It's an excellent series. Hard to believe Digging for Britain first aired in 2010 and that Prof Alice Roberts is nearly 51 years old.. Tempus fugit

@SandraNelson063

2 ай бұрын

She looks darn good!

@magpie6648

2 ай бұрын

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😊❤

I love watching Professor Alice Roberts documentaries they are always so interesting and insightful. 👏🇨🇦

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

2 ай бұрын

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

@karennewberry4694

Ай бұрын

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

Love Dr Roberts! Fantastic program as always ❤

@Rubin_Schmidt

2 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/loh82seLoZuqfw.html ..... The Secrets of Stanehedge

@Rubin_Schmidt

2 ай бұрын

The Secrets of Stanehedge ...... kzread.info/dash/bejne/loh82seLoZuqlpM.html !!!

Always good to see Matt!

@donnyrover1

2 ай бұрын

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

@hogwashmcturnip8930

2 ай бұрын

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

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

2 ай бұрын

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

@ladykayla7417

2 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

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.

@D.H.-mg2cz

2 ай бұрын

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 😁

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

I wish all seasons of Digging for Britain were available on KZread. There's a couple but no where near the full 11 or more seasons.

thank you Professor Roberts for another amazing program

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

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

was bed time until i seen this notification :} i must watch now .

@alexgould9244

2 ай бұрын

Me too. I hope you're enjoying it.

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.

I have allways liked watching time team and enjoy watching digging for Britain great series

Excellent show, well done everyone xx

Well done!

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.. ❤😊

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: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nZ2curGPZc-pdM4.html

Thank you dear Professor Alice..

Matt from Time Team 😊

Brilliant.

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

Great show. You guys are the best!

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.

lady Roberts , you are AMAZING

Thanks to the Ancestors 😊❤

Fascinating!!

Thank you👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Lovely video...😊

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.

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

Excellent 😊

Love this one Alice

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 😊

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

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.

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.

Turning points of history

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

@sforza209

2 ай бұрын

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

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.

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

@hogwashmcturnip8930

2 ай бұрын

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

Miles seems to be at every dig

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

@naikrovek

2 ай бұрын

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

@TheRoulette77

2 ай бұрын

@@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

2 ай бұрын

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

@gregedmand9939

2 ай бұрын

​@@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

2 ай бұрын

@@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.

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.

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

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

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

@hogwashmcturnip8930

2 ай бұрын

Not dramatic enough. It has to be Ritual.

Aren't many of our current burial practices ritualistic?

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

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...!

@davidhocde007

2 ай бұрын

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.

So how old does a grave have to be in order for it to be acceptable to rob it of its grave goods?

Roman/Roman battles?

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

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

@georgedorn1022

2 ай бұрын

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

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

'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

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,

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

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.

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

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

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

Professor Alice Roberts is gorgeous

@soundsgood268

2 ай бұрын

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

@Jerbod2

2 ай бұрын

Her interest and knowledge is attractive as heck.

No Sauna ? You sleep out in the barn.

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?

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'.

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

@garnerjoyce606

2 ай бұрын

Polynesian both sides family

@garnerjoyce606

2 ай бұрын

Black Hills

YOU ARE BEYOND BEAUTY

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

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

I hope they got teeth for DNA

Why do so many people who are experts in history and archaeology have speech impediments?

Daughter in laws, Scots / Irish

Far cry from Time Team.

Alice you are lovely as always

Splann. Meur ras.

any one else. ever stop and wonder what people 4000 years from now. will be saying? guessing about us? and they SHOULD have ton of writing to go off of (assuming they can read it). 'well the sat at weird alters in their common room worshiping a strange square, yellow god and his pink star shaped under god. very odd.

Men of Culture, we meet AGAIN!

Tip for shein: don't buy knockoffs. Stick to simple designs. A plain sequin gown from shein will likely be spot on. If it's trying to copy someone else's design it will likely be a dud. If it's elaborate you will get nothing like the picture

I thought Jennifer Aniston was on the dig.

sweat lodge my ace. NO

They had great dentistry then. Something modern Britain could learn from.

Dr. Alice, what you doin' after work? Can I take you out for a pint or three and a bit of a chat?

@marx4325

2 ай бұрын

Going home to her husband!

A purpose built sauna is stretching the evidence waay too far. There is no evidence for the steam infrastructure. Heating the stones outside does one major thing: removes the build up of smoke from a fire inside the building. Whoever was in control of this community did not want smoke in the house. Yes there is a theory that the shape of round houses conducted smoke out through the thatched roof, BUT individual houses would have been unique, and some weather conditions may not allow this technique to work effectively on occasion. NOW you can speculate! Either someone of authority did not like smoke in the house, or someone who was valued in the community COULD NOT TOLERATE smoke in the house. Someone with a respiratory or eye problem. Or someone suffering PTSD from a destructive fire. OR This community may have used heated rocks in pots or tightly woven baskets, to cook their food.

@lenabreijer1311

2 ай бұрын

It is not a functional house. It is in the middle of a henge. There is not enough room around the heated area to do more then sit. There is no domestic rubbish. In order to make steam all you need is hot rocks and a bucket of water, nothing else except maybe some pine or cedar to make a nice smell.

@herbertkroll1266

2 ай бұрын

@@lenabreijer1311 Or hemp, loads of it?!

@davidhocde007

2 ай бұрын

​@herbertkroll1266 it's been said they used it but that ain't politicaly correct to say so.

As time goes by, I’m increasingly surprised at your boldness of assuming the gender of every skeleton you uncover 😉

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

I still say keep the English out!

It is Welsh territory... and the Brits invaders are complaining that the city was attacked and burned down and that the Welsh were "a constant threat" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Wow these archaeologists love "ritual". On the other hand, it might just be a sweat lodge. Just because Stonehenge is in the vicinity doesn't mean that people didn't have normal needs or habits.

Blooming archaeologists and their 'sacrifices to gods and deities' nonsense... yes, i'm sure it happened. Just not everytime an animal was buried..😮😂😂😂 my grandfather and I buried a young bullock one time. It had died for some unknown reason to us, and grandad being stubborn didn't bother with the vet so we buried it.. The best part is when archaeologists in the future dig it up they'll be wondering and surmising why the legs were cut off just above the 'knees'😮 grandad and i got tired digging so we said "deep enough, roll it in". When we did, the beast rolled in and landed with it's legs pointing upwards so we had to cut them shorter to cover the body😊

I know this is important but its all most like grave robbing

@tomnicholson2115

2 ай бұрын

Not so, grave robbing is done for profit, archaeologist's are there to learn about human history or prehistory, so looking for knowledge of our ancestors, not profit. Besides it's not all about treasure and bones, archaeology is about all aspects of past human lives.

Too much babbling not enough actual footage of the actual subject matter.

Half a million years of human life? Don't you think that is a stretch considering carbon 14 dating only works up to 50,000 or so years? Do tell

@mondriaa

2 ай бұрын

there are other ways for dating then just C14