What Did Ancient Humans Do For Pleasure?

Try ChatLLM by Abacus.AI for yourself here: https://chatllm.abacus.ai/iex 🎵 HEAR THE 40,000-YEAR-OLD FLUTE: ▸ Listen (EMAP – "The Edge of Time"): https://www.emaproject.eu/content/audio/cd-4-music-from-the-edge-of-time.html ▸ Album: https://www.delphianrecords.com/products/dcd34185 ▸ Video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/paQplaJqrro If the links ever break, search: "Anna Friederike Potengowski Hohle Fels flute" or "Edge of Time Paleolithic bone flutes" All research and sources are linked below. 📚 RESEARCH & SOURCES: ▸ Hunter-gatherer work hours — Richard Lee, "What Hunters Do for a Living" (1968, in Man the Hunter, Aldine Publishing). Fieldwork with the Ju/'hoansi showed roughly 4–6 hours a day on subsistence. ▸ Hohle Fels flute — Nicholas J. Conard (2009, Nature) https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08169 — a vulture wing-bone flute with five finger holes, ~40,000 years old. ▸ Venus of Hohle Fels — Nicholas J. Conard (2009, Nature) https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07995 — a mammoth-ivory female figure, ~40,000 years old, one of the oldest sculptures of a person. ▸ Ain Sakhri lovers — British Museum (inv. 1958,1007.1). Calcite pebble carved into two embracing figures, ~11,000 years old, Natufian culture. Identified by René Neuville in 1933 — the oldest known sculpture of two people having sex. ▸ Knuckle bones (astragali) — Sheep/goat ankle bones used as the earliest dice, found across the Near East, Mediterranean, and Central Asia, stretching back thousands of years. ▸ Royal Game of Ur — Excavated by Leonard Woolley from the Royal Tombs of Ur in the 1920s. ~4,600 years old. Rules decoded by Irving Finkel from a Babylonian clay tablet (BM 33333B). ▸ Sumerian profession lists — Cuneiform tablets ~4,400 years old listing the term "kar-kid," debated as meaning prostitute or an unattached woman. ▸ Epic of Gilgamesh — Oldest surviving narrative, 3,500+ years old. Shamhat civilises the wild man Enkidu through sex. Translation: Andrew George (Penguin Classics). ▸ Ancient