
Michael Button
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Ancient History BA | 200K on YouTube | JRE #2368
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Ancient humans may have been building boats 1.4 million years ago. But this is a huge shift from what we thought before. Stone tools have been found on three islands that could only be reached across deep ocean. The standard explanation is accidental drift. But at what point does accident start looking like behaviour? These discoveries could truly rewrite history.
Michael Button26,849 görüntüleme • 29 gün önce

We found surgery from 31,000 years ago But this is 24,000 years earlier than we thought. In a cave in Borneo, archaeologists found a child whose lower left leg had been deliberately removed. The wound healed, and they survived for another six to nine years. How did Stone Age surgeons control the bleeding, prevent infection and keep the patient alive in a tropical rainforest?
Michael Button20,606 görüntüleme • 28 gün önce

North America had a copper industry 9,000 years ago. But this is as early as utilitarian copper-tool production anywhere in the world. Around the Great Lakes, Indigenous communities mined nearly pure copper and transformed it into tools, weapons and ornaments. Thousands of ancient mining pits remain. One older estimate suggests that up to 1.5 billion pounds of copper ore was extracted across the Archaic period, although the true figure is unknown. Then, after thousands of years, practical copper-tool production declined. Technology does not always move in a straight line.
Michael Button12,793 görüntüleme • 27 gün önce
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