The Homo genus started approximately 2.3 million years ago when a new species evolved and was distinctly different from the Australopithecines that used to roam the African continent. This is the start of the lineage that eventually led to us all, us Homo sapiens sapiens, modern humans. But who was this species? What did they look like? What can we uncover about the way they lived? Homo Habilis, the very first species in the Homo genus, the origin of all of us. The remains of Homo Habilis were discovered at the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, this is one of the very most important palaeoanthropological locations in the entire world, the Gorge has played such a key significant role in our understanding of the early human evolution. 45 kilometres south of the Gorge are the Laetoli footprints located, which are amongst the oldest fossilized footprints ever discovered. The Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania is located in the East of Africa, this is where some of the very oldest fossils ever discovered have been found, like for instance the Laetoli Canine belonging to Australopithecus Afarensis dating to 3.5 million years ago. #HomoHabilis #OlduvaiGorge #KoobiFora Music: Adrian von Ziegler Sources: https://www.sapiens.org/biology/homo-sapiens-and-tool-making/ https://www.nature.com/articles/508031a https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-habilis https://www.britannica.com/topic/Homo-habilis https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/homo-habilis/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_habilis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olduvai_Gorge#Discovery_and_research Video Stefan Milo; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6kc7rEQXpI Become a Channel member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMwDeEoupy8QQpKKc8pzU_Q/join Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HistoryWithKayleigh Buy me a Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/P5P42ZHI2# Ancient Structures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdfmvhQKoWzGJnJgQ4BfaplL Ancient Queens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-5ENRuFn9g&list=PLyM1QcUGVGddonv6zBIjfj30EyMavpBPy&index=1 New Discoveries: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdfCySvH9f3ReUXsuPbW0hAU Fact or Fiction?: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdeib_J7to1OuMEa6635OoQo Please leave a comment, like & subscribe! Join my Discord: https://discord.gg/tK9PZ83 Add me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KayleighHistory Add me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historywithkayleigh/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HTZUsQoEoQ

The oldest stone circles ever found date back to 175,000 years ago and were created by Neanderthals. The circular structures created from nearly 400 stalagmites in the Bruniquel cave show that Neanderthals were far more organised in their social structure than previously thought. The creation of these structures requires the mobilization of people who can lead, who can advise, who can manufacture, who can construct patterns, all while they needed a continuous source of light. Neanderthal Playlist; https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGddnc1Zkt-ct74NlvcoQW80- Become a Channel member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMwDeEoupy8QQpKKc8pzU_Q/join Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HistoryWithKayleigh Music: Adrian von Ziegler Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature18291 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/25/neanderthals-built-mysterious-cave-structures-175000-years-ago https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-neanderthals-idUSKCN0YG2U9 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/05/the-astonishing-age-of-a-neanderthal-cave-construction-site/484070/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruniquel_Cave https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/neanderthals-caves-rings-building-france-archaeology https://www.tourisme-tarnetgaronne.fr/en/discover/must-see/the-bruniquel-cave/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/05/26/170000-years-before-stonehenge-neanderthals-built-their-own-incredible-structure/ Human Evolution: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGddXxYT_n_2XNxJI1IqYnziF Ancient Structures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdfmvhQKoWzGJnJgQ4BfaplL Ancient Queens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-5ENRuFn9g&list=PLyM1QcUGVGddonv6zBIjfj30EyMavpBPy&index=1 New Discoveries: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdfCySvH9f3ReUXsuPbW0hAU Fact or Fiction?: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdeib_J7to1OuMEa6635OoQo Please leave a comment, like & subscribe! Join my Discord: https://discord.gg/tK9PZ83 Add me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KayleighHistory Add me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historywithkayleigh/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZcZK46xhkc

As we all know, Africa is the cradle of human origins, all human species have their origins in Africa if we go back far enough. But, according to a new study published by Nature, it seems like there’s a possibility that all living humans on the planet today are the descendants of 3 populations, these 3 populations dispersed roughly between 60,000 and 50,000 years ago. A more widespread move happened around this time when Homo sapiens started moving into places like Eastern Asia, Australia, Europe and so forth. The first Homo sapiens emerged in Morocco around 300,000 years ago. They are the oldest anatomically modern humans, although they still had archaic features, but they did start to behave in certain ways that we deem modern human. They started to create new stone tools and they seem to be the first humans to transport raw materials, most likely through a set of trade networks up to 400 kilometres away (approximately 250 miles). We know that they started making clothes at least 140,000 years ago and started to create pierced shell beads to decorate themselves. But then, around 50,000 years ago they started to create ostrich eggshell beads and exchanging them along a vast distance. Around this time the first Homo sapiens had already arrived in Australia and Europe, and stone and bone tools became very common wherever Homo sapiens started to inhabit the area. It’s a shame that almost all rock art in Africa is undated and most of it is very badly weathered, so that makes dating them even harder. But around 50,000 years ago there seems to be an increase in ochre pigment at archaeological sites, this as you can imagine hints at an explosion of art. #DescendedHunterGathererPopulations #NewDiscovery Music: Adrian von Ziegler Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04430-9?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_campaign=CONR_PF018_ECOM_GL_PHSS_ALWYS_PRODUCT&utm_content=productdatafeed&utm_term=PID100021860&CJEVENT=b7a1ac5ca1fe11ec8056838f0a18050f https://bgr.com/science/this-50000-year-old-dna-changes-what-we-know-about-ancient-human-history/ https://theconversation.com/ancient-dna-helps-reveal-social-changes-in-africa-50-000-years-ago-that-shaped-the-human-story-175436 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochre Become a Channel member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMwDeEoupy8QQpKKc8pzU_Q/join Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HistoryWithKayleigh Ancient Structures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdfmvhQKoWzGJnJgQ4BfaplL Ancient Queens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-5ENRuFn9g&list=PLyM1QcUGVGddonv6zBIjfj30EyMavpBPy&index=1 New Discoveries: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdfCySvH9f3ReUXsuPbW0hAU Fact or Fiction?: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdeib_J7to1 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KDx8OwfiD4

This is a Reupload of my original hypothesis, part 2 may be coming soon. What if the ancient structures in Europe, for instance the megalithic tombs, the dolmens and henge monuments are reconstructions of older monuments? We would never be able to fully uncover the older dates with our current dating methods, but I personally find it extremely unlikely that we have a 7000 year gap in construction between the Tas Tepeler sites in Turkey and the oldest stone structure in Northern Europe at the Carrowmore cemetery. It is possible that we had burial mounds, or passage tombs, dolmens or henge monuments created from wood, that kept being rebuild for a very long time, possibly thousands of years, that eventually got reconstructed by stone, either a very long time ago, or not as great as they may have not been very skilled working with stone yet, who knows.. Eventually about 5600 years ago the Neolithic builder culture started to develop and they could have possibly discovered the ruins of these ancient structures and eventually these stone structures were reconstructed by them. #AncientTimeline #HistoryTimeline #AncientTheory Become a Channel member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMwDeEoupy8QQpKKc8pzU_Q/join Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HistoryWithKayleigh Ancient Structures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdfmvhQKoWzGJnJgQ4BfaplL Ancient Queens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-5ENRuFn9g&list=PLyM1QcUGVGddonv6zBIjfj30EyMavpBPy&index=1 New Discoveries: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdfCySvH9f3ReUXsuPbW0hAU Fact or Fiction?: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdeib_J7to1OuMEa6635OoQo Please leave a comment, like & subscribe! Join my Discord: https://discord.gg/tK9PZ83 Add me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KayleighHistory Add me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historywithkayleigh/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iBBgXACVFc