Paleo Cave Art Mysteries: A Three-Part Series: Episode One
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Dive into Paleo Cave Art Mysteries with popular science host and author Neil Bockoven in this three-part documentary series. In addition to showing the beauty of these ancient images, we'll get into the science and stories behind the art. What and where is the oldest art? Who made it, and what did it all mean?
We'll show how some of the art probably represents the oldest writing in the world, and why - unfortunately - we've come to believe that the bulk of paleo art has been destroyed.
You'll also see how some of what remains shows the very first images of volcanoes, landscapes, hunting instructions, stars, and directions for rituals - sometimes involving hallucinogens!
Also, why viewing these mysterious images painted and etched on cave walls is such an emotional experience for so many people.
And how cave art from different eras has been found in thousands of locations all over the world -- created by our ancestors and other earlier human species -- and why many of the images and symbols used by these ancient artists are so astoundingly similar.
Neil Bockoven is an award-winning PhD geologist, journalist and the author of the historical fiction “Moctu” series - Moctu and the Mammoth People (October, 2020) and The People Eaters (July 2022) - as well as a children’s science book titled When We Met Neanderthals (2019).
His popular first video series, Paleo Human Mysteries, is a four-part documentary that examines some of the greatest mysteries surrounding our early ancestors. Did we interbreed with Neanderthals and other archaic human species? And why did we survive, while they did not? Based on Neil’s exhaustive research, the series delves deep into the Paleolithic era and the interactions of paleo humans and explores the most recent discoveries being made through archaeology and paleogenetics.
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Credits for Paleo Cave Art Mysteries:
Neil Bockoven
Executive Producer, Scriptwriter, Host
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Producer, Script Editor
Anthony Tamayo
Director of Photography, Editor
Daniel Bael
2nd Camera, Sound
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Special thanks to Genevieve von Petzinger for her review and comments. Check out her book: The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's First Symbols.
As an artist who has given up current art supplies in favor of learning from the First Artists, i am looking forward to the rest of this series with great anticipation!
Thanks - glad you're watching. I think you'll really like the next two!
What are you painting with? Your 💩?
My late father was a great artist - whether he admitted it or not (he didn't), and he decided to duplicate many of these cave paintings in a variety of media, mostly watercolor. They were as spectacular as the original articles. As a kid, I found them astounding, and they made me a FAR more curious person.
I was 3 when I got up from the dinner table, walked over to my grandmother's beige-papered wall and produced a credible reproduction of a cave painting, with hands coated in BBQ sauce: One here, one there, and two more, culminating in a final, grand, downward sweep of red. My horrified mother jumped up to punish me, but Dad stopped her, explaining that I was merely responding to an ancient artistic urge, handed down from my Neolithic forebears. I actually WAS saved by my ancestral spirits, who saved me from a spanking, and I've been grateful to them ever since.I have also been fascinated by the mystery of them, and awed by the beauty of their art. Thank you for this great video. My only criticism is that it was far too short.
Great story - and glad you liked the video! More coming soon!
Lmao you were saved from that spanking from the neolithic era
Much appreciated, thank you - liked and subscribed. I recently visited Lascaux 4, and it is quite simply amazing. It reproduces the exact layout of the orignal caves and contains 99% of the images in the prehistoric caves. The visit is really efficiently organised with the pictures reproduced again in the exit hall following the caves so you can take pics and read full explanations of each group of images. I was gob smacked and very moved, the English spoken by our guide was excellent and she knew the subject inside out. The whole team there was so friendly and helpful and the organisation of the visit so seamlessly efficient that I wondered if I was still in France.
Thanks Gerald - glad you liked it! The Chauvet Cave replica (east of Lascaux) recently opened, and I want to see it. It cost ~$65M to make!
Picasso after viewing these cave paintings said, 'In 30,000 years we've learned nothing'.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
this video is up there with the best I've seen. There was a great flow from a very knowledgeable presenter without the endless rehashing of a subject already covered earlier on in the presentation. Great job, very interesting!
Thanks so much for your encouraging words! Glad you liked the videos!
My Passion, Cave Art.
I'm a Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian, but I also have a degree in Journalism, worked in Msrketing and Sales, (* hadva 0assion for food and large paychecks), yet I'm a natural Artist,veorked in Flor8st in College, no Floral School required, and I 0aint, oil and acrylics on canvas.
This art grabs me and holds my interest, it is my favorite to observe.
We all are Artists, Creative, and have Passions, they are key to our happiness and Wellbeing.
Thanks Beth - glad you're enjoying the videos. One more on Cave Art coming soon.
I don't care if you are a fry cook
I live very close to the Maltravieso cave which strangely enough is in a city setting. It’s stunning. Looking forward to the rest of this series.
Thanks Jane - I think you'll really like the next episode talking about my favorite cave art site!
I so enjoyed your videos. Thank you. Hope you produce more. Your an excellent speaker and story teller.
Thanks so much! A new one coming soon - the second and final episode on Cannibalism. Some very cool stuff, and some of it oddly, very funny. Like the students of the University of Colorado naming their cafeteria after a famous Colorado cannibal, and having as their slogan, "Have a friend for lunch!"
What a great video! I'm so glad to have discovered this channel, and I can't wait to watch other videos here! I dislike the ridiculous overdramatization of some videos, and I'm annoyed as can be by the stupid comments that fill the comment sections of those videos! They attract the absolute lowest common denominator. What I do like to read is the type of interesting dialogue from intelligent people that I can learn from, and that this type of channel attracts. Bravo to the channel owner who also seems to be the video maker!
Thanks! The second and final Cannibalism video should come out soon, and it's my favorite of the two. Cheers, Neil
Excellent! Watched #2 first but enjoyed them both. Great job, Neil!
Thanks so much Richard - glad you liked them!
Great presentation.
Thanks Greg!
Good presentation on a subject that I have been interested in since first reading about the Lascaux cave(s) when I was young. I am very pleased to see the progress that cave art researchers have made in the past few decades. I am looking forward to parts 2 and 3.
Thanks Padraig - very glad you liked it!
Wonderful! Thank you!
Thanks for your comments!
Just stumbled upon your channel, you’ve got a new sub.
Glad you liked the video Jim - welcome aboard!
This was fascinating! What an incredible amount of research went into this video and it's so exciting to think that there is more to come! Thank you Neil Bockoven for producing such a wonderful video!
Thanks so much - glad you liked the video!
Art must have been the first universal language.
Yes, it certainly ties humanity together!
Great format. I appreciate that the straightforward approach. No loud attention grabbers or gimmicks, just interesting info. Enthusiastically subscribed, thanks!
Thanks so much Steve - welcome aboard!
I agree 100%! As they said in Hawaii Five O, "Just the facts, Dano!" I dislike the ridiculous overdramatization of some videos, and I'm annoyed as can be by the stupid comments that fill the comment sections of those videos! They attract the absolute lowest common denominator. What I do like to read is the type of interesting dialogue from intelligent people that I can learn from, and that this type of channel attracts. Bravo to the channel owner who also seems to be the video maker!
Yes! Just great information, visuals and storytelling!
So glad I discovered your channel, Neil. I bet you are a fantastic educator. Thanks so much!
Thanks so much William!
I saw it!!! We couldn’t go into the actual caves at Lascaux because of the disgusting violations of the cave walls by such as us. . .but there is a perfect replica of it close by and I saw it. Amazing, magnificent, wonderful to see. Cro Magnon fun.
Me too - and I felt the same. Just stunning!
Lascaux 2 (the copy) was designed, not so much because visitors defaced the art, but because the large amount of visitors coupled with the cave’s lack of ventilation caused a lot of humidity, and consequently mould to grow on the walls and creating potentially irreparable damage to the paintings. So the French decided to close Lascaux for the tourists but to create nearby a perfect fac-simile so tourists could access perfect copies and enjoy their stunning beauty. It took years and years to complete.
Yes, sadly, I've read that the images in the original Lascaux are roughly 90% degraded now by mold and a white crust.@@myriamickx7969
@@myriamickx7969 thanks. It’s still so amazing-there it was all those years, then that little dog and those boys and “magnon’s hole” and now here we are in utter reverence.
I discuss the boys and dog finding the cave in Episode 3 - cool story!
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Thank you Niel ❤
Thanks Ana!
Thank You , wonderful presentation sub, thumbs up!
Thanks Paul - glad you liked it!
Thank you for this. It is fascinating. I look forward to learning more about
Thanks Joyce - glad you liked it!
Lascaux in the hall of bulls there is a thought provoking image with a large wild bull head and above its head cluster of black dots that match the Pleiades cluster and to its left Orions belt and in relation to the bull head with horns matches the constellation of Taurus.🤔🤔
Yes, that's discussed in detail in one of the next episodes!
Dr. Bockoven, I just loved this wonderful video. Thank you so much for creating and sharing it.
Thanks for your very kind comment - I'm glad you liked the video!
Super presentation. History of early ancestors is so intriguing.
I agree - it's fascinating! Thanks for your nice comment - glad you liked it.
Superb 👍 You have a new fan. 🇬🇧
Great - thanks! Glad you liked the videos!
Wow. Thank You.
Glad you liked the video - the images are truly amazing!
Just found this channel and subscribed. Look forward to more videos 👍
Glad you liked the video - some even more intriguing ones coming soon!
thanks
Thanks - glad you liked it!
This was great, I'll definitely be checking out the rest, thanks for your work.
Thanks - glad you liked it!
Incredible art! In such a dim environment.
Yes, I think it's in episode two - the reason that cave artists chose remote out-of-the-way passages for their art!
Amazing content as always! Can't wait to watch episode 2!
Thx - glad you're enjoying the videos! Episode #3 was just posted yesterday! Cheers
Neil, watching you on your cave art video, liked it much! Subscribed😊 anyway you showed art with a malt-able rows of dots and curbing over and you said this one has me puzzled, but my first thought when I saw it was rain falling down on a shelter! Felt the urge to let you 😊 Chief a 78 year old hippie from Wisconsin
Glad you liked the video, and I'm going to relook at that image with this new possible perspective - thanks!
Wow. Very interesting!
Thanks - glad you liked the videos. Thanks for commenting!
This video is excellent. I enjoyed learning about some cave art that I hadn't seen before.
Glad you liked it - hope you'll check out #2 & 3 coming soon!
To Neil Bockoven; I just found your channel and I'm so glad! It looks just great, so I have subscribed. You have obviously put a lot of work and effort into the research, making the videos, the extensive info in the description, and your responses to the comments. I'd like to make one suggestion though. When you get a chance, please make some playlists. Since many of your videos are part of several different series, playlists would make it so much easier to follow the series properly. Maybe you just haven't had a chance to do that yet. It would be appreciated greatly. Thanks very much for all the work you have done here! It's a wonderful early Christmas present for me! I hope your Christmas is a Merry One too! 🎄🎄🎄
Thanks so much - I'm glad you're enjoying the videos!
Great work Neil. Very interesting !!
Thanks Bob - so glad you liked it!
Wow! Absolutely mindblowing info here, Neil. Amazing history and well done video. Thank you so much, Neil.! (Sandy Cline)
Thanks so much Sandy - glad you liked it!
Im a painter and have been always inspired and profoundly moved by cave art. These exquisite images were made by our ancestors: my ancient forbears are a direct.line to the creators of these present times. The desire to emotionally.express in a visual way is universal. Innate. I have always deeply felt deeply that there is female participation in this process. These are MY FEMALE ANCESTORS
Yes - absolutely!
You sound so desperate and obsessive. Hope you're okay.
Thank you for this beautifully done video! Looking forward to more.
Thanks - glad you liked it. The next one's my favorite!
Great presentation Neil. Thanks. Cave and rock art is the early Sisten Chapel, depicting "holy" images. These images or forms are representational art of night-sky images and interpretative art to convey ideas associated with these night-sky images. The hand prints are a counting system based on the number 5. Five represents 5 year cycles of celestial images they counted, like the Mayan 5 sun cycles or kaliyoga cycles of the Hindus and 5 periods as in the 5th month. The many hands is a form of addition counting the number of months or years of the passing or "conjunction" of specific images. The fact that these hand prints were made by women and children is to convey the idea of "birth" of the night-sky images. This art is extremely important since it depicts the origin and evolution of non-biological determined behavioural cultural expression that gave rise to religion. In my free online publications The Zodiac in our Genes, and Akashic Records and Holy Grails (extract chapter 9) I discuss the night sky images and ideas our ancient ancestors were preserving as part of their cosmo-terrestial worldview.
Very interesting - I'll check it out - thx!
Cave art is a subset of the larger class, "rock art." That broader category includes art chipped (petroglyphs) or painted (pictographs) on canyon walls or other surface rock features. There are many surface sites, and their function may include way-marking for travellers. They erode and are defaced more readily, but they tell important stories
Yes, we get into that some. Did you know there are more than 100,000 significant rock art sites in Australia alone - wow! Thx for watching!
Absolutely fascinating!
Thanks - glad you liked it!
I’m definitely looking forward to seeing more of this fascinating series. Thank you so much for sharing this information with us older people on Social Security. I particularly am very grateful. Much love and appreciation from California.❤️🍀🌈🙏🏻😇❣️
Thank you Michele - glad you liked it!
Excellent!
Thanks!
Wow great video.
Thanks - glad you liked it!
Wonderful👍🏼🙏🏼 Thank you for such an engaging conversation, I look forward to watching all your videos here👍🏼
Great video, as always.
I am eager to find out what cave art the next video is about. 😊
Thanks! The next one is my favorite!
One of the finest art works in the world until they discover the next unknown cave. Great presentation and beautiful subject matter.❤😊
Thanks so much Raymond - glad you liked it!
Cool Share ! ❤🙏
Thanks!
Very interesting.
Thanks so much - glad you liked it!
Thank you
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People weren’t so thrilled about me drawing/painting on the walls when I was a little kid!
I got in trouble for that too!
Me too! LOL! 😉 ✌🏼
The many hands art sure looks a lot like celebrating the experience of being human.
Clearest evidence that we didnt become us any time recently. We are humans for millions of years
Yes, it seems that everyone likes others to know they were here.
Loved it. Blessings. Go truckers and railway workers. Cleveland
Thanks - glad you liked it!
That’s so amazing!!
Thanks Amy - glad you liked it!
Just subscribed! Love your videos and I can’t wait for the next one🙂
Thanks Shane - so glad you liked the video!
As a German Biologist -
this is already an advanced level of Mastery Art creation.
We wonder -
where are the studies of the Disciples - practising
When did that begin
Where…
Yes, I've been asked that before, and it's perplexing! Thx for watching!
@@neilbockoven7254 we have an old Cave Hohen Stadel - where by accident the "Lion Man " was found - estimated 40 000 Years old. This too hints to a much older tradition to estbalish the Craft, Mastery Art. We have a lot more to discover!
Thank YOU!
That's a famous cave! Yes, WAY more to discover! @@raginald7mars408
That's a question I've been wondering about. The paintings I know are so perfect that they were made by highly skilled artists. Their sense of movement and how they use the walls’ irregularities show a high level of artistic mastering. So, how did they learn? Train? Transmit their knowledge?
Many prehistoric rockart/ pictograph rockshelters in Monterey County, California where I live. I have hiked to them and documented on topo maps. Also the Carizzo Plain an hour drive east of Paso Robles, Ca. has some of the most elaborate polychrome pictographs in all of California (Yokut and Chumash).
Yes - very cool stuff! Are you familiar with Pinwheel Cave in CA? It's in one of the next episodes.
@@neilbockoven7254I'm not but will look it up. If you ever visit Central California your welcome to let me know! Thank you.
Thank you for this high quality video and your pleasant presentation. It stuns me every day that scientists that are researching our ancient history do not know about the fact that our planet Earth is suffering from a cycle of natural disasters that nearly wipe out an existing civilization. That cycle is mentioned in several ancient books as the Mahabharata and the Popol Vuh. Plato also tells us about this and mentioned a celestial body as the culprit. Velikovsky also came to this conclusion and other sources are available. When that celestial body approaches our planet its appearance changes from a reddish spiral (visible at 7 min 57 sec) to an multi beamed 'star' ( 3 min 29 sec) and closer it looks like a square cross. We find these symbols everywhere on our planet. There are nice petroglyphs found in the Mojave desert. People with there hands up (7 min 13 sec and 33 sec) are frightened by this event. That planet arrives from the direction of the Pleiades and disappears along Orion, through the horns of Taurus in that direction again (4 min 07 sec) These are messages from survivors of a previous civilization that survived in caves. The cycle of seven era's creates a cycle of five civilizations. Thanks to many pictures I was able to reconstruct a timeline. The last time that this planet 9 was seen and depicted was just before our era. We explain much more about planet 9, the recurring flood cycle and its timeline, the rebirth of civilizations and ancient high technology in the e-book: "Planet 9 = Nibiru". It shows abundant and convincing evidence both in text and many depictions. It can be read on any computer, tablet or smartphone. Search: planet 9 roest
You will LOVE the next video coming out soon which gets into Pleiades and Taurus!
At the age of three my mom and other relatives left me and my 3 year old uncle in her car while they went into a field to pick vegetables for dinner. I got bored. I was looking around and found my mom's oil paints and i got an idea. I would make the inside of the car pretty! Some time later the adults came back. Oil paint dries slowly. I dont remember if i got in trouble . I probably told her how i made the car pretty and she wasn't as mad. Most of the time kids do something thinking its a good thing. Ive always remembered that.
Yes, kids instinctively gravitate to art! I got into trouble for some similar activities!
Definitely some great Art back then. But just like today, there are those few who are naturally good Artists whose art communicates and most art that does not.
Agreed - but wait until you see episode 2 - some really amazing art!
Subbed so fast 🏃♂️
I'm not sure what that means?
Wow
Glad you're enjoying the videos Noelene! Thx for commenting.
Thank you for this. I have an amateur hobby of studying the evolution of prehistoric people, civilizations and cultures. Your videos are helpful with this. Thank you again.
Thanks Ray - glad you like the videos!
I can't find episode 2
Coming soon!
Thanks. I’m sure your work is phenomenal.🧑🎨♾️👨🎓
Thanks Brannon!
I wonder if the seashells were used for holding pigment and were carried around on a string?
Yes, I'll bet that accounts for some or even much of it.
Darlings, WE WERE HERE
I'll bet some of the handprints were exactly that!
We did cave art because e are ARTISTS!
I agree!
3:35, i wonder if they could pull fingerprints from any of these cave paintings
Good question - the oldest fingerprint I know of is an 80,000-year-old Neanderthal fingerprint in birch tar found on a flint point in Germany.
I did hit the like button , but I’m perplexed as to why we assume these people were incessantly struggling to survive? Do we say the same about all species who are secondary/tertiary consumers? I don’t think scientists talk about how predators in general don’t have any time in their lives for rest, play, or their version of leisure. Rather I see many portrayals of them using the least amount of energy in a short burst of time to hunt. What usually ensues is a relaxed and enjoyable meal followed by long hours of napping, playing, and lounging. Just because evidence of most their activities were not preserved, does not mean they spent a fragment of their lives doing them. Yes, there are moments where they faced hunger, starvation, but why couldn’t those periods be a small part of what our species experienced, just like today’s hunters and gatherers?
You are very right that at times, there was a big surplus of time spent for other things besides hunting and gathering. At Lascaux, for instance, they had to have time to build scaffolding to reach ceilings, gather paint supplies of various sorts, animal oils for lighting, containers for all those things, not to mention food to feed the artists. It was a big undertaking. I think because European winters are fierce now, and were even fiercer in the Ice Age, people assume those were bleaker times.
Has anyone bothered to check if all those hand prints are different? Were they all made at the same time? Because every time I've observed an artist at work, there's always someone around the place who wants to mess around with the Master's paintbox and write ''Kilroy wuz here'', simply to make sure they got themselves up there alongside the genius.
Yes, for instance, some of the handprints at Chauvet Cave in France were absolutely made by the same person, and he/she had a bent little finger.
12:24 The painting nearby the handprint looked like a building to me, like a barn. Then, I noticed there seemed to be a second animal up above so then I thought of Noah's ark. The part on the right doesn't make sense, but it does kinda look like a hummingbird if you turn it sideways with the big line laying horizontal. When I see things like this I sometimes wonder if the person had a vision of the future, and tried to draw it out.
Interesting take - thx for your thoughts! Many of the researchers who've studied it think some of the partial animal figures were drawn on later, so we need to factor that possibility into the mix.
When I was a young boy I set out to find what was 'human' and what was animal. We are base animal, so what are the things that are uniquely human? I though it would be easy to identify differences, after all we are superior, right? Well, after many decades the differences are very limited and few in number. One thing different is our ability to make images, both realistic and abstract, that convey through time thoughts, emotions, math, facts and many words. All started by humans doing art. How profound the impact art has had, is having and will have on future generations.
The Artist Hand
We, the simple people
Marvel at the artist hand
How she uses language and
Topography of the land
Stroked upon canvas
He tell of many things
Emotions, waves and mountains
The glory of kings
How we love our writers words
And lavish in their wake
We stand in awe of a sculpture's form
Of existing things . . .
GG Beck
Wow - thx for a great comment!
The Alta Mira, Spain drawing is a magnificent work of art.😂😂😂 the ironie, I was just talking about it.
People think about Buffalo 🦬🦬 in Spain?????
Buffalo belong to the South West of the USA.
How is possible buffaloes are running wild in Spain?????
The continent was still attached aka Pangea.
I love Altamira!
Meanwhile... someone, somewhere wants us to believe that the mind who created those masterpieces had about the same intelligence as a monkey scratching fleas out of his arse.
Yeah - check out the next video coming soon - some superbly done images that have been made to show movement! Wow! Thx for your comment.
Surprised Neil didn't see the penis and bollocks on the wall at 7:36.
If that's an ancient painting, people's bawdy drawings haven't changed much 😂😂
Went back and looked - have to admit - it does look like a penis! LOL
Notice that most of the caves are located by rivers of the coast lines.
Yes! Wait until you see episode 3 - that's very key!
How did he ever get a PhD without painting a single one ?
Even dogs and cats have imagination; have you ever watched playing with a toy mouse or a dog tossing a bone, or even play fighting. Visualisation is a powerful survival tool employed in both foraging and hunting. Could this be the, impulse, behind the arts? Robin Witting England
Yes, I agree that it probably played a role.
There's just no comparing European cave art to the mostly stick figure scratches found elsewhere. What bugs me is attempting to decipher what the artist is portraying, things we'll never know.
Yes, but wait until you see episode 2 &3 - some real progress in deciphering a few of the symbols!
Where’s the volcano?
In France - much more on that coming in episode 2.
Language seems to be older than us
Yes, I agree. I think Homo erectus probably had language, and that's why they were so successful.
Ha! At my house, we put amateur scribbles on our refrigerator. In caveman times, the cave Was the refrigerator.
I agree it looks like some of the handprints were made that way. But the great art like that at Chauvet was made by masters!
@@neilbockoven7254 Or even, just 1 guy.
I live near lascaux and its been sealed off for donkeys years
Yes, I've read that the images in the original cave are seriously degraded. Lascaux 2 is a replica cave, supposedly made to mimic the cave down to the millimeter scale.
mr bockoven,i think you have noticed that this magnificent artists,when they showed humans,they are not more then bad drawn stick figures,they would have been able to draw humans like gaugain did it,only nicer,but they didnot,because humans had nothing to do with this pictures,its more then this nowadays,,hunters,,who hang their biggest trophys on their walls,showing what a big hunter they are,but i think this eary humans only showed more ,how they respected and admired this animals ,which allowed them to survive
That's a very good point! Thx
Ancient modern humans aren't us , rendering Neanderthals a 'them' , human evolutionary lines intermingle and so theyre all 'Us' , at a basic level.
We are all brothers and sisters sharing a certain kind of mind-scape that is unique, and therefore is the natural dividing line or perimeter, for 'us'.
I agree!
If they interbred, why is it said that Neanderthals disappeared but not the Modern Humans also disappeared? Or, at least, after those time summer kind of intermixed human then existed?
Yes - we're definitely mongrels, with Neanderthal, Denisovan and other types of human species' genes now. @@phaedrussmith1949
An unfortunate modern contribution at 7:40
I think there's a temporary card to help photographers focus at 7:41?
Our cave walls have become hard drives..
Great comment - very true!
@0:39 OOA is a theory with holes in it.
There are a lot of new complexities, but the main theory holds up well. All recent papers from credible researchers substantially confirm the Out of Africa model. Here are a few, but there are literally dozens: Lopez et al. (2016) "Now, over 150 years later, genetics, with the advent of genome-wide genotyping and sequencing techniques coupled with archeological evidence, substantially confirms the African origin of the first modern humans, while highlighting many further complexities." Montinaro et al. (2021) "Anatomically modern humans evolved around 300 thousand years ago in Africa." ScienceTechDaily (2022) "Archaeologists and geneticists agree that all modern humans originated somewhere in Africa around 300 thousand years ago. The population movement that colonized the rest of the globe occurred approximately 60-70 thousand years ago. Both Y-chromosomal data (which follows patrilineal lineage) and the Mitochondrial genome (which follows the matrilineal line) agree on this."
@@neilbockoven7254 Sub-Saharan Africans carry archaic pre-human admixture that they acquired before the supposed great migration. If OOA were true we would all carry said admixture. There is also strong evidence of human activity in North America at the same time the supposed great migration just getting started. OOA is just a theory with big holes in it.
I find it off-putting to say Neanderthals are not "us"; "their" DNA is in us. How can we say for sure we're not more Neanderthal than not?
Most people of Eurasian heritage are ~2% Neanderthal, so we're ~98% Homo sapiens.
@@neilbockoven7254 Do we know how much DNA we had in common already when we coexisted? Is there a evidence of species-based warfare?
Good question - check out episode 2 of Paleo Human Mysteries - it answers many of your questions.@@derd3
It’s totally ridiculous! We know that Pablo Picasso did these paintings on Chavez cave… He lives right down the road… You can tell by the line work the shading in the movement of the animals. It was exactly his work. He actually has several paintings that we’re of the same thing.
It’s not the size of the brain,
it’s how wrinkly it is
I've heard that too!
My take on disappearance of Neanderthals is that it had to do more with being at the wrong place in the wrong time of prehistory. I believe that the N. disappeared together with our human ancestors after a world wide catastrophe (North America and Europe). Luckily for us humans, we had survivors in Africa, who were able to spread and re-populate the lands emptied by that catastrophe. So it looks like we've killed them all, while our mutual competition wasn't the main reason why they're gone.
Good comments, and I agree that a catastrophe played a role. Check out Paleo Human Mysteries episode 2 for more on this!
So if we only came out of Africa 45,000 yrs ago, how did the Australian Aborigines get here 50-60,000 years ago?
Great question! We came out of Africa ~70k years ago and made it to Australia ~60k years ago, but we only made it into Europe (in any significant numbers) ~45k years ago. Actually going to post on FB about this very subject tomorrow - check out authorneilbockoven
@neilbockoven7254 I guess I was just poking at the 'we came out of Africa 45k years ago' Eurocentric perspective 😉
My Neanderthal ancestors approved this video.
Thx for a good chuckle!
My maiden name is "Bockoven". I wonder if we're related.
Dear cousin Cathy, two brothers came over from the Netherlands in the mid 1700's - Jacob and George - and they were both officers for the Continentals during the Revolutionary War. Cool stuff! I'm from the Jacob side.
@@neilbockoven7254 Wow. How interesting! I have a book from my paternal grandmother, "The Exline/Axline Genealogy". She married William Bockoven senior, a "Druggist" (in Clark, South Dakota). His father was Cornelius Bockoven, from Illinois (originally I believe). I don't have any Bockoven family history before that. My grandmother belonged to "Daughters of the American Revolution", so maybe she and her husband both descended from similar ancestry. Thanks for responding!!! (Bockoven was my maiden name).
Very interesting! @@cathylindeboo.9598
i thought we were younger than neanderthal. doesn't that mean we learned from them?
Yes - I'm sure there was learning from both sides at various times.
I think the Neanderthals interbred with us and were absorbed that way and didn't disappear
Yes! Check out this video for that and other reasons for the Neanderthal "disappearance": ruclips.net/video/UEtNSuof_tc/видео.html