The BIZARRE, 26,000 year old TRIPLE BURIAL of Dolní Věstonice

We take a look at the mysterious 26,000 year old triple burial from Dolní Věstonice. This discovery is not only bizarre, but it's also one of the oldest human burials ever found!
Three teenagers were laid to rest in a common grave, near a village called Dolní Věstonice in the Czech province of Moravia. They were laid side by side and the Their bodies had been placed such that the individual on the right had been buried face down, while the individual on the left had his hand placed over the middle skeleton’s pelvic area, which in turn had been covered in red ochre.
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[@HANKTHEDANKEST]

Maybe it's just me, but those 26,000 year-old winter coats look MIGHTY stylish and I want one!

[@robertafierro5592]

It's incredible that the colors are still so vivid! I just started watching this very interesting video, and I'm hoping they will focus on the Beauty of the clothing..I see embroidery at first glance..

[@davidbennett9691]

@@robertafierro5592 The colours are vivid because you're looking at the artist's rendering of what the burial might have looked like. Fabrics, animal hides, and human soft tissue rarely survive 2.6 years of burial, much less 26,000.

[@davidgreenwood6029]

Wait long enough and everything eventually comes back into fashion right?

[@user-un8tv1pp8m]

​@@davidbennett9691 Good callout. There has been proof of textile fabrics worn for at least 40k though. Actual fabrics in china and the levante have survived from only ca 6000BC - but we have found impressions of textile on baked clay in considerably older digging horizons. And body lice genetics hint at humans starting to wear clothing about 50-40k ago.

[@kabivose]

​@davidbennett9691 oh no! You mean it's not real? This click bait gets everywhere. :(

[@mariellouise1]

I’m never too startled to discover that certain peoples had lunar or star calendars. I believe that early peoples were as smart as some our smartest. With thousands of years to look up at the stars, no light pollution and such, the stars were the greatest display on hand!

[@helenamcginty4920]

Yup. they were as intelligent as us. They were our ancestors. They just didnt have the accumulation of 26,000years of knowledge that homo sapiens in total has today. Plus re stars i am old enough to recall being able to see the milky way and thousands of stars st night even from our town back garden. Now, even though I live 50k away from a small city the light pollution means I havent seen more than a few stars for years. It must have been even more wonderful back then looking up at the night sky.

[@mawkernewek]

The odd thing is, 26000 years ago, it was one full cycle of the precession of the equinoxes in the past, so the stars they saw would be much the same as the ones we see now, with Polaris as the pole star.

[@jessestreet2549]

Arguments are being made that civilization has stopped human evolution. As a species we no longer have to improve our survivability to ensure continuation of the species. Persons who at one time would be passed over as breeding partners are now procreating and passing possibly destructive genes into the future.

[@williamrizzo8574]

And literally nothing safe to do on dark nights. They looked up.

[@PanglossDr]

As long as they lived in areas with significantly different seasons they needed to know the time of year, to stock up for the winter. Learning enough astronomy to do that is not actually very difficult.

[@AmyBee4]

Since it was indicated that the grave was on a slope, I wondered if the positions (hand over pelvis and face down) could have been an action of gravity and time.

[@lazenbytim]

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[@mrmcg2575]

Thank you so much for taking the time to explain it!! I came to the comments looking for this. Much appreciated good sir!!

[@jeffboyer2747]

Thanks for that detail!

[@HowardArnold-be9ly]

They didnt say anything about the fired clay figurines were clay mixed with powdered bone. Almost 27,000 years ago. We still mix something with clay today to make a better product than just taking some clay and making a little dog, or something. I’m impressed.

[@jackwardrop4994]

Bodies were actually found in 1986. Also well maintained teeth as this is tens of thousands of years prior to agriculture and the downfall of our teeth.

[@ms-jl6dl]

You need good weather for agriculture. Those people lived closer to Eskimos than Sumerians,but this doesn't prove that there was no agriculture somewhere warmer.

[@TerryTerryTerry]

The oldest was 20

[@danielmorgan-heredia654]

Good weather would be a very wife range of weather depending kn the area. There is a lot of talk about agricultural practices that arent necessarily modern ways, like fields. It could be portions of forest or shrubs they throw seeds and vaguely maintain.​@ms-jl6dl

[@tomgoff7887]

26 thousand years ago. Their teeth might have been good but they died young. Too much meat perhaps?

[@jamiebriggs1249]

And no fluoride

[@eirintowne]

When I first read about this burial in Jean M Auel's "The Mammoth Hunters", I was very young and thought her explanation plausible. In the decades since, I learned more about the scientific process, and started to think of it as mostly a cute bit of fiction. By now I have reread the series so many times and compared it to newer science and my increased span of knowledge. It is almost coming full circle, that woman did some great research while writing! The events described in the book series are all plausibly described, but the likelihood of it all being related to one person seems slim. On the other hand, for customs to change an outside agent is often required. Learning to see what you grew up with through the eyes of a stranger teaches you to question habits and look for better solutions. People who travel get to compare customs in different places and show and tell about what people do in other places. Their brains connect synapses in a different way from people who don't travel, and over time they can adapt an ease of adapting to newness. And now I might have to find "The Clan of the Cave Bear" again, to start another series reread...

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

*_"When I first read about this burial in Jean M Auel's "The Mammoth Hunters"..."_* I don't recall that. But it's been a few decades. I read her first three or four books of the _Earth's Children_ series. At the time, I read all those that had been published. Clan of the Cave Bear, Mammoth Hunters, Valley of the Horses and I forget the other. {:o:O:}

[@eirintowne]

@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 I was incorrect about the book, it occurs in the beginning of "Plains of Passage", which is book four of the series.

[@susansisson366]

My life long interest in prehistory began whilst reading and re-reading the entire series, and I've read the entire series of five books at least seven times. She was so ahead of her time!

[@rockinbobokkin7831]

This is so good that I had to watch it twice. Now I have a different interpretation. Despite the obvious comedy value in the anthropological record here..... We have 3 closely related male hunter gatherers here. In my experience of living in a modern hunter gather group, I would guess these guys were hunting buddies. Even if this group were mammoth specialists, I think we can all agree that variety is the spice of life. A group of 3 might be after smaller game. The presence of an unrelated body nearby suggests there was a settlement here or close by. It might have been that the three young hunters were lost or succumbed to the elements during a cold time. They might have simply just been frozen in those positions and buried that way to keep them together, or make the funeral easier. Things we will never know. The one buried face down may be symbolic, but it's also possible he died face up and the vultures and foxes ate his face off. What we can tell is there was a ceremonious burial that had some degree of symbolic elements. I really want to know more about the ability of people so far in the past to master textile manufacturing. That's incredible and I wasn't aware of that before.

[@matthall143]

And that's why it's always good to read the replies.....you may have got somewhere close to the truth.

[@rockinbobokkin7831]

@@matthall143 I'm just making conjectures of things we will never know, but I lived in deep bush Alaska for awhile, and surprise storms can come up and take even the most hardened and experienced hunters.

[@alexandrasmith4393]

Utzi's arm was turned over at an odd angle too and frozen.

[@rockinbobokkin7831]

@@alexandrasmith4393 I imagine people fall and die in pretty bad poses a lot

[@Fredmayve]

Painting and masking up for hunting is a thing.

[@telebubba5527]

This site bears a starkling resemblance with the Kostenki - Borshevo, at the Don river in Russia, which is dated around the same time. It would be interesting to know if there was some kind of connection between the two. Is there any possibility that you guys could find out more on that?

[@sebastianucero7535]

26000yrs!!! amazing. Thank you for the video. Some times it boogles the mind that entire "towns and comunities" lived in areas that the last glaciation covered with ice a few 1000s years later. We as society, live without fear of nature. Without memory of our past. Climate will change and I don't think we are ready for it

[@beachcomber1able]

26000 years ago! How can that be 🤔 The world is only 6000 years young. 😄

[@eh1702]

We’ve seen in the war in Ukraine how it is that people can end up buried face down: they get wrapped in blankets, mats, carpets etc after death, and there can be delay and ultimately two or three stages to transporting them, and sometimes reburial. In the process these packages of corpses often get turned and rolled over, when heaved in and out of vehicles, graves, coffins etc. There is no longer a clear back/face orientation and nobody wants to open the package and look.

[@joanthewad7510]

You’re talking about mass graves though aren’t you? Only three here so surely they would have been able to determine front from back. Is there any evidence of wrapping in mats etc here? I doubt people of that era would be too squeamish to look and check if one was the wrong way round or not.

[@susannadzejachok1247]

Would have liked to have seen more closeups of the burial and pictures of the artifacts, not just you guys, not that you are bad looking.

[@cattymajiv]

Yes. I like to have time to study the pictures without needing to pause the video many times.

[@perspectiveiseverything1694]

You too are a hoot! What a delightful conversation to share with us. Thank you 😊

[@vondahartsock-oneil3343]

Suddenly, all the "Tepe's" in Turkey, aren't that interesting! lol. What resonates with me about these burials is the amount of care put into it. It shows just how "human" they were. That someone loved them as deeply as we love our own. I think we tend to feel the people of that time were somehow diff. than us today. Less intelligent, with less emotion. I don't wanna write a book like I always do when I do comment. So much more I could say about the uniqueness of it all. I just wonder if the cause of death could be determined? Any broken bones, head trauma etc....? Killed during a hunt that went wrong or something like that? I know...go down the rabbit hole myself. Thanks Guys!

[@Nobody-11B]

Tepe's are still super cool. This is in par.

[@cameronkrause4712]

My feelings about Gobekli Tepe haven't waned because of this. Quite the opposite, this is another piece of the puzzle that makes everything else richer.

[@PanglossDr]

We have been very human for well over 100,000 years.

[@PaulStringini]

I don't see how this diminishes all the Tepe's in Turkey. And when I think about why someone might say that... I can't think of one good reason.

[@kariannecrysler640]

Wonderful site. 26000 year’s & quite accomplished. I am loving the advanced technologies we have so long assumed impossible, coming to light.

[@chegeny]

Thanks. Whatever compelling personal story from that grave must remain lost to time. But the careful attention to their burial is a poignant remembrance of their lives from so long ago. Gravettian life must've been amazing. If I could be a time-tourist, I'd visit their world first.

[@emmagoff]

Just to point out we still put "make up" on our dead today...

[@AmyBee4]

So excited to see a new video! Can't wait to sink my teeth (eyeballs?) into it this evening. I'm in the western US, and I save these to watch undistracted at night.

[@rockinbobokkin7831]

I want to see and know more about this site!!!

[@marymahaffa6513]

How was the burial dated to 26,000 ago?

[@jowest7020]

Have very recently discovered your site. Excellent. Am obsessively rewatching everything. Am learning so much. Thank you.

[@geniexmay562]

Intriguing and thought provoking!! Thank You Guys!!

[@chrisball3778]

For people who lived in relatively small groups, three young males dying at around the same time would presumably have been a rare occurrence. Assuming none of them were deliberately killed, it suggests an accident or a disease outbreak. The fact they were all related and presumably lived in close proximity, maybe sharing food or water sources, could mean they were all exposed to the same pathogen and died close together as a result. The strange pose might have been just because their community wanted to bury them quickly because they were worried about the contagion spreading. The weird position of the arm over the middle body might even be rigor mortis- if the three got sick and two died, the community might have dug the grave for two, then when the third died, added him in as well, without waiting for the rigor to pass, as they'd presumably not want the other bodies beginning to decompose or attract scavengers. It might also be that three deaths so close together were interpreted as having some superstitious significance that required a ritualistic burial or other special treatment of the dead.

[@vomact1052]

Thank you! Love these shorts👍👍

[@Watcher1852]

Wow fascinating.. thank you for sharing

[@scottyeomans801]

The strangest thing I find about this burial is that the one on the right was buried face down. Obviously so much care and attention was lavished on the burial, I can only assume that there was some significance to his position that I can only guess at.

[@rose101dw]

I agree, it seems demeaning being faced down

[@samf137]

I find these burials emotionally moving, in a way that is very hard to explain. In a time when life was brutally cold a challenging, the investment in these unfortunate members, must have been a very emotional experience for this small group.

[@jessestreet2549]

Three young men in a common grave arranged in this odd manner imply a powerful magical connection. Perhaps the burial is a sort of tribal talisman.

[@FrikInCasualMode]

Up until Middle Ages, in Poland executed criminals (especially murderers) were buried face down. It was done to stop them from raising from the grave as wraiths - because after turning into evil spirits they would try to burrow their way out, but instead would dig themselves only deeper. Was that boy buried with victims of his crime? We will never know.

[@valerieprice1745]

It's just a guess, but maybe he was considered at fault for all three deaths somehow. It's a really sad grave.

[@nodarkthings]

My head is now spinning with questions! Great video.

[@dragonfox2.058]

This also was about the time the cave paintings were made. some of the greatest art in the history of humanity. these peoples were not primitive!

[@theeddorian]

One critical fact is that "hunter-gatherers" are not a uniform technological and subsistence pattern. There is a range from very mobile social groups that essentially forage for necessities every day, to "complex hunter-gatherers" who often were no more mobile than their horticulturalist and agriculturalist descendants. Consider Göbekli Tepe for example, of as a far more contemporary example the Northwest Coast of North America where large wooden halls were built and monumental sculptures (totem poles) that would be every bit as awesome as Göbekli Tepe, were the structures and totem poles made of stone.

[@janetmackinnon3411]

Thank you. Can anyone tell me the earlest proof of cloth-weaving? 26,000 years ago is already staggering....

[@AmyBee4]

One thing mentioned was that the imprints of woven fabric have been found in the soil.

[@dragonfox2.058]

@@AmyBee4 yes that boy in Africa called the first evidence of ritual burial was wrapped in a blanket

[@mariewolton7027]

A lot of this was the material that Jean Auel used for her Earthchildren books - fascinating!

[@kevinroche3334]

Vestonitse, not Vestniche. Pavlov is the next village to Dolni vestonice. Czech Republic, not Czechoslovakia, etc, etc. By the way, if you happen to be visiting the city of Brno in the Czech Republic, the burial, all nine of the venuses and the other objects shown here are all being displayed together for the very first time at the Anthropos museum. Well worth a visit.

[@myboloneyhasafirstname6764]

Great video. Thanks, Prehistory Guys.

[@mommachupacabra]

Looks to me the one in the middle was the beloved and "slow" whether only physical or both physical and developmental brother; the younger brother and half-brother/cousin were his protectors. I'd say that all three died of sickness, maybe drowning where the two died trying to rescue the older brother. (Which still happens to modern humans, where multiple drownings can happen.) The hand over the pelvis may have been originally an embrace across the chest where decay action may have caused the arm to move downward.

[@cliffordjensen8725]

I was thinking it was some kind of human sacrifice, but I like your idea better.

[@eh1702]

Yes. And if they drowned, they may well have been carried to their grave rolled in mats or blankets. In Ukraine right now, burials are being disinterred where people have been buried face down just because once they are wrapped up, it becomes uncertain which way up they are. And in ad hoc burials, there may not be enough bearers, just a couple of people who have to use a heave-and-roll technique.

[@marksadventures3889]

Where's Doggerlsnd on your map? It's missing, I'm sure it's supposed to be there for that time period.

[@martykitson3442]

my intro to Dolní Věstonice was of course Jean Auel's beautifully written "the Plains Of Passage" and I've always kept firmly in mind that is a work of fiction. nice to see some information about the burial that reflects just facts

[@amazinggrace5692]

Remember reading and rereading Clan of the Cave Bear, which I think was the first book.

[@martykitson3442]

@@amazinggrace5692 clan was in fact first of the 7 books plains was # 4 I find them enjoyable enough that I read them every few years

[@andrewlamb8055]

Great video my friend Paul X ⚔️⚔️💫💫❤️❤️❤️

[@beatricepetronelli3042]

Speculation is ALL we have really. I think everyone should tell a story about this burial. Let your imagination fly.❤ loved this discussion. Thanks

[@maryblushes7189]

Red ochre had religous symbolism but it ALSO had medicinal properties! Antibacterial, etc. it was used in funerals, true, but covering a dead body would slow down putrefaction and stink😘 which explains why it, and flowers, were used in funerals, in my opinion.

[@eh1702]

Ochre is also still used in some places in leather-processing as a preservative.

[@joanthewad7510]

Good luck with that working. You couldn’t have seen many dead things.

[@chrisdjernaes9658]

Thanks for opening another window into human evolution and ancient civilization.

[@Sigr]

They have really good wine down there in south Moravia.

[@erlemartincarvalho1733]

Really enjoyed the talk. Very informative and interesting. Kudos.

[@Crecganford]

Thoroughly enjoyed this one, thank you.

[@skeptigal4626]

26K years ago is simply incomprehensible to me.

[@ellenmendoza7246]

Thank you. really enjoy listening to you to talk . Very cool

[@lindagates9150]

I wonder if weaving was inspired by the webs that spiders made 😮😊or the nests that some birds make that look like they are weaving in materials or weaving their fingers or weaving plant materials to make sleeping pads. 😂well that’s all I can come up with .😅I wonder if any of these random thoughts could be the inspiration for the cloth that they made into clothes

[@helenamcginty4920]

I cant see the spiders webs but our ape cousins make nests of branches and maybe our ancestors did as well gradually getting better and better? Plus I can remember making daisy chains and plaiting grasses when I was little. It wouldnt take a huge leap for a bright ancient homo sapiens lady to work out she could just add more and more grass to make a cape maybe?

[@jaynehorn151]

Fascinating grave. Great video.

[@dennismacwilliams196]

I think pre history is much more interesting almost any other time in our history... Just my thought...

[@Crowhillgal]

very interesting! thank you

[@reubenaberlin]

Great stuff!~ ty

[@StephiSensei26]

The mystery of being Human: "The more we change, the more we remain the same". 26,000 years ago, these people were looking for a reason to their existence, and sending a "message in a bottle" into the future, for us to find. "We were here, this is who we were and what we did, for better or worse". Of course, it's virtually impossible to ascertain one way or the other, but one point I feel has been overlooked by the general archeological society and our narrators, is that it wasn't unusual for groups of people to have slaves from outside, and then treat the slave as one of their own. I'm thinking Egyptians, Alexander the Great, Romans, Vikings etc. And then the "beloved" slave would follow the master into death. Just an idea. These remains appear to have be chromesomelogically connected in some way, ...but...who knows?

[@cathjj840]

My understanding is that slaves only came much later. You could take in an outsider if needed to complete the group but they would have normal status of others. But slaves (unwilling, forced), especially male ones, would be just too risky and expensive in resources to keep. Fights were to the death, or eventually until the enemy was sure to stay away from your affairs.

[@imnotanalien7839]

They must have all died at the same time, and it makes sense they were a family. And people cared about them. That was an interesting story.

[@josephlloyd9636]

Fascinating!! Such an incredible glimpse into our world history. 💯🏆 Thank you.

[@knowshet313]

Thank you, I find this subject, fascinating as many people do. It’s fairly apparent that there was some kind of civilized society with a global connection before recorded history. When you think of what we’ve accomplished in the last thousand years? it gives rise to the old saying there is nothing new under the sun.

[@mariabyrne1954]

Love the prehistory guys

[@Albukhshi]

@ 22:10 I notice that too. Some part of me thinks the burials were there to tell a story about the deceased, as much as it was to simply honor the dead. What I find more fascinating, though, are the portraits from a nearby structure; apparently, one was matched to a woman also found at the site (both had a banged-up left face). I remember reading somewhere that the figure was found with others within a structure, but that could be my memory failing me. The portraits--and the very creative burials--make me wonder if the burials weren't also memorials, where stories of the dead were told to younger generations? You see similar customs even into the 20th century. As to the three? Maybe they were very close in life, and when the guy in the middle died, the other two were killed (willingly or not), to help the middle one in the afterlife?

[@rodolfoayalajr.8589]

Great 👍 video.

[@galghaidhil]

Excellent!

[@vladimircharvat7331]

Guys, you still misspronounce Dolní Věstonice :-) You make mistake just at the end of name. "ce" is not "tche" but "tze" in english pronounciation. Google translator may help you, it pronounce it nearly as czech or moravian would pronounce. But absolutelly thank you for this topic. Greetings from czech republic. :-)

[@hamnose]

"Go figure! We wouldn't dare - we're just the messengers!" l love that.

[@dieterschonefeld7428]

I`ve heard about 3 rowed chains of carnivore teeth from somewhere else in very old graves or caves, but i can`t remember right now where that was. Will make contact when i find out.

[@erpthompsonqueen9130]

Thank you.

[@MrToradragon]

I would not be surprised by the fact that those three were closely related, how big could ave the tribe be back then? 30 people? 50 people? Given the fact that there were at least 2-3 generations living a the same time, they all could be related to greater or lesser degree Now to the platform ad whole burial. I know that general area and I would not say that there is need to make grave for three on slope, however slopes are grate place to have camp, or place to spend night, so I would say that the site originally was something like dugout and not a grave. So ten what happened could be that they got caught in bad weather or in early onset of winter or for some other reason they were unable to continue and decided to spend some time there. Maybe it was sudden winter storm, whatever, they had ended in this dugout for some time and they either died of starvation or froze to death. That could as well explain one person lying face down and other two hugging. The mam lying face down perhaps died first and it was either too creepy to let him lie on his back or maybe, if they were all close together he died partially lying on men in the middle and to be frank nobody wants to sleep when dead lies on him, so he just got from underneath of his brother and the body would be left facing down. I would say that the placing of the hand could be result of many factors, from modern intimate explanations, to simple physics. But certainly I would not rule out that those two had some very intimate relationship. We do not know whether it was frowned upon or encouraged as it could have been a survival strategy for the tribe given the harsh conditions they lived in. Then they would be discovered after god knows how many days and decision would be taken to bury them on the spot as transport would not be possible (decay, terrain, snow...), practical or for some other reason. God knows, maybe they lowed that place and to me it makes complete sense to be buried somewhere you loved it (it is only modern society that denies us those things). So they would make all the rituals and then burn that whole thing down with them. I would say that such event would even put the whole tribe in danger as it has lost three young men in the same time. But I do not have explanation for red ochre and for the mask.

[@cathjj840]

Someone else mentioned that the use of red ochre is very common around the world. Among its properties is it being anti-bacterial, so slowing down decay (and odors).

[@michaelterry3885]

I wonder, if it's been considered that perhaps the young man and or even all of the young men were.. buried in an advanced stage of rigor mortis, or even possibly Frozen in part, or completely, prior to burial..? This might explain his peculiar position in the grave..? Seems to me just as likely an explanation as any other..? What do you think..? I would love to know... How off base I am.. Thanks gentlemen.. Love your Channel it's brilliant...

[@sheilam4964]

@Michael Terry - I never thought of that. It is totally possible and makes sense. Not proven going on the discussion in the video but definately a possibility.

[@cathjj840]

I thought of those as possibilities, as did several others in the thread.

[@sidilicious11]

Ir’d be fascinating if someone did a remote viewing to see what they come up with.

[@somniumisdreaming]

Huh?

[@rose101dw]

I seem to see it as the middle older disabled brother had a protector in his half brother with the head dress on his left. What stumps me is the brother on the right that is faced down. Perhaps he defamed or set him up to be killed and the reason for the disgraced face down. Could the red ochre be an sign of trust and honor of a person

[@richardkelly9156]

🥺

[@robynmorris3772]

I wonder when I see the positions of the bodies in this burial, and considering their assumed age, whether or not they were part of a small group and someone younger / less physically strong was left to bury the bodies. I can imagine trying to move a deceased body would be difficult, and might require rolling them into the grave. It might explain the flung arms on the one body, and the face-down position of the other. Whoever buried them might simply have been unable to physically re-position them once in the grave.

[@Angelica-cl4yr]

I know a family that lost 3 family members in an accident. A Father, his brother and his son. Maybe they were all buried together because they were related or they died together?

[@zeideerskine3462]

The fringe of drilled teeth sounds very reminiscent of the Bad Dürrenberg shamma (female shaman). However, she was much later, I think.

[@richardkelly9156]

Maliciously named

[@nodarkthings]

Your comment made me think of the enigmatic "sorcerer" in the cave of Lascaux and the similarity with a drawing made in 1692 by Nicolaes Witsen of a Siberian shaman titled "Tungus Shaman; or, Priest of the Devil"

[@zeideerskine3462]

@@nodarkthings indeed. There is a German New Age music group called Heilung (Healing) that used traditional German shaman garb and ceremonial songs. They look like that, too.

[@nodarkthings]

@@henchy3rd Certainly would have been. Sad really. This attitude goes back centuries and destroyed so much of our culture.

[@katipohl2431]

The shaman lady of Bad Dürrheim was buried 9.000 years ago.

[@70stunes71]

Fascinating

[@noeraldinkabam]

Is it without question they were all three buried at the same time?

[@kjbuchanan63]

Our longing to look into the faces of our ancestors

[@donaldduck7628]

If beating around the bush was a thing, consider the bush quite dead. The calendar is probably an April fools joke.

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

1:53 I’m impressed.

[@alexandrasmith4393]

Wouldn't there be something down the centuries which fed through about certain practices? So many things are celebrated or are part of a practice which we don't understand today. The community obviously had connections with the Mediterranean.

[@tomsitzman3952]

Trade between the Mediterranean and Central Europe does not surprise me. Young me through history have gone on their walk about. In North America at a much later date trade goods from have been found at sites thousand miles away from there production. I am intrigued by the clothing depicted. The clothing was very practical and designed for the riggers of the climate.

[@yvonnesmith6152]

Reminiscent of the “tender lovers” burials, especially of the Bronze Age Vysotskaya culture, where one of the buried was placed into the grave alive. The way the body is arranged in some of these graves suggest this to have happened before rigor mortis to have set in.

[@NullHand]

Rigor mortis is temporary. Lasts from about 12 to 36 hrs post mortem in human corpses.

[@marlbankian]

Interesting

[@rebekahdavis5935]

The hand being over the pelvis doesn't necessarily mean something sexual. As you said towards the end of the video it was't uncommon for this group of people to adorn head and pelvis with red ochre and as for "zinging through the ages" well for the reason you said. They are more profoundly personal which gives us more info on them. Understanding who these people were. Understanding who our ancestors were 26,000 years ago IS INDEED THE PULL, the excitement. It's the human connection to ourselves. I think it's frustrating knowing there are traditions they held that we will NEVER be able to fully understand but being so close to the possibility of having a window into their life is REALLY enticing for many.

[@johnakajon3563]

Thank you. Well thought out and well stated. I stumbled on this video years after it was published, posted. The video left me wondering if this particular burial was very different from others found at this site. Was the face down position of the guy on the right unique to this particular burial? Were other burial sites cut into a slope? Were all of the other graves found with only one body? The narrators created a wonderful presentation that contains lots of fascinating details. Clearly there were some notes used, but to me they appeared to do the video pretty much off the cuff. Their passion for the subject and their depth of knowledge really hooked me. After listening to this I was left wishing for a video twice as long. They did mention that the site is quite large and it their discussion did mention other graves. I suppose if the video was twice as long the end result for me would be twice as many unanswered questions, maybe unanswerable. How amazing to find that these people, this culture existed 26,000 years ago. Clearly I’m no scholar, just a guy gathering fascinating information from KZbin. Wasn’t 26,000 years ago the time frame of the Younger Dryas?

[@markc8626]

what they're wearing looks warmer than what I'm wearing.... 20,000 years on

[@chrisdavis7617]

I just remembered that Rupert said there was no flint in this burial?? Flint source must have been hard to get if there were no offerings.

[@tomasnemec5680]

It's pronounced Dolnee Viestonitse

[@k8eekatt]

Modern occurrence of chondrodysplasia punctata occurs in about 1 in 100,000 people. It often causes delayed development and most don't live past 10 years old.

[@abisu5273]

Interesting thanks... hope you get to shimmy down to Paviland Cave some day, where the funery site is about 30.000 years old. Again with red ochre. There is only so much speculation we can do. They could even be sacrificial sites. What I'd like to know more about is how bones become stained with red ochre.. Would it have been applied to clothes and / or skin, or directly to skeletons. Surely there must be some experimental archaeology going on with animals??

[@kimberlywalker_]

Some cultures exhume their recent dead to clean the bones. Maybe the top was opened on the grave after some time and prayers said/more ochre added?

[@gloriagarza6823]

Peace. Interesting. Mishap while all three were joyrneying through the woods together? They seemingly perished, essentially, at same time? My heart goes out to their mother(s) and father(s). What a great loss. Peace.

[@MrGaborseres]

Jaw dropping 🤨😲

[@stanweaver6116]

These guys should read , Clan of the Cave Bear, Mammoth Hunters or Valley of the Horses. These societies have been known well enough to weave into fictional tales which are as close to likely as anything they can figure.

[@GregoryGodfear]

The artist rendition, reminds me of our sami or Inuit people from the North.. quite interesting Indeed

[@douginorlando6260]

The way they are posed hints of a tantalizing story being told. I don’t doubt their ancient civilization also performed some form of live drama theatre

[@cameronkrause4712]

I wonder if the one individual was placed face down as a form of protection, so he might have their backs, so to speak, in the afterlife. There is a lot of speculation that can be done and with no similar burials it's impossible to know, but one day we might see something similar.

[@1758pk]

Just a thought to throw out there. Perhaps red ocher was painted on the exposed areas of a corpse in cold climates to hide the effects of frostbite on exposed skin.

[@bobtrask2217]

More photos please

[@gerhardheydrich3146]

it's pronounced (approximately) Dolni Vestoni(tse) like saying tsay (and not 'chay'). The 'ni' in Dolni isn't quite like an Englishman would say it but you get it pretty close.

[@miguelreynel8576]

The "ni" sounds like the "ni" in California.

[@M_Bamboozled]

Fascinating. Would be interested to know which type of chondrodysplasia punctata he had. I've been looking to see if people with the condition retain fertility. More speculation...but...with the older male nearby having red ochre on his groin, I wonder if it simply denotes a male that has had children. As if to say "this guys groin is on fire!" ; ) Like you say though, we'll never really know. Great video guys! An afterthought - the artist's interpretation could use a revision as the condition is associated with very distinctive facial features. These stories are amazing, challenging our view of how disability was viewed in the past and in many ways putting our modern approaches to shame. I think there is enough evidence here that this guy was important and loved by his community.

[@BirthingBetterSkills]

Inaccurate about the disease: "X-linked chondrodysplasia punctata 1 is a disorder of cartilage and bone development that occurs almost exclusively in males. Chondrodysplasia punctata is an abnormality that appears on x-rays as spots (stippling) near the ends of bones and in cartilage. In most infants with X-linked chondrodysplasia punctata 1, this stippling is seen in bones of the ankles, toes, and fingers; however, it can also appear in other bones. The stippling generally disappears in early childhood. Other characteristic features of X-linked chondrodysplasia punctata 1 include short stature and unusually short fingertips and ends of the toes. This condition is also associated with distinctive facial features, particularly a flattened-appearing nose with crescent-shaped nostrils and a flat nasal bridge. People with X-linked chondrodysplasia punctata 1 typically have normal intelligence and a normal life expectancy. However, some affected individuals have had serious or life-threatening complications including abnormal thickening (stenosis) of the cartilage that makes up the airways, which restricts breathing. Also, abnormalities of spinal bones in the neck can lead to pinching (compression) of the spinal cord, which can cause pain, numbness, and weakness. Other, less common features of X-linked chondrodysplasia punctata 1 include delayed development, hearing loss, vision abnormalities, and heart defects."

[@ericschmuecker348]

Red ochre to add a life like color to the skin.

[@TheJoan48]

First ten minutes wasn’t even the burial. Had trouble hanging in.

[@rachmondhoward2125]

It is an enactment of a celestial transformation. The red ochre is a representation of the red “stars” (Antares, Alderbraan, Betelgeuse and Mars). The man on the right with his hand on the pelvis of the central man is trying to represent he “comes” from the side of the man in the centre. His five fingers which also represents the private part of a female is a meant to depict a particular 5-star cluster. He is actually the Orion Man at the eastern region of the sky. He transforms and becomes the fallen Orion Man (the guy with his face down). The man in the centre represents the celestial man at the South-East region. This celestial image is a complex multilayered form and among his other overlapping image is two canines. It would e interesting to know how many teeth were strung in the necklace, my guess would be 60 to represent twice 30 year cycles of Saturn. The red musk and the bent back is to convey the message that he is a double figure including being a celestial animal most likely a bovine or equine (donkey or horse). The red ochre at the pelvis and on his head shows red Antares position when it rises when the Orion man falls down. At the pelvis area it is also meant to convey menstruation. The mammoth, like the elephant, is another celestial animal that occurs when the central figure transforms and becomes the mammoth/elephant at the SE region. At this point he actually becomes an elephant man. This is why you have the elephant god in Hinduism.

[@johnakajon3563]

Absolutely fascinating information!! That depth of symbolism simply blows my mind. Are there some other examples of ancient people that do what you have described? Do we have evidence that they used the movements of constellations in the way that you described, in particular in burials. Your comment opened my mind to this type of symbology, as I read I was actually able to see a mental image of your description, it made sense of various activities of ancient people

[@rachmondhoward2125]

@@johnakajon3563 Thanks for your response. Check out my free online book, The Zodiac in our Genes: Is God Dead and a free online chapter 9 extracted from my book Akashic Records and Holy Grails. Google Rachmond Howard or these titles. I would like to hear your response after reading these.

[@user-ck6ve3ck4v]

Could there have been trade in those days? Mammoth tusks & meat for textiles from elsewhere or was the weather more temperate with warm summers and bitterly cold winters? Where did the textiles come from and what were they made of?

[@amazinggrace5692]

26,000 years is about the duration for a completion of the precision of the earth’s axis, is that right?

[@cathjj840]

precession?

[@CalvinKlown]

Weren't the Pavlovians the first to domesticate dogs through the use of bells?

[@MH-ln6pv]

No. They invented meringue desserts.

[@CalvinKlown]

@@MH-ln6pv Did you just make a Pavlovian response?

[@Handyandy747]

Ding ding

[@MrToradragon]

@@Handyandy747 I must feed my dogs! :D