How Prehistoric Humans Lived (It's Not What You Think!) | History for Sleep

What was life really like for prehistoric humans? History for sleep: 16 prehistoric lives, from the beaches of South Africa 75,000 years ago to Ötzi in the Alps, then 94 calm nights by the fire. A 2-hour sleep documentary with soft 432 Hz music. The first 18 minutes test what you think you know: how much prehistoric people slept, how hard they worked, what they ate and how long they lived. Then the ranking. After that there is nothing to worry about, just a quiet night beside a different fire, from the first stone tools to the first villages. Settle in and fall asleep to history. THE RANKING Much harder than your life: the mammoth-bone houses of Mezhyrich in the Ice Age winter Harder: Gorham's Cave, Hohle Fels, Sungir, Lascaux, Xianrendong, Göbekli Tepe, Çatalhöyük, Ötzi's Alps About the same: Blombos, White Sands, Shubayqa, Jiahu, Skara Brae Easier than you think: Star Carr and Doggerland CHAPTERS 00:00 Twenty Thousand Years Ago 00:45 The Rules 01:20 Blombos Cave 02:18 Gorham's Cave 03:08 Hohle Fels 03:56 How Did They Sleep? 04:55 Sungir 05:41 Lascaux 06:32 Mezhyrich 07:21 White Sands 08:12 What Did They Eat? 08:55 Shubayqa 09:44 How Hard Did They Work? 10:22 Göbekli Tepe 11:19 Star Carr 12:06 How Long Did They Live? 12:34 Doggerland 13:28 Çatalhöyük 14:19 Xianrendong 15:01 Jiahu 15:42 Skara Brae 16:27 Ötzi 17:20 Final Ranking 18:00 Sleep Starts Here: A Night Around Every Fire 19:14 First Stone Tools 20:33 First Fire 21:36 Footprints on the Beach 22:34 Knappers and the Horse 23:39 Oldest Wooden Building 24:42 Beach Camp at Nice 25:51 Wooden Spears 26:52 First of Us 27:54 Grass Bed 29:02 First Shellfish 30:08 Ochre Workshop 31:13 Shell Beads 32:09 Scented Bed 33:09 Talking Bone 34:14 Ochre Mine 35:19 Sea Crossing 36:21 Dry Lake 37:36 Painted Pigs 38:37 Girl from Denisova 39:36 Camps on the Don 40:36 Neanderthal Hearth 41:44 Flowers of Shanidar 42:51 Vulture-bone Flute 43:51 Lion Man 44:56 Cave of the Lions 46:30 Beads of Sungir 47:31 Dyed Threads 48:37 Clay Fi