Did Civilisation Begin At Karahan Tepe? - Humanity before Göbekli Tepe // Prehistory Documentary

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Chapters-
11:30 - I - In The Beginning
28:36 - II - Dancing At The Dawn
59:23 - III - The Older Brothers of Adam
1:28:15 - IV - Of Sorcerers & Stone Circles
Research -
- Books -
René Girard, Violence & The Sacred (1972)
Klaus Schmidt, Gobekli Tepe (2012)
Steven Mithen , After The Ice (2003)
V. Gordon Childe - Man Makes Himself (1939)
Robin Dunbar, Human Evolution (2014)
Robin Dunbar, How Religion Evolved (2022)
David Wengrow & David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything (2021)
Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas (1988)
Mircea Eliade, Shamanism (1951)
Jaques Cauvin, The Birth Of The Gods & The Dawn of Agriculture (1994)
Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (1973)
Claude Levi Strauss, The Savage Mind (1966)
Dancing at the Dawn, Yosef Garfinkel (2003)
Brian Hayden, The Power of Feasts: From Prehistory To The Present (2014)
Dacher Keltner, Awe - The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder (2023)
- Academic Journals -
The Archaeology of Ritual, Edward Swenson (2015)
Becoming Farmers: The Inside Story, Anna Belfer-Cohen (2011)
The Earliest Dancing Scenes In The Near East - Yosef Garfinkel (2003)
On Scorpions, Birds & Snakes - Benz & Bauer (2015)
Farewell to the ‘Childhood of Man’ - Wengrow & Graeber (2015)
So Fair A House, Göbekli Tepe - E. B. Banning (2011)
Göbekli Tepe Preliminary Report, Klaus Schmidt (2000)
Gods & Monsters - David Wengrow (2011)
Jaques Cauvin: The right man for the reason - Anna Belfer Cohen (2011)
The Legacy of Jaques Cauvin, Melinda Zeder (2011)
Klaus Schmidt, Hans Georg K Gebel (2014)
The Natufians In The Levant, Anna Belfer-Cohen (1991)
To be not to be, Olivier Aurenche (2013)
The Neolithic Transformation, Willie Thompson
The Origins of Agriculture, Price & Bar-Yousef (2011)
Rational Choice In The Neolithic?, Kim Sterelny (2015)
The Origins of Agriculture In The Near East, Melinda Zeder (2011)
On The Nature of Transitions and Revolutions in Prehistory, Ofer Bar-Yosef (2005)
The World’s First Temple, Sandra Scham (2008)
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[@Andy_Babb]

Thank you for not resorting to AI narration. Your documentaries are basically the gold standard on KZbin.

[@Iwishiwala]

​@Andy_Babb

[@dreddykrugernew]

Lets put it into perspective. The believed duration of the settlements was 1400 years, at Karahan Tepe they have discovered so far with only 5% of the site being excavated 10,000 grinding bowls for grinding grains. Thats 7 stone grinding bowls being created everyday for 1400 years, isnt this way over the top for any settlement. The effort it takes to make a grinding bowl, how long a grinding bowl lasts until its no longer any use, why would they need so many grinding bowls if they where only harvesting wild grains that are much smaller. After watching Graham Hancock on JRE and his lack of evidence it got me thinking about the explanation of the bowls and if there is an anomaly that isnt yet explained its why would they need all those bowls when they arent supposedly needed for at least another 2000 to 3000 years in the future of the area.

[@Andy_Babb]

@@dreddykrugernew You know a grinding bowl could be used for paints and pigments as well, right?

[@dreddykrugernew]

@@Andy_Babb they would be detected like they are on objects that have been buried, when we are looking at the statues from Karahan Tepe what we are not seeing is them painted in all their glory. The bowls are for grinding grains and some for pigments maybe but again you wouldnt need on average 7 a day being made if one will last a substantial amount of time.

[@sobieski478]

Beer in the fridge. A Karahan tepe special at 18.30. Perfect Friday night. Yes, I am old.

[@laetitialogan2017]

😂😂😂😂

[@brackpin]

I'll see your beer and raise you a Manhattan on ice.

[@dianekelly3452]

BlackBerry brandy drizzled over vanilla ice cream will suit me just fine.

[@rynolascavio3381]

Right there with you with some Weihenstephaner.

[@mgradiant]

Cheers, dude.

[@AllenProxmire]

it's safe to say a culture began way before any of it's construction projects. there was a sophistication already present.

[@heathnunley502]

Archeology will cancel you

[@Quakez0r]

There must have been a wooden age before the stone age, no? It's probably just all lost. I'm sure people did amazing stuff out of wood before they made tools that could shape stone so well.

[@Salina1776]

I think you're confusing culture and civilization.. you might want to look up the definition for both

[@bluupadoop]

Gotta agree with the other comment here, civilisation is definitely more rigidly defined than culture. Any group of humans living with one another is going to create a culture of some sort, it's just a natural way of relating to other beings you live around.

[@MrHalcyon89]

What did they shape the wood with...​@@Quakez0r

[@qui-gonjay2944]

The Gobekli and Karahan stuff makes me feel confident that we will keep finding older sites like this. Maybe just off the coasts or just deeply buried like these were.

[@mrbaab5932]

Why do you say that when the Tepes prove the oldest cultures were inland?

[@qui-gonjay2944]

@@mrbaab5932 not necessarily saying in that region. Just submerged coasts worldwide

[@aarong9128]

Yamaguchi monument is underwater and was last above water over 10k years ago. It has not been excavated yet. ​@@mrbaab5932

[@DiMacky24]

​@@mrbaab5932They are found inland because dryer climates are more common inland and preserve stone construction. Also people are more likely to build with stone when there are fewer trees. Wet climates destroy artifacts rapidly, but like today, wet climates would of had larger populations. Thus we are only seeing that which was preserved and not the vastness that actually existed.

[@jennodine]

I find them all over Google Earth. I save all my screenshots. I should make video of them all. Only one had evidence of looting.

[@jaymehatfield9540]

Yours is the only channel that films professionally to give us TIME TO SEE each item or landscape. Thankyou for your literate narration and excellent film-making

[@user-em2pe3rf4h]

When I see something like Karahan and Gobekli Tepe it occurs to me that these were not their 1st attempts so to speak. It looks to me that whoever built them already had the design and methods needed perfected... which would mean that there are even older sites yet to be found.

[@Dusty_Den]

Maybe even right below these more successful attempts

[@user-em2pe3rf4h]

@@Dusty_Den I can't help but wonder who would find who stranger. Those people if they somehow encountered modern people,or vice versa? It's interesting (for me anyway) to wonder about. With no real knowledge of them and no way of knowing if they wondered about far in the future humans, we'll never know. Forget any aliens, I'd rather encounter those humans lost in the mist of time.

[@toddkloos3965]

Look up Boncuklu Tarla, Mureybet, and Tell Qaramel for some sites in the region that are slightly older than Karahan Tepe and Gobekli Tepe. If you want something that is a lot older, you can look up Ohalo 2 for a settlement that is twice as old as Gobekli Tepe. The problem is that if you get much older than Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe they were using wood as the main building material rather than stone. Unless there were some exceptional circumstances (like what happened at Ohalo 2), wood isn't going to stay preserved for 12,000+ years and has long since rotted away.

[@user-em2pe3rf4h]

@@toddkloos3965 Thank you for the recommendation(s). I'm always looking to learn about places that are little known,at least little known to myself. 95% of KZbin is truly a cesspool, but the remaining 5% consists of things worth the time. Whether about ancient times or deep space, I'm all in. Enough of my blathering, thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.

[@ClassicusHomo]

There will always be places found older than those already known. In history, there is always something older than what is consideret the oldest.

[@sergiomorales4789]

This is as incredible as the Gobekle Tepe doc! Every time I learn something new about the history of our civilization, I feel closer to humanity. Your narration gives life to a long lifeless people in our ancient past. It’s like meeting the ancestors of our ancestors. If only we all as the flame bearers of the past could put our differences aside for but a moment, we might hear what our history is trying to tell us. We wouldn’t keep each other from learning the truth of our beginnings. It is adventurers and investigators such as yourself that will keep our link to the past strong and available to all mankind. Your efforts and your incredibly hard work do not go unappreciated or unnoticed!

[@JennTN411]

Great comment! Had to screenshot 😊😊

[@ellen4956]

Pete, you make the most thoughtful and inspiring videos. I've been subscribed for a long time but this one gets a patreon subscription for as long as I can. Keep us thinking; keep moving us to look at these things from different perspectives and compare them, not only to others of that time but to our own times. Thank you for your hard work and dedication; it is very important work and very much appreciated.

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks very much. I appreciate the comment

[@phillipstroll7385]

Funny how none of these supposed "experts" ever think of the obvious. It's a if they never read a book that wasn't funded by a university or been part of a community outside of elitism. Half man half beast, scary a joke. More likely hunters dressing like that which they want to get closer to so they can kill it. Or wearing a leopard skin while gathering berries so a leopard wouldn't attack its own. Just like hikers today wear hats with cat eyes on the back so big cats won't attack from behind. It could also represent the leaders of certain things. A man being seen as being a strong as a bear. Another as fast as a leopard. Another jumpy like a heron. I still go with men dressing to imitate the heron to attack animals for hunting.

[@m00nmanners]

check out fall of civilizations!

[@ellen4956]

@@m00nmanners Oh, I love that channel too! I have watched some episodes over and over. My favorite one is The Sumerians.

[@markb2169]

@@ellen4956 So refreshing having these well thought out long form episodes rather than the same old 12 minutes episodes that touches on what most archeologically inclined people already know.

[@evodevo420]

Our ancestors are inspiring. I hope one day we can also explore our imagination and embrace nature instead of looking at spreadsheets all day

[@rts0fft0ya16]

Nope. We will build giant megalithic spreadsheets so our descendants will know the score.

[@davidnewland2461]

If you are looking at spread sheets all day that's a choice you make daily. You must have other talents, just look for them.

[@bunjijumper5345]

Thats up to you, as long as you eat meat, you cant embrace nature.

[@LudwigVaanArthans]

​@@davidnewland2461this. You only see spreadsheets because that's what you choose to see

[@GameCrafters11]

Hi. I'm from Mexico and have been really interested on these recently investigated places. Last year my favorite museum in the country, the National Museum of the World Cultures opened a permanent exposition about Turkiye and includes réplicas of Gobekli Tepe and other sites. I was very excited when I heard the news

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You put an unbelievable amount of effort into your videos. They are created at an extremely high level.

[@HistoryTime]

Glad you like them. Thanks very much. Plenty more on the way!

[@infinitumneo840]

It would be amazing to be a fly on the wall during the shamanic journeys of these ancient people. These discoveries are mind expanding in many ways.

[@HistoryTime]

Absolutely !

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Me too brother, me too.

[@ethandoingstuff1433]

I’m reminded of Indigenous Australians who integrate their totem creature with their identity, ritual, law, and culture. While Indigenous people have varying and fluid ways of identifying themselves into several groups at once, it is very common for different groups to be identified by different species in the environment.

[@janegarnham]

Thank you and as An Australian we have a 50 thousand year old civilisation .All mankind is great and all civilisations worthy of study but why do we keep looking to Europe for ‘the oldest’ when we know the two oldest are in Africa and Australia? I’m not a fan by the way on the hunt for “ the oldest “ implying oldest gives some superiority value. But just wonder why we do not recognise one that is oldest and continuous

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[@SimonWilson-ex1mw]

This spanned three thousand years. It is like expecting continuity from the bronze age to the present. Succeeding cultures would have had only the ruins of previous cultures to build on with possibly only a vague inherited tradition from the past.

[@slappy8941]

It's possible that they had an unbroken line of knowledge passed from one generation of priests to the next.

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Your background music choices have always been great, but I think this time you nailed it beautifully! The music around the Stonehenge introduction was just perfect

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I wish he’d do versions without the background music just for this purpose…though this one is kind of relaxing.

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Happy 420 ladies and gentlemen. Enjoy the day! What a fabulous time for Pete to drop another masterpiece.

[@mel2d2]

Love, and look forward to your work, every time. I especially love how you do list all of your references in the info section, show the books/historians you are referencing, and give multiple points of view.

[@HistoryTime]

Glad you like it! Much more to come

[@ChefClary60]

For a long time we were told that Gobekli was an anomaly. Now it’s obvious this was a HUGE civilization/culture.

[@522sunpaz]

Well done. We visited Karahan Tepe & Göbekli 2 yrs ago and will be returning in June to see a few of the surrounding sites, Harbetsuvan Tepesi, Kurt Tepe, Sefer Tepe, Tashitepe, and further East to Boncuklu Tarla. Any other sites you would recommend? Looking forward to more of your videos

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I’m jealous! That will be amazing :) you could add Cayonu to the list

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@@HistoryTime Thank you, added

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Hancock vs flint and now this 😍 best weekend ever.

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Hancock is a lunatic.

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Flintdibbler

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@@Shutupandsquatnow cool story.

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Fuck Handcock and Joe Rogan - they are both one of the reasons why our society has so much misinformation on our history - and of course that stupid show Ancient Civilizations (Lost Technology bullshit).

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@@gregpenismith1248 cool penis.

[@beepboop204]

parents or teachers seeing the drawing of phalluses: GROW UP archeologists seeing the drawing of phalluses: MUST BE RELATED TO RITUAL

[@seanarthurjoyce7366]

Some truly fine writing here. Bringing in the shamanic theme really makes Karahan Tepe come alive. "A temple of memory." Great.

[@corycampbell189]

It’s wild to think it’s humanly possibly to invest so much time in construction living a hunter gatherer lifestyle.

[@GO-jv9bb]

One could spend 3 lifetimes exploring and excavating and still never really know what took place on and in these amazing places. I would give almost anything to be able to poke around for a bit. Great video! I enjoy all of them and appreciate all your hard work in bringing them to us.

[@Pincer88]

Mystery laden images, voicing and music. What a day to be alive!

[@amberugur6476]

I lived in Istanbul. Turkey is a beautiful vast and culturally rich Country. Beautiful People, beautiful Country. I wish I could visit one more time in My life. I would love to see all of these places.

[@garyfrancis6193]

You couldn’t pay me to go back to Turkey. I have been there six times.

[@gosugosu1280]

Just a shame that 1,000 years ago the inhibators of then Anatolia were brutally killed in the name of Islam.

[@amberugur6476]

@garyfrancis6193 I love Turkey, it has some of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. I'm not sure how Anyone can not like Turkey.

[@andiiam8145]

YAAAYYYYEEESSSS!!!!! An hour and 45 minutes on KARAHAN Tepe!!!! Thank You, Good Sir. ❤️

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i love ancient history it such a fascinating ear, so i love channels like this, you guys also go super in depth about it as well

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What you have created here, this video, is the greatest thing to come out of the internet and you tube era. If I were 10 years old today and had access to works of creative brilliance like this... I was 15 minutes into this video when I realized it was going to go on for almost two HOURS!!! just incredible. I feel like if this were a high budget BBC or PBS production, you would not have gotten to see the road approaching the site, and gotten that sense of personal connection with the discussion of the people who recently lived nearby. And so much meaning comes from seeing these things and knowing more completely about such an amazing place. Anyhow - I say thank you so much for bringing this to us - and again, this piece of creative work is truly the greatest example of what we have done as a culture with the technology of the internet.

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Keep up the quality and duration. We are watching everything you produce.

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[@joshpratt0310]

Easily my favourite content creator across all platforms! Thanks again as ALWAYS Pete for another fantastic fascinating video! Your hard work towards history is so inspiring 😮

[@rosamwen2267]

Hi Pete thanks for yet again another brilliant documentary. Can't express my gratitude for your work enough I really enjoy watching your documentaries over and over 😊

[@b.r2715]

Great video Pete! I never understood why when I worked construction, people would draw phallis's in the port a potties on the job site, I guess people have been fascinated by them for thousands of years!

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

But were they bow hunting elk with massive erections on both sides, lol those guys were tripping!

[@TimeTrekTaless]

The discoveries at Gobekli and Karahan inspire hope that we'll uncover more ancient sites in the future.

[@EdrickBluebeard]

This is, hands down, one of the most beautiful presentations I've seen in a minute. Thank you.

[@ldroland]

Incredible production. Thank you for this

[@calhowell6798]

Nothing can pull me out a slump like a fantastic video from the goat. THANK YOU PETE

[@Birdog88]

I am always amazed by the amount of work you put into these videos. This is the best history content available today. Thank you

[@NoHairMan]

Yours is one of 3 channels on which I've activated the "bell notification". I don't want to miss any of your uploads. Thank you so much!

[@dd-ly4lx]

Absolutely astonishing! Such a great video, the best i have ever seen on the subject. Where did you get these remarkable videos and pictures? Keep up the great work!😉

[@australien6611]

The best documentary, by far, on this topic. Extremely well written with some remarkable new ideas and fantastic footage of the whole region. 👍

[@anxofernandez3344]

Karahan Tepe, Gobekli.Tepe, Çatal Huyuk and other similar edifications in the southeast of modern day Turkey and northwest of modern day Syria seem to Indicate that some form of Civilisation and complex society predates the development of agriculture. It's still very interesting that these places are still relatively near the earliest remains of agricultural societies and of Copper and Bronze Age civilisations like Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Levant as a whole. Something must've happened there at that time for such a quick socal and technical development. Probably very favorable climatic and geographical conditions but still, something else must've happened, I don't know what, that made people think differently.

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Such a fan for all your vids! But bruh I absolutely love the long ones more than any other channel

[@timetravel9820]

Very well done documentary, you won't get this level of quality from a cable corporate history channel that's for sure. Thank you dude!

[@Dusty_Den]

Always excited for a new video. Thanks Pete 😊

[@DragonflyB-tn7pq]

I feel like many think “hunter, gatherers” means nomadic. It doesn’t. Hunter, gather means just that. They hunt and gather. You can settle without farming animals and plants. There are still groups that live in settlements but hunt and gather for their meal 20:21

[@Rocksider2525]

Damn this is good. About 10 minutes in and Im amazed. Been watching alot about Gobekli and Ive been wanting to get to this. Excellent vidoe with so much to think and study on. AWESOME

[@HistoryTime]

Glad you like it. More on the way!

[@patrickotis3884]

Thank you for this!

[@DarkFire515]

Another exceptionally good documentary, thanks so much for taking the time to write & record this for us all to watch. Outstanding historiography.

[@brianmsahin]

Fantastic video, with so much indepth analysis. Living in Istanbul for a number of years, we managed to visit Göbekli Tepe a couple of years ago, also visiting the fantastic Șanliurfa and Gaziantep museums, plus the famous beehive houses at Harran, near the Syrian border. It was a fantastic experience and now Karahan Tepe is next on the list.

[@allisonrich5061]

Thank you again, Pete.

[@joshuaroe3021]

Thank you for this

[@BelmanCinematography]

You're hands down the best history (in this case pre-history) documentarian I've come across. Your presentations are top-notch, polished, and thorough.

[@Chaotic.neutral406]

Another fantastic release, Mr. Kelly. Thank you for your hard work, keep em coming 💪🏻

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Thank you. Great presentation. New subscriber .

[@johnnyleon9218]

You are a great storyteller and documentarian. Thanks!

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@HistoryTime Jeez the dedication you have, what an in-depth and engaging commentary of our misunderstood and mostly undiscovered past. Truly inspiring ❤️🔥

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Wow, I really admire your dedication to this fascinating subject. Thank you for the excellent work!

[@claudiabarber4779]

Absolutely fantastic content and narration

[@jakemoeller7850]

Fascinating! I have always been interested in archeology.

[@acidkween]

Congratulations on the content you are putting out. Excellent work

[@22patch22]

I was at the museum in Sanliurfa last week ,I'm in midyat this week ,love that you brought this out when I'm on holiday.

[@hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156]

I'd like to suggest: To keep going with the ""Hajj to Mecca" concept, Mecca was also a very important trade center. It seems to me like those meeting places, the Taş Tepeler, may have been dedicated to trade as well.

[@elizabethford7263]

Watching this while substitute teaching High School Art. My day absolutely cannot get any cooler!

[@GeorgeStar]

Mind boggling to think 15k years ago people with virtually no tools could build such massive expansive structures.

[@jumpingsloth3963]

Seeing those stone carvings really make me want to look into stone masonry. And the leopard/face stone carving looks like its depicting an animal pouncing on the humans back

[@bigsarge2085]

Fascinating!

[@garyhome7101]

Of all that is known, "perhaps" is the only answer to be offered.

[@mwset8680]

"You are what you eat" is a simple concept still passed down generation to generation today. I see animal pit traps(depicted at the top of the most popular Tshaped pillar at Gobekli) later becoming hunting lodges where hunting skills are passed down generation to generation. Male animals passing their vigor into the consumer/hunters may be the explanation for the universality of phallic artwork. Great channel Pete.

[@theastrogoth8624]

Next thing we will find is that civilization probably began in prehistoric times. Meaning that it might as well started off tens of thousands of years earlier than the oldest we have found, but will not ever find out since historical records get lost over time.

[@kabivose]

I think it's well established that living in cities was established long before the invention of writing. Writing started about 3,100 BC so that's as far back as history can go, whereas Argos and Plovdiv are about 2-3000 years older. They both count as cities (depending on your definition) so they were part of a civilisation.

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Great video.

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Thanks❤🎉👍

[@biggbeefer]

What an incredible video. So damn fascinating, thank you for bringing it to light!

[@dt5735]

Finally! Finally! You are the first to reveal to the mainstream amateurs like me who follow the “tepe” archaeology on YT that sacrifice has been found present at multiple sites. I’ve been waiting for that discovery to be revealed. Great courage to introduce that into the discussion!

[@Mikhail-lh4el]

Why does that excite you so much?. There is actually very little evidence to prove human sacrifice was taking place.

[@iotme1964]

Thanks!

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Watching without premium (and it has no ads ) BOT

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Wonderful content! Thanks for all of your hard work!!

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I'm 5 mins in and already this is my favourite film about this area...thank you!

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"trois" being pronounced as "troy" has a certain nails-on-chalkboard quality to it.

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For Americans: try 'trwah'... meaning: 'three'.

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Sorry about my butchering of French words. As a Brit it is physiologically impossible to reproduce the language of France

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I wouldn’t worry about it - the French disapprove of 90% of how other French pronounce French! If you’re from Quebec or Haiti or the ‘provinces’ you know what I mean!!!

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This is really fascinating, thanks for making great videos

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I love this channel and commend the excellent research done and the way the narrative is expressed. Keeps someone like myself who has a tough time staying focused, engaged from start to finish.

[@babybluesky9238]

I think we lack the necessary context to understand the ambitions of whoever made this place.

[@christopherbosley6093]

Quite the documentary. Master Kelly, you've surpassed yourself. We may now be able to acclaim how civilizations began.

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Well done. This takes SO much work. 👏👏👏

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Im so sack deep into Pete Kelly right now! The guy does a great job

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Sack deep?

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Sack deep?

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THERE WILL ALWAYS BE ANOTHER CIVILISATION OLDER !!!

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My good sir, my humblest of thanks for these most superbly well made videos. A subject of such importance and profoundness that its value is immeasurable. Thank you! 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

[@enamulhaquefahim4924]

I'm Medieval lover but considering how Kelly represents Prehistory I might rediscover my long lost interest in early human history ❤

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Cool video. Thanks for putting it together.

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thanks for watching !

[@jonakason4451]

It seems logical from the evidence that permanent habitat was the prerequisite for agriculture. Not the other way around as often assumed

[@davids4313]

Although it wouldn't surprise me if hunter gatherers planted for new fruit trees before moving on. Whether this counts as agriculture I don't know.

[@mrbaab5932]

Realize that before permanent agriculture there was part time agriculture, from 23,000 to 10,000 years ago. They planted left over seeds from their winter storage. Thwy did hunting gathering in the summer and then harvested planted and wild plants in the fall. Finally going back to hunting gathering and stored seed along with grain eating in the winter.

[@tyleranderson3776]

you can't just turn a switch to go from mobile hunter gatherers to agriculturalists. Pre-Agricultural sedentary cultures relied on what was available. Domestication was gradual so it only be somewhat of a mix of both.

[@averteddisasterbarely2339]

When the subscription has a little red light and it turns out to be a new video from history time ? ...... it's gonna be a good day !

[@Ozzymandius1]

Maybe and, hear me out, “civilization” started in different places at different points in time.

[@IzichiUchiha]

True

[@bluupadoop]

I don't think that point is in dispute here, it's more a question of when it first arose.

[@cherylkonopasek9582]

There are no indigenous people. We all came from other places.

[@pattopo8704]

A hard edge beginning of civ seems like a wrong headed idea. There was complexity in society and culture before sedentism.

[@Erik-ct6ug]

​@cherylkonopasuek9582 yeah Africa

[@ncd3165]

I suspect this was an ancient "high place" found mentioned in the old testament.

[@ems4884]

Do you realize how many centuries are between these sites and the writing of the Old Testament texts?

[@ncd3165]

@@ems4884 I do