The prehistoric origins of the Silk Road - BBC REEL

In an expedition through the Central Asian steppe, a group of Kazakh and European archaeologists search for clues left by early Humans and Neanderthals - they are investigating the prehistoric origins of the legendary Silk Road.
Far before its emergence in the 2nd Century BC, and well before the silk trade, this expansive network of routes had already been 50,000 years in the making. Traversing over 2,500 km from the Uzbek to the Russian border, scientists search for traces that may hold the missing key to how extreme climatic events spurred prehistoric mass migrations, bringing an unprecedented encounter between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.
These discoveries will help explain how climate change and geography fueled key genetic exchanges in human evolution, helped shape the structure of modern Asian populations, and later enabled the explosion of culture and trade along these routes. Their findings show how humans coped with inhospitable environments and cemented the nomadic cultures still present in modern-day Kazakhstan.
A short doc by Alba Jaramillo
Produced by Anna Bressanin
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[@mtn1793]

This can definitely be a feature length film! Including the DNA trail, the artifact history and what it’s become. It’s the cradle of all the great migrations!

[@fortuitousthings8606]

Just when id nearly given up on the BBCs capacity for reality they produce something informative and wonderful.

[@zo7034]

Another BBC Reel Banger, lets go

[@karphin1]

Fascinating stuff, so appreciate seeing this!

[@brixcosmo6849]

Great! Best Regards from Portugal!

[@sayaalipova8381]

Fantastic job 👍🏻

[@sarahferguson0]

I have a love hate relationship with your channel. While i enjoy your content i often have a hard time reading the subtitles when you interview people who speak a foreign language. It would be helpful to have a voice over, vs just subtitles, for us senior citizens who have a hard time getting our old eyes to read the tiny subtitles 🙂. Just a thought.

[@Mikeztarp]

BBC, these fragmented... bits of narration on screen... are very frustrating... to read, so you... should add voiceover.

[@classiclife7204]

Looking forward to all the intelligent, enlightened remarks from the KZbin commentators

[@jenhofmann]

These videos are interesting, but infuriating to the visually impaired. When half the text on the screen isn't narrated, we miss out! Please narrate your videos and show respect for the blind and visually impaired.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

No one at the BBC is blind. However, there are many other minorities........

[@DFranco23]

How are you typing?

[@hanzocloud]

@@DFranco23 it’s not her that is visually impaired, maybe she knows someone in her family that is and is giving that feedback

[@neyou6940]

@@DFranco23 Voice command

[@DarkPesco]

@@DFranco23 I don't have to look at my hands to type. I don't have to look at the screen, either. You ask that ridiculous question like the only computers and configurations available are for people who can see and hear and likely even have hands. But this is not true. Someone who can't see have programs which speak the words they are typing. Likewise a quadriplegic can type with their eyes.

[@fortuitousthings8606]

Excelent

[@KootFloris]

Also search in river valleys, where people would camp, rest and get robbed, leaving stuff behind and or nearby caves where they could live and or bury family.

[@winterlighthome]

This is wonderful advancement in learning and exploration to watch a report on after reading Alice Roberts's 2009 book The Incredible Human Journey.

[@jhake67]

denisovans eventually ended up in the island of luzon in the philippines

[@SarahAndrews24]

NHK documentary series on the silk road is phenominal.!

[@warrenwills3251]

Put your text under subtitles so we can TURN IT OFF

[@FreelanceBibliography]

Price tags in baking Betty Crocker is best

[@amrtadas5539]

its absurd how british propraganda channel excludes India of the silk road trade maps, as if it had no importance on it. uttara patha connected Bengal with Peshwar and all way to Bactria since Indus Valley civilization era where commerce was already spread from India to Oman and Central Asia

[@fintonmainz7845]

Wobble heads more concerned about supposed "BBC propaganda" than dealing with real problems like open defecation.

[@amrtadas5539]

@@fintonmainz7845 basically a racist argument... does it make u feel superior as european for having caused so many social issues around the world with COLONIALISM that now u can disqualify ancient heritage of them using some randon arguments... well im not even indian. i dont need be indian to accept truth they civilized world way more with drainage system, mathematics and wisdom than Europe could with colonialism loot and monopoly over culture and religion

[@fintonmainz7845]

@@amrtadas5539 wobble head

[@amrtadas5539]

@@fintonmainz7845 yea i know u a low life racist

[@stephenlitten1789]

They were talking about the Silk Road to China. While the southern excursion to Bengal may have added a commercial impetus, it wasn't where most of the silk traded came from. And the northern route was also an important migration route for accessing east Asia

[@DemonetisedZone]

How I wish I had a time machine, I would go back in time and meet Denisovans, Neanderthals and those hobbit like humans and maybe say hello to a cave bear, marsupial lion, giant wombat, gigantapithecus and perhaps make the acquaintance of a giant ground sloth Obviously my expedition would therefore be global in scale Anyone else want to come?🙂

[@jezoleum6948]

The Silk Road began with Borat😂

[@FreelanceBibliography]

No sugar and butter and bread is best

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Baking and ballot

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Head of household Varies year to year Always make Missing

[@BruceLeelives]

She said Kazakhstan was a doorway to the America's What the hell is she talking about how did that not get edited out of the final cutt

[@FreelanceBibliography]

What is baking Banana

[@cavemancaveman5190]

Marco Polo was a recent traveler and an interesting item he noted has huge implications. May I share? The entire length of the silk road had road houses every ten gets this ten miles. Stocked and open for business 24 7. Not very hard to believe in my humble opinion

[@joshuaolayvar4492]

if i can go back to time i want to see and use the silkroad from china to europe

[@rada4me]

Hilarious video. A bunch of archeology students telling us the bleeding obvious about archeology. Almost nothing on the silk road. Please watch this if you have 7 mins of your life to waste.

[@daytonjobgen8639]

This is probably intended for people who know nothing about archeology or for young kids.

[@cavemancaveman5190]

Check my comments

[@FreelanceBibliography]

Easy

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Contact municipal county Juvenile or under 21 age

[@andrewroberts7428]

so much hate!! where's the love??

[@FreelanceBibliography]

Religion and science lab too

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Via email labs

[@josephcornejo2288]

Umm

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Banana wafting No video

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Lab 1 baking directions Out your pig lab

[@paulcritz6217]

The mix of actuality with text is really problematic media. Pick a lane, BBC...

[@christianwestling2019]

Using the word "problematic" disqualifies your criticism.

[@andrewgillespie8537]

@@christianwestling2019 Too many syllables for ya? Paul, I agree 100%.

[@patrickfitzgerald2861]

Not much of note here BBC. 🤔

[@relwalretep]

TBF, more interesting than your public playlists.

[@patrickfitzgerald2861]

@@relwalretep Them don't watch them troll.

[@patreekotime4578]

I guess you have a different idea of what is "of note". It sounds like interesting and important research to me. Especially considering that these specific migrations are something that is known more from inference from DNA results than from actual artifacts. So getting concrete evidence will help illuminate this chapter of human history. Seems pretty noteworthy to me.

[@patrickfitzgerald2861]

@@patreekotime4578 You seem to have missed the fact that I did not address my comment to you. I expect more from the BBC than this, since there is no evidence presented in the video that comes close to proving ". . . prehistoric origins of the Silk Road." They can and should do better than this, and I do not care whether you agree or not.

[@patreekotime4578]

@@patrickfitzgerald2861 Ohhh, I see, you are just one of those trolls reacting to a vague and poorly constructed title instead of the content. But I didnt get that because your comment was so vague and poorly constructed. Maybe you should apply to the BBC.

[@NGC-7635]

How did people move through this area? Well..they probably just called an Uber if I had to guess.

[@KenSoHappyClegg]

Haha starting 130 bc?? That was enough of this misleading video for me. Lasted maybe 4 seconds lol. The true prehistory of the trade routes between Europe and Asia known as the silk road shows the routes were well established by 130,000 bc and had been developed by earlier hominid species prior to that. Keep digging lol

[@BatMan-oe2gh]

Where did you get that information from. It does not sound right at all. Plus,

[@TD-np6ze]

When are we going to finally admit that Human Civilizations started many, many thousands of years ago? That early humans explored, populated and survived in nearly every part of the earth? That there have also been multitudes of DARK AGES, whereby for either Human Maleficence, or Natural Disasters (many occurring over hundreds of years, such as changes in Climates or Rain Patterns) WHY are so many people still perpetrating that Humanity ONLY started Civilization 5000yrs ago in the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia?? How can we go forward when we're still stuck in Biblical Nonsensical stories of past?

[@KenSoHappyClegg]

@@TD-np6ze each one teach one

[@BornAgainCynic0086]

Where is your peer reviewed source for that Ken?

[@KenSoHappyClegg]

@@BornAgainCynic0086 serious? It's just my own trajectory of the past five years of new but established archeological and ancient genetic evidence from around the world already establishing precedents of multiple species in multiple locations outside of Africa further and further back in time. If you just look at where we have come from in the form of established evidence and traject it into future discoveries of more and more similar evidence from similar populations, placements, movements and interactions being found wherever we look, soon it's not hard to realize there's a much larger and older story of several older human species that spread out everywhere, doing all the same things we do in all those same places now. "now" as in the past 50,000 years

[@goodtimescanada7022]

Today's DAD JOKE: Two silk worms had a race.....they ended up in a tie! Our every deed is recorded in our blood creating a spiritual record of our good and evil deeds (1John5:8 KJV). Jesus Christ is, GOD the Son, manifested in the flesh (1Tim3:16 King James Version) as the perfect man living without sin and obedient to GOD, the Father. 2,000 years ago, Christ shed His blood to TRANSFER His list of good deeds onto our record through our shared red blood (Col1:14; Col1:20; Rom5:9; Heb10:19; Rom3:25 “Whom GOD hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood.."; Rev1:5; Isai64:6).

[@goodtimescanada7022]

Then He died and was buried to pay the penalty for our list of bad deeds on our record (cutting away our list of sins) (1John2; Rom5:12; Rom6:23; Col2:11-15). Then GOD raised Jesus back to Life into a new body after reading Christ’s record and giving of HIS approval. Jesus’s Resurrection is PROOF that the record of His good deeds will work for you as well (John11:25,26). When you die un-Saved, your soul with your record is summoned by satan to the heavenly court to meet GOD, the Father where satan reads your old record and accuses you of sinning and condemns your soul to hell (Rev12:10). Do you want your NEW record -- that Jesus Christ transferred to you and fixed for you 2,000 years ago -- to be read out in heavenly court? YES or no. (Eph2 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God..”). You have Free Will Choice and GOD requires an answer. It is best if you reply “YES!” out loud to GOD (Rom10:9-10) (1Cor15:1-4). GOD is listening to you and HE will write your name into HIS book of Life.

[@davidp7178]

@@goodtimescanada7022 Yeah, maybe, but does any of that make any sense? Wouldn't an almighty and all-knowing supreme being make a little more sense than this and all the other tales told as the truth?

[@kellyross4801]

Which has what, exactly, with the pre-history of the Silk Road, and modern archaeology? Pax.🙏