Prehistoric Europe was absolutely metal

[Music] humans can be incredibly creative Cooperative ingenious we can do so many beautiful things the list is endless it really really is and then on the other hand we have this absolutely barbaric darker side this video is about that darker side and the archaeological evidence we have for it in Europe we're going to go from the Paleolithic right down to the Iron Age and everywhere in between hopefully I've picked some interesting examples that show that morbidness that we have but also illuminate something else about the time period YouTube moderators this video is not intended to shock it's about a fundamental aspect of human evolution and Society it's all based on academic research there's going to be no crazy footage or anything like that just things taken from archaeological excavations so please do not nuke my channel as a result of this video and yeah hopefully it'll provide some inspiration at least for some death metal album titles 1.8 million years ago the green valleys of what is now Georgia were home to these extremely ancient humans I called them humans but that is kind of debatable me personally I would think of them as humans but their classification is still not really secure you can think of them as kind of of early Homo erectus although they stood about 5T tall their brains were half the size of ours and they made very very simple tools just simple Flakes and choppers I didn't I forgot to bring one I totally forgot to bring one uh kind of like older one style tools basically very simple however they must have had a certain drive and curiosity they almost certainly represent the kind of homin that was the the first to expand Out of Africa and really push the boundaries of humanity adapting to new climates trying to find new food sources it's our earliest sign of the our sort of adaptability that will of course allow us to take over the whole world and lots of negative stuff came with that as well but it's that first sort of sign that we can really adapt and change and move maybe this helped them but one of the the causes for this expansion might have been their ability to cooperate one of the homins looking at the skull here from DIC D 3444 lived to an old ...