Secrets of the Stone Age (1/2) | DW Documentary

During the Stone Age, humans shifted from the nomadic lifestyle to the more settled life of farmers. A documentary on an important period of human history. Watch Part 2 here: • Secrets of the Stone A...
Around 12,000 years ago, humans underwent a transition from nomads to settlers. That epoch, the Stone Age, produced monumental building works. Part 1 of this two-part documentary illuminates the cultural background of these structures and shows the difficulties Stone Age humans had to contend with. Until around 10,000 BC, humans lived as hunters and gatherers. Then an irreversible change began. Settlements formed. "For millions of years humans lived as foragers and suddenly their lives changed radically. This was far more radical than the start of the digital age or industrialization," says prehistorian Hermann Parzinger, president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. For a long time, scholars believed that a sedentary lifestyle was a prerequisite for constructing large buildings. Then archaeologist Klaus Schmidt discovered Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey, a 12,000-year-old complex of stone blocks weighing up to 20 tons. Its builders were still hunter- gatherers. They decorated the stone columns with ornate animal reliefs. How these structures were used and who was allowed access to them remains a mystery. But we now know that the site was abandoned and covered over once settlements took root. Human development continued its course. The discovery of agriculture and animal husbandry led to larger settlements, a changed diet and ultimately to dependence on material goods. This social upheaval in the late Neolithic period has influenced our lives up to the present day. But experts agree that the monuments of the Stone Age prove that humans have gigantomanic tendencies and a need to immortalize themselves.
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[@DWDocumentary]

This documentary is also available to watch in Spanish Part 1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHrMi59mp6-Jo6c Part 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/equYmoOMoK2ppq8

[@chris24hdez]

¡gracias!

[@LuisAldamiz]

Excellent, I will rather share in this language.

[@keineahnung6124]

Muchos tenquius.

[@garytucker5748]

Hand bags are a menu list of available foods in area.!

[@toadinthehole8085]

Do u have it in Klingon

[@jeromedragon5287]

So many of us give our ancestors such little credit, they were not stupid.

[@Tyrfingr]

People know nothing of their past. And the movie industry and popular culture don't help much when they portray everyone as living in caves doing grunting sounds.

[@wallymesojednik3964]

But our academics are the stupid ones, they can't see what's in front of their eyes.

[@stevenc8140]

Yes J. It is apparent that today we believe that our society is morally advanced & superior to the Ancients. Over 80-90% of what they did is still unknown. I mean Nano technology in the Roman Era? Give me a break. We are the narrow minded, environmental disaster civilization!

[@bodystomp5302]

My hunch is that if we took a time machine back 15,000 years, our minds would be blown.

[@imhoman8423]

I thought they were stupid

[@betsybarnicle8016]

Since they posted this, a non-hunter/gatherer permanent village was found nearby that matches the same time period. So, they've concluded that the 'temple' was built by a settled community.

[@SwamptimeLoco513]

Yeah, that checks out.

[@ducksinarowpatience3670]

Good looking out.

[@TheWhitefisher]

@@virtuallifter2438 from the Wikipedia article on Gobekli Tepe: "Evidence indicates that the inhabitants were hunter-gatherers who supplemented their diet with early forms of domesticated cereal and lived in villages for at least part of the year. Tools such as grinding stones and mortar & pestle, found at Göbekli Tepe, were analyzed and suggest considerable cereal processing"

[@TheWhitefisher]

@@virtuallifter2438 There are plenty of records of agriculture from around the time of Gobekli Tepe, including earlier. Because the transition was more of a gradual change than a revolution you can think of it as a cut-scene fading

[@TheWhitefisher]

@@virtuallifter2438 A liberal source like wikipedia omg nevermind sorry I retract everything I've said and I regret initiating a conversation with you. Somebody else can teach you how to do research and evaluate information. You Americans and your constant partisan everything. So exhausting.

[@gooner72]

I think that Professor from Malta hit the nail on the head when he basically said "Why would you leave fertile and beautiful Sicily to sail to Gozo other than curiosity because you can see one from the other on a clear day." It was natural curiosity in my opinion as it's a strong inbuilt human characteristic.

[@stevethea5250]

16:00

[@grendel_nz]

Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions cause movement of ppl around the Med to this day. If your home island is covered in ash or a tsunami... you would leave... remember Pompeii? Some didn't leave in time... Hello Napoli.. wakey wakey ;)

[@theCosmicQueen]

naw, bullshhht. they needed to find thier own place, it had too many people trapped there and natural resources depleted, deforested. maybe family conflicts as well. they needed plenty of land to survive well. that guy was clueless or just egotistical or something.

[@drummingtildeath]

When people question the motives of making a perilous journey I always just think "well, there wasn't a whole lot to do back then and people are a bit mad".

[@DihelsonMendonca]

*DW produces the most amazing documentaries ever. The sober show, without any special audio effects, excellent audio recording, mixing, narration and specially beautiful footage from professional protographers give these programs a robust educative production. The music is solid, sober, used with intelligence. I love these documentaries, which give me calmness, inspired thoughts about our past. It´s amazing to watch them. So different than for example, those american series like "Weird or what", with William Shatner, or "Ancient Alliens", which the voice is low, and the quantity of audio EFX turns them almost impossible to watch. Those producers look like wanting to put hundreds of images and sounds in only one second. Congratulations DW, for these excellent, sober, amazing series. They are eternal. This is the way to create documentaries*

[@RealityHijacked]

They're alright, bro lol. BBC docs are a lot better IMHO. 😋

[@JJONNYREPP]

Secrets of the Stone Age (1/2) | DW Documentary 19.3.22 0512am i think you do the old monuments a dis-service by comparing them with recent religious practices... p.s as for relative peace and tranquility amongst neolithic peoples - they were too busy. too busy building their monuments to take heed of what others were up to...

[@andrereloaded1425]

No need to diss William Shatner. I was with you until then.

[@JoePelusoMedia]

LOVED IT. Y'all seriously make great documentaries. Thank you for your effort.

[@TheDirthound]

I think saying the early farmers were sedentary is inaccurate, I'd label it stationary. Farming, especially during the beginning of the agricultural revolution, was quite demanding. Sedentary people don't clear forests by hand, till the soil and domesticate animals let alone build or make everything they need.

[@bottlethrower1544]

Well, perhaps you should spend more time looking up the definition of sedentary and spend less time crafting ill-informed posts. No offense. Just trying to help

[@bottlethrower1544]

@@TheDirthound "Sedentary: adjective Remaining or living in one area; not migratory." Like I said: spend less time excreting ignorant, lazy and obnoxious posts and more time reading the dictionary Self-own much? 😅😆😀

[@pipfox7834]

words can have more than one meaning, and dictionary meanings are constantly updated. Did you know that? Previous editions would contain more than one meaning, sedentary has more than one meaning. Have a nice day

[@pipfox7834]

this can easily be seen if you own more than one dictionary :) especially if you buy one every decade.

[@dmmayfield6726]

One can always count on DW, for High-Quality programming. Many Thanks!

[@geeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzz]

It's strange but now that we have all these computers and such I think it somehow makes this seemingly simpler ancient stuff more intriguing. They probably had a fairly nice existence. No traffic jams & pollution, 9 to 5 or nightshirt. 24 hours always on everything. No endless bureaucracy. I wonder did they have archaeologists? A good show. Very nice scenery.

[@MyReligionIs2DoGood]

Yeah, a great life having to worry about survival to the next day 24/7...

[@uncannyvalley2350]

Teeth, I always wonder what they did about bad teeth.

[@martavdz4972]

@@uncannyvalley2350 People generally didn´t get cavities as much as we do today until the 16th century in Europe - the advent of processed beetroot sugar.

[@bobleclair5665]

The meaning of stone age sure is changing

[@centrewand2195]

Yea😅

[@Its_Shaun_the_Sheep]

Not sure about believing anything else if they don’t know the Stone Age was 2.6m years ago not a mere 7000

[@bobleclair5665]

The more they discover, the more we’ll realize,we’re just mere remnants of greater civilizations ,, we have a bad habit of destroying our history

[@saraholson5946]

Considering over 90% of human history was the stone age we really need more research and documentaries on this period.

[@markjackson5665]

I have been to both Gozo and Orkney and was struck by the similarity of some structures in both places. But the similarity between the “cup and ring” markings and dolmen structures in Korea to those in Britain and Ireland is even more staggering!

[@juliewatson2281]

I like the suggestion I read not long ago that such dolmen structures may have been erected as protective structures as locals got caught out in the open in such events as solar flares, flashes, bombardment from meteor showers, horrific wind and rain storms. They would provide some protection.

[@thomasvanheeswijk24]

I visited Orkney 2 weeks ago, just incredible. Something stirs in the soul when you visit these places. I felt like crying, but no reason why.

[@markjackson5665]

@@thomasvanheeswijk24 I know what you mean.

[@seankennedy1377]

One of the main problems with archeology is the amount of conjecture presented as facts. They say temples then say they're not sure of the structures purpose.

[@franksmith7271]

Science too, everything's a theory, defended as fact even in the face of overwhelming facts. EDIT: spelling.

[@bethbartlett5692]

This is such an accurate statement. Theories repeated so often they're accepted as facts. (a great deal like Fox News and their accusations of various Individuals - Nome Conservatives)

[@barniestormer6698]

Exactly just be cause we are brainwashed with religion doesnt mean they were

[@melanieenmats]

And also when they find new evidence like Gobleki Tepe... Then never change the theory. They keep the old one with ad hoc explanation. It is the problem that archaeology itself is fossilized to protect the reputations of generations of university professors.

[@jamiesouliere2610]

Its the same with astronomy and all the other sciences. It is one of the main reasons for the swelling tide of mistrust of science.

[@pierremoreau986]

Excellent DW thanks

[@harrietharlow9929]

I love the art at Gobekli Tepi! The ancients were far more intelligent and artistic than many think. GT is proof of that.

[@frieswijk]

The intellect of the human sapiens has never changed. Knowledge has changed, but people were always as smart as we are. We would have to evolve to another species to get smarter

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@frieswijk Well, I won't argie that, but as time has gone by we seem to use less and less of the intellect we have been given

[@Ljw-low-ljw]

@@harrietharlow9929 agree.

[@phyl1283]

Some of what you love at GT may be graffiti.

[@Allworldsk1]

This is really amazing information. Thank you for the upload. 👌👌

[@alfazedz1791]

Hats off to them finding these sights, uncovering them and dating them, but they have almost no idea what was happening back then.

[@MrForlines]

Still is the necrophilia nessicary to get the answers?

[@RaktimKantiBhowmick]

Amazing documentary 👏👌

[@Roma-sq3nk]

"As far as we can tell... stone age was pretty good!" 37:20

[@jorgegustavoortiz7717]

Amazing documentary, Thanks for the education provided.

[@DAWMiller]

@3:34 Revolutionalized ... my new favorite word.

[@tonymac1349]

Duncan Miller I’m glad I’m not the only person that caught that, at least we are learning “new” words lmao!

[@arthas640]

"revolutionized" has got to be the most overused word nowadays. It's been reduced to nothing more then a corporate buzzword due to overuse by anyone to describe anything even remotely new. Before i saw this video i was watching a show on farming and some woman got articles written about her for being "revolutionary" because she started growing east Asian vegetables in the US and they even had the balls to say "no one had ever attempted anything like this".

[@ronin6158]

I heard that to. (see what I did there?)

[@dr.johnpaladinshow9747]

Revolutionalized? Really? Proof of our species in decay. This would never have passed editing 30 years ago.

[@Amknownas_743great_explainer]

@@arthas640 This one... the crown prince of lordaeron, destroyer of my dreams(I never did get that damn mount), and linguist. Preaching to the choir here. Only word worse is literally. People use it to stress the importance of something instead of its literal use. (See what I did there?) Lol

[@sayfeddine7261]

This is exactly the documentary I was hoping for! This transition from wild living to the beginning of civilization is easily the most important event in human history

[@peterwilson5528]

DW your documentaries are top quality. I enjoy watching them so much. Thank you very much for your hard work giving us these treasures of knowledge. Vielen Dank :)

[@ovechkin100]

they are top quality propaganda is misinformation. This is grade A, 100% bullshit. Nothing youve heard from this documentary makes any sense if you understand what it takes to build these structures with the technology they had.

[@dentonfender6492]

The fingers appearing as if grasping the sides of the stone look allot like the fingers/hands grasping the stones/lower torso of the Moai on Easter Island. Long lanky hands that seem to be symbolic in some way. Interesting!!!!

[@ducksinarowpatience3670]

During the intro I thought of Easter island

[@spacecryptid1769]

They shared a lot of ideas knowledge and style people traveled then like they do nowadays society that can build using cyclopean architecture were way smarter than some hunter gatherer mf they want you to thank there work can be found all over this world our civilization didnt build most this stuff like pyramids

[@qosimhernandez5169]

This video is great, thanks

[@fortheearth]

Very interesting. Thank you so much for posting.

[@Dolfo13]

Great documentary!

[@timrogers2045]

Fascinating. Thank you for this.

[@seeksvengeance8827]

"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks." Tennessee Williams

[@LaGrandeBayou]

“All the World is a stage” “History Repeats Itself” -the 1000 year old Pedophile Media Mafia

[@hillbillynerd..6797]

And the virgin's are trimming there wick's.. Johny Cash..

[@LaGrandeBayou]

“Trust gets you killed, love gets you hurt and being real gets you hated.” - Johnny Cash

[@colincurtis3861]

If you notice this notice, then you will notice, that this notice, is not worth noticing!

[@adrienne3334]

@@LaGrandeBayou I love these quotes of yours and find most of them to be fact!

[@deanhall662]

This was very well done. Structuring the evolution of the graveyard is something I've never seen before. Keep up the good work

[@daieast6305]

i saw a video of people who in ancient times suspended their dead in coffins on huge racks on cliff faces...a most unique grave yard.. the current descendants no longer pay much attention to the ways of their ancestors.

[@patriciatewhetu6808]

@@daieast6305 here in nz the indigenous maori people made enclosed seats out of flax and suspended their deceased loved ones high in the trees. I know of only 1 business still doing it the old traditional way.

[@harveytheparaglidingchaser7039]

Took me a long time to discover stones of Carnac, going there as soon as, thanks DW

[@davidzapf3383]

What is under the ground. Just fosselized animals or giants. Waiting the great flood what come and they could not stop

[@patshelby9285]

Wish I were going. There is one stone in particular there which dropped my jaw Everytime from the first I saw it. About 33 (?) minutes into a documentary on monuments or monoliths there is this one that at the angle, in the lighting filmed, there is an overwhelmingly realistic, if worn, base relief carving(?). To me it appeared to be a standing male, in a fur(?) loin cloth. Facing, three quarters or more, facing the camera. Arms hanging relaxed by his sides. Hands in relaxed semi curves. Serene and muscular. Level gaze out over the land before him. I named it the "Esau stone," after Jacob's son. I have never seen or heard of anyone else noting this. I am sure it was the lighting, but have also wondered if someone doctored the film. Or even shaded/tinted the face of the stone itself. I could see it Everytime I watched the film, but doubt if it would be seen at all except with the exact lighting and angle. I am unlikely ever to know.

[@patshelby9285]

Wish I were going. There is one stone in particular there which dropped my jaw Everytime from the first I saw it. About 33 (?) minutes into a documentary on monuments or monoliths there is this one that at the angle, in the lighting filmed, there is an overwhelmingly realistic, if worn, base relief carving(?). To me it appeared to be a standing male, in a fur(?) loin cloth. Facing, three quarters or more, facing the camera. Arms hanging relaxed by his sides. Hands in relaxed semi curves. Serene and muscular. Level gaze out over the land before him. I named it the "Esau stone," after Jacob's son. I have never seen or heard of anyone else noting this. I am sure it was the lighting, but have also wondered if someone doctored the film. Or even shaded/tinted the face of the stone itself. I could see it Everytime I watched the film, but doubt if it would be seen at all except with the exact lighting and angle. I am unlikely ever to know.

[@historyswhoyesterdaysnatio5197]

Fascinating!

[@youngwaif7321]

If conventional academia were TRYING to make high antiquity uninteresting, they couldn't do a better job. Luckily, these megalithic structures are deeply intriguing, so independent researchers will continue to research our deep past.

[@StephiSensei26]

Science and its daughter, knowledge, are the finest gifts one can hope for. Thank you.

[@JCBCoin]

Really? LOL. I can think of many more. Patience; humility... ect

[@TheOkrim99]

I love these documentaries

[@juandon870]

Don't forget disease cold hunger and hardship.

[@gunkwretch3697]

@@juandon870 those things still exist, in capitalist societies which abandon the poor. technology often does more harm than good, when you live in a corrupt society, but certainly antibiotics are handy

[@kevinm3751]

Yes, no technology, only primitive tools and yet they cut and shaped stone 5 times harder than any tool they had to a dimension and accuracy that challenges tools we have today! By all means, continue to believe the lies being told, you are closer to stone age intellect than you think for blindly believing it!

[@mfer7117]

I bet they still had leaders, we are a hierarchical creature.

[@phyl1283]

@@juandon870 and freezing weather much of the time from eon to eon.

[@popeye_parkour]

i am learning about the stoneage

[@nidhavellir]

Excellent.

[@SuperGGLOL]

Nice.

[@messianic_scam]

But they was very civilized ppl how they call it stoneage?!

[@M310GL]

Amazing documentary! Thanks for sharing it with us :D

[@ClaimTheDensity]

Wonderful documentary, thanks so much!

[@DWDocumentary]

Hi @Therese Roth, thanks for watching and commenting :)

[@johnjustice8478]

3:34 "This fact REVOLUTIONALIZED..."

[@hawklord100]

StoneHenge was dated on some snail (dead of course) shells under one of the Stones, but if you are a gardiner and ever buried something and then dug it up a few years later, you will find plenty of Snails and other creatures have burrowed down and underneath the object, so not as clear as they make out. the earliest man made intervention at the Stone Henge site is at 9,000 years BP discovered so far. (sky buriel post holes) The Stonehenge site may have been in use before the last iceage 30,000 years ago.

[@fermancortez2021]

Well as if I'd have to take matters in too,my own.... personal opinion on it is well good 👍 👌 😌. Now,and I don't say that lightly,now think

[@theCosmicQueen]

yes, dating is proving to be very unrealiable some times.

[@melanieanne2066]

Paleolithic through Neolithic is the most fascinating for me. Dolmens also widen my eyes in amazement and my imagination goes wild. Especially since they can be found around the world. I do have one question: What is that amazing background music?

[@christopherjcarson]

Fascinating documentary!

[@lorrettacrowley5922]

There appeared to be an image very akin to The Menorah on the upright stone at the desert Atlantic site at Gharama. What a wonderful informative video 🤝

[@feralbluee]

fabulous - so well done. and it's so nice to have cultures besides British ones covered. i had no idea there were so many huge stone neolithic sites - even in Asia !! interesting that it was pointed out that the melting glaciers left large stones lying around. that may explain a whole lot. . .

[@CandidDate]

Where did the large stones originate?

[@segura2112]

Alexa Penn But it doesn't explain everything, the sarsen stones of Stonehenge started as part of a circle in the Perseli Hills in Wales near where they were carved, now why would they go though the trouble of hauling that circle 150 miles to the Salisbury Plain?

[@mariuszramatowski5645]

This documentary won't let me watch the adds in peace!

[@schizophrenicprojection5126]

😂

[@frankphillips3761]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@sergioluz9043]

The only thing I'd definitely drop from this documentary are the animations. It's not because of its quality, but a matter of depiction. Once, one of my students was drawing a person dressed pretty much like those in the documentary. I asked him why he was drawing the man with that specific type of clothes. He answered me: "Because they used to dress like that". Where does that information come from? When you watch movies or read certain books, you'll see this general idea of how "ancient peoples" would dress. You'll never see female breasts or the genitalia of any gender. Would those people be more worried about the parts of their bodies than protection, specially against cold? I believe those depictions are based not on this bulk of research scientists mention, but on the animators own cultural background. And that's complicated because it's a reference, specially for the younger ones.

[@martavdz4972]

Totally agree. Most later cultures covered their genitalia, except one Cretan culture and some Indian ones I think, so there´s some probability people were already doing that in the Neolithic age. But I agree that the pictures and the animation are too much of an assumption.

[@Ajnananda]

This video "revolutionalized" my mindz

[@SANTONSANTO]

Very informative and waiting for next

[@massimosquecco203]

Beautiful images of Malta, her temple of Mnajdra and its twin, Hagar Qim: I was there a month ago and that landscape was breathtaking. I wish I could comprehend better what was going on there 5600 y.a.. I've visited all 7 the major temples there but these 2 are the most handsome, even better than Ggigantja ( but less than the hypogeum of Hal Safleni: that was the highlight of my visit for sure.). Thanks for the video in general, top quality material!

[@messianic_scam]

Where is that hagar qim? H This name is hebrew

[@martavdz4972]

@@messianic_scam In Malta. Maltese language is related to Hebrew.

[@messianic_scam]

@@martavdz4972 to arabic

[@Andy_Babb]

I wish DW would unload more docs like this

[@andrewthompson5728]

I would laugh if we discovered the pyramids are just the hats on massive statues buried under the desert floor.

[@akwrite]

Have you seen how big those pyramids are?

[@nope2198]

We already know what's under the pyramids

[@dannydamico7312]

@@nope2198 yea….a head

[@nope2198]

@@dannydamico7312 it's a hugh tunnel system that's flooded. I was there 4 years ago with a tourist group and we were able to go and check the tunnels out but couldn't get to far due to them being flooded. But we did see they went underneath the pyramids.

[@vulture6268]

Whats more funny is that pyramids age is 12000 years old and they totally made to gain electricity / power or smth like that, believe this or not. but the media has blind lot of casual / normal people those who believe in everything without having a simple doubt.

[@sallyweaver6668]

A bridge could explain the wood it use to cover the stones as a bridge

[@bemfawkes3214]

This answers so many questions I have had! Wow! I love knowledge! I wish I could have been an archeologist. If only I could turn back time.

[@MyReligionIs2DoGood]

I studied archaeology. This video, just like many other of this kind, is mostly conjecture. We really don't know who built Göbekli Tepe, or why.

[@MiguelRodriguez-zd6tq]

Bem Fawkes Its never too late! My friend started pre-med at the age of 41; The other day I saw an old lady on tv graduate from college with her 1st undergraduate degree at the age of 86. If you really want this, start with an online college course; get your 101s and 102s out of the way. If necessary, those same schools may provide refresher classes to get you up to speed. There are some schools that do offer entire undergrad courses online. One thing: as an archeologist, you may be required to go out into the field. Whatever the case may be, go for it! Good luck! God bless!

[@toni4729]

@@MyReligionIs2DoGood I quite agree. I'm no archaeologist but I see no reason in the world why farmers would upend km after km of huge stones. It makes no sence at all to me.

[@phyl1283]

Your current age is not given, but how much are you willing and able to invest? One must be careful when "studying" so that you don;t just repeat what you read and are told by someone else. Methodology is a valid pursuit, but conclusions should be made very carefully. Don't let your ego prevent you from saying "I don't know".

[@Steve1975truth]

@@MyReligionIs2DoGood ...or how

[@MarksWorldOfAdventure]

Me and my friends visited Long Meg and Castlerigg in Cumbria in July last year. I loved both sites. it was a really cool experience

[@pushpenduebiswas6019]

Interesting topic to discuss!!! Hope, DW will post some more related documentaries focusing to the isolated ancient hidden true histories.

[@matthewellis8025]

I loved going to the scottish stones.. amazing

[@MarlosThiam]

fantastic

[@indy_go_blue6048]

I'm so happy we have dozens of experts watching this who can tell us over and over (ad finitum, ad nauseum) that this is fake news. Thank you so much, all of you, all of you, and you and you and you...

[@pumpernickelplace]

I can't tell if this is ironic or not ~~ such is the world we're living in

[@matthewdolan5831]

Nice contribution...

[@keep]

Excellent videos, Good job DW. And oh Ferdinand the Bull at 10:35 😊

[@jonjon5099]

love you all. this is the way to live. restore our grate ancestors visions and work

[@neilputland9407]

I was wondering if the many standing stones that are about were in fact the corner stones (as it were) to buildings, with the smaller stones being movable, robed out.

[@deborahromilly2766]

Excellent thank you!

[@DWDocumentary]

Hi @Deborah Romilly, You're welcome! Thanks for watching. Best, The DW Documentary Team

[@happyone4753]

Superb 2 part documentary by DW, one of our favourite news channels. We should go back beyond Iran, Anatolia, the Middle East or the Aegean to uncover the only people who till today are building Megaliths, Monoliths and Stone Circles - the Khasis. The Khasi - Jaintia even have a Monolith Garden in Nartiang. They still celebrate a Monolith Festival. They are the only tribe in the world who have ever claimed, or built or had the expertise to build Monoliths and Megaliths. “In Babylonian and Assyrian sources, one of the largest ancient Iranian tribes has been mentioned as Kas Su, Kassi and Kashi, which in ancient languages and also in the modern language of the people of Gilan means fair-eyed and fair-faced. The name of central city of Kashan (Kassan) is a relic of this ancient Aryan tribe. Many relics of the Kassi tribe have also been found in the Khorramabad region, including paintings in the cave of Dusheh that date back to 15,000 BC. In these paintings, people can be seen riding horses. This is a very valid evidence against the erroneous theories which say that the Aryans brought the horse form Central Asia to Iran around 4,000 BC. Like its ancient riders, the horse is indigenous to Iran since at least 17,000 years ago.” www.iranchamber.com/people/articles/aryan_people_origins.php THE LAW WITHIN by Bampfylde Fuller - 1999 “The existing type of the catatrophic style is Arabic. Its sentences characteristically run from the verb downwards.; the use of prepositions is universal and post-positions (or cast endings) are unknown. Of this class are the languages that are classed together as “Semiti” - Phoenician, Hebrew and Aramaic. Curiously enough, a catatrophic tongue of this type still survives in the hills of Assam. This is Khasi - a relic of widespread culture now long past. An island in a sea of Tibeto-Burman dialects.” The Kassites, Hittites, Sumerians, Phoenicians, Canaanites etc were Khasis. The same Khasi people but with different names. Just like Maram, Bhoi, Pnar, Lyngngam, War, Amwi - different names but the same Khasi people of today who live at the foothills of the Himalayas where they first arrived between 57000-120000 years ago. 'Khasi' came from the word "Kha Sngi" meaning "Born from the Sun", later shortened to 'Khasi'. Hence the legend, that the Khasis of Seven Clans came from Heaven / Outer Space. At one point, the Kassites ruled over Babylonia. "The Kassites (/ˈkæsaɪts/) were people of the ancient Near East, who controlled Babylonia after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire c. 1531 BC and until c. 1155 BC (short chronology). The endonym of the Kassites was probably Galzu, although they have also been referred to by the names Kaššu, Kassi, Kasi or Kashi." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassites archive.org/stream/TheHistoryOfEssex/The_History_of_Essex_djvu.txt “The first inhabitants of the county of Essex were the Cassii.. The History of Essex: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time ... By Elizabeth Ogborne - “ One of the oldest texts composed in Ireland is the Leabhar Gabhla, the Book of Invasions. It tells a semi-mythical history of the waves of people who settled in Ireland in earliest times. It says the first settlers to arrive in Ireland were a small dark people called the Fir Bolg, DNA never fully was subsumed by the lighter culture….Ireland's dark-skinned invaders. Many of the invaders into Ireland over the centuries were of darker skin. Dun Na Gall, “Fort of the Dark Foreigner” is the meaning of the name of Donegal for instance. Places that end in "Gall” usually connote settlements of dark-skinned foreigners who eventually intermarried. Ironically, one of those is Moneygall where Obama’s ancestors hailed from. The Fir Bolg The Book of Invasions Leabhar Gabhala is a semi-mythical history and one of the oldest Irish texts. It described the Fir Bolg, a small dark people, as one of the original invaders of Ireland. "At the time of the Roman Invasions of 55 BC and 43 AD a tribe of Celts lived in this part of the country. The tribe was known as the Cassii and it was led by their chieftain CASWALLEN. They lived in the kingdom of Cantiace - a kingdom perhaps covering what is now the size of Kent and a part north of the Thames. The Cassii tribe had a settlement in an area of land occupying what is now known as Joydens Wood, Rowhill and part of DARTFORD Heath. To all intents and purposes this was an 'ancient city' " The city of the Cassii was somewhat in the shape of an irregular triangle, and commenced at the southern point at Stanhill, in the Parish of DARTFORD, and extended directly north westward to Stankey" " The great road continued over hill and dale to the city of Cassii, which it entered at the south eastern extremity ( Stanhill ) : and by Caudens Wood ( Joydens Wood ? ) proceeded to North Cray, Prior to its' entrance it threw off two branches, one to the chief fortress, Tyrru and another to Stankey, the extreme northern point of the city " " maypolehistory.wikifoundry.com/page/Celts%2CRomans+and+more

[@theCosmicQueen]

LOL the word Iran means, ARYAN.

[@nuggetoftruth-ericking7489]

So much to learn down here and so little time.

[@Mossyz.]

Thank You DW Loved watching ...and very interesting . Lots of love 💚💙💜

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and for your positive feedback!

[@charleshorseman55]

24:32 Anyone figure out the angle of the sun on this ruin to determine it's year against the great year? (procession of the equinox) This looks definitely like defining a line-of-sight of something celestial.

[@FrancisMaxino]

I think the use of the word 'sedentary' is wrong in this documentary, agriculture still requires considerable ammounts of labour and hunting and gathering still took place along side growing of crops. People may not have been constantly on the move like before but they still had to work hard and physically exert themselves on a daily basis to survive.

[@codythelibertarian7264]

2:25 how long?

[@daos3300]

sedentary is being used in an anthropological context, meaning staying in one place for a long period

[@melahatkavak8109]

Amazing video thank you I enjoy to watch it

[@jameslaforce8436]

thank you

[@colourheists5587]

solid gold

[@umyde]

Great documentary, but... 23 advertisement interruptions in 41 minutes?!

[@JonnoPlays]

Dolmen structures are also found in Korea. I'm sure it's not mentioned in this video series because it's totally unexplainable. However I haven't finished the video so I'll see if they cover it in the second part.

[@TheWhitefisher]

There are limited designs available with a small number of massive stones, so I think it's quite explainable why you might see the same design emerge multiple times. It's the only possible design to hang a stone using three unique objects, but they could also be made impressive by standing them up. In terms of why humans build monoliths to begin with; why does a bower bird build its bower?

[@greyfells2829]

How is it unexplainable? Just because modern, useless slugs like would be too dull to figure out leverage on your own, it doesn't mean at all that ancient people were as stupid as you.

[@ginaberrie2608]

@@greyfells2829 whoa.... Why did you call someone stupid? There are some choice words that could describe a person who does that. But I'll be kind, unlike yourself.

[@JonnoPlays]

@@TheWhitefisher it's not explainable why people with no contact with each other on opposite sides of the world would have the exact same customs and traditions and abilities of lifting heavy objects. You haven't solved any of those three mysteries with your comment.

[@TheWhitefisher]

@@JonnoPlays It is explainable in a few ways. 1) They absolutely do not have identical cultures and traditions, and if you think they do you are drawing superficial connections that no academic would possibly entertain 2) the laws of nature dictate which shapes are most stable, which contain the most volume, as well as the mechanical transfer of force via ramps, levers or screws. Over the course of history humanity has applied this knowledge in novel ways, but the data set ie: gravity, friction, etc, remains the same. That's why the solutions are the same. Outside of that, coincidence fills in the gaps. There's no need for flights of fancy when the world is tangible.

[@white_heat.truth76]

The Yamnaya findings shatters these mainstream hypothesis.

[@Yeshuaseekinggirl]

I needed something to watch while I’m battling the flu here in America 🇺🇸. Thank you.

[@KeeganWillis]

I love the Minecraft sound effects!!👌 soooooo dramatic!!

[@HappyQuailsLC]

You can spray a protective sealer on them!

[@josephsearcy8930]

Thanks for the add

[@peacequiet]

wonderful !!!

[@mrpatriot8279]

This is very interesting and I've seen Stonehenge and other megaliths in Scotland and Ireland. I would love to return to Europe to explore these mysteries again. Even here in the Arizona desert we live on a ancient Hohokham village, common here. I plan to volunteer with Southwest Archaeology to help with excavations.

[@geoffhunter7704]

Good for you ,well done.

[@mfer7117]

We all forget many civs have come died disappeared on all the continents. It a matter of unveiling what we can, but there will be massive gaps. So it's difficult to assume as much as this pseudo science has presented.

[@bigred8438]

Wonderful and an illuminating documentary. At 21:00 when discussing the the design of the temple on Malta, l can't help thinking that the preists who have their own inner sanctum, within the complex have devised a power grab arrangement for themselves, becoming as it were the intermediary between the gods and the peoples superstitious fear of the gods. This has its corollary in today's Catholic church structure, obviously archaic and now out dated, as revelations regarding the presence of god instruct us to look inwards in to ourselves to find godliness within our humanity, rather than outwards in to the eyes of a priest, bishop, cardinal or pope.

[@theCosmicQueen]

well, God is everywhere so He is outside us too. We can look to the sky and speak to Him as well. but yeah . about sneaky fake intermediary humans trying to exploit pagan people's superstitions and ignorance. Not talking about real prophets of YHVH though, those are legit.

[@keelyevans7692]

More than 3 kilometers indeed; beautiful creations

[@karate4348]

the 'transition' from one way another is naturally reversible... as one returns to earth, is the return home and the return to ourselves... we lie, sit and walk... and we come and go

[@martin36369]

3:20 "It also symbolizes the beginning of the neolithic age" AS FAR AS WE KNOW!

[@georgesslowik7752]

No it doesn't it symbolizes the Neolithic age as it appeared in some area, in others they were far more advanced

[@woodspirit98]

They said it's symbolic. Not marks the beginning of it. I noticed that too. You really need to listen to the color of words. Most appeal to emotion and not science.

[@theknave4415]

Gobleki Tepe! Everyone (including alternative researchers): "We know exactly what was going on!" Me: If we accept the facts - and only the facts - we don't have a freakin' clue what was going on at Gobleki Tepe. Some bones, a bit of pottery and primitive sculptures, mebbe some wild grain and crudely worked stones that are stacked in a funny pattern, which indicates human use and/or occupation. That's it. That's all any one of us - including the experts - know for certain. The rest is speculation, piled on opinion, and that's all mixed with personal ideologies and religions.

[@madenthecountrybabylikegri1261]

It's all bullshit right?? That's the way everything you watch is.

[@annethomas9302]

It is a strong force in the human to seek knowledge always searching for answers.

[@mervyndrage3507]

Fascinating

[@janchess2204]

Unknown to most of the world..we have many megalithic structures.. hieroglyphics proto-egyptian..

[@knapsuck]

It’s great to learn something about our transition

[@jupiterthesun3217]

When I turned 13 ,I found a piece of wood and felt the urge to carve it and turn it into the shape of totem pole! In a small scale and then I felt satisfied with it and never again tried doing it again! I think we all have this drive to create the things that satiate our souls and it’s possible that the people of the ancient world also had the same instinctual urges to create the things that we are discovering.

[@iscuit]

makes me want to make a metal cast of the numbers "2024", imagine in ten thousand years, some humans will prevail somewhere and maybe even find it

[@MrAnperm]

A theory I've heard about Gobekli Tepi is that an already fairly advanced society built it to educate the people of the area. Around that time humans would have been recovering from the end of the last ice age. The great deluge would have decimated much of the world.

[@shantishanti1949]

Or the great deluge buried Gobekli Tepi the advanced society. Seems a stretch that local society buried it intact and just how ?

[@edlilli]

What a fantastic, amazing, beautiful, and educational documentary. I love it. I'm going to watch it again.

[@phyl1283]

Yes. Pretty, but...how much is speculation by the annointed few?

[@1upSniper]

This documentary rocks... But seriously, this is super interesting. Makes me think of how much stuff I take for granted.

[@ObjectiveEthics]

The "rocks" comment was hilarious 😂.... I surprised your didn't say "..... stuff I take for granite. " lol

[@1upSniper]

@@ObjectiveEthics F...........!!!!!

[@shbyshby]

The simple way - shape the stones into a column in the shape of a cylinder, roll them to the position, then reshape the cylinder into a square column

[@pedrokarstguimaraes2817]

Very good!

[@HaHaroni]

I'm watching the video and holding out that there might be something besides bunch of speculative theories...

[@mercedeslb237]

Magnifique! Je vous remercier pour partager.

[@goddessgaea19]

Im here for my Art 101 class. These structures are amazing.

[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

Looks like Easter island 🎨 art, so there must have been communication.

[@choryferguson2196]

Remarkable!