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Lidar is so Amazing ! To think you can find site's or disturbed ground not seen with the naked eye or through double or triple canopy is very cool !! Maybe with it we can finally find Genghis Kahn's tomb ! Thanks for another facinating video !! Have a wonderful weekend !
Missed you in the chat. LiDAR is just fantastic. So much is being uncovered. I agree with you, there were probably many more cursus that have been destroyed by plowing and development. I recall visiting, what had been, a Native American mound years ago. It had been completely plowed flat. There were only stone tools indicating what had been there. I suppose we are fortunate that some such sites have survived to the present day. Thank You Laura!
Some people think they were for mass organised breeding of the first domesticated horses and bulls ,associated with particular families ,and because of trading,breeding was very closely regulated to be in time with the seasons
It would be potentially easy to prove as Mike parker Pearson's team did with Durrington walls. High levels of phosphates at the archaeological ground level. I don't know if that's been tested systematically
Thanks Laura. Each one of these features is so interesting. I hope there's some work being done but they should start with whatever one they feel would be most likely to uncover artifacts that would help understand them.
Another great video, and glad that you do give your own opinion too. Would love an explainer of the difference between ring forts hill fots, duns, mounds, etc if you have not already. I'm new to your site & haven't had time to go through all your past videos yet. You are a great compliment to another couple of pre history folk site that I watch!
First time viewer of your channel and first time I have ever heard of megolithic prehistoric Cursus, so as I learnt something new , I have liked and subscribed naturally . Looking forward to learning more about really old stuff from your channel
Ireland and all of Ireland's Authentic History is a subjrct high on my Priority List. Facts and Clarity most welcomed. My research and discoveries continue to reveal a very different History than is found in Mainstream. Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian Tennessee, USA (Irish American, County Keery Lineage, Basque Orgin).
Always love watching your calming videos. I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area . There used to be sizeable shellmounds by Native Americans, but they were all destroyed and the contents distributed around to pave roads. 😢
Perhaps they started as a place to drive wild game, some of which, like auroch and Irish elk were huge. As these animals disappear, the practical becomes tradition. The barriers get modified into monuments. The alignments might be due to favorable directions for driving game in one direction or the other, away from or into the sun or prevailing winds at certain times of the year.
What I know is that I missed the live chat. What I think is that you like enigmas! First the cart ruts of Malta. Now these cursus…curses as far as my spell check is concerned!…. I think a pattern emerges. I’m blessed today with videos from two of my favorite history ladies. Laura here and Tina earlier. Both containing enigma from early times. Today we build stuff. Some elaborate, some ornamental, and even some religious in nature. But all of them functional in some way. The great cathedrals of Europe can be said to be religious in nature, but every one had a roof to keep the rain out and windows to let the light in. So they were essentially functional. So too out modern parks, shopping malls and civic buildings. So why not these really ancient structures? Today we only see the bits and pieces that remain. And lacking true insight into to capabilities of those past cultures we tend to assign to them purely symbolic function. Rather than some practical function that we cannot relate to today. So funny “knobs” on stone blocks, mysterious cart tracks in apparently solid rock and curses on various land scapes. What were they really? I don’t know. We have to think outside the box, I think. We need to relate to a time with radically different weather than we enjoy today. With people using technology and thinking skills appropriate to their time and circumstances. Not necessarily more “advanced” than ours. Simply different. Philosophically, we don’t deal well with different. Typically we view different as inferior….to what we have. Unless we totally don’t understand it. Then it becomes some lost advanced technology. And when all else fails we make it spiritual or religious in some way. I intuit that these things were functional in some way. Exceptional men might figure out the solstice by observation over a lifetime. How to pass that information on to the next generation of not-so-exceptional men? Put sticks into the ground with which to observe. Sticks Rot. Replace them with stones. And when the true function of those stones escapes cultural memory, make them a sacred place. Make the “technicians” priests. Lot of effort putting up banks aligned with a solar or lunar alignment! Especially for a few “primitive” hunters of farmers. I suspect there were much larger population of “them” than we suspect. That they knew exactly what they were doing. And built items with some practical function… for their needs at that time. I recently watched a video of electronics repair in a third world country. They can’t make computers but they use them. Repair is a poke and prod affair. Short it out while prodding and they simply say that the “magic smoke” got away. I suspect that we observe these features from the past. We don’t understand what they were and so we envision some variation of magic smoke to explain our enigma. So much for philosophy. Fox out
Good points Fox. Curses haha. Well, as I always say, in ancient times the functional and the sacred were probably one and the same. Understanding the solar year was live-saving, providing the weather did what it was supposed to do. Since sometimes things didn't go to plan, these forces of nature became deities to be placated.
@@MegalithHunteri agree with the both of you.....definitely some practical purpose but, superstition or, religion, if you will, comes along more or less simultaneously.....the ancient(s) who thought up these cursi, (cursuses?), monuments and henges were the geniuses of their time and were probably revered with awe.....ergo, not gods but, perhaps, messengers of the gods?!? of course, we'll most likely never know, but.......doesn't hurt to theorize, eh?
Rats. Missed the live. Shows the importance of improving our sensor technology. There’s more things hiding in plain sight. LOL. This raises more questions. Guess we’ll have to keep exploring. I love exploring. Have a good weekend Laura.
well....something was wrong.....i could swear the thumbnail said Sun. the 5th.....imagine my surprise at finding you had premiered on Sat!!! sssooo, Kayleigh was premiering right then so, i watched and chatted with her and others......afterwards, took a break to eat some lunch, came back to find my wi-fi was absent......dang! and it never came back on😱 sssooo, here i am at dialysis, catching up....sorry i missed chatting with you and the community😭 so, these cursi(?) cursuses(?) had to have had some very important function. the amount of planning and labor to create them speaks loudly for that. sure, the free time the ancients had, in between hunting, gathering, farming, tool-making, hovel erecting and etc, must have been boring..... so, some cerebral fellow, bored outta his skull, decides to create some cool pathways....others come along and start asking what's up.......pretty soon the whole bunch of bored fellas is pitching in and, lo and behold, a cursus is born.....maybe?....i don't know..... just throwing some brain detritus out..... seriously, tho.....these things and all the other megalithic structures, mounds and henges are so fascinating that no one hypothesis seems to fit all criteria. a combination of reasons for their existence is probably most correct.....again, just throwing ideas out, not making claims thanks, our Laura! truly enjoy your enigmatic videos🤩👍
It did definitely say Sunday until I remembered I had something on Sunday, so switched it to Saturday because I wanted to be in the chat. But I missed the chat because the baby woke up. lol. So there was no reason to have switched it I suppose. It could totally have been boredom that got those ancients shovelling earth and making long tracks. No museums, no shops, no restaurants. Fair enough. Haha.
@@MegalithHunter aaahhh, Laura darlin'! thank ye fer clearin' that up....thot i was losin' me mind🤯 i need ta be on the ole web more.....might of caught the change🙃 and, yes, the wee bairns oft cause th' missin' o' confabs😅 the lil dearies😍 sssooo, looks to be we both missed out.....mayhaps th' nex' time? til then, m'lady⚔
That's just waffle not a theory. The main point must be to support the existing social and economic system for the leaders. All based upon mumbo jumbo.
We've been burying our deceased pets on our property for many years. Several thousand years from now some future archaeologist will find the remains of my home's foundation and find all of the animal remains (mostly dogs). He will conclude that this was an important religious site, pointing towards the numerous "animal sacrifices" that took place here and submit his findings to National Registry to be added to the list of protected places! I'm so honored! 🤣
@@ChrisShortyAllen It's obvious you grew up during a time when it was perfectly normal to insult a total stranger from the safety of your keyboard. I can only take solace in knowing one day you will slip up and insult someone to their face and walk away with a bloody nose for it!
Just to add, of course the archaeologists would notice that similar dog remains were scattered by the thousands almost everywhere, with no religious implications.
