A Brief History Of How Homo Sapiens Survived The Last Ice-Age

A Brief History Of How Homo Sapiens Survived The Last Ice-Age

The last Ice Age was during the palaeolithic and early Mesolithic periods of human history, beginning 100,000 years ago and ending 25,000 years ago, By the time it was over, homo sapiens were the only human species to have survived its brutal conditions.

First of all – what was the Ice Age?
The Ice Age or Last Glacial Period was the time during which up to approximately 30% of the Earth’s surface was covered in ice and temperatures peaked around 7 degrees Celsius
Sheets of ice and glaciers covered Antarctica, Canada, Northern USA and Northern Eurasia, some of which can still be seen today, thousands of years later. Sea levels fell across the world and rainfall was less than half of what it is today.
During this period, multiple human species existed and lived across the world – Denisovans and homo erectus in Asia, Neanderthals in Western and Central Eurasia and the modern-day human, homo sapiens, in Africa. With ice blanketing the land and a lack of rainwater, vegetation suffered, becoming sparse and limited. Conditions were often bleak, and food was hard to find for early humans. Lets find out more in this video.

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[zrymill]

This is all guesswork. Seeing as sea levels were much lower and most people lived by or near the ocean, most of the evidence of how these people lived would now be under the ocean.

[janmitchell]

yeah i just had a 40 min walk to the post office in -20 weather
(20 min there and back again) ive lost alot of weight in the past few years, i had 3 sweaters and a parka. then i put this on as i sat here with my new bong to thaw out and it really made me understand there plight, the cold rips right through me.

[robfj]

I question the supposition that only modern humans possessed the power of complex speech.
This has been contested and demonstrated to be very unlikely in recent decades.
One place anthropologists seem fearful to tread is the inevitable conclusion that we may have outlasted other human species simply because we were more aggressive and territorial; character traits we still have not managed to address.

[algernoncalydon]

I can just look around. Living in the coldest inhabited town in North America we have five native villages within an hour of this town. The athabaskans lived her at least 20, 000 with stone age technology. They only became "civilized" after road was put in during WWII. Some are still alive who lived "before the highway, ' and can tell one what life was like. These elders are the actual experts on such a subject.
It's always interesting to hear the "experts" relate their expert opinions on a subject they don't really know much about.

[CountvonCount]

We were more numerous than the Neanderthals and pulled the Borg stunt and assimilated them

[teabagmcpick]

"How did humans survive the last Ice-Age?" Not by being vegan, that's for fucking certain.

[chriswood]

I heard an interesting take on Homo Sapien a while back. Our Adaption that allowed us to thrive is adaptability. we are adaptable as individual organisms, as opposed to a species ability to adapt though evolution. Our brains and our social nature allow us to adapt in real time on the fly, to many different environments, and technology is an extension of this adapatbilty.

[Deavertex]

I swear, the Homo Erectus looks exactly like my old platoon sergeant from 1975.

[MaryAnnNytowl]

Okay, well, I just found your channel through YT's suggestions, and I've got this to say: I like most of what I see so far. Yes, I think the needle may have been humankind's greatest invention. It's given us everything from clothing to sails to medicine to how our homes have been constructed and adapted over time. It's the predecessor to the hypodermic, as well; though that would be medicine, too, I suppose, but a different aspect of it.

The only thing is, I suspect the drill would come first, over even the needle. It helped _make_ the needle. It gave us fire. It helped us build ever bigger and better things like boats and homes. It, as a pointy thing that makes holes, may have also been the reason we thought of making those needles, to begin with. It also let us make the holes that gave us fishhooks, too.

There is my hypothesis on what was the most important invention ever made. Make of it what you will. 😄

One nit to pick, however... why is it necessary to blur breasts? Even in art, n less. Other channels, even educational ones, don't do that. Gutsick Gibbon has an intro that even shows them. On top of that, they ARE what makes us mammals, after all, and we need them to feed our infants.

Lighten up. Breasts are not scary or naughty or anything of the sort. No need for the blurring. 🙄

[skizz]

im 100% sure this was a restart.

we been here for so much longer.

[joshuayow]

The thing about studying ice ages is the 500+ foot drop in sea level.

Why is that an issue? Because that's were we would of been living at the time as it would of been the warmest, high moisture, fertile area to live.

Sea levels rise with the melting glaciers and people are forced to relocate and adapt.

Now a days if humanity had something similar happen in a short time span our technology and agriculture would be heavily affected leading to loss of mass social cohesion.

The rapid change in wether patterns would mean large scale agriculture would not be a thing and small scale agriculture would not be sustainable at all times.

This outcome will eventually happen as ice ages take up 90%+ of the planets cycles. This warming period will eventually end and we'll eventually be forced to revert and adapt or go extinct just as the outher races before us.

We can hypothesize how it was but we really don't know because the bulk of human civilization is 500 feet under water and long gone. Just as glaciers will eventually grind city's like new York to dust and we won't know then that they even existed.

Just the way it is.

[jimparsons]

I've heard that there may have been another adaptation that might have acted in our early ancestors' favor, and such evidence can be found in the bones of the Neanderthals and simultaneous Homo sapiens' bones: the Neanderthal types and bones and muscle attachments suggesting that their collective lifestyles were much more vigorous than the lifestyles of the sapiens' sort, meaning that it took less food to keep alive the couch potato lifestyle individuals (in a relative sense) than did their more vigorous neighbors.

[bigedslobotomy]

I think that it might have been a combination of things that helped Homo Sapiens survive over Neanderthals. Caloric needs was much less for the much less muscular Homo Sapiens. This alone (a couple hundred calories a day) might account for our success, especially when living on the razors edge in an ice age climate. I think I’ve read that Neanderthals could speak (at least they had the organs to do so), they may not have done it as effectively as we did. Again, a small, but significant advantage might have made all the difference. The largest difference may have been our social skills. While Neanderthals stayed in small family units, Home Sapiens’ natural inclination to gather together in social groups may have made another small, but significant difference. In the end, Neanderthals may have perished because of a “perfect storm” of many different small factors.

[flyinacircle]

twice this author mentions limited resources that hominids competed for. this surprises me as i’ve always believed there was plenty of large mammals available for what was a very thin population of hominids.

[rockytucker]

Sometimes it's the smartest who wins not the strongest

[rickpontificates]

To imply that there was a "previous ice age" is to admit that the Earth "globally warmed" BEFORE fossil fuels.
"HOW DARE YOU!"...
Now you've done it! You've ANGERED "climate expert" Greta Thunberg.

[Lessleg]

well, you could say Modern Humans survived the Ice Age or Later Part of the Ice Age because they were the ultimate "fair weather friends".
If you follow the "out of africa" story line. You have to say during the later end of the last Ice Age modern humans were enjoying sunny warm gatherings. But in the north, Neanderthal peoples were struggling along with Cold Weather hell with occasional spring like weather.
But as all good things come to pass, so was the prolonged cold spells compared with incoming warm weather fronts. Those southern cousins of the human line followed the fair weather north because new lands that were temperate and the new grass lands were sweet.
I don't think modern humans survived the Last Ice Age as much as they benefitted the most upon its retreat.

[fordderek]

We are still technically at the tail end of that ice age.

[MP-zfkg]

"few resources available"
hard to say; the "resources/human" ratio may have been higher than today (we've killed off a lot of species).
secondly, who's to say our ancestors didn't tame and maintain some forms of livestock?

[peterhart]

I'm hooked! Cool video, cool channel I just subscribed! Thank you