As a kid, we caravanned in Amroth, Pembrokeshire. One night, there was a severe storm & high tide that threw rocks onto the road along the coast. In the morning, bright sunshine, so we headed to the beach & the extreme low tide showed fossilised trees from forests that had been there since 10,000 BC - the neolithic period. 😊
An hour and a half of " The Greatest Archaeological Finds in Recent Years " by History Hit... Hell Yes!! You have just saved my Friday evening!! Thank you 🤩
As an archaeologist (specifically an Egyptologist), I have always felt incredibly divided on whether or not items found in burials should be taken away and displayed. Case in point: these jars; they were buried with these children, obviously as a sign of love, or hope or care. To take them away and display them seems counterintuitive to the right thing to do. I understand that things need to be preserved. I don’t know if they dug up the bones as well or they left them. I have always felt that it’s wrong. I do understand it in archaeology it’s done so that we can grasp an idea of how our ancestors lived and loved and existed in the world but at the same time this is grave robbing and it’s very hard to reconcile. that.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, how cool that you are an archeologist! Isn't it interesting that only humans would do such a thing! Discover a body and choose to disturb the grave, dig it up, clean, study, and then display it! I wonder if there are more ethical options and what the pros/cons would be. It seems like the biggest pro is to satisfy our curiosity
If its treated with respect. Don't see the problem with it. Think of all that would be lost if we didn't. And the harsh reality is in 2023, if they did leave these kind of things, some jerk would come steal it or vandalize it and ruin it. At least in my opinion its a net positive for society
Woman's dog brings in a dead rabbit, she's embarrassed because her neighbors have pet rabbits. She cleans it up and at night puts it back in the enclosure. Next day police are round the neighbors house and their children are crying. She asks, ... what's the problem? Police man replies , one of their pet rabbits died and some psycho dug it up and put it back in the enclosure.
Cheddar man, was the wildest UK find to me! Some 25 years ago, in an amazing piece of DNA detective work, using genetic material taken from the cavity of one of Cheddar Man’s molar teeth from 9,000 year's ago,, scientists were able to identify Mr. Targett, 62, as a direct descendant, living half a mile away!
For me, it was that they discovered he had dark skin, and loads of people got up in arms about it saying "Britons are WHITE! This is just rewriting history!" while scientists, historians, archeologists etc - basically anyone with sense - just went "....duh?" 😂
We have some of the richest history the world has ever seen and changed the world for better in most parts, our culture was either adopted or loved our people feared and looked up to and brought in many revolutions to usher in new ages, modern times we are told we should only think bad of our land and it’s history but it’s impossible when you actually look at history and see what the United Kingdom done for the world, it’s the greatest country in the world, (recent years it’s gone down the pan and given over to those who don’t like our land etc it’s a shame)
My father became a USA TBM pilot at 18…joined at 17. My grandfather signed for him which really angered my grandmother. His 16 yr old radioman pulled my father out of a burning plane before it was pushed off the Jeep carrier into the ocean. We forget how very young many of the soldiers were and are to this day. The military was so desperate for soldiers they didn’t look that closely at birth certificates.
This is definitely the right video - there’s a major section on D-Day and the 101st Airborne. Thank you for sharing your story @Sharon! My great grandfather was a transport plane pilot over China in WWII if I understand it correctly too!
@@ProfessorRainman My father was part of the liberation of Korea. He was a Navy pilot. A lot of them did not want to talk about what they went through. I have some info he had shared with my mother and a couple he shared with me. The condition of the Korean people and those of POWs freed from Japanese prison camps had a profound impact, life long impact on him. He did tell me a bit about that himself. And there was no treatment for PTSD…it wasn’t even recognized. If you grandfather was in China he would have some terrible things. Bless him.
Those drums were so beautiful and so moving. These children were cherished. Been fascinated by Stonehenge since I was a child…many years ago. As a kid I never understood how a period which created such astonishing art could be called dark…later I when I discovered how the term civilized is and has been used to exalt certain cultures over others and justify the worst in human behavior and it all became clear. Equally loathe the us if term “primitive.” Humans love to be better than one another.
Her excitement of taking the children’s drum that was obviously was a parent’s heartache. I understand that archaeology is a lot about preservation but it also feels a lot more like grave robbery when children are involved. When the parents placed the drums there I’m sure that they thought it would stay with the children forever.
I think it's more beautiful to think that all of these things are being remembered through so much time and are a gift to further generations, to teach us about them and their lives.
Thank you, this always makes me sick to my stomach. As much as I love time team I am absolutely repulsed whenever they knowingly begin digging into an area they know is a cemetery. Its one thing to stumble upon burials, but there were countless episodes of them looking for a cemetery or have already determined its location before digging and then still they dig in it. I immediately stop watching the episode because of how vile it was to watch people who usually show reverence for abandoned homes or shops that for some reason Francis works himself into a frenzy screaming with histrionics about the ritual practices these cult members were doing in that exact spot but then show no reverence for the consecrated ground that has actually been used in some type of religious ritual and burial. And then their behavior as they desecrate the burial grounds as they hoot, holler and laugh at each others terrible jokes with zero self awareness . Same people who will get up on sanctimonious soap boxes to complain when they realize grave robbers got there first before they could "grave excavate" or about some amateur detectorist in his free time finding something awesome...when it should have been left in the ground to be preserved until archeologists can come out 2 years later and revel about the discovery they just made. Sorry for the manic rant but the knowingly desecrating a cemetery or burial grounds and then taking the remains and the possession their loved ones thought they would want/need in the afterlife and act like they aren't robbing graves but saving history fills me with so much anger at that moment.
I had EIGHT uncles in WWII, four from each side Uncles Kenneth, Sammy, Bobby, William, Joe, Herman, L.C. and Elmer. My Dad, Korea, me Vietnam. Proud of my family and all that have served.
The Waterloo excavation is particularly thrilling. Uncovering the grim evidence of battle really brings historic events to life in a way that books simply can't.
The top of the chalk drum symbolizes the 4 seasons. The circular swirls are the storms of winter, the angular shapes on the 'butterfly' side are summer and the indistinct 'lozenges' are spring and autumn.
The swirls are musical actually (they are the shapes of sound waves made in dust around a sound source). The triangles with the eyes over are singing. The cross is the sun. Quite obvious really.
These are fabulous. Historical treasures that my m8 and I have discovered include: A steam-powered fire engine, the patent for the Wright Flyer, a Panama Canal construction era mosquito 'blaster'/backpack, and a woggle worn by Lord Baden Powell.
Modern Americans don’t even know their own history and it’s crazy! It’s not that big😂but so many modern Americans don’t know their arse from their elbow that’s why they vote blue and get walked on😂I do agree with you British history is up there with the best! I love Americans who want to protect their country and it’s history and not be tarred today for past events because “race” or some dumb crap
the 1 drum for 3 kids and 3 drums for 1 kid just makes my fantasy go haywire and image that the kids are in some way related, and the drums are representation of eachother. so like the 1 drum is that one kid whose 3 drums are the 3 other kids. but that would only really work if the graves are from close enough moments in time.
4:13 I think it's a map or depiction of territory; the whorls representing significant mounds, and the other lines significant field or settlement boundaries, or depiction of landscape(s).
I was lucky as a school pupil to get a priority pass to see the King Tutenkamun exhibition at the museum in London back in about 1972 without having to spend hours queuing up as we were an organised school trip. Luckily I knew my way around london underground even then despite the teachers not knowing their way around too well. So when we split into 2 groups we got back about an hour earlier than the other half of our class.
I was a teenager in Maryland when that exhibit came to the Smitsonian in Washington DC. We were members of the museum and got tickets, but they routed us through an exhibit of art by Rembrandt's students to get to the exhibit entrance in a far corner. As we wound our way through, my Dutch mother (both parents were) noticed an old illustrated 17th century book and went to read the earlier form of Dutch. Had to bump her to move along
The dog tags are things that can get you right into the person and their history which is just amazing when it comes to archaeology and yes it'd not really old compared to our amazingly long history but with the information that we get it's amazing to know alot more about the object and its story and how and why it was there,
Not only the isles of Britain was very interconnected but those circles with a cross inside them are painted and carved in stone in mostly Sweden and Scandinavia all over the place as well. They are between 4-5000 years old also.
I love this series, but I wish you would have provided more information on the finds. What were those chalk boxes used for? Were those little figurines made out of bronze or stone?
Exactly my thought. They were standing infront of the collection of "drums" for ages, yet neither of them could be arsed to describe what they actually were. There were clearly 3 holes in the "lid", but was it a lid? What did it contain? Any chemical analysis of the contents? None of that got mentioned. Infuriatingly-absent of information... which is what the whole video was meant to be providing.
@@redceltnet The other three Folkton Drums are solid. I'm not sure they mentioned is here but the Burton Agnes Drum - the new one - almost certainly is too. Those studying it have said it is very similar to the previous drums, accept in terms of the carved designs/motifs. Therefore, it can be assumed to be solid.
@@pwimbledon Wouldn't it have been nice if they'd told us that in the video? If the featured drum is solid, then what are those 3 obvious holes on the "lid"?
The one thing that these remote and distant camps had in common was that they all shared the same sky. Ancient rock & stone art has many similarities and one theory suggests that they are describing cosmic events that they all saw in the day or night sky.
40:09 I was surprised to see my family's last name in a UK archeology video, not sure if we are related but caught my attention. It started me down a path of genealogy research and found multiple Blakes in Easy Company.
We need a system that collects crucial information, about crucial issues! An info processing library, where folks can be directly involved, with voice and vote. That system is "civil defense", in a 21st century context.
He grates on my nerves for many reasons! I really don't like him at all, so I rarely watch History Hit stuff because of it! He gets on my nerves in so many different ways.
It may be the greatest archeological find by British archeologists. But by far the greatest archeological find is the cave where an entirely new species of prehistoric prehuman skeletons were found. Called Homonulet numerous remains were found in the Rising Star Cave in subsaharan Africa. The find included dozens of skeletal remains including a child with a stone tool clasped in it's hand. This species exhibited a conscious burying ritual evidenced over 150,000 years earlier than our previously identified closest ancestor. There was also evidence of symbolic writing found on the cave walls. That's by far the greatest archeological find of the century and possibly ever.
It might seem crazy but with all the detail peoples eyesight must have been very good. Also, the desire to create great detail seems to be a drive to be better than others and to show off your talents or at least be rewarded for talents.
What did the Archeology Professor tell his students? "Your future is in ruins!" I had to dig deep for that, so don't give me the brush-off as if I was only scratching the surface.
When you described the plum-bob as "functional", did you actually try attaching some twine to test it? The hole looked slightly off-centre to me, which would make it non-functional. I saw a collection of non-functioning / damaged bronze items which would be perfect candidates for melting-down for re-use, not a votive offering.
Grave goods should be left with the burial and the buried. Copies would be fine for the museum. We should know better in the 21st century. Oh and “swerlie” designs would be known as concentric circles. The circle, cycle and continuous life that they believe in. And it is the islands of Ireland and Britain, not the British isles.
No they should be preserved where people can wonder about them because humans tend to build on and under earth… As you can see there’s a big stupid train going across many graves and they deserve more respect than that Being dug up and given a new life is a respectful thing and to teach Also it’s the British isles? Are you from the U.K.?
OK as a Greek I know that the oldest people of Europe where the Pelasgoi. Which spread all over Europe Spain France Britain near east and what is today turkey . All the ancient writers refer to them . The circle designs are called Spira we see it always in the area of agean even in Minoan much later and I. The historic times in pottery and temples .
So early on in time, could not the ' cross" shape thing just represent the four directions; North, South, East, and West, as the rising and setting of the sun and the directions of the Southern winds were important on where to place the door to dwellings?
It's quite a commonly found symbol - and is thought to just represent the sun. I'm not sure what significance the north and south would have in a late neolithic culture, if any. They were obviously the locations perpendicular to east/west, but not sure they were seen as important as east/west. West and east would be roughly aligned with sunrise and sunset and other celestial aspects appearing/disappearing, but the solstice sunrise/sunsets are actually northeast and northwest. Those specific lines were probably most important to these people. As for door positions, they would have know to avoid south-west winds, just from experience.
@@pwimbledon I totally disagree about avoiding that or any wind direction for doors. In any location, many other things could easily over ride wind consideration. Most places don't even have stable winds. Also, during solstices, in the northern hemisphere, sunrise and sunset are in the southeast and southwest, not in the northeast and west. I'm not much farther north than they are, but the sun here never enters the northern part of the sky at all, not even in mid summer. It's the reason why, for my whole life I've avoided living in homes that mostly face north, because they are dark. With the sun being always in the south, I need to have big windows facing south, to catch the little sun we do get.
@@cattymajiv sorry, but that’s just untrue. In the northern hemisphere, at certain latitudes, the sun will get to the point where it is rising and setting north-east and north-west, respectively. Obviously, if you go north enough, it will never set and is visible in the northern sky, for parts of the summer, all day. The sun only rises/sets due east/west for a couple of days a year (the spring/autumn equinoxes) The rest are either south or north of that, depending on the season. In the UK, at the height of summer, is is a north-east sunrise, and a north-west sunset - and at the height of winter, it is the inverse - south-east, south-west. You've got the details completely backward.
@@cattymajiv also, the mention of wind wasn’t really my point - it was the original poster's point. But, if prehistoric people were building houses (not ceremonial structures), and were considering winds and weather, they would have known to have avoided south west facing doors. Generally speaking, on average, the worst weather comes from the southwest.
@@cattymajiv just checked the summer solstice for London. Sun rise is 49 degrees north-east, sun set is 311 degrees north-west. Almost exactly due north-east and due north-west. And that is London - Yorkshire is obviously further north than that. Not sure where you live, but you need to look out of the window more, during June.
Don’t overthink this. Grave robbers take items for their own gain. These finds are being studied and shared with everyone to learn. If not for this find, we wouldn’t know about the children and how much they were cared for. The children can live on again to us all with these amazing displays.
I think the Ryedale hoard may have been an offering for the building of the Roman fort. The figurine of Mars, their God of War, their Emperors' image and a blessing for the land which would feed the soldiers of the fort. Seems to fit. But obviously it's just my guess.
@10:30 map is incorrect. Sea level was different, nearly 7M lower. Thus, one could nearly walk to the Isle of Man as well as nearly walk to continental Europe.
@5:19 The likely reason that the 3 kids were buried with one drum but the one child was buried with 3 drums is that this culture had a mourning ritual for the dead children's surviving/living siblings to make chalk drums purposefully to be buried with their dead sibling. I'm sure this assignment was a powerful way to get the distraught siblings to focus on their own personal contribution, a creative & meaningful grave good, that was this chalk drum and it probably was an extremely successful exercise to jump start the path for the siblings to begin processing their grief and trauma.. And especially genius is their choice of burying the child with a drum, specifically. A child (or adult) suffering from such big loss will feel like a part of their heart is missing... So what better than the choice of the DRUM to make, telling the grief stricken children that the drum will house the missing part of their heart that feels missing and wishes to always be alongside the dead sib. Reassuring the kid that that part of them, within the drum can continue to forever beat alongside the fallen child while both are buried together within the earth. The buried child will never be alone because their drum/heart beat will be with them forever..
It was a wonderful video about the Stonehenge before 5000 years. Other historical periods of England history pages. how they purified gold....thank you (history Hit) channel for sharing this remarkable historical coverage
Well I know one thing they won't be finding anything else in the foundations of the HS2 tracks, as the leader who is loving his new trains in India but for the country that invented the train, he'll make sure we don't get one,
I remember when it was first discovered in the tomb of the 3 children...I hope they're still protected even though it has been removed from them and put on display in the museum...❤
Agreed. It feels a bit too much like grave robbing to me. Someone or a community 5000 years ago chose to place that in a grave with 3 children. All this time later we choose to remove it and put it on display. Pretty odd to me. Surely a cast or high res scan could tell the same story and the original left with those it was intended to be. 😢
I think the Yorkshire horde was buried by a thief, who stole the objects from different places, buried them, and was caught on his next jaunt and killed. Not everything has to be about rituals.
I totally agree it was probably a thief or a fleeing family or maybe royalty taking it’s riches away in troubling times or just hiding it away There’s no way you would bury a million quid as a spiritual thing😂unless you’re Escobar lol, there’s way more to this than spiritual ritual thing I love all of that with history, was someone panicking running away hid it and was killed for exactly those things we found? I wonder what he would say or what went on that day, it’s so interesting but to say “ritual” there’s more to it
If someone made an exact art as found today, it’s significant? As civilization progress, artifacts will lose its meaning. Please think before criticizing, not that the past is not important. However, unless modern trends of recording regress, 1000 yrs from now will be less mysterious than 1000 yrs ago today.
@@amazinggrace5692 - daylight, and the consonant "d" sound. Interesting, that it is found with the sun glyph, in these funerary objects, from another culture.
The person who mixed the sound on this video should be ashamed, the levels are up and down and the background music during conversations are just annoying. Otherwise it is a very interesting documentary.
The cross symbol comes from a sound wave which makes this exact image. You can do a simple experiment at home with a plate with rice on it sitting on top of a speaker, at a certain hertz a 2D image representing a 3D sound wave will appear which the ancients knew , That everything has a frequency and more importantly everything has resonance . It represented left over technological knowledge handed down from ancient ancestors generationally who survived an unimaginable cataclysm which almost wiped out mankind during the Younger Dryas period. 12,000 years ago. The other artwork also shows ancient knowledge symbolising the importance of sound, vibration and consciousness . Again the Neolithic architecture was all linked to the alignment of the stars , sun , moon and the cosmos after such destruction, to retain such knowledge of celestial happenings in the future. With such impossibility heavy stones being placed with such ease showing they still had some of the technical knowledge of there antediluvian ancestors lifting tens of tons of granite with sound and vibration , a knowledge which eventually was forgotten or suppressed. All these ancient Neolithic structures aren’t just on the British Isles they are all over the planet. With what seems impossible feats of engineering but it was a crude remnant of a very advanced lost world wide civilisation having been wiped out . The footprint of this technological advanced society are evident in Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, India, Cambodia, Africa , China ( mostly on the 33rd parallel , between the equator and Tropic of Cancer for some reason?) as the ancient structures on show are magnificent, flawless, beautiful and of high intellect as we have no idea how these structures were built , how old they are (at least 15,000 years ago )conservatively speaking with such advanced technologies some of which we do not possess to this day.
