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Anthropologist Fact Checks Stone Age Slop
AI slop is littering your feed and spreading misinformation, so WIRED’s here to set the record straight. Join Anthropologist Agustín Fuentes as we fact check the internet, anthropology edition. WIRED recommends: #StoneAge #IceAge #Evolution Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► Listen to the Uncanny Valley podcast ►► Want more WIRED? Get the magazine…
@notjunior
September 4, 2026 at 5:36 pm
the point about the average human kinda hit me hard. haven’t really thought about it, but makes total sense. just how hard they colonize our minds….
@johndowd9644
September 4, 2026 at 5:47 pm
How do you know women neanderthals where involved in hunts and to question why a man was narrating these videos especially pointing out he was an old white dud with a explorers hat and a beard then mention why women weren’t put into the videos then say many many many women could have been mentioned in these videos.he also said the average human could be a 24 year old Chinese woman, think this anthropologist has anti white western man syndrome, girl power !
@historianKelly
September 4, 2026 at 7:27 pm
Because *the archeological evidence shows it.*
That’s how we know.
We have physical proof of it. We have proof of all the assertions he’s making.
Also, *demographic numbers of who lives on our planet* is where he gets the idea that the average human is a 24yo Asian woman. That’s a *statistically accurate* idea, _NOT_ bigotry.
@tga-hz7jf
September 4, 2026 at 5:53 pm
It genuinely stresses me out how many people fall for this stuff. Because that number is absolutely going to increase if governments don’t crack down on AI distribution,
@AaronMVHardy
September 4, 2026 at 5:56 pm
I would push back on the thing about the rock. We still do that now. Pick them up and look at them, throw them, and tap them together when we’re bored and it’s the only thing to do. Skipping stones is a good example of us looking at different rocks trying to see which ones are the best. If you hit one flint rock with another it can break and show a possible use and you can refine that. or even thinking that a stick is a good stick.
@MarioPetrinovich
September 4, 2026 at 7:05 pm
It definitely didn’t go that way, no matter if all the science claims it. First you got to have a purpose, then you can do that. In stone tools the main thing is sharp edge. I would say that about the sharpest thing in nature is broken shellfish. Also, animal without carnassials cannot eat terrestrial meat raw. The only meat that a primate can eat raw is shellfish (there is crab-eating macaque). So, put those two together and you will understand how we started to use sharp edges, and where.
@aritulipa
September 4, 2026 at 6:08 pm
I love love loveeee this series
@Altair4611
September 4, 2026 at 6:08 pm
25:40 Thought he was going to say why is a computer imitating a human lecturing us on humans
@dili1014
September 4, 2026 at 6:14 pm
12:02 I’m convinced this is the nintendo snap
@CnutLongsword
September 4, 2026 at 6:24 pm
“Before 8-10,000 years ago, rice didn’t exist”
Asians: …so how did they live?
@MarioPetrinovich
September 4, 2026 at 7:11 pm
Typical scientific BS.
@BlasRamones
September 4, 2026 at 6:30 pm
Agustin wrote a book with a fantastic title:
“Race, Monogamy and Other Lies They Told You”
@rockisyourman
September 4, 2026 at 6:37 pm
Dude lost all credibility when he said he liked Red Delicious apples
@indigodarkwolf
September 4, 2026 at 6:48 pm
21:28 Not to mention, that is clearly Chuck Norris, with maybe a splash of Chris Hemsworth in the eyes.
@Fomites
September 4, 2026 at 7:14 pm
5:03 Love the prehistoric shorts. Sigh
@samanjj
September 4, 2026 at 7:15 pm
8:32 Siberia is where groups of “white” people developed and migrated west. It could be plausible that these east Eurasian tribes people know of others that look like this “white” influencer. As an anthropologist I am surprised you used the term white instead of west Eurasian to describe someone btw. Having said that, her blue eye would freak them out
@firexx78
September 4, 2026 at 7:15 pm
Oh my god this is amazing, PLEASE continue making this a series
@Fomites
September 4, 2026 at 7:15 pm
Note the random use of the uppercase in the AI video. Sigh again…
@Fomites
September 4, 2026 at 7:19 pm
And Tina Lasisi/Lacey is beautiful whichever way they want to misspell it 😎.
@peterbyrne7348
September 4, 2026 at 7:22 pm
I was with you right up until you said “I like Red Delicious apples. Noelw I know you’re AI
@rossbooth4635
September 4, 2026 at 7:27 pm
Are we reeeally that sure that H Sapiens and H Neanderthalensis weren’t just sub-species in the same species?
@erichutchinson8556
September 4, 2026 at 8:07 pm
Fact check is going to be a great new series
@ComplacentOtter
September 4, 2026 at 8:16 pm
They’re flooding the net because actual natural history museums are closing like mad. Do a video about what’s happening to all of those bones! Many are just being thrown away.
@ExhaustedOwl
September 4, 2026 at 8:48 pm
To give some perspective on time: Aboriginal Australians have a continuous, living culture of ~60,000 years. It’s a long time, yes, but we’re still talking about modern humans, not archaic humans.
@cacteria
September 4, 2026 at 8:59 pm
it’s batshit insane to me that anyone sees any of these ai archaelogy/science whatever videos and thinks it’s true. if you are trying to reach the people who believe that giants built the pyramids and humans used to have monkey heads, you are running a fools errand
@AlvenFae
September 4, 2026 at 8:59 pm
11:23 wait… I never thought about that. When did humans start growing beards?!?
@gordatados
September 4, 2026 at 9:21 pm
24:54 AI man, just watch the weird way his mouth moves.