Prehistoric Dartmoor

A short inspirational film about life on Dartmoor in the Bronze Age. Find out more about the exciting 4,000 year discovery on Northern Dartmoor.
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[@velvetindigonight]

I look forward to 'restorative farming/rewilding' on Dartmoor. It pains me to see such a barren, overgrazed landscape without regrowth or biodiversity; this is not wild but man managed!

[@fenoftheforest]

i feel such a deep spiritual connection to dartmoor that i've never been able to explain. i've been all around the world but i always end up back in devon because i cannot seem to pry myself away from this extarordinary landscape

[@horderp2767]

its an artificial glacial tundra ecosystem from agricultural biocide certainly a romantic landscape to the ignorant quite tragic tho really I grew up there family still lives there also one of my favorite places

[@calibrenovel311]

There's a good chance much of Dartmoor would not have been a moor in her day as it was the Neolithic and Bronze-age farmers who by clearing the trees and vegetation to make way for pastures for livestock created the moor

[@modelleg]

You might be right about that. Would there be evidence of previously standing trees burried in the more?

[@user-vc4vj4ql1i]

i really enjoyed how this was narrated

[@digitalsketchguy]

Amazing story. I wonder if she would have traded bling and sun tan oils with Essex woman back in 2000BC

[@marksturge7536]

lmao

[@jelkel25]

Only saw a tiny fraction of all this when I was there but there's so much of it in among the beautiful countryside you don't really mind. The place is utterly spellbinding and I'll be there again next month!!

[@Juliet_Capulet]

This was beautiful!

[@yvonnemarshall7416]

Thank you wonderful information I love Dartmoore ,Wistamans wood where time stood still it's truly got an out of this world feel ,I have layed on the larg stone slabs in the old Narled trees bent from the winds that thunder across the Moores on storm nights . I believe there are many hidden secrets on the Moores still to be found one day . Yvonne mullion Cornwall England

[@siksikaoutdoors5203]

A beautiful short film, capturing one of Britains finest places to be and the ways of our ancient ancestors. Thank you so much for sharing this little gem 🙏👌💫

[@LivingHistorySchool]

your people are not long gone they still live in the UK

[@stanislavkostarnov2157]

most of the tribes that lived on the Dartmoor in the bronze age are genetically either totally unrelated or make up the smallest part of a % of modern Brits. Even the Celts ( Celtic cultures) surviving to this day are mostly those who came later from continental France and the valley of the Rhine

[@Survivethejive]

wrong. The Celtic languages were adopted by the Bronze age British beaker people. Modern British people are the same as Bronze age beaker people

[@antigen4]

Stanislav Kostarnov yes the dna analysis done on the bones of the cheddar man found near identical results with todays occupants despite most britons imagining they descended from romans. they did not.

[@horderp2767]

"Britain saw significant population changes, however. Beaker culture was taken up by a group of people living in Central Europe whose ancestors had previously migrated from the Eurasian Steppe. This group continued to migrate west and finally arrived in Britain around 4,400 years ago. (See How does Cheddar Man fit into this? box and Population movements into Britain maps at the bottom of this page.) The DNA data suggests that over a span of several hundred years, the migrations of people from continental Europe led to an almost complete replacement of Britain's earlier inhabitants, the Neolithic communities who were responsible for huge megalithic monuments such as Stonehenge. The DNA also shows that the Beaker folk would have had generally different pigmentation that of the population they replaced, who had olive-brown skin, dark hair and brown eyes. In comparison, the Beaker folk brought genes significant reduction in skin and eye pigmentation, with lighter skin, blue eyes and blonde hair becoming more common in the population."

[@harebell6850]

Really nice thanks, interesting too.

[@tomashize]

Very good but the music was a bit much.

[@ThatLadyBird]

This is one of my favorite videos. Please make more like this!

[@tnetroP]

It's hard to describe the connection I feel to people who lived on this land. I have no idea if I am related to anyone there and my life today is so far removed from theirs. But I have always felt a deep connection to my forebears. I always feel a deep peace when hiking on Dartmoor.

[@S.Trades]

Maybe it's the fresh air and exercise doing you some good?

[@simon-oy6um]

They were all quite happy ,and then the romans came along 😢

[@scottwelsh6847]

That was beautiful

[@caravaggiosaccomplice7841]

This was superb. Thanks.

[@helenhunter4540]

"Someone important". I hear this and similar in virtually every "Archeology" video I watch, or begin to watch. Class crap.Goodbye. Learn better ifvyou can.

[@dragon-sb6hc]

Wonderful story

[@terrancetexan5805]

Grave Robber's.

[@jimwalsh1958space]

Eternal Dartmoor

[@alfredorivas7743]

exelente reportaje me encanto lastima que no entiendo el idioma pero segire mirando y eschuchando estos programas me encantan.saludos desde mexico

[@craftycriminalistwithms.z3053]

Keep trying to learn and watching videos in English helps a ton while learning a new language. It’s been 6 years have you gotten any better? I understand a lot more Spanish than I can or am willing to speak with fluent speakers, but I’m always trying to learn Spanish and become comfortable speaking it, and writing in it. Peace

[@DakiniDream]

nice pictures, history as a dream :)

[@irishelk3]

Great

[@garychynne1377]

thank yew

[@1x0en]

Fascinating, thank you. But could you please take the music down a notch or two as it was rather difficult to hear the narrator at times. But really fascinating, thank you.

[@yvonnemarshall7416]

Regarding Amber The Amber could very well of come from Island of white they have the oldest Amber in the world .

[@andyblksmth]

background music way too loud... hard to head what she's saying...,,,,,,

[@scottscottsdale7868]

at this time, the Sumarians were singing and writing songs about getting drunk on beer. I know where I would wanted to have live back then.

[@kirkhamandy]

If I didn't know better they cremated and buried my wife because she's no different today!

[@Tsnore]

Some say they can hear the Hound baying for its prey to this very day.

[@moblox4676]

Amazing

[@moblox4676]

Zinggggggggggggg

[@markc8626]

in actuality we don't know what she was called.

[@chazk7530]

I went to a mount above the sea, and found a cave

[@toedthezombie1890]

I watched this in school

[@forestgreen916]

NW or SE ?

[@BenSHammonds]

absolutely love such places, where one can feel the fathoms of the ages about you, the history that goes so far back into mystical realms of yesteryear, it really has its allure for me, The landscape alone is a wonderful thing to view, to be part of.

[@jagbolts]

Bruh I’m just looking at the comments instead of watching the actual vide 😂

[@cameronblack888]

“Magic of tire fire “ “great awe” sounds like some assumptions to me, loved the first part of the video tho

[@coisasdonordeste9843]

❤️🌹 lindo 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@HardyBunster]

You can sense then while you are there. ♥️

[@Sheepdog1314]

well done.

[@lordliffty]

kist - kista

[@antigen4]

lordliffty = box.

[@markedwards9247]

Quite good until you got to the dramatisation of the Exmoor woman. It is extremely unlikely that a woman would have been "important". Any more than the Downing Street cat is important. Before at least 1000 CE women were very much considered property. They owned nothing and were completely subservient to their male companion. There is enormous amounts of evidence to support this. Today, such suggestions are considered sexist. But we must not implant our values onto the past. We see in all similar existing societies that women were very much home-makers and child bearers. That was about it. That is not condescending, it is how it was. Even up to 150 years ago, women very rarely were involved in leadership, politics, or economics in Britain. It is entirely possible that she was the beloved of someone of importance. But the evidence points to there being a distinct lack of what we would call an hierarchy, and extreme importance on family and "clan". We should be extremely careful not to ascribe our culture and values to prehistoric societies. Particularly promoting these as a point of education.

[@lifterz952]

Boudica Has joined the chat…

[@cujimmy1366]

Mother nature is our one and only master.

[@velvetindigonight]

Try telling that to the 0.001% who run the planet! Though I wish she were.

[@vmm5163]

@@velvetindigonight those few who run the planet are psychopaths. They rise to the top of any establishment and take over. I suppose those types of personality disorders are mother nature in action, or the behaviours wouldn't exist if they weren't useful? Real clinical psychopaths have differing brain structures at birth, so maybe there's a need for deranged leaders, who knows..,? 🤷

[@patriotpioneer]

She would of had Dark Brown Eyes?

[@Survivethejive]

she could have done. They had the same diversity of eye colours as we do today - blue, green and brown

[@sonofherne]

Maybe. They could test her DNA to find out. Even today nearly half of Britons don't have blue eyes, though dark brown is not as common as light brown or hazel.

[@antigen4]

sonofherne brown, dark brown amber and hazel are not genetically different. just variations that happen in individuals. certiwnly members of the same family often have mixed eye colours

[@horderp2767]

@Rambo Baggins that is an entirely unscientific statement and generalization

[@horderp2767]

its common for neolithic peoples to be depicted as darker some of this is actually from the archeological record some of it is modern social artifact blue eyes had emerged in homo sapiens some 30 thousand years prior neanderthals might have evolved them separately even earlier but dont quote me on that one