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What Did Ancient Humans Do When They Were Bored ?

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#AncientHumans #Prehistory #humankind What Did Ancient Humans Do When They Were Bored? You've scrolled every app twice. You're bored. But what did humans do with that same hollow restlessness 75,000 years ago — before screens, before playlists, before anything? The answer might be the most important thing our species ever discovered. Key discoveries in this video: • Boredom is not modern — it is one of the oldest cognitive states in human history, linked directly to our large, overactive brains • 75,000-year-old engravings found at Blombos Cave in South Africa, studied by archaeologist Francesco d'Errico, may be the earliest evidence that bored humans made art • The oldest musical instrument on Earth — a bone flute found in Hohle Fels Cave, Germany, dated to 40,000 years ago by Nicholas Conard — was likely born from unoccupied time • The cave paintings of Lascaux (17,000 years ago) and Chauvet were not survival tools — they were the product of creative minds with time to fill • Neuroscientist Mary Helen Immordino-Yang's research shows that the brain's default mode network — which activates during boredom and daydreaming — is directly linked to creativity, moral reasoning, and imagination • Studies by psychologist Sandi Mann found that deliberately bored participants significantly outperformed others on creative tasks — boredom makes us more creative Sources: — Francesco d'Errico, University of Bordeaux — Blombos Cave ochre engravings, approx. 75,000 BP — Nicholas Conard, University of Tübingen — Hohle Fels bone flute, approx. 40,000 BP — Sandi Mann & Rebekah Cadman, University of Central Lancashire — boredom and creativity studies — Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, University of Southern California — default mode network and cognition — Kim Sterelny, Australian National University — cognitive surplus and cultural evolution — Lascaux Cave paintings, Dordogne, France, approx. 17,000 BP — Chauvet Cave paintings, Ardèche, France, approx. 36,000 BP Subscribe to HumanKind for a new video every week: Your Ancient Story, Explained. --- TIMESTAMPS --- 00:00 — You're Bored. So Were They. 00:45 — What Boredom Actually Is 01:30 — Blombos Cave: The First Art Made Out of Boredom 02:45 — Why Your Meeting Doodles Are 75,000 Years Old 03:30 — The Role of Ritual, Play, and Idle Time 04:15 — Music Was Born From Doing Nothing 05:30 — The Bone Flute of Hohle Fels 06:15 — Cave Painting: The World's First Art Gallery 07:00 — Ancient Greece and the Philosophy of Free Time 07:45 — What We Lost When We Filled Every Moment 08:30 — The Science: Boredom Literally Makes You More Creative 09:15 — What Your Brain Does When You Do Nothing 09:50 — The Version of You on the Other Side of Boredom The fire is still burning. It has been burning for 75,000 years. The question is whether you'll sit with it.

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