Lecture 03 Neolithic & Megalithic Parts 1 & 2

[@fulyabulur]

Hi Travis, Thank you so much for all these videos. Some of us didn't get a chance to study art history but listen to hours of your videos and enjoy them tremendously. What a great service you are doing to a community of people who love art and everything about art. I also think your style is so easy going and so UnBoring. Your students are very lucky!

[@Katarina19jhy]

I am someone who loves to paint in my spare time! So I was interested in learning a bit more about History of Art. But being able to learn from such a wonderful teacher here is truly splendid. I am so invested into this haha I am taking notes and will give myself some time, but doing at least an hour a day became my new healthy habit :D

[@BrightJordan]

This might sound strange, but I didn't realise how much I'd actually learn about GENERAL HISTORY from these awesome lectures. I thought it would just improve my knowledge of the history of art, but I'm learning so much more. Thanks so much for uploading them Travis Lee Clark!

[@apolo2177]

I was a bit skeptical of this course because the thumbnail made it seem like a half-assd amateur youtube project but as soon as I got through half of the first class I was hooked and knew that the quality of the lectures was of the greatest standard. He is like a living Wikipedia page, TRULY AMAZING material thank you for sharing this with us.

[@Classicalmusicscores1984]

Excellent, very well informed (obviously), and a great teacher. Wish i had you as my history professor

[@karenw8929]

What an excellent synthesis of information - thank you! You are a wonderful teacher!

[@secretlyditto7716]

What a legend, these are helping with my current 2710 art history class 😊😊

[@ArtistKevinBethel]

So glad you covered Gobekli Tempe. There are so many things right in front of our face that proves we humans have been creatives for 40,000 years and longer. Bath UK do called Roman temple is so obviously a Roman remodeling of a structure that is >10,000 years old which was rebuilt several times.

[@FrogInPot]

I never thought of how much of the real details of material culture that I love about history could be met by someone doing presentations on it from an Art aspect. It makes sense. I don't know about Art, but your series beats almost all other straight out history of lectures I've followed and that's what I do with all of my spare time. Usually they just repeat the same stuff, but because you're covering more details of Art/Culture it is actually covering more and better than most documentaries or lectures. Thank you and please keep at it.

[@melcombrowne5208]

I come back to this episode. so important and so incredible what this lecture goes through

[@cre8509]

THANK YOU for sharing these lectures!! Travis for president 😄

[@rabarberellum1017]

Thanks for your lectures, they are a great help. Off point: Nice to hear you've taken the next step in evolution, from meat-eater to vegetarian to vegan to rock-safer :-) .

[@balajim646]

40.22 - “We can see that people in the Neolithic age are already having better defensive instincts than all 7 seasons of the walking dead” Yeesh! He’s taking shots at “the walking dead” like there’s no tomorrow haha. Great lectures! Love the presentation and your sense of humour! Thank you for making these resources available to all of us!

[@willisk2500]

Can not express how thankful I am for these, so great 🙏

[@dhpdaedalusStudio]

I’m really loving re-learning art history on this channel. I’d love if you covered some of Bruce Trigger’s History of Archeological Thought. I love that book and think you’d do a great justice to it!

[@aysenkocakabak7703]

Thank you for telling , I appriciate a lot. As someone who lives in Turkey, I am ashamed of myself that ı even did not bother ymself going to Göbekli tepe or Çatalhöyük. Those are going to be my next trips.

[@BlackDaiquiri]

maybe it's changed but I don't think Gobekli tepe is open to the public

[@RachetLikesOat]

Neither am I in Utah, nor am I a student at UVU (or anywhere else), but boy am I glad I've found this channel.

[@monicayriart3016]

Hello. It is my understanding that some hunter gatherers living today have a surplus of TIME -- they do not spend many hours a day hunting and gathering. This begs two questions: is this the kind of surplus in which things can "happen" ? What happens, the development of culture minus the drive to accumulate and the drive to compete ?

[@Young.Supernovas]

Excellent videos, I think I am going to go ahead and watch both of your art history courses. Just wanted to provide one more note/correction though -- Gobekli Tepe is dated to around 10,000-11,500 B.P., not BCE. So if we're using BCE it's 8,000-9,500.

[@davidharrison7072]

Thank you for posting these great lectures! These really get at everything I find so exciting about pre-history - especially that strange combination of the familiar and different. Is it correct to use the term Indo-European I this time period? I thought Indo-Europeans didn't make it to central and western Europe till c. 3000 BCE or later, and that the populations of Britain were not Indo-European until the arrival of the beaker people.

[@MichaelHoward-yv2py]

You should try and take another ceramics class. hang in there buddy ♥

[@elipotter369]

Orkney Islands in the north of Scotland is full of ancient sites, including Ring of Brodgar (60 stones originally) and Ness of Brodgar (temple complex 3180-2300BCE) some suggestion it is a predecessor to Stonehenge. These and other monuments align to astrology, midsummer etc.

[@whatabouttheearth]

P312 Ydna haplotype seems to correlate with the Beaker people and a basal line L21 seems to "correlate with geography of ancient celts" ("Pretani" in Britain) towards western Europe. L21 is primarily found in Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, Cornwall amd England.

[@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343]

Thanks! Good to know. I am not an archaeologist so I am not up to speed on the latest.

[@thefisherking2268]

I’ve seen a lot megalithic structures in person while visiting my family in the Netherlands. We call them hunebedden, which means giants’ beds!

[@Hegeleze]

Another excellent lecture. Do you have your slides posted anywhere online for download? It would make it much easier to take notes directly on the ppt.

[@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343]

I do for my students but nowhere else though I am considering putting them on slideshare. If I get more requests maybe I will.

[@Hegeleze]

@@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343 Well, I know it will be somewhat of an irritation to post these as it takes time out of your day, but there are many of us out here in the simulacra who would benefit greatly from them. Thanks for the reply and thanks for posting the great lectures! Also, when you do post them (I am keeping hope), create a paypal link so those of us who appreciate the work done can give back.

[@tzihlin4422]

This is the best art history courses I have ever encountered. Thank you so much.

[@Hegeleze]

@@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343 And just to let you know, I do still check these periodically waiting for you to post the ppt so I can finish these lectures. It seems it may be in vain at this point and I guess I will just have to make my way through without.

[@genesisgarcia6005]

all of this is so fascinating 🤩

[@elipotter369]

Another place with links to very old rock paintings and cultural information to ancient practices and pre colonial society is Australia. These are the oldest continuous living cultures. With a mix of settled villages, farming and some large houses (Dark Emu Bruce Pascoe). Recently, Gwion figures were dated to 12,000 years ago.

[@chanaheszter168]

So, actually ceramics explode during firing when they are not fully dry. Not when they have air bubbles. Another problem is insufficient temper like sand or grog. Check out Andy Ward doing Ancient Ceramics.

[@AYDENHADLEY]

Can you explain how the cribbing method works to move large stones?

[@peterzavon3012]

Someone supposedly this knowledgeable really ought to know that there was no "year zero" in the Christian calendar or the Common Era calendar. The year numbers have the year 1 BCE (BC) followed directly by the year 1 CE (AD). In the lands where this calendar developed, the concept of zero as a number came along many hundred years later.

[@FacesintheStone]

Super good. I found some lithic art. It’s painted so I want to date it. Anyone know an easy way to do that?

[@FacesintheStone]

Love the eye on the middle slab at 31:35

[@bushra2179]

I was not expecting digs at archaeologists from an art historian 😭

[@ladylark]

It's the one about Big Rocks! Kinda disappointed you didn't mention the aliens....

[@normanstratford9329]

I think that the standing stones did not remain like they are now and was erected about 17 century. Not sure about the date that it took place.

[@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343]

There is a long history of later alteration and restoration on the site. These sites are like living things and you can see how every age reacted to them differently. I wish I knew this site better.

[@salvatore.M77]

Astronomy was important for spiritual reasons mainly

[@williammayhoperights]

you got the location of the american Stonehenge duplicate wrong, it is not located in Oregon, it is in Washington state. it is not an exact replication, and of course because it is placed on a different Latitude and longitude could not duplicate the movement of the heavens. Maryshill Castle was build has a WW.1 war memorial. it is 45.05 N.,and -122.15 W. [latitude and longitude respectively] and Stonehenge is 51.10 N. 1.49 W.,the American Stonehenge is closer to Portland Oregon than it is to Seattle, 2 degrees latitude farther north.i have always wanted to mark the major astronomical sights at Maryshill Stonehenge that the real one in England marks, but we are still learning what the real Stonehenge is actually mapping in the cosmos! because Gobeckli Tempa is a megalithic site you must remake your time table, and because the time line is so different now, maybe rethink the whole thing!has a first Nation person i would also like to point out our people have such astronautical and sky markers and totem markers all over the west, many have been ruined but there are still some pristine that are incredible. also because of Claus Smiths incredible work ,we now know there where organised hunters and gathers that had plenty of surplus to build complex societies and incredible structures, i long to see Gobeklie Tempe someday! unfortunately the real dangerous radioactivity is up river a [app]100 miles and must be cleaned up and closed down,, has well as its reactor, that if it blows up,the massive waste dumb is so close,it may take out the entire country. Hanford is the deadliest site on earth [except Fukushima or Chernobyl]. because i testified against nuclear power and their killing machines is why my life was raped, my work was stolen and my royalties stole, not because i ate a banana, that by the way should be none detectable by lunch if you had one for breakfast, radioactively speaking! potassium good for you, Hanford can kill ya. Bananas also are a grass that someone domesticated in deep antiquity that no one knows how lang ago, but it is though it over a 100,00 thousand years ago! so when we say this is when farming began, this is when hunters gathers where, we do not really know, pay me my royalties to have any economy, or this civilization will go the way of the dinosaurs, Hope under torture

[@PCgameandgamer]

18:10 bro?????????????

[@kuldeepSingh-qw4xf]

Very nice explain plz share pdf link so that we can print that and memorise it plzzz

[@jennodine]

Sounds like the video creator was speaking from experience about blowing up several ceramic projects in pottery 101.

[@piushalg8175]

Indo-European is a linguistic term, meaning to belong to the Indo-European language family. Most probably the pre-celtic population of Europe was not speaking such a language. In western Europe the only remaing non-indo-european languge is Basque and the Basques are probably the decendants of earlier Europeans..

[@BeyzaByza]

I guess it's one way thinking to suppose the ancient people were dumb. In my belief, they were clever since the first person on earth

[@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343]

I suspect they were actually SMARTER than we are. They had to be. If I screw up I have a warm house, a refrigerator, and lots of safety nets to fall back on. If they screwed up they were dead. Makes me wonder how my genes made it through.

[@WilliamZeisel]

There is no year zero. 1 BCE then 1 CE.

[@tshepobuthelezi7315]

i never understood why we think hunter gatherers didnt have passtime. if there are 100 people only 10 need to hunt a day

[@alexandradiez9038]

Thank you

[@boriskapchits7727]

another megalithic site in middle east: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rujm_el-Hiri the most interesting about this site is that nothing is known about it.

[@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343]

Thank you, I hadn't seen that one.

[@FrogInPot]

Btw, Zombies do keep eating when they're dead, that's the problem with them, lol ;-)

[@oldwoman2121]

If women had writtien the first theories about social stratification they would never have deduced that society or any cultural organization derived from agriculture... or any type of economy. Think about it: it isn't as if there isn't social stratification within families, every family no matter their environment or economic situation or any of their particular group's circumstances. If you watch any group of small children on any playground there are always a few dreamers, a thinker or two, a builder, a bully, someone who won't share whatever toys there may be...and multiple combinations of all possible personalities at any given point in time. Their personalities are always partly unique and partly a function of the group they play with and/or that particular group's access to material goods. Some kids, whether they have guns or not, will pick up a stick and use it as a gun. Some kids, if their parent can't afford to buy them an easy-bake ovent, will make a play house out of cardboard boxes. I think culture is a hard-wired genetically programmed entity augmented incrementally by the evolving genome and augmented exponentially by individual memories encoded (in some unit paralleling the archetype) in individual lifetimes and then that education (i.e., nurturing) passed along at a higher base rate with every generation until a group unit resembling whatever we recognize as and designate as "culture". Then that culture, finally, is expressed in a format that is preserved and passed along even more easily. There were religions before temples were built; the parishioners were just called families and the theology was called "their stories". There were places of worship long before there were stone structures--it just took a while before families were big enough and lived long enough to trade their medicine pouches and grandma's skull for mobile--and then "permanent"--altars. There were grottos painted in deep dark caves until people moved to the woods and started making wooden henges--and, finally, they figured out stony material would last longer than wood. Human beings are their cultures. Their cultures are also the practical outcome of their genes, their environments, their economic circumstances--but human culture will never extinguish until people are no longer inhabiting the earth.

[@ramzibendella8786]

Algeria not Nigeria

[@Davidbirdman101]

the small video creators on youtube do a much better job presenting these sites than these million dollar overhyped universities and professors its incredible

[@twelve_coconuts]

Tell us you’re anti-intellectual without telling us you’re anti intellectual 🤣

[@Halo_Legend]

He is a professor on one of those million dollar overhyped universities.

[@monikagrosch9632]

Modern hunter gatherers spend about 4 hours a day to get their food … they would have had time enough!

[@monikagrosch9632]

And also at that time the Sahara was more moist, like Serengeti nowadays

[@jamesleonard2870]

Maybe it was built by alien people? Lols. Just kidding. Great class =]

[@whatabouttheearth]

The alleged birth of Jesus (Christ is a level of consciousness attainment like Buddha) would of been different and not year 0 because of when the Roman census talked about in the Bible actually were, which was more BC than year 0 or 1CE.

[@boriskapchits7727]

and because Hordus died in year 4 BCE

[@NightTimeDay]

I still think it's stupid and arguably even more arbitrary to change the dates to CE and BCE.

[@СофияПавлова-э8щ]

Just want to say huge thank you for your work! I’m watching these lectures second day in a row and I don’t even want to think that there will be the last one series one day (just like with The Office)🥲