A new study from Cambridge University has revealed an incredible artifact,
the oldest narrative narrative seen in human history.
>> That's a pretty, no joke, that's a pretty big deal.
>> It is a very big deal.
Yeah, >> So you know that in a cave in France
like 30,000 years ago, that's your first cave art that we knew about, right?
And you go, humans are actually putting down on the wall something that
they have seen, that they lived through and it's symbolic.
And so it's a big breakthrough in human history.
This is 11,000 years ago and they're sculpting it.
They're actually building a structure with these signs on it and these people on it.
And it's the first one there were there ones before that probably, but
it's the oldest one that we have discovered.
>> It is awe inspiring.
Absolute awe inspiring.
So again, this is 11,000 years old.
It is a carving in cave in Turkey and
it features a guy holding his penis in his hand.
So here it is, >> [LAUGH] It's apparently this has been
as old as time.
>> I like that we blurred him holding the penis or
maybe wherever we got this image from had already done so, but
you can see him holding something and it is in fact his Johnson.
Now, >> But it's in Turkey, so
it would have been his Ahmed, >> You guys call penises Ahmed's?
>> [LAUGH] It's a common name in Turkey.
That's, [LAUGH] we don't call them
all Ahmed [LAUGH] on its nice, I met you.
>> All right, so he's holding it, but
he's also depicted with a leopard on either side of him.
So I mean, yeah, so you can see that carving of the leopards on both sides.
>> That's so funny that this is the oldest human carving, and
because now I'm not positive what it means.
And of course they're not positive either cuz there's not a lot of books lying
around from back.
>> This is my favorite part where we get to interpret it like what's our
interpretation?
What do you interpret?
>> Well, there's a couple possibilities.
One is man, these leopards are hot.
>> No, that is not my interpretation.
>> I'm gonna work.
You see the one on the left?
Okay, come here, come here, catch a load of these leopards.
Okay, >> So he is trying to protect the most
vulnerable part of his body.
>> That's a good interpretation may be better than mine.
>> And he's fierce about it based on the expression on his face.
>> Yeah, so that leads me to my third interpretation which was get some,
where he was like, yeah, leopards get a load of this, okay?
And so, I mean he is Turkish.
So it's kind of a Turkish move, by the way, I'm kidding.
He's not actually Turkish, he was an ancient people.
People moving around since then [LAUGH].
>> Yes, yes, yes.
So researchers found a second carving right next to that one.
So they're finding all sorts of things.
This one depicts a human figure with a bull and to be more specific,
the carving was found in a part of Southeastern Turkey.
That junk is about to pronounce, it's cyborg,
no cyborg cuz it's Caesar pronounces Jay's for some reason.
Okay, so that's where it's found.
Researchers believe that the ancient people who made the carving were
transitioning from a hunter gatherer lifestyle to a society of settlements.
Super interesting.
Now we're gonna pivot.
Okay, so we've known for a while now that ancient
societies were just as obsessed with sex back then as we are today.
And the reason why we know that is because of the artifacts we found from
the ancient days.
Here are a few examples.
There's the Greek god purpose, the fertility god and protector of livestock.
>> [LAUGH] Livestock that we had to blurred.
But I mean you can see why, >> I mean good for him,
really, good for him.
So this is what Alex Jones audience thinks they're going to get if they take those
penis pills.
Now the Egyptian god, best god worship
as the protector of households.
There's a lot going on here with that situation,
>> See this got a third leg.
>> And the Egyptian god men, the god of fertility and male sexual potency.
It's a cute little guy with a lot to offer.
So these fertility statues were also common in many, many ancient cultures.
And I'll give you one more example here.
I just found out about this Neolithic fertility goddess statue.
And now I'm gonna be thinking about it for the rest of my life,
that person should get some friends probably and do other things but
it is pretty cool to see these artifacts from the past and
just learn about humans, what mattered to them.
It just seems like they were way more, I don't know, uninhibited back then.
>> Of course, they barely had close, let's keep it real.
>> And they had very little time to survive and live, right?
>> Yeah, and they had less inhibitions cuz they had less rules,
they had less programming.
We now program our kids with a number of different things,
mainly religion but also other cultural cues and the main and
one of the things that we teach our kids is shame.
Okay, and guilt and all these different things.
It doesn't actually exist in nature.
We make it up and then we put that onto our kids.
>> I think shame and guilt like we feel shame.
Okay, so you're right about shame and
guilt being forced upon us through cultural norms and things like that.
But shame and guilt like those are human emotions and we have them for a reason.
There's a survival reason for It.
>> 100%, that's so true.
But you could put that shame and guilt to anything,
and we have decided as a society to put it towards sex, right?
And so you're directing that human emotion in a certain way because, look and
you have shame about other things like if you steal, shame, right?
So but now in America, it's not shame if you're rich enough, right?
And so there's a lot of different ways that it could be redirected.
Anyways, look back then there's two serious things that I get out of
this story.
One is back then, of course people were more open about sex because they
were transitioning from a hunter gatherer society,
hunter gatherer society had different religions, okay.
That none of the religions that, it was more naturalist religions about
how there would be fairies and pixies and gines and all these different in nature,
they'd be in the woods, they'd be in the form of animals, etc.
And so there was not this ideology where they focused all of your guilt and
shame and embarrassment around sex at all.
They needed you to have plenty of sex >> To have plenty of babies.
>> That's right.
>> Yes, >> That's right.
So the idea of showing your penis or have fertility goddess with
very large breasts or bottom or penis etc, wasn't controversial back then.
It wasn't offensive.
All of that stuff is social constructs we made up later to depress ourselves,
so we can all go to therapists.
Okay, >> Yeah, that's the point.
>> All right, and so we don't need it, we didn't have it, we have it now.
So that's the lesson to get out of those particular statues that existed
in almost all the cultures before we invented religion to shame us all.
Okay, so the second thing is they said not related to this particular
story about the dude with the penis in his hand, okay.
But about that cultural site and others that they are now finding in Turkey and
by the way, the reason they find all the cultural sites in Turkey is because that
was Mesopotamia and that's where the original civilizations and
towns first came up.
But we all had the idea that the town came first and then we started doing
agriculture and settled down and before we were all hunter gatherers.
And then after we settled down, we started building things and
creating religion to create rules for the town, right?
But it turns out a new theory in archaeology,
which seems like it's pretty excellent one.
Is that no, according to the sites they found,
they would build the religious structures first, and there was no town,
there was no homes, there was no other structures.
And then since they kept coming back to the religious structures,
they then built a town around it.
So religion started before the towns and then doomed us all.
[LAUGH] Okay, so look for all the things that I tell you about religion and
its downsides and how it's, well, they can't all be true, right?
And so at least 90% of us are, or 80% or 70% of us are wrong.
Right, let alone back then.
None of them believed any of the things that we believe, but
there is a human need for it.
There is like an evolutionary purpose behind it.
People have been seeking purpose for as long as their humanity has been around.
So that's also interesting.
>> Totally, I love that you took that story and you made it so deep.
>> Thank you, appreciate.
>> It was very good. >> Okay, and those guys also made it deep,
but in a different way [LAUGH] here all week.