Many years ago I thought I would like to be an archaeologist and I was allowed to join a museum digging stone age for 1 week. It felt very abstract with arrow heads and so on - and then I found a pottery shard with the half-moon shape of a nail imprinted - and this made it feel so close and relevant - the thought that a person thousands of years ago had made this clay-item and just pressed their nail into it. I am still happy I didn't become an archaeologist, but the time-team series reminds me of the fascination I felt 40 years ago look at that nail mark - thank you guys !
As much as I agree, the problem is that would make for very bad television. Yes, they could do the groundwork, film everything, and edit into a fascinating TV special. But Time Team came out every week and was based on the suggestion by Mick Aston that you could learn almost everything you need to know about a site in only three days. This was based on his vast field experience and he meant that even on sites where he did spend months digging, they didn't learn anything new in the last 80% than they already figured out in the first 20%. I have seen many Time Team episodes where even Mick said he would love to spend more time, but by the end of the three day time limit they had already learned what they wanted to know. I find this format very exciting, especially when they go into a site with one set of expectations and the evidence turns that completely around. But I DO agree that I, for one, would love to see a TV show where they do spend more time on one site. I am almost always filled with more questions at the end of the show!
When finding circles close together like these five could it be that when a daughter marries they set up a household near the family? Life seems so different and difficult back in Neolithic Era that having many family members would make things much easier. I am not knowledgeable in archeology but I find it fascinating!!! I love these programs they are so very well done.
Matt is not just a digger when he works. He is a "finder". Seems to have a very keen eye and usually finds something significant that advances the research of the site.
My Scottish grandmother used to call the small stone points I found as a kid, they were elf shot, firmly in her belief. Even today,tho I know better now,I still enjoy indulging in that mystery realm
I remember when I was younger me and my dad would sit and watch this together every week. We would also watch any of the history documentaries on World War Two. He took us too a place in South Shields where some Viking museum type place where they have done a dig and found loads of things on the plot tou visit I can’t remember the places name I was young but it was amazing
Baldrick has educated himself; Edmund would be green with envy. I was just watching history vids and all of a sudden realized it was Baldrick expanding my mind and it was then mind blown.
All the people have regular jobs and coy do this on weekends. Also, there are sites everywhere in thUK and it is enough at times to identify a site that someone else can take. Further.
I agree although there are so many TT groupies who insist that actors are the same as authorities, preferring contrived drama and the thrill of treasure hunting to the reality of the stooped tedium and the mundane finds that make up the bulk of archaeological digs .
And drinking cloudy apple juice that's been around a while then lying on your back watching the sky is Imax. And don't forget the little pointy mushrooms instead of popcorn.
This was a great episode. I do enjoy the bickering between professionals on their opinions! I also wish there was more time for better excavation. But 3 days does give it excitement. Plenty to do in a very short time.
I would be surprised if there was any significant degree of separation between the spiritual and practical sides of existence, in many cultures much of the every day world has been viewed as inseparable from it's spiritual aspects. This constant insistence on every large structure automatically being mainly or solely for ritual is ridiculous when you consider the most effort expended would have been to survive and thrive then thank the gods when you have done what is necessary.
I would like to put forth the idea that the outer ring of ditches were dug and the inner ring of ditches filled in to enlarge the enclosure as the community grew and needed more space. It may also indicate it is the oldest of the rings. But there would be a practical limit to how large a Neolithic community and the use of its surrounding land could grow and still support its people. So, the other rings were then later dug a reasonable distance away from each other in order to better distribute and expand the use of the land and natural recourses in the area as the population increased. I would also like to suggest that the rings were located not to be seen from the river, but to look down towards the river to oversee the grazing livestock and to spot wild game and possible threats from predators that tend to follow and hunt along the river.
The thing is with Aurochs, you wouldn't capture an adult and take it to your 'farm', you would capture the young aurochs and take them to the farm and then they would get tamed and somewhat domesticated
Every single time I see Francis Pryor I don't even have to think about it I know he's going to try and make it a religious site is there any place this guy's gone he hasn't deemed a religious site
.I have often wondered as they argue back-and-forth about whether it is ritual or something else, if it is even possible for us with our 21st century brains and everything that’s in them to not overthink what they were doing .we don’t know what they had in terms of language the depth and scope of it and language is so linked to behavior right? One of these days I hope to come across the episode where they actually explain what they all believe about mounds and ditches because sometimes I look at those mounds “and they say there’s usually a burial in the middle of it I’m thinking lots of times they find that person in a fetal position ……is that mound just a pregnant belly ?are they rebuilding the mothers abdomen and placing the person back in it
@@larryzigler6812 It has been my experience in the past, when experts haven't figured it out, I am forced to figure it out myself. You can thank me later when they confirm my hypothesis.
it occurs to me that your ditches could be the forerunners of the moats used for protection in later times. Would it be ubsurd to think more primitive people could make their ditches for the same purpose, yet less impressive due to their needs
While we'd enjoy it, they'd lose most of their audience, because most viewers have to be constantly stimulated, or they lose interest. Frankly, I'm amazed they managed an hour's show.
Not a ditch at all, but a ring of pits, which in and of themselves were of a ritual significance. Who better to defend a settlement than one's revered ancestors, and what better way to invoke them than a series of consecrated pits, perhaps each assigned to a different family or group (or to a seasonal orientation of the Sun, for example)? The scholarly tendency to declare for "ritual vs. domestic," each to the exclusion of the other, fails to acknowledge human nature. We have churches and temples, yes, but do we not also keep religious icons and mementoes of our departed loved ones in our homes? =^[.]^=
The ditches were dug against water. In Frisia (Netherlands) farms were built on man made hills: “terp”. Just like this site in ancient times, Frisia had many bodies of water, marshes and was always in danger of floods from sea. Artefacts were not put at the bottom for any higher reason, than that they were accidentally dropped and lost.
Understandable that the people of the time were focused on boundaries. With agriculture comes a big time investment onto one place. Leaving that place means all that time and work was wasted. Going around and taking the crops from other people's farms was a very easy way without having to do the farming. So land ownership became a thing. And you would want to protect your land.
it is quiet funny how they are opening the ditches and they have water in them. is this why they dug them. so as to have a stable water supply. allbeit from the water table or from rain fall. remember that they surounded the village, so every one had access close to them. as a by product they may have found them to be a good defence
My best guess is that filming slows/disrupts actual dig sites too much, so they get a limited amount of time to film this show and then the team who's actually in charge of the site takes over.
I love this kind of stuff, but. all of these archaeological clips, have one thing in common, when ever they find a building or whatever, it must be a religious or culture center. Thats there goto response, when they don't have a clue.
Anyone noticed how high the soil is above the causeway etc. A with nearly all of the sites are nearly a meter underground! So it stands to reason that if they want to find out whether mars was inhabited at one time ? they have to start digging not just scratching the surface! As the above is nearly a meter underground and 4.000 years old .
As shown in many episodes, he sits somewhere nearby, paper and pencil in hand, and... draws. They educate him on the details of how things looked when unclear, and he fills in the rest.
OK, to be clear, I haven't watched this episode (yet), but I want to know if anyone else had a "HUH?" moment when they read: "6,000 year old Cathedral"... Christianity is only 2,000 years old.
West has claimed indian holy scriptures as their own now they are trying to come up with something to justify the theft of Hindu scriptures ....mostly all fake Christianity is supposed to be 2000 years old though no historians ever mentioned christ during his time or even 300 years after him They wrote about politics economy even the religious beliefs of people but nothing about christ at all. People like Gandhi Hitler etc all have their history written but one person ...christ so famous is not mentioned by very famous historians that time?????
I agree - Cathedral is by the OED defined as the main church of a district under the care of a bishop.. So certainly could not be 6000 years old.. 17/18 hundred years ago would probably the oldest possibility of any cathedral.
Umm, they did worship and pray to many gods. Their cathedral is not the same as you are used to, but it is still a large place to give thanks to their gods.
Are you adopting wet sifting as the archaeologists in Israel have started doing? They have found many additional artifacts, often tiny ones by using wet sifting in addition to the dry sifting method.
@@amazinggrace5692 I get that you're trying to tell I. M. that it's pointless to bring up new archaeological techniques to the show, but there is no need to exaggerate things. Time team ran from 1994 to 2014, so the oldest of the episodes would be 28 years old, the youngest 8. Also could have just pointed out that Odyssey didn't even have a hand in the making of the show and is only a licenced broadcaster of the show.
@@Skyfire_The_Goth You’re seeing ill-intent where none was intended. It seemed as if you were asking a question and I wanted to make you aware that the people on the show wouldn’t be answering you. It was offered as a courtesy to you. Nothing more. Be of good cheer and chill. 💕🐝🐝🎆
@@amazinggrace5692 Never assumed ill intent, people exaggerate all the time without ill intent. Sometimes it isn't even a deliberate exaggeration, it's an exaggeration they've heard for a while and think it is truth. It's just irritating and of no practical use so I point it out and correct it when I know the numbers are exaggerated.
@@Skyfire_The_Goth Just saying I don’t exaggerate and indeed the show is decades old.. 28 years is nearly 3 decades dude. It’s just not an important point though. Much love 💕🐝🇺🇸
Also a massive fan, but never understood why they don't get local metal detectorist to go over the sight first,...time team is coming to dig up one of your fields in a few weeks, calling all metal detectors, hit that field before we get there....simples
Every time the question 'is it a ritual site or a domestic site' came up, I said 'bet it's both'. We really know very little about belief systems and worship in the Neolithic. Perhaps they surrounded the place they kept their livestock (a vital part of their lives) with offerings to the spirit world and the ancestors to ask those ancestors to protect the livestock. I do wonder how they got the livestock into the centre of the ring, considering the reconstructions don't seem to show any causeway or driveway large enough for livestock to get through even single file. I doubt they'd have let their cattle trample their ditches, so I wonder how they did it.
That's pretty much what I was thinking, as well. Feasts have (and still are) always been an important component of religious rituals, so mightn't they have brought the livestock to the site to be sacrifices? Even if the remains were treated like regular meals (tossed aside rather than respectfully buried), could the acts of killing and eating, themselves, still have been a religious ritual? Sort of like, for example, holiday meals nowadays: the preparation and eating of the meals is special, but the food is still disposed of like a regular, everyday meal (leftovers the next day and/or thrown in the trash).
Archaeologists go to the same dig sights season after season for years. How can a three day limit be believable and workable. What other research and work goes on behind the scenes? I would be interested in that.
So their not "professional archaeologist"? It would seem to me some of these sights are important and should be done over at least a week, but I'm not an archaeologist but am quite interested in it.
It's part logistics, many of the people working the site, including all the assistants that they don't often show on camera. But it also works to create a narrative and urgency in the show. They mention on quite a few digs that when the leave local archaeologist will take over (if they weren't already working the site or working along side them) and keep discovering things. Other sites would have been closed down anyways to protect the site. And the fact that they have a much larger budget then what most archaeologist would have when working on a site so they have the ability to do far more in a short period of time. On an interview Mick once said they had anywhere between 50 to up to 200 people digging the sites. ***first sentence should end with that they had full time jobs or were volunteers from universities***
I'm now seeing I forgot the second half of my first sentence which, thankfully was already completed. So much for proof reading and trying to post a comment from my phone.
I think people tend to underestimate the importance of Site evaluations. Doing short digs over potentially interesting sites is actually pretty standard procedure, and allows us to evaluate, what, if anything, was there, and if it’s worth further investigation. The other thing iis that most of the people involved are real professionals in their fields, and basically just do the digs over three day weekends.
From a recent issue of Current Archaeology: 'One of the more hotly debated aspects of the show was the three-day format. While this was, to some extent, borne out of production necessities, members of the Team who came from a commercial archaeology background have noted that this fast pace replicated the realities of much day-to-day archaeology. A significant proportion of archaeological work is reactive rescue archaeology, with teams called in to quickly evaluate and record a site against a ticking clock, before it is lost forever to a housing development, a new train line such as HS2, or a natural threat like coastal erosion. This speed did not compromise the integrity of the Team's archaeological work: more than 200 published reports produced by Wessex Archaeology highlight the considerable contribution the show made to archaeological literature, and while the programme was filming it was second only to English Heritage as a funder of archaeology in the UK. Several sites have been scheduled as a direct result of the Team's work, while their excavation at Blaenavon, near Pontypool, assisted in the industrial site achieving World Heritage Site status in 2000. Moreover, one of Time Team's excavations abroad, investigating a Roman barge in Utrecht, is currently part of a wider application under consideration by UNESCO.'
Nothing like giving yourself enough time to dig up ancient civilization. 3 days should be enough for anyone... you couldn't get it done in a day and a half? Why even start? WTF.
They all have regular jobs as archaeologist and professors, etc. They only have weekends to do this. Identifying sites to be perhaps studied by others in the future or the ones which need to be on a protected After all, the UK has funds everywhere you go.
@@amazinggrace5692 How many times have we got to explain this. Along with the 'why no gloves' crap. Why do they watch if they are clueless? Some of the comments border on idiocy. When you look at the profiles you find they are kids, with No other interests in anything, but Frisbees, Cosplay and Marvel .yet suddenly they can challenge Experts who have spent years of study and dedication because Picachoo told them!
Many years ago I thought I would like to be an archaeologist and I was allowed to join a museum digging stone age for 1 week. It felt very abstract with arrow heads and so on - and then I found a pottery shard with the half-moon shape of a nail imprinted - and this made it feel so close and relevant - the thought that a person thousands of years ago had made this clay-item and just pressed their nail into it. I am still happy I didn't become an archaeologist, but the time-team series reminds me of the fascination I felt 40 years ago look at that nail mark - thank you guys !
What a lovely memory. Thanks for sharing that.
I would really have loved studying archaeology in the field under Phil and Francis.
And under Stewart! 🥰
Time Team is absolutely epic television that will be watched for decades to come...well done, everyone!
yes
I've always enjoyed this show. I would have LOVED for them to take at least one site and take three weeks or even three months to study it.
no
@@larryzigler6812 who are you?
As much as I agree, the problem is that would make for very bad television. Yes, they could do the groundwork, film everything, and edit into a fascinating TV special. But Time Team came out every week and was based on the suggestion by Mick Aston that you could learn almost everything you need to know about a site in only three days. This was based on his vast field experience and he meant that even on sites where he did spend months digging, they didn't learn anything new in the last 80% than they already figured out in the first 20%. I have seen many Time Team episodes where even Mick said he would love to spend more time, but by the end of the three day time limit they had already learned what they wanted to know. I find this format very exciting, especially when they go into a site with one set of expectations and the evidence turns that completely around. But I DO agree that I, for one, would love to see a TV show where they do spend more time on one site. I am almost always filled with more questions at the end of the show!
I agree
@@thatwiseoldbitchchannel Thanks for your support .
I really love Phil, he's like everyones fave uncle and he's still going strong all these years later!!
In a thousand years time, archaeologists will dig up Francis Prior and conclude that he was likely used for religious or ritual purposes.
He’d probably love that! 😋
😂
If folks in the Neolithic saw so many of us staring at Time Team, we would actually meet their definition of ritual, wouldn't we?
And they will say how stupid and ungodly man kind was at that time .how ungodly in lightened they were.blessings to all
When finding circles close together like these five could it be that when a daughter marries they set up a household near the family? Life seems so different and difficult back in Neolithic Era that having many family members would make things much easier. I am not knowledgeable in archeology but I find it fascinating!!! I love these programs they are so very well done.
Matt is not just a digger when he works. He is a "finder". Seems to have a very keen eye and usually finds something significant that advances the research of the site.
💚🏜️ yes, this is an awesome show, I would love a longer exploration of some of the sites, maybe a three episode series.
My Scottish grandmother used to call the small stone points I found as a kid, they were elf shot, firmly in her belief. Even today,tho I know better now,I still enjoy indulging in that mystery realm
And she was right
nothing is more fantastic than what we learn to be true.
Maybe she knew better ;)
I remember when I was younger me and my dad would sit and watch this together every week. We would also watch any of the history documentaries on World War Two. He took us too a place in South Shields where some Viking museum type place where they have done a dig and found loads of things on the plot tou visit I can’t remember the places name I was young but it was amazing
Baldrick has educated himself; Edmund would be green with envy. I was just watching history vids and all of a sudden realized it was Baldrick expanding my mind and it was then mind blown.
If you want another wild ride, watch Baldrick tell children's stories in Fat Tulip's Garden.
The amazing powers you get by ingesting turnips. Imagine Baldrick as Superhero called Cunning Plan!
Thank you Time Team,you have helped me get through Covid...so far.
Wish they would finish their digs instead of only three days. They leave soooo much hanging. I would like to see the digs completely finished.
All the people have regular jobs and coy do this on weekends. Also, there are sites everywhere in thUK and it is enough at times to identify a site that someone else can take. Further.
Please don't ever mention that again !!!!
On occasion, they spend more time. It is 2 shows worth, so about a week?
I agree although there are so many TT groupies who insist that actors are the same as authorities, preferring contrived drama and the thrill of treasure hunting to the reality of the stooped tedium and the mundane finds that make up the bulk of archaeological digs .
@@annarboriter no
they should have had Tony on hand for the exhumation of Richard the 3rd, "Oh dear, Richard the 3rd"
"Really, Baldrick? A carpark? That was your clever plan?"
My friend calls staring into the campfire 'caveman TV channel one'.
Looking at light on the water is channel two.
And drinking cloudy apple juice that's been around a while then lying on your back watching the sky is Imax. And don't forget the little pointy mushrooms instead of popcorn.
This was a great episode. I do enjoy the bickering between professionals on their opinions! I also wish there was more time for better excavation. But 3 days does give it excitement. Plenty to do in a very short time.
I love that they disagree so agreeably about what might be found. 🙂
That's the beauty of English language and culture for you ❤️
I would be surprised if there was any significant degree of separation between the spiritual and practical sides of existence, in many cultures much of the every day world has been viewed as inseparable from it's spiritual aspects. This constant insistence on every large structure automatically being mainly or solely for ritual is ridiculous when you consider the most effort expended would have been to survive and thrive then thank the gods when you have done what is necessary.
I just live watching people doing what they love on a Weekend
The same districts are in the territory of Poland and present-day Germany. They are dated around 6000+ BC.
"Dig through the dirches and burn through the witches..."
Anyone else get that going through their head?
I would like to put forth the idea that the outer ring of ditches were dug and the inner ring of ditches filled in to enlarge the enclosure as the community grew and needed more space. It may also indicate it is the oldest of the rings. But there would be a practical limit to how large a Neolithic community and the use of its surrounding land could grow and still support its people. So, the other rings were then later dug a reasonable distance away from each other in order to better distribute and expand the use of the land and natural recourses in the area as the population increased.
I would also like to suggest that the rings were located not to be seen from the river, but to look down towards the river to oversee the grazing livestock and to spot wild game and possible threats from predators that tend to follow and hunt along the river.
As much as I want to watch these programs, there is no way I will have anything to do with Netflix.
I give a hearty second! It’s part of the degradation of our culture and morals.
Well, there is always the UA-cam....
I agree. Dropped my subscription two years ago. Degradation is an understatement.
I watch on you tube.
I dont understand the referencing to Netflix? this is YT?🤷♀️
Thanks so much for posting
Phil and his jorts, I love it!
Another enjoyable TT episode but I must have missed something. The title refers to a buried cathedral but I certainly didn't see any signs of that.
I'm still waiting for the "Buried Cathedral" segment of this video.
The thing is with Aurochs, you wouldn't capture an adult and take it to your 'farm', you would capture the young aurochs and take them to the farm and then they would get tamed and somewhat domesticated
these circles or coils r all around the world...great job guys! baldrick is amazing character)))even here) he is so funny and charming))
Every single time I see Francis Pryor I don't even have to think about it I know he's going to try and make it a religious site is there any place this guy's gone he hasn't deemed a religious site
Francis Pryor - the thinking person's drinking game. Take a drink every time he says "ritual", "ceremonial", "worship" or "ancestors".
yes 1!
he deemed that one, a site of significant ritual ceremonial worship activities
.I have often wondered as they argue back-and-forth about whether it is ritual or something else, if it is even possible for us with our 21st century brains and everything that’s in them to not overthink what they were doing .we don’t know what they had in terms of language the depth and scope of it and language is so linked to behavior right? One of these days I hope to come across the episode where they actually explain what they all believe about mounds and ditches because sometimes I look at those mounds “and they say there’s usually a burial in the middle of it I’m thinking lots of times they find that person in a fetal position ……is that mound just a pregnant belly ?are they rebuilding the mothers abdomen and placing the person back in it
Phil making weed jokes about the tree stump. I love it.
What about them making the ditches to form a trap to catch those large animals? Perhaps they lured them into the circle, and killed them there?
Thanks Einstein
@@larryzigler6812 Another stupid comment, what's the problem now?
@@larryzigler6812 You're welcome.
@@josephhewes3923 Brontosaurs burger is my favorite !!!!
@@larryzigler6812 It has been my experience in the past, when experts haven't figured it out, I am forced to figure it out myself. You can thank me later when they confirm my hypothesis.
Young Matt!
Listening to them reminds me of a great ‘ 60’s comedy,
Hard to take them serious 🤣
Love these videos.
Fascinating, thank you!
it occurs to me that your ditches could be the forerunners of the moats used for protection in later times. Would it be ubsurd to think more primitive people could make their ditches for the same purpose, yet less impressive due to their needs
Imagine given more time on each of these sights🙏😎🇦🇺👍
While we'd enjoy it, they'd lose most of their audience, because most viewers have to be constantly stimulated, or they lose interest. Frankly, I'm amazed they managed an hour's show.
Great Stuff. Thanks.
Puts a new meaning to super bowl. Sitting around making your food bowls for eating.
“But on this side you can see it...”doesn’t skip a beat 🤣🤣🤣 9:46
Just keep tapping that blue time stamp 🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣
The half fired pot could be explained away as there being torrential rain at the time they wanted to fire it
really good music choices for the background.
It was the tribal trading place. The burial rings are for offerings back to mother Earth and for marking the location of the site.
It was their way of saying 'Thank You'
16 min in thats pretty cool they found an ancient water filter.
Thank you.
Are there any time team episodes that are not already on you tube?
Three days isn't NEARLY enough time for all you need to do. It's ridiculous!
There seems to be an easy compromise. They were pulling in large numbers of animals for sacrifice and ceremony.
Not a ditch at all, but a ring of pits, which in and of themselves were of a ritual significance. Who better to defend a settlement than one's revered ancestors, and what better way to invoke them than a series of consecrated pits, perhaps each assigned to a different family or group (or to a seasonal orientation of the Sun, for example)? The scholarly tendency to declare for "ritual vs. domestic," each to the exclusion of the other, fails to acknowledge human nature. We have churches and temples, yes, but do we not also keep religious icons and mementoes of our departed loved ones in our homes? =^[.]^=
The ditches were dug against water. In Frisia (Netherlands) farms were built on man made hills: “terp”. Just like this site in ancient times, Frisia had many bodies of water, marshes and was always in danger of floods from sea.
Artefacts were not put at the bottom for any higher reason, than that they were accidentally dropped and lost.
I have enjoyed this dig; thankyou. Am I donating to the fundraiser? Not on your nelly!
So..where did "Cathedral" come into it?
"No bevy I suppose?" :-)
Cathedral? That's a stretch for a pile of earth....
What? 6,000 years? Are you talking about a Neolithic monument?
Understandable that the people of the time were focused on boundaries. With agriculture comes a big time investment onto one place. Leaving that place means all that time and work was wasted. Going around and taking the crops from other people's farms was a very easy way without having to do the farming. So land ownership became a thing. And you would want to protect your land.
Crop marks: exist
Archaeologists: neolithic structures!
History channel: A L I E N S
Whole lot of fantasizing going on here. I'm a little skeptical. I love the shows but I feel they do lot of imaging with not much proof.
Ditches help drain wetlands making the surrounding land more useful.
Very interesting
Sights I can't unsee. Phil in shorts.
it is quiet funny how they are opening the ditches and they have water in them. is this why they dug them. so as to have a stable water supply. allbeit from the water table or from rain fall. remember that they surounded the village, so every one had access close to them. as a by product they may have found them to be a good defence
Why do they only ever have three days? Not sure i've heard an explanation
My best guess is that filming slows/disrupts actual dig sites too much, so they get a limited amount of time to film this show and then the team who's actually in charge of the site takes over.
Am I the only one who can't find time team on history hit?
I love this kind of stuff, but. all of these archaeological clips, have one thing in common, when ever they find a building or whatever, it must be a religious or culture center. Thats there goto response, when they don't have a clue.
If it was any good and popular, you would not have to compare the History channel with Netflix mate
Anyone noticed how high the soil is above the causeway etc.
A with nearly all of the sites are nearly a meter underground!
So it stands to reason that if they want to find out whether mars was inhabited at one time ?
they have to start digging not just scratching the surface!
As the above is nearly a meter underground and 4.000 years old .
I want to see a vid showing how that terrific artist created his drawings.
As shown in many episodes, he sits somewhere nearby, paper and pencil in hand, and... draws. They educate him on the details of how things looked when unclear, and he fills in the rest.
@@kuzzbillington6392 What a great gig!
Victor Ambrus was very talented, but the people probably didn't look like that at all. He was filling in gaps with familiar ideas.
There is one on You Tube somewhere. Look him up.
Clearly a waste dump where they burned their waste. Not everything you cannot explain have to be a ritual site 😄
OK, to be clear, I haven't watched this episode (yet), but I want to know if anyone else had a "HUH?" moment when they read: "6,000 year old Cathedral"... Christianity is only 2,000 years old.
West has claimed indian holy scriptures as their own now they are trying to come up with something to justify the theft of Hindu scriptures ....mostly all fake
Christianity is supposed to be 2000 years old though no historians ever mentioned christ during his time or even 300 years after him
They wrote about politics economy even the religious beliefs of people but nothing about christ at all.
People like Gandhi Hitler etc all have their history written but one person ...christ so famous is not mentioned by very famous historians that time?????
I agree - Cathedral is by the OED defined as the main church of a district under the care of a bishop.. So certainly could not be 6000 years old.. 17/18 hundred years ago would probably the oldest possibility of any cathedral.
Sigh
@@rebelyell1580 Oh ,dear,
Umm, they did worship and pray to many gods. Their cathedral is not the same as you are used to, but it is still a large place to give thanks to their gods.
Are you adopting wet sifting as the archaeologists in Israel have started doing? They have found many additional artifacts, often tiny ones by using wet sifting in addition to the dry sifting method.
These shows are several decades old now. So what you see is based on those times.
@@amazinggrace5692 I get that you're trying to tell I. M. that it's pointless to bring up new archaeological techniques to the show, but there is no need to exaggerate things. Time team ran from 1994 to 2014, so the oldest of the episodes would be 28 years old, the youngest 8. Also could have just pointed out that Odyssey didn't even have a hand in the making of the show and is only a licenced broadcaster of the show.
@@Skyfire_The_Goth You’re seeing ill-intent where none was intended. It seemed as if you were asking a question and I wanted to make you aware that the people on the show wouldn’t be answering you. It was offered as a courtesy to you. Nothing more. Be of good cheer and chill. 💕🐝🐝🎆
@@amazinggrace5692 Never assumed ill intent, people exaggerate all the time without ill intent. Sometimes it isn't even a deliberate exaggeration, it's an exaggeration they've heard for a while and think it is truth. It's just irritating and of no practical use so I point it out and correct it when I know the numbers are exaggerated.
@@Skyfire_The_Goth Just saying I don’t exaggerate and indeed the show is decades old.. 28 years is nearly 3 decades dude. It’s just not an important point though. Much love 💕🐝🇺🇸
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I’d like to see a sample in the thumbnail preview not a add.
Also a massive fan, but never understood why they don't get local metal detectorist to go over the sight first,...time team is coming to dig up one of your fields in a few weeks, calling all metal detectors, hit that field before we get there....simples
Neolithic sites wouldn't produce much if any metal, plus theyr'e only interested in this time period, so it would be a waste of their precious time.
Every time the question 'is it a ritual site or a domestic site' came up, I said 'bet it's both'. We really know very little about belief systems and worship in the Neolithic. Perhaps they surrounded the place they kept their livestock (a vital part of their lives) with offerings to the spirit world and the ancestors to ask those ancestors to protect the livestock. I do wonder how they got the livestock into the centre of the ring, considering the reconstructions don't seem to show any causeway or driveway large enough for livestock to get through even single file. I doubt they'd have let their cattle trample their ditches, so I wonder how they did it.
That's pretty much what I was thinking, as well. Feasts have (and still are) always been an important component of religious rituals, so mightn't they have brought the livestock to the site to be sacrifices? Even if the remains were treated like regular meals (tossed aside rather than respectfully buried), could the acts of killing and eating, themselves, still have been a religious ritual? Sort of like, for example, holiday meals nowadays: the preparation and eating of the meals is special, but the food is still disposed of like a regular, everyday meal (leftovers the next day and/or thrown in the trash).
Archaeologists go to the same dig sights season after season for years. How can a three day limit be believable and workable. What other research and work goes on behind the scenes? I would be interested in that.
In North America, a cattle enclosure is called a corral.
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Afrikans a kral!
Looks like a henge that the stones have long been robbed out.
25:27 Now, is it just me or might Dr. Harding have the beginnings of a crush going on? 40:36
"head of the family" ? Isn't the presumption of hierarchy a rather tall assumption?
We are either way newer than thought or way older...
People of ancient times followed the food and migrated with the herds.
I've never got an answer to my question " why only 3 days"??
only 3 days ,because they all had day jobs.these were digs done on friday-sunday.
So their not "professional archaeologist"? It would seem to me some of these sights are important and should be done over at least a week, but I'm not an archaeologist but am quite interested in it.
yes they are all professional archeologists and some,like Mick are professors.
Why are they always limited to 3 days of digging on this show? Production budget? Or something about the laws of doing archaeology?
It's part logistics, many of the people working the site, including all the assistants that they don't often show on camera. But it also works to create a narrative and urgency in the show. They mention on quite a few digs that when the leave local archaeologist will take over (if they weren't already working the site or working along side them) and keep discovering things. Other sites would have been closed down anyways to protect the site. And the fact that they have a much larger budget then what most archaeologist would have when working on a site so they have the ability to do far more in a short period of time. On an interview Mick once said they had anywhere between 50 to up to 200 people digging the sites.
***first sentence should end with that they had full time jobs or were volunteers from universities***
And the programs were shot in weekends while they were working in their spare time before returning to their regular jobs on mondays.
They all have full-time jobs and have long-term digs or projects they're working on.
I'm now seeing I forgot the second half of my first sentence which, thankfully was already completed. So much for proof reading and trying to post a comment from my phone.
but why only ever 3 days? lol they always run short of time and im sure a 4 or five days option would be brilliant, its a pity Tony and co. has gone
I like this show but why did they do the 3 day thing? I'd rather see whats in there then see what they can find in just 3 days.
I think people tend to underestimate the importance of Site evaluations. Doing short digs over potentially interesting sites is actually pretty standard procedure, and allows us to evaluate, what, if anything, was there, and if it’s worth further investigation.
The other thing iis that most of the people involved are real professionals in their fields, and basically just do the digs over three day weekends.
From a recent issue of Current Archaeology:
'One of the more hotly debated aspects of the show was the three-day format. While this was, to some extent, borne out of production necessities, members of the Team who came from a commercial archaeology background have noted that this fast pace replicated the realities of much day-to-day archaeology. A significant proportion of archaeological work is reactive rescue archaeology, with teams called in to quickly evaluate and record a site against a ticking clock, before it is lost forever to a housing development, a new train line such as HS2, or a natural threat like coastal erosion.
This speed did not compromise the integrity of the Team's archaeological work: more than 200 published reports produced by Wessex Archaeology highlight the considerable contribution the show made to archaeological literature, and while the programme was filming it was second only to English Heritage as a funder of archaeology in the UK. Several sites have been scheduled as a direct result of the Team's work, while their excavation at Blaenavon, near Pontypool, assisted in the industrial site achieving World Heritage Site status in 2000. Moreover, one of Time Team's excavations abroad, investigating a Roman barge in Utrecht, is currently part of a wider application under consideration by UNESCO.'
I think it was a place people came to at certain special days of the year and brought their animals to slaughter, cook and celebrate.
Nothing like giving yourself enough time to dig up ancient civilization. 3 days should be enough for anyone... you couldn't get it done in a day and a half? Why even start? WTF.
Maybe these are great catching pens for their herds. Perhaps they run them like they do the sheep in Iceland.
S12 E5 - "A Neolithic Cathedral?", 30 January 2005
but yeah - its just a mud flood that coverd alot of places.....alot of them partially is over the ground - but mosty things r under.
Cathedral???? All they found was ditches, no buildings.
I thought Cathedrals didn’t come about until after Jesus’ resurrection which would be about 2000 years roughly.
Yeah, exactly my thoughts 😂
..Fens were also full of food..
Why only three days? Start after harvest and work the site for four months!
They all have regular jobs as archaeologist and professors, etc. They only have weekends to do this. Identifying sites to be perhaps studied by others in the future or the ones which need to be on a protected After all, the UK has funds everywhere you go.
@@amazinggrace5692 How many times have we got to explain this. Along with the 'why no gloves' crap. Why do they watch if they are clueless? Some of the comments border on idiocy. When you look at the profiles you find they are kids, with No other interests in anything, but Frisbees, Cosplay and Marvel .yet suddenly they can challenge Experts who have spent years of study and dedication because Picachoo told them!
Very confusing title there lol...A 6,000 yr old "Cathedral" eh? 🤔