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Jiang says Ice Age humans survived not because someone planned every task but because they intuitively knew how to cooperate around food, housing, clothing, and shelter.
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ICE AGE
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Kim Iversen brings Jiang on because the channel has become a prediction machine.
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The Viking hall recreates something older than civilization: the Ice Age cave gathering where ancestors learned who they were through stories in darkness.
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Adam and Eve is powerful partly because the Garden of Eden activates nostalgia for an Ice Age egalitarian memory of humans living with plentiful food and little struggle.
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He dates farming's Near Eastern origin to after the last Ice Age, when warming made the Near East especially suitable for crops, and says a later cooler period pushed Near Eastern people into Europe.
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Jiang presents Ice Age cold and resource scarcity as the condition that pushed humans out of Africa and across the world.
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Jiang says humanity may be moving toward an ice age and that large weather shifts are historically more destructive than wars.
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"...just look at the history of humanity from a macro perspective, ice ages are a common thing. So I think that we are looking,..."
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"that, I think, should concern people because changes in weather are much more destructive than wars, actually, from a historical perspective. There's talk of..."
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"...we resourceful all right so we know a lot about the ice age because as you can imagine during the ice age things freeze..."
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"will uh keep on emphasizing for the rest of for the rest of semester is they just knew it okay so let's do a..."
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"like telepathy and that's how we are if you put humans in a group they would know instantly how to work together and they..."
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"...you think about it this experience is very similar to the Ice Age. Remember last semester at the very beginning we did the Ice..."
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"...caves. So this takes us back to the time of the Ice Age. It's activating a nostalgia within us and that's why the oral..."
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"...Adam and Eve is because it makes us nostalgic for the Ice Age. Right? Remember the Ice Age we were in egalitarian society where..."
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"We didn't really struggle against each other. We really didn't struggle against nature. We were one with nature and with each other. Okay? Any..."
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"...in the Near East is, for the longest time, there's an ice age. So you couldn't farm. You had to move around from place..."
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"...most of human history, it's been very cold, okay? So the Ice Age only ended about 12,000 years ago. Okay? And we've seen a..."
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"And that forced us to seek food and resources elsewhere. And so that drove our movement into Europe, which then drove our movement into..."
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