Gods of Prehistoric Britain 

And Classically Liberal to his core - Bravo that man.

( Prof Hutton is “eccentric” not “strange” :)

@@Shineon83 potayta/ potarta

Maybe just has aspie tendencies.. All part of the natural variation of the human brain.

@@AndyJarman So he's economically neo liberal? Not wanting to confuse things... Perhaps he's classically liberal in intellectual thought and temprement.. But not necessarily (I don't know) economically classically liberal. It such a slippery term as the US equate the word as tantamount to left wing for some unknown reason!!

It was a privilege for me just to listen to this one public lecture. Lucid and equanimical. Lucky you

Is he nice?

@@hildegerdhaugen7864 Of course! He's incredibly smart and profound with many many stories to tell that add a lot of life and laughter to his classes. But he's also deeply humble and always has time for his students.

@@dannyr3997 Very successful people are always humble I find. Its the wannabes who are arrogant.

@@dannyr3997 So cool!

True. Purest Oxford English.

Yes!! Love this professor

It sounds WAY better played at 1.25 x speed. Precise? perhaps, but SO boring!

He's an expert on the w itch trials and English folkore. I've met him in person, lovely man and very humorous in his talks.

He speaks to be understood.

Why does this statement please you?

Prof's whole career has been about poking at long held truths and seeing if they hold up under new evidence. That's the true beauty of science - it grows when new evidence is revealed. And what's not entirely known is rightly called "theory."

Ha!

You mean pre-history and informed opinion.

All historians say this all the time. When I was doing my history degree, any course about anything old that was implied or said in variation

Dont dis, get a third eye your see more than fairies

And not only that he speaks well.

@@inregionecaecorum You are being naughty

Hi Sarah, what a small world. Heh, heh

I went to school with him. He sounds exactly like he did at 15

That's how all foreign people who know English language were thinking everyone in England speaks, before they come to England and find out that they can't understand half of what people say wherever in England they are. 😄

If you like this and would like to find more truth maybe try Britain's Hidden History Ross channel

That was pretty well put!

Both imperious and comical🤣🤣🤣...perfectly stated!

Thanks 😊 😄(added smiley face)

Well dressed, great hair, educated, well spoken and yes he can lord it over you with a shade of Imperialism but also tongue-in-cheek and does not take himself seriously.

Also, his responses to questions are impressively erudite.

(By which I mean, if it was me I'd have to hem and haw before I came to a definitive answer and possibly correct myself. He's right in here with absolute authority from the outset of his response to a question. This is a man at the top of his game. It's impressive).

For a possible example of such a story check out minute 31!! 😮🤭👻☠️😹

misleading and somewhat incorrect. Just sayin....

Well put!

But a professional reputation is very important among academics

@Ксенія♡укр protect them from whom?

@Ксенія♡укр Lot of presumptions in your statement with no real prerogative other than "archeologists do this"

He is a fan of historical re enactment. I have an old book of his, The stations of the Sun which I dip into for information.

he's new to me and I'm hooked. what would you recommend?

He is and he did, but there's rules you see...... not supposed to say.

@@helenamcginty4920 I have the same book. 🙂

He would be the most convincing Doctor EVER. Now you've said it, it's SO obvious.

Agreed! Hutton is screamingly funny in this lecture! 😁

A razor wit, and a depth and breadth of knowledge of the history of Britain, its culture and traditions - not just of the elite, but the ordinary folk. I do like a man who is passionate about his subject... Wish I could meet one!

@@ruthmckay9086 For the same wit and wisdom, please do watch the lectures by Irving Finkel - I highly recommend them! (different topic though)

SH is a wonder? How about *Ankor Watt* temple (Combodia)? You might want to search youtube or google for ancient Indian Hindu Temples and Forts in today's and ancient India...and SH would look like a few children built it who didn't know what they were trying to do. 🙏

Back in the 90s you could be the only person at SH and wander around quite;y on your own… I used to take dowsing equipment. Now it’s an ill informed dumbed down theme park. Personally I question everything “known” about SH. That the Sun of ancient times was Saturn seems to be universal and thus the ancients were not worshipping the Sunrise as we know it. .. that the Stones were dragged from Wales… and that it should be put in context with all other stone circles around the world e.g in Africa, notably Gambia and Senegal. The dating is questionable when you factor in how carbon dating is done and that very electromagnetically affected areas/objects will show a different age from those not although maybe of the same age. IMO, SH is older that the popular belief and commemorates something a lot more spectacular than a bunch of ancient goons marvelling at the Sun. Top plasma scientist Anthony Peratt of Los Alamos labs discovered in 2005 that any axial cylindrical plasma sheath will split into 56 subdivisions. This is the number of Aubrey holes at SH. all stone circles seem to show indents of 56 or 28. Peratt went further and focused a plasma beam onto a witness plate; the result was a perfect imprint identical to SH including the altar stone etc. Peratt’s presentation is on YT as Icons from Antiquity - Anthony Peratt Talks to SIS May 2005. Or 2005 TP World. Furthermore this pattern is seen in Supernova 1987A, showing such events are catastrophic focused electrical discharges. See Holoscience dot com. Seen on a global scale such events are proven to be witnessed by humans and recorded by survivors then venerated, then mourned the loss of etc with “religions” evolving in the wake thereof depending on geophysical location and visuals held there. If you were directly under the plasma discharge your mythology is that of the Norse gods, the great circumpolar hunt etc… if you were further down in latitude your view was from a different angle and the affects on the landscape different. This is an entire study only beginning to find its proofs from analysis of global myth, the ability to run thousands of images through programs which show all petroglyphs were recordings of the same events, and also the remarkable affects of such cosmic events on terrestrial geology. The professor needs to revisit his ideas I’m afraid.

@@anurooptyagi9018 Angkor Wat is only around 900 years old so it's no wonder it has more detail as stone carving progressed over time. Stonehenge is 5000 years old and was built before the pyramids. All you've shown is how rude you are as a person by insulting our heritage.

@@anurooptyagi9018must’ve been mighty strong children then

​@@pixelfu623 SH is only 50 odd years old ... it's been in the news already.

you're deliberately confusing capital punishment with human sacrifice lol

Quite so. Capital punishment is well within the range of definitions of human stupidity simply because if it turns out you executed the wrong victim you are going to be less popular. There are heaps of other reasons as well. Prejudice is likely to come into it somewhere. No confusion there.

In most cases of heresy a trial of the accused would be held with evidence presented that could be challenged and also in most cases the "victim" could recant and ask for pardon and forgiveness.Very different to human sacrifice where nothing could save you-no trial no choice of recanting.Just look up at what Aztecs,Mayas and other pre Columbian nations did!

Because one is a punishment and warning to other potential heretics, the other is a sacrificial offering and not punishment and a warning to others. You actually define the difference yourself in your question.

​@@si4632 not so sure capital punishment and human sacrifice are different. Simply eradicating opponents to one's ideals in defence of those ideals smacks of sacrificing a life to please an idea to me.

Check rock pigeons...bright red eyes! Those will really make you wonder...

@@howler6490 creepy 😳😬

Dinosaurs are FAKE dude.

I do my bit to keep birds in check by eating plenty of chicken.

@@Tom_Quixote Lol.

You could check out 'The Prehistory Guys' on RU-vid; that's their entire philosophy.

The 'droids'? As in Star Wars??

No to mention Christianity is based 100% on human sacrifice. How do they not see this?

Aaarr!!! We’re not just twisting to Chinese and Russian propaganda drills but still ensorcelled in that of the Holy Roman Empire!!!

While men get thrown into lion pits. Double standards here.

You mean druids

Well that's a guess , they could have been brought closer at a different time, he says they were in a hurry to build it but also laboured to bring massive stones from 100s of miles away . Seems a contradiction

@@20FreeWill I believe they have recently located the location in North Wales where the Stonehenge bluestones were first quarried (and erected, initially). Geology dictates where different rocks are to be found, religion dictates whatever spiritual significance they may possess to their adherents.

not mid-wales?

Why the 'but'?

BUT? WHY?

I never knew the Ironbridge was built by the druids. You learn something new every day.

@@tcm81 It is so ancient that no one can remember, etc... Let it rust.

Dovetail joints are joinery not carpentry !

A better idea than trying to weld wood.

@@andrewtrip8617 He did say mortice and tenon, but does he mean a little post of stone left from chopping away round the top of the upright stone meant for a slot in the beam to fit over. Better than cutting a post out of the beam to fit into a slot on the upright stone. Not that convinced either way.

That's what I thought.

But is there any evidence of any of those claims? I believe there is a single mention of a goddess Eostre in Bede and nowhere else. Bede is interpreting the Anglo-Saxon name for April, Eostermonath. He says: "Eosturmonath has a name which is now translated 'Paschal month', and which was once called after a goddess of [the English] named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate that Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of the new rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance." (Bede, _The_ _Reckoning_ _of_ _Time,_ trans. Faith Wallis, 2004) And that's it. There's no other mention of this goddess anywhere. As for the date of Easter, it was originally fixed by the Jewish calendar, and by the fourth century given an astronomical mooring to the Vernal Equinox, this slippage happening before the Anglo-Saxon conquests and was made in the Eastern Mediterranean and had zero linkage to any festival of the Spring, which you would imagine would fall on the Vernal Equinox and not tied to the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Equinox, something that only makes sense in its Christian historical context. At the very least, we know celebration of Easter on the day fixed by the Julian calendar had been determined by AD 395, ten years before Constantine III took the Roman army out of Britannia and long before the main settlement of Angles and Saxons in the province.

Its catholic practice to let people blend previous pagan and cultural practice into the Christian religion in order to get thrir cooperation.

Professor Hutton in fact..... I live not too far away from Avebury and find it just fascinating.

@@lw3646 Are you an Academic by any chance ?

What. He said this the only way to reach a popular audience not that he supports it.

Sounds like something Gregory of Monmoth spun....

The monument has been so messed around with and "restored" over the years, we can't be sure what it was meant to look like. There is a roman account of it being globular, which could imply a domed turfed roof built on wooden rafters on top of the stones. The turf could be moved to allow observation of the sky, or allow the light in from the moon and Sun at various times of year. That would make the stone archways doors into an enclosed temple.