I love how Phil is as excited about finds as you would about eating something tasty. Like you tell him there’s a piece of flint and he jumps up like it’s free pizza
@lkjh8613 жыл бұрын
8:54 I just love the fact that you have a young punk/all-redhaired Alice Roberts digging away with everybody else, now professor and famed television presenter, then still a PhD student ~ so cool the show has run for so long, that you can see future (present) experts in the field working their way up through the ranks... ⛏⏩🎓 🤓👍
@mondriaa2 жыл бұрын
I always play the game of spot Alice in the background, there where a few different redheaded diggers back then
@Mimzie-Arizona2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the information
@Tesserae Жыл бұрын
When Tony was naming the diggers at the start of the episode and said “Alice” and pointed to the redhead, I wondered whether it was Alice Roberts, who would host her own series in the future. By the end, I know it was.
@Happyheretic2308 Жыл бұрын
Shame she’s become so “woke”.
@nevillemignot16819 ай бұрын
@@Happyheretic2308I do that people of very low intelligence only seriously use the word 'Woke'.
@McRambleOn2 жыл бұрын
16:10 is Time Team highlight reel material… “FLINT!? I’ll ave a loook atsum flint!!” Makes me smile each time I rewind and watch Phil jump up from his 3 kneeling pads and gallop over to it… No shade intended bc I’m an archaeologist so I feel the knee pain, and my right arm/shoulder is twice as muscular (and regularly sore) than the left haha
@trinkab2 жыл бұрын
In one of the other digs a metal detectorist (sp?) found a large gold coin, Phil didn't even flinch. But a piece of *flint*!? It's shovels down in a heartbeat!😄
@kasie680 Жыл бұрын
😂😂
@cuncata3 жыл бұрын
Be careful of the crack, Tony then proceeds to lean right on it! 😄 classic Tony
@seraphale8 ай бұрын
I was laughing at his feet propped up on the capstone like it was a snowboard.🤣
@Ryan-to9vh7 ай бұрын
I saw that--was giving me anxiety. Tony knows how to bring the excitement one way or another.
@chrisose4 жыл бұрын
There is such a fine line between preserving the past and building for the future. Far to often the past never has a chance. I applaud the efforts of archaeologists to discover and try to preserve the heritage of all of mankind.
@sabrinafelber4 жыл бұрын
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot!
@peterkompter24173 жыл бұрын
YET YOU WOULD THINK SUCH AN IMPORTANT FIND WITH SO MUCH MORE STILL THEY COULD DO WOULD DESERVE MORE THAN 3 DAYS BY THE OTHERS NOT TIMETIME WHO ARE OBVIOUSLY JUST PARTIMERS?
@chrisose3 жыл бұрын
@@peterkompter2417 Your comment, in both substance and form, clearly demonstrates your ignorance.
@peterkompter24173 жыл бұрын
@@chrisose l think you arebetter to look at your own before commenting on others
@chrisose3 жыл бұрын
@@peterkompter2417 So tell me Peter, precisely where have I exhibited ignorance in your opinion?
@glencrs4 жыл бұрын
FANTASTIC ARCHEOLOGY I taught Archeology, and Ancient History in U.S. college. All of the other internet programs of history could learn so much from Tony & his team. Speculation is essential in Archeology. But Tony keeps saying "it is theory". PERFECT, by far the best on U-tube, from a professor of Archeology & Ancient history.
@bluezauza3 жыл бұрын
Tony is the voice of the public, isn't he? He asks the questions that the audience also asks. :)
@skiker68283 жыл бұрын
We (North America) could only be lucky enough to have the archeological ability to do this here. How sad we already lost native history. 😓
@Priapos933 жыл бұрын
@@skiker6828 Not so much lost, as deliberately obliterated.
@megelizabeth94922 жыл бұрын
It depends on what part of the country. Generally, Northeastern people tended to live in dispersed smaller settlements, that wouldn’t necessarily leave a lot behind.
@joyceanderson31652 жыл бұрын
A teacher in middle school sparked my interest! A Black Female in the 70s,she was wonderful! ⛏️⛏️⚰️⚰️🗿🗿⛏️⛏️👩🏫👩🏫
@bacail4 жыл бұрын
I love the excitement when the Archaeologists find something good.
@laraq073 жыл бұрын
One of the cases where I wish they could have extended the length of the dig past 3 days.
@katerinakemp57013 жыл бұрын
The local diggers will continue to empty the site before they build on it.
@dianalyman59504 жыл бұрын
I'm from Alaska, that burning could also be thawing frozen earth for winter burial.
@hillarycolen11634 жыл бұрын
mmm
@bethparker15004 жыл бұрын
Well,well, thank you Alaska 🥶🥶 !
@acm4bass4 жыл бұрын
Good thinking, but I don't believe there were any graves with burning, and even if there had been the evidence would have been disturbed by the graves . It would be hard to prove your hypothesis.
@annengberg17484 жыл бұрын
Interesting! Swedish Lapland here. Apparently here we stored the dead bodies during the deep freeze period until the ground had thawed, making it possible to do the digging. If one died in November it could be May or even June until the burial. If they lived very far from church, and most of them did live in the middle of no where, they usually kept it in the fire wood storage shed of the home. I know this because I used to have my office in an antique building, before used as stables and yes, also body storage for the whole community. My dear colleagues never tired of reminding me of this as I often worked late evenings by myself.
@lowndeswhatley9604 жыл бұрын
"...not burning but aturally occurring low-grade coal outcroppings..."
@hetswarteschaap4 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful episode, one of many. I like the prehistoric and Bronze Age episodes best because of the mystery that always remains. Thank you for sharing.
@bethbartlett56923 жыл бұрын
Yes, I do as well. ...and it comes with far less "pre-conceived ideas of knowing" - (the glitch in finding greater truths.)
@donnal.oglesby48063 жыл бұрын
I was so worried that after three days they would NOT be able to get all and what remains they could get out before developers came and plowed over all of it... But they still, with all the time they spent on talking, to get them all out.. Great Job, and to Phil... Amazing!
@brucetutty99843 жыл бұрын
I'd just like to say, that i am continuously impressed by the skills of the front-end loader driver. I didn't realise there was a scientific grade of Driver. I do now.
@Laura-Lee4 жыл бұрын
High energy, highly entertaining archeology. A team of experts dig with ferocity for truth and good nature for each other. Likable hosts/presenters and many mysteries in this well made historical, British series. As a new subscriber, I'm enjoying some Time Team binge-watching. LL 🇨🇦 🙋🏻♀️👍🏻
@lowndeswhatley9604 жыл бұрын
VERY well said!!
@PtolemyJones3 жыл бұрын
A rather special skill set, using those big digging machines with such care.
@sfjuhispst81444 жыл бұрын
You know when these guys need manpower when even Tony is digging
@koningbolo47004 жыл бұрын
When a sir starts digging the going is getting rough obviously...
@aserta3 жыл бұрын
The geo team was digging for the wall. That's far more unheard of than Tony pitching in (you can see him trovelling in some episodes).
@browneyedbitch624 жыл бұрын
I am totally in love with time Team. When I can I binge watch. I hope to work my way through every one of them. I'm from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
@maryellengora46043 жыл бұрын
Philadelphia PA
@imaginempress34082 жыл бұрын
Philly!
@deanflint22394 жыл бұрын
This episode was one of the best ....Thank you Time Team.
@Dagarvs4 жыл бұрын
be sure to check out Timeteamdigital on YT, for official vids
@robertmills86402 жыл бұрын
It was good to see John getting his hands dirty😁. Didn't notice Stewart jumping in.
@marionbowler54404 жыл бұрын
This program is the absolutely the most awesome show ever, Tony & Phil are just to cute. Everyone stay safe, love from Canada.🇨🇦🐘💕
@Javaman923 жыл бұрын
Alice Roberts! She went on to do several great documentaries herself. How cool to get this glimpse of her from the past.
@4urluvjones1553 жыл бұрын
I just realized, after enjoying these videos for a few months now, that I haven't subscribed to this wonderful channel. Well that's a done deal! Thanks and cheers to the Time Team!!!
@TheGuccidadi3 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I found tine team randomly about a month or so ago. Amazing binge worthy content to dig up and discover. Plus, it's a real pleasure not to watch staged interactions and/or discoveries. Legit.
@kelly6234 жыл бұрын
Amazing dig! Long live Time team! Really enjoyed this episode! Kelly/Indiana
@dietcoke85703 жыл бұрын
Love seeing Phil get excited over flint
@Dovietail4 жыл бұрын
TONY: How on EARTH rodents could possibly get into a stone-lined tomb buried a meter deep in soil remains to be seen.... EVERY PET RAT ON EARTH: Hold my yoggies.
@attorneycarissa3 жыл бұрын
🤣 Yup.
@loralou-djflowerdove3 жыл бұрын
This has GOT to be THE best episode, of all Time Team excavations!!!!!!!
@LegionPrime3 жыл бұрын
No geophys? LOL
@tc2486 Жыл бұрын
I say this after watching every episode! 😆
@TheCaucusFlow4 жыл бұрын
Love Time Team, from Wisconsin
@DH007-w2d4 жыл бұрын
Same. From Nantes, west of France.
@carveraugustus38404 жыл бұрын
Same, Minnesota
@tomtinkersrezlife2784 жыл бұрын
Same from Maine
@lisasargent28414 жыл бұрын
Same from UTAH
@willhouse4 жыл бұрын
Likewise from Illinois!
@Nani84132 жыл бұрын
I need to confess. When I take my daily nap, I put your videos on as a background noise. It's just so soothing.
@KCsFunHouse3 жыл бұрын
I wish I got half as excited about anything as Phil gets over a piece of flint lol it’s a beautiful thing!
@kristi.s99223 жыл бұрын
I can't believe that i discovered an episode i didn't see yet. It feels like i have seen every other episode at least 3 times.
@BirdWhisperer463 жыл бұрын
It's scary to find out that after 4000 years plus of being untouched, that a development company can just come in and destroy it all in a few days. Something very wrong in that.
@eshbena2 жыл бұрын
I was thinking about that and it occurred to me that with all the history there is in the British Isles, that if they tried to preserve everything, they'd never be able to build anything at all. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting archaeology there and people alive today need somewhere to live. It's still sad though.
@texanleons2 жыл бұрын
No respect for the dead when it comes to commercial enterprise.
@deboraballes90442 жыл бұрын
I know, but when you live in a country with so much history you don't know where to draw the line. Spain has the same problem if not worse. I have family that lives in Toledo and everytime they restore a building or dig a trench something is found and everything is stopped. All that is found is property of the state and there is so much there just isn't money to escavate , restore and maintain what is found. Like you say, you cannot sacrifice the living for the past. It isnt easy to decide what to do.
@MrRedneckcrazy2 жыл бұрын
@@eshbena but graves
@MrRedneckcrazy2 жыл бұрын
What's scary too is the graves just because they're 4000 years old doesn't make it still okay to desecrate them they could have easily left them alone and made it a memorial garden park for the neighborhood preserving the past while allowing the future to be built
@jodyshepard94823 жыл бұрын
What to say about such a big dig? Great fun to watch! "My home is on an ancient cemetery." Lucky me!
@seanmcnally66582 жыл бұрын
Watching the discoveries. Hearing the team put forward their theory on to happily abandon them when new discoveries are made is what I love about this series and it’s good science. And bits of pottery.
@alannahayter84914 жыл бұрын
Thank you Time Team 💜 Hello from Nova Scotia
@jhendric984 жыл бұрын
Does anyone get the to end of watching the 3 days and say, "wish they could to a couple more days?"
@gregb64694 жыл бұрын
All of us!
@BarryKennedy4 жыл бұрын
I'd like to see them do diligent archeology as opposed to fast-food archeology, so yes.
@aelyn29094 жыл бұрын
@Jim Gore Well, that and making it 3 days, a rush, makes it entertainment more easily digested. Marketing.
@auntieruthwarrick21914 жыл бұрын
Yes every time
@juliebear15054 жыл бұрын
www.tafac.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/23-53.pdf This is an article you may find interesting
@CynthiaGenealogy4 жыл бұрын
I love this show!! I binge watched every episode on prime video!!
@edlechleiter70424 жыл бұрын
Could the grooved little stone at 28:30 be an arrow shaft burnisher ?
@paulstovall37774 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing such a fantastic bit of history.
@SverreMunthe4 жыл бұрын
I guess you have too many people living on too small an area, had anyone found ancient ruins where buildings were going to be put up, here in Norway, that building project would have been killed so fast you wouldn't have understood what happened.
@dexterdequoitdikkentheworl874 жыл бұрын
Britain has no respect for the dead..
@knp014 жыл бұрын
Where I live the archeological foundings block the site for at lesst 6 months. If the scientists are done sooner, that's good, but it's very easy to block projects for years if the site is reach in archeo materials.
@Dovietail4 жыл бұрын
USA, too. Native peoples would throw an absolute FIT.
@elisabethe80554 жыл бұрын
Exactly my thought. We all would have been mesmerized and proud of it as we are of all the historic sights we have to current date in Scandinavia. Never in a million years a sight like this would have been given permission to exploit. To there defence i really don't believe they got just tree days, Time Team maybee, but not the archaeological survey.
@Emmywe80024 жыл бұрын
It’s the same in Sweden. But are you sure the builders are true when they say it is nothing there? I’m not....
@ChristaFree4 жыл бұрын
With stones on top of the graves was the area more moist back in the day? In Louisiana, where water tables are not far down, they put cement coverings or rocks on them to keep the caskets from coming up.
@Laura-Lee4 жыл бұрын
Hmm. Interesting. LL
@Dagarvs4 жыл бұрын
yeah, but historically Louisiana has has a big zombie problem, right? I could be wrong.
@Jerbod24 жыл бұрын
These werent wood caksets though.
@dukecity76884 жыл бұрын
This is marvelous. So much. The people working on this are the cream of the crop in this field - It was exciting, informative - seat of the pants suspenseful. It did not disappoint. Although the rats played havoc in the graves, they didn't drag the bones away. It's sad to think that beautiful land and burial site overlooking the ocean is just expensive real estate..that is really a shame. i would be interested in finding out what other information they glean from that dig.
@zs1dfr Жыл бұрын
Interesting that no rat bones survived in the adult Kist to help support the suppositions. I guess the rat nibbling probably took place many centuries previously too.
@davidlightman68014 жыл бұрын
"There might actually be a body under there. Oh, that would be lovely, wouldn't it?"
@meganw.44574 жыл бұрын
Ah, archaeology. The one time when you are really happy to find a body.
@Laura-Lee4 жыл бұрын
"Phil needs to wrap up his skull before the stone is shifted." 🥺 Really strange the things that come out of people's mouths in a show like this. 😉 🤭 LL
@samikirk054 жыл бұрын
👍😁👍
@johnhawk93214 жыл бұрын
No it's not cool to fond a body
@susanschaberg95774 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
@peterturner905 Жыл бұрын
Makes me wonder how much great archaeological discoveries are covered by house,car parks,etc.
@adriannegentleman834 жыл бұрын
one of the best time team episodes I've seen yet.
@irenecoermann24394 жыл бұрын
This was more suspenseful than any who done it!
@annaw12984 жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to see if they were closely related. If the man was a Grandfather to the children, it could make sense. Perhaps he was there to protect and take care of the children in the afterlife? The people who made these graves obviously had a big enough community to carry these heavy stones. It's a wonderful gravesite.
@alienmozart99022 жыл бұрын
Truly Amazing
@joanbrate4 жыл бұрын
My brother in law found a large man made weapon from Kickapoo Creek In Illinois. It really is a marvel ... think it is about 500 to 1000 years old.... I inherited it and love to see the antiquity.
@catherineanderson21274 жыл бұрын
Bring it to your local natural history museum.
@tuckergary15162 жыл бұрын
looking back 4000yrs my mind is boggled.
@ktswandering Жыл бұрын
One of the best episodes EVER!!
@Schmorgus3 жыл бұрын
19:30 - I keep imagining some dude being bored, smashing rocks together while waiting for harvest or something. And then, in the future, archeologists find them and be like "Oh, must've been art!"
@KoScosss4 жыл бұрын
39:55 Warch out of the cracks in the stone. As Tony sits on it.
@componenx3 жыл бұрын
And then leans on it, practically on the crack itself.
@DanceswithDustBunnies3 жыл бұрын
The small grooved stone looks like something you'd use to smooth the edge of tanned leather. Also, the larger stones with a cup-like depression carved in look like oil lamps: you'd put oil or tallow and a wick of some kind in the depression and it would burn like a candle. Possibly when the body was laid to rest, the lamp was lit during the interment. Just some thoughts.
@lauravalancy25213 жыл бұрын
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
@CanChikMay3 жыл бұрын
Love the unravelling of history
@robertohlen49804 жыл бұрын
"Kist" is just swe/dan/nor for coffin. We call them "stenkistor" stone coffins up here.
@bosse6414 жыл бұрын
In Norway we call them "kiste"(single) "kister"(several).
@hansc84334 жыл бұрын
In Dutch and German they’re called the same. In Germanic languages, the word (cist, Kist(e)) has been borrowed at an early stage from Latin, which borrowed the word kiste (chest, basket) from Greek. It probably has a PIE root, but could also have been passed down from a Semitic language. I just love etymology :)
@hollygolightly80484 жыл бұрын
@@merylbear633 ?
@sabrinafelber4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for information everybody!
@elizabethschaeffer95433 жыл бұрын
@@hansc8433 I share your love of etymology. The "kist" used for "chest" goes way back in early English too. In archeology kist means a box made of 6 slabs of stone--four sides a top and a bottom..
@nigeltown6999 Жыл бұрын
One of the best - so much of what we are is wrapped up in what we were...
@lisaward7519 Жыл бұрын
Great episode! Very interesting to watch.
@nhansen1974 жыл бұрын
It's a shame they didn't dig down into the rat warren. If there had been anything shiny in the grave the rats would have taken it.
@dth9993 жыл бұрын
things don't shine much in the dark.
@LeeGee3 жыл бұрын
@@dth999 You need to get out more
@katerinakemp57013 жыл бұрын
@@LeeGee 🤣🤣🤣
@bitsnpieces114 жыл бұрын
I was just thinking about the stone with the groove; What about a stone used to smooth and grind down somewhat round things into round things, say a stick to make an arrow shaft. It would be carried in a pouch on your body because it would be hard to find another of the right shape and size.
@anto22572 жыл бұрын
This one was a bloody good one!!
@razert714 жыл бұрын
A young and probably already fabulous Dr. Alice Roberts @9:29
@tomthx58044 жыл бұрын
She looks like a psycho.
@Grungebucketful4 жыл бұрын
@@tomthx5804 A psycho who happens to have a Ph.D. in paleo-pathology as well as being a biological anthropologist, and a biologist. She is also a talented TV presenter and her documetaries are well worth watching. And what do you look like?
@MooPotPie4 жыл бұрын
This 2001 episode was her first TV appearance.
@kathleenmuchka25594 жыл бұрын
She is fabulous to many.
@hollygolightly80484 жыл бұрын
@@tomthx5804 OMG! Are you the Tom who invented THX?
@jeffchan673 жыл бұрын
Phil's Suran-wrapping skills are similar to mine :-)
@shellmeyours4 жыл бұрын
The artifact that Stuart is holding (pit in the rock) is a nutting stone. It holds a nut so it can be cracked open with another rock.
@lauravalancy25213 жыл бұрын
AWESOME 😎 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 🌰
@angelaparker41103 жыл бұрын
I’m sorry but my mind went elsewhere…
@jcspaziano3 жыл бұрын
@@angelaparker4110 same. :)
@twinray274 жыл бұрын
Building houses over a cemetery........ That worked out so well, in the movie Poltergeist.
@McRambleOn2 жыл бұрын
Such a great episode that captures what a typical excavation looks like anywhere in the world.
@fabricdragon3 жыл бұрын
at 19:50 or so... he says its "rock art" because they keep finding them. it ah... looks pretty much exactly like what i would use to start a fire, or to hold one end of a supported spindle
@the_rover12 жыл бұрын
all in all, a great episode! learned a lot from this one.
@jimherron55402 жыл бұрын
Very interesting episode!
@Bishopbosco2 жыл бұрын
Phil will never pass up a piece of flint!
@TheRuthlessRuth4 жыл бұрын
I'm wondering if the middle aged man was perhaps someone with a child-like personality? Perhaps making it a burial site for essentially children? Just a thought. I also like the idea that someone else in the comments suggested, the Children might be the grave goods themselves. Another possibility to explain the few grave goods, is maybe the families did not have much to leave with the bodies. If the middle aged man was actually a man with stunted cognitive growth then it might explain the lack of items, maybe he really didn't have much or anything to be left with, especially not something long lasting?
@kathleenmuchka25594 жыл бұрын
I liked the comment that he is a protector of the children.
@silva74933 жыл бұрын
OMG, the closed captioning can be, and very often is such a riot! At 13:52, Phil says; "..that's just some sort of organic residue below the stone" and the cc translated it into; "..that's just some sort gonna crested Yahoo below the stone"!😆😆😆 My good news is with this episode I've finally deciphered the "kissed graves", which are actually "cist graves" (not that it was ever spelled properly), which is a term I was unfamiliar with. That has puzzled me through several episodes, and no, Google was not my friend. I did find this episode riveting! I think all of the others I've seen so far are also riveting, though.
@itsmeagain17453 жыл бұрын
If you think this one was good, look for an old Irish TV chat program with Billy Connolly. The captioning is hilarious (more so if you can understand what Billy is saying...)!
@chrisbrown67804 жыл бұрын
I really like this show. I just found out the Amazon Prime has seasons 11 through 18 I believe.
@Dagarvs4 жыл бұрын
the internets have season 1-20, but not all in HD
@philaypeephilippotter65324 жыл бұрын
@@Dagarvs Wonderful content in adequate quality is quite good enough for me.
@peterlomax71439 ай бұрын
It is interesting about the plastic because I just read an article about microplastic and archeology. It has thrown quite a challenge for archeologist and preserving archeology.
@ariochiv4 жыл бұрын
So the site has been known for 80 years... but now they have 3 days to excavate it?
@Objective-Observer4 жыл бұрын
Time Team has only 3 days. All of the professionals had day jobs they had to get back to.
@lucygray61624 жыл бұрын
These sites are all over Scotland, and it would be financially impossible to excavate all of them randomly. Unfortunately, the decision to investigate comes about when a site is threatened. In Florida, a developer just pays off the right people and continues with building wherever they want, regardless of human burials, endangered species or ruining the coastline. Even if they get caught (rarely), they just pay the fines and keep working, like we need another condo or golf course. At least Scotland gives them some time to look for bodies.
@ariochiv4 жыл бұрын
@@Objective-Observer They said that the land was going to be developed, and made it sound as if the bulldozers were going to roll on the 4th day. But of course in the epilogue it's clear that there were follow-up excavations, so that wasn't the case.
@Objective-Observer4 жыл бұрын
@@ariochiv well dirty word, I thought I posted my answer, and alas... Over the years, Time Team explained that ALL building projects must have an archeological assessment before they even get planning permission. and NO, if something truly amazing is found, they cannot break ground until the discovery is properly investigated, recorded, and any valuable artifacts removed for study and storage. Keep watching, you will find the episode where Time Team came to the rescue of an individual land owner who wanted to remove some derelict homes/modern shacks, and then add on to the one he was living in. The local counsel discovered the homes were originally built on top of a Celtic burial ground. The building permission process took years; the expense bankrupted him, destroyed his marriage, and he was hoping the Time Team could at least determine the extent of the burial ground, so he could remove rubbish and just sell the land. Why yes, he couldn't even sell the land until the Archeological assessment had finished the entire site. Yes, it was Time Team to the rescue.
@Objective-Observer4 жыл бұрын
@John Signs There is a huge difference between the US history and that of England. The cliche is: you can't put a shovel into English soil without finding some important archeology. They found an English King buried under a parking lot, only a couple of years ago. I watch the YT channels for several Engilsh Mudlarkers- people who walk the river shorlines at low tide and look for historic items. Even with that, they must have a license, and any major historic object they find, must be recorded with an archeological authority. They have beaches still littered with Roman Pottery. 2000 year old pottery scattered all over the beach, and often enough, they find bronze age pottery, on the beach. We don't have that much 'modern' history [2000 years old or less]; and our ancient history is almost eroded to the point it is all but gone, or it's fossilized prehistoric creatures. That is the one distinction America has over England: our ancestors had not destroyed all the fosslilzed bones of the dinosaurs, and we have more of them. The indigenous tribes of North America were mostly nomads; they built no lasting structures; they left no trace upon the land. One good thunderstorm in Tornado Alley and their structures were destroyed, With them built of wood, mud and grass, those don't survive, so there is no 'site' to protect. In England, an arrowhead is pre-historic; here in the States, that same arrow head could be from a few hundred to a few thousand years old, because the American societies stagnated. Those few tribes that did build permanent structures, their remaining sites are protected. To this day, there is no evidence to detail why those permanent sites were abandoned. This isn't a matter of Americans don't care about history; we don't have the wealth of history that needs to be protected.
@jenniferburgett83284 жыл бұрын
I was so excited watching this lol
@Utopia16164 жыл бұрын
Built on a literal ancient burial ground... great
@karolgoofit79014 жыл бұрын
I used to watch this show when i was 10 years old.
@Thirdbase94 жыл бұрын
Given the length of the show in years, I always wondered if someone in one of the later shows watched an early episode and went into archeology because of that.
@brandonholder62844 жыл бұрын
The stone found with the groove in it. I believe it was once a bead as well, and passed down over a long, long line of inheritance. Over that time, it had broken in twain, and the amount of polishing showed how it was smoothed out and kept in a pouch as suggested in the show itself. Signifying it was believed to carry power and was mystical from the beginnings of the family's spoken history.
@tomthx58044 жыл бұрын
Lots of things break in twain.
@jamesdunn96093 жыл бұрын
Tony said "before the archaeology is lost forever." Not really. It will be lost to us because of the new housing development, but in a thousand years archaeologists will be telling their students "and here you can see the foundation of a 20th century house that has been built almost directly over this bronze age location. They must have sought similar locations in which to build their dwellings..."
@polaide80362 жыл бұрын
While you have a point, there are such things as service lines when building; sewers, water, power cables. So where a sewer goes in the archeology will be lost.
@jamesdunn96092 жыл бұрын
@@polaide8036 And where they don't go the archeology will still be preserved, yes? Just like some bronze age buildings can overlap and sometimes cut through stone age settlements, right?
@Laura-Lee4 жыл бұрын
QUESTION: How many years is it when a grave is opened and things removed that it goes from being considered grave robbing to an archeological dig. Is there an official number? LL
@nhansen1974 жыл бұрын
It's not the years that matter, it's whether or not there is anyone around who will complain loudly enough to put a stop to it.
@stevenschnepp5764 жыл бұрын
@@nhansen197 Hence why archaeology in North America is so spotty; the tribes are rather hostile towards having their history looked at.
@professionalpainthuffer4 жыл бұрын
I believe the general guideline is that it's archeology if there are no traceable living relatives.
@gregorymalchuk2724 жыл бұрын
@@professionalpainthuffer Well with modern genetics, there are always living relatives, especially in rural parts of the UK.
@kathleenmuchka25594 жыл бұрын
The purpose for disturbing the dead is everything.
@elysian-prince4 жыл бұрын
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, i'm excited!
@robertneven75633 жыл бұрын
Tony Robbinson is amazing
@SonOfViking4 жыл бұрын
Mistery? A place where mists are manufactured?
@PlutoniumJesus4 жыл бұрын
mistery (pl. misteries) n. 1. archaic form of mystery 2. archaic word for guild
@christineaygin67014 жыл бұрын
Be kind
@Dagarvs4 жыл бұрын
@@PlutoniumJesus 3. A place where mists are manufactured. I've seen those movies, the knights always have mists around em.
@karmicpopcorn64404 жыл бұрын
The history of a kistory mistery
@shane26094 жыл бұрын
Way to hire that copy editor. Guess there’s no MISTERY here
@SchererProductionServices4 жыл бұрын
WHEN will people learn: Building on ancient burial grounds is NEVER a good idea!!!
@Laura-Lee4 жыл бұрын
As the rush was on I kept thinking, "At what point does this become such a significant enough find that the commercial venture is halted?" LL
@r.blakehole9324 жыл бұрын
Daniel Scherer The Earth is OLD and full of history. The place you are currently living in has history underneath it. So, should YOU be deprived of living space because of previous history? Give me a break.
@MrOddball634 жыл бұрын
@@r.blakehole932 Down boy, I think he was making a reference to old horror movies and not trying to be a "know-it-all"...
@SHADOWGUY4254 жыл бұрын
@@r.blakehole932 I mean, to be fair right now the US has some 17 million vacant homes so building more isn't needed. The UK has alot less I'll admit, but at 216,000 homes vacant they still aren't hurting for living space, in fact 70% of Brits live inside urban areas (cities) so building even more homes in the countryside seem's' like a waste
@LarryThePhotoGuy4 жыл бұрын
"They're here!"
@AnnaAnna-uc2ff Жыл бұрын
Thanks again.
@grendalnewgod3 жыл бұрын
I believe that the youths that died may have been buried near the elder so that he acts as a patron and protector in the next world.
@imaginempress34082 жыл бұрын
My thought was he was the father or grandfather predeceased by all the young souls.
@joemarx74954 жыл бұрын
I'm a simple man, I see Baldrick, I click
@Bowie_E4 жыл бұрын
@Jimmy L Needham You're taking this way too seriously there, Jim
@hoffmannMP3 жыл бұрын
@Jimmy L Needham I don’t think you can use the term “stereotype” when you are talking about one man and one character, that was played by that one man.
@fredhamster83414 жыл бұрын
Thank you great
@KnightsWithoutATable3 жыл бұрын
And now the family that is living in the house over those graves is going to have a little bit of a panic if they watch this episode.
@normandecaesen2863 жыл бұрын
Simply Amazing ❤
@l78462 жыл бұрын
(45:40) Not only nesting, but a handy, if not rather old, source of calcium!
@christinemoir55104 жыл бұрын
Very good episode.
@kathrynbunton44293 жыл бұрын
I noticed some plants with yellow flowers in the background and foreground looking to me like Woad (used to make blue dye), used by the ancients for dyeing cloth, wool and also for used in body paint. Could this be of significance at all?
@jturtle53182 жыл бұрын
Are the purple flowers loosestrife?
@olivernewman13183 жыл бұрын
From France to Greece and from Germany to Norway you name it. Wherever a an archeological find turns up all building activity is immediately stopped. Delayed for months or forbidden to process forever. And then... there is GB: Ho guys lets dig this up. Sorry we're a bit in a hurry we've got 3 days... Museums full of treasures from every continent. Playing a major role in Archeology over decades...
@christineaygin67014 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@acolytetojippity2 жыл бұрын
: "Be careful of that crack, the other stone could give way." Tony: ffs
@Linda-yq8ew4 жыл бұрын
Wow. Thank you all.
@trentgay34373 жыл бұрын
Might just be my favorite episode really enjoyed it
@johntripp51594 жыл бұрын
21:29 any chance the family had a final feast next to the grave, like a wake?
@philaypeephilippotter65324 жыл бұрын
Every chance.
@hillarycolen11634 жыл бұрын
Any guess goes. Human sacrifice site,a massacre,an epidemic...
@spkgrl3 жыл бұрын
Amazing that they were able to find an entire 4,0000 year old pot 🙌🏼
@polaide80362 жыл бұрын
Agreed. I feel those intact pots didn't get enough attention in this program. So amazing to have these well preserved artifacts.