than many realize. All that speaks to their humanity and is the reason I refer to them as homo sapiens neanderthalensis and not just homo sapiens. neanderthalensis.
Ooga. Fank you for vote of confidence. Me go now. Hunting done, now me must drag wife home by da hair and put many sons in her. Rawr!
-A concerned Neanderthal.
I suspect that Neanderthals were smarter than homo sapiens. I suspect also that many of the great "discoveries" of sapiens were in fact stolen from them. Modern humans are the most dangerous animals in the world, and they were then too. In a combination of breeding them out(both by breeding "with" neanderthals, whether this be forced or voluntary matings, plus breeding fast and crowding them out of favoured areas, and active pursuit of neanderthals to chase them out, humans succeeded in killing off their cousins.
But they didn't look like modern europeans as most artists a trying to represent them now. That skull Is closer to Aboriginal Australian In shape. They would have looked like a light skinned version of them.
Inter species communication sounds amazing! Your lecture raises great questions.
I love your defense of the Neanderthals. It's passionate yet informed. I do remember reading accounts of them being "dumb brutes", and then evidence started coming out about the cranial capacity of their brain case and the technologies they used. I've watched several of your "Hominid" videos, and they've all been very informative.
This channel has been, by far, the best discovery I have made all year.
Thank you for all your time and effort with your videos and the research that goes into each one.
I hope that 2022 is an even better year for you and I can't wait to see the videos you create and the adventures you get up to.
I'm wishing you a very happy New Year, Kayleigh.
Thank you so much! Happy new year!
Indeed, Kayleigh, thank you.
Glad we can be here to support you. You're a brilliant researcher and we thoroughly enjoy your content. Keep up the good work!
Thank you!!
I'm not sure how you got to be on my feed, but I enjoyed the video very much. You earned yourself another subscriber. 😀👍 Happy new year🥳
When my family all did genetic testing a few years back I was dismayed to find out I had more neanderthal DNA than anyone else in my family. I feel a lot better now. Thanks for shedding light on this and using your open mind and energy to make an interesting video.
Neanderthals were EXTREMELY intelligent MORE SO than ANYONE today !!! The PROOF is in there large EYEBROWS. The bones under the eyebrows NEVER stop growing. This means that they reached EXTREMELY long life spans into SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS. This is told in the Bible. Neanderthals were nothing more that homo-sapiens that reached EXTREME ages. How intelligent do you think YOU would be if you remained healthy and lived for 2 or 3 HUNDRED YEARS !!! Or, quite possibly 7 to 9 HUNDRED YEARS !!!
They have grossly underestimated their life span based on the same TYPE of information that made us think they were stupid, Ape-ish MORONS. HUMANS survived long enough to GET US HERE where we THINK we're SOOO intelligent that NO ONE CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT A 7-11 or a GROCERY STORE. With food shortages coming.... LETS SEE HOW WE DO !!!
@Arkady ikr
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we all have 4% neanderthal DNA
@Arkady The homo sapiens good, Neanderthal dumb view still held by too many of our species.
I'm happy to have added in a very small part to your channel. I have used some of your content to spark thought provoking conversations with friends and family... I hope the road ahead of you continues to reward you as it does me and mine... Happy 2022
Kayleigh, I found your comments toward the end of the video really reached out to me. So I subscribed. Keep up the good work, never loose that desire to learn new things and share that knowledge with others. Thank You!
Thank you Scott, happy to have you here.
Kayleigh .. Wishing you and your family a "Very Happy New Year" and really looking forward to all the future upcoming videos you have to offer .. I'm a long time subscriber and always share your videos with many friends,family and social medias. "Thank you kindly for all you do"
You and your channel have grown so much over the last couple years, keep up the amazing work. I'm confident everything will come together for you soon, who could resist! Happy new year 🎉
Thanks, in March it will be my 2 year anniversary 🤗
_YOU_ made 2021 "one of the best years of [your] life"! Through creativity and hard work. Thanks for all the superb content, and I look forward to seeing more in 2022. Happy new year!
Thank you Kayleigh. You do manage to always keep it interesting. Neanderthals have been given a bad rap. You have made a good case for reevaluating the stereotypes held for more than a century and a half. Not bad at all!
Stick with it, keep breaking new ground. We support you and hope 2022 is great for you.
Thank you! Happy new year!
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Happy New Year to you, Dear Kayleigh!
Your deep dives are so wonderful watch and are my favorite episodes of your channel! Well done!
I appreciate how thoroughly you research your videos, and that you stick to facts without engaging in wild speculations. It's gratifying too see how well-viewed your channel is!
This is what i have been claiming for decades. Thank you for illuminating this to the public. Important work
Oh, i remember another thing! I think there is evidence that Neanderthal made fish hooks, and do fishing! Fish hooks are almost like art, and if Neanderthal make fish hooks, then this is very much extra confirmation that Neanderthal make strong cordage for fishing line, and maybe, maybe, maybe, even Neanderthal make boats? There is no evidence that Neanderthal make boats, but, fish hooks at Neanderthal site make for interesting guesses and speculation, and also the kinds of fish remains found can tell what kind of fishing Neanderthal can do. :)
I might be getting early modern humans and Neanderthal mixed up with some articles with this, but, it is something to look into.
It has been a pleasure discovering your channel and learning from you. Keep it up.
Wow great vid,Kayleigh. The procedure for making birch bark glue is a rather lengthy and somewhat complex procedure. I would love to know how long it took to come up with the process. Great watch, I loved it. I am so glad TH-cam recommended your channel. Oh, that bone tool for hides looks like the same style of hide scraper that my relatives still use to work hides.
Great stuff Kayleigh. Please keep exploring and pushing back the boundaries of "what we know" while making it fun and interesting.
Kayleigh, yes please more videos like these. I am very interested in prehistoric people and civilization. Happy New Year!🎊
Happy to hear! Thankfully my channel has over 100 videos now🤗
@@HistoryWithKayleigh 100, Congratulations that's awesome. I know there will be hundreds more in the future.
your confession was quite moving.
that said, the idea of a 3 way comparison between neanderthals, denisovans and moderns -- esp. re. intelligence, skills, habits and health -- is intriguing. I hope it engages your interest and attention.
Thanks for the interesting videos and thank you for sharing your heart felt message. Happy New Year 🙂
Thank you! Happy new year!
Thanks for making this topic interesting and interestingly personal ☺️
Hope you stay positively healthy 😄
Thank you, i shall!
Well dang, that was personal connection at the end. As a channel watcher, thanks for crossing that content creator curtain and just waiving , "hi," at us.
Back to the topic presented though, I share the same opinion that Neanderthals most likely taught modern humans as we expanded out into their domains. 2) I watched either a Discovery ep or Timeline ep where they produced a model of the Neanth. voice box and used a vocalist to attempt to emulate possible sounds Neanderthals made - I felt a bit of bias was presented, or a presentation that left Neanths as screechers.... not exactly buying that cup of coffee, especially when there are active languages on this planet that use clicks, pops, whistles, teeth-tongue chirps, and guttural throat clearing at different octaves. I by no means can present Neanderthal speech for scientific study, but I can keep an open mind.
Open minds are always needed for sure! Happy new year 😉
Thank you; really enjoyed your video and subject matter ... very interesting .. and Happy New Year 2022
I love when you do the Stone age people videos keep up the great work I look forward to every video you put out.Oh and happy new year♥️
Thanks you! Happy new year
Thank you Kayleigh. I have more Neanderthal DNA Than 98% of the general population, according to a commercial testing site. I’ve always suspected there was more to know about the relationships between our ancestors and their contributions to each other. And thank you for being the translator for and between us and the sometimes incomprehensible science. Love you. Best.
I've heard it said that moving and divorcing are some of the most stressing things a person can go through. It can break people to the point that they just give up and care about nothing, themselves included. I'm grateful to see the efforts you put in to this channel. There's nothing I don't like about it and it puts a smile on my face every time I watch... I'd bet money the Neanderthal could communicate very effectively. I doubt it's possible to achieve the things they accomplished not being able to. If I had to guess, their demise was probably brought on by disease. like what happen to the Aztec after the Spanish showed up.
Disease could have spread with trading and interbreeding.
Thank you for the very interesting content, I have always been interested in prehistoric man, and the theory of evolution, I could also watch and listen to you all day long
You did an amazing job. I always think "it's ancient genius theory,. not aliens". We are more capable than we will ever know. Have the best New Year ever.....
Thanks, happy new year
Maybe the Intelligence in humans were triggered by Meeting with other Human subspecies. Er know developement happened mainly in the meeting between differentiere cultures through tribes.maybe that is also the secret behind the developement of our brains and bodies
There is a good chance it was aliens.
I love the lingering creepy goodbye here, mildly comic and disturbing, nice job Kayleigh, especially for a anthropology video on TH-cam ✌️❤️🇬🇧
Thank you! Happy to hear you enjoy my work!
It seems to me that 4% neanderthal dna would require a LOT of interbreeding over years. They communicated with one another, intermarried, and learned from each other, seems to me. Just like they recently discovered 23,000 year old footprints in NM recently, shattering the stupid myth of 12,000 years for human occupation of new world, I celebrate your challenging (especially biased)dominant paradigms. Keep up the good work Kayleigh. You provide an excellent resource and trust me, you're valued and I hope you get to do what you dream in 2022. Happy new year to you too!
Thank you! Happy new year!
11:00 I'm working on a story set around 43,000 years ago about a group of Neanderthals and a group of Homo sapiens co-existing in Paleolithic Europe and I'm creating two conlangs for each groups.
But since we know very little about what sounds Neanderthals could actually make, it is quite hard to come up with a satisfying version of the conlang for me. Do you have information on that topic?
Another great video, definitely learnt a few things and corrected some misconceptions in my mind.
Relatively new to the channel, but it's been a pleasure learning with you. Thank you Kayleigh and happy new year. 🙂
Thank you Andrew! Happy new year!
Clearing land for grass to Attract game animals is still a form of farming. I am proud of my neanderthal roots, without them we would not be who we are today.
If they were intentionally clearing land to attract prey animals to better grazing. Then yes that's a form of agriculture and land management.
@@mpetersen6farming involves cultivating land, planting seeds, maintaining the growing plant, and harvesting the plant. How is that the equivalent of clearing land to attract large game animals?
Native Americans did this as well. It provided more grass for feed and made it easier to hunt.
There’s so much we still don’t know and probably will never know about these ancient species. However, it is important to take what we DO know and piece it together like you have in this video. Thanks again for the research and hypothesis you bring to the table.
Species might not be the most correct word to use in relation to Neanderthals, as we interbred with them which means they too were human, you cannot cross breed with a different species
I appreciate and enjoy your videos. I especially like the fact that you don't put in a lot of irrelevant and distracting movie clips and unrelated images. Just listening to you year made me feel for you. Best wishes in the next and future years.
Thank you, it's been tough but I've been able to make the most of it
I read somewhere, you may want to verify, they may have created boats and sails long before humans. I ran across this about a decade or two ago and was surprised many people still hold on to the old concept of Neanderthals. Thank you for doing this.
Neanderthals were EXTREMELY intelligent MORE SO than ANYONE today !!! The PROOF is in there large EYEBROWS. The bones under the eyebrows NEVER stop growing. This means that they reached EXTREMELY long life spans into SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS. This is told in the Bible. Neanderthals were nothing more that homo-sapiens that reached EXTREME ages. How intelligent do you think YOU would be if you remained healthy and lived for 2 or 3 HUNDRED YEARS !!! Or, quite possibly 7 to 9 HUNDRED YEARS !!!
They have grossly underestimated their life span based on the same TYPE of information that made us think they were stupid, Ape-ish MORONS. HUMANS survived long enough to GET US HERE where we THINK we're SOOO intelligent that NO ONE CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT A 7-11 or a GROCERY STORE. With food shortages coming.... LETS SEE HOW WE DO !!!
At the very least they coud raft since we have found Neanderthal tools on Crete, which has been an island for at east 5 million years.
@@harrietharlow9929land bridge during an ice age maybe?
@@XaviRonaldo0 At least one island, Crete has been an island for at least 5 million years. and Cyprus has been isolated for a similar length of time. Neanderthal tools have been found on both islands. Since neither island has been connected to land since before humans evolved, during Neanderthal times, the only way to get there was by sailing or rafting.
@@harrietharlow9929 Most of the Greek Islands were part of the land bridge between mainland Greece and Turkey, but the water around Crete is deep. Atlas Pro has a video on TH-cam on Ice Age Sea levels.
Kayleigh makes a solid case for Neanderthals intelligence and if you’ve ever spent much time in the wilderness it doesn’t take long to learn important skills. The Neanderthals must have learned so much over time from nature, lightning, lava, water, rocks, bugs, vines, plants, animals (dead and alive) and yes even art. Awesome channel!
Neanderthals were EXTREMELY intelligent MORE SO than ANYONE today !!! The PROOF is in there large EYEBROWS. The bones under the eyebrows NEVER stop growing. This means that they reached EXTREMELY long life spans into SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS. This is told in the Bible. Neanderthals were nothing more that homo-sapiens that reached EXTREME ages. How intelligent do you think YOU would be if you remained healthy and lived for 2 or 3 HUNDRED YEARS !!! Or, quite possibly 7 to 9 HUNDRED YEARS !!!
They have grossly underestimated their life span based on the same TYPE of information that made us think they were stupid, Ape-ish MORONS. HUMANS survived long enough to GET US HERE where we THINK we're SOOO intelligent that NO ONE CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT A 7-11 or a GROCERY STORE. With food shortages coming.... LETS SEE HOW WE DO !!!
Thankyou miss. Another excellent lesson. I tend to see their development as basically the same as ours. Everything that has been developed was really only to simplify or improve something already being done. So why wouldn't they realise they could collect some seed in one place and plant it at a more convenient place for instance. If they are sitting around a fire at night they would talk to each other. With such a long time frame of Neanderthal existence, I think it's a bit blinkered to consider them as not developed more.
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Hoi Kayleigh, een heel goed 2022 gewenst en blijf vooral dit soort videos maken. Educatie is en blijft belangrijk en je doet daar een bijdrage aan. Maak 2022 beter dan 2021
Dank je wel Hermen!
Right on, @History with Kayleigh! Please keep informing the general public on history, evolution and topics you find interesting that you would like to share. 😃 I hope you have an awesome New Year! I'll be here all 2022( well unless I die cause I'm twice your age, lol) to continue my support and looking forward to your videos. 😊
Thank you and i will haha 🤗 happy new year!!
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I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! I missed a few videos during Christmas and I'm catching up now. This is an awesome video to start my catch up with Kayleigh :)
Thanks John! Hope yours was good too!
They had a larger skull/brain cavity, must count for a lot. Birch bark/glue, they knew how to control fire, bet they were good cooks too. Most things were discovered by accident and they remembered exactly how they did it. Yes, they didn't die out, they would simply have "mixed" with the upcoming homo sapiens.
Yep, and evidence is consistent with us bonking bilaterally and sharing DNA. Therefore must have been biopsychosocially similar, evolutionarily constructive, compatible and attractive to each other.
I think there is a natural denial on the part of us today, because we value intelligence so much, to completely dismiss the possibility that a species more intelligent than us could have gone extinct.
@@MarkVrem Yes, in those times they lived on their wits and had to make every single last thing they required (there were no shops!!). I love working at my workbench, there is a very high satisfaction factor and so it must have been for those people, they were first and foremost craftsmen. Doubtless today there are many who do not have that basic skill and with that a loss of common sense seems to go hand in hand.
Or, after they passed their higher intelligence on to the southern migrants through interbreeding, they were wiped out along with all the megafauna they depended on for survival. Unfortunately, this discussion becomes very political and is discouraged.
You accuse me of not having played much outdoors, which is a real funny joke to me. I grew up as a tomboy, always making treehouses
i legit *love* your naration style, it's so easy to pay attention (and it usually is not, for me) to all these subjects! 🙌
Thanks
Well done Kayleigh and I look forward to more of your interesting episodes in 2022. Happy new year! david🇨🇦
Thank you David! Happy new year!
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Wow. I am so glad I watched your video all the way to the end. You shared so much vulnerability. I wasn’t expecting that but I feel closer somehow. Thank you for that and this topic. Also I wanted to say to you I was stationed at the ancient city of Ur for a year back in 2010. It’s amazing. I learned so much about it, the mythology about Sir Leonard Woolley and even Agatha Christie. You touched on much of it. Great work.
May I ask, did you ever see evidence of the Neanderthal gestation period? When I was around 12 (1980) I recall my friends and I talking about it and gleaning, on our own, that it helped lead to their demise. If it’s longer than ours, it’s a disadvantage right?
Last thing, I’m old, take it from me kid: you are beautiful, you are talented and charismatic to the nines. Be comfortable with needing only you and happiness will follow. Thank you so much… I love your work
Thank you!
About the farming Neanderthals I have an intriguing explanation :
they were not clearing forests for farming but for hunting reasons:
Step 1: clear or burn a very large forest chunk ( or just use an existing meadow )
Step 2: build a very long fence around it, maybe just with brambles ( bushes with thorns )
Step 3: Use it like a big trap for wild animals or just put herbivore animals inside and easily hunt them when necessary.
Step 4+: If you also build inner brambels walls in a checkered pattern or with funnel features ( like some cave art depiction suggests ) you can move herds from a grass depleted enclosure to the next one and hunt them even more easily...
Greeatings form Italy
Happy new year Kayleigh, keep on doing what you are doing... you are great!
Andrea
I talked to a (Dutch) Experimental Archeologist some years ago and he told me that we have not reproduced the exact way how birch bark pitch was produced by the primitive people. Not sure if there is any progress on that subject since then but...
People often forget that these people (Neanderthals or modern humans) were absolute masters of their environment. They knew how to do stuff that we have forgotten a long time ago. They survived for thousands of years to prove that.
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I appreciate You Your channel Enjoy your subjects Your application in keeping it simple while raising our awareness on what was that contribute in forging our world 🌎
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Not only were they as smart as us they were better in tune with their environment & nature around them. Thank you for sharing this information
Thanks!
All succesful hunters and gatherers have a very keen sense of observation. It's not just pattern recognitions, but recognizing what various factors impact the forecasted potential outcomes. Once that mental process is engaged, then innovations are only restricted by time, chance, and the local natural resources.
I hope this becomes a separate series for you, a lot to unpack with Neanderthals.. another cool video
Thank you!
Thanks for your heartfelt honesty at the end of the video. You and your efforts are greatly appreciated!
I always thought that Neanderthals had much more going for them than what is granted them. I live in Canada and can only imagine how they must have survived the various Ice ages. No one with out some intelligence and skill set would have been able to have such a long existence. The Norse community on Greenland died out because they failed to learn from the Inuit. The same with various early Europeans who ended up dead, with resources abounding if they knew how to harvest them. Early Humans travelling into Europe with the receding ice would have much to learn from the Neanderthals. Peace and Love and best wishes Kayleigh.
Norse left 🇬🇱 because nothing there ! Also didn't like taste of seal meat.
hey I think you are fantastic and I can tell u have passion for knowledge and teach others please keep it up ...
Thank you Craig!
Interesting video, and smart to document your sources. Congrats for all your positive accomplishments in 2021, and for making History videos I actually enjoy watching. Wishing you all the best in 2022. Thanks 👍🎉😎
Thank you! Happy new year
The thing pretty much everyone fails to realize is innovating is hard, and that is now with all the materials, knowledge, and people available. Imagine what it would be like with a measely fraction of everything we have, it would take a long time and it did.
One of the effects of clearing forests (with fire, judging by the charcoal remains) might well have been the growth of bushy berry-bearing plants like raspberries and blackberries. They need more light than forests afford. Pollen analysis would presumably reveal that.
In her last video on Neanderthals, she linked to the study which suggested clearing of land, and it was based on a lack of pollens in the area. It wasn't based on evidence of burning, but just that there were no pollens.
@@KittyBoom360 I wonder if that doesn't have to do with neanderthal, but rather climate/natural disasters.
@@rainyday6430 I went ahead and read up on the specifics. The area was just one valley basin and was compared to nearby mountains and valleys which did have pollen remains over the same time period. So it doesn't look like any sort of natural disaster.
Also, my first post was kinda wrong in that they only looked at tree pollens.
Pollens are often only found in either dry areas where they would not rot/be decomposed, or lake beds etc, with minimal oxygen and basically no decomposition. In all other areas pollens, wood etc usually just rots away. There is a reason you don't see 10,000 year old dead trees still standing in the forest, besides fires.
@@LostCylon The papers did actually mention a lakebed in their location as lacking pollens. So it sounds like they got that covered. I actually thought calling the sight a lakebed was a possible weakness in their argument so didn't mention that part. But read the actual papers yourself and report back again to let us know what we still might be missing. You seem well educated and unbiased so your further feedback would be most welcomed.
Another excellent video, Thank you. Hope your week got better.
Love learning about this! Your channel is a gem! 🤩
Thank you!
Thank you for this great video, I love your work, it adds new perspective to how people from the past should be viewed.
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Just found this channel tonight, and I’m loving the content! As someone who’s 2% Neanderthal myself, I enjoy learning about my ancient ancestors. I do think they were far more intelligent than people gave them credit for, and I think the more we dig, the more proof of that we’ll find. And I do subscribe to the theory that they were simply bred out of existence by early Homo sapiens, especially since I’ve heard the theory that Neanderthals possibly had fewer children and a smaller population in general.
Thank you, happy to have you here 🙂
They lived too long,to have died put.People from Scandinavia,have displayed genetic evidence,markers,of Neanderthal origins.
Great video .. Love the perspective. And a whole hearted good luck to your success. Yes travel travel travel .. Surfing allowed me to go to the most amazing places. And I am so grateful now for all the growth my journeys to find waves has brought me. Aloha & mahalo
Being an avid artifact hunter,I can't get enough! So thought provoking! Keep up the great work 💯
Thank you!!
What's the coolest thing you have found?
@@missourimongoose8858 other than my dog some pretty sweet Granite, Hematite and Burlington pieces!
Thank YOU for doing this for us!
Great stuff!
Happy New Year 🎉
Thank you!!
hmmmm was unsubscribed :( I know I didn't do it!! Damn TH-cam!!... love your videos and your presentation. Cheers and happy 2022.
Thanks! Happy new year
Hang in there, Kayleigh 🤗 I knew that you'd had things happen this year, but not that it was that trying a year. You enjoy making these videos, and I like watching them :) And you have a cat :) Cats are good when things go awry. My five helped me through tough times. Have a great NYE and see you in the New Year. I hope that it's a good year for all of us :)
Thanks! Happy new year
"Exactly", I reply to your fire discussion, "the friction method is a good one."
Plus it leaves about nothing to be found even a few years later, much less decades, and centuries afterward.
I like to postulate that the best societies of the past are the ones 'we' can not detect because they left no trace.
They used what was needed and made only a little mess while they were about it.
Perhaps they smiled as they looked at the sky and the land and the creatures.
And then died, and were churned back into the soil from which they and we came.
And it kinda did not matter much if future generations knew about them or not.
They were content.
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I totally agree. Just because we don't have lots of detritus from their lives doesn't mean they weren't intelligent. It takes a tremendous amount of knowledge and skill to live in sync with nature, as well as insight to appreciate it. Must say, I like your description better. ✌️😎
I doubt they thought about it that way. Large amounts of cultural remains really require a settled life story. If you are traveling between different ranges over the course of the year and are carrying everything you need on your back or in our hands you are pretty much only going to carry what you really need. Also all your technology is based on stone, wood and bone.
Another excellent and informative video. I very much enjoy learning about our human origins. I am very excited what New discoveries await with more data from DNA 🧬 and possibly better extraction/decoding technology allowing scientists to get information from bones and other sources. Hopefully some more complete fossils of Denisovans or find new hominid species related to modern humans
Thanks very much Kayleigh. I follow your videos/posts and they are so informative. I've loved history and dug up my fathers garden when I was 7, dug/assisted at my first Roman Villa aged 12, joined Salisbury Museum on the strength of their "digging crew" aged 21 and at the age of 75 still find prehistory and archaeology simply fascinating and absorbing. Over the years I've met a good few archaeologists such as Prof. Atkinson, Piggott and Hawkes. I live 6 miles from Stonehenge and recall seeing Prof. Piggott and his dig there in '52. Keep the videos coming, thank you so much. PS. I could send you my leaflet on Avebury henge (entitled, ten thousand years of history), its available in pdf form should you like a copy.
My email address is linked on my about page here on TH-cam, feel free to send me the pdf 🤗
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I have emailed the file to you Kayleigh, hope you find it interesting.
Great video! So glad to see that Neanderthals are getting the credit that they deserve. They were truly remarkable people.
I love the thought that Neanderthals taught humans how to make bone tools and possibly to make cave paintings. We homo sapiens sapiens thinks entirely too highly of our species.
I am absolutely proud to be a Neanderthal-human hybrid because the Neanderthals were an intelligent, empathetic, sensitive people.
Just subscribed as well.
First, to echo several people below -- Thank you. This is one of the better subscriptions I've made in 2021...and 2020, to be honest. Well done.
Second, I don't think that it's time to rehabilitate the image of Neanderthals -- I think that it is long past time to rethink everything written after about 1810. I don't know what happened, but the "educated" population of the West rapidly became progressively dumber: There is no way to defend ideas like Phrenology or Eugenics, then or now. Period. These are self-evidently "quack" science, yet they remained as cornerstones until the 1940's, and we are still stuck with their hangover effects. S.T.E.M. are the only areas with even passing logic during that century-and-a-half, and the biases created by trying to moralize indefensible beliefs has led to all kinds of utter stupidity, which is why all of my textbooks from as late as the early-90's describe Neanderthals as barely-capable cavemen......And if anyone doubts this, I invite you to ponder why it took a Graham Hancock to tell you about Gobekli Tepe, a decade after its minimum age was determined.
Nice vocals.
I now have a big smile on my face. ;)
Thank you for sharing that little ditty. ;)
This is interesting. I'm curious about the archeological digs done in the area around the Black Sea, or under it. I know Bob Ballard, of Titanic fame. did some explorations but never heard what he found.
Thanks!
You seem to be at a turning point in your life. Keep faith in what you are doing and persevere. You got this! Love your vids by the way!
Thank you
Agreed!
Wow. I learned so much more about you in the past few video uploads. Particularly this one. I hope that your life gets better(I'm still playing catch-up obviously from watching this vid Sept 2022) & that you are in a happier place now. I get it, to some degree. I've felt safer in my cave, than venturing out to explore the world, so I'm super stoked that I get the impression that you have grown spiritually & emotionally braver, in facing & exploring the world. I wish I could do that too, some day. You are an inspiration ! Bless you *hugs*
Thank you! This is wonderful addition!
I'm definitely going to create similar videos on the other hominids, i wanna eventually have covered them all 🤗
@@HistoryWithKayleigh - super! :) I think it is really fascinating subject! It is also strange to think there are times when there was maybe 4 or 5, or even more different kinds of humans/human ancestors existing all at same time, so maybe modern humans tell scary stories around fire about the smart two legged wolves with knives, or "claws of stone" to frighten children ... or maybe, interactions could be basis for some old myths about trickster animal spirit gods? That is just speculation without any support because I like to imagine things like that.
I think it is a little bit sad that all we have now is just modern humans ... but, that is also not entirely true, because archaeology still lets all these other people "talk" to us ... if we know how to listen. :)
It is also probably better that they have gone away, because we don't have best history of way of treating some people, and there would be time when Neanderthal, or any other gets put in zoo like the times that some primitive indigenous people have got put in zoos for "civilized" racist European society to gawk at.
@@konstantinavalentina3850 very interesting comment, I think the same thing. I will also go as far and say maybe they cross bred and made other variations like bigfoot or something. There is something primordial, a fear so deep that it's instinct when you see them, no other feelings in the world is close
Thanks again for another wonderful video. No telling how sophisticated the Neanderthals were. 700,000 years is a lot of time to develop skills! I really enjoy your comments at the end. It feels like having coffee or a cocktail with you...very nice! Good luck in the upcoming year, I'm sure you will gain lots of supporters, you've got a winning combination.
Thank you!
If, as is very likely as I am of Scandinavian descent, I'm 4% Neandertal, my existence is proof that the Neandertalers are not extinct. They were subsumed back into the 'Modern' lineage we call Homo Sapiens sapiens. This cross-fertilization gave 'Modern' humans many genetic strengths (and weaknesses) enabling them to survive in very different landscapes than Africa provided.
I also suspect that the living-skills needed to thrive in periglacial landscapes that modern humans used were invented by the Neandertalers, giving the newcomers a short-cut to world-wide radiation, adaption and thus survival success. Acheulian core tool manufacture was a necessary precursor to the more complex core and blade technology of the Upper Paleolithic. The transmission and improvement of this stone-working among Neandertalers suggests a strong need for complex communication skills. I also suspect that the Neandertalers invented fitted clothing to survive the periglacial environments they inhabited. So my Northern hardiness I attribute to my Neandertal ancestors. That survival is a testament to intelligence, adaptability, strong social bonds (ie Shanidar cave burials) and a tool kit well-adapted and evolving to meet varying social needs and climatic conditions.
Once again, a cogent analysis, K. Your fresh thinking based on evidence and careful speculation makes your iconoclastic work valuable in the often racist stew we call Anthropology.
The vast majority of modern human DNA (96%) seems to be attributed to 'modern' humans...but, if cross-breeding is attested and obviously viable, how Much of the 96% is simply a common 'Modern' and Neandertaler inheritance? For all I know, I could be +50% Neandertaler, with much of my DNA identical to 'Modern' humans. To me, this is the elephant in the room of human DNA research well worth investigating.
Aw, just found this channel and she seems so smart, sweet, and genuine.
I never thought about them being dumb just different. We have many generations of things worked out for us ahead of time. example very few people would know how to mine, melt, form steel and make a car. We don't think about it, just take it for granted.
We all stand on the shoulder of giants :).
Not dumb, very smart, strong and capable of great physical violence.
I could watch and listen to Kayleigh talk about ancient history for hours, beautiful and charismatic with a passion for the subject that really shines through. Thank you for the excellent content. Also I'm a sucker for big naturals.
I've always thought, even as a kid before any of the DNA work was done that they joined Homo Sapien tribes or groups. It made sense to my young brain that they started to disappear as modern humans expanded their range into neanderthal range. I'm 36 now and a bit of an amateur anthropologist. I am of the opinion that there were commonly mate exchanges and if I remember correctly male modern human to female neanderthal matings that resulted in pregnancy were much more likely to survive than male neanderthal to female modern human. That in my opinion is most likely what lead to the neanderthal downfall and why the very last ones we know about were at Gibraltar, the furthest reaches of Europe. The neanderthal groups were probably disappearing because they couldn't conceive regularly with modern human females. They were already, relatively speaking, small in number. Not having offspring, or weaker offspring with their numbers would have been a catastrophe. I don't believe it was extermination like many do. Usually when humans find a new group of people they trade, atleast at first. I don't think our ancestors would have been much different and were more than aware they probably shouldn't mate with siblings and cousins regularly. Good video, I do agree. I'm looking forward to your Denisovan video.
Brilliant, loved it. Will be watching your older vids as I work.
Thank you!!
yes its true they where more intelligent then, than we are now !
Exactly 100%
lol their ancestors run the world
I'm sure your chanel will explode in popularity, you have that "something" about your work that will attract people interested in topics you present.
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Great lecture, there so much more to learn, thank you.
Thanks!
Hi Kayleigh ... it's been a pleasure watching & joining in with your channel this year ... incase you don't upload anything tomorrow, I'd like to wish you all the best for the New Year & all of 2022, hope you manage to make your dream move to England ... Steve, Lancashire, UK ☺
Happy new year Steve!
I, myself proudly carry a high percentage of Neanderthal genes and believe that they are integral to my successful life. It’s not for everyone but it’s worked for me.
Homer Simpson? I thought I recognized your train of thought!
You're awesome :)Love listening. Thanks for making these.
Thank you
@@HistoryWithKayleigh What got you into doing this?
Many modern humans carry Neanderthal DNA. They are my direct ancestors. A "modern human" is a mix of multiple archaic human populations. Obviously the Neanderthals are no longer a distinct independent group but their children live on in the modern era.
I strongly suspect that the Neanderthals had a very low population size due to the ice age. They had to contend with limited resources and harsh conditions. Each Neanderthal group/clan/family was probably spread out over a vast geographic range. The population in Africa was probably a lot bigger and absorbed the isolated communities of Neanderthals as they spread out from Africa.
There were Neanderthal's in North Africa. Mediterranean was a lake when Neanderthals had a whole flint tool making village in Morocco. They were never numerous and the end of the Ice age hit them harder than the folks in the equatorial zone
Out of Africa is out of date, anyway
@Grim FPV Out of Africa makes the most sense. It fits the fossil and genetic evidence. IMO the definition of a "modern human" needs to be updated. We are a mix of multiple different kinds of human.
@Grim FPV Because, Homo Sapiens evolved in Africa. Europe and Asia had populations of different species. Homo Neandertalensis, Homo Denisova, etc. Homo Sapiens spread out of Africa and mixed/replaced the archaic species in Europe and Asia.
@Grim FPV They had hominids, yes. But, not Homo Sapiens. The oldest example of the species Homo Sapiens is from Africa and date from 315,000 years ago. Homo Heidelbergensis was in Europe at that time and had not yet evolved in to Neanderthal.