A fascinating book set in the Stone Age, with a fantastical twist, is Children of the Dark People by Frank Dalby Davison. Set 'in the days before the coming of the white man', this is the story of Jackadgery and Nimmitybelle, two children 'who wander lost in the bush and have many curious magical experiences before they come safely home again'. They are chased by a witchdoctor named Adaminaby, and 'befriended by the good spirits of the bush: the Spirit of the Billabong, Grandfather Gumtree, the Spirit of the Mist, Mickatharra, the Brumby Boy, and others. Finally they meet Old Mr Bunyip who leads them back home' A heap of fantasy ideas in a Stone Age setting

Very creative. Studying anthropology has been very interesting in fleshing out my own worldbuilding.

36:43 Fortunately, I don't have to worry about that for mine. But making fire would be difficult, as while magic is abundant, it's in scarce amounts. Everyone can do it, but almost everyone can barely do it. Though the big limitation of this world is metals aren't available, except for biologically. Because no one knows about metal, no one knows of things like concentrating huge masses of blood to make iron. Which blood would be a vital nutrition source, especially for iron. No one would come close to trying to do this. Like how people aren't collecting apple seeds to make arsenic weapons. This is an amazing video. Just subscribed to your channel, and will check out the one on animalism next! (Probably misspelled)

Love this series already, looking forward to further installments. I have to make a couple of corrections though. 1. New Zealand did not have a land bridge in the ice age, it wasn't settled until around 1200-1300 CE, thousands of years after Australia. 2. Cats were probably not domesticated until post agricultural revolution (so neolithic), because rodents weren't really a problem for us until we had granaries to protect. 3. The reason swords can't be made out of stone is because they would be too fragile, not because they'd be too heavy.

When you mention Magic it made me think fire Mages would be venerated

_Guns, Germs and Steel_ postulates that people start agriculture when it's more profitable to grow food rather than collect it, and that this is a gradual process. As such, I don't think having control over fire good enough that you can make copper tools would lead to our classic understanding of the Copper Age. They would have copper tools, but everything else would stay the same, including being hunter-gatherers. So you can still have a world or story with hunter-gatherers even if hot fire and copper tools are available.

Finally someone talks about this!!!

Well, I'm getting back on track with the lessons. a great video as allways. I saw covers of a trilogy by a writer called Harry Harrison, tiltled Eden. It might be a story set on a stone age time, but I haven't checked haha

Will you mentioned about fire going into the Bronze Age just because someone has the innate ability to wield it doesn't mean they could begin to bring it to his potential

You can't imagine how happy this video makes me 😊 I work in a stone age adjacent field, and have always had a passion for the archaeology of the epipaleolithic and neolithic. It's wonderful to see someone passionate bring the stone age to a worldbuilding audience. There's a few good documentaries about the stone age village of Ba'ja, which brings the period to live in a beautiful way.

A note regarding magic: Shapeshifters of any kind would either be a valuable member of the community, (imagine how helpful in hunting it would be if Susie could turn into an eagle, or Jack into a huge wolf) or a danger if you use old werewolf ideas.

The oldest continuous culture in the world - the Australian Aboriginal - is a great template for this era. And we get a number of interesting aspects - boomerangs as a unique weapon; didgeridoos as a unique musical instrument; corroboree as a sort of story-telling dance; initiation rites for girls and boys; a wealth of spiritual beliefs with the Dreamtime; the witchdoctors as the shaman; the various funerary practices including putting bodies in trees, then gathering the bones later on; pointing the bone at malefactors, which would cause them to waste away and die; and so on And there would have been a small strait to traverse from SE Asia/indonesia landmass, to the Australian - New Guinea land mass - in fact, Australia was settled by homo sapiens 10-20 thousand years before Europe. And New Zealand could NEVER be a stepping stone to Australia, and there never was a landmass connecting the Australian landmass to New Zealand. In fact NZ was the last land inhabited by humans on the earth, apart from Antarctica, being settled only in about 1200 CE

What's your thoughts on mixing time periods for example the countryside being in the Stone Age but the coastal cities Brian the Renaissance

This is such an amazing channel! Love this thorough broad-perspective scientific lecture approach

The TTRPG world I brewed has an area that is in the same time, but the flora, fauna, and rules of magic are prehistoric and chaotic. Hoping to get some ideas from this video

I'm getting Jean M Auel flashbacks.

What about a video about the minimum number of adults required to raise an encampment out of nothing. And at what number the shared labor resulted in specialized labors and then at what number does a family split off to make a new one?

Nice voice. I'm curious about what you are talking about. Some kind of world building? What is that? Just guessing from your words. Nice chant behind your voice.

hermaphroditism is the term used to describe the phenomenon of having male and female sexual organs in plants and animals, but the term for humans is intersex. hermaphrodite is a slur when applied to humans. intersex is a common umbrella condition that ranges from hormonal imbalances to chromosomal variance to secondary sex characteristic variance and is found in at least 1/100 people, likely far higher considering that conditions like genetic chimerism are severely underreported. there are more intersex people on earth than there are natural redheads.

Algunas cosas que me parecen interesantes de tratar en esta época son las "razas" y el tiempo, vayamos con el primero: 1) Creo que la raza prehistórica más famosa, después del humano, son los dinosaurios inteligentes, sin embargo, creo que se puede hacer algo mejor que el ser escamoso que ya estoy cansado de ver: Los dinosaurios tenían plumas, eran, básicamente, pájaros con cola, dientes y sin pico, por lo que algo cómo un hombre lagarto, pero cubierto de plumas en lugar de escamas, sería más acertado para tener una identidad propia (es mejor agarrar algo ya existente y darle un giro, que pretender que todo es nuevo todo el tiempo). O, si no aceptas pulpo cómo animal de compañía, también están los neandertales (mini hulks sumos blancos, narizones y pelirrojos), los homo denisovanos (gente de anaranjada, amarillenta o de color bronce) y el homo floresiensis (imagina a Frodo o Gimly del señor de los anillos, pero negro y pelirrojo). 2) Si nos basamos en lo encontrado, tal parece que nuestros ancestros percibían el tiempo cómo un ciclo (no existe, pasado, presente o futuro, solo el ciclo, el ciclo siempre existió, siempre existe y siempre existirá). Por lo general, en la ficción occidental el ciclo es percibido cómo algo negativo y que debe romperse para alcanzar la libertad, mientras que en la mayoría de las historias de ficción orientales, el ciclo es visto cómo algo que es bueno por ser poderoso, cómo si una cosa implicara a la otra. Es posible que estas dos visiones también las tuvieran nuestros ancestros y que generara conflicto entre ellos, pero al haber tan pocos de los nuestros, es posible de que dijeran "no vale la pena matarnos entre nosotros" o "si nos agarramos a golpes aquí, vamos a terminar todos muertos" o algo por el estilo.

This is a very enjoyable video, but you seem to have massive misconceptions about paleolithic and mesolithic society and lifestyle. Active lifestyles like hunter-gatherers use cause human women to ovulate irregularly and infrequently, meaning despite frequent procreation very few children are had over several years, this is part of why the population stayed so low until settled societies came about; you simply couldn't populate rapidly without settling down. Similarly, we have nigh endless evidence of infanticide, class stratification, etcetera from paleolithic societies all over the world. There is evidence of Iberian tree sap being used as hair gel in Britain, the oldest (disputed) grave goods are older than clothes at 130,000 years ago, and from Neanderthals at that! Modern racial traits, particularly in Europe, such as blue or green eyes or blonde hair are phenotypical markers of genetic relations, the number of infants killed for not being blonde or having the wrong eye color is simply unknowable. That's another thing too, during the time period you're covering, the Paleolithic, anatomically modern humans, Homo Sapiens Sapiens, are not alone in the world, we were kept out of Europe for thousands of years by Neanderthals, from various parts of Asia by up to a dozen different human species, all of which had different appearances, cultures, and beliefs, no matter how similar they were. This all isn't to say that your video isn't good advice, but its simply very uninformed on the vast, vast complexities of an over 2 million year long period you're trying to condense into a 40 minute video.