During the worst of the pandemic no one was allowed out so I would sneak at sunset to ride my bike in the Sintra mountain, Portugal. One night I followed a trail and was startled by a 3meter high stone structure, which looked partly manmade. I was alone, at night and felt amazed that this thing existed only a few kms from my house. Later I learned that it was a neolithic structure, perfectly facing west, overlooking the ocean near the most western point in europe.
Wow you're lucky to have such ancient artifacts around you but in Arizona I didn't ever have to sneak out. In our general area there was a Hohokam village but it's only 800 to 1000 yrs old. This tribe disappeared before 1492.
My family is from the northwest corner of Spain, Galicia. They have several dolmens there. I have been waiting for this video for a very long time! 🗿🇪🇸
I'm Portuguese and very much enjoy learning about the different European cultures, traditions and history. I appreciate your work and knowing more about Iberian history is great.
My wife was born in Portugal and lived there until she was 15 before moving to America and while I am not Portuguese, I have always been fascinated by Neolithic society and prehistory. I assumed that she was be curious about things like this, but alas, she has zero patience for it and won’t even look at it. Meanwhile I am pretty sure she had seen many Neolithic items as she grew up on farms there, but she doesn’t care an iota about it. What can I do?
@@Traderjoe make it an obvious hobby and leave your readings and articles out. Tie it into something that she is interested in. Or just source it for her. DNA test... but that could be sensitive depending what side of the fence you sit on that one.
Loved the ending connecting to the reconquista. My mother is from Asturias and I've taken pilgrimage to Covadonga many times since my birth, the place where the great visigoth ancestor Rex Pelayo/Pelagius led a combined force of goths and Astur Celts to kick-start the reconquista of the peninsula. Long live the ancestors!
@@urbanwarrior3470 He Became a King, the first King in the spanish line looking back. This can also be known in Latin a Rex therefore. What's your lexical issue with the term?
@@atlanticdragon4773 It's a minor point- but he was elected princeps - that doesnt make him a king, per se. Kings were seen as being ordained by God. It's a bit of a pedantic point, but the role of king didn't become apparent till the reign of Alfonso II
@@paulom8804 I went through the Humanities course and, IF it is talked about, it is a brief, disdainful mention which regards them as "primitive" and stupid until the time of the Roman invasion. After the SPQR we mention the Gothic and Visigothic presence for 5 seconds and go to Muslim presence. All of this (besides the Romans) is about a month, tops. It should be a semester, at the very least.
@@SIGNOR-G Mostly neutral; most recognize that they gave us technology which would be important to our country's history (e. g. the compass), and their contribution to our language. Despite this, alot take the prejudiced notion that the Caliphate of Córdoba was a territory built upon tolerance and other liberal notions.
@@miguelafonso4466 what about you? Are you based or are you cucked. Cause there is only one way that a man should see this whole dirty affair that lasted 700 years
I've excavated at Perdigoes site in 2014, back when I was an archaeology student and unhearthed one of the idols showed here, I think it was my best discovery so far! Great video you did a good job covering this which is unknown to a lot of people. The south of Portugal is actually populated with a lot of places like Perdigoes which await to be unhearthed and explain a huge population density back in the neolithic.
The Production value and work you put into this and all your vids shines through, this kinda stuff use to take an entire TV crew and big budgets. I have no doubt that you deserve far more then what YT ad rev is earning you. keep up the great work, I believe what you do here is far more important than any of us realize.
We went to the ancient Iberian fort of Ullastret with our kids this spring for the second time - it is awesome (for children as well) to see and touch what has been built and achieved 5000 years ago!
The fortress of Undika (Ullastret) or Indika, the name in Iberian of these two city-states of the Indiketes, an Iberian tribe from the Iron Age in Catalonia. It was in front of a lake that dried up in the last century and changed the course of the Daró River. They have to imagine a large lake surrounded by vegetation and the city of l'illa d'en Reixach was only 10% excavated and surrounded by water, which is why its walls were four meters wide to avoid flooding. Ciudad_íbera_de_Ullastret
I appreciate the clarity in these videos, a lot of people jump around and don't make the groups seem too distinct which is annoying, but this was great. Presentation was great too! ✌️
Hey, north Portugal/Galícia here. Ive been in Évora a few weaks ago and the cromeleque is amazing. Thank you for your work. I have absolutly nothing against africans and their pré islamic traditions but annoys me that americans and north europeans think we are africans. If we were it would be fine, but were not. 🇵🇹 Long live europe
@@ingmigueleduardo7 yes, the romans would call these people Celts like the Greeks called them keltoi, its possible that the word comes from proto celtic languages themselves, eventhough se cant be sure. There were the anatolian Celts wich were an indo europan people, gaul also means celt and there are many portugueses words that still use this Root like "bar Celos". Maybe it means the city of the Celts. Even our word galo. It comes from the latin but we know the ruster is seen as a celtic symbol. I believe this is all from proto celtic peoples. So, we are Celts. now...were all the Celts from the same blood? That is yet to answer
@@ingmigueleduardo7 Im not sure about that. I think europeans are ultimatly all the same when comes to genethics Because we are the admisture of the same indo european tribes with the ancestral europeans and even the Neanderthals. What can Change is comparatíve percentage of DNA of these peoples. And even linguisticaly speaking, most of our languages are indo european. They just separate in different branches. Romans are as european as germans or the irish celts. The only thing i don't like about the romanization of Ibéria is that we Lost our native languages and cultures too early, unlike the British who preserved theirs until much later in a way they can recreate them and even speak them nowadays.
@@ingmigueleduardo7 well I too disagree on that One (partially). Its very evidente to me that the western european atlantic coast has the same cultural approache. You say gauls and i say Celts but I believe we are talking about the same thing. We are all Celts, including the people from the western France known as gauls. We all ave the same round houses culture, the bagpipes and the mustaches as you mentioned. Só, yes, i believe we are from the same tribes. In what concerns to romans, i have to disagree, altough its true that forms of latin were spoken by the high priests and the catholic inhereted that tradition of using it as a liturgical language, the catholics cannot possibly have started the language since latin was spoken by the pagan romans millenia before Jesus. I don't think catholics brought latin into Spain either, iberians were still pagans when they started speaking vulgar latin. There are inscriptions of celtic peninsular gods which are written in latin and even the names of those gods have been latinized...And i don't see why people hate the church so much but i'd rather avoid that tópic
@@ingmigueleduardo7 yes i've seen many theories about this but neither history, archeology or religious studies agree. I have to agree with academia, otherwise Ill have to believe in some conspirancy theory the sionists spread as a new age cult propaganda to destroy their Enemy Jesus the God of the jews who they renegated and murdered
@@ingmigueleduardo7 i don't know. Im. Not the biggest fan of the catholic churche either, but I believe só many are trying to destroy it (and christianity in general) spreading all kind of lies. This topic is very dear to me Because i have been raised as an atheist (i've never been baptized) but I am a Christian now and i want to know the truth. I cant rush into conclusions, i need research and time.
Thanks for showing Spinster's Rock with the lambs playing around it. It made the rocks and their presence wherever in Europe feel like part of everyday human reality through the ages, instead of being just some huge isolated monument.
When I visited relatives in Sweden, they showed me a field with dolmens much like the one shown here at Dartmoor. And they actually also had sheep eating the grass there as well. That's my people.
@sneksnekitsasnek Which fits actually! Since what little actual historical attestations of the Cimmerians there are have them as an Indo-European nomadic steppe people in the 1st-2nd millennium BC, closely related to the so-called 'Scythians', and not the pseudo-Norse they are represented as in Conan.
THat happened all over Europe and is fascinating for me since its not clear it was violent. What happened? All we can say is that in Spain there are 2 coexisting races: Women (older) and men (posterior)
@@grantwithers Except they didn't, the war they had was not against the ostremni as you think (the megalithic peoples) but as luck would have it, against the people that had arrived a century before to conquer the territory, the Ophi (maybe Egyptian, maybe Minoan). Good guess anyways, however they didn't genghis khan or thanosed the megalithic culture they encountered, they became their custodians and from that alliance the Lusitani were born. Leukitania moe treba inte!
@Carlos Hernandez I was thinking more of the movie, but I seem to remember that Celtic connection from reading the books way back when. There were 'Picts' too, iirc, but I think they were painted cannibals?
I just finished watching the whole video. This is very well done. I"ve been following the recent research on the Bell Beaker people for about ten years now, and I could see no mistakes here. For a one-man production, this is about as good as it gets. Thanks for all the effort.
Awesome video. Needless to say, may of the current cities in Portugal and Spain were once locations of ancient cites, temples and forts. Evora, Viseu, Castelo Branco and others have all been continuously inhabited since the age of Ptolomy, when they were recorded on maps and such. Out of my adventures exploring Portugal, the most interesting finding was discovering that the Castelo Branco Cathedral is built upon much older structures. Previously on some early medieval christian church, but, before that, pagan temples not too dissimilar to the one that stands in Evora today. It is still possible to see parts of the previous structures on the outer wall of the church. Very poetic and symbolic of the history of the continent.
My Town, Vila do Conde, has a Monastery on a hill. They were excavating 2 years ago and found a Celtic fort from 2000 years ago, even a skeleton from that time, which is quite rare around here :)
Sad Tiger. The followers of Abrahamism have vandalised and destroyed thousands of megalithic monuments. They buried them, smashed them with sledgehammers and blew them to pieces with explosive powder. In their ignorance they have tried to wipe out our inheritance, the wisdom of the ancients. The churches devoted to a corpse on the cross are slowly disintegrating and their religion is now dying.
@Tigs There a dozen or so plants in Sweden with name related to the Virgin Maria, but research indicates they used to carry names related to Freya, the female goddess of fertility ( the old names remained in some backwards regions). And near my parents on Frösön in Sweden the stump of a huge pine was found under the altar of the oldest church in the region…
@@SmilesNFun Do you understand at all what the discussion is all about? It is not about some jewish deity from the Bronze Age. It is about our true ancient inheritance, monuments built by our far ancestors who laid the cornerstone for our present civilisation. Got it, bo?
Wonderful documentary. I was at Cromoleque dos Almendres in 2017 as part of a spiritual journey to connect with my ancestors after my parents had left their homeland. Let me tell you, that this place had a powerful presence. I felt like I was home.
portuguese speakers (or any romance language speakers) are used to the extreme incapability of english speakers to pronounce anything properly, even if all the sounds actually appear in their language. -"hey, can you write the slang word for balls in portuguese?" -"no. youll butcher the pronunciation. just say "Toe" and "match" really fast, and you got it" _brit guy says tomates almost perfectly_ -"cool. you nailed it." -"aiight bruv, thanks. but I wanna see it written now. how do you spell it?" -"t o m a t e s" -Oh so it's toe mateys? -no. its "toe" "match". -Too may tees? -I quit. Adeus
Always great to see your work and research, Tom! I teach high school history in Virginia and always use your material during the first few weeks of class.
@@chubbymoth5810 Tell me, Mothman, were the first white supremacists the WHG or the Bell Beakers? And then please reflect on the absurdity of even mentioning "white supremacy" in regards to this excellent video which does not posit your boogyman (white supremacy) in the slightest.
I love these historical docs. Getting to learn more about my Iberian ancestry & all of the connections throughout Europe is amazing. Great work, thank you! Please keep it up! 👏🏼
Another great vid about our collective European history/ancestry Tom. Something very sinister going on when they feel the need to remove your content from Facebook. PS- purchased the Manannan Mac Lír T-shirt to show my support for your work
Hi from Russia! I not so long time ago, subscribed to you. Your videos, it's interesting and high quality work! Especially... My respect for such a demonstrative video editing. So sadly, but we haven't similar content in Russian.
when people talk about going back in time to see something amazing they always forget these times. I wanna find out about the stones myself and see how they were used.
By far the coolest video in your channel! I really enjoyed seeing the regions of Portugal and Galicia where my ancestors came from. I hope someday I get to go to Europe to see all this myself. Excellent work, as always. Congrats! :)
Sadly most still preffer the more mainstream celtic conection between Iberia an Britain, completely ignoring people much older then them. Indo europeans were in iberia before the birth of celtic culture (also indo-european). "Celticism" in some places here is almost a cult.
@@Adrian-vy5vn okay, I had to work super hard to figure this out, but it's Dana Gillespie in "The People that Time Forgot." When I was a kid, I had The Land That Time Forgot on VHS, but I've only ever seen a couple scenes from The People That Time Forgot, which is why I thought it looked familiar, but couldn't place it.
This channel is what I wanted without even knowing it. I love history and appreciate your passion for it as well and for sharing this with us. Great work brother
Thank you for discovering and studying so many aspects of Portugal, Iberia and Europe history, that have been hidden for so long! Have you been at Citania de Briteiros?
Unlike major social media platforms, I celebrate diversity. I love learning about ancient European history because all of my ancestors were from Europe. My wife is Native American, and I also love learning about her native culture. There are many differences, but there are also a lot of parallels that I find interesting.
@Poika This is true fellas, the R1b brought by the Bronze age invaders was the sister haplogroup to Q which is dominant in the Americas and almsot exclusive to native americans.
Я недавно узнал про утилиту TamperMonkey, который переводит видео в реальном времени. Благодаря нему я теперь не могу перестать смотреть ваши ролики. Очень надеюсь, что алгоритмы Ютуба порекомендуют это видео пользователям из моего региона. Качество ваших документальных фильмов очень хорошее. Спасибо, что рассказываете о языческом наследии европейских предков.
Seems to me that Stonehenge & other structures in Great Britain are connected with what we find in Portugal & surrounding area, I believe there is clear evidence that the same peoples built these structures & probably others that have been destroyed or yet to be found.. so much to learn still about who our ancestors were & what they did & why, their history much like Portugal's has been very underrated in their knowledge , determination , commitment & achievements . No surprise that DNA tests have shown that the Iberian people (in particular the Portuguese blood lines) have the most unique blood not only of Europe but the world, the location & geography of the Iberian peninsula has been very important for past & present populations through out thousands of years ... super presentation , keep it coming amigo :) .
A decade ago almost to the day I was in Andalusia in southern Spain which has more dolmens than you can shake a stick at, the most impressive was called the Dolmen of Menga, which was built into a mound and went below ground. From the entrance you looked out over a plain and opposite is a gigantic rock or small mountain called peña de los enamorados, which looks like the head of a giant man on his back looking up at the sky. There must have been a religious significance to this
The fact that you note the "man on his back" is the significance eg a physically large and permanent monument that metaphorically expresses the age old question? In fact they are us! :)
Jack Holloway. Actually, there are three large dolmens at Antequera, the Menga dolmen, (built c 3500 BC) and Viera (c 3500 BC) and El Romeral (c 2500 BC) their positions are interrelated. The passage of the Menga dolmen is oriented to the Summer Solstice when it is above the Pena de los Enamorades mountain, which resembles a human head looking upwards, the mountain was sacred, for megalithic remains have been found there as also rock paintings. The Viera and El Romeral dolmens are oriented to the Mid Winter Solstice, which is the standard alignment of most dolmenic monuments. The beliefs of the builders was universally animistic and shamanic, which is not a religion and is far removed from institutionalised Abrahamic religion.
my family is from of andalusia and canarias in spain, so i loved this video, it was extremely interesting! i was hoping for a video on more mediterranean peoples from you for a very long time, ¡muchas gracias señor!
Brilliant scholarship, commentary, and synthesis of so much archaeological, genetic, and cultural information. Very well done! Informative and enlightening.
I can't think of a reason anyone would try to suppress this type of content. There's nothing hateful or malicious, and it's not plagiarized. The information isn't even controversial. They only present ideas that experts say are most likely, and the evidence for and against
Hi Arthur, the only reason is the hubris of academy in general, either to reinforce opinions they have only a feeble grip of, or worse yet, to promote politically correct viewpoints.
Proud to be 54% iberic 🇵🇹🇪🇸. I'm amazed that even though my ancestors came to Brazil in the 1600's we preserved so much the iberic DNA (I'm 75% european).
The inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula are a group of mixed groups since the Paleolithic with sites as important as Atapuerca. In that period we were Eurasian. The haplogroups were C, I, H. Then the first farmers and shepherds with Iranian and Anatolian DNA arrived: G, J, T1, T2. In the Bronze Age Europeans arrived with Yamnaya R1b DNA. Mix it all together and you have a % of your DNA.
Well, I’m 98% Irish and 2 % Iberian!! Just goes to show how potent our genes are because I can only assume that my Iberian genes originate from a very long time ago!!
I'm an exact "mestizo" genetically (Iberian R1b/Mesoamerican A2) and this video was a lovely reminder of half my ancestors' early accomplishments. I hope an exploration into the major native ethnic groups of "New Spain" will follow in the future.
Me too Paternal Iberian R1b (R-U152) and Native American D maternal. It is interesting how the male Beaker Folk paternal lines traveled to another continent and are quite common in Latin America. In some countries, example Chile, they practically replaced the male Paternal lines whereas the female mtdna are mostly indigenous. Similar to what happened in Iberia. I would also like to add, I really enjoy Jive videos and I don't understand the issue with them. Telling the truth is an issue?? Keep up the great work!
@@kikimanchester The Chosenites don't like this type of topics with the dive into genetics, not if you're white, not if you're latino, not if you're arab, japanese, russian, central asian, indian, or whatever, but specially if you're white.
@@yokatta-f The Nose Tribe see us as the biggest threat to their complete acquisition of world dominance. They've went from attempting to subdue to us, to a plan of eradicating our history and future's existence.
First time I'm in here and I really like what you present. Unfortunately, there are many who want to destroy and distort our European history, which is why your research, and others like you, are so important. Thank you.
holy shit i haven't been to your channel in many months and it's good to see your view count explode! congratulations man, it's great to see your important work is being seen instead of suppressed.
You spoil us with these documentaries. Thx for your hard work. This is the best description I've seen for why Bell Beaker is not from Iberia. I know this is true but haven't figured out why yet archaeologically.
Very much enjoyed this very much. It's hard to find history on Portugal like this for some reason. It was interesting learning about my ancestral history lol, I'd like more!
@@Survivethejive Honestly did my man, I told my Avô because during the Angolan war he was stationed at Évora. He showed me around the city when I visited. HOWEVER, now I know that we missed the NEOLITHIC MONUMENTS!! So we will go back! But please, I really do beg of you. I can not find any information on my people, the Lusitanians. I am told they are Celtic, but I can only find vague descriptions and some battles with romans when I look it up and honestly I don't really know what they looked like. It would mean a lot to many people if you made a video on the Lusitani.
Great video!! Greetings from Spain, i love your work!! I hope you enjoyed your visit, Spain and Portugal have an amazing history. I feel very sorry for your Facebook Page, i've been following you for some years, i'm sure you will overcome it
Another excellent presentation! Even though my paternal lineage in England can, be traced back almost 800 years to the same region, I recently found out that my paternal DNA is R-1b-M167, from the Pyrenees of northern Spain. Now I have some idea of how it got to Staffordshire...perhaps as much as a thousand years ago!
my family left northern portugal to farm madeira and then joined settling in the caribbean under the west indies, now im the first generation to come back and settle in europe and ive gone more up north! facebook has become a despicable bunch
Too bad I love your devotion to accuracy and truth. Keep up you great efforts for us to understand the divercity of the human family. You owe it to your ancestors.
It's also a testament to the many similarities between vastly different cultures, at very distant places, and times. Look at Great Zimbabwe, stone henge, gobekli Tepe and you can see a common human footprint in all of them. All humans need to achieve greatness is numbers, good leadership, and good organizations, give any ancient culture that and they will build monument to last millenia
I don't understand why on a website you're labeled as a white supremacist, I've been reviewing your videos for a few years, I don't believe you've expressed racist views, perhaps your hypothesis on the origin of Europeans have upset other people. I don't know. But I'm glad that you did a video on the origins of Iberia. I'm 99% European and 38% of my DNA comes from Iberia (the rest ...french German English Irish and Scottish) (American Mutt) 😂. I'm also 0.6% Middle Eastern, I wonder if that's from the Islamic invasion of the peninsula. I want to thank you for doing a video on the origins of the Iberian peninsula with the best information we have at the moment. It's nice to hear a person speak the facts instead of the propaganda from middle easterners that they gave iberians civilization or from Scandinavians who say that they're half black! Also when you correct your previous work due to new information it only makes me respect you more!
I find it funny and interesting to be learning about the megalithic monuments around where I used to walk my dogs when I studied in Evora. We used to do university tradition rituals inside the Anta do Zambujeiro and Cromeleque dos Almendres.
Fantastic! I love how you really draw your viewers in, feels like an experience or an event than just a historical video. Btw love that Xurious track been wondering who it was for ages!
I live 20min away form the Cromeleque dos Almendres and have visited most of the places you shown, really enjoyed the video ! Although, the way you pronounce portuguese names in spanish gives me a nervous spasm every single time XD !
The ones who went to Britain and Ireland were from France and those were a mix of two migrations from anatolia, one along the med and one up the danube
@@nathanaelpereira5207 sorry I’m not sure what you mean. Google translated what you said to “where is he? It’s not so invasive to ask.” If you are asking where are the Neolithic farmers today then the answer is that they are in us. They are our ancestors however there have been several waves of migrations so we are mixed peoples.
Building ocean-faring vessels is far more complex than building vessels that can travel across calmer waters like the Mediterranean. It is therefore far more likely that the shipbuilding started in the Mediterranean where it was easier to survive, and then the most succesfull shipbuilders managed to sail the ocean and settled the Atlantic coast. This for me is a very strong argument for the theory that the megalithic culture was indeed an offshoot of Mediterranean Linearband and Impresso cultures, but with strong local development later on.
“The Portuguese and the British were perhaps the greatest naval powers in history”… like Spain was just watching or didn’t literally ruled the seas for 300 years. Spain reached places across the oceans no one knew were there while other naval powers were only sailing along coastlines. Spain’s exploration age is Universal History to say the least, despite Portugal and Great Britain’s attempts to diminish it.
Portugal did all of that too. Maybe next time learn history properly. No one's diminishing Spain's achievements, some people on the other hand are eager to scummily attribute some of Portugal's naval achievements to Spain
Spanish empire was crazy but they discovered the americas by accident cause they were willing to fund Christopher Columbus, who no one else believed in because he was wrong about how big the world was.
typical British arrogance ....lol hahaha....when ever they do these histories one has to be careful ....usually its dark legend bs and anti Spain...as usual.
@@MW_AsuraDescubrimiento de América: España (vikingos o fenicios aparte). Primera vuelta al mundo: España. Descubrimiento del Pacífico: España. Descubrimiento de Australia: España. Todos estos descubrimientos, obviamente, y los de portugueses, holandeses e ingleses, desde un punto de vista eurocentrista y nada científico.
