Why Ancient Humans Rested by Squatting?

Forty thousand years ago, resting didn't mean sinking into a chair — it meant folding into a deep, heels-flat squat by the fire, a posture so central to human life that it pressed permanent "squatting facets" into our ancestors' bones. This video traces why ancient humans rested by squatting, what anthropologist David Raichlen learned watching the Hadza rest for ten hours a day without the diseases that plague us, and how a few generations of chairs quietly erased a posture your body still ships with at birth. So if a toddler can drop into a perfect squat without thinking, and your skeleton was built for it too — why can't you hold it for ninety seconds anymore? #squatting #humanevolution #anthropology #hadza #posture #ancienthumans #mobility #sittingdisease #hunterGatherers #healthscience #deepsquat #evolution #biology #primalmovement #sedentarylifestyle #naturalmovement #ancestralhealth #squatfacets