Neolithic Orkney: the First Farmers [4K]

[@julesdingle]

Hi Everyone, thanks for watching and please.. hit the subscribe button, I'm current in Iberia exploring and filming Neolithic sites and will be bring them to this change soon.. so don't miss out. best xJ

[@anthonyodonnell6105]

I can't remember when I last heard such intelligent commentary.

[@TheJoan48]

I want to learn as much as possible about the history of Ireland because it's in my DNA. Have you heard people say they're fascinated on a gut level by the ancient stones? I sure am.

[@JaimeBird-n8m]

Iv found my DNA english dad's side and Irish Scottish Scandinavian on mums.mcglinn from Ireland..wan/wann family from oakney they traveled to NZ then western Australia DNA opens up family history.good luck with yours

[@hoxtonspanishtutor9499]

What a beautiful piece of art. I can only prize the photography as well as the research made into an exquisite audiovisual narrative. Thank you. Looking forward to watch more of your work.

[@julesdingle]

very glad you enjoyed it...certainly more videos in the pipeline..currently hunkered down in a very wet and windy December, and thank you.

[@WendyInCollingwood]

👋🇨🇦 I ❤ ❤ ❤ your brilliant drone videography, comprehensive historic timeline research, and your interestingly informative narrative 😍🌟🥰 Thank You, Very Much, From Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada. 🇨🇦 🦌🍁

[@julesdingle]

thank you

[@TheJoan48]

@@julesdingle The music is also somehow familiar.

[@christinakaur8766]

This was very informative and produced well. I believe that we have been farming and raising livestock for much longer than 12 000 years.

[@kimlarso]

Really appreciate this, Ty! 💕🦋

[@naradaian]

Wow - beautifully made and fullsome

[@rachelhenderson2688]

I fell in love with Orkney the first time I went there! I'm not able to go there any more, but I can watch programmes like this, what a treat!

[@B34ms]

Very informative and interesting

[@markscott554]

Back in the day at uni I did a thesis on the Picts simply so I had the excuse to galavant around Scotland and managed to make it to the Orkneys and the Shetlands. Great memories, except for the ferry rides.

[@wotireckon]

Stunning and fascinating.

[@julesdingle]

thanks.. I'm off to Brittany and Spain this winter so will have more on these incredible ancient builders.

[@timflatus]

Can't wait for the next episode!

[@jopatrick8401]

Thank you for this presentation - really informative particularly in highlighting the reasons for the mobility of our ancient ancestors. Having just heard about the Stonehenge altar stone coming from thenorthern area of Scotland potentially including Orkney, I really do think that these stones were a visible indication of place to those people, and unity of culture. Also gathering at times indicated by the sun. moon and stars.

[@GreatCityAttractions]

Super footage - well done.

[@tinab3364]

Your research of history is amazing

[@Andy_Babb]

Thank you for not using AI to narrate. I really enjoy these kind of videos and especially this period of time in this region (UK & Northern Europe in general) so thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@julesdingle]

I'm very glad you enjoyed the video, and yes it would be tempting to use a bot to narrate as its a skill I sometimes struggle with.. especially keeping it understandable and not mumbled!

[@carolfranklin758]

So glad you didn’t use a bot. They mispronounce names have a strange unsatisfactory cadence and are generally without affect. Ugh! But this was a fine film with wonderful drone shots and good script!

[@Andy_Babb]

@@julesdingle please keep up the great work my friend. Great video!!

[@baldmetal]

Some dolmens are almost exactly to one I saw in Vasque Country (Spain). Is the first time I see them in other place. Thank you for this great document!

[@julesdingle]

Hi, I actually got to Spain this winter and have some videos on the way, and yes it's all fascinating ..haven't quite worked it all out but a video will emerge this year.

[@MaineMan086]

We will be visiting Orkney in June 2024, and we learned a lot from your excellent video! It always helps to study a place before one visits it. The drone clips were superb! I plan to have my drone along and hope I can create something as fascinating (weather permitting)!

[@julesdingle]

Orkney is very much weather permitting! I hope you will a lovely time either way

[@julesdingle]

Check out my other video on Orkney. Dragon’s Lair it’s about war time Scapa flow

[@anthonyodonnell6105]

We're planning to be there for the solstice this year (2024). We live in Vancouver, Washington. My parents are from the West of Scotland.

[@julesdingle]

@@anthonyodonnell6105 you will simply love it. The Stone circles are free to access, it is all very chilled out, the curlew and snipes have a very strange call before dawn. And it is early enough the wee midges are not around to bite. If you visit Scara village after 6pm then the staff are gone and there is a gate by the beach allowing you to explore the site alone.

[@anthonyodonnell6105]

@@julesdingle Ah, the midges! We're really looking forward to going. Among other things, I want my sons to experience the long days and gloaming.

[@TheGreenmangrove]

a most coherent exposition

[@somerfeeild]

As good as any other history and archaeological KZbin channel I’ve seen lately. The drone shots and atmospheric tone really work well when it works. The information could be “punchier” but that might ruin it also

[@julesdingle]

I am working on delivery! so perhaps punchier in the future.

[@valerieday1608]

I enjoyed that

[@Mrcool12684]

more ancient stuff please!

[@julesdingle]

no problem.. there will be more over the summer as the weather improves.

[@DJEastwood24]

A good video with lots of relevant information.. many dubious assumptions too, though.

[@julesdingle]

I'm always interested in different opinions.. which assumptions do think are dubious? thanks.

[@TheGreenmangrove]

good document

[@snodrog5]

Thank you.

[@julesdingle]

thank you, it makes the late nights of editing worth it

[@danhanqvist4237]

Very interesting video. But perhaps more care about enunciation in the narration would be useful.

[@julesdingle]

yes, an ongoing learning curve.. as a one person 'studio' and only doing voice overs in the last few years every video I hope is an improvement

[@Paraglidecrete]

Μία ημέρα στα Νέα Στύρα και τα Δρακόσπιτα της Εύβοιας - Evia island: Nea Styra and the Dragon houses

[@molecatcher3383]

It took many generations for the farmers to reach Orkney after them leaving the Eastern Mediterranean and they would be interbreeding with the local hunter-gatherers along the way. DNA studies for the whole of europe have shown that the Neolithic Farmer DNA decreases as the distance from their original homeland increases. In Europe, Scotland has some of the lowerst proportions of Neolithic Farmer DNA.

[@julesdingle]

There is a tiny amount of Mesolithic DNA across the population and so far there appears to be little evidence of inter breeding [although some would have happened] .. and only a small amount of Neolithic DNA as sometime around 2000-1000 BC the Bronze Age N.European DNA dominates. One thing I noticed was despite Vikings colonising the Orkneys there is not much blond DNA.. the locals tend to be shorter, with dark features and hair.. Bronze Age culture had less of an impact on the Orkneys and the N Scotland so perhaps more ancient farmer DNA survives. What is curious is the Bronze Age monuments like the Stone Henge we see today came much later after the first stone circles in Orkney and Harris.. and the Beaker people learnt from them.

[@robertthomas7176]

what a great video

[@julesdingle]

hey, thanks glad you enjoyed it

[@robertthomas7176]

@@julesdingle I will share your channel with my friends! Excellent content. My wife is reading a book centered in the Orkneys right now. So last night we decided to find some videos that shed some light on the place and yours popped up. We both thought that referring to a stone circle as a fertility app was both funny and thought provoking at the same time. Having always though of those places as centers for solemn ceremony it was actually nice to think that maybe it was, at least some of the time, a place to party and connect. Like going to a rock concert as a younger adult it makes their life experience more relatable to what we live now. And your narration, your voice, is top shelf. Sending wishes from Nova Scotia in this merriest of seasons across the pond, .

[@somerfeeild]

The idea of the culture of Orkney being an immigration from the Mediterranean through the sea hasn’t really occurred to me until now. The people in Scotland up to then had been immigrants from Africa post ice age and were Hunter gatherers. Orkney Neolithic archeology has more in common with Greece, Italy, France than it does than it does those people. Is there a date for the first immigrants to arrive in Orkney from the Mediterranean?

[@julesdingle]

They travelled up within 2 or 3 generations of the first migrants from Brittany.. so they would have been 'British' for several generations. One thing I noticed is that despite Norse colonisation the Orkadians frequently have dark hair, strong eyebrows, tend to be shorter [and a little rounder] so perhaps their DNA carries traits of the first farmers. The first Britons came form Europe that had been inhabited for 20- 40,000 years.. so it was dark skinned Europeans who followed the retreating ice sheets 12,000 years ago.. with some living in the shadow the glaciers in Doggerland.. now the flooded North Sea

[@somerfeeild]

Sorry only just realised you replied to this! My impression was that early post ice age hunter gathering people had lived in Scotland initially, crossing on doggy land, and then “sea people” who could farm had migrated from France, Spain etc. after them and colonised the islands and coasts and eventually the mainland. Maybe outcompeting as they could farm and had a wide trade network across Europe. The only people that could live on orkney would have been very god at sea travel I’d imagine.

[@somerfeeild]

Ah I get you now. So it was a reasonably quick immigration up to Orkney from France. Imagine how an exciting time would of been. Pioneers immigrating to a new land that had never been farmed

[@somerfeeild]

Exciting is maybe the wrong term 🥲

[@David-mo5jw]

I understand that following the introduction of farming there appears to be evidence of starvation and an absence of fish eating.This appears also on the mainland/costal settelments despite there being vast resources. I wonder if their law was absolute ?

[@julesdingle]

is there an article or study on the subject? it does sound intriguing

[@David-mo5jw]

I couldn’t say specifically but I know it’s a thing having read of burials found next to the sea severely malnourished.I’ve had Consequently discussions with archaeologists who confirmed that there did appear to have been a prohibition about eating fish .Something to keep an eye out for and you will find it

[@julesdingle]

@@David-mo5jw will do- a problem with Orkney is the extreme timescale farmers were resident .. with overlaps with Bronze Age burials and changing climate that disrupted the first neolithic farmers

[@eboracum2012]

Opening screen looks like the US State of Florida and Key West bridges, sort of!

[@julesdingle]

yes it does look like a space picture although only 100 metres!

[@saragott3147]

The introductory music is piercing! I hope it doesn’t go throughout!

[@julesdingle]

Hi, selecting music is personal, and being a KZbinr I'm reliant on copyright free music, and choice is always problematic..not everyone is going to appreciate my choices. as the years go by I have started to hold back on the volume. I will try and be more nuanced in the future. Thanks for the feed back

[@lamontcranston3177]

This doc references the possibility that the stone circles are tied to fertility. (around the 28th minute mark) This seem an obvious theory to me and I can't help feeling we have avoided it due to good clean Christian scholarship. I have read about, and spent hours in stone circles in Ireland. I have contemplated their purpose as do all who learn of their existence. It has occurred to me many times that they could well be places for ritual intercourse. This might be in groups or couples.

[@julesdingle]

Hi, I came to my conclusions based on growing up in farming and farmers being particularly concerned about fertility and when prize animals come on heat. Neolithic Britons were primarily farmers so breeding and fertility are a no brainer. BUT.. on this issue we can all have our own theories!

[@lamontcranston3177]

@@julesdingle I thought of the possibility of sexual activity in the circles when I was at Lough Gur in Co. Limerick. Right next to the big stone circle is another small circle. You get the impression that the smaller circle is for something private. Who knows though. It could be for livestock.

[@christianwitness]

This was very-well done. The opening "music" almost drove me away... A simple pattern with no developement. Arghh! Good show really!

[@julesdingle]

yes, music is personal and always difficult to get the balance and choice right - audio and music get the most complaints! glad you enjoyed it despite the music

[@s.bretts4934]

Largely confusing...

[@danhanqvist4237]

We can never learn anything about their beliefs. There are no sources whatever for that.

[@julesdingle]

Yes, it is a hole in academia yet many insist they know better [including a top Orkney archeologist who is very certain]. As I point out anything speculative is purely my opinion.. ancient history is our collective history and with some learning I think its right people do have opinions to help make the past a little more accessible and interesting.

[@naradaian]

Most Jungians would know you are being literal but not wise

[@danhanqvist4237]

@@julesdingle Speculation can certainly be interesting, but if it's not testable it doesn't really provide knowledge. Accessibility is good, but should not be accessibility to fiction. What we can't know we don't know.

[@danhanqvist4237]

@@naradaian I can't really se how Jung is relevant to anything.

[@julesdingle]

I have a video coming out soon on my visit to the Portuguese stone circles and ancient neolithic culture yet there is so little information.. I will set out more clearly my speculation ..story telling if you like from the facts. And it gives me a chance to explore an important topic and give my case for dreaming [in moderation]

[@viesia8]

Interesting. Not very Orkney relevant though.

[@julesdingle]

sorry, I hate to disappoint .. but I do cover the main sites, as important Orkney was in neolithic times the number of actual sites to visited is limited to the two stone circles, the tombs and the village of Scara Brae and that pretty well is it. You can do a through visit over a weekend.

[@gordonthomson303]

You have not heard of vitamin D. I think some of this is a load of bull

[@julesdingle]

??? do explain...vitamin D?.. and yes as I clearly state some of the views are personal, and to make it more interesting than reading the wikipedia entry for ancient locations.