Secrets of the Stone Age (2/2) | DW Documentary

How were our Stone Age ancestors capable of building gigantic structures like burial mounds and stone rings? An insight into the history of humankind. Watch Part 1 here: • Secrets of the Stone A...
Around 12,000 years ago, humans underwent a transition from the mobile lifestyle of hunter-gatherers to the settled life of farmers. That epoch, the Stone Age, produced monumental building works. How did our ancestors live and build back then? Part 2 of this two-part documentary takes us to unique archaeological sites in Scotland, Brittany, Austria, Malta, Turkey and Jordan. The gigantic stone circles, temples and tombs from the Stone Age beg the question not only as to why this effort was made, but also of how, given the technical possibilities of the time, our ancestors were capable of building structures like the Barnenez burial mound or the stone ring of Orkney. How many people did they need to transport a 20-ton stone? A team led by experimental archaeologist Wolfgang Lobisser carries out a test with a wooden sledge and a two-ton stone block. The Neolithic seems to have been a fairly peaceful era; at least, no artifacts indicating military conflicts have been found so far. Raids and attacks that wiped out entire villages have only been confirmed for the later Bronze Age. But the foundations of many disputes were laid back then. In addition to cult objects, the Neolithic also saw the development of the first trading systems. "The people of the Neolithic were the first to become really dependent on material goods," says Marion Benz from the University of Freiburg, pointing to wafer-thin sandstone rings that researchers have found in large numbers in the Neolithic village of Ba'ja in Jordan. We need to know about prehistory in order to understand the present. Population explosion, consumerism and megacities are ultimately the heritage of the Neolithic period, when sedentary societies first appeared.
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This documentary is also available to watch in Spanish Part 1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHrMi59mp6-Jo6c Part 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/equYmoOMoK2ppq8

[@igorzkoppt]

Good news! Excellent way to practice a language to have these multilingual versions :)

[@bethbartlett5692]

DW Documentary Copy/my comment: *Hold On!* @ 17:47 - Those are T-Rex! I think these Archaeologists are a bit off their *Time-line*

[@bethbartlett5692]

DW Documentary PS - I truly appreciate your sharing of this 2/part Documentary. Although I may have a different view, facts, and/or opinions on some expressed points - I understand why they are expressed and still appreciate the opportunity to view these works. Keep this in mind, when you might read - "Backseat Researchers" - "ego-comments" - they too enjoy these productions, if only in greater part, as an opportunity to vent, lol. 🏆

[@AConcernedCitizen420]

Spread the ignorance!

[@joeharoutunian1805]

Very nice video and research but I share the opinion that Gobekli Tepe is not the creation of hunter gatherers. The technology needed to create this far more advanced than such people had available then or now for that matter. Clearly the product of totally mysterious higher technology. I’m not an archeologist but it really makes more sense

[@KernowekTim]

Again, this documentary is most excellent in all facets, I think. For myself, as a sixty one year old Cornish man, I can distinctly remember the history lessons we Cornish children were taught as eleven and twelve year old's respectively. These lessons were taught during our first and second years of studies at secondary school. Our respective history education centred on Cornwall's earliest indigenous inhabitants, and their stone age cultures; the construction of menhirs, dolmens, fougous, stone circles ( the Merry Maidens'), and the 'Men an Tol' , as well as barrow building. We then were taught about our Bronze and Iron age settlements in Cornwall, such as Chysauster etc. Nowadays, Cornish children are scarcely aware of these vital identity links. What a shame this is, for me, for now Cornish children have become so Anglicised, they have any notions or knowledge of what it means to 'belong' to a location anymore. This is, I feel, a most damning indictment of negligence on the behalf of modern trends and teachings.

[@jamisojo]

Agreed Tim.

[@heather333]

I had a wonderful local history education whilst I was in years 5 and 6. The history of the New Forest and the history of Christchurch. Each year the class focused on these local projects for history, geography, science, natural history and art. Since the National Curriculum and SATs teachers don't have the choice to spend so long on local history knowledge. It's a shame for ALL concerned, not just specific cultural groups, such as the Cornish. I think it must have been a deliberately political policy to remove "roots" and allow more movement of workers (the "on your bike" mentality of Thatcherism and Blair).

[@burnedoutfred9066]

Perhaps people are finally learning that humanity has learned nothing from studying history since the same mistakes have been made for 5000 years. So why bother teaching it? So called civilization is an epic fail; based on competition and greed rather than cooperation.

[@oo2free]

@TimRogers As a 66 tr old American of double Welsh genetic origin, I can tell you the neolithic peoples the school, for some foolish reason, taught the local Celtic population that these peoples were your ancestors?? Please, man, many bloodlines came and went before your bloodline arrived.

[@darrelneidiffer6777]

Yeah whatever.

[@gillesstephany5460]

can you imagine being a person out doing your daily things and your friend walks up and gives you this beautiful shiny shell bead that they spent time making for you? imagine how wonderful that must have been

[@earlj9888]

No other means of obtaining gifts...

[@JonnoPlays]

Underrated comment.

[@theccpisaparasite8813]

Isn't that normal?

[@joedavidson6556]

Yea it doesn’t seem that wonderful. I don’t want something given to me I can obtain on my own. Give me something I can’t get

[@miloviiy]

On your dream

[@fpgotion]

DW is the best. I can't thank you enough for the language support. I found this by accident. The German people give to the world each time they spread knowledge and education.

[@alfredkowsky2752]

Part 2 is just as impressive as Part 1. I hope they do a documentary on the Bronze Age.

[@ritaroberts1265]

Thank you for this fabulous documentary. Nice to know that some period in life was peaceful such as in the Neolithic period as it seems from this document.

[@trevorjennings721]

Hello Rita, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??

[@salvatormundi6790]

Delivered in the way I like to learn. Giving me PBS vibes, you can watch and get educated while falling asleep, the soft tone you can’t resist almost going to sleep

[@dixieraised3812]

For real ...me to if it's the right narrator you can not only hear but feel there calming educating soothing tone or a carefully charasmatic but yeah same here some people laugh when they hear it,...an also rain an thunder or winter a warm fire ....people don't realize when things get to quiet comfort soothes over the depression or addiction to that noise an frequency to fall asleep ..💯anyways southern boy rant agreeing with your opinion God bless 💯

[@salvatormundi6790]

@@dixieraised3812 , I understand you brother…Explanation was spot on, all about being at peace for me

[@dixieraised3812]

@@salvatormundi6790 yeah I hear that but these sounds and stuff for years has helped me sleep because I think I may have Miss worded that comment I don't never go back and fix it because of being a good old southern boy nothing rebel flag Yeehaw racist type but just don't really care about people's opinion unless it counts for something but anyways may God bless you you seem to have a happy family if there's anything if I had two wishes to either have a million dollars or a happy family growing up it would be a happy family growing up but hey we don't go through what we go through to get to where we are for it not to mean something cuz it teaches us valuable lessons

[@dixieraised3812]

I can imagine the comments that people would reply that I'm saying or rebel flag means your racist no it doesn't if you got a grandfather a great grandfather served in the Civil War then that flag means something but the war wasn't fought for just slavery is a lot more reasons just like today's Wars you hear one thing on TV that they're Fought about but you find out later they was fought for something else so just want to put this up so I don't get some bunch of hate mail💯🙏🙏

[@francoisedandre3644]

Un des premiers meilleurs documentaires vus dans ma vie. On en rêve au moment de s'endormir. Le passé nous prend dans l'océan infini du temps.

[@susanmcdonald9088]

Really well done experience. Loved the music! The scenes. The animation, and a few scholars thrown in. But you let the stones speak for themselves, I loved that.

[@dloadthis1617]

I certainly enjoyed watching your documentary and have subscribed to your Channel. I look forward to watching all of your videos. Thanks again! Sending you love from Beverly Hills, California! 💖💞💖

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

Wonderful documentary, beautiful cinematography.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching! :)

[@trevorjennings721]

Hello Kimberly, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??

[@bethparker1500]

Just beautiful photography, gorgeous

[@MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKS]

Surprised they missed the pocket of land in Wales that was not affected by glacial acticivy during hunter gathering, it was occupied for thousands of years and is one of the oldest sites that continued hunting and gathering when everyone else turned to farming. It's called Park Wood or coed y Parc if anyone would like to have a little look :)

[@CONEHEADDK]

What a shame they didn'y have a Gerda Tunaburger around at 11.20 to warn them against their buying cows and cars, so there enviorment totally changed over a generation...

[@Msjoyceariane]

I enjoyed reporting this topic! I learned so much with stone age! From paleolithic to neolithic period. It was really nice knowing the life of early human beings. Those stone structures was built in neolithic period. :) It's their architecture!

[@valerieprice1745]

Anyone who has read the book of Jasher knows, the standing stones are boundary stones. They mark the boundaries of tribal (family/clan) lands. They buried their dead either in their homes, or near the boundary stone, or boundary mounds, to perfect their claim to the land. They could affirm their claim for generations by descent from the buried patriarchs, matriarchs, their progenitors.

[@trevorjennings721]

Hello Valerie, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??

[@veronicagorosito187]

So fascinating! Thank you DW for sharing, your docus are a bless in this heartbreaking pandemic,

[@DWDocumentary]

Hi @Veronica Abbott Cazares! Thank you for watching, we're glad you like our content :)

[@GusMcCrae]

A great series of documentaries. 🙇 Thank you.

[@jonrutherford6852]

Informative but also enhanced by some of the most gorgeous landscape photography I've seen anywhere. Well done!

[@larskirk6268]

Absolutely - really great photography

[@black5f]

Excellent 2 part series. I find this period of history fascinating. Because we know so little, they were clearly masters of their environment and resources and their association with a geologic time scale. 1 km of ice over the UK that probably melted within several generations, if not within their life times which were pretty short. Certainly climate change on a scale these people would remember and talk about. The lack of violence sticks out, as does their community and they had such good lives they were able to spend time building structures that have lasted to today. There are loads around me. I need to see Skara Brea at some point. What drove them? Safer, more permanent, who knows.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks a lot for watching and for sharing your thoughts on the topic. We’re glad you liked the documentaries!

[@black5f]

@@DWDocumentary Cheers for the reply. I know it's much earlier in history but many of the fields around me still show signs of ridge and furrow working. Some are 2000 years old, some 200. There are loads of stone circles. Civilisation bourne ... all so fascinating. And they appeared to live in peace, kept to themselves. Any way, thanks for a great doc! Tom

[@jesus4400]

Prehistory did not exist. Cain was the first builder and a few generations later man was already working with iron and bronze. Everything is in the Bible (specifically, this data is in Genesis 4).

[@black5f]

@@jesus4400 Hi Jesus. If your not interested in actual history, facts, investigation, archaeology, rational thought, evidence or the extensive work these guys do .... why are you here? That is a question from me to you? You won't be able to answer it? You will just quote more things you were told to say? I'm an atheist .... because I read the Bible cover to cover twice? It's a really good and complex storey? You should also read some non canon scripts? I can thoroughly recommend Enoch 1,2 and 3? So anyway ... please don't quote Bible verses at me, you have no idea who you are taking to? Galatians 4:16

[@hhwippedcream]

Thank you! fully agree with your findings.

[@LB1981]

Thank you DW!

[@rumar9182]

I'm surprised you didn't cover more in Ireland in both episodes. There are fantastic ancient neolithic sites the oldest in Sligo carrowmore and Carrowkeel. And loughcrew and the brú na bóinne complex where newgrange is all with astrological alignments.

[@jamisojo]

Can't do it all. 😁

[@DoctorCymraeg]

No mention of Wales or Cornwall!

[@kevinm3751]

I find it bewildering how these scientists can conclude with such conviction of accuracy based on so few details and artifacts and then refuse to consider the possibility they are wrong! Then they will try and tell you how smart they are!

[@user-hh2is9kg9j]

That is just a documentary. Read some scientific papers about the subject and you will be drowned in evidences.

[@davedoogan6650]

native americans built totem poles why?

[@tyiingram9878]

Exactly. I've done a better job piecing together the history of humanity. Other Hominids evolved to become homo sapiens that moved out of Africa. These pre Homo Sapien Hominids learned things that were time through seamless process of evolution. Age is an example of evolution. Humans, Denisaven, and Neanderthals were able to interbreed. This means that the three different Hominids were able to connect in some form and it was clear that they had an understanding of the stars. Homo Sepians left the continent with a level of sophistication that we haven't begun to understand. I think that the two other Hominid groups didn't become extinct. Homo Sapiens have an abundance of carbon. Carbon is one of the key building blocks of life. Carbon in skin produces melanin. Melanin allows for the genetic variation. This allowed for the Homo Sapiens to interbreed successful with the Neanderthals and Danisvans. Along with interbreeding civilizations had to have developed and died throughout the evolution of interbreeding. Old tancient trade routes are based on a serious of paths that were travel by our pre Hominid ancestors and we continue to evolve in thought based on the skills of the past. A great leap is seriously down play how brilliant the before Homo Sapiens were. This examples to me why we look so different. These three produced what evolved as one. Look at the subcontinent of India. And the Australian continent and the south Pacific. All these are Afro-asiatic People. Especially if you look at the people of the middle east. Humans migrations patterns where far more planned as Civilizations. Because of a serious of ice ages and tectonic plate shifts. There is so much hidden in the with Vactian City that holds some ancient knowledge that has been hidden. Especially as the age of exploration and Renaissance was developing.

[@jamisojo]

@@tyiingram9878 that was very long and very hard to understand. In fact, I doubt it made any sense.

[@tyiingram9878]

@@jamisojo well because you don’t seem to understand what evolution means and how it works doesn’t mean that what I wrote doesn’t make sense. Don’t bash me for having the intellectual acuity to able to explain a topic you can’t grasp. Address your ineptitude and learn to read, because clearly you didn’t or can’t.

[@desertsand4797]

One of the best videos I've seen that exposes the fact that a PhD can make up whatever horse dung Theory that they want and it's taken seriously by everyone else. Your theory about these unexplainable artifacts, my theory, and anyone else's theory, is just as valid as these( I went to school all my life so I know more than you) types could ever understand.

[@donnacsuti4980]

You may have but I'm sure many people understand the same things you do. The more you actually learn, the more you realize what you don't know. It is actually impossible to know truly everything about even a field you are expert in.

[@BenSHammonds]

extremely enjoyable program, the subject is of much interest

[@crpth1]

Finally a real documentary without BS "ancient aliens", ridiculous giants and all the other BS! A breath of fresh air! :-)

[@zenography7923]

Thank you for bringing these wonderful discoveries to light, they cast a ray of understanding into a previously unknown period in history. Wonderful!

[@morenofranco9235]

That does it! I am Binge Watching DW! Thanks girls and boys!

[@liegesaboya8265]

Congratulations to DW for this doc .

[@themagicboyfans]

Thank you very much for giving me this important information. Thanks for the immense pain you had taken to enlighten us.

[@DWDocumentary]

Hi @ingirisi mahaththaya, Thanks for watching and commenting. It's our pleasure to bring you important content. Best, The DW Documentary Team

[@yabingnollet1565]

Beautiful, educational, informative.

[@melanieanne2066]

This two part documentary is fantastic! Thank you so much for creating it and sharing it with the world.

[@jawadimran2025]

Can you share with me, which things are you absorb from this Documentary?

[@tinge1954]

These two videos were very interesting ,huge tanx for the uploads

[@davenix604]

Excellent,stone age civilisations are fascinating.

[@davidjohnzenocollins]

Too bad they didn't leave any writing for us to decipher.

[@Mrbfgray]

David Collins Any written records above ground would have been destroyed by Christian a long time ago.

[@DiamondGirl333]

I thoroughly enjoyed this documentary. Thank you.

[@DWDocumentary]

Glad you liked the film. We upload documentaries regularly so don’t forget to subscribe. :-)

[@landexpertstravancore4476]

Superb video,,, best wishes

[@baldbeardedbloke6887]

Another great documentary from DW.

[@pierremoreau986]

Great doco productions, thanks DW

[@jewelrana.6361]

This channel is a storehouse of knowledge. I love it.

[@VisorView]

It's a storehouse of opinions, not knowledge.

[@jamisojo]

@@VisorView such as?

[@pamberry6354]

Good to see Michael Gibbons from Connemara in this program...lucky to work with him some years ago!

[@thefisherking78]

This was really good, thank you!!

[@gspassky]

The film in one sentence: Thousands of years ago stone structures were built all over the Europe, why - we don't know 😎

[@tyiingram9878]

And it leaves so many other questions about how migration and land mass changes are also a part of human evolution. We think of hunter gather society as if it was continued as an on going way of live in many parts of the world of the world. This leaves the continent of Africa and the Americas in a very questionable position. If modern human man began to leave the African first. Intellectually this means that when first men left there was a more advanced thinking people that understood the stars. They knew so many things that were lost to us that makes them more advanced than we think. This means that when men left Africa a greater level of sophistication was needed than first thought.

[@simongentry]

thank you for these amazing docs!

[@DWDocumentary]

Hi @simon gentry, Our pleasure! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. Best, The DW Documentary Team

[@simongentry]

@@DWDocumentary i shoot docs for non profits - so i recognise talent and the work that goes into DW films.

[@stelampology]

The number of commercials is RIDICULOUS! Is there a way I can NEVER choose this, by accident, if I forget how annoying it is and start watching again and remember I NEVER want to deal with this again? JEEBUS!

[@lauralaladarling3775]

Thank you this video was fascinating.

[@juliafox7904]

Fantastic thank you.

[@trevorjennings721]

Hello Julia, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??

[@davidthiongo731]

Thanks for posting this.

[@choryferguson2196]

This has been a fascinating look at their culture. Thank you.

[@paolazo-l4790]

Very interesting and very clear., Thank you Knowing this brings us closer to understanding our ancestors, so knowing us better

[@gijsv8419]

I was in Jordan around 1996 and visited the Wadi Mousse. The guide showed it to us.

[@daos3300]

nice documentary. now i'm off to amuse myself in the comments section.

[@relentlessmadman]

the only reason to cruze youtube!

[@relentlessmadman]

@@fivecitydirttracker4776 is that your final answer?

[@fivecitydirttracker4776]

@@relentlessmadman my bad 👎

[@griffineagle7]

i always say to make a Comment worth a mention in the 20th to 21st Century Social Studies of the 33rd Century U.N Academy of Excellence in the search for a you tuber called ?? .. hmmm i think he was called GolfEchoe7 or griffineagle7 or 13 ... ..who inspired the Book of Comments and all those who were Sectioned ..

[@GSTPersTVChannel]

Thank DW for this Documentary Congratulations!

[@dheensay]

There is no cohesive relationship between what is being said and shown. I cannot comprehend how this is considered a documentary.

[@rockybalboa9133]

Yes the farmers arranged themselves in "construction brigades" and then due to the highly nutritious (not to mention non-GMO and organic) crops they grew became strong enough to lift 40 ton stones in place! Sort of like Popeye the Sailor man toot toot! ;)

[@bluehand9631]

As good a theory as some in the film.

[@praggypopsqa4652]

Love the animation.

[@richcampus]

Very well done documentary.

[@ajdrag]

Very good series

[@johnrutledge8181]

The music and sound production is very well done also.

[@tushyranx5860]

Great research by DW

[@joshuapierce4007]

One of the great informational/documentaries around...massive and amazing information. Wow! Thanks for sharing!

[@massimosquecco203]

Great! I've learned a lot, this is why I thank you very much for posting the video and - indirectly - who made this interesting Docu!

[@luckynumbersevuuun]

37:12 its simply amazing to me that something of such a refined shape was made so long ago. the axe head looks something like the nose section of the sr-71 or a re-entry vehicle. its form is highly refined, such an amazing specimen.

[@CozyJuffyWuff]

Check out the precision cut boxes in the serapeum, UnchartedX (excellent channel) has many videos on various ancient sites. Worth checking out if you're interested in Pre-Dynastic Megalithic work.

[@flavianoperez3565]

Its excelent, tópic. Thank you.

[@tonipwneroni9846]

Dankeschön DW für ein weiterer genial Dokumentarfilm ^-^ Archäologie ist mein Traumkarriere ... Tut mir leid for mein schlechtes Deutsch....

[@strugglesoup]

Thanks for posting this series! Great to watch and learn!

[@jimmyjohnson6663]

Thank you for this!

[@EnginAtik]

Writing was invented in 3100 BC by Sumerians and Sumerians had settlements on the Mediterranean coast in Uruk period. If European monolith builders had large seaworthy ships, contact with Sumerians is possible. If such contacts indeed happened, Sumerians might also have recorded them.

[@maracohen5930]

But Gobekli Tepe predates that and Harappa by 4000 years.

[@luckychippy8217]

New grange in Ireland was built 5,000 years before the pyramids in giza

[@fecalmatter4195]

@@luckychippy8217 that's all debatetable

[@MartyCostello]

It's too bad the Romans burned down the Great Library of Alexandria, we would know all the reasons and be way ahead as a civilization in the way we treat others, as well as, technically. Why does an artist draw, because they can. We lost thousands of years of information due to that senseless burning. That's where I would go if I could go back in time, with plenty of fire extinguishers.

[@vassilisbabaletakis3488]

@@MartyCostello You should say cristian Romans.

[@chriskelly6574]

I don't have the time to truly articulate my 'feeling' but, if you go back to your childhood; that time of dragons, pirate ships and innocent imagination you may glimpse something in yourself. Do you remember that lusid adventure of high youth? As I reminisce those adventures where we moved mountains I can't but think that the simplest and most sincere form of expression is a mark upon the earth, for others to wonder at the hows and whys.

[@alexysq2660]

~Fantastisch, und sehr gut gemacht; vielen dank!

[@Eyesickle1]

Great locations, fantastic filmography, some good science, and then ya gotta throw in some assumptions in there that don't make any sense.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Craig Sears True - true! I really like and agree w/your insight.

[@artureff3046]

u mean drang nach osten?

[@mtr65]

If you listen it sounds like a lot of guess work???

[@Lifelikesky]

I prefer the approach taken by the Graham Hancocks and the likes must say!! ....not perfect but he is more objective.

[@RustyFishHook9]

Well said, that's why I hopped into the comments

[@caroldelaney4700]

It’s strange we claim to know so much about past civilisations.but we don’t seem to have a clue about the present.

[@berretta9mm17]

...and THAT is really the dead giveaway that they either DON'T know anything about the past - or they are lying through their teeth about what they DO Know. They have gone - in the last 10 years - from INSISTING that Sumeria was the most ancient civilization on Earth - for an absolute, dead-on certainty - until they discovered Gobekli Tepe, in Turkey - *14,000 years old,* covering acres and acres - and aligned to astronomical points and Cardinal directions - and huge, multi-ton stones, carved in BASS RELIEF - not carved INTO, but the intricate animals and symbols covering the stones STANDING OUT from the surface of the stone, which was somehow - with chicken-bones and other rocks - removed to allow these figures to stand out. It is an ENORMOUS set of circles, covering acres and acres, which was buried with precisely sized rock and gravel, 2,000 years after it's completion, to protect it from some coming catastrophe. 14,000 years old - and structures this complex, size and artistry do not simply 'appear,' in an age when 'archaeologists' INSIST people were 'simple hunter-gatherers,' and WILL NOT get off this hide-bound, ridiculous position - the development of a symbology, and the a skill to build such places, would require thousands of years to develop. This means that Gobekli Tepe is a remnant of a previous cycle of civilization - not the beginning of this one. There should be TEAMS of scientists excavating and researching this site - and a few others like it, that have been discovered even more recently - but instead, the only man who had dedicated himself to the excavation was found dead in his swimming pool a few years ago - and digging has slowed to a crawl instead: another victim of the search for our Hidden Past. We can't possibly understand the present, while it is built upon a thin tissue of lies, twisted facts and has no real foundation of truth to rest upon. The only thing you can build on lies, are more lies. Our past, as it is presented to us, makes no sense - so how can the present, which was supposedly built upon it, make any sense?

[@vadimbellous8313]

@@berretta9mm17 This planet's complete history has been made up and continues to be falsified. Something smells in the state of Denmark. Have you seen how all the buildings older than 200 years throughout Europe and Russia (the USA included although not as obvious)are buried up to 10 feet and more? The second-floor windows were cut out to be used as the new door? Look up mud flood and Great Tartaria, it's a rabbit hole I wish I never touched.

[@EekZombies]

@The Truth about Africa hurts Why is someone a moron when they are talking about something theyve learned???

[@johntavers6878]

there is no present

[@SpEvcoo96]

Humans do what humans do, yesterday, today, and in the future, I think if we extrapolate collectively, and do not solely rely upon the work of a selective archaeological construct, we will find answers about the past in the same manner we find answers today. We are faced with survival as much today as we were faced with in the neolithic age. Same stuff..different day.

[@flintliddon]

Good work

[@alanbarclay9032]

The artist's rendering of Ba'Ja strongly resembles those I have seen of Catalhoyuk, which dates from about the same time. Surely, archeologists have noticed this similarity. I wonder if it was an indicator of shared culture or just an architectural innovation whose time had come.

[@jamisojo]

I think you might say it's an architectural idea that didn't last. 😁

[@orange70383]

Don't they realize what happened. The only time there were hunter gatherer types present in any numbers was right after a catastrophe had wrecked their civilization. There were never hunter gatherers whose heritage was always hunter gatherers. These are civilized people trying to survive after some cataclysm wiped out the majority of their people and animals. It took time to reorganize and develop some resemblance of the life the once knew.

[@albertbrennaman5605]

yeah, but that wouldn't make a good story about the gender equality of the our noble (savage) ancestors and how migrations brings civilization (lets not talk about the conflict).

[@donaldmartin4489]

200 years from now they will have a documentary on the plastic age. :(

[@eeouk]

You are right

[@pennycarrigan4356]

Hopefully by then, plastic would've been obsolete for decades!!!

[@benjaminollis7621]

Plastic actually degrades pretty fast, too fast too ever be a historical artefact

[@thenarrator869]

@@benjaminollis7621 That's racist. Lol

[@grr9357]

The Narrator what

[@relentlessmadman]

people used to know how to cooperate! decorated stone slabs keep you busy when the weather is to nasty out!

[@roytonkin5929]

We are in the year 2022 AD and we still paint pictures of animals, fish, birds, flowers and whatever takes our fancy. I doubt if our art work will survive 7,000 years for future generations to admire. Just a thought.

[@paul6925]

😂 Those Anatolian kids jumping off the rooftops.... must have had strong bones 🦴

[@earthalienzapa3237]

To control gravity once had.

[@Yiriyah]

😂😂😂

[@odie175]

I measured,, approximately 12 foot jump!!

[@paul6925]

@@odie175 😂👍

[@ob5023]

They were the Jordanian kids!

[@melanieanne2066]

Pre historic culture is my passion! Outstanding documentaries Wonderful music accompaniment. Any way to find out about the musical scores?

[@robertbeerbohm1800]

At the 8 minutes mark in a way she is describing what I think of is a form of democracy. A thousand people on that plateau peaceful in the main for over 500 years? That is indeed remarkable. Am learning of this site mentioned brand new to me for the first time. The 21st century tools are fabulous. And the tech to look back in time further will only keep improving, This humble servant thanks you

[@timothyhaskell8262]

Well done.

[@drmabeuse]

A good documentary that presents some fascinating facts, but on the whole is scattershot and unfocused. Is this about human migration in the neolithic? The neolithic overall? The agricultural revolution? Construction and purpose of megaliths? It brushes up against all of these but focuses in on none, so at the end you're left with a bunch of beads but no string. Some fantastic landscapes though.

[@tyiingram9878]

Amen!

[@weruioaszxcv5368]

Why do I have a thought that in future another human will be doing the same research about us 😂

[@johndelong5574]

If the farmers heated up the boulders and poured water on them they would break. They knew this so why bother moving them.

[@janecheshire5504]

@@johndelong5574 agreed! Also this may be the case in western Europe removing huge stones to farm and recycling 4000 years ago but does not align with the information coming out of gobekli teppe? How can that be the case at around 12000 years old? Anybody????

[@jenkins80526]

I think that you have that thought because we have engrained in us a forgotten memory of an ancient past. And that the history that we've been taught has been a big fat lie.

[@jenkins80526]

​@@janecheshire5504 Yes, I'm willing to put it out there. The real truth that we haven't been told is that there have been civilizations long past and even older than 12000 years. I have done a ton of research and I know that there have been civilizations long before us that have been wiped out never to be known about, except for the small hints that have been found and hidden away. There are certain powerful people who, for some reason I don't understand, have kept certain secrets hidden from us. That agenda is not anything that I understand because if I had PROOF of ancient civilizations and ancient technology, I'd certainly put it out to the public. But isn't it strange that we see all of this and yet we live in denial? It is difficult sometimes to hear fantastical tales and believe them. One thing......If we have found skeletons of huge reptiles that lived on this earth, then why do we not ever hear from old texts about them? How is it that we have only heard of dinosaurs from recent findings? Surely someone from the past stumbled upon something huge like a giant dinosaur and that should have been a story that would be passed down over many, many years. But we don't see that in ancient texts and why? There are so many questions that need to be answered. Maybe that's why tales of dragons and giants have still made it into our children's fairy tales. Maybe that's real. I think it's absolutely possible. Göbekli Tepe is just the beginning of what's going to slowly come out. It's too late now to cover up hidden secrets. Too many people have come to know that we are just beginning to learn about our ancient past.

[@janecheshire5504]

@@jenkins80526 I would love to know what you have but before you reveal anything I would get a thick skin and some sort of back up! I get what you mean about huge remains of recent times, I think if you reference folk tales globally there are many hints of both dinosaurs( dragons) and giants etc...And like the monuments they are all linked in someway a cross the world! It's interesting to note there are many sites known around the ur area of teppi waiting to be uncovered! Would desperately love to find one piece of ancient pottery at one of these sights! Intruiged and grateful for your reply! Agreed!🙂

[@rajugautam1775]

great work dw

[@crashpantzz]

How did they move stones as big as that? I would love to see engineers do the same even today. Something we are missing here, these people didn't decide to just move these stones, it ment everything to them! These ancients don't get the credit they deserve, much to learn here, but not been told! Respect and peace to all.

[@alexfmiller4942]

There’s an interesting KZbin video of a guy whom on his own was able to move a whole barn through using a single leverage point. He’s recreated his own Stonehenge I think

[@jamisojo]

@James t Mentzer sounds implausible as we don't use sound to lift things today. Animal and manpower seem much more likely.

[@scotney33]

Giants,

[@oo2free]

An ancient order of masons who may have employed giants or some form of tameable megafauna to lift and carry huge stones.

[@mikenorledge4110]

they worked with their local friendly extra-terrestrials of course 😏

[@bhaktapeter3501]

15:00 evidence of ancient cataclysm

[@altareggo]

or it was pushed over by invaders.... or there was an ordinary earthquake.. or.....

[@pedrokarstguimaraes2817]

Excellent!

[@dmmayfield6726]

Bravo!!

[@nishinasuno]

One can assume that only people in Europe or the Middle East created these stone structures. Every other areas of the world are simply ignored.

[@cnpf312]

Kip Anderson that is on another documentary, I think it is part 1. Good point.

[@jamisojo]

They mentioned Asia, especially in Korea, they said Korea. It might be in the 1 of 2 video. Maybe you're being a little harsh without watching the entire video.... Also, I'm not sure where they promised to mention every part of the planet.

[@djpodesta]

Firstly... this has been an enjoyable series to watch, but how do the interviewees know the political status of women in particular, when on every other topic, the terms, ‘may have’ and ‘possible’ were used for all other interpretive elements of conjecture.

[@elcruzer5514]

Women have been oppressed throughout modern history. Not all of human history.

[@benjaminollis7621]

@@elcruzer5514 women have never been oppressed through western history, it's a feminist myth. It would be just as easy to construct an argument claiming men have been suppressed by women... Equally false..

[@cweefy]

i think it's called pandering

[@djpodesta]

cliff luebke I think you are correct... 👍

[@thomasthomas9795]

Well if they say women were not equal that would about end there funding. So that a lot 9f women died in there 20ies, and a lot of the guys died in there 50ies, isn't something they want to talk about. So they don't touch it very often. I cannot blame them, why would they do that.

[@MrAnperm]

Thank you

[@metalkokorea]

In Korea, there are many stone monuments. This video does not deal with them. They are huge. Check it out.

[@liegesaboya8265]

The archaic population that lived in the maritime coast of Brasil left behind in some places an abundance of shellfish ,several meters high , called sambaquis . Their stone sculptures are remarkable , highly stylized, depicting animals .

[@jamisojo]

Very interesting. I hope to learn more in the future.

[@kevinkealy1576]

Pity ye never once showed Ireland's majestic megailio

[@joywalsh6012]

That surprised me too but as DW is a German news channel maybe the Irish history didn't fall into the migration route that was followed. Nevertheless it was well presented and I found it very informative and very interesting.

[@jw4620]

Amazing!

[@OlaviKnaapilaMane]

Woow 8:00, Just like those pictures of Mars. 🎶😷🤔

[@ajrwilde14]

not just Stonehenge then these things were everywhere...

[@prepperjonpnw6482]

You are correct. I’m from the south of England and can tell you not only are they everywhere but Stonehenge isn’t the biggest or most impressive lol. It’s just the most famous for some reason. You should read my other comment as well.

[@shielamariehankinson3824]

...I did.... moving on....

[@vkishan2089]

The most sticking thing about this documentary is that people had more time to relax than work. My grandparents had more time to relax than my parents and my parent had more time to relax than me. The technology has improved healthcare and other things but it has also increased stress. People have become physically strong but mentally ill IMHO.

[@MikeGreenwood51]

Keep your mental health and leave your stress. Maybe your ancestor knew how to relax and it's something you need to learn with age. IE Wisdome comes with age. So maybe the appearance of grass being greener on the other side is just a relative appearance as they relaxed and you are not relaxing. So for your grass to be as green you may need to relax yourself. My parents would appear relaxed but would only really relax after the 4 children were in bed or seen to. Even then they were on call 24/7, in case.

[@baruchben-david4196]

I'm not sure that our ancestors had so much free time. They had to work for some of the simplest things we take for granted, like water. Back in the day, we had to go to a well or a lake or stream to get water, and we got it in buckets. Same with cooking, heat in the winter, etc. Had to get wood, cook on a wood stove, build fires in sleeping rooms...

[@jamesyates2331]

The only time they had to relax was sleep because they worked there butts off sunrise to bed time......had no time 4 stress

[@iggle6448]

@@jamesyates2331 Back then, the stress wasn't manufactured by big corps to enable them to make more profit out of the 99%.Back then the stress came direct from the environment and/or the clan on the other side of the river, you could deal with it directly. (see e.g. 'confusion marketing, confusion pricing' etc ad nauseum).

[@artureff3046]

dude smoke something and be realxed

[@illscrill9]

Pretty intrrrestimg thanks for the share

[@DWDocumentary]

Hi @The Hockey God, Thanks for watching! :-) Best, The DW Documentary Team

[@meherbabaisgodinhumanform3090]

So cool!