Britain BC - Part 2: Neolithic & Bronze Age henges, tombs and dwellings
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2014
- It's the Summer Solstice and erryone's at Stonehenge so here's your timely reminder I've got a better channel with all this and more www.dailymotion.com/dai-flu (Episode 1 dai.ly/x1r9s7n)
Flag Fen / Seahenge / Skara Brae, Maeshowe and the Ring of Brodgar, Orkney / Woodhenge, Stonehenge and West Kennet Avenue, Avebury / Knap Hill / Maiden Castle. Francis Pryor megaliths showaddywaddy.
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Beginning at 43:44 is a refreshing look at something I have been arguing against since my earliest studies in British archaeology: the Rome bias of English scholars.
This tiny bit of our ancient history as uncovered a great deal, imagine how much is still to be found?Its fantastic what knowledge we can gain from such finds! Thank you
Commenters might need to get back and zip it.
Archeologists come to EDUCATED conclusions - which may change as the evidence presents itself.
They are not known to always agree with each other.
Science will not guarantee the certanty that would make you more comfortable.
I like his INTERPRETATION of what is known currently.
Unless you too are British, you may not even relate to this proto-British connection to the land that he talks about ...
Being in these places, touching things from so long ago does speak to these experts ...
Human ancestors were human like us, not so strange ... we just piled a lot of trash, cement and steel on top of that younger world ...
Pretty sure WE are the strange ones, comparatively ...
I think we need to look closer at the decorations on the prehistoric stones
I try to put myself in their place, to try and understand how they thought. The truth is we can never really see the world as they did. They lived in a world of signs, omens and magic. Everything was alive, Filled with a spirit. Even carvings were seen to have a kind of life and carry the spirit of their image. Being born and raised in that kind of world would be as alien to us as being on another planet. we try to mentally travel the vast expanse of time that separates us but it is a gulf that we can never truly cross.
A lot of imaginative speculation and inference presented as facts. Some interesting, perhaps even plausible, interpretations are offered, but a bit too New Agey for my own preferences.
I really enjoy his perspectives! Well done!
Ive allways believed since i learnt about Stonehenge that it was used as a winter solstice guide and the summer guide was to gather your stocks for the winter and winter solstice was to look forward to the longer days and gathering time not far to now! This show shows the meaning of the entrance to the center of the house it came the light for summer and also compare the picture screen paused from the modern time at show time 27:59 and 28:01 and the modern long shot of the causeway ,compare with the causeway from ancient times they fit like a glove
What an incredible enlightenment thank you
It seems to me they could have been using circle housing because it gives maximum area with minimal wall.
I am not knocking it. I am planning my own dream house to be round. But I am going it because I like open floor plans and I am cheap.
I liked it. Some elements seemed like the archaeologists were making too many assumptions and jumping to conclusions of what they found. In particular their horror at the island where people were cremated was surprising from professional people
W Nichols just remember when archaeologists say "ceremonial" or "religious" they mean "we don't know. it's a mystery"
The Druids, Boudicca and Celtic England is what interests me. We are lead to believe this was a dark age but I dont see it as that. Maybe if the Romans werent so bloodthirsty we may have had the opportunity to learn much about our ancestors. You dont need writing to be able to learn about a culture. We may have writings from julius caesar but these are bias accounts.
19:00 - when you walk in the door you don't see a dresser, either bed, or a hearth... call me old fashioned but that makes me think the two spaces have absolutely nothing in common!
11:20 They made houses for the ghosts of their dead family members. Why? Simple, to stop the ghosts from haunting the living famly member's houses. Momento Mori.
Putting the jig saw together requires the greatest imagination ! .... but how else do you put it all together?
What about stone circles and Labyrinths in northern mainland Europe? or the influence of the Beaker People
Did the Roman culture so change the vast majority of the British Isles? maybe...
I think the true Brit does carry the wisdom of his landscape, and may sometimes posses that Celtic sixth sense that one can call a perceptiveness or inner-sight... these things, and the ability through them to divine a deep inner self-peace (self-humor) are your Prehistoric heritage. as for Individual Freedoms, I am afraid much of that came from the continent, namely Germany, alongside the protestant teachings of philosophers like Luther and Calvin... yes, David Hume and John Knox were important figures too, but the concept was a branch of European humanism in origin.
Britain and especially Scotland are unique in that the ancient and the dead live hinderlessly thriving alongside the living.
10 minutes in, they seem very surprised at a settlement being associated with a place of cremation, and yet, if you think of Kathmandu or Varanasi today, do they not do something very similar. In these very ancient Holistic (naturepromorphic) beliefs, death and life are a part of each other and very naturally intermingle.
From the land we return.
Mortimer Wheeler should stand as a cautionary tale for those archaeologists who would invent narratives of the past with little or no evidence. Much as this documentary does, quite frankly.
+fishhead06 As evidence mounts, narratives narrow. Enjoy the scenery.
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ITS NOT ANCESTOR WORSHIP ITS THE CIRCLE OF LIFE THE WAY NATURE IS
People could not have walked along the river. There was marshy land on both sides. Why would people walk all that distance if they could walk across land from Durrington Walls to Stonehenge on a much shorter route. People were very busy then just doing things like grinding grain for bread etc. Meandering along the river would be a waste of time. All these hypothesis have no legs to stand on.
All those round houses and nobody had a sudden epiphany and thought about inventing the wheel .....Doh!!!!!
Pushing a litte the argument of "archaic individualism" at the end. Possible though, but the way it was presented here did not feel quite right to me.
As above so below
5 minutes in and he is full of it.
It’s just people trying find something more than themselfs. One thing they all knew was there was something bigger and more than themselves. It join them in common goals and frame of mind. It’s a control and reason to hope in something more than death being the end. It’s little crazy amagine things they did. Interesting !!
"Probably" is a word that appears a lot.
Proof by assurance is not proof, I remain a possibilarian and so should these archaeologists
"I" ? That is an inflated ego... Your colleagues must love you...