Time Team's Carenza Lewis on the Black Death (in your garden) | DigNation '18

🌟 DigNation 20 tickets are now on sale: digventures.com/projects/dign... In the 14th century, millions of people were killed by the Black Death, and it filled the world with terror. What trace does such an epidemic leave in the archaeological record? In this talk, Carenza Lewis shares some surprising new discoveries about the Black Death, and its impact on the people of Britain.
Slides available here: www.slideshare.net/DigNation/...
This talk was given at DigNation, a crowdfunded festival organised by DigVentures and Sir Tony Robinson in honour of beloved Time Team archaeologist Mick Aston. Learn more at digventures.com/
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[@MelissaThompson432]

Just in general, I don't think Mick had any kind of idea how much impact he had on society worldwide; not just in changing perception of archaeology, and methodology of archaeology, of which I'm still learning of the reach of the changes he generated. Just with Time Team and its enduring popularity, which is still widening as episodes become more widely available, he and the team have created worldwide community, which is no little thing. Legacy, indeed.

[@Pauldjreadman]

I think you can say that about any show. I agree with you though. Time Team took on a life on its own. Dig Ventures are proof of this

[@xenu-dark-tony]

Mick was an absolute legend. He was one of the first people to re-define archaeology, liberating it from what people perceived as the province of posh professors and millionaire eccentrics, to one of ordinary working class people with regional accents and appealing personalities. His students must have absolutely adored the gift of his superb guidance. Imagine climbing into a university minibus with him and heading off to a dig somewhere, brimming with anticipation and joy. It would have been a dream come true for me. I really miss him still, and felt he would always be here as the welcome face of an absolutely enthralling field. Mick Aston was pure class, and is still missed immensely.

[@Pauldjreadman]

She is a fantastic presenter. I keep forgetting how funny she is. This is brilliant

[@philiptraies2410]

Missed you Carenza, always interesting x

[@donnyboon2896]

We love Carenza!

[@stevec5586]

Excellent presentation. Very informative and entertaining and great to see Carenza Lewis in action again. Dignation is a great idea and a worthy tribute to Mick Aston.

[@robertsmith9076]

Had a meeting on one a Time Team site with this lady . She is a real nice person . Mick was the other star .

[@malcolmfaulkner1263]

Absolutely brilliant Carenza.

[@sawillie1680]

Thank you for this, miss the Team very much. 💕🧚‍♂️🌻

[@mikebarrow157]

This is just brilliant, and I'm so glad i've seen it. I'm only an enthusiastic fan of TT. Prof. CL has brought a level of serious archaeological understanding that's utterly in Mick's preferred manner. Completely correct mix of serious detail and scurrilous humour.

[@skivvy3565]

Great work as always, carenza

[@MrBazzabee]

Brilliant stuff Carenza...really loved it.

[@kirkmorrison6131]

Great project and presentation. The stripes resembling Nick's sweater is a nice tribute to him. I might give it a try on an area or two on my farm which goes back to the 7 Years War here in South Carolina

[@tanakability]

Fascinating! Thanks for hosting Dignation and for uploading!

[@mermeridian2041]

Love listening to Carenza speak - very smart and talented lady who wears and presents her knowledge well.

[@clairekos9197]

Great presentation, I loved it. I love your sense of humour 😉😊

[@peanut71968]

Great presentation! Thanks!

[@tphvictims5101]

I loved the Series. Such Dedicated individuals. 👍🏻

[@beverlyhollenbeck3406]

Love you, and adore your presentations!!!

[@wudgee]

Excellent, but please show the screen, we miss the info when the camera is just showing the lovely Carenza.

[@nolongerlistless]

wudgee www.slideshare.net/DigNation/7-professor-carenza-lewis-the-black-death

[@crashbox7130]

Wish the camera had been focused on the information on the projector screen rather than Carenza. Most of the 45 mins was lacking in the detail that would have been clear by being able to see what she was pointing to/speaking about on the projector.

[@nolongerlistless]

Crash Box www.slideshare.net/DigNation/7-professor-carenza-lewis-the-black-death

[@Brian-om2hh]

Many thanks Professor Lewis, most enjoyable!

[@mikebarrow157]

Wish I was a student again. 40 years in education is vast these days.

[@ian_b]

Frustratingly, my garden was terraced out of a hillside in the post-war period so any archaeology will have been scraped away. Since I'm very close to a 12th century church, I wonder if there was some.

[@thomasbernecky2078]

Could this be affected by the span of time before vs. after the 14th century? Otherwise this is bleakly obvious even to my unlearned eye? I wonder if this will be reversed in our times of Covid, with people moving back out to more open spaces nearer to farms and food supplies? Thanks, Carenza.

[@diannehardwick950]

The material presented here is interesting and the slides deserve to be read. It would have greatly helped legibility if the two doorway openings to either side of the presenter had a black curtain over them. It is not enough to ask if people in the audience can read the slides and, when only half of them raise their hands, dismiss the issue with a comment,”Good, that means half of you can read”. As a professional educator, I know that the burden is on the presenter to assess the problem and do something about it, not take the Mickey out of those who are not enjoying the session to the full.

[@bryan5549]

This should be interesting

[@robertbasin1518]

That slide may be better with black and white flipped, meaning the finds may be better seen white on a black background

[@5chr4pn3ll]

Loving the content, but please show the darn slides! A close up on the speaker is not better than the info they are trying to convey.

[@Digventures]

There's a link to the slides in the video description if that helps!

[@johnemerson1363]

I got to do a few marine archaeological dives out of Catania, Sicily when I was active duty Navy. I'm jealous of the Europeans because they have thousands of years of history to look at. We in the US have only four hundred years to look at. That's nothing. Love Time Team!

[@johnmoss6631]

John Emerson, four hundred years of what, white, Caucasian history. Native American history goes back a bit more. Perhaps not as exciting as what the Europeans have, but certainly not fair to just brush it off either.

[@RickBoat]

Except for Cahokia which goes back a millennium, or the pueblo cultures, or dateable clovis sites, or... But yeah, its all low density stuff, its not like Britain where a random geophys might well turn up Roman, Saxon, iron age, paleolithics etc... throw a cat and it lands on archeology.

[@RickBoat]

@Rad Derry there are indeed, but unlike England the pre columbian sites in north America are both low density (rare), involve less "construction" ... stone walls, large arrays of post holes, etc..., lack iron and bronze age artifacts since north america was largely non metallic, and lack the constant flood of different cultures that washed over england. Dig a random backyard in a rural english village and you might find lithic,bronze age, iron age, roman, Romano-British, angle, saxon, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Victorian. Dig a backyard in a rural north American backyard and you will probably have no human artifacts at all or if your very lucky you might find a fire trace or a piece of worked flint. Since most NA cultures used basketry rather than pottery, and since in MOST of the country there weren't dense settled villages, you're unlikely to find diagnostic pottery. There are thousands of archeological sites of interest in north america, but there are over six million square miles of land...

[@souloftheteacher9427]

@@RickBoat When you're used to European archaeology, North American archaeology tends to be far more subtle. That subtlety has its own depths. If all we can detect is what we already know; if all we can see is what we already know how to look for; if all we respect is what is already part of our knowledge base...then what's happening here? Ethnocentrism, for sure; and what else? Hundreds of thousands of people lived thousands of years in the Western Hemisphere. Very, very--very!--few North Americans know zip about what went on in their backyard before the European influx. They don't even know its basic geology. It is perhaps not surprising that they don't know what to look for, or what they're seeing if they find it.

[@RickBoat]

@@souloftheteacher9427 i completely agree. It's a problem tho that those subtleties don't present well in something like time team. At any pre columbian time there were probably not more than a couple of thousand people in what is now Kansas. That makes for a bery low density background. The sites that have been dug in detail are fascinating with the indications of links ranging across the continent, but those sites are rare and hard to find. Time team kansas is, essentially impossible.

[@patricktracy1966]

Ms Lewis hardly ever finished a sentence on Time Team, the guys would always interrupt her.

[@leereadman9940]

why was it a pet bowl????????

[@ABrit-bt6ce]

90% of people that die are dead. I'm sure that bean counters will dispute that.

[@anthonytindle5758]

Sorry carenza but this speach is rather boring and sleepy perhaps you could have taken an item of clothing off to keep the mind awake or keep interest

[@johnmoss6631]

Your comment says everything about you….moronic, idiotic and just plain stupid.