What Did Ancient Humans Actually Do all Night?

What Did Ancient Humans Do All Night? All research and sources are linked below. RESEARCH & SOURCES ▸ Fear of Darkness, the Full Moon and the Nocturnal Ecology of African Lions. Packer et al., 2011, PLoS ONE. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0022285 Nearly 500 lion attacks in Tanzania, peaking after the full moon. ▸ The Hadza: Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania. Frank Marlowe, 2010, University of California Press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1525/9780520945449/html The epeme dance on moonless nights. ▸ Natural Sleep and Its Seasonal Variations in Three Pre-Industrial Societies. Yetish, Siegel et al., 2015, Current Biology. https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_pubs/213/ Awake 3+ hours after sunset, about 6.5 hours of sleep. ▸ Our ancestors probably didn't get 8 hours a night, either. UCLA Newsroom, 2015. https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/our-ancestors-probably-didnt-get-8-hours-a-night-either Siegel's "myth" quote; no word for insomnia. ▸ The conquest of the dark spaces. Medina-Alcaide et al., 2021, PLOS ONE. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0250497 Torches, stone lamps and fires tested in Isuntza cave. ▸ Animation in Palaeolithic art: a pre-echo of cinema. Marc Azéma and Florent Rivère, 2012, Antiquity. https://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/azema332 Cave animals that seem to move in flickering light. ▸ Prehistoric pre-school. University of Cambridge, 2011. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/prehistoric-pre-school Finger flutings by children as young as three, some on the ceiling. ▸ An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar. Bacon et al., 2023, Cambridge Archaeological Journal. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/an-upper-palaeolithic-protowriting-system-and-phenological-calendar/6F2AD8A705888F2226FE857840B4FE19 Dots beside cave animals as a moon calendar. ▸ Fire and grass-bedding construction 200 thousan