Archaeologists Uncover Rare Beaker Burial Near Stone Henge | Digging For Britain

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[@pieceofgosa]

On the north-west tower of the national cathedral in Washington DC there is a grotesque in the shape of Darth Vader's head. Try to imagine being an archaeologist & finding that without any kind of historical context :D

[@cliftongaither6642]

i didn't know this. i just googled it. thanks 👍

[@karennewberry4694]

There is an astronaut carved into a monument/ cathedral, done when repairs were done. Can't recall where though.

[@belwynne1386]

Always good to see Matt!

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yeah , and not being volunteered for some kind of hardship ( usually lasting 24 hours )as in TT

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@@donnyrover1 Matt is Head Honcho in the new Time Team.

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Me too. I hope you're enjoying it.

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Well done!

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She looks darn good!

[@magpie6648]

Prof Roberts has been digging for years.. you'll see her in the older programmes Tony Robinson ( Baldrick😊) used to present.. Alice is a very naturally beautiful woman, comfortable in her own skin😊 and an inspiration to many😊❤

[@wizardofahhhs759]

I would have guessed mid 30s.

[@divarachelenvy]

Thank you dear Professor Alice..

[@AlanParliden]

The Beautiful women of British Archaeology Alice Roberts Suzannah Lipscomp,Carenza Lewis, Helen Geake and Phil Harding are such treat to watch.British History is so awesome !!🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

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Matt from Time Team 😊

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I Love these people who Look back into our past .Though very Careful and dilligent work they are opening and understanding the history.

[@havingalook2]

Brilliant.

[@lnbjr7]

Another fascinating presentation. Everyone associated with this has my gratitude for their assemblage!

[@jeffsmith2022]

Lovely video...😊

[@robertneven7563]

lady Roberts , you are AMAZING

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

I really like the programs narrated by Alice Roberts. Her melodious tone of voice is precious, a true soothing sound that makes me disconnect from all my problems. When she speaks, all real and imaginary conflicts disappear. Sometimes I get drowsy, but that's good.

[@MikeHunt-c5p]

In a thousand years there will be serious academic debate about whether Superman and Batman were real or not...... by robots

[@stevenrodgers333]

Excellent 😊

[@davecordes6121]

I read about th Beakr people 62 years ago in Enland. Visid Stonehenge thrn and bought a bòok. This is the first mention of them I have heard of them since watching history et al on You Tube. Congrats!

[@davecordes6121]

Sorry for he typos!

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Thank you👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@TheFatCottonwood]

At Marden henge could that possibly be a pottery drying room/kiln by any chance? Perhaps a way to finish their beaker style pottery, I envision that as a clever way to dry pottery without turning it black from fire soot. They could extend their pottery making enterprise in winter as well.

[@GeraldEgnier]

Alice you are awesome

[@coprolite9000]

Looks like series 4, episode 1 - from March 2016! Still relevant - the Amesbury Archer was covered in Prof. Roberts's recent book Ancestors. I just went to look for one of Alice's talks on the subject, and found an hour long lecture that was posted in the past few days: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZrLiYKMatF2es0

[@ant-1382]

Fascinating!!

[@glendamears3618]

Thanks to the Ancestors 😊❤

[@hectorpascal]

I see what you did there: not a NEW Stone Henge but old Stonehenge! No fair - clickbait title!🤣 But it's good to see Matthew become such a good presenter.

[@pieceofgosa]

I always baulk slightly at archaeologists use of the term "ritual". I wonder how many of our day-to-day activities would (without the benefit of context) appear to be ritual in nature. What (for example) do we think alien archaeologists from 10,000 years in the future would make of football stadiums ? Or art galleries ? Or museums ? I think it's very important to draw a line between ritual & religious. The two are not necessarily connected.

[@Arkantos117]

The statue in my back garden was clearly ritual and not just aesthetic.

[@ladykayla7417]

It’s a running joke that when an archaeologist doesn’t know the what/why of an artifact, their go to explanation is “it’s very probably ritual.”

[@lenabreijer1311]

Every village in Europe has at least 2 churches. 100 years ago and more if you didn't go to one at least once a week, if not more you would be in deep trouble. At some points in written history you would end up dead. Also if you watch s sporting event without interest in the sport, it is definitely a ritual situation with people passionately involved and dedicated to a team. Millions of dollars or the equivalent are spent on it, just like in a religion.

[@kcbowman4042]

I think of ritual as a "practice" which might or very well might not be connected to religious practice. I think they choose that deliberately with both those inferences. That said, having been to Stonehenge back in the day... I could definitely see a religious or religio scientific repetitive activity.

[@Dalaruan]

I fully agree with you. Mind you, we have a lot of ancient "rituals" still in use, like gathering around the family dinner table evening after evening etc etc 😁

[@hughbean6785]

Love this one Alice

[@pattiewatkins1809]

In this strange world right now we need your magic ❤❤😂😂😂Jen who made that wonderful sweater Oskar Robin is wearing !!??

[@cmcg9035]

I pour sweats, and the 1st digsite makes sense as a sauna or at least a warm room where people could get out of the cold without being in a smoky environment. Sarsen wouldn't have been the best stone for sweats because it could be prone to explode in a fire, but if it was on hand, it could be used. I wonder if the animal mash-ups were spectacles like a jackalope.

[@tomjenkins1405]

Rose who found skeleton has enthusiasm and looks to be a host. I assume knowledge too. Let’s get a new series going. Enjoyed the show. Thanks.

[@secondhand8950]

Magnificent as usual love Alice. Just one thing dig number one slip slop slap you all look sun burnt 🥵 don’t forget your hats 👒 and sunscreen 🧴 stay safe 😊

[@garnerjoyce606]

Turning points of history

[@KyleBrennan-ug9rs]

Hey! I used to work for Salvation army. You need to become friends with the donation attendants. Often it is decided that a piece is not sellable and sent to the garbage. Many of these just need some attention. Believe me, I often contacted one of our customers to tell him to make an offer on some of these and actually picked up a couple of my own. Just a precaution, nothing is free, but you would get them cheap.

[@Garwfechan-ry5lk]

I find this difficult to work out, I have seen a site in Glamorgan where Metal working was definitely carried out 4500 BC there are dozens of sites in what is now Wales of Copper Work 4500 years ago also Iron Working during the Bronze age and before with the use of Coal, up to 5000 BC, it does seem that English heritage is making its own British ( English History) , as for the Beaker people, I would recommend you visit the Museum in Bratislava where there are " Beaker " pots but this was a very Celtic area, certainly the name Bratis comes from the Celtic Brawydd ne brawdd ( Brythonic) meaning brother, but amongst the burials they also found coinage from Britain in Gold dated to about 1000 BC.

[@johnrangi4830]

The Hot rocks could have been used for cooking. It's not unusual for large groups of people to use rocks for cooking.

[@MacNab23]

Lovely work. I'm glad to see that Anglo-Saxon hasn't been totally canceled.

[@sforza209]

Isn’t that baffling that there are actual fools out there that want to cancel history?

[@Saor_Alba]

I have been to Stone Henge, it was a very foggy evening when I got there. From my Sat Nav, I've confirmed the location of Stone Henge, but ........ I cannot confirm the existence of Stone Henge. Reference Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country 😁

[@ava.artemis]

Every time I watch archaeology videos I always notice how good the teeth of the skeletons are. Sometimes they’re worn down, but they are almost always very straight and they have good jaw bones. I usually don’t see cavities either- but I might not be able to see or recognize those.

[@srdjandobrota2864]

There was no so much sugar around at that time.

[@ava.artemis]

@ exactly.

[@MrGozer23]

Rituals are often religious but the term just means something you do in the same way every time because it has meaning to the person doing it. Otherwise humans don't quite have symmetrical behavior that is easily traceable.

[@magpie6648]

When the guy is talking about the wear on the sword you can tell he doesn't use hand tools that much. eg, a blacksmiths hammer will last for generations and show signs of wear from being used for hours on end day in day out. A sword of that quality would've belonged to someone of wealth and use of the sword would have been infrequent, not hours on end yet hung by the side for weeks at a time only to be drawn as a threat or for use for short periods hence the wear pattern..😊 P.S. I'm a stone carver.. ❤😊

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I've liked Alice Roberts ever since I first saw her on Time Team. 😊

[@CAP198462]

I adore this series, but I do have questions. 1. The chimeras, were they just an assemblage of bits or was there evidence of an effort to “Frankenstein” them together with needles and sinew? 2. 35:12 Why are the archaeologists walking around the site barefoot? Is it ritual practice?

[@davidbamford4721]

I wonder if they had verbal mythology of bizarre animals which were compounds of known animals. These were known from other communities in the Mediterranean basin.

[@bod3102]

Looks like an organised grave robbing series.

[@Horseyperson12]

So glad to see Matt Williams has graduated from the guinea pig 😂 on Time Team to serious archeologist and program host.

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

He has taken over Phil's role in the new Time Team. No short shorts or skanky hat yet though. This show is 8 years old. By the way Alice was just one of the diggers in early TTs.

[@frankmitchell3594]

As I understand it you are saying that the Ford warrior was an Anglo-Saxon 'invader' and the bowl of apples and onions in his grave was a native British tradition. Did his wife leave it for his afterlife?

[@mariansmith7694]

Absolutely correct, IMO. I live among Indigenous Americans and I immediately thought of a sweat lodge.

[@TheRoulette77]

Green eyed , archeological princess....smooth...substantial and stunning

[@naikrovek]

Comments like this are why women are wary of talking to men they don't know.

[@TheRoulette77]

@@naikrovek i was raised by women have 5 sisters and I have been well sorted by them. I feel that your off base. ..maybe you just don't know how to make compliment like a true male of this human race....but i will go ahead and explain for you.......she has beautiful green eyes that intrigue and entertain like gem stones , her archeological intelligence is "substantial"... her speaking style is smooth and soothing...her work is "stunning"....top notch like royalty

[@robertcronin6603]

@@TheRoulette77 Exactly - it was a fine compliment...this guy above is freakin' clueless and clearly challenged in other areas.

[@gregedmand9939]

​@@naikrovekWhat? Now it's verboten to say a beautiful and brilliant woman is brilliant and beautiful? Next you'll be telling us it's wrong to be smitten by anyone we find attractive, male or female.

[@Zardox-The-Heretic-Slayer]

@@naikrovek nah it's male feminists like you that make women wary of men they don't know. a Woman knows where she stands with a man who calls her beautiful and compliments her intellect, she has to be wary of what has been termed as the "sneaky fucker", a man who hides his motives behind platitudes that he thinks women will find agreeable.

[@tristanmills4948]

My favourite description of the Anglo Saxon warrior elite is 'psychopathic peacocks'. They loved their bling.

[@grendel_nz]

Kindof like you'd pack your freezer to get thru winter. These ppl never got to use this food store. Something happened, a storm, disease or war.

[@annazaman9657]

Miles seems to be at every dig

[@johncook2303]

Great series but comments like 'they came here to build a better Britain' seem a little odd when the main aim appears always to have been material gain via slaughter and conquest. I don't think the Briton's were terribly keen on being taken over,

[@jacobkuykendall9325]

Hence the buddica rebelions

[@colinmyers8841]

Dear Alice , are you expecting , been enjoying your videos for years , since the "Coast "series , cheers

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[@nancytimmer9026]

On the topic of hybrid beasts, didn't the "ice maiden" have tattoos that show hybrid animals?

[@shazann1210]

The "Sweat Lodge" could be from cooking food not on direct fire, or to warm the place, does not need to be a sauna

[@DonHavjuan]

These rapid digs with limited record keeping are DESTROYING our history.

[@NigelWickenden]

Why couldn't they just have used the hot stones for heat without all the smoke from a fire?

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

Not dramatic enough. It has to be Ritual.

[@nancytimmer9026]

​@@hogwashmcturnip8930 brushing your teeth before bed every night is a ritual too. Ritual doesn't necessarily mean religion.

[@johannesfresner7627]

Could be a sweat-house, my guess is a stone-brewery

[@Irene-im8xi]

'The Welsh were 'aggressive' and 'posed a constant threat'! Welsh lands were being stolen by settlers. Why wouldn't they fight against that process of displacement? The archaeologists seem to make a value judgement about the situation whereby the town-building settlers become the innocent victims instead of the aggressive land-grabbers they in fact were. It's impossible to make value judgements for or against people dependant on what they leave behind in buildings,technology or jewellery - that is a very materialistic way of judging history. Valuable and worthwhile existence doesn't to depend on a people's assets. Absolutely horrible, uncivilised people often have plenty of assets

[@fleetskipper1810]

So true

[@a.g.4843]

Alice i love you

[@bradleydass3075]

Hey college boys & girls get a Finlander to explain the ritual of getting cleaned up to you. Ritual on Wednesday & Saturday At least.

[@ezzovonachalm9815]

The first humans stepping the soil of Brittain just after the last glaciation were the Ligurians, a pre- indoeuropean people that survived in the climatic refuges in Liguria ( Arene candide, Balze rosse ( Ventimillia) and repopulated west Europa from Iberia up to Doggerland and the British Isles One of their biological particularities are the blood group A Rh neg ( still frequent in northern Italy).They are known for sculpting the Statue Stele ( Museo di Pontremoli) dating back to 4000-3000 BC. They detained the amber monopoly and ,as skilled and fearless navigators, they exchanged elaborated amber with the Minoans, Aegeans,Acheans Mesopotamians( Sumer, Akkad) Indians (Harappa) Egyptians, and Phenicians -they had to combat with to establish the Port of Tabarca ( hodiern Tunisia).They founded the Golasecca Culture in northern Alpine Italy. By the end of the würmian glaciation ( 8000 BC) Britain was still covered with ice, but not the banks up to the Baltic.

[@barkershill]

I always believed that modern humans were more intelligent than our ancient ancestors , then I read through the comments section on here and have had to do a complete rethink

[@dawngriffin3550]

❤️

[@robertcronin6603]

Alice is so easy to watch and listen to...and watch...

[@jamesmoore9511]

Indigenous people all over the world made and used sweat lodges for thousands of years. So the thought is very believable.

[@wenjewelchatterbox1127]

I don't feel sorry for H one bit. He ruined the last years of Her Majesty's life. Tried to ruin the RF by insinuating racism enabled his wife with information. He is as much, if not more to blame for participating and allowing his wife to get away with her games.

[@elgedavis3833]

Interesting how in the Q&A Alice asks the question and Miles directs his answer to Matt.

[@garnerjoyce606]

Roman/Roman battles?

[@kmac0001]

Whoah. Reading these comments, I've realized the British are much more polite and supportive than us Americans. Or more neutral? Or more..what?!? Help me...!

[@DH007-w2d]

Bonjour. As a French who have lived and worked in London for 6 years, I can tell you that I've found the Americans a bit "too much", compared to the Brits. Maybe it's about the size of the US where everything is bigger... That is my modest opinion. But do not worry, there are brats all over the world, even here in 🇫🇷. Bon week-end.

[@fleetskipper1810]

@@DH007-w2dAs an American, I concur. Americans can definitely come on too strong.

[@elizabethfairlie8296]

Aren't many of our current burial practices ritualistic?

[@gumshoe2273]

I have daughters. If archaeologists dig up the remains of my house in a couple thousand years, they would be convinced we worshiped some sort of blonde sex goddess due to the large quantity of skinny, articulating, 13" plastic statues wearing revealing sparkling gowns they found.

[@spudspuddy]

just like poor victorians, you heat up rocks then wrap them in leather and use to warm your bed or your feet in winter

[@michaelkinsey4649]

I know there have to be ads.... but really? so many? so much repetition?

[@BenSinclair04]

The Anglo-Saxon pomel was most likely damaged by it being used to attack people in close range, wear and tear would not have occurred while just touching it, that guy clearly hasn't studied how Anglo-Saxons fought, and how weapons like these were used.

[@garnerjoyce606]

👍

[@MelEveritt]

I want to be buried with a sh*t load of stuff, so in 1000 years from now, I would have been someone of very high status or a princess or a warrior. 😂😂

[@michaelwutka9714]

I like that every episode is really different, in the volume of research in statements/narration that keeps my attention. But I'd rather fast-forward when she's in the video. Recently every attempt to watch her facial expression of an obviously intelligent woman will solely blind me, (sorry) because I can't seem to separate the narration content from the audio/video content. While viewing past episodes I'd soldiered on if only for its historical content. Please continue offering interesting episodes of your English history.

[@FlamingBasketballClub]

Professor Alice Roberts is gorgeous

[@soundsgood268]

She’s got a beautiful brain also. Beauty and brains

[@Jerbod2]

Her interest and knowledge is attractive as heck.

[@robertneven7563]

YOU ARE BEYOND BEAUTY

[@garnerjoyce606]

Norse, can't tell which ones are " crazy"

[@garnerjoyce606]

Polynesian both sides family

[@garnerjoyce606]

Black Hills

[@tonytrott6318]

Scientists know what Stonehenge was built for its basically a clock / calander to measure seasons and solar eclipses

[@georgedorn1022]

It was a place of burial before that, the astronomical alignments are from a later phase. There was Mesolithic activity there even earlier.

[@barkershill]

Can you explain how?

[@tobyjugg6202]

Fascinating content again BUT I would hate to think that at some point in the future my remains would be nothing other than an object in a case for people to gawk and speculate at. The 2 skeletons were buried with the greatest of respect only to end up "on show". The dilemma between science, knowledge, fascinating objects and morality remains a difficult issue.

[@eewilson9835]

thats cool, but don't you think its too soon? Get a ghost hunter team on it first please

[@cgee2334]

Do they know how the 15-year-old boy died? I presume that The body must have been placed in that position soon after passing They said he must have been special to have been buried there, hopefully he was not an offering to the gods Was just curious as to why they did not speculate how this 15-year-old boy died.

[@bertvosburg558]

What did these people think about beyond food, water, shelter, clothing? Did they have love and purpose? How did they look at their world? What would they say if they went 4400 years ahead in time and saw the human population all on their telecommunication devices? The automation would overwhelm them and astound them into madness. They couldn't take it coming from their world albeit on the same planet. What will we be and will we even be 4400 years from now and if we are here who will we be? Made you think?

[@ArtbyKatina]

Again, assumptions of pig sacrifices, the pigs could’ve diseased. 20:08

[@robertcornelius3514]

No chance of someone burring their Mother in law and getting a way with it.

[@bradleydass3075]

No Sauna ? You sleep out in the barn.

[@shulamitebeautifulbride]

I hope they got teeth for DNA

[@jarodmasci3445]

I'm a bit mystified by the implication that all of the Beaker people are immigrants rather than cultural diffusion through trade AND immigration, making it more correct to say 'Beaker style' or 'Beaker-level technology'.

[@FreedomToRoam86]

I think the sweat lodge is conclusive proof that American Indians first settled England. ‘Cause we have been doing sweat lodges for 10’s of thousands of years on this side of the pond. So taking our experience and applying it to you all just seems fair….😂😂😂😂

[@auxiliary4023]

She's so good looking ...Never seen her before...