Meet The Ancestors' Julian Richards on Mick Aston's Life & Legacy | DigNation 18

[@hughjass8430]

Got satellite tv in the early 2000s and discovered Time Team thru the constant reruns. It was a format that had no business working on television but its a testament to the warmth, enthusiasm and genuine humanity of people like Mick, Tony, Phil and all the other regulars that the show became such a success that it managed to run for two decades.

[@guyjones4936]

I love hearing all the wonderful stories about Mick. As a Yank, most of our real archaeology belongs to the native peoples. We find arrowheads and spear heads but the rest was all made of organics. It is very difficult to identify "stains in the ground" when all the ground you survey has been deep plowed or is currently heavily forested. Watching Mick and the other Time Team members has given me a great deal of understanding of just how much can be learned from very little evidence. I miss watching Mick and I truly wish I had been gifted the chance to meet him. I think I would have liked him very much!

[@Tysto]

I just love idea that the way archaeologists celebrate the life of a fellow archaeologist is a slide show lecture about archaeology.

[@andrewbowdidge6006]

Really great talk, and funny, right down Mick's street. Great one Julian!

[@charlesemerson6763]

He was so right. I never thought of archaeology of anything other than Romans or Egyptians. Thanks to Mick through Time Scenes and Time Team I now know that the past is a lot more complicated than what I thought.

[@nickjung7394]

I fully accept the importance of Mick in popularising archaeology but it was the whole team that made it work. The mutual respect, the voicing of opinions and the complementary programs like Meet the Ancestors made viewing interesting and informative. One always felt that the experts had done their apprenticeship, up to their necks in mud and dust; they had credibility.

[@martincarroll8637]

I never heard an expletive so eloquently incorporated into a sentence before, brilliant.

[@jakebond2294]

Meet The Ancestors was exceptional TV. They should bring that back.

[@KissiahAiken]

I so wish I'd had teachers like you and Mick!

[@boffeycn]

You probably do.

[@elisa8044]

O Thanks a lot!!!! Mick was a GIANT !!!! That's a very special sharing to all who apreciated,like me,hs work!!!! Thanks again ,from BRASIL...

[@justacrocodile9486]

Loved Julian's reminiscing about the early years teaching with Mick Aston, that was very obviously a time both enjoyed and I am sure their students would have so looked forward to each lecture and field trip. Great to know that the charity Mick supported will be helped by the auction of Mick's book, that's such a great thing to do. So very much in the Time Team manner... thank you for uploading.

[@reginaromsey]

When I first clicked on this wonderful program I thought the gentleman standing at the microphone Was Mick Aston! Julian looks as though he and Mick were cut from the same cloth!

[@rachelhenderson2688]

In the early 1960s I often stayed with friends doing post-grad work at Birmingham Uni in Edgbaston. When we had coffee in the canteen, Mick and his girlfriend were often in there. He was working on various sites doing digs ahead of the developers. Apart from not having white hair, he wasn't very different to the Mick of Time Team. After watching TT for a while, I realised who he was! It was fascinating to realise what an amazing career he has had, and that it was ideally suited to the eccentric personality that he was even then!

[@happygrandma5637]

I like the fact that Julian brought in Mick's love of children. I think the best TT episodes were when the school kids, of whatever age, were involved. And the villagers gathering around at the end and Tony explaining what they had found. Great stuff. I hope they continue that as they go further into the new TT episodes. My favorite Mick saying, altho I believe he attributed it to someone, was when he was talking to a disappointed Tony because they weren't finding anything. Mick said: the absence of evidence isn't necessarily evidence of absence. That really made me stop and think.

[@garygalt4146]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. As a now old man, who’s dad drove around north wales and Lancashire on motor bike and side car traipsing over fields and hills to see prehistoric mounds or castles and even empty fields of old battlefield’s. I was quite disappointed when my career advice all 90 seconds. Was you can’t be an archaeologist. You’ll be an engineer or go down pit lad like everyone else. I became a photographer who has been lucky to photograph jobs for Liverpool museum and maritime museum. But still love all these programs and thanks to mick if not cool at least popular to proudly say I love history. So thanks to you all

[@sawillie1680]

Extraordinary show. Once in a decade or two, there comes a show and this is it! This is where my ancestors came from, and it was a complete joy to watch. Loved all the people who worked on the show. Everyone was a source of information and fun💕🧚‍♂️🌻💞

[@normplatt7549]

VERY GOOD ENTERTAINMENT ! Thanks to all involved! Much enjoyed! Miss listening to the vast Knowledge Mike Aston shared!

[@tammiewilson5185]

I enjoyed this and learning more about Mick. Thank you.

[@benediktmorak4409]

I am sure there are many places where Professor Mick Aston is being missed. i am still at the early stage on watching Time Team - and we have only three days-, though i am sure there is much more to it than 3 days...

[@maaan8494]

Mick what a legend RIP also meet the ancestors was an excellent show

[@Ghosts-of-York]

Brilliant 👌

[@jackie4286]

Like many I really liked Mick, but what went on with the camera at around 6 to 7 minutes?

[@MelissaThompson432]

Nice! And he *sounds* like Mick, it was half lovely and half sad.... But I have somebody new to follow, now. Thanks!

[@MelissaThompson432]

*Someday when you get the chance you'll need to connect your camera to your PowerPoint for videos....

[@Digventures]

​@@MelissaThompson432 The slides are available to download if you want a closer look: www.slideshare.net/DigNation/2-julian-richards-dignation-keynote

[@Digventures]

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[@richclean]

I can hear the music (meet the ancestors) in my head still…

[@maytagmark2171]

Julian and Micks vocals sounds very similar

[@stellahanks745]

R thank you Mick for all those Tlme team programs and just listening to you . Loved every one of your talks on all your finds .we will miss you xx

[@Monkey_SK]

Great stuff.

[@zonabrown9241]

Bloody rude those people who walked out

[@DaisyDebs]

Brilliant ! :)

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[@pambroadfoot6863]

Why didnt they show all pics when Julian referred to them, really annoying

[@Cheeseatingjunglista]

14 hours from now eh? What shall I do in the meantime?

[@Cheeseatingjunglista]

Well, enjoyed the talk....

[@Digventures]

@@Cheeseatingjunglista Great! We're glad you like it :)

[@raphaelbernard7954]

I have you tube docs of how they concreted Stonehenge

[@reginaromsey]

I so wanted to be an archeologist until I reached college age and found that in the States it’s Jamestown to Seattle Gold Rush. The most is Native American which is political, and ‘Save the Pearls!” Or flints or 13,000 year old bones with incredibly much to tell except that it was required as “the Ancient Ancestor” by the ignorant but victimized for nothing. No point in digging.

[@raptman5425]

Julian talks more about himself than Mick.

[@willhouse]

❤💀❤💀❤

[@margporter6294]

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