It appears everyone has a different story when it deals with ancient history.. I love my home country with all my heart and soul - so every time I hear a new story about my roots I become sick. When I left Scotland I was 5 years and had no say - however in 1948 we were starving so my parents did what they felt they needed to give my brother and I a better life. I had been badly burned as a baby and my brother had developed a nerve problem due to bombings etc. Now I am in my 80s and I am very ill I have prepared my soul to make my return to the highlands where I will remain till the end of time.
I suspect there are a great many sites and artifacts mouldering away in Doggerland and around all the coasts of the UK and Ireland. The water levels were much lower during the Stone Age, with so much of it tied up in glaciers. What you call home were undoubtedly the highlands of the landmass that makes up Western Europe.
As a child, I found a freshly exposed human footprint in the local sandstone cliffs, Arbroath, near to a known bronze age hillfort, and I suspect possibly close to the Doggerland latitude. My discovery was immediately dismissed as impossible... But I have a witness... The footprint didn't last very long, being exposed on a very fragile area... It took the form of an adult footprint exactly like that of someone standing in wet sand. Curiously, my maternal heredity is mixed, modern Irish, but with some Scottish ancestry from Loch Lomond, and Fife (McFarlane) My paternal DNA has been tested (although the veracity of these tests is inconclusive) but apparantly 98% UK Mainland, a, surprisingly high percentage!
The "Scots" were a mixture of Gaelic settlers in the western Isles and the "Pictish" natives. The architecture in this area are identical to that of the "Pictish" lands to the east. Viking slavers carried of shiploads of Pictish nobility to the markets of Ireland and Iberia. As I say to people who ask 'What happened to the Picts?' I reply, 'Are you Scottish or have Scottish connections?' 'Then, look in the mirror!' The Picts became the Scots!
I don’t think anyone was there, so we don’t really know. It’s tough, because it’s so much fun to create a narrative or think that we know, but the truth is we know less than 10% of our human history according to the Peabody museum of Archaeology and ethnology.
The Basque country is always one of the first things people go for to explain random stuff. Totally isolated language, plus Basque fishermen traveled pretty far.
Scots and Irish also have strong genetic ties to the Basque which would suggest they also came from Ireland but then maybe picked up a Celtic P language
Thanks for this. The problem I find is that the burials are anonymous, and this could hold great significance. The influx of refugees to Northern Scotland during the Roman invasion and subsequent occupation, may have resulted in isolated groups with particular burial customs and practices. These individuals may not be Picts at all, just buried on land identified as Pictish. The very scarcity of Pictish burial grounds and remains, should raise suspicion as to why these individuals break that mould. It's still a fascinating problem.
@@manfredconnor3194 Have you done no personal reading? The Picts fought the Romans, the Vikings, the Angels and Saxons... their were enough of them, over hundreds of years that if they practiced conventional burial, there should be more evidence of such.
They didn't want to get swarmed by a buncha crazy little guys who look like Angus from AC/DC playin bag pipes and swingin claymores at them? Just a guess.
Don't grab too much "proud cultural insight" from the Roman withdrawal. It wouldn't displease nor surprise me to know that the Scottish and the Picts, whom I do admire, were steadfast opponents to Roman imperialist intent, but the Germanic tribes, especially the most warlike and very dangerous Goths had begun to seriously kick Roman butt, which pleased me to know, and Roman soldiers were badly needed closer to home. Like Cniva earlier, Fritigern destroyed a Roman army and killed two emperors. Soon Alaric sacked Rome in 410 ad. If I have it wrong I will correct my posting, but it looks that way to me. My Spanish family descends from both the Ostrogoth and Visigoth ruling Germanic military clans, the Balto and the Amal, respectively, as does the Patron Saint of France Clotilde, who is revered for bringing the Frankish hero King Clovis to the Catholic Church, when she was his Queen.
Although it's true the Romans didn't manage to take northern Britain by force, by the time the Romans had left the 'Picts' and the 'Scots' (as the Romans had dubbed them), both had adopted Roman Christian kingship. This means the Romans did in fact manage to invade the entirety of Britian and Ireland after all, if we consider a complete culture replacement to be a complete invasion that is.
From the comments I'm guessing no one is watching the video up to 35:51? I don't know what to say, I just want to send the family my warmest regards and may Nick's memory live long and be a blessing!
This is a well presented study. It is of course limited by small sample size and unknown social information. Clearly humans were always on the move and the more we can learn about that the better! Thankis for sharing this.
Pictish symbols are found all around my town. Used to have a festival on a Pictish site, on a hill just outside my town, but the police shut it down and blocked the site off. This was a annual thing and lasted for around a week. People from all over Scotland would come and there would be lots of old Scottish folk music and lots of psychedelic use (why the police shut it down) My town was a Pictish village at one point in time, hence why the “unofficial” festival took place every year.
Dunnichen Hill. Between the village of Letham & Forfar Angus. It was to commemorate the battle of Nectansmere between the Picts & Northumberlands which the Picts were victorious in 685 if memory serves me right.
@@Global_House Correct. There’s also Restenneth Priory not too far away as well, which is also a Pictish site. I’m pretty sure the priory was build in the 700s and there’s actually still a couple of walls standing from it. Last time I visited the priory, it was full of wasp bikes and there was a mental bull you had to get past, to get onto the site in the middle of the field where the Priory remains are located………That bull was psychotic 🤣 Also there’s the remains of an old settlement under the water in Forfar loch.
Ha ! Ha ! Exactly. But those of us carrying Pict ancestry know ! My grandmother - Helen Mar Douglas. Just returned from the Orkneys - my daughter’s idea ! Stayed in an old Manse on Bay of Cornquoy. Magical. Two ancient cairns 1/2=mile away on private farm land. Now - getting a Pict symbol tattoo on my arm.
@@Dimple_5 My Grandmother was descended from the Mar “tribal group” in Northern Scotland. It is my understanding that the Mar group was descended from (or part of ) the Picts.
There's a large Pictish cemetery close to Ackergill Tower on Sinclair Bay in Caithness, in the far north east of Scotland. It's not been excavated since it was investigated by Tress Barry in 1905. It's composed of square burial cairns, topped with quartz pebbles, and was immediately reburied. Perhaps DNA could be extracted from the burials there?
Wow my two favorite culture, both of them have uniqe traditional fashion, and both of them are live on ocean side, and highlander too. I am Greek from my Moms side and Hungarian from my Dad,speak both of languages.
@IliasKiraly My Basque grandfather married a Mexican lady, my beautiful grandmother. So Spainish and English are the only languages i speak. All my great parents came from Europe in one fashion or the other. Norris/Irish, Scofield/English, Koch/German, Ybarra/Mexican. My ancestry to my great Grand parents. Thanks for the kind comment. 😇 Be well live, love, and prosper!
There were also Picts in Northern Wales from about 440 AD when the Votadini chief Cunedda moved the entire tribe to Gwynedd and Powys. They drove out the Irish and became rulers. So there is likely some Pict genetics still in Northern Wales extending into Shropshire. The Pict rulers of Powys were buried in Baschurch which was called Church's of Bassa.
Hmm... I thought the Votadini were Brythonic speakers, like the rest of Britain? Both they and the neighbouring Selgovae, who later amalgamated to form the Kingdom of Strathclyde considered themselves separate from the Picts, and their Cumbric language was mutually intelligible with Old welsh. Weren't the picts mainly to the North of the firth - Clyde line?
@@bsaneil Most linguists now consider the Picts to have been speakers of a form of Brythonic, too, based on known place names and personal names. Lots of groups in Britain considered themselves to be "separate" from each other while all speaking some form of Brythonic.
@@bsaneil My information has them as mostly Pictish and in the Edinburgh area on both sides of the Firth of Fourth, the northern part of Gododdin. The Votadini got along better with the Romans so when the Romans left they may have been open to options to relocate. The Votadini were between the Firth of Fourth and the river Ware during the later Roman period. The tribal capitol may have been at the Yeavering hill fort near Bamburgh. The Scotti were to the west having overwhelmed the Damnonii and working on the Selgovae. Most of the Votadini went to north Wales, the ones who remained along with other Gododdin warriors were overwhelmed by the Anglo-Saxons in Yorkshire. The epic poem called Gododdin by Votadini bard Aneirin praises the bravery of Gwawrddur. So mixed tribe likely but I would suggest mostly Pict.
The Venomous Bede is not to be trusted, are not all indo Europeans frim Scythia? Cunedda was indeed from North of the Antonine wall, the Gaels invaded at the same time, in colusion with the Angles. Indeed Vortigern was hated for inviting them here to the territory of the Gododdin who he sent to save Wales from Gaelic destruction and slave raids
thank you so much for this - very interesting. nice to have some actual data/dna rather than simply conjecture in this area. thanks for the 'translation' and transmission of this research - it's such a pity that advances in this field (& others) so often remain in the academic realm
Pythagoras means Heart of the Serpent, he was born in Sidon, a fishing Port in Phoenicia. His mother recieved a message from the Oracle of Delphi that he would become a great Leader and Teacher. Sidon means Kingdom of the Fish, and the Essenes, who wrote the Dead Sea scrolls, worshipped Pythagoras. The Sarcophagus of Eschmun III found in Sidon names him as the Widow's Scion, aka Hiram Abiff, the Founder of Freemasonry, of which Tyre was the premier Capital (at least equal to Thebes). In 911BC Rameses II married the Queen of Sidon, home of Jezebel (Daughter or consort of Baal, basically "Queen") founding Neo Assyrian Babylon, an alliance between Egypt and Hiram, father of Jezebel and King of Assyria, and Egypt, forming the Phoenician colonies and building the first Temple of Melqart to commemorate the alliance. The Si in Sidon is the basis of the Latin Exe, or X, and is the basis of the Cross, or Chi Rho that Constantine painted on his shields. Also known as the Cross of Tyre, or Cross of Baal, being Ra-El, or Ba'El. Oddly enough irrational numbers can also be mapped using Euler's number, producing a Templar Cross in the process. This cross can also be seen around the neck of Nimrod in Assyria, and is consistent with the Union Jack, and Solstice Calendar found in the Vatican Shiva Lingam. Shiva is the Hebrew word for 7, their culture also found its way to Japan (via the Phillipines) ultimately becoming Shintoism. It was the Phoenicians who gave their name to the Pole Star, which they used to Navigate the Oceans using the Zodiac, thats what the Antikythera mechanism was for, and with it they wrote the Byblos Baal, what we now call the Bible. The first form of the Bible was written in 325BC and called the Vaticanus Greacus, or Son of the Sacred Serpent, a reference to Sirius, the basis of the Sothic Calendar, which uses a Hexidecimal or base 60 system found in all the Megalithic sites around the world. In the second century AD astronomer Valentinus Vettori transcribed it into a Lunar chart of 13 houses, what we now call the Zodiac. Horoscope means Star Watcher, and the Phoenician word for Saturn, or El, was Israel or El, (Fruit) of Isis and Ra. El is the primary God of the Phoenicians, representing the offspring of Egypt, and his consort Astarte represents the Assyrian half of the alliance. It may be possible to trace lineages and alliances through the naming of gods, which can be traced all the way to Ireland and the Vikings, and to Indonesia and the Americas, even as far away as New Zealand and Australia. It denotes Sirius as Son of Orion and Pleaides, which sits at 33 degrees of the Zodiac. The basis of the Sothic (dir Seth) Calendar of the Egyptians. The New Moon in this position marks Rosh Hashanah, the Egyptian, Celtic, Phoenician, and Assyrian New Year, the first New Moon of September, which is called September because it's the 7th House of the Zodiac, when the Sun is in Ophiuchus. The Phoenix, Benben, or Bennu is the Egyptian word for Heron, a Feathered 'Serpent'. It baptised itself in frankincense and myrrh at BaalBek, and then alights atop the Pyramid, upon the Holy Grail, or Alter of Ra every 630 years to take three days off the calendar during the course of the first New Moon of Nisan, which means "Prince". The Capstone of Pyramids is even called the Benben or Bennu. The Phoenix is found in all religions, which are all Astrological Allegory for the Moon travelling through the Constellations, as a soul migrating from body to body, this is the basis of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth, or the Hero's Journey. The various planets no doubt play their own roles as portents, omens, and aspects, this astrology is the science of the Bronze age, and lasted all the way up to the 20th Century. Resurrection was an early teaching of the Christian Church, and likely relates to the lineage of Kings (The King is Dead, long live the King.) Phoenicians represent the interim step between Egypt and Greece, their artisans and culture exceeding that of the Greeks, who literally adopted the Phoenician Alphabet, which we still use to this day, sounding out words phonetically. Phoenician is aliiterated in Venetian, and Vikings, being Kings of the Sea. The Bennu is the Egyptian Phoenix, to Phoenicians the Hoyle, no different to the traditions of the Etruscans, who saw birds as sacred, just as the Celts. Hebrew and Iber as in Iberia have the same root meaning over, as in overseas, as in those who travel "over the sea." A colony called Iberia also appears on the Eastern shores of the Black Sea, where the same Dolmens and Megalithic culture originating in Ireland and Brittany appeared circa 4500BC. _Phoenician_ means Scions of the Phoenix, the first Bible: Vaticanus Greacus Son of the Sacred Serpent (Prince). Then there's the Essenes, Sons of Light, the Tuatha De Danaan, Sons of Light, Annunaki, Sons of Light, Arthur Pendragon means Arthur Son of the dragon, Chertoff is Russian for "Son of the Devil" and Dracula also means Son of the Dragon, Masons have been known at times to call themselves the "Brotherhood of the Great White Serpent". The Ziggurat of Anu also denotes her as a great white Serpent, while New Grange and the Bru na Boinne in Ireland (4000BC) coated buildings with white quartz to denote the Moon. The Moon itself travels outside the Solar Elliptic by 5 degrees, which means it passes through specific constellations in a serpentine fashion that is always changing, but repeats every 19 years, the time it took to train a Druid or Magi, Magi meaning "Teacher" the Phoenix is also associated with this sacred number 19. The name "Pharoah" means "Great House" or "House of Light" and Cairo used to be called Babel. Pharaoh's themselves wore a hooded crown representing feathers, just as Native American Chiefs, ie the Feathered Serpent, they were also called the Commander in Chief. Aztecs also had Serpent Kings, (Canaan means Serpent Kings, and Sidon was a Son of Canaan, and Great Grandson of Noah) who were called to lead with cunning and guile, being the very virtue by which they claim the title in the first place; but to be seen in public as just and diplomatic. "As wise as Serpents, but gentle as Doves" the old Egyptian flag of an Eagle attacking a Snake is also reflected in the Modern Mexican flag, denoting the Constellations of Serpentis (13th sign of the Zodiac) and Aquila. The dimensions and 12 mathematical constants of the Great Pyramid are also expressed in New Grange, and Stonehenge, as well as in Watson Brake, (2500BC) and Teotihuacan, which correlates to the Phoenician/ Sumerian Hexidecimal system, which is what our modern systems of time are based on. Officially no one knows who invented astrology, the zodiac, navigation by the stars, and time keeping. But whoever built the pyramids, and pioneered the 24hr clock in Egypt 5000 years ago also knew the exact dimensions of the Earth, as well as the speed of light. These calculations can all be made using these Megalithic sites as surveyors use a theodolite. Specifically Teotihuacan, which sits 180 degrees opposite Cairo, and has the exact same footprint. The ideal positions to determine the speed of light using the transit of Venus, by which one can accurately determine Longitude for navigation. Capt cook did the same thing in 1774 when he 'discovered' Easter Island. The only culture that fits the bill was wiped out "not one stone upon the other" by the Romans in 146BC. Tyre, the capital of Phoenicia (israel) sat just offshore from Ur Shalom, City of the New Moon, or City of Peace. The root of the name Jerusalem, and was also seized by Rome in 70AD after a 13 year seige. The gap between is 216 years. Greek Dionysians built the Temple of Solomon (now called the Temple of Melqart) representing the Solar Lunar Metonic Calendar on which this system is based, they also carried mirrors, a practice associated with both the Magi and the Druids as well as Greek and Egyptian scholars, these Mirrors are Astrological charts called "Cycladian Frying Pans" and record the cycles of the planets. The first Temple of Melqart (the Phoenician form of Horus, or Hercules, or Pan, or Thor) representing the 13th Constellation of Ophiuchus or the Serpent Bearer (hence Orphic Serpent worship) had pillars of Emerald and Gold, representing Isis and Osiris. The Jerusalem Temple only took payment in "Shekels of Tyre" a currency minted during the Jewish rebellion against Rome. "Give that which is Ceasar's unto Ceasar" When Alexander sacked Tyre in 332BC they moved to Carthage meaning "New City" or New Jerusalem, where they built a second temple with Pillars of Bronze. Nebuchadnezzar also seiged Tyre for 13 years, taking the City captive in 573BC: the same time as the biblical account of the Jews. And again in 70AD after a three and a half year seige, also consistent with biblical accounts.
Just reading a sample of the chop shop comments below it becomes clear how virtually everyone has little real clue and are just pushing their own biases on this matter. Every statement reads differently from the next one. The Picts were this, the Picts were that, they were Scottish, they were Irish, they popped up from the ground like angels. So ridiculous. Just admit that nobody knows for sure, it's less hassle.
@Dimple_5 Of course they would be Scottish, they were the majority stock population of proto-Scotland. It was Scotland in all but name. It was called Alba, which is the old kingdom of Scotland, which is the same name the ancient Irish (Hiberni) recognised in their 'Annals of the Four Masters' document, and that name Alba (Scotland) was related to the oldest and most ancient name of the island of Great Britain - Albion.
Exactly. I just read some ridiculous comment about how there is a Finnish connection...after years of researching the Picts...and earlier people of these lands...not once have I ever heard of this supposed Finnish connection. Far be it for me to say they're wrong, though but seems a little over the top
@ScarlettBoudicca You seem to be too hung up on that label/term 'Pict', the word only started to be used on record to describe the early Scots/people of Scotland from the year 297, it was first used by the Roman writer Eumenius when he wrote a congratulatory letter to Tacitus that year. Today Scottish academia involved in the field holds that the term is little more than a 'chronological' identity of the Scots, meaning that it describes the people of Scotland who lived in a 'certain period' of time, and that time extends from as early as the bronze age to as late as the early medieval age, just like the terms 'Edwardian', 'Elizabethan' and 'Georgian' are used to describe medieval age English people who lived in a certain period of England's history as well, and the term 'Victorian' to refer to all British people as a whole (Scots included) who were born before the year 1901. As for the term 'Celtic', again, this is another label some people get too hung up on, the term was first invented by the English linguist Edward Lhuyd in the 18th century to group old British forms of language together, such as Cumbric and Cornish, it was then later expanded to include historical continental European languages, such as those of Gaul (proto-France) and even Iberia (proto-Spain). None of these nations ever historically identified with the term, it was a foreign word put on them by other people (this has been done before all too often). Edward Lhuyd merely took the old Greco form of the word 'Keltoi' - which was just a Greeks word for a non-Greek foreigner which applied to anyone who was not Greek - including most of Europe, some of Asia and even parts of Africa that were known to the ancient Greek empire at the time, and then he Anglicised it to 'Celtic' and then gave it an entirely new definition (for linguistic purposes only).
I was introduced to the Picts by the Pink Floyd "musical" piece " Several species of small animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a Pict" I was curious as to what a "Pict" was so I looked into it and discovered a fascinating history of the British Isles and the people there. I had never heard of these people before.
I have that set as my ringtone!! You can bet I get some crazy looks when my phone goes off. My grandmother's maiden name was MacLaren, wish I still had some of those tartans and things . In kindergarten I had an assignment to bring in a list of funny sounding words, I brought a list in Gaelic, everybody thought I made them up.
@@petevenuti7355 Haha! Gaelic words are something else, aren't they! Rarely does it sound like it looks. I hike regularly here in Scotland . Lowland hill and river names are fine but usually we hike farther north (in the Trossachs mainly) and we I'm sure we mangle those names something terrible! Occasionally I will look up the correct pronunciation online. I can naturally roll my 'R's and get 'ch' correct as in 'loch' [as opposed to 'lock' which is something totally different!] but apart from that it's take a best stab at it! Atb...Terry
@@TerryMcGearyScotland my girlfriend keep telling me to make that ____ sound (she would make some noise that's supposed to be a rolling r but ... Not ) trying to get me to pronounce a few things like that, and I'd pretend not to know what she's taking about so she keeps making silly sounds... I'll never have a real accent like my grandma, but sometimes I just sound like it ... just happens.
My brother just saw an article about two sets of bones that were discovered in the late 1800’s, Gen Scot 24 and Gen Scot 26. Two related men that date back to the Neolithic Age and are DNA matched to my brother’s and Dad’s DNA tests. They also matched Kit Carson, Davy Crockett and Chuck Norris. They date to 6,000 years ago, not just 300 CE to 900CE. But we also show Pict and Dal Riata. (sp?). So when and where did the men come from? They were discovered within 100 miles of Glen Coe , near Argyle etc. our history puts our men in Glen Coe during the Massacre, along side the Mac Donald’s but in the Glen before the Mac Donald’s, related to the first Chiefs of the area.
This DNA testing brings up interesting stuff it seems. I'm tempted to give it a try. I would keep my chromosomes crossed to have something unusual discovered in my genome!
@@wor53lg50I'll put my hand up to that! Neither of my parents or grandparents (at least) knew Gaelic , we're too far south. It does seem odd to me that our railway station signs down here are in English and Gaelic . I think it's for the tourists 🙂No harm in it though if it helps keep the ancient language alive.
@RR-pe5or yeah us yanks are mostly Scottish, English ancestry with some swede/Norse mixed in. My own family from Devon, circa 1620s, and the Bennetts from north of the English/Scottish border. Of course like most Yankees, there's some other bloodlines but our major ancestry England 🇬🇧. Yankee by birth, but the British isles winning out. Sorry, you can't get rid of us that easily. 😂😂😂😂
@70stunes71 What do you mean by 'British isles winning out'? In fairness we actually got rid of you people a long time ago, your people have changed a lot since 1492, as have our stock population/people, or to be more specific, we got rid of each other following the Treaty of Ghent following the great war of 1812, however it's more the Yankees of the Yank Doodle tribes of North America who still try to attach themselves onto us rather than the other way, it's largely a one-way latch on complex as many from the British nations just simply don't and can't identify with Americanisms and Americanised things, in some ways we even have more association with our Commonwealth allies as we have a unique history with them that doesn't apply to Americans and therefore would be as foreign to Americans as many of their customs are to us, and even Americans don't and can't identify with us from a modern context, only in historical things and contexts, it's a strange contradiction all around, many Yanks still seem to live as though they are trapped in a 1600s timewarp, to them as it's as though all of the worlds history only started then and that the 17th century never really ended, we see this in many of the extremely outdated stereotypes the ethnic Yank peoples still have about us and our nations. Also it's a bit selective don't you think? To only focus on learning of ancestors who were not themselves Yanks when the vast majority of your most immediate and most relatable ancestors were also themselves Yanks? Why is it this attitude is endemic to America? No other nation seems to do this, it would be so easy to invade and conquer your nation again simply via psychological 'divide and conquer' tactics, which suggests your nation has a very weak national identity. A people are forged by their nation in so many ways than you realise, Americans too are very different to us in ways you don't seem to be aware of, why do you think that is? Is self-deracination really a price worth paying to be viewed this way in the efforts of attempting to foster connection to us when it involves the subtle undermining and gradual internal destruction of your own nation and its people?
Oh my god, I always wondered about the Picts. I heard of them from a variety of sources but I was never sure if they were even real, to be honest. So glad I found this video
Well you need to know it ain't true, we ain't from Ukraine the picts were the britions, who went up north when the romans came. There was a study to debunk the picts from Ukraine.
Recently discovered is that MtDna Haplogroup X is prevalent in Orkney Islands. There’s also a high percentage of Haplogroup X among the Druze, and that is very interesting.
always a wonder, the various genetics of people who lived relatively close to each other. the british isles are fascinating with influences from Scandinavia and europe.
You also need to take into consideration the Scottish diaspora. People currently living in Scotland may not be the same people because of the thousands that were removed during the Clearances. I have aDNA matches to Scotland but also many more to the USA, Australia and Canada. Both of my grandmothers have Scottish ancestry both back to the 1700s.
So, I was born in Scotland to Scottish parents that both have names that come from clans etc. My 23 and me was interesting to say the least. 95% Scottish/Irish (high but expected) 3% sub saharan african... OK we all started there etc, then the curve ball 2% unidentified... Did some research, that normally means they have never had a sample with my dna to study good enough to determine the origin. Pretty cool considering the size of their database.
This is great. 😊 I'm mostly western continental european but get pictish samples, and I lived in Nova Scotia, Canada as a teenager, for me one of the best cultures and places to live in. I should go to Scotland
There was never a people that called themselves Picts in Scotland. Picti was the name the Romans gave the tattooed people they saw there. They were probably Gaels, Celts of some type/types going by artifacts left behind. They warred with and were invaded and assimilated by people from all around them. The Romans penetrated far deeper into Scotland than is generally thought, it is interesting to read about this. Various Scandinavians ruled and populated large parts, the Irish came and stayed, the tattoos went out of fashion or those that once wore them died out, all of this before 1066. There were little or no records kept of what happened there for centuries. The oldest histories were often written centuries later than the events they purport to document and what was written was usually little better than myths.
Actually, very interesting theory. In fact, I like it. But who populated Scotland when the Romans came? It were mainly Britons, because Gaels migrated into Scotland in 4 AD, before that there were pre-Celtic and Celtic (Brythonic) People. The mix of this people named Picts. And also, many manuscripts left about Picts. And many of them are calling Picts the true lords of British Isles. So, your theory is actually wrong. But I like it.
@betenoireindustries Venerable Bede is a useful source, as his 'Ecclesiastical History...' was written in 793 AD/CE when the Pictish people were still known as such. If nothing else, I find his statement about the existing languages in Britain very interesting. Despite many place names in Pictland being clearly P-Celtic and so, linked to the Welsh, Cornish, etc. Bede recognises the Pictish language as being different from that of the Britons.
Great video…. I’m fascinated with the historical evolution for inhabitation of the British Isles (England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland). The terrain of this region is not very inviting for settling, so the different peoples who decided to migrate to either of these islands is intriguing. The reason why this happened is not very obvious, but living on the continent of Europe must have been a very difficult struggle for survival. The history of humanity is based upon this same struggle. Survival of the fittest is the core of human survival and our history. So to be pushed to the last point of European land is an interesting situation to encounter. What a group of people’s would do on the mainland is not the same as what their reactions would be when they are pushed to the end of their options for land to flee to. England became such a broader ‘melting pot’ when compared to Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. I’m guessing that it is that way because of closer proximity to the mainland and a less defensible terrain (but I am only speculating). Thank you for posting this video
Survival of the fittest is a myth and a lie more popular than anything Darwin ever said. Have you ever been to Europe, let alone Scotland? Not very inviting? It's practically a paradise, rich in everything people could ever want and need. Your speculations are poorly formed, based as they are on ignorance and misinformation. There's a good reason that you're speaking English right now, and that's in part down to the very nature of the British Isles and the peoples who thrived there.
Well, seen from the Norwegian " vikings ", Britain was not to be pushed to the corner of the continent but rather a heavenly land for crops and improving quality of life x)
At my quick glance, which means I might be wrong, it seems that the Picts might be a more pure Celtic tribe. Meaning that they were lacking or having less pre-indoeuropean "local" women.
I believe they were Celtic as they were La Tene. Though I think they were multiple tribes. The word walhaz as used by Germani to describe Romans has been also claimed to be used to describe Celts but the only independent Celts would be Picts and Irish and the term afaik was never used for them. It was used for the Celtic speaking Britons of course, but they happily embraced Roman culture and claimed Roman ancestry.
Wonderful work by the authors of this video , bravo ! URQHART , in my humble opinion , is a pre Indoeuropean root that derives from URARTE , between water or island in many ancient languages , including Basque . The castle of Urqhart was sorrounded by water almost entirely . It is considered the Pictish capital . Roots like URE , IBAR , ABAR , ARA are common in many ancient languages around the world , Basque included , as they are common in Scotland .
honestly i think its a case of Academese. the writing here is too flowery for me to follow comfortably. i have it playing in the background and just heard the phrase "finescale relatedness"... you're not alone :')
Interesting that Scandinavian type DNA found from before the early medieval period. One possible explaination may be that this DNA came from the early Bronze Age Beaker Folk (Corded Ware/Single Grave ?) immigrants who lived in Southern Scandinavia, north/West Germany and the Low countries. Great Video, I look forward to your next one.
This Channel is So Wrong, you more so... We know exactly were the Viking DNA From, we know all this History, it's all known, and it was the Scoti that came from Scythia, if you Read the Most Important Historical Document out of Scotland you would know this, the Declaration of Arbroath! My Ancestor Signed It! It's Called a Pedigree! The Chief of Ross the Earl of Ross was 4th to Seal it! FYI the Majority of Ross' are Scottish, and Related by way of the 4th Earl of Ross on! Name once Protected by Law! I am a Scoti, a Scytian!!! We Crushed the Picts, go watch someone that actually knows History Unlike this Channel!
You need to do much more research. You need to look beyond mythology/legends based upon unreliable documents that have been discredited by modern DNA analyses and archaeology. If you have DNA evidence that the Scots came from Sythia and that the Picts were "crushed" by the Scots (does this mean made extinct) then lets see your proof/links.@@randyross5630
@@randyross5630 Scandinavian DNA existed before the Viking age, and after. The Vikings didn't just appear out of thin air in Scandinavia- nor did they suddenly develop the knowledge of how to build sea going boats. Actually there are quite a few Celtic objects from earlier periods in Scandinavia showing that there were trade links with the British Isles. It isn't all that hard to imagine that seasonal fishing expeditions would soon find the east Scottish coast, do a bit of trade, and soon make a regular thing of it. And where there is regular contact...well humans do what they do. And the Scythia thing was never more than the kind of early Medieval myth based on a similarity in how the names sound, plus then wanting everything to have a "classical" origin. I mean except for Bede's account, is there anyone who even mentions boatloads of Scythians sailing through the Med at what would be the right time? Even a small fleet? Enough really to replace whatever people might have ALREADY been living on the East coast of Scotland to any noticeable degree rather than just intermixing, so that one could claim later that the "Scottish" came from Scythia? I mean I seriously doubt that there was more than a merchant boat or two from the Med, if any at all- and who knows where they may really have been from. Bede just made the sort assumptions typical for the age; Scotti=Scythians. They were curious then, as we are now, of the history and origins of people and places, but didn't have the means to answer it as we do. They put a lot of stock in names and myths, and even then there was "culturally correct" answer.
@@randyross5630 The picts may have been serpent people like your Roths. The map shows them originating from the same water hole as your serpent ancestors.
??? My maiden name is Pickens. I looked it up with the help of a Scottish Genealogist. In his books it said Pickens means the Pict people. I traced my family back to Edinburgh 1400’s and the Highlands before that. There are numerous Pickens here in the US. My family was supposed to have come here in about 1720. Brigadier General (Revolutionary War) Andrew Pickens served on the first House of Representatives and cowrote the first American Indian Treaty. His grandson Francis was a Gov of South Carolina during the Civil War. His wife Lucy is on the Confederate dollar bill. There are more relatives of importance in our line. That just names a few. There is a Fort Pickens in Florida and counties named Pickens, etc.
Scythians as origin sure seems odd. Ceasar or one in his campaign of coined the label, it likely means colorful people which matches up with all of Europe’s Celtic people. For centuries prior to Rome, the Celts were actually massive, Scotland across Scandinavia to Rusland through Central Europe perhaps to Sythian people ending at the Mediterranean in Spain and Pre-Rome Etruscans. The Celtic culture and people were broken by Rome in modern France, “defeating” what they called “Gaul” leading to generations of people being enslaved to become builders, warriors or prostitutes to build, expand and pay for Rome. The Vatician is no better and the “diaspora” Rome “caused” is simply another issue the 2000 year atrocity, “picts” suffer from. Welcome to the family!!
He lied to you for money. Pickens is Norman French and came to Scotland and England post-Norman conquest. It means someone who makes picks or spikes and is sometimes Pickett or Pike.
Ireland,believe it or not, has the best preserved records from that time in all of Europe. The Scots were an Irish Dalradian tribe who conqurerd the Picts at around the same time as the Saxons were attacking England . The Irish Scots gave their name to Scotland. A famous (later) member of that Dalradian tribe was Columba (Columkille in Ireland) . Columba was expelled from Ireland because he broke "copyright law"...invented in literate Ireland. Columba's pupil Aidan went on to found Lindisfarne. They never tell you about that in Britain, where history is all about the English royals. Hi From Ireland.
Being British English now living in Norway, I can testify that In England there is a greater variety of face types than there is in Norway. Just looking at the faces it seems clear that when the Germanic English invaded they defeated armed resistance but did not kill every Briton. Though they were apart in culture and blood a human being is valuable as a farm worker, servant, slave or ally. In time while the English dominated there would naturally be genetic intermingling locally. They were all though what we now see as distinctly European. In no way Middle-Eastern, African or Asian.
The way vikings emigrated was to marry the native population male and female and that's how viking DNA got into the population that they moved into peacefully by breeding with the locals . That's why in the Highlands and Isles there is a higher percentage of viking DNA in the population .
A fascinating topic. The program, obviously directed to a college genetics class audience, could use a translation of all the genetics terminology to make it accessible to the general audience.
Who were those who built the standing stones in Scotland? About 3000 years before the Picts mentioned in the video. They were probably the same people, but maybe not.
"Who were those who built the standing stones in Scotland? About 3000 years before the Picts mentioned in the video. They were probably the same people, but maybe not." They weren't built by Celtic people, who originate from the Hallstatt culture. Since by recent research they might be actually far older that previously thought, it becomes harder to say. Let's say they were built either by the Tuatha Dé Danann or the Fomorians :) If you don't take those stories about them as accurate.
Im from the north east of Scotland, the Pict or rather Cruithnich heartlands. Our place names are a mixture of Gaelic and Cruithnich, which could be close to Welsh. Myself and a group of friends did DNA tests on behalf of American clan societies, the results for all of us were the same, 2 ingredients, Celtic and Finnish. Finnish could be confused with Estonian or Sapmi. Don't ask me the details because I'm not up to speed with DNA. We were all predominately Celtic, I was 1/3rd Finnish. Our typical appearance is very fair skin and dark hair. When I have bene to Ireland, noted similar appearance. In England I notice fair hair, but darker skin is more common. Orcadians I have met are blond
Have you ever looked in to Scotland’s Hidden Sacred Past? bestselling author Freddy Silva examines the Neolithic culture, Gaelic language and sacred traditions of the Scottish Isles and finds a trail of evidence leading to the Armenian Highlands.
@@MsVanorak my best guess is evolution. Apparently Scotland is one of the most cloud covered countries. It’s also just as common with the Irish, who are also very cloud covered.
I would think this study is a bit more precise in the DNA analysis and data usage than those that are commercially available to ordinary people and groups. In other words how any of these companies might break down a DNA sample geographically, will not only vary from company to company based on whatever statistics they're using ATM, but will also vary over time. IDK if they give you all the scientific probabilities for each data point (like why they concluded your DNA profile was part Finnish and what the probability of that was compared to something else). Because if you think about it, it doesn't sound very likely without some known explanation of WHY there would be so much Finnish DNA around Eastern Scotland. Norwegians and Danes went west, but Swedes and any Finns who might have gone with them in real numbers went east. So it is odd. Further consider, that these analysis are done most likely by a computer that just looks for the closest typical regional match in their data. If the programming has a tendency to match a certain kind of Scandinavian DNA as "Finnish" regardless of nuances, then that's what you'll get.
A very dense, thorough, & scholarly account which merits further viewing. I'll certainly watch this again, probably more than once, ignoring the Hadrian's Wall nonsense.
@@PaulConroy63Interesting, I have always seen it written as Earra Gaidheal and was told it meant Coast of the Gael. Unfortunately, I am not a Gaelic speaker though. I will learn though. I picked up fluent Spanish in a year so hopefully I have the same aptitude in Gaelic.
My brother sent in a dna sample from The Big Y test and was contacted personally by the geneticists to let him know that they identified that he carried a mutant gene known amongst Scottish Highland kings known in the 3rd and 4th century. And the matriarch test identified that our 3rd great grandmother was of pure blooded Viking. DNA is still just beginning to open up unknowns, especially or genes identifying diseases. (my nephrologist ordered a renal gene study of me and identified "FOUR" genes that caused specific kidney diseases. 4 from my mother, and 1 from both parents. But only one could be scientifically identified how it effects me. DNA and bad genes is still unknown, and out of 20,000 genomes in humans getting it all known is still astronomically impossible. (just my renal study, it took nearly 3 months)
There was also a pretty substantial injection of Flemings in the Renaissance period into the east and somewhat in the north. Again, this was a project to upgrade crafts & commerce, to “add value” to Scotland’s produce like wool.
This pulled together some answers for my genealogical research. I had heard rumors about the Scythians in Scotland very early. Now I have to watch it several more times...
a history tidbit I found that might interest this group in 1308 there was a Papal Bull that declared two things, for those of europe to "not go down and worship the horse pictures in the caves:" ( so I guess many DID) and that the Vatican henceforth said they "owned every soul on earth". Factor that in as a student of history. Love your you tube on my Pictish ancestors!
The problem we have is that it's extremely rare to find any human remains from this era in North-East Scotland as the soil in this part of the world is highly acidic.
My and my dad's paternal haplogroup is I2a2a. I just recently read that it is a haplogroup that is found in Scotland and surrounding areas since at least neolithic times. And very well may be associated with the picts.
@@tommyjohnson6410 So were the Romans, Julius Caesar, Ancient Greeks, Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Achilles, Paris, the Carthaginians, Hannibal Barca, Ancient Egyptians, Ramases II, Indus Valley people, Bactra-Margiana people, Aztecs, Maya, Sioux, Cherokee, Inuits, Incas, Moche, ancient Chinese, Chin Emperor, Khmer, ancient Polynesians, Mongols, Turks, Osman I, Persians, Cyrus the Great, Abraham, Israelites, Moses, David, Sumerians, Akkadians, Sargon the Great, Assyrians, Scythians, Cimmerians, Hittites, Celts, Vercingetorix, Vikings, Rollo, Rurik, Byzantines, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Turner, Constable, Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth, Drake, Hanno the Navigator, Henry the Navigator, Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus, Van Diemen, Cleopatra, Beethoven, Picasso, Cezanne, Bach, Galileo, Newton, Captain Cook, Darwin, Einstein... Have I missed any?
The Romans were all over Scotland like a rash - they didn't stop at Hadrians wall - look up Antonine Wall - have a look at OS maps of the Highlands and you'll see roman roads and forts all over the place. They were great sailors and were all over Aberdeenshire too. Having the Bayeux tapestry as a background doesn't make a lot of sense when discussing Scotland.
If you assume that a hostile landscape was already inhabited by a people unwilling to give way to immigrants when theres already scarce food and shelter... well Scotland has had a reputation of being difficult to take and hold.
I wondered what was with the East coast avoidance also. As the closer cost to Europe you would have thought they would have landed there rather than sail around to the west coast
There were far more than five languages. Brythonc had several variations many ogf which have been lost to history. In recent centuries There have been Cornish and Manx as well as Romany and the various Asian languages now common inn the UK The north west of England has had a variety of Celtic which is now rarely spoken anywhere else. At the time of the Picts there were other now enigmatic folk such as the Attecoti. When it comes to languages in Britain it has largely been a progression of many different dialects that have merged over time and may explain the great variety of accents. The myth of a standard English is a joke. Even today it depends on where you are in the world eg Jamaica; Australia; South Africa or, indeed, North America. Some folk may take on a snobbish attitude but English is a growing language and always has been
The same applies to German: nobody really speaks "Hochdeutsch". Most German speakers speak their local dialects, which can be arranged in families. Italian is very similar. France on the other hand, has worked very hard to get rid of regional variations (not all gone, but certainly much reduced).
The standard variant in a language is a model taken by the state to have a language for administrative purposes. The thing is that it has also been used to commit ethnocide through stigma-propaganda:. The further a variant (or another language) is from the standard, the more likely it was to be targetted for its disappearance through stigmatisation of its speakers, explicit bans on its use in different contexts (schools, church, playgrounds, written language, songs...) and so on.
I'm pleased someone brought up the Attacotti (?). Didn't St Jerome describe them as being from NW Scotland, cannibals and speaking an unknown language. For my money they could be remnants of the Neoloithic first farmers, practising sky burials and then defleshing the bones before putting them in long barrows, like you find in N Scotland. Just a thought..... DNA might provide some answers.
Wondering how we feel about L1335 -> L1065 that was previously seen as Pictish? Does the recent findings of DF49 in Pictish burials mean that L1335 -> L1065 is better suited for the gaels of Dal Riata? When you look at S744 (downstream of L1065) it is extremely concentrated in Argyll and is only found in 2 ancient samples. The ancient samples are both Vikings (Norway and Faroe Islands) so it’s likely that this group of S744 was taken from either Ireland or the west coast of Scotland
The Earl of Cromartie, in his Treatise on the History of Scotland which he began writing as a P.O.W. during WW2, states the Picts originally came from the Swabian area of the Alps (slopes of southern Germany). The Roman (Tacitus) states the Picts bodies were covered in a blue wode and they had a particular hairstyle referred to as the Swabian knot. Otzi, the man in the ice,at his find was stated as being tattooed and an unusual hairstyle.
9:20 This is my exact style of drawing. I've been drawing these in all their variations and more since I was a kid. When I look at it I understand exactly what it is and what the person who did it felt when they did it because I feel exactly why each curve is how it is
One of my lineages ( verified by the Owsley Historical Society and "Clan MacAlpine Society") the Lineage of the Kings from Edward III through King Kenneth MacAlpine is known history and this chart on the Kings is taken from Encyclopedia Britannica and from "Clan MacAlpine Society". About 843 King Kenneth I MacAlpin (my 34th g-grandfather) united the Scots and Picts in the new kingdom of Alba, which comprised a large part of present day Scotland. It is rumored that he married a beautiful Pictish Princess. From what I have found I believe it is generally accepted that the Picts were Celtic. Pictish language was related to the Brittonic spoken by the Celtic Britons to the south.
@@higherview136 @GThompson-gj4ok 2 minutes ago @higherview136 Hello Cousin! 😊 Yes, our family tree is a huge one with many branches! I have the genealogy that goes back to King David and beyond also. Does your lineage include son, Sir Edmund (Plantagenet) de Langley, Duke of York, who married Isabella (Perez) de Castilla - daughter of King Pedro I, King of Castile. I was able to trace the Spanish Kings lineage back to Sancho II Garces d.c.994, king of Pamplona (Navarre). Really interesting.
19:05 “Individuals from Pictland should not be considered a homogeneous genetic group, but instead a complex mixture of contemporary genetic ancestries” 25:07 “Previously suggested that the genetic structure between western and eastern Scotland could be result from the divide between of the kingdoms of Gaelic speaking Dal Raida, in the west, and Picts, in the east, which is seemingly in contradiction with the results presented here. Instead, the present-day genetic structure in Scotland likely results from more complex demographic processes that cannot be reduced to a single model.”
One question I’ve always wondered is, whenever one group moves into a new territory and takes it over, which we can tell from genetics, language, etc., how often are the killing all the people who are there, and how often were they intermarrying? I’ve heard discussion about how when the new Europeans came into a new region, all the males appear to have been killed, leaving only females to breed with the new conquerors, and I’d really love to have more in-depth information on this topic, based on what the genetics tells us
Its prooved it didnt really happen in britain, thats the benefit of being an island, basically the invaders bribed the natives as the logistics was to much off a head ache, the DNA supports this has hardly any roman DNA can be found in indigenous britons Lineage whereas Scandinavian/saxon can, but even this is in a small percentage as the majority of the DNA shows to be native as in celt and original to the land, romans basically came with a army and administration that walled themselves in, it would have been against roman rule to marry a native slave or it would be looked down on, and even when a native slave fell pregnant from their master the infant was usually killed or sacrificed, vikings and saxons did marry and have familys the reason why this DNA shows up more but this was no way genocide or with a simple breeding out, it seemed that both cultures adapted to each other, im guessing mainly because they was so close and likewise in those cultures ways of life and beliefs, also the native chieftains would marry into viking, saxon, nobility and royalties further strengthening ties with the indigenous population as with the danelaws....
It sounds very unlikely that whole replacement was something that happened unless the place was originally inhabited by a very small population. It's not like mass genocide was the norm when a group of people arrived somewhere. Culturally though - that's another story. As with the realization that "the Celts" were not a population or ethnic group, but instead a continent-spanning shared culture between various different tribes and peoples. And later there were the Romans invading the Celtic-speaking Gaul, and now everybody there speaks a Latin-based language - but nobody is proposing that this is because the Romans wiped out the existing population and replaced it with people of Latin-regional origin. Edit: In reply to the next commenter - I should add "whole sale genocide didn't really start happening until modern firearms were invented". The Romans didn't, Alexander the Great's campaigns didn't, the Persian empire didn't, and, to go to a later time - the Mongols didn't. Lots of bloodshed, but not genocide. The conquered areas didn't involve replacing all natives with Mongols.
@@tohaason TO who,??? to arse what??, to whats happened in maui, TO whats happening in canada, TO those in authority id be keeping 2 eyes on this one..⬆️..
"One question I’ve always wondered is, whenever one group moves into a new territory and takes it over, which we can tell from genetics, language, etc., how often are the killing all the people who are there, and how often were they intermarrying? " How often is hard to say. But you can see it from what happened to male-genome. What's certainly uncommon is that they exterminate the conquered women too.
Doing my ancestry I found out that I'm a MUTT... scot Irish --- Norwegian (viking age) german an only God knows what else... the bottom line is I'm AMERICAN... My family has lived in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina since the mid 1600s... I love these mountains and I'll never leave...
No notice taken of Sinclair's Statistical review re Shetlands and the Picts -the good Bishop said it was well known that they fled to Shetlands and at that time there were only a few people who still spoke more than a few words.
go to Findochty (known as Finechtae - or Finechty) and that area if you want to find a Pictish link. Note the Nechtae part of the name. Related to Nechtan a Pictish name.
I recently discovered a genealogy book in my parents home that was written in the 1970’s about the Dál Riada and the descendants of Alpín Mac Echdach who was the father of Kenneth McAlpín. Kenneth inherited the throne from his father. Later Kenneth conquered the Picts and is widely considered to the the traditional founder of Scotland. Turns out my family are descendant of Alpín Mac Echdach. We are mentioned by name in the book. Most of us anyway. I wasn’t because I wasn’t born at the time but my two older siblings are mentioned.
FWIW I tested my mum's MTDNA. Matches had only been found within 50 miles of Cleland (her dad's clan) lands in Lanarkshire. She was born in Lanarkshire but moved to Fife, and never really liked to leave Scotland. Her Lanarkshire relations had had a holiday home on the Fife coast for as long as anyone could remember.
Scots and especially Irish people have something in common with Eastern Europeans and it´s their spirit, it seems so familiar to me, like distant brothers. As a Slav I always liked the Irish and Scottish people. So it makes sense, that some of their ancestors came from the Steppes of Eastern Europe.
My British Mother was always sympathetic towards all aboriginals so when I asked her why she felt this so strongly she responded because she came from the Pick line. 😮❤
The Irish say that the Picts came from Scythia and so does The Declaration of Arbroath , you have to ask why , why would they make that up ??? If you've never looked at the Scythian mummies , you need to , everytime I see pictures of them they look just like the descriptions that we have of the Picts
Because our European ancestors came out of Anatolia 7k years ago and most went west creating the seeds of European culture, but many went north and east becoming tribes like the scythians, Alan's, Tocharians, and the Yuezhi. The Tarim mummies o. The doorstep of China looked, and dressed the same as the celts 5k to the west.
When you have written section headings, you should put them on the screen in addition to reciting them. That means an otherwise isolated sentence is instantly recognized as a section heading.
I really appreciate that you repeatedly refer to the group of islands as the British AND IRISH Isles. Ireland is way too big to be grouped as just a satellite island to Britain and they have their own satellites like the Aran, Skelligs, Mann, etc.
The Scythian connection/background and pathway to the British Iles map seems oddly sketched up? Why not an arrival over todays Russia and Scandinavia by first Russian rivers, then the Baltic Sea, the Danish belts, the Kattegat and finally the Norths Sea? Seems more logical also since Denmark was partially populated from Scythia in their second grand westward expansion/migration as long as 5-7000 years ago. Thank you for a great video.
The word 'Scot' also originates from the word 'Scythia', by way of Scottish - Scot - Y-Scot - Scyt - Scyth - Scyth - Scythae - Scythia etc. The word Scutten is an ancient Germanic form and the word Skotto is an ancient Greek form. The historic Asian based Scythian also referred to themselves by the word 'Scoloti'. The Scots largely are an Indo group of people.
A couple of points early into this video. The Romans didn't invade the British isles, they invaded Britain, no concrete evidence they invaded Ireland. Secondly, the very term British Isles is an anachronism, it's not really looked kindly upon by most Irish people, including myself. You could simply say Britain and Ireland if you want to keep culturally neutral on it.
@@bfc3057 actually they were losing there empire by time they went to Ireland they didn't bother invading it so more druid history in Ireland more knowledge as Romans whipped it out in Britain
The biggest thanks and respect for referring to the Atlantic Archipelago as the British & Irish Isles - the Irish have their own lineage and history and have never regarded ourselves or this Island as British, yet the British still refer to the Archipelago as the British Isles. Centuries of domination and cultural eradication will eventually begin to rewrite history to whatever story you are trying to push down people's neck... Only one is Brittania, the other is Hibernia - Éire and Albion. A better name may be the Celtic Isles but that then excludes the later Germanic arrivals. Some of us just refer to them as "these Isles" for ease
'Celtic' is actually a modern made up term by the English linguist Edward Lhuyd in the 18th century that was used originally only in the linguistic contect to describe old British languages such as Cumbric and Cornish, no nation of the British isles ever identified with it except 19th century Irish nationalists who tried to integrate it and invent Irishness to what it is now. And the oldest name of the Isle of Ireland by Latin scribes was 'Britannia Minor' - a little mini British isle. Some are old enough to go back to as recent as the early 60s when "Irish" music was in its infancy, the very few Irish bands would come over to the British nations of Scotland and England and do small venues, learning Scottish and English country and folk songs that are now erroneously seen around the world as 'Irish' by the ignorant. Some of these bands could only play by ear (quite common with most folk bands back in the day). The so called famous 'Irish' tin whistle was adopted from the English bands, and the accordion songs were adopted from the Scottish bands, if you notice the Irish bands ever since are still signing from the same songsheet from the 60s, there's no such thing as 'Celtic music', it's just the Scottish music style adopted by Irish bands. Here's just one example, Christy Moore was over in Scotland doing a gig when he heard the Scots folk singer Hamish Imlach sing an American rework of a Scottish ballad 'Black is the colour' (you will hear Christy tell the story in one of his gigs in Dublin) and he asked Hamish to teach him it. Now all of a sudden it's an 'old Irish song', you need to delve further in, Scotland has indirectly had a massive input in Ireland through no fault of its own other than the Scots who settled Ulster in the 3rd century. It was 18th century Irish who modeled their nation using Scotland as a strong influence and to an extent, even England - which is ironic given the point of why they set out to invent Ireland using the Celtic term to distance itself from its earlier Anglo history. This is how that process developed, see here: www.knowth.com/celtic.htm
@@RR-pe5or haven't the energy to bother replying or deconstructing each point but I can smell the ethnocentrism from here. So much of this is untrue, selective or irrelevant - my comment must have touched a nerve on your British sensibilities and identity. You should really educate yourself beyond little Britain's perspective, you'll eventually disprove every point you've made here. Best of luck bud
@@RR-pe5or Few points: The Irish created Scotland (Scotia Minor), gave it their culture - and music. The Romans called Ireland Hibernia. The Irish-hating Gerald of Wales actually praised Irish music in the AD1100s - said that they were the masters of music. Captain O'Neills Music of Ireland (1850) contained a thousand tunes of various types. Everything was done to destroy Irish culture, banning language etc. The Irish actually have a nation.
@johnpatrick5307 Eh no, you are wrong, so so wrong, I don't even know where to begin in correcting you, but I'll start with the most persistant and common claim which is rooted in the view you hold, and that is the linguistic category of 'Gael', the term 'Gaels' was synonymous with Scots up until the 16th century, not Irish, and though since the 16th century (when it first started to be widely used) that doesn't make the Irish the same people as the Scots, far from it. Plus the Scots only settled Ulster, not the whole island of Ireland, only the Northern parts of Ulster like Antrim and Bangor - which used to be a Picto-era Scottish settlement. The first Scots didn't come to Ulster until the 3rd century, that's why Claudius Ptolemny's map after the year 140 AD (the 2nd century) has no mention of them there, and this map is the oldest map of Ireland in existence. There's no etymological relation to the words of 'Scottish' and 'Irish' in any language. They both have their own origins, characteristic exclusive letters and unique placements, for example; Scottish - Scot - Y-Scot - Scyt - Scyth - Scyth - Scythae - Scythia. The word Scutten is an ancient Germanic form and the word Skotto is an ancient Greek form. The historic Asian based Scythian also referred to themselves by the word 'Scoloti'. The Scots largely are an Indo group of people. While the Irish are Southern and the word etymology again indicates unrelated origins, i.e., Irish - Hiberni - Iverni - Ierne - Iberni - Iberia - Hyberia - Iber - Eber - Erui - Eruigena etc. No one knows exactly where John Scotus was born, some now retrospectively claim he was born in Ireland, but again, this is 'retrospectively' - in the sense Ireland went through two phases of completely re-inventing itself, the 16th century and the 19th century, plus his actual full name was 'John Scotus Eriugena' - the Eriugena name relates to Ireland (as you can see by the etymology of the word), not Scotland, so if 'Scot' meant 'Irish' then he would not also have the name of 'Eruigena' to indicate Irishness as seperate from Scottishness. And he did have both because he would have been another historic figure who identified as a Scot who settled Ireland but would then retrospectively be later rubber stamped as 'Irish' by Irish nationalists who claimed him as one of their countrymen. For example John Duns Scotus was born in Scotland, and he was named in the same fashion as John Scotus Eruigena, but he was clearly born in Scotland (this is never disputed) and he has no name that etymologically relates to anything Irish in any form, whether Hiberni, Erui or Ierne etc.
It appears everyone has a different story when it deals with ancient history.. I love my home country with all my heart and soul - so every time I hear a new story about my roots I become sick. When I left Scotland I was 5 years and had no say - however in 1948 we were starving so my parents did what they felt they needed to give my brother and I a better life. I had been badly burned as a baby and my brother had developed a nerve problem due to bombings etc. Now I am in my 80s and I am very ill I have prepared my soul to make my return to the highlands where I will remain till the end of time.
I suspect there are a great many sites and artifacts mouldering away in Doggerland and around all the coasts of the UK and Ireland. The water levels were much lower during the Stone Age, with so much of it tied up in glaciers. What you call home were undoubtedly the highlands of the landmass that makes up Western Europe.
As a child, I found a freshly exposed human footprint in the local sandstone cliffs, Arbroath, near to a known bronze age hillfort, and I suspect possibly close to the Doggerland latitude.
My discovery was immediately dismissed as impossible... But I have a witness... The footprint didn't last very long, being exposed on a very fragile area... It took the form of an adult footprint exactly like that of someone standing in wet sand.
Curiously, my maternal heredity is mixed, modern Irish, but with some Scottish ancestry from Loch Lomond, and Fife (McFarlane)
My paternal DNA has been tested (although the veracity of these tests is inconclusive) but apparantly 98% UK Mainland, a, surprisingly high percentage!
Middle age sea levels were the same lmfao
@@chucknorris277 Good thing the Picts weren't in the middle ages 😝
The "Scots" were a mixture of Gaelic settlers in the western Isles and the "Pictish" natives. The architecture in this area are identical to that of the "Pictish" lands to the east. Viking slavers carried of shiploads of Pictish nobility to the markets of Ireland and Iberia.
As I say to people who ask 'What happened to the Picts?'
I reply, 'Are you Scottish or have Scottish connections?' 'Then, look in the mirror!'
The Picts became the Scots!
The "Scots" came from Ireland - invaded .. I thought they were Red Haired Vikings myself.
I don’t think anyone was there, so we don’t really know. It’s tough, because it’s so much fun to create a narrative or think that we know, but the truth is we know less than 10% of our human history according to the Peabody museum of Archaeology and ethnology.
Lowland Scots Anglo Saxon Highland Scots Norse.
Weren't there Picts in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia area Way back?
@@kschoolcraft No.
The Picts never left Scotland, they are still here mixed in the current population.
The origin and history of Picts and Basque are very interesting stories. I like learning as much as we can find out about them.
The Berbers as well.
The Basque country is always one of the first things people go for to explain random stuff. Totally isolated language, plus Basque fishermen traveled pretty far.
Scots and Irish also have strong genetic ties to the Basque which would suggest they also came from Ireland but then maybe picked up a Celtic P language
There is a weird theory which states the people mentioned, Basques, Picts, Berbers etc all came from Atlantis.
Could be shared neolithic ancestry? @jooseppielleese7156
Thanks for this. The problem I find is that the burials are anonymous, and this could hold great significance. The influx of refugees to Northern Scotland during the Roman invasion and subsequent occupation, may have resulted in isolated groups with particular burial customs and practices. These individuals may not be Picts at all, just buried on land identified as Pictish. The very scarcity of Pictish burial grounds and remains, should raise suspicion as to why these individuals break that mould.
It's still a fascinating problem.
Your point is well taken; it COULD be that Picts practiced cremation rather than burial.
So you are saying that the "Picts" may just be displaced persons from Southern England?
There may also just not have been that many of them.
@@manfredconnor3194 No, I'm saying that any foreigners who were displaced by the Romans, will have settled amongst the Picts.
@@manfredconnor3194 Have you done no personal reading? The Picts fought the Romans, the Vikings, the Angels and Saxons... their were enough of them, over hundreds of years that if they practiced conventional burial, there should be more evidence of such.
Rome at that time was a super power, that swept aside all before it ,but when it got to Scotland they built a wall 😂
They didn't want to get swarmed by a buncha crazy little guys who look like Angus from AC/DC playin bag pipes and swingin claymores at them? Just a guess.
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Those Scythians ( and their ponies) sure got around!
Don't grab too much "proud cultural insight" from the Roman withdrawal. It wouldn't displease nor surprise me to know that the Scottish and the Picts, whom I do admire, were steadfast opponents to Roman imperialist intent, but the Germanic tribes, especially the most warlike and very dangerous Goths had begun to seriously kick Roman butt, which pleased me to know, and Roman soldiers were badly needed closer to home. Like Cniva earlier, Fritigern destroyed a Roman army and killed two emperors. Soon Alaric sacked Rome in 410 ad. If I have it wrong I will correct my posting, but it looks that way to me. My Spanish family descends from both the Ostrogoth and Visigoth ruling Germanic military clans, the Balto and the Amal, respectively, as does the Patron Saint of France Clotilde, who is revered for bringing the Frankish hero King Clovis to the Catholic Church, when she was his Queen.
Although it's true the Romans didn't manage to take northern Britain by force, by the time the Romans had left the 'Picts' and the 'Scots' (as the Romans had dubbed them), both had adopted Roman Christian kingship. This means the Romans did in fact manage to invade the entirety of Britian and Ireland after all, if we consider a complete culture replacement to be a complete invasion that is.
I've always been fascinated by the Picts. Thank you for posting this.
From the comments I'm guessing no one is watching the video up to 35:51? I don't know what to say, I just want to send the family my warmest regards and may Nick's memory live long and be a blessing!
This is a well presented study. It is of course limited by small sample size and unknown social information. Clearly humans were always on the move and the more we can learn about that the better! Thankis for sharing this.
Pictish symbols are found all around my town.
Used to have a festival on a Pictish site, on a hill just outside my town, but the police shut it down and blocked the site off.
This was a annual thing and lasted for around a week.
People from all over Scotland would come and there would be lots of old Scottish folk music and lots of psychedelic use (why the police shut it down)
My town was a Pictish village at one point in time, hence why the “unofficial” festival took place every year.
Where was that again? I think I remember going there once.
Dunnichen Hill. Between the village of Letham & Forfar Angus. It was to commemorate the battle of Nectansmere between the Picts & Northumberlands which the Picts were victorious in 685 if memory serves me right.
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Correct.
There’s also Restenneth Priory not too far away as well, which is also a Pictish site.
I’m pretty sure the priory was build in the 700s and there’s actually still a couple of walls standing from it.
Last time I visited the priory, it was full of wasp bikes and there was a mental bull you had to get past, to get onto the site in the middle of the field where the Priory remains are located………That bull was psychotic 🤣
Also there’s the remains of an old settlement under the water in Forfar loch.
yeah, so are these actual picts or just hippies?
Sounds hilarious, modern UK citizens celebrating an early medieval battle because "we be Picts" 🤣🤣
Fascinating topic. Thanks for putting in the work 🥂
so, in summary, we really still have no idea where the Picts originated...
Ha ! Ha ! Exactly. But those of us carrying Pict ancestry know ! My grandmother - Helen Mar Douglas. Just returned from the Orkneys - my daughter’s idea ! Stayed in an old Manse on Bay of Cornquoy. Magical. Two ancient cairns 1/2=mile away on private farm land. Now - getting a Pict symbol tattoo on my arm.
@@nanallen1 You're a Yank.
Right!
@@Dimple_5 My Grandmother was descended from the Mar “tribal group” in Northern Scotland. It is my understanding that the Mar group was descended from (or part of ) the Picts.
They're bell beakers/Yamnaya...
There's a large Pictish cemetery close to Ackergill Tower on Sinclair Bay in Caithness, in the far north east of Scotland. It's not been excavated since it was investigated by Tress Barry in 1905. It's composed of square burial cairns, topped with quartz pebbles, and was immediately reburied. Perhaps DNA could be extracted from the burials there?
Just because a cemetery is 'Pictish' doesn't automatically mean the bodies found are Picts.
I googled the bay, and Caithness.. it looks like a truly beautiful place.
Dna testing on ancient dead bodies is very expensive. Apparently. 😮
Its expensive to dna old bones .apparently. 😅😅
Good idea. A research grant should pay for the Genome testing.
My father is Basque, and my mother is Scottish. I indeed am blessed.
No, you’re human. There is nothing superior about anybody’s ancestry in particular.
My daughter is Norwegian and Basque.😊❤
Wow my two favorite culture, both of them have uniqe traditional fashion, and both of them are live on ocean side, and highlander too. I am Greek from my Moms side and Hungarian from my Dad,speak both of languages.
@IliasKiraly My Basque grandfather married a Mexican lady, my beautiful grandmother. So Spainish and English are the only languages i speak. All my great parents came from Europe in one fashion or the other. Norris/Irish, Scofield/English, Koch/German, Ybarra/Mexican. My ancestry to my great Grand parents. Thanks for the kind comment. 😇 Be well live, love, and prosper!
What about modern Cumbrians? Where are they from?
There were also Picts in Northern Wales from about 440 AD when the Votadini chief Cunedda moved the entire tribe to Gwynedd and Powys. They drove out the Irish and became rulers. So there is likely some Pict genetics still in Northern Wales extending into Shropshire. The Pict rulers of Powys were buried in Baschurch which was called Church's of Bassa.
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Hmm... I thought the Votadini were Brythonic speakers, like the rest of Britain? Both they and the neighbouring Selgovae, who later amalgamated to form the Kingdom of Strathclyde considered themselves separate from the Picts, and their Cumbric language was mutually intelligible with Old welsh. Weren't the picts mainly to the North of the firth - Clyde line?
@@bsaneil Most linguists now consider the Picts to have been speakers of a form of Brythonic, too, based on known place names and personal names. Lots of groups in Britain considered themselves to be "separate" from each other while all speaking some form of Brythonic.
@@bsaneil My information has them as mostly Pictish and in the Edinburgh area on both sides of the Firth of Fourth, the northern part of Gododdin. The Votadini got along better with the Romans so when the Romans left they may have been open to options to relocate. The Votadini were between the Firth of Fourth and the river Ware during the later Roman period. The tribal capitol may have been at the Yeavering hill fort near Bamburgh. The Scotti were to the west having overwhelmed the Damnonii and working on the Selgovae. Most of the Votadini went to north Wales, the ones who remained along with other Gododdin warriors were overwhelmed by the Anglo-Saxons in Yorkshire. The epic poem called Gododdin by Votadini bard Aneirin praises the bravery of Gwawrddur. So mixed tribe likely but I would suggest mostly Pict.
The Venomous Bede is not to be trusted, are not all indo Europeans frim Scythia? Cunedda was indeed from North of the Antonine wall, the Gaels invaded at the same time, in colusion with the Angles. Indeed Vortigern was hated for inviting them here to the territory of the Gododdin who he sent to save Wales from Gaelic destruction and slave raids
I liked how you dePICTed the state of historical research
SO GLAD this channel continued!!!
i thought the creators stopped it after one of the founders passed away
That's so sad.... I'm glad this site is continuing.
It's a good thing, he's a far left anti white freak.. good riddance@@cecileroy557
thank you so much for this - very interesting. nice to have some actual data/dna rather than simply conjecture in this area. thanks for the 'translation' and transmission of this research - it's such a pity that advances in this field (& others) so often remain in the academic realm
Very well explained. Sadly we lack of enough ancient remains to extrapolate from Orkney to mainland Pictland.
It is I think. You have to have your wits about you though. I wish I better versed in statistics and genetics terminology to get full benefit.
@@TerryMcGearyScotland - Feel free to ask me for explanations on specifics, I'm very well versed.
Pythagoras means Heart of the Serpent, he was born in Sidon, a fishing Port in Phoenicia. His mother recieved a message from the Oracle of Delphi that he would become a great Leader and Teacher. Sidon means Kingdom of the Fish, and the Essenes, who wrote the Dead Sea scrolls, worshipped Pythagoras. The Sarcophagus of Eschmun III found in Sidon names him as the Widow's Scion, aka Hiram Abiff, the Founder of Freemasonry, of which Tyre was the premier Capital (at least equal to Thebes).
In 911BC Rameses II married the Queen of Sidon, home of Jezebel (Daughter or consort of Baal, basically "Queen") founding Neo Assyrian Babylon, an alliance between Egypt and Hiram, father of Jezebel and King of Assyria, and Egypt, forming the Phoenician colonies and building the first Temple of Melqart to commemorate the alliance.
The Si in Sidon is the basis of the Latin Exe, or X, and is the basis of the Cross, or Chi Rho that Constantine painted on his shields. Also known as the Cross of Tyre, or Cross of Baal, being Ra-El, or Ba'El. Oddly enough irrational numbers can also be mapped using Euler's number, producing a Templar Cross in the process. This cross can also be seen around the neck of Nimrod in Assyria, and is consistent with the Union Jack, and Solstice Calendar found in the Vatican Shiva Lingam.
Shiva is the Hebrew word for 7, their culture also found its way to Japan (via the Phillipines) ultimately becoming Shintoism.
It was the Phoenicians who gave their name to the Pole Star, which they used to Navigate the Oceans using the Zodiac, thats what the Antikythera mechanism was for, and with it they wrote the Byblos Baal, what we now call the Bible. The first form of the Bible was written in 325BC and called the Vaticanus Greacus, or Son of the Sacred Serpent, a reference to Sirius, the basis of the Sothic Calendar, which uses a Hexidecimal or base 60 system found in all the Megalithic sites around the world.
In the second century AD astronomer Valentinus Vettori transcribed it into a Lunar chart of 13 houses, what we now call the Zodiac. Horoscope means Star Watcher, and the Phoenician word for Saturn, or El, was Israel or El, (Fruit) of Isis and Ra.
El is the primary God of the Phoenicians, representing the offspring of Egypt, and his consort Astarte represents the Assyrian half of the alliance. It may be possible to trace lineages and alliances through the naming of gods, which can be traced all the way to Ireland and the Vikings, and to Indonesia and the Americas, even as far away as New Zealand and Australia.
It denotes Sirius as Son of Orion and Pleaides, which sits at 33 degrees of the Zodiac. The basis of the Sothic (dir Seth) Calendar of the Egyptians. The New Moon in this position marks Rosh Hashanah, the Egyptian, Celtic, Phoenician, and Assyrian New Year, the first New Moon of September, which is called September because it's the 7th House of the Zodiac, when the Sun is in Ophiuchus.
The Phoenix, Benben, or Bennu is the Egyptian word for Heron, a Feathered 'Serpent'. It baptised itself in frankincense and myrrh at BaalBek, and then alights atop the Pyramid, upon the Holy Grail, or Alter of Ra every 630 years to take three days off the calendar during the course of the first New Moon of Nisan, which means "Prince". The Capstone of Pyramids is even called the Benben or Bennu.
The Phoenix is found in all religions, which are all Astrological Allegory for the Moon travelling through the Constellations, as a soul migrating from body to body, this is the basis of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth, or the Hero's Journey. The various planets no doubt play their own roles as portents, omens, and aspects, this astrology is the science of the Bronze age, and lasted all the way up to the 20th Century. Resurrection was an early teaching of the Christian Church, and likely relates to the lineage of Kings (The King is Dead, long live the King.)
Phoenicians represent the interim step between Egypt and Greece, their artisans and culture exceeding that of the Greeks, who literally adopted the Phoenician Alphabet, which we still use to this day, sounding out words phonetically. Phoenician is aliiterated in Venetian, and Vikings, being Kings of the Sea.
The Bennu is the Egyptian Phoenix, to Phoenicians the Hoyle, no different to the traditions of the Etruscans, who saw birds as sacred, just as the Celts. Hebrew and Iber as in Iberia have the same root meaning over, as in overseas, as in those who travel "over the sea." A colony called Iberia also appears on the Eastern shores of the Black Sea, where the same Dolmens and Megalithic culture originating in Ireland and Brittany appeared circa 4500BC.
_Phoenician_ means Scions of the Phoenix, the first Bible: Vaticanus Greacus Son of the Sacred Serpent (Prince). Then there's the Essenes, Sons of Light, the Tuatha De Danaan, Sons of Light, Annunaki, Sons of Light, Arthur Pendragon means Arthur Son of the dragon, Chertoff is Russian for "Son of the Devil" and Dracula also means Son of the Dragon, Masons have been known at times to call themselves the "Brotherhood of the Great White Serpent". The Ziggurat of Anu also denotes her as a great white Serpent, while New Grange and the Bru na Boinne in Ireland (4000BC) coated buildings with white quartz to denote the Moon. The Moon itself travels outside the Solar Elliptic by 5 degrees, which means it passes through specific constellations in a serpentine fashion that is always changing, but repeats every 19 years, the time it took to train a Druid or Magi, Magi meaning "Teacher" the Phoenix is also associated with this sacred number 19.
The name "Pharoah" means "Great House"
or "House of Light" and Cairo used to be called Babel. Pharaoh's themselves wore a hooded crown representing feathers, just as Native American Chiefs, ie the Feathered Serpent, they were also called the Commander in Chief. Aztecs also had Serpent Kings, (Canaan means Serpent Kings, and Sidon was a Son of Canaan, and Great Grandson of Noah) who were called to lead with cunning and guile, being the very virtue by which they claim the title in the first place; but to be seen in public as just and diplomatic.
"As wise as Serpents, but gentle as Doves" the old Egyptian flag of an Eagle attacking a Snake is also reflected in the Modern Mexican flag, denoting the Constellations of Serpentis (13th sign of the Zodiac) and Aquila.
The dimensions and 12 mathematical constants of the Great Pyramid are also expressed in New Grange, and Stonehenge, as well as in Watson Brake, (2500BC) and Teotihuacan, which correlates to the Phoenician/ Sumerian Hexidecimal system, which is what our modern systems of time are based on.
Officially no one knows who invented astrology, the zodiac, navigation by the stars, and time keeping. But whoever built the pyramids, and pioneered the 24hr clock in Egypt 5000 years ago also knew the exact dimensions of the Earth, as well as the speed of light. These calculations can all be made using these Megalithic sites as surveyors use a theodolite. Specifically Teotihuacan, which sits 180 degrees opposite Cairo, and has the exact same footprint. The ideal positions to determine the speed of light using the transit of Venus, by which one can accurately determine Longitude for navigation. Capt cook did the same thing in 1774 when he 'discovered' Easter Island.
The only culture that fits the bill was wiped out "not one stone upon the other" by the Romans in 146BC. Tyre, the capital of Phoenicia (israel) sat just offshore from Ur Shalom, City of the New Moon, or City of Peace. The root of the name Jerusalem, and was also seized by Rome in 70AD after a 13 year seige. The gap between is 216 years.
Greek Dionysians built the Temple of Solomon (now called the Temple of Melqart) representing the Solar Lunar Metonic Calendar on which this system is based, they also carried mirrors, a practice associated with both the Magi and the Druids as well as Greek and Egyptian scholars, these Mirrors are Astrological charts called "Cycladian Frying Pans" and record the cycles of the planets. The first Temple of Melqart (the Phoenician form of Horus, or Hercules, or Pan, or Thor) representing the 13th Constellation of Ophiuchus or the Serpent Bearer (hence Orphic Serpent worship) had pillars of Emerald and Gold, representing Isis and Osiris. The Jerusalem Temple only took payment in "Shekels of Tyre" a currency minted during the Jewish rebellion against Rome. "Give that which is Ceasar's unto Ceasar"
When Alexander sacked Tyre in 332BC they moved to Carthage meaning "New City" or New Jerusalem, where they built a second temple with Pillars of Bronze.
Nebuchadnezzar also seiged Tyre for 13 years, taking the City captive in 573BC: the same time as the biblical account of the Jews. And again in 70AD after a three and a half year seige, also consistent with biblical accounts.
@@Uncanny_Mountain Wow, thanks. I’ll need my coffee first.👍
@@Uncanny_Mountain - He was almost certainly from Samos. Why are you ranting about Pythagoras here?
I love nerding out!
I love learning new things of history. Thank you for sharing.
Anyone ever tell you not to believe everything you hear and that goes for the internet.
Just reading a sample of the chop shop comments below it becomes clear how virtually everyone has little real clue and are just pushing their own biases on this matter. Every statement reads differently from the next one. The Picts were this, the Picts were that, they were Scottish, they were Irish, they popped up from the ground like angels. So ridiculous. Just admit that nobody knows for sure, it's less hassle.
The picts was kangz
The Picts were pretending to be comedians , like Gilbert and Sullivan 🪇😯
@Dimple_5 Of course they would be Scottish, they were the majority stock population of proto-Scotland. It was Scotland in all but name. It was called Alba, which is the old kingdom of Scotland, which is the same name the ancient Irish (Hiberni) recognised in their 'Annals of the Four Masters' document, and that name Alba (Scotland) was related to the oldest and most ancient name of the island of Great Britain - Albion.
Exactly. I just read some ridiculous comment about how there is a Finnish connection...after years of researching the Picts...and earlier people of these lands...not once have I ever heard of this supposed Finnish connection. Far be it for me to say they're wrong, though but seems a little over the top
@ScarlettBoudicca You seem to be too hung up on that label/term 'Pict', the word only started to be used on record to describe the early Scots/people of Scotland from the year 297, it was first used by the Roman writer Eumenius when he wrote a congratulatory letter to Tacitus that year. Today Scottish academia involved in the field holds that the term is little more than a 'chronological' identity of the Scots, meaning that it describes the people of Scotland who lived in a 'certain period' of time, and that time extends from as early as the bronze age to as late as the early medieval age, just like the terms 'Edwardian', 'Elizabethan' and 'Georgian' are used to describe medieval age English people who lived in a certain period of England's history as well, and the term 'Victorian' to refer to all British people as a whole (Scots included) who were born before the year 1901.
As for the term 'Celtic', again, this is another label some people get too hung up on, the term was first invented by the English linguist Edward Lhuyd in the 18th century to group old British forms of language together, such as Cumbric and Cornish, it was then later expanded to include historical continental European languages, such as those of Gaul (proto-France) and even Iberia (proto-Spain). None of these nations ever historically identified with the term, it was a foreign word put on them by other people (this has been done before all too often). Edward Lhuyd merely took the old Greco form of the word 'Keltoi' - which was just a Greeks word for a non-Greek foreigner which applied to anyone who was not Greek - including most of Europe, some of Asia and even parts of Africa that were known to the ancient Greek empire at the time, and then he Anglicised it to 'Celtic' and then gave it an entirely new definition (for linguistic purposes only).
I was introduced to the Picts by the Pink Floyd "musical" piece " Several species of small animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a Pict" I was curious as to what a "Pict" was so I looked into it and discovered a fascinating history of the British Isles and the people there. I had never heard of these people before.
I have that set as my ringtone!! You can bet I get some crazy looks when my phone goes off.
My grandmother's maiden name was MacLaren, wish I still had some of those tartans and things .
In kindergarten I had an assignment to bring in a list of funny sounding words, I brought a list in Gaelic, everybody thought I made them up.
I like that but several species is kinda long, you must have used the speaking part?@@petevenuti7355
@@petevenuti7355 Haha! Gaelic words are something else, aren't they! Rarely does it sound like it looks. I hike regularly here in Scotland . Lowland hill and river names are fine but usually we hike farther north (in the Trossachs mainly) and we I'm sure we mangle those names something terrible! Occasionally I will look up the correct pronunciation online. I can naturally roll my 'R's and get 'ch' correct as in 'loch' [as opposed to 'lock' which is something totally different!] but apart from that it's take a best stab at it! Atb...Terry
@@TerryMcGearyScotland my girlfriend keep telling me to make that ____ sound (she would make some noise that's supposed to be a rolling r but ... Not ) trying to get me to pronounce a few things like that, and I'd pretend not to know what she's taking about so she keeps making silly sounds...
I'll never have a real accent like my grandma, but sometimes I just sound like it ... just happens.
Because they were black people that's why you never here about them
My brother just saw an article about two sets of bones that were discovered in the late 1800’s, Gen Scot 24 and Gen Scot 26. Two related men that date back to the Neolithic Age and are DNA matched to my brother’s and Dad’s DNA tests. They also matched Kit Carson, Davy Crockett and Chuck Norris. They date to 6,000 years ago, not just 300 CE to 900CE. But we also show Pict and Dal Riata. (sp?). So when and where did the men come from? They were discovered within 100 miles of Glen Coe , near Argyle etc. our history puts our men in Glen Coe during the Massacre, along side the Mac Donald’s but in the Glen before the Mac Donald’s, related to the first Chiefs of the area.
@@davesmith3023we all came from the same people if we go back far enough tbh
@@lyssanch3096 Out of Africa.
This DNA testing brings up interesting stuff it seems. I'm tempted to give it a try. I would keep my chromosomes crossed to have something unusual discovered in my genome!
Your diction and delivery is amazing spanning biological, anthropological, and genetic terms and concepts. A polymath you are!
Appart from Gaelic in Scotland is pronounced Gah leek and Alba is Ala Pah
Clearly bird-brained.
@@sheikowi and keeps the women away and vampire... Gaelic, most of the population cant even read it.
@@wor53lg50I'll put my hand up to that! Neither of my parents or grandparents (at least) knew Gaelic , we're too far south. It does seem odd to me that our railway station signs down here are in English and Gaelic . I think it's for the tourists 🙂No harm in it though if it helps keep the ancient language alive.
@@Albanach-je1nk But, he's speaking English, in which case the proper pronunciations are gay-lick or gal-ick, and al-bah or ahl-bah.
Glad to see some new content good to hear you. How are Mrs. Barksdale and family doing i hope well?
He's an ethnic Yankee, of the native Yank Doodle tribes of North America.
@RR-pe5or yeah us yanks are mostly Scottish, English ancestry with some swede/Norse mixed in. My own family from Devon, circa 1620s, and the Bennetts from north of the English/Scottish border. Of course like most Yankees, there's some other bloodlines but our major ancestry England 🇬🇧. Yankee by birth, but the British isles winning out. Sorry, you can't get rid of us that easily. 😂😂😂😂
@70stunes71 What do you mean by 'British isles winning out'? In fairness we actually got rid of you people a long time ago, your people have changed a lot since 1492, as have our stock population/people, or to be more specific, we got rid of each other following the Treaty of Ghent following the great war of 1812, however it's more the Yankees of the Yank Doodle tribes of North America who still try to attach themselves onto us rather than the other way, it's largely a one-way latch on complex as many from the British nations just simply don't and can't identify with Americanisms and Americanised things, in some ways we even have more association with our Commonwealth allies as we have a unique history with them that doesn't apply to Americans and therefore would be as foreign to Americans as many of their customs are to us, and even Americans don't and can't identify with us from a modern context, only in historical things and contexts, it's a strange contradiction all around, many Yanks still seem to live as though they are trapped in a 1600s timewarp, to them as it's as though all of the worlds history only started then and that the 17th century never really ended, we see this in many of the extremely outdated stereotypes the ethnic Yank peoples still have about us and our nations.
Also it's a bit selective don't you think? To only focus on learning of ancestors who were not themselves Yanks when the vast majority of your most immediate and most relatable ancestors were also themselves Yanks? Why is it this attitude is endemic to America? No other nation seems to do this, it would be so easy to invade and conquer your nation again simply via psychological 'divide and conquer' tactics, which suggests your nation has a very weak national identity. A people are forged by their nation in so many ways than you realise, Americans too are very different to us in ways you don't seem to be aware of, why do you think that is? Is self-deracination really a price worth paying to be viewed this way in the efforts of attempting to foster connection to us when it involves the subtle undermining and gradual internal destruction of your own nation and its people?
Oh my god, I always wondered about the Picts. I heard of them from a variety of sources but I was never sure if they were even real, to be honest. So glad I found this video
They are real for sure colleens.My real surname is Pictish from Perthshire .Pitkeathly, place names beginning with Pit are Pictish.
@colleen alive and well. See the genetic maps of the Isles
So glad to find this! Always wanted to know more about the Picts.
It's fascinating stuff but I have huge difficulty absorbing it all. It's time we had a Netflix series based on it! 🙂
Well you need to know it ain't true, we ain't from Ukraine the picts were the britions, who went up north when the romans came. There was a study to debunk the picts from Ukraine.
Recently discovered is that MtDna Haplogroup X is prevalent in Orkney Islands. There’s also a high percentage of Haplogroup X among the Druze, and that is very interesting.
that *is* interesting. and reading on it, looks like it is prevalent among north american indian nation folks as well? wild.
I also have Haplogroup X 😉 Have you heard of Hagoth?
always a wonder, the various genetics of people who lived relatively close to each other. the british isles are fascinating with influences from Scandinavia and europe.
You also need to take into consideration the Scottish diaspora. People currently living in Scotland may not be the same people because of the thousands that were removed during the Clearances. I have aDNA matches to Scotland but also many more to the USA, Australia and Canada. Both of my grandmothers have Scottish ancestry both back to the 1700s.
So, I was born in Scotland to Scottish parents that both have names that come from clans etc. My 23 and me was interesting to say the least. 95% Scottish/Irish (high but expected) 3% sub saharan african... OK we all started there etc, then the curve ball 2% unidentified... Did some research, that normally means they have never had a sample with my dna to study good enough to determine the origin. Pretty cool considering the size of their database.
This is great. 😊 I'm mostly western continental european but get pictish samples, and I lived in Nova Scotia, Canada as a teenager, for me one of the best cultures and places to live in. I should go to Scotland
It is utter garbage.
Fascinating.......but I will need to watch it again to fully comprehend!!
There was never a people that called themselves Picts in Scotland. Picti was the name the Romans gave the tattooed people they saw there. They were probably Gaels, Celts of some type/types going by artifacts left behind. They warred with and were invaded and assimilated by people from all around them. The Romans penetrated far deeper into Scotland than is generally thought, it is interesting to read about this. Various Scandinavians ruled and populated large parts, the Irish came and stayed, the tattoos went out of fashion or those that once wore them died out, all of this before 1066. There were little or no records kept of what happened there for centuries. The oldest histories were often written centuries later than the events they purport to document and what was written was usually little better than myths.
Actually, very interesting theory. In fact, I like it. But who populated Scotland when the Romans came? It were mainly Britons, because Gaels migrated into Scotland in 4 AD, before that there were pre-Celtic and Celtic (Brythonic) People. The mix of this people named Picts. And also, many manuscripts left about Picts. And many of them are calling Picts the true lords of British Isles.
So, your theory is actually wrong. But I like it.
yes, the Venerable Bede is not a source. i don't know why anyone still bothers to refer to him.
@betenoireindustries Venerable Bede is a useful source, as his 'Ecclesiastical History...' was written in 793 AD/CE when the Pictish people were still known as such. If nothing else, I find his statement about the existing languages in Britain very interesting. Despite many place names in Pictland being clearly P-Celtic and so, linked to the Welsh, Cornish, etc. Bede recognises the Pictish language as being different from that of the Britons.
Gaels? Picts were brythonic speaking tribes ,Gaelic came way after as invaders
The name may also come from the word Pechts, meaning ancestors.
Great video…. I’m fascinated with the historical evolution for inhabitation of the British Isles (England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland). The terrain of this region is not very inviting for settling, so the different peoples who decided to migrate to either of these islands is intriguing. The reason why this happened is not very obvious, but living on the continent of Europe must have been a very difficult struggle for survival. The history of humanity is based upon this same struggle. Survival of the fittest is the core of human survival and our history. So to be pushed to the last point of European land is an interesting situation to encounter. What a group of people’s would do on the mainland is not the same as what their reactions would be when they are pushed to the end of their options for land to flee to. England became such a broader ‘melting pot’ when compared to Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. I’m guessing that it is that way because of closer proximity to the mainland and a less defensible terrain (but I am only speculating). Thank you for posting this video
Survival of the fittest is a myth and a lie more popular than anything Darwin ever said. Have you ever been to Europe, let alone Scotland? Not very inviting? It's practically a paradise, rich in everything people could ever want and need.
Your speculations are poorly formed, based as they are on ignorance and misinformation. There's a good reason that you're speaking English right now, and that's in part down to the very nature of the British Isles and the peoples who thrived there.
@StevieMoore68 What does he get wrong?
Well, seen from the Norwegian " vikings ", Britain was not to be pushed to the corner of the continent but rather a heavenly land for crops and improving quality of life x)
All very informative, I'm sure, but anyone who hasn't had college-level classes in genetics will be put to sleep by this video.
Haha I micro-sleeped a few times, but the ghosts of my ancestors kept tapping me on the shoulder!
In a nutshell the Picts were another Celtic tribe.
At my quick glance, which means I might be wrong, it seems that the Picts might be a more pure Celtic tribe. Meaning that they were lacking or having less pre-indoeuropean "local" women.
If you want to oversimplify it sure. People like to categorize everything.
I believe they were Celtic as they were La Tene. Though I think they were multiple tribes. The word walhaz as used by Germani to describe Romans has been also claimed to be used to describe Celts but the only independent Celts would be Picts and Irish and the term afaik was never used for them. It was used for the Celtic speaking Britons of course, but they happily embraced Roman culture and claimed Roman ancestry.
Wonderful work by the authors of this video , bravo !
URQHART , in my humble opinion , is a pre Indoeuropean root that derives from URARTE , between water or island in many ancient languages , including Basque . The castle of Urqhart was sorrounded by water almost entirely . It is considered the Pictish capital . Roots like URE , IBAR , ABAR , ARA are common in many ancient languages around the world , Basque included , as they are common in Scotland .
As you said...dense!! Thank you for this highly researched video. Loved it.
Dense meaning thick.
... and it was.
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It was a very difficult video. Truly a lot of specialized language.
honestly i think its a case of Academese. the writing here is too flowery for me to follow comfortably. i have it playing in the background and just heard the phrase "finescale relatedness"... you're not alone :')
Interesting that Scandinavian type DNA found from before the early medieval period. One possible explaination may be that this DNA came from the early Bronze Age Beaker Folk (Corded Ware/Single Grave ?) immigrants who lived in Southern Scandinavia, north/West Germany and the Low countries. Great Video, I look forward to your next one.
This Channel is So Wrong, you more so... We know exactly were the Viking DNA From, we know all this History, it's all known, and it was the Scoti that came from Scythia, if you Read the Most Important Historical Document out of Scotland you would know this, the Declaration of Arbroath! My Ancestor Signed It! It's Called a Pedigree! The Chief of Ross the Earl of Ross was 4th to Seal it! FYI the Majority of Ross' are Scottish, and Related by way of the 4th Earl of Ross on! Name once Protected by Law! I am a Scoti, a Scytian!!! We Crushed the Picts, go watch someone that actually knows History Unlike this Channel!
You need to do much more research. You need to look beyond mythology/legends based upon unreliable documents that have been discredited by modern DNA analyses and archaeology. If you have DNA evidence that the Scots came from Sythia and that the Picts were "crushed" by the Scots (does this mean made extinct) then lets see your proof/links.@@randyross5630
@@randyross5630 Scandinavian DNA existed before the Viking age, and after. The Vikings didn't just appear out of thin air in Scandinavia- nor did they suddenly develop the knowledge of how to build sea going boats. Actually there are quite a few Celtic objects from earlier periods in Scandinavia showing that there were trade links with the British Isles. It isn't all that hard to imagine that seasonal fishing expeditions would soon find the east Scottish coast, do a bit of trade, and soon make a regular thing of it. And where there is regular contact...well humans do what they do.
And the Scythia thing was never more than the kind of early Medieval myth based on a similarity in how the names sound, plus then wanting everything to have a "classical" origin. I mean except for Bede's account, is there anyone who even mentions boatloads of Scythians sailing through the Med at what would be the right time? Even a small fleet? Enough really to replace whatever people might have ALREADY been living on the East coast of Scotland to any noticeable degree rather than just intermixing, so that one could claim later that the "Scottish" came from Scythia? I mean I seriously doubt that there was more than a merchant boat or two from the Med, if any at all- and who knows where they may really have been from. Bede just made the sort assumptions typical for the age; Scotti=Scythians. They were curious then, as we are now, of the history and origins of people and places, but didn't have the means to answer it as we do. They put a lot of stock in names and myths, and even then there was "culturally correct" answer.
@@randyross5630 The picts may have been serpent people like your Roths. The map shows them originating from the same water hole as your serpent ancestors.
@@libbyhicks7549I’d go back to taking those meds.
??? My maiden name is Pickens. I looked it up with the help of a Scottish Genealogist. In his books it said Pickens means the Pict people. I traced my family back to Edinburgh 1400’s and the Highlands before that. There are numerous Pickens here in the US. My family was supposed to have come here in about 1720. Brigadier General (Revolutionary War) Andrew Pickens served on the first House of Representatives and cowrote the first American Indian Treaty. His grandson Francis was a Gov of South Carolina during the Civil War. His wife Lucy is on the Confederate dollar bill. There are more relatives of importance in our line. That just names a few. There is a Fort Pickens in Florida and counties named Pickens, etc.
Wow! You have great family history! It's good that you will be able to pass this knowledge on! ❤
Scythians as origin sure seems odd.
Ceasar or one in his campaign of coined the label, it likely means colorful people which matches up with all of Europe’s Celtic people. For centuries prior to Rome, the Celts were actually massive, Scotland across Scandinavia to Rusland through Central Europe perhaps to Sythian people ending at the Mediterranean in Spain and Pre-Rome Etruscans.
The Celtic culture and people were broken by Rome in modern France, “defeating” what they called “Gaul” leading to generations of people being enslaved to become builders, warriors or prostitutes to build, expand and pay for Rome.
The Vatician is no better and the “diaspora” Rome “caused” is simply another issue the 2000 year atrocity, “picts” suffer from.
Welcome to the family!!
All times fault lmao
He lied to you for money. Pickens is Norman French and came to Scotland and England post-Norman conquest. It means someone who makes picks or spikes and is sometimes Pickett or Pike.
@@TrggrWarning scythians are in fact the origin.
Fascinating history that I was not aware of. Thank you for sharing this.
Definitely most informative for those with a greater knowledge of genetics and it’s terminology as well as anthropology.
Ireland,believe it or not, has the best preserved records from that time in all of Europe. The Scots were an Irish Dalradian tribe who conqurerd the Picts at around the same time as the Saxons were attacking England . The Irish Scots gave their name to Scotland.
A famous (later) member of that Dalradian tribe was Columba (Columkille in Ireland) . Columba was expelled from Ireland because he broke "copyright law"...invented in literate Ireland. Columba's pupil Aidan went on to found Lindisfarne. They never tell you about that in Britain, where history is all about the English royals. Hi From Ireland.
P.S. Saint Patrick was the most famous British victim of those Irish raids on Britain which defeated the Picts in Caledonia.
@@petergibson2318the Scots got invade first. We warned the Irish which had time to hide artefacts of history
Shetland and orkneys consider self as norse and British, not scottish
@@lynpip3097 What your DNA says and what your opinion says are two different things.
The Picts certainly changed a bit since the Hyborian Age
You stole my thunder.
Bran Mac Muffin agrees
80 Conq LFG
@@bluebird3281 Bran At Morn seconds that.
Maaaq
Being British English now living in Norway, I can testify that In England there is a greater variety of face types than there is in Norway. Just looking at the faces it seems clear that when the Germanic English invaded they defeated armed resistance but did not kill every Briton. Though they were apart in culture and blood a human being is valuable as a farm worker, servant, slave or ally. In time while the English dominated there would naturally be genetic intermingling locally. They were all though what we now see as distinctly European. In no way Middle-Eastern, African or Asian.
Scotch is whisky ,scotsirish are known in uk as UlsterScots
The way vikings emigrated was to marry the native population male and female and that's how viking DNA got into the population that they moved into peacefully by breeding with the locals . That's why in the Highlands and Isles there is a higher percentage of viking DNA in the population .
A fascinating topic. The program, obviously directed to a college genetics class audience, could use a translation of all the genetics terminology to make it accessible to the general audience.
Who were those who built the standing stones in Scotland? About 3000 years before the Picts mentioned in the video. They were probably the same people, but maybe not.
"Who were those who built the standing stones in Scotland? About 3000 years before the Picts mentioned in the video. They were probably the same people, but maybe not."
They weren't built by Celtic people, who originate from the Hallstatt culture. Since by recent research they might be actually far older that previously thought, it becomes harder to say. Let's say they were built either by the Tuatha Dé Danann or the Fomorians :) If you don't take those stories about them as accurate.
@@mmestaritribe of Dan…… of course, we used them to commune with interdenensional beings
Im from the north east of Scotland, the Pict or rather Cruithnich heartlands. Our place names are a mixture of Gaelic and Cruithnich, which could be close to Welsh. Myself and a group of friends did DNA tests on behalf of American clan societies, the results for all of us were the same, 2 ingredients, Celtic and Finnish. Finnish could be confused with Estonian or Sapmi. Don't ask me the details because I'm not up to speed with DNA. We were all predominately Celtic, I was 1/3rd Finnish. Our typical appearance is very fair skin and dark hair. When I have bene to Ireland, noted similar appearance. In England I notice fair hair, but darker skin is more common. Orcadians I have met are blond
so where does the scottish red hair come from?
Have you ever looked in to Scotland’s Hidden Sacred Past? bestselling author Freddy Silva examines the Neolithic culture, Gaelic language and sacred traditions of the Scottish Isles and finds a trail of evidence leading to the Armenian Highlands.
@@MsVanorak my best guess is evolution. Apparently Scotland is one of the most cloud covered countries. It’s also just as common with the Irish, who are also very cloud covered.
Etymology of place names tells us a lot.
Aber-Inver distribution.
All the best, from the Pictish Kingdom of Fib (Venicone)
I would think this study is a bit more precise in the DNA analysis and data usage than those that are commercially available to ordinary people and groups. In other words how any of these companies might break down a DNA sample geographically, will not only vary from company to company based on whatever statistics they're using ATM, but will also vary over time. IDK if they give you all the scientific probabilities for each data point (like why they concluded your DNA profile was part Finnish and what the probability of that was compared to something else).
Because if you think about it, it doesn't sound very likely without some known explanation of WHY there would be so much Finnish DNA around Eastern Scotland. Norwegians and Danes went west, but Swedes and any Finns who might have gone with them in real numbers went east. So it is odd. Further consider, that these analysis are done most likely by a computer that just looks for the closest typical regional match in their data. If the programming has a tendency to match a certain kind of Scandinavian DNA as "Finnish" regardless of nuances, then that's what you'll get.
You correctly used the term 'The British and Irish Isles' in this video which is both accurate in description and appreciated.
Not true. Britain is the term given by the romans to the southern half of england. A lie is a lie, no matter how oft repeated.
@@GlynchbrookBritain is a Celtic name
Likely because he is an American and knows how insulting the term is to us Celts.
@@CollieJennhow is britian insulting to the celts, as the sfottish and Welsh were all britions.
A very dense, thorough, & scholarly account which merits further viewing. I'll certainly watch this again, probably more than once, ignoring the Hadrian's Wall nonsense.
Excellent! I learned something about the Picts! But also I learned why the Northeasteners and Cumbrians differ greatly from the Yorkshire people.
I like how our narrator turned Argyll into Our Gael .
regurgitated brains type narraterd
I thought the same
In Irish:
Oirr (pronounced Ear) = East
Oirr Gael = East Gaels
@@PaulConroy63Interesting, I have always seen it written as Earra Gaidheal and was told it meant Coast of the Gael.
Unfortunately, I am not a Gaelic speaker though. I will learn though. I picked up fluent Spanish in a year so hopefully I have the same aptitude in Gaelic.
My brother sent in a dna sample from The Big Y test and was contacted personally by the geneticists to let him know that they identified that he carried a mutant gene known amongst Scottish Highland kings known in the 3rd and 4th century. And the matriarch test identified that our 3rd great grandmother was of pure blooded Viking.
DNA is still just beginning to open up unknowns, especially or genes identifying diseases. (my nephrologist ordered a renal gene study of me and identified "FOUR" genes that caused specific kidney diseases. 4 from my mother, and 1 from both parents. But only one could be scientifically identified how it effects me. DNA and bad genes is still unknown, and out of 20,000 genomes in humans getting it all known is still astronomically impossible. (just my renal study, it took nearly 3 months)
There was also a pretty substantial injection of Flemings in the Renaissance period into the east and somewhat in the north. Again, this was a project to upgrade crafts & commerce, to “add value” to Scotland’s produce like wool.
Introduction of Flemish landowners in the upper Clyde.
@@forbesmeek6304 Also Aberdeenshire and other east-coast areas.
That was hundreds of years later when the Flemish folks arrived
This pulled together some answers for my genealogical research. I had heard rumors about the Scythians in Scotland very early. Now I have to watch it several more times...
a history tidbit I found that might interest this group in 1308 there was a Papal Bull that declared two things, for those of europe to "not go down and worship the horse pictures in the caves:" ( so I guess many DID) and that the Vatican henceforth said they "owned every soul on earth". Factor that in as a student of history. Love your you tube on my Pictish ancestors!
I remember from my English history only that the Picts would dip their arrows in rotting flesh to insure infection of the recipient.
Smart
More burials need to be discovered & excavated in the Pictlands in order to get a sample large enough to draw a lot of conclusions from.
The problem we have is that it's extremely rare to find any human remains from this era in North-East Scotland as the soil in this part of the world is highly acidic.
My and my dad's paternal haplogroup is I2a2a. I just recently read that it is a haplogroup that is found in Scotland and surrounding areas since at least neolithic times. And very well may be associated with the picts.
I doubt it because the pict were black people
@@tommyjohnson6410 So were the Romans, Julius Caesar, Ancient Greeks, Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Achilles, Paris, the Carthaginians, Hannibal Barca, Ancient Egyptians, Ramases II, Indus Valley people, Bactra-Margiana people, Aztecs, Maya, Sioux, Cherokee, Inuits, Incas, Moche, ancient Chinese, Chin Emperor, Khmer, ancient Polynesians, Mongols, Turks, Osman I, Persians, Cyrus the Great, Abraham, Israelites, Moses, David, Sumerians, Akkadians, Sargon the Great, Assyrians, Scythians, Cimmerians, Hittites, Celts, Vercingetorix, Vikings, Rollo, Rurik, Byzantines, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Turner, Constable, Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth, Drake, Hanno the Navigator, Henry the Navigator, Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus, Van Diemen, Cleopatra, Beethoven, Picasso, Cezanne, Bach, Galileo, Newton, Captain Cook, Darwin, Einstein...
Have I missed any?
@@tommyjohnson6410oh yes everyone is black and black is best and history is being rewritten to this effect. If you dont believe this you are racist!
Sounds like you have rare ancient DNA!
@@tommyjohnson6410no, lol. The Picts were very, very white and had a high percentage of red hair.
Excellent doccie and superb narration
The Romans were all over Scotland like a rash - they didn't stop at Hadrians wall - look up Antonine Wall - have a look at OS maps of the Highlands and you'll see roman roads and forts all over the place. They were great sailors and were all over Aberdeenshire too.
Having the Bayeux tapestry as a background doesn't make a lot of sense when discussing Scotland.
How did so many people end up sailing around Scotland without checking it out or landing and ending up at Ireland?
If you assume that a hostile landscape was already inhabited by a people unwilling to give way to immigrants when theres already scarce food and shelter... well Scotland has had a reputation of being difficult to take and hold.
I wondered what was with the East coast avoidance also. As the closer cost to Europe you would have thought they would have landed there rather than sail around to the west coast
Maybe the Irish got them before they got too far inland.
There were far more than five languages. Brythonc had several variations many ogf which have been lost to history. In recent centuries There have been Cornish and Manx as well as Romany and the various Asian languages now common inn the UK The north west of England has had a variety of Celtic which is now rarely spoken anywhere else. At the time of the Picts there were other now enigmatic folk such as the Attecoti.
When it comes to languages in Britain it has largely been a progression of many different dialects that have merged over time and may explain the great variety of accents. The myth of a standard English is a joke. Even today it depends on where you are in the world eg Jamaica; Australia; South Africa or, indeed, North America. Some folk may take on a snobbish attitude but English is a growing language and always has been
The same applies to German: nobody really speaks "Hochdeutsch". Most German speakers speak their local dialects, which can be arranged in families. Italian is very similar. France on the other hand, has worked very hard to get rid of regional variations (not all gone, but certainly much reduced).
And 'Norn.'
The standard variant in a language is a model taken by the state to have a language for administrative purposes. The thing is that it has also been used to commit ethnocide through stigma-propaganda:. The further a variant (or another language) is from the standard, the more likely it was to be targetted for its disappearance through stigmatisation of its speakers, explicit bans on its use in different contexts (schools, church, playgrounds, written language, songs...) and so on.
All the areas invaded by the Romans...
were culturally destroyed....
tradicions and language destroyed....
I'm pleased someone brought up the Attacotti (?). Didn't St Jerome describe them as being from NW Scotland, cannibals and speaking an unknown language.
For my money they could be remnants of the Neoloithic first farmers, practising sky burials and then defleshing the bones before putting them in long barrows, like you find in N Scotland.
Just a thought..... DNA might provide some answers.
Scythians predominantly carry genetic haplogroup R1a which is a relatively rare among Scottish population.
Wondering how we feel about L1335 -> L1065 that was previously seen as Pictish? Does the recent findings of DF49 in Pictish burials mean that L1335 -> L1065 is better suited for the gaels of Dal Riata? When you look at S744 (downstream of L1065) it is extremely concentrated in Argyll and is only found in 2 ancient samples. The ancient samples are both Vikings (Norway and Faroe Islands) so it’s likely that this group of S744 was taken from either Ireland or the west coast of Scotland
Your just showing off . Lol 😆 enjoy your day.
The Earl of Cromartie, in his Treatise on the History of Scotland which he began writing as a P.O.W. during WW2, states the Picts originally came from the Swabian area of the Alps (slopes of southern Germany). The Roman (Tacitus) states the Picts bodies were covered in a blue wode and they had a particular hairstyle referred to as the Swabian knot. Otzi, the man in the ice,at his find was stated as being tattooed and an unusual hairstyle.
I can sum this entire video up in one sentence. People got around.
9:20 This is my exact style of drawing. I've been drawing these in all their variations and more since I was a kid. When I look at it I understand exactly what it is and what the person who did it felt when they did it because I feel exactly why each curve is how it is
Scotland circulates back as long as 12,000 BC evidence of people being here that far back
One of my lineages ( verified by the Owsley Historical Society and "Clan MacAlpine Society") the Lineage of the Kings from Edward III through King Kenneth MacAlpine is known history and this chart on the Kings is taken from Encyclopedia Britannica and from "Clan MacAlpine Society".
About 843 King Kenneth I MacAlpin (my 34th g-grandfather) united the Scots and Picts in the new kingdom of Alba, which comprised a large part of present day Scotland. It is rumored that he married a beautiful Pictish Princess.
From what I have found I believe it is generally accepted that the Picts were Celtic. Pictish language was related to the Brittonic spoken by the Celtic Britons to the south.
You are my cousin (Edw III to MacAlpine and back to King David and far beyond)
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@higherview136 Hello Cousin! 😊 Yes, our family tree is a huge one with many branches! I have the genealogy that goes back to King David and beyond also. Does your lineage include son, Sir Edmund (Plantagenet) de Langley, Duke of York, who married Isabella (Perez) de Castilla - daughter of King Pedro I, King of Castile. I was able to trace the Spanish Kings lineage back to Sancho II Garces d.c.994, king of Pamplona (Navarre). Really interesting.
19:05 “Individuals from Pictland should not be considered a homogeneous genetic group, but instead a complex mixture of contemporary genetic ancestries”
25:07 “Previously suggested that the genetic structure between western and eastern Scotland could be result from the divide between of the kingdoms of Gaelic speaking Dal Raida, in the west, and Picts, in the east, which is seemingly in contradiction with the results presented here. Instead, the present-day genetic structure in Scotland likely results from more complex demographic processes that cannot be reduced to a single model.”
Concerning the origins of these people this one is the most Pictical....
One question I’ve always wondered is, whenever one group moves into a new territory and takes it over, which we can tell from genetics, language, etc., how often are the killing all the people who are there, and how often were they intermarrying? I’ve heard discussion about how when the new Europeans came into a new region, all the males appear to have been killed, leaving only females to breed with the new conquerors, and I’d really love to have more in-depth information on this topic, based on what the genetics tells us
Its prooved it didnt really happen in britain, thats the benefit of being an island, basically the invaders bribed the natives as the logistics was to much off a head ache, the DNA supports this has hardly any roman DNA can be found in indigenous britons Lineage whereas Scandinavian/saxon can, but even this is in a small percentage as the majority of the DNA shows to be native as in celt and original to the land, romans basically came with a army and administration that walled themselves in, it would have been against roman rule to marry a native slave or it would be looked down on, and even when a native slave fell pregnant from their master the infant was usually killed or sacrificed, vikings and saxons did marry and have familys the reason why this DNA shows up more but this was no way genocide or with a simple breeding out, it seemed that both cultures adapted to each other, im guessing mainly because they was so close and likewise in those cultures ways of life and beliefs, also the native chieftains would marry into viking, saxon, nobility and royalties further strengthening ties with the indigenous population as with the danelaws....
It sounds very unlikely that whole replacement was something that happened unless the place was originally inhabited by a very small population. It's not like mass genocide was the norm when a group of people arrived somewhere. Culturally though - that's another story. As with the realization that "the Celts" were not a population or ethnic group, but instead a continent-spanning shared culture between various different tribes and peoples. And later there were the Romans invading the Celtic-speaking Gaul, and now everybody there speaks a Latin-based language - but nobody is proposing that this is because the Romans wiped out the existing population and replaced it with people of Latin-regional origin.
Edit: In reply to the next commenter - I should add "whole sale genocide didn't really start happening until modern firearms were invented". The Romans didn't, Alexander the Great's campaigns didn't, the Persian empire didn't, and, to go to a later time - the Mongols didn't. Lots of bloodshed, but not genocide. The conquered areas didn't involve replacing all natives with Mongols.
@@tohaason TO who,??? to arse what??, to whats happened in maui, TO whats happening in canada, TO those in authority id be keeping 2 eyes on this one..⬆️..
"One question I’ve always wondered is, whenever one group moves into a new territory and takes it over, which we can tell from genetics, language, etc., how often are the killing all the people who are there, and how often were they intermarrying? "
How often is hard to say. But you can see it from what happened to male-genome. What's certainly uncommon is that they exterminate the conquered women too.
@@wor53lg50 Wtf are you trying to say?
Not bad for A.I. But its too hard to track those gene number names. Its totally confusing.
‘Conan’ author Robert E. Howard wrote with great enthusiasm on the peoples he placed , in his works, in ‘the Pictish Wilderness ‘..
Doing my ancestry I found out that I'm a MUTT... scot Irish --- Norwegian (viking age) german an only God knows what else... the bottom line is I'm AMERICAN... My family has lived in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina since the mid 1600s... I love these mountains and I'll never leave...
Most of us are mutts!!
No notice taken of Sinclair's Statistical review re Shetlands and the Picts -the good Bishop said it was well known that they fled to Shetlands and at that time there were only a few people who still spoke more than a few words.
go to Findochty (known as Finechtae - or Finechty) and that area if you want to find a Pictish link. Note the Nechtae part of the name. Related to Nechtan a Pictish name.
Gnome analysis casts new light on the Pixie Problem.
WTH?😊
@@pamelahawn9300 Too much jargon?
I recently discovered a genealogy book in my parents home that was written in the 1970’s about the Dál Riada and the descendants of Alpín Mac Echdach who was the father of Kenneth McAlpín. Kenneth inherited the throne from his father. Later Kenneth conquered the Picts and is widely considered to the the traditional founder of Scotland. Turns out my family are descendant of Alpín Mac Echdach. We are mentioned by name in the book. Most of us anyway. I wasn’t because I wasn’t born at the time but my two older siblings are mentioned.
FWIW I tested my mum's MTDNA. Matches had only been found within 50 miles of Cleland (her dad's clan) lands in Lanarkshire. She was born in Lanarkshire but moved to Fife, and never really liked to leave Scotland. Her Lanarkshire relations had had a holiday home on the Fife coast for as long as anyone could remember.
Fascinating video enjoyed it. I also appreciated you use the modern geographic term British and Irish Islands instead of the colonial term.
19:35 I'm so happy you found a picture of my Greatx50 grandmother, Lagertha to use in illustrating this research. 😁
There is a mistake at 10.31
Breton diversified from Brythonic in the same manner as Welsh and Cornic. Not from Gaullish
Scots and especially Irish people have something in common with Eastern Europeans and it´s their spirit, it seems so familiar to me, like distant brothers. As a Slav I always liked the Irish and Scottish people. So it makes sense, that some of their ancestors came from the Steppes of Eastern Europe.
My British Mother was always sympathetic towards all aboriginals so when I asked her why she felt this so strongly she responded because she came from the Pick line. 😮❤
The Irish say that the Picts came from Scythia and so does The Declaration of Arbroath , you have to ask why , why would they make that up ??? If you've never looked at the Scythian mummies , you need to , everytime I see pictures of them they look just like the descriptions that we have of the Picts
Because our European ancestors came out of Anatolia 7k years ago and most went west creating the seeds of European culture, but many went north and east becoming tribes like the scythians, Alan's, Tocharians, and the Yuezhi. The Tarim mummies o. The doorstep of China looked, and dressed the same as the celts 5k to the west.
When you have written section headings, you should put them on the screen in addition to reciting them. That means an otherwise isolated sentence is instantly recognized as a section heading.
The Picts may have been familiar with Stonehenge. There are are also the beakers. these two are very old. before history
I'm more interested in where they came from than in where they are now. Certain parts of the genetics can track relationships to parts of Europe
I really appreciate that you repeatedly refer to the group of islands as the British AND IRISH Isles.
Ireland is way too big to be grouped as just a satellite island to Britain and they have their own satellites like the Aran, Skelligs, Mann, etc.
Did you mention Cornwall? I may have missed it, where do they fit?
The Cornish are Cymru Celts and in the same tribal group as the Welsh. Cornish is in the same language family as Welsh. They were Brythonic tribes.
The Scythian connection/background and pathway to the British Iles map seems oddly sketched up? Why not an arrival over todays Russia and Scandinavia by first Russian rivers, then the Baltic Sea, the Danish belts, the Kattegat and finally the Norths Sea? Seems more logical also since Denmark was partially populated from Scythia in their second grand westward expansion/migration as long as 5-7000 years ago. Thank you for a great video.
The word 'Scot' also originates from the word 'Scythia', by way of Scottish - Scot - Y-Scot - Scyt - Scyth - Scyth - Scythae - Scythia etc.
The word Scutten is an ancient Germanic form and the word Skotto is an ancient Greek form.
The historic Asian based Scythian also referred to themselves by the word 'Scoloti'. The Scots largely are an Indo group of people.
Explains a lot - - ua-cam.com/video/fbbSVjVWX-4/v-deo.html
@@RR-pe5or that's interesting to learn, thank you
Some say some scots are from tribe of dan, sythians.
my dna test links me to both at least my true ancestry dna does.@@angeldevilleheavenly4009
A couple of points early into this video.
The Romans didn't invade the British isles, they invaded Britain, no concrete evidence they invaded Ireland.
Secondly, the very term British Isles is an anachronism, it's not really looked kindly upon by most Irish people, including myself. You could simply say Britain and Ireland if you want to keep culturally neutral on it.
...except your old enemy is the United Kingdom, not Great Britain, which name identifies a land-mass, not a political entity. Harsh, but fair imo!
Indeed, the island of Ireland is an Irish Isle.
Romans didn't invade Ireland and tried with Scotland they couldn't take it over was inky England and Wales hun
@@bfc3057 actually they were losing there empire by time they went to Ireland they didn't bother invading it so more druid history in Ireland more knowledge as Romans whipped it out in Britain
@@audreyroche9490Not really. There was nothing of value in Scotland for the Romans so they didn’t bother with it.
So glad sama is still here❤❤❤
The biggest thanks and respect for referring to the Atlantic Archipelago as the British & Irish Isles - the Irish have their own lineage and history and have never regarded ourselves or this Island as British, yet the British still refer to the Archipelago as the British Isles. Centuries of domination and cultural eradication will eventually begin to rewrite history to whatever story you are trying to push down people's neck... Only one is Brittania, the other is Hibernia - Éire and Albion. A better name may be the Celtic Isles but that then excludes the later Germanic arrivals. Some of us just refer to them as "these Isles" for ease
'Celtic' is actually a modern made up term by the English linguist Edward Lhuyd in the 18th century that was used originally only in the linguistic contect to describe old British languages such as Cumbric and Cornish, no nation of the British isles ever identified with it except 19th century Irish nationalists who tried to integrate it and invent Irishness to what it is now. And the oldest name of the Isle of Ireland by Latin scribes was 'Britannia Minor' - a little mini British isle.
Some are old enough to go back to as recent as the early 60s when "Irish" music was in its infancy, the very few Irish bands would come over to the British nations of Scotland and England and do small venues, learning Scottish and English country and folk songs that are now erroneously seen around the world as 'Irish' by the ignorant.
Some of these bands could only play by ear (quite common with most folk bands back in the day). The so called famous 'Irish' tin whistle was adopted from the English bands, and the accordion songs were adopted from the Scottish bands, if you notice the Irish bands ever since are still signing from the same songsheet from the 60s, there's no such thing as 'Celtic music', it's just the Scottish music style adopted by Irish bands.
Here's just one example, Christy Moore was over in Scotland doing a gig when he heard the Scots folk singer Hamish Imlach sing an American rework of a Scottish ballad 'Black is the colour' (you will hear Christy tell the story in one of his gigs in Dublin) and he asked Hamish to teach him it.
Now all of a sudden it's an 'old Irish song', you need to delve further in, Scotland has indirectly had a massive input in Ireland through no fault of its own other than the Scots who settled Ulster in the 3rd century. It was 18th century Irish who modeled their nation using Scotland as a strong influence and to an extent, even England - which is ironic given the point of why they set out to invent Ireland using the Celtic term to distance itself from its earlier Anglo history.
This is how that process developed, see here:
www.knowth.com/celtic.htm
@@RR-pe5or haven't the energy to bother replying or deconstructing each point but I can smell the ethnocentrism from here. So much of this is untrue, selective or irrelevant - my comment must have touched a nerve on your British sensibilities and identity. You should really educate yourself beyond little Britain's perspective, you'll eventually disprove every point you've made here. Best of luck bud
@@bairdgaelach you've just described yourself there bud?, just an observation??, truth always hurts me anall...and im not ashamed to say it..
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Few points:
The Irish created Scotland (Scotia Minor), gave it their culture - and music.
The Romans called Ireland Hibernia.
The Irish-hating Gerald of Wales actually praised Irish music in the AD1100s - said that they were the masters of music.
Captain O'Neills Music of Ireland (1850) contained a thousand tunes of various types.
Everything was done to destroy Irish culture, banning language etc.
The Irish actually have a nation.
@johnpatrick5307 Eh no, you are wrong, so so wrong, I don't even know where to begin in correcting you, but I'll start with the most persistant and common claim which is rooted in the view you hold, and that is the linguistic category of 'Gael', the term 'Gaels' was synonymous with Scots up until the 16th century, not Irish, and though since the 16th century (when it first started to be widely used) that doesn't make the Irish the same people as the Scots, far from it. Plus the Scots only settled Ulster, not the whole island of Ireland, only the Northern parts of Ulster like Antrim and Bangor - which used to be a Picto-era Scottish settlement. The first Scots didn't come to Ulster until the 3rd century, that's why Claudius Ptolemny's map after the year 140 AD (the 2nd century) has no mention of them there, and this map is the oldest map of Ireland in existence.
There's no etymological relation to the words of 'Scottish' and 'Irish' in any language. They both have their own origins, characteristic exclusive letters and unique placements, for example;
Scottish - Scot - Y-Scot - Scyt - Scyth - Scyth - Scythae - Scythia.
The word Scutten is an ancient Germanic form and the word Skotto is an ancient Greek form. The historic Asian based Scythian also referred to themselves by the word 'Scoloti'. The Scots largely are an Indo group of people.
While the Irish are Southern and the word etymology again indicates unrelated origins, i.e., Irish - Hiberni - Iverni - Ierne - Iberni - Iberia - Hyberia - Iber - Eber - Erui - Eruigena etc.
No one knows exactly where John Scotus was born, some now retrospectively claim he was born in Ireland, but again, this is 'retrospectively' - in the sense Ireland went through two phases of completely re-inventing itself, the 16th century and the 19th century, plus his actual full name was 'John Scotus Eriugena' - the Eriugena name relates to Ireland (as you can see by the etymology of the word), not Scotland, so if 'Scot' meant 'Irish' then he would not also have the name of 'Eruigena' to indicate Irishness as seperate from Scottishness.
And he did have both because he would have been another historic figure who identified as a Scot who settled Ireland but would then retrospectively be later rubber stamped as 'Irish' by Irish nationalists who claimed him as one of their countrymen.
For example John Duns Scotus was born in Scotland, and he was named in the same fashion as John Scotus Eruigena, but he was clearly born in Scotland (this is never disputed) and he has no name that etymologically relates to anything Irish in any form, whether Hiberni, Erui or Ierne etc.