San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert - A House That Could be Built Without Metal Tools
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ม.ค. 2020
- What is the first house? Where and when did people start to build? Were caves our first shelter...or nests?
In the centre of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana a few San hunter-gathering bushmen still live a fairly traditional way of life. While this may be thought of as primitive technology, this is actually a sophisticated house, ecological and organic in its design and perfectly adapted to the climate and culture of the bushmen. An egalitarian society in which men and women work and share equally the huts are arranged around a central hearth around which the family mostly sleep, but we learn that not only are the huts for living in, but a young bushman girl when she comes of age will be kept inside the hut for three whole weeks to teach her that she must not play with the boys. An old bushman lady tells us the story.
Is this the oldest house in the world? The huts are only a few months old, but the design may go back four million years? How can this be possible? A few thoughts about where architecture all began.
Thank you so much to the wonderful open-hearted and wise-beyond-words San bushmen for sharing their skills with me.
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Absolutely wonderful that you are keeping a record of this architectural genre. Thank you.
It's under the category shyt shack.
I thank you for all the work you've put into this series of historical housing. It opens our eyes and our hearts to the equality of our fellow humans. We are all equal just in different places on the earth. Blessings
When I was drunk alone outside a few years ago, I built a shelter out of sticks and reeds. I was suddenly obsessed with it and spent hours on it. After that experience I started recognizing shelters or their remains built by humans in the woods. It's clearly some sort of instinct a few people are still expressing.
Yep, climbing trees, playground swings and making dens is still deep within many of us. But for an advanced computer system that is quite a story HAL.
"Funny" when people say the San are backwards or uncivilized when their culture literally still exists, without the genetic bottlenecks seen pretty much everywhere else due to war or famine. Obviously there's skill that's been highly developed and obviously it still works that's why they're still HERE.
Not saying you did, I just noticed you took care in your words to cut that off at the pass and I appreciated that.
I like my house. No hut 😅 for me please. My people took humanity to space.
@@PROLYFGUY-ld9uu and killing the planet
The San are the most beautiful people and culture- it's said they are hanging on by little
They are having to adapt to a new world, but in the face of massive prejudice. Same goes for many of the peoples I have worked with. i was lucky to find two groups, one, in the centre of the Kalahari, was so precious I did not even turn my camera on.
@@NomadArchitecture 🙏🏾🙏🙏🏾🙏 Your good people- thank you for the insight into there culture without being invasive or disrespectful
I've hoped for a documentary that recorded indigenous & ancient architecture. I've always been drawn to ancient architecture and repelled by the modern fashions. Thank you for your hard work compiling these videos.
Beautiful!! Amazing film!!!
Fantastic, many thanks!
Nice videos we must get back to this natural way of living as humans for the sake of the earth itself
and for the psychological sake of humans as well
I think human speech came from the sounds of birds so it would make sense that birds inspired weaving of branches for shelters
Yet another successful observation I can now see and understand your interest in architecture I find it fascinating that we use bricks would everything to make a house concrete cement and yet they can make an adequate shelter which sometimes can last in the lifetime and another can last a whole season keep up the good work Tina XX
Thank you so much for sharing this! I just donated 🙏🏽
Thank you!
Magnifique !!!!
Wow this is super interesting. Thank you!
Incrível.......Espetacular
i love bushmen tribe i love them 🧡🧡💚💚
Great great work! Complimenti
I love watching your videos many thanks!
You are very welcome, more coming soon!
Awesome history....
Krásné video👍💚💚💚🌞🌞🌞
we often underestimate how shared constraints (physics & environmental) as well as shared obstacles to living can result in common solutions - it doesnt have to directly be genetic.
Whether we carried this design deep inside us as we spread across the globe, or reinvented it wherever we needed shelter is a hard thing to test with so little evidence. However, my main point is that we carried the construction skills with us, and the ability to see nature as a chest of resources out of which to build a home. We then (I suggest) started adapting this principle to meet different conditions.
И не нужно ипотеку оформлять в банке
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Also there is no reason to supose actual bushman and their dwellings are representative of older bushman, as if they were isolated from history. Maybe their dwellings have some quite new features or have been simplified over the years. Things do not necesarilly go from less tô more complex, especially when faced with colonialism.
Thank you, you are quite right to question these things. I have been working at two levels, one is simply to record fine details of traditions that are fast disappearing, and to do this with a high degree of precision and detail (the videos are only a taste of this). At one level, that is enough for me, (I am only a mere architect). However, in some places there are clearly parallels between human migrations, language evolution and architectural evolution, but once one enters this debate the arguments always start. But in this video I am picking up on a theory by two erstwhile professors at Max Plank and I wanted to go talk to some bushmen about it! In truth it is a massive project to trace all these things.
@@NomadArchitecture I came here to mention that in all the Tuu languages of the southern Kalahari (and previously the Karoo as well), the word n||ng (or the variant n||ai) means both house and nest! Is one of the professors you mention perhaps Tom Guldemann? I am hugely interested in his and Gertrude Boden and Christfried Naumann's work on the Taa language.
Элдердин байыркы уйлорунун ичинде биздин Кыргыздын боз уйу тыккан жакшы го
this is also how somali build their traditional and cultural heritage houses
0:59 Tyler Durden?
To say a dwelling is more evolved than another one is like saying that a species of animal is more evolved than another species of animal when in reality they are both adapte to their specific enviroment and there is no reason to expect a unilinear and universal scheme of evolution to be true. In reality you should combine diffusionism with multilineal evolution.
They can do it more than that..
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Your channel should have a million subs instead of those useless Omegle you tubers who just take their shirts off and show their six pack
Thank you. I couldn't agree more :)
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Imagine if someone huffs and puffs and blows their house down💀
If we just followed their ways, this planet could be saved from environmental destruction.😔
sure can tell the difference in the huts ,language,mannerism of real natives and these modern people portrayed here
Of course, but there are no San bushpeople left who have not been through this change. Even the handful left in the centre of the Kalahari were settled and went back. This group offered to take their clothes off and look the part, because this is what film companies always want, but I am not about making fiction, I will leave that to the BBC and Nat Geo!
Deep thinkers
I believe in the creation .Man ADAM WAS CREATED I. GODS IMAGE .so much that the angels bowled down to Adam the likeness was so much exactly the same
Aman! God created this enviroment and animals for us; for us to take care of(animals and environment) domesticate( tame the animals and environment to sustain us)
And use(after cultivating the environment and animals we harvest them for our purposes,keeping us alive and creating products for us to sell to each other ie: trade)
In order for us to be tested by God; he sees if we can endure suffering to be closer to him and love him; cause if we don't suffer we don't call for him nor or seek to love him.
It's wonderful to find another like minded chap; in this overzealous science minded world, that seems to worship their own intellectual and not "love"himself ie God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit
God Speed and I enjoyed writting this comment; got my thoughts out
Thank you
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00:59 wtf?!
I really need to re-edit this video!
Soon the messiah will come
Africa is not the cradle of human civilisation , that would be somewhere in the the middle east. It is maintained that Africa is the cradle of mankind, probably . As for the oldest houses on earth, I would disagree with you there as well . That would be the cave dwellings in France , southern Spain and South Africa .
I think your talking about the first city's not first houses ?
@@mattmatty4670 I am not talking about my House ? unless of course you can't spell "you're ? .... How does anyone know what or where the first houses were ? I would also argue that a few sticks woven together somewhere in Africa would not constitute a house , anything of such a temporary nature would be defined as a shelter,... and there is nothing wrong with that .
@@rgwholt your is just less letters then you're, quicker. Caves are ready made but adapted? But sticks woven together is building from scratch. Making it a home. Finding a cave in France would be after sapiens walked out Africa.
@@mattmatty4670 Your and you're are two completely different words , obviously English isn't your first language so that's understandable . We are talking about houses not homes , which are also two completely different things. As you seem to have a problem with this concept I see no point in continuing this dialogue . Good day to you
@@rgwholt ha dribble dribble buddy. Something is wrong with u a buddy. Cheers
Around 2,000 years ago. People stop building houses like this because birds were laying eggs on their heads and interrupting their sleep. Tomorrow could be another Mastodon morning and you need your rest
While narrating your content....I still hear the sound of destruction in nature ...CHAINSAW.... Logging is goin on while your speaking...fell so sad for that truly
2.5 million years? Best read Genesis Mr Narrator
At the risk of being controversial, there are lots of creation myths, why put one above another?
The bible is a lot of myth and fairly tales. Don't like it, move on.
I find the Chimps part super racist, was the comparison to animals necessary ?
It isn't though. Humans literally are apes, just like chimps. Our biological classification is great ape.
Apes/chimps are not inferior to us
That woman speaks better English than Trump.
they wearing old clothes and lost her kultur
It is foolish to teach tools came from apes. Biblical writing mention Abraham and those of his time lived in tents and cities
No, it is not foolish. Actually, it is a completely reasonable avenue of enquiry by those with open minds. Don't get me wrong, I accept the reality of spiritual entities, just not the closed construct of one belief system working with a poor translation of a text written on the basis of a limited and patriarchal understanding of the majesty of the whole spiritual arena.
It is quite foolish to take anything written in any religious text for fact...
@@waltonsimons9082 It is quite dangerous and foolish to reject anything from God's Word and especially to reject Jesus Christ.
@@bellindj All Christians are already basically atheists.
You don't believe in some 2500 gods, Atheists just take it one god further.
Alas it seems the brainwashing inflicted upon you from a young age has completely destroyed your logical thinking capabilities.
A shame, to die in ignorance clinging to some old book, instead of seeing the true wonders of the universe through science...