What Did Prehistoric Humans Eat |6 Unbelievable Stone Age Dishes |Early Human Diets |Ancestral Foods
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- What did people eat for dinner tens of thousands of years ago? Many advocates of the so-called Paleo diet will tell you that our ancestors’ plates were heavy on meat and low on carbohydrates - and that, as a result, we have evolved to thrive on this type of nutritional regimen. But ancient humans had a more complex diet than previously thought. Our video sheds light on hominin abilities to adjust to new environments.
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YOuTube cook Chef John once showed his fans how to make bread out of any kind of flour or ground grain and water, mixing it with water and kneading it into dough. Then cook a flat round piece of dough on a hot rock, a skillet, or a barbecue grill, and eat like your ancestors did.
One major reason there are billions of us humans today is because we’re omnivorous - we can eat, and survive on, a tremendously varied diet.
Very interesting! It just shows how we as humans do the best with a variety and moderation in everything!
And that our ways of doing things are pretty much the same. Fore example, making a house out of mudbrick is still possible today.
Everything EXCEPT man made processed food . I doubt a cave man would eat cake , Protein bars , cakes , cookies and bread lol
@@Heartbreaker1999-o5s Unless we show them what they are.
No, they were actually eating those wild grains so they didn't starve to death while meat wasn't available.
@@johnfadds6089 I think it depended on the location of the tribes . And if they ate grains , I doubt they were like today . Most likely sprouted
I'd like to see Max Miller attempt some of these.
Me too!
Shocked! They ate what they could find in the area, cuz they didn't have much choice.
Meat, organs, fish, and eggs = food for thriving
Grains, vegetables, legumes, and fruits = food for survival
Our ancestors only ate survival foods when thriving foods were not easy to come by or hunting failed
@@CRM-114 you're here because humans started eating meat 😂
@@CRM-114 whatever helps you sleep at night, bud 😂
Not true about sugar sources.
Ripe fruit and honey are right at the top of what hunter gatherers seek along with meat.
@@Augusto9588 unfortunately, that type of fruit was very seasonal and very different to what you see in supermarkets today. They were smaller and had natural defenses that allowed only adapted animals to consume them. Honey was a rare find and certainly not at winter time. Hence, meat, like the OP states was the desired thing on the menu.
Yeah how ironical, food kinds originally for thriving are now a major culprit for our imminent doom
(Animal related pollution) 😂😂
Great video
Yo this video is underrated as hell
Agreed
We didn't have a balanced diet, we ate whatever we could find.
Just like today.
It was quite balanced. Look into "foraging" and you'll see how plentiful food really is
OK, ancient human eats: fish, eggs, beans, nuts, and some whole grains. That is exactly what I eat the most.
Just because we ate some of these things sure as hell doesn’t mean we wanted to. Grains, beans, and nuts are full of defense chemicals. Not even worth it if you aren’t on the brink of death
To eat fish you must catch it and with ancient methods that would have been almost impossible to achieve on a large scale. Eggs were not in supermarkets and when you raid a nest that nest is usually abandoned so no more eggs there, beans and nuts, if foraged they'd be seasonal and scarce and hardly available at quantities that could sustain even small groups. Meat however was available all year around, could be stolen from larger predators, hunted, trapped, etc. Meat was the primary source of nutrition of prehistoric men with no ability to cultivate or raise animals. This clip is mostly nonsense.
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I really don’t understand why you Keto ppl want to copy your poor wretched ancestors’ diet when almost none of them live past 40 🤔 🤷🤷
@@C_R_O_M________ Fruits and veggies are available naturally in all seasons in a rotational manner unless you live in extreme climatic regions.
@@007Bedant That wasn't the case for the vast majority and the tens of thousands of years that the human body developed (evolutionary). They were quite scarce, seasonal and not in the current non-toxic form (which is genetically modified).
Fruit is found for a few short days a year, when it ripens. It is then subject to fierce competition from a slew of animals, then isnt available for a year. Try to find a fresh Paw Paw a week after they ripen, for example.
Legumes and grains are only there after they mature, and like fruit, are gobbled up as soon as they are ready, then no more until next season. Visit a wheat field a month after it ripens to refill your flour bag and see what remains.
Meat, on the other hand, is available year round.
Our ancestors ate mostly meat, because shipping and storage wasnt perfected yet.
Only today, for a very short timespan of history, can we eat fruit from the tropics in winter and grain from around the world in the spring.
Exactly!
Exactly. This is why I have been following the (mostly raw!) Carnivore diet for 5 years...
I have a feeling that this video is a kind of secret vegan propaganda...
This video is explaining specific archeological finds. Plant based food can be preserved in a variety of ways- especially in the cool darkness at the back of a cave. Animals are lean in winter, and without supplementing with stored carbohydrates, fats and other nutrition, humans would suffer starvation eating just lean protein.
@@Fenrires show me a cave painting that a hunt of large prey isn't depicted.
Moreover, trash findings from specific sites suggest that meat, oysters, clams and other sources of protein were the main source of nutrition of that era.
You cannot store something you don't have in plenty and before cultivation, fruits, nuts, seeds, grain and other sources of plant-based nutrition were extremely scarce and highly seasonal.
They weren't exactly around the corner and you'd soon depleted all such sources near your cave. Caves were bases of security that you wouldn't want to leave frequently.
Hence in many of such caves whole generations of people are buried inside or near them. Plant-based diet (mainly) would have been impossible under those conditions.
The sort of fruits and nuts you find in the market today weren't even in existence back then. Most of them are genetically developed and had nothing to do with their wild versions, which were not as nutritional, big, or safe to eat.
Who said people didn’t hunt large prey? In addition to vital food, they used skins for clothing and shelter, tendons for sinew, and the bladder and stomach for food and water storage. Bones were used as awls, toggles and other tools. Yes, they ate seafood too.
However Stone Age peoples also utilised myriad food preservation techniques- 14 000 years ago in the Middle East, structures were built to dry meat, fruit and vegetables using fire, sun and wind. Excavations of mammoth bone lodges reveal caches cutting into the permafrost level, to form a cold storage area. A Swedish site from 9600 years ago shows a long pit, filled with fish bones affected by acid damage, attributed to fermentation.
Many sites show consumption of various plant foods, many with medicinal applications.
Long term storage of the natural seasonal glut (fruits, edible mushrooms, fresh young shoots all appear in abundance only at certain times) combined with more reliable reeds, rushes and nettles etc would all have been utilised.
The 2010 paper “Thirty thousand-year-old evidence of plant food processing” by Anna Revedin et al may interest you.
Please do topics like the chocolate video.. It was seriously cozy.
Your channel is so good
Thank you so much 😀
They ate bivalves and gastropods thus the very large shell mounds throughout the U.S. All that hunting large animals is largely added for drama. Eating snails and clams out of the rivers doesn't quite match the He -man hunter image .
You can eat clams for some time but not ALL the time as they are hard to digest and will deplete quickly if you don't allow for local replenishment. Meat was certainly a HUGE part of their diet regardless of your silly remarks about "he-men images" and wishful rainbow thinking, all prehistoric paintings (of which I have seen plenty) depict scenes from hunts of large prey.
The drama of large animals is interesting to draw but doesn't really mean anything. There are little if any pics of people gathering grain and foraging for edible plants and roots. That was the main part of their diet .Also the preponderance of "ground stone" used to grind grain at sites indicates they were used a lot . The rivers are large and people semi nomadic. and have excavated one of those shell mounds .I have actually done the work.Are there drawings of fish another large part of their diet? I don't think so Any cave cave paintings of women giving birth, a vital part survival .I don't think so .@@C_R_O_M________
That may be true for populations that lived along the coast, but it was not an option for inland societies.
amazing
You are goooooooooood
Although humans ate whatever they found, meat and fish was the vast majority of their calorie intake (fat specifically), with periods of starvation in between, some lasting days (what we call now intermittent fasting). The occasional roots, nuts, seeds, fruits and berries were the only carbs humans ate, and that was in-between hunts to deal with hunger.
Whenever i have a discussion with anyone about what a healthy diet is ....what you said is my reply...but most people dont want to hear that simple truth.
@@insanelyinsensitive4059 Yep, as the vast majority of scholars and doctors will tell otherwise and promote high carb eating as the go to diet. Health authorities around the world are basically killing millions of people systematically for many decades.
@@insanelyinsensitive4059 Also, the wild fruits and vegetable that existed in those time were much less sweet and contained much less carbs. People ate fibers and other trash because of hunger when a hunting wasn't successful or there were no animals found.
Facts. You don’t have to eat a single gram of carbohydrate or plant matter, ever. Unless you ate truly at fear of death by starvation.
Otzi the ice mummy found in austrian alps thousands of years old had einkorn wheat ancient wheat and linseed and herbs in his gut. Its a myth they did not eat grains. Spelt was found in a pyramid tomb
What did humans eat before that when it was only humans and maybe animals that chased them every day for food.
fruit was the main thing humans ate for our evolution. then meat, then grains and vegetables only if necessary. people forget for most of our evolution we were in tropical areas where fruit grows year round and is abundant. chimps are are closest relatives and have the most similar digestive system to us. they still live in these areas and mostly eat fruits just like we used to do.
There was no Stone Age Walmart? shocking
The mere exclusion of meat from the "menu" in the beginning of the clip shows a bias on your part. So, the audience should take this clip with a huge grain of salt.
Not for a second do i believe that cavemen harvested corn with stones and made bread. what a load of bs
I am seriously unsure how much of this video is factually true just because youtube removed dislikes and this has 52k views and only 900 likes, and 121 comments.
Way before God created the universe, Adam &. Eve😮
So it took 680,000 years to eat flat bread. Not very diverse at all. Meat and leaves for 680k years, according to this video..
I always thought they ate brontosaurus burgers
Why not?
Think it's called Palestine
Damn right!
Yes
No, Afghanistan.
are you saying butter or batter?😂🍻
Amazing but just one mistake it was a map of Palestine not isreal… come on with the history
Israel or palestine did not exist then. It was canaan and judaea
Both didn't exist
*palestine. Not Israel
There was never a country called Palestine.
Both names are valid, but not the country’s name itself. Cry about it
Vegan activists are getting sneakier with these kind of videos. If humans ate those wild type of cereal it was to survive the periods where meat wasn't available. Those would've been hard to digest and scarce, definitely not sustainable. The paleolithic man was on a meat based diet, ask any serious anthropologist.
The video does not indicate that people ate ONLY cereals, and veganism has nothing to do with it. On the contrary, the emphasis is on the fact that the food of prehistoric people was very diverse. Even Otzi the Iceman was found with six different mosses in his tummy.
@@primevaloldmanthat he ate a little bit of Mosses doesn’t mean that he ate mosses frequently or that mosses was part of his way of eating
If the future humans would find a gum in one of our tummy that wouldn’t mean that we were gum-eaters though.
The Iceman may have brushed up against mosses in the gorge, stocked up on some for his supply kit, or used them to wrap his food or dress his wounds.
They soaked their seeds and grains to the point of sprouting first.This improves digestibility and bioavailability of more nutrients. When these were soaked too long, our ancient ancestors discovered the joys of fermentation and alcohol. Thus, civilization was born!
Meat-based diet? Lmao! Our ancestors were omnivores like us. Think about it. Do you know how much time, energy, and risk there is to going on a hunt? While meat was eaten (and the video never denied that by the way), it probably wasn't eaten as often as you'd think. Often times, early hominids would eat grains, fruits, tubers and plant-based food. Hence, why they were called hunter-gatherers. They hunted game and also gathered grains, fruits, and vegetables.
Eww raw meat
Sushi
Palestine *
Both names are valid, but not the country’s name itself. Cry about it
It's Palestine