More on Carnac please!

Ta for this, really enjoyed it

Historical records begin in the 3rd millenium BC. Any "history" before that is pseudo-history. And there is no evidence that the Earth is more than about 6,000 years old. The Biblical date of creation can be traced to about 4300 BC.

My favourite ancient monument is Christopher Biggins .

@@tylerb9877 Lol you silly goose !

It's pretty easy for a member of the public to volunteer on archaeological sites, even at the weekends www.archaeology.co.uk/digs this site has a lot of info on it

What a useless Teacher... Go study Archaeology, Ben. You'll find places to learn online if you can't afford a course, and if you're really into it, you'll get some volunteer work on a dig somewhere... it'll be mostly be boring, back-aching work but things lead to better things if you've a passion for it. Get a metal detector even.... There's always stuff to be found and if you do it properly then you're part of a big team of people uncovering history one step at a time! Don't let people tell you what you can't do based on their own perceptions of life.

@@tobyehillier thank you for taking time to read and reply. You know what I'm gonna take your advice and am contacting a few digs to offer my spade. I'm quite good at graft I'm told. Also iv been a metal detectorist for a few years , it seen my destiny is linked with spades. Keeps me fit. Have a happy and positive day.

@@anniesearle6181 thank you for link. Clicking now. Wishing you a good day

@@kupus6622 if you can dig a hole you're set for life!

It's nice to see creators follow their "colleagues". Love your channel by the way!

What a nice surprise to see you here.

Love your channel Stephan

@@AutomaticBadger I want to love his channel too. How do I find it?

@@nostracrystaal2156 Just click on his profile picture, will take you to his channel. He's really great

Giants placed those stone structures there before the hunter gatherers, gvt suppressed that knowledge from us since birth. I'm just passing on what I was told by a family member in gvt who knows secrets were not supposed too know.

@@enolwlfe lol!!!!

No longer since the neanderthals

@@enolwlfe you mean you're just showing a) you're gullible, and b) you're nearly illiterate. 😄

We are still just animals eating other animals, though. We are, even those who chose to be vegan, still animals.

😂

What?? How afar into the video?? 😦😦😦

The Lorb provides

@@porkypig2971 Around 27 minutes

The lobsters are taking over!

Thanks! Yep HT will remain full length docs. I’ve started doing shorter ones again but they are on a different channel.

@@HistoryTime I shall subscribe there as well :)

I disagree, the old ones were much more compact and to the point. These feture lenght videos are really bloated, but I guess this is the fate of all youtube documentary channels once they get rolling.

@@mogyesz9 There are plenty of channels with shorter videos for those with short attention spans who don't want to get in-depth with a topic, though.

@@dhindaravrel8712 what a shit meme answer

You preserve last year's crops to live on until the next harvest by drying, salting, smoking, and/or pickling. You can also dig a hole in the ground for colder storage facilities. All of those technologies were available for uncounted milennia. Only canning is a relatively new technology. However, even to this day, farmers supplement their food supplies with wild food that is gathered or hunted. Hunting and gathering are a lot less work, so it only makes sense to farm/keep animals if you don't have enough to feed your population, otherwise.

@@robinlillian9471 Lets face it. Most people don't eat raw wheat. Any assumptions based on that sort of crop farming that requires further processing is going to be thousands of years after the farming of plant to mouth crops. Strawberries to Carrots, anything you can pick and eat is going to be the first thing to domesticate, but is going to be harder to find evidence for.

Exactly, we still hunt to supplement for crop shortages.

Yeah this is me too. Growing up in Canada, I used to find learning about the 1800s - our city roots out West - as so old and interesting. But as I've gotten older and much more interested in medieval, ancient, and pre-historic & anthropological roots, going back to the 18th and 19th centuries just seem so recent and somewhat boring in comparison. I find I really enjoy learning about different cultures, as opposed to just the (comparatively speaking) recent history of my own culture.

agreed, i believe that it is because we know so little about it though as there was no recorded texts etc

Well, the lithic eras are not ancient history but prehistory so...

And then America, which is pretty much focused on the Colonial period onward, with an undue emphasis on the 1940s.

@@stevenschnepp576 meanwhile in my country we waste 6 years of history on the 2nd World War.

It's almost too good to he true. Who's to say he's not being bankrolled by some agenda orchestrated by history revisionists? I say we came from an egg that fell from the moon, this is known. All this talk of ancients is some mumbo jumbo we came from an egg in that landed in the Euphrates!!! Wake up!!! You came from an egg!!!

@@ajantsmith6139 wut

@@RRC6490 you came from an egg that fell from the moon, the egg landed in the Euphrates river. That's where humanity comes from

@@ajantsmith6139 was the monkey???? I've seen that idea before Chinese fokelore I prefer the lady and the rabbit idea more though. Thanks for your POV.

The comments are a mob production.

H S the count of all civilisation hic

Beer was likely not a consequence of agriculture, bur agriculture was a consequence of beer-production: www.cbsnews.com/news/archeologists-link-rise-of-civilization-and-beers-invention/

@@billmiller4972 It actually makes sense that the entirety of civilisation was built upon alcohol, you'd have to be drunk to think this was all a good idea :3

@@Frog154 "Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol" (A. Bierce)

No joke, once beer was discovered it's production became a prime motivation for agriculture

Yep. Early agriculturists worked a lot harder, too. Agriculture was not an obvious quality of life improvement at all. He said that it allows a larger population. It's bigger than this. It's that agriculture *demands* a larger population as well as land expansion. Where hunter/gathering requires population restraint. It's nothing to with "idyllic" lifestyles - life was never idyllic for all people. However, that lifestyle endured for hundreds of thousands of years. How long will ours last? Whatever crises hits humans here, I'd bet its some remote living people who can live off their surroundings who will survive.

paid off in the contest of conquest over things that sustain our health

Most hunter gatherers time was spent gathering. Nuts and shell fish and fruit. Eggs too. Also foraged greens and roots. Nobody ever discusses trapping but even neanderthals could make string. Hunting is mostly seasonal and involves taking out the weakest animals. No point in killing a lot of large mammals unless you had ice or salt. What agriculture and pottery did was make it possible to store grain so that a bad harvest could be survived. The earliest known writing, in the Middle East, was to keep track of grain stores. And you could capture slaves to farm your land. Slavery would not work in the hunter gatherer world.

Agriculture almost demands technology to be long term success, from storage and transportation to understanding the weather and improving seed types all lead to modern civilisation

The only reason you need to farm, Is to feed the slaves, so you force the slaves to farm , and build walls to keep them in

Although we are still hunting wild animals and gathering mushrooms and berries for our dining table, the concept of hunters-gatherers is probably meant to describe a nomadic people who did not cultivate the fields.

​@@PerJustert I believe by the time of Carnac the people were at least semi settled. Maybe with small pockets of nomadic people on the outskirts of their settlements. There is just no way to get the resources needed for such large earth / stone works.

​@@GilgameshEthics Before I venture into deep water, I would like to point out that I am far from skilled in human development. I can only claim to have a little above average interest in history and anthropology, but as I understand it, the Neolithic revolution was the first agricultural revolution and is the term for the gradual transition from a nomadic society of hunters and gatherers in the Stone Age to a society of agriculture and permanent settlement. Here in Norway where I come from, evidence has been found that the nomadic hunter-gatherer had permanent settlements for spring, summer and autumn seasons, where they hunted and fished while waiting for mushrooms and berries to mature. But as far as I know, they rarely wintered in the same place but went south to more temperate regions when it came to winter. It was not until they cultivated the landscape that the need for permanent settlement came. Now, of course, there is a great difference between the geographical conditions of the golden crescent where the Neolithic revolution started, and up here in the north. Up here, the first major domestication of the animal kingdom was carried out by nomadic hunter-gatherers, and apart from the taming of wolves used for hunting and guarding, the "taming" of the reindeer herds was probably a result of several nomadic tribes cooperating to herd the reindeer to pick out the weak and damaged animals and care for the right breeding individuals of the nomadic deer. Our indigenous Sami people still carry on the same nomadic domestication culture. Remains of monumental ritual buildings have been found in Göbekli Tepe, Turkey, but no residences or traces of domestication. In other words, the nomadic man had the ability to both build large permanent constructions and to collaborate with more than the individuals in his own tribe to perform such tasks. One could thereby take into account the common need of several nomadic tribes for mythological rituals, such as burials or worship of celestial gods and underground beings that mattered to everyone.

Fishermen and crofters for example.

@@PerJustert so fascinating! - your last comment

I just received my mtDNA results and am curious what you mean by the 2 children being an exact match. Does this mean there were no mutations at all between them in 9000 years? My testing company is touting my haplogroup of U5b1c2b being the same as Cheddar Man's but I understand he was U5b1 and they would have branched off thousands of years ago. I have an exact match whose maternal line is from Cornwall and a genetic distance 1 match also from the same small fishing village in Cornwall. I am assuming my maternal line was also in Cornwall at some point. Not too far from Somerset, but surely a coincidence. From what I have heard (and based on more distant matches), the subclade origins were likely Sweden/Denmark.

@@Skeptique Mitochondrial DNA is passed only from mother to child, and only females can pass it on, so the only thing that belonging to Cheddar Man's mitochondrial haplogroup means is that you shared a common ancestor at some far distant point, not that you (or anyone with the same U5 haplogroup) are a direct descendant. It's more like being very distant maternal cousins. The two minor children's mTDNA was a closer match (i.e., all the subclades were closer to the Cheddar Man's mTDNA). For instance, if Cheddar Man was U5b1c1, and these kids were U5b1c1b, they'd be more closely related than someone who was U5b1c2b2. They'd share a more direct maternal lineage than someone who was just U5 with other subclades. Also, mtDNA is just a small part of one's heritage. Autosomal DNA is the larger part. If you are male, you also have yDNA from your father's father and so on back down the male line. As far as I know, Cheddar Man's yDNA clade has not been determined, but even if it had, it is likely shared by millions of Europeans and means little in terms of individual relationship.

@@Pipsqwak Okay so you meant that Cheddar Man and the children were a closer match than the man they claimed was his descendant. Not a literal exact match? My understanding is that an exact match is genetic distance 0 and not just the same/close subclade. I am trying to use autosomal matches to prove that my maternal line was in fact in Cornwall recently. It's a tricky business!

@@Skeptique All that belonging to the same mtDNA haplogroup/subclade means is that you share distant maternal ancestors. The kids who shared Cheddar Man's mtDNA haplogroup would not have inherited that from Cheddar Man, but possibly from his grandmother, mother, aunts or sisters - or any of the many many tens of thousands or millions of female branches of that tree that have come and gone since. They would be incredibly distant cousins at most, not direct descendants. Same with the yDNA clades - they're your paternal ancestors; ancestors that you share with millions of others. Neither means that any one person is a direct descendant of whatever fossil has been genotyped. Genotyping is fascinating business though, and I wish you luck in your efforts!

Was there ever any undisclosed mtdna done on Kennewick man?

I miss doggerland :(

@@johnnyoverpour if your from the UK, there is a strong chance you have DoggerLand DNA in you. See it that way.

Also to note, Doggerland flooded in around 8000 BC which would have been catastrophic to the early peoples of the region and their trade routes. Suddenly they had to sail.

Fantastic journey through our history, thank you. I watched an earlier program of yours on “Doggerland” which was utterly riveting. Based on the flood myths in around every culture on the planet, is it possible that our Mesolithic ancestors were all but wiped out during this apocalypse around 8000bce, and our Neolithic (and a handful of Mesolithic Hunter gatherers) were the survivors that were forced to migrate?

Farmers wouldn't burn all of the forest on purpose. It was useful even to them for wood and other resources. Farmers still go out into the countryside to pick berries, hunt wild animals, etc. No one gave up. They just do both as makes sense.

That's human kind for you..

. . .and it's still happening in S. America and renewed in Indonesia to plant palm trees for the production of palm oil. Protests fall on deaf ears. Some protestors have been killed, shot by soldiers - trying to block deforestation.

Burned down rather. But yes.

Thanks for the support! Appreciate it. It has indeed been a busy weekend for us!

Historical records begin in the 3rd millenium BC. Any "history" before that is pseudo-history. And there is no evidence that the Earth is more than about 6,000 years old. The Biblical date of creation can be traced to about 4300 BC.

@@tylerb9877 ever heard of something called radioactivity? Because yeah. There's plenty of evidence. I've got some 12 million year old shells here next to me. Next to that. That 6000 you mention, you do realise that's the probable age of when genesis was written right? According to you, there were humans writing down what god was going to do in about 1000 years. And yes several, since the version we have now is a composition of the stories by multiple people. So yeah. According to you. Genesis is pseudo-history. Congratulations. You just disproved the bible with your unexplained and unsupported argument.

@theMRsome12 Scientific dating methods are inaccurate because they rely on too many assumptions. They rely on the assumption that the rate of decay for minerals has always remained the same, on the assumption that the amount of minerals in the atmosphere has always remained the same, and on the assumption that these minerals have not been contaminated.

@@tylerb9877 So, you are insulting God, claiming that he was not capable of creating a planet and life on it, that would be older than 6000 years? Well, I personally believe that God is far more productive.

@@tylerb9877 With that line of reasoning your belief is based on the assumption that everything written in the bible is absolutely true

That is true, and considering hunter gatherers had to have close relationships and rely on each other in order to survive, it makes sense that they would have paid their respects in that manner

Take dmt. There is a place before and afther ‘life’🙏

@@psylocibin9359 A psychedelic trip from N,N-Dimethyltryptamine is not evidence of anything supernatural. It's evidence of hallucinations resulting from the use of mind altering chemicals. It requires circular reasoning to conclude that it creates a portal to "a place before and afther [sic] ‘life’."

I believe they didn't want to dig holes. that's exhausting. and consumes worthy land (I guess wasn't some sort of a reason as nomadic life style anyways). much better by just chopping some nearby trees, put the body on top of a tad wooden logs and set the whole arrangement on fire. additional bonus of warmth during winter season. 😆

@@psylocibin9359 you seem like a bright spark, don't you? The comment "Brittain (sic) flooded, that's what happened". Your definitive answer to the title of the video pretty much says it all. Perhaps lay off the drugs? They don't seem to be doing you any favours.

Thanks for watching!

@@HistoryTime Always!! 👍👍

@@iamtroll8334 a troll that's a history buff - novel idea. 😄

@@MaryAnnNytowl you have no idea Loved history since I was in the 5th grade I'm 40 now I study all the time. History alot of times will tell you the future of a country's outcome as history repeats its self.

Thanks for the support., Glad you like the videos

Same. Same, once in a while I will look for more history videos by other original creators, but none have matched up to the finesse of these. for sure.

Pity he doesn’t work harder just kidding

@@alfredthickcock Thanks. Check out Jordan Buckley's art. He's the one that made it.

Thanks for watching! So much more on the way

@@HistoryTime Sincere regards Pete

@@HistoryTime hope it is more accurate and less simplistic

@@HistoryTime I hope so. This channel is awesome.

Thanks for watching ! Appreciate the support

@Jed Clampett Trump is a criminal who should be in prison. LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!

Short answer, Trump is a piece of shit! A bullet to his brain is too merciful for the likes of him.

@@aaronjaben7913 seriously prison!!! Bush n blair maybe?

@@Frankowillo you sound like a nice piece of work

Holy fuck, what a cool and edgy meme! So fresh! So original!

@@slappy8941 Originality is rare in these modern times.

@@plciferpffer3048 There is nothing new under the sun. (What is this, 4000 years old?)

@@gcanaday1 At least we have diversety , 200 + genders, clima change, and whatnot.

@@slappy8941 The last time I was this early this wasn't a meme.

Lol yes very true

You can go to a store or online and buy literally everything you could ever need and more. You have the wealth of the entire human knowledge in a small device that fits in your pocket. You have a government that provides infrastructure to boost your quality of life and safety. Then to top it all off they he virtually no medicine or medical knowledge so even a little cold or cut could turn deadly quick. Ancient people would call our medicine magic today it is so far advanced. I could probably write a book, and I’m sure someone has, about how easy we have it even compared to 50 years ago. The fact that you were able to write this comment means you live an extremely easy life no matter how bad compared to anyone alive a few hundred years ago let alone thousands.

That is precisely what I would think happened. Obviously, there may have been some mingling, but ultimately I believe that both groups would have been highly distrustful of each other... let's say that cosmopolitanism wouldn't take you very far as a hunter-gatherer or early farmer, and we have plenty of anthropological evidence to support this extreme paranoia of strangers in traditional societies. I think that violent confrontations would have been relatively common. Farmers prevailed ultimately by sheer force of numbers and take-over/destruction of prime hunting-gathering areas. Also, as you say, the conceptual frontier between hunter-gatherers and farmers (particularly neolithic farmers) was likely ill-defined, but I think on the whole it is more likely for neolithic farmers to have had many hunter-gatherer skills than vice versa.

but that's a special thing once a year or so you know everyone goes in the fall or whatever you go get a deer that's not a regular source of food

Well, I honestly don't think it's that simple either. Paleo-style hunter-gatherer couples give birth to very few children because they have to move around constantly to follow prey and find places with more resources. Mesolithic hunter gatherers would have had more children after they realized they could instead settle down, stop moving around, and use the resources that grow in the area. Then, yeah, the idea that they farmed to compensate for a growing population may have been the case.

Thanks Jack. I appreciate that. It's been a wild three years for sure

@@HistoryTime It sure has been pete.

Stimmt!

Wow thanks Randy. Really glad you like the show

Thanks for the support! plenty more on the way :)

Information cushioned with fluff, and eerie sounds. How long would the presentation be if they didn't fluff it up?

It’s ‘Age of the Stone Circles’ next, then ‘The Beaker Folk Arrive in Britain’, then ‘Bronze Age Britain’, and then finally its Iron Age Britain. Of course I’ve decided to do an entire series. Because I never make things easy for myself :)

@@HistoryTime What a lineup!! This makes me hard and hot for you.

Congrats Woden1809 - you have won an award for Feb 2020's Most Inappropriate Comment with regards to the uploaded content / professional answer given. You have won the Internet !

@@Boric78 And no women were harmed in the making of all this creepiness!!! Equality at last!!! Lol

@@NoName-fc3xe Awards for everybody. All round. Well done lads.

Hmm

I considered that too and in fact, women were known, even in the Medieval period to collect herbs and some folks collected berries for making jams. Foraging, in fact, has made a small come back, which you can see among a select group of UKposts creators. Mushrooms, bamboo and herbs have become essential to many chefs and amateur cooks.

Look at many Siberian tribes like the Evensk who are still nomads.

Yup, the Saami avoided the indo-European expansion and world takeover and lived just like the native Americans did up until a few hundred years ago. Shamanistic culture living off the land. Siberian roots just like the native American too. I'm proud to have Saami grandparents.

@J T The song Dulaman remembers some of that heritage though with seaweed.

Wonder if any of theirs killed Europeans? 🤔

But for diseases to jump you not only need those conditions, but you need millions of instances of those situations, so that such a jump becomes even vaguely statistically likely. In the case of hunter gatherers, their density of population meant that such instances were few and far between.

@@tipi5586 I think he meant if deceases spread from farmers, who had to some extent co-evolved with the deceases, to hunter-gatherers who had not... But one might think that trade meant that deceases spread throughout the continent, even before farmers entered into new land after the filling of the Black Sea, so unlike natives of the Americas, their immune system perhaps wasn't all that unprepared, but of course it could have been...

I guess no diseases existed in Indian culture. Bhaaaaa .

@@jallenw.67 that's not what any of them are saying, genius. It's an absolute fact that the Europeans that came to take take the land from the Native Americans used blankets they knew were contaminated with smallpox to wipe out as many of the Native Americans as they could. It did wipe out many tribes, and devastated all of the rest that survived.