Exactly. when I was younger, I was interested in dinosaurs but when I started getting older, I was more interested in the pleistocene megafauna and ancient human species.

@@user-en1wb1cf9f same lol

I feel the same. The fact our ancestors mixed with these animals is mind blowing.

@@user-en1wb1cf9f Same with me. Dinosaurs are still cool to me. But the animals of the Pleistocene, and the Cenozoic in general are more interesting to me.

I still love dinosaurs, but I also find the Paleozoic Era and the Pleistocene fascinating.

Gay

I have similar memories from an excavation site of early trias reptiles and giant amphibians. Excavations have taken place in Poland back when I was a student. Knowing I was the first to see the bone was priceless.

​@@carkid7640did you just come out? Good for you. Does your father know yet?

Thank you! I’ll be visiting next time I am in Dallas from here in San Antonio.

I agree. And if you see certain Native American carvings you will also see a heart in the outline of the animal. So it's not a leap to think that ancient Europeans might have depicted a prey animal in a a similar way.

That was one point not laid out in the video--- How they used brain matter to tan hides-----

@@thomasfoss9963 there's other ways too

@@thomasfoss9963 It's more common than it sounds

@@thomasfoss9963 he might have not known about that method of tanning hides yet. I agree with this theory much more than the supplemental need theory.

Which village were you in, if you don’t mind me asking? I had a similar experience, but saw no atlatls. Of course, things have been changing rapidly over recent years for the Yupik.

most environments the mammoth lived would've been too cold for fleas

It’s nice in idea but the last time I tried it the UI was a clusterfuck and it was super buggy.

@@dotech4128 how long ago did you try?

@@ElkinsEric like 6 months ago

Now it’s pawn stars lmao

@@KristinkaAranova lol…no doubt

i dont think that they needed any help to catch up. humans have the best cardio on earth, they probably just followed it and jabbed it a million times

@@billywallis4633 not what I meant. A lone hunter could wound a mammoth in the shoulder, comprising its movement. Then go back to his/her settlement/cave/tent and grab the family, then blood trail it, and catch up to it and finish it off with the family. Maximize your chances; send a hunter in every direction. Wound the mammoth and then go get the family

@@billywallis4633 The idea that humans are persistent hunters is based on a 'study' where the participants would be paid to persistent hunt. As a tactic it's not used all that commonly by hunter-gatherers as it's very energy intensive.

@@minutemansam1214 I would have to add that theory is dictated by terrain. Where I am near the wide open marshes of the Gulf coast, indigenous tribes had to align and drive deer into the water for a kill. Too much open land to stalk or get near enough for projectiles. Driving game off of cliffs was common in other regions. But a sustained constant pursuit, no.

@@billywallis4633 just because you can run a marathon doesn’t mean you do, especially if you can avoid it.

Yup. There were plenty of deer, horse, bison, aurochs, antelope, birds, fish, fruit and berries to eat. Among other things of course

@@beastmaster0934 Stoneage people also ate a lot of cooked roots, tubers and grains if they were available.

@@berwinenzemann3468 Hmm. That’s nice to know. There sure was a lot of diverse things to eat during the Pleistocene. Both plant and meat wise.

@@berwinenzemann3468 That was probably a majority of the daily diet in most parts of the world at that time. Only in extreme conditions did people have to thrive on mostly meat. Although given the amount of animal life at the time, they may very well have had it a lot easier when hunting than we think.

@@MrBottlecapBill I read the same. Most hunter-gatherer-societies at the time ate about 80 percent plants and only about 20 percent meat. The further north they came and the less eatable plants were available, the more meat they ate. But usually they were more gatherers than hunters.

"Upgraded of professionalism"? What's that even supposed to mean?

@Spencer Ellis I’m always amazed at the intimate knowledge that our forebears had of stone. From Gobekli Tepe and all the Tas Tepeler sites in Turkey to only a couple hundred years ago (in the US) stone was all they had to work with and the people were quite adept at doing so. I’m an amateur experimental archaeologist that began working stone about 30 years ago and the best I can say is that I haven’t even scratched the surface on the variety of stone work out there! So much to learn! I’ve got 50,000 years of learning yet to do and, at 65, time is getting short!

@@dr.froghopper6711 For a time Middle Archaic people in the Great Lakes region used copper tools, but never made bronze. In later years, copper was only used for decorative purposes.

@@terrysincheff6682 good point! I’d forgotten about that. Thanks!

They had atle-atles

Ethnographic evidence beg to differ. The tiwi used all wooden javelins to hunt dugong.

No my dude, you can’t judge humanity just by history books, it’s like pretending to know everything from a person from his/hers social network profile You need to research really deep to stop seeing everything so black/white

Exactly

Those of us particularly in modern "first world/developed" countries tend to take those things for granted.

Nature is the ultimate giver and taker, many creatures have walked the earth and been lost to time, humans are just a part of it the great circle of life.

Maybe so maybe not mountain gorilla

True. A 5-6 ton bull mammoth would have been a tough opponent already. A herd of mammoths would have been more difficult to deal with.

@@speedracer2008 Many of the mammoths were trapped such as in the mammoth traps in northern Mexico but not all as many mammoth fossils recovered contained projectile point fragments embedded in bone that had healed over.

Does anyone actually know if mammoths were herd animals they may have been solitary animals, or very small groups of a female her juvenile daughter and a newborn. Making them much easier to hunt than elephant that gathered in large herds.

@@clintonjohnston2970 Judging by 48 mammoths being found in the Mexican traps and the scientists saying there were 4 herds in the area I would say yes to herds.

Don’t worry, there will be absolutely no sign of your existence in a few thousand years.

Your internet history... Haha we have all seen terrible things

Or, "Why women weren't allowed to hunt for 150,000 years" (It's ok to laugh, I'm a woman 😆)

Your last line is one we should all keep in mind as we go about our daily lives.

@@goodcitizen3780 why? I don't care what people think about me now, and in several thousand years I'll probably care even less

Lol that’s funny

what did you smoke for breakfast?

@@marydesmond9595 our distorted, hyper-atomized, hyper-consumptive and irony-poisoned reality, built off of invisible exported suffering in the global south we are lied to abt constantly, and which is artificially separated and insulated from the natural environments which we are ultimately a part of as we destroy it through consumptive and lmperial-m1litary-induced pollution and climate change. If I had to guess.

ABSOLUTELY MY FRIEND ❣️❣️❣️ THEY ONLY TOOK WHAT WAS NEEDED AND THEY ABSOLUTELY NEVER OVER HUNTED AN AREA TO SHEAR EMPTINESS OF ANIMAL LIFE ***

My theory is they were for storage, they would kill the mammoth then dig a hole to put the meat in and cover it with the pelt while using the tusks and big bones for the roof

@@missourimongoose8858 seems like speculation unless you have some evidence, I would think the difference would be obvious but after so long… time erases everything, it takes a while but our clarity starts gets blurry and evidence get destroyed fast! Aside from stone tools, everything else gets ground up

@@missourimongoose8858 And let it freeze, maybe covered with rocks, until they needed to break into the stash.

And the ribs?!?!? Mmmmm boy!

Keep your head up. The bleak shall pass.

and mushrooms and fish

even mosses

As displayed in the cave paintings ... right? LOL

So, which plants live on all 6 continents? And were there fields of wheat just hanging out?

plus they had no millennial kids to worry about! 🤣😂

True freedom? They were bound to the elements to not starve, constantly worrying about dying in childbirth or getting trampled by wolly rhinos. Thats what you call freedom? You couldnt even wander off from your family, you would freeze...

@@princesseville6889 you are right, you can only get the so called freedom from USA 🤣😅😆😂.

..wander to far from your own village back then and the other village will catch you and cannibalize you 😱 really free?

@@hyd3n376 i think so too. they have great knowledge of plants and nature in general, survival skills.

i am kinda thinking the makeshift huts made from the mammoth bones and hides might have been used as makeshift "smokehouses" for preserving the meat out in the field before heading back home. could have lasted for many months then. tho im sure living thru an ice age had its perks when it came to keeping meat from going bad as well. who knows they are constantly pulling cool things out of the melting permafrost in the north maybe they will find some village's stash of mammoth meat someday.

@smh ok You have a very good point. 👍🏻

Of course, it would all depend on local geography, climate and ecology. Eurasia is a very broad region with varying conditions…maybe some areas didn’t have drastically changing seasons or only had mammoth pass by their territory very few times of the year.

Yeeeeees.

I am writing a video about this right now actually. There is a great source about the topic here ( mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/quaternary/quaternary-01-00003/article_deploy/quaternary-01-00003-v2.pdf

Yes I'd heard about that method but the target was the bladder--easier to hit I guess. They didn't even have to thrust the spear , but would angle it backward and as it arced up from the pull of the passing elephant , the spear would be driven deep from physics .

You mean another fairytale… no science in it, but they still call it “scientific!” I bet “science” fiction means it is really scientific to you based on your other statements. You are a true religious fanatic, no proof just guesses, imagination and unprovable math equations are all you need to believe!!!

our ancestors are also accused of causing the largest mass extinction event this planet has ever seen in 5 million years

A knapped flint point is sharper than any steel. The crystalline structure of flint creates molecule thickness edges.

If modern elephants have not been overhunted, it's unlikely mammoths were. Climate change is a more probable cause.

There was nowhere near the amount of people back then either!

@@stefanlaskowski6660 different environments and selective pressure. Much of the megafauna in Africa survives because large amounts of meat is not needed in a warmer environment. Climate played a role but we also decimated a lot of northern hemisphere species.

@@stefanlaskowski6660 Elephants lived alongside humans for millions of years, adapted to have them around. Mammoths did not, and so had no adaptations to deal with humans. Climate change was likely not a major factor considering mammoths survived other interglacial periods. It's only after the arrival of humans did the ice age megafauna start going extinct.

😂😂😂 LOunited actually the evidence shows exactly the opposite ESPECIALLY in the Americans, humans show up and they go extinct shortly afterwards.

@jonnyneace8928he mentioned Neanderthals in the video. It’s about Neanderthals.

Agreed. When the 06 barks, they stop, drop, and roll!

I think something a bit larger than a .30-06 would be better, maybe a 458 win mag would be more appropriate starting point.. i hunt with a 270 and I'd feel very under gunned facing something that large

@@markshort9098 G’day, Mark. I don’t argue against having more horsepower. When I look at even Komodo dragons or crocks, a 20mm comes to mind. Maybe strafing from a thousand feet of altitude above ground level! Best to you. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying

@@markshort9098 then you’ve never butchered cattle. We use a .22 for that….an 06 would be sufficient with correct shot placement

@@ElkinsEric killing a domesticated cow that will stand there while you walk right up to it is a lot different to killing a wild anmial.. people who shoot elephants wouldn,t use a .3006 so it stands to reason a 3006 wouldn,t be ideal for mammoths either

My friend you underestimate Homo sapiens ability to make animals disappear from this earth. Also you seem to underestimate the time scales at stake here.

I completely agree. Evidence is becoming very strong that a major comet hit the ice shelf and rapid melting flooded the North American continent. Hunters even now are deeply respectful of what we hunt. We use everything and never exceed our needs. The idea that humans hunted megafauna to extinction is absurd. Especially those hunters who completely existed on their environment. They revered their prey and it eventually became part of their faith and art. Obviously none of these “scientists” ever hunted with any weapons let alone a bow. Randall Carlson presents one of the best arguments for massive floods that hit quickly. It’s geological, chemical and archeological evidence and is peer reviewed. If a scientist who is up to date is asked about what killed off the megafauna in North America they will immediately refer to and support Randall’s conclusions. It’s still very difficult for a lot of the mainstream scientists to admit that they were wrong and it’s in many topics not just this one. I get it, it’s human nature and it’s also easy to blame humans for so many things but it’s just not always the case.

@@axeldeblois3391 selfie culture pontifications

It wasn't even just prey species that disapeared but big badass predators as well. Obviously the human megafauna extinction theory is completely flawed.

@@axeldeblois3391 Why would they? Their populations were small and they lived in smaller groups of no more than 30 or so. They had no transportation except their feet and their weaponry wasn't that effective for mass killing. To kill one mammoth would expend a great deal of energy and could be quite dangerous. They'd NEVER spend the entire day killing an entire herd. They'd never be able to process it all and it would attract all kinds of scavengers and predators which would pose another danger. One group would be quite the mammoth killers if they were averaging one mammoth per month and I doubt that this average ever happened. The risk to reward factor just wouldn't be worth that kind of effort. Those numbers could only be reached when human populations were a great deal higher and the weapons were a great deal more sophisticated.

You can readily educate yourself on these things but a few classes never hurt anyone.

I am from the Andromeda Galaxy and I love this type content.

Exactly. You wanna eat the heart. A shoulder shot severely decreases the animal’s mobility and would allow your whole clan to catch up and finish off the job.

Okkk.

Ooook.

Deafening run

@@justadildeau that's one of my favorite jokes, but it's very hard to find an opportunity to make a mammoth joke! I'm glad you got the joke! It's amazing how many people have no idea what corduroy is!!!!! hahaha

@@zenolachance1181 haha! It's been years since I heard that joke about corduroy, usually relating to the obese

@Zeno Lachance Your comment made my day! 😅😅😅

Mammoths lived in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America....

@@Ispeakthetruthify That's four continents. How many continents are there in total?

@@berwinenzemann3468 Let's break this down: There are 7 continents in total: 1. You can scratch Antarctica, because neither humans nor mammoths, ever lived there. And they never lived in South America(Gompotheres did) or Australia. 2. Mammoths lived on the 3 largest landmasses in the world, and those are the 4 continents of Eurasia, Africa, and North America. 68% of the Earth's landmass is in the Northern hemisphere(Eurasia/North America), and Africa makes up 20% of the Earth's land mass. 3. So yes...the mammoth ranged over 80% of the Earth's total landmass. And yes...the mammoth was hunted all across this range. So yes...most places on the planet DID HAVE "the mighty mammoth". You may be thinking of the wooly mammoth, that was restricted to colder regions of the planet. But even at it's peak, it had a HUGE range over much of the Northern hemisphere. But there were several species of mammoth, and most of them had little to no hair.

@@Ispeakthetruthify But can every species of mammoth be considered as "the mighty mammoth"?

@@berwinenzemann3468 I guess the "mighty mammoth" is in the eye of the beholder....

It's what every carnivore does to it's preys in nature. I would say they lived harmoniusly, because they rarely killed young ones unlike lions and wolves that target especially the younglings

Sounds like one heck of a time though! 😁

It’d take a lot to hold an animal that large. Not that it couldn’t be done though.

There's a good chance that wasn't possible. African elephants are not tameable, mammoths could've been no less intelligent and aggressive.

@@LoisoPondohva African elephants have still been used many times in war. Mammoths may have had a fairly large effect on warfare in northern and Central Europe. However, the elephant was always a niche role terror weapon so who knows?

@@LoisoPondohva But Indians and Southeast Asians manage to tame Asian elephants

climate change was probably the reason they went extinct nutrient rich plants their main food source was replaced with grasses and bushes and therefore they went extinct (it was likely a combination of factors that lead to their extinction this is just the currently accepted idea proposed by eske willerslev)

@@tobilikebacon There were mammoths walking around when the pyramids were built. Granted, an animal that was so well suited to cold weather wouldn't be so great at adapting and would be feeling the pressure. But they made it pretty far past the last retreat of the glaciers.

@@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88 In North Siberia, right? I think Mammoths lived in North Siberia until 1500 BC. I may be wrong but that's the date Mammoths went extinct.

If you and your whole clan were starving you’d be happy to hear those death screams of a mammoth. Don’t forget that we humans and definitely our ancestors are THE apex predators of earth.

@@ElkinsEric Until our Crab overlords take over the Earth and enslave us.

People have known how to dry and smoke meat for preservation for a long time.

@@zeldapinwheel7043 umm ya. .... so. Almost uniformly across prehistoric times, meat was air dried. (Note the mentioned lack of wood) When you air dry, you need a way to keep bugs off. Usually children. So it was not as easy as the shows have you believe.

Then how should you explain the stone broadheads stuck in mammoth shoulder blades at the beginning of this great video?

@Leo the British-Filipino ok. Then how do you explain the part of the video where most all the bones were from adolescent mammoths. Those should have been the healthiest mammoths on the steps… And also I’m not trying to insult you or call ya out or anything like that. I hope I’m not coming across that way.

With the shear number some of these mammoth remains occur in, hunting would have been a major factor

they definitely hunted mammoths, although i dont humans had anything to do with their extinction if mammoths managed to live until 3900 years ago on mainland siberia, and also if their populations collapsed at the same time 13000 years ago in europe and in north america

Their extinction was probably a combination of factors like climate change that changed their environment to more forested areas and less grassland a warmer climate and human population expansion

Probably. Mammoths gave them everything; food, clothes, shelter and bones and sinew for crafting/making. I would have praised them, wouldn’t you?

@@ElkinsEric plus they were quite obviously smart and dangerous. Most hunters and hunter cultures have very deep respect/worship rituals around their prey, don't see why neolithic people wouldn't have even more.

@@LoisoPondohva agreed.

for sure

That book is absolute pseudoscience garbage, with no connection to reality. The fact that you said "open minded" gives away that even you know this. I'd love to see him tear it apart, though. It's "Too big to walk" or creationism levels of terrible "open minded" paleontology. Those cartoonishly evil-looking bogeyman Neanderthals belong in the sex lakes with a fire breathing parasaurolophus.

@@eviljoel Well it's obvious you didn't read it. The conclusions he draws are based on facts, you are part of the 'settled science' groupies...sad but stay in your comfortable little box where you feel safe.

@@amospanface9356 Yeah, that book doesn't actually provide actual evidence. It really is pseudoscience. I'm sorry, lad. But it's clear you have no independent knowledge of anthropology. So you lack the knowledge to understand why the book is, to put it lightly, a steaming hot pile of festering dogshit.

@@minutemansam1214 Another child replies, please stay in mamas basement and bang away on your keyboard. We adults are LOAO......

@@amospanface9356 you realize which channel you're on.. right? The book art is insane enough even without the claims of the author. Neanderthals weren't inhuman chimp-men.

I hope none.

Of course not. Feminism is a very new thing. Before the Industrial Revolution, there were no feminists. Feminism only exists in a cozy, comfy, soft society. When people had to struggle to survive, grow their own food, and the men were conscripted into military service. This was the way of life for people for thousands of years. Women were not raising their hands nore expected to raise their hands for the masculine hardships of the world up until very recently. Even with the severe feminist brainwashing this way of thinking and lifestyle is still embedded into our DNA. And there is nothing the liberal agenda hates more than biology because it is fixed you cannot change it. And still even today women only preach feminism when it benefits them. They are all for equity and inclusion when it's for the big CEO position in a nice air conditioned office but go to a construction site and count how many women are there. I've worked construction my entire life. I can count on my hands the amount of women I seen in the crappy jobs that are still dominated by men that keep this country running. Why are feminists raising there hands for these jobs? Isn't it supposed to be 50/50? So this is exactly why there were no feminists back then and today in terms of crappy jobs or things only men have to put up with. Men make up a huge portion of suicide, divorce loses and losing half their money, 99% of work and combat related accidents. The list goes on and on. This is why you see 0 feminists in signing up to go fight in Ukraine. While all the men have to stay back and fight. This is exactly why it's such a joke and should not be taken seriously. Men can end feminism immediately if we wanted.