The Wooden Structure Created BEFORE Homo Sapiens Existed
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- For the longest time the early human species that preceded Homo Sapiens were seen as purely hunter gatherers continuously roaming from one source of food to the next. However, new evidence has arisen that shows that not only did pre-Homo Sapiens species such as Homo Heidelbergensis likely live in one place for extended periods, but they also built wooden structures to make their lives easier. In Zambia along the Kalambo River in the 1950’s and 1960’s wood objects that appeared to have been modified by human hands were found. Technology of the time was not able to conclusively determine the age of the constructions. In the 2000’s, based on these past findings, and anticipating on finding more artifacts an archaeological team returned to the site of the river. Eventually they came across potential evidence of human woodworking sticking out from the side of a cliff and began digging. Many objects were found, but the most important was a pair of logs that had been carved and positioned in such a way so that they would interlock with each other. Archaeologists strongly believe that this is foundational evidence of a far larger construction. It has been hypothesized that the two interlocking logs are the remains of the foundation of a walking platform or a house. More astoundingly was the age of the construction, which was dated to around 500,000 years ago, around 200,000 years before the appearance of Homo Sapiens. The 500,000 years old age makes the wooden structure the oldest ever found. This amazed scientists who did not think that early humans who came before Homo Sapiens were capable of building such things, which would have required sophisticated woodworking skills as well as a certain level of team work with others. This all implies that the early humans before Homo Sapiens likely had a language system of some sort. Building a structure like a walking platform or a house would also require the individuals to live in the same area for an extended period of time, which also upends theories that early human species including early Homo Sapiens were all continuously wandering around from one food source to the next. The 500,000 year old wood structure finding has inspired many scientists to look for more evidence of woodworking in the archeological record.
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It's amazing to imagine the sheer number of human (and near-human) lives, stories, and events have occurred during prehistory that we will simply never know about. How many incredible adventures, moments of bravery and heroism, how many tragic tales of hardship and strife, how many wars to change the path of history...
It staggers the mind to try and comprehend.
We're in the same spot if we really do go back to the stone age nearly die out but come back like today but 100k years later
Same thing everything today is lost at the point even plastics and styrofoam
Only thing maybe remaining is our nuclear activity and carbon 12 deposits
I often think about this too!
And it has all led to this point in history.
And their blood runs through your veins.
Evolution being packaged as this scientific, sciencey, cold, rational thing is so arrogant.
The word evolution just feels like it's such a reduction of what the word actually means. All the myth, heroism, connection, and beauty that our ancestors must have also experienced must've been stunning.
Oh, and animals like velociraptor looked more like birds than reptiles. They just looked like birds with teeth and tails. They must've been beautiful like pheasants and peacocks and other birds are stunning.
As a north European supremacist I can say people care too much about writing
The stories of the great empires without writing has been lost magnificent structures made of wood have been lost to time
Society just as grant that build from wood and has no writing will be lost
Imagine if future historians considered Alim Khan as the first leader of a nation or at least the greatest at the time because he was the first to have high resolution colour photo
Homo Habilis has been real quiet since this dropped
It makes sense. A lot of mammals build dens/burrows/nests of some kind. Even if you’re a Hunter gatherer group, if you moved into an area that was plentiful why wouldn’t you build semi-permanent or permanent structures there and stay? We know from research on great apes today that they all build nests/beds/platforms whatever you want to call it so it would make a lot of sense for early hominids to also be builders of some kind.
Honestly I think a lot of laymen are stuck on the 'stone' in stone age and have trouble visualizing something described as a near-human ancestor being capable of very basic constructions of wood. To them its all dumb grunting cavemen doing dumb caveman things.
@@Bhoddisatva zug zug
Correct. No big deal if hominids also did the same.
excuse me sir, that has earned you a bonk on the head, unga bunga@@Bhoddisatva
@@Bhoddisatva "a near-human ancestor being capable of very basic constructions of wood. To them its all dumb grunting cavemen doing dumb caveman things."
It can be both, humans still do dumb human things. I'm sure they knew how to harden a spear or throwing spear using fire or friction at the very least.
The fact that there were human beings that were born, lived and died so long ago, with their own stories and experiences, and now are lost to time send chills to my spine.
it humbles me. i know that one day, i too will decompose and be forgotten forever.
@@stjeep Makes you feel small, doesn't it?
@@macario1885 very small. people are so focused on individualism, and being something special or unique. truth is, we are some of the smallest bits of lifes system. no matter how special i think i am, theres always someone who can replace me and do it better than me
@@stjeepespecially if u think that way. Humans are only replacable in the systems we have. Because humans are not treated as humans, but as a simple cog in a machine, or substitute for a robot.
When you look at other cultures individuals where very important. Not because they told themselves they where unique or where treated as being unique just because. But because everyone had a role that was more special. You can teach someone to fill in paperwork within a few days. But try teaching someone to be a master stonemason. That takes a long time. That experience, knowledge is special.
When you look at more tribal societies you see that too. With each member of the group having a distinctive role. They aren't replacable.
The idea of you not being special is cultural, not fact. What you do with your life is what decides how much you matter. What do you do for your loved ones, your community, your city?
Besides, look at who is treated as if they are special. Most are truly not. We can do fine without The Royals or Jeff Bezos... Can't say the same of firefighters or builders for example.
@@rubenskiii the problem with that is that its not a cultural thing, its just life. we live within lifes system. if i saw 1,000 year old human skeletal remains on a washed-up island, i would ponder what life might've been like for them on that island 1,000 years ago, but i would have no clue about their importance, anyone who even remembers that person would be long gone. this simple fact makes them unimportant. you are now a pile of bones. you fulfill your duty living within lifes system, and eventually you give back for what you took. your body rots and feeds the earth, which feeds animals, which feed people. history repeats itself, and unless you do something drastic, which most people cannot do so readily and easily, youre just another person on earth. im sure some people were "important" to others within their culture, but important to life? humans aren't inherently beneficial. working with stone, while challenging, is not a person-dependent skill. anyone can learn it, and naturally, some people learn faster than others. you can be replaced by anyone, and when you are dead and forgotten, and everyone who remembered you before your death dies, leaving 0 memory of you, you fade into existence. you cease to exist all together. you return to nothing, and nobody. everyone is born a nobody and wants to be somebody. enrich your life, make yourself feel important and special. its not bad to do that. its good to be your own person and an individual, and boosts mental health. but some people should try to humble themselves and realise they are not inherently important to life. if i died right now, life would move on. if you died right now, life would move on. your job would hire someone else, and your house would be sold to someone else. even your phone number will get recycled and used for another person. what im saying is people take individualism too far. Hiroshima had somewhere around 100,000 casualties, and life moved on. the death of 100,000 people did not change life, and it did not disrupt lifes system
I wonder how many "wood ages" have come and gone in earth's history
The paleohylic and neohylic
The wood age never ended. We still make more of our world from anything else...that's why we name ages after the second most common material.
@@torydavis10 If we name ages after the second most used material then the wood age never began lmao
Exactly
As far as i know the names of the ages are mostly based on what is found/will be found. Stone age because of the stone tools. It's however very likely that a lot of things where made from other materials. But these didn't last, or barely. Sometimes we are treated to rare windows into those times, like with the Schöningen spears. @@torydavis10
Some apes such as chimps and orangutans build nests of branches each night so building structures of some sort is a natural activity for higher primates. Granted that making a Lincoln log type of joint is a leap beyond a branch nest, the task is still an activity one would expect.
Humans and teamwork can achieve anything. They built pyramids 4000 years ago. They built the modern industrial world in 200. Within 60 years of inventing flight they were inventing bombs to drop from planes that wipe out cities.
So do birds and insects though, so that’s not really a significant similarity.
@@sean_miller you’re not bright on this, these early humans created wooden structures that jointed together, they were builders and had understanding of mathematics, they were smarter than you 😂
@@kanesmith8271 No, you aren't.
@@kanesmith8271 Do you usually run away and take no accountability for your failures, or are you only that emotionally weak on the internet? 🤔
Who knew that carpentry might be one of the older human or even pre-human activities?
I believe the use of stonetools and shaping of wood are mutually developed. The one nescessitating the developement of the other.
It makes sense in retrospect. Wood is a very useful and obvious material for shaping to purpose. Plus they had access to various stone tools like hand axes. They used them on something.
God, he even raised his son to be a carpenter.
@@liwojenkinsgod was a rap!st
late homo erectus, heidelbergensis et al likely great at wood. there are just inherent problems with fossils made of wood…..
Just so cool that we have this TRULY ancient evidence of woodworking--proper woodworking, not just "I leaned these sticks against some other sticks and thus a house is made" (not that there's anything wrong with that). I'd give anything to see these early woodworkers at their craft, and it only compels me to wonder: how early did complex woodworking begin? It was some time before this, but how long??? Man, what an amazing discovery. Thanks for sharing.
I think complex woodworking started as soon as early humans began making stone tools. Homo Habilis is currently the earliest known early human to make stone tools whom existed between 3 to 2 million years ago
whoever predicted that these were built for some "building" or "structure" clearly needs to think outside of the box. If I were an early human, I would say that this wooden artifact is an ancient seesaw for young kids to play on, especially with the shaping of the top surface.
It should be noted that the Terra Amata site in southern France is around 400,000 years old and has evidence of a free-standing wood based structure. The evidence is regularly spaced post hole remains that appear to have been the frame for some type of free-standing shelter built along the same lines as others constructed around the world by many different cultures.
"At Terra Amata in southern France, traces of large huts have been found. The huts were formed by embedding saplings into the ground in an oval and then bringing their tops together at the centre. Stones placed in a ring around the hut braced the saplings. Some of these huts were found to contain hearths scooped in the ground and lined with burned stones and blackened bones."
Don't monkeys bend saplings or maybe it's orangutans I forget one of those bends saplings over. Not embedded but growing cos that's far smarter.
@@Padraigp Great apes break off branches and make 'nests' out of them. Orangutan do it high up, but both chimpanzees and gorillas also make somewhat similar nests lower down at times.
These look very different from anything like we have in the archeological remains, and they'd be nearly impossible to be preserved anyway as they're generally made in either the canopy (orangutan) or in vegetation where they rapidly decompose after use.
Most modern humans came from Europe besides Africans and a few of their offshoots
@@AgniFirePunch That's just completely wrong.
@@earthknight60 Africans and Europeans are genetically distinct
What's easier to work? Wood? Or Stone?
If you are finding worked stone artifacts for a given species / time, it's a given that they were also working wood and doing fiber crafts.
tbh i feel like they're of a similar tier when it comes to actual construction. stone is easier to work into tools than wood is, due to it's hardness, where wood is easier to fashion into structures due to it's fibrous strength (making it able to hold stuff up), and it's softness (making it extremely easy to shape). both take about the same effort to actually craft into something else from raw though, i would say.
One family can build a wooden, mud and thatch house. It takes a village to make a megalithic structure. As far as tools, it's easiest to carve a point into a stick. But the earliest stone "tools" are little more than appropriately sized pounding stones that didn't require any modification. Even flint/obsidian points... you can find them on the ground, and figure out some basic techniques with trial and error (especially percussion flaking), pretty easily.
Exactly. I would bet that humans maybe as far back as Homo Erectus used wooden spears and/or clubs.
Was looking for this comment.
Stone tools came before Erectus, Homo Erectus was making crafted hand tools. Homo Habalis likely started the stone age.
I'm so sorry to see that these comments are overrun with conspiracy theorists and religious extremism. This is good science communication, we are just in an age of fundamentalist ignorance. I sincerely hope things get better.
No need to apologize, but thank you for supporting my approach to science communication!
Just like a lot of things in the world, it’s a swinging pendulum. Science used to be driven by religion, it was synonymous. The pendulum has now swung to the other side however, and now the religious reject ALL science.
Yea,they rot people brains out with debunk realigion.
Better to leave most areas of internet alone, critically uninformed people are always the most vocal on the Internet
@@joltingonwards2017So you're saying that the person that made this video did not do their research because of course he did his research.
The coolest part about this (to me) is just how much more there might be out there to find. Just when you think we've hit a wall theres something like this or Gobekli Tepe that make us take a step back. So cool to see things attributed to homo sapiens be pushed back before their origin. You'd think a field of study like this would be so limited, like looking into a band's discography from the 70s or something. Sure you might find a B-Side or demo that was hiding in an attic, but this is like finding out Pink Floyd started in the middle ages!
I've always been in love with astronomy and what happens out there, but recently have started finding a huge interest in history and archaeology and what has happened with our ancestors. Thank you so much for this video; your content is easily digestible for a newbie like me, lol. You have a new subscriber here, and I'll make sure to share you to my friends and family!!
You’re welcome! And thanks for the subscribe! I’m glad to hear that I’m helping people get more interested in the distant past
That’s exactly how I got into this. Consider me obsessed!! Good video. I’ll be subscribing as well
@@WorldChronicles1 Or its just branches there not that it can be dated accurately!
Great video. You labeled the photos, you clearly narrated the facts, and you made both video and audio interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great comment. You wrote the words, you clearly connected them into sensical structures, and you made both a compliment and a statement.
@@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn I’m a genius 🤷♂️
People in the comments mention other apes building nests, but even birds like Weaver Birds and Bower Birds construct elaborate structures from multiple different types of objects. It's not even a behavior or technology exclusive to primates.
What’s exclusivity have to do with it? From what I’ve seen it’s just people pointing out it makes sense that our woodworking had been a continuous gradual advancement of nestbuilding in trees, as we swapped to shelter on the ground (upside down low altitude nest), as protective walls and even perimeter walls for a village (bigger more protective ground nests), then with our increased resource usage opportunity and creative intelligence, we turned that into better structures and tools as we utilised wood in many new ways since it’s manipulation was well understood by such a point.
Birds building nests too doesn’t change any of that, it just means being climbers not flyers and evolving ripping hands not claw depending climbing before be moved to the land was the real set of advantages, since that’s what allowed ground dwelling bipedalism to make us flourish this way.
@@atriox7221I'm just emphasizing that "woodworking" is a technology shared by many species, not just human. We might even mistake some kind of fossilized beaver log as intelligently woodworked by humans. We may have even been inspired by beavers to attempt our own woodworking. Woodworking itself is older than humans.
It was obviously built by an extinct race of hyper intelligent beavers. I saw an old documentary about them called "The Disco Beaver From Outer Space" .
Discoveries like these are a 'snapshot in time' which it would be foolish to assume are 'first time' events, practices, discoveries, etc. Especially with a material such as wood. Pre-h.Sapiens may have been using wood in amazing and complicated ways for hundreds of thousands of years before even this time. Excellent video - and great length, thank you. I love documentaries of any style, but unfortunately will skip over the longer 40+ minute ones. Give me 10 - 15 minutes on an intriguing topic, and I'm in.
Same 😂
Thanks for the feedback. And you're welcome! All my future videos will be between 10-15 minutes long
another thing that may have predated stone work : bone
bone would have been an extremley avialable resource unlike flint , and it's almost as sturdy ...
In eastern Europe they have found evidence of prehistoric huts made of Mammoth tusks.
How am I just hearing now that Quartz holds sunlight?
right crazy
I have taken a few classes in anthropology and archaeology. I hadn't heard about this discovery until now. Absolutely fascinating! What incredible preservation for half a million years of time.
Even if these weren't homo sapiens, these were still in the genus homo and are more similar to us than we could ever imagine.
If these people could talk to us, I wonder what they'd say?
Homo erectus existed for around 2 million years and probably did have an increase in brain size towards the end of its existence. They also ventured out to Europe and Asia. I would not be shocked at all if they built basic structures like these.
The only ones who are surprised are the religious zealots who have been brainwashed from infancy into thinking the world is only a few thousand years old.
I knew the Kalambo site was significant, but your video is the first explanation that helped me really appreciate it. Beautiful work!
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it
I have set aside some rocks and wood that have no interlockings or tool marks so that in the future archeologists will have to completely rethink our age; that we in fact had no tools or other devices and were merely unthinking apes who walked around upright. It's going to be a HOOT!
We pile rocks on mountaintops -- no telling how long some of those have been there.
It makes sense the early humans would have created structures I mean heck birds make pretty interesting nests and we don't consider them to be very smart
hmmm I doubt that the river would have been there 500k years ago. Also that dating method seems extremely fallible, as the quarts could have been under the surface for that long before becoming part of the fossil
aside from that, this seems really exciting to think about :)
Really great video. To me the most insane part is how they must have been hanging around the area and not only chasing food. That’s got to be revolutionary for the time period.
Thanks! Yes, it also makes me wonder too how territorial they may have been if other groups were to enter their settled area
Excellent video. No baseless speculation, only well researched information!
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
The fact that we find modern human remains going back 430k years basically dictates that we must be older then even that, or assume we just magically stumbled upon the exact time we came into existence. The fact that we will never know more then 90% of all the animals that lived on this planet due to them not dyeing in a good spot to preserve there bones also suggests the same thing most likely happened to us.
I watched a TH-cam fishing video where the fisherman found wooden posts for a old bridge on a river in Nebraska. The posts had fossilized and broke apart like brittle stone when he picked it up.
Hey that couldn’t have been that old
@@davidsellers3639 that's the point. Some animals have been found where the cause of death was fossilization. Under the correct conditions a fossil can be created rapidly. But for those who believe in the religion of evolutionism it is supposed to take millions of years. And like all crockpot religions those who believe in it can't except anything else even when given the evidence that they are wrong.
As far as we know humans have only been in the Americas for ~30,000 years (traditionally it was 15,000 years but new evidence is reasonably solid in pushing it back).
Bees can build with such precise tolerance they won't even use comb which is a fraction of a mm out of spec. There's those birds that have nests made out of mud that are really cool. Beaver dams?? Those all seem to say that building is not just a human activity
Beavers don't build because they have a picture in their head, they build because they are descended from beavers that are genetically compelled to stack wood when they hear running water.
@@tipi5586wtf are you on about
They know how to make a dam, but that's all they know and their survival depends on it. Beavers don't build dams because they are engineers. @@zacharyledford2785
@@tipi5586I bet aliens say similar things about us
I think wood has been fashioned numerous ways long before Homo sapiens arrived. GREAT JOB! Another intriguing topic is which hominin first evolved blue eye genes. Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes appear to show elevated homogeneity, but does their range of variation suggest lighter eye pigmentation? Future vid request, please.
Blue eyes are thought to be a 10,000 year old mutation.
@@stasiaspade1169 Yes, fixed in frequency by 10 kya for Homo sapiens, but the broader question is if and when earlier hominin species independently evolved mutations for blue eyes. You likely note the frequent artistic renditions of blue-eyed Neanderthals yet I don't recall Denisovan depictions with blue eyes. So you probably understand the basis of my inquiry and curiosity as to actual genetic evidence, and your point is well taken.
Ok, I’ll be sure to cover the topic in a future video! Thanks for bringing the topic to my attention
Gorillas build beds out of leaves and sticks. It's not crazy to imagine primitive relatives would've built wood tools, bridges, or basic structures. They did become human beings, after all. We love building stuff.
Before after Over that many thousands of years, the river would have changed course many times. So that's hard to support those speculative theories about a platform or a way to cross the river. But perhaps if one was digging into the soil all around that area, you might find more artifacts and clues
Its not necessarily the case the builders had to be sedentary. It is thought that roamong bands may have met up once a year and they might have built a structure for those occasions.
Yes possibly, I think the Gobekli Tepe monument was built in the way that you described as it was built when people's of that region were still mostly hunter gatherers. I may do a video on that monument in the future
fellas, this was clearly evidence of the galactic-finnish empire. only a spacefaring nation would have hands.
"lets bury this poorly made cross out of old logs"
2 weeks later: :o it has been made before we existed!1!1
Thanks for sharing this find, the research and the possible meanings of the data. I find it interesting that it is a surprise that a hominid species built wooden structures.
You’re welcome!
Same! It amazes me that early humans and humanoids are given such little credit and treated like they were all savage idiots! Haha, some of my favorite images are the ones on museums displays depicting our loin cloth clad savage forefathers doing simple things like ‘smelting metal’ over a small camp fire.
I think its incredible to think that someone built that
pre-sapien species are probably much smarter than we give them credit for, think about it, if anatomically modern humans are as smart as well, an anatomically modern adult, then there would have been a very long period of existence where pre-historic humans were as smart as children and teens, and children and teens are still very much more intelligent than every other animal on planet earth by a long shot
I agree. I especially find the notion that Neanderthals and others could not speak to be ridiculous.
I agree too. The more and more I read about Neanderthals the more convinced that I become that they had to have had a spoken language of some sort. In fact also, behaviorally Neanderthals were probably almost the same as Homo Sapiens
Looks like 2 damn pieces of driftwood rubbed together 😂
Terribly interesting content. I'll need to do more research on this subject. I believe that I'm familiar with the narrator's past efforts introducing viewers to the Honey Badger. Will be looking forward to more of his work in the future. Cheers...
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you deffently need more subscribers man great video
Thanks!
I see a lot of trees that rub together from the wind, so i would only believe it if they found some human stuff around the wood structure.
"Human stuff"?
has anyone considered boat? i think wooden structure in/near water and i think boat, or atleast a raft for floating down river, or for moving heavy objects
It would make the most sense I think
The cave man depicted in the thumbnail looks a lot like Che Guevarra, but was probably a lot more intelligent and less backwards than the Marxist madman he superficially resembles.
Muh freedom! Comnunist bad or something, yeah.
@@Leviathan399I mean, communists ARE bad. Dunno what youre on
@@germanyballwork5301 communists are BAD because... Beacause 3726 billion deaths or something.
Pretty interesting that im learning about a 500k year old human made structure on a smartphone & using bluetooth headphones 💀
I'm confused about the dating method. Is this indirectly calculating age based on the assumption that the wood is as old as the last time the quartz was activated? Since the wood and quartz extracts are on the same level.
Yes, but the archaeologists didn't just date the quartz found adjacent to the wood. They also dated the quartz from above and below the wood so that they had a wide range of dates to work with. Having a wide range of dates from above and below a specimen helps to improve the accuracy of the targeted area they are trying to date
In Bruniquel in Languedoc, South West France, there is a cave with stalagmite rings, probably built by neanderthals. They date back 176 000 years, and was probably made for initiation rites. It’s 330 meters into the cave and absolute dark, so they needed (many) torches to get there. There are signs of a tent over the circles, and remains of some 35 fires - so they have been there many times. To get all that together they must have planned it for a while and spoken to each other.
Thanks for sharing that information it was very interesting. I want to read more about it!
two logs: fall into eachother in a funny way
scientists millions of years later: oh damn a house
(this is a joke)
How could that river be in the same place for 400,000 years? Especially that kind of terrain? I've watch a small stream cut almost 2ft into granite in the last 30 years, surely would flowing over dirt has moved significantly in 400,000 years.
Yes, precisely that is a high erosion area, things like that just don't sit still for half a million years.
You can watch a Bird gather twigs & Build a nest, some creatures dig a home, even a Crab can spot a Better place to live, but if Prehistoric humans did the same, it's a revelation ..
Okay the nest one is analogous but digging a burrow or moving is not. Not every animal builds nests.
@@theunintelligentlydesigned4931 True but a "nest" or Cave or just a Camp with a Lean-too, to keep rain out your face, is also a nest for Primitive Humans, Not all animals Nest, But lots will grab a SHELL or Cave or Burrow underground, Ants build Cities for themselves,.. Shelter is a basic survival skill, shared by a few animals, so that a Proto-human keeping rain off their heads with some logs is NO Surprise ..
@@James_T_Quirk What I'm talking about is the difference between seeking shelter in a cave and weaving sticks together to form a shelter. Lots of animals seek shelter but how many animals actually BUILD shelters. That is why a nest is analogous but simply moving is not.
But I will grant you that ant cities are also analogous. Any animal that BUILDS a COMPLEX shelter is analogous. Any animal that does not BUILD a COMPLEX shelter is not analogous.
That's how history works, things were different to how they are and any hints to how things were are often significant. Bog off
@@joltingonwards2017 Why the hostility?
Sometimes I wonder how many artifacts we could be walking over every single day. I wonder what we've missed, or what we'll find in the future.
It is likely that the river was not even there that long ago and the structure sat on dry ground
This is what was found.. imagine whats still undiscovered
That's the fascinating part.
Watch it turn out to just be a weird extinct tree that happened to get preserved. (im aware that this is heavily researched and im not calling anything out, i would just think it would be funny as hell if this were the case)
your videos are great! thank you for making them and I hope you continue!
You are welcome! I’m definitely not stopping. I got lots of videos I plan on releasing!
They should check the log files
get out
The river will have moved a LOT in that time….thats not the side of a river. It’s probably something close to the river, but not next to it. I think there would be more things hurried and they really need to spread out in 2D rather than just a line by the river.
Now imagine what insights we could have if only ancient women’s baskets, nets and clay vessels weren’t so biodegradable
Or idiot archaeologists accept the multi million year old flint art that I find.... eoliths
Grass nike air and a neaderthal vibrating butt plug because he's trans x
Now imagine that we did not assume those things were made exclusively by women
And how much writing was lost with the invention of papyrus
@@KetsaKunta Exclusively? No. Primarily? Yes, most likely
This is the content i love to see, good shit man. Keep it up, youre awesome
Thank you for your support!
Maybe truth about the stone age having been the wooden age for the people who lived at that time.
amazing, i loved this video, do you know any books about this or similar topics?
So all the sources from this video were from science news articles and science papers and unfortunately I don't know of any books that focus on specific moments from prehistoric times or on specific technological achievements of prehistoric times. I do however recommend the book "Evolution: The Human Story 2nd Edition" by Professor Alice Roberts. It gives great overviews of all the various early human species alongside large photos of all the most up to date facial reconstructions as well as illustrations depicting their hypothesized behaviors and activities.
Great work so interesting and informative.
Thanks! Glad you liked it
These days a lot of videos forego sourcing and authentic media you've included in your video, big fan. I'll stick around
A great video, love it👍! It's entertaining to watch on Christmas Day! ❤
Thanks!
When scrolling down I saw the word crack written on screen twice, some weird blobs and some homeless lookin dude in the corner, needless to say it took me a second to figure out what this was.
The river is likely to have shifted in that time...
Lots of speculation here. . . . If it was "worked wood", it could have been some large branches that were exposed that these "workers" brought up and worked on. . .that is, it could be 400+k years old when the "workers" found it (like you found it, only not buried so deep obviously).
It doesn't look "clearly" worked, but it does look burned. If you've ever burned larger diameter slash piles (forestry management projects or wildfire work) you'll see this same type of burn pattern where two logs cross one another, more heat is generated and held, so the coal burns longer, thus considerably deeper at these intersection or contact areas. . .and as you move away from this contact point the heat tapers awya too, thus leaving a tapered appearance just like what you have here.
Some of the "rough marks" or "worked marks", could have been caused by aggragate passing over it from the waterway (moving water and rocks). . . . You didn't provide any substantial evidence of clearly "worked" wood, although some of it def does look curious, and no proof that this was fresh wood cut down and into pieces and then worked by people 400+k years ago.
Carbon dating showed it to be about 50k yo. . . . Luminescence dating (over 5x older result?) may not be an accurate tool in this location, with what appears to be substantial clays mixed with heavy (large) grain quartzites and substantial fine grain sands. Also, it looks awfully shallow of a burial (maybe 3' max?), and sitting on top of sands, but buried under clays (thats what the excavated wall appears to be).
Was that well-worked and finely honed (very precise flaking and grinding) chopping/axe tool found at the same depth? If so, THAT would be likely the oldest, precision tool ever found! From my understanding, by hundreds of thousands of years!
It seems you may be jumping to conclusions, because you really want this to be something (undertsandably). . .making a potential artifact fit a narrative, as unlikley as this is.
I hope I'm proved wrong. . . .
Looks like an old fire too me honestly
The real science is to consider all possibilities, e.g. sand friction in the river. But no! It is obviously pre-human made! And the new epoch quickly introduced: the wood age!
Them was kangz😂😂
You’re not funny
@@vannix565 And you're mad
There's a lot of humans living now that couldn't make that stuff.
😂
Even chimpanzees build nests out of branches. The nest has to be built out of strong enough branches to support the weight of a mother and her children too. Building nests is taught. Why are we shocked to learn our ancestors built out of carved logs. Carving logs that are to thick to bind is the next logical step in architecture. If we want to see how our ancestors lived, we just need to observe chimpanzees. They are more advanced than we give them credit for. They use tools too.
And crows have been seen making and using tools. They are my bet for the "next to evolve after mankind destroys themselves" pool.
It makes more sense for ancient humans to use wood rather than stone at first. Stones are primarily used for smashing stuff or as a building material. It takes considerable skill and intelligence to turn it into a chopping tool. Compare this to wood where it can be used in multiple ways and is much easier to handle.
I would disagree about the level of intelligence it takes to turn stone into a chopping tool. If you ever smacked two rocks together, you might have seen chunks of the softer rock fly off. If you were to repeat this process down to a point or edge, you can easily make stone tools. Attaching those stone tools to sticks takes considerably more knowledge, though it has been done for many hundreds of thousands of years by homo sapiens and pre-sapiens.
If you put a log across another the upper log will naturally rot where they cross. If all they found was two logs then the conclusion is highly suspect.
that's how kangs engineer thangs dawg
The logs were reportedly 'carved'.
@@geomundi8333 you are daft. would you proclaim, as fact, that the current oldest evidence we have of modern humans is the empirically oldest? i doubt it. so your comment isn't intended to draw doubt to this claim, but just to recycle whatever 4chan lingo some basement dwelling neet ingrained into your brain
I am also suspicious. I've seen that kind of notch with things like burnt wood. I would like to see more clear and precise data. However, among real scientists it is well known that Homo Erectus a million years ago and other earlier lineages very likely had the ability to do some crude things like this with. On top of that, we've also long known that what we have on the record is heavily skewed toward the non perishable and that there was most certainly a lot more going on than we see but it involved using things like wood which didn't last.
@@tomgoff7887 Carving can occur naturally.
Pre human stone ages are every interesting. If they could build stone tools, they definitely had the ability to build many complex things.
At least the UK is actually planning on giving these artifacts back.
If humans made wooden structures so early, why did it take so long for them to invent iphone and funny ticky tock? Are we stupid?
Environmental catastrophes and varying cultures often got in the way of rapid progress.
yes we are
The fact that we staved off tik tok for so long is evidence of intelligence, not stupidity. But yes we are stupid.
i would think to use living wood to make a shelter too, weaving plants and vines or bending bamboo i think animals do this too. maybe our ancestors did too
This isn't some mystical thing. Native cultures have this. Even today there are bridges made of living vine and shelters with living grass and plants
@@disky1784 can you share where i can read about this?
It's not that much of a stretch going from sheltering under a deadfall to building your own deadfall. These people give humans no credit at all.
"Stop judging pre-industrial humanity by the limits of your own skill" - Steve, from the adultswim show China, IL (paraphrased)
Yes, but it is still cool to see some evidence of this because otherwise it is just baseless speculation.
Here's a deep philosophical quote from the butt fart poo guy from Rick and Morty. Now, let me tell you why my opinion on science is saner than yours. @@albummutation2278
Lean-tos made from thick branches is one of the easiest temporary shelters to make.
I just love archaeolgy!!!
wow, this is so awesome. Amazing find.
Thanks!
History is so long, but all in the blink of an eye
in the uk we have a spear that was made by pre-humans nearly half a million years ago, 400,000 years, check wikipedia clacton spear, oldest tool in the world
Thanks for sharing that!
A lone man may have notched the logs and and moved on. Since we’re speculating
i always assumed that a lot of the sharp stones we saw in the 'stone age' could've been used as primitive axe heads
The craziest part about this is that England actually wants to return an artefact to it's indiginous soil.
Learn to spell
The death of the museum is upon us thanks to ignorant comments like this.
@@muninnodinnsraven4193 ratio
Let's look to all of those artefacts the British didn't "steal" for a better alternative, oh wait no, we can't do that because third worlders sold, lost or destroyed them all. Whoops. @CheeseIfYouPlease
The aliens bogged their spaceship and had to fashion this device.
please tell me this is a joke
So, they were building wooden structures like that 500,000 years ago and then waited for 495,000 years ago to do anything else?
Yeah civilization didn't take off until agriculture and animal husbandry. In order for there to be alot of humans there needs to be alot of food. And waited 495,000 years? The species that built that wooden structure is extinct and more primitive and less advanced than 5000 years ago.
Don't understand how it's hard for you to grasp
It's easy for us humans today to think these things because we have knowledge of all the inventions throughout the past through written and spoken language. Imagine not having the knowledge of language and trying to communicate then imagine not knowing about agriculture or farming. How long do you think it would take hominids with no language or knowledge of how the world works to invent anything? If they found a system of hunting and gathering that worked for them why would they change? They didn't sit around talking and reading books/watching videos like we do. The first inventions and major advancements were probably the hardest to achieve considering the circumstances.
Don't forget to note that there have been four or five ice ages in the past 500,000 years -- we live in an interglacial -- so that's also a factor in stumbling on artifacts.
Humans have always been humans after all. We've always been creative, crafty critters, even 500,000 years ago. (I know they technically weren't 'humans' but close enough)
I believe the term 'human' in archaeology can refer to any homo species.
Maybe it was an art project for children to keep them occupied while their parents built spaceships.
they were arming themselves to fight in the finno-korean hyperwar
Awesome video !
Thanks!
Looks like a tree root lmao
My wood age started at 12, still going as strong as ever at 41
The wood age. Mine was between 13 and 16.😁
this video woulda sucked without that valuable input of that one chick being surprised. well done sir.
what are chances that this is natural occurrence?
looks like 2 old pieces of wood
Well done, new sub
Thanks!
Why does it look like two logs laying in a random position with nothing to do with humans
Because you dont possess the ability to tell one from the other.
Believe what you want they didn't present and legitimate facts
You think every video on TH-cam is fact you're pathetic use you're brain to question things
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Nothing about this seem to make sense there are no marks left behind from humans at all so it exactly like any other logg 😂😂😂😂🤦