Healthcare in Prehistory
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A branch of this health care morphed into the North American sub-variant, where people were left financially crippled over rudimentary procedures.
Now abbreviated from the old "Shaman",
to just Sham. Seriously though, great video, with many interesting points.
Oh oh , me got boo boo
Smash with rock
Pain fixed
Me smart
This was a really cool and fascinating video. Thanks!
Please please please provide Subtitles to 'Neanderthal - Ancient Human' Video 🙏🙏
English is not my first language so it's hard to grasp most words....
Parrots in the Amazon eat clay. And the forest elephants mine mineral clay too.
That being said can you do one perhaps on burials?
Somebody explain to me how random you tubers with a budget of $4 make better documentaries than anything on Netflix
passion
passion is often a way better incentive than money. same reason why people spend months making indie video games or free mods that are often way better than million dollar triple a games. tho one actually good netflix documentary I can recommend is abstract: the art of design
No shitty agenda involved
These documentaries helped me understand myself.
If you really do love what you do, or at least love the subject matter that your explaining it comes of much more interesting.
I don’t speak to much English,nor do I understand either, but the way you speak helps me understand almost everything you’re saying, thank you so much! And with all respect I want to salute the people that are seeing this interesting video 👍🏻
You seem to speak better English than most people I know in the USA!
@@jimgoff1170 well!! That’s very nice of you, thank you so much, I lived in USA for a while in my younger years, and learned a little English, but now I’m 60, and here in a small Ranch in Mexico, where I live now, no one but me speak English, so it’s been a long time without practice, and like I said before I appreciate your support very much, God bless you, and have a great evening and a good night 🌙💤😴
@@demetriodesantiago3595 I agree with him, your English is better than most
@@north6star thank you so much 🙏🏻, I appreciate your support , I salute you from the north of Jalisco, Mexico 👍🏻
To me, North02 is the Bob Ross of prehistoric documentaries. I LOVE this channel!😁
New parents will all tell you - when you need to get something done, but the baby is in a fuzz, a (great) grandma or pa, or any old relative are the best. Shanidar One probably sat around with a baby napping on his lap a lot. And that alone was probably priceless.
I love that thought!
Just goes to show that everyone is useful in their own way. Even during war, someone has to peel potatoes - nothing glorious, but essential.
The one thing I have always wondered is how can something so helpless be in so much control.
It shows how anthropocentric we are when we deny other cultures traits like compassion that were likely as essential to their way of life as we like to think it is to ours.
Good chance they would have used honey on wounds when it was available, it has amazing antiseptic and antibiotic properties
And also fresh spiderweb, moss, and a wide range of flowers, roots, bark and grasses.
Both for medical use, and to give taste to food and tea.
Honey is still used in medicine today. It's used in the NHS and is absolutely incredible stuff
@@CailinRuaAnChead I use it as well but American physicians do not prescribe it😔 America is big Pharma's bitch
I used honey on my Momma's wounds before she passed away. I found that raw honey bought from a bee farmer worked much better than honey bought in a grocery store.
Honey is still used! In hospitals! Sometimes in the form of honey-infused bandages but sometimes it’s just honey!
Humanity didn't start with fire, agriculture, religion or writing. The very first act of humanity was caring for fractured bones. Those humans wouldn't survive alone.
yes we were always civilized to my way of thinking
Not only do I learn so much new information from your documentaries (at 57, I love learning things I didn't know!); but you bring our ancestors to life in such a warm and relatable way. Thank you for all you do - seeing a new video from you posted in my feed invariably gives a lift to my day.
@Leo the Anglo-Filipino You must learn more about the best country in the world: Belgium 🇧🇪
About to be 54 on the 1st
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@@charlieboy-dh1ns Pretty sure it is italia
It's great to see so many people who find anthropology as fascinating as I do.
@@NORTH02 The main reason for modern humans eating soil is that it beats being hungry when there is no food to eat...
Healthcare is still like this in Australia.
My grandmother, born in 1896, (yeah I'm that old) talked of eating dirt and clay for its medicinal value.
I remember reading some years ago that archeologists had found the remains of a Roman army officer with a root canal. If memory serves, there was a bronze wire inserted in the canal. I've had root canal numerous times over a period of decades. The last couple were no more uncomfortable than getting a filling, except they take longer. But in one case, before the latest microscopic technique was available, the anesthetic wore off and the dentist did not believe me when I said it really hurt (his replacement was able to find another canal that the original dentist missed), so I can tell you that getting root canal without anesthesia is a horrible experience.
While we may never know what was done with full awareness of a benefit and what was purely superstition, it will always amaze me how attentive and deliberate the care our ancestors gave to each other was.
I'd like to see videos on how disabilities were managed (in a positive way, i know a lot about negative ways...) both physical and mental. what worked and what didnt, how it compares to methods today (like that image you used of a neanderthal on crutches.) I'd also like to see a video about pets with early people. not like farming or domestication, just animals for companionship, especially animals that aren't just cats and dogs.
Trey the explainer has a pretty awesome video on prehistoric disabilities!
@@user-fc7yi4ud3m !!! Do you have a link to the video? Or the name so I can look for it?
@@toxictoxophilite Here! th-cam.com/video/t7J_oybRfuc/w-d-xo.html
Neolithic people were METAL!🤘🤘🤘HELL YEAH
Your series on hominins has been a gift to us that are intoxicated by the topic. I hope there are more to come! Perhaps a video on the many skull shapes of homo sapiens and other homo species that once inhabited the earth. There were some truly magnificent forms, both gracile and robust.
This video on healthcare in the lithic age was fantastic! I hope that continue on this path for a while.
I wonder how common it was to use mind-altering substances, rituals, meditation, etc. to put ancient hominids into an alternate state of consciousness to relieve their pain and/or make surgery far less painful. We don't rely on trance-like states in Western medicine, but I'd bet it was far more common when anesthesia wasn't an option.
Given that wild animals will use mind-altering substances like alcohol, it's almost inconceivable that our ancestors and cousins didn't.
I have personally witnessed birds getting smashed on alcohol formed from thousands of pounds of fermented grains spilled from a train car and then rained on. The birds were getting so drunk they were literally trying to fly along the ground, and I doubt most of them could have gotten airborne even if a coyote or other predator had shown up.
I've had a shallow filling without anesthetic and even that is pretty rough
anasthesia is literally a trance like state, look it up, they actually have no idea how it works, only that it alters conciousness.
Shanidar one is actually the inspiration for Creb from the book "clan of the cave bear" by Jean M. Auel. I get so excited whenever I think he will be spoken about.
As I watched this I wondered if that was the case. Thanks for answering that question for me!
I love that series!
@@ljb8157 I love it too! I often return to it for comfort.
I figured he was. I love how that woman researches!
If I could go back in time and witness these practices being performed, I'm sure I would feel weak. Especially the dental surgery, man that stuff is pretty painful to even think about. I could only imagine the healing rituals performed, how they looked and sounded, in early man's attempt to contact anything to help someone with a injury.
Great video!
Among the Inca, they got the patient blackout drunk before operating on them.
Among the Inca, they got the patient blackout drunk before operating on them.
They probably got high as fuck, humans love getting high. if I ever require Stone Age dental surgery they better bring the shrooms ya know?
@@sealboy1211 Many animals love getting high. We're not the only ones. Fruit flies are huge drunks..
@@KtotheG 😅😅😅
I use white wine in a saucer to trap the little devils. Wonder if their parents also say something along the lines of: Drink will be the end of you... 😄
i read a compelling argument a while ago that midwifery is the oldest profession in the world. people say prostitution is, but women have been helping one another deliver babies for far longer than women have needed to sell their bodies for resources. glad midwifery was mentioned here! im sad that it's pretty much a lost profession in the west rn
Yes but thay do midwifery for free tho.
@@nathangarland9453 a profession is defined as "a paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification." older societies likely relied on sharing and exchanging resources, so a midwife could be "paid" in something other than money, like food, protection, a place in the tribe, etc.
Appreciate all your hardwork!!!
I suppose one of the most common medical procedures would have been maggots to clean out the pus from infected wounds, but being soft tissue would leave no trace..
For dealing with pain, I can see the answer to that being an accidental discovery. Somebody who was hungry and walking through the woods noticed a pretty little mushroom, cooked it, ate it, and went high as the tallest of trees. Because water was unclean, many peoples heated the water and mixed it with different plants, such as crab apples, to purify it, creating alcohol in the process. So getting blackout drunk became another option. Some peoples also combined the two, which is not recommended.
I really do feel sympathy for these ancestors of ours when I think about it. The amount of suffering and trauma the average person probably experienced even by adolescence baffles me. It is nice to know even with all the stresses of survival they took the time to care for their loved ones.
At the same time of course, I'm kind of jealous when I imagine the sense of freedom and life in that era...no nations, no borders, and nothing to do but see it all.
I wonder if we suffer more now though?
13:47 Eating dirt was something I started as a 1-year old, and continued until age 5 when a pediatrician told my parents to give me vitamins with minerals. My parents could not stop my eating clay dirt until I was given vitamins with minerals, then I stopped eating dirt by my own choosing to stop. I did not want dirt that contained organics and was therefore good for growing plants. Instead I wanted only clay dirt that still had many minerals. Even with clay dirt, some clay dirts tasted better than other clay dirts, which I think was based on which minerals my body needed.
My little princess of a sister would do the same thing from one to three, while wearing her daily dress of choice. I just thought it was funny at the time.
Worm eat dirt, bird eat worm, man eat bird. Notice In each stage energy is lost through metabolic action. Join me, in eating dirt, to become a being of pure energy.
@@theproblemmustbeinyourpant5910 dirt dobber
It's common for babies and young children to eat dirt. It could be an instinctual behaviour that we think is just a young child not knowing any better when really it's us modern day people who don't know as much as our ancestors did.
@@theproblemmustbeinyourpant5910Sun -> plants + soil -> humans. Probably the most efficient way as we can't do photosynthesis
I have just been reading some of the comments below. They are very interesting and I find it also interesting that they talk about the way that you speak . I also find this very comforting. I am 65 years old, speak 6 languages and still enjoy learning new things, I'm currently in the process of binge watching all of your videos on human anthropology. Keep up the good work and I am looking forward to watching the next videos as well .
Always nice to see another North 02 video!
Being one of the groups of people with the highest percentage of Neandertal DNA I feel a weird sort of pride hearing about this? them caring for their injured and even caring for their disabled
It's just so strange how counter opposite it is to all of what I was thought about them growing up
The history of Healthcare the stoen age sure is pretty cool and interesting,and MORTH 02 brought it to us.
eating clay also likely represents Pica, or iron deficiency resulting in unusual dietary habits. Iron def common in kids and pregnant women
What about to use of drugs among ancient people for recreational, medicine or for hallucinogenic purposes
@3:24 For the case of tooth loss, the Inuit and several other hunter-gatherer cultures had younger people with good teeth chew the food well, then go mouth to mouth with the toothless person, and spit the ball of chewed food into their mouth. There is old video (I don't remember the source) of this practice among the Inuit. The Inuit used their teeth as a tool, usually for working and sewing leather, which caused their teeth to eventually be worn down to gum level, then requiring younger people to pre-chew food.
Disturbing visual, but absolutely correct.
I want to see the sources for this as this isn't necessary. It's a misconception that doesn't even take into account a good portion of foods DONT actually need teeth to "chew" and process. Nor does it take into account how many people without teeth DO manage just fine with a limited diet, yes, but nearly as limited as one might imagine. Especially for stone age people who don't actually have all the processed foods we have today that are difficult, such as candy, and pretzels. Meat is actually extremely easy to eat, if cooked properly, especially fish and poultry, fish being a big part of their diets. Other than steak, meat isn't actually that hard to chew, and neither are fruits and veggies. One might have to peel the skin off, but thats the extent of the difficulty, much like with oranges.
Point is, sorry, but I call bs on this being actual history. I can see it today with the remaining survivors since the stereotype is so ingrained, but back in the stone age when they got to the America's? Nah, I call bs.
@@Rhaenarys Talk to people with full dentures, about how easy it is to chew meat or other foods without their false teeth. Even people who still have some teeth, but only have one pair of molars remaining that can be used to chew food, can tell you how difficult eating is with only two teeth that come together to grind food.
Hunter gather people usually ate food with more roughage than we do today, which means much more chewing was needed. The video I saw many years ago was a PBS (public tv) program that included some meal habits, including pre-chewing food for the older family members.
Another source of information was from my mother, who worked at a nursing home for Alaska natives. The government in all its wisdom, moved elderly Alaska natives to special care facilities in the lower parts of the U.S. until about 1970, sometimes against their family's wishes. My mother, who worked in one of those care facilities, told me about the pre-chewing of food in some Alaska native groups.
For many modern cultures, the pre-chewing of food for toothless elderly may seem an unpleasant visual. But for people who grew up with seeing pre-chewing as a part of everyday life, it does not seem bad. That culture developed without the concept of germs, without the level of hyper-cleanliness we have today, and living their daily lives much closer to the dirt and grime of nature. Some of the things we have today might offend hunter gatherers of the past, such as taking animal milk, letting it rot, squeezing the remains to a lump, letting it rot some more, then eating the stuff we call cheese. Disgustingness is in the opinion of the observer and the culture they grew up in.
I met a Swedish family who pre-chewed all their baby's food. So it's highly likely.
@@davevann9795 I AM one with full dentures...You're going tell me what I am and am not capable of eating? Without the dentures?
Keeping the old is beneficial to the group as wisdom would be provided to the group.
although i am enjoying this video (part way through) we have no evidence that i am aware of to support "jokes". The issue here is that you are putting your own interpretation in with lack of evidence. Just something to be aware of sir... not trying to be overly critical... in the spirit of improving your high quality productions. just subscribing now
This is just a theory here but I believe medicine can be taught to animals!
When I was younger my friend (who lived with her grandparents) had a cat who would legit steal the aspirin that her grandma dropped and bought it to her kittens.
Her grandfather was dying so he needed a lot of medications that the grandmother would provide, but she would drop them a lot of times. The cat would only take aspirins to her kittens.
I’m not sure if this is significant or not, but I think the cat understood that aspirin is something that could help. She didn’t take any of the seizure meds or anything, only aspirin.
Or maybe the cat was imitating her human? I’m not sure 🤷🏾♀️
@Janitor Queen I didn’t personally see the cat bring the pills to her kittens so I don’t know if she picked it up in her mouth, but they had hard wood floors so it wouldn’t be hard to slide. But I did see her collection of pills and no the kittens never ate them however the mama was very protective over those damn pills lol, that’s how they knew she was saving it for her kittens. She’d swat at anyone trying to remove the pills so they mostly let her be since the cats never actually ate it.
@@TayePurks no kidding kittens drink there mothers milk!
Humans of any breed : not very tall, not very fast, not very strong, no fur or scales, no sharpe teeth, no claws....So they had to use their brains to come up with some solution...
I think, ancient knowledge should never be underestimated!
Having no teeth does not mean that you can't eat meat or vegetables. My grandparents could eat anything from steak to apples. Smaller bites but over time their gums could chew whatever they wanted to eat.
this is true, my grandma could do it too. grandpa can't, though.
In the video, I said that meat and vegetables would have had to be preprocessed as in cooking, prechewing or breaking down into a paste or less tough form.
Firrrrst...!!!
I recently saw a video on dolphins who would rub against a seagrass, reason unknown. They would line up, wait their turn, and rub over it. I'm thinking a good google search will put it up.
My favorite video of yours yet!
Stuff like this is fascinating and you've packed so much info in. Thank you.
Excellent video, very informative and thought provoking, in what way did they use the herbs and plants you mentioned? Could you do a video on that?
No worse then the brutality of our current times with the violent society of today. Gun shot, knife and bludgeoning injuries no thanks to our fellow citizens. Car crashes and sporting injuries or other injuries through misadventure.
Very interesting topic. I read Jane Aul's Earth Children Series Clan of the Cave bear. Although these are works if fiction Aul miticulously researched her plants and herbs. And cross referenced plants from 10,000 years ago that would be present in the Iberian peninsula. That is why the books are so good. Her theories are backed up by plant and archeology discoveries.
The part of geophagy reminds me of something interesting a teacher's assistant once told me in a biology class. Apparently, she was anemic as a child, but it wasn't diagnosed yet. She had been eating the dirt near her home which was high in iron, almost like she was self medicating herself even tho she was so young she couldn't have known really. Or maybe it was just coincidence. Not sure but interesting nontheless. Maybe geophagy really can suppmlement vital missing nutrients in some species or in people with certain deficiencies
Baby horses eat poop from their mom in their first few days to get gut bacteria.
kindness is inherent in human nature
Not necessarily. Human nature only gets worse
@@theotheseaeagle the proper way to conduct warfare is to be negatively AND positively ethnocentric, this means being effectively violent to outsiders and cooperative to insiders.
@@TheGovernmentputcrackinmyblunt my point still stands, human nature only gets worse as time wears on. Look at Russia and Ukraine right now. It’s only going to get worse from here on out
@@theotheseaeagle the worst of human nature was likely in the past. There were about 7 guys with the genetic impact of genghis khan in the bronze age. people act like this is literally just a human thing but this is just how nature works, we are a product of natural selection and would've been wiped out at our weakest if we were just bumbling evil guys that just murdered each other for no reason with more bad than good.
@@theotheseaeagle Yeah Human nature in the past was so much better... If you seriously think these are such dark times and people are so much worse now take this "history of the world" pill and call me in the mourning.
In my homeland of America, the use of what amounts to distilled water for medical purposes is still quite widespread. I believe the term for this primitive practice is "homeopathy."
What's sad about that is that 100% pure H2O is toxic to humans. We evolved to drink water with minerals in it.
@@stefanlaskowski6660 100% pure oxygen is toxic because our blood will boil from lack of nitrogen, but I don’t think 100% h20 can be anything other than two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen and perfectly safe. Did you maybe mean pure oxygen is toxic?
No they meant homeopathy is bullshit
The invention of antibiotics is said to have been done by Fleming but people around the world have been using various funguses in medicines. Otzi the iceman found preserved in the Alps for 1,000’s of years had a leather sachet containing beech fungi, active ingredient antibiotic.
Geophagia is probably one of those behaviors that goes back beyond the divergence of the great apes because its found in at least a few of them (humans, chimps, at least one type of gorilla.)
Blown away by apes using insects to abet healing. From the video image, I figured trepanning would be discussed, but...monkey boo boo stuff is epic. Terrific upload.
I've enjoyed watching your journey as an archaeology writer (content creator, what's your title?). I have learned along with you, although I'm in my late sixties now, your explanations of how you learn to understand your subjects are very informative. Thanks!
Hey, I am 39, I am not a joyful old man
I find it ASTOUNDING that TO THIS DAY, with all the information & research we have done, archaeologists STILL seriously doubt the intelligence, including emotional intelligence, of Neanderthals.
I also find it comical that they think archaic man didn’t have something that stifles pain.
Well, you think it's odd to wear a piece of your skull in a necklace! Today you are still in some hospitals offered pieces that have been operated out of your body, to take home. Kind of like a souvenir. I myself own two long screws that were surgically removed from my pelvis. I must though admit that I don't wear them in my necklace. They're in my toolbox 🤣
Excellent video on a very interesting subject! Thanks!
I just want to say the first example of health care...isn't actually a good one. It's a misconception that you need teeth to eat certain foods...and...you actually don't. Meat in particular, other than steak, is incredibly easy to chew with no teeth. And...so are plants fresh off the trees or out of the ground. Sure, some would need some sort of processing. We can't exactly chew into an orange, well...we can, but...we tend to not to, resorting to our fingers instead. Same idea. You pull the hard skin off to get to the softer parts. But even something as hard as chips can be managed, so...yea. hell, even seeds like sunflower seeds aren't that hard to eat after you Crack the shells away.
I'm just saying, this is a huge misconception in the science community, and probably a toothless person has never managed to give their own input into the research. But the fact is, no. That person that was toothless did NOT have to rely on only bone marrow and mashed up processed foods to survive, or worse, as is commonly suggested, needed someone to chew their food up first for them. They were more than capable of eating plenty of the food that was growing and hunted around him. And...him being toothless certainly didn't stop his ability to hunt or gather. Or anything else.
Sorry, I just hate the first example as its a poor depiction of how one without teeth would've had to live. It's like he's useless and destined for starvation just because he lost his chompers. It sucks, and there are difficulties. But...its not nearly as extreme as scientists keep trying to make it out to be for people in the stone age. I mean hell, for many their diets were high in fish. Fish aren't difficult to chew. Like at all. So can we please stop with this false stereotype already when it comes to actual science? Maybe scientists could actually talk to those who are toothless instead of just assuming because age old stereotypes somehow makes more sense?
@Janitor Queen Some people just have weak teeth. I have a friend that lost all her teeth before the age of 26 due to cracking while eating anything remotely hard - toasted bread, crackers, etc. She is a picture of health otherwise.
She was a dentists dream with all the implants done. 🙄
As always, North 02 never disappoints us. Oh and by the way, what happened to your 100k Q&A video?
@@eathealthy8899 Ah.
@@eathealthy8899 Wait, strange comments? What?
Oh! i will keep watching your videos, and if there are any books you liked, i would love to read them. Kind of a book worm, if you catch my drift!
High school drop out, but i always loved reading books.
Jean M Auel used Shanidar 1 as a model for one of her characters in a book she wrote. Have you read "Clan of the Cave Bear" ?
Eating clay/dirt was wide spread in the South and is still, to my understanding, practiced (rarely) in the backwoods and by the the poorest segments of the population, Black and White. I would guess the practice was introduced by slaves brought over from Africa. The reports of the practice being reported in Haiti would seem to confirm that guess.
In SC we call them sandlappers. It was common when the state was nearly destroyed after the civil war and starvation was common.
It may be that people who were sick were perceived as special, in that they were half-way towards the spirit world and their perceptions from their sick-bed were regarded as a portal into the afterlife: this notion is supported by archaeological discoveries of high-status burials here in Britain, where the person had either died in their teens of a chronic illness such as TB, or was physically different, eg by having a facial or bodily deformation. A magnificent burial was discovered of a tall, beautiful woman, holding a mirror in a bag of otter skin. One side of her face was deformed by a large “port wine stain” growth. This unusual characteristic apparently gave her status as a prophetess, or shamaness. At Stonehenge, burials have been found of people with bodily deformities, who likewise were accorded special status as healers, precisely because they were perceived as “other”, but in a special, positive, way.
i seriously admire your content.
i want to have your opinion on how would a neanderthal do in martial arts, especially MMA if they were still around. I mean , ofcours they're physically superior, but would they have the ability to understand, train and perform complex movements like in BJJ ... especially in Modern MMA
There's no reason they wouldn't be able to learn martial arts if they could create complex tools, decoration and use medicine, so long as they could understand the language of their teacher they would be able to learn.
Your videos are always a treat
Neanderthal burial makes total sense......even just the simple notion of the smell/mess of decomposition in open air and that it brings predators
"Its obvious that chimps are practicing Healthcare."
Yeah we know. -America
I like to think there’s an alternate version of our universe where instead the Neanderthal was the victorious of the human races or they were still around to the modern day. I think it’s awesome to wonder how they would look and live and whether racism would have a different meaning or if we would even still be around in general.
Some pincer insects, like ants, were used as early wound staples. Take an ant, have it pinch both sides of a wound, then twist off the body. It then left the head and pincers holding together the wound.
Ants possess healthcare, when a member of an ant colony is infected by a fungus, mites or a disease, the individual tries to quarantine itself, if it doesn't other members force it to do so. Ants also use organic substances to dress wounds they gained in battle, and meticulously clean their nest and members to keep them safe from infections.
Old people were valued in the caveman days because they were walking repositories of information (prey animal migratory behavior, what plants are edible or poisonous, geography, myths, medicine, ancestral lineage, etc)
I wonder if the geophagy is related to pica, which is the eating clay or urge to (although sources I recently read described it as a craving for ANY nonfood substances) Pica can be a sign of iron deficiency, anemia and low hemoglobin levels in those affected. My cat as a kitten had a problem with eating dirt, rocks/gravel, kitty litter, and I remember her paw pads were always cold, the vet said it's probably indicating she has low iron. Gave her supplements and the pica symptoms disappeared. Kinda interesting lol
On geophagy, you can get the right kind of medicinal clay at every pharmacy. For DIY, soil below 20 or 30 centimeters deep is generally considered safe to eat. Its greatest effect is on the digestive system, which in turn greatly influences the immune system. It may be worth a try😋
What’s it called? I’m super curious to try. I’ve been trying kombucha, but I don’t notice a difference yet. Eating clay might help my digestive issues perhaps
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@Janitor Queen Yeah and forever stay in bed from tomorrow, because setting your foot on the floor could mean certain death🙄
Can I marry you?? Lmao.
Love your video series/videos. I find myself watching, and even re-watching your videos, often to calm my anxiety (especially at night).
If you don’t already have a Patreon, I think you’re at the point where you have enough viewers that it’d be worth while. Keep at it, man.
"Drill into my rotten tooth with flint and carve a hole into my skull with a stone axe and all without any pain killer of any kind?!! No thanks!! I'd rather crawl back in this cave and die and fossilize for a few million years!"
I believe that the Shanidar 1 fossil is the inspiration for the Neandertal character, Creb, in Jean M. Auel's "Clan of the Cave Bear". Although much of her Earth's Children series is speculative and fictional, she wrote the series with expert guidance from paleoanthropologists and other experts, and she used the most current scientific information available to her at the time she was doing her research. Also notable is the fact that the main character in the series is a prehistoric healer. There are extremely detailed passages related to healing knowledge that people may have had at the time.
And the skeleton that was blinded in one eye and missing an arm was the inspiration for sweet Creb the Mog-ur.
@@wolfen26 Yes, Shanidar 1 was the inspiration for Creb, like I said in my original comment.
Never forgett that "the placebo" effect us you. You healing yourself from withing...in other words *the placebo is you*
i love learning about this stuff, i completely never would have thought of the tooth drill! i believe we shouldnt assume that they did all the surgical things without anesthesia. if they could figure out to use penicillin they would definitely have known plants to use to induce numbness or sleep to help ease pain and assist with recovery, imo!! keep up the awesome work loving your channel XD XD XD thank you!!!
The ancient people may have used more effective painkillers than in more recent (but pre-modern) times.
I am partially descended from the Sámi, a people I assume you, such as I, show interest in. After reading Carl von Linné's "Lappland Expedition" from 1732 I have found out some incredibly interesting bronze age medical practices of the Sámi that obviously date back very recently. For instance, fevers were far more deadly among the Sámi due to incredibly low population density which made the diseases rarer and thus didn't allow for much immunity.
The practice for supposedly curing fevers was proportionately brutal. A pair of scissors (being a wonder of Sámi bronze age engineering) were inserted into the back of the mouth and used to chop off the uvula. I desperately don't want to imagine it.
Love your stuff man, I'm new here but your recent videos are just incredible. Beautiful thumbnail by the way.
After early humans discovered the effects of fermentation (alcohol), they quickly learned how to make their own, and in concentration. Antiseptic properties of this and certain powdered mushrooms were known very early. 🍄 🍄 🍄
if you would like loads of very interesting medical stories, examples and curiosities check into the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. The museum is fascinating, there is a wealth of material online and I know of at least two excellent films about the collection.
Jesus Christ I thought something happened to you thank god you’re back
chamomile is good tasting. Try it.
Please please please provide Subtitles to 'Neanderthal - Ancient Human' Video 🙏🙏
English is not my first language so it's hard to grasp most words....
I will look into it
@@NORTH02 thank you
appreciate it 💖
Any field in anthropology you recommend studying?
Remember when making bold claims like "most of our ancestors never saw their 40th birthday" that the fossil record is too sparse to give any definitively clear indications on the overall population characteristics for the vast majority of Hominid finds, including our own. This is a field in its infancy, & it's not prudent to make such definitive statements given the data we have.
Great stuff. Stories in buddhist writings tell of brain surgery with honey poured in the wound. Same procedure in ancient Egypt.
Fascinating part of history is how far back cataract surgery goes. We have evidence of it performed in prehistory, ancient Greece, and all the way up to today. Until recently, with the introduction of plastics, it was often done in the same way for thousands of years
Dude, I really enjoy your videos and documentaries.
Keep up the good work, and I will keep watching and learning.
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Still better than ww1 health care
@Janitor Queen get your political talk out of here, nobody asked
I like to wonder about Stone Age mental health. We as a species existed like that far longer than we live now, I wonder how unnatural and heavy this daily grind is for the mind. Obviously they had their own struggles but running the rat race till you die versus ride and die with your family and close friends. Everyday full of purpose. A natural state that I’m always curious about, thanks for these videos.
You are wrong about the lifespan of ancient humans. just basic critical thinking skills is all you need to come to the conclusion that ancient humans lived healthier lives than modern 21st century humans.
Mcdonalds? Fastfood? Processed food? High fructose corn syrup? Didn't exist
Diabetes? Obesity? Heart disease? Not an issue
Pollution? Not an issue
Stress free lives living a 24/7 vacation camping in a national park? Yes, they actually lived a 24/7 western style vacation.
They got plenty of exercise.
They had the PERFECT DIET THAT THEY WERE DESIGNED TO EAT THROUGH EVOLUTION
They had a high child mortality rate. And that is pretty much it. If you survived childhood, you would live a long life 70+
And I don't know what it is about modern society that fear mongers about infectious disease. Mammalian immune systems have been evolving for MILLIONS OF YEARS. The immune system kept the vast majority of humans safe from death before the age of 70.
Our immune system works best on attacks we have had before.
New attackers might produce a wrongly judged intervention. Like the way many people responded to Covid and their bodies went into overdrive. Killing the virus so effectively that they drowned themselves.
"Many things could have killed ol-one-arm" lol that made my day.
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9:00 Yarrow leaves are used medicinally to promote wound healing, reduce scarring, clot blood, manage pain and minimise risk of bacterial infections. It can also be chewed to relieve tooth ache.
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21:26 Thanks for all the Australian Aboriginal photos. I like this photo, as many people learn about the spiritual aspect of traditional Aboriginal dancing, but as this photo shows it can also be entertaining and good for a laugh.
Excellent video! Your voice is so calming.
I have been a subscriber for about 6 months and I very much enjoy listening to you. I find your subjects extremely educational and enjoy them even more since you have changed to more human history . My only hope is that you are properly compensated for your videos as I have to watch probably 10 ads in a 20-minute video. Congratulations on a job well done.
I'm just so amazed at the quality of your videos, so well researched and narrated. I know someone who is a Montessori teacher, and I sent them links to your videos. Your videos are calming, and incredibly interesting, and educational. Your shorter videos would be a perfect starting point for younger kids, and other paleontology, archeology, and ancient history lovers.
Human history is one of the most interesting but sadly uncared for subjects, thank you for shining more light on the subject! I love listening to your (and other history youtubers) videos while I'm at the gym
I had a chimpanzee as a doctor once very briefly.
Holy Kit'nkaboodle, Batman! A Healthcare video that doesn't push an agenda!
It's amazing what our ancestors lived through. Thank you for sharing what you learned with us. Very eye opening!