Thank you Genomics Aotearoa for hosting this fascinating lecture. I am a big fan of British archaeology in general and Professor Roberts in particular. She is a national treasure, IMHO. I too am grateful for her humanist-centered approach to interpreting the evidence of the past. Humanity and the historical record is better served when perspectives broader than when a certain privileged class is the only one telling us what happened in the before-times. I also appreciate how important it is to bring the formerly hidden work of female scientists back to the front of the room. Both to give them their due respect but also to inspire the young girls in our midst who were born with inquisitive minds and may wish to make their own way in scientific fields as a career choice. I love too how the smallest aspect of ourselves is now shedding light on the big-picture questions. Genomics is amazing in what we can now learn about our past. Fascinating stuff!!!!
Always enjoyed Alice's work & theories on burials when she was on Time Team. Great story teller w/a good sense of the realities of ancient people / life. I guess trust worthy would be how I'd put it. Respectfully professional as well.
Really interesting Alice. I now live in Toronto but am originally from Glasgow. I watch you on UA-cam and if on local PBS if available. Keep up the great work
Bravo! Bravo! Admiring Prof. Roberts, PhD & MD, 30? years--since your early BBC Time Team works, and following you with eagerness. Your work changes our Modern arrogance that all who came before us were stupid, barbaric. We need that recokoning to our assumptions--especially as we continue to metastucize such attiutudes in ou oh-so-Progress-Addicted Modern Perspecitives. I will try not to binge, but oh, Prof. Roberts, how you engage my heart & mind, Martha Berryman, Cultural Anthropologist, Projects i America's Cultures & Hi9stoiries, Ret'd.
Dear Martha. From your bio. I thought you would like your facts. So please take this from just a history lover. Time Team was made for A station called Channel 4. It has no ties to our BBC. Channel 4 is a publicly owned station but there is a difference. BBC is publicly funded. Where as channel 4 is self funded by tv advertising. Channel 4 has taken the chance on shows that main channels would not touch, hence Time Team And many great show. As well as off beat comedy music for new acts and so on. The make a very small profit but they always stay in the black. I’m writing this because channel 4 and eventually our BBC are under attack by the far right Tory party are trying to sell of channel 4 to Americans And will then attack the bbc. Because comedy shows have held the politicians to account. For their greed and at time corruption especially channel 4. I hope you don’t mind this update for one who doesn’t live here but I thought you would appreciate the fact. And we can’t afford to loose these British programs And channel 4 and bbc are great at these type of programs and if the Tory’s have their way we will loose them. Yours truly Gary Galt. Photographer who was lucky to do printing work for Liverpool museum and the maritime museum in the 80s. For a history buff this was great time
@@garygalt4146 Thank you Photographer Gary Galt! Yes, what a fascinating career in the museums. Libraries and museums are the best. No, I didn't know the tangles of political pressures concerning UT Telly Programs. Our social media is enormously iportant for the reasons you list, indeed,all aspects, from comedy (old & new) to excellent investigative revelations and the scholarly access of Dr. Roberts, et. al. Now I will be much more attentive to UK's media politics. Thank you, yes. Martha B. in Texas
Dr. Roberts, I enjoyed this talk immensely. Thank you for explaining this entire subject in way that a non-academic, such as myself, can understand. I always leave more educated... and impressed with your vast knowledge. Thank you again. 🙏 (Yukon, Canada)
As always, Professor Roberts gives us some fascinating stuff. As a resident of Somerset, and not far from Cheddar, it's great to see how rich the south-west is in archaological evidence from prehistory onwards.
Lovely to see Professor Roberts again; I watch the Coast series. This talk brought together several strands of human pre-history I've been following recently. Given the devastation to the native human populations in North & South America and Australia when Europeans (unintentionally) brought smallpox to those continents, is it possible that the 90% population replacement was also (again unintentionally) triggered by a disease being introduced to a population that had not previously been exposed, and so had no natural immunity built up?
I recently heard about hints that by the end of the stone age a wave of black death emptied western Europe of most of its population and thereby giving room for peoples out of the steppes in the east.
Vividly exposed, everything said was very interesting even to a foreigner like me. I'm just an amateur lover of science and technology. I live in my country, Spain, an hour away by car from the Atapuerca gorge site, where human remains dating circa 1.5 Mya and younger were found. I had heard of those first human British burials, and even of the commercial cave war you commented upon. But I ignored details, oh so very interesting details, like blue eyes (which I have heard originated in the Iberian peninsula; I'm not saying it was so) that I know depend on a combination of various genes. I had heard of the Beaker culture, of the Yamana peoples from the Pontic steppes, perhaps themselves migrated from the South, from Anatolia, carrying with them cattle and carts and farming knowledge. I had heard also of much older migrations into Britain whenever the ice age receding let them, one million years ago, and four hundred thousand years ago, and so on, until Doggerland was finally covered by sea water. And even then, trade with the continent, and neolithic commercial seafaring even from Spain. Thank you very much for sharing your time and your knowledge.
Nice to see you on the box albeit repeats - looking forwards to future historic discoveries. Are you able if the opportunity arises investigate if the skeletons uncovered at the Tower are indeed the missing two princess.
This was so fascinating thank you. Would love to pull the thread on that saxon genetics comment... makes me think of Tony frequently commenting about the trials of actually finding saxon sites on time team.
The lecture begins at 3:43. I found the presenter from Genomics Aotearoa almost incomprehensible - SLOW DOWN! (At least for me - I'm in the US, and not used to the Australian accent). But thanks for a fine presentation.
Doc Roberts is simply brilliant.....and deserves a knighthood for her wild swimming doco......a veritable venus de Milo......Looking forward to the Doc presenting a new series......with drone shots for a different angle
I learnt about her Humanism, Inclusivity, championing disability, support for climate change, feminism, career development- what a pleasure to have woke archaeology championed as well ennpassant.
How about inviting the Doc out to NZ during the Southern Hemisphere summer.....escaping the winter in Britain. The Doc could do a Wild Swimming doco in NZ which has far more spots for this than overcrowded Britain.She could also do some public speaking too.....
The Palaeolithic Age existed to the middle of the Twentieth Century here in Australia (with NO offence intended to our Indigenous and Original inhabitants).
Surely it would not be considered a quantum leap to rename the skeletal remains as ''The Red male of Paviland'', assuming the fraternity of Archaeologists are of the same opinion as to the eveidence of the pelvic remains ??........
In the time since this excellent talk was posted, have you new thoughts about this large population replacement? What do you think about Kristian Kristiansen's ideas on a Yamnaya expansion by genocide (at least of all males)?
About the "abrupt" DNA transition from neolithic to bronze age in Britain : what if the neolithic population was already in (a steep) demographic decline before the "beaker folk" arrived ? ua-cam.com/video/bxTVSwt-jsU/v-deo.html
Ummm what exactly is hard about calling her by her hard earnt title, Professor Roberts? I can’t help but wonder if a male professor, say Professor Brian Cox, would get “oh, I’m just going to call you Brian cos professor….y’know” I mean sure, ASK if you can refer to someone by their first name, but don’t just TELL them you’re going to. It’s very disrespectful of someone with a lot of knowledge and who has worked hard for their position.
Alice certainly qualifies as a Time Travelling Magician !
Just love watching documentaries presented by Alice Roberts.
This is what I want on the internet for bedtime listening
Professor Alice Roberts, thank you so much for all your good work. You are a wonderful breath of fresh thinking air !
Reading this book at the moment and it’s brilliant
Go Alice. Thanks for retrieving women in science
Thank you Genomics Aotearoa for hosting this fascinating lecture. I am a big fan of British archaeology in general and Professor Roberts in particular. She is a national treasure, IMHO. I too am grateful for her humanist-centered approach to interpreting the evidence of the past. Humanity and the historical record is better served when perspectives broader than when a certain privileged class is the only one telling us what happened in the before-times. I also appreciate how important it is to bring the formerly hidden work of female scientists back to the front of the room. Both to give them their due respect but also to inspire the young girls in our midst who were born with inquisitive minds and may wish to make their own way in scientific fields as a career choice. I love too how the smallest aspect of ourselves is now shedding light on the big-picture questions. Genomics is amazing in what we can now learn about our past. Fascinating stuff!!!!
We went to see Prof. Alice in Chesterfield ,UK, last night ,wonderful evening.
Lovely and Educational, and quite an amazing talk. Love it.
Always enjoyed Alice's work & theories on burials when she was on Time Team. Great story teller w/a good sense of the realities of ancient people / life. I guess trust worthy would be how I'd put it. Respectfully professional as well.
Thank you for an open understanding of our pass
Really interesting Alice. I now live in Toronto but am originally from Glasgow. I watch you on UA-cam and if on local PBS if available.
Keep up the great work
Love it. Fascinating!!
Thank you.
Bravo! Bravo! Admiring Prof. Roberts, PhD & MD, 30? years--since your early BBC Time Team works, and following you with eagerness. Your work changes our Modern arrogance that all who came before us were stupid, barbaric. We need that recokoning to our assumptions--especially as we continue to metastucize such attiutudes in ou oh-so-Progress-Addicted Modern Perspecitives. I will try not to binge, but oh, Prof. Roberts, how you engage my heart & mind, Martha Berryman, Cultural Anthropologist, Projects i America's Cultures & Hi9stoiries, Ret'd.
Dear Martha. From your bio. I thought you would like your facts. So please take this from just a history lover. Time Team was made for
A station called Channel 4. It has no ties to our BBC. Channel 4 is a publicly owned station but there is a difference. BBC is publicly funded.
Where as channel 4 is self funded by tv advertising. Channel 4 has taken the chance on shows that main channels would not touch, hence Time Team
And many great show. As well as off beat comedy music for new acts and so on. The make a very small profit but they always stay in the black.
I’m writing this because channel 4 and eventually our BBC are under attack by the far right Tory party are trying to sell of channel 4 to Americans
And will then attack the bbc. Because comedy shows have held the politicians to account. For their greed and at time corruption especially channel 4.
I hope you don’t mind this update for one who doesn’t live here but I thought you would appreciate the fact. And we can’t afford to loose these British programs
And channel 4 and bbc are great at these type of programs and if the Tory’s have their way we will loose them.
Yours truly
Gary Galt. Photographer who was lucky to do printing work for Liverpool museum and the maritime museum in the 80s.
For a history buff this was great time
@@garygalt4146 Thank you Photographer Gary Galt! Yes, what a fascinating career in the museums. Libraries and museums are the best. No, I didn't know the tangles of political pressures concerning UT Telly Programs. Our social media is enormously iportant for the reasons you list, indeed,all aspects, from comedy (old & new) to excellent investigative revelations and the scholarly access of Dr. Roberts, et. al. Now I will be much more attentive to UK's media politics. Thank you, yes. Martha B. in Texas
Brilliant lecture/talk/presentation! Professor Roberts deserves her multiple awards for communicating science. R (Australia)
Dr. Roberts, I enjoyed this talk immensely. Thank you for explaining this entire subject in way that a non-academic, such as myself, can understand. I always leave more educated... and impressed with your vast knowledge. Thank you again. 🙏 (Yukon, Canada)
WELL DONE ALICE, GREAT VIDEO
As always, Professor Roberts gives us some fascinating stuff. As a resident of Somerset, and not far from Cheddar, it's great to see how rich the south-west is in archaological evidence from prehistory onwards.
Lovely to see Professor Roberts again; I watch the Coast series. This talk brought together several strands of human pre-history I've been following recently.
Given the devastation to the native human populations in North & South America and Australia when Europeans (unintentionally) brought smallpox to those continents, is it possible that the 90% population replacement was also (again unintentionally) triggered by a disease being introduced to a population that had not previously been exposed, and so had no natural immunity built up?
I recently heard about hints that by the end of the stone age a wave of black death emptied western Europe of most of its population and thereby giving room for peoples out of the steppes in the east.
Vividly exposed, everything said was very interesting even to a foreigner like me. I'm just an amateur lover of science and technology. I live in my country, Spain, an hour away by car from the Atapuerca gorge site, where human remains dating circa 1.5 Mya and younger were found.
I had heard of those first human British burials, and even of the commercial cave war you commented upon. But I ignored details, oh so very interesting details, like blue eyes (which I have heard originated in the Iberian peninsula; I'm not saying it was so) that I know depend on a combination of various genes. I had heard of the Beaker culture, of the Yamana peoples from the Pontic steppes, perhaps themselves migrated from the South, from Anatolia, carrying with them cattle and carts and farming knowledge. I had heard also of much older migrations into Britain whenever the ice age receding let them, one million years ago, and four hundred thousand years ago, and so on, until Doggerland was finally covered by sea water. And even then, trade with the continent, and neolithic commercial seafaring even from Spain.
Thank you very much for sharing your time and your knowledge.
Nice to see you on the box albeit repeats - looking forwards to future historic discoveries. Are you able if the opportunity arises investigate if the skeletons uncovered at the Tower are indeed the missing two princess.
Good of him to encourage buying from actual bookshops as a first preference
Thank you fascinating.
Brilliant!
This was so fascinating thank you.
Would love to pull the thread on that saxon genetics comment... makes me think of Tony frequently commenting about the trials of actually finding saxon sites on time team.
I was beginning to wonder if Alice was ever going to speak
The lecture begins at 3:43. I found the presenter from Genomics Aotearoa almost incomprehensible - SLOW DOWN! (At least for me - I'm in the US, and not used to the Australian accent). But thanks for a fine presentation.
He's actually from New Zealand.
@@ziploc2000 Thanks. But I'm still having trouble with understanding him.
Alice is a most brilliant scientist and communicator as well as, with all due respect, a super hot foxy lady, love your accent.
Doc Roberts is simply brilliant.....and deserves a knighthood for her wild swimming doco......a veritable venus de Milo......Looking forward to the Doc presenting a new series......with drone shots for a different angle
I learnt about her Humanism, Inclusivity, championing disability, support for climate change, feminism, career development- what a pleasure to have woke archaeology championed as well ennpassant.
Our heritage not African. At least Rodgruises talks about Vikins. & not alhalf black.
How about inviting the Doc out to NZ during the Southern Hemisphere summer.....escaping the winter in Britain.
The Doc could do a Wild Swimming doco in NZ which has far more spots for this than overcrowded Britain.She could also do some public speaking too.....
43:02 hmmm I wonder which "news" papers published those headlines...
The Palaeolithic Age existed to the middle of the Twentieth Century here in Australia (with NO offence intended to our Indigenous and Original inhabitants).
NM as well
Surely it would not be considered a quantum leap to rename the skeletal remains
as ''The Red male of Paviland'', assuming the fraternity of Archaeologists are of
the same opinion as to the eveidence of the pelvic remains ??........
In the time since this excellent talk was posted, have you new thoughts about this large population replacement? What do you think about Kristian Kristiansen's ideas on a Yamnaya expansion by genocide (at least of all males)?
Twas the mammoth that did it...
cheddarr man kinda looks like the Copper Colored people of north America
About the "abrupt" DNA transition from neolithic to bronze age in Britain : what if the neolithic population was already in (a steep) demographic decline before the "beaker folk" arrived ? ua-cam.com/video/bxTVSwt-jsU/v-deo.html
birds eat birds fish eat fish are we any different?
Ah,ahm,ahm ahm ah ,ahm,ah, ahm,ah,Worst Host ever. Alice is amazing as always.
Ummm what exactly is hard about calling her by her hard earnt title, Professor Roberts? I can’t help but wonder if a male professor, say Professor Brian Cox, would get “oh, I’m just going to call you Brian cos professor….y’know” I mean sure, ASK if you can refer to someone by their first name, but don’t just TELL them you’re going to. It’s very disrespectful of someone with a lot of knowledge and who has worked hard for their position.
You should speak to the manager about it!
In Australia and NZ we're very informal and do not tend to use our titles.
YEAH, AND COCKS IS AN IDIOT MOON LANDING BELIEVER.
Juh
Buzzella or bust
Dear Alice, just wondering, have you ever dated an ancient man ? Ho ho 🙂
Our past Not African heritage.. tell he
Our heritage ..not African.
Archeological and genetic evidence do connect us all to ancestors in Africa, so some heritage may well be inherited from Africa.