Tony Robinson looks back at what the Time Team have learnt about the Iron Age. Far from being a place of wild savages, Iron Age Britain emerges as a wealthy and sophisticated society.
I seriously love these shows. I watch them fully about two times a year. I work from home and I like to listen while I work. I am so thankful for all of these videos. They are so very good. I love the Time Team.
The two-pronged implement at 9:00 described as facilitating net making looks more to me like a lucet. The use of the lucet produces a chain of cordage with many uses.
you know if the whole civilization goes belly up, we should remember how to do things like heat water with hot stones and the like, can you see someone from the 21st century trying to figure out how to heat water with a microwave that is no longer powered by anything? all of this is still very good survival knowledge, when we get round to not burning dinosaurs and using atomic power, we will need to remember the solutions of the past.. what clever little monkeys we are and have been.
+wanetta renay Can you imagine what the Indians who invented maple syrup went through? They heated the sap in straw, leak-proof baskets in the same way and THEN kept at a simmer for what must have been days to eventually reduce it to its 40:1 ratio. They had no way of knowing before investing this incredible amount of time and energy, what the final product would be like. (my guess it they were trying to create some sort of medicine or intoxicant and got lucky) I've tasted maple sap dripping straight from the tree, there is no hint of sweetness whatsoever. I learned that living in New England 50-odd years ago and every taste of maple syrup still leaves me in awe at the thought. I think the biggest change since ancient times must be our perception of time. Now when we undertake a task, big or small, we consider how much time it will take. Back before some geniuses/idiots (take your pick) invented the clock and the calendar, things just took as long as they took. I suspect if they were dropped into our century they'd point at our scurrying lives and laugh in disbelief.
We had a series of books in the US called Fox Fire that was full of old time recipes...and more. Try to find them and/or their equivalent wherever you live.
mine howe, a very nice ice cream freezer or the place underground where the conquered early peoples were made to go when they agreed to split the land half and half, and were given the underground half... why is it ritual activity to want to bury your beloved dog with honor? we still do that kind of thing today. some local dog graves even have stone monuments with statuary. Cannibalism is most often a feature of extreme famine that follows a natural disaster. They might have fed the marrow to their dogs instead of eating it themselves. the guessing in these is so unimaginative in terms of the ways people actually live. there's a pragmatic use for everything they find--not necessarily so weird and mystical.
I concur completely. Sadly, as National Geographic has taught us so well, it's all about making up a story that sells...but I do like these programs, Time Team sells because of it's characters as much as for it's archaeology...
No Fox1nDen, the iron age people wouldn't feed a dog human meat anymore than a sheep farmer today would feed their herding dogs mutton, and for the same reason. You don't feed a dog something that you wouldn't allow it to feel free to help themselves whenever they're hungry. No farmyard dog would be fed chicken or eggs either, because you don't want it getting the idea that it's okay to eat them.
