Just cut the rest off. Go all the way bald. It'll look good on you and you won't have to be self-conscious about it. No maintenance either. You could def pull it off like Tom Segura and Joe Rogan.
"We may never know. We MAY. NEVER. KNOW." I also enjoy this quirk of his. It sounds so candid and simple in contrast to the sophisticated, dulcet tones of his British accent.
*Dear Stefan* - This is close to my heart. For the last 5 years I've been working with Dr David Kennedy (UWA) & the Oxford team - mapping the desert kites of Saudi Arabia. Over that time - I've personally, discovered close to 300 new kites that were previously unknown - thus contributing to the re-writing of the archeological story we have for Kite distribution across the _'Nafud'_ desert. The paper released a while back - has extended the range of these kites further & deeper into the Nafud than previously believed. That in turn is effecting our perception of the migratory patterns of the hunted / gathered / herded animals as well as inferring things about the weather patterns and water distribution. It's very rewarding work.
@@TheMunchkinita2509 Thanks. Yes it is very enjoyable. Here's the thing -- I'm a 70 year old 'citizen' archeologist. I don't have an academic qualification in this area - but I've got a sharp eye & patience to match. I've learned a great deal about the painstaking process of gathering hard evidence, as well learning something about the Archeology community that has welcomed me in. I know it's trendy on YT to rubbish Archeology - claiming it's a 'Club' that is 'hiding' proof of a high-tech lost civilization - but the truth is - archeology is open to all such claims. All they have to do is provide the evidence. But they don't want to - or can't. But that's another matter for another time. Cheers 🙂
Do you get paid by the kite? 😅 jk. The exploitation of the animals’ behavioral tendencies is fascinating. Perhaps the deer lack depth perception, and the low walls are (to the deer) some sort of optical illusion.
Bit of a different video this week. An interview fell through so instead I wanted to do a little over view of some pretty unheard of monuments. I mean you guys know A LOT about archaeology so I'm sure you've heard of some of them at least. I just did an absolute banger interview this morning so we'll be back to our regular scheduled programming next vid. BUT let me know if you like this kind of video maybe I can do more in the future.
Awesome vid! I’m not an archaeologist at all but your content always ropes me in. It’s great. Never heard of any of these and they’re all super fascinating. Def would enjoy more of these. Thank you!!
I'm spanish, and i didn't know about the Dolmen of Menga, so yeah as always, thanks for your content! I recomend you to check out the talayotic period of the Balearic islands, specially Menorca. It has some features similar to this monolithic style, like balancing huge roof stones on columns. It also has big T shaped monoliths in "temples" kinda like Gobekli Tepe, but 6k years later 😅 I am from Mallorca, but if you like pre-history and and amazing vacation, visit Menorca.
Mentioning the jar-related burial practice in Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos is very interesting to me. I'm Cantonese, and a traditional Cantonese burial practice was to intern bodies in jars and leave them in mountains for a certain amount of time (until the body has completely decomposed down to just bones) before reburying them in secondary practices. I don't think it's practiced anymore, but even back in the early 2000s, I would very occassionaly find fresh funerary jars when hiking in Hong Kong. It's believed this jar-burial practice originated from the Tai-Kadai cultures (which today includes Thai, Laotian, etc.) that were the indigenous cultures in Southern China before the Han Chinese arrived. It may have been borrowed into Cantonese culture or absorbed when the indigenous Tai-Kadai people were assimilated into the southern Han Chinese. Also reminds me of Elden Ring!
That's interesting because I've read the Tai-Kadai people some of the first to play Elden Ring. The civilization collapsed in frustration trying to beat Malenia.
This definitely was a very wide spread customs around the southern China to South-East Asia. Use the keyword 瓮棺葬, you can find a lot more information dated back thousands of years across mass area.
Wow, imagine being a simp for an intellectual poser who insults you, the laymen, as his business model. Milo is an unhealthy, out of shape, slob who is not an intellect and regurgitates his indoctrinated propaganda constantly.
I dont understand why people keep making up stories about Atlantis and ancient alients when we have real structures that are this cool. Love your videos
I know right? This actual history is so wonderful and clever there is no need to invoke so ancient civilisation vevasue for heavens sake that civilisation if it did exist 12000 years ago would have had to have evolved too? Why do the extra zeros make it any more inviting? I guess people jsut dont get to see this stuff. I know my mom likes graham handcock and never gets suggested guys like the milos.
I think we, meaning earth, were called Atlantis once because of the ice walls. Just glorified and the story, like most if not all, added to over the years.
@KisheaCrowl no atlantis was the name of a city spoken about by plato in a discourse he wrote about the ideal city. In this imaginary conversation one man asks what would be the ideal city and then another charecter in platos story goes on to describe atlantis and how it was organised and what the army were like etc then he describes the downfall of the city. It is a moral story not unlike the stories and parables in the bible that are told that jesus told about things with a moral message. The story is í found very boring so i didnt finish till the end and left it for another time ..but its very ibviously a parabal like one in the bible... of course there are people who think those stories are true missing entirely the point of the parable in favour of thinking it to be a real description of an event person place or thing. Writing baffles some people. Also there are not walls of ice anywhere near the meditareanean and we call the earth earth.
@@Padraigpinteresting the mythological stories are shared worldwide about giant floods . It wasn't until modern geology redeemed then by the histories shown in sedentary rock. Although dragons are deemed mythological creatures since no fossil records have been discovered yet or if they have they were hidden or unacknowledged may cultures worldwide have stories paintings and even zodiac signs of dragons. Plato's is one story but like other stories of buried treasures the legends are usually based on unyet discovered truth
@trishdavi7049 ah yes many stories of many floods all from different times and places. Who date their floods to different times as well. What modern geology has told us is that there is no evidence for a global flood ..seas rising by 4 cm a year doesn't to my mind cinstitute a flood. Its a slow change in sea levels. After the younger dryas ...but not a flood. And of course floods happen all over thw world. Just like mudlsides and fires and desertification and disease and loghtning. Nobody ever suggests that mbráid cultures speaking about a fire are talking about a global fire ... or a global mudslide...or a global war or disease. So why talk of a global flood? If by modern geology youre talking about that amateur who goes around with graham Hancock then the conversation is over. Cos hes nuts.
can I ask a big favor? I'd really love to see some name cards any time you say an important name or location. Surely I'm not the only one unfamiliar with these ancient people and place names, but seeing them written out would give an understanding of the spelling and potential origin. And then id be able to google them a bit easier too. Just a suggestion for all the visual learners out there. Regardless, thank you for all your hard work on these videos. I do love them.
Deer are very significant all across that part of Asia, from the Arctic Ocean to the Gobi desert. And genetically, ancient Altai people and ancient Mongolians are extremely close. So might very well be a connection there. Somewhat similar monuments are also found around Baikal and further north, with regional distinctions though.
I like all Stefans uploads, though this one was pure gold. Ancient monuments just does something to me, knowing that someone made these thing so many generations ago is astonishing to me. I would love to visit all these places.
I am Jordanian, and your pronunciation at 7:54 was very close. 😊 Thanks for the video. I’ve heard of those monuments, but this is the first detailed video/doc I’ve seen. Thanks again.
The stone spheres of Costa Rica may be similar to the stone disks of Yap. Those disks are made of marble, which is white, translucent, and sparkling. But Yap is volcanic island and there is no marble there. The theory I recently read is that there were a few small veins of marble, the result of coral limestone being trapped in lava and cooked to marble. It was prized by natives for its beauty, and they used it for small carved decorative objects. Then one day some Yap natives visited Palau, hundreds of km away. Palau is largely limestone, lifted out of the ocean by tectonic activity. The Yap natives discovered that the walls of some caves were covered with thick deposits of "marble" -- technically not marble but a deposit from percolating rainwater, like stalagmites and stalactites; but just as translucent and sparkling. So Yap village chiefs got into the habit of sending to Palau expeditions of 10-20 people that, over several months, would carve out large "marble" objects from those deposits and bring them back to the chiefs. Legend says that the first objects were shaped like fish, birds, etc, but they soon settled on the disk-with-hole model for practical reasons. The chiefs used them only as prestige objects (their alleged use as money is only a modern Western legend). There is an open council space in Yap where several of those disks were planted edge-on and were used as backrests for the assembled chiefs. Over time the disks got larger and larger, with villages competing on their size. The largest one known is still at Palau, where it apparently broke as it was being taken out of the cave and was abandoned. The custom stopped in the late 1800s or early 1900s as Western ships and iron tools made them less expensive hence less prestigious. But the end may also have been due to the same problem that befell the pyramids in Egypt, cathedrals in Europe, and great symphonies: it required more and more effort to break the previous record, and each new record became just "yawn, one more" and people knew it could be short-lived.
I visited the dolmen of menga some years back and it is very impressive in person. When I was there the mountain very much caught my attention. Can’t imagine it would be built that way without the mountain in mind.
"desert kites" look exactly like early 20th century rock sheep herding walls and corrals in my county. They don't need to be high until the corral at the end.
It's definitely a possibility. I recall (very long ago) an interview with an anthropologist on TV who had been living among some South American natives in the Amazonas. He said that he went to a museum and saw an object pertaining to the culture he had been studying. It was labelled as a "cult object", but it happened to be a comb. I can't recall the program or the guy's name, but my point is that we sometimes misrepresent sites and artifact as having a religious meaning, while they are just practical (and not an iota less important).
@@armandbourque2468 Convergent inventions. People figuring out the same stuff over and over again in different times and places. Look up reindeer herders and how they do this in modern times with metal fences. Like Stefan said in the video we have evidence the Neanderthals would drive animals into pits before modern humans came to Europe.
Your channel is one of my favourites by far. I think your mind is brilliant Stefan. Your curiosity for the lost facets and artifacts of the human story resonates deeply with an unbridled sense of wonder for the unknown that I share with you. Oh what i wouldnt give to be able to touch an artifact and see its entire history unfold in my mind!
I began geeking out on ancient petroglyphs over the past few years. In Owens valley CA there are a series of petroglyphs located high in the volcanic boulder fields. They are a natural "game tracks" similar to these desert traps. The Piute Indians would hide in the rock piles and the game would be driven into them from behind. Great episode Stefan,
Looking at the first one, I definitely recognised it as a way of making your game go where you want it to. We use a similar structures when we get our livestock back from the mountains for the winter
Very interesting video. I can vouch for the idea of deer being 'coralled' by even low walls, making them walk in a direction you wish. I was troubled by deer walking a ross my land and attacking trees (not just eating leaves, but scraping antlers on stems). Even tree guards are only a reasonable defence (some deer have learned to hook them over the tree or will push relentlessly until they push the roots and stakes over in the shallow, rocky soil). So even though it felt silly and a waste of time at the time of doing, I ringed a new planting of young trees with close knit prunings from a trimmed hedgerow. Even though these sticks ranged from 2-3ft high only, the deer walked past them, taking no notice of the plants in the centre - even though I've seen these deer jump several feet high with no effort. Since that time, I have made an annual job of both ringing and extending lines of sticks to 'guide' deer past trees or to change their routes through the garden. It seems that though they are capable of jumping surprising heights, they prefer to walk with the very least effort possible, and won't even push through brush if they don't have to. With regard to that large tomb with the 'well' inside it, I wonder if it was treated asvavwell at all. With all those dead bodies decaying in there, it's not only going to be awfully smelly, but it would be chock with flies, and escaped bodily fluids would likely taint the well water with a very interesting flavour. Animals won't drink polluted water, and I doubt early humans would be any different. They would have been cognisant of the risk of infection from certain diseased corpses back then. So I wonder if the well is a tunnel to the underworld for the departed spirits, or (possibly 'and') quite simply a drain for all those leaky bodily fluids I mentioned.
The well seems to also be on top of a hill, so the water table should be quite low, it doesn't seem like a good place for water - I am guessing, as I haven't actually studied the site and the soil there.
@@TulilaSalome Water tables can get very near to, or even 'spring' out near the tops of hills - it is a capilliary effect upwards over an impervious rock hill covered with earth.
Just some passing thoughts, the well in the tomb may have been dug for the benefit of the labour force building it; there may have been a preexisting spring around which the tomb was built and there is even a possibilty that the tomb was previously used for practical purposes before being used for burials.
There are jars for burial in Vietnam as well...side note in Cambodia they use giant African rats to sniff out unexploded ordinance...If in Siem Reap checking out Angkor Wat temple you can check out the rats...really worth it
I'm a big fan of these list videos and usually end of year half baked videos. your usual content is well researched and great, but I like that some videos are just an amuse-bouche that fires up interest also I know its not really opinion content, but I like the idea of you promoting less wildly known anthropological sites and phenomena, I think that's what Natalie Haynes does in her stand up for the classics series on bbc thank you Stefan for everything you do
The Mongolian deer stones immediately reminded me of gobekli tepe, where they're these abstracted thin rectangular stones meant to represent people and have carvings of animals on them
I get so happy whenever one of your videos pops up. Your excitement is so infectious! I even notice that I begin to use your words when I talk in English to my international colleagues…Thanks again. This one’s a real banger. ;)
I wonder also if they were multi generational projects, each person wanting hunting to be a little easier in their lifetime, and a little easier for their kids. Maybe built more during times of plenty and relied upon more in times of hardship...
@@brendandor I'd say probably conceived by one homogeneous culture over a long time, each single trap being built relatively quickly but then used by generations and generations of successive dominant clans, for some millennia.
I wonder, if, through the laborous work, the area of the traps smelled of the humans. Maybe it made the prey, while being drawn into the corridor, more content with human smell, over time. Maybe this even links to domestication.
It doesn’t take much imagination to extend Stefan’s speculation about the kite traps perhaps playing a role in the domestication of the herd animals that were being being hunted. To extend that speculation, imagine that a whole herd of these animals were driven into this large kite trap. But the hunters don’t want to kill them all at once. They have no refrigeration, and they probably smoked meat to preserve it for later consumption. So they could have plausibly driven a couple of the animals into the pits at one time, but have purposefully left the rest alive until they needed them for food. Maybe they fed them while trapped so that they could delay the butchering until later and keep the meat fresh. Assuming that a scenario like that actually occurred, It’s not too much of a stretch to believe that people figured out that some species of animals could be tamed enough to become domesticated. It certainly would be more convenient for humans not to have to hunt at all. They could get what they needed from domesticated herds, as long as they devised ways of protecting those herds from predators. We will likely never know for sure, but it is fascinating to speculate about it.
Incredible discoveries and superb narration! Each monument's story is so intriguing and beautifully told. This channel is a treasure trove for history buffs.
FYI, I'm hungarian, and our founding fathers (the Magyars) came to where we are today more than a thousand year ago from around the area of Mongolia / Kazakhstan bearing almost exactly those deers as their crests. According to legend, they chased that magical deer and found themselves here. After that, at the beginning of the 15th century, cumans came and assimilated into our culture from the same areas. Their traditions brought very similar stone statues that resembled humans a little more accurately. I think they used them as totems, but you can still find them when you enter villages or cities where the cumans made their homes. Weirdly enough, I have one biggish carving in my house.
i love this, i feel like so much attention goes to the same sites/civilizations over and over again even on the nerdy sides of youtube lol. so i love when people go out of their way to showcase different ones.
7:17 there is a fantastic museum near Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada at the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Heritage Site devoted to this style of hunting. Alberta and the Rockies are an archaeological playground. Writing-on-Stone provincial park, the Burgess shale, the Drumheller badlands and Royal Tyrell Museum, and Head-smashed-in are some of my favourites.
The Wikipedia article about the stone balls says that most are gabbro (intrusive equivalent of extrusive basalt, some are limestone, and some are sandstone, also that there are unfinished bolas de piedra at quarries in the hills. I first heard of the Plain of Jars on the news on TV in the late '50s or early '60s, before the bombing, and before intensive U.S. involvement in Vietnam, when the Laotian army was fighting the Pathet Lao guerillas.
Age of Empires taught me about the deer stones theyre awesome and I could imagine seeing such human beauty in the big steppe where the wilds reigned would have been so cool to see in that bronze age eye
9:30 it would make sense. If you're herding a mass of animals into pits can you imagine the logistical nightmare of preserving the meat should you slaughter all of those animals? Much easier to detain them and keep them as livestock. I think domestication is a natural progression of this type of trap.
Thanks for the video Stefan! I always drop everything when I see you’ve made a new post😌 your videos are truly great work and your voice is so soothing
Don't stress yourself over not being "fit". You're a beautiful person anyways. The glow in your eyes when you talk about these marvellous monuments is so lovely. Thank you for sharing your passion with us!
I had no idea! Some of this stuff is so bewildering that it really takes a few attempts to grasp. The scope and sophistication (and deep mystery) of some of these spiritually significant ancient areas and monuments affects me greatly. Having visited Late Neolithic, Finno-Ugric "hiisi" ritual sites (caves, megaliths, paintings, ring formations, etc.) all around Eastern Finland, I imagine encountering these other marvels from around the world must also feel very powerful. Our shared humanity is bound up with these sacred remembrances ❤ And we must vouchsafe the conservation of all such ancient heritage phenomena -- and the safety of scientists and visitors. Erasure of cultural history is a heinous crime. There is so much to remember. Thanks for your amazing channel and excellent delivery every time! ❤ Greetings from Lippajärvi, Southern Finland (a relatively young lake at around 4,000 years old).
17:11 "buried facing East" - does that mean head to the east - or on their sides facing east (head to north). I presume the first, but the expression is unclear ...
One incredible ancient monument that never gets mentioned is a monument in the Australian state of Victoria by the name of Wurdi Youang. While not exactly known what the purpose of it is, it has been speculated that the monument is for astrological observation. It's called Australia's Stonehenge, however, it's a lot older than Stonehenge, so its perhaps more accurate to call Stonehenge Britain's Wurdi Youang. If the site was indeed for astrological observation, then it is the oldest known site for this purpose and by some way.
You say that Wurdi Youang is a lot older than Stonehenge, but as far as I know it has never been dated. An age of 11,000 years has been proposed based on carbon dating of other nearby sites, but this is pure speculation.
@thedogfather5445 oh, so you found the Wikipedia page. Even if it's not 11,000 years old and is half that age, it's still a lot older than Stonehenge. I specifically stated that it's speculation. So, for you then to come at me, saying it's nothing but pure speculation, I literally said that it is speculation. Regardless, that is beside the point I was making. That point being that it never gets talked about and it is a truly remarkable site that could have significant implications on our understanding of astrological observatories and when they first occurred.
@@garymaidman625 You made an absolute statement that it is older than Stonehenge when in actual fact nobody knows how old it is. In any case, Stonehenge is thought to be about 5,000 years old so your other claim that it is a lot older than Stonehenge even if it is half the 11,000 years written of, seems a bit of a stretch also.
@@tomgoff7887 I literally said that it is speculation in my original comment. Again, the other guy and now you are nitpicking on what you consider to be what I said, which you have both miscomprehended and not the actual point of it, which is no one is talking about the site and it should be getting talked about more, due to the potential implications of the site.
@@garymaidman625 We know that it is an underappreciated site. The fact is though that you made claims of fact for what is speculation on your part. Perhaps you should reread your posts to review what impression they gave.
I can't believe i stumbled across this video, as i didnt search on this topic. I spend an unnatural amount of time exploring on Google Earth in VR. I have come across many similiar looking structures across the deserts of the middle east. Many of them have no discernable path to them, so I was always stumped at what I was looking at. I have a few of them saved to "my locations", and cant wait to jump on and check them out tonight. Thanks for the little nugget of knowledge.
@20:05 omg we got round shaped boulders here in NZ too! They are called the Moeraki Boulders, calcite concretions formed 65 million years ago. buzzy to see them in costa rica.
Laos used to be the country with the most UXO in it, but is now #2 for an unfortunately not happy reason; Ukraine is now #1. Would have been great if they lost the title due to demining work, but that wouldn't be a very human reason now would it
Mate well done with this production. Outstanding work. I really enjoyed these compilation of short overviews. It gets those mind cogs turning that's for sure!
I’m so fascinated by those round stones. I think because the simplicity of them. No images or ornamentation of any kind. I hope we will learn more about their origin one day!
Thank you for enriching me with knowledge. This was an incredible post of things I haven't heard of before, and I watch a lot of archeological shows.!!
Thank you so much for touching on the Iberian places. Raices de Europa, Fundación Juan March, HIJOS BONICOS and Asociación Cultural Héroes de Cavite are some of the best archeology channels from Spain if anyone is interested in learning a little more. Congratulations for the amazing channel and content.
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ATLANTIS!!!!
@@edoart3722 Aliens!!
please do a vid on the ghengis khan burial, could be cool
Just cut the rest off. Go all the way bald. It'll look good on you and you won't have to be self-conscious about it. No maintenance either. You could def pull it off like Tom Segura and Joe Rogan.
@@aaronmiller7954 you should find another boyfriend
one of my favorite Stefanisms is when he repeats the last part of a sentence like its incredible. its incredible.
haha spot on - he did it as I was reading this comment
Interesting.... very interesting....
You're right, you're so right.
"We may never know. We MAY. NEVER. KNOW."
I also enjoy this quirk of his. It sounds so candid and simple in contrast to the sophisticated, dulcet tones of his British accent.
I was just thinking this, and almost commented, and then thought nah, nobody else will get that. 😂❤
*Dear Stefan* - This is close to my heart. For the last 5 years I've been working with Dr David Kennedy (UWA) & the Oxford team - mapping the desert kites of Saudi Arabia. Over that time - I've personally, discovered close to 300 new kites that were previously unknown - thus contributing to the re-writing of the archeological story we have for Kite distribution across the _'Nafud'_ desert. The paper released a while back - has extended the range of these kites further & deeper into the Nafud than previously believed. That in turn is effecting our perception of the migratory patterns of the hunted / gathered / herded animals as well as inferring things about the weather patterns and water distribution. It's very rewarding work.
That's so cool!!!
Thank you for your dedication. I bet it's the most rewarding work :)
@@TheMunchkinita2509 Thanks. Yes it is very enjoyable. Here's the thing -- I'm a 70 year old 'citizen' archeologist. I don't have an academic qualification in this area - but I've got a sharp eye & patience to match. I've learned a great deal about the painstaking process of gathering hard evidence, as well learning something about the Archeology community that has welcomed me in. I know it's trendy on YT to rubbish Archeology - claiming it's a 'Club' that is 'hiding' proof of a high-tech lost civilization - but the truth is - archeology is open to all such claims. All they have to do is provide the evidence. But they don't want to - or can't. But that's another matter for another time. Cheers 🙂
Do you get paid by the kite? 😅 jk.
The exploitation of the animals’ behavioral tendencies is fascinating. Perhaps the deer lack depth perception, and the low walls are (to the deer) some sort of optical illusion.
Sounds so interesting. Thank you so much for all the work that you do!
Bit of a different video this week. An interview fell through so instead I wanted to do a little over view of some pretty unheard of monuments. I mean you guys know A LOT about archaeology so I'm sure you've heard of some of them at least.
I just did an absolute banger interview this morning so we'll be back to our regular scheduled programming next vid. BUT let me know if you like this kind of video maybe I can do more in the future.
This was really cool! I've heard of a few of these but did not have many details.
Awesome vid! I’m not an archaeologist at all but your content always ropes me in. It’s great. Never heard of any of these and they’re all super fascinating. Def would enjoy more of these. Thank you!!
very nice, thank you. the deer stone and people... life imitates art.... tattooed priest?
Sharing your thirst for knowledge with us is fantastic!
I'm spanish, and i didn't know about the Dolmen of Menga, so yeah as always, thanks for your content!
I recomend you to check out the talayotic period of the Balearic islands, specially Menorca. It has some features similar to this monolithic style, like balancing huge roof stones on columns. It also has big T shaped monoliths in "temples" kinda like Gobekli Tepe, but 6k years later 😅
I am from Mallorca, but if you like pre-history and and amazing vacation, visit Menorca.
Mentioning the jar-related burial practice in Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos is very interesting to me. I'm Cantonese, and a traditional Cantonese burial practice was to intern bodies in jars and leave them in mountains for a certain amount of time (until the body has completely decomposed down to just bones) before reburying them in secondary practices. I don't think it's practiced anymore, but even back in the early 2000s, I would very occassionaly find fresh funerary jars when hiking in Hong Kong.
It's believed this jar-burial practice originated from the Tai-Kadai cultures (which today includes Thai, Laotian, etc.) that were the indigenous cultures in Southern China before the Han Chinese arrived. It may have been borrowed into Cantonese culture or absorbed when the indigenous Tai-Kadai people were assimilated into the southern Han Chinese.
Also reminds me of Elden Ring!
That's super interesting, thank you for sharing.
Also I'm glad it's not just me who went "oh *that's* where Fromsoft got it from" lol
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
That's interesting because I've read the Tai-Kadai people some of the first to play Elden Ring. The civilization collapsed in frustration trying to beat Malenia.
This definitely was a very wide spread customs around the southern China to South-East Asia. Use the keyword 瓮棺葬, you can find a lot more information dated back thousands of years across mass area.
Maybe the same people's who built the Pokekea Megalithic Site and Bada valley statues in Indonesia. It was all joined together as one landmass.
2 videos in a week?! You're spoiling us
Holidays came early!
It was 8 days ago...
Wow, imagine being a simp for an intellectual poser who insults you, the laymen, as his business model.
Milo is an unhealthy, out of shape, slob who is not an intellect and regurgitates his indoctrinated propaganda constantly.
I dont understand why people keep making up stories about Atlantis and ancient alients when we have real structures that are this cool. Love your videos
I know right? This actual history is so wonderful and clever there is no need to invoke so ancient civilisation vevasue for heavens sake that civilisation if it did exist 12000 years ago would have had to have evolved too? Why do the extra zeros make it any more inviting? I guess people jsut dont get to see this stuff. I know my mom likes graham handcock and never gets suggested guys like the milos.
I think we, meaning earth, were called Atlantis once because of the ice walls. Just glorified and the story, like most if not all, added to over the years.
@KisheaCrowl no atlantis was the name of a city spoken about by plato in a discourse he wrote about the ideal city. In this imaginary conversation one man asks what would be the ideal city and then another charecter in platos story goes on to describe atlantis and how it was organised and what the army were like etc then he describes the downfall of the city. It is a moral story not unlike the stories and parables in the bible that are told that jesus told about things with a moral message. The story is í found very boring so i didnt finish till the end and left it for another time ..but its very ibviously a parabal like one in the bible... of course there are people who think those stories are true missing entirely the point of the parable in favour of thinking it to be a real description of an event person place or thing. Writing baffles some people. Also there are not walls of ice anywhere near the meditareanean and we call the earth earth.
@@Padraigpinteresting the mythological stories are shared worldwide about giant floods . It wasn't until modern geology redeemed then by the histories shown in sedentary rock. Although dragons are deemed mythological creatures since no fossil records have been discovered yet or if they have they were hidden or unacknowledged may cultures worldwide have stories paintings and even zodiac signs of dragons. Plato's is one story but like other stories of buried treasures the legends are usually based on unyet discovered truth
@trishdavi7049 ah yes many stories of many floods all from different times and places. Who date their floods to different times as well. What modern geology has told us is that there is no evidence for a global flood ..seas rising by 4 cm a year doesn't to my mind cinstitute a flood. Its a slow change in sea levels. After the younger dryas ...but not a flood. And of course floods happen all over thw world. Just like mudlsides and fires and desertification and disease and loghtning. Nobody ever suggests that mbráid cultures speaking about a fire are talking about a global fire ... or a global mudslide...or a global war or disease. So why talk of a global flood? If by modern geology youre talking about that amateur who goes around with graham Hancock then the conversation is over. Cos hes nuts.
can I ask a big favor? I'd really love to see some name cards any time you say an important name or location. Surely I'm not the only one unfamiliar with these ancient people and place names, but seeing them written out would give an understanding of the spelling and potential origin. And then id be able to google them a bit easier too. Just a suggestion for all the visual learners out there. Regardless, thank you for all your hard work on these videos. I do love them.
Bro. Just use the mic. Talk to Google.its so much easier and you can literally either repeat or play his voice saying it
You must be one of the few youtubers to have proper video titles. Nothing hyperbolic, salacious, or presumptive. Thank you.
"Did ancient super-intelligent animals hunt desert-dwelling aliens using this one, weird trick?"
"Did ancient, super-intelligent animals hunt desert-dwelling aliens using this one, weird trick?"
@@labibbidabibbadum i literally LOLed at this one.
5 Amazing Ancient Sites They Don't Want You To Know About
I am always looking for UA-camrs who haven’t sold their souls yet. This is my first watch of this channel and I’m staying for a while! 🎉
The deer on the deer stones are very reminiscent of the deer tattoo on the Siberian Ice Maiden mummy, which is 5th century BC according to Wikipedia.
Deer are very significant all across that part of Asia, from the Arctic Ocean to the Gobi desert.
And genetically, ancient Altai people and ancient Mongolians are extremely close.
So might very well be a connection there.
Somewhat similar monuments are also found around Baikal and further north, with regional distinctions though.
Exactly what I thought!
I like all Stefans uploads, though this one was pure gold. Ancient monuments just does something to me, knowing that someone made these thing so many generations ago is astonishing to me. I would love to visit all these places.
Thanks!
I am Jordanian, and your pronunciation at 7:54 was very close. 😊 Thanks for the video.
I’ve heard of those monuments, but this is the first detailed video/doc I’ve seen. Thanks again.
The stone spheres of Costa Rica may be similar to the stone disks of Yap.
Those disks are made of marble, which is white, translucent, and sparkling. But Yap is volcanic island and there is no marble there. The theory I recently read is that there were a few small veins of marble, the result of coral limestone being trapped in lava and cooked to marble. It was prized by natives for its beauty, and they used it for small carved decorative objects. Then one day some Yap natives visited Palau, hundreds of km away. Palau is largely limestone, lifted out of the ocean by tectonic activity. The Yap natives discovered that the walls of some caves were covered with thick deposits of "marble" -- technically not marble but a deposit from percolating rainwater, like stalagmites and stalactites; but just as translucent and sparkling. So Yap village chiefs got into the habit of sending to Palau expeditions of 10-20 people that, over several months, would carve out large "marble" objects from those deposits and bring them back to the chiefs.
Legend says that the first objects were shaped like fish, birds, etc, but they soon settled on the disk-with-hole model for practical reasons. The chiefs used them only as prestige objects (their alleged use as money is only a modern Western legend). There is an open council space in Yap where several of those disks were planted edge-on and were used as backrests for the assembled chiefs.
Over time the disks got larger and larger, with villages competing on their size. The largest one known is still at Palau, where it apparently broke as it was being taken out of the cave and was abandoned.
The custom stopped in the late 1800s or early 1900s as Western ships and iron tools made them less expensive hence less prestigious. But the end may also have been due to the same problem that befell the pyramids in Egypt, cathedrals in Europe, and great symphonies: it required more and more effort to break the previous record, and each new record became just "yawn, one more" and people knew it could be short-lived.
I visited the dolmen of menga some years back and it is very impressive in person. When I was there the mountain very much caught my attention. Can’t imagine it would be built that way without the mountain in mind.
"desert kites" look exactly like early 20th century rock sheep herding walls and corrals in my county. They don't need to be high until the corral at the end.
Maybe built by people with knowledge from the 'old country'? Would be an interesting continuum.
What country please?
It's definitely a possibility. I recall (very long ago) an interview with an anthropologist on TV who had been living among some South American natives in the Amazonas. He said that he went to a museum and saw an object pertaining to the culture he had been studying. It was labelled as a "cult object", but it happened to be a comb. I can't recall the program or the guy's name, but my point is that we sometimes misrepresent sites and artifact as having a religious meaning, while they are just practical (and not an iota less important).
@@armandbourque2468 Convergent inventions. People figuring out the same stuff over and over again in different times and places. Look up reindeer herders and how they do this in modern times with metal fences. Like Stefan said in the video we have evidence the Neanderthals would drive animals into pits before modern humans came to Europe.
Where are they?
Genuinely made my day better seeing a Milo bonus video in my feed!
Same, perfect thing to wind the day down
Always a good day with a milo video
Easily one of if not my favorite youtube channel. Your enthusiasm is contagious, and I'm often left contemplating well after the video ended
Your channel is one of my favourites by far. I think your mind is brilliant Stefan. Your curiosity for the lost facets and artifacts of the human story resonates deeply with an unbridled sense of wonder for the unknown that I share with you. Oh what i wouldnt give to be able to touch an artifact and see its entire history unfold in my mind!
I began geeking out on ancient petroglyphs over the past few years. In Owens valley CA there are a series of petroglyphs located high in the volcanic boulder fields. They are a natural "game tracks" similar to these desert traps. The Piute Indians would hide in the rock piles and the game would be driven into them from behind. Great episode Stefan,
Looking at the first one, I definitely recognised it as a way of making your game go where you want it to. We use a similar structures when we get our livestock back from the mountains for the winter
Hair looks fantastic. Even greater presentation, as always. Thanks Stefan, for everything
he's balding in the opposite way I am for some reason
Always happy to see a new video! This one did not disappoint.
Very interesting video.
I can vouch for the idea of deer being 'coralled' by even low walls, making them walk in a direction you wish.
I was troubled by deer walking a ross my land and attacking trees (not just eating leaves, but scraping antlers on stems).
Even tree guards are only a reasonable defence (some deer have learned to hook them over the tree or will push relentlessly until they push the roots and stakes over in the shallow, rocky soil).
So even though it felt silly and a waste of time at the time of doing, I ringed a new planting of young trees with close knit prunings from a trimmed hedgerow. Even though these sticks ranged from 2-3ft high only, the deer walked past them, taking no notice of the plants in the centre - even though I've seen these deer jump several feet high with no effort.
Since that time, I have made an annual job of both ringing and extending lines of sticks to 'guide' deer past trees or to change their routes through the garden.
It seems that though they are capable of jumping surprising heights, they prefer to walk with the very least effort possible, and won't even push through brush if they don't have to.
With regard to that large tomb with the 'well' inside it, I wonder if it was treated asvavwell at all. With all those dead bodies decaying in there, it's not only going to be awfully smelly, but it would be chock with flies, and escaped bodily fluids would likely taint the well water with a very interesting flavour.
Animals won't drink polluted water, and I doubt early humans would be any different. They would have been cognisant of the risk of infection from certain diseased corpses back then.
So I wonder if the well is a tunnel to the underworld for the departed spirits, or (possibly 'and') quite simply a drain for all those leaky bodily fluids I mentioned.
Interesting theory about the well
The well seems to also be on top of a hill, so the water table should be quite low, it doesn't seem like a good place for water - I am guessing, as I haven't actually studied the site and the soil there.
@@TulilaSalome Water tables can get very near to, or even 'spring' out near the tops of hills - it is a capilliary effect upwards over an impervious rock hill covered with earth.
Just some passing thoughts, the well in the tomb may have been dug for the benefit of the labour force building it; there may have been a preexisting spring around which the tomb was built and there is even a possibilty that the tomb was previously used for practical purposes before being used for burials.
I'm excited to here more about the biggest rock we've ever moved. It looks insanely big I'd love to watch you do a deep dive
There are jars for burial in Vietnam as well...side note in Cambodia they use giant African rats to sniff out unexploded ordinance...If in Siem Reap checking out Angkor Wat temple you can check out the rats...really worth it
I just watch a video about rats being trained to sniff out contraband animal products like pangolin scales, elephant ivory and rhino horn
I'm a big fan of these list videos and usually end of year half baked videos.
your usual content is well researched and great, but I like that some videos are just an amuse-bouche that fires up interest
also I know its not really opinion content, but I like the idea of you promoting less wildly known anthropological sites and phenomena, I think that's what Natalie Haynes does in her stand up for the classics series on bbc
thank you Stefan for everything you do
4:11 Stefan, you've now become a fitness UA-camr
Natural progression for someone as handsome as me
Next Sponsor: a makeup line and yoga leggins.
Nothing wrong with the rowing machine!
Stefan walking in the forest in yoga leggings?
Sign me up.
Apparently he likes “Rod” too
The Mongolian deer stones immediately reminded me of gobekli tepe, where they're these abstracted thin rectangular stones meant to represent people and have carvings of animals on them
I agree with the comments that are tickled to enjoy two videos in a week. Interesting stuff.
I get so happy whenever one of your videos pops up. Your excitement is so infectious! I even notice that I begin to use your words when I talk in English to my international colleagues…Thanks again. This one’s a real banger. ;)
3:46 extraordinarily intelligent traps. Thousands of years of accumulated hunting knowledge went into it.
I wonder also if they were multi generational projects, each person wanting hunting to be a little easier in their lifetime, and a little easier for their kids. Maybe built more during times of plenty and relied upon more in times of hardship...
@@brendandor I'd say probably conceived by one homogeneous culture over a long time, each single trap being built relatively quickly but then used by generations and generations of successive dominant clans, for some millennia.
I wonder, if, through the laborous work, the area of the traps smelled of the humans. Maybe it made the prey, while being drawn into the corridor, more content with human smell, over time. Maybe this even links to domestication.
It doesn’t take much imagination to extend Stefan’s speculation about the kite traps perhaps playing a role in the domestication of the herd animals that were being being hunted.
To extend that speculation, imagine that a whole herd of these animals were driven into this large kite trap.
But the hunters don’t want to kill them all at once. They have no refrigeration, and they probably smoked meat to preserve it for later consumption. So they
could have plausibly driven a couple of the animals into the pits at one time, but have purposefully left the rest alive until they needed them for food. Maybe they fed them while trapped so that they could delay the butchering until later and keep the meat fresh.
Assuming that a scenario like that actually occurred, It’s not too much of a stretch to believe that people figured out that some species of animals could be tamed enough to become domesticated.
It certainly would be more convenient for humans not to have to hunt at all. They could get what they needed from domesticated herds, as long as they devised ways of protecting those herds from predators.
We will likely never know for sure, but it is fascinating to speculate about it.
I am so glad to hear that you have started working out and taking care of your health and body❤
Incredible discoveries and superb narration! Each monument's story is so intriguing and beautifully told. This channel is a treasure trove for history buffs.
Love a new Stefan Milo video. Always great stories, well filmed and with expert research and interviews!
I’m really looking forward to watching the videos on each of these monuments. Great work!
I am always stoked to see a Stefan upload
FYI, I'm hungarian, and our founding fathers (the Magyars) came to where we are today more than a thousand year ago from around the area of Mongolia / Kazakhstan bearing almost exactly those deers as their crests. According to legend, they chased that magical deer and found themselves here. After that, at the beginning of the 15th century, cumans came and assimilated into our culture from the same areas. Their traditions brought very similar stone statues that resembled humans a little more accurately. I think they used them as totems, but you can still find them when you enter villages or cities where the cumans made their homes. Weirdly enough, I have one biggish carving in my house.
Ooo I'm so happy you're talking about the kites! There's some incredible hour+ long presentations on UA-cam about them.
i love this, i feel like so much attention goes to the same sites/civilizations over and over again even on the nerdy sides of youtube lol. so i love when people go out of their way to showcase different ones.
7:17 there is a fantastic museum near Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada at the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Heritage Site devoted to this style of hunting. Alberta and the Rockies are an archaeological playground. Writing-on-Stone provincial park, the Burgess shale, the Drumheller badlands and Royal Tyrell Museum, and Head-smashed-in are some of my favourites.
What a fitting name, i must say.
Just dont lose your step if you were one of the ancient people doing the hunting.
I had never heard of any of these! Very interesting video.
We found these monuments VERY interesting!! Thank you Stefan
Excellent video as always, Stefan. Amazing to see how little we know about these intriguing structures. Thanks.
X-Cellent Episode Mr. Milo, waiting patiently for your D.dives! Thank you for your time and your passion 👍
Love a different video! Thanks for covering lesser known archaeology!
I enjoyed this video, thanks
Another fascinating video. I visited the Plain of Jars in 2011. Had to be very careful where you walked.
This video was great.
What an absolutely superb video. I love your presentation and really feel your appreciation for these monuments.
Very cool. Looking forward to watching this
Would love more videos on these sites and monuments! This is really interesting stuff!
The Wikipedia article about the stone balls says that most are gabbro (intrusive equivalent of extrusive basalt, some are limestone, and some are sandstone, also that there are unfinished bolas de piedra at quarries in the hills.
I first heard of the Plain of Jars on the news on TV in the late '50s or early '60s, before the bombing, and before intensive U.S. involvement in Vietnam, when the Laotian army was fighting the Pathet Lao guerillas.
Came for the archeology stayed for the mustache.
Very interesting video. So many stuff still around from early humans, it's amazing.
We are so glad you are loving your plan Rod made for you! You are crushing it! 😆 Thank you for sharing trainwell!
Desert kite sounds like such a cool name.
I really like this format, stefan just talking and explaining alone comfortably
Age of Empires taught me about the deer stones theyre awesome and I could imagine seeing such human beauty in the big steppe where the wilds reigned would have been so cool to see in that bronze age eye
Couldn't sleep and ran across your video. So pleasant, modest, factual and informative. Nice work.
9:30 it would make sense. If you're herding a mass of animals into pits can you imagine the logistical nightmare of preserving the meat should you slaughter all of those animals? Much easier to detain them and keep them as livestock. I think domestication is a natural progression of this type of trap.
Or specifically fenced/walled livestock enclosures are a natural progression from these traps. It's so perfect I hope it's true!
Every video by Stefan makes my day way more often, thank you!
Dude! Your arms are getting HUGE! Stefan, UA-cam's jacked archeologist.
😂 yeah ok
Someone has a crush on Stefan 😂
Been absolutely loving all of the uploads recently!
It's clear what the art on the deer stones in Mongolia is depicting. Santa's reindeer!
My favorite UA-camr is rocking a mean mustache, dropping archeological information, brilliant. Brilliant. Keep up the exercise!
Really cool. Remind me of the cursus' across Britain and Ireland. Havent heard a convincing explanation for those
Loved this format, felt like a personal chat.
Amazing video
Thank you Stefan for showing everyone your huge jars. Much appreciated!
Thanks for the video Stefan! I always drop everything when I see you’ve made a new post😌 your videos are truly great work and your voice is so soothing
Don't stress yourself over not being "fit". You're a beautiful person anyways. The glow in your eyes when you talk about these marvellous monuments is so lovely. Thank you for sharing your passion with us!
The Deer Stone's design is reminiscent of the Siberian Ice Maidens deer tattoos. Same/related culture?
Second that!
I had no idea! Some of this stuff is so bewildering that it really takes a few attempts to grasp.
The scope and sophistication (and deep mystery) of some of these spiritually significant ancient areas and monuments affects me greatly.
Having visited Late Neolithic, Finno-Ugric "hiisi" ritual sites (caves, megaliths, paintings, ring formations, etc.) all around Eastern Finland, I imagine encountering these other marvels from around the world must also feel very powerful. Our shared humanity is bound up with these sacred remembrances ❤ And we must vouchsafe the conservation of all such ancient heritage phenomena -- and the safety of scientists and visitors. Erasure of cultural history is a heinous crime. There is so much to remember.
Thanks for your amazing channel and excellent delivery every time! ❤ Greetings from Lippajärvi, Southern Finland (a relatively young lake at around 4,000 years old).
Great stuff! Would love to hear more about any of them. Or anything else for that matter :)
"A little bit interesting" is an understatement. Thank you. That was a well spent half an hour for me.
17:11 "buried facing East" - does that mean head to the east - or on their sides facing east (head to north). I presume the first, but the expression is unclear ...
Head in direction of "east" is what I understood. Second language though
i understand feet pointing east so if they get up, they look towards east
Ive been binging your videos recently- I'm m happy to wake up to a new one!
One incredible ancient monument that never gets mentioned is a monument in the Australian state of Victoria by the name of Wurdi Youang. While not exactly known what the purpose of it is, it has been speculated that the monument is for astrological observation. It's called Australia's Stonehenge, however, it's a lot older than Stonehenge, so its perhaps more accurate to call Stonehenge Britain's Wurdi Youang. If the site was indeed for astrological observation, then it is the oldest known site for this purpose and by some way.
You say that Wurdi Youang is a lot older than Stonehenge, but as far as I know it has never been dated. An age of 11,000 years has been proposed based on carbon dating of other nearby sites, but this is pure speculation.
@thedogfather5445 oh, so you found the Wikipedia page. Even if it's not 11,000 years old and is half that age, it's still a lot older than Stonehenge. I specifically stated that it's speculation. So, for you then to come at me, saying it's nothing but pure speculation, I literally said that it is speculation. Regardless, that is beside the point I was making. That point being that it never gets talked about and it is a truly remarkable site that could have significant implications on our understanding of astrological observatories and when they first occurred.
@@garymaidman625 You made an absolute statement that it is older than Stonehenge when in actual fact nobody knows how old it is. In any case, Stonehenge is thought to be about 5,000 years old so your other claim that it is a lot older than Stonehenge even if it is half the 11,000 years written of, seems a bit of a stretch also.
@@tomgoff7887 I literally said that it is speculation in my original comment. Again, the other guy and now you are nitpicking on what you consider to be what I said, which you have both miscomprehended and not the actual point of it, which is no one is talking about the site and it should be getting talked about more, due to the potential implications of the site.
@@garymaidman625 We know that it is an underappreciated site. The fact is though that you made claims of fact for what is speculation on your part. Perhaps you should reread your posts to review what impression they gave.
these are absolutely incredible, thanks for telling everybody about it
1:48 Hero? That guy is almost single-handedly responsible for the decay of the region.
Wasn’t his fault, he was devastated when he found out the British government was planning on betraying his Arab allies.
He didn't say "hero", he said "world war one hero".
@@archmage_of_the_aether So he DID say hero then. Got it.
@archmage_of_the_aether wtf are you talking about?
@@enki1597 words, lad. I'm talking about words.
In English no less innit
I can't believe i stumbled across this video, as i didnt search on this topic. I spend an unnatural amount of time exploring on Google Earth in VR. I have come across many similiar looking structures across the deserts of the middle east. Many of them have no discernable path to them, so I was always stumped at what I was looking at. I have a few of them saved to "my locations", and cant wait to jump on and check them out tonight.
Thanks for the little nugget of knowledge.
A Stefan Milo video?? My day has been made ☺️
These monuments are VERY interesting. Thanks for getting them into my head.
@20:05 omg we got round shaped boulders here in NZ too! They are called the Moeraki Boulders, calcite concretions formed 65 million years ago. buzzy to see them in costa rica.
Interesting ! They could have evolved unrelatedly or maybe been spread by a ocean travelling culture
@@aliceduanra7539 No, they are naturally occurring.
Perfect timing! I have the week of vacation and now have rabbit holes to dive into!
Laos used to be the country with the most UXO in it, but is now #2 for an unfortunately not happy reason; Ukraine is now #1. Would have been great if they lost the title due to demining work, but that wouldn't be a very human reason now would it
this deserves top comment. war. war never changes.
Sadly, I was thinking about Gaza. But I don't even know, if we get reliable accounts from there.
@@c.b.1542 'From 1964-1973, more than two million tons of ordnance were dropped on Laos.'
@@c.b.1542 'From 1964-1973, more than two million tons of ordnance were dropped on Laos.'
Mate well done with this production. Outstanding work. I really enjoyed these compilation of short overviews. It gets those mind cogs turning that's for sure!
Hell yeah
First time viewer \
new sub. Love the content. You present it in a knowledgeable way
Very concise but while also letting my mind wonder. Thnx. Luv it
Kites, herding traps??
Landing strips for ancient aliens 👽 👾
Say it with me: _"ceremonial purposes..."_
Finally Stephan, you heard my wish😊😊 this Mustatils really intrigued me for a long time.
We have signs of those underwater in Lake Huron, in Michigan.
Thank GOD for this. I really needed a new Stefan video, hits the spot!
I’m so fascinated by those round stones. I think because the simplicity of them. No images or ornamentation of any kind. I hope we will learn more about their origin one day!
First time watching your channel and i like, i love how you are sooo opened minded ❤🙏
This is one of my favorite Milo videos. Would loooove it if it became a series
Thank you for enriching me with knowledge.
This was an incredible post of things I haven't heard of before, and I watch a lot of archeological shows.!!
Thank you so much for touching on the Iberian places.
Raices de Europa, Fundación Juan March, HIJOS BONICOS and Asociación Cultural Héroes de Cavite are some of the best archeology channels from Spain if anyone is interested in learning a little more.
Congratulations for the amazing channel and content.