What Did Ancient Humans Do When the Floods Came?

What Did Ancient Humans Do When the Floods Came? All research and sources are linked below. 📚 RESEARCH & SOURCES: ▸ Glacial Lake Missoula and the Missoula Floods — Bretz, J H. (1923). "The Channeled Scablands of the Columbia Plateau." Journal of Geology. The largest floods ever documented on Earth, repeated roughly 40 times between 18,000 and 15,000 years ago. ▸ J Harlen Bretz vindication — Baker, V.R. (1978). "The Spokane Flood controversy and the Martian outflow channels." Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.200.4339.295 — Bretz's flood hypothesis was mocked for forty years before being confirmed. He received the Penrose Medal in 1979. ▸ Cooper's Ferry human occupation — Davis, L.G. et al. (2019). "Late Upper Paleolithic occupation at Cooper's Ferry, Idaho, USA, ~16,000 years ago." Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax9830 — one of the oldest dated human sites in North America, within kilometres of the Missoula flood path. ▸ Wadi Kubbaniya catfish and tubers — Wendorf, F. & Schild, R. (1989). "The Prehistory of Wadi Kubbaniya." Southern Methodist University Press — Late Paleolithic communities camped on dunes above the Nile flood, harvesting stranded catfish and nut-grass tubers from receding water. ▸ Wild Nile period and Lake Victoria overflow — Williams, M. et al. (2010). "Late Quaternary floods and droughts in the Nile valley, Sudan." Geological Society Special Publications. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP346.3 ▸ Jebel Sahaba cemetery violence — Crevecoeur, I. et al. (2021). "New insights on interpersonal violence in the Late Pleistocene based on the Nile valley cemetery of Jebel Sahaba." Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89386-y — 41 of 61 individuals had injuries from projectile weapons, many healed and re-injured across years of raids. ▸ Ohalo II submerged camp — Nadel, D. et al. (2004). "The Ohalo II 23,000-year-old camp revisited." Journal of Human Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.05.011 — six brush huts, grass bedding, fish bones and wild grain sealed under lake sediment for over twenty thousand years. ▸ Aboriginal oral traditions of sea level rise — Nunn, P.D. & Reid, N.J. (2016). "Ancient Oral Traditions Describe Risks of Reefs and Rocks." Geographical Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12151 — stories from 21 coastal communities accurately describing submerged geography from at least 7,000 years ago. ———————————————————— PEOPLE & SITES MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO: ▸ J Harlen Bretz — Geologist who walked the scarred landscape of eastern Washington in the 1920s and argued that only a catastrophic flood could explain it. Scientists mocked him for forty years. He was right the whole time. He received geology's highest honor at age 97. ▸ Loren Davis — Archaeologist at Oregon State University whose 2019 excavation at Cooper's Ferry placed humans in the Missoula flood zone around 16,000 years ago — among the earliest confirmed human presence in North America. ▸ Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild — Archaeologists who spent years excavating Wadi Kubbaniya and found an entire Late Paleolithic way of life built around the annual Nile flood, using it as a calendar, a fishing ground, and a harvest. ▸ Isabelle Crevecoeur — Researcher at the University of Bordeaux whose 2021 reanalysis of the Jebel Sahaba cemetery revealed decades of repeated raiding between groups competing for the Nile valley during the Wild Nile period. ▸ Dani Nadel — Archaeologist at the University of Haifa who walked onto a drought-exposed shoreline in 1989 and found a 23,000-year-old camp sealed perfectly under lake sediment — huts, bedding, seeds, and all. ▸ Patrick Nunn and Nicholas Reid — Geographer and linguist whose 2016 study matched Aboriginal oral traditions to actual submerged coastal geography, confirming human memory of sea level change transmitted accurately across up to 800 generations. ▸ Glacial Lake Missoula — A lake in Montana covering 3,000 square miles, held back by an ice dam that repeatedly burst, sending walls of water hundreds of feet high across the Pacific Northwest up to 40 times between 18,000 and 15,000 years ago. ▸ Wadi Kubbaniya — A dry valley near modern Aswan, Egypt, where Late Paleolithic communities camped on sand dunes and used the annual Nile flood as their primary food system. ▸ Jebel Sahaba — A cemetery in northern Sudan holding 61 individuals, at least 41 with weapon injuries, many healed and re-injured. Dated to at least 13,400 years ago. One of the oldest known examples of sustained group violence in the human record. ▸ Ohalo II — A camp on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, built around 23,000 years ago and drowned when the lake rose. Exposed by drought in 1989. Contains the oldest known grass bedding in the world. ———————————————————— #ancienthumans #huntergatherer #prehistory #humanhistory #flood #archaeology #stoneage #anthropology #history #explainer #animation #education #paleolithic #survival #nile #iceage