I love Alice Roberts! I've been following her work since the early Time Team days, she's just such a cool person with such a valuable perspective and skillset. A real treasure, thanks fellas!
This is the first time I have seen this channel and these two men do a great job. I am definitely a new subscriber to this channel. I always love watching Alice Roberts.
Ooh, I love Alice Roberts and anything I've seen her in. Great interview. Did not know her background was medical. Always assumed she was an archaeologist. Never know where life will take you
wow that was fantastic...I feel that you could spend hours talking with her...and never running out of topics...a wonderful programme thank you so much guys...love from Scotland🎇💞😁🪔🗿🎇
An enjoyable discussion and you were lucky to get some time with her. I understand she's a busy lady. I was at Oxford last week to see her talk about her latest book and I was delighted that she mentioned the recent discoveries at Stoke Mandeville which is very close to where I live.
Very cool. I have always enjoyed the projects that Alice has been a part of, and it was really nice to get a more personal view on her and her work. Great interviewers ask interesting questions and then let their guests answer, which is exactly what you guys do. I consider the time spent watching this as well spent. Thank you for posting such interesting and entertaining content. Peace.
Thank you gentlemen for a great episode. It is always a great pleasure to see DR Roberts and find out new stuff about history and interesting to hear her story also. I must say you guys look pretty good for being prehistoric guys, what kind of beauty regime do you do ? 😊
This is such a great conversation! especially how, as interviewers, you have short questions with broad implications, and then let her just run with them. "Common things are common" -- that's so very, very true. I've always felt queasy about the ritual this, ritual that. I think the movement of huge stones, could well have been substantially about the fun of the new technology -- look at what we can DO! with perhaps a veneer of politics and a bow here and there to the gods, but mainly, like, "Look how far we can move this enormous thing!" and the way that a project like that brings one together with the other people on the project.
"The Incredible Human Journey", if you are interested in this stuff and haven't seen it, do yourself a favour and check it out. This series shows how documentaries should be made. Simply brilliant.
You folks brushed on "finds" being interpreted as more mystical than mundane. I was cracking up at the truth of it. Alice mentioning her husband calling the sacred antlers as coat hooks. :) I think it was Jay Leno once touched on this with "channeling": "Why were all these past lives someone great or famous?.... I'd love one to say he was Orank, the unknown pauper who was killed by a runaway manure cart." :)
BECAUSE ONLY RICH / POWERFUL PEOPLE HAD PROPER BURIALS WITH ITEMS FOR THE NEXT LIFE ETC, WHICH HELPS TO RECOGNISE WHO THEY ARE, OTHERWISE, THE NOBODIES AND SLAVES WEE BUNGED IN A MASS GRAVE.
Very, very interesting. Thanks. I wonder why you say Coupland Henge is the oldest in Britain as I always thought Henges in Orkney to be around 5000 years old ?
As an Aussie I was always fascinated by the Mungo Man skeleton (28,000 to 32,000 years) and all things Lake Mungo. I had read and told people including my son and friends about the foot prints left by a supposed one legged individual that could run as fast as an Olympic sprinter. It's in several archaeological books with a plethora of theories, and tests and evidence supporting it. A few years ago I was lucky enough to go to Lake Mungo NSW and visit with a local indigenous guide who explained how a one legged man could run as fast as an Olympian. Today Lake Mungo is virtually desert. Local indigenous knowledge places the last filling of the lake at about 600 years ago. When Mungo man was alive, the lake system was an extensive series of waterways covering a vast expanse of area with an almost mind boggling variety of plants and animals which translates as tucker (FOOD). Sorry I digress. The footprints in question (approx 20,000 years) show several individuals including children in excellent preservation. My indigenous mate said that many years ago, he took one look at the finds and as the scientists were explaining to him and others about the one legged man he laughed and walked away. When questioned by the learned ones, HE explained thusly : When you are hunting geese or fishing with a spear or just going from A to B in shallow water and using a traditional bark canoe you have one leg on top of the floating canoe and you use the other leg to push you along. This allows you to use both hands to still hunt. Whether you use a spear or a boomerang or a club (depending on what you are hunting). It also gives you something to put your catch on while still hunting for more and keeps you dry. So sorry, NO Olympic one legged super athlete to advance your academic career. Just a bit of local knowledge, common sense and ancient wisdom. PS Don't get me wrong I love archaeology but I love truth too. Cheers from Oz. PS I suppose floating raft may be a better description than canoe.
Digging up modern society is a fun thought experiment and it actually humbles you on how little we can actually know even with the fun toys of tech. It's some modern locations that leaves send serious red flags behind for future generations if they don't have any context. Very bizzare behavior unrivaled with history.
On Campeche Island, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, there is what remains of the walls of what was a colonial house. No more than two or three layers of crumbling bricks. Sitting on it to tie my sneaker laces I saw something interesting. Without difficulty I plucked from the ruin a peculiarly shaped stone originally used to fill a hole at the base of the wall. After cleaning the surrounding plaster I discovered that I had in my hands a wonderful chipped stone axe. Upon returning home, I reported the find to the archeology department of a university by sending a photo of the chipped stone ax and I even offered to send it by mail. I didn't even receive a response. So I made an ax handle and keep it as an archaeological treasure in my house. But I still need to come up with an interesting story about it.
I live near a site where a large agricultural show is held annually, that is annually in normal times. Our site was established relatively recently but has any investigation been done to compare such sites with henges etc. Here the main ring is mainly for showing animals but there are opening and closing ceremonies as well as various displays of all sorts and competitions based around agricultural skills. There is much feasting and celebrating as a normally widely dispersed population get together for the 4 day party. Many stay for a couple of weeks. I feel that the origins of such shows must be in antiquity people. There is and always has been a necessity to bring in new blood lines to stock to maintain it’s health. Why not have fun at the same time as you decide which animals are best suited to your need and debate these new fangled ideas that those in ….. wherever ….. have been trying (maybe their son or daughter will come back with you to help you implement them at your own farm).
21:30 - How on earth can you determine the size of an immigration wave from 100 sets of DNA? Either I'm misunderstanding what Alice said, or there are some wicked cool techniques that I really want to learn about. :)
I agree so much about the interpretations of things we can't immediately grasp....always that tendency to claim rituals, religion, spirituality and hunting magic....it's silly. It comes from the early days of prehistory i think. In France for example, so many excavations were done by members of the church and sometimes nobility. The 2 old power structures which were both deeply intertwined with religion. They did not want to describe ancient people who lived their lives free of the religious madness. They could not have that. So they needed to impose some kind of inferior spirituality on the prehistoric people and looked at existing examples of shamanism, animism etcetera to explain those folks from long ago. They speculated wildly about weird cults worshiping the sun and the stars, the mother goddess or lion worshipers and so on. And that stuff still gets repeated today. Imagine a group of stone age hunter-gatherers of about 10-20 people. Very busy just surviving and every member of your group is needed for practical reasons. Who even has the time to fart around with rituals and belief systems? The attempts at using prehistoric art as evidence for that ritual stuff are simply laughable and never work out. And still so many scholars produce more papers all the time speculating about it to build their careers.....it's sad science really. We need to start understanding practicality. One of the most interesting aspects of my research is just that. Can we understand and learn about humans who did not suffer from religious madness? This lady understands that so well. Good job Alice Roberts!
Alice talks romantically about how the domestication of horses has changed human civilisation. She does so referencing horses and warfare, still romantically. We have been brainwashed into thinking that horses are so wonderfully linked with human civilisation. The truth is, in domesticating the horse, we have inflicted countless abuse. I want you to image a human riding a horse and then say this is the most natural thing in the world. Just because we humans have ridden horses for possibly 5,000 years, does that make it right?
I love Alice Roberts! I've been following her work since the early Time Team days, she's just such a cool person with such a valuable perspective and skillset. A real treasure, thanks fellas!
Excellent guest. Many thanks.
Excellent, excellent Thank you for sharing. Alice is a lovely, and extremely intelligent Lady, always enjoy listening to her.
Thanks to all 3 of you for your contributions to our knowledge. Your passion is contagious.
My love for Professor Alice has deepened.
O my goodness!!! Prehistory Guys AND Alice. Robert’s?!?!? PERFECT! 💜
It's refreshing to know she is the same in person as she is on the programs. A fascinating interview.
This woman is a national treasure.
IN THE TRUEST LITTERAL MEANING OF THE WORD
I could listen to Prof. Roberts all day long!
Great interview! Love Prof Roberts, glad she's doing another series of Digging for Britain.
What a delight Alice Roberts is! Her enthusiasm is just infectious! Thank you very much to all three of you!
I love Professor Alice more! I’m even thinking of getting a tattoo of her.
Alice Roberts to see in this interview was great! What an important work she does with bringing science to the audience!
Have seen several programs by Alice, we both enjoyed your work. Thank you
Great interview it did seem to go fast it was really interesting. I like Alice Roberts.
Been a fan of Alice's for many years. Great interview. Thanks.
Alice!! Its so good to see her again. I love Time Team so its nice to catch up on her more recent accomplishments
That was great! Love the SSSDs explained.
Thanks!
Thank you Larry!!
This is the first time I have seen this channel and these two men do a great job. I am definitely a new subscriber to this channel. I always love watching Alice Roberts.
What a great conversation! Thank you!
Ooh, I love Alice Roberts and anything I've seen her in. Great interview. Did not know her background was medical. Always assumed she was an archaeologist. Never know where life will take you
Another fine interview, thanks for posting. 🙂
Just bought Ancestors.... it is a fantastic... well researched book
Excellent interview...please invite her back again:) I so enjoy her books and "Digging in Britain" Series.
wow that was fantastic...I feel that you could spend hours talking with her...and never running out of topics...a wonderful programme thank you so much guys...love from Scotland🎇💞😁🪔🗿🎇
An enjoyable discussion and you were lucky to get some time with her. I understand she's a busy lady. I was at Oxford last week to see her talk about her latest book and I was delighted that she mentioned the recent discoveries at Stoke Mandeville which is very close to where I live.
Fascinating to listen to this show. Thanks for sharing again
Re, SSSD’s; will henges turn out to be just a local Mall for the Neolithic people? 😳…🧐…🤔
Alice Roberts is simply brilliant.
That was excellent, thank you. 🌻
What a wonderful addition to the planet and our culture you are! Thank you so much for being who you are and doing what you do.
Very cool. I have always enjoyed the projects that Alice has been a part of, and it was really nice to get a more personal view on her and her work. Great interviewers ask interesting questions and then let their guests answer, which is exactly what you guys do. I consider the time spent watching this as well spent. Thank you for posting such interesting and entertaining content. Peace.
I so look forward to these interviews , you guys could talk for hours and I could certainly listen for hours , thanks to all
All the best Jules
Thank you gentlemen for a great episode. It is always a great pleasure to see DR Roberts and find out new stuff about history and interesting to hear her story also. I must say you guys look pretty good for being prehistoric guys, what kind of beauty regime do you do ? 😊
Mind blown; whaaaattt???? Alice Roberts NOT an archaeologist????! Thanks for a delightful and far-ranging interview!
Thank you Alice and Gentleman
Excellent interview
Really great interview. Thank you
Catching up on the content and absolutely loved this!
Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful.
( Anf you two as well chaps
Thank you.
Only just got round to watching this. Always liked Alice Roberts.
This is such a great conversation! especially how, as interviewers, you have short questions with broad implications, and then let her just run with them. "Common things are common" -- that's so very, very true. I've always felt queasy about the ritual this, ritual that. I think the movement of huge stones, could well have been substantially about the fun of the new technology -- look at what we can DO! with perhaps a veneer of politics and a bow here and there to the gods, but mainly, like, "Look how far we can move this enormous thing!" and the way that a project like that brings one together with the other people on the project.
I DO listen to Professor Robert's all day..!!
Facinating perspectives, thank you...
Brilliant !!!!!
"The Incredible Human Journey", if you are interested in this stuff and haven't seen it, do yourself a favour and check it out. This series shows how documentaries should be made. Simply brilliant.
Totally agree...superb series
Loved this
Wonderful discussion with Alice Roberts
lovely chat. brilliant topics
You folks brushed on "finds" being interpreted as more mystical than mundane. I was cracking up at the truth of it. Alice mentioning her husband calling the sacred antlers as coat hooks. :) I think it was Jay Leno once touched on this with "channeling": "Why were all these past lives someone great or famous?.... I'd love one to say he was Orank, the unknown pauper who was killed by a runaway manure cart." :)
BECAUSE ONLY RICH / POWERFUL PEOPLE HAD PROPER BURIALS WITH ITEMS FOR THE NEXT LIFE ETC, WHICH HELPS TO RECOGNISE WHO THEY ARE, OTHERWISE, THE NOBODIES AND SLAVES WEE BUNGED IN A MASS GRAVE.
Nice interview. BTW, the interviews on this channel are getting quite good.
STEADY NOW, DON'T OVER DO IT
This is awesome. The red headed witch and the druids. Brilliant!
Very, very interesting. Thanks. I wonder why you say Coupland Henge is the oldest in Britain as I always thought Henges in Orkney to be around 5000 years old ?
Holy Cow! How did you guys make this happen??
As an Aussie I was always fascinated by the Mungo Man skeleton (28,000 to 32,000 years) and all things Lake Mungo. I had read and told people including my son and friends about the foot prints left by a supposed one legged individual that could run as fast as an Olympic sprinter. It's in several archaeological books with a plethora of theories, and tests and evidence supporting it. A few years ago I was lucky enough to go to Lake Mungo NSW and visit with a local indigenous guide who explained how a one legged man could run as fast as an Olympian. Today Lake Mungo is virtually desert. Local indigenous knowledge places the last filling of the lake at about 600 years ago. When Mungo man was alive, the lake system was an extensive series of waterways covering a vast expanse of area with an almost mind boggling variety of plants and animals which translates as tucker (FOOD). Sorry I digress. The footprints in question (approx 20,000 years) show several individuals including children in excellent preservation. My indigenous mate said that many years ago, he took one look at the finds and as the scientists were explaining to him and others about the one legged man he laughed and walked away. When questioned by the learned ones, HE explained thusly : When you are hunting geese or fishing with a spear or just going from A to B in shallow water and using a traditional bark canoe you have one leg on top of the floating canoe and you use the other leg to push you along. This allows you to use both hands to still hunt. Whether you use a spear or a boomerang or a club (depending on what you are hunting). It also gives you something to put your catch on while still hunting for more and keeps you dry. So sorry, NO Olympic one legged super athlete to advance your academic career. Just a bit of local knowledge, common sense and ancient wisdom. PS Don't get me wrong I love archaeology but I love truth too. Cheers from Oz. PS I suppose floating raft may be a better description than canoe.
Digging up modern society is a fun thought experiment and it actually humbles you on how little we can actually know even with the fun toys of tech.
It's some modern locations that leaves send serious red flags behind for future generations if they don't have any context. Very bizzare behavior unrivaled with history.
A question for Dr. Robertson - Did you study the type of diet of people you were interested in for the book? That is: veg, meat, omnivore, fish
On Campeche Island, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, there is what remains of the walls of what was a colonial house. No more than two or three layers of crumbling bricks. Sitting on it to tie my sneaker laces I saw something interesting. Without difficulty I plucked from the ruin a peculiarly shaped stone originally used to fill a hole at the base of the wall. After cleaning the surrounding plaster I discovered that I had in my hands a wonderful chipped stone axe. Upon returning home, I reported the find to the archeology department of a university by sending a photo of the chipped stone ax and I even offered to send it by mail. I didn't even receive a response. So I made an ax handle and keep it as an archaeological treasure in my house. But I still need to come up with an interesting story about it.
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Gosh! she is not just a pretty face. So enjoyed that.
I live near a site where a large agricultural show is held annually, that is annually in normal times. Our site was established relatively recently but has any investigation been done to compare such sites with henges etc. Here the main ring is mainly for showing animals but there are opening and closing ceremonies as well as various displays of all sorts and competitions based around agricultural skills. There is much feasting and celebrating as a normally widely dispersed population get together for the 4 day party. Many stay for a couple of weeks. I feel that the origins of such shows must be in antiquity people. There is and always has been a necessity to bring in new blood lines to stock to maintain it’s health. Why not have fun at the same time as you decide which animals are best suited to your need and debate these new fangled ideas that those in ….. wherever ….. have been trying (maybe their son or daughter will come back with you to help you implement them at your own farm).
I am looking for a doc that Alice Roberts did in Washington state in 2012
About the geology can you help me find it on UA-cam pls
Her first appearance on Time Team was as a red haired student in 1994.
21:30 - How on earth can you determine the size of an immigration wave from 100 sets of DNA? Either I'm misunderstanding what Alice said, or there are some wicked cool techniques that I really want to learn about. :)
I use old shed deer antlers to "Rattle" them in close enough to shoot them. I carry them in to the woods on a cord drilled through them both.
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SSD priceless.
I agree so much about the interpretations of things we can't immediately grasp....always that tendency to claim rituals, religion, spirituality and hunting magic....it's silly. It comes from the early days of prehistory i think. In France for example, so many excavations were done by members of the church and sometimes nobility. The 2 old power structures which were both deeply intertwined with religion. They did not want to describe ancient people who lived their lives free of the religious madness. They could not have that. So they needed to impose some kind of inferior spirituality on the prehistoric people and looked at existing examples of shamanism, animism etcetera to explain those folks from long ago. They speculated wildly about weird cults worshiping the sun and the stars, the mother goddess or lion worshipers and so on. And that stuff still gets repeated today.
Imagine a group of stone age hunter-gatherers of about 10-20 people. Very busy just surviving and every member of your group is needed for practical reasons. Who even has the time to fart around with rituals and belief systems?
The attempts at using prehistoric art as evidence for that ritual stuff are simply laughable and never work out.
And still so many scholars produce more papers all the time speculating about it to build their careers.....it's sad science really.
We need to start understanding practicality.
One of the most interesting aspects of my research is just that.
Can we understand and learn about humans who did not suffer from religious madness?
This lady understands that so well. Good job Alice Roberts!
👍
I notic ethat Professor Robert is wearing a Thor hammer...
A mjolnir
grim task however nesssary englands past .....future...if learnd
Hmmmm... Stonehenge as cattle market and slaughter house, with the altar stone being the auctioneer's pedastal?
Chaps...no mention of the good profs Waun Mawn hypothesis...crammed with conjecture and not least 2 + 2 = 501...you were both er critical...???
Reindeer of course.
Quite a coup!
I want to marry Alice.
H3r Tips
U r a Sex Symbol
I would say you've been getting plenty of "X-Ray's"
ActUlie... There were no People in the Past.
F Women that Y i MarryOn a Po!!
You can tell Nothing
Mrrrp Mrrp Alice Roberts 😼😺😸
Impressively she wears a Thor's hammer necklace
first!
In another video, Alice is flaming red on top. She is pinky now. But still cute.
Alice talks romantically about how the domestication of horses has changed human civilisation. She does so referencing horses and warfare, still romantically. We have been brainwashed into thinking that horses are so wonderfully linked with human civilisation. The truth is, in domesticating the horse, we have inflicted countless abuse. I want you to image a human riding a horse and then say this is the most natural thing in the world. Just because we humans have ridden horses for possibly 5,000 years, does that make it right?
Have you owned and ridden a horse ?
GET HELP
Not her again….