What if You were a Caveman in the Ice Age?

Fuzzy and Nutz are on a trip through the earth's history, showing us what it was like to live with dinosaurs, what the greatest natural disasters ever were, and the worst extinctions ever on earth- but now they find themselves at the dawn of our own history, 2.5 million years in the past. The Stone Age began in what is called the Paleolithic Era approximately 2.5 million years ago and ended at around 9,000 BC with the rise of human civilization. The Stone Age is so called because it is primarily known for the use of stone tools by man and his ancestors, and marks the first time in known history when any animal developed the ability to build and use advanced tools such as flint-tipped spears and arrows. Many animals even today use sticks and even rocks as tools to hunt or communicate, but the use of stone-tipped spears and other primitive stone implements was a huge leap in intelligence that set man and his ancestors apart. For much of the stone age, the Neanderthals ruled supreme. Though typically pictured as crude brutes with little intelligence, Neanderthals were actually very intelligent and are credited with discovering fire. They also developed primitive art forms such as cave paintings, and recent discoveries in France show that they even had some basic rituals for the dead, hinting at a primitive form of spirituality. Neanderthals however would go into decline about 40,000 years ago with the appearance of Cro-Magnon man, an early version of modern man. Cro-Magnon was more intelligent than its Neanderthal cousins as evidenced by the discovery of finely crafted stone and bone tools, shell and ivory jewelry, and advanced cave paintings made with paints made of multiple dyes. Eventually Neanderthals would go extinct and modern man would arise to make the world we live in today. But what was like really like in the Stone Age? Well for starters it was cold- the Stone Age is also known as the Ice Age, as the 2.6 million long period of cold temperatures began almost at the same time as the Stone Age and only ended 11,700 years ago. That means that for most of the Stone Age it was cold, with temperatures on average 12 degrees colder than they are today. Huge glaciers covered the northern hemisphere and it was during this time that some of the largest mammals to ever live existed such as the Woolly Mammoth. For early man, the Woolly Mammoth was a prey item, though the hunts were extremely dangerous and only successful because of man's ability to build spears and communicate complex ideas, allowing hunting packs of men to strategize and overcome the massive beasts. However, more fearsome predators than man also lived during this time, most famous of all being the Sabre-Toothed Tiger who would've made a quick meal out of any hunter. Despite popular opinion and trendy Hollywood diets though, man did not primarily eat meat, but rather existed on a combination of fruits, berries, nuts, grains and the occasional meat from a successful hunt. We know this because of the wear patterns on ancient teeth and the discovery of grains in early man sites. For most of the Stone Age, man lived on the move, a nomadic lifestyle that followed herds of animals and migrated to warmer climates during winter. This meant that Neanderthals and other early ancestors actually had some basic knowledge of astronomy, as watching the sky and recognizing the stars above your head and their positions in the sky could tell you when winter was coming and when it was time to move. Ignoring the stars was a good way to die off. It's thought that this early watching of the night sky led to the roots of spirituality and religion, with early man assigning special meaning to the mysterious wandering stars, the sun, and the moon. What started off as a survival strategy for a nomadic animal would end up being the start of all the world's modern religions. Man got his start millions of years ago as a group of apes left the trees to wander the Savannah standing on two feet. Surviving dangerous predators and the rigors of a two and a half million year long Ice Age, man would go on to dominate the world he lives in and shape it to his will...

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Id: UTp_1t7_P-M

Length: 3min 47sec (227 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 26 2019