{"id":27240,"date":"2026-09-17T13:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=27240"},"modified":"2026-09-17T13:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:35:21","slug":"what-happened-to-humans-10-000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/what-happened-to-humans-10-000-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to humans 10 000 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humans were hunters and gatherers for around 300 000 years. Then, fairly suddenly in the grand scheme of things, they started doing things differently 10 000 years ago. This video explains it brilliantly in a way I haven&#8217;t seen before. After the last ice age ended things warmed up and it became easier to grow crops. And one thing led to another:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4jjI71UHutc\">Why Did Ancient Human Progress Suddenly Explode 10,000 Years Ago?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is from a channel called Ami, who explains more about ancient humans in other videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans were hunters and gatherers for around 300 000 years. Then, fairly suddenly in the grand scheme of things, they started doing things differently 10 000 years ago. This video explains it brilliantly in a way I haven&#8217;t seen before. After the last ice age ended things warmed up and it became easier to grow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[103,39],"class_list":["post-27240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-history","tag-human-ancestors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27242,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27240\/revisions\/27242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}