human evolution questions that keep me up at night

Did Neandertols or some other archaic human make it to North America? That's the first thing we're talking about today in just human evolution archaeological questions I can't get out of my brain. This is literally that meme where that woman's wondering what her partner is thinking about. This is what I'm thinking about in that scenario.

Did Neanderals or or someone make it to North America? It's an interesting one. By the way, this is all coming completely off the top of my head today. I just feel like free flowing, freestyling as it were.

This is a question I've changed my mind on a lot. Usually when people talk about this, they're talking about the Seruti Mastadon, which was a masttodon that ended up underneath a California highway in some bizarre scenario. Strange things have happened to it. The bones are broken.

the the tusk is upside down in the ground and yet it seemingly was deposited in quite calm environment like a stream or something gentle that covered the bones. Not the usual environment where this amount of damage can be done to a mammoth. So it's been argued that this is evidence for human activity. Problem is there's no modified stone tools.

There's no cut marks on the bones. Strange things are happening like some of the teeth have been bashed in and you know humans don't really do that so commonly like hitting at Masttoon's tooth so hard it shatters. That's a pretty hard thing to do. And it was uncovered by a huge piece of commercial digging equipment.

A digger. It was dug up by a digger. One big enough to build a motorway. So it's an odd one.

I I'll freely admit it's an odd one. But on its own, it's not enough to prove that some form of of archaic human was in North America. But but but but but there's another site I want to talk about called Daring Urik. This one is on the other side of the Pacific.

This place is about 140 km southwest of Yakutsk in Siberia. This is the coldest large city in the entire world. Allegedly, they've recorded temperatures up to -64.4° C. That's minus 83 Fahrenheit for my American viewers.

What can you say about that? That's bloody chilly. [laughter] Shout out to everyone in Yakut. Rather you than me, but I'm sure it's ...