Wow! He was so wrong about carving ivory! It is one of the most beautiful and easily carved substances on this planet! That's why artisans loved working with it but it almost completely wiped out the worlds elephant population. I know this because, as a jeweler, I bought some back in the 1960's.... before it was banded in this country! I am now 79 and realized, way back then that, morally, I would never make a profit by selling it. I carved a few pieces as gifts and still have the rest!
I love Phil Hardìng..would like to see more of him. He has a way of explaining things like no other. He's also very funny. Regarding the lack of training of the WW1 soldiers, I say it was the poor leadership of the General staff that cost the lives of so many of the soldiers.
Big fan of him here in the USA as well. Most folk here are completely unaware of the fabulous archeology shows in the UK, and the gems who dig into present on them.
Key information would be the length of the training. I would think two months to be the minimum required, for a company, and possibly more for a battalion. The training would have to include info on latest method used by the enemy. A couple of weeks would not be enough.
At 55:45, the white pebbles were likely placed over the grave in order to discourage scavengers from digging into the grave. I use that method to protect the graves of pets when I bury them here. A grave gets filled with dirt, then covered in several layers of small stones, and then a layer of larger ones. The larger stones get moved off the top and re-used when the next pet dies, and the risk of digging is reduced. I wonder if the Neolithic children's graves were protected that way too.
Great Britain seems an archeological paradise. Is this due to a national obsession with history, and so unique a handling of the land? Surely France, for example, must have an equal or greater story beneath the ground? Is it because there's so many periods of time, preserved in a relatively small geographic area? What is it that makes the UK so special?
It was not just the young men of/in Britain. Many young men in Newfoundland volunteered for the WW1. To tell them apart, the Newfoundlanders had targets placed on their backs. Truly men to the slaughter! Many died, among them those who would have been the next leaders of Newfoundland. I truly believe that we wouldn't have joined Canada if those men were alive. The vote was 51 to 49 as it was. This is all in the past, and so it can not be changed. As a Newfie who was raised on the West Coast (BC), I can't say I'm not happy to have been raised here. It's helped shape me into who I've become. But I do wonder what could have been... Newfoundland: a strong independent country.
I wish to comment on the piece you have that has little holes in. It looks like it’s a modern piece but it is from prehistoric times. This was part of a bagpipe probably a one drone type Nobody knows how long ago bagpipes were made this may have been a prehistoric bag pipe with the leather bag, which would’ve been made of animal skin long ago the only thing missing is the bag the drones, or one drone which probably rotted way back for some reason this was preserved in that mud may be something connected to the mud might have Pete in the mud and it is a black wood, but this is definitely part of a bagpipe of that prehistoric. And I would say probably a one type of drone pipe and the mouthpiece is probably missing right of the way long ago I’m surprised that this survived as long as a did
is it me or do those stab wounds on the viking pelvis and skull look like pitch fork tines and maybe not a spear tip not all the men would have had a sword or spear just an observation
The Danes did their share of brutality to Swedes for hundreds of years long ago. As a Swede, I feel little sympathy for those probable Danish Vikings who were killed.
Swede AND Dane militaries were responsible for brutality against local populations. But you go ahead and get twisted up about violence that had nothing to do with YOU personally.
35:50 Skeletons buried with what was inside the cave. They were probably grave robbers, thieves, a traveling family. Killed and buried with what they tried to take.
Please forgive me, love the show BUT. I mean, this Spitfire search , is SOOooo hugely important, right? But, WE ONLY HAVE THREE DAYS to get all this stuff found????? I am not to the end of that segment yet, but it's Not been mentioned yet, WHY.
Maybe it’s just my pareidolia, but the view from below the cave make it almost appear to me as 2 skull eye sockets… possibly the burials etc are related on a superstitious or traditional level? Looking up at the cave that’s what ai can imagine…
As usual on these shows, this one gets it wrong. The people who built Stonehenge were not ancestors to the modern UK population. Those people, the neolithic farmers, were replaced almost entirely by the later incoming Bell Beaker people. They, and not the Stonehenge folk, are the ancestors of the modern British people. Tony did the same thing on Time Team, seeking to sell archaeology to the television audience by making it about 'our ancestors.' They were no more ancestors to today's UK residents than the American Indians were the ancestors of the British colonists in Virginia and Massachusetts.
well if you're going to be like that, Mongolian history should be touted as our ancestors. or the Romans in Italy... or perhaps the first modern humans in Africa? aDNA is the only way to prove who modern Brits ancestors were and it's so completely changing the opinions on how ancient humans moved around that we can't say for sure the beaker people did replace the previous culture, instead of changing fashions migrating through trade
Dark ages is called so, because not so much is known about this time. Its the period of history which is the most difficult to find a lot of information as opposed to other times in history.
It's known as the Dark Age because the Roman Catholic Church would not allow people to read the Bible for themselves, and many were illiterate, could not read or write. But in Britain and Ireland, knowledge was growing and scholars went to Ireland to study.
I'm sorry but finding a spitfire from 80 years ago hardly counts as archaeology especially when you have originals still flying today. Nice that they found it for sure but it has no place on/in a programme like this.
Everything is ritual to phil? It's high status axes but it's the refuse? How is it both. Plus wouldn't e ever person over 3yrs would have been very able to produce an axe. Not my words,these are the words of the man himself on many a knapping show. "The flint knob was basically the Swiss army knife of the stone age."! Sound familiar Phil? 🏴⛏️🤔🇬🇧
I just noticed the hand signaling (thumb, index and middle finger up with ring and pinky down) is similar to the Salvador Mundi painting!!! Same hand held up as well! @ 1:10:11
