Did one Man Start The Bronze Age in Britain? 

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Obviously he was a wise and wonderful human being.

Sounds like a very wise man!

What was your Dads name? Sounds like a wise man.

You have to admit, "Metallic Nocturnal Butterflies Discovered Buried In Ancient Ruins" would make quite the headline, so I can understand his enthusiasm. ;)

The best metal detectors that I had the fortune to with (as a professional archaeologist) were police officers. Honest, friendly, passionate and curious people. On other sites my colleagues and I would metal detect new areas as they were uncovered, extract any artefacts or GPS the find, then scatter Fe washers on the ground to detract potential night hawkers.

Thank you.

I was wondering why he's whispering the entire time 🤔

@@SeptemberMeadows turn the volume up

@@pwhitewick Volume is fine. Still doesn't change the impression of all the whispering and moving furtively about as though one is concerned about being caught doing what they are doing. Informative video, though. How different the land would have looked in his time compared to today. Majorly impressed at how he remained mobile and active without a kneecap but of course back then it was more do or die. Was there any evidence of what caused the abscess in the jaw? Are there any wear marks on his teeth or distortions in the finger, hand, and wrist bones that may have alluded to his crafts?

Thank you. Really appreciated

My pleasure!

Indeed yes.

That he had so many arrows, had travelled from so far away, was buried with such an abundance of grave goods? This person was a Lancelot of their day, and it's interesting Amesbury was a significant town way back then.

Thanks Michael.

He's in Salisbury Museum.

A replica is on permanent display at Amesbury Service Station A303 west bound. Great content once again.

I was thinking that too. He brought all of his tools and an apprentice with him.

for sure. the bluestone that they used is found worldwide. it reonates well at a certain frequency. thats stone age tech (seen in caves in france). they would chant at a chanting stone, a large sized flat faced rock with two either side, this woukd reflect the sound outwards to the cave walls and it would all resonate (the wavelengths visible in the dust and sand on the floor). the wavelengths on the floor match the wavelengths that cause psychological reactions in humans. they match certain brainwaves. that tech eventually became churches from the druids (and you can still see the wavelengths in the incence smoke when the priests chant. the altar acts as the chanting stone.) youll find lots of circles where druids existed. most still have their chanting stones in place. (cardiff castle has one although more modern, its right outside the black druids old home. the mayans used different stones in their pyramids to direct and amplify sound frequencies. possibly the egyptians too. blue stone is good for those trippy nights out and contacting the spirits :)

No Roman record for Stonehenge, yet a Roman garrison nearby! We now know all stone sourced locally. It was probably a follies put there by a land lord. The sun position etc could have been worked out. By that time they had all head of ancient Egypt! Shell Grotto up Margate probably genuine, but by ancient pre Celtic Phoenicians!

@@control5835 You know that's utter rubbish right?

@@fog99uk Really? I've worked out a reasoned truth, the two lost tribes of Israel (tribes of Dan, ie Picts in Scotland and Phoenicians in south) pre Celtic. Boudicas lot DNA trace now to East Spanish fishing communities 100%. There's a hel lof a lot more alternative history to be deduced now. Were the Phoenicians the 'Celtic' tribes who didn't rebel against The Romans, if they indeed built The Shell Grotto, it's interesting how the first Claudian invasion was aborted when Claudius made his auxillays pick up shells from The French beach. Did the Phoenicians invite them in. When The Celts invaded 1000bc, did they push many Phoenicians south from England and Northern France, down to Italy we they interbred with Estrrucans, forming The Romans. Did The Romans have to invent The Trojans, because they didn't want to admit they were half Jewish! Did The Romano- Phonicians return as The Bretons in 1066 as part of William's army? Did they hold off The Saxons at The Battle of Baden under the leadership of Ambrosius Arelianus a pure Roman, and o yes there is a castle under Tintagel castle! Is the lake at the bottom of ashes wood in Battle 'Senlac' or blood lake, where The Normans threw the dead Saxon bodies. I've even done extensive survey of Battle 1066 site and can virtually prove it was opposite Battle Golf Club!

Its getting bigger by the minute

@@pwhitewick Yeah, Hambrook court wasn't there at the time, but when I've commented on your posts before I was living in Calne, but yeah was a first one in to the new build. Horrible shoddy housing, around 2017 - 2021

Cheers Simo

He came here for free treatment! /S.

Perhaps he travelled on two then lost a leg....

@@kwkw5711 wouldn't rule that out being honest

He also had tarsal coalition, a condition where bones in your feet that SHOULD be separate grow together. It changes your foot from a shock absorber into a solid mass that doesn't absorb the impact from walking AND the bones grate against each other. I know because I had it, but had surgery to relieve the problem when I was 9. For me, a couple hours of walking, like at an amusement park, left me in agony. His experience must have been similar, even before the wound to his leg.

Thanks Pauline. I'd love to do some amateur level archaeology

@@pwhitewick maybe join us on our BAHS dig next month?

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Thank you.

Many thanks!

Could be! Though taking an arrow to the knee is also an old Scandinavian term for getting married. (Norwegian or Swedish or both, I'm not quite sure.)

@@eekee6034 Every day is a learning day 😀 Thanks for that info. Has put a smile on my very married face. 🤣

I was about to copypasta, but obviously had to check someone else had done the job for me first 😂

Thank you.

Thanks Darren, I guess we will never know, but fascinating to ponder.

I just watched another video (on Tasting History) about Otzi, the ice mummy, and how analysis of his stomach/intestinal contents, as well as similar isotope analysis as with the Archer, have helped identify his travels. So much information that would not have been thought possible a few decades ago, leading to so many more questions!

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Absolutely

Thank you Sian.

A pleasure.

Go for it!

Many thanks! 😊

Cheers marq

@@pwhitewick You're welcome Paul, love your content as you know.

Thank you, glad we can help. :-)

Thanks Tom

I like this notion.

Why do you fantasize these things? Dead bodies are buried without the intention of being robbed a week or 100 years later.

Cheers James. Appreciated

Thank you Kai. Super kind.

Exactly per script. Appreciated. 😊

Thanks Michael.

Welcome

Very welcome

Thanks, will do!

Thanks Philip

Good question. My gut suggests these where traded. The UK does have deposits but I think mainly only in Wales and Scotland.

You aren't far from what was believed to be the exact reason he travelled. I think the leg only thing that has changed this is the companion grave was a relation of his that had grown up fornthr last 20 years in Britain. So this being the case one would assume the Archer had been there for that period too

@@pwhitewick Yes, I can't imagine the Amesbury Archer walking or riding 600 miles (plus a sea crossing) with a painful knee injury, so presumably he was already in southern Britain before he was injured.

Wow. I'd not heard of that. Absolutely must be a connection somewhere along the line!

Sorry, made a mistake, Goseck is far older. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goseck_Circle

However, we have more and more indications that at the time around 2000 BC there was a significant culture , the Unetice culture, in that area, todays Saxony-Anhalt, which produced huge grave tumuli and the Nebra sky disk. So looking into these parallels does make sense

Thank you so much.

Thanks Malcolm

Andrew Fitzpatrick has drawn all this up in a very readable form. Notes in desc

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Harsh!

Haha! But the trouble is the Beaker People weren't one culture. They were a whole range of cultures sharing this one common symbol. It would be like archaologists in the 61st century calling all of 11th-century Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals and from Norway to Athens the 'Cross Culture'. Even coming up with this example illustrates the issue because the parts of Europe where the cross was reverenced have changed so much on a scale of centuries, as, apparently, did the parts of Europe where the bell beakers were used.

@@eekee6034 The bad news just keeps coming.

Thank you.

Hey Burt

Meep too. Sorry, me too.😉

Cheers Davie.

Hey Bert

@@pwhitewick You welcome Ernie!

Cheers Shaun

I think horses were used, but I am not sure on the availability and length. Seemingly no remains with any beaker burial make me question this.

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I try

@@pwhitewick well... it was either you or Geoff Marshall!

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