By ancestors I mean like “cavemen” in a sense. If they had to sleep in caves surrounded by a million different noises, predators, insects, and sleeping on primitive beds – I just cant see them getting any good night rests.
In today’s world sometimes we cant sleep even with great pillows, mattresses, soothing sounds, sleep aid medicine, etc. For some even the tiniest noise or light wakes them up. Thanks for and whatever the reason early hominids must have been pretty hardcore.
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They woke up at dawn and spent the day digging up and gathering food sources while keeping an eye on the kids (and carrying the youngest everywhere in a back sling) to keep them from wandering off too far and getting eaten by something big and toothy. Spend all day on your feet even just at a slow walk and you’ll get in your 10 000 steps a day and more.
No cars, no busses, no strollers, no grocery stores, no convenient tap water, and you have to do a hike well away from any drinking water source and dig a hole to take a crap which would have happened two to three times a day from the high fiber diet. Water is also heavy, all drinking water had to be hauled in from the nearest clean source, not always easily found. Camping next to good water is a good way to run into every thirsty and hungry predator out there. Oh yeah and no chairs. People just squatted instead of sitting down which uses more strength and energy than sitting.
I very much doubt they had trouble sleeping and it was probably higher quality sleep when they did it.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/29/health/sleep-like-your-ancestors/index.html
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