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I don't think that date range really is accurate, but shows like this throughout the course of television history in general are remarkable. M*A*S*H is another shining example as is Cheers and Northern Exposure just to scratch the surface.

The 80s too. Allo allo was god tier

Education has been slowly filtered out of television programming sadly, cheaper tp make scripted 'titillation' shows ...

I’m the same way

Sorry never liked Francis. He always flip flopped, appeared to try and bluff things, made bad calls or predictions then tried to walk them back. I had no respect for the guy.

"What really worries me is that if we continue this discussion we might end up agreeing." That is the most brilliant end to a discussion I have ever heard!

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It always strikes me as such a weird constraint to focus on. I get that it's a mechanism to add some immediacy to what they're doing but it's still just always is so weird and jarring every time they talk about it.

Most of the people involved had actual day jobs, so these there more of a hobby they did over long weekends.

@@casfacto Moreover- 1) They’re evaluation digs. Not intended to completely excavate a whole site in its entirety. 2) Mick Aston and Tim Taylor designed the program that way; Dr. Aston said that in three days you could find out the essence of what a site was about and what sort of things had been going on there.

Good for him! He had such an amazing career I'm glad he's enjoying his retirement.

He became a sheep farmer before retiring

As Nicola noted, he raised sheep before retiring. He does an exceptional documentary entitled "Britain BC, and explains how he actually began sheep farming. Recommended watching!

Francis is still archaeologying.

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this is reality television and he is a scripted character.

lol

@@d.m.barnes9445 you can see this. go back to the first series then go to the 12th series. His brogue becomes deeper than Scotty's of Star Trek

Give him a stone and he makes a tool. Give him a trowel and makes a discovery. Give him a drink(of beer) and he makes a joke.

Idiopathic , you are.

Actually, they are making a new season from Patreon backing and have already filmed a few episodes! They were all professional archeologist so most of them are just digging trenches to this day :) Phil is retired since 2 years but still do community archeology projects. Sadly, Mick Aston died back in 2013

That's nice that you really like this show. It became a bit of an "institution" here in England... we slowly grew to love the team.

Great to see her! What a nice couple

Yes, it made me think of African societies too, and the ancestors.

I come from far Northern European stock. We are MILK people. My mostly Mediterranean relatives like my husband can't tolerate milk. My own genetic family can subsist nearly entirely on milk, cheese, etc.

Hi there. Also from Central and Southern Africa. The Mzsai people bleed their cattle and drink the blood, rather than killing them for the meat. Generally, killing cattle for meat would seem to be only for celebrations, such as weddings or funerals.

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@@elizabethbrown2088 OMG thank you!!!

I really enjoyed the Danish people when I visited Billund a couple of years ago. I was pleasantly surprised by the ACTUAL Danish breakfast with cheese, butter and jam. I was SUPER shocked to visit the far coast and stroll some of the WWII coastal defenses in a winter coat on a beach covered in snow. What a wonderful country. I visited a place called Lilandia that frankly was jaw-dropping to see and experience.

I was thinking that too.

Tony's speech at the end really sold it to me, that it was 'farmer's market'; A place where related tribes met to trade goods and to go on a communal hunt. Annually, maybe bi-annually. The mothers, kids, and elderly would camp in the ring, while the young went off after an offering for a good hunt. They'd then return with the kill(s), butcher and dress the meat, split up the hides and any bones; possibly have a small feast on the perishable parts like eyes, heart and then leave an offering of thanks to the gods/ancestors the following morning, and then drift back to their homes. Like a family retreat. All the cousins.

I’m not well versed in Neolithic history, I agree with you. In my own historic reading the idea that this site is ONLY farming or ONLY ritual is ridiculous. I mean, have you ever been in a Catholic’s house? My Aunt has a print of the Last Supper and a Crucifix in her dining room next to a doorway that leads to a very pretty kitchen garden. Due to her health, she “goes to Mass” in her living room nearly every week. Using these two gentlemen’s way of looking at things if her house burned down Francis might think she’s heavily religious and the other gentleman might think she’s a small farmer.

Ok, so they are only 68KM apart, that is not far by Canadian standards.

" you don’t talk don or the taff or viewers" i am afraid I'm utterly bewildered by this arrangement of words. i presume auto-correct is to blame, but I'll be buggered if I can work out the original words, or indeed sentiment.

@@KarldorisLambley you don't talk down to the staff or viewers. Make more sense?

@@patriciamurphydillon4937 aha! thank you. it seems so obvious now.

Basicly the same goes for the german word Auerochse wich is still in use today.

@David Smith, isn't it interesting to find those pieces of the language-puzzle, on both sides of the North Sea Channel? I speak Dutch and The Netherlands is my country of birth. During my almost 5 years in Britain, the South West, I've dug into the history of Dutch-British connections, of which one of them is clearly related to water control, relatively recent. But further back in time, when the North Sea Channel was dry land, it seems that language cross- overs were a natural process, due to people travelling on foot to and fro. Among sabre tigers and mammoths. Later, when the ice began to melt, and the gap between Britain and The Netherlands filled with water, sea faring was common, obviously, also causing language crossovers between traders, or pirates? My mother is Frisian from the village Holwerd on the North coast of Friesland, and hearing her speak Frisian astounded me, as a young girl, because the tone of the language was akin to English often. I couldn't understand Frisian, and learned English quite early in my life, reading lots of English books. I've found out that the Frisian tribe, during the Norman invasion in Britain and The Netherlands, came to merge with the Normans, fighting in Britain. Due to their fierce nature, admired for it, they were invited (and possibly paid as well) to join the ranks of the "enemy". In the 90's I've visited Findhorn and while spending nights in B&B's during the journey home, by ferry from Dover, booking a B&B, I've met a family who owned the B&B, which must've been on the mid-East coast of Britain, all serving the guests. A few women looked exactly like my mother and her sisters, there was a stunning likeness. My mother wasn't blond, she had very dark hair, and dark blue eyes. The waittresses were almost duplicates of her! I felt like as if I was with family-members, they were kind and polite. I asked the manager, a man, about this likeness, when I had told him of the likeness of his female waittresses with my mother''s and her sisters' looks. He informed me, confirming the "crossover" of genes, that for quite some time, Dutch people arrive to live on the East Coast of Britain. Hence the mixing of genes. Sorry for going off topic, all sparked by the likeness of sound and letters, in Dutch and English words. As a writer and translator, I'm truly fascinated by the creation of language 😊

Borrowed from German Aurochs, an early variant of Auerochse, from Middle High German ūrochse (“aurochs”), from Old High German ūrohso (“aurochs”), a compound consisting of ūro (“aurochs”) (from Proto-Germanic *ūraz, *ūrô (“aurochs”)) + ohso (“ox”). Because English has the delicate sensitivity of an industrial vacuum cleaner, it's easy to forget that it's a Germanic language. When you hear something like Chaucer read aloud it sounds very Dutch or German.

@@devonseamoor well.. I still don't understand why the Brits accept the narrative the invading Saxons came from Germany, while there is and was a whole piece of the Netherlands between Germany and the British isles. wouldn't it be reasonable to say the invading Saxons came from the Netherlands ?

A lot of Dutch weavers came to Britain who we're well looked after they were top the top the tree so to say for there skills and you can still see some Dutch styled houses in England..

Sorry never liked him. He always flip flopped, appeared to try and bluff things, made bad calls or predictions then tried to walk them back. I had no respect for the guy.

Jeeez…..pryor has consistently proven himself to a clueless, no nothing buffoon. That is a proven fact.

@@1MrMoor How would you prove that?

@@townview5322 Howdy townview5322…that is easily done. Just go and read up on what is known about this site today. These now known facts just goes to prove what a clueless, blabbering idiot pryor really is.

Old English and Old Frisian are most similar. Probably de Frisians flet out of the wetlands of the Netherland as soon as the Romans were gone.😂

Actually it is fean in frisian.(fyi)

@@jacquelinevanderkooij4301 You're quite right. Fean*

A beautiful ITV 8 series documentary by Melvyn Bragg called 'The Adventure of English' (2002), on how the "English" language came to be what it is now - starts off in Friesland (the Northern Province) in The Netherlands 🇳🇱. At 04:00 it is explained very clearly. ttps://ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F33xjTPDeRk.htmlsi=K4rRNInwRK8raPYh

This is hugely important. Why do we now think of the sacred as so distant from the everyday life? This is a modern division that can be seen as tragic. Everyday life IS sacred.

lol

In the beginning it was like that, but once the show became popular they had so many people asking them to come dig up their land that they were spoiled for choice.

A lot of BRITS are related to Royalty and I know your a ozzie but you must have british ancestry in your family..

Why do you think that? There's causeways, people can't get through the ditch

*MADE IN CHINA* 😂

In Thailand Buddhist monks actually do that , come and bless the building for luck.

Phil is a serious guitarist and plays finger style. He uses his nails to pluck the strings instead of a pick. He plays classical music and he plays the Blues. The nails are longer on his right hand for the strings and shorter on the left hand for the frets. Phil loves his music as much as he loves flint knapping and archaeology.

it's a shame that the many annoying commercials make a series like time team less pleasant to watch.

It’s an archaeological artifact in and of itself lol

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'70s hippy age , as is the hair.

Which one? He has had several different hats over the years. They vary in color, brim width, crown height and hat band style.

We tend to think that science is totally objective, but, we are not objective beings. Every single thing we do is based on our perception of reality. Where and when a "truth" is revealed takes place in the give and take of argument. This doesn't mean argument as merely disagreeing. It is the exchange, the debate over an issue. As for the "debate" about ritual vs. gathering place, that seemed scripted to me.

Lol

Lol girl our Phil is old enough to be your grand daddy. Whatever rocks your boat.

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​@@katerinakemp5701 He is only about 19 months older than me and I will always think he is a damn good looking man.

From my experience of when I was living in the countryside and experienced the way various farm animals got out of modern enclosures, those ditches would not have been at all practical as a farming solution. In fact they would have been down right dangerous with a herd of browsing cattle that could take fright at any moment and run in any direction, only to fall into them. Nor would they keep anything out.

I have RU-vid Premium, completely ad-free. I watch YT all the time, so it’s worth it for me.

Just scroll to the last 10 sec of episode than rewatch and ads are gone. Why pay for youtube like this fool lmfao wjo tf has yt premium haha

He would prefer a nice pint of ale.

You should either download an ad-blocking addon to your browser such as 'adblock' or 'u-block' , or to make it even easier simply download a browser with built-in add blocking such as the 'Brave' browser. No more adds unless you want them. :)

Yes, Francis, has ritual/religion on the brain. Gets tiring after a while.

According to Francis the world is all ritual. Wonder how much time was left to farm and produce food.

Francis is a one trick pony. To him everything is, was and always will be ritual.

Agree. I wonder how much religion plays a part of his life.

think hes a religious nut.......