10 MAD THINGS from PREHISTORY that will AMAZE you.

[@donaldknowlton3179]

The birdmen's eye spectacles are simple and utilitarian. They prevent snow blindness by limiting the amount of light entering the eye. This prevents the sensors in the eyes from being overwhelmed. Snow blindness is painful and takes time to recover from; if the Inuit are not wearing their Ray Bans, they would be wearing these made out of ivory with horizontal slits.

[@grahamharris4941]

Sane, entertaining and free from 'the ritual speculation syndrome of others. Love the reality delivered with measured humour. Great stuff.

[@Tuppence1966]

Good British academics and none of that superficial , puerile crap the yanks produce

[@mistyhaney5565]

I'm so happy I found your channel. Recent archaeological discoveries without hype and nonsense, who could ask for anything better. Thank you so much.

[@pierogistacker1651]

First time I watch this. I was like cool and English guy this will be very authoritative. The second English guy showed up. And I was like holy fuck shit Batman

[@marybrooks766]

yes , great content from the giggle sisters.

[@ramonav.6983]

Fascinating! The more I learn about prehistory, the more interesting it becomes!

[@jaythewolf]

The amount of fun you guys are having with this is addictive. 😂 Great stuff

[@DrippyTheRaindrop]

Your compassion for the buried infants in segment 8 is very refreshing. Archaeology and scientists are too often seen as cold and calculating, particularly when dealing with human remains. Your humanity simply magnifies your professionalism. All the best....

[@captainsensiblejr.]

À we aaaaaaaaaaaààaa

[@rezkerry8809]

When he got emotional it literally made me cry, I’ve got two young tots myself.

[@StargazerFS128]

By far my fav episode, the double burial is a heart wrencher, Michael being so emotionally stirred caused a lump in my throat, I must look further into this burial.

[@DAGGER479]

Man I am so happy that this was recommended to me I've enjoyed every bit of it and the dad vibes just strengthen my enjoyment

[@desperatelyseekingrealnews]

Wow this was reccomended by YT, I'm really chuffed, First watched you guys years ago on your series "Standing with Stones" touring the country looking at ancient stone structures, it was on an a little known tv station which sadly no longer exists, it's really good to see you again, still going strong . Great video btw.👍

[@kainflynn1430]

The algorithm has done me a great service today. This channel is incredible and is packed full of content that I can’t wait to shamelessly binge on to my hearts delight. I have been absolutely fascinated by pre-history since I was in primary school and we got to do an assignment on the (what I now understand to be an extremely loose term) Stone Age. Stoked to be a new subscriber and I look forward to your future posts

[@jamiegallier2106]

What a treat finding such wonderful discussions about these important discoveries. Thoroughly enjoyed every minute of the video. Thank you!

[@evaleyst]

What a long flight for this boomerang. From Australia to Poland, har har. -- Loved your stories and the way they were presented. Thank you so much for these fascinating science news with a sense of humor I miss so badly elsewhere.

[@jwcinc12]

Amazing content. I have been looking for this type of channel for pre-history. Bravo.

[@jenniferharrison4319]

Jolly good. Hopefully it will give newbies to the channel the incentive to look at all the others you have done. Another thumbs up 👍

[@maddiefunk4305]

re: the bird men of Siberia - the bronze 'spectacles' actually look like the boney eye rings that birds have! As a wildlife person, it struck me right away what they look like. If birds were that important to them, that makes sense doesn't it?

[@Aengus42]

Sclerotic rings! Good call. They could've doubled as snow blindness protection! "Hey, Vladimir! Why don't birds get snow blindness?" "Well Valery, I have an idea about that!"

[@jostoney6501]

It's so incredibly enlightening to hear such finds in Neanderthal burials compared to what we learned in college, 35 years ago, which was basically just some flowers placed in the grave at that time not much else was ever found with Neanderthal until now this is so exciting of course excluding that the infants were in the burials which is quite sad and tragic for the parents. I thank you for sharing!

[@Morgana0x]

I've read about the oldest customer complaint before, but hearing you read it made me enjoy it more. I laughed out loud. Thank you for these informative and entertaining videos.

[@Lee_River]

“Pass my grandfather’s leg so I can whistle a jolly tune” 😂 Love it!

[@woodpigeon7776]

Came for the knowledge . Stayed for the Dad vibes

[@ThePrehistoryGuys]

🤣

[@Mirrorgirl492]

I always come for the prehistory and stay for two giggling boomers.

[@robertafierro5592]

I KNOW what you mean!!

[@TheCrone]

Lol.

[@gnosisdocumentaries4481]

You can't have too many knowledgeable dads!

[@muskerp]

interesting subjects and so refreshing to see something relating to prehistory that doesn't mention aliens - thank you

[@cynicalrabbit915]

Story 10 - Oldest Boomerang What I find fascinating about boomerangs, is the fact that they were shaped in such a way that if you discount the bend or curvature, they were shaped like the wing of an aircraft. One edge is thick the other edge being thinner, thus creating aerodynamic lift, enabling them to fly comparatively great distances.

[@ianbruce6515]

Yes--there are many throwing sticks used for hunting worldwide, but the asymmetrical airfoil design is very sophisticated and not that common at all! Are their other examples this sophisticated outside of Australia?

[@ericjohnson8001]

That's cause UFOs showed them how to make em.

[@cynicalrabbit915]

@@ianbruce6515 I've heard some archeological evidence that boomerangs weren't solely an Australian weapon.

[@leighdee2084]

What an interesting video. Made my morning coffee quite enjoyable. Love you guys, thanks.

[@medievalladybird394]

Oh fabulous! Pre history "Letters Live". Loved it. That was the icing on the cake.

[@idnyftw]

I've known the Ea-Nasir tablet for ages, but the Pythonesque delivery made it a thousand times more hilarious!! :)

[@trebledog]

The clay head showing is actually a nice piece of art. Wouldn't mind having my grandad done up like that and on the bookshelf.

[@cargilekm]

I understand your emotional feelings about the babies. I have found that as an older man, I well up emotionally more often than when I was 50 or younger. Maybe as we get closer to the grave we sympathize with loss more. Cheers

[@AndyM_323YYY]

Until I was 58 I had not lost anybody really close to me.. For me, that was when my attitude to death changed significantly.

[@nomadpurple6154]

Actually it's probably your testosterone returning to normal levels as you age - only men suffer this 'switch off' of emotions at about 14 😁😁😁

[@dee5298]

Maybe I am an anomaly but I have always had trouble with that kind of thing, especially when it is children. I was also taking care of children to some extent from a very young age. I am 33 now.

[@dee5298]

@@nomadpurple6154 You should look up the current research on the subject. There is research supporting that, along with increased agression, testosterone seems to trigger protective behavior and affection for family in males. The connection between low testosterone and psychological disorders is well established, similarly to having way too much through steroid use. I think men destructively bottling their emotions is an evolved trait due to our traditionally limited purposes, sperm donor, work horse and cannon fodder. If I am correct, it could explain the more toxic traits due to a lack of a purpose (outlet, specifically a fitting environment) and living longer than the average man was likely to until recently. I am not sure what could be done about it.

[@mooseitself]

@@dee5298 "traditionally limited purposes" Lol wtf my guy?

[@pierogistacker1651]

Love listening to your voice dude. It is so I don’t know what to say but it is enjoyable to listen to

[@Aengus42]

When i saw those "specs", as you were talking about a funerary mask, I was thinking of the Innuit bone snow goggles. But as soon as you mentioned that they had been found in Siberia then that nailed it! Definitely snow blindness protection. Probably made to a pattern normally made of wood for the common man but produced out of metal for a high status burial. (At a guess!)

[@FrankOClark]

Knowledgeable, witty, authentic!!!!!

[@kctamee625]

I am so glad I found your channel. I don’t understand why you tube never showed me before. Thank you

[@mjk6814]

I really enjoyed this one. You make the past come alive.😊

[@macgraham4810]

Brilliant, no nonsense, stuff. Thank you!

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

It's not often I run across one of these "things you didn't know" lists where I actually didn't know at least 80% of them, so, well freaking done guys! I learned 5 - FIVE - things I didn't know! Then again, I follow lots of paleo-oriented channels, already, from Gutsick Gibbon, to North02, to Stephen Milo, and several more in between. It's hard to surprise me with paleo trivia! 😄

[@ThePrehistoryGuys]

So good to hear! Thanks Mary Ann. Michael. 😀

[@modulator7861]

This is what I love about humans: Our capacity to empathize with, and even love, folks we'll never meet, even separated by tens of thousands of years... As crappy as things may seem sometimes, maybe we ain't so bad after all.

[@tedtimmis8135]

Wow. Just discovered you guys tonight. Really interesting especially with your insights and banter. Greetings from Michigan.

[@jakobfromthefence]

Enazir. May your wretched ways be enshrined to history forever!! Lovely vid. Liked and subscribed.

[@oddevents8395]

Mr. Michael, you already know I'm a nut, but on #7 when you said Larch tree, of course my mind went straight to the Monty Python skit. "12B How to recognize a lot of trees from far away." "The Larch, the Larch"

[@weldonhudson5535]

It’s not so strange to be emotional for the twins death…Because we cry and feel for family! What is more human then that?

[@julescaru8591]

Enjoyed that , fascinating stuff ! All the best Jules

[@ThePrehistoryGuys]

Many thanks!

[@badgerpa9]

" No wonder it resonates with you" Oh what a way to end. Thank you the laugh was much needed after the sad story of the short life of so many children.

[@GkPhotographic]

thank you , I'm really enjoying this format , great job .

[@joeladkins1046]

Love and care for our fellow humans is a defining factor of our species and that bond we feel is key to our survival

[@arcadia8722]

I love these guys. So much fun learning about ancient finds.

[@jennyboden-s2x]

This popped up in my feed. I watched fascinated from beginning to end and enjoyed the content and your dynamic very much. The twins and their cousin made very sad though even after 30 000 years. I've subscribed and look forward to future videos. Cordially from France.

[@hannahbrown2728]

These were all amazing to hear about. I had seen images of the Shigir Idol before, but something about imaging it in its heyday makes it feels even more powerful. And Ea-Nasir is one of my go-tos whenever I get a chance to gush about history. I can just imagine him chuckling to himself as he re-reads those tablets(maybe with a cup of beer or wine too, for the drama)

[@davelockhart5250]

Extremely interesting. I love new archaeological knowledge. You guys do a good job of laying it out for us to enjoy. Thanks guys. Make another one soon

[@ladybarbarapinsonartist4052]

Well done, gentlemen!

[@StoicChav]

cant get enough of this channel at the minute!

[@sgtflashback5442]

I heard that keeping bones of your ancestors isn't unheard of in modern times as well. There's a traditional irish drum that used to be played with one of granny's rib bones fairly recently.

[@TacDyne]

Tagar people: Hey, you know how we always cover these skulls in clay, then break them before burying them? Let's leave one intact, perfect, but to mess with grave robbers, let's use a sheep skull! Fabulous idea, mate! Thank you for keeping it real and nay saying the ubiquitous speculation. :)

[@UpAndRunning-xz6er]

I would make the simple assumption that the sheep scull was used as a structural 'armature' to better hold the clay together. This is common with sculpture today. A modern wire form takes the place of a sheep's scull.

[@jimmyviaductophilelawley5587]

Hi guys 7:44 the femur flute? Seems more likely to be a trophy from a vanquished enemy than a respectful memento of a loved one to me? Just a thought.

[@raymondporter2094]

Good stuff, gentlemen! I enjoyed that.

[@blaircolquhoun7780]

I'm learning a lot. I haven't been in a college classroom since 1980 and I wish I knew more about this back then. Are these recent discoveries?

[@benjamindover5676]

These people were loved and were important in other people's lives just like we have today. We will all get old and lose people we love and someday it will be our turn.

[@sharonholdren7588]

The bonus was hilarious, and shows that people are the same all over the world and throughout time. Perfect ending (the laughter) when all the rest has been about death and burial.

[@Devils-advocate78]

It's mind boggling what we can learn about the past with modern technology. Never fails to amaze me. Great vid 💜

[@pierogistacker1651]

Subbed

[@pierogistacker1651]

OMG this is like my fourth post listening to this video I love you guys thank you I am will be watching you guys a lot more

[@philipcallicoat3147]

The word is: get the gold😂!!!!

[@grahamorriss]

Love you guys. This is great! Thank you. 😃

[@isobelholland8552]

Thank you for a great programme - re the bronze hand - is it smaller than male adult life size, ie female life size, or is it teenager/child size?

[@Pixelkip]

Thanks for your work guys :D

[@ThePrehistoryGuys]

Thank you too!

[@theofficialsoldierthatreviews]

So being at 40 years old, I grew up being taught of you know before us. It was the caveman, and then the dinosaurs. Only a few people had the audacity to think that caveman were anything other than just slightly human featured gorillas. Meantime, always wondering “where the missing link is.”? This is amazing information that should be talked about much more often.

[@iknowyoureright8564]

Humans and gorillas are a completely different species…and the earliest cavemen came tens of millions of years after the dinosaurs had already been wiped out. (At least that’s what’s we are told) nobody really knows.

[@Kholdaimon]

@@iknowyoureright8564 We do know though, there are no non-avian dinosaur fossils dated to later then say 60 million years ago. And the earliest Homo sapiens fossils are from 315,000 years ago. The earliest bipedal ancestor (Sahelanthropus tchadensis) is dated about 7 million years ago, the earliest of those that we classify hominids is dated about 5 million years ago. So even if you just count our earliest bipedal ancestor as "earliest cavemen" and say they might be 10 million years off in their estimations for both dinosaurs and those, then the non-avian dinosaurs were still long, long, long gone before the first bipedal primate walked this earth. It is definitely incorrect to say nobody really knows. There are some minor questions about the particular order of the different hominid species, because many may have lived alongside each other and even have inter-mingled, which muddles the making of a simple, single lineage...

[@feralbluee]

Absolutely love these guys. The content is stuff I have never even heard of! (Why is that? Too intellectual for the media probably. :/ ) Thanks so much. (I’ll see if I can afford to join the patreon group.) 🌷🌱

[@richardcook5919]

I was lucky enough to attend a fascinating talk in September at the Valencina de la Concepción museum, where the quartz arrowheads were on display. We also got to explore the nearby Dolmen de la Pastora, which sits overlooking Seville and the Guadalquivir valley.

[@janetmackinnon3411]

Thanks for the recap!

[@jbos5107]

It's funny that you say someone needs to write a novel but as a novel reader I can say that many novels have put me on the search for the real history. So novels can be fun and educational!

[@David-ig8of]

Jane aul comes to mind...hope I spelled her name right, been a while....

[@Padraigp]

Same I knew nothing about history despite studying it at school untill I read the shardlake novels and it gave me something to hang everything on. I realised I need to draw everything in my head and so knowing what clothes and shows people had is really important to me and I had read lots of history but none of it stuck but once I read those novels I had a agood picture then. And also some of the KZbin videos especially reenactment or the life on a victorian farm tutor farm all really helped give me a place to go from ...just seeing a kitchen of a tutor house and the clothes I can then remember a battle...but a list of battles and dates just falls out my head ass it has nowhere to go in a picture.

[@markashdown1314]

Great presentation and humour. Thanks chaps.

[@dianespears6057]

Fun times with the Guys. Enjoyed this video.

[@mgcocasal]

Re the missing head in the clay, the theory of replacing missing body parts for the afterlife. There was a warrior found at Repton with a strategically placed boar's tusk...

[@zelly8163]

You too...fascinating and a great chuckle.

[@kimmcroberts5111]

Thank you for your work!

[@nathanbowen9204]

Very nice, so very nice. Great work, entertaining and gripping. Rock on.

[@killslay]

Really loving this channel! That complaint was amazing, I really enjoy the peeks at banal every day life

[@amybee9467]

Psyched to see a new video up. This looks like it will be fun.

[@davidstewart5811]

Outstanding effort. Good jobs by all.

[@rondias6625]

Excellent video.. awesome information..I will be watching many more..👍

[@billdad]

Maybe the tagar guy's head wasn't missing but could have been damaged to the extent that the skull couldn't be used for the molding of clay. Could have been a fall, injury from a blunt weapon or a rock fall on the head for example. After they left him to "dry out" they would have found a fragmented skull and been forced to replace it. Just a thought))

[@hollyrr]

You two are having too much fun explaining the prehistoric news. It's delightful.

[@kristibbradshaw]

Excellent history program. Thank you.

[@tomfilippone6303]

Nice Citizens Eco Drive steel perpetual calendar quartz watch on the gentleman on the left! Great value for a a great looking timepiece!!!😃👍

[@ThePrehistoryGuys]

Vert well spotted sir!

[@beverlyblake4325]

Unfortunately, modern people sometimes think that our forbearers were always in survival mode, unfeeling and stoic. The story of the infant twins and their cousin, show a clear view of a sentimental and loving people all those thousands of years ago. 😢 When you two gentlemen got all emotional when telling of how these parents may have suffered, it brought tears to my eyes, too.

[@desperatelyseekingrealnews]

I'd forgotten about the boomerang but It's come back now

[@Nervii_Champion]

12:58 just remember, these are humans who did this particular thing. Someone likely loved that sheep. That sheep could have saved someone's child from being mauled by a massive predator and could have been honored in this way. There are many reasons, but I am quite certain either of my explanations are exactly the answer. To the darker side, that sheep could have also been someone's "lover". Lol

[@julesgosnell9791]

Re. the bronze hand - I'm going to suggest that the owner lost his hand during life but that this was not a prosthetic hand for daily use - the gold would have rubbed off quickly and the fingers would have got in the way. Disfigurement would have been much more commonplace at the time anyway and probably not drawn much attention. I think that once again we are seeing an effort to make someone 'whole' in the grave so that they will have a complete body in the afterlife. It reminds me of a case I read about in the UK where a (hypothesized) Viking raider had been buried with a (I think) boar's tusk placed on the front of his pelvis. There was apparently damage to the pelvis that suggested that his original "tusk" may have been missing at burial and his friends wanted to ensure that he had full use if it in the afterlife...

[@richardhowell7040]

In reference to the Danube twins I’ll share a story from my youth. I’d taken a sales job at a cemetery and thought of myself as pretty callous about burial customs. To my surprise, I began weeping the day I took a stroll into “Babyland” an area restricted to child burials. The dates and inscriptions on the stones touched me profoundly, completely at odds with my blithe ramblings through forty acres of adult gravesites. Tears are running down my face as I write, and that was forty years ago.

[@anna9072]

I recall walking through a graveyard in Oregon dating back to the early colonization of the area. There was a family plot, 5 child graves ranging from newborns to maybe a little over a year. Then the mother along with another infant child, buried together. While I knew that infant mortality was much higher in earlier times, this somehow really brought the reality of it home to me, the gut-wrenching tragedy of bearing a child only to lose it.

[@Padraigp]

What on earth were you selling at a graveyard? 😂

[@joanmayer304]

@@Padraigp Plots?

[@Padraigp]

@@joanmayer304 oh...

[@shirleysmith8565]

❤️🙏🏼❤️

[@davewilson1591]

KZbin popped you up on my screen! Pleasant surprise. Really like your "just the facts approach". No pretending you have it all figured out. Subbed and will check ✔️ out your other vids. Thanks... have to say very refreshing!

[@robertterrell3065]

Just such an awesome episode! I wish I got more, but I have so many channels of great stuff that I'm subscribed to, the Google algorithm can't pull up everything and I forget about things. But I must say, even though there is a lot of griping about Google and its algorithms, it still does a pretty good job, considering that I am subscribed to hundreds of channels!

[@elihyland4781]

Love this channel 🙌

[@carriekelly4186]

Really great thanks guys❤

[@elclaustrocl]

This is what I w3as looking for, two deeply loving and smart persons sharing facts and knowledge based on science, giving credits and value to the field workers. I'm deeply thankful, my respects and regards from Chile, near Monteverde site.

[@judithmacfadzen9516]

Just watched Parts 1 & 2 of the visit to Gobekli Tepe & teared up along with you! ❤

[@AlchZdot]

I find this Scott Van Pelt much more interesting😂 Really enjoyed this!

[@shaeleable]

Thinking of that crystal dagger, that culture must have been very rich and organized to have the industry to make all those beads

[@wolfgangpagel6989]

Or they did that over a long period of time.

[@mjinba07]

Re. 41:20 the Birdman of Siberia - It's possible that the metal "spectacles" were implements of shamanic practice. I got the idea from a 1987 Norwegian film "Pathfinder," which tells an ancient Sami legend that includes a shaman who can only be looked at through a metal ring held up to the seeker's eye, presumably to provide protection against the consequences of looking at his power directly. The cultures of bronze age Siberia and the ancient Sami might not have been all that disparate. It would make sense to include an item in burial if it had a personal attachment to the deceased shaman's practice. Perhaps for use in the next life or for continued service as an ancestor - viewing the world of the living after death. Fun conjecture, anyway.

[@pauladebruijn4202]

So very interesting. Thank you I really enjoyed it.

[@brendahamblin4559]

Your Channel came up as a recommended video yesterday. Seems that KZbin got it right!

[@eyesofisabelofficial]

Entertaining us whilst we learn 😊

[@JHaven-lg7lj]

Ea Nasir deserves to be a legendary villain - my understanding is that many clay tablets with similar customer complaints were found in his residence or business, I don’t remember which. Want substandard copper and double-dealings? Ea Nasir was your man! eta: should have listened to the whole thing before commenting!

[@Earthbound369]

I just discovered you guys. Thanks so much for not mentioning aliens or Annunaki once. I subbed after finding legitimate science.

[@neatchipops3428]

Thank you for using and promoting the term "Pre-History" ...although "Pre-Ancient" shall gain more and more traction.

[@maureendoerner9002]

Great overburdened bookshelves! I've got several of these bookcases of my own. Love from a fellow bibliophile .

[@jordanf8797]

Got any recommendations?

[@jennyboden-s2x]

Me too. Billy from Ikea me thinks.

[@spinny2010]

Fascinating stuff. I would like to know whether the DNA of a currently living descendant of the 30,000 year old twins would show up as a relation of them?