The Mysterious Temple of Prehistoric Ukraine

[@DanDavisHistory]

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[@bobygreenson7602]

All that Bulgarian -trace culture and in Provadia salt -mine is a similar after in trace valay of trace kings are also similar.

[@lizshoemaker]

New episode! Thanks for the early Christmas present

[@Drew_McTygue]

I am interested in a full video about the stone tomb complex, that sounds awesome

[@DanDavisHistory]

It's an interesting site. Would love to visit but unfortunately it is a war zone now.

[@oduffy1939]

Yes, a video please on the stone grave mound.

[@미제드론]

Wow very nice class. Merry Christmas & happy new year.

[@tomn.9879]

I jump to your videos when they come out. I would love it if you did a series on ancient North and Central America.

[@JerjerB]

The area now known as Ukraine has given us so much. 😊

[@Grimthot]

Christmas come early this year 😊

[@PaIaeoCIive1684]

How disappointing that most of the Kurgans (c.100 out of 129) were destroyed -- including their burials and artefacts -- during the Soviet era. In Britain, most of our own Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic structures were likewise damaged or destroyed before they could be properly excavated.

[@JerjerB]

That's "progress" for ya...

[@Aussie-nd7si]

You do realise the German army marched all across this area, virtually levelling it. They would have done far more damage than soviets, given that Ukraine itself was a founding member of the soviet union, and the country in these regions were left as agricultural areas...

[@vanrensburgsgesicht]

I've heard around 90% of megalithic structures in northern Germany were destroyed, mostly after the invention of dynamite.

[@PaIaeoCIive1684]

@@Aussie-nd7si Yes, 'The Soviet era' would include The Great Patriotic War from 1941-5 when the Wehrmacht was responsible for unequalled devastation in the Soviet Union. If you've been to Russia it's remarkable how Volgograd (once Stalingrad), St. Petersburg (Leningrad) and other towns severely impacted by the war were restored to their former appearance.

[@PaIaeoCIive1684]

@@vanrensburgsgesicht That wouldn't surprise me. In terms of stone circles I've read at least 800 are known from Britain but only around a quarter are intact or near-intact. Farming tended to remove many megaliths, with some of the best sites remaining in poor soil areas with historically low population densities. Some menhirs were adopted within Christian church precincts which may have allowed the giant Rudstone monolith to survive, for instance. Famously, many of the prehistoric stones were undercut and broken up for walling. The mediaeval Avebury 'Barber Surgeon's' skeleton found squashed under a stone was likely involved in trying to undermine it for removal. Many ancients clearly didn't respect these enigmatic monuments as much as we do today.

[@mydknight357]

Another fascinating video Dan. I would be very interested in learning more about the stone tomb complex. Please consider doing a full video on it. I was unaware that the Soviets had destroyed so many of the mounds. Very sad to learn of so much cultural destruction.

[@williamcourtland5945]

I agree with the watch tower suggestion. A people need to defend themselves, and signal towers were a common thing in the era. Having defensive watch towers over burial grounds: protects the buried, and allows the spotter to work with and for the spirits of their ancestors.

[@JustGrowingUp84]

On one hand, I'm sad that so much has been lost. On the other hand, I'm grateful for what was preserved, and what we can learn from it.

[@Myrtlecrack]

Great video! Merry Christmas!

[@jabezcreed]

Yes to the stone burial mound complex video, please.

[@beebeelicious]

Happy Xmas Dan!🎉

[@rodchristoffersen9350]

Maybe the shape of the structure is a star of ishtar, it is the royal sycthian area later. That is also the sign used by kings right in relation to the burial mound aspect, maybe, just speculating.

[@postictal7846]

Those roads would have been great aids to navigation.

[@dubuyajay9964]

When you going to get Clancy Brown to narrate one of your Kurgan vids? 🤔😱😂🤣

[@dotdashdotdash]

Hello pretty 😂

[@dubuyajay9964]

@@dotdashdotdash I'm a dude, Mr. Immortal. 🙄

[@EvigPsykos]

Finally! ❤

[@DanDavisHistory]

Apologies, we've all been rather ill in sequence in the Davis household this month, including me. All steam ahead again now though.

[@AaronSof]

Great

[@Balthazare69]

It looks like the sun with rays to me 🤔

[@cx6847]

9:17 look at that skull .

[@caseco4979]

Stone tomb video 👍

[@elizabethford7263]

Is there any place we can see the excavation? Google Earth just has a earthen area but without any picture or street level

[@DanDavisHistory]

Not that I could find.

[@johnhagemeyer8578]

I'll tell ya, without electricity to run TVs Computers and the like. Regular people moved a lot of muck and stones in their spare time.😅

[@PrincipledUncertainty]

Now a pothole takes six petitions and a crusading MP to get filled.

[@AgentTrust]

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[@oduffy1939]

No rituals would be done "just for the elites" because the people as a whole were what mattered. Since like so many other Indo-European peoples the elite were avatars of the divinity on earth it was they who were responsible for the well being of the people, their flocks, and the fecundity of the earth.

[@DanDavisHistory]

Ancient Indoeuropean societies were not egalitarian.

[@GediminasStrum]

Sadly russians occupied this theritorry

[@DanDavisHistory]

Yes, a warzone right now.

[@cyberserk5614]

God Yule!

[@justinian420]

this site is in prehistoric Russia

[@DIYPanda1]

5th

[@henkstersmacro-world]

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