Male Grooming and the Warrior Aristocracy of Ancient Europe

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The warrior aristocracy of Bronze Age Europe were buried in warrior graves with his personal weaponry - like daggers, swords, and spears. But there were other objects in these graves like hair combs, bronze razors and tweezers, cloak pins, and awls for tattooing the skin, that all speak to a profound interest in clothing, personal grooming and in adorning the warrior. So what can this all tell us about this aristocracy, the beliefs and practices of these elite men, and the nature of masculinity in prehistory?
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Video Chapters
00:00 Bronze Age Warrior Graves
01:41 Sponsorship
03:04 The Rise of the Warrior Aristocracy
05:04 Warrior Journeying
06:17 Warrior Drinking
07:13 Warrior Clothing
07:55 Warrior Grooming
08:32 Origins of Bronze Razors
09:26 Why was it so important?
11:07 Ritual Grooming as Transformation
12:04 Nordic Bronze Age razors
13:21 Shaving as a rite of passage
14:40 Warrior tattoos
15:20 the Nature of the Bronze Age Warrior

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@DanDavisHistory Год назад

Be sure to use the code "dandavis" to get 100 free blades when you purchase your Henson razor here: hensonshaving.com/dandavishistory

@greenknightable Год назад

You should qualify that even though their razors are not made of bronze, they'll last a life time.

@peterdeans4635 Год назад

Hi, you may find this interesting to note. The rock art depicted in the video with the canoes and a few figures are most likely what you would observe just before sunrise at the beginning of spring or summer. Or perhaps being raiders the boat in the heavens just after Scorpio, unless they looked at the Virgo constelations as it is a long horizontal group of stars. The iconography of a warrior in the western zodiac is Libra. Thanks for sharing, great video. Take care👍😊

@ronancahill5524 Год назад

hey Dan, have you seen cave of bones and the recent discoveries about homo naledi`s burials? what do you make of it?

@destructionindustries1987 Год назад

Thanks. Instead of bc. I like to use the astrological ages, in the great platonic year. 2000 bc Would be the beginning of the Age of Aries (Rome). 4000 bc Would be the beginning of the Age of Taurus (and domestic cows). 6000 bc being the Age of Gemini (twins prominent in mythology). Age of Cancer ♋ (and boat cults). 8000 bc the Age of Leo ♌ 10k bc Age of Virgo ♍ 12k bc Age of Libra ♎ 14k bc Age of Sagittarius ♐ (and hunter-gatherers).

@destructionindustries1987 Год назад

@@peterdeans4635 yes

@VonAggelby Год назад

I read from somewhere that the Persians sent scouts to Thermopylae Pass to check what the Spartan warriors were up to. The scout returned and reported very confused "they are doing gymnastics and combing their hair and behave completely as if there was no massive enemy preparing to attack".

@lesteryaytrippy7282 11 месяцев назад

Warriors busy with the Gym Bro Rizz

@Telamonian 11 месяцев назад

@@WeAreLegion-projection

@whata86 11 месяцев назад

Lol. They were preparing for the ultimate sacrifice. Death on the battlefield was considered the greatest honor .

@Oddyseouss2077 11 месяцев назад

The battle of Thermopylae took place at the end of the archaic period

@VonAggelby 11 месяцев назад

@@Oddyseouss2077 Yes this was definitely iron age but I was thinking maybe Spartans had inherited this tradition from those bronze age ancestor warriors.

@goobermcboogerballs1420 11 месяцев назад

Lol at the people complaining that Europeans are interested in European pre-history. Who would have thought we would be interested in our ancestors.

@Sadist574 5 дней назад

Snowflake

@keircampbell9374 5 дней назад

@@Sadist574wtf are you talking about

@AndersonsprairieviewfarmAnders День назад

@@Sadist574that would be you.

@ozramblue117 21 час назад

@@Sadist574tell me you don’t know the meaning of a word without telling me 😂. That or extraordinary projection.

@esbendit Год назад

A fun fact about the graves from Borum Eshøj, shown in the video. One of the dead were burried with a small bronze dagger in a much larger sheath. It is belived that he would have owned the maching sword in life, but it must have been too valuable to give him it in death.

@juanjuri6127 Год назад

"Well, he ain't usin' it!"

@Dragonette666 11 месяцев назад

@@juanjuri6127 "he won't be needing these sneakers"

@robby7025 Месяц назад

Its a common tactic to pull a knife from a sword sheath. The enemy expects a long draw, while hes already stabbed from the quickly drawn dagger.

@ralphstern2845 19 дней назад

Or he lost it in battle

@themighty4th138 5 дней назад

Or he willed it to his family, but looked cooler in full battle dress.

@fabricdragon Год назад

i suppose it is surprising to most, but when you consider HOW much the Vikings spent time on hair, and looks, and grooming (including especially care of their hair) to the point that other peoples of the time commented on their constant bathing and combing... i think this is something that comes up over and over in cultures... always interesting to hear/see your videos!

@momoney9229 Год назад

Lmfao vikings clean? 😂😂 They literally used to use the same bath water for a whole family and not even change it. Spit in it sneeze in it and re use. In fact they were notorious for their bad hygiene lol don't know what fantasy you're talking about

@sharktasticduck5562 11 месяцев назад

@theren2486I believe that was just a way to promote their better ness at the time

@dragonlord498 11 месяцев назад

Ya and at some points in time belief in looking your best/healthiest declines such time periods and when apparently morbid obesity was considered attractive

@casteretpollux 11 месяцев назад

Only way to keep flea free.

@rey6708 10 месяцев назад

hygiene is important and many old societys knew that. especially when you sailed together for weeks or months its important to be as clean as possible or else youre pretty much askign to get sick.

@Drew_McTygue Год назад

The quality of Dan's content is astounding. I've always been interested in the bronze age, but it's such a remote period in human history that we know very little of the bronze age peoples that inhabited Europe aside from what they left buried in the earth. Dan's thorough presentation of the archeological record, beautiful illustrations, and his talent as an author bring these people and their societies to life in a way that I've never experienced! Amazing work Dan

@DanDavisHistory Год назад

Thank you so much, Drew, that really means a lot to me.

@theimaginariumnetwork5621 Год назад

Agreed. Far superior to 99% of the documentaries available on major streaming networks. Hoping to be able to start donating soon.

@john-ic5pz Год назад

@@DanDavisHistory🍻

@nicelydunwell5681 Год назад

Don't worry it will be here again real soon!

@kkupsky6321 Год назад

Well. If your an elite mail. I have no idea how the post got involved. I never got the postman to bring me a razor. Ohh maile? Ha. It’s not mithril but thanks. He knows that alpha beta hypothesis has been debunked by dude who came up with it. Whatever.

@jamesvandemark2086 Год назад

The business of a man is to be true to himself & others. And whenever possible, do it with style! (advice from my dad)

@DanDavisHistory Год назад

Good advice.

@jamesvandemark2086 Год назад

@@DanDavisHistory When I was a soldier, we took pride in our "turn-out"!

@karamlevi 10 дней назад

Good dad man 😊

@Tusk-ruk 4 дня назад

You Dad has got it all figured out. Salute to your big man.

@MrRourk Год назад

Charisma Stat is not to be underestimated

@baronesselsavonfreytag-lor1134 Год назад

Interesting. Reminds me of how Sikhs keep long hair and combs as articles of faith and have a martial history.

@leggonarm9835 11 месяцев назад

Perhaps passed down Indo-European culture?

@baronesselsavonfreytag-lor1134 11 месяцев назад

@leggonarm9835 Maybe but the religion is only 500 years old.

@gyllenspetzfamily7993 17 дней назад

After engaging in traumatic behavior, self soothing affirmation like combing your hair makes sense.

@robincowley5823 Год назад

Another important factor in the wealth of elite burials is gift exchange. Such exchange could be from the chief or lord to his retinue, within the clan to reinforce bonds such as marriage, with the links reinforced by gifts, or as part of diplomacy between the leaders of different clans. Warriors might gravitate to a particular chief or lord based on the probability of being gifted with such high status items as pins, brooches and, of course, weapons.

@acaydia2982 6 месяцев назад

Marrying off daughters creates stability. So, yes. I think they also sent their men out at a certain age, to get familiar with a people to establish protection for trade routes.

@bokkenwielderful Год назад

Tattoos in some cultures served medicinal purpose. Either tattooing some herb into the diseased or injured part of the body. Or magic talismans, to effect healing.

@macmac3280 Год назад

It did not work, though - they all miserably died, probably in waves of epidemic. What I want to see is a video: "Sink investments of Bronze Age warriors or the danger of preening: how the Bronze Age collapsed." Overall, there is a greater problem here how in human civilizations any surplus leads to "more of the same" instead working for a sustainable future.

@HansenFT Год назад

Also, tattooing ceraint meridian points, similar to acupuncture. As seen on Ötzi

@feldgeist2637 Год назад

a few hundred yrs later tattoos and other permanent stigmata in historical european societies were pretty much limited to certain groups of people (continued to be associated with one of these groups until very recently....well, still is but not solely anylonger.....) such awls must have served an every day purpose and if they aren't tools connected to some unknown common work routine, then they are most likely hygiene utensiles - small iron age toilet sets usually consisted of tweezers, often earspoons or nailscrapers, regularly little "awls" (toothpicks)

@panzerlieb 12 дней назад

I had a thought while watching this. Since these items of hygiene are often associated with weapons, could they possibly be part of a first aid or personal surgical kit? For a warrior a first aid kit would be essential equipment.

@micahhebert 5 дней назад

I saw this in Afghanistan.

@rialobran Год назад

Superbly researched. It made me smile when you said "Gold cups fit for a king". George V used the Rillaton early Bronze Age cup as a shaving mug before it was 'rediscovered'...which sort of fits the sponsor of the video too.

@adrianlouw2499 Год назад

I always notice how the teeth on these skeletons are not crooked...

@markhedger6378 5 месяцев назад

Meat based diet,and lots of vit d from outdoor living in sunlight

@carmichaelree 20 дней назад

cries in British

@IVIasterKush 17 дней назад

Lower jaw structures and teeth changed with the introduction of the fork. Overbite became the norm whereas previously upper front teeth met lower front teeth.

@adrianlouw2499 17 дней назад

@@IVIasterKush I thought it was shrinking mouths due to processed foods...So chopstick using Asians don't have crooked teeth?

@IVIasterKush 17 дней назад

@@adrianlouw2499 they have worse overbite. The biting and tearing of meat straight off a dagger (or in the case of stone age man, off the bone) makes the bottom and top front teeth align. Asians precut the meat into pieces that can be picked up with chop sticks. Hence the WW2 racial stereotype of Japanese soldiers having buck teeth.

@breakaleg10 Год назад

We see these ritual preparations even today, ice hockey players not shaving until their team has lost, and sometimes until they have won a championship. Maybe there was a degree of superstition in there too.

@jezusbloodie Год назад

Babe, wake up! New bronze age Dan Davis just dropped And that during the release of Kings and Generals' 2 hour extremely comprehensive video on the history of what we now refer to as celtic.. What a day! After setting a bit of the scene, let us get transported like no one else can have us to the deep, mystic past (may I request or suggest to some day bring us to the bronze age Low Countries, I've recently read about the "Nordwestblock", a non-celtic, non-germanic Indo-European culture. It seemed that this region is where the Hilversum culture and the Nordic Bronze Age culture, and where some old survived. The archaeological finds are many over there, and I'd like to hear you put it in the wider european context)

@TheMercian13 Год назад

Us Indo-European’s are just tasty. It’s one thing to capture Europe & Central Asia, it’s another to do so while looking amazing.

@drengr811 Год назад

We're the best race!

@thefisherking78 Год назад

LMAO 🎉😂

@thefisherking78 Год назад

@@drengr811strong SSDP vibes there

@drengr811 Год назад

@@thefisherking78 What's SSDP?

@skeletorlikespotatoes7846 Год назад

Yup

@EduardQualls 11 месяцев назад

Of course, there's also the practical/safety aspect of not having a beard that your enemy could grab and use to pull your head up, to expose your neck to his sword. Long hair can be slicked back, to make it impossible to grab easily (or it can be hidden beneath a helmet), but there's little to nothing you can do about an exposed, dangling chin-bush, to keep it out of easy grasp.

@sidilicious11 10 месяцев назад

That makes sense.

@MatildeVallespinCasas 5 месяцев назад

Two things A) hygiene. Long hair and bushing beards in a communal society where men were put together for war or fraternity? A party for lice or other parasites. B)the idea of men who are not "beautiful" and not concerned to grooming?. A stupid Victorian BS. Since times immemorial, we find descriptions of men who stress their beauty (where to begin?, ephebes in ancient Greek. Rome? Well........Cu Culainn is a hunk in Celtic lore and middle ages we can have Omar Khajan and traditional story telling.....I could go on for ages). The idea that those very manly men were a bunch is slob but a badass is a modern concoction

@MatildeVallespinCasas 5 месяцев назад

Hygiene first and foremost. A bunch of men together with long hair and bushy beards? Party for lice and other parasites

@jeffreyhenion4818 3 месяца назад

I dunno…first you have to get close enough to a warrior wielding a spear, sword, axe, or whatnot to even grab his beard. I put it to you that if you’re that far inside the protective arc of an enemy’s weapons, you probably have him, beard or no. The helmets worn by Alexander’s troops often had cheek pieces and other facial protections that would have been just as easy to grab hold of. But again, getting close enough to do that is the trick.

@christianfrommuslim 3 месяца назад

I was thinking the same.

@wolfpac4934 Год назад

Dan Davis. Your research and sources are astonishing. I am an archaeologist and I find your content brilliant. Please keep up the good work

@lucylovic 10 месяцев назад

I doubt it

@AndrewBlucher 18 дней назад

@@lucylovicWhy?

@hez5160 Год назад

New Dan Davis video drop! Oh it's gonna be a good Sunday. Gonna get a nice drink ready (probably just a soda from the fridge but i'll put it in a glass and get a fun straw to make it fancy LOL) and enjoy the video.

@sharonkaczorowski8690 Год назад

The exquisite craftsmanship of these everyday items, especially the grooming items, says a great deal about this group of people and their relationship with their world. Such a wonderful video. Thank you..

@robwonder630 Год назад

You shine light on these fascinating ancient behaviours that are probably more close to our own than we think. Thanks Dan!

@skariaxil Год назад

It's always a treat to see Flevoland on maps of prehistoric Europe.

@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands 11 дней назад

Yeah we Dutch build a lot of dikes in the bronze age, and we had the best wireless telephone system, not one cable was found, ever!

@skariaxil 11 дней назад

@@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands Yeah, those were the days. Back then we really had this "biodegradable" fad figured out.

@QueenChristine826 Год назад

Another excellent video. It reminds me of the anecdote about the Spartan 300. It's said that they spent their last night alive calmly grooming and oiling each other's hair, which surprised the spying Persians.

@andreascovano7742 Год назад

I mean the persians aso took groming very seriously

@morwickchesterham3875 7 месяцев назад

There were more than 300... apparently somewhere between 3300 - 4700. The '300' was a highly fictionalized film. Also, since Spartans were notorious butt-pirates, they probably spent their last night fuking each other's bungholes...

@CorinneDunbar-ls3ej Год назад

This was without doubt one of the best videos I've ever seen. It was exactly the same as reading one of those books that throws open dozens of doors in the mind, for you to enter and explore. Thank you so much. As always with your videos, it drew together and made coherent sense of many loose ends for me. I've just watched it three times! Wow!

@DeepDarkSamurai Год назад

This was fantastic. I hope you keep it up in the production of these sorts of videos which recall to us the ways of our ancestors. I dream of the beautiful warriors every day, and I see them in the faces of the kin of my tribe every day.

@dirksharp9876 Год назад

Great video Dan, i had long wanted to see a video on this cult of body and martial veneration during the bronze age.

@snotrat2 Год назад

I love all your videos Dan, so well put together. I really look forward to them.

@eh1702 Год назад

Your last comments in the video reminded me of “Y Goddodin” Before the big raid on the Angles by the Goddodin/Votadini (of what’s now south-east Scotland & north Northumberland) warriors are collected from as far afield as Wales and northern Scotland and ritually feasted - for a year or something - before the raid on “Catteraeth”. What survives of Irish oral literature has a shedload of stuff all about ritual hosting, from all sorts of elaborate laws on it - governing behaviour at the type of inns they had, which were run entirely at the host’s expense as a high-status activity - to the mythology of the endlessly refilled iron porridge cauldron.

@huwhitecavebeast1972 Год назад

Shaving the hair is important for the warrior. The Romans were not the first to shave to avoid the beard being grabbed and used as a handle in combat. Some warriors even shaved the front half of their heads to avoid an enemy being able to grab it from the front. Shaving and tweezing hair also had hygiene reasons behind them. A big beard would be a prime magnet for parasites.

@connor3284 Год назад

Are there any primary sources stating that that is the reason the Romans shaved? That reasoning sounds like a myth. Plenty of other Indo-European warrior classes wore beards or other sorts of facial hair, and when you're armed with a sword or spear and shield fighting in formation with many other men your beard is likely not much of a liability in combat. Clean shaving was probably simply more of a cultural style for the Romans, and it is one which changed over time, as later Romans often wore beards.

@skyworm8006 Год назад

@@connor3284 Yeah there's no way grabbing hair would be relevant in armed combat. It is convenient to not have hair for putting on armour though and for keeping clean. And I would think long hair that isn't tightly bound up would be a liability in wrestling if the rules permit grabbing it but beards really wouldn't be. I agree it's just fashion.

@connor3284 11 месяцев назад

@@skyworm8006 "It is convenient to not have hair for putting on armour though and for keeping clean." This is a hypothesized reason for the Norman hairstyle, which had the entire back of the head shaved to avoid the hair getting caught in the mail coif.

@edgar7456 11 месяцев назад

@@skyworm8006I'm pretty sure the "to not grab beard" is just some people's imagination coupled with the internet's easy way of spreading rumors. I've done some martial arts, so has my little brother and grabbing the beard was never much of a concern. Grabbing someone's beard leave you in a very vulnerable position, and even today, you can see martial artists (even in domains with little rules) still keep a beard because it's not much of a concern. If the romans shaved for any practical reason, I would bet my life it wasn't about grabbing it, but for upkeep mostly.

@edgar7456 11 месяцев назад

Also, some study has shown that having a large beard is like a protection pad against jaw trauma, keeping it from being broken too easily from blunt force, be it from a punch or a weapon

@bc7138 Год назад

Great video. It's interesting to note how the use of razors continued into the Iron Age during the Hallstatt and La Tene periods.

@borisb6754 Год назад

Remember that a warrior taking care of his beard or hair isn't just a status thing, but a military necessity, you don't want to have your sweaty hair in your eyes during battle

@julesgosnell9791 24 дня назад

perhaps that is how it started - not wanting hair in your eyes, a beard that can be yanked, hair under your helmet etc and then, given that a warrior has a lot more spare time than a farmer and that precision and perfection in martial arts are important, all joined into personal vanity...

@karamlevi 10 дней назад

And your looks can affect your opponents. As a youth… I had an extreme pretty boy look and dress… It made my opponents super over confident and profoundly worked to my advantage continuously. They were just oh so certain I was nothing of concern, yet they wanted to rob, harm, or punk me… or others I cared about or who I was paid to protect. All I had to do at the beginning of the combat was to agree with their expectations. I acted extra weak at the moment of combat… Fascinating to watch my opponents face, the over confidence was astonishing… seconds later… they were drenched in fear, horror and dumbfoundedness plus at times pain as well but not always. Now as an older adult I look more scary, and am bigger, much bigger. The look now repels most trouble all the time. Looks profoundly matter most of the time.

@magicsharkwizard4577 Год назад

Absolutely wonderful as always. Many thanks for your insight and eloquence.

@hez5160 Год назад

My read of the combs and grooming tools in these burials was always that, yes, they honored and valued their warriors...but their mothers/wives/aunts/sisters/daughters weren't gonna let them go out there without looking pretty.

@benitoharrycollmann132 Год назад

I recall the passage from Tacitus' Germania you mentioned that referred to the rite of being unkempt until the slaying of one's tribe's enemy. I belive he was speaking of the Chatti who lived in whats now modern Hesse/Saxony. Thank you tremendously for preserving the lesser known periods of history!

@paulingvar Год назад

Tacitus was writing during the iron age

@Scipio_Americanus 11 месяцев назад

Great detective work Nancy drew lol

@moskaumaster1594 11 месяцев назад

Dont take Germania at face value its largely second hand or third hand sources combined with his own conjecture. Also fun fact it was one of Heinrich Himmlers favourite books.

@gaslitworldf.melissab2897 Год назад

. . . brilliant return from the sponsor. Of course, you write creatively. I love how you do what you do. Keep it coming Dan.

@BARBARYAN. Год назад

This video ties in well to your video on the Koryos.

@wolfgangandrewx2416 Год назад

swear to god, this is as good as it gets for content. outstanding stuff.

@thefisherking78 Год назад

Love your work Sir Davis!

@extreme4ngst Год назад

Good stuff as always, Dan!

@DaneStolthed Год назад

Dan, I always love hearing your insight into the European Bronze Age. Fantastic 💯

@naamahvine990 Год назад

I loved this. Thanks so much for this wonderful video.

@captainstanhope4193 Год назад

Absolutely first class, as always.

@liquidoxygen819 Год назад

A wonderful follow-up to the Female Beauty, Hairstyles, and Armor videos. Thoroughly enjoyable, as always. Cheers, Mr. Davis!

@DanDavisHistory Год назад

Thank you so much, my friend 🙏

@joenichols3901 11 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for making this content. This history should be remembered and to be remembered it needs to passed on.

@aonghusmor333 Год назад

Great video, always stunned by the beauty of artwork created so long ago. Cheers

@cherylbrooks7005 Год назад

Always so excited when i see you dropped a show!

@Gudha_Ismintis Год назад

Nicely done

@andresaltosaar9317 Год назад

Great video, Dan. I always appreciate your well-researched content!

@savvygood 11 месяцев назад

This was so informative, Dan! Thank you for your hard work. I’m a big fan.

@kuafer3687 Год назад

Your channel is the best recommendation RU-vid gave me ever. I never even thought much about this ancient history and now I'm determined to learn everything about it

@DanDavisHistory Год назад

Thank you, that made my day.

@ce.d8333 Год назад

Another amazing work Dan. Thank you for helping bring our past to life.

@larrybuzbee7344 17 дней назад

I met my first whales at four years old outside the mouth of the Columbia River, outside of sight of land as three gray whales loomed about 30 feet beneath our 26 foot Owens motorboat riding a six foot smooth swell on a calm sunny summer morning in 1958. As you can imagine it left a profound and lasting impression, the image of the ancient voyager meeting his first whale struck a very strong chord.

@MarcoZanetti-py9yt Год назад

Dan, i gotta tell you, man. Your work is absolutely great.👍

@lenabreijer1311 Год назад

You missed the fact that if the chief lost the use of an arm or hand he could no longer lead. If you worship or value perfection then losing it means losing your manhood.

@bobhead6243 Год назад

Wonderfull video , many thanks .

@Paul-hl8yg 11 месяцев назад

A well made & fascinating video. Thank You.

@boreabalsam Год назад

It’s like a holiday when DD uploads something new 🎉

@vincent1076 11 месяцев назад

Yours is some of my favourite content on RU-vid. I mentioned before that I was seriously ill through December and into February with pneumonia and I really thought this is it. When awake I watched all your videos plus Mr Ballen, What Lurks Beneath and The Lore Lodge. I am now an expert on the bronze age but I am also convinced I could not only track and catch Bigfoot but wrestle he/him to the floor. Thank you again Mr Davis.

@DanDavisHistory 11 месяцев назад

Thank you very much indeed. I like those kind of channels too - anything that tells a great story 👍

@petehoover6616 Год назад

By 1:05 I had to rewind and spend 5 minutes looking at each display. The bird on the razor threw me. I thought it looked like a chicken? Not possible. It's a rather mean looking seagull. Thrilled. The horn combs were flattened with heat and then the teeth were cut by putting sand on the warp threads of a warp-weighted loom and were cut relatively quickly. You can tell by the uniformity of the bottom of each cut. Sally Pointer the Neolithic handspinner should know about this. The combs made that way will also serve as weaving combs.

@CorinneDunbar-ls3ej Год назад

Wow, thanks for sharing this info.🤩

@tepesreloaded Год назад

Hey Dan. Love your vids. Keep up the good work!

@ulfpe Год назад

Intriguing as where I live there are a number of graves still in situe and some the where plundered by local farmers. People most likely lived in the valley 3000 years (and long before) ago

@brennnessel6789 8 месяцев назад

There is something very calming about your voice. Listening to you keeps me from going into beserker mode.

@Zumbs Год назад

The ritual before and after battle is an interesting little tidbit of information. Maybe an ancient attempt to avoid post-traumatic stress? It is also very interesting that being well groomed already then was a carrier of social status - "I have the wealth to buy the tools and the time to use them, possibly a servant do it for me". Edit: I can't help thinking a bit about when the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings met. Both are clearly Indo-European warrior cultures that just a few centuries earlier were neighbors. Nevertheless, the Vikings had a significantly different culture for cleanliness and personal grooming, e.g. bathing every week, whereas the Anglo-Saxons would bathe maybe every half year.

@trajan9034 Год назад

Lovely as always! Your Documantaries are a treat. ;D

@eh1702 Год назад

Cattle raiding and haughing (cutting the cows’ hamstrings) was still a kinda semi-ritual warfare between the landed gentry in Scotland until an astonishingly late period. Long after it was formally illegal it was still considered a kind of right by/for sons of these families, who’d ride out with a retinue of their servants/poorer relations specifically to do it, up to about the 17th-18th century. It was seen as a form of justice, claiming of rights in disputes, or vendetta - distinct from plain old reiving. (If you were poor it was just reiving.) In fact a lot of bronze-age cultural remnants seem to have persisted well into the late iron age, medieval or later, in the western and northern parts of these islands.

@josephmichael8522 Год назад

Thank you again you are so good not only a story Teller but a student of anthropology study of humanity you bring back the ancestors my our ancestors cheers and we are obligated to you keep up making progress thanks again

@lebowskiduderino89 11 месяцев назад

Well Dan my man, I've watched all your videos and have thoroughly enjoyed every one. I want to thank you for the effort and congrats on a job well done. Now, I shall start over and watch again. Thank you. The Dude

@hardstylelife5749 Год назад

That was most interesting, I was just researching some new insights for a book of mine and this video was quite the find. thanks for sharing it

@azlyri Год назад

Warriors be looking like a SNACC back in the day.

@stephenleblanc4677 Год назад

Quite a tie-in for Henson.

@starrmont4981 Год назад

Dude, I freaking love your videos. Keep 'em coming, I eat this stuff up for real

@cathym4321 11 месяцев назад

Hi Dan! Didnt know the best place to reach out to you…I just started reading Godborn - I cannot put it down! Fantastic story! Thank you!

@Uhtred-the-bold Год назад

One of the most underrated channel on YT!

@daniell1483 Год назад

The more I learn about different cultures, the more commonalities I see. Cultures separated by time and space still place much emphasis on the same things, like grooming, spiritual health, and a desire to be remembered. Just reinforces the fact that some desires are truly universal for us humans.

@RuthEdelstein Год назад

Actually we are very different.

@connor3284 Год назад

Grooming is a universal animal trait. Even flies and cockroaches groom themselves. That's what they're doing when you see them wiping their legs together or wiping their arms over their antenna.

@MrFredstt Год назад

Grooming in particular is shared by almost all living creatures. There are some things that are just natural for everything. Drinking and eating is another

@Smoug Год назад

@@RuthEdelstein like in what?

@Bronte-hb4bf Год назад

@@RuthEdelsteinwdym I'm genuinely curious

@vmhutch 14 дней назад

One of the reasons that I really enjoyed Dan Davis history is because when he speculates, he clearly calls it out as speculation. Although, generally, his speculations seem obvious and correct. Some purveyors of history say things with such certainty as to allow for no other interpretation; and I find that to be very tedious. Cheers to Dan Davis history from Vermont, USA.

@malapertfourohfour2112 11 месяцев назад

My guy, you might be the first RU-vidr to have ever sold me on his sponsor product. I love my safety razor, but it's old and was a cheapo box mart model, and these look like a quality upgrade. Loving the video so far, like always, masculine beauty is an underappreciated topic 😏

@afterzanzibar 11 месяцев назад

I've liked every video I have ever watched here. Great content!

@MrAwsomenoob Год назад

Displaying good health and vitality is something you see all the time in nature and the Human animal is no different. Presenting our best selves to potential rivals and mates is timeless.

@LemonCamel Год назад

That amber pot is awesome

@RaulEdu33 11 месяцев назад

In Spain there's a saying "antes muerta que sencilla" (I'd rather be dead than plain). I think these bronze age warriors also rather die than looking bad and unfashionable. 😂

@joseantoniodepilares6509 15 дней назад

I could have translated it better myself.

@destructionindustries1987 Год назад

Beautiful Dan

@CaucAsianSasquatch Год назад

I really enjoy your videos bud, excellent always.

@DanDavisHistory Год назад

Thank you, Mr Squatch.

@Mr.Skeleton. 20 дней назад

Dan, this was beautiful. Such a lovely and immense culture! I love my ancestors and learning about them is seriously fascinating.

@basilbrushbooshieboosh5302 Год назад

Makes sense that if one is going out on an expedition, one gets rid of knits, gets perfectly clean, and dizzies oneself up for a contest of wiles. It's a natural response in my mind.

@MotDoiAnLac258 7 месяцев назад

Thank you again

@benmcseveny7067 Год назад

Wow, another cracker from this rich era that you bring to life so well. Fascinating minutiae, and 11/10 ad read. Nice one Dan.

@DanDavisHistory Год назад

Thank you so much, Ben, glad you enjoyed it 🙏

@rufilmontenegro 11 месяцев назад

Great video!

@DalakusRex Год назад

Great content. fun aspect to the shaving as a right of passage it still is practiced in my country at weddings (married friends of the grom shave the groom in the wedding day).

@Ass_of_Amalek 11 месяцев назад

I'm kinda most impressed with them apparently managing to sharpen bronze blades enough to shave with them. I would have guessed that knapped stone would have been used for that before steel.

@tracynorris5012 7 дней назад

Absolutely Awesome and fascinating. Thank you, Dan. 😊

@neutralfellow9736 Год назад

superb stuff

@wisedragon173 Год назад

This channel is fantastic. I felt stressed out from all of the work. I chose a comfy spot to sit, drank my coffee, and watched this clip, immersed in the pictures, feeling relaxed and refreshed afterwards. Keep up the great work!

@TheMegadeth350 Год назад

12:20 Spiral shape is typical to Lusatian culture, very popular in Poland regarding bronze age findings (check out Biskupin please - hill fort from that era). Brilliant video!!

@svartsno4061 11 месяцев назад

Thank you Interesting video, very important information for me...

@tonymaurice4157 Год назад

Any arrowheads found? Stone and copper and bronze I would imagine...this channel should have 5 million subs.. incredible knowledge and attention to detail of all your topics about the ancient world

@Peoplearefood 7 месяцев назад

Good vid broski

@skulptor Год назад

Great example of interpretation of the past through contemporary viewpoints.

@dnkal2875 Год назад

It will be nice to do a video about bronze age Greece

@Joob33 Год назад

Start a petition to change the understanding of the Bronze Age from the use of Bronze to a description of the bronzed bodybuilder warriors. I mean they just got out of the stoneage. Time for the gunshow

@antisocialmunky Год назад

TLDR: Bronze Age European warrior elite had the aesthetics of jojo’s

@MogofWar Год назад

...Or the mangaka was basing his aesthetic off historicaland mythological precedents. Everything is a Jojo reference because Jojo draws upon a vast array of pre-existing lore.