Neolithic Ancient Mesopotamia

In this episode we explore how all of the Neolithic advances and environmental changes affected the prehistoric peoples and cultures of Mesopotamia previous to the ancient dynastic Sumerian period.
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[@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449]

In this episode we explore how all of the Neolithic advances and environmental changes affected the prehistoric peoples and cultures of Mesopotamia previous to the ancient dynastic Sumerian period. Support Chris and his awesome podcast in the links in the video description above! And support this channel by checking out the links below! Become a Patron of The Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages and make history matter! Join us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/The_Study_of_Antiquity_and_the_Middle_Ages Check out history related merchandise through our affiliate link to SPQR Emporium! spqr-emporium.com/?aff=3 The link above is an affiliate link which means we will receive a small commission from your generous purchases, just another way to support your history channel. Donate directly at our PayPal: paypal.me/NickBarksdale Join our community! Facebook Page: facebook.com/THESTUDYOFANTIQUITYANDTHEMIDDLEAGES/ Twitter: twitter.com/NickBarksdale Instagram: instagram.com/study_of_antiquity_middle_ages/ Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/164050034145170/

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

Here's a clip regarding the (rapidly growing consensus) scientific understanding of the younger dryas impact hypothesis, specifically relating here to studies undertaken in the Syrian site designated AH. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGeQipKpraammJo

[@peterparker-pl8wt]

This is for your information. Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Umma are Tamil words and still in use. Ur means village, Uruk means steel or to melt, Eridu means dark, if no lights in night is Eridu. Umma mother gives kisses to baby say Umma. These words I know may be more words. Elam is a pure Tamil word and still North and East of Sri Lanka is being called Tamil Elam or Eelam. You can spell either way. I am wondering how?

[@rrhodes75rr]

I'm currently in world histories in college and this was so informative where do you get all of your knowledge and information from thank you so much

[@gotian6649]

Thank you for the great video All this places is kurdish region Kurdish in Syria and kurdish in Turkey and kurdish in Iraq and kurdish in Iran All kurdish share between 4 countries!!! Kurdish are ancient ethnic minority communitie Sadly kurdish not have country for themself Kurdish land is ancient Mesopotamia

[@sebolddaniel]

Love the accent of the narratior and the unpretentious, subtle sarcasm, well written

[@cattymajiv]

This is such an artful collaboration by Nick and Chris! I miss nick so much! DW Graffin and those he works with are just great, but Nick was irreplaceable. RIP Nick. ❤❤❤

[@nukelaloosh4795]

hey nick, the visuals you add are unique & really complement chris's narration.

[@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449]

Charles Grady thank you for noticing! I sometimes spend hours trying to find just the right pic or video for the scene being described. Thanks for watching!

[@ericcloud1023]

You're content never ceases to intrigue/engross me in the magnificent history of our flawed yet beautiful species :) I hope you are getting better Nick we're all rooting for you & your beautiful family

[@benjaminlusty91]

I liked this before I even watched it. Your productions are pure class sir!

[@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449]

Benjamin Lusty just subbed to your channel! I’m looking forward to what you do in the future and thanks for your kind words of support!

[@zoltygawron]

Quite listenable on x1.25

[@rachel_Cochran]

Thanks Neolithic humans, for creating cities and thus leading to our current lifestyles...

[@hassanabdikarimmohamed2505]

Thank the modern descendants of Natufians such as Arabs, Cushitic people like Somalis and the Beja of northern Sudan, North african Berbers and Egyptian Copts ..they all carry the Natufian dna at high frequencies which peaks in the Horn of Africa among the Somali

[@someone-wi4xl]

@@hassanabdikarimmohamed2505 Natufian component highest percentage is in Arabian Peninsula Arabs and raches 70+% which is far higher than its percentage anywhere else period

[@whoops8412]

This was beautiful to listen to. Thank you 😊

[@DEMcouver]

I don’t know if I’m a little late in noticing this, but this video seems to be ad- supported, at least in the UK. Congratulations SOAATMA and HOTWP!

[@susanlegeza7562]

Extremely interesting, thank you!

[@unitor699industries]

Yes i remember those times

[@John-115]

Great work

[@mafabarzani9621]

Great lecture many thanks

[@MasterMalrubius]

Dropped you a few bills via PayPal Mr. Nick. As always appreciation on sharing great content.

[@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449]

I saw that and you truly made my day! I sent you an personal message via email, and truly we are so thankful and humbled by your gracious and heartfelt gift. People like you are why I am able to do what I love and you are a part of how I make history matter. When you have time, check out that email. It includes a private invite and etc. Truly again I thank you for your kindness and support. You have my best of wishes. Sincerely ~ Nick Barksdale

[@MasterMalrubius]

@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 Doing great. I have to say again, that discussion on the Golden Rose was excellent. Please have your guest back on soon.

[@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449]

@@MasterMalrubius we will I promise! Two more episodes are coming and then we are doing an entire series of lectures on villains of medieval Spain!

[@darlenefarmer5921]

Thank you.

[@Darkstar-se6wc]

Pro tip: If you feel it’s dragging, try listening at 1.25 speed!

[@bretthess6376]

The contemporary map is excellent. Where or how might I aquire one? I have studied history for 50 years and can't recall seeing such a detailed map of the historical area before. My compliments on your videos.

[@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449]

Got you fam! sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/imladjov/maps

[@17amreyes]

i would love to see a video about how they made their weapons

[@skeletalbassman1028]

Keep em coming brother.

[@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449]

Will do! Thanks for watching!

[@ironknives5395]

@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 greeks learnt sculpture from Egyptians.

[@deepblack67]

You failed to talk about the flooding of the Persian Gulf which culminated with the sudden arrival of the Ubaid, most likely from the flooded land further south. Also it seems that there was much contact with Harrapan culture prior to the large scale trade networks. ?

[@susterovic]

I love your videos but I don’t know in what order they go I’d love to start from the first obe

[@trishfevens9297]

How could ancient peoples have built Gobekli Tepe during the Younger Dryas period? During a Small ice age?

[@kaarlimakela3413]

The boats shown in an artwork of ancient river craft, made of straw-looking bundles bent in a great curve? People who still live in those marshes today make homes and temples using those same supports, bundled the same way ... seen in Nat.Geo.Mag photo article.

[@mattstakeontheancients7594]

Really enjoy the podcast and heard of the impact theory for the early dryas period. A little less substantiated but theorized is that a lot of flood myths may have been from this period that passed down. Not much validity but cool theory nonetheless

[@bretthess6376]

"Let's go to Ur for a beer. They always have good beer in Ur". -Red Dorakeen

[@gerry343]

Narrated by Michael Caine.

[@jerseymusicman3332]

He sounds identical to Gerald Pauschman

[@nunyafuckinbizniz]

Mawsta bruce!!

[@mver191]

Hmm pottery. Hmm bowls. Quite interesting.

[@lambastepirate]

Yep you need ceramic bowls to be able to cast copper and bronze

[@ThePonderingPiper]

There have been people living in southern Mesopotamia for 500K years - imagine that..

[@kaarlimakela3413]

So are we saying that chartered accountancy is at the heart of civilization? 🤭

[@covenawhite4855]

What was the first anatomically modern human archaeological culture discovered to date

[@heresysmith4068]

Bronies.

[@historyoftheworldpodcast5234]

This is a fantastic question! The first answer is always going to be a question, which is define "anatomically modern human". If we're talking about anything called Homo sapiens, then I would throw Jebel Ihroud in Morocco in at around 300,000 years old, which predates the previously thought of area of the Cradle of Mankind in the African Rift Valley as the earliest evidence known to date. In terms of cultural societies, prehistory relies on interpretation where more modern sites mean more cultural evidence, so sites such as Diepkloof Cave and Blombos Cave in South Africa give great archaeological evidence of a human lifestyle as opposed to just some human bones. There we see evidence of seafood hunting, cave wall painting and production of material through chemical production. We're looking at around 85,000-100,000 years ago there.

[@covenawhite4855]

@@historyoftheworldpodcast5234 Thank you for answering my question.

[@ANTSEMUT1]

Is volume 2 uploaded to KZbin?

[@historyoftheworldpodcast5234]

Only particular episodes.

[@ANTSEMUT1]

@@historyoftheworldpodcast5234 oh :(

[@historyoftheworldpodcast5234]

@@ANTSEMUT1 You can access the entire audio catalogue here. historyoftheworldpodcast.com/volume-2-the-ancient-world/

[@ANTSEMUT1]

@@historyoftheworldpodcast5234 thanks 😁

[@nixter888]

It's not only ancient Greek,but also modern Greek since is the same language...

[@joejones5677]

Nice program, but knowing human nature, I don't think accounting was anything to do with ensuring that people had their fair share. More, I'm sure, it would have been a tool the elite classes used to subordinate their workforce.

[@gorky1986]

A is good! Is a nice. I likes!

[@Stefan_trekkie]

When people go hungry was the recipe for ravage wars in the era

[@giorgoskousouloskousoulos5367]

Meso and Potamia are words we used even today, so they are not actually ancient.

[@cattymajiv]

You have it completely backwards.

[@vijaysalve868]

Have you any clue sir,how this great civilization came to an end?was it destroyed forcibly,by whom ?

[@historyoftheworldpodcast5234]

Which particular civilisation Vijay?

[@cattymajiv]

@@historyoftheworldpodcast5234 Why would you want to be an imposter with a fake name copied from a channel? Have you no personality of your own?

[@shankarvaigankar8116]

Please advise which God was worshiped/prayed at ubaid period, sumer period and Babylon period.

[@definitivamenteno-malo7919]

@Abhinandan Zambare because it's a simple geometrical figure, the same way crosses, X and triangles are everywhere.

[@definitivamenteno-malo7919]

@Abhinandan Zambare only in your own interpretation.... This claim is like saying that Egyptian crosses bare the same meaning as Christian ones.

[@definitivamenteno-malo7919]

@Abhinandan Zambare YOU talk common sense. Swastikas have different meanings from different origins. Your religion is not true and neither it is universal. Stop it. No one talked about Hitler.

[@blackoutvukovar4922]

Vučedol Croatia, Šumerians ;)

[@viktoriabrsoyan2644]

What about Nairi? Wouldn't you like to talk about Nairi's state? And one more thing, the term Anatolia was coined in the nineteenth century. That area is the Armenian Plateau.

[@dylanreece7991]

need a x2 option

[@michaelleblanc7283]

As an ignorant Canadian Colonial, but a strong British loyalist none-the less, would someone please, please tell me what or where Chris' 'accent' comes from ? It is extremely intriguing to me. Severely limited as my long-distance (time & place) Anglo-cultural awareness is, I can't help but think, Dickins' 'Artful Doger' must have sounded much the very same. We all loved the 'Dodger' didn't we ? What is so disconcerting to me is that the bugger seems to know so much and I simply can't stop listening to him. Hope some friend will answer.

[@historyoftheworldpodcast5234]

Essex, East of England

[@cattymajiv]

In the eastern part of England, not to the east of England, which is water.

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Very interesting...but the illustrations make the common mistake of giving "primitive people" shaggy and unkempt hairdos, when we all know (even from very old sculptures) that human beings took good care of their hairstyles. That mistake is a perfect examples of assumptions made by modern human beings. Interestingly, today's so called prmitive cultures too have very neat hairstyles (San/pygmies/caledonians/Papoua New Guinea etc).

[@Grabovsky85]

29:00 todays politicians could use this advice.

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My favorite MIL…..

[@PlampinUK]

Good but far too many repetitive adverts every few minutes makes it nearly unwatchable.

[@historyoftheworldpodcast5234]

Yes it's annoying, but someone's got to pay for your free entertainment.

[@PlampinUK]

@@historyoftheworldpodcast5234 I know, but most things I watch don't have so many adverts that it actually stops being "entertainment".

[@historyoftheworldpodcast5234]

@@PlampinUK Yes, fair enough! :)

[@xi8975]

What accent does narrator have?

[@vinrusso821]

Urak is where the Biblical Abraham came from, and all the peoples from his linage.

[@jerseymusicman3332]

Hold up... he’s not from Ur?

[@ahappyimago]

Jersey MusicMan333 No it’s more likely that it was modern day Urfa in Turkey because a journey from Urfa to Canaan stopping in Haran would make more sense. Also his interactions with the Hittites of the area.

[@domyandersongarcia3248]

Black peuple and culture.

[@lukasmakarios4998]

Big problem in the very beginning: you used a video clip from Quest for Fire, and implied that it was neolithic? Humans had fire all the way back two million years. AND they didn't wear skins. Neolithic people could weave cloth fabrics, and tan leather with which they made tailored clothing. Don't set the scene with a crass stereotype of primitive people being dumb. They had skills that you would be hard pressed to replicate, and knowledge that you would die before you learned it by yourself. Neolithic people were learning about agriculture and domesticating animals, and noticing that some colored rocks would melt in the kilns that they used to make pottery. They were neither stupid nor entirely primitive. They had begun the climb to civilization, and progressed far beyond their ancestors. Before that, they had merely lived to survive from year to year, struggling through the seasons in unchanging dullness. But even the ancestors left us tales of adventure and nature spirits.

[@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449]

Lukas Makarios actually we used a stock footage clip.

[@cattymajiv]

Neolithic people started out without all that, and only acquired that stuff very gradually. Even then, only the richest with the most advanced cultures lived in the high way you describe, with such material wealth that took a very advanced culture to produce. In the same areas there were still hunter gatherers, and they definately did not have these material advances.

[@desperatelyseekingrealnews]

Who came up with the name "younger dryas" ? Was there an "older dryas" waddafuq is a "dryas anyway ?😎😉

[@AymoTubeMusic]

That's Kurdistan

[@AymoTubeMusic]

@Abhinandan Zambare much respect for Hindus Love you too ❤️

[@casparcoaster1936]

It is the nature of those who study history & archeology in Europe & North America to beleive and try to establish the belief, that the "ORIGIN" of ceramics & metalurgy (the wheel, writing, agriculture, religion, et al civilization began in the Middle East. I hope those who watch these videos understand the lack of reason in the idea that archeology is a science at all, or that archeology can ever establish the ORIGIN of any human capability. Certainly science of probability would explain why anyone thinking archeology can establish such a thing is absurd. I hope teachers and narrators will begin to use the terms like, "...oldest known, extant, discovered, found, etc, not "first, original, etc." It defeats the purposes of archeology.

[@lukasmakarios4998]

True. Just as real archaeologists don't claim to find "the house of Saint Peter" in Capernaum, but say that it is the presumed house of Peter, because local traditions built a church there in his name.

[@WorldWokeApeCult]

Not true. Any introductory archaeology textbook will tell you that agriculture, pottery, etc. was invented independently in different parts of the world.

[@cattymajiv]

Archeologist DO NOT make definitive claims. It's haters like you that keep claiming they do that have turned the gullible brain dead consumers of KZbin and Tik Tok against archeology. No, it is not a science in itself and it doesn't claim to be one. It does use a vast array of actual sciences to investigate sites and artifacts, and the archeologists need to understand them all, and how they work. No one scientist understands every aspect of science. That's not possible. So why are you claiming that none of them are scientists? You are full of sh*t.

[@cattymajiv]

@@WorldWokeApeCult Yes. But probably first in the Fertile Crescent, and most likely in Sumer. That's what the indications are at this time. Present info more and more is indicating that the same things occurred in Egypt at the same time, or only slightly later, with China and the Indus Valley only slightly behind. The very newest info from the Indus is yet unconfirmed. Of course all of that will continue to change, with other areas sometimes being included too. If it ever becomes so well studied that anyone is willing to stake their entire reputation on any one area, it will be far into the future. That is except for charlatans like Hancock and Foerster.

[@WorldWokeApeCult]

@@cattymajiv Agriculture perhaps, but not ceramics.

[@myboloneyhasafirstname6764]

Why oh why does this good video start with that stupid stock photo of a caveman?

[@johnbuffum6135]

"BCE" If you are embarrassed about Jesus before men, He will be embarrassed about you before the Father.

[@cattymajiv]

BCE is the only honest and accurate way to say it. Basing anything on fairy tales is childish and dumb, especially time itself ! ! !