Time Team's Top 3 NEOLITHIC Finds

[@pmotherat]

Love rewatching the old episodes so much. I’ve joined Patreon for the new episodes. Wish Tony was back full time. So what if he has wrinkles. We all do and are still enjoying his energetic presentation.

[@susanhuntley9262]

Its not the wrinkles lol. I enjoy and respect him as an interpreter. I deeply dislike his arrogance though

[@SuperPixiefun]

@@susanhuntley9262Arrogance? No, his role is to be an agent provocateur, to be a doubter, to question and be the voice of an occasionally cynical audience. You can see how much the team like and respect him. They need him to make the programme really sing, to be the enthusiastic amateur and keep things comprehensible to a broad audience.

[@ruthblack3676]

Sir Tony is the BEST! Every time I see that Geico Lizard on an advert I think how Sir Tony should sue them as they clearly napped his very essence.

[@themysteryofbluebirdboulevard]

​@@SuperPixiefunDespite your fancy words, Tony acts unprofessional on the show. He also used to advocate dowsing and try to get mick to argue about it being pseudoscience (mick never took the bait). He complains constantly that they're not "finding anything" like it's his show and if he isn't entertained by gold artifacts or lost palaces for 3 days none of it's worth it. He may be energetic and sometimes clever, but he's too abrasive cynical and undiplomatic. Representing skepticism for the audience would be fine. Cynicism is a negative view of things.

[@magdahearne497]

Oh to have been in the pub listening to them discuss the finds of the day 😍

[@arkhamasylum8382]

My wife and I still chime in “ritual landscape” to amuse each other

[@susanhuntley9262]

Oh my goodness you wild ones 😂

[@SunofYork]

The long winter nights must just fly by

[@christinavuyk2026]

Ach don’t we all 😂

[@JeffinBville]

Francis! I found a rock! That's not a rock! That's a cultural icon representing the way the ancients perceived their God! Francis! I found a beer bottle! A beer bottle to you! But to the people who lived here that was a cultural and religious manifestation of their arrival here in Great Britain!

[@KernowekTim]

Looking at the area and it's surroudings now, my initial thought was, " My goodness, I wonder what a Neolithic person would have made of today's set-up?" Un-natural, springs to mind.

[@earlymorningtwilight9119]

Love these people! Best show ever!

[@davemcdonald5004]

really enjoy the neolithic episodes Phil and Francis really shine I wonder how much of these enclosures have to do with security for families and animals ancient practices of cattle stealing as well as protection from wolves I wonder if the practice of animals and owners staying in same dwelling had to do with having everybody make it through the night

[@89128]

I wonder if the ditches were actually moats to protect a village within. Or, since this is Fen Country, perhaps an attempt to drain the land to extend arable land.

[@darcymurphy1769]

Agreed I’m more inclined to think these round structures are more likely to be animal enclosures, let them out during the day to graze and return them at night for safe keeping. Domesticated farm animals would have been extremely important for a tribes survival especially during winter months, also just to many of these enclosures throughout the country to be all religious sites!

[@TheDesertwalker]

If the occupants of these sites really thought that ceremonies would help, then that was PRACTICAL, and a good use of their precious time and labor.

[@bonnieskilton3247]

Wait a minute… wait just a minute… Phil digs a 1 foot hole and pulls up Neolithic flint. That man is a genius.

[@deborahparham3783]

Phil is just naturally drawn to the stuff and he loves it.

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Not really there's hundreds of thousands of pieces of neolithic flint all over the UK

[@Davlavi]

Love rewatching the old episodes so much.

[@belbrighton6479]

Réservoir rituals is one of the best episodes ever.

[@MickCampin-jp9kb]

I remember a field trip to the South Downs at Pratts Bottom back in 1977. We were just doing soil analysis on cross section of the Downs

[@townview5322]

The mystery of the stones in the holes reminds me of a Billy Connolly joke: (paraphrased) "Why do they make you put on your lifejacket when your plane is crashing? When it hits, it's going to go into the ground like a dart!! So that in 2000 years, when archeologists dig it up, they'll think there was a river there."

[@simonstergaard]

love these top cuts !

[@douglasruss2889]

Always enjoy !

[@MickCampin-jp9kb]

RIP Mick Aston

[@bigbensarrowheadchannel2739]

Francis Pryor has one wild imagination. Everything is ritualistic or related to a ceremony.

[@deborahparham3783]

The man is a one trick pony.

[@Tawadeb]

Love Francis

[@catheydaniel6952]

If these were seasonal and from Hunter/Gatherer sites why cant the cairns be for more than burials? Why cant they be to store foods or blank flint for tools, or even sacred objects dedicated to the Gods to keep the Site safe until their return?

[@PeachysMom]

They really weren’t doing much hunter gathering in the Neolithic.

[@lorilea3188]

"You don't let your cattle poo in church"...unless cattle are held sacred, every bit of the animal helpful/useful to humans, including the "poo".

[@skalar-haubitze1619]

Francis sees a ritual sight in pretty much anything.

[@TheDesertwalker]

True, but the man has a hell of a resume and experience.

[@saw6436]

At that point in time, given the probably limitations in engineering, could these ditches not be defensive in nature?

[@pauls3204]

Possibly probably, still wolves wild dog packs brown bears black bears giant sized coos large cats , makes perfect sense , these things have been found all over uk n Ireland, on loch shores they built similar things on stilts over the water Not because they wanted a running shitter, but for safety from beasties ! They were defensive against beasties not people

[@TheSharkGirls]

The 3rd find was a fish trap. Think about it. It's obvious if you come from a place where fish traps have been built and operated for tens of millennia. Long before people were farming animals they built fish traps.

[@cathyf.2672]

Prehistoric humans must have had a super survival skill-set that is almost unimaginable to the average modern human. I bet many archeologists don't figure out the meaning of what they find, because they never had to completely depend on the land the way Neolithic hunters did.

[@greyhairedphantom4038]

Certainly a salvageable home, no..or minimal Salt Damp is a big plus. The movement cracks aren't extreme as in some other old homes. It needs to be saved soon as the roof is beginning to leak, which will cause irreparable damage. The fact that it is way out in the paddock has saved it from human building materials parasites and vandals wrecking it.

[@townview5322]

I vote security for the causeway ditch. Try sneaking through there on a dark night. splash! splash!

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

LOL! I misread it as *"Top 3 NEANDERTHAL Finds!"* {:o:O:}

[@GathKingLeppbertI]

Slogging through the mud can only be fun for so long. It'd be cool too see time team relaxing time videos but as an adult you don't wanna expose the younguns to the required relaxation beverages I reckon.

[@louiserose2609]

Why not a market? My take on it all.

[@1959Berre]

It always strikes me how these guys come to conclusions. They find a piece of flint, barely recognisable as a 'scraper', and they come up with a theory about burials with grave gifts, offerings, ceremonies, gatherings, etc. Isn't that a bit too optimistic ?

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

No experience

[@206stonner]

i like it compressing and cutting all the boring parts sometimes it gets so repetitive

[@kevinmccarthy8746]

Love from your prodigal son the USA.

[@barloswkitheweasel1836]

Have a look at Mike Taylor Embargo Cletic village New Zealand. The Kaimanawa wall. Split Apple Rock.

[@beepboop204]

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

I wonder if they had KZbin in the neolithic age? But they could only see in black and white though..

[@bethbartlett5692]

I am ✓ with a Farming/Agricultural area.

[@DevonClaireFlannery]

Let her speak!

[@davidproctor8997]

I am 100% with you, she should never be able back she's make she bed vso she can lay nin it.

[@malahammer]

22.26 ...how sad am I

[@christianbuczko1481]

Id strongly dispute that a few fragments of bone and ritial finds in the ditches in that causedway enclosure is anyway proof that those sites were ritualistic in use or purpose. They always gave something back to the ancestors regardless, and theres far more ritualistic deposits found on that neolithic flint mine they excavated which was clearly an industrial site. Therefore a few ritual finds means nothing as far as the purpose of the site. In the mine, they had a ring barrow with a central burial of flints. The site was a flint mine, they were giving a fraction of that sites product back. This causedway enclosure has food, hunting artifacts and abit of pottery given as ritual deposits, the nature of those finds likely gives a clue as to the sites purpose, which could be a meeting place for feasting, or for seasonal trade on the borders of their lands with naighbouring peoples.

[@picassomooon]

How would anyone know that ”they always gave something back to the ancestors”? Nothing is always with human behavior.

[@christianbuczko1481]

@@picassomooon when they hunted they gave a piece of the animal back, when they dug up flints, they gave some back, they always gave thanks for what they had recieved. Its common to many of their sites and was a common idea in some cultures until very recently with native americans for example and other indigenous peoples. Not doing so would risk having bad luck trying to do those things again as it would upset the ancestors or gods which were responsible for the bounty they had recieved.

[@albow4oops5]

​@Christian Buczko, you still offer no proof of what your saying, saying something with confidence does not constitute proof.

[@christianbuczko1481]

@@albow4oops5 so the histories and legends of virtually every indigenous peoples, and the mountains of evidence found including that mine site shown in this video as well as many other sites such as round houses and every prehistoric site which isnt an obvious sacred site like stonehenge amounts to zero proof??? What do you require as proof?, a wack round the head with those ritual artifacts perhaps?? Maybe after you had that proof hammered into you, you may believe it exists.

[@Poliss95]

@@christianbuczko1481 Histories? This is a prehistoric site. You do know what prehistoric means I hope? Legends? Legends don't mean a thing. There is no proof about what they were. It's all guesswork. This reminds me of a story about archaeologists a thousand years in the future where they excavate a 20th century house. They find a fireplace but also find there was central heating installed. Now if they had central heating they would have no need for a fireplace. It must be where they burnt offerings to the gods.

[@grizzlybearzzz2824]

Gobekli tepe

[@MARYANNELUCE]

😊

[@silasmarner7586]

First!

[@beepboop204]

[@mariohinke4487]

Ask Francis any question and he will always draw the conclusion that everything is ceremonially relevant or religious or sacret. Watch any episode. I dare you to find him draw any other conclusion ever. A 4000 year ofd post hole -> religious! A broken arrow head -> offering to the gods! He would have been a priest in the olden days. 😂😂😂

[@pauloboyle477]

What if they were corrals for the animals. Back then they were terrified of the natural world. What if a storm came and killed there animals. Put ‘em in a pen and pray

[@grizzlybearzzz2824]

Ok British ppl

[@hudsonfrank1121]

When someone is out of ideas and they compile episodes together from old episodes.

[@jedtattum9996]

not really. they have plenty of ideas but lack funding. time team is no longer a tv production. they rely on patreon funding to make new episodes.

[@ottolehikoinen6193]

​@@jedtattum9996 yup, they say it regularly in these compilations which the op clearly has not watched.

[@judithmacfadzen9516]

So don't watch! 😊

[@earlymorningtwilight9119]

I've watched several times and still love it. Better than any TV programming today

[@OurAmazingSkies]

CH4 must have made millions out of TT, why don't they ask CH4 for a donation?@@jedtattum9996

[@barbarab.8613]

Anyone else think Francis knows absolutely nothing and faffs on with rubbish trying to convince himself of what's going on?

[@marilyncuaron3222]

Yeah, Barbara. He's got the whole academic world totally fooled. You should publish a book of your own to refute his theories, and enlighten the rest of us. Oh--don't forget to include your own credentials. Your experience and education must be really something!!

[@lindadillon3061]

Francis is an expert in Neolithic and was awarded a Sir. When you watch the full episodes you can see his in-depth knowledge. He also did other tv shows all on his own, which are fantastic

[@RKHageman]

Nope. We know who he is, what his background is, what his credentials are. You, however, have none of the above. What are YOUR credentials? How many books have YOU written? The one who “knows absolutely nothing “ appears to be you- it certainly isn’t Dr. Pryor.

[@cathyf.2672]

A simple "NO" to Barbara's odd question would have been effective. @@marilyncuaron3222​

[@PeachysMom]

No, he has been responsible for finding some of the most important sites in Britain

[@educatedred]

You really do yell at the viewer -- can't watch

[@justbecauseOK]

say what ???..i can't hear you

[@beebeelicious]

Who?😅

[@lindadillon3061]

They only give themselves three days to see what they can discover and they get excited or stressed when they can/can’t find what they are looking for

[@orwellboy1958]

@@lindadillon3061 I don't think you understand the premis of time team. Time Team was Micks idea of bringing archaeology to the masses, he didn't like that was the preserve of the university's and academics. Three days is about right for an exploratory dig and the archaeologists have other work during the week. If they find anything of note they pass it on to archaeological societies, if not it's recorded and back filled. It can take years to complete a full archaeological dig.

[@Tony_7791]

Ya wally wafter