Disabilities in Prehistory

Wonder if the last person might have been an early example of a trans man or something along those lines, obviously it's not really easy to tell but I can't help but wonder.

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Chimps share food and especially meat based on social hierarchy and their personal alliances. I'd hardly call that compassion. Although they do demonstrate compassion in plenty of other ways.

0:42 Flint River Aquarium, Moonshine?

Glasses is why europe got the advantage vis a vis asia. Glasses extend your scientific life by 20 years. In china they did care about glass objects, but they drank tea out of cups. A silly mistake that cost them 1000 years of innovation.

Claude the albino alligator mentioned !

Mutual Aid in different animals has been observed and studied for over a hundred years. Compasion isn't just ahuman trait.

this was probably the first video i ever watched of yours, way before i even subscribed, it honestly reframed how i think about people in the past

i mean, the mississippians arent that old lol

I often think of the polio girl and always start crying. My favorite video of yours, Trey

To what extend was this compassion enabled by wealth and/or political power ? And to what extend was it not for those who could not afford it ? as much as I find all of this interesting and credible, it seems like a giant hole in the whole story

hehe. cavemamn. in welchiar. weel chare mede of sticks n stoen. cavemab weel chare.

idgaf

0:42 Alligator Farm?

The same has always been true. Women valued life more and protected the disabled and men decided it was their entitlement to kill anyone they couldn’t extract resources from. Combining the history of all “humans” or “people” hides 90% of the one way male terrorism campaigns throughout history and our current reality. It’s been a constant battle for women to hold onto and save their children when men grab them and throw them into the river because they see people as objects meant to serve them.

It’s still mostly women helping the disabled. Still mostly men weeding them out and driving them into homelessness, pretending it’s sad but necessary (isn’t), and claiming anyone who dislikes it is just overly sentimental (female.) It’s still just as dangerous and precarious of a world for disabled people. Wild animals and the elements are still right outside. Humans are animals too, and the way men treat the vulnerable they think no one cares about is proof nothing has changed. I recently saw a woman walking around covered in her own feces, which some young homeless women do to protect themselves from rape. If you saw that in a documentary about another time period you’d think it was horrific, but it’s us. She’s not scared of women. Guaranteed every service available to her is run by women.

What I see in the evidence of the disabled from the past are the same patterns we have today. We do not care for them much. Sorry, MEN don’t. I am constantly arguing with people over the basic concept of, “someone starving because they can’t make money isn’t okay.” Most guys I know will say they care and don’t see disabled people that way. But do they volunteer or donate? No. Do they take advantage of disabled women in particular? Yes.

Not a coincidence that most of the disabled bodies found were male. Double standard. The lower class and the girls were probably killed for being disabled more often. The disabled men were probably cared for off the backs of disabled women, even. I don’t see it as heartwarming to see that people are this dumb and willing to romanticize the obvious or pretend we have a much better society than we really do.

We’re far from helping disabled people when we can’t even just leave them alone and for some reason go out of our way to torment them. Or perceive caring for them as some kind of huge act of compassion as this video implies.

I don’t need compassion to take care of disabled people. I don’t help them out of compassion. I just see them as people and everyone needs different things. The idea that we would abandon or even kill them is HORRIFIC and NOT a given as it seems to be here. If this video were less concerning, it might have been framed more like, “Disabled people have been persecuted by mainly men for millennia, but these fossils prove that their existence goes all the way back, disproving any claims by modern men that disabled people are destroying the gene pool and the human race, and any ideas about ruthless culling of the gene pool are, as always, stupid and insane. As we know, humans aren’t resources, and normalizing the idea of viewing life as a fight to produce the strongest and meanest humans is a masculine womb envy fantasy we’re not going to humor here.”

I can understand why aristotle would be an advocate for eugenics in disabled children, especially in his time.

Is it worth the increased chance bringing someone into this world who is likely not to have accomodations or suitable care?

12:33 you said Israel it’s not Israel it’s Palestine say it right or say nothing at all

not tuco and hector....

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4:04 I don’t think these guys are disabled… I think Theyre Neanderthal!

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I recently caught the news of a lioness that survived 5 years in the wild (so far) whilst being blind. All because her daughters helped her hunt. So it's not only humans, it's pack animals as a whole

honestly it's both beatifull and sad that those people had greater emotional intelligence than most of us

0:24 DISLIKE FOR SCREAMER

Dwarf dude is cute

People today and all throughout history underestimating how much alike our ancestors were, mentally and emotionally, just blows my mind. Understanding that humans already had language and rich culture when they just started inventing tools was the last bit of knowledge that completely changed my view on this. I assume it stems from that kind of "us-them" mentality, where anyone (or anything) that's not part of "your" group must be inferior to you. I wish modern media would start depicting how much more alike we are than what we were taught to believe. The reason our species has gotten this far isn't competition, it's compassion

YouTube’s really been wanting me to watch this the past two weeks

1:16: Noooo!

. We are devolving and regressing as a species into dysgenic defective, spiteful mutants, garbage no longer human beings

One point that people often over look is the potential for there to be a misidentification at the point of burial. The female with the hip deformity that was given warrior honors might have been buried by mistake with those honors, with her remains potentially being mistaken for someone else's during a raid, battle field war, mass hunting accident, etc. You would need to prove that she was buried relatively close to death, and that her cause of death was not from any source that could obscure the face.

I’m a firm believer in letting natural selection do what it’s meant to

i would imagine it bein "baby walk funny, baby meet rock. sacred rock purified bloodline again"

0:42 Werner Herzog

I work at an AFC home as a caregiver for folks with intellectual disabilities as well as a mentor in community supports and I’ve always been curious about this kind of thing. I spend at least 40 hours every week with neurodivergent people and I have learned so much from them. I know in the past century there has been incredible progression made in terms of rights and freedoms for individuals with disabilities, and I hope that as humanity continues to last, our genuine compassion and connection grows even stronger. This is a great video, I’m glad it was recommended to me!

Urgh... you get cave handicapped parking space

Is the albinism pic at :42 from the SF Museum of Science?

02:08 Dude! Total missed opportunity for a joke. You could have said, "I looked around the food court I was in to see how many people possess this disability. And I didn't see a single one because I wasn't wearing my glasses."

This kept me smiling through the whole video. I'm disabled- scoliosis. My husband cares for me. It makes me happy to know that if i were born in prehistory rather than right now, I'd be taken care of as i am now ♡

Human Society is such an interesting but weird thing. We do generally want to help our own species but it feels like this instinct breaks under modern society and high population density

Similar to how the pecking order falls apart in large scale chicken farms or the John Calhoun's "Mouse Utopia"

Non sequitur. Just because you can name a society or even a dozen, that treated handicapped people poorly, doesn't mean that further back in time people would have been worse. This is not how one approaches science. This is very sloppy thinking. I think I know why I'm not subbed now. If you paid any attention to what archaeologists have learned about prehistoric societies, you'd know that there are evidences that handicapped people were well-loved by their people and taken good care of, not to mention when laid to rest, their grave goods indicated a fairly high status. This is no secret. You're not helping to educate when you make such amateurish mistakes in your thinking.

I love how you draw the people they seem like they belong in a picture book in the best way possible

sing name at 18:11 ?

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