ALICE ROBERTS in conversation with The Prehistory Guys.

[@gerryclarke9795]

I could listen to Prof. Roberts all day long!

[@markashdown1314]

Excellent guest. Many thanks.

[@HANKTHEDANKEST]

I love Alice Roberts! I've been following her work since the early Time Team days, she's just such a cool person with such a valuable perspective and skillset. A real treasure, thanks fellas!

[@peterjhillier7659]

Excellent, excellent Thank you for sharing. Alice is a lovely, and extremely intelligent Lady, always enjoy listening to her.

[@davidclarke67]

My love for Professor Alice has deepened.

[@CloudhoundCoUk]

Alice Roberts is simply brilliant.

[@marktroiani5401]

This woman is a national treasure.

[@MrDaiseymay]

IN THE TRUEST LITTERAL MEANING OF THE WORD

[@TreforTreforgan]

I love Professor Alice more! I’m even thinking of getting a tattoo of her.

[@xanderthegreatest]

O my goodness!!! Prehistory Guys AND Alice. Robert’s?!?!? PERFECT! 💜

[@lizdurham9668]

Great interview! Love Prof Roberts, glad she's doing another series of Digging for Britain.

[@susanhepburn6040]

What a delight Alice Roberts is! Her enthusiasm is just infectious! Thank you very much to all three of you!

[@filmalarmxxl]

Alice Roberts to see in this interview was great! What an important work she does with bringing science to the audience!

[@greenspiritarts]

Mind blown; whaaaattt???? Alice Roberts NOT an archaeologist????! Thanks for a delightful and far-ranging interview!

[@HelenKempster]

Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful. ( Anf you two as well chaps Thank you.

[@levitation25]

Great interview it did seem to go fast it was really interesting. I like Alice Roberts.

[@LM-pm2ir]

Just bought Ancestors.... it is a fantastic... well researched book

[@dldove22]

It's refreshing to know she is the same in person as she is on the programs. A fascinating interview.

[@robaire.b]

Wonderful discussion with Alice Roberts

[@Nuggettfaz]

Been a fan of Alice's for many years. Great interview. Thanks.

[@kevinswain4441]

Have seen several programs by Alice, we both enjoyed your work. Thank you

[@caroletomlinson5480]

That was great! Love the SSSDs explained.

[@deormanrobey892]

Another fine interview, thanks for posting. 🙂

[@toxic.forest]

Alice!! Its so good to see her again. I love Time Team so its nice to catch up on her more recent accomplishments

[@JohnPaul-ii]

Fascinating to listen to this show. Thanks for sharing again Re, SSSD’s; will henges turn out to be just a local Mall for the Neolithic people? 😳…🧐…🤔

[@katiekat4457]

This is the first time I have seen this channel and these two men do a great job. I am definitely a new subscriber to this channel. I always love watching Alice Roberts.

[@janmulcahy1458]

Ooh, I love Alice Roberts and anything I've seen her in. Great interview. Did not know her background was medical. Always assumed she was an archaeologist. Never know where life will take you

[@flysubcompact]

You folks brushed on "finds" being interpreted as more mystical than mundane. I was cracking up at the truth of it. Alice mentioning her husband calling the sacred antlers as coat hooks. :) I think it was Jay Leno once touched on this with "channeling": "Why were all these past lives someone great or famous?.... I'd love one to say he was Orank, the unknown pauper who was killed by a runaway manure cart." :)

[@MrDaiseymay]

BECAUSE ONLY RICH / POWERFUL PEOPLE HAD PROPER BURIALS WITH ITEMS FOR THE NEXT LIFE ETC, WHICH HELPS TO RECOGNISE WHO THEY ARE, OTHERWISE, THE NOBODIES AND SLAVES WEE BUNGED IN A MASS GRAVE.

[@Nuggettfaz]

As an Aussie I was always fascinated by the Mungo Man skeleton (28,000 to 32,000 years) and all things Lake Mungo. I had read and told people including my son and friends about the foot prints left by a supposed one legged individual that could run as fast as an Olympic sprinter. It's in several archaeological books with a plethora of theories, and tests and evidence supporting it. A few years ago I was lucky enough to go to Lake Mungo NSW and visit with a local indigenous guide who explained how a one legged man could run as fast as an Olympian. Today Lake Mungo is virtually desert. Local indigenous knowledge places the last filling of the lake at about 600 years ago. When Mungo man was alive, the lake system was an extensive series of waterways covering a vast expanse of area with an almost mind boggling variety of plants and animals which translates as tucker (FOOD). Sorry I digress. The footprints in question (approx 20,000 years) show several individuals including children in excellent preservation. My indigenous mate said that many years ago, he took one look at the finds and as the scientists were explaining to him and others about the one legged man he laughed and walked away. When questioned by the learned ones, HE explained thusly : When you are hunting geese or fishing with a spear or just going from A to B in shallow water and using a traditional bark canoe you have one leg on top of the floating canoe and you use the other leg to push you along. This allows you to use both hands to still hunt. Whether you use a spear or a boomerang or a club (depending on what you are hunting). It also gives you something to put your catch on while still hunting for more and keeps you dry. So sorry, NO Olympic one legged super athlete to advance your academic career. Just a bit of local knowledge, common sense and ancient wisdom. PS Don't get me wrong I love archaeology but I love truth too. Cheers from Oz. PS I suppose floating raft may be a better description than canoe.

[@halley8890]

Excellent interview...please invite her back again:) I so enjoy her books and "Digging in Britain" Series.

[@mkrmkr3805]

That was excellent, thank you. 🌻

[@KarlVaughan]

An enjoyable discussion and you were lucky to get some time with her. I understand she's a busy lady. I was at Oxford last week to see her talk about her latest book and I was delighted that she mentioned the recent discoveries at Stoke Mandeville which is very close to where I live.

[@benwilson6145]

Thank you Alice and Gentleman

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

Holy Cow! How did you guys make this happen??

[@jillosullivan400]

Brilliant !!!!!

[@mondriaa]

Excellent interview

[@MrSteamDragon]

"The Incredible Human Journey", if you are interested in this stuff and haven't seen it, do yourself a favour and check it out. This series shows how documentaries should be made. Simply brilliant.

[@gwyngriffiths3669]

Totally agree...superb series

[@julicaru4812]

I so look forward to these interviews , you guys could talk for hours and I could certainly listen for hours , thanks to all All the best Jules

[@eastcoastartist]

Loved this

[@TheMisterMonkeyman]

Very cool. I have always enjoyed the projects that Alice has been a part of, and it was really nice to get a more personal view on her and her work. Great interviewers ask interesting questions and then let their guests answer, which is exactly what you guys do. I consider the time spent watching this as well spent. Thank you for posting such interesting and entertaining content. Peace.

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

Digging up modern society is a fun thought experiment and it actually humbles you on how little we can actually know even with the fun toys of tech. It's some modern locations that leaves send serious red flags behind for future generations if they don't have any context. Very bizzare behavior unrivaled with history.

[@FullThunderMoon]

Catching up on the content and absolutely loved this!

[@mariansmith7694]

Facinating perspectives, thank you...

[@ChristophersMum]

wow that was fantastic...I feel that you could spend hours talking with her...and never running out of topics...a wonderful programme thank you so much guys...love from Scotland🎇💞😁🪔🗿🎇

[@jamesmoore9511]

A question for Dr. Robertson - Did you study the type of diet of people you were interested in for the book? That is: veg, meat, omnivore, fish

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

On Campeche Island, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, there is what remains of the walls of what was a colonial house. No more than two or three layers of crumbling bricks. Sitting on it to tie my sneaker laces I saw something interesting. Without difficulty I plucked from the ruin a peculiarly shaped stone originally used to fill a hole at the base of the wall. After cleaning the surrounding plaster I discovered that I had in my hands a wonderful chipped stone axe. Upon returning home, I reported the find to the archeology department of a university by sending a photo of the chipped stone ax and I even offered to send it by mail. I didn't even receive a response. So I made an ax handle and keep it as an archaeological treasure in my house. But I still need to come up with an interesting story about it.

[@gwyngriffiths3669]

😩

[@lesleygrain2120]

I live near a site where a large agricultural show is held annually, that is annually in normal times. Our site was established relatively recently but has any investigation been done to compare such sites with henges etc. Here the main ring is mainly for showing animals but there are opening and closing ceremonies as well as various displays of all sorts and competitions based around agricultural skills. There is much feasting and celebrating as a normally widely dispersed population get together for the 4 day party. Many stay for a couple of weeks. I feel that the origins of such shows must be in antiquity people. There is and always has been a necessity to bring in new blood lines to stock to maintain it’s health. Why not have fun at the same time as you decide which animals are best suited to your need and debate these new fangled ideas that those in ….. wherever ….. have been trying (maybe their son or daughter will come back with you to help you implement them at your own farm).

[@kiwiportraits]

This is awesome. The red headed witch and the druids. Brilliant!

[@arnman2093]

Nice interview. BTW, the interviews on this channel are getting quite good.

[@MrDaiseymay]

STEADY NOW, DON'T OVER DO IT

[@carolegarland8050]

Gosh! she is not just a pretty face. So enjoyed that.

[@larrytuft9782]

Thanks!

[@ThePrehistoryGuys]

Thank you Larry!!

[@AndyAndersonBlueAndyA]

Very, very interesting. Thanks. I wonder why you say Coupland Henge is the oldest in Britain as I always thought Henges in Orkney to be around 5000 years old ?

[@janetmackinnon3411]

I notic ethat Professor Robert is wearing a Thor hammer...

[@chrismattingly1146]

A mjolnir

[@Archangelm127]

21:30 - How on earth can you determine the size of an immigration wave from 100 sets of DNA? Either I'm misunderstanding what Alice said, or there are some wicked cool techniques that I really want to learn about. :)

[@anitaschneider1704]

I am looking for a doc that Alice Roberts did in Washington state in 2012 About the geology can you help me find it on KZbin pls

[@geniexmay562]

👍

[@forestdwellerresearch6593]

I agree so much about the interpretations of things we can't immediately grasp....always that tendency to claim rituals, religion, spirituality and hunting magic....it's silly. It comes from the early days of prehistory i think. In France for example, so many excavations were done by members of the church and sometimes nobility. The 2 old power structures which were both deeply intertwined with religion. They did not want to describe ancient people who lived their lives free of the religious madness. They could not have that. So they needed to impose some kind of inferior spirituality on the prehistoric people and looked at existing examples of shamanism, animism etcetera to explain those folks from long ago. They speculated wildly about weird cults worshiping the sun and the stars, the mother goddess or lion worshipers and so on. And that stuff still gets repeated today. Imagine a group of stone age hunter-gatherers of about 10-20 people. Very busy just surviving and every member of your group is needed for practical reasons. Who even has the time to fart around with rituals and belief systems? The attempts at using prehistoric art as evidence for that ritual stuff are simply laughable and never work out. And still so many scholars produce more papers all the time speculating about it to build their careers.....it's sad science really. We need to start understanding practicality. One of the most interesting aspects of my research is just that. Can we understand and learn about humans who did not suffer from religious madness? This lady understands that so well. Good job Alice Roberts!

[@markashdown1314]

SSD priceless.

[@dougniergarth236]

I use old shed deer antlers to "Rattle" them in close enough to shoot them. I carry them in to the woods on a cord drilled through them both.

[@gwyngriffiths3669]

😩

[@derrickritchie]

grim task however nesssary englands past .....future...if learnd

[@sallyreno6296]

Reindeer of course.

[@TheElfishGene]

Quite a coup!

[@llwyde1104]

Chaps...no mention of the good profs Waun Mawn hypothesis...crammed with conjecture and not least 2 + 2 = 501...you were both er critical...???

[@squatch545]

I want to marry Alice.

[@jimmyviaductophilelawley5587]

first!

[@blkrs123]

Mrrrp Mrrp Alice Roberts 😼😺😸

[@yukonblogger3365]

Impressively she wears a Thor's hammer necklace

[@singapaul1]

In another video, Alice is flaming red on top. She is pinky now. But still cute.

[@TopperPenquin]

H3r Tips

[@TopperPenquin]

U r a Sex Symbol

[@TopperPenquin]

I would say you've been getting plenty of "X-Ray's"

[@TopperPenquin]

ActUlie... There were no People in the Past.

[@TopperPenquin]

F Women that Y i MarryOn a Po!!

[@TopperPenquin]

You can tell Nothing

[@songsfromtheheart-timdowli3785]

Alice talks romantically about how the domestication of horses has changed human civilisation. She does so referencing horses and warfare, still romantically. We have been brainwashed into thinking that horses are so wonderfully linked with human civilisation. The truth is, in domesticating the horse, we have inflicted countless abuse. I want you to image a human riding a horse and then say this is the most natural thing in the world. Just because we humans have ridden horses for possibly 5,000 years, does that make it right?

[@MrSteamDragon]

Have you owned and ridden a horse ?

[@MrDaiseymay]

GET HELP

[@Maisiewuppp]

Not her again….

[@6xxxMickeyxxx6]

She is what women should be