900,000 BC: What Can Archaeologists Tell Us About Prehistoric Britain? | Digging For Britain

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Ok

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People who pack boxes as a job are hugely instrumental in the forward momentum of life

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@palanthis Me too !! 😍

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Same. She's in around 10 of the old Time Team episodes.

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Thats known as stalking.

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Same but she took out a restraining order against me so can't do that anymore.

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My late wife and I used to stroll along that beach at Happisburgh, thanks for bringing back such fond memories.

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I'm 70, my wife and I are close, we sometimes talk about when one of us kicks the bucket...I hope I'm first, she said the same thing. You have my sympathy sir....🌷...

[@SteveWarlee]

Did U also find long lost Britain

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WHAT MUSTN'T BE FORGOTTEN, SHE ISN'T JUST A GREAT PRESENTER, SHE ACTUALLY KNOWS WHAT SHE TALKING ABOUT, SHE HAS TRAVELED THE WORLD, FILMING GREAT DISCOVERIES. AND IS CURRENT PROFESSOR, OF BIRMIGHAM UNIVERSITY, UK.

[@devinshirekineally3721]

how can people NOT get excited by this stuff!? that chunk of flint was last held by human hands up to a million years ago.. that's ridiculously cool to me

[@bittasweetsymphony726]

maybe we are not as high as a kite like you

[@appiehartman1864]

A million years ago ? I think they are Atheist . Scary .

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@@appiehartman1864 believing in a religion when we are smart enough to understand how simple things work like why the sun rises everyday and where babies come from is even more scary

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@@matthewbaker2573 Ja ! I am agree with Derek Prince , about a lot of things.

[@MrTorleon]

Another fascinating episode fronted by the mesmeric Alice Roberts, now Prof. Alice Roberts, and with whom I have had the singular pleasure of meeting at several of her ' live ' events around Oxford in recent years. The stone, ' Flint ' featured in the first part of this episode, for those who have never handled it, is a wonderful experience. I have, on my bookshelves several ' knapped ' specimens, their edges as sharp today as when I first created them, providing clear evidence at just how useful, and game changing the discovery of this extraordinary stone must have been to those early inhabitants. Marvelous episode, and thank you for uploading it :)

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ONE OF THE EARLIEST AN MAGICAL EXPEIENCES MUST HAVE BEEN. SEEING THEIR OWN REFLECTION IN A STILL, WATER POND. HOW DID THEY GET THERE HEAD AROUND THAT ?

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[@betholschowka8865]

I might argue that the meadowsweet placed in the grave may have been dried. Meadowsweet is traditionally used to treat pain, especially arthritis. It may have been included as grave goods for the occupant to treat themselves in the afterlife. They may not necessarily have died in the summer for Meadowsweet to have been in the grave. It could have been gathered and stored for future use.

[@iainfoxell8543]

Love the enthusiasm you have.You make it all so interesting.Walked along the Norfolk coast with my friend who lives there and he talked about how the coast has changed over centuries. This adds another layer to the story.

[@ChilloutLars]

Fascinating. Can listen to this all day long.

[@Americanviking82]

I love the fascination on professor Roberts' face when she sees the discoveries. It makes me smile. I love when people have an appreciation for the tidbit clues of our deep past.

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Your curiosity is contagious.Explore the world, and keep sharing ❤ 🌎

[@jenniferlevine5406]

Such an exciting episode! I really enjoyed the early history details. Archeology is a wonderful science! Thanks so much for sharing with us!

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Professor Robert’s is a gift to mankind! Her enthusiasm and style are classic!

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Awesome! Philomena Cunk couldn't have done it better

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LOL she does have Cunk vibes.

[@MrDaiseymay]

SHE'S HER SISTER, BUT THEY USUALLY KEEP HER IN THE CELLAR.

[@Teresa-ih4sn]

These shows are FANTASTIC! MORE! MORE! MORE! Dig up the whole island!!!😂

[@marcbiff2192]

They will,to build crap housing on it

[@nigelbrayshaw2709]

@@marcbiff2192 Well we have to house all the doctors and dentists coming over on the inflatable rafts who are selflessly leaving all the women and children behind in dangerrous war zones!

[@michaelross2254]

Alice. Thank you for another wonderful briefing. The part of your story about the shipwreck off the Devon coast, with its tin ingots, reminds me of stories I was told as I walked on a farm on the Devon/Cornwall border, along what was called the highway the Phoenicians used to transport tin from Cornwall back home, using ships anchored off the coast of Devon. The locals call it the "Phoenician M5". Approximately which river mouth location is the wreck. Happy to give you the locality of the old road I walked across that farm.

[@chemitch8474]

There are roads that span the width of Portugal between the mountains all the way to Spain... Similar roads in America that just stop at the sea.. the roads could be as ancient as the last supercontinent

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What an amazing series of documentaries. Thank you so much for sharing!

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Great content, excellently presented. Nice work Doc

[@BenSHammonds]

very enjoyable program of much interest. the Neolithic farmer peoples and their migrations from Anatolia on thru into Europe and then to Britain is a favorite subject of mine. was good to see nick ashton, a pal of Phil Harding I recall from earlier episode of time team

[@rogerwood4846]

bs.....another one peddling we are all migrants bs and the first people in the uk were black

[@Jon-BEDM]

Awesome work. This is a thoroughly enjoyable and well curated presentation of historical finds.❤

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Great show ❤ I really enjoyed this

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Its really great to see science shows with no AI text to speech or gpt scripts or useless graphics, if only YT could tag all videos as pure or AI tainted

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I've begun thumbing down all that A.I. crap you are talking about where they keep reintroducing the host and going back to the beginning and repeating. What I find most irritating the people who generating that kind of content don't seem concerned with editing, proofreading, or even checking to see if the images being shown match the narration. They may be talking about a nuclear submarine but they're showing a sailing yacht. It will be the end of KZbin when that quality of clipbaity crap becomes the norm. Cheers from Cleveland Ohio USA.

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or the AI just got good enough you don't know the difference 😅

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I hate AI narration.

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I'm digging the heck out of this series!

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Gravedigger

[@stefanoskamarados1786]

Hi from Greece, 😊It's great that you're looking... whatever you find, put it in your museums and return everything stolen from the countries you haven't stolen!!!. 😊

[@martymiller9514]

Ancient ways, and what were they doing? fascinating to puzzle over and thankfully so elegantly presented here.

[@Manticore2024]

Dr. Roberts, you are so inspiring! If I had seen these videos back when I was in high school before I went to college (pre-Internet), I would have become an archaeologist! as an American with a strong interest in history, I envy you in Britain for the immense diversity in studying your countries a history, through archaeology! I am subscribed to your channel, and I look forward to each and every video you put out…👍

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Very well said. ✌️

[@Dr77738]

Wow... you make history exciting and beautiful 😅

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Dr Alice Robert's voice is music to my ears. A very informative and interesting presentation really.

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I HAVEN'T MISSED A SINGLE TV DOCUMENTARY OF HER, AND, HER BOOKS ARE REALLY GOOD, VERY UNDERSTANDABLE, EVEN TECHNICAL STUFF.

[@nevillegoddard4966]

Fascinating! Thanks Prof. Roberts!❤

[@TheOleHermit]

Professor Alice Roberts made this documentary fascinating, informative, and irresistible to watch to the end. Excellent investigative journalism and narration. Thank you.

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Alice Roberts is awesome! I love watching her documentaries!

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I LOVE WATCHING HER

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What an amazing documentary with no bs or AI Script ❤

[@isabt4]

Finding those five thousand year old flowers in the grave, and the way it’s related, is powerfully beautiful ❤

[@stevedrane2364]

Fantastic . . Thank you Professor 😁👍👍

[@DameEdnaBrown]

Great video, I love your enthusiasm

[@jfc213]

more please alice could watch all day ???? awsome

[@shahbazahmed6650]

So pleasant to look at, so pleasant to hear!!!

[@trooperdgb9722]

I had only read her work before..what a melodic and pleasant speaking voice she has!

[@hughbean6785]

Thanks Alice great finds and history enjoyed this ❤

[@jonathanaldecoa1099]

I think what most people don’t realize; especially; people outside of the UK; is that’s a complex history of the British Islands. Extremely rich and bursting with the true history of the Celts, Ango-Saxons, Vikings and the Norman Invasion to boot. Thank you for the upload. ❤😎🕺

[@lyndoncmp5751]

And way further back than that. Britain has had settlers there for nearly one million years on and off, with early hominins.

[@jonathanaldecoa1099]

@@lyndoncmp5751 🕺😎

[@helenbenjafield7351]

And Armenians,the first of the people's to settle in the Southwest.

[@thehum1000]

How do you know their settlers and not indigenous?

[@alaskabarb8089]

How amazing and wonderful to find meadowsweet flower heads preserved - and recovered - in the grave, even after the person’s bones had long since demineralized and precipitated as powder. It illustrates the exacting care taken by the archeologists during excavations to recognize and preserve even the tiniest and most fragile evidence found at the site .🏆

[@Somemaysayso]

The Bronze Age gold is just staggering. It suggests an artisan industry to make those. Thanks Alice.

[@neddyseagoon9601]

Have a look at Varna Gold on Google. It will blow your mind... It's claimed to be 9,000 years old... Very much older and the amount found and the working is astonishing.

[@noneofyourbizness]

42:26 love that expression of down to earth passion and excitement..albeit bleeped out for family viewing.🤣

[@roswaldwalton1147]

Fascinating. Meadowsweet is used today as a mild painkiller, usually for arthritic pain, makes me wonder if he was gifted it to take some pain relief into the afterlife! Also I wholeheartedly believe that our ancestors were far more advanced and adept than we give them credit for, it's always frustrated me how dismissive people are, when they survived in ways modern humans wouldn't be able to with the same resources as they had.

[@katharinecooke1873]

I looked up meadowsweet and immediately had this thought also.

[@soupdragon151]

It was used until the 17c to strew across the floor of houses to "sweeten" the odours that would arise

[@maryodonnell5760]

its uses extend way beyond that, she totally missed the point of herbal medicine and comparisons with Egyptian burials but she's trained in modern medicine and they ironically tend to blot out herbal medical history and science as a whole

[@SwatantraNandanwar]

Fantastic presenter, bringing archeology to life. I watched her on Coast a few years back.

[@paulslater9061]

When I was at school we went on a trip to creswell crags I spotted some painting on a wall in a cave I told the guide he said no it's not paint it's natural oxidisation of the rock I said it looks like art to me . Sure enough some years later rock art was discovered in a cave and yet again it was a schoolgirl who was credited with finding it all I can remember is the cave was very high with a small river in it the walkway was on the right as was the art river on left

[@johnbrereton5229]

If Alice Roberts is involved, you know its going to be good and this was no exception. I was captivated from the very start and couldnt believe when it ended, the time just flew passed. An estremely interesting programme showing we humans have been here on this island for 1million years, its breathtaking.

[@LandonStevens]

I don’t care who you are, finding Bronze Age tin around Britain is exciting

[@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw]

Tin brought the Romans to Wales.

[@75YBA]

Can’t agree more.👍🌏🌍🌎

[@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw]

@@LandonStevens finding Viking hoards or the King's lost treasure even moreso.

[@durstondarden8765]

I absolutely concur, because it was through the tin found in Britain, that early trade was developed there - tin being used In bronze production.

[@SteveWarlee]

​@@durstondarden8765 Yes, and b4 that?

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I love listening to Prof Alice Roberts voice, perfect for this type of documentary. I could listen to her read a dictionary.

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I could listen to her day! What a beautiful, cool Voice

[@Wuppie62]

It's not a coincidence they selected her to be the narrator/presentor and use a narration style resembling that if Sir Richard Attenborough, added with a constant smile on her face, selling the content to the audience. In contrast to the people who do the actual digging, and who exhibit more natural behaviour and facial expression. It's professional tv making and scripting.

[@rowancrafts]

The Salcombe wreck is amazing. I was one of the BSAC divers leading a youth hostel adventure holiday when a novice diver,John Clarke discovered the first bronze age sword in 1976. It’s fantastic that discoveries are happening almost 50 years later.

[@forestdweller5581]

Aren't there 1.2 million old footprints found in Britain, tentatively ascribed to H. Antecessor? I'm surprised those were not mentioned. But i am always glad anytime the British archeologists focus on anything preceding the Neolithic because they so rarely do! Hopefully these guys can do more about the upper Paleolithic and that incredibly rare Aurignacian, Gravettian and proto-Solutrean stuff in Britain as well.(hint hint hint!)

[@EmilyParis921]

Great video. Thanks!!

[@jjlacey1970]

it is mind-blowing that our ancestors fought through the ice age and being the reason we are here today. thanks folks.

[@jeebusk]

you didn't understand the content, based on your reply

[@kvdeininger]

I wonder if the cattle skulls in the Orkney Island building foundation flowed from unwillingness to waste building material. Since there were so many skulls, I wonder if the villagers lost an entire herd, in which case using them to help construct a shelter might commemorate a great loss as well as determination to make lemonade from lemons. From the description of how the wifey figurine was found, it struck me it could be a final farewell to a loved one, perhaps the person who carved it. We'll never know exactly what motivated the villagers to put cow skulls in the foundation and tuck away the figurine, but it is fun to speculate.

[@marytalbott5738]

Exactly my thoughts as well on the skulls, it strikes me as though the people may have just used them as a building material simply because they had so many.

[@Soul_Watcher]

I came to say the exact same thing in both accounts. It’s possible a family member died, perhaps a child. Mayne even figurines they made for said children. That’s what stood out to me as well.

[@alexr6114]

There are other archeological sites where human remains were found beneath the walls and foundations of the remains of pre-historic buildings in England. Typically the remains are of very young children. Even the Romans placed decapitated young children beneath the walls at the corners of buildings with stone walls and foundations.

[@matthewbaker2573]

animal sacrifices - probably an area of worship

[@kensievers9311]

The humanoids of 900,000 years ago might have been much more robust than we are, able to endure much colder temperatures without clothes or even fires. We prevailed in Europe after the last ice age.

[@indricotherium4802]

Much hairier?

[@cristinashields2740]

I just watched a KZbinr who visited a tribe deep in the jungle. They spend their whole lives mostly naked. They hunt in the buff. After the Caucasian host was sunburned and beat up from running through the forest he commented on how the tribe was completely unscathed. They said since they were naked most of the time their skin is thicker. Evolution is neat

[@BP-iz2lt]

@@cristinashields2740 jungles dont freeze

[@BP-iz2lt]

people used to walk up frozen mountains in shirts, modern housing made us into wimps

[@Wobbz9413]

Might have been???

[@vermontvermont9292]

The neolithic, my favorite. Also , Alice is so beautiful.

[@jesterr7133]

I guess I'm not the only one with a crush on her, lol.

[@vermontvermont9292]

@@jesterr7133 she's absolutely gorgeous. Nothing like a beautiful, and intelligent woman.

[@jeebusk]

beautiful ok, intelligent idk...

[@Anything-q1i]

The 5,000 year old Wifey effigy is very thought provoking. What incredible survival stresses these prehistoric peoples were under. The enormous pressures of survival and loss of life in children and across the life span. How did illness and loss of children effect their perception of the world and how could they appease nature in hopes to survive day to day and hope to avoid the tragic loss of their children. Surely they would do almost anything to improve their lot in life. In times of starvation and greatest stress, they would have endured near death weakness and eventual hallucination. Possibly the source of the earliest religions. Much to ponder.

[@voornaam3191]

When life is shit as you describe it, you emigrate. Duh?

[@BP-iz2lt]

no condoms, plenty of new kids bro

[@Anything-q1i]

@@BP-iz2ltMaybe condoms are central to you, hummm

[@DrEdwardTsang]

Fascinating research!!

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

The English and French admire its cave paintings. In Brazil, this very old paintings were made in the open, some of them are true cathedrals. In the distant past, life in the heat was, as it still is, different from life in the cold. This is obvious, but it also suggests that on every continent the primates that evolved until our species dominated the planet had a characteristic that we share: delicate, thin, almost hairless skin (which forced the earliest inhabitants of France and England to manufacture clothes and hide from the winter cold in caves). A delicate, thin, hairless skin is essential in a hot climate, but in the Northern Hemisphere (especially during ice ages) it would make more sense for hominids to develop thick skin completely covered in hair, thus naturally insulating them from the cold. If Europeans had inherited this peculiar characteristic, the world panorama would be very different, as they would not have been able to colonize hot regions from the 16th century onwards and travelers from hot regions would write Travel Literature reporting the existence of talking furry Apes in France, England, Norway, etc... A small genetic detail would change everything. 😂😂😂😂

[@BlaBla-pf8mf]

All great apes live in hot and humid tropical and equatorial regions and all have fur. Why humans have little hair on the body is not really known. The main hypothesis is to sweat easier.

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

@@BlaBla-pf8mf Well remembered. The thick hairy skin of monkeys from warm regions would be more suitable in cold countries where there are no monkeys, with the exception of Japan. There are monkeys there that can withstand the rigors of winter snowfall, but the Japanese people also have thin, delicate and hairless skin. And like Europeans, they don't need to sweat in winter.

[@anthonyproffitt5341]

They had no need to evolve/adapt a thick fur coat because they had the furs of their prey. Our loss of hair and adaptation of sweat glands are/were to valuable to get rid of when we had the ability to adapt with tools and ingenuity.

[@BP-iz2lt]

@@BlaBla-pf8mf fleas bro, unlike primates humans die from infectious diseases

[@BP-iz2lt]

the wet european climate would be terrible with a heavy wet fur coat

[@normanriggs848]

I LOVE this so!!!

[@DanOre-m2y]

I Enjoy Dr Robert's Video's on Prehistoric history ❤❤🙌😎🤠🤠⛏️🇺🇸

[@AHLUser]

I'm an American (USA) with the Sweetest Crush on Professor Roberts, who like Bethany Hughes, are simply Luvely to listen to and watch..!! NEVER tire of either amazing woman..!! Will watch their wonderful work again and again and again....

[@singularonaut]

I'm glad that Phelomena is back!

[@mumblesbadly7708]

Jean Luc Picard would be highly envious of those archeologists discovering evidence of early humans in what is now Britian so many hundreds of thousands of years ago!

[@vox95831]

You need to be in a Star Trek fiction to believe that.

[@billythedog-309]

There were never any early humans in what is now Britian.

[@mumblesbadly7708]

@@billythedog-309 Did you watch the video?

[@billythedog-309]

@@mumblesbadly7708 l didn't need to because l'm as certain as l can be that no country called Britian has ever existed.

[@mumblesbadly7708]

@@billythedog-309 I finally figured out what you meant! 🤣🤣🤣 (I’m going to leave this thread unedited for prosperity! 😉)

[@rogergriffin9893]

I do love the overall knowledge and curiousity of Dr. Roberts. You have to know a few things before you can ask the right questions. And every good educator is only good because their enthusiastic curiousity is passed onto the student(or listener).

[@flatbrokefrank6482]

It makes sense that ancient people travelled around, they had no shops to go to so following animal migration and finding different food sources would have been a matter of survival. Meeting others might have been a priority to satisfy carnal desires, safety and companionship - there being fewer humans on the planet than today - Brilliant content.

[@poopymcface9792]

Interesting documentary, and the host is classically beautiful with an academic passion that shines!

[@junestanich7888]

I love how she explains the process in such detail as well as sets each project into context, so interesting. Another Tony Robinson? Great to see she’s come so far since Time Team.

[@aurevoiralex]

Alice is a celebrated and highly respected Academic in her field. I reckon that's got *nothing* whatsoever to do with Time Team. I love Sir Tony but please don't think for a moment that her professional career depended on a few stints on a TV show.

[@adamwildwoods]

I really enjoyed this and found it fascinating, and will certainly watch others in this series. Though I was a bit disappointed at the end. The disolving skeleton theory seemed a bit of a leap from a time when there is evidence of sky/animal burials 9 (lots of gnawed bones retrieved from burial mounds) so perhaps the grave had been left open initially? Also that fragile flower heads were preserved when bones disolved..... really? The other speculation that didn't quite ring true is that the flowers were a mark of love and honour for the dead. Perhaps, though meadow sweet is also a powerfully medicinal herb which may have been considered useful on the journey to or through an afterlife, as well as being pungent with antiseptic properties which have long been understood even if the reasons haven't, so would have had practical reasons to add to a grave, especially an open one.

[@ryanrush2313]

After initially being quite disparaging regarding a KZbin channel actually open to our ancestors being present a million years > finally 👏 The based yet open minded archaeology is a breath of fresh air (old air as it was) there is a chance we will all find out where we came from originally. Have to be honest as a Roman Catholic with a belief and love for my life. There is a lot more to be found. Much love and happiness to all.

[@finalflowerchild]

Why would people migrate into a colder,harsher climate? It's never made sense to me.

[@Wuppie62]

​@@finalflowerchild Sometimes to flee from other, rivalling tribes. Or because the grass elsewhere looked greener. Where cattle can eat and live, so can humans. And sometimes there's the option of fishing.

[@davidwatson8118]

​@@finalflowerchild Resources and survival

[@christav7021]

Why have the WEF stopped excavations at a remarkable site in Turkey?

[@Wuppie62]

@@christav7021 An answer by someone in Quora says this: "GT is a UNESCO World Heritage site. That means that the focus should be on preservation, not exploration as such since - as others have commented - excavation is destructive even if we use the currently best available methods and protocols. Unless they are immediately threatened by natural or human agents, leaving sites in the ground as they are is usually the best option. If a site is excavated for research purposes, you need to have a very clear idea and program in place of what question you're asking and how your excavations will address them. Another point is that the site has been under more or less continuous excavation since 1994. There are hundreds of thousands of artefacts and other finds (animal bones, botanical remains etc.) that still await analysis. Laypeople don't generally understand that 1 day spent excavating in the field translates to many days spent in the laboratory analysing the finds, drawing the plans, analysing the stratigraphy, cataloguing etc etc. There's plenty of material from GT and many other sites that still needs to be analysed without having to do new excavations. The idea that a site should be excavated completely is unfeasbale in many ways. At this point, I am not sure we would learn major new things about GT that we don't already know or stand to learn from the excavated artefacts and finds. It's currently way more interesting to consider the relationship of GT to other similar sites in the surrounding area, like Karahan Tepe."

[@DalJohnson606]

The Time Team should ask Dr. Alice Roberts to join them. I found out she started on the original Time Team, but they need her now. Please, Time Team, make it happen. Please. Cheers

[@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq]

"" I found out she started on the original Time Team"" I never knew this but it's interesting information, maybe that's where she learned the knack of communicating with the public ?

[@junipercivis6397]

Best wishes and blessings on the move and the new digs 🎉❤

[@mumblesbadly7708]

I’m guessing that that old bullet @ 39:58 is from the Brass Age. 😉

[@janmitchell641]

Brilliant series!

[@catsfather]

"i can't believe it was raining this morning and now we have sunshine" - hardly a unique weather experience in the UK

[@patricialockhart2135]

Very True. It was raining here and hour ago and now its bright sunlight. However it could be raining again in an hour. That typical British weather

[@matthewbaker2573]

no joke, i have watched a wall of rain coming towards me and stop 10 foot away for a few minutes. my friends and i literally did the "jump in rain, jump out of rain" - unfortunately the best phone around at the time was the nokia 3310, and i weren't running home to get my dad's beast of a camera

[@catsfather]

@@matthewbaker2573 at least the indestructible Nokia would have survived the rain

[@matthewbaker2573]

@@catsfather they really were, just out of school i was working as a laborer on a 25 story hotel build and one of the builders dropped one from top of the scaffolding. the phone had a small scuff on the corner and still worked perfectly

[@MichaelCraig-bi3wj]

Man that was so fun to watch, I have never worked with spray cans either but now I want to because of you. Thank you all for the history being made.

[@yoursoulisforever]

Wonderful video but IMHO, if the buildings were purposely filled, there was a survival reason attached, like the people planned on returning and filling the buildings could help ensure their structural integrity. I think the ancient people were moving out because they had to survive and there wasn't the luxury for ceremony. Although the figurine could have been a spirit offering, perhaps to watch over and keep the place until the occupants could return. I could be wrong. Just a thought.

[@kevingreen3781]

Brilliant programme just watched Banberry castle which was also brilliant quick question when did Archaeology actually start in what year did it start and where

[@charles-mr4oz]

The Westray wifey makes me feel a connection to those people all that time ago facing lifes ups and downs and finally perhaps marking their move from that place. 50 generations living on that site and then a decision to go. My mins is blown.

[@Psychofrog395]

Very interesting doc!👏👏👏👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

[@judyklein3221]

Brilliant documentary!

[@rossanderson5447]

wonderful stuff. I feel so blessed to learn of this history. Thank you for sharing

[@janetritchie7499]

Why do the producers have to pitch the music so loud? It is annoying and unnecessary. At least I can usually hear the speakers.

[@juanpascallucianobravado6112]

Lack of class?

[@LofusYanchi-jt1yp]

I agree, that music is very annoying it's uncalled for and only detracts from any enjoyment.

[@Wobbz9413]

The music is a nice background in my opinion. Dunno perhaps you are sad, boring people? Just an observation. Lol.

[@CliffWentworth]

Hello I am sad and boring and I love the piercing music and barely being able to hear the people talk

[@chrisb391]

One episode, I'm hooked!

[@seriddell123]

I find it fascinating that every expert and archeologist they interview seem to convey information about their discoveries so well and naturally. They seem to be experts at speaking on camera.

[@bockgirl]

They aren't the experts. They are the TV personalities. Get it together lol.

[@robnewman6101]

Very Interesting.

[@MrHowardking]

what a great and informative programme - it might present only small clues to our past but in total they are impressive.

[@cosmicHalArizona]

Your sincere upbeat enthusiasm is refreshing. Personal amateur opinion is India/ middle east / & so. east asia are the most ancient cultures.

[@jennistone364]

always wondered why early settlers chose to farm on isles off scotland in such harsh environment when surely the main land would have been easier!

[@debbiechurchill4511]

I'd like the show better if the camera would show the item so I could examine it too! BRUCE

[@BP-iz2lt]

dont expose the fakes

[@fainatselnik267]

Diving team is pretty amazing.

[@angelaoliver2750]

Appserlutly fascinating

[@meglomania2001]

I used to see various art in random patterns in floor tiles when I was sat on the toilet.😮

[@lindadeal3344]

So you had the chance to see some old artwork while taking a break in the restroom!

[@leighearnshaw8353]

Same with clouds.......!

[@tonyfranks9551]

Excellent ....thank you

[@SmokeyTreats]

I'd guess the best Neolithic finds would be where the coastline was at the time, some 300-400 feet deep under the ocean currently. Thanks for your very interesting vid!

[@forestdweller5581]

I don't think it was that low anymore during the neolithic. 300-400 feet lower was during the height of the last glaciation about 20.000 years ago wasn't it?

[@SmokeyTreats]

@@forestdweller5581 Yeah you're right, sorry. I just looked it up & the Younger Dryas is way older than the neolithic period. It was pre-Younger Dryas the ocean levels were 200-400 feet lower for many millennia.

[@forestdweller5581]

@@SmokeyTreats Even during the Younger Dryas sea level was already somewhat lower compared to the LGM. And keep in mind; The Younger Dryas was not a global thing but mainly a North Atlantic phenomenon affecting Greenland and Europe mostly.