Carnac Neolithic Standing Stone Alignments and Burial Chambers.
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- Опубліковано 10 січ 2024
- Carnac Neolithic Standing Stone Alignments and Burial Chambers.
On this Stone Age Adventure, I am taking you to Brittany in France to visit the world famous alignments of standing Neolithic stones.
This is undoubtedly one of the most famous Neolithic ancient monuments in the world and in this video I will do my best to share the experience with you and show you why its so important to world heritage.
Thank you so much for this incredible visual journey. I've wanted to come to Carnac for a long time, and feel such satisfaction and joy seeing your video. Your respect and awe is so obvious. These are such sacred sites for humanity. Makes you really think. I can't help but wonder, did you have any sense of the energy, or experiences or dreams in such a magical place? Thanks again! 🙂
Facinating place Will, thanks for taking us all along with you.👍
Fascinating and very interesting,Thanks!
Love the way you think when you say we are gonna walk in and see what it feels like. Thanks for the adventure ❤
Fascinating. Thank you!
First saw this as a teenager. Been back twice since. Moved by the magnificence each time ❤
the grid lines @6:26 are very common patterns all over the southwest in the united states as well as spirals and circles with a cross in the middle from the anasazi and freemont cultures. Its cool to see the similarities of petroglyphs all over the world.
Interesting place . On the carvings , if you can get the whole thing into a single picture frame or take snaps in sections and then load them into a computer you can digitally enhance the photos to bring out the carvings in a very dynamic way and have a clear view of the the hell we are looking at . There is surely something etched there and may give some clues . Thanks for sharing this and one nice bike my friend. Reminds me of better days ! Ride on ! :O)
I’m not sure about others, for myself this really touches something within that’s hard to place. Looking at those carvings I imagine our ancestors practicing their beliefs or carving stone hieroglyphs. I wonder if they were carved before or after construction. I can only imagine what it must’ve been like to live back then. Fantastic 👍👍
That's proff of DNA memory..ur blood remembers. I've been a living history reenactment for over 35 year and have been to more events then I can count ..one specifically was very by the book .completely historicly accurate everything and inforced. The location was in the middle of a woods along a river bank .no street light no roads nothing modern in sight .u realy felt like u stepped back in time .I'm not an overly emotional person .quite the opposite .( for no reason I burst into tear .
Overwhelmed with feeling of shaking hands so to speak with my ancestors on that level ...the blood remembers ...
Found this channel recently. Really enjoying it! Thank you for putting out this cool content.
Very interesting, the rock art is very different from others I have seen
Another interesting video. Hope you're at Bushcraft show again this year 👍
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing, love the personal style. Looking forward to the next. Happy travels.
Great video. Does always make me wonder how much knowledge has been lost. Our ancestors were wise people, we owe it to them to preserve/rediscover what they knew. Nice trike btw!
Will's prehistoric ferry trip! Keep em comin!
You should have a torch with you that you can shine sideways at the carvings to show the surface relief more clearly.
You just look so cool i had to click. Didn't disappoint cool video
Thanks for taking us on your tour mate 👍
Brilliant Will. Lovin it. Simon. Norwich.
Cheers Simon
Look at all the green around stones due to the energy from stones peace luv ❤️
😮😮😮! Wow
Thank you for sharing it! It's really a mystery, as the stones are huge!
Please wrap up warm!
That was truly amazing to see, much enjoyed, Thanks!!
Happy new year will! What a visit!
great exploration Will...good luck!👍
Hi fella hope you are well. Another fantastic insight into pre history. Happy travels, be safe and take care Dave
Thank you Will, 😊 lovely treat for this evening.
Just came across ur channel and subscribed.. gonna enjoy watchin.. thanks for sharing
Awesome thank you and welcome along
That's just a sweet little passage grave. I become more obsessed with the First Farmers and their megalithic culture with every day. These sites are very powerful. The drumming seemed appropriate, but who knows what their music was like? If the megalith builders really were the Tuatha De Dannan, then legend has that it was etherial, ineffable, and unreproducible by the other peoples who encountered them (save for those upon whom it was bestowed).. First impressions? 9:21 Appears to be a human face scribed on the central bulge with an elaborate headress scribed into the surrounding stone. 9:30 Appears to be a rampant dragon, facing right, embracing a concentrically circular object. I say the protective world serpent and the orb, or egg, of the world.
Amazing place... cheers for sharing your adventures with us Will. 😎
Thanks Will, very interesting sites I had no clue existed, I look forward to seeing your upcoming ventures.
Kevin
Wow. Thanks so much for this. I am housebound and have always wanted to go there, it fascinates me. I now have experienced the next best thing xxx
That means so much to me thank you 🙏
I can't thank you enough for this tour. Like you said mind blowing. Blessings
Cheers Todd
Very interesting and music chosen adds a mysterious touch.
A critical issue when considering how these massive menhirs, boulders and the slabs for the dolmens would be "how?" My take is that they used oxen trains and I would dare suggest in the case of the 20m fallen menhir that the very stone-paved path to the location was first conceived to provide a better sliding for the train itself. This stone-carrying tradition is stil a rural sport in the Basque Country (notice that Basque yokes are different from usual ones, they're placed on the forehead of the animals, not their shoulders (plus vividly decorated with colorful cloth and strings, what may help when imagining the dramatic construction scene maybe).
I also think that they must have got some sort of "cranes", maybe even with primitive wooden pulleys, which would have been first conceived for sailing (raising and lowering sails), much as their astronomical knowledge would also largely derive from the practical needs of sailors. These Atlantic megalith builders, after all, ultimately derive from the Mediterranean Cardium Pottery Neolithic, which was very adept at sailing.
Random thoughts:
The complex of standing stones might have been filled in with wood, wattle and mud walls?
Some of the carvings remind me of maps, to help with passing along information about hunting, gathering certain plants, perhaps to mark out individual properties? I don't know, I just remember the old custom of knocking a preteen's head on the property lines of a village. 😂
Another thing that strikes me is the curvy lines in a sort of maze. The theory being that they were soul guides, and in some cases, meant to keep the buried person's soul 'lost' so they wouldn't come back and bother people? 🤷🏼♀️ Just thoughts, though.
Shining your light from one side shows the petroglyphs as shadow lines...like an oil lamp would do when they were carved. 19:17
Will, my friend.
Lovely walk into the Past!! I am always amazed at the megalithic buildings!! i still wonder how we just switched to from massive stone construction to more simple wood construction??
Thank you for this great video Will, lots of Upper Paleolithic sites in France.
Thanks for bringing this to my PC screen Will. The Great stone culture seems more developed in Europe than it was here in the UK, or perhaps the UK has lost more over time?
I've never seen any carvings in barrows that I've visited in the UK so far.
A very interesting trip by the looks of things even if it was cold, very cold. It's going to turn colder still, as I type this on 13th Jan next week they forecast -11 for the UK
Sandy
9:46 I bet those lines were colored in at one point originally. If we were able to fill them in with water color or something to see the full picture. ;) great vid as usual. Love history. I am from the USA and envy you. lol, would love to live where you do. So much more peaceful, and would love to visit those ruins at my leisure any time.
I've always been amazed at how much primitive man moved heavy stones and cut or grind them to thier needs. This was practiced all over the world in lands far away. Thousands of years ago.
Moving them would be by oxen trains and they must have also used some sort of cranes and pulleys (derived from sailing practical developments, as the Atlantic megalith-builders and their Mediterranean Neolithic precursors were very much into fishing and sailing). They were not that "primitive" after all.
Wonderful sights!
A very interesting place, it used to be a lot of work when it was done.
loved this, only wish it was longer 😊
WOW . great videos , thank you for doing them . what an amazing place , the grid type carvings instantly reminded me of sections of the standing stones . ? the shepherd crooks were a waterfall ? as for moving the large stones i am certain they were not moved on rollers , they would have crushed the timbers . In all it has such a Galic feel to it , no wonder its called Brittany ?
I think the engravings are their interpretation of the underworld, the womb from where we came out of and the return back when we die.
They are certainly very abstract hey mate
To me the D-shaped line (6:40) represents a rising or setting sun. Perhaps it is a time specification when to perform a specific task in connexion with the surrounding stone carvings; maybe it is just a time stamp indicating when something happened-assuming that the other petroglyphs represent some kind of story, perhaps a hunt (deer, some sort of map, sun, etc.); it may be that they depict some sort of hunting advice: prey, locations, time … Or something completely different (the larch).
Whatever the meaning might be, thank you very much, Will, for taking us with you!
It might be something in that line, because it reminds of the Chalcolithic icon that the department of tourism of Almería province (Spain) calls "Indalo" (a made up modern name but useful for searching images online) and I call "Atlas", as it is a person (man probably) holding an arch (the sky or, as you suggest, the Sun's apparent journey through it) on his extended arms.
These people were farmers, not hunter-gatherers, and are in fact at the root of British and Irish megalithism. Note: the Eastern part of England was rather settled by their northern neighbors, who were of the Danubian tradition and thus made earth and wood "henges" ("rondels" in France), a very different type of monument. Anyway, we can presume that a lot of their wealth, allowing such a fertile social organization, came from fishing (what would explain their general expansion to Britain-Ireland and also separately to Denmark and surrounding areas, even the probable first expansion from Portugal to Brittany itself), some fishing words we use today like "sardine" and "herring" seem to have Vasconic (Basque-like) roots IMO, this being the language family of early European (mainline) farmers of Anatolian ultimate roots.
You should check out Milo at minuteman archeology over here in the states. I think you two would love to see each others work on early man.
Wow thank you .
Part of the new year quests.
I love quests
Thank you.
Guess it's about tea time aye.
Looks like it from here.
Maybe pick up a drone for airiel footage in your upcoming quests.
It will bring another perspective from on High
just a thought
So sad, I have seen Carnac just a week ago but so cool to see you explore this wonderfull place
Peculiar glyphs inside those structures. I think you're right about snakes. I think another might be a depiction of fire. Hard to tell.
great job
I think it's Psychedelic art. Because it reminds me of visual effects from liberty cap consumption. The stones will have been painted I reckon..
The shepherds crooks could be bird feathers or the back of a bird
Ever think of reversing your name? Lord Will sounds cool af
12:56 I think in my opinion the low ceiling is to make u sort of bow while you enter the chamber .
Maybe next time take a roll of lining paper and some wax and do some wax rubbings to get all the features of the engravings
I can hear one off my ancestors in the background. Bitching about the size of the stone's he has to build with.
At least your driving on the Right side of the road, I would Die driving in England.
U mention shepherds crook markings, but they look like throwing sticks. U place a spear into the throwing stick, which gives a greater distance the spear travels. I hope I've got the name correct, as I watched a programme about their use, as they found one in a ancient marsh, and reconstructed it to trial it. Caro
They feel a bit small for dwellings, you think they are maybe burial sites? Skara Brae is on my bucket list, the wife has visited, but I need to go
Yes too small for dwellings, I think they must be burial Chambers or some other sacred place. I would love to know what all the carvings represent, and to know what the reason for it all was. I am fascinated by the ancient structures, would love to know what was in their minds. Scara brea is a worthy of anyone's bucket list.
Could they be wind barriers, given the location and topography? Imagine each one with a shelter attached to it. Guaranteed stability.
What were our ancestors thinking?
L'Ardeche next?!
Curious about best time of year to visit. Is it correct that from October to March , it's possible to enter site unrestricted?
Yes I believe so Kate
Thanks Will, I'm really surprised at how difficult it it is to find clear information. Was happy to find your interesting archaeology videos.
@@kategreen4274 your welcome Kate cheers
What is the name of that music and artist?
to try and think about the labor involved to build that without modern technology to make the work easier 🤷♂
It was more than a days work...
That's a big megalith. A pity it's broken.
Very interesting. But should you be touching the drawings?!
Whe, it's 0°celcius outside and you drive at 100 km/h ; your body is at around -20c°.
Yeah it’s a very cold road trip mate
Work out the time line years months hours minits seconds. Awesome
It's weird seeing these megalithic complexes dating back from 3-6000 years ago. Yes, they really stir the imagination. But they're all a bit rough, aren't they? From the aerial imagery you show at the beginning it's clear that these rows aren't perfectly straight. The standing stones themselves are not at all regular. But then you go back 6000 more years and what we find is outstanding. The 4500 year old Stonehenge, as majestic and impressive as it is, pales in comparison to Gobekli Tepe or with Karahan Tepe. And the world is full of absolutely mind boggling megalithic sites that all date from just after the end of the Ice Age. Why is it that the older you go, the more majestic and impressive do buildings get? This seems to be a trend that was reversed just recently, in the 15th century. These Ice Age buildings are way more impressive than those from the end of the Stone Age and early Bronze age, which are more impressive than those from later on. What the Romans and Greeks built would go unmatched for well over a millennium, when European Christianity started building cathedrals. Why did this trend exist? Why were buildings getting worse? What knowledge and science did we lose along the way?
I personally think Graham Hancock is right on the money.
How bizarre. Row upon row of standing stones. It reminds me of a graveyard.
Thank you for that! What kind of person puts graffiti on something like that? What a shame. People are so disappointing.
11:40 - Are You Wearing the Thermal Underwear ? - You Look Pretty Chilly ! £3-4 on the Local Market.
Thermal Longjohns and Thermal Vest. Highly Recommended. Always dress for the Night when Exploring.
Nice. I give you a like. But, I won't listen to the obnoxious background.
what is that terrible sound track playing in the background !!!!!?????
The "fish" looks more like a feather to me. I suppose we will never know what these carvings truly symbolize, but all of this is just amazing. I had heard a bit about the stone rows and hope to someday visit, but these dolmens and passage graves are amazing and we hear so little about them!