Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong In Search of the Dawn: Human Prehistory
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Oct 24, 2017 A journey through human origins from Africa to the rest of the world. They explore endurance hunting bodies, encounters with Neanderthals and other hominins, and the small founder group that left Africa. Technology like sewing, pottery and dog domestication get spotlighted. The rise of agriculture and its global, multiple beginnings explain the shift toward cities and inequality.
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Prehistory Is Continuous With History
- Prehistory is continuous with history and covers most of human time before writing began around 3000 BC.
- Sam Biagetti highlights Homo sapiens origins ~300,000 years ago in Africa and that prehistoric lifeways persisted alongside later civilizations.
Most Non Africans Come From One Small Founding Wave
- A single small out-of-Africa founder population likely populated the world outside Africa around 70,000 years ago via the Bab el-Mandeb crossing.
- Genetic markers suggest all non-Africans descend from a group perhaps a few hundred individuals who moved along southern coastal routes to SE Asia and Australia.
Flores Folklore Echoes Hobbits
- Flores local folklore recalls small forest people called Ebu Gogo who match Homo floresiensis remains found on the island.
- Biagetti notes villagers described Ebu Gogo as short, muttering, unable to cook, possibly surviving into the 1800s in oral memory.