Well, another outstanding and rewarding episode, and presented by the equally outstanding and brilliant Prof Alice Roberts. I feel some genuine regret that I am retired to the far side of the planet, but through the internet I can remain fully informed regarding the important archeological finds, and keep up to date with the latest research, with the consequent adjustments to our understanding of pre-history Britain. Amusingly, I recall one or two of these discoveries being made, as one of my past colleagues and ardent archeologist would hurtle into my rooms, excited to share the news of the absolute latest find from some very muddy dig :) We are very fortunate indeed that this fabulous series continues to be uploaded to UA-cam - thank you !!!!!!!
@@einsam_aber_frei Well, indeed. A young post-grad I know has been gaining experience working in a number of digs, both in NZ and at various Islands. However, NZ is a young country, and only settled by Europeans a few centuries ago. The Maori - indigenous or not depending on one`s point of view, were, fundamentally a hunter -gatherer society utilizing stone tools, but with no written language and timber construction of dwellings etc. Consequently archeology is a bit then, as I understand it, but there are, undoubtedly artifacts which continue to be found, and there are a number of outstanding Maori historians whose deep knowledge of their culture is absolutely vital for greater understanding and appreciation :)
@@NathanEllisBodi Thank you, you are very kind. My wife was a New Zealander, and wished for us to spend our retirement in NZ.She is dead now, so that I live in a country that I have little familiarity with, and as an Emeritus Oxford Prof with a ' posh ' English accent, I most definitely don`t fit in :( 36 hour flight times are no longer a rational choice,but I remain in good contact with many academics and professionals to keep me in the loop and abreast of current advances in a range of research that are still of interest to me - distance is only a small disadvantage - thank you, and take care :)
My grandmother had such a flour grinder the handle of the upper piece was wooden .I remember my mother grinding flour and rice.Although we had mills for a large quantity in the area people still used the stone mills in their house.Now all those items are in the traditional museum.In old times people kept their tools and utensils!And use them!I come from Greece and I am 68 !Thanks for your work and reminding me of my grandmother!
Yes. I think she is wonderful and really inteligent. So much respect for her and all she does. She has a knack of taking complex information and making it accessible
So much information to absorb and reify, I had to watch it twice. I love Dr. Alice Robert's sheer enthusiasm and how she presents the findings. She makes the information personal as well as exciting. Great jam-packed show!
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
Always surprises and learning from these documentaries. A fan of TimeTeam and today my surprise was Henry, now Dr Henry Clapton. Congratulations Dr. Clapton.
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AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERST IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
I think the iron punch (spike) could have been used for making horseshoes as well. The end of it looks proper for making holes for nails for application.
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absolutely fascinating, composite skeletal remains, would not have thought of that if not for the science behind the investigation, very much enjoyed this program and enjoyed seeing Henry
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AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
Very informative and eye opening, even having worked alongside many archaeological digs throughout Kent over the years. Although I've now had to retire, I still keep in touch with some top archaeologists, just to keep them on their toes.❤
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
I started watching this ɓeautiful woman her passion for her field and her narrative skills are amazing and incites you to follow her on her trips into pass history ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
The work put into making that walkway is huge. People working together, having time and foodstuffs so they could take the days and hours from hunting and herding, and growing food to down tools and work felling and tiding the stakes, shaping the points and then driving them into the mud. That done they had to create the walking surface! The effort equivalent to Stonehenge! I’d be fascinated if one of the Archeologists could do a video on how all this was done and how long it took. How much upkeep had to be done?
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
At about 45:25 the statement is made that the road is running in a straight line. Surprising for pre-Roman Britain. Surprising indeed. Once, when I was living in Winchester I was at the castle. I asked for directions and the person I asked said something along the lines of, follow the straight road, the Roman road.
Burying the bodies in peat is no explanation of peculiar assembling. If the buried bones were, indeed, in a tightly flexed position, then there is an enormous problem with why they were, in fact, mixed up. Assuming the archaeological crew are not the ones who scrambled the bones around, then interments were constructed - by the people who buried the bones, to appear as single skeletons, laid in an individual grave. That raises a lot of questions. I have worked at interment sites where burials were taking place more rapidly than previous interments decaying, and the earlier fragments were simply dropped into the grave pit after the new occupant was placed and any ceremony conducted. The older bones, sometimes still partially articulated, were dropped into the grave pit fill. That can create puzzles as you try to reassemble skeletons - _and_ serious acculturation problems for descendants monitoring the work encounter a reality their oral histories have never included. This is an entirely different class of strange, even compared to some Tibetan customs, or Native American platform burials employed by some Rocky Mountain societies. The mussel shells may also have been an instrument like a rattle, which were widely used in prehistory all over the globe. The Iron Age posts might, in addition, or in addition to "making a statement", have marked a safe path through a wet land, even when the track submerged by flooding. It is a curious reality of archaeology that nearly all actions that people take, individually or collectively, "make sense" in several different dimensions, often ritually, socially, and economically, all at one time. The inclusion of "grave goods" in a burial, in addition to sentimentally sending gear and valuables along to the afterlife with the dead, also maintains or enhances the economic value of examples remaining above ground, regardless of whether we are finding tools, weapons, decorative items, or even evidence of storeable foods.
The burial in peat to stop decomposition suggests that the body was kept on display for a time. It's possible bits went missing over time, so I wonder if the remains were arranged in a way that gave persons a complete skeleton for the afterlife, even if two or three spirits had to share it.
@@maryanneslater9675 There is some strong evidence that around that time period, (Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, and perhaps even the later Neolithic) there was a widespread interest in the dead, and possibly in "consulting" them. I would like to know if there is any temporal span between the various parts assembled as a skeleton. Another possibility is that the various bodies were all thought to contain the same soul. There was a widespread belief in transmigration or reincarnation that followed the Indo-European/Iranian spread. Hindu beliefs (where Buddhism arose) still include it. When your child starts talking about remembering brown eggs from when she was a little boy, or notices and properly identifies the odor of horses shortly before she even sees one for the first time, you start to wonder how they might have thought about that 5,000 years ago.
@@maryanneslater9675 I wondered something similar. Could it be that after a natural disaster, battle or other event in which people's body parts were separated, survivors put them back together to form a complete skeleton, even if there was no certainty the bones belonged together? It could have been an attempt to restore dignity to the dead.
Prof Alice is TOP NOTCH!!.....I can thoroughly recommend Alice and her wild swimming doco....which proves the Doc's red hair is not natural......Alice is a real find for archeology!!.
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
The really incredible part is that the bronze age people had an understanding of mummification caused by peat bogs? They worked this out. That meant they understood how long a body should /could be in the bog, one has to ask are there other bodies still in the bogs, and how else would they have used the bogs. To preserve food??? Timber? Early mankind were thinkers. Yet another simply fascinating episode.
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
Still waters allowed ancient people to literally see themselves. They were the mirror of the living. On the otherside of the mirror was "the other side"; the dark side: Death. The power of water, fire and speech are manifold. They are the basis for the ascent of humanity, I think. But I digress...... Thank you all at Unearthed History for providing so much fascinating information and great food for thought.
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
How do they know the bronze age Wavenly river posts extended meters above ground..and were not just the foundations for a wooden walkway across the wetlands?
I'm not sure that this is the reason since I haven't seen the excavation reports, but if you have a structure that can block the rain, even if not entirely, like a roof or a wooden walkway, the water running off the edge of the thing blocking the water causes erosion differences between the covered and no-covered areas. It's one way we can identify the footprint of wooden houses even if all the wood has rotted away. You can also get what's called a "living floor" caused by bunches of people walking directly on the ground over and over again, packing the earth as they go. Sort of like the path that gets worn through the grass when people decide not to walk on the sidewalks. The dirt there really is a different texture/consistency from the dirt off the "path". Between the two, you'd be able to see the presence or absence of a walkway pretty clearly.
We seldom hear about the large animals still present at this time, like wolves, bears , aurochs, wild boar lynx and others, making it a more dangerous place to be.
@@samuelgarrod8327tbf, the animals they were hunting for and defending against *are* part of human history. Also, when we’re looking at pre-Roman history, we’re looking at naturalistic belief systems. Cultures that venerate the sun, water and land also tend to venerate animals too.
How long ago was that filmed? I'm sure that the Calleva dig stopped for good about 10 years ago. It was a mile or so from Silchester where I lived. Used to go for runs around the Calleva site.
While bones, swords and pottery are wonderful, I want to hear the stories of the lives of the ordinary people. How did they use those pots? What did they eat? How did they educate themselves? They were mostly farmers. What was life like on a farmstead? How did they live through the seasons?
The more reent British "Mummies" can be found in the " Houses of Parliment" . Big Mausoleum next to the river, Can't miss it. don't be put off by the smell .
Nevermind, if mummies were more common. I'm much more curious, about whether it was common to mix and match them, like Frankenstein's monster. THAT'S what makes them so unique.
Right? Especially the one with two different upper and lower sets of teeth. So it's not like they cut someone's head off and put it on another body, it's a whole other jaw. If the mummification happened while flesh was being preserved as this documentary implies, then surely it's quite a gruesomely made mummy of parts.
Most animals just leave their dead lying for other animals to consume. Mesolithic humans often did that in a special place, while others seem to have buried their dead quickly. Maybe there was a stage when bodies were left out for a while and buried later? Others let them become skeletons and then buried the bones together. Here it looks as if bodies were buried whole, but they were actually composite: that's hard to explain.
One thing I would like to know is how in the head. Did they ever figure out that you could take the rock internet into metal? I mean, what could have been the process for them to have figured that add out?
If you mean get metal from ore, probably noticing a strange, hard shiny material coming from rocks under fires for cooking, funeral pyres or ceremonial fires.
I suspect it came from the colour of the rock, they started out with green/copper, and progressed with higher heats and different colours, but how they went from pure copper tools to alloys is amazing really.
Clay kilns are likely the first sources of metal, as saif about other high intensity heat environments, less likely cook fires, mayby pyres, but a bronze age smelting kiln is similar to a pottery oven, and this is Potentially, how we discoverd smelting... By the hard, probably colourful, bits of probably copper. :)
Another question, so what was the tool they created to put the posts into the ground, given that there is a point on it, there must have been a 'hammer ' of some sort. When you put a post into the ground with a flat end it is necessary to dig the hole, but a pointed end must surely imply that they were hammered into the ground.???? Where is the hammer or for that matter any hammer, they did knives, spears and other tools, but I have not seen any hammers...where are they????
I always wonder if things we think are rituals, based on very small samples, are actuslly the behaviours of serial killers or other outliers who performed their own private rituals on their victims. If you think of the remains some of our modern killers have left, you might think their personal burial areas were official, in hundreds of years time. Well, if we lost all written history.
The presenter's strong point is her melodious voice. Her weakness is, paradoxically, her strong point. Today I closed my eyes to better appreciate what Alicia Roberts was saying and I almost fell asleep. Her tone of voice captured me, calmed me and made me wander and I immersed myself in the dreamlike universe as if I were easy prey for a Greek mermaid singing information about archeology in English. But it's not necessarily her fault. I was a little tired.
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
My vote for the very best presenter of all the best history/pre-history documentary presenters (and there are some very good ones) is the brilliant Prof Roberts. (Also my number 1 celebrity crush.)
Obviously they traded and traveled to the continent, and Mediterranean historians mention Britons in various works predating Roman invasion. It's not too surprising to see more intricate and fancy accoutrements in Celtic Britain.
Everyone forgets these people were just as smart and social as we are. They didn't need caveman ancestor idols for spirit contact. Maybe they just wanted to keep people around. Maybe the composites were not for admiration but a warning of gruesome display of the butchered lives the couple made during their lives embodied in their puzzled bodies in death. Or a couple that didn't want to be apart. Or a freak murderer's stash of victims. These happen in modern times, just not when we think of 'civilized' society...but much of society isn't civil at all yet
Geez... she is holding a very intricate piece of gold work and she says " seems to indicate " they were more sophisticated than what was expected. When are they going start treating and calling what they are finding in the digs as intricate complex and ancestors were more sophisticated than they believed !
Are we not still in the iron age ? Given that each age is named after the predominant metal ,seems to me we are still in the iron age ? (+ Plastic + oil )
For western Europe, archaeologists and historians use the term Roman Period to follow the Iron Age. The Roman Period was followed by Early Medieval, Medieval, Post-Medieval (aka Renaissance), and Industrial/Modern. The last one is ours. Anywhere else the periods may be quite different. In Southeastern Europe, the Iron Age was followed by Hellenistic, then Roman Period, Byzantine, Ottoman, Industrial/Modern. Asia, Africa and the Americas are really different.
The Waveney site was interesting in that it showed how similar we "modern" people are to people of the past. The people of the past used planking and post to navigate across boggy ground and the investigating archeologists used the modern equivalent to solve the same problem ... modern day pallets. When lifting the posts from the peat, a log, rope and human muscle power. Are we really that different from the people of the past, or is it that our tools are just a little better.
That has always caused me great envy, as well. People that can roll back the history of their homeland to the tune of THOUSANDS of years dont realize just how lucky they are when considering such an aspect of their national identity. Ancient Egypt and Feudal Japan also come to mind.
Then you do not understand what Archeology has and continues to add to the history of the Americas. It extends back far beyond these findings with massive structures and civilizations.
the Cara silver and gold coins have been found in Wales , Caratacus was the Cymric Chieftain and King Caradoc, certainly we have so many place names with his name and family around Llyswyrnwy and Pentre Meurig also at Twyn Caradoc and Caer Caradoc above Brynna , he in our History that was handed down, was Known to the Romans , we know there were Large Battles with the Romans around this area, because there are so many Roman Forts and Roman burials here, Caer Caradoc has one of the Largest Bronze Age Burials in Britain and there are literally within 10 miles more than twenty Hillforts, many were still in use when the Saxons entered in the 6th Century and left pretty well soon after coming back over the next 300 Years for Battles they lost. Wales is a No No for archaeologists, why because there are answers here that the English establishment and the British Museum aka English Heritage will not want to hear and see. Roman and Etruscan pottery has been found in South Wales the Greeks and later Romans were trading here from at least 800 BC. Celts also travelled to the European Mainland and Brythonic Celts were with the Etruscans in the Punic Wars, the Etruscan city of Caeri like Fiesole has many Celtic Burials. We were as the British people a lot more sophisticated than you think, for Romans wore our Clothing in Rome, the first Gucci and Versace perhaps! Diolch yn fawr i ti, Nos da.
Well, another outstanding and rewarding episode, and presented by the equally outstanding and brilliant Prof Alice Roberts. I feel some genuine regret that I am retired to the far side of the planet, but through the internet I can remain fully informed regarding the important archeological finds, and keep up to date with the latest research, with the consequent adjustments to our understanding of pre-history Britain.
Amusingly, I recall one or two of these discoveries being made, as one of my past colleagues and ardent archeologist would hurtle into my rooms, excited to share the news of the absolute latest find from some very muddy dig :)
We are very fortunate indeed that this fabulous series continues to be uploaded to UA-cam - thank you !!!!!!!
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Good luck with your relocation and subsequent 'new' life, Sir.
I’m sure even in Australia or New Zealand there are things worth excavating.
@@einsam_aber_frei Well, indeed. A young post-grad I know has been gaining experience working in a number of digs, both in NZ and at various Islands. However, NZ is a young country, and only settled by Europeans a few centuries ago. The Maori - indigenous or not depending on one`s point of view, were, fundamentally a hunter -gatherer society utilizing stone tools, but with no written language and timber construction of dwellings etc.
Consequently archeology is a bit then, as I understand it, but there are, undoubtedly artifacts which continue to be found, and there are a number of outstanding Maori historians whose deep knowledge of their culture is absolutely vital for greater understanding and appreciation :)
@@NathanEllisBodi Thank you, you are very kind. My wife was a New Zealander, and wished for us to spend our retirement in NZ.She is dead now, so that I live in a country that I have little familiarity with, and as an Emeritus Oxford Prof with a ' posh ' English accent, I most definitely don`t fit in :(
36 hour flight times are no longer a rational choice,but I remain in good contact with many academics and professionals to keep me in the loop and abreast of current advances in a range of research that are still of interest to me - distance is only a small disadvantage - thank you, and take care :)
Alice does it again. Beautiful.
I always enjoy watching her programs on the archaeology in Britain.
Yes she is! Alice has had my full attention since she first appeared on Time Team, back in her strawberry hair days. Beautiful and very bright.
she doesn't know it yet but i will marry her 100% 🤣🤣
Get in line, man.
@williscopeland7114 There's something so hot about osteoarchaeologists, isn't there?
Henry Chapman sounding a bit like Francis Pryor…love it👍😊
Great to see Henry again now Dr Henry Chapman well deserved
My grandmother had such a flour grinder the handle of the upper piece was wooden .I remember my mother grinding flour and rice.Although we had mills for a large quantity in the area people still used the stone mills in their house.Now all those items are in the traditional museum.In old times people kept their tools and utensils!And use them!I come from Greece and I am 68 !Thanks for your work and reminding me of my grandmother!
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Dr. Henry Chapman! Congratulations Sir
This episode was filmed in 2011, so Dr. Chapman has held the title for some time now. :) But I get it, it sounds "new" to us Time Team watchers. :)
Brilliant series by amazing archaeologists and professors. Well done
Yes. I think she is wonderful and really inteligent. So much respect for her and all she does. She has a knack of taking complex information and making it accessible
So much information to absorb and reify, I had to watch it twice. I love Dr. Alice Robert's sheer enthusiasm and how she presents the findings. She makes the information personal as well as exciting. Great jam-packed show!
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE.
LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
HS2 land-grab.
Everything comes with a receipt
I think Dr. Roberts is over exposed. Frankly I am sick to death of her and her hair color changes.
Such a beautiful necklace that Alice is wearing! I would love to have one so Celtic!
Things like that are easy to make with silver wire!
So would I!
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
HS2 land-grab.
Everything comes with a receipt
Try using Google Lens on a screen grab to locate one
Outstanding video, thank you...
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
Thank u these programs are really interesting
another fantastic journey in time. Dr. Roberts and her team are the best.
AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE.
LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
HS2 land-grab.
Everything comes with a receipt
Our Henry! Good to see another TT alum.
So fascinating! Thanks so much.
Always amazing discoveries. ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Always surprises and learning from these documentaries. A fan of TimeTeam and today my surprise was Henry, now Dr Henry Clapton. Congratulations Dr. Clapton.
He still is a current member of the New Time Team.
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
Alice could talk about stamp collecting and I'd still watch it.
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
HS2 land-grab.
Everything comes with a receipt
Absolutely fascinating.It makes you look at history differently.Theres things I found,I had not even known .Great video ..Thank you 😁
I think the iron punch (spike) could have been used for making horseshoes as well. The end of it looks proper for making holes for nails for application.
I'm so glad I found you🤗 wonderful! Will follow🙏 xx
30:33 the fence around the dig is helpful in showing the lay of the land before the dig.
Fascinating as always.
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
absolutely fascinating, composite skeletal remains, would not have thought of that if not for the science behind the investigation, very much enjoyed this program and enjoyed seeing Henry
Thank you, fascinating video.
Great to see Time Team alumni together again!😊
Brilliant presentation from Alice very intriguing
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
HS2 land-grab.
Everything comes with a receipt
Compared to what?
JUST AMAZING HISTORY! THANKS SO MUCH FOR SUCH A WONDERFULLY INFOMATIVE SERIES!
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
Very informative and eye opening, even having worked alongside many archaeological digs throughout Kent over the years.
Although I've now had to retire, I still keep in touch with some top archaeologists, just to keep them on their toes.❤
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
I started watching this ɓeautiful woman her passion for her field and her narrative skills are amazing and incites you to follow her on her trips into pass history ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
The work put into making that walkway is huge. People working together, having time and foodstuffs so they could take the days and hours from hunting and herding, and growing food to down tools and work felling and tiding the stakes, shaping the points and then driving them into the mud. That done they had to create the walking surface! The effort equivalent to Stonehenge! I’d be fascinated if one of the Archeologists could do a video on how all this was done and how long it took. How much upkeep had to be done?
Just love these documentaries!
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
At about 45:25 the statement is made that the road is running in a straight line. Surprising for pre-Roman Britain. Surprising indeed. Once, when I was living in Winchester I was at the castle. I asked for directions and the person I asked said something along the lines of, follow the straight road, the Roman road.
Burying the bodies in peat is no explanation of peculiar assembling. If the buried bones were, indeed, in a tightly flexed position, then there is an enormous problem with why they were, in fact, mixed up. Assuming the archaeological crew are not the ones who scrambled the bones around, then interments were constructed - by the people who buried the bones, to appear as single skeletons, laid in an individual grave. That raises a lot of questions. I have worked at interment sites where burials were taking place more rapidly than previous interments decaying, and the earlier fragments were simply dropped into the grave pit after the new occupant was placed and any ceremony conducted. The older bones, sometimes still partially articulated, were dropped into the grave pit fill. That can create puzzles as you try to reassemble skeletons - _and_ serious acculturation problems for descendants monitoring the work encounter a reality their oral histories have never included. This is an entirely different class of strange, even compared to some Tibetan customs, or Native American platform burials employed by some Rocky Mountain societies. The mussel shells may also have been an instrument like a rattle, which were widely used in prehistory all over the globe.
The Iron Age posts might, in addition, or in addition to "making a statement", have marked a safe path through a wet land, even when the track submerged by flooding. It is a curious reality of archaeology that nearly all actions that people take, individually or collectively, "make sense" in several different dimensions, often ritually, socially, and economically, all at one time. The inclusion of "grave goods" in a burial, in addition to sentimentally sending gear and valuables along to the afterlife with the dead, also maintains or enhances the economic value of examples remaining above ground, regardless of whether we are finding tools, weapons, decorative items, or even evidence of storeable foods.
The burial in peat to stop decomposition suggests that the body was kept on display for a time. It's possible bits went missing over time, so I wonder if the remains were arranged in a way that gave persons a complete skeleton for the afterlife, even if two or three spirits had to share it.
@@maryanneslater9675 There is some strong evidence that around that time period, (Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, and perhaps even the later Neolithic) there was a widespread interest in the dead, and possibly in "consulting" them. I would like to know if there is any temporal span between the various parts assembled as a skeleton. Another possibility is that the various bodies were all thought to contain the same soul. There was a widespread belief in transmigration or reincarnation that followed the Indo-European/Iranian spread. Hindu beliefs (where Buddhism arose) still include it.
When your child starts talking about remembering brown eggs from when she was a little boy, or notices and properly identifies the odor of horses shortly before she even sees one for the first time, you start to wonder how they might have thought about that 5,000 years ago.
@@maryanneslater9675 I wondered something similar. Could it be that after a natural disaster, battle or other event in which people's body parts were separated, survivors put them back together to form a complete skeleton, even if there was no certainty the bones belonged together? It could have been an attempt to restore dignity to the dead.
It was a fence.
23:03 initiative and common sense. People working as a team ❤❤
I love her necklace 🌀
Ms. Roberts is the best at hosting and narrating these docs, since Carl Sagan. Their natural enthusiasm makes even “mundane” things seem fascinating.
Prof Alice is TOP NOTCH!!.....I can thoroughly recommend Alice and her wild swimming doco....which proves the Doc's red hair is not natural......Alice is a real find for archeology!!.
Thanks, just great to listen and watch 😊
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
Excellent programme and Narration from Alice
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
Fabulous episode
I love the presentation! Thank you
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
The really incredible part is that the bronze age people had an understanding of mummification caused by peat bogs? They worked this out. That meant they understood how long a body should /could be in the bog, one has to ask are there other bodies still in the bogs, and how else would they have used the bogs. To preserve food??? Timber? Early mankind were thinkers. Yet another simply fascinating episode.
I just love you!! Classic music is life! I can work better, think better, and be grateful for life
I love how Alice rolled her sleeves straight up and wasn't afraid to get muddy with those wooden posts.
Very interesting! Thank you!
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
Fantastic I know Henry from Time Team👏👏👏😎
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
Awesome video. So much rich history on the island. All remarkable and some very sad. Seems violence was a ubiquitous reality in all cultures.
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
This was fantastic.
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
Still waters allowed ancient people to literally see themselves. They were the mirror of the living. On the otherside of the mirror was "the other side"; the dark side: Death. The power of water, fire and speech are manifold. They are the basis for the ascent of humanity, I think. But I digress...... Thank you all at Unearthed History for providing so much fascinating information and great food for thought.
There is evidence of mirrors from 8000 years ago.
23:30 I was wondering whether it marked a safe route through marshy or otherwise regularly flooded land?
I'm always fascinated to learn about Raimen Baines
I love her accent too!
Alice Roberts breathes new life into Archaeology.
Brilliant doc
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
great video as amateur dump diggers ourselves we really enjoyed this thank you
How do they know the bronze age Wavenly river posts extended meters above ground..and were not just the foundations for a wooden walkway across the wetlands?
I'm not sure that this is the reason since I haven't seen the excavation reports, but if you have a structure that can block the rain, even if not entirely, like a roof or a wooden walkway, the water running off the edge of the thing blocking the water causes erosion differences between the covered and no-covered areas. It's one way we can identify the footprint of wooden houses even if all the wood has rotted away. You can also get what's called a "living floor" caused by bunches of people walking directly on the ground over and over again, packing the earth as they go. Sort of like the path that gets worn through the grass when people decide not to walk on the sidewalks. The dirt there really is a different texture/consistency from the dirt off the "path". Between the two, you'd be able to see the presence or absence of a walkway pretty clearly.
Always a joy!
I wish I was younger and went to collage to become an archaeologist
Probably you could have been a spelling teacher except for one small problem. Lol ❤😂
Bit harsh Gail. No need to join the grammar police. I know you meant it as a joke, but it doesn't come across that way.@@GailBrenner-vt9ou
never too old.
mature student...?
open university..
lots of options.. 🙂
maybe give something a try.. x
Yes me to but. Me as. A girl was not given the opportunity
Collage ! Yes, I love the Arts too 😋
We seldom hear about the large animals still present at this time, like wolves, bears , aurochs, wild boar lynx and others, making it a more dangerous place to be.
This programme is about human history.
@@samuelgarrod8327tbf, the animals they were hunting for and defending against *are* part of human history.
Also, when we’re looking at pre-Roman history, we’re looking at naturalistic belief systems. Cultures that venerate the sun, water and land also tend to venerate animals too.
How long ago was that filmed? I'm sure that the Calleva dig stopped for good about 10 years ago. It was a mile or so from Silchester where I lived. Used to go for runs around the Calleva site.
Nice!
While bones, swords and pottery are wonderful, I want to hear the stories of the lives of the ordinary people. How did they use those pots? What did they eat? How did they educate themselves? They were mostly farmers. What was life like on a farmstead? How did they live through the seasons?
Those are all the things that archaeologists want to know as well 😉 But we only have the bones, swords and pottery to try and work it out!
Always great
We seem more keen to understand how ppl live once they are gone. But in life we dare ask how ppl live in fear of the answers they might give.
Series 2, episode 3, first aired September 2011.
Too many adverts but well done Alice love yr videos
The more reent British "Mummies" can be found in the " Houses of Parliment" . Big Mausoleum next to the river, Can't miss it. don't be put off by the smell .
Nevermind, if mummies were more common.
I'm much more curious, about whether it was common to mix and match them, like Frankenstein's monster.
THAT'S what makes them so unique.
Right? Especially the one with two different upper and lower sets of teeth. So it's not like they cut someone's head off and put it on another body, it's a whole other jaw.
If the mummification happened while flesh was being preserved as this documentary implies, then surely it's quite a gruesomely made mummy of parts.
Most animals just leave their dead lying for other animals to consume. Mesolithic humans often did that in a special place, while others seem to have buried their dead quickly. Maybe there was a stage when bodies were left out for a while and buried later? Others let them become skeletons and then buried the bones together. Here it looks as if bodies were buried whole, but they were actually composite: that's hard to explain.
thanks
Thank you.
Professor Alice Roberts is a superb communicator. Would you have made the same remarks about a male presenter?
As I say IM sorry to say alice roberts is not what you maay think she is.
Paid up by the HS2 railway scam.
These timber fences resemble me Polish village of Biskupin. 😮
Did the mummies have their ancient dna sequenced ? My having South Uist ancestry makes it of special interest.
One thing I would like to know is how in the head. Did they ever figure out that you could take the rock internet into metal? I mean, what could have been the process for them to have figured that add out?
And, how did they figure out how to add metal ores together to make it stronger??
If you mean get metal from ore, probably noticing a strange, hard shiny material coming from rocks under fires for cooking, funeral pyres or ceremonial fires.
@@kathleenmartin7498I guess curiosity, "I wonder what we'll get if we mix these 2 metals", and trial and error like most developments.
I suspect it came from the colour of the rock, they started out with green/copper, and progressed with higher heats and different colours, but how they went from pure copper tools to alloys is amazing really.
Clay kilns are likely the first sources of metal, as saif about other high intensity heat environments, less likely cook fires, mayby pyres, but a bronze age smelting kiln is similar to a pottery oven, and this is Potentially, how we discoverd smelting... By the hard, probably colourful, bits of probably copper. :)
14:36 it doesn't matter who you are. Put your PPE on, or get off site
Another question, so what was the tool they created to put the posts into the ground, given that there is a point on it, there must have been a 'hammer ' of some sort. When you put a post into the ground with a flat end it is necessary to dig the hole, but a pointed end must surely imply that they were hammered into the ground.???? Where is the hammer or for that matter any hammer, they did knives, spears and other tools, but I have not seen any hammers...where are they????
I wonder how the first person to make metal from rocks discovered this?
There are Massive Iron deposits in South Wales, that were worked by the Celts and later the Romans
Everything perfectly beautiful will you read stories on you tube xx
❤hey I'm from Derbyshire .
Nine bodies isn't a massacre. It's a Friday night out in Wirksworth
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Really interesting content, though music seems a bit overkill for science. Lol
Similar burial rites were performed in many places in Europe...once upon a time
So interesting
All Alice Roberts shows are very good.
I always wonder if things we think are rituals, based on very small samples, are actuslly the behaviours of serial killers or other outliers who performed their own private rituals on their victims. If you think of the remains some of our modern killers have left, you might think their personal burial areas were official, in hundreds of years time. Well, if we lost all written history.
I think we need to put all our efforts into the present. And save humankind so we actually survive to look back into the past.
The first intelligent reply Ive seen here.
As I say IM sorry to say alice roberts is not what you maay think she is.
Paid up by the HS2 railway scam.
Alice the Best ❤.. From Italy
The presenter's strong point is her melodious voice. Her weakness is, paradoxically, her strong point. Today I closed my eyes to better appreciate what Alicia Roberts was saying and I almost fell asleep. Her tone of voice captured me, calmed me and made me wander and I immersed myself in the dreamlike universe as if I were easy prey for a Greek mermaid singing information about archeology in English. But it's not necessarily her fault. I was a little tired.
Alice 😴
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LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.
that’s not creepy 😅
Possible rapist.
I also fell asleep listening to this program and had a pleasant dream.
My vote for the very best presenter of all the best history/pre-history documentary presenters (and there are some very good ones) is the brilliant Prof Roberts. (Also my number 1 celebrity crush.)
I wonder if her favorite Beatles song is Dr. Roberts
Obviously they traded and traveled to the continent, and Mediterranean historians mention Britons in various works predating Roman invasion. It's not too surprising to see more intricate and fancy accoutrements in Celtic Britain.
Everyone forgets these people were just as smart and social as we are. They didn't need caveman ancestor idols for spirit contact. Maybe they just wanted to keep people around. Maybe the composites were not for admiration but a warning of gruesome display of the butchered lives the couple made during their lives embodied in their puzzled bodies in death. Or a couple that didn't want to be apart. Or a freak murderer's stash of victims. These happen in modern times, just not when we think of 'civilized' society...but much of society isn't civil at all yet
you are so F-ing talented
owl is amazing
Look for the war grave of Queen Boudica....and her daughters...
Myth
Geez... she is holding a very intricate piece of gold work and she says " seems to indicate " they were more sophisticated than what was expected. When are they going start treating and calling what they are finding in the digs as intricate complex and ancestors were more sophisticated than they believed !
Are we not still in the iron age ? Given that each age is named after the predominant metal ,seems to me we are still in the iron age ? (+ Plastic + oil )
I think its called the anthropocine
For western Europe, archaeologists and historians use the term Roman Period to follow the Iron Age. The Roman Period was followed by Early Medieval, Medieval, Post-Medieval (aka Renaissance), and Industrial/Modern. The last one is ours. Anywhere else the periods may be quite different. In Southeastern Europe, the Iron Age was followed by Hellenistic, then Roman Period, Byzantine, Ottoman, Industrial/Modern. Asia, Africa and the Americas are really different.
Stainless steel? Copper is big again. Chromium?
Numpty
Who says there was no insurance? If the archeology shows us anything it shows these people were just like us. I think that’s a large assumption 😊
Gentlemen of Culture, we meet again...
The Waveney site was interesting in that it showed how similar we "modern" people are to people of the past. The people of the past used planking and post to navigate across boggy ground and the investigating archeologists used the modern equivalent to solve the same problem ... modern day pallets. When lifting the posts from the peat, a log, rope and human muscle power. Are we really that different from the people of the past, or is it that our tools are just a little better.
Being in the USA im so jealous of all the archaeology in England-Europe.
That has always caused me great envy, as well. People that can roll back the history of their homeland to the tune of THOUSANDS of years dont realize just how lucky they are when considering such an aspect of their national identity. Ancient Egypt and Feudal Japan also come to mind.
👍🏻. I’m in Yorkshire England
Then you do not understand what Archeology has and continues to add to the history of the Americas. It extends back far beyond these findings with massive structures and civilizations.
the Cara silver and gold coins have been found in Wales , Caratacus was the Cymric Chieftain and King Caradoc, certainly we have so many place names with his name and family around Llyswyrnwy and Pentre Meurig also at Twyn Caradoc and Caer Caradoc above Brynna , he in our History that was handed down, was Known to the Romans , we know there were Large Battles with the Romans around this area, because there are so many Roman Forts and Roman burials here, Caer Caradoc has one of the Largest Bronze Age Burials in Britain and there are literally within 10 miles more than twenty Hillforts, many were still in use when the Saxons entered in the 6th Century and left pretty well soon after coming back over the next 300 Years for Battles they lost.
Wales is a No No for archaeologists, why because there are answers here that the English establishment and the British Museum aka English Heritage will not want to hear and see.
Roman and Etruscan pottery has been found in South Wales the Greeks and later Romans were trading here from at least 800 BC. Celts also travelled to the European Mainland and Brythonic Celts were with the Etruscans in the Punic Wars, the Etruscan city of Caeri like Fiesole has many Celtic Burials.
We were as the British people a lot more sophisticated than you think, for Romans wore our Clothing in Rome, the first Gucci and Versace perhaps!
Diolch yn fawr i ti, Nos da.
Are you related to Neil Kinnock?