Vol 2 Ep 35 - Ancient medicine

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

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🗓️ 22 September 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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10000 - 700 BCE - The Neolithic Revolution was a huge leap forward for humankind, but it came at a price in regard to our health. How did we interpret these new ailments and diseases and how did we combat them? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message

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0:00.0	This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler
0:06.0	and this is volume 2 the ancient world
0:11.0	episode 35 ancient medias Episode 35 Ancient Medicine Oh, 15, years ago, most human societies were still living and nomadic, untagatherer lifestyle, maybe living in groups
0:47.8	of around 30 or 40 individuals as a rough indication. The same theory applies to human societies going back for
0:57.7	hundreds of thousands of years before this. Then, as we have learned, a very sudden change happened.
1:07.0	Humankind entered the Neolithic and lifestyles changed irreversibly.
1:15.0	Humans started to change the genetic code of wild plants and animals into a domesticated variety. These were now unnatural crops and livestock.
1:28.7	As humans settled into villages to protect their domesticated species, they started living in settled
1:36.3	urban societies of hundreds and then thousands of individuals. This was an unnatural way of living in large groups and in very close
1:48.5	proximity to other species.
1:53.1	In their new sedentary and agricultural ways of life, human beings would have to exert themselves
1:59.5	physically and work hard to guarantee a yield. This would be an unnatural method of
2:07.2	gathering fruit. Far from the hunter-gatherer methods that have been the norm for hundreds and thousands of years.
2:17.4	The Neolithic revolution of human beings cannot be understated. It was a radical shift in human nature and human behaviour.
2:28.4	It was so radical that there would be consequences for the human beings responsible.
2:35.0	Unf foreseeable consequences.
2:39.0	If we look at archaeological evidence of human skeletons from before the Neolithic Revolution,
2:46.0	they appear to be quite strong and healthy, which is something that might come as a bit of a surprise initially.
2:54.0	However, if we think about this, there is no reason why they shouldn't be.
2:59.2	Modern human beings had evolved into a successful animal over the course of the previous half a
3:04.9	million years and their lifestyles had not dramatically changed. The dramatic
3:11.2	changes were yet to come and the effect on our health would follow.
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