Talaiotic Majorca: Ancient History of the Balearic Isles

[@tonijimenezbarcelo1609]

As a Mallorcan, I can confirm that is actually studied in school, and sometimes we go school tripping, but isn't a thing that is super popular, is more like a relic that we protect for the fact of been antique and part of our ancient culture.

[@JanosBanics]

How did that go for you? Did you find written language?

[@Photo650D]

Great jungle soundtrack!

[@ForestArchaicCollective]

thks!

[@Photo650D]

@@ForestArchaicCollective to you! Good you mentioned it in the end, I noticed the music before and already enjoyed it!

[@thelitterbug7624]

This is amazing and ridiculous it doesn’t have a million views, really informative and interesting 👍👍

[@ForestArchaicCollective]

thks! 😊

[@alexei4204]

Great to see this kind of video on youtube. Important to remember when viewing these sites: 1, Ground water flows and rainfall patterns were most probably different at the time so some of the the sites could have been quite a bit more lush and some of the structures could have served as natural pools or water reservoirs, 2, Over time, the destroyed ancient sites would have found other uses by the people occupying the land, possibly once or twice over and 3, Those rocks are big.

[@xJeniee]

I'm loving this type of episode - thanks for the history lesson!

[@elcanochallenge-ch3mg]

You're too funny - like your style

[@ForestArchaicCollective]

thks!

[@NatalieJaneKing]

Wooooo! Great footage, great content!

[@TomHancockMusic]

Loving this! So accessible, and beaut footage too!

[@elenastubo]

Brilliant commentary and information.. I like your style! ❤

[@aykutusta3568]

It looks to me there are some similarities with Gobeklitepe structures which dates back around 10000 BC. I would like hear expert opinions on that. Are there really similarities or it is just coincidance

[@ForestArchaicCollective]

Yh a lot of people have pointed out that the T-shaped Taulas do have a gobekli-esq look to them, Went down that rabbit hole myself (in fact i was going to talk about it in the epsiode but ended up cutting it from the script) There's a few problems - the main one is an 8-9000 year time gap between the chronology of Gobekli and the Talaiotic cultures as far as keeping a tradition alive, that's ...just not happening, it leaves you with the laughable scenario that a team of pre-pottery neolithic builders constructed Gobekli Tepe (which, crucially was deliberately burried a few centuries later) then chose to build no similar structures for 8-9 millenia but somehow still kept the tradition alive ...until some isolated islanders at the opposite end of the mediteranean decided to revive the old ways again in the iron age. Plus the closer you look - the T shaped (or ...lets be honest closer to a capital-i-shaped) uprights of Gobekli Tepe are not that similar in outline to the Taulas, which are huge stones held aloft on another huge stone upright. The similiarity really comes down to 'a-standing-stone-with-another-stone-atop-it, beyond that... they're not especially similar in form or design. So yes - a valid observation, but on closer inspection, a link between the Gobekli Tepe culture & the Talaiotic culture is close enough to impossible to rule out

[@aykutusta3568]

@@ForestArchaicCollective thanks for answer. Maybe they are some similar structures in somewhere that we have not yet discovered like intermediate species mentioned by Darwin and other scientist. Maybe we will never find or maybe they never existed. Big question marks but still Im so glad as a human being in 21st century, we will keep searcing about roots of humanity in many ways.

[@ForestArchaicCollective]

@@aykutusta3568 ​ @aykutusta3568 - yh, its always exciting to trace how different people across time marked signficant sites, the one thing i kept coming back to is how late the Talaiotic Cultures were compared to how ...neolithic their architecture looks! Its undoubtedly because a lot of the context of the original settlements is missing & sure - one large upright stone does look quite like another but considering a lot of the Taula monuments were put up ...ballpark 500 BC give or take a couple hundred years either side. They appear to resemble dolmens & Neolithic standing stones much more closely than the rest of the architecture in the Mediterranean at that time.

[@mellyk86]

Thanks for this! I visited in August and essentially stumbled across looking at Google's little place of interest markers and saw the taylotic name multiple times on the signs but had never heard of this before and keen to learn more. Only bonus was no huge crowds!

[@BruceCosta-pg2ep]

Super, super fun, astonishing editing! Okay gang, let's all chip in and buy our mates a much-needed-for-this-segment drone.

[@smalladventures9021]

Loved this video! I learnt so much.

[@skatedd2451]

Thank you good video

[@Proverbs3.3]

Thank you so much mate! Great video

[@cptsuperstraight6924]

Thanks. I just noticed these islands on a map on another video. Never knew about them before. I feel like a goose.

[@ForestArchaicCollective]

Yh - i was more surprised that despite such a wealth of sites on the islands, never comes up in discussions of the ancient world, never gets a mention! Do check out the follow up to this vid on Menorca btw if you get a chance

[@sarbas46]

Clear and very enjoyable! Great content :)

[@flaviojosefo7130]

Navetiforme - Bronze Talaiotic/talayótico - Iron Bronze and Iron were the same people, but their change in the cosmovision was so radical

[@kieranhenn793]

I came for the entertainment, but stayed for education

[@JanosBanics]

My bet is these pepole where bronze age hellenic influenceed nuragic or possibly Mycenaean or a createan colony at a stretch. Im completely new to this civilisation so im fd if i know. As for slam dunks some writen language would help. But alas im provded f.a so its really hard to tell or make ass from elbow. Yeah this is a massive archaeological headache now im really interested in solving this ancient conundrum.

[@ForestArchaicCollective]

Yh it's quite the enigma They are simultaneously located at the heart of a highly interconnected Mediterranean world from the bronze age & into the iron ...yet they appear to be doing things in a way seen almost nowhere else, a surprising level of autochthonous development given their location

[@anaibarangan4908]

When people say how could Jesus Christ have been white, tall, tanned, golden hair, blue eyes, Sephardic Catholics of Mallorca, Baleares islands, can be

[@guillem]

Great image quality, and you're right, there isn't a lot of content about this on KZbin. Terrible pronunciation, next time you can ask locals maybe 😄 Anyway toponyms aren't related to the talaiotic culture, they're Roman, Muslim... Bin-anything is always Muslim, so pre-1229 AD.

[@seandangercampbell]

Your neutrality on the pronunciation of Talaiotic has been noted...

[@Proverbs3.3]

Thank you so much mate! Great video