As a necromancer and demonolator who balances the practices he learns about against historic and cultural context, really appreciate this one.

That's so Familiar somehow... ❤

I love it

Absolutely loved this interview. 🎉

Howard, I have never spent £100 on a book before. But I have now! Thanks to Waterstones in Canterbury for getting it in so quickly! And cheers to Nancy for writing it! Her lectures were always good and really well structured. As is the book, on first impression! (PS I wouldn't use Amazon even if you put a gun to my head, for obBezos reasons.)

Lena is absolutely lovely, and just brilliant.

Cheers! Good, that, Howard!😊

Very interesting , it makes me wonder about our own Black Pig's Dyke in Ireland.

This reminds me of the Surprised Eel Historian content. Eels as scrip. And stuff

Great discussion, refreshing to come across something so good on KZbin!

Brilliant

Commenting for the algorithm 😎

Everybody wants to ask where to get the Rædwald helmet nobody’s asking how the King is doing. You ok King? Wanna go on campaign?

My family came from Ireland in the later 1800's and settled in to farming in Illinois just outside of Chicago. Mean while in the 60's on up all the grandfather's on both sides of the family tree told us some pretty tall tales about our oppression and the things we did as far as Irish history , fairly grandiose acts that we all believed as fact 😂 So as an American I blame my Mother's and Father's Grandfathers and their tales for my fake history facts I retold until the early 2000's 😂 😂

I was looking up Dr. Bickle and found this gem of an interview. Thank you 😊

brava

Thank you Julia, great interview! As you said, of course they had boats, there are nuraghi in the island of Mal di Ventre and in that of San Pietro, which were already separated from Sardinia in the Bronze Age. And as you mentioned, there's Nuragic pottery in Sicily (Cannatello), in great quantity, both imported from Sardinia and locally made, and also Sardinian pottery in Cyprus, Crete, Motya, Minet El Beida, Lipari and many, many other sites, sometimes in huge quantities. There's also some evidence of deep sea fishing, mostly from recent studies, like the remains of a tuna discovered in the Nuragic village of Lu Brandali, see for instance Alessandra Cosso's paper about that. And of course, hundreds of bronze model boats (though the latter date to the final phase of the Nuragic culture).

A coherent and fascinating exploration of this field of research. Thanks to both of you.

I can't overstate how annoying it is when trying to read about tribal Ireland mfrs bring up Israelites like Mormons

Refreshing

Think this came from the algorithm from my flint dibble stuff. 🌎💚🌍👍🏼worked with irish on construction sites in 90s, just before the tiger economy, young guys were interested in going to lots of countries to work, more for adventure than anything, which is often a driver for young men, just like me . And looking at the refugee BS on the right , says alot, "young men are coming here!!!"🙄💩🤡🚽😂😂😂.happy travels to all. 💚👍🏼

I like genealogy and history. I try to stay clear of narratives. It would be easy to impose modern narratives on my 19th century Irish ancestors but that would be unfair the records just show them getting on with their lives and that's more factual and real to me than linking them to narratives.

Would it have anything to do with Watling Street, now known to have come up to Chester?

what? first 10 mins are the funniest thing ever seen. bafta nominee right here! bravo!

We absolutely do need Siân TV series

'Hole-in-the-Wall' by the river Wye a couple of miles north of Ross. Whence the name??

Interesting video. Good luck guys.

Two of my favourite people on TikTok now on KZbin, Smashing that notification button.

What a great interview, I can't wait to see more of Rosie's research

Your comments about gift shops resonates with me. Just visit the shop of any National Trust, Cadw, English Heritage and they dumb down (with some exceptions) the property and its story massively.

Very engaging!

A pleasure as always, professor!

In today’s political climate the lady should have enough material to write another dozen books.

I could listen to her all day

The 'Vikings didn't have horned helmets' thing is actually more complicated than that. I remember seeing people debunking the trope decades ago, and yes, it originally came about because of fanciful Victorian depictions of them. But we actually have only a tiny number of surviving Viking era helmets, and although none of them have horns, they're quite varied and some do have elaborate ornamentation. Quite a few horned helmets from earlier periods (bronze tends to survive better than iron in the ground due to its greater resistance to rust), have been found in northern Europe, including Scandinavia, which may have influenced the misleading artistic depictions. Google 'Vekso helmets' for possibly the best example. To make matters worse, a few Norse and other Viking era artworks have been found that appear to show horned human figures and people wearing horned helmets. We don't really know if they're depicting mythological figures, symbolic headdresses or real armour, but none of those possibilities can be completely excluded. So I'd argue that 'The Vikings didn't have horned helmets' is itself sort of a historical myth. A more accurate statement would be that 'we don't have any solid evidence that the Vikings had horned helmets. The idea they did was popularised through anachronistic artworks, but it still can't be ruled out'. I feel really smug now.

I have this book! It's very good. Weird.

Jo is the Superhero we need in our classroom

Eyyy it's Jo!

Just to add, the paper by Katherine Lee Miller that is cited in this video, uses very outdated DNA tests to bolster her theories. The migration estimates that are cited have been debunked, to now show that mass migration did happen.

I love Siân!!! This is gonna be so fun to watch

Screw Dr 13. The only DVD boxed set I will never buy. {:o:O:}

It's an archaeodeath interview with #ProfessorandArchaeologistHowardWilliamsTM! Thanks for joining us!

That was really interesting, thank you. That space between the dykes never ceases to be fascinating when discussed too!

#ReturntheStone

There are serious problems with peer review, and there have been many studies showing this. The percentage of retractions is way too high, even for trivial research. More journals should require the presentation of raw data along with the manuscript to allow any reader to conduct a post publication peer review.

Thanks very much to you both for that exposition! Makes sense to me, certainly! Re: How one self-identifies, Howard, I think is entirely up to you! I was born in England but was christened in Hirwaun at a few weeks old. All my relatives - and they were legion! - were Welsh and I was brought up to think of myself as Welsh. So I have always identified as Welsh! My family is Welsh on both sides, from the Heads of the Valleys/Pen Cymoedd area. Basically where the Cynon Valley hits Bannau Brycheiniog (Rhigos, Hirwaun, Penderyn) and it was always known as Welsh speaking. My Dad was mainly monoglot Welsh until he was 4 in 1941 and starting Primary school loomed, his (and my!) extended family certainly spoke it amongst themselves and, as I spent a lot of time there, I picked up a bit when I was very young! Kids, huh?! In fact, although my Cymraeg is Tipyn Bach (D'win Dysgu!), I did find that the 1994 bilingual policy helped enormously in picking up a lot of vocabulary and expressions as I already had some familiarity with the language. I learned some Welsh History, too, grandmothers are great for that!❤ So studying it at University in my 30s was doubly engaging! 'Mix me a Molotov, just like Mamgu used to make!'😂 My teachers would always ask me to pronounce the place-names and, where relevant, perhaps supply slightly different nuances on some of the topics we covered in History lessons! Diolch Yn Fawr Iawn I Chi Dau🤩✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿!

Excellent discussion. Thank you, Howard and Liv.

Thank you for the knowledge

First time listener. Love the podcast. Rebel Rabbi sent me when she popped in my TikTok live.

Archeodeathsoup!