@@BenBebbington I worked in the hospital there, if you are ill get the hell out of Ipswich. I was working twelve hour days there. Crazy hospital, crazy admin, stuck in aspic. Sometime in the late seventies.
Wait... So the hippo being the royal animal for Ankh-Morpork wasn't just (though still mostly, obviously) Terry Pratchett being extremely silly, but because hippos used to be in London? Huh. :)
Pterry was extremely well read so he would probably have known about all this really cool history of Britain and incorporated at least some of it into his writings.
Learned more here in 20 minutes about ancient British Animals & Neanderthals, than from watching 20 years of Time Team. Bravo for your excellent narration & video !!
She shouldn't need a female voice to get into science, I loved Bill nye and other male scientists, you should teach her to appreciate being taught from anyone not just a female, it isn't science for girls it's just science ❤
@@Thebeezzkneezz. Little girls will listen to a pretty young woman and see themselves in her more than a handsome young man. That's just one of the differences between boys and girls. Girls tend to want to see an idealized version of themselves before they take an interest in things, boys are less likely to do this. There's nothing wrong with either, it's perfectly natural. Criticizing a girl for having this inclination is like telling to "stop being such a girly, girl!!" :)
@immortal_shrooms6757 hmm ok but I never really understood that, As an example Tv shows; as a female myself I easily saw myself in the male characters I saw I didn't need a women to look up to to be inspired, I'm not very much into "science" but i enjoy listening to this stuff while I draw cuz its interesting, hearing a different narrator throws me off sometimes, (no hate to the narrator ♡) but thats just me tho
My hypothesis is that Neanderthals didn't back across into Britain, because they were having too much fun with horse racing, which would also explain why the horses never came back at that time too. You know that Neanderthal with the gammy leg? Fell off his horse in a steeple chase. Damn it, now I can't get the image of Neanderthals wearing racing silks and riding boots out of my head.
Calling it the "Ipswitchian" makes me imagine the entire span of time taking place in like, a weirdly modern Ipswich. Which, damn yea if I was stuck in Suffolk for 15,000 years I'd go extinct first too
I believe it was mentioned that Britain at that time was an island. My guess is that maybe the difficulty of getting across the 'English Channel' was just enough that the gene pool of the Neanderthals that made it across was just too small to survive more than a few generations.
@@cro-magnoncarol4017 As the only places I visit these days (via Hospital Transport - ambulances etc) are: University Hospital Lewisham (blood clotting / Warfarin levels checks) Guy's (kidney failure, pre-dialysis procedures, fistula creation & blood flow scans, plus Hep B. Vaccinations, bloods, weight, oxygen levels checks etc) St.Thomas' (post-op cataract surgery checks, diabetic / oedema on retinas, eye care etc) ... I'm not really au fait regarding the interaction between hippo life, & humans... Hence, I must take your word for what is or isn't / aren't the technicalities regarding those subjects. Thank-you for your informative, informal info. 🦛🤔🏴❤️🇬🇧🖖
@@cro-magnoncarol4017If what i know is correct, these hippos might be even easier to kill than the african one, as they are not well adapted to fighting human.
Edit: i haven't watched the video when making the comment, apparently they are african hippos that only recently migrated up, so probably are quite well adapted to fighting humans. My youtube is somewhat bugged and doesn't allow me to make edit
@@brigidsingleton1596venison used to just mean any game animal hunted in the royal forest, but now it just refers to deer meat. Like how we call cows beef and pigs pork
@@CTY547 and ocean extinction events. The late pleistocene extinction is very interesting as well because how recent it is and conflicts with most people's ideas about humanity.
Would the sinking of Dogger land perhaps answer some of these questions. They already found some human remains under the water where Dogger land was as well as pottery and tools. Maybe that is where the humans were during that time period.
That was a great video! Normally with a bunch of new words and names your brain checks put but the speaker was so eloquent with great pacing, made it easy to follow and enjoy!
Hippo is Greek for horse, and seeing as there's horses still trotting through London (often bloody and crazed), then technically there are hippos in London 😂
Here in America you can see the local versions of hippos, elephants and even land whales, at any Walmart. Around Xmas you can even find them in stampedes 😂.
Having helped excavate a mammoth tooth on Dover beach a few years ago, which was about 8000 years old, your film fills me with questions! Really enjoyed this.
I looooooooooooved this video so so much!! This has to be my hands down favourite video of the year. I have found it difficult to find YT videos on prehistory prior to about the last glacial maximum. I want to know what was going on (&maps, maps, maps) during previous glacial and interglacial periods, (and I'm going to get these numbers wrong but...) 4.2K event, the 8 point something K event. As a Scot I'd like to know about 1st evidence of human habitation in Scotland and Ireland. Love that map with Scandinavia as an island during the Ipswichian
Great video and I learned heaps about Britain's prehistory. My only criticism (constructive) is that Neanderthal is pronounced Neander(t)aal with a 't' sound and not a 'th' sound. This is because they are named after the Neander Valley in Germany and the german pronunciation is used, meaning the h is effectively silent. Overall a really well researched and interesting video, and it was really well presented! 😁
@AndrewTBP If children were taught more about paleantology more, they would value the concept of time and much more, its a shame really, it is the antidote to anti-evolution and paints a more certain picture of how life on our own planet exists
This was so clearly presented & in such an interesting way that I was able to follow along w/ very little trouble. Hippos in Britain! Who knew! I think the Neanderthals discovered riding, got on those horses, & scooted south for a 15K year vacay! Yeah? More like these, if you would be so kind, & I enjoy Emilia's presentation style.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate the fact that you don't sensationalize or add your own personal opinion it's just the actual facts thank you so much for that
Fascinating. I am American and so the ice age education I have only encompasses the USA, some of Canada, and Russia + East Asia because of the land bridge. I’ve never been exposed to any information about Britain’s ice age. I’m loving it!
Maybe the flooding event in the English channel created such a intergenerational trauma & misunderstanding of what was happening & why that they were scared to go there for a long time?
Very informative and well presented! Thank-you for posting this. You get extra bonus kudos for including "I wanna hippopotomus for Christmas". 'Love it!
“You say {Ger-lass-Ial} I say {Ger-Lace-Ial} let’s call the whole thing off”. 😂 Actually I loved this and could listen to this engaging young lady filling my brain with interesting stuff all day.
Bro! You ain't lying! I lived in Suffolk for a few years. Some of these small towns, EVERYONE looks related. Zero genetic diverity unless its a brown person.
@@WeAllLaughDownHere-ne2ou It's not British ethnic groups that are inbred...Mirpuris in UK have 6000x the close-consanguineous offspring rate as native British...
@@WeAllLaughDownHere-ne2ou Hopefully my Mum's Suffolk cousin (living in Great Barton, just outside Bury St.Edmunds, but closer to the Great Barton Stud) would forgive your attempt at humour at his expense...!!
Believe it or not, our ancestors NEARLY went extinct 900,000 years ago and were restcited to the shorelines. There were only a few thousand of them left. No one knew what caused such a near extinction, but our ancestors managed to survive.
That is the premise of 2001 A Space Odyssey. It begins with humans nearing extinction and being saved by the ability to use tools. It’s not a very plausible idea now we know many animals use tools. But at least it’s a coherent narrative
The auto subtitles really tried their best. I know it takes a bit more effort, but RU-vid has a tool where you feed in the script, and it connects it to the audio, and it would really make videos more accessible - and it would be easier to take terms and search them having the spelling
This is an example of a really really good presentation on RU-vid. Too many videos the person thinks the viewer is there to listen to them yap. No. Give me the information. You presented this perfectly. Well done. I really enjoyed this video.
Neanderhals were bad at navigating. We only know of a very short coastal leg they made ever in all Prehistory: between coastal Greece and an island barely off shore. This may be an explanation for Neanderthals not reaching the Atlantic Islands if they were not there before.
"Bad at navigating" may have been a stretch. Perhaps inexperienced at crossing large bodies of water? I'm sure their navigational skills were fine considering how long they existed and how far they spread.
Humans made their second home in Australia right after Africa. And we continued to spread by boat at a rate unlike any humans before us; so more accurately it's just that we're awesome at navigating. For a great ape, they were probably fairly good navigators, just not compared to us
@@WeAllLaughDownHere-ne2ou - Archaeology suggests that they were really terrible at navigating because we don't observe them crossing bodies of water anywhere (with that Greek exception I mentioned). We see them walk all the way to Altai and Yemen even but they never crossed Gibraltar or Bab el Mandeb like we did, or to Crete, Philippines and Flores as seems some other sort of archaic humans did (pretty awesome but still not Neanderthals). Neanderthals were strong, smart, short legged and not into boating nor ranged weapons.
@@LuisAldamiz navigating and sailing were two different skills. Neanderthal has very good land navigation skills that likely translated over onto the water as well. What they lacked was long distance sailing skills. The ability to predict and analyze water currents and tidal interactions.
So, I take it that during the last interglacial period in Britain, the Ipswichian interglacial period, from 130,000 to 115,000 years ago, no people lived in Britain, even though the climate was mild. But during the interglacial period before then, the Hoxnian (?) interglacial of about 250,000 years ago, they did. I would guess that toward the end of the two preceding ice ages, conditions got so cold that people could not live in Britain and had to live well south of it, the closest area perhaps southern France. In both cases the region warmed up quickly, allowing people to spread northward again. 250,000 years ago, people spread northward quickly enough to re-enter Britain before the seas rose behind them as the interglacial period reached its warmest temperature. But during the last interglacial, around 125,000 years ago, the people spread northward not quite as quickly and by the time they reached northern France, the land bridge to Britain was now underwater and they could not make it.
8:22 Slight correction there - it was P. spelaea not P. leo that occured there. Cave lions were able to live in the warmer climate too. African lions are unknown from Britain outside captive specimens.
Yeah I don't think Neanderthals would have had any problem with warmer climates. Humans are very adaptable. You could take an Inuit person from Canada, Alaska or Siberia and move them to Florida and they would adapt to that climate quickly enough. I wonder if Neanderthals are truly a different species, or just a subspecies or pre-species. They weren't stupid at all, they were simply different physically. There are probably some humans born today who are physically neanderthal but nobody notices or recognises it.
Something similar happened in conic sliver of the east of Canada and much of the east of the United States, around the end of the ice age. Human activity disappeared for somewhere around 2000 years from those regions, when people from the west and southwest moved into these regions where they’ve been ever since.
Im watching from Dudley uk , your very nicely spoken but I pronounce a few things differently as expected due to my accent, I have herd a lot of what you talking about over my life time. I'm so pleased someone so much younger and better spoken is reminding me and educating others. Well done.
Did you blow all the channel's budget to hire a jawdropping 10 to narrate the episode, or is that the most beautiful nerd in existence? I feel my heart going interglacial
Britain was not truly separated from the continent until the mesolithic. Rising sea levels had made the land bridge low lying and marshy at times in the preceeding 15,000 years, but the final creation of what now know as the English Channel happened in 6100BC with the tsunami caused by the Storegga Slide - a submarine sediment slip off the coast of Norway. Until that point, populations of humans and animals could migrate back and forth between Britain and the continent.
Had to watch 3 times, great video, clearly spoken and well put together. Presenter way too pretty tho, didnt hear anything for the first few minutes was in awe of her natural beauty.
How do hippos migrate across watersheds? I can understand them moving up the Rhone valley, which drains south to the med. But how would they get across watersheds to the rivers like the Rhine that drain northwards, and hence make their way to the Thames?
I think it's safe to say that no inhabitant of Britain, sapiens or otherwise, has ever uttered the thought: "Oh it's so hot here, let's go to the south of France to cool off!"
