Dear gentlemen, don’t make it more complicated than it is. This poor chap was freezing cold and the only part where he could warm his hands was on his dig. All the carvings I have seen are with suffering faces, no happy females dancing. They were forced by circumstances to life there and spend 90% of their man power on useless buildings because they were desperate and not HAPPY. Have you tried to eat horrible tasting grains instead of a juicy steak from a mastodon? They wanted their steak back and therefore you see all the animals depicted today. Don’t make it more complicated with your PPNB, ( I know what it means, I have been digging too) I am a housewife too, and I have different questions. How did they prepare the raw grains they recollected one by one for almost 1000 persons? No ceramic pots or ovens in that time. They had to soak it and eat. Where did they make their clothes from in that harsh environment?

Such an informative video.! Loved it!

Are the stones cut from local bedrock? Why did they start with stonework? Considering that it was lush and green at the time of building and rock would be far harder to find at the time. Trees make way more sense. Wouldn’t you think? Why would they waste their time cutting stone? You are all talking about their foods etc but that’s not a mystery. People eat. How long was this site occupied? When to when? But,really how did they learn stone working? This place looks like a survival site. They wound up here from where? It’s not a gradual progression but suddenly stone works etc.

Don't touch the stones dammit

Randall Carlson developed the Older Wetass Impact Hypothesis when he sharted himself upon hearing of Bendall's Plasmoid Unification Model.

This is now GOLD!

These guys interrupt dr clare more than dr clare interrupts the excavation.

Graham Hancock punching air right now, he hates real archaeology 😂

Men also wear kohl. Notably Keith Richards, Bob Dylan, and Johnny Depp. It works like sunglasses, hence the Egyptians. Kohl is an important ingredient in modern cosmetics.

People ride elephants Why not a mammoth 🦣

Dan Davis 🍍

This is easily my favourite documentary on KZbin. Beautifully shot, edited, factual, humble, fun and great backing music. Just lovely. Your lifetime of study shines through.

and the interesting thing is that this 'event', whatever its cause, is that it happened at that point in human history when we were moving from hunter-gathering to agriculture and the very first recorded history.

7:24 A hundred millimeters rather, AKA 10 cm. A 100 cm is 1 m...

Human sacrifice has been a constant in human history. War. Not ritual sacrifice? What do you call combat? The WWI poet and victim of that war, Winfred Owen in his *The Parable of the Old Man and the Young* cites the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac - a story often interpreted as a prohibition on human sacrifice for god or gods. Yet he likens it to the war itself, with a twist. It strikes me as strange that we view human sacrifice as some bygone practice of ancient and savage people. Fascinating video though. Full text of Owen's poem follows for those who want click read more. So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went, And took the fire with him, and a knife. And as they sojourned both of them together, Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father, Behold the preparations, fire and iron, But where the lamb for this burnt-offering? Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps, and builded parapets and trenches there, And stretchèd forth the knife to slay his son. When lo! an angel called him out of heaven, Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, Neither do anything to him. Behold, A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns; Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him. But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

Surely maps as we know them today are a modern construction? The earliest maps were often linea representations of routes which were not necessarily accurate representations of how the landscape would look when viewed from above.

If all is true... and add some context... why was the bread there. If a city was being evacuated, you would take the food. If in decline you would eat the food. If you were on the run, maybe not. Leave the food. Why was the food there... over production?

The ancients had the best nightlights in the market

North American prehistory yes.

One thing I don't hear in these discussions is the relationship of the passage of the seasons, as experienced in how plant life changes in response to the cycles of variation in light, darkness, temperature and precipitation events. Which would have occurred in tandem to variations in the positions of certain stars on the horizon. Ancient hunters and gatherers have to move in response to the seasons, and without anything like a modern calendar, they would have had to make their decisions of when to travel based on what stars were on the horizon and what the vegetation was doing - like leaves starting to turn color. Whatever sense of a cosmology they might have had, it wasn't just conceptualized by what was happening in the sky, but in tandem with what the environment they were in was expressing of its own seasonal cycle of life.

Archæologists stunned when they walked into a cattle-prod, and then shocked when the lurched backwards onto an electric fence.

So maybe the small holes in the T pillars at Gobekli Tepe were for tying animals for fights?

The most striking thing for me as I watched this series of videos has been the profound emotional impact the site has on Rupert! Finally,. by this video, he's rendered speechless. Brits are not known for emotional expression 😂 Seriously, I've avoided KZbin videos on this site because my tolerance for *stupid* has weakened with each passing year. The team of Michael and Rupert are not merely smart; the entire presentation in every video rests on the assumption that the audience is as intelligent and thoughtful as they are. Not true in my case, but a gratifying approach 😉

This is where you lost me ... MISSION STATEMENT: To be a channel to understanding of the distant past through interaction with the world of professional archaeology.

Really, his entire point is to try to support gradualism by claiming a settlement enabled them to slowly chip the place away over 10000 years? Oh, nice theory. So how long in advance of the younger dryas you think they got started on the Vulture Stone? If we accept you 'lowtech' theory, it demands better predictive ability. No amount of mental gymnastics can make those people less advanced than us.

Here is the analogy that fits. If in 20000 years archeologists trying to find out about us examine outposts on the edge of civilization and declare us hinter gatherers too. Hey, bozo, all the technological sites are underwater.

"CANT IMAGINE HOW LONG IT TOOK TO MAKE THAT BASIN" ROFL look at this 'archaeologist' so proud his wild speculations attempt to imcorporate a sliver more data. You think they made basins like that for mundane purposes without it being easy to do? These guys and their one-way, triumphalist version of history are hilarious...buffoons.

Dryas is named for a tiny arctic flower, Dryas octopetala. As was just mentioned by our host. I had looked it up! And as to memories…you both have a lot of info in your heads, not surprising you’d forget Dryas octopetala. 😝

Around 27:57 I don't wanna hear any more idiots claiming there were never any fat ancient people. Those sculptures aren't just the figures people theorize are from a woman's perspective of herself without the help of a mirror, or the ones they think are visual aids for pregnancy. That's just...fat people. Both the standing person and the lady in the chair have extremely realistic folds for the weight distribution.

One wonders what else is waiting to be discovered in Turkey.. Turkey is the only country in the world in which one can not start building anything, before waiting for a archeological team to conduct a dig and giving permission for construction.

Large enstatite chondrite meteors impacted mid-Atlantic and side countries. I found impactites shocked quartz and lots of after paleo period native time period tools made of these enstatites. I'm actually actively working on getting these classified and examined in more detail. East coast of America is where found. Updates coming, hopefully 2025. The tools i found will provide more answers about this time period and ice age. Enstatite are rare mainly because they look sandstone and limestone. The difference is metal flecks of iron and chondrules and other minerals not visible by eye. My reasoning for believing this will be documented and explained. I strongly believe enstatite meteor was the cause. East Coast has answers with its past history of settlements of people around 13000 years ago. I promise i have the answers. Multiple impacts not one. 18 years I've been working on this.