The Timeline of Civilization is Completely Wrong

In this video, I want to challenge two deeply entrenched ideas that are still widely accepted in mainstream science and academia - both of which, I believe, are completely wrong

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Firstly: the so-called “Cognitive Revolution,” the popular claim that humans suddenly became intelligent around 50,000 years ago.

And Second: the belief that we remained exclusively nomadic until the Neolithic Revolution, only settling down to build permanent communities about 12,000 years ago.

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These narratives, while popular, are almost certainly wrong. And what’s more - they have distorted our understanding of the past. By clinging to them, we've built a perspective of human history that’s not just incomplete — it’s fundamentally flawed.

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