The Shamans of the Stone Age

This is a lecture about a chapter of my world history book called:
"In Search of the Sublime - A world history of humanity's relentless pursuit of scientific truth, moral excellence, and enlightenment."
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Kind regards,
Stephan P. Dinkgreve
MSc Theoretical Physics
Amsterdam

[dennisburt]

No way the oldest find is anywhere near the oldest people

[deanamodeo]

The earliest evidence of Homo sapiens found so far

[kikosplendito]

birth of our species, did you mean 300, 000 years ago? you said 30, 000

[squidpigs]

Great video and a pleasant watch! Can you guess as to why the bear at 13:39 was portrayed with such animosity?

[garethmartin]

The claim at 17:21 that those elaborately buried children imply a social hierarchy is false. We would expect to have much more evidence of such a hierarchical society, not just none isolated case. My understanding is that the prevailing view is that they were regarded as special individuals for some reason, not that they were princes or similar.

[zipperpillow]

Notice nobody carved or painted women. That says something important.