Have We Uncovered Some Authentic British Stone Age Artwork?

[@mademoisellelanoire4632]

Hello, Dr. Alice Roberts! Honestly, archaeology fascinates me to no end! I just can not figure out for the life of me how you people make sense of all your finds! Just incredible! I enjoy your programs immensely and the music was just beautiful! English and British history just fascinates me, again hehhe! Lots of love from across the world! You are already a pleasant and familiar face to me, Dr.Roberts! Please, keep up the good work and thank you so much! Cheers!

[@joypratte]

As a librarian, it drives me nuts that the books behind the gentleman in the British Museum are all over the place. But, I love this show so much, I can excuse it. Hahahaha!!

[@FastFatman]

What amazes me the most is that these dedicated folks are rubbing shoulders with the North Sea on the east coast of Britain in short sleeves! Fascinating! thank you all!

[@eh1702]

It was probably recorded a couple of months back.

[@christopherlawley1842]

@@eh1702 2010 from the BBC

[@icecooler21]

great finds

[@FacesintheStone]

If you really wanna study this, look to the citizens who are already on the ball. Not just in this country of the United States, but in the UK, Germany, Australia, everywhere people are waking up and learning that there’s stone art that shows the culture of these people. It takes several weeks to learn.

[@oobrocks]

About 900,000 years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene epoch, several species of early humans (hominins) and pre-human ancestors were alive. The most notable include: 1. Homo heidelbergensis • Considered a direct ancestor of both Homo sapiens (modern humans) and Neanderthals. • Lived in Africa, Europe, and possibly parts of Asia. • Characteristics: • Larger brain (~1,200-1,300 cc) than earlier species. • Robust build, adapted to diverse climates. • Evidence of tool use and possibly hunting in groups. 2. Homo erectus • One of the longest-lived human species, existing for nearly 2 million years. • Found in Asia and parts of Africa during this period. • Characteristics: • Upright posture, modern human-like body proportions. • Brain size ~900-1,100 cc. • Associated with advanced stone tools and controlled use of fire. 3. Early Homo sapiens (Archaic Humans) • Transitional forms between Homo heidelbergensis and modern humans were emerging around this time in Africa. • They show a mix of primitive and advanced traits. 4. Homo naledi (Possibly) • Discovered in South Africa, dating overlaps with this time, though exact timelines are debated. • Displayed a mix of primitive and modern features, suggesting diversity among early human species. Key Developments Around This Time • Cultural advancements: Evidence of fire control, hunting, and cooperative behaviors. • Climate adaptation: Hominins lived during fluctuating ice age conditions, which drove innovation and migration. Summary The main pre-human species alive 900,000 years ago were Homo heidelbergensis and Homo erectus, with early Homo sapiens beginning to emerge in Africa. These species played crucial roles in the evolutionary path leading to modern humans.

[@KatrinaRoseT]

The popular depiction of any of the early humans or their ancestors as naked and disheveled is an awful assumption. Clothing would have to be at least as old as tools.

[@samuelhumphrey5908]

Fascinating 😮

[@ColoradoRocks]

So Neolithic? Neanderthals? In the US University it is separated now into ethno or genetic archaeology now... interesting..love it..

[@MarbleThumbs]

I get the need to separate the expertise, but if possible they should always go hand in hand, hard to get the full picture otherwise.

[@cassieoz1702]

Surely that depends on the type of finds.

[@eh1702]

Well, this is a roundup or overview of discoveries and work (some interrupted by lockdown) from the last 5 years or so, each of which gives some significant new information about what each wave of people who arrived on Britain got up to. So the theme really is, “What’s been done recently on how the island was peopled.” The “Beaker” people are substantially the ones who made a go of it, who Brits of today are in general descended from.

[@2gulfalco]

Amazing, was using it to fall asleep, but just too fascinating, though I did get distracted from time to time by Alice's beauty, my fault not hers 😅

[@davidefelli7371]

with a lot of imagination you can see a deer there

[@ACIDICcitric]

Was Flint Dibble consulted prior to publishing this video? He is the only authority we should recognize as truth.

[@sandybarnes887]

What about Phil Harding? He knows how to knap

[@SiiriCressey]

Who? Why?

[@casualviewing1096]

You are in the wrong place mate. Go back to Joe Rogans comment sections or keep your idiocy to yourself.

[@terrywuckfit3393]

Why Dibble? He specialises in Ancient Greece. Let me guess, you seen him on Rogan and like his clear speaking style.

[@sansserif8839]

@@sandybarnes887 Phil, the little flint-knapping wizard.

[@dreamcat4]

2/2 because if the package of 40 animals was for settling that they brought those animals to start at the location being the mechanism for enabling go off creating the settlement then they decided to build the cattle bones into those structures however otherwise you would expect them to keep the cattle? as a farming livestock to keep around unless they had some extra ones or too many? or unless diseased and died? or if others came along at same time then for example the island could not sustain 2x = 80 cattle all at same time this would also suggest some form of prior scouting out like a prior small party of roaming hunter gatherer type as a practice, to find new locations measure the usable lands for livestock with a mind to return later on to settle for example after such a stonehenge event in this way the society could organise to disperse to go off and build new families and colonies returning gathering back every so often, every year or at whatever summer solstice festival to recount how their years went and share ideas hardships including also festivities, rituals and governance activities

[@Troy-ol5fk]

24:42 ancient Lego

[@bahrsoap73]

Does anyone know the name of the violin piece that starts playing at 21:20 ?

[@KatrinaRoseT]

Idk but they play it about twice as loud as the people trying to speak over it.

[@diederickwolters8378]

Possibly made by Piltdown man 😂

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

maybe

[@technomickdocumentalist2495]

Early crew ! ❤🎉🎉

[@dreamchasergarage690]

In addition to use of fire and clothing they would need shelter to survive. I wonder what they called home? Presumably nomadic, following migrating prey, they would likely use a portable tent like structure? Similar to a teepee maybe?

[@dreamcat4]

dr roberts the abandoned settlement on the orkney islands westry that they filled in the structures and left figurines in dirt those tiny little figurines were probably carved by a child perhaps even a family member of those who they lost settlement abandoned as unsustainable couldnt survive so they were thinking to leave a message for next settlers this suggests that these peoples it was in their blood to migrate and roam move locations like the later vikings ====== the bones in the walls if they brought the animals with them to settle there if the cattle died or didnt survive while making structure its a very barren lands to make a stories for next generation to be saying the bones the structure was supported by them that they supported the act of the building of the structure seemed right to those folks to embed the bones in the bones whether they believed in the spirits or how strongly or not just obviously the landscape very barren few items or trees so a thing to make them feel warm and comforted insidie when sheltering inside with them protecting the elements ====== the leaving they could have just left but the lands were not sustainable they experienced a lot of pain loosing people before leaving they didnt want to move their whole settlement its a risk so they only left once some people had died the bleakness clearly given those sustained hardships they filled in with dirt to leave that clear message for any future settlers arrive because in there minds very few people around these places so also at the very start of agriculture times a new technology that they had still traditions from hunter gatherers to fill in before leaving a location to fill in fire where meat was cooked anyhow the figurines that the final decision to leave directly related to people died much loved persons, nothing left could not sustain as a family the figurines were small because they probably didnt have time and were very sad perhaps was to occupy a child make a peace part of those grieving process a natural part of human behaviour even today we do similar things i have done myself similar also so they had in mind people coming here 100+ years later on if they didnt get the message and removed the dirt to try again then maybe they wouldnt find the little figurines too small to notice but for a depressed despairing persons a little clue to say for why but did you get their msg dr roberts having had all the same signs that they would have had it links this settlement the peoples behaviours to other ancient celtic peoples who were roaming about in broader timeframes finding locations can exist in ===== whats interesting about the cattle skulls is that it was a significant number brought to that island and is very familiar to those tales of the stonehenge because with stonehenge they would make many individual pilgrimages each individual settlement groups bringing a bunch of cattle to stonehenge this seems like a connected pattern of behaviour as a ways of life to settle that they would cultivate a collection of resources a settlement package that the package would include a group of animals to take for milk + meat are there not indiginous peoples in mongolia and other places who does same? so they celebrated the system of settling ways those pilgrimages to stonehenge to show off from various far flung areas the sustainment of those lands to find for example if somebody came from wales places with a lot more cattle to boast the excesses of their lands they settled in and came from, to show others in this ways there may have been a connection with women in society as a sort of competition for women to show they could better sustain families there so there may also be other connections with families and starting new communities or that once an area or community had become established it was good for farming so with those traditions we seem to have some period of cultural evolution between the prior hunter gathering roaming ways, and then newer agricultural ways does this makes any sense dr. roberts ? i wonder what else we could uncover

[@sbjchef]

could the cow skulls with horns be used as wall ties and why can't the figurines be children's toys why is it always religion and some search for meaning, I think the diggers are projecting their own need for meaning onto the ancestors.

[@PortmanRd]

Spiritual...not religious.

[@sbjchef]

@PortmanRd human organised spirituality is what religion is. So until there is actual evidence of God bothering let's have a bit more Occam's razor from the scientists

[@PortmanRd]

@sbjchef I'm not a religious person, but I bet my bottom dollar that religion started because when neolithic man saw things like the Northern lights, lightning, meteor showers, etc, he wouldn't have had the comprehension to understand that they were natural happenings, and not other worldly. Thus you had the advent of gods.

[@sbjchef]

​@@PortmanRd when discovered, spirituality like all things would have been shared and accepted by the group, religion could have easily started as a weak individual claiming secret knowledge to gain social advantage and protection (today's religions). Or my favourite somebody ate the wrong mushrooms and when they came down they shared their visions. Ascribing extrinsic meaning to normal event would logically happen after spiritual awakening.

[@PortmanRd]

@sbjchef Pretty much.

[@DH007-w2d]

Nick Ashton... like Mike Ashton ? Not related, it seems...

[@antipatsy]

Or Jay Ashton!