I love listening to someone whose passion for history can be heard in their voice. I could listen to these for hours and in fact do so. They are great for me to listen to while packing boxes at work.
I like to have them on while puttering in the house. Sometimes I sit down and watch, sometimes I glance over and watch scenes of specific interest. Makes me feel closer to Britain again too. : )
Absolutely! Listening to Professor Alice Roberts is never dull, always thoroughly engaging. Like Sir Tony Robinson she could make a programme of the history of toothbrush manufacturing exciting.
WHAT MUSTN'T BE FORGOTTEN, SHE ISN'T JUST A GREAT PRESENTER, SHE ACTUALLY KNOWS WHAT SHE TALKING ABOUT, SHE HAS TRAVELED THE WORLD, FILMING GREAT DISCOVERIES. AND IS CURRENT PROFESSOR, OF BIRMIGHAM UNIVERSITY, UK.
I'm 70, my wife and I are close, we sometimes talk about when one of us kicks the bucket...I hope I'm first, she said the same thing. You have my sympathy sir....🌷...
I love the fascination on professor Roberts' face when she sees the discoveries. It makes me smile. I love when people have an appreciation for the tidbit clues of our deep past.
Another fascinating episode fronted by the mesmeric Alice Roberts, now Prof. Alice Roberts, and with whom I have had the singular pleasure of meeting at several of her ' live ' events around Oxford in recent years. The stone, ' Flint ' featured in the first part of this episode, for those who have never handled it, is a wonderful experience. I have, on my bookshelves several ' knapped ' specimens, their edges as sharp today as when I first created them, providing clear evidence at just how useful, and game changing the discovery of this extraordinary stone must have been to those early inhabitants. Marvelous episode, and thank you for uploading it :)
ONE OF THE EARLIEST AN MAGICAL EXPEIENCES MUST HAVE BEEN. SEEING THEIR OWN REFLECTION IN A STILL, WATER POND. HOW DID THEY GET THERE HEAD AROUND THAT ?
I might argue that the meadowsweet placed in the grave may have been dried. Meadowsweet is traditionally used to treat pain, especially arthritis. It may have been included as grave goods for the occupant to treat themselves in the afterlife. They may not necessarily have died in the summer for Meadowsweet to have been in the grave. It could have been gathered and stored for future use.
We would really benefit as a species if more of our educators were as excited, dynamic, curious and interesting as Prof Roberts. Eminently watchable, again and again.
Alice. Thank you for another wonderful briefing. The part of your story about the shipwreck off the Devon coast, with its tin ingots, reminds me of stories I was told as I walked on a farm on the Devon/Cornwall border, along what was called the highway the Phoenicians used to transport tin from Cornwall back home, using ships anchored off the coast of Devon. The locals call it the "Phoenician M5". Approximately which river mouth location is the wreck. Happy to give you the locality of the old road I walked across that farm.
There are roads that span the width of Portugal between the mountains all the way to Spain... Similar roads in America that just stop at the sea.. the roads could be as ancient as the last supercontinent
Love the enthusiasm you have.You make it all so interesting.Walked along the Norfolk coast with my friend who lives there and he talked about how the coast has changed over centuries. This adds another layer to the story.
how can people NOT get excited by this stuff!? that chunk of flint was last held by human hands up to a million years ago.. that's ridiculously cool to me
@@appiehartman1864 believing in a religion when we are smart enough to understand how simple things work like why the sun rises everyday and where babies come from is even more scary
Professor Alice Roberts made this documentary fascinating, informative, and irresistible to watch to the end. Excellent investigative journalism and narration. Thank you.
@@marcbiff2192 Well we have to house all the doctors and dentists coming over on the inflatable rafts who are selflessly leaving all the women and children behind in dangerrous war zones!
Its really great to see science shows with no AI text to speech or gpt scripts or useless graphics, if only YT could tag all videos as pure or AI tainted
I've begun thumbing down all that A.I. crap you are talking about where they keep reintroducing the host and going back to the beginning and repeating. What I find most irritating the people who generating that kind of content don't seem concerned with editing, proofreading, or even checking to see if the images being shown match the narration. They may be talking about a nuclear submarine but they're showing a sailing yacht. It will be the end of UA-cam when that quality of clipbaity crap becomes the norm. Cheers from Cleveland Ohio USA.
I think what most people don’t realize; especially; people outside of the UK; is that’s a complex history of the British Islands. Extremely rich and bursting with the true history of the Celts, Ango-Saxons, Vikings and the Norman Invasion to boot. Thank you for the upload. ❤😎🕺
Dr. Roberts, you are so inspiring! If I had seen these videos back when I was in high school before I went to college (pre-Internet), I would have become an archaeologist! as an American with a strong interest in history, I envy you in Britain for the immense diversity in studying your countries a history, through archaeology! I am subscribed to your channel, and I look forward to each and every video you put out…👍
Aren't there 1.2 million old footprints found in Britain, tentatively ascribed to H. Antecessor? I'm surprised those were not mentioned. But i am always glad anytime the British archeologists focus on anything preceding the Neolithic because they so rarely do! Hopefully these guys can do more about the upper Paleolithic and that incredibly rare Aurignacian, Gravettian and proto-Solutrean stuff in Britain as well.(hint hint hint!)
very enjoyable program of much interest. the Neolithic farmer peoples and their migrations from Anatolia on thru into Europe and then to Britain is a favorite subject of mine. was good to see nick ashton, a pal of Phil Harding I recall from earlier episode of time team
Have a look at Varna Gold on Google. It will blow your mind... It's claimed to be 9,000 years old... Very much older and the amount found and the working is astonishing.
When I was at school we went on a trip to creswell crags I spotted some painting on a wall in a cave I told the guide he said no it's not paint it's natural oxidisation of the rock I said it looks like art to me . Sure enough some years later rock art was discovered in a cave and yet again it was a schoolgirl who was credited with finding it all I can remember is the cave was very high with a small river in it the walkway was on the right as was the art river on left
Fascinating. Meadowsweet is used today as a mild painkiller, usually for arthritic pain, makes me wonder if he was gifted it to take some pain relief into the afterlife! Also I wholeheartedly believe that our ancestors were far more advanced and adept than we give them credit for, it's always frustrated me how dismissive people are, when they survived in ways modern humans wouldn't be able to with the same resources as they had.
its uses extend way beyond that, she totally missed the point of herbal medicine and comparisons with Egyptian burials but she's trained in modern medicine and they ironically tend to blot out herbal medical history and science as a whole
I wonder if the cattle skulls in the Orkney Island building foundation flowed from unwillingness to waste building material. Since there were so many skulls, I wonder if the villagers lost an entire herd, in which case using them to help construct a shelter might commemorate a great loss as well as determination to make lemonade from lemons. From the description of how the wifey figurine was found, it struck me it could be a final farewell to a loved one, perhaps the person who carved it. We'll never know exactly what motivated the villagers to put cow skulls in the foundation and tuck away the figurine, but it is fun to speculate.
Exactly my thoughts as well on the skulls, it strikes me as though the people may have just used them as a building material simply because they had so many.
I came to say the exact same thing in both accounts. It’s possible a family member died, perhaps a child. Mayne even figurines they made for said children. That’s what stood out to me as well.
There are other archeological sites where human remains were found beneath the walls and foundations of the remains of pre-historic buildings in England. Typically the remains are of very young children. Even the Romans placed decapitated young children beneath the walls at the corners of buildings with stone walls and foundations.
The English and French admire its cave paintings. In Brazil, this very old paintings were made in the open, some of them are true cathedrals. In the distant past, life in the heat was, as it still is, different from life in the cold. This is obvious, but it also suggests that on every continent the primates that evolved until our species dominated the planet had a characteristic that we share: delicate, thin, almost hairless skin (which forced the earliest inhabitants of France and England to manufacture clothes and hide from the winter cold in caves). A delicate, thin, hairless skin is essential in a hot climate, but in the Northern Hemisphere (especially during ice ages) it would make more sense for hominids to develop thick skin completely covered in hair, thus naturally insulating them from the cold. If Europeans had inherited this peculiar characteristic, the world panorama would be very different, as they would not have been able to colonize hot regions from the 16th century onwards and travelers from hot regions would write Travel Literature reporting the existence of talking furry Apes in France, England, Norway, etc... A small genetic detail would change everything. 😂😂😂😂
All great apes live in hot and humid tropical and equatorial regions and all have fur. Why humans have little hair on the body is not really known. The main hypothesis is to sweat easier.
@@BlaBla-pf8mf Well remembered. The thick hairy skin of monkeys from warm regions would be more suitable in cold countries where there are no monkeys, with the exception of Japan. There are monkeys there that can withstand the rigors of winter snowfall, but the Japanese people also have thin, delicate and hairless skin. And like Europeans, they don't need to sweat in winter.
They had no need to evolve/adapt a thick fur coat because they had the furs of their prey. Our loss of hair and adaptation of sweat glands are/were to valuable to get rid of when we had the ability to adapt with tools and ingenuity.
The humanoids of 900,000 years ago might have been much more robust than we are, able to endure much colder temperatures without clothes or even fires. We prevailed in Europe after the last ice age.
I just watched a UA-camr who visited a tribe deep in the jungle. They spend their whole lives mostly naked. They hunt in the buff. After the Caucasian host was sunburned and beat up from running through the forest he commented on how the tribe was completely unscathed. They said since they were naked most of the time their skin is thicker. Evolution is neat
I'm an American (USA) with the Sweetest Crush on Professor Roberts, who like Bethany Hughes, are simply Luvely to listen to and watch..!! NEVER tire of either amazing woman..!! Will watch their wonderful work again and again and again....
It makes sense that ancient people travelled around, they had no shops to go to so following animal migration and finding different food sources would have been a matter of survival. Meeting others might have been a priority to satisfy carnal desires, safety and companionship - there being fewer humans on the planet than today - Brilliant content.
I find it fascinating that every expert and archeologist they interview seem to convey information about their discoveries so well and naturally. They seem to be experts at speaking on camera.
The 5,000 year old Wifey effigy is very thought provoking. What incredible survival stresses these prehistoric peoples were under. The enormous pressures of survival and loss of life in children and across the life span. How did illness and loss of children effect their perception of the world and how could they appease nature in hopes to survive day to day and hope to avoid the tragic loss of their children. Surely they would do almost anything to improve their lot in life. In times of starvation and greatest stress, they would have endured near death weakness and eventual hallucination. Possibly the source of the earliest religions. Much to ponder.
How amazing and wonderful to find meadowsweet flower heads preserved - and recovered - in the grave, even after the person’s bones had long since demineralized and precipitated as powder. It illustrates the exacting care taken by the archeologists during excavations to recognize and preserve even the tiniest and most fragile evidence found at the site .🏆
Wonderful video but IMHO, if the buildings were purposely filled, there was a survival reason attached, like the people planned on returning and filling the buildings could help ensure their structural integrity. I think the ancient people were moving out because they had to survive and there wasn't the luxury for ceremony. Although the figurine could have been a spirit offering, perhaps to watch over and keep the place until the occupants could return. I could be wrong. Just a thought.
After initially being quite disparaging regarding a UA-cam channel actually open to our ancestors being present a million years > finally 👏 The based yet open minded archaeology is a breath of fresh air (old air as it was) there is a chance we will all find out where we came from originally. Have to be honest as a Roman Catholic with a belief and love for my life. There is a lot more to be found. Much love and happiness to all.
@@finalflowerchild Sometimes to flee from other, rivalling tribes. Or because the grass elsewhere looked greener. Where cattle can eat and live, so can humans. And sometimes there's the option of fishing.
@@christav7021 An answer by someone in Quora says this: "GT is a UNESCO World Heritage site. That means that the focus should be on preservation, not exploration as such since - as others have commented - excavation is destructive even if we use the currently best available methods and protocols. Unless they are immediately threatened by natural or human agents, leaving sites in the ground as they are is usually the best option. If a site is excavated for research purposes, you need to have a very clear idea and program in place of what question you're asking and how your excavations will address them. Another point is that the site has been under more or less continuous excavation since 1994. There are hundreds of thousands of artefacts and other finds (animal bones, botanical remains etc.) that still await analysis. Laypeople don't generally understand that 1 day spent excavating in the field translates to many days spent in the laboratory analysing the finds, drawing the plans, analysing the stratigraphy, cataloguing etc etc. There's plenty of material from GT and many other sites that still needs to be analysed without having to do new excavations. The idea that a site should be excavated completely is unfeasbale in many ways. At this point, I am not sure we would learn major new things about GT that we don't already know or stand to learn from the excavated artefacts and finds. It's currently way more interesting to consider the relationship of GT to other similar sites in the surrounding area, like Karahan Tepe."
On my mom's side, my ancestors came from Banffshire and Perthshire, Scotland with a little from Armauge County, Ireland. According to my computer, the Scottish men were also in Ireland. My family's last names are Thain, Cochran, and Dick. My several times Great, Grandpa Major General Sir Robert Henry Dick was killed in Punjab, India in the first Sikh war. I have been working on my family history for several years,[ I am 86 now as of January 3rd, 2023], and because my health is good have years to go! On my Dad's side, we are from Novastifta, Slovenia. What a combination!👵🐈⬛🐈⬛ me, Teo, andTwoTwo my kitties
Quite interesting, young sir. Hope you have many more years of happiness. I’m 47 and most of my family from Scotland lives well into their 90s. My father’s side, paternal ancestors come from Perthshire, and Dumbarton back in the1600s. My mother is Predominantly Native American with Mediterranean admixture.
I do love the overall knowledge and curiousity of Dr. Roberts. You have to know a few things before you can ask the right questions. And every good educator is only good because their enthusiastic curiousity is passed onto the student(or listener).
no joke, i have watched a wall of rain coming towards me and stop 10 foot away for a few minutes. my friends and i literally did the "jump in rain, jump out of rain" - unfortunately the best phone around at the time was the nokia 3310, and i weren't running home to get my dad's beast of a camera
@@catsfather they really were, just out of school i was working as a laborer on a 25 story hotel build and one of the builders dropped one from top of the scaffolding. the phone had a small scuff on the corner and still worked perfectly
The Time Team should ask Dr. Alice Roberts to join them. I found out she started on the original Time Team, but they need her now. Please, Time Team, make it happen. Please. Cheers
"" I found out she started on the original Time Team"" I never knew this but it's interesting information, maybe that's where she learned the knack of communicating with the public ?
It's not a coincidence they selected her to be the narrator/presentor and use a narration style resembling that if Sir Richard Attenborough, added with a constant smile on her face, selling the content to the audience. In contrast to the people who do the actual digging, and who exhibit more natural behaviour and facial expression. It's professional tv making and scripting.
I'd guess the best Neolithic finds would be where the coastline was at the time, some 300-400 feet deep under the ocean currently. Thanks for your very interesting vid!
I don't think it was that low anymore during the neolithic. 300-400 feet lower was during the height of the last glaciation about 20.000 years ago wasn't it?
@@forestdweller5581 Yeah you're right, sorry. I just looked it up & the Younger Dryas is way older than the neolithic period. It was pre-Younger Dryas the ocean levels were 200-400 feet lower for many millennia.
@@SmokeyTreats Even during the Younger Dryas sea level was already somewhat lower compared to the LGM. And keep in mind; The Younger Dryas was not a global thing but mainly a North Atlantic phenomenon affecting Greenland and Europe mostly.
Jean Luc Picard would be highly envious of those archeologists discovering evidence of early humans in what is now Britian so many hundreds of thousands of years ago!
One of the greatest discovery of my lifetime is Terra Preta a Ancient man-made soil, consisting mixture of bacteria, charcoal, bones, broken pottery, compost, manure it lasts for thousands of years when researcher discovered Amazonian Terra preta it covered a man-made garden twice the size of Great Britain.
It was enjoyable and entertaining as well. I was drawn to the video by it's date in the title of 900,000 BC. Although the Bronze Age finds were fantastic, and add a lot to our understanding of that time, I was really hoping to see more from hundreds of thousands of years ago, as suggested by the title. In terms of paleo-anthropology, 4000 BC is actually quite modern. Nevertheless, it was quite interesting, so I watched all of it.
I really enjoyed this and found it fascinating, and will certainly watch others in this series. Though I was a bit disappointed at the end. The disolving skeleton theory seemed a bit of a leap from a time when there is evidence of sky/animal burials 9 (lots of gnawed bones retrieved from burial mounds) so perhaps the grave had been left open initially? Also that fragile flower heads were preserved when bones disolved..... really? The other speculation that didn't quite ring true is that the flowers were a mark of love and honour for the dead. Perhaps, though meadow sweet is also a powerfully medicinal herb which may have been considered useful on the journey to or through an afterlife, as well as being pungent with antiseptic properties which have long been understood even if the reasons haven't, so would have had practical reasons to add to a grave, especially an open one.
I love how she explains the process in such detail as well as sets each project into context, so interesting. Another Tony Robinson? Great to see she’s come so far since Time Team.
Alice is a celebrated and highly respected Academic in her field. I reckon that's got *nothing* whatsoever to do with Time Team. I love Sir Tony but please don't think for a moment that her professional career depended on a few stints on a TV show.
Just a suggestion to the makers of these documentaries....why not investigate Loughton Camp in Epping Forest, Essex? A dig was done there over 100 years ago and finds were apparently made dating back to Mesolithic times. It's an eerie place with a bit of superstition attached to it (the pond next to it is sometimes known as the Suicide Pool!). The earthworks are much worn away so the site possibly pre-dates the Iron Age.
@TracyD2 There's very little that I could find, but what has recently intrigued me is that the oldest man-made weapon ever found was discovered at Clacton which is not so very far away. I sometimes wonder if this little piece of Essex could be England's oldest area of settlement.
I'm an archaeologist. My focus is prehistoric South Eastern Americans😂 I remember reading an excellent book called the Orkney Inga Saga. My Icelandic friends recommended it. I would love to work on one of these excavations Maybe one day!
Oldest humans, to almost 1 million years bc.... this predates the advent of homo sapiens by 400,000 yrs. Perhaps she is using the term humans much more broadly than specifically of homo sapiens.
Scientists currently recognize some 15 to 20 different species of early humans. The oldest known Homo sapiens remains are from the Omo-Kibish I archaeological site in Ethiopia, which date back to around 233,000-196,000 years ago.
It's kind of hilarious the enormous leaps in logic archaeologists seem to make. They found a little carving of a woman left behind and assume it has some religious or symbolic significance, when it's equally or perhaps more likely that it was placed there by a child or simply forgotten. Imagine archaeologists from the future finding Barbie dolls and calling them household goddesses.
The Westray wifey makes me feel a connection to those people all that time ago facing lifes ups and downs and finally perhaps marking their move from that place. 50 generations living on that site and then a decision to go. My mins is blown.
@@maryodonnell5760 The thing I always try to put in perspective, today, as in all ages, there are far more bars and brothels than churches. We excavate the churches and the monasteries because they were well and stone built. The local pub was two planks over two wooden barrels. Lots of people, lots of business, very little of permanence.
No one comes along and straight up draws a one off picture like that deer for the first time. They must also be drawing on wood, or maybe skins, or at least in the earth.
Luke, archaeomathologist David Arnold here. I would really appreciate having the dimensions of the solid granite chamber that Wilkinson said Herodotus stated the size of. I cannot find a reference to it online and I would like to do some forensic mathematical investigations of those dimensions. Where did you read that?
I love listening to someone whose passion for history can be heard in their voice. I could listen to these for hours and in fact do so. They are great for me to listen to while packing boxes at work.
ua-cam.com/video/dTHxeRq8Df0/v-deo.html&ab_ ...... The Secrets of Stanehedge.
I like to have them on while puttering in the house. Sometimes I sit down and watch, sometimes I glance over and watch scenes of specific interest. Makes me feel closer to Britain again too. : )
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Absolutely! Listening to Professor Alice Roberts is never dull, always thoroughly engaging. Like Sir Tony Robinson she could make a programme of the history of toothbrush manufacturing exciting.
People who pack boxes as a job are hugely instrumental in the forward momentum of life
I love watching documentaries by this presenter, so interesting and she's a brilliant voice over. You can hear the passion in her voice ❤
WHAT MUSTN'T BE FORGOTTEN, SHE ISN'T JUST A GREAT PRESENTER, SHE ACTUALLY KNOWS WHAT SHE TALKING ABOUT, SHE HAS TRAVELED THE WORLD, FILMING GREAT DISCOVERIES. AND IS CURRENT PROFESSOR, OF BIRMIGHAM UNIVERSITY, UK.
My late wife and I used to stroll along that beach at Happisburgh, thanks for bringing back such fond memories.
❤
I feel you, take care. 🕊
I'm 70, my wife and I are close, we sometimes talk about when one of us kicks the bucket...I hope I'm first, she said the same thing. You have my sympathy sir....🌷...
Did U also find long lost Britain
@@BonyFingers1969I shall send U a bucket
Professor Robert’s is a gift to mankind! Her enthusiasm and style are classic!
I could watch Dr. Roberts all day.
@palanthis Me too !! 😍
Same. She's in around 10 of the old Time Team episodes.
Thats known as stalking.
Same but she took out a restraining order against me so can't do that anymore.
@@GhastlyCretin All you need to do is change your user name.
This woman turns my switch on .Her voice ,her beauty,her knowledge. An amazing woman.
I HAVEN'T MISSED A SINGLE TV DOCUMENTARY OF HER, AND, HER BOOKS ARE REALLY GOOD, VERY UNDERSTANDABLE, EVEN TECHNICAL STUFF.
I love the fascination on professor Roberts' face when she sees the discoveries. It makes me smile. I love when people have an appreciation for the tidbit clues of our deep past.
Fascinating. Can listen to this all day long.
Another fascinating episode fronted by the mesmeric Alice Roberts, now Prof. Alice Roberts, and with whom I have had the singular pleasure of meeting at several of her ' live ' events around Oxford in recent years. The stone, ' Flint ' featured in the first part of this episode, for those who have never handled it, is a wonderful experience. I have, on my bookshelves several ' knapped ' specimens, their edges as sharp today as when I first created them, providing clear evidence at just how useful, and game changing the discovery of this extraordinary stone must have been to those early inhabitants.
Marvelous episode, and thank you for uploading it :)
Only for you
@@matimus100Another sculking, lurking, angry db with the vocabulary of a pubic louse. You should be pitied, but not by me.
ONE OF THE EARLIEST AN MAGICAL EXPEIENCES MUST HAVE BEEN. SEEING THEIR OWN REFLECTION IN A STILL, WATER POND. HOW DID THEY GET THERE HEAD AROUND THAT ?
I might argue that the meadowsweet placed in the grave may have been dried. Meadowsweet is traditionally used to treat pain, especially arthritis. It may have been included as grave goods for the occupant to treat themselves in the afterlife. They may not necessarily have died in the summer for Meadowsweet to have been in the grave. It could have been gathered and stored for future use.
I had only read her work before..what a melodic and pleasant speaking voice she has!
We would really benefit as a species if more of our educators were as excited, dynamic, curious and interesting as Prof Roberts. Eminently watchable, again and again.
ua-cam.com/video/dTHxeRq8Df0/v-deo.html&ab_ ..... The Secrets of Stanehenge.
Being beautiful is a major plus too.
@MrDaiseymay, it really is no matter how much it is denied intelligent attractive women are great teachers of whatever they choose.
@@MrDaiseymayWell, it definitely doesn't hurt.
America 🇺🇸 loves Alice Roberts❤
Alice. Thank you for another wonderful briefing. The part of your story about the shipwreck off the Devon coast, with its tin ingots, reminds me of stories I was told as I walked on a farm on the Devon/Cornwall border, along what was called the highway the Phoenicians used to transport tin from Cornwall back home, using ships anchored off the coast of Devon. The locals call it the "Phoenician M5". Approximately which river mouth location is the wreck. Happy to give you the locality of the old road I walked across that farm.
There are roads that span the width of Portugal between the mountains all the way to Spain... Similar roads in America that just stop at the sea.. the roads could be as ancient as the last supercontinent
Love the enthusiasm you have.You make it all so interesting.Walked along the Norfolk coast with my friend who lives there and he talked about how the coast has changed over centuries. This adds another layer to the story.
how can people NOT get excited by this stuff!? that chunk of flint was last held by human hands up to a million years ago.. that's ridiculously cool to me
maybe we are not as high as a kite like you
A million years ago ? I think they are Atheist . Scary .
@@appiehartman1864 believing in a religion when we are smart enough to understand how simple things work like why the sun rises everyday and where babies come from is even more scary
@@matthewbaker2573 Ja ! I am agree with Derek Prince , about a lot of things.
Professor Alice Roberts made this documentary fascinating, informative, and irresistible to watch to the end. Excellent investigative journalism and narration.
Thank you.
These shows are FANTASTIC! MORE! MORE! MORE! Dig up the whole island!!!😂
They will,to build crap housing on it
@@marcbiff2192 Well we have to house all the doctors and dentists coming over on the inflatable rafts who are selflessly leaving all the women and children behind in dangerrous war zones!
Your curiosity is contagious.Explore the world, and keep sharing ❤ 🌎
Wow... you make history exciting and beautiful 😅
Such an exciting episode! I really enjoyed the early history details. Archeology is a wonderful science! Thanks so much for sharing with us!
Its really great to see science shows with no AI text to speech or gpt scripts or useless graphics, if only YT could tag all videos as pure or AI tainted
I've begun thumbing down all that A.I. crap you are talking about where they keep reintroducing the host and going back to the beginning and repeating. What I find most irritating the people who generating that kind of content don't seem concerned with editing, proofreading, or even checking to see if the images being shown match the narration. They may be talking about a nuclear submarine but they're showing a sailing yacht. It will be the end of UA-cam when that quality of clipbaity crap becomes the norm. Cheers from Cleveland Ohio USA.
or the AI just got good enough you don't know the difference 😅
I hate AI narration.
Awesome! Philomena Cunk couldn't have done it better
LOL she does have Cunk vibes.
SHE'S HER SISTER, BUT THEY USUALLY KEEP HER IN THE CELLAR.
I think what most people don’t realize; especially; people outside of the UK; is that’s a complex history of the British Islands. Extremely rich and bursting with the true history of the Celts, Ango-Saxons, Vikings and the Norman Invasion to boot. Thank you for the upload. ❤😎🕺
And way further back than that. Britain has had settlers there for nearly one million years on and off, with early hominins.
@@lyndoncmp5751 🕺😎
And Armenians,the first of the people's to settle in the Southwest.
Dr. Roberts, you are so inspiring! If I had seen these videos back when I was in high school before I went to college (pre-Internet), I would have become an archaeologist! as an American with a strong interest in history, I envy you in Britain for the immense diversity in studying your countries a history, through archaeology! I am subscribed to your channel, and I look forward to each and every video you put out…👍
Very well said. ✌️
I'm digging the heck out of this series!
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What an amazing documentary with no bs or AI Script ❤
Aren't there 1.2 million old footprints found in Britain, tentatively ascribed to H. Antecessor? I'm surprised those were not mentioned. But i am always glad anytime the British archeologists focus on anything preceding the Neolithic because they so rarely do! Hopefully these guys can do more about the upper Paleolithic and that incredibly rare Aurignacian, Gravettian and proto-Solutrean stuff in Britain as well.(hint hint hint!)
very enjoyable program of much interest. the Neolithic farmer peoples and their migrations from Anatolia on thru into Europe and then to Britain is a favorite subject of mine. was good to see nick ashton, a pal of Phil Harding I recall from earlier episode of time team
bs.....another one peddling we are all migrants bs and the first people in the uk were black
Ancient ways, and what were they doing? fascinating to puzzle over and thankfully so elegantly presented here.
What an amazing series of documentaries. Thank you so much for sharing!
The Bronze Age gold is just staggering. It suggests an artisan industry to make those. Thanks Alice.
Have a look at Varna Gold on Google. It will blow your mind... It's claimed to be 9,000 years old... Very much older and the amount found and the working is astonishing.
I don’t care who you are, finding Bronze Age tin around Britain is exciting
Tin brought the Romans to Wales.
Can’t agree more.👍🌏🌍🌎
@@LandonStevens finding Viking hoards or the King's lost treasure even moreso.
I absolutely concur, because it was through the tin found in Britain, that early trade was developed there - tin being used In bronze production.
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Yes, and b4 that?
Great content, excellently presented. Nice work Doc
Dr Alice Robert's voice is music to my ears. A very informative and interesting presentation really.
Great show ❤
I really enjoyed this
Alice Roberts is awesome! I love watching her documentaries!
I LOVE WATCHING HER
it is mind-blowing that our ancestors fought through the ice age and being the reason we are here today. thanks folks.
you didn't understand the content,
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Awesome work. This is a thoroughly enjoyable and well curated presentation of historical finds.❤
When I was at school we went on a trip to creswell crags I spotted some painting on a wall in a cave I told the guide he said no it's not paint it's natural oxidisation of the rock I said it looks like art to me . Sure enough some years later rock art was discovered in a cave and yet again it was a schoolgirl who was credited with finding it all I can remember is the cave was very high with a small river in it the walkway was on the right as was the art river on left
Fascinating! Thanks Prof. Roberts!❤
Fascinating. Meadowsweet is used today as a mild painkiller, usually for arthritic pain, makes me wonder if he was gifted it to take some pain relief into the afterlife! Also I wholeheartedly believe that our ancestors were far more advanced and adept than we give them credit for, it's always frustrated me how dismissive people are, when they survived in ways modern humans wouldn't be able to with the same resources as they had.
I looked up meadowsweet and immediately had this thought also.
It was used until the 17c to strew across the floor of houses to "sweeten" the odours that would arise
its uses extend way beyond that, she totally missed the point of herbal medicine and comparisons with Egyptian burials but she's trained in modern medicine and they ironically tend to blot out herbal medical history and science as a whole
I wonder if the cattle skulls in the Orkney Island building foundation flowed from unwillingness to waste building material. Since there were so many skulls, I wonder if the villagers lost an entire herd, in which case using them to help construct a shelter might commemorate a great loss as well as determination to make lemonade from lemons. From the description of how the wifey figurine was found, it struck me it could be a final farewell to a loved one, perhaps the person who carved it. We'll never know exactly what motivated the villagers to put cow skulls in the foundation and tuck away the figurine, but it is fun to speculate.
Exactly my thoughts as well on the skulls, it strikes me as though the people may have just used them as a building material simply because they had so many.
I came to say the exact same thing in both accounts.
It’s possible a family member died, perhaps a child. Mayne even figurines they made for said children. That’s what stood out to me as well.
There are other archeological sites where human remains were found beneath the walls and foundations of the remains of pre-historic buildings in England. Typically the remains are of very young children. Even the Romans placed decapitated young children beneath the walls at the corners of buildings with stone walls and foundations.
animal sacrifices - probably an area of worship
I love listening to Prof Alice Roberts voice, perfect for this type of documentary. I could listen to her read a dictionary.
The English and French admire its cave paintings. In Brazil, this very old paintings were made in the open, some of them are true cathedrals. In the distant past, life in the heat was, as it still is, different from life in the cold. This is obvious, but it also suggests that on every continent the primates that evolved until our species dominated the planet had a characteristic that we share: delicate, thin, almost hairless skin (which forced the earliest inhabitants of France and England to manufacture clothes and hide from the winter cold in caves). A delicate, thin, hairless skin is essential in a hot climate, but in the Northern Hemisphere (especially during ice ages) it would make more sense for hominids to develop thick skin completely covered in hair, thus naturally insulating them from the cold. If Europeans had inherited this peculiar characteristic, the world panorama would be very different, as they would not have been able to colonize hot regions from the 16th century onwards and travelers from hot regions would write Travel Literature reporting the existence of talking furry Apes in France, England, Norway, etc... A small genetic detail would change everything.
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All great apes live in hot and humid tropical and equatorial regions and all have fur. Why humans have little hair on the body is not really known. The main hypothesis is to sweat easier.
@@BlaBla-pf8mf Well remembered. The thick hairy skin of monkeys from warm regions would be more suitable in cold countries where there are no monkeys, with the exception of Japan. There are monkeys there that can withstand the rigors of winter snowfall, but the Japanese people also have thin, delicate and hairless skin. And like Europeans, they don't need to sweat in winter.
They had no need to evolve/adapt a thick fur coat because they had the furs of their prey. Our loss of hair and adaptation of sweat glands are/were to valuable to get rid of when we had the ability to adapt with tools and ingenuity.
@@BlaBla-pf8mf fleas bro, unlike primates humans die from infectious diseases
the wet european climate would be terrible with a heavy wet fur coat
The humanoids of 900,000 years ago might have been much more robust than we are, able to endure much colder temperatures without clothes or even fires. We prevailed in Europe after the last ice age.
Much hairier?
I just watched a UA-camr who visited a tribe deep in the jungle. They spend their whole lives mostly naked. They hunt in the buff. After the Caucasian host was sunburned and beat up from running through the forest he commented on how the tribe was completely unscathed. They said since they were naked most of the time their skin is thicker. Evolution is neat
@@cristinashields2740 jungles dont freeze
people used to walk up frozen mountains in shirts, modern housing made us into wimps
Might have been???
more please alice could watch all day ???? awsome
I'm an American (USA) with the Sweetest Crush on Professor Roberts, who like Bethany Hughes, are simply Luvely to listen to and watch..!! NEVER tire of either amazing woman..!! Will watch their wonderful work again and again and again....
It makes sense that ancient people travelled around, they had no shops to go to so following animal migration and finding different food sources would have been a matter of survival. Meeting others might have been a priority to satisfy carnal desires, safety and companionship - there being fewer humans on the planet than today - Brilliant content.
Great video, I love your enthusiasm
I find it fascinating that every expert and archeologist they interview seem to convey information about their discoveries so well and naturally. They seem to be experts at speaking on camera.
They aren't the experts. They are the TV personalities. Get it together lol.
42:26 love that expression of down to earth passion and excitement..albeit bleeped out for family viewing.🤣
The 5,000 year old Wifey effigy is very thought provoking. What incredible survival stresses these prehistoric peoples were under. The enormous pressures of survival and loss of life in children and across the life span. How did illness and loss of children effect their perception of the world and how could they appease nature in hopes to survive day to day and hope to avoid the tragic loss of their children. Surely they would do almost anything to improve their lot in life. In times of starvation and greatest stress, they would have endured near death weakness and eventual hallucination. Possibly the source of the earliest religions. Much to ponder.
When life is shit as you describe it, you emigrate. Duh?
no condoms, plenty of new kids bro
@@BP-iz2ltMaybe condoms are central to you, hummm
Fantastic presenter, bringing archeology to life. I watched her on Coast a few years back.
what a great and informative programme - it might present only small clues to our past but in total they are impressive.
Man that was so fun to watch, I have never worked with spray cans either but now I want to because of you. Thank you all for the history being made.
Fantastic . . Thank you Professor 😁👍👍
How amazing and wonderful to find meadowsweet flower heads preserved - and recovered - in the grave, even after the person’s bones had long since demineralized and precipitated as powder. It illustrates the exacting care taken by the archeologists during excavations to recognize and preserve even the tiniest and most fragile evidence found at the site .🏆
Wonderful video but IMHO, if the buildings were purposely filled, there was a survival reason attached, like the people planned on returning and filling the buildings could help ensure their structural integrity. I think the ancient people were moving out because they had to survive and there wasn't the luxury for ceremony. Although the figurine could have been a spirit offering, perhaps to watch over and keep the place until the occupants could return. I could be wrong. Just a thought.
After initially being quite disparaging regarding a UA-cam channel actually open to our ancestors being present a million years > finally 👏
The based yet open minded archaeology is a breath of fresh air (old air as it was) there is a chance we will all find out where we came from originally.
Have to be honest as a Roman Catholic with a belief and love for my life. There is a lot more to be found.
Much love and happiness to all.
Why would people migrate into a colder,harsher climate? It's never made sense to me.
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Sometimes to flee from other, rivalling tribes. Or because the grass elsewhere looked greener. Where cattle can eat and live, so can humans. And sometimes there's the option of fishing.
@@finalflowerchild
Resources and survival
Why have the WEF stopped excavations at a remarkable site in Turkey?
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An answer by someone in Quora says this: "GT is a UNESCO World Heritage site. That means that the focus should be on preservation, not exploration as such since - as others have commented - excavation is destructive even if we use the currently best available methods and protocols. Unless they are immediately threatened by natural or human agents, leaving sites in the ground as they are is usually the best option. If a site is excavated for research purposes, you need to have a very clear idea and program in place of what question you're asking and how your excavations will address them.
Another point is that the site has been under more or less continuous excavation since 1994. There are hundreds of thousands of artefacts and other finds (animal bones, botanical remains etc.) that still await analysis. Laypeople don't generally understand that 1 day spent excavating in the field translates to many days spent in the laboratory analysing the finds, drawing the plans, analysing the stratigraphy, cataloguing etc etc. There's plenty of material from GT and many other sites that still needs to be analysed without having to do new excavations. The idea that a site should be excavated completely is unfeasbale in many ways.
At this point, I am not sure we would learn major new things about GT that we don't already know or stand to learn from the excavated artefacts and finds. It's currently way more interesting to consider the relationship of GT to other similar sites in the surrounding area, like Karahan Tepe."
always wondered why early settlers chose to farm on isles off scotland in such harsh environment when surely the main land would have been easier!
Thanks Alice great finds and history enjoyed this ❤
On my mom's side, my ancestors came from Banffshire and Perthshire, Scotland with a little from Armauge County, Ireland. According to my computer, the Scottish men were also in Ireland. My family's last names are Thain, Cochran, and Dick. My several times Great, Grandpa Major General Sir Robert Henry Dick was killed in Punjab, India in the first Sikh war. I have been working on my family history for several years,[ I am 86 now as of January 3rd, 2023], and because my health is good have years to go! On my Dad's side, we are from Novastifta, Slovenia. What a combination!👵🐈⬛🐈⬛ me, Teo, andTwoTwo my kitties
Quite interesting, young sir. Hope you have many more years of happiness. I’m 47 and most of my family from Scotland lives well into their 90s. My father’s side, paternal ancestors come from Perthshire, and Dumbarton back in the1600s. My mother is Predominantly Native American with Mediterranean admixture.
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what type of flint tools did your family make 800k years ago 😅
I do love the overall knowledge and curiousity of Dr. Roberts. You have to know a few things before you can ask the right questions. And every good educator is only good because their enthusiastic curiousity is passed onto the student(or listener).
"i can't believe it was raining this morning and now we have sunshine" - hardly a unique weather experience in the UK
Very True. It was raining here and hour ago and now its bright sunlight. However it could be raining again in an hour. That typical British weather
no joke, i have watched a wall of rain coming towards me and stop 10 foot away for a few minutes. my friends and i literally did the "jump in rain, jump out of rain" - unfortunately the best phone around at the time was the nokia 3310, and i weren't running home to get my dad's beast of a camera
@@matthewbaker2573 at least the indestructible Nokia would have survived the rain
@@catsfather they really were, just out of school i was working as a laborer on a 25 story hotel build and one of the builders dropped one from top of the scaffolding. the phone had a small scuff on the corner and still worked perfectly
I'd like the show better if the camera would show the item so I could examine it too! BRUCE
dont expose the fakes
The Time Team should ask Dr. Alice Roberts to join them. I found out she started on the original Time Team, but they need her now. Please, Time Team, make it happen. Please. Cheers
"" I found out she started on the original Time Team"" I never knew this but it's interesting information, maybe that's where she learned the knack of communicating with the public ?
I could listen to her day! What a beautiful, cool Voice
It's not a coincidence they selected her to be the narrator/presentor and use a narration style resembling that if Sir Richard Attenborough, added with a constant smile on her face, selling the content to the audience. In contrast to the people who do the actual digging, and who exhibit more natural behaviour and facial expression. It's professional tv making and scripting.
I’m guessing that that old bullet @ 39:58 is from the Brass Age. 😉
I'd guess the best Neolithic finds would be where the coastline was at the time, some 300-400 feet deep under the ocean currently. Thanks for your very interesting vid!
I don't think it was that low anymore during the neolithic. 300-400 feet lower was during the height of the last glaciation about 20.000 years ago wasn't it?
@@forestdweller5581 Yeah you're right, sorry. I just looked it up & the Younger Dryas is way older than the neolithic period. It was pre-Younger Dryas the ocean levels were 200-400 feet lower for many millennia.
@@SmokeyTreats Even during the Younger Dryas sea level was already somewhat lower compared to the LGM. And keep in mind; The Younger Dryas was not a global thing but mainly a North Atlantic phenomenon affecting Greenland and Europe mostly.
Jean Luc Picard would be highly envious of those archeologists discovering evidence of early humans in what is now Britian so many hundreds of thousands of years ago!
You need to be in a Star Trek fiction to believe that.
There were never any early humans in what is now Britian.
@@billythedog-309 Did you watch the video?
@@mumblesbadly7708 l didn't need to because l'm as certain as l can be that no country called Britian has ever existed.
@@billythedog-309 I finally figured out what you meant! 🤣🤣🤣
(I’m going to leave this thread unedited for prosperity! 😉)
Your sincere upbeat enthusiasm is refreshing. Personal amateur opinion is India/ middle east / & so. east asia are the most ancient cultures.
One of the greatest discovery of my lifetime is Terra Preta a Ancient man-made soil, consisting mixture of bacteria, charcoal, bones, broken pottery, compost, manure it lasts for thousands of years when researcher discovered Amazonian Terra preta it covered a man-made garden twice the size of Great Britain.
Best wishes and blessings on the move and the new digs 🎉❤
I used to see various art in random patterns in floor tiles when I was sat on the toilet.😮
So you had the chance to see some old artwork while taking a break in the restroom!
Same with clouds.......!
It was enjoyable and entertaining as well. I was drawn to the video by it's date in the title of 900,000 BC. Although the Bronze Age finds were fantastic, and add a lot to our understanding of that time, I was really hoping to see more from hundreds of thousands of years ago, as suggested by the title. In terms of paleo-anthropology, 4000 BC is actually quite modern.
Nevertheless, it was quite interesting, so I watched all of it.
its called click bait
I really enjoyed this and found it fascinating, and will certainly watch others in this series. Though I was a bit disappointed at the end. The disolving skeleton theory seemed a bit of a leap from a time when there is evidence of sky/animal burials 9 (lots of gnawed bones retrieved from burial mounds) so perhaps the grave had been left open initially? Also that fragile flower heads were preserved when bones disolved..... really? The other speculation that didn't quite ring true is that the flowers were a mark of love and honour for the dead. Perhaps, though meadow sweet is also a powerfully medicinal herb which may have been considered useful on the journey to or through an afterlife, as well as being pungent with antiseptic properties which have long been understood even if the reasons haven't, so would have had practical reasons to add to a grave, especially an open one.
I love how she explains the process in such detail as well as sets each project into context, so interesting. Another Tony Robinson? Great to see she’s come so far since Time Team.
Alice is a celebrated and highly respected Academic in her field. I reckon that's got *nothing* whatsoever to do with Time Team. I love Sir Tony but please don't think for a moment that her professional career depended on a few stints on a TV show.
The neolithic, my favorite. Also , Alice is so beautiful.
I guess I'm not the only one with a crush on her, lol.
@@jesterr7133 she's absolutely gorgeous. Nothing like a beautiful, and intelligent woman.
beautiful ok, intelligent idk...
One episode, I'm hooked!
Just a suggestion to the makers of these documentaries....why not investigate Loughton Camp in Epping Forest, Essex? A dig was done there over 100 years ago and finds were apparently made dating back to Mesolithic times. It's an eerie place with a bit of superstition attached to it (the pond next to it is sometimes known as the Suicide Pool!). The earthworks are much worn away so the site possibly pre-dates the Iron Age.
I'd definitely watch that.
I’m going to look that up and see if I can find more information
@TracyD2 There's very little that I could find, but what has recently intrigued me is that the oldest man-made weapon ever found was discovered at Clacton which is not so very far away. I sometimes wonder if this little piece of Essex could be England's oldest area of settlement.
Great video. Thanks!!
Or simply the figurine is a child's doll
no no, it MUST BE a magical ceremonial ancient special goddess worshipping item, stop thinking like a human and start thinking commerially!
Brilliant series!
Why do the producers have to pitch the music so loud? It is annoying and unnecessary. At least I can usually hear the speakers.
Lack of class?
I agree, that music is very annoying it's uncalled for and only detracts from any enjoyment.
The music is a nice background in my opinion. Dunno perhaps you are sad, boring people? Just an observation. Lol.
Fascinating research!!
I LOVE this so!!!
I'm an archaeologist. My focus is prehistoric South Eastern Americans😂
I remember reading an excellent book called the Orkney Inga Saga. My Icelandic friends recommended it.
I would love to work on one of these excavations Maybe one day!
Oldest humans, to almost 1 million years bc.... this predates the advent of homo sapiens by 400,000 yrs. Perhaps she is using the term humans much more broadly than specifically of homo sapiens.
Scientists currently recognize some 15 to 20 different species of early humans. The oldest known Homo sapiens remains are from the Omo-Kibish I archaeological site in Ethiopia, which date back to around 233,000-196,000 years ago.
Very Interesting.
Brilliant documentary!
It's kind of hilarious the enormous leaps in logic archaeologists seem to make. They found a little carving of a woman left behind and assume it has some religious or symbolic significance, when it's equally or perhaps more likely that it was placed there by a child or simply forgotten.
Imagine archaeologists from the future finding Barbie dolls and calling them household goddesses.
The Westray wifey makes me feel a connection to those people all that time ago facing lifes ups and downs and finally perhaps marking their move from that place. 50 generations living on that site and then a decision to go. My mins is blown.
Love the little Cartman figurine😂
Very interesting doc!👏👏👏👍👍🏴🇬🇧
Dad carved the small figure for his daughter. It was her doll.
yes, had wondered if they were overthinking some things and underthinking others!
@@maryodonnell5760 The thing I always try to put in perspective, today, as in all ages, there are far more bars and brothels than churches. We excavate the churches and the monasteries because they were well and stone built. The local pub was two planks over two wooden barrels. Lots of people, lots of business, very little of permanence.
16:26 this rock art just can’t be the only one.
Diving team is pretty amazing.
Excellent AAA+
No one comes along and straight up draws a one off picture like that deer for the first time. They must also be drawing on wood, or maybe skins, or at least in the earth.
Luke, archaeomathologist David Arnold here. I would really appreciate having the dimensions of the solid granite chamber that Wilkinson said Herodotus stated the size of. I cannot find a reference to it online and I would like to do some forensic mathematical investigations of those dimensions. Where did you read that?