What Ancient Humans Did Every Season (And Why Your Body Still Does It)

#ancienthumans #documentary #history For 300,000 years, nobody asked what day it was. The only question that mattered was which season you were in — and whether you'd live to see the next one. You live in one season. It's the only one you've ever had. Ancient humans lived in a real year, and every season in it had its own way of killing you. his is one full year of ancient human life, in order, the way they lived it — and the strange ways that year still runs inside your body today. In this video: Why summer was the season families split apart — and why winter clothes were sewn in August Why a human baby is born 15% fat — fatter than a harp seal pup The Alberta cliff used to drive bison over the edge for nearly 6,000 years Why every lamp lit in Lascaux Cave cost someone a meal "Rabbit starvation" — how you can eat every day and still starve to death The 125,000-year-old Neanderthal "fat factory" where bones were crushed for grease Stefansson's 1928 year of eating only meat, in a New York hospital The candlefish that burned like a candle — and what Meriwether Lewis wrote about it in 1806 Why nearly a quarter of your genes follow the seasons Why fall babies were more likely to reach 100 — and why it flips in Australia You can ignore the seasons now. Your body never learned how. When December comes and you feel heavier, slower, and a little sad for no reason — that isn't you being broken. That's the oldest calendar you own. Sources for every claim are listed below. 300,000 YEARS OF HOMO SAPIENS Hublin, J.-J. et al. (2017). New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens. Nature 546. The fossils that pushed our species back to around 300,000 years. SUMMER SCATTERING, WINTER GATHERING Mauss, M. (1906). Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo: A Study in Social Morphology. The classic study of Inuit camps splitting up in summer and coming together in winter. CARIBOU SKINS FOR WINTER CLOTHING Stenton, D. R. (1991). The adaptive significance