The Modern Science of Ancient Wisdom

I'm Rufus Griskam. And this is the next big idea. Today. The modern science. of ancient wisdom.

We've learned some extraordinary things about our early ancestors, and much of it really recently. In twenty nineteen, scientists analyzed the teeth of a hundred and thirty one pigs. Consumed at four prehistoric ceremonial sites. In southern England, including near Stonehenge. They discovered that the pigs had been brought from all over the British Isles, as far away as Wales and Scotland.

So some four thousand five hundred years ago, people were traveling hundreds of miles to gather for enormous festivals. Meanwhile, in Ireland, archaeologists have cataloged two hundred and fifty eight ancient sweat houses. Resembling little stone igloos. And we've discovered evidence of the use of saunas as a central cultural tradition. Across the ancient world from Finland and Russia to Mexico and indigenous North America.

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