@TheHistocrat
Minor correction folks, I mistakenly say at 0:46 that the woman was holding the bone of a stork. As noted elsewhere this would actually have been the bone of a crane, apologies for the mistake.
@Rosegoldshawwty
Ancient Native American history and ancient Chinese history have always been fascinations of mine that aren’t typically covered. This is perfect for me
@MrTaxiRob
48:50 it could be plague that kept life expectancy low in sedentary cultures. Besides faster transmission, they were living closely with their livestock often in the same structures. I'm guessing most acute respiratory diseases wouldn't leave any evidence in skeletal remains, either.
@Strattios
Hey, I'm not sure if you have read it, but the book Farmers of Forty Centuries by F. H. King is a must read. In 1900, the author, a British Agriculturalist, traveled China, Japan and Korea. One of his notes is how farmers harvested ripe grains by pulling the plant from the soil. They'd rinse, cut off and dry the root ball. This explains many points about farming. One, lack of grain harvesting tools. They just used a knife, not a scythe or sickle. No roots in soil meant less need to till the soil. And the roots were used for cooking fuel. Fast and hot, which is believed to be a reason wok cooking became prominent. I recommend the Dover Publications version as it has many of his original photos.
@danyelnicholas
0:51 those amazing early flutes were made of crane shinbone, not stork. It is significant, because the crane was probably an important totem, traces of which survive to this day in a specific affinity between cranes and Confucian scholars.
@Replicaate
I always wondered how much the distant folk memory of these ancient cultures influenced the much later dynastic historians' accounts of the Xia Dynasty and Five Divine Emperors. Also, the music in this episode is particularly lovely, really sets the scene of Neolithic asia.
@Strattios
I love when less covered eras get detailed videos. Thank you 🙏
@brandonwinstead7137
Ancestor: invents tilling fields Ancestors ankles: "excuse me wtf"
@samuelleandro2275
I'm not even that interested in Chinese history, yet here I am learning about its pre-history. Amazing channel.
@jamescody183
Your videos are great quality TheHistocrat, especially with the muck on YouTube these days. I love the smooth, academic, researched fully referenced anthropology. I'm midway through, looking forward to seeing more of this series!
@zhubajie6940
I was lucky to be able to visit the Henan Museum, which displays many of the Jiahu site artifacts, including a flute made from a cranes upper arm bone and some of the earliest Chinese characters (though not yet writing) on turtle plastrons, the flat portion of shell.
@serena-yu
1:58 Earliest Chinese flutes were played vertically like the modern Xiao or Japanese Shakuhachi. Horizontal flutes became popular from about 500-200 BC.
@mohammedsaysrashid3587
It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage episode about Chinese berth ( 7000-5000 ) BCE in Neolithic and Parathilic...thank you for sharing
@timbercladdingcn
Fantastic content. As a Chinese, I actually think that all human beings have one ancestor.
@v_wegs
Commenting for the algorithm, as this one is seriously underrated and the next episode comes out this week
@Kristen-wd2wi
I have been waiting eagerly for this since finishing the first episode when it came out last year. Thank you so much for this! Appreciate all your effort ❤
@williamwarfield7630
This is absolutely superb. Please, continue to do more historical videos such as this
@DIMITRI_-
Ich habe mich sehr auf die Fortsetzung dieser wunderbaren Reihe gefreut, ich werde sie verschlingen. Grüße aus Brasilien 🇧🇷🇧🇷
@DinoFuzz1988
Your videos are amazing. I always get excited when I see an upload. I legit watch them over and over 😅
@TheHistocrat