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I know this is just you guys trying to bait me into making that Slavic origins video, it won't work.

Aurignacian dating is HARD New video, I hope you find this interesting. If you do, please share. Thank you.

I have been awarded honorary Balkanoid status. I knew this day would come, thank you 🙏

No days off, I'm always working! "But Dan, how is reading a book on the beach working?" Look, just shut up.

The first time the well groomed warrior appears in the archeological record is bronze age Europe. Check out some of the cool grooming artefacts these beautiful warrior chads were buried with here.

The art in Chauvet Cave is some of the best from the whole Paleolithic and it's also some of the earliest. Look how beautiful this artwork is. Blows my mind that they were doing this 36,000 years ago. Enjoy this video, your shares will be very much appreciated.

Are these Ice Age markings on artefacts from caves in Germany really the world's oldest writing? Find out whether this huge news story from Feb 2026 was real or hysteria.

Yes it's true, the world's oldest sculptured figure is perhaps 41,000 years old. It was carved from a mammoth tusk and left in a cave in Germany so long ago that you can hardly imagine it. Find out all about this incredible ice age wonder here.

NEW VIDEO NOW LIVE! They disappeared 5,000 years ago, but their genes live on in us. This is the story of the Globular Amphora Culture and the fall of Neolithic Europe. Find out all about this remarkable bunch of long faced, blond haired, blue eyed cattle herders right now. Shares much appreciated, I hope you enjoy the video!

A Neanderthal has called me out for being racist against his people. But it's not true, I am a Neanderthal myself!

Please remember to HYPE my latest video on YouTube. I don't know what "hype" is exactly but it is imperative that you do this. Thank you.

NEW VIDEO NOW LIVE! They were the first modern humans to establish a lasting presence across Ice Age Europe. They created some of humanity's earliest known works of art, including the oldest figurative cave paintings, oldest carved human figurines, and the world's oldest known musical instruments (and the oldest boomerang!). This is the epic story of the Aurignacians. I hope you enjoy this video. Please "like" and share the video, it makes a huge difference for me. Thank you! Dan

ALERT: New video dropping TODAY. The oldest human figurines, the oldest properly beautiful cave art, the oldest BOOMERANG in the world, and much more. There is time for you to call in sick to work, leave college early, or take a 54 minute toilet break from your family. You must not miss this.

This informative chart by Guus Kroonen et al. illustrates how several agricultural terms underwent semantic shifts during different stages of early Indo-European development. Something that stands out is that these roots originally had broader meanings in Basal Indo-European (also known as Proto-Indo-Anatolian), such as “crush,” “scatter,” “field,” or “granule”. Field, for example, is a vague term that could have referred to either a place to plant or pasture land for herding animals. On the chart we can see the proposed development of more specialized agricultural meanings like “plow,” “sow,” “cultivated field,” or “cereal” in later stages. Some of these innovations only occur in the European branches. These findings imply that early Indo-European speakers possessed only a limited agricultural vocabulary. The current data provided suggested that agriculture was present in a limited capacity but was not the dominant component of their economy. Chart source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article

Sketch of a mammoth from 1800 based on a carcass discovered frozen in Siberian permafrost. Pretty good tbh, few details not quite there and the result looks insane but give the guy a break, he did his best.

This is great news for me as I'm a huge firm fan.

What did elite Mycenaean women REALLY look like? Well, we actually have a pretty good idea! Please share the vid, cheers! 🙏

I had no idea but thanks for telling me

In b4 "why using Audicity lol u so poor lol" It's because it's lightweight and efficient and does the job 😭 An hour to save an audio file is NOT okay. I may need a new computer asap