The Birth of Civilisation - Cult of the Skull (8800 BC to 6500 BC)
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- Опубліковано 14 лис 2020
- In the second episode of our three part series, we examine the agricultural developments of the 9th millennium BC, and how they led to the rise and fall of the mega sites of the later Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
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Just a quick shower thought. When you decorate your house, do you want a bunch of cool interesting actions scenes, or a boring mural of your job to look at every night by dim glow of your hearth.
I have finally found it. A video both boring enough to put me to sleep yet interesting enough to keep my attention so my intrusive thoughts don't win. 10/10 I've fallen asleep to this 13 times and counting!
The oldest story known to man, the Epic of Gilgamesh, opens with: "in the old days, before there was bread."
It’s wild that I hated learning about this stuff in school and now I use my free time to watch this.
oh thank god i thought my collection of skulls was weird or something
I can explain in one word why hunter-gatherers were willing to give up their leisure time and work very, very hard to adopt agriculture:
I love that beer was one of the first foods they made as soon as they settled. Makes me think that fermentation must have already been known, and when they expected to stay in one place they did it in a basin instead of a portable container.
Brazilian historian here. Cannot praise you enough for your work. Thanks for enriching our lives.
"Ritual animal skulls"... have none of these people ever been inside a modern man-cave?
Minor correction: As people have pointed out, there are domesticated dogs in the murals at Catalhoyuk, in fact you can see one at the right side of the frame right as I claim there aren't any. Apologies for the mistake.
Settlement filled with practical commercial and civic buildings.
Your voice sounds like a professional historian who make documentaries for the BBC.
This might sound like an insult but it's actually a great compliment -
Once you have pottery and copper tools you now have a very strong incentive to build around specialized kilns and forges, which you just cannot carry to nomadic locations. But that just makes irreversible the commitment to location from the "pre pottery Neolithic" that came from fields, mills, animal pens, etc. Once you make a pen to protect lambs from wolves or thieves at night, you are committed to place.
Your videos remind me of a really intense university lecture, and I mean that in the best way - like I can just sit here with my lunch and just listen and absorb knowledge thanks to your wonderful delivery and serious research. Eagerly anticipating the news that final video of this amazing series has been uploaded...
In regards to the "why agriculture" question. Couldn't it have been a feedback loop? Nomatic tribes started to farm some early crops, which lead to more food, which lead to more people, which required more food, which required more agriculture... and if they stopped farming relatives and friends would die, because their population had exceeded the region's available resources in terms of hunting and gathering.
Just amazing work
I really appreciate the illustrations ! They put all the archaeological clues together into a single picture for my imagination to sink in.
Funny how we keep pushing that back. We humans advanced more quickly than we had thought before. I love all of these new discoveries. Fuckin' awesome.