The Perplexing Prehistory of the Sahara

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  • @NORTH02
    @NORTH02  ปีที่แล้ว +143

    What would you guys like to learn next?

    • @Pouncer9000
      @Pouncer9000 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I'd like to learn more about horses drawn by chariots? (14:55):)

    • @peyxander
      @peyxander ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Renowned explorer's discoveries of ancient humans

    • @rring44
      @rring44 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      The beginnings of animal husbandry and maybe even how we domesticated various cereal grains.

    • @helmann9265
      @helmann9265 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      1: south America prehistoric life in the amazonas
      2: the The origins of humans in the Pacific Ocean. Polynesians, Polynesia. (Maori?) Do they originate from South America? or on the side of the Far East (from China) 🤔
      3:" Ubeidiya site" in Jorden Valley makes me curious 🧐 (Cenozoic---> Pleistocene era)

    • @hannahdixon8365
      @hannahdixon8365 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      id love to learn more about the travel of different species, esp overseas, and how they did it. it fascinates me how much work must have gone into it or how long it wouldve taken compared to today

  • @dondidotchi
    @dondidotchi ปีที่แล้ว +440

    I live in algeria and now I'm in a city called tindouf and its in the Sahara.. This region is not well studied

    • @naponroy
      @naponroy ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I've been over on the other side of the Mauritanian border. How is it in Tindouf? Is it safe for travel? Is French widely spoken?

    • @dondidotchi
      @dondidotchi ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Oui tu peux utiliser le français ici
      And about safety yeah it is safe even though its a sensitive place cause of the borders and all that sahraoui and Moroccan case
      You are welcome here the locals are very welcoming

    • @csx3180
      @csx3180 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      ​@@naponroyit's miserable, absolutely nothing to see, and you can't travel freely, since the area is given to the POLISARIO front by Algeria, it practically aims to be a mini (imaginary) temporary sahraoui state, it's being investigated for human rights violations such as torture and killing of countless voices that protest the state or caught trying to escape to the moroccan controlled Sahara, You can find info online about the topic, give it a try Sametime

    • @naponroy
      @naponroy ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@dondidotchi Like I said, I have been on the Mauritanian side, and it was very friendly. The desert somehow has such a beautiful draw. Thanks for the welcome

    • @naponroy
      @naponroy ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@csx3180 Where do you recomend I look online? Like I said before, the Mauritanian side was said to be dangerous but it was really ok. You really think it;d be dangerous to go there?

  • @Glassgothgirl
    @Glassgothgirl ปีที่แล้ว +470

    No worries about video output. You're investing in your academic development right now, and that in turn means enhanced content for us later! This is a fascinating video and I'm glad you brought up acceptance of **Natural** climate change at the end. The lessons we should be learning now is not to mess with the planet on such a level. Deserts are as important as lush forest in terms of diversity. Enjoy your time in Italy and happy studies!

    • @scottconlon5124
      @scottconlon5124 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      If we can destroy I assume we can create

    • @eliteventurer62
      @eliteventurer62 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Extremely heart warming to see positive and encouraging comments.

    • @xLILxWANGx
      @xLILxWANGx ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes be told what to think not how! I mean learn!

    • @ThursonJames
      @ThursonJames ปีที่แล้ว +4

      “It wasn’t ‘natural’! The ancient Atlantans did it, even though they also didn’t exist!”
      Should’ve been all caps, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it…

    • @renato7184
      @renato7184 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@scottconlon5124 Destroy is a lot easyier than create

  • @HistoryTime
    @HistoryTime ปีที่แล้ว +143

    Loved this one. Nice work!

  • @lastofmygeneration
    @lastofmygeneration ปีที่แล้ว +106

    When people try to say Ancient Egyptian civilization seemed to spring from nowhere, I try to communicate to them this completely ignores what we know about prehistory. It makes perfect sense they would congregate along the Nile after the inland lakes dried up. There is no doubt they learned some amazing strategies for survival while the Sahara was turning to desert.

    • @IsaacHarvison-mt5xt
      @IsaacHarvison-mt5xt 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      No Egyptian new who they were they knew who lived around them at the time they pottery depicting different tribes and them 😂😂 they weren't dark skinned Africans

    • @lastofmygeneration
      @lastofmygeneration 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      @@IsaacHarvison-mt5xt what exactly are you scoffing at here?

    • @romanpaladino
      @romanpaladino 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      @@IsaacHarvison-mt5xt You shouldn't be laughing when you can't even write a coherent post.

    • @benjammin1212
      @benjammin1212 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@IsaacHarvison-mt5xt Err black pharaoh's ???

    • @ateethestar1531
      @ateethestar1531 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What?
      @@IsaacHarvison-mt5xt

  • @iamb34
    @iamb34 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    This is not only beautiful but soothing, your videos are the best when you’re walking or in the bus or whenever, it’s basically a high quality audiobook
    Keep up North!

    • @daylightbright7675
      @daylightbright7675 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I...well yes I suppose you would be "in" the bus. Jeez even though I'd always say you're "on" the bus, that really doesn't make a lot of sense when you actually think about it lmao

    • @florentineeffect
      @florentineeffect 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@daylightbright7675typical Redditor 🤣

    • @daylightbright7675
      @daylightbright7675 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@florentineeffect I'm saying that it makes more sense to say it that way when you think about it? We say "in the car." Why tf do we say ON the bus? Are you riding on the bike rack or up on the roof? No, no you're not. English is weird

  • @sharpiepenfinepoint
    @sharpiepenfinepoint ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Prehistoric art is probably my favorite thing, loved seeing so much of it!

    • @harrietharlow9929
      @harrietharlow9929 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      My late godson was enthralled with prehistoric art, especially cave art. I am, too. I especiay ove te art of caves such as Lasceaux andAltimira. They had a wonderful sense of techinque and perspective was incredible.
      One interesting development is that Neanderthals not ony produced cave art, but they were probaby the first cave artists in Europe. Paintings were found in caves in Spain that have been dates to about 65,000 years. this says that the artistic impulse has been with us for a long, long time now.

  • @marjoriejohnston3038
    @marjoriejohnston3038 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    I love the ancient rock art that leaves us a flavour of the times.

    • @oneshothunter9877
      @oneshothunter9877 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I live in Greenland, and recently I've been carving both elephants and rhinos on cliff walls here, preferably near the inland ice.
      Wonder what people will think if my carvings are found some thousands of years from now. 😁

    • @perceivedvelocity9914
      @perceivedvelocity9914 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@oneshothunter9877 I wonder what future generations will think of modern monuments. For example Mount Rushmore in the US. Imagine coming across that if you didn't know why it was put there.

    • @maxsmith8196
      @maxsmith8196 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@perceivedvelocity9914 I feel like at this point we have left behind way too much in the archelogical record to surprise anyone with what they find…

    • @samuraijackoff5354
      @samuraijackoff5354 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @maxsmith8196
      If enough time past, a lot of the things we do will just disappear. The dinosaurs lived for thousands of years before us and we have only bones and some eggs. For us humans we only have recent things in the grand scheme of things, everything from before is hard to find.

  • @paulrward
    @paulrward ปีที่แล้ว +137

    The Circular Tools you show at 8:39 are quite well known to North American Anthropologists
    and Archaeologists - they are Hide Scrapers, used to remove the flesh and fat from animal
    hides without damaging the hides, prior to tanning.

    • @EuroWarsOrg
      @EuroWarsOrg 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You talking about Clovis or Solutrean? They are way more shaped

    • @conniead5206
      @conniead5206 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The disks seem too round to be an effective or efficient hide scraping tool. Do not look like other stone tools used for that either.

    • @atomic_bomba
      @atomic_bomba 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@conniead5206Their rounded edges hide a very real sharpness. You can find examples of other circular hide-scrapers from prehistoric caves around Israel.

    • @ElGreaseMan
      @ElGreaseMan 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠​⁠@@atomic_bomba I think Connie means that there is no flat or blunted portion/segment that would go into the palm during the scraping, therefore, the tools are “too round” to be effective. Maybe?

    • @atomic_bomba
      @atomic_bomba 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ElGreaseMan Not really. Appearances can be deceiving. Think of it like the lid of a can - round, but very sharp.

  • @ordinaryman2299
    @ordinaryman2299 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    imagine all the great wooden monuments we will never know about ???

  • @Kadath_Gaming
    @Kadath_Gaming ปีที่แล้ว +52

    If you regreen the Sahara, you cut off the nitrate flow through the trade winds which precipitates out in the daily rainfall in the Amazon basin. So if you look back in time in the Amazon basin you find contemporary environmental retreat and civilisational spread at times when the Sahara is greener.

    • @mrbaab5932
      @mrbaab5932 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Look at that latitude of the Sahara and the Amazon. The Sahara is up north and parallel with Florida, USA and Northern Mexico, while the Amazon is parallel to the Congo and Angola.

    • @4d4fastwitch454
      @4d4fastwitch454 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@mrbaab5932 hey stop making dumb comments on everybody’s posts, if you don’t know something go look it up before you speak because you are consistently wrong everytime you mind someone else’s business.

    • @4d4fastwitch454
      @4d4fastwitch454 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@mrbaab5932 what he said is true, the Amazon depends on dust from the Sahara.

    • @C-Farsene_5
      @C-Farsene_5 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@4d4fastwitch454 the amazon would still exist thanks to the rich rivers that flow from the andes and the general moisture just not in the same scale or size

    • @haotian9421
      @haotian9421 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      If the Amazon needs dust blown across the Atlantic, how do the rainforests of Australasia and Africa thrive so well? There doesn’t seem to be another comparable dust source that might fertilise those rainforests, and it seems unlikely that the dust would get blown right around the world to the Congo without getting dispersed or rained down to the ground?

  • @smacky101
    @smacky101 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Thanks for still putting time into these videos. They are always welcome even if we have to wait :)

  • @meechneek
    @meechneek ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Not only do I love it, as it contains of priceless knowledge. Your voice really calms me down, every time I watch new episode, I find it hugely relaxing, thank you! 👍👏👌

    • @paul6925
      @paul6925 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      A good narrator really helps. I have to turn some videos off because the voice is so annoying. Even if the content is good

    • @DakiniDream
      @DakiniDream ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Agree, the voice is awesome, i'm so tired about people screaming at me. ;)

    • @canchero724
      @canchero724 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No loud bangs or sound effects too. It's such a blissful experience listening to these videos

  • @owellafehr5191
    @owellafehr5191 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    That rock art is amazing! I can't believe I've never seen pictures of any of it before. A lot of it is so stylistically unique from rock art in other parts of the world. I particularly love the giraffes at 10:01 and 10:05 and the crocodiles at 10:12.

    • @hildahilpert5018
      @hildahilpert5018 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      My late father was in Africa during WW2.He spoke about the cave paintings in the Lybian Desert.He was a flight crew chief and airplane mechanic.He spoke about flying over that area during the war, and you could see what looked like the remains of villages or towns from the Air.Asked if any archeologists had done excavations there.He said not that he knew of ,because of the difficulty getting to these areas.

    • @agent1821
      @agent1821 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Mo

  • @NextToToddliness
    @NextToToddliness ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Always appreciate the time and quality you put into these videos!

  • @Peter-zv8cy
    @Peter-zv8cy ปีที่แล้ว +35

    The editing and the video quality is really good in this video. Great job!

  • @brooklyna007
    @brooklyna007 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Thank you so much for doing a video on the green Sahara. It is one of the portions of the Neolithic transition that is nearly completely lost to us. It is impossible to figure out where the Niger-Congo, Bantu, Guanches and Fulani civilizations trace back to without knowing what their interactions with the Saharan people were. I really hope we start getting clues like ancient DNA and archeological sites connected to cultures that still or exist or that we at least know more about.

    • @JayKahns
      @JayKahns ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They all likely trace back to the Garama, Mauri, and Meroe.

    • @brooklyna007
      @brooklyna007 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ​@@JayKahns Those are some of the people that are very likely to be related to ancient Saharan peoples. But note that the histories for those people all start at least 4,000 years after the Sahara mostly dried up. It continued drying afterwards but most of it was done by 4,000-3,000 BC.
      For the Garama and Meroe we don't even know their language.The Mauri can't be tied to much else other than "likely Berber". And we don't know how these can be related to the Fulani and other south Sahel groups. There is hard disconnect in classical archeology, archeogenetics and linguistics when looking to the north and south of the Sahel. There is a missing history in the middle.

    • @4d4fastwitch454
      @4d4fastwitch454 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      West African civilizations also have input from cultures in the area of shum laka in northwestern Cameroon who arrived around 30,000 bc. There were also cultures in those regions that could smelt iron as early as 2300 bc and is also a place of independently invented ceramic technology and engaged in transcontinental trade in domesticated crops as far back as the 10th and 6th millennia, respectively.

    • @mrbaab5932
      @mrbaab5932 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@4d4fastwitch454There are only two examples of iron working dating back before 1000 BC with no examples of iron smelting sites or iron smithing sites. There are no examples of bronze smelting and working, which is easier than iron smelting. The two examples of iron knives are generally thought to have fallen into older depths of earth like creek beds. There needs to be more than two questionable examples to prove iron working. Maybe that will happen in the future.

    • @4d4fastwitch454
      @4d4fastwitch454 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@mrbaab5932 so what you mean to tell me is that you’ve been living under a rock?

  • @haiguizeify
    @haiguizeify ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Hey man, I just wanna say your style is great. It's very listenable - I can follow along with what you're saying while you drive, and the soft-spoken, slow paced speech is very relaxing. Your new mic is great (compared to earlier videos) and I'd recommend you keep using it. Keep it up man, I'm excited to see more!

  • @sabrinaleedance
    @sabrinaleedance 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This makes so much sense that Egypt became the civilization it became, bc all of the people of the Sahara and their civilizations, culture, and technology mustve migrated to the Nile reigon when their homelands became uninhabitable

  • @oscarerikssonbrindbergs3572
    @oscarerikssonbrindbergs3572 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Greatings from Sweden. I'm currentlly writing an appointment on human evolution and your ancient human series has been a great help. Love your videos, keep doing you.

    • @acaydia2982
      @acaydia2982 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We didn’t really evolve as much as we interbred.

  • @AITrademarket
    @AITrademarket ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Thank you for another great video! And don’t worry about the frequency of the output. We are grateful for whatever you can do and indeed provide us. And that your videos are a much watched event in our household whenever they are released. I sometimes have to pause the video and look up the scientific terms you use (I studied economics and so I’m almost illiterate by scientific jargon standards LOL), but thank you nonetheless. Compelling!

  • @celestenova777
    @celestenova777 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Fascinating video with the history of the changing landscape over thousands of years. Makes me wonder of future people, animals, plants etc and how they will evolve.Thanks for your work.

  • @williamromine5715
    @williamromine5715 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is the first time I have heard someone bring up the question of humans trying change the climate to keep it as it as it has been recently. That is a question that should be discussed rationally. Thank you for bringing it up.
    I have only recently found your channel, and really like it.

  • @Joyride37
    @Joyride37 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A green sahara and lower sea levels, wider coasts, the persia gulf being a river valley; how much more of our history is buried under sand and sea?

  • @paul6925
    @paul6925 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    The art is quite beautiful and in a surprisingly naturalistic style. The flowing lines and overlapping legs are quite similar to early European art.

    • @maxwellmain7809
      @maxwellmain7809 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It is related. EEMH migrated into N. Africa about 30k ago, and- later- there was a migration from N. Africa into Spain and the UK. There are culturally similar finds and art in both regions, occuring at the same time, and even into today.

    • @paul6925
      @paul6925 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@maxwellmain7809 source?

    • @0rlanix
      @0rlanix ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@paul6925
      i think he's talking about the iberomaurisians, they're the ancestors of the berbers (natives of north africa), they existed across the Iberian peninsula and north africa.

    • @paul6925
      @paul6925 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@0rlanix Could be. But 30k is around 10k early for Ibero-Maurusians. I don't think it's really settled yet where berbers came from

    • @maxwellmain7809
      @maxwellmain7809 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@paul6925 I mean even OLDER than the Ibero-maurusians. The earliest of the EEMH to migrate into N. Africa were cold-adapted. Some mixed w/native N. African groups, while others did not. The desertification of N. Africa (which has actually happened a number of times over human history) caused a transitioning of EEMH phenotype characteristics, to those better adapted to handle a dry desert (longer, thinner faces/longer noses, etc. Traditionally, these had been labeled as Med phenotypes (that would have possibly evolved just before 25kya, ya, so YES, it's true that it would would take place during the mesolithic/Epipalepaleolithic era) although EEMH, native N. African phenotypes, transitions between EEMH AND MED phenotypes, as well as mixtures between these various phenotypes (including later Ibero-Maurusian ones, that someone else mentioned), could still be found on their own as well. Keep in mind, too, that that's focusing strictly on face/body structures, whereas lighter skin/eye/hair color (even in EEMH) may have appeared later in Europe, and therefore made it's way into N.Africa via later migrations. Also, Neanderthals had some influence on groups that ended up in N. Africa, just to further muddy the waters.......

  • @paulajmchugh
    @paulajmchugh ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I get so excited when you have a new video! Keep up the amazing work!

  • @thomasschwarz1973
    @thomasschwarz1973 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Great perspective on climate. Thank you!

  • @kankeinaittebayo
    @kankeinaittebayo ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I wasn't expecting the xxx rock art. I guess it has always been human nature to draw such things

    • @canchero724
      @canchero724 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also interesting that they're doing the deed the same way the animals do. It's a practical style as the man can still look out for dangers and threats.

  • @OriginalChicagoKrawZ
    @OriginalChicagoKrawZ ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hey North02 . I've been a fan a your videos since I stumbled across them over a year ago and now I watch them as soon as I can when they are put on TH-cam.
    I have recently learned a little bit about ancient Marsupials of Australia and New Zealand and think you would make an excellent video on them if you don't already have one in the works.
    That said Thank you so much for the wonderful informative videos you make for everyone to enjoy and learn from. I tell everyone I know about your channel when these topics come up and friends my age and older are blown away by your attention to detail and your drive to be thorough with all your information. Thank you so much and I can't wait to see and hear your take on ancient Australia and New Zealand. Arrivederci 🙋

  • @cynthiashepherd7754
    @cynthiashepherd7754 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Missed you. Great video. Some others I tried had great subjects but they spoke so fast I could not understand. Yours are perfect.

    • @stigcc
      @stigcc ปีที่แล้ว

      You can adjust the speed of the video. Some times I increase the speed and others I reduce it

  • @420haxx
    @420haxx ปีที่แล้ว

    I always appreciate a NORTH 02 video before bed, so chill yet fascinating. Enjoy yourself in Italy !

  • @hollymorris785
    @hollymorris785 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Happy to see a new video from you, thanks!

  • @draganjagodic4056
    @draganjagodic4056 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Beautiful work as ever. Thank you so much.

  • @algodoodoo8839
    @algodoodoo8839 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    14:56 The image of the chariot. Is there a date for this art? I assume this predates the building of the pyramids? The wheel shown in the picture has spokes. Making it a sophisticated design. This seems strange since it is said that the pyramids were built without the use of a wheel. The earliest wheels would have been much cruder. Made of solid wood. Would this art predate the Sumerian culture? I heard that the Sumerians had a wheel, but I don't know if they had a spoked wheel.

    • @Chawwii
      @Chawwii หลายเดือนก่อน

      Much more modern indeed

  • @cenedraleaheldra5275
    @cenedraleaheldra5275 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just love your calm voice with it intoxicating knowledge. Your wise evoking wisps of taunting questions. Enjoy your time in Italy. Thanks

  • @grace7961
    @grace7961 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This video is beautiful! Very relaxing to watch and informative!

  • @daniell1483
    @daniell1483 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I love your videos, North. What exactly is your area of study? You cover so much material, it is hard to pin down. Anthropology is my best guess, and if so, it honestly makes me consider studying the subject as well.

    • @trrblv3
      @trrblv3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He's made a q&a before he's like an IT major and this is just his hobby

    • @daniell1483
      @daniell1483 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@trrblv3 I think that makes the expertise all the more impressive, if accurate. Thanks for the info.

    • @NORTH02
      @NORTH02  ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Marketing major haha

    • @10Greencubs
      @10Greencubs ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@NORTH02 Congrats man.
      This amount of knowledge you teach is a gift to society.

    • @07438724
      @07438724 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@NORTH02 I would have not bet that!

  • @shablya
    @shablya ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Appreciate your work and fresh insight on this topic. I think a green Sahara could support a billion people if we still exist during the next humid period.

    • @stigcc
      @stigcc ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sub Saharan Africa only supported 100 million people. Only after Europeans gave them their inventions (such as agriculture, animal domestication, modern medicine, steam engines, metallurgy etc) they could increase beyond that

    • @stevensoto1710
      @stevensoto1710 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@stigcc actually the population increased after the European countries gave them independence not inventions, also its more due to famine and a lower life expectancy which caused Africans to have more children to survive into adulthood. tho no one can argue that the Chinese helped the population grow faster within a shorter period of time due to the infrastructure and higher rate of living

    • @maureenamadasun8779
      @maureenamadasun8779 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@stigccStop lying. Subsaharans Already had Kingdoms and Iron since 1000BCE,Farming and And all u mentioned. Racist

    • @zynato2321
      @zynato2321 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      not european invention @@stigcc

  • @tpench0754
    @tpench0754 ปีที่แล้ว

    Man i always look forward to your videos, great quality as always!

  • @lincolnyaco5626
    @lincolnyaco5626 ปีที่แล้ว

    to be--as usual--entertaining AND edifying.
    My thanx. Yr efforts are appreciated. You are an articulate and informed individual!!!
    I hope you enjoy creating these as much as I enjoy viewing.

  • @kevting4512
    @kevting4512 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “Humans painted realistically” shown in the midst of a coitus.
    Ah I see our ancestors taste in cultured art still lives on.

  • @junestanich7888
    @junestanich7888 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks! Always enjoy your videos.

  • @marjorie6573
    @marjorie6573 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You cantinue to amaze me with the depth of information provided in your videos. Simply fabulous!

  • @JustArtsCreations
    @JustArtsCreations ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Such a top top quality video. Really well done!

  • @Andrea-rw9tf
    @Andrea-rw9tf ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hey study, we appreciate the info you share! You have an awesome channel and I’ll continue to watch!

  • @kalrandom7387
    @kalrandom7387 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Always good to see a video of yours

  • @cavecavecavecave5295
    @cavecavecavecave5295 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your videos are always quality. Thank you. 😊

  • @JesseP.Watson
    @JesseP.Watson ปีที่แล้ว +19

    That was a truly beautiful piece of work good fellow. As an artist myself I never cease to be amazed by the incredible accuracy of the ancient's depiction of the animals around them, it so clearly exhibits highly sophisticated aesthetic sensibilities... not only accurate, but truly beautiful - those are drawn by eyes with great appreciation of their subjects. I recently released a short film on my channel here created over several months travelling the ancient and wild places of the British Isles which touches upon that more grounded viewpoint regarding the ever-changing climate you point towards here, I believe you may enjoy it.
    Thank you for that, a deeply intriguing pocket of history there, it makes me want to go and wander the Sahara (which may not be all that great a plan, but all the same... such a mystical place.
    All the best to ye, subscribed.

    • @winkiiiie
      @winkiiiie ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Talk about over analyzing something.. "highly sophisticated aesthetic". Not really what you would call sophisticated...lol and no we wont watch your video stop commenting that in every thread

  • @owenhowever1958
    @owenhowever1958 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    thank you for another amazing vid!!!!

  • @justme8837
    @justme8837 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't mind waiting on videos, they are always worth the wait. Congratulations on studying in Italy, it must be amazing. Take care.

  • @Hollylivengood
    @Hollylivengood ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the little questions you raise at the end.

  • @TheDocLamkin
    @TheDocLamkin ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Shenanigans, there were ancient advanced civilizations regardless of what your paid for education taught you.

  • @EJD339
    @EJD339 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I always wondered what kind of amazing artifacts there are in the Sahara. I’m sure it’s extremely costly to go look for stuff there

  • @someoneelse4492
    @someoneelse4492 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent video North, thankyou.

  • @thedeesus4249
    @thedeesus4249 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I’m loving the choice of bossanova for your finale.

  • @ignachioelsmith9053
    @ignachioelsmith9053 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Quality over quantity is always welcome. Hope the studies are going. I wish you luck with everything. ☺

  • @ScottWorthington
    @ScottWorthington ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Outstanding as always.

  • @v_nix
    @v_nix ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for another great video. I hope you'll enjoy your stay in Italy.
    Love from Belgium.

  • @PaoloZero
    @PaoloZero ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's always a pleasure to listen to you. Greetings from Sicilia

  • @rorydonaldson2794
    @rorydonaldson2794 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    What a fantastic subject matter for a video. I didn't expect to see a video on the Sahara, but boy am I siked.

    • @NORTH02
      @NORTH02  ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Kinda crazy, my last 3 videos have more or less been about Africa whereas I usually do not cover it

    • @helmann9265
      @helmann9265 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Indeed. Awesome one.
      P.s The Sahara sand crosses the Atlantic Ocean with wind and lands on the rainforest in Brazil and Amazonas area making fresh soil for the rain forest....

    • @NORTH02
      @NORTH02  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@helmann9265 oooh a video on Brazil and South America is needed

  • @DakiniDream
    @DakiniDream ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nicely done video, beautiful pictures and overall views. Comments was also good.
    I'm still very grateful for less stressy video, and accurate content. These old stories around the aliens become realy tiresome over time, these people have no imagination with that. ;)
    Thankies !

  • @JB-gw8ee
    @JB-gw8ee ปีที่แล้ว

    Love your videos. Thank you!

  • @chrisbflory
    @chrisbflory ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Worth the wait. Can’t ever click fast enough. Thanks.

  • @one_field
    @one_field ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video, don't worry about producing fewer if they're of this quality. It's important work you're doing, translating scholarly info into bite-sized layman's lessons. Bravo!

  • @johnhorton4089
    @johnhorton4089 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love learning about the Sahara

  • @philosopherkink
    @philosopherkink ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dude, I love the vibe of your conent
    I put headphones on, watch the sun set, and literally trip substanceless.

  • @MrKiwifruit2011
    @MrKiwifruit2011 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow! so glad to have stumbled upon your work. thanks for the effort, learning a lot.

  • @davewalter1216
    @davewalter1216 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I liked the way you framed the discussion at the end. I always wonder if there really is some perfect climate that we should be conserving? The climate has changed constantly through this very long and highly variable Ice Age. People live in very different climatic zones today and always have, and probably most don't even understand that others experience different climate regimes from their own. How could one possibly balance all the different climatic needs of all the organisms living on Earth? Hubris - well known to the Greeks, but always ignored by those with a message.

    • @jandrews6254
      @jandrews6254 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Winters cold enough to get in some skiing but not too long, because shovelling snow sucks.
      Summers warm enough to enjoy the beach but not too hot, because burnie
      Anything outside those parameters is “Climate Armageddon “ doom and gloom.

    • @something1600
      @something1600 ปีที่แล้ว

      We should just let the climate do its thing and stop causing man made climate change.

  • @charlesjmouse
    @charlesjmouse ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thanks for another excellent video... I hadn't put together until now just how short the last Sahara humid period was.

  • @spinlevien9078
    @spinlevien9078 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love the stuff bro

  • @mandynewey7215
    @mandynewey7215 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good for you studying and in beautiful Italy! Love your videos, thanks.

  • @aj.a1845
    @aj.a1845 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Great video and informative as always. Your voice is so soothing and a pleasure to listen too.

  • @korey15
    @korey15 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Good video and research. You showed pictures of Napta Playa but I wish you would have gone more in-depth about its significance as one of the oldest astrological observatories in the world, also, The Tashiwnat Mummy is the oldest mummy to have been found in Africa, he comes from this same time period. These two finds have monumental implications for the origins of Nile Valley culture just like the stone burials you mentioned. Maybe for another video? Good luck with your studies.

  • @4Beats4Me
    @4Beats4Me 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wonderful artwork! They each read like an essay, Thank you!

  • @dizzious
    @dizzious ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks! Awesome video as always

  • @frances9099
    @frances9099 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Louder volume please!

    • @Christian-wu3mp
      @Christian-wu3mp ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I legit could not understand him at all. I had to rewind multiple times and eventually gave up watching

  • @cokemachine5510
    @cokemachine5510 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    There was a creek in the 70s i built dams and fished as a kid . Old timers at the time said they remember when the creek was a river, and before that back when the Indians ruled the land, it was a quarter mile wide river and marsh for 100 miles. I brought my wife back to show her where i played, and the creek was 2 inches wide and bright yellow 😔.
    Ice age moisture is vanishing quickly.
    That was, well 70s till now! Im i that old?

    • @rpbajb
      @rpbajb ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Me too. There have been many changes in Western Pennsylvania in my lifetime. There were feet of snow every winter that lasted for months when I was a kid in the 50's. The Ohio, Allegheny, and Monongehela rivers used to freeze over. People drove their cars out onto Lake Erie. Now we rarely get snow cover, even in the mountains.

  • @TJSaw
    @TJSaw ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wish I was a time traveller. I would’ve loved to have seen the progress of mankind over the millennia. Ancient history is so fascinating! Whole civilisations lost to time.

  • @TheMg49
    @TheMg49 ปีที่แล้ว

    Enjoying your vids. Thanks. Thumbs up!

  • @cam-1760
    @cam-1760 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I love your videos! The idea that human caused climate change might be doing some good in all the bad it brings is really comforting. Thanks for making the videos they always make my day!

  • @nive7299
    @nive7299 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    There it is again :). Really well done video. I haven't watched all your videos lately but the many cave paintings in this one were amazing to see 👍

    • @ErikGsson
      @ErikGsson ปีที่แล้ว

      I got so sad when it got privated when i were like in the middle of it LUL

  • @vlenzo5397
    @vlenzo5397 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you gotta love the Blue bar Context

  • @parksto
    @parksto 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very good content, as usual.
    Thank you very much :)

  • @LilOleme_TV
    @LilOleme_TV ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love your videos!!! Keep it up!

  • @latrace1986
    @latrace1986 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hey North, do you have a Paypal or Venmo to send you a few bucks? I'd like to buy you a coffee. This was a perfect way to start my Saturday morning.

    • @NORTH02
      @NORTH02  ปีที่แล้ว +6

      No need, your comment is worth more than money to me❤️

    • @J242D
      @J242D ปีที่แล้ว

      I do venmo @JamielD242

  • @outlaw4a
    @outlaw4a ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really like how you add sources.

  • @koaladude1852
    @koaladude1852 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I went to the sahara in march of 2022 , in the timimoon area of algeria. My uncle took us to a spot where there used to be water. We found so many fish fossils it was crazy. If you see this north 02 i can send you the pictures i took

  • @colinleat8309
    @colinleat8309 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks so much for this! I've always wondered what the reasons are for the Sahara. I didn't realize it is an on going process over geological time. Fascinating. I felt I was reaching when I considered the tilt of the Earth Axis. That never made sense. Good luck with your studies, and get out when you can. VERY terrible the new government. Best regards 🤘😁🖖🇨🇦

  • @Where_is_Waldo
    @Where_is_Waldo ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I appreciate the shout out to World Of Antiquity. I would like to add that Stefan Milo and Miniminuteman also go into the subject of debunking alternate history claims and Miniminutemen is currently producing a series of videos debunking graham hancock's recent series on netflix.

    • @FreeManFreeThought
      @FreeManFreeThought ปีที่แล้ว

      History With Kayleigh as well. Remember when we all thought that they spread of the internet would spread info to kill these nutso ideas? How naïve we all were.

    • @cynthiashepherd7754
      @cynthiashepherd7754 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Love Stefan.

  • @jeh5176
    @jeh5176 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Sahara has never been a barrier from Sub-Saharan Africa. Cave art shows that black people have always been in the Sahara.

  • @eyemallears2647
    @eyemallears2647 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great job dude!

  • @onandonitgoes5957
    @onandonitgoes5957 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    im sorry to correct you but saharan bovine animal husbandry is at least 10,000 years old.

    • @ohlangeni
      @ohlangeni ปีที่แล้ว

      Nabta Playa in the East Sahara is where cattle were first domesticated.

    • @stigcc
      @stigcc ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ohlangeni So, Egypt. Interesting that they never domesticated animals south of Sahara, except when learning it from arabs

    • @ohlangeni
      @ohlangeni ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@stigcc What???
      All animals that were in the Egyptians environs where also all over Africa except the Dodo in Mauritius (an island in the Indian Ocean).
      There is no evidence that the Kingdom of Egypt (Kemit) domesticated any animal or crop. Rather the ancient population of the Sahara and the Nile Valley domesticated animals and crops that were later cultivated, used and eaten in Pharaonic Egypt

    • @stigcc
      @stigcc ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ohlangeni Isn't Nabta Playa where Egypt is?

    • @ohlangeni
      @ohlangeni ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@stigcc no. Nabta Playa is a 12000 year old archeological site in north-west Sudan (Lower Nubia) extending to south-west Egypt and south-east Libya.
      Yes, Nabta Playa culture is the mother of the Egyptian civilisation.

  • @Yora21
    @Yora21 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    By the rainfall definition, Iceland is not a desert.
    But in biological production, it very much is a wet desert.

  • @isoinic4575
    @isoinic4575 ปีที่แล้ว

    amazing video. i just found your channel and am looking forward to watching your other videos.

  • @maxcasteel2141
    @maxcasteel2141 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastic video! Seeing chariots and wheels on cave art kinda blew my mind. Also really like the questions you brought up, I think about that kind of thing too, like how polar bears are currently evolving their behavior to survive and go further south.
    A must watch channel for debunking ancient civilization conspiracy theories is Miniminuteman, his current series talking about the netflix ancient apocalypse show is top notch

    • @bigbillybadass
      @bigbillybadass 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Rock paintings not cave!

  • @Zebred2001
    @Zebred2001 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Even online I find it nearly impossible to find a good series of maps that reconstruct the ebb and flow of the Sahara's extent in prehistory. This is very frustrating as I have a keen interest in this subject.

    • @truthseeker215
      @truthseeker215 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why ? I’m curious why do you have the interest ?

    • @Zebred2001
      @Zebred2001 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@truthseeker215 Simply because of the deep human antiquity of the Sahara and the difficulty of excavation there. I believe there is much, much more to uncover.

    • @truthseeker215
      @truthseeker215 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Zebred2001 same I know. I read a paper about a year ago about how some dna extracted from some sites in the sahrah showed markers for african Americans like myself in America meaning that many many years ago I had ancestors that inhabited the areas and migrated in and out for many generations before going to west Africa.

  • @rring44
    @rring44 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Do you have any info on stone fish hooks? Have any anthropologists tried making and using them?

    • @NORTH02
      @NORTH02  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They exist but are not very common in general. Modern knappers make them and they do work but bone is generally better

    • @rring44
      @rring44 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@NORTH02 Thanks for the info.

  • @jadecarpentier888
    @jadecarpentier888 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank youu for another great video

  • @mickymaust2059
    @mickymaust2059 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am glad you are choosing quality over quantity keep you videos captivating and I'll watch everyone you produce

  • @HassanMohamed-jy4kk
    @HassanMohamed-jy4kk ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Why don’t you think about making a suggestion and creating a TH-cam Videos that’s all about the history and evolution of the domestic animals from their wild animal ancestors on the next North 02 coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍