Welcome to the Ancient Americas RU-vid channel. I’m your host, Pete and together, we will explore the rich and beautiful pre-columbian history of North and South America from the initial migration of humans into the Americas, to the great empires of Mesoamerica and the Andes and everything in between. This is a history that I find endlessly fascinating but is often neglected in classrooms and misunderstood in popular media. This channel is my effort to educate you, one member of a curious public, on this period’s history and its people. If you’re tired of seeing this obscure history boiled down to aliens and giants and just want an honest approach, please subscribe to the channel. There’s a lot to learn out there!
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About the creator: Pete is an average guy in the midwestern United States. He's not an professional archaeologist nor historian but he's always been fascinated by history and loves sharing what he learns.
I like these type of history videos. In my opinion what is missing is a simple overview that people in N, S, America and Australia lived with Stone Age technology until the Europeans came.
I am watching this video because I am interested in archeology, history, and also paleontology. 5 minutes in, I see that it will cover the first 2 topics, but I am also wondering about fossils, prehistoric fauna, and geological formations like the Burgess shale, Green River Wyoming, and well known dinosaur finds in the Dakotas. I live in southwest Texas, and am trying to find out more about the prehistory of this region - the geological time period, and best collecting areas. ( I am not from here, and am older, so I no longer have the stamina to climb cliffs, etc. But there have been significant finds near here - mammoths, and dinosaur tracks.)
Calling them explorers when they were conquering enslaveimg murdering humans so much for their humanity. Oh yeah they had a loving god who olny talked to them Now you know how the truth is notn any semblance of TRUTH allegedly bringing civilization to savage peoples. With lawful genocide. The world still hasn't recovered. Should be called voyages of GENOCIDE.stop sugar coating extermination of humans Disgusting.and your; doing the same S different century
Earliest "Native Americans" came from the continent of Mu which covered most of what we know today as the Pacific ocean. Mu sank due to a cataclysm which also covered most of North America with seawater...which is why you can find seashells embedded in rock all the way from the Ozarks to the copper fields of Michigan and up into Idaho.. The inland ocean eventually drained out over time. California was an island and the easternmost remnant of Mu, and became "attached" to the western coast of the N. American mainland sometime around 1400-1500 AD when a cataclysm drained the Lake Gosiute area of Wyoming (now the Red Desert) flooded the midwest down through the area of the Rockies and flushed billions of tons of silt into what formed as the Central Valley of CA and displaced ocean water. America was the original "Old World" and the original "Egypt" - earliest settlers of the Mediterranean areas including Egypt (Africa), the Levant, etc. arrived from a cataclysm-wrecked North America. Cataclysms have played a primary role during the history of mankind in driving settlements and exodus. You won't hear about a lot of this due to suppression of history and the secrecy of TPTB who push the uniformitarian model.
This was a great video on the history of the giant Olmec stone heads! I enjoyed this from Orange County, NY and am a new subscriber. Thanks for sharing this well done video!
thanks for the lessons. One wonders why the Native Americans didn't use the relatively navigable river systems more to seasonally [esp.] move. Rafting large amounts of goods might have been easier than land travel.
Brilliant documentary - thank you - but WAY too many ads during the show, Others less gifted have figured out the money better. Want to watch more, but please not tis way.
The Mayans did not construct the Civilization at all... Its not true. The pyramids and Civilization was constructed with the same Mathematical and Astrological ComputTions found in Egypt/ kemet. 99% of the ststues are ststues of Black people. MAYANS DID NOT HAVE BEARDS, BRAIDS ETC
I love how if an outside group destroys something of historical significance even in the distant past, they're idiots, but internal war, slavery, murder, rape, erasure of all evidence of some group of people and whatever amazing artifacts or structures they would have put up, the response is to never mention it. Seems like the worst kind of mindless idiocy I can imagine. And then if it's destroyed by archaeology and recorded (somewhere) and the artifacts all stored in boxes never to be seen again, that's the epitome of morality!! You've just got it all figured out don't you? Disgusting and insane.
My dude, the older I get, the less I have it all figured out. I am always learning. Wanting to preserve monuments of the ancient past is not an endorsement of everything that happened in the ancient past. You are 100% correct that there was a lot of violence but that doesn't mean that these structures and artifacts should be destroyed. (If future generations took that approach, I imagine they could find many reasons to bulldoze the monuments of the present day, and I really hope they don't.) For the local people, this is their heritage and their past and it has enormous cultural value to them and it's a loss to their communities when those areas are looted or destroyed and artifacts smuggled out to be sold on the black market. I imagine if the Chinese came to the US and bulldozed the US capitol, looted it and put it all in a museum back in China, we'd be rightfully pissed. Those criticisms of archaeology are valid but not the norm of the field. Archaeology has unfortunately been very destructive in the past. (Google Heinrich Schliemann for some depressing reading.) It's also resulted in a lot of artifacts being taken out of their countries of origins and shipped to museums abroad or being completely lost and that's terrible. That said, archaeologists these days do their best not to damage sites but some do, unintentionally or otherise but that usually brings a lot of criticism and in some cases, criminal charges. Also, artifacts that are recovered now almost always stay in their nation of origin. It's not perfect, but its getting better. When done properly, archaeology teaches us about our past, the good, the bad and the ugly and helps us to understand and celebrate that past. It gives ancient people a voice that we can heed in our own time.
I think the llano estacado region is super interesting and deserves its own video especially the theory’s of how the plains people Coronado wrote about might have bin the southern athabaskans migrating to the south west
I used to live in a Nebraska and I miss it sometimes. The plains are so beautiful and lovely. I am an Appalachian mountain man in my soul, but I understand the call of the wide blue skies of the plains.
Nazca lines are clearly depicting the transfer time from 4th Age of the Sun to pur current 5th Age of Sun, cca 3113 BCE started our 5th Age of Sun! Nazca lines confirms it on the Monkey carving with 4 and 5 fingers and plus 6 toes, and the 8 coils of the tail!!!
Clovis people first findings Re in the Delaware region, Clovis spear point technology are found in 2 regions Europe and the Americas,, not found in Asia.
It’s amazing/sad that people of North America were able to kill massive amounts of bison in a single event, yet the populations remained numerous and healthy. But as soon as white people arrived they nearly vanished. At a surface level, jumps sound like they would quickly destroy a population, yet they didn’t. Just goes to show how in tune with nature these hunters were.
