The World of Neolithic Greece - The First Seafarers, Traders and Farmers of Prehistoric Greece

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  • @ronalddevine9587
    @ronalddevine9587 Рік тому +249

    To anyone who has been to Greece, and especially to those who have not, the little bit of land available to farm, produces the absolute most delicious fruits and vegetables you've ever eaten.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +39

      Agreed! I was just there and can confirm this! Thanks for watching!

    • @gargoyle2585
      @gargoyle2585 Рік тому +3

      Robert Sepehr

    • @mariusmelerski5136
      @mariusmelerski5136 Рік тому +8

      You've obviously never been to Georgia

    • @KAZVorpal
      @KAZVorpal Рік тому +15

      @@mariusmelerski5136 I live in Georgia, and that's a local myth, like how locals in Traverse City, MI think they have the best fudge.

    • @mariusmelerski5136
      @mariusmelerski5136 Рік тому +22

      @@KAZVorpalyou think I mean Georgia the state I'm talking about Sakartvelos aka Georgia the country

  • @ΉρινναΜαρίαΠετράκη

    A year ago I attended a six-month online course at the Kapodistrian University of Athens on this subject. What is stated in the video is absolutely correct and matches 100% with what I was taught in university.
    I subscribed to your channel.
    Thank you very much for the effort you make and the knowledge you share. I am 72 years old and I am very interested in prehistory. Studying and learning is how I keep my mind and soul alert.
    (sorry for my english, I use machine translation)

    • @VickiWyatt-kk2no
      @VickiWyatt-kk2no Рік тому +1

      But you didn't teach us anything you learned?

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +4

      ευχαριστώ! Glad you liked the video. I will have more on the history of the Greek world coming soon, thank you for watching!

    • @tattooairinc6308
      @tattooairinc6308 Рік тому

      ​@@HistorywithCyThe Alsótatárlaka ( Romanian: Tărtăria ) tablets are three tablets ( ca. 5500 BCE - 5300 BCE ), reportedly discovered in 1961 at a Neolithic site in the village of Tărtăria ( Hungarian: Alsótatárlaka ), in Erdély ( Transylvania ), Alba ( white ) County, Romania. - wiki
      On the basis of radiocarbon-dating, Hans E. Suess, an American chemist, established the age as 7500 - 7000 years, in other words 5500 - 5000 years BCE. Since 1966, there is a more accurate method, dendrochronology, which utilizes tree-rings in dating, according to which one has to add 700 years to every tree-ring for each find, which is older than 3000 years. According to this method, our tablets are 8200 - 7700 years old ( i.e. 6200 BCE - 5700 BCE ), the product of an already developed system of writing. - The Mystery Of Tatárlaka ( Tărtăria ) Part 5. By Klára Friedrich
      Kornél Bakay, in his work entitled: "Őstörténetünk Régészeti Forrásai" ( Archeological Sources Of Our Ancient History, Published: Miskolci Bölcsész Egyesület 1997 ) gives an overview of the time-frame of cultural history of Europe and Asia from 10,000 BCE to the beginning of our era. He dates the finds of Tordos and Tatárlaka to 8000 BCE - 6000 BCE. - The Mystery Of Tatárlaka ( Tărtăria ) Part 2. By Klára Friedrich
      Based on the account of their discovery which associates the tablets with the Tordos-Vinča culture ( 5700 BCE - 4500 BCE or 5300 BCE - 4700 / 4500 BCE ) and on indirect radiocarbon evidence, some scientists propose that the tablets date to around 5500 BCE - 5300 BCE, predating ( ca. 2000 years ) Mesopotamian pictographic proto-writing. - wiki
      The Tordos ( Erdély / Transylvania ) Neolithic settlement was first explored by Zsófia Torma ( 1832 - 1899 ), the first Hungarian archaeologist, in 1875. In 1908, a similar cache was found during excavations directed by Serbian archeologist Miloje Vasić ( 1869 - 1956 ) in Vinča. - wiki
      Baroness Zsofia Torma excavation near Tordos ( present Turdaș, Romania ) she has found some 11,000 articfacts about 7,000 years old several of them wearing ROVÁS ( Székely-Magyar / Szekler-Hungarian ) or runic signs. They can be seen in the History of Transylvania Museum in Kolozsvár ( Romanian: Cluj ). - Comparisons Between Sign-Systems In The Carpathian Basin And The Bosnian Pyramids By Klára Friedrich
      Hungarians in Romania are the largest Hungarian community living beyond the borders of the state of Hungary. A century ago, a Hungarian-speaking population of more than 1.6 million - i.e. 32 per cent of the total population - lived in historic Transylvania and other areas annexed to Romania after WWI ( together, these areas have since then been known as Transylvania ). - Office For The European Representation Of Hungarian National Communities
      "… it is quite possible that the Sumerians came from the Carpathian Basin and the Balkans in a similar manner. The linguistic parallels cited by Mr. Botos are impressive. The Tatárlaki Táblák ( Tărtăria Tablets ) have sadly been ignored by archeologists in the West." - John E. Dayton, London University Institute Of Archeology
      According to our present knowledge, the ancient inhabitants of the Carpathian Basin were the inventors of writing - concludes Géza Radics and, according to the archaeological data, he is absolutely right. - The Mystery Of Tatárlaka ( Tărtăria ) Part 3. By Klára Friedrich

  • @JustGrowingUp84
    @JustGrowingUp84 Рік тому +51

    Neolithic is one of the most interesting periods of human history (technically prehistory, but you know what I meant).
    Vast and fundamental changes to human society took place during that time.
    Thank you for covering this, Cy!

    • @gargoyle2585
      @gargoyle2585 Рік тому +2

      The Purple Dawn - Kronos - then Zeus reigned supreme. Polar Configuration. Clash of the Titans. 3000 B.C.E - Greeks wiped out by "Great" Flood.... most interesting indeed!
      ⚡⚡ElectricUniverse⚡⚡
      P.S. Cy didn't cover any of it!

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +4

      @JustGrowingUp84 Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! I'm relatively new to the subject as my expertise is more focused on the ancient Near East but I'm really enjoying researching more about Neolithic Europe. I hope to one day go into more depth and cover other regions of the continent. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!

    • @scionkai2524
      @scionkai2524 Рік тому +1

      @@HistorywithCyI wonder how cooperative those villages were, or if there was a lot of infighting and pecking order rivalry. Your description of roads and town centers sparked my imagination big time.
      Learning those things using Neolithic archeological evidence seems impossible, but given human nature, the social dynamics at play in those early settlements as humanity developed must have been very fascinating. Were I to hazard a guess, it would be several leaders at the top of those societies bullied others to get along, with perhaps rival community heads posturing against each other and using squabbles to gain advantage.
      It's not impossible to imagine an exceptionally cooperative community forming as they braved the dangers of the day, but knowing how often things work now, it sadly seems unlikely. A fun subject to ponder though.

    • @gargoyle2585
      @gargoyle2585 Рік тому +1

      @@scionkai2524 Robert Sepehr

    • @gargoyle2585
      @gargoyle2585 Рік тому +1

      @IStevenSeagal Robert Sepehr

  • @Manic-Main
    @Manic-Main Рік тому +24

    Just got done getting ready for bed and BAM. New Cy vid drops. Was having a shitty day and this just made it so much better as I’m tucked in starting to watch.
    Thank you for making THE BEST history content ANYWHERE.
    Much love. ❤

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +4

      Thanks so much for the kind words and support, really appreciate it! Lot's more on the way, thanks for always tuning in, means a lot!

    • @gargoyle2585
      @gargoyle2585 Рік тому

      Purple Dawn Polar Configuration The Black Sun Kronos 🙏

  • @kimberlyperrotis8962
    @kimberlyperrotis8962 Рік тому +8

    Great video, thank you. As a Greek, I find it fascinating that some of my very distant ancestors might have been among the earliest farmers in Europe.

    • @BezoomyKoshka-ip4dz
      @BezoomyKoshka-ip4dz 5 місяців тому

      My grandparents were Greek. I often think of how cool it is that my ancestors may have saw all the beautiful ancient buildings and all the plays and philosophers

  • @AngryHistorian87
    @AngryHistorian87 Рік тому +64

    There is a small museum in the Athens airport that features a lot of Neolithic period discoveries (and other objects from various periods of Greek history) from archaeological excavations near the Athens airport.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +18

      Oh I missed that one. But one thing I love about Greece is that nearly every town I visited with over 100 people had an archaeological museum. It might have been two small rooms in an old house, but it was there! I was really impressed by this and can't wait to visit more towns and cities of Greece to discover more. Thanks for watching!

    • @skp8748
      @skp8748 Рік тому +1

      ​@@HistorywithCycould you do the city states like Opone and the macrobians or maybe even the Neolithic back to Africa migration of the natufian who split in two in Egypt with one going south to what is modern day Somalia and the other continuing west to what is now Morroco

    • @Αναστάσιος-σ8υ
      @Αναστάσιος-σ8υ Рік тому +4

      @@HistorywithCy and imagine how many artifacts are stolen and scattered around the world.

    • @Oddball5.0
      @Oddball5.0 Рік тому +1

      Yes, that is an excellent little museum.

    • @klausbrinck2137
      @klausbrinck2137 Рік тому +1

      The same problem as always: You try to build something in Greece, and you have to stop, because some ancient building is found underneath...

  • @StMiBll
    @StMiBll Рік тому +16

    Neolithic Greece is such an interesting topic! The sophistication of Copper,Bonze, and Iron Age cultures is astounding in and of itself; but, the Neolithic origins of those cultures and how they came about among Stone Age people is absolutely captivating.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому

      Thanks! I hope to do more on the Neolithic period and European prehistory for the rest of Europe sometime in the future. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!

  • @JonnoPlays
    @JonnoPlays Рік тому +4

    Yes! I'm so excited for an episode about Greece from this time period! Thank you!! 🙏

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому

      Hope you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!

  • @asa9528
    @asa9528 Рік тому +8

    Love your work and how you cover topics that haven’t been worked to death! I learn so much from you

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому

      Thanks, glad you find these videos useful. More on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!

  • @massimosquecco8956
    @massimosquecco8956 Рік тому +4

    Thank you Cy for having make this video about archaic "Greece" because it's a topic that really intrigues me. Especially the later Chalcolithic fase that developed in the neighboring Balkans and the enigmatic Cucuteni Tripillian culture. I m sure you'll bring us many information's and give us - as usual - much to think and learn about . I m Happy-happy you started from the very beginnings of their evolution.
    You are the BEST! Let me come back from my vacations and I will buy your merchandise to support you ( could be the month after: I m going abroad and I don't know how much I will spend there...)

  • @Ray-w9o4e
    @Ray-w9o4e Рік тому +3

    Again. One of the best channels on YT. Non-biased and passionate. Love and logic; emotion and empiricism. Too rad.

  • @AloneComes
    @AloneComes 6 місяців тому

    your ability to make complex topics simple is a true gift!

  • @Frankkk793
    @Frankkk793 Рік тому +7

    It's always a good time when I see you've uploaded a new video. I always learn new things with you and I thank you for it!

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      Thanks, glad you've been enjoying these. More on the way and thanks for watching!

    • @Jack-bv6eu
      @Jack-bv6eu Рік тому

      Merci à toi pour ce faire!

  • @TheRedneckPreppy
    @TheRedneckPreppy Рік тому +5

    Great episode Cy. Always love hearing about *ancient* ancient history!

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      My pleasure, hope to cover more regions during the Neolithic period as I study them more. Thanks again for tuning in, really appreciate it!

  • @xiana.6322
    @xiana.6322 Рік тому +3

    If you're ever in Crete, do yourself the favor of walking through the neolithic ruins. It is surreal and awe-inspiring.

  • @Numba003
    @Numba003 Рік тому +11

    I would like to visit Greece one day. There's so much interesting history and stunning geography there. Thank you for another excellent video!
    God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      Thanks, appreciate the kind words and glad you found this interesting. Same to you!

    • @kimberlyperrotis8962
      @kimberlyperrotis8962 Рік тому

      And with you, friend🙂

  • @WanaxTV
    @WanaxTV Рік тому +11

    Awesome! Looking forward to more Greek content!

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +4

      For sure buddy, but I could say the same... I'm always looking forward to watching more content from the Wanax of Greek history!

  • @johnnysmall
    @johnnysmall Рік тому +3

    Yooooo I'm so behind on Cy videos but seeing this just got me so hyped to start catching up again! You've been dropping some really cool stuff lately (just based on the video titles lol) I can't to watch all of them keep it up man

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      Thanks man! Yeah there's A LOT more coming due to some end of the year trips I've been taking... a lot on Greece, Egypt, eastern Mediterranean lined up for end of this year, beginning of next. Stay tuned and thanks for watching!

  • @keatonsmith5669
    @keatonsmith5669 Рік тому +25

    They called that statue "The Thinker" because you can't have a display in a museum called "The Wanker".

  • @quinten6799
    @quinten6799 Рік тому +7

    Great video, wonder if you considered talking about Lerna and the House of Tiles for the Early Bronze Age or if you think it deserves a video for itself

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +3

      Oh I visited the site and have some footage on it! Sure, I think I can do a quick one on it. Thanks for the suggestion!

    • @kimberlyperrotis8962
      @kimberlyperrotis8962 Рік тому

      Great idea🙂

  • @KAZVorpal
    @KAZVorpal Рік тому +18

    You said "thirteen hundred years ago" for the obsidian, when you must have meant thirteen thousand.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +8

      Yes, I misspoke. Thanks for catching that!

    • @bordaz1
      @bordaz1 Рік тому +8

      Nah come on, you’ve never heard of Byzantine man caves? They had the first ppv in history, getting all the Hippodrome races for a solidus/year

  • @noahlogue
    @noahlogue Рік тому +2

    History with Cy! Made my night after work.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      I'm glad! Thanks for watching, appreciate it!

  • @jakobraahauge7299
    @jakobraahauge7299 Рік тому +7

    I can't remember the source, but there appears to be indications that the transition to agriculture initially took place in the region of Northern Syria amd Southern Turkiye - on the hill feet near the complexes like Göbekli Tepe. I hope you'll make an equally lovely video when you find sufficient sources!
    Love how much the understanding of the transition into agriculturalism has changed since I was a child - I'm old, so a lot had happened! When I was a child my science fiction dream was having a portable telly - and now I'm watching this on my phone! Dreams do come true! 😄

    • @jakobraahauge7299
      @jakobraahauge7299 Рік тому

      @IStevenSeagal No, not the Natufians. The Natufians were semi-nomadic

    • @jakobraahauge7299
      @jakobraahauge7299 Рік тому

      @IStevenSeagal Well, that's the interesting part - isn't it... that was kinda the point

  • @bjelda7702
    @bjelda7702 Рік тому +2

    Thank you bro, I am just right now doing the seminary work about neolithic Anatolia and Greece. This video help a lot.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      Nice, that sounds awesome! I'm hoping to visit some of the museums and historical sites in Turkey in the next few years and do some content on that. Thanks for watching and good luck with your studies!

    • @bjelda7702
      @bjelda7702 Рік тому +1

      @@HistorywithCy that would be cool and thank you very much!

  • @moscular
    @moscular Рік тому +2

    Thanks always for the great content!

  • @nicolasntovas5667
    @nicolasntovas5667 2 місяці тому

    Using geomythology and etymology we are stunned to see events and locations dating back to 23,000 BCE!!!
    Neolithic Greece represents a new start after the great cataclysm of Deukalion around 10,000 BCE following another one at 17,000 BCE known as the cataclysm of Samothrace.

    • @iliasmastoris529
      @iliasmastoris529 2 місяці тому

      The flood of Deucalion is reminiscent of the Younger Dryas.

  • @EdrickBluebeard
    @EdrickBluebeard Рік тому +2

    Great presentation. Merci beaucoup.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!

  • @Pablo9svn8
    @Pablo9svn8 6 місяців тому

    A couple important things to mention. First off when he brings up the obsidian trade the island of Milos was very sparsely inhabited at this time (if not uninhabited) and this trade route is believed to have spread far and wide since the early days of the neolithic. So whoever was going to get that obsidian can be assumed to be capable sea farers. Also as much as greece likely could have been home to the first farmers we dont actually know that for sure. It could have just as likely been the levant anatolia or even somewhere like the balkans. Also the east has their own areas of independent development of farming as well. The process of acheiving agriculture as we view it was almost certainly a patchwork process tho. Culutural diffusion playing out slowly over many generations of many different groups. Look into how the distribution of both the Venus sculptures and of genetic haplogroups matches up with the trade routes of the time and imagine how much change this would have caused in a world where a large percentage of people were stil hunter gatherers. At the end of the day we still have limited information on who shared what with who or who the true first cultures to make these advancements were but it does seem we are getting excitingly close to some big breakthroughs and that the roots of our culture go back far further than ever thought. Those venus statues for instance were being made for a crazy long time in a lot of distant places

  • @facoulac
    @facoulac Рік тому +3

    as a greek myself this is hugely interesting

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому

      Thanks, glad you enjoyed this and lots more Greek-related history on the way!

  • @rawr2u190
    @rawr2u190 Рік тому +7

    There's a theory I find interesting: the Pelasgians descended from Neolithic Greek peoples. The Neolithic peoples were probably not Indo-European speaking and Pelasgians might not have been either.

    • @Αναστάσιος-σ8υ
      @Αναστάσιος-σ8υ Рік тому +2

      The theory that the Yamnayas are the Indo-Europeans is falling apart, so the one does not exclude the other. For the rest, you only have to read what the ancients wrote about the past.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      Ah @WanaxTv did a video on the Pelasgians not too long ago, I think you'll find it interesting. Thanks for watching!

    • @notmyname9625
      @notmyname9625 5 днів тому

      @@Αναστάσιος-σ8υits not falling apart from what i know tho. Becoming more nuanced as time goes on for sure but not falling apart. Genetic testing has resulted in the kurgan hypothesis becoming even more widely accepted if anything it is just that it has also become more complex than first imagined which really should have just been common sense to anyone familiar with the concept of cultural diffusion/admixture/evolution. Why exactly do you think its falling apart tho? Im not saying you are necessarily wrong but just curious what u mean by this?

  • @MeatGoblin88
    @MeatGoblin88 Рік тому +3

    Fun fact: Sesklo had more people living in it 7000 years ago than it does today.

  • @SDGrave
    @SDGrave Рік тому +2

    At 2:52 you say 1300 years ago. That's 700 AD. Did you means 13.000? Though on the image it says 10k-7k years ago. Could you clarify, please?

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +2

      Hi. I misspoke, I meant to say 13 THOUSAND, not hundred. Thanks for catching that.

  • @colonelblastpack169
    @colonelblastpack169 Рік тому +1

    im a big star wars freak. but I get so much more hyped up when theres a new History with Cy video.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      Haha thanks! Seen the Ahsoka finale yet? Thoughts?

    • @colonelblastpack169
      @colonelblastpack169 Рік тому

      I loved it. dont wanna give anything away. I will say Dave Filoni is an excellent padawan to Master George Lucas. they only average like 8 episodes for a "season" at Disney. You have them beat in that department too!

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      Yeah Dave is great because he really respects Lucas and his vision, unlike... well, I'm not going to get into that here but you probably know a couple people I might be referring to lol). I saw the finale... I won't give anything away here but that last scene with Baylan... WOW!

  • @MotDoiAnLac258
    @MotDoiAnLac258 Рік тому

    Thank you again

  • @ancientsitesgirl
    @ancientsitesgirl Рік тому +1

    I love your content, best regards❤

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому

      Thanks, I love yours as well. I was actually going to leave for Egypt today but given the current situation next door I had to postpone my trip. Your videos are the next best thing to being there!

  • @itikutok6568
    @itikutok6568 Рік тому

    This was very interesting, thanks!

  • @geraldmeehan8942
    @geraldmeehan8942 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for the video

  • @Ανδρέας-ΓεώργιοςΣκίννερ

    Great video, Cy. I hope you're planning on a video about the Early and Middle Helladic period, before the Mycenaeans, as I've come to a dead end regarding the entry of Greek-speaking peoples into southern Greece. If Proto-Greek was spoken in Epirus and Western Macedonia ca. 2900 BCE and Mycenaean Greek was spoken in Central Greece and the Peloponnese ca. 1650 BCE, when did the necessary southward expansion occur, and which phases of the Helladic period correspond to this shift from pre-Greek to Greek populations? Anyway, you've got a brilliant channel, carry on!

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +2

      Hi, thanks for the feedback and kind words, really appreciate them. I'll definitely look into it. I'm not an expert on these topics so definitely want to research a lot more before I put something out, but I did visit a few Helladic sites a couple of weeks ago including Lerna and my interest in the period has increased tremendously, so perhaps a shorter video like this one may be in the works. Thanks for the suggestion, really appreciate it!

    • @Αναστάσιος-σ8υ
      @Αναστάσιος-σ8υ Рік тому +1

      @@HistorywithCy there is no evidence about these dates only theories that nobody can prove.

    • @Αναστάσιος-σ8υ
      @Αναστάσιος-σ8υ Рік тому +4

      By that date we already have Mycenaean anactorial buildings so you can understand yourself that the notion that "the Greeks arrived to southern Greece at 1650 bc" is absurd...

    • @borisfrlic
      @borisfrlic Рік тому

      The only way you’ll ever have any answers to your questions will be through (non-mainstream / politically weaponised) Serb / Slavic history, ethnology, etymology / linguistics, cults, archeology, etc...
      Lepenski Vir & Vinča are your starting points. Work your way up from there.

    • @azwris
      @azwris Рік тому +1

      There wasn't any southward expansion my dear friend. Human is living in different parts of the globe like forever. Also remember that proper life conditions, begin from the places where life is easier to be developed. And the Mediterranean area allowed the development of civilization much earlier than in the Central of Northern Europe due to the last Glacier Period. Last but not least, there aren't pro-Greeks or...post-Greeks. There were Proto-Greeks and they developed language thousands of years before their first "alphabet" appeared (Linear-A aka Γραμμική Α). I can go on forever but it will take eons. Research and study more!

  • @ricktasker8248
    @ricktasker8248 Рік тому +1

    Excellent Thanks.

  • @balachandransantosh8195
    @balachandransantosh8195 Рік тому

    Love the content, video, and channel.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому

      Thank you, appreciate the kind words and thanks for watching!

  • @pinchevulpes
    @pinchevulpes Рік тому +9

    Last time I was this early the Achaeans hadn't sacrificed Iphigenia yet.

  • @vazak11
    @vazak11 Рік тому

    Amazing work!

  • @johnbooth1110
    @johnbooth1110 Рік тому

    Professor Mc Alister 1927 Dublin University describes Neolithic framers as Dolichocephaly long narrow heads and long faced. there are depictions of Apollo in the delphi Museum of such faces.

  • @stonefish1318
    @stonefish1318 10 місяців тому +1

    3:35 or they lived a semi aquatic lifestyle similar to present seaotters and swam to the island by themselves...

  • @christopherthrawn1333
    @christopherthrawn1333 Рік тому

    Excellent work here

  • @christinakaur8766
    @christinakaur8766 Рік тому +2

    I sometimes wish I could live like our ancestors did. Sure it has a lot of cons compared to the present, but I'd love to see the night sky as they did, and live a simple life based on needs, not wants.

  • @donnysandley4649
    @donnysandley4649 Рік тому +1

    Love you're videos🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      Thank you, I love all my viewers! Appreciate your support and thanks for watching!

  • @alexeysaphonov232
    @alexeysaphonov232 Рік тому +2

    I am just curious how the conclusion about women pioniring role in agriculture has been drawn?

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +3

      Hi, that's a great question. I'll see if I can find a specific answer that I can quote but my understanding is its because archaeologists found the same amount of bones from large game animals at some of these early agricultural settlements as at earlier periods, and from this many concluded that if the men were still providing the same amount of meat, the women must have been involved in farming. Another is evidence of repetitive stress injuries that have been found on the remains of Neolithic women from the time (on arms, backs, etc) that may suggest the performance of repetitive tasks such as tilling fields or grinding grain. Also, anthropologists have studied primitive societies in our own time such as in the Amazon and parts of central Africa where the women are still more involved with agriculture while the men hunt and fish. Again don't quote me on this but that's my understanding, hope this helps. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!

  • @TheLionFarm
    @TheLionFarm Рік тому

    Interesting topic right here

  • @ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κ

    7:59 hey, I've been there! This is close to where my village is

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому

      Oh that's such a beautiful area! I love the Peloponnese! Thanks for watching!

  • @patricklarm5462
    @patricklarm5462 Рік тому +1

    According to newer studies made all over the world, ancient hunter gatherers had an equal mix of men and women hunting, so it were not only men who hunted, gender based work roles came later.

  • @manos7958
    @manos7958 Рік тому +4

    2:48 Shouldn't that be 13 thousand instead of hundred years ago?
    The prehistorical arithmetic police at your service. :)

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      Duh! I misspoke... yes, 13 THOUSAND, not hundred. Thanks for catching that!

  • @ESS284
    @ESS284 Рік тому +3

    It's really absolute speculation for you to characterize the development of agriculture as led by women. That is a theory and should be presented as so.

  • @delphinazizumbo8674
    @delphinazizumbo8674 Рік тому

    0:16 "the thinker"?
    what did they think he was doing with his other hand?
    some big equipment there
    i think i know what he's thinking about

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому

      haha I don't want to know what he's thinking about... thanks for watching!

  • @duboisdvoleur
    @duboisdvoleur Рік тому +1

    I am curious about the role that domesticated dogs played in this development towards the bronze age. If you have dogs you need less people to herd animals. They would give a significant boost to productivity.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому

      That's a great and very interesting question. I didn't come across anything about it with regard to Greece while researching for this video, but I know that they did play a part in other Neolithic and even earlier societies in Europe. One day I'll do a deep dive in the more European prehistory and will try to look into this. Thanks for the suggestion and for watching!

  • @johncater7861
    @johncater7861 3 місяці тому

    I would like to see a reconstruction of the island of Thera before its destruction.

  • @TheRedneckPreppy
    @TheRedneckPreppy Рік тому

    Thanks!

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      Hey man, wasn't necessary but thanks, appreciate the support! I'm just thrilled you keep tuning in for these, that to me is more than enough. Thanks for the continued support over the years!

    • @TheRedneckPreppy
      @TheRedneckPreppy Рік тому

      @@HistorywithCy I've watched so many of your videos for so long that I was frankly becoming a little embarrassed I never threw anything into the kitty. It's not much, but I hope it helps a little.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      @@TheRedneckPreppy Thanks again... but honestly no need in future, tuning every time like you do is more than enough!

  • @alekseibuinyi
    @alekseibuinyi Рік тому

    Curious if there are any investiagtions of the old shorelines and settlements there of 20-7k years B.C., that now, I suppose, mostly under the water.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      Hi! I know that there are but I haven't studied them. It's an interesting topic though. In the next video on the Bronze Age Cycladic culture I'm going to mention the island of Saliagos which back then was actually joined with what are today the islands of Paros and Antiparos but today is out in the Aegean by itself. I'm sure a lot of what was once there is now underwater. Thanks for watching!

  • @electrosyzygy
    @electrosyzygy Рік тому

    @History with Cy: slight mistake @2:48. You say 1300 years ago when you mean to say 13000...

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому

      Yes, slip of the tongue on my part...thanks for catching that and watching!

  • @Nikanoru
    @Nikanoru Рік тому +1

    The "Thinker" Yeah, looks like he's thinkin' about someone pretty hard there.

  • @jayoxman9829
    @jayoxman9829 Рік тому +1

    2:40 1300 years ago or 13,000?

  • @marcomejia2613
    @marcomejia2613 8 місяців тому +1

    Did you mean 13 thousand?

  • @dassonntagskind
    @dassonntagskind Рік тому +1

    I urge everyone to read Harald Haarmann's work on this. It's absolutely fascinating how much of what later became Classical Greece actually has its roots in this period.

  • @qboxer
    @qboxer Рік тому +3

    Good video. However, I understand that archeogenetics have all but confirmed that the Neolithic revolution came to Greece (and Europe more generally) through mass migration of Anatolian Farmers / Early European Farmers originating in Anatolia. They were subsequently replaced by Indo Europeans, at least in paternal lineages, but the vast majority of Europeans today have at least some and sometimes a lot of EEF genes. The closest population to direct descendants is Sardinia

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +2

      Interesting, that's a good point. I need to read more about that as I want to learn more about Neolithic Europe in general. Any studies that you recommend? Thanks! Also thanks for watching, appreciate it!

    • @qboxer
      @qboxer Рік тому +1

      @@HistorywithCynot a genetics expert by any means. Razib Khan (geneticist) has written extensively on this - he has a blog and opens up his older posts to the public. Tom Rowsell (Survive the Jive) also tackled a lot of genetics on his UA-cam channel, as does the author Dan Davis, who specifically covers the transition of Neolithic to Bronze Age.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +2

      Ah ok, I know of Rezib Khan, I think I saw an interview with him on Study of Antiquity if I'm not mistaken. I've heard of Survive the Jive but never seen any of that channel's videos so I'll take a look when I get the chance. Dan Davis History I know, great channel, love his stuff!

    • @qboxer
      @qboxer Рік тому +2

      @@HistorywithCy Razib Khan’s written material is well cited and provides a lot of research. Good resource!

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +2

      @@qboxer Thanks for the info, appreciate it!

  • @christophercripps7639
    @christophercripps7639 7 годин тому

    Obsidian blades had to be 13,000 years ago. 1,300 years ago (700 CE) there were people speaking Greek in Greece.

  • @moesypittounikos
    @moesypittounikos Рік тому

    These people were about 5000BC and 5000 years before them Gobekli Tepi was built. Astounding.

    • @tonypujals
      @tonypujals Рік тому

      Mind boggling to think about that time span, when you think about the past 5,000 years.

  • @BezoomyKoshka-ip4dz
    @BezoomyKoshka-ip4dz 5 місяців тому

    0:14 the thinker looks like me when I'm thinking about Mary Burke 😅

  • @scottzema3103
    @scottzema3103 Рік тому +1

    The Egyptian delta was cultivated long before Mesopotamia, as early as 12 to 10 thousand B.C. This would be the origin of agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean.

  • @RealBonnieBlue
    @RealBonnieBlue Рік тому +7

    So basically, these are the Greeks in their neolithic stage of development

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann8969 Рік тому +4

    The Greeks are some of the nearest or closest relatives and offshoots, substitutes, or placeholders of the early Anatolian Famere them as well as Persians, Italians, Spaniards, And Portuguese yeah.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      Thanks for watching, appreciate it!

    • @Rita1984
      @Rita1984 Рік тому +3

      Sardinians are the closest genetic population to anatolian and early european farmers.

    • @RichardEdwards40
      @RichardEdwards40 Рік тому +3

      Persians are not decsended from Anatolian farmers. they're descended from Zagros mountain farmers. different people

    • @qboxer
      @qboxer Рік тому

      @@RichardEdwards40I believe that they have some descent from EEF, but obviously loads from Zagros farmers and then later Indo Europeans, combined with some Middle Eastern lineages

  • @ManiacMageetheG
    @ManiacMageetheG Рік тому

    2:45 did you mean 13,000? The date below says "10,000 bc.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      Yes, I misspoke. Thanks for catching that and for watching!

  • @johnvaughan8239
    @johnvaughan8239 Рік тому

    You said that the oldest piece of obsidian found in the cave was from 13 hundred years ago. Did you mean 13 thousand?

  • @johnssmith4005
    @johnssmith4005 Рік тому +5

    0:12 The Coomer of Corinth 🤭😆

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому

      Lol I was thinking more Sloth from the goonies.

  • @mrbaab5932
    @mrbaab5932 Рік тому

    I am always bothered by UA-cam videos that don't show the proper sea levels during the Ice Ages. The Aegean Sea is shallow in general and most if it was dry land during the Ice Ages.

    • @Oddball5.0
      @Oddball5.0 Рік тому

      Shallow? No. Many of the Cyclades and other islands were connected during the last glacial maximum, but there were deep channels between. We actually have a very good idea of the configuration during the last Ice Age.

  • @peterlampropoulos3505
    @peterlampropoulos3505 2 місяці тому

    Franchthi cave has been used since 130 000 bc. The Proselenes. Pelasgians

  • @Rhaenarys
    @Rhaenarys Рік тому

    Sometimes when i look at artifacts, like the mask one in the beginning, i wonder if theyre actually mistakes, like the person who made them was training...and just didnt do a good job or hasnt learned proper techniques yet lol. Or if they were just made by children. It seems silly to us for some strange reason on why they would waste time doing it for non important reasons, but...we literally do the same things today. We make clay creations for our kids and allow them to make them daily. And its not exactly hard to bake clay, so...why not is what i say. It would be neat to find out that mask was made by a kid trying to learn how to combine all the features of a face into artform, but still had some time to go to do it where it looks right, and not crooked. It would be neat to find out many of the non important things we do today has been carried on for such a long time. Like making simple drawings of faces , or in this case, etches. Using clay to make little figurines just for fun. I would love to hear that.

  • @georgepretnick4460
    @georgepretnick4460 Рік тому

    Quite obviously, not everyone in the neolithic was built like Raquel Welch. Obesity was not only known, but admired as the preferred model.

  • @fouliboura3203
    @fouliboura3203 7 місяців тому

    Χαιρετε. ΟΧΙ, την χωρα που γνωριζουμε ΣΗΜΕΡΑ, σαν Ελλαδα, ΠΑΝΤΑ ΗΤΑΝ ΓΝΩΣΤΗ ΣΑΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ, να ξερουμε τι λεμε !!!!!!!!!

  • @johncater7861
    @johncater7861 3 місяці тому

    So, after the advent of farming and more intensive settlements, people began to have chieftains and wage continual wars against one another.

  • @Danetto
    @Danetto Рік тому

    nice video. more like this. can u talk about sea peoples a little bit xd

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      Thanks... end of this year or early next there will be a big Late Bronze Age Collapse / Sea Peoples video. Stay tuned and thanks for watching!

    • @Danetto
      @Danetto Рік тому

      @@HistorywithCy ah i can imagine that. but what about a 10min video just trying to explain who were these sea peoples xd u could use it as promotion for ur big video xd

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +2

      Actually I do have a 10 minute video on the Sea Peoples from a few years ago. I also wrote the script for the recent Kings and Generals video on them that came out a couple of weeks ago so those should tide you over until I put out another one on the subject. Thanks for your interest!

    • @lamda4738
      @lamda4738 7 місяців тому

      As far as i know, Egyptians used to call sea people the civilization we know today as Minoans.

    • @Danetto
      @Danetto 7 місяців тому

      @@lamda4738 yeah no xd

  • @jimmyconway8025
    @jimmyconway8025 2 місяці тому

    Why would they be using obsidian 1,300 yrs ago?
    13,000 yrs?

  • @kaiokendo
    @kaiokendo Рік тому

    Wheres the dragón houses

  • @philliphartman2381
    @philliphartman2381 7 місяців тому +2

    This guys info is very much out of date. It seems he didn't read any research paper or book written in the past twenty years before making this video. Numerous genetic studies have proven definitively that farming came to Greece and Europe from people migrating from Anatolia and these people completely replaced the pre-Neolithic hunter-gatherers. There was no independent domestication of crops or animals. It happened in one location and was spread by migration because their crops and animals gave them a huge advantage and allowed their numbers to grow rapidly.

    • @MsMusicalways
      @MsMusicalways 3 місяці тому

      Could you give some sources for this, please? I'm quite interested to learn more about this period

    • @philliphartman2381
      @philliphartman2381 3 місяці тому

      @@MsMusicalways It's really a central tenant of every paper these days. Maybe start with Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia 2022

    • @MsMusicalways
      @MsMusicalways 3 місяці тому +1

      @@philliphartman2381 thank you!

  • @robcat2075
    @robcat2075 Рік тому

    2:48 "1300 years ago" is 700 AD, way after the stone age.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому

      Yeah it was a slip of the tongue on my part... others caught it too. Thanks for letting me know!

  • @plant1deep4u2
    @plant1deep4u2 2 місяці тому

    "The oldest of the bunch dating back to around 1300 years ago . . . " eh hem 1300 years ago they were using forged metals for blades and tools. You need to correct that. 2:46 min into video. WRONG! Perhaps you meant 13,000 years ago?

  • @dp6003
    @dp6003 3 місяці тому

    It all started in Greece
    and moved everywhere else, dahhhhh

  • @fouliboura3203
    @fouliboura3203 7 місяців тому

    Χαιρετε. Σαν Ελληνιδα, θα ειθελα να συστησω, σ´αυτους που θελουν να μαθουν για την αρχαια ιστορια της Ελλαδας και οχι μονο, να διαβαζετε σε βιβλια οτι εχουν γραψει οι ΑΡΧΑΙΟΙ ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕΙΣ. ΠΟΤΕ ΔΕΝ ΨΕΥΔΟΝΤΑΙ !!!!!!! ΠΙΣΤΕΨΤΕ ΜΕ.....

  • @Dragan-t6w
    @Dragan-t6w 8 місяців тому

    World first cultures Lepenski vir, Starcevo, Vinca culture today Serbia.
    World first industrial revolution ca. 6000 BC. Bronze metallurgy. (BBC History news March 2010)
    Gordon Childe-The Danube in Prehistory, Jacque Pirenne-Agriculture at Danube
    Farming start about 6000 BC. Vinca First Calendar start to count years at 5508 BC. Farming wouldn’t be possible without knowledge of calendar. Both development started and developed together.
    Harald Harman about first cyrillic writings in Vinca culture in 5500 BC so 2000 years before any writings anywhere else on the world.
    Vinca Iron production 1400 BC.
    In today English language there is more than 2000 same or similar Serbian words.
    Names of the Balkan tribes: Pelasgians, Mycenaeans, Etruscan, Wendi, Illiyrians, Dardanians (Troy is here ,not in Turkey Homer wrote sea is freezing in the winter-Panonian sea), Moesians, Dacians, Tracians, Rasci, Celts, Scythians, Sarmatians, Arians, Sea People, Peleset, Philistines, Hittites, Bhrygians, Etruscan. Tribes spread in all directions all over Europe and Asia …….
    Wild Greeks arived ~ 1000 BC from Egipt, Hungarian from Asia and Bulgariens from Asia they found culture on the Balkans, writings and language and they mixed with domestic people. 18 Roman emperors were born in Serbia because of Etruscan connection.

  • @Arjunarjunskiy
    @Arjunarjunskiy Рік тому +1

    Yeah the "thinker"... For sure

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +2

      That's what it's called in the museum... the "Thinker of Karditsa," the largest Neolithic figurine discovered in Greece.

  • @casek6930
    @casek6930 Рік тому +3

    I suspect that it was common knowledge among hunters and gatherers what happens when you bury a seed.

    • @firstnamelastname42069
      @firstnamelastname42069 Рік тому +2

      Especially gatherers

    • @qboxer
      @qboxer Рік тому +1

      Not really. Farming almost certainly did not spread by trading, but rather by mass migration

    • @timothymatthews6458
      @timothymatthews6458 Рік тому

      casek6930 Although the time is takes for a seed to sprout is a few weeks, the time it takes for a plant to become edible and useable is way longer, so it is possible that hunter-gatherers didn't know that seeds become edible plants.

  • @robertpearce4316
    @robertpearce4316 Рік тому +1

    The blade has to 13k not 1300 years

  • @cyan1616
    @cyan1616 10 місяців тому

    Why isn't there a good video out there about the pre-flood civilizations of the Cyclades plateau? Yes, it was a land mass, or island, during the ice age up until the sea level rose in the Mediterranean Sea. Greece has been studying the area for a long while now, but I never see anything about it outside Greece. Are people too terrified that someone might call it.... "Atlantis" ? forbid that would happen.

    • @AlbertaGeek
      @AlbertaGeek 9 місяців тому

      Have you even looked? Because I just did a search of "Cyclades plateau" and found several videos about the subject. In fact, this very channel has done one. Are you saying that none of them are any good?

  • @peterk.4266
    @peterk.4266 Рік тому

    0:12 I guess don`t take a genius to figure what the Thinker had been thinking about

  • @Ponto-zv9vf
    @Ponto-zv9vf Місяць тому

    You can tell from the dna of the animals and humans whether they were local or foreign. Hunter Gatherers of Europe are different from those of Anatolia, Mesopotamia and the Levant, and the farmers if they were local origin would have the dna of the local HGs. Same with animals and plants. The point is that farming in Europe and their plants and animals were not native to Europe and introduced by immigrants.

  • @beepboop204
    @beepboop204 Рік тому

  • @toneranger
    @toneranger Рік тому

    At 2.50 "the oldest artifact was dated to 1300 years ago" seriously, the middle ages.... centuries after Classical Greece ?

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому

      Hi! That was a misspeak, slip of the tongue on my part... thanks!

  • @alfiewright1396
    @alfiewright1396 Рік тому

    This was a great video, however i do find it a little jarring how you pause every couple of words even when there isnt a comma

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому +1

      Hi, thanks for the feedback... yeah several times in the past I've been told that I speak too fast, so I tried to slow it down a bit. This is something I need to work on. Will do my best to find a better balance in future videos. Thanks for watching!

  • @johncollins211
    @johncollins211 Рік тому

    With the placement of the other hand i dont think that dude was thinking

  • @SailingSquib
    @SailingSquib Рік тому

    4:35 Corn comes from america and was never been grown in the neolithic eastern med.

    • @HistorywithCy
      @HistorywithCy  Рік тому

      Hi. I'm not sure if it is corn or some other crop. I just used it as some b-roll of a farm and the early stages of crop growth. Thanks.

    • @SailingSquib
      @SailingSquib Рік тому

      It´s defininitly young corn @@HistorywithCy

    • @patmorris9692
      @patmorris9692 Рік тому

      Corn is also a word that means “cereal”

    • @RichardMyers-i2s
      @RichardMyers-i2s 2 місяці тому

      Bro seriously pointing out the filler image while ignoring the presented information😂😂

    • @SailingSquib
      @SailingSquib 2 місяці тому

      @@RichardMyers-i2s It would be better to use a correct " filler" image

  • @St.petersEye
    @St.petersEye Рік тому +1

    The Egyptian priest that spoke with Plato's great great grand father "critias" said there were ancient Athenians before the Greeks and were an advanced civilisation too.

    • @Oddball5.0
      @Oddball5.0 Рік тому

      Or it's just a made up story.