When Did The First People Arrive In Britain?

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  • @MorallyGreyWolf
    @MorallyGreyWolf 10 днів тому +23

    I really loved the end of this episode. Even 3500 years ago we were putting flowers on the graves of our loved ones. A touching moment....

    • @nbenefiel
      @nbenefiel 3 дні тому

      Neanderthals were putting flowers on graves around 65,000 years ago.

  • @mistygroves3503
    @mistygroves3503 9 днів тому +5

    That tiny bit about the Meadowsweet towards the end is so beautiful and poetic. That the flowers someone placed in the grave survived even when the bones of the dead person were almost completely melted away....wow. Maybe that's the power of love.

  • @fugithegreat
    @fugithegreat 10 днів тому +25

    It's so interesting to see how mobile these ancient people were, and yet it makes sense. If ancient humans didn't tend to be wanderers and explorers, they would have never settled all around the world.

    • @Fevebblefester
      @Fevebblefester 10 днів тому +9

      Follow the food.

    • @RPcropland
      @RPcropland 10 днів тому +1

      Like today just a lucky microcosm with less tech

    • @JootjeJ
      @JootjeJ 5 днів тому +2

      I guess even prehistoric people though that the grass would be greener beyond the next horizon.

    • @Fevebblefester
      @Fevebblefester 5 днів тому

      @@fugithegreat And I’ll bet sometimes it was.

  • @Tboe905
    @Tboe905 10 днів тому +9

    Would you think that the ancestors 23:29 put the animal in the walls .. because of how they would live with animals and if fire was out or not able the warmth of animals heated the homes .. Thus incorporate animal into the building as a way to insure you home will be able to keep you warm ? Perhaps

  • @NelsonZAPTM
    @NelsonZAPTM 10 днів тому +21

    Fact: the first people in Britain arrived at 11:36 am on a Tuesday morning.

  • @scotty5717
    @scotty5717 7 днів тому +12

    We were joined to what is now Europe by Doggerland before the ice age floods and there was no Britain...

    • @bob_the_bomb4508
      @bob_the_bomb4508 3 дні тому +3

      And dogging is celebrated by the British to this day…

    • @ContentViking
      @ContentViking 15 годин тому

      And also joined to Ireland

  • @eloquentsarcasm
    @eloquentsarcasm 10 днів тому +8

    The animals in the walls to ME seems like they were showing they loved and respected the creatures that allowed them to survive. By incorporating them into the very walls of their homes it kept their spirits close and perhaps gave them protection from evil influences.

  • @stevebrown9960
    @stevebrown9960 10 днів тому +15

    According to the BBC, they arrived on the Windrush (we leave the Empire bit out, its embarrassing).

  • @1ch1ah
    @1ch1ah 9 днів тому +7

    The front picture looks like a 1970s Watford supporter!! 😅

  • @TikiHi77
    @TikiHi77 10 днів тому +6

    Funny, it shows that there are 2 comments, yet it seems Im the first!
    I really love watching Digging for Britain.

  • @changelocation
    @changelocation 3 дні тому

    We dropped them of 12.30pm on a Tuesday 😊👽

  • @franciscowashington2155
    @franciscowashington2155 10 днів тому +2

    Todas as escavação são muito importantes pra descobrir as coisas passadas boa sorte 👍👍

  • @masteronone2079
    @masteronone2079 10 днів тому +3

    Isn't that Keith Richards in the thumbnail? 0:45

    • @ianbeedles1329
      @ianbeedles1329 10 днів тому +2

      Nope, that's his great, great, great, great grandson. 😂

  • @SeanUgarte-j7p
    @SeanUgarte-j7p День тому

    Really good

  • @primevalseeker3952
    @primevalseeker3952 5 днів тому

    Remember that the seaside was probably about 500ft below what is is in now. Maybe aquatic archaeology might be quite productive.

  • @Neil-f9c
    @Neil-f9c 5 днів тому +2

    Need to send a search party south to see if our welsh brothers still there

  • @youarewhatyouare
    @youarewhatyouare 4 дні тому

    I've seen him on the checkouts at portishead today

  • @Kingtrollface259
    @Kingtrollface259 6 днів тому +1

    Immediately moaned about the weather 😂

  • @dennisfraser6896
    @dennisfraser6896 9 днів тому +5

    The angels and saxons were illegal immigrants with swords and attitude.😂😂😂😂😂

  • @DeanAdventure
    @DeanAdventure 5 днів тому +3

    "Ice Age Britain" is such a ridiculous statement and concept. Were they flying the Union Jack? Britain didn't exist as a concept yet so they couldn't possibly be that. You are just naming them that now! Ironic, considering you are calling the incompatible newcomers "Britain" as well.

    • @bob_the_bomb4508
      @bob_the_bomb4508 3 дні тому

      The British Isles are a geographical region.

    • @bmjv77
      @bmjv77 2 дні тому +1

      The island is literally named Britain.

  • @konstantinavalentina3850
    @konstantinavalentina3850 10 днів тому +3

    I wonder about the neolithic when human populations were significantly lower why we find populations trying to scratch out a meager existence in hard conditions where there's much more provident lands for cultivating or even hunter gatherer life much further South, and elsewhere in Europe?
    What or who would push a population to the very edge of a sustainable environment?
    Maybe that's not the right question, but, it puzzles me why anyone would want to live in such bitter, hard, difficult environment when there's easier living to be had elsewhere, and a substantially lower human population and human distribution to compete with?

    • @JootjeJ
      @JootjeJ 5 днів тому

      Why did people settle on Greenland? Or at the foot of a vulcano?

    • @bob_the_bomb4508
      @bob_the_bomb4508 3 дні тому

      And yet people live on Sheppey…

  • @Jimmie2429
    @Jimmie2429 6 днів тому +4

    I dont know about this video but my grandmother told me that the first Briton was a strong black African queen.

    • @Demion83
      @Demion83 5 днів тому

      You might be trying to be funny, but the homo erectus' that left these flint tools definitely would have actually been black.

    • @BarneyEdward-c2y
      @BarneyEdward-c2y 4 дні тому +1

      It sounds like your grandmother was suffering from an unknown cognitive issue just like Biden.

    • @Demion83
      @Demion83 3 дні тому

      It is so annoying on youtube when your comment gets deleted but you still get dumbass notifications about people responding to the comment line.

  • @jendagesse9592
    @jendagesse9592 3 дні тому +1

    That would have been us when we came to a new world

  • @PeterStevenson-sc5kl
    @PeterStevenson-sc5kl День тому

    I would like to know when the last ones have arrived

  • @clydewilson5907
    @clydewilson5907 10 днів тому +1

    I don't think you can tell how old a knapped piece of flint is. One million? Maybe but who knows really.

    • @ThePawsOfDeception
      @ThePawsOfDeception 10 днів тому +7

      People who understand the concept of typological analysis. That's who knows.
      Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's impossible to understand.

    • @clydewilson5907
      @clydewilson5907 9 днів тому +1

      @@ThePawsOfDeception Just because I can't date it doesn't mean this guy knows either. Too much speculation for me. I want facts.

    • @erinmorash9334
      @erinmorash9334 9 днів тому

      ​​@@clydewilson5907 Unless it was found above the ground, then it was dated using the context of the matrix in which it was found. They date the seeds, pollen, and other organic material in the lair in which it was found, or they estimate based on the earliest date for the layer above and the latest date for the layer below its matrix.

  • @bumberClart1000
    @bumberClart1000 2 дні тому

    Thumbnail reminds me of uncle Jimmy from Millwall

  • @vulpespersona
    @vulpespersona 6 днів тому

    Dayum, that thumbnail goes hard!

  • @notinterested8452
    @notinterested8452 7 днів тому +2

    Why do you show a cucumbercabanna from Rwanda on the front?

  • @graememccarthy8963
    @graememccarthy8963 6 днів тому +1

    Us irish cant help but go a roaming we get everywhere lol

  • @SteveRGash
    @SteveRGash 5 днів тому

    I saw two mammoths walking away in the rock art

  • @cargilekm
    @cargilekm 5 днів тому +2

    About 25 minutes in they are talking about a figurine. They keep calling it a "she". Did I miss where they showed how they came to the decision it was female? I have rewatched it several times and no mention of how the wifey part came about. Maybe it is just a human deity carving. Cheers

    • @JootjeJ
      @JootjeJ 5 днів тому

      The Westray Wife was assumed to be female because of the two round markings under the shoulders and the wide hips.

  • @michaeldbhawker3556
    @michaeldbhawker3556 10 днів тому +3

    They have no idea when.

  • @jerrychaney7232
    @jerrychaney7232 13 годин тому

    Do those divers get to keep some of their finds

  • @margaretanderson6924
    @margaretanderson6924 10 днів тому +2

    🤔 The "beaver-like rodent" looks like a muskrat to me.

  • @aura1298
    @aura1298 10 днів тому +7

    Who else is related to Cheddar man? 😏

    • @jamesburgess8097
      @jamesburgess8097 10 днів тому +1

      They haven't discovered Gouda Dude yet, put that will happen one day I'm sure...

    • @davidareeves
      @davidareeves 10 днів тому +1

      I am fully blue veined myself, have to look in my DNA

    • @DeanAdventure
      @DeanAdventure 5 днів тому

      There are probably millions of us.

  • @ContentViking
    @ContentViking 15 годин тому

    Scots, Irish and welsh think it was the big tough celts (the Anglo Saxons whooped them) but turns out celts were from Austria and came late on 😂

  • @RayMoore-v5g
    @RayMoore-v5g 4 дні тому

    When did tea arrive?

  • @primevalseeker3952
    @primevalseeker3952 5 днів тому

    Hominin is the most accurate term. I think Human is passe...............

  • @fieldsman3307
    @fieldsman3307 3 дні тому

    They're still here, try a visit to deepest Wales.

  • @AA-be6fw
    @AA-be6fw 10 днів тому +7

    According to the UN there are no indigenous British. You should edit this video to reflect that

  • @DoomWalker42
    @DoomWalker42 4 дні тому

    People were deeply spiritual back then but is there any evidence that they could have just been toys (the figurines)

  • @yodadolphin1
    @yodadolphin1 3 дні тому

    It was all connected and everyone could just cross the small river... Just look at all the Sunken City's in the North Sea and the genetics. Devide the people so they battle each other and not the rulers who feed of their ignorance.

  • @MrShuttz
    @MrShuttz 10 днів тому +116

    Im betting they came across the channel on a dingy and got put up in a swanky hotel at cost to the taxpayer or something like that 😂

    • @gonefishing167
      @gonefishing167 10 днів тому +3

      😁😁😁😁😁👵🇦🇺

    • @alrichardson8759
      @alrichardson8759 10 днів тому +5

      ... Before being sent, rather confusingly, to Rwanda....

    • @catofthecastle1681
      @catofthecastle1681 10 днів тому +4

      That’s what Jesus said to do!

    • @neclark08
      @neclark08 10 днів тому +32

      MOCKING the plights of Fellow Human Beings who LITERALLY Risk their LIVES to escape Deprivations in their Home countries which You Can't Imagine- and likely Wouldn't be Tough-Enough to endure...
      You're a Real 'Class Act'.

    • @beanzieobeanz2955
      @beanzieobeanz2955 10 днів тому +10

      sorry your life turned out to be such a disappointment for you, responses you provoke here may assuage your loneliness?

  • @HLStrickland
    @HLStrickland 9 днів тому +1

    Not all that wander are lost?

  • @nbenefiel
    @nbenefiel 3 дні тому

    At one point Britain was connected to the mainland. They could have just walked.

  • @ElmerCornish-z4i
    @ElmerCornish-z4i 9 днів тому +1

    That first pic ? You back to crowmagnon

  • @timothydockery534
    @timothydockery534 9 днів тому

    How do you find pollen

  • @xw6968
    @xw6968 10 днів тому

    how do you know they where the first?.

  • @footscorn
    @footscorn 10 днів тому +4

    Rubbish. The first Britons did not arrive. They were stone age wanderers cut off by the receding ice.

  • @jasonallen6081
    @jasonallen6081 6 днів тому

    That thumbnail definitely looks like a Scotsman.

  • @P.I.Staker-u3z
    @P.I.Staker-u3z 10 днів тому +11

    WE WUZ KANGS AND SHIET

  • @future_me_6067
    @future_me_6067 6 днів тому

    25:00 Way too much speculation on the effigy and the "closure" of a site. Sounds like a very weak attempt to link a "ritual".

  • @stephenbusby3521
    @stephenbusby3521 44 хвилини тому

    We are NOT a small island has islands go we Great Britain is the eighth largest on planet Earth

  • @allauddin732
    @allauddin732 10 днів тому

    Sorry
    We are not humans

  • @henrylotspeich5662
    @henrylotspeich5662 10 днів тому

  • @susanwright5045
    @susanwright5045 6 днів тому

    lol love it

  • @Neil-f9c
    @Neil-f9c 5 днів тому

    Woke up one day. And though f. How did scotland end up with border with africa

    • @Neil-f9c
      @Neil-f9c 5 днів тому +1

      Is our Welsh brothers still down there

  • @bensullivan5398
    @bensullivan5398 6 днів тому +1

    Bullshit history

  • @jackwagonhoedown4114
    @jackwagonhoedown4114 8 днів тому

    They wuz Kang’s from Africa!🤔

  • @douglastaggart9360
    @douglastaggart9360 3 дні тому

    Its not the first people that im botherd about its the latest ones.

  • @antonyosborne5261
    @antonyosborne5261 7 днів тому

    They came from Nigeria, built formidable stone circles. And promptly disappeared from historical records.

  • @grahamvoght9294
    @grahamvoght9294 6 днів тому

    Crikies they haven’t changed much

  • @wandapease-gi8yo
    @wandapease-gi8yo 8 днів тому

    “They were finally wiped out”. Why do these people think so? It is an easy statement but I’d still like to know why. People have lived in the Arctic for a long time. Southern England doesnt seem to have been covered by the ice sheets. People cope.

    • @SOP83
      @SOP83 7 днів тому +1

      They know nothing for sure, but they can't admit that.
      They might well be our ancestors. They could be a thousand years old instead of 1 million. They are only guessing based on what they see and were taught at school.

    • @JootjeJ
      @JootjeJ 5 днів тому

      Because the oldest people were human, but not modern human (homo sapiens). They are nit our ancestors.

  • @jamesclawson9156
    @jamesclawson9156 8 днів тому

    Dogger land hwy

  • @davidparris7167
    @davidparris7167 8 днів тому

    Ho hummmmm zzzzzzzzzzzzz

  • @christybyrne5195
    @christybyrne5195 7 днів тому +1

    Britain NOT a small island. You are a liar.

  • @modifidious666
    @modifidious666 6 днів тому

    They were black apparently, i read it in a book somewhere. They built stonehenge too

    • @Demion83
      @Demion83 5 днів тому +1

      The first people who arrived about 1 million years ago were definitely black- Homo erectus. After them homo heidelbergensis arrived about 600 000 years ago, and he was black too. 400 000 years ago some white guys showed up, Neanderthals, but 45 000 years or so ago they were displaced by more black guys- the aurignacians. Aurignacians became gravettians who became solutreans who became magdalenians who then were just known as "western hunter gatherers", and it is believed these were all black people, with remains from 9000 and even 6000 years ago showing DNA indicating they were dark skinned. However, 6000 years ago they start being displaced by near-eastern agriculturalists, who looked middle eastern or Greek. Think Colin Farrell. These people made stonehenge, only to then be invaded by actual white skinned fair haired steppe herders around 4500 years ago, who they mixed with, giving the mixture of phenotypes you see in Britain today. Well... excluding the more recent migrants.

  • @allauddin732
    @allauddin732 10 днів тому +1

    Be careful not to digg out the core from earth body.
    People are,enjoying the new crime sene globally.

  • @ChrisTowner-wc8zj
    @ChrisTowner-wc8zj 7 днів тому

    15 years ago under Blair. Their still coming .

  • @IAMDC322
    @IAMDC322 10 днів тому +2

    Bajajajajajajajaja😂😂😂😂

  • @altair458
    @altair458 3 дні тому

    They haven't changed much at all.

  • @velu1671
    @velu1671 6 днів тому

    13000 years ago how is look like British people

  • @MichaelGood-pz6iy
    @MichaelGood-pz6iy 8 днів тому

    It WASN'T A LADY IT WAS FOR THE SUN GOD ITS RISING AND THEY POINTED IT AT SUN RISE AND SAID A PRAYER THE HEAD IS THE SUN THE BODY IS THE REFLECTION ON THE SEA.

  • @tangatatoamma5240
    @tangatatoamma5240 4 дні тому

    No proof of fire... no surprises their 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @franciscowashington2155
    @franciscowashington2155 10 днів тому +3

    Todas as escavação são muito importantes pra descobrir as coisas passadas boa sorte 👍👍

  • @franciscowashington2155
    @franciscowashington2155 10 днів тому +2

    Todas as escavação são muito importantes pra descobrir as coisas passadas boa sorte 👍👍