Time Team S06E04 Cooper'sHope,.Cheddar.Gorge 

Raksha is usually terminably in Good spirits.

It's almost like baby laughter LOL it just makes you feel good

He looks perfectly at home hunkered down in the cave entrance 😊

He's the best!

+Not MyName Indeed.That's the best explanation he could've give in short terms.

That is a great series of books. I couldn't put them down when I read them.

@@jazzyb4656, I agree! Except for the last book. I wasn't impressed with "The Land of Painted Caves" as I was the others. It just seemed thrown together. I read about half of it, then stopped.

Thanks for reminding me, I must read those books one day. Might I also recommend Seven Arrows and the LOTR trilogy

Love those books and I learned so much from them too.

Check the website Don's Maps. A resource on much of Auel's material, peer reviewed papers it was based on and other Paleolithic finds.

He does seem to be a hoot 😁👍

The moment I saw that tool, I felt I was looking at an arrow straightener tool. It looks exactly like one. Paleolithic is too early for arrows, but spear / javelin makers might use the same tool.

@@efretheim I hadn't thought of that, interesting. I was certain it was a rope making tool.

So do I - that’s why it is on my faves list. She’s awesome.

Yeah, I rather liked him until I learned more about him and that only took about 30 seconds. *ick*

@alanrtment porter - So how's Brexit working out, guess it was a good thing after all and not the end of the earth like the Nutty fruitcakes said it would be?

@alanrtment porter He was a lib dem, I agree they are nutters. As nutty as the twats trying to hand over more power to EU commissioners.

@alanrtment porter Quite the lad was he, not sure he was mentally ill but he certainly put the E (plus several other letters) in eccentric. I sat and giggled when I read he had painted murals out of the kama sutra at Longleat. A colorful character felled by the current plague.

US history shows "white man" moving in to rob the native American Indian of lands that they had lived on for hundreds of years.. they conned them with phony land rites and pushed them off to "reservations" which were the poorest locations in America.. America doesn't have history because it's a sordid tail of robbery and has been swept under the carpet !!!

You’re not following the right history.

All American history is Stone Age, except for the great empires to the south. In North America and Canada, walking in Michigan as a kid, I would find old arrow heads all the time. But that stuff gets a tad old. Any post Stone Age archeology can only go back to mostly the 18th century with some tiny areas of 17th. Bummer.

He was in the Surrey one, too- hunting for vole teeth.

Yes! I recall that one.

Isn't that where the famous Cheddar Man was found. Frankly, all those caves need to be scheduled.

do not forget the cider

@@annpartoon5300 Or the cheese!

alanrtment porter just listened to them. 👍 they were good. 👍

72 "wifelets" according to Wikipedia! :-)

@@ianjlilly Alas Covid-19 at the age of 87 saw him off where the wifelets failed...RIP

Reading about his flamboyance and safari parkin getting some Tiger King vibes...

Because she's smart, skilled and capable. And she makes dumbasses like you seeth in jealousy.

@FESERFACE No, It's supposed to be a 💗

My head goes it looks like a corn stripper, getting kernels off the cob.

Don't judge my hole

Yeah, Kate and Larry did annoy me. Those 2 should have done the silting, instead of stopping the team from digging. And Time Team knows how to record archaeological sites....

No, they are good archaeologists.

Oh and doing this in THREE DAYS is not good science.

Time Team was a sort expeditionary force of archaeologists which was mostly made up of volunteers and scholars who were there to verify if anything was there so the longer term archaeological digs knew where to dig. The shows were recorded over the weekends as the people who worked on these sites had other jobs and obligations during the week. It is good science on the basis that they were just the ones checking to see what was there so that they can be refugee by larger more serious excavations and they did it in a much more careful and methodical manner than most of the antiquarian and other archaeologists of old did decades or even over a century ago.

Couldn't agree more, that Kate Robinson Brown is a complete an utter useless academic twat and should have been sent off to do something useful like retrieve a sky-hook!

A while ago I saw once a documentary about an indian tribe in the Amazonas. When a member of the family died, he got cremated and the ashes were taken with them. And at some time some kind of soup was made and the ashes got thrown in and then it was eaten by the members. It was a kind of ceremonial in which the remains of the dead went inside the living and stayed this way with them.

MrAlumni72 There's the thing with lending a hand. But, even given the restrictions of producing a TV show. If the result of the time constraint is destroying invaluable evidence, keep the cameras the fuck out and give the work the time it needs.

+HotelPapa100 Only problem is, the site isn't scheduled yet, and there's no formal dig going on other than TT - so if they don't find something because of time constraints, then it won't be protected - and anything that may be there is pretty much guaranteed to be destroyed after that, as people continue to spelunk the cave.Remember, TT wasn't there to find all the answers - just to find any evidence that would qualify it for scheduling. And 20th century flood debris isn't going to be a convincing argument.

aussiebloke609 Since the site is not protected yet, why do the archaeologist have a veto on methods used?

Because they are all professionals, on both sides. They are basically colleagues. Besides every site Time Team digs is pre-arranged, plans made and permissions acquired. Whether it's a homeowner, business, English Heritage, whoever, there is always someone in charge of the land they dig on. They are, therefore, not the boss on the site sometimes. This is one of those times.

...I dunno, sure, give the recent flooded material a cursory look... been there done that, bought the muddy T shirt

We all did, or we wouldn't be here.

I agree

I thought exactly the same thing. I had a series of "Britain's Story Told in Pictures" books when I was a kid and that's exactly how they were explained in those books.

Yeah! Funny how actual experts who’ve devoted decades to science never thought of it. If only you’d been there to set us all straight. Turnip.

Google him, he was quite a character.

@@TheLittledikkinsI just did, good LORD he was a busy fella between the sheets

Or a bottle opener? ;)

Actually, it's an arrow wrench for straightening arrows and darts. I surprised they didn't know that. It's pretty common in North America.

@alanrtment porter Evidence for most of these tools was really common in North America because the American Indians were using said tools when Europeans arrived. There wasn't any guesswork involved in figuring out the tools' purposes.

Have you seen the episode of a northern school of archaeology run by 2 blokes? I believe they created the site to promote their school. Not the same sort of finds, but IMO , equally sketchy. Sorry, couldn't remember the season, etc. Stay safe!

@@maeve4686 That doesn't sound familiar. Perhaps you could check the list of TT episodes on Wikipedia and figure out which one it is. Depending on the age of the students, creating a 'dig site' with planted 'finds' so students can practice their techniques is fine. If they try to pass the site off as genuine, then it becomes a problem.

When she takes on a task, you know it's going to be completed.

I think the spiral thing is key here. It was obviously used to twist something or something like that.

@@zoltanz288 I'm a woodworker, and that's immediately what I thought, too. Would love to try one out and see how it works on green wood.

@@asakurad We have them over here in USA. They're used to smooth arrow shafts, not spear shafts.

At this point, almost anything plausible is possible. Since there are no written records from the time the cave was inhabited - unless they come across some stone age paintings or engravings - we may never know the true use, or uses, of the object.

*Carenza.*

What's wrong with being eccentric?