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The Archaeologist's Laboratory
Canada
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Videos on this channel cover activities that archaeologists carry out in the lab or fieldwork, as well as tips for archaeology grad students and young professionals. Topics range from lab health and safety, care and handling of artifacts, and making measurements on stone tools, pottery, metal, bone and shell artifacts, to plant and animal remains, geoarchaeology, stratigraphy, radiocarbon dating, artifact classification, artifact illustration, and landscape archaeology. Many of the videos complement my book, The Archaeologist's Laboratory (Springer, 2020) and were originally prepared for students in my course at University of Toronto. Since then, I've been adding material on other topics, including archaeological survey, pseudoarchaeology, thesis-writing and professional development for archaeology grad students, numismatics, and historical archaeology. I hope soon to start a series on historical walks in Toronto (likely in summer of 2024).
World Neolithic Congress 2024
A brief overview of November's World Neolithic Congress, including the excursions to some amazing Taş Tepeler Neolithic sites in the neighborhood of Şanliurfa, Türkiye, such as Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, and Sayburç.
Chapters
00:03 Introduction 00:03
01:12 Plenaries
03:20 Regular Sessions
04:07 Posters
04:56 Social Events
05:44 Excursions
06:04 Sayburç
06:48 Çakmaktepe
07:11 Göbekli Tepe
07:50 Sefer Tepe
08:15 Karahan Tepe
Chapters
00:03 Introduction 00:03
01:12 Plenaries
03:20 Regular Sessions
04:07 Posters
04:56 Social Events
05:44 Excursions
06:04 Sayburç
06:48 Çakmaktepe
07:11 Göbekli Tepe
07:50 Sefer Tepe
08:15 Karahan Tepe
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Landscape Archaeology and Archaeological Survey
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This is a lecture from ARH205, Archaeological Inference, at University of Toronto, 2024 It is a brief introduction to the topic of Landscape Archaeology from a number of perspectives and with an emphasis on field and analytical methods for interpreting settlement patterns and other archaeological phenomena at the regional scale. Chapters 00:24 Introduction 02:59 Landscapes 03:46 Archaeological ...
Toronto's 1714 Mystery Structure - John Howard's Folly
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Most Torontonians are completely unaware that there's a European-made structure in Toronto that's at least 310 years old. Where it is and how it got here is the story of this video, where Christoper Wren and John Howard both play parts. #torontohistory #toronto #historicalarchaeology #christopherwren #johnhoward Canadian Antiquarian and Numismatic Journal, 1880: archive.org/details/series1vols0...
Oldest Pub Crawl: Black Bull & Wheatsheaf Taverns (Historic Pub Crawl #1)
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In the first of a new series on Historical Walks in Toronto, I review the competing claims of the Black Bull and the Wheatsheaf as Toronto's oldest pub. #history #toronto #pubs #historicalwalks Chapters 00:07 Introduction 01:13 The Black Bull 07:21 The Wheatsheaf Tavern 13:33 The Wheatsheaf Construction Sequence 19:19 Comparing the Claims 21:25 Credits
Vikings in America? Evidence in the Mississippi Basin | Hoax or History
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Two of the most widely acknowledged runic inscriptions in the Americas - in Oklahoma and Minnesota - would appear to indicate that Vikings explored inland North America long before 1500. How likely is it that they're real? Jackson Crawford provides a really good analysis of the linguistic aspects of the Kensington Runestone here: ua-cam.com/video/aWvRtlyTaUc/v-deo.html For information on Pentad...
Giza and the Speed of Light
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Gary Osborne and others argue that the builders of Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza intentionally encoded the speed of light in it by its latitude. Does that make sense?
Counting MNI
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A brief review of 3 ways to count Minimum Number of Individuals in Zooarchaeology #shorts #MNI
4 Ancestry Genealogy Archival Tricks You Probably Never Knew
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Thousands of people, including Historical Archaeologists, use Ancestry and similar platforms to research people of the past 250 years or so. But sometimes there are obstacles that make these searches unproductive. Here I provide some tips on how to get around those obstacles to find the more elusive individuals or families. Here are some useful links (note that some of them require paid subscri...
How Archaeologists Ace a Job Interview (and Get Hired!)
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Your first interview for an academic job in archaeology might have you in panic mode. Here I give you some tips on what to expect and how to plan for a successful interview. 00:05 Intro 00:54 Conference Interviews 02:29 Online (Zoom) Interviews 03:18 Campus Visit 05:34 Do Your Homework 06:03 The Job Talk 06:50 The Formal Interview 07:32 After the Campus Visit 08:12 Credits #archaeology #profess...
Publish or Perish! What to do with your Archaeology Paper
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Deciding how and where to publish your archaeological research can be very tricky. Here I provide tips on some of the things you should be thinking about when you make that decision. Here are some links you may find useful: Directory of Open Access Journals - doaj.org/ Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) - publicationethics.org/ OOIR Archeology rankings - ooir.org/journals.php?field=social s...
Disaster Docs: The Archaeology Of Climate Change
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Archaeology has a long history of explaining past cultural and economic changes by the impacts of climate change, but this has become increasingly common in the last two decades. It is important to understand the evidence for these climate changes as well as evidence for the links between them and the cultural disturbances they are purported to have caused. Simply "cherry-picking" ancient cultu...
Unleashing Your Potential: Mastering Archaeological Conference Talks
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A key aspect of professional development in archaeology is preparing and presenting papers at academic and professional conferences. In this video, I offer eight tips on things that can either weaken your presentation on make it very compelling. Chapters Intro 00:12 Powerpoint 1:04 Tip 1 - Templates 01:45 Tip 2 - Too much text 03:27 Tip 3 - Too small text 06:21 Tip 4 - To read or not to read 06...
Writing Your PhD Thesis: 8 Things Somebody Needs to Tell You
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Get through the thesis-writing process more quickly and efficiently. #archaeology #phd #professionaldevelopment #writing #tips
The Archaeologist’s Laboratory Trailer 2024
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The Archaeologist’s Laboratory Trailer 2024
Are Those "Handbags" at Göbekli Tepe?
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Are Those "Handbags" at Göbekli Tepe?
The Builders of Göbekli Tepe: Is This Really a Mystery?
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The Builders of Göbekli Tepe: Is This Really a Mystery?
From Famine to Fabergé: The Archaeology of Inequality
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From Famine to Fabergé: The Archaeology of Inequality
Why Fractals Are Everywhere in Archaeology
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Why Fractals Are Everywhere in Archaeology
The Forgotten Roots of Landscape Archaeology | Early Field Archaeology
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The Forgotten Roots of Landscape Archaeology | Early Field Archaeology
Secrets of Archaeological Dating: How Well Does it Work?
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Secrets of Archaeological Dating: How Well Does it Work?
Hassunan Husking Trays: An Experimental Approach
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Hassunan Husking Trays: An Experimental Approach
University of Toronto On-Campus Field Methods Course, 2021
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University of Toronto On-Campus Field Methods Course, 2021
Settlement Patterns: An Introduction to Site Pattern Analysis in Archaeology
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Settlement Patterns: An Introduction to Site Pattern Analysis in Archaeology
Archaeological Survey II: The Factors that Make or Break Surveys
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Archaeological Survey II: The Factors that Make or Break Surveys
Colonial Coinage: An Archaeologist's Guide to the Coins and Tokens of British North America
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Colonial Coinage: An Archaeologist's Guide to the Coins and Tokens of British North America
Boots on the Ground: A Crash Course in Archaeological Surveys
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Boots on the Ground: A Crash Course in Archaeological Surveys
I'd recommend using home ground einkorn or khorasan wheat. Einkorn came first and was very nutritious and easy to grind using hand methods. Khorasan came later and is much harder to grind, but had higher yield in the fields. Both require a very wet dough and an overnight rest to allow the coarse ground flour to fully absorb the water. The overnight rest period is perfect to give time for a native starter culture to give the bread a bit of levening as well though it will still be a heavy dense loaf, like modern northern European 100% rye loafs. Even when rested overnight, it will be a wet and sticky dough. That is why the tray is useful. Even today, artisan einkorn loaf is baked in a preheated cast iron pot lined with parchment paper to contain the loaf and trap in moisture so it doesn't dry out in the oven. Without that, the loaf would run across the floor of the oven like hot lava. See the overnight artisan einkorn recipe in Carla Bartolucci's book. You might find that recipe on the Jovial youtube channel as well. Einkorn is the oldest cultuvated wheat in prehistory with evidence as far back as the end of the last ice age. Khorasan is much more modern, believed to be hybridized in Persia maybe ~6 thousand years ago. I bake home ground einkorn 2x a week for our family bread needs. Do the designs in the tray leave an impression in the loaf? Might be a way for each family to sign bread loafs and trays baked in the communal village oven.
The problem with those "bags" is that we don't know what these things are and for ancient ppl around the World these were important. If these were for example "pointy sticks" no one would talk about why different cultures came up with the same idea and it was important for them, because its a no brainer.... these things on the other hand we have no idea what they were, while it seems these things were very important for ancient ppl around the World... This is a legit mystery. I mean there is like a lots of objects that we would say its ok for cultures around the World to come up with independently ... carved animals no brainer... wheels and other things like that also no brainer... but that specific shape despite different cultures different art styles... I mean lets be honest we don't know, we just speculate and nothing seems to fit that "common important object" so we can all agree what it was...
I think this is a monument for rememberance of Atlantis.And built by Atlas and sons(NOAH AND SONS)
There is some possibility the bags and animals depicted at gobekli Tepe are symbolic of the great flood, and protection thereof, a historic marker if you will....
Symbolic, the bags refer to currency and wealth. The trade in grain originolly as if it were money, later it was other forms of currency including silver or gold or any other item used for trade. The bags in general is a symbol of wealth and power. Originally, at achient sites it likely depicted a place where grain may have been traded or stored. So on... there was early depictions of water buckets, however in any case it meant status.
This is an embarrassing load of absolute horseshit! So fucking retarded that it actually slows blood flow to the brain.
I am going to go on a limb here and say humans actually built it.
They have no clue but they don't want us to have an open mind. No clue and don't be looking for answers.
That bag along with the vulture that is a cloud a megastorm and vultures are death. Death that came from flooding from megastorms. Why a bag ? A carrier of water that cloud was not common , that's why they conveid one uncommon symbol. Vuktures came and feed on the dead
Thanks for the conference overview. Looking forward to the excursion videos!
The stone work at Gobekli Tepe shows two different levels of technology and most likely built by two different peoples separated by time. First, there are massive T-shaped columns, difficult to cut, transport and erect. Second, there are the primitive walls surrounding the T-shaped columns that are composed of small uncut rocks that show no sign of the sophistication of the T-shaped columns. It is hard to believe that one people created both the sophisticated T-shaped columns and the primitive walls.
None of these videos ever touch the fact that these dark melanated ppl built these 🙄
Uncover it all and then we'll talk!
Archaeologists almost never uncover the entirety of a site, partly because excavation is damned expensive and partly because it may not be necessary to understand the site, and we want to leave some of it for future generations who will probably have better methods. However, whatever you may have heard, excavations have NOT stopped at Göbekli Tepe. Last year there were excavations in Building D, this year they dug in Building B and exposed more domestic structures west of Building B, and there are plans to return to excavating the large area in the NW part of the site in 2026. There are also lots of large and exciting excavations happening as we speak at Karahan Tepe, Sefer Tepe and Sayburç
I am astounded at the foil hat comments about older civilizations that were advanced. I believe true cognitive, frontal lobe, human thinking skills have been largely left in antiquity. These places are indicators of a booming civilization and emerging belief system. I see thousands and even millions of humans, suddenly with time on their hands and need to be kept busy. As animals we are aware of our death at all limes and we live scared of that so invent ways to deal with it. Religion. Look at people today. Still that way. Idle hands are the devils tools. Pyramids are the same way. People cannot get out of modern biases and ponder what millions of people were doing, pre-technology, for a life time. Eating food and watching sand blow? These were made by the hands of the humans in their day. Modern humans would never make it if life was suddenly like back then. They don't know how to work or how to count people and accumulated man hours over generations.
Puny man didn't build anything megalific. Yet their is lititure out there that clearly exposes who excalty did
I'ma gonna get my foil hat. 🤣🤣🤣
This attitude towards hunter-gatherers by elitists is alive and well here in 2024.
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Are you serious 😅😅😅for some rocks 🪨 😂😂😂
Are you serious 😅😅😅
What drugs are you taking 😂😂
Is there pizza 🍕 in there 😅😅
I sherd do that 😂😂😂sometimes 😢😢
I sherd do that 😂😂😂
A fascinating presentation. One thing does keep hitting home though, and that's the understanding that it is archeologists who have (in the past and even recent past, and I would add even contemporary archeologists) given a picture of past peoples as being brutish and uncivilized and of lesser skill and perhaps even intelligence. How silly we have all been to take what archeologists tell us as particularly definitive of truth, rather than an interpretation that then seeps into what we think of as knowledge and truth... We learn more all the time, and sometimes there are outrageous claims make in one period of history that eventually end up with evidence to back those claims up later. Happens all the time, so 'debunking' presentations can often seem disingenuous and rather cute.
i would add that some decades ago wouldn't the builders of Göbekli Tepe have been considered an ancient, lost civilization? Civilizations are lost, until they are discovered, after all.
Oh my god yes thank u❤ its getting more and more important for Prehistory archaeologists to look at the East. Thank u so much for sharing. I feel this will be an absolute treasure for us❤❤❤
I am puzzled by why archaeologists persistently refuse to acknowledge the likelihood that lost advanced civilizations may have existed long before recorded history. They cling to the orthodox view of linear evolution of human beings and cultures, despite abundant evidence to the contrary.
Sorry to have to disagree but, despite what Hancock might imply, there is absolutely NO evidence for a Pleistocene civilization and abundant evidence to the contrary. We have thousands of sites with millions of artifacts belonging to Pleistocene hunter-gatherers, who were highly capable but did not live in sky-scrapers or drive motorized vehicles. They made no use of fossil fuels, let alone more advanced sources of energy, just burning wood for heat and the energy of their own bodies. They had no domesticated animals, no wheels, and had to carry anything they wanted to transport on their own backs. They had no metallurgy, no concrete, and, with just some exceptions in eastern Asia younger than about 25,000 years, no pottery. The Greenland ice cores show no evidence for air pollution back then that would result from any highly industrialized society.
@@thearchaeologistslaborator6591 The notion that Pleistocene hunter-gatherers and Bronze Age peoples, using primitive tools, constructed all megalithic structures and finely finished artifacts is unconvincing given our current understanding of technology and engineering. The available evidence indicates where, when, and how these people lived but does not clarify who actually built these structures.
@@taoerjohnson3202 These places are clearly indicators of a booming civilization and emerging belief system. I see thousands and even millions of humans over generations of their civilizations, suddenly with time on their hands and needing to be kept busy. As animals we are aware of our death at all limes and we live scared of that so invent ways to deal with it. Local religions and structures. Look at people today. Still that way. Idle hands are the devils tools. Pyramids are the same way. People cannot get out of modern biases and ponder what millions of people were doing, pre-technology, for all of their life times. Eating food and watching sand blow? These were made by the hands of the humans in their day. A good leader in a successful civilization would feed workers and give them tasks to keep them happy and functional. The strongest argument coming from the science denier camp is to say they could not have done it. Seriously? That's it?
Again, I have to disagree. "Finely finished artifacts" were made all the time in antiquity. It only takes ingenuity, some brute force, and the patience to polish the stone with sand and grinding stones. And these pillars and such, though impressive, are not as perfect as you suggest. You can see flaws and places where the makers made corrections and adjustments. And the pillars are not really symmetrical either. Again, they're very impressive, but far from perfectly engineered, and they're well within the capabilities of ancient people.
Thank you for this interesting and rather complete overview. How wonderful that you could attend!
Can you do a video about an overview of all the phallus engravings?
Do you mean the phallus-like pillars in the cistern (or whatever it is) at Karahan Tepe? Or phallus images more generally?
@@thearchaeologistslaborator6591 Engravings or statues that suspiciously look like a phallus, maybe more generally
OK. I'll try to put that on my schedule of planned videos, although I'm already rather behind on that list!
This is the first of several videos I plan to release related to my recent trip to Türkiye for the World Neolithic Congress, mostly on the sites we visited.
Looking forward to your next video! This was really inspiring for me still studying archaeology at uni, hope to attend one of these some day :)
3 minutes and you don’t answer the question
I have read many different hypothesis as to the meaning of those 'handbags' with links to sites all over the world having similar or widely disparate interpretations. Sitting in on more than a few lectures over the years I have had also noted a wide range of theories, however something that does come up a lot more than not is them being a symbol of knowledge. Until a further breakthrough happens I am happy with that explaination.
No one knows. And most probably never will. Everything is just speculation. One man's hand bag is another's seed basket.. I don't know, nor do you. We're you there? No.. So, your idea is just that. An idea
I did say that what I was offering was just another speculative hypothesis. Of course, none of us know for sure what these things are, and won't until new evidence turns up.
I wonder was there an earlier dark age lost to History resulting in the deaths of all Scholars and the elites through plagues and wars..?
The short answer is no. We have lots of evidence for what was happening in the Pleistocene period, coming from thousands of archaeological sites and millions of artifacts, bones, and plant remains. Consequently, we know that they were bands of hunter-gatherers (and sometimes fishers) who had no writing (but presumably oral traditions) and no scholars (but possibly elders or shamans who preserved cultural knowledge). Some of them lived in village-like collections of huts, while others had a more mobile lifestyle.
They could represent houses or temple complexes. I notice each one has a different animal that are displayed elsewhere on "T" pillars in different complexes/areas within Gobekli Tepe.
That's precisely the hypothesis I offer (though arguing for houses, not temples) near the end.
The idea that Göbekli was built by some older high tech civilization is strange. They haven't even found any evidence of a written language which would be the first sign of an advanced civilization.
Also, there's no evidence for the economy that would be needed to support a civilization: no domesticated plants or animals, no farm fields or factories, and no signal in the ice cores of the air pollution that would have resulted from a technologically sophisticated civilization.
Not the Ankh symbol. Try again.
I did not say it was the ankh symbol. I only said that some people might be referring to that, since I'm not aware of any Egyptian art showing deities carrying buckets.
Your assertion that Sweatman's hypothesis does not hold up is misguided, as the depiction found below the sunsets can be counted as your "missing" solstice. And in fact, this is exactly what Sweatman proposes. The "handbags" representing the sun on the horizon, with the asterisms seen behind the sun on the equinoxes & winter solstice "inside" the bags. The summer solstice being what is depicted below the series of v's and boxes, with a vulture (interpreted as the "teapot" in Sagittarius) being the asterism seen behind the sun on that date.
I still think Sweatman is wrong. It's special pleading to find the missing solstice elsewhere on the pillar but, more importantly, the images don't actually align very well with the constellations and he ignores constellations that are missing or animals that don't match up with one. Also, why just this one pillar? His hypothesis would be more convincing if multiple pillars showed constellations.
The submerged archaeology in Haifa sound really cool, it's awesome that the Cist Graves could remain intact after thousands of years!!
There was new talk on these sites at the recent World Neolithic Congress in Şanliurfa, Tūrkiye.
This is stupidity arguing for this to be a town BS
As the evidence grows from other Göbekli-like sites in the region, it's becoming more and more obvious that these were villages. There are now ovens and stone pots and pans at Karahan Tepe, fire hearths and other "normal" signs of domestic life there, Göbekli Tepe, Sayburç, and Çakmaktepe.
You live out important information to make it fit your narrative 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
Really? Tell me what I've left out and I'll have a look at it. If it's real, I'll talk about it.
Very interesting and informative. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just a rock 😂😂🎉
River rocks 🪨 😂😂😂
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How can you measure my mother in law 😂😂
They have lines on them 😅
I found very thick sherds 😅
Hayk Built Gobleke Tepe
“Flood gates” used in irrigation of agricultural fields.
They are sunrises. The animal representing the constellation in which the sun rises. In a year there are 2 equinoxes and 2 solstices. One of these is worked out in detail on the pillar. The other three are put on top.