Life In Paleolithic Europe (35,000 Years Ago)

DNA Interview: https://youtu.be/v8tLPXUeMtc So many people to thank in this video (remember any mistakes are mine alone, nothing to do with anyone else)! First and foremost, thanks to my patrons! You're the real lion men/women. www.patreon.com/stefanmilo Thanks to Dr. James Dilley for his insight into prehistoric tools: Get his awesome accurate tools here! www.ancientcraft.co.uk/ His Youtube: youtube.com/user/ancientcraftUK Thanks to Dr. Cosimo Post for agreeing to be interviewed about ancient DNA. Watch that here! https://youtu.be/v8tLPXUeMtc Thanks to The Histocrat for recording the quotes for me: www.youtube.com/channel/UCSwFnHpDt-lZgR_7Sqisi6A Thanks to Barris for the French transaltions (don't blame him for ziti and zezette though): youtube.com/c/ThisisBarris/featured Thanks to you for watching! Full list of sources can be found here *(anyone can view it, not only patrons): www.patreon.com/posts/43024519

Imagine that! One can take a 15,000 year chunk of time out of human history where people were doing a lot of the same things. Like imagine visiting Europe in 30,000 BCE, people who had been in Europe for 10-15,000 years already, and then time traveling ahead from that point 15,000 years to the future and it would still be hunter gatherers oblivious to the 30,000 year history behind them, and there'd still be an 11,000 year wait just to get to Otsi, and 17,000 year wait still ahead just to get to Augustus Caesar! When I think of the year 1000 AD it seems like such an incredibly long time ago when things were archaic and so much different, and yet when we discus Aurignacians, Gravettians, Magdalenians etc.. we are talking about tens of thousands of years and so many individual lives and generations of people! I can't believe how long that is in human terms, and yet it is just a fraction of a blink in geologic terms!

I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and have been a traditional bowhunter of whitetailed deer since my youth. I have also made a few bows and arrows and am interested in information on that as well as other areas of pre-industrial life. As an old man now with physical problems I am no longer able to walk the mountains or even go on a simple hunt so I spend much of my time reading and watching videos about the things I love. I find this video informative and extremely interesting and if you have more videos I intend to watch them also. Thank you for a well done piece of work.

I was in Europe during that era, and I’d have to say, this is pretty accurate. 👍🏻

In 2005, a friend and I happened to drive by the Niaux cave in Southern France and spontaneously decided to go inside on a guided tour. The cave paintings there are a mere 13,000 years old, 1/3 the age of the Aurignacian and thus belong to the Magdalenian. They had a similar climate, but depict a somewhat different fauna (plenty of bison, no lion). Anyway: Going there unprepared, it was one of the most profound experiences of my life: At once, you feel an immediate kinship to these artists - and yet their meaning, their intentions and aspirations, remain shrouded behind layers of the darkest, unpenetrable mystery, for we share not a single verifiable symbol with them.

just two very intelligent blokes having a friendly chat about shafts

"Life isn't all Reindeer Burgers and Flute Solos". I'll be sharing that one with my tearful grandkids for sure, mate.

Is amazing how they draw. As an amateur artist I've always been shocked by this drawings. Is incredible, if you look comic book history it took a few decades to start showing movement in one image overlaping the sequence of movement (sorry for my english). I mean when the flash run in the 40s theres just one drawing of the guy running with a few lines indicating movement, in the 60s when the flash run you can see like 6 guys in the same image indicating movement in the same image. But you have that revolutionary art strategy made 30.000 years ago by people who lived in caves! is incredible!! Also the gesture of the animals, gesture in art is like make something alive, is something basic in animation, showing movement and life with a few lines. And this people from the stone age were making it better than the artist of the middle ages. It blows my mind, they should have replics of their paintings in every art gallery.

Probably my favorite thing about such beautiful cave paintings is the theory that the many depictions of multiple of the same animals' heads or whole bodies next to each other could have been so that when the flickering lights from things like campfires and basic torches flashed over them, it almost appeared like they were moving, probably the earliest form of drawn animation if that's true

I love your scientific approach, 'Bloody Cold' is an accurate description of the Ice Age!

Double video party, great to see

Two years in I bet you’re shredding on that flute now

3:30 Key phrase: "Conclusions based on the evidence at hand." - It's an evolving story ;-) Keep up the good work Milo!

This is why I love YouTube so much! This is by far better than any tv program, personally invested YouTubers following their individual interests, yet being able to create such professional content it is breathtaking to watch! And most explicitly I like long form, which creates a window for us to accompany you on a deep dive on the subject. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t for a second assume an episode like this is a breeze to create, I have tried on a blue moon to make an episode on one of my personal interests but I drowned in the quicksand of editing tools... So this long form is absolutely highly appreciated! Thank you so much!! Of course subscribed, and liked, the latter simply to accommodate you in the YT algorithms, fighting my subversive side. Your gains in this as a producer outway my passive consumptional ethics ;-)

I live in Quebec, and the Aurignacians remind me a bit of the Northern Cree and Inuit, who also traditionally lived off of hunting caribou. Caribou are essentially the North American version of reindeer. They live in huge herds, unlike the other Cervidae of Canada (deer, moose and wapiti). The thing about caribou, is that their population fluctuates wildly. They can experience rapid population increase for many years, then their population levels will crash. For example, the population of the George River herd in Northern Quebec grew from 3,500 in 1958 to 775,00 in 1993, then declined down to 5,800 by 2018, but their population has begun to increase since then. This is typical of many northern species, and is a result of the simplicity of the ecology. I expect the Aurignacians would have experienced the same thing in Ice-Age Europe.

This channel is interesting, educational, inspiring, thought-provoking and beyond charming! I pray you keep on with your amazing vids Stefan!! (I'm sub'd now too!)

this channel is great man! you manage to make it entertaining and humorous at the same time. thanks for the great content.

"Life ain't all reindeer burgers and flute solos" I'm stealing that.

I teared up when you played the song at the end, magnificient.

Fantastic! Thank you from Jim in Maryland!!! First time commenting but I've watched your vids so MANY times...all of them but this is one of the tops! Listen to them while I garden, wash dishes, fold clothes, etc. to take in as much as I can...then start it all over again during my next chore :) I've been craving to learn about this exact timeframe so again, thank you! Cheers!!!