Europe's Last Hunter-Gatherers | Pitted Ware Culture

Existing from about 3500 BC to 2300 BC this was a hunter-gatherer-fisher culture of southern Scandinavia, thriving along the coasts of Sweden, the Danish Islands, Jutland, and a bit of Norway.
The Pitted Ware people were maritime hunters who lived separately to the Neolithic farmers who dwelled inland in the same regions.
They were a genetically homogeneous and distinct population descended from earlier Mesolithic Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherers.
So what happened to the last hunter-gatherers of Europe?
(The Pitted Ware culture appear in my novel Thunderer: Gods of Bronze 2. In the story they're called the Seal People.)
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  • @DanDavisHistory
    @DanDavisHistory3 жыл бұрын

    I should say there is more nuance than stated in the video. The interactions and movements of different groups is complex and more evidence is emerging all the time. The Anatolian Hunter Gatherers are not exactly synonymous with Western Hunter Gatherers and cluster separately. The exact relationship isn't well understood. It may be that a people ancestral to both moved through Anatolia into Europe. But they continued to interact and share DNA after their separation, whenever that was. There isn't enough data yet to know for sure but they were very closely related. And the Anatolian Farmers had maybe 10%-20% Caucasus Hunter Gatherer and about 10% Levantine first farmer DNA which isn't much really. They mostly adopted farming through cultural changes rather than demographic changes. Watch the next episode in this series here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dJ9ms8SfYby3kqw.html

  • @joshuadaniel5371

    @joshuadaniel5371

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just ordered book 1&2! I'll be waiting on the front porch for Amazon on saturday! Can't wait

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@joshuadaniel5371 awesome! Well, I hope you enjoy the stories :)

  • @bonseraphin1119

    @bonseraphin1119

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not levantine. www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09209-7 ""Interestingly, while we observe a continued presence of the AHG-related gene pool throughout the studied period, a pattern of genetic interactions with neighboring regions is evident from as early as the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene. In addition to the local genetic contribution from earlier Anatolian populations, Anatolian Aceramic farmers inherit about 10% of their genes from a gene pool related to the Neolithic Iran/Caucasus while later ACF derive about 20% of their genes from another distinct gene pool related to the Neolithic Levant. " "WHILE LATER ACF..." They don't said anything about levantine admixture in the first anatolian hunter gatherer...

  • @bonseraphin1119

    @bonseraphin1119

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also, the EEF of your drawing at 13:06 is not really correct. Here is an article that talks about EEFs: thuletide.wordpress.com/2020/08/14/faces-of-ancient-europe/ Here is what he says about it and related reconstructions (6. Early European Farmers (7,000 to 1,000 BC) 'Note: There is a distinct lack of good quality EEF reconstructions. Complexion: Pale Hair color: Black, varied shades of brown, rare instances of blonds that increase in frequency over time Eye color: Mostly brown, some green and blue" i.imgur.com/g4V0Wvh.png

  • @chrisnicholson2609

    @chrisnicholson2609

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just some thoughts. I thought your general overall depiction of this and other groups you've portrayed as probably as 'rea'l as I have seen by those attempting to capture the character of those times. I beleive the biggest point you are articulating generally is the ethic of ethnic tribalism where there is very little mixing of ancient super-tribes and this I beleive you have done wholly on the indisputable evidence of the DNA demographics. I would encourage you to stick to your guns :-) as this view of man conflicts with a tsunami of popular culture world views that have a rose tinted bon hommè view of sweet mankind. The gross replacement of one super tribe by another visible in the big DNA picture speaks of a cultural ruthlessness that we know existed. We need to be careful not to water this down at the less DNAable (new word?) local level. The world of trade I beleive is more likely to have existed within super-family related groups than some of the more imaginative inter-sper tribe bartering portrayed by many. Fundamentally, we in the West are prone to dressing up pre-history in the irenic clothes of our contemporary Judeo-Christian-underpinned culture. Survival of the fittest in Europe was slowly replaced from around 2000 years ago by a different belief system that bore the values and pillars of traditional Western culture namely; fear free learning, fear free justice, fear free care systems manifesting in the libearal deocracy, education and care systems in place in the West. We in the West have largely been brought up in this fear free environment but, I beleive, if we dont introspectively recognise this we will make the mistake of assuming other cultures, both ancient and modern, lived in a similarly blessed and harmonic way. Your U-tube clips therefore are I beleive more holistically accurate. Please dont dumb down the big message you are putting across because of the PC of those living within the Christian-Judeo bubble who are unappreciative of the blessing they are living under :-) Keep the good work up Sunbeam!

  • @tantraman93
    @tantraman93 Жыл бұрын

    My family has lived in rural southeast Missouri for 6 generations. Back 50 years ago when 'everyone farmed' the people spent a number of days each year fishing, gigging, netting, hunting, foraging etc...for literally tons of free food. Even during the depression people may not have had 'store bought' food but most everyone could live on wild harvest.

  • @destructionindustries1987

    @destructionindustries1987

    9 ай бұрын

    My ppl, the Cajuns lived on the Bayou Lafourche since any 1700. We fish and trap and hunt and farm to this day.

  • @michaelf7093

    @michaelf7093

    8 ай бұрын

    My brother and his wife live in rural Alaska, and harvest moose and salmon every year.

  • @abrass7492

    @abrass7492

    4 ай бұрын

    Family from southern Illinois … ware is what brought me here

  • @nuclearfetusdismemberment9227

    @nuclearfetusdismemberment9227

    2 ай бұрын

    We do so also in Moselle

  • @nuclearfetusdismemberment9227

    @nuclearfetusdismemberment9227

    2 ай бұрын

    Both pounds and hunting.

  • @logancoolgamer-zn7yu
    @logancoolgamer-zn7yu3 жыл бұрын

    wow, The Bronze age is truly one of the most interesting and important ages of man!

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes absolutely. I think I should have called this series People of the Third Millennium BC as there were many still in a Neolithic way of life.

  • @logancoolgamer-zn7yu

    @logancoolgamer-zn7yu

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DanDavisHistory well whatever you call it it's great! you really set the scene.

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @logancoolgamer-zn7yu

    @logancoolgamer-zn7yu

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Bone_Thug you have a lot to learn my friend

  • @seaxofbeleg8082
    @seaxofbeleg80823 жыл бұрын

    Wow. Some of the best narrated content on prehistory online. Very excited to have found your channel.

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, that's a fine compliment!

  • @jezusbloodie

    @jezusbloodie

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DanDavisHistory and a well deserved one!

  • @tonymaurice4157

    @tonymaurice4157

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DanDavisHistory you really have an incredible channel! Was wondering if you could do something on otzi the iceman? Stone age type culture was very similar to Eastern woodland North American tribes.

  • @PaulSoderlind-jv2kh
    @PaulSoderlind-jv2khАй бұрын

    Thanks. Well narrated.

  • @michaireneuszjakubowski5289
    @michaireneuszjakubowski52893 жыл бұрын

    I just want to say that this is probably the best way to promote a book I've yet to see. My interest is well beyond piqued at this point.

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol thanks. When I started making videos 90% of my viewers were my own fans.

  • @jbirkins

    @jbirkins

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DanDavisHistory It sure got me curious about the series. Bought the prequel and then the two novels on Amazon after seeing your videos.

  • @l.s68

    @l.s68

    6 ай бұрын

    I wish to buy the books but are only able to find Them on Amazone and im not so happy about that

  • @wintersking4290
    @wintersking4290 Жыл бұрын

    I've been a giant history nerd since I was a kid. Have just finished watching like 4-5 of your videos in a row. Great work and thanks for making my day.

  • @AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject

    @AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject

    Жыл бұрын

    Sometimes history is more fascinating than the present. Haha

  • @shzarmai
    @shzarmai2 ай бұрын

    The Scandinavian hunter-gatherers were probably speakers* of the Pre-Finno-Ugric Substrate languages.

  • @DennisNeijmeijer
    @DennisNeijmeijer2 жыл бұрын

    Smart move showing that you researched the period well before writing. It convinced me, I purchased the books. Now, I'll let you take me back in time.

  • @kristianvejrup5808
    @kristianvejrup58083 ай бұрын

    Pitted Ware is quite interesting. I once worked on an excavation of a pitted ware cult area, in notheast Denmark. Like you said, they had some kind of Bear cult on Kainsbakke (also in Denmark) but in Ginnerup we found a site of pitted ware horse cult. 5000 tears ago they had dug a long trench, and filled it with crushed pottery, animal bones, and… horse jaws! Beneath each jaw they had placed a flint scraper-tool, perhaps the tool used to flay the horse.

  • @dbmail545
    @dbmail5453 жыл бұрын

    Those stone battleaxes look remarkably lethal.

  • @barryr7216
    @barryr72165 ай бұрын

    This gotta be one of the better advertisements I’ve ever seen

  • @FamMitrevski
    @FamMitrevskiАй бұрын

    makes sense, archaic admixture percentages does seem to be abit higher uphere

  • @louispellissier914
    @louispellissier91410 ай бұрын

    15:34 the four are brothers, the sons of Stellan Skarsgård xD

  • @taybak8446
    @taybak84463 жыл бұрын

    These are great and well informed discussions of Scandinavian archaeogenetics.

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @crypticreality8484
    @crypticreality84842 ай бұрын

    The World needs the fictional history of the European ethnogenesis. Thank you for your in depth passion!

  • @williammartin2593
    @williammartin25932 жыл бұрын

    Excellent, again. Your experience as a story teller shines through. A bunch of facts is not enough. And I like the way you casually quote an expert, and also your own modest theories.

  • @mjtuomainen
    @mjtuomainen2 жыл бұрын

    Would be interesting to see a video on the comb ceramic culture by you.

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, I will add it to the list.

  • @Sigibert
    @Sigibert5 ай бұрын

    At 13:51 what book is that ? Please

  • @RobinHood-tw4se
    @RobinHood-tw4se3 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video! Accurate, interesting, easy to understand, quick, and to the point! Keep it up!

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Much appreciated. The complex reality is simplified of course but that's how it has to be for a short vid.

  • @clintonlemoine986
    @clintonlemoine9863 жыл бұрын

    Love the work your outing into this.

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @Mattiniord
    @Mattiniord2 жыл бұрын

    Also, slate was a material that had been used for thousands of years in North Scandinavia and it was infact one of the cultural elements adopted from the North Scandinavian hunter gatherers. Should state that I have an MA in archaeology from Umeå University, the northernmost archaeological department in Sweden. There is a lot that comes in a different light when one start to look into the north Scandinavian material. But North Scandinavia were not a backwater of South Scandinavia. Archaeologically it is a distinct different region into the iron age. Their connections goes east and they even learn about metals from the east, not from the south.

  • @Luredreier

    @Luredreier

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you. :-) Personally I found this video the most interesting because I live in Trøndelag in Norway. And it sometimes feels like this period is just a black hole here with most of the information being from either further north or south or east...

  • @joshschneider9766
    @joshschneider97662 жыл бұрын

    also quite interesting to learn the reindeer herders were not originally a Scandinavian phenotype.

  • @Zuukable

    @Zuukable

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's not true. It's true that Sami language and culture came later and some geneflow with it, but the major bulk of Sami genetics come from European hunter-gatherers, way more than your average Swedes or Norwegians.

  • @pelleoh

    @pelleoh

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Zuukable Not correct though, as they usually share the same DNA as Finns and other Finnic peoples. DNA even show that the Finnish invaders most likely killed off the hunter-gatherer men while they raped the hunter-gatherer women. Nowadays Sami have very little in common with the people mentioned here.

  • @HistoryBro
    @HistoryBro3 жыл бұрын

    Bloody great vid!

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! And double thanks really cos I learned from the master.... (Pewdipie).

  • @matthewm2528
    @matthewm25283 жыл бұрын

    I really like these videos. Please keep making them. There are so many interesting prehistoric cultures. Maybe the Bell beaker introgressions into neolithic Britain!

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. I will certainly make a video on the Bell Beakers.

  • @Thunor93
    @Thunor932 жыл бұрын

    Wouldn't it be funny that the two cultures of the pitted and the corded people's mythologies reflected in their rivalry like how the Aesir gods had a rivalry with the Vanir gods. Would explain why in ancient Scandinavian mythology there is 2 different groups of gods. Was always curious about that.

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah a few people have suggested that. I think Jackson Crawford has at least one video about this subject and not that I blindly believe what any expert says but I trust his expertise and opinion.

  • @Thunor93

    @Thunor93

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DanDavisHistory I will have to check it out, yeah I hear you on that, always got to take everything especially anything post christianity with a grain of salt when it comes to this kind of subject.

  • @noahtylerpritchett2682

    @noahtylerpritchett2682

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DanDavisHistory do you have a link to this video?

  • @lindagonzalez5059
    @lindagonzalez5059 Жыл бұрын

    We are still alive. European and hunter

  • @urbandiscount
    @urbandiscount3 ай бұрын

    Just a remark that being near or on water as a culture calls for cooperation, not competition. Hunting: same.

  • @urbandiscount

    @urbandiscount

    3 ай бұрын

    Shamans.....yeah, assumptions and an anachronism

  • @TheRick8866
    @TheRick88663 жыл бұрын

    Reading Godborn, book one now and I am enjoying. Love the videos as well.

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful, so glad to hear that, thank you. I hope you like the rest of the story and series.

  • @Noblebird02
    @Noblebird025 ай бұрын

    This is fascinating stuff. I would have thought that the Sami were the last European hunter gatherers.

  • @johnsullivan3375
    @johnsullivan3375 Жыл бұрын

    Beakers were also in ireland

  • @jimrutin
    @jimrutin2 жыл бұрын

    Yet another excellent video. Thank you!

  • @garrgravarr
    @garrgravarr3 жыл бұрын

    The brilliance of these vids is that they fire the imagination and evoke scenes of histories with no written record, but without taking undue liberties with the archaeology for titillation's sake. Bloody well done mate.

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, that's very kind of you.

  • @kc3718

    @kc3718

    2 жыл бұрын

    no one need space alien giants from the planet zard as ancestors and a substitute for ancient history. Reality, though more complex, is far more interesting than a comic book history.

  • @vicariouswitness

    @vicariouswitness

    2 жыл бұрын

    Titillations

  • @VictorianTimeTraveler
    @VictorianTimeTraveler2 жыл бұрын

    It's kind of like rock-paper-scissors. Battle-axe smashes pottery.

  • @Larsanator
    @Larsanator2 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating as always! Thanks!

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @nickharmer3049
    @nickharmer3049 Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic work. Really appreciated. Bless up 👊

  • @olinayoung6287
    @olinayoung62872 жыл бұрын

    Fabulously crafted video!!! Fantastically well done thank you so much. This channel deserves a million subscribers, truly.

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Maybe one day! Thanks for your support, I appreciate it.

  • @Bradley202
    @Bradley20210 ай бұрын

    my Family Tree DNA results show 49% Hunter-Gatherer.. which was pretty cool to know

  • @Dal0fael1d

    @Dal0fael1d

    6 ай бұрын

    Nice I’m 32%

  • @JuliahistoryLover
    @JuliahistoryLover2 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating

  • @annamosier1950
    @annamosier1950 Жыл бұрын

    very good info

  • @mikelp4769
    @mikelp47693 жыл бұрын

    Well done, much enjoyed! Helps me understand the neo-lithic era more clearly....tons of history to be had, but any chance of some finnic, karelia lake ladoga, oesillian ,curonian interpretations? Always digging for more 👌

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Yeah it's not an area I know in detail because I only really research in detail the times and places my novels take place. The eastern Baltic is still a bit of a blank spot for now.

  • @Noblebird02

    @Noblebird02

    5 ай бұрын

    Were there any non Indo European speakers in northern eastern Europe in the Roman Iron Age? Like the Basques or speakers of languages descended from pitted ware culture?

  • @jezusbloodie
    @jezusbloodie3 жыл бұрын

    this is series is amazing! I am hyped for the future travels. May i request an additional side step to non-Egyptian northern Africa of that time as we travel south before traveling east?

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah well the Gods of Bronze series is recreating the Twelves Tasks of Herakles in the Third Millennium BC but I am opening the scope out across Eurasia rather than mostly in Greece. In the myths, Herakles travels to the garden of the Hespirades said to be in Tartessos in southern Iberia. He also visits Atlas to get him to get the sacred apple he needs to complete his task - and Atlas is holding up the world in the Atlas Mountains on the other side of the Mediterranean in North Africa. So yeah my hero will go there but I'm not sure what book number it will be yet or how long it will be before I do a video on it. But it's still coming eventually.

  • @jezusbloodie

    @jezusbloodie

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DanDavisHistory damn... spoilers. But i Guess I did ask for it :p I mainly meant the yt series, btw...

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    lol I'm sorry. But you know, er, it's not the destination anyway, it's the journey. And the friends we made along the way... The series is also a prequel of sorts to the Immortal Knight Chronicles. The main guy is in that a little bit.

  • @jezusbloodie

    @jezusbloodie

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DanDavisHistory I'm kidding :p I want to read it anyway, and don't care much about minor spoilers. Makes me more interested so far tbh

  • @galenbjorn443
    @galenbjorn443 Жыл бұрын

    new research shows that SHGs were 182 cm aka 6 feet on average. So taller than Steep people about 7 cm which is massive

  • @bruceryba5740
    @bruceryba57402 жыл бұрын

    Excellent! Thank you Dan! Off subject: I did enjoy the pictures of the three sided flint arrowheads, because one of the best flint knappers in North America has made reproductions of those points and was explaining how difficult they were to make. He let me examine them-I was honored to touch them (like some farmer wanting to trade mead for martin furs) And he thought the three sided points were early Armor piercing points (bodkin). Personally I did not agree (because what armor?) until I began to read about the warlike step cultures. But perhaps the unique arrowhead shape was not armor piercing but actually used by the "Seal People" for punching through a seal, -and maybe once used on of those milk guzzling invaders dressed in heavy winter clothes. However the funny part (to me) in relationship to your video, is that the master knapper is of Norwegian or Swedish ancestry, his name is very difficult to pronounce and has the classic scandi blond hair blue eyes. (a retired dentist from San Antonio) And is very proud of those arrowheads-as he should be.

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Bruce, glad you enjoyed it. Armour piercing is an interesting suggestion. There's no evidence of armour here as far as I know but some pre-modern societies including hunter gatherers around the world have used armour made of wood and bone and leather. So it's possible certainly but punching through hides is also very likely.

  • @littlestone1541
    @littlestone15413 жыл бұрын

    Great stuff this channel! I've been writing on and off for years now my self, trying to build up a basis for a "civilizations" type novel. Or more probably series of novels. I'm passionate about the topics of archaeology, history, anthropology, mythology/theology, and sociology... I hope you don't mind me saying that his channel is becoming an inspiration to me. I haven't read your novels yet, (I only discovered your work a few days ago), but you've gained a subscriber, and I will certainly be buying your first book, so you'll have gained a reader too. Thank-you for your brilliant work!

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow thank you so much, that's wonderful. I wish you all the best with your novels, I would love to see a prehistoric genre growing. I hope you enjoy my books too!

  • @MagnusItland
    @MagnusItland3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! I've been waiting eagerly for this video since you announced it in the earlier episode. I can't think of any other KZreadr whose science is more "fresh from the oven" in this field, which is the more impressive from a fiction author. As a Scandinavian, I have taken a special interest in the prehistory of the area, and I am pleased to see it represented so well. Guess it's time to get those books and see how you have used all this information in your writing!

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Magnus, it's great to hear that. I have long had an interest in the prehistory of Europe but I am merely an enthusiastic amateur with regards to the science and the emerging studies and am liable to make mistakes. I hope that you enjoy the stories and future videos.

  • @JonathanHorwitz
    @JonathanHorwitz2 жыл бұрын

    Thank You, Dan. This was really interesting for me as I now live in Pitted ware country, as far as i can tell by your maps. I left archeology back around 1972. I was fascinated by the Ertebölle Culture as it seemed to me that they were on the edge of moving into agriculture. I really like your way of presenting. My wife and I like to spend time in Brantevik. Lots of petroglyphs! I'm looking forward to your presentation. Thank you so much, and please, keep up the good work. Best wishes, JH

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful, so glad you enjoyed it. I am also fascinated by the Ertebölle Culture and will be researching them further in the near future, along with Mesolithic Britain.

  • @maracohen5930
    @maracohen5930 Жыл бұрын

    I listen and compare the different approaches to their environments of the Mesolithic/Neolithic Peoples of Eurasia with my own “Hunter-Gatherer” Lakota Folk (who I am only 3 generations from), and our stories of Farming Peoples we had contact with. I look forward to your whole series.

  • @siervodedios5952

    @siervodedios5952

    Жыл бұрын

    Indeed mankind, no matter where you find them, is much more similar than many might think. That familiarity and interconnectedness, similar stories and experiences repeating or at least rhyming.

  • @MrXenacrates
    @MrXenacrates2 жыл бұрын

    Along with "HomeTeam History" and the "Fall of Civilizations" podcast, this channel has made the top 3 on my favorite history channels list on KZread. Love this content!!

  • @magnusekenhjarta3436

    @magnusekenhjarta3436

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agreed!

  • @CA-jz9bm
    @CA-jz9bm3 жыл бұрын

    average scandianvian man XD

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    😀

  • @kesfitzgerald1084

    @kesfitzgerald1084

    2 жыл бұрын

    I know, it is quite unbelievable. However, the average Scandinavian woman appears a fair representation. 🙂

  • @tonymaurice4157

    @tonymaurice4157

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DanDavisHistory they probably used bows.. ash elm??

  • @joshschneider9766
    @joshschneider97662 жыл бұрын

    It is quite fascinating to learn Hunter gathered and farming cultures coexisted at all let alone for so long. I didn't even know they did so at all.

  • @slappy8941

    @slappy8941

    2 жыл бұрын

    Considering that farmers pretty much stuck to the valleys in most places, this left a lot of room for hunter-gatherers to wander about. They would've mostly traded rather than fought, because they didn't compete for territory, and each had access to resources that the other lacked.

  • @mysticonthehill

    @mysticonthehill

    11 ай бұрын

    @@slappy8941 A similar relationship developed with the Saami (herders/hunters) later

  • @beekeeper8474
    @beekeeper8474 Жыл бұрын

    Some says this is where everything went wrong

  • @MrTomFlan
    @MrTomFlan3 жыл бұрын

    Great underrated channel. Keep it up!

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, will do!

  • @GoofyHistorians
    @GoofyHistorians2 жыл бұрын

    This is Great Content!

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @SamtheIrishexan
    @SamtheIrishexan2 ай бұрын

    I dunno if I would say last. While many became sedentary many also stayed on the move. Less so during major climactic shifts but it is interesting to see where the roots took place once farming became ubiquitous

  • @TheM41a
    @TheM41a3 жыл бұрын

    Do one on bell beaker next (they also spread to Scandinavia).

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes I will do Bell Beakers eventually for sure but not next. I will do them when I write book 3 of Gods of Bronze later this year.

  • @radiozelaza
    @radiozelaza3 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if those people are the origin of the non-Indoeuropean words in Germanic languages for things related to sea

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah I think it's either these or the Funnelbeaker or both. Kristian Kristiansen has done some work on this along with Rune Iversen and Guus Kroonen I think.

  • @HaplogroupI-M253
    @HaplogroupI-M2533 жыл бұрын

    Great series of videos regarding the various cultures of Northern Continental Europe / Scandinavia during the late Neolithic. What’s your opinion regarding the emergence of Y Haplogroup I1 in Scandinavia during the Late Neolithic? Do you think it was brought into Scandinavia during the Late Neolithic by a Continental European culture or could it have been hiding in small numbers in a Scandinavian Hunter Gatherer group only later to be absorbed into the Battle Axe Culture where it would go on to later thrive during the Nordic Bronze Age?

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Regarding I1, I don't really have an opinion either way. Either is possible. It was obviously present somewhere in Mesolithic Europe. Could well have been part of the WHG resurgence after the decline of the LBK before moving north with the Funnelbeaker expansion. But we just need more samples!

  • @Lady_Ingenious
    @Lady_Ingenious Жыл бұрын

    Very educational and entertaining!

  • @waltonsmith7210
    @waltonsmith72103 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video! Such a fascinating, overlooked yet crucial period of human history. The stone and bronze ages are painfully tantalizing because of the sparse or nonexistent records, and Im left with more questions than answers about what the hell was going on. We just cant ever know a lot of it and thats irritating lol.

  • @luvslogistics1725
    @luvslogistics17252 жыл бұрын

    Very cool videos.

  • @someguy8732
    @someguy87323 жыл бұрын

    Great stuff!

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @chipoo
    @chipoo3 жыл бұрын

    Keep it up man love it

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks@

  • @Luredreier
    @Luredreier Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so, so much for covering this. I live in Trøndelag in Norway so this covers some of our ancestors and a part of our history that's otherwise hard to pin down...

  • @anonperson3972
    @anonperson39722 жыл бұрын

    Late stone age and early bronze age is my favourite period if history

  • @fourravens4638
    @fourravens46383 жыл бұрын

    Great series you have produced. Will you do a Amber trade episode? Amber is what it was all about here in the north. Northern Netherlands coast and Baltic sea coast (Denmark, Germany,Poland). Amber is what made southerners come here in the Bronze age.

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, I appreciate that. You know, I have many videos planned for the Bronze Age People series and also many in a Bronze Age Warfare series but I never thought of doing one on the amber trade. That's a great idea, I'm going to write that down, thanks. "The Amber Road" or "The Gold of the North." Nice one.

  • @fourravens4638

    @fourravens4638

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DanDavisHistory Archeologist Kristian Kristiansen thinks the Minoans came to Sweden/Norway to trade for Amber . Thats what the rock carvings are about according to him. Not all historians agree, but I think he has a point. Baltic amber was found in Egypt probably traded through ancient Greece. Imagine the stories and adventures lost in time. The Tollense Battle might have a relation with that trade too.

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have the utmost respect for Kristiansen and his views are worth taking seriously. That would be a truly remarkable trade route, I hope that it's true. I'll have to look into this further. And I will do a Tollense video eventually too.

  • @karate4348

    @karate4348

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DanDavisHistory I'm looking forward to that.

  • @valevisa8429

    @valevisa8429

    Жыл бұрын

    @@fourravens4638 Why was amber so valuable ?

  • @ahmedelshafey7602
    @ahmedelshafey760210 ай бұрын

    Helll Dan, I am more than impressed with your work! I wonder if you could make a doc. About stone-age Egypt. Pleeeeease 😊 Thanks in advance.

  • @steveholmes3471
    @steveholmes34712 жыл бұрын

    Great channel

  • @tudorsmarandache8169
    @tudorsmarandache81692 жыл бұрын

    great stuff

  • @ianbarr5646
    @ianbarr5646 Жыл бұрын

    Wow this channel is so underrated. Love the way this is presented!

  • @williamjordan5554
    @williamjordan5554 Жыл бұрын

    2:56. "Average Scandinavian Woman." Lol.

  • @keeperoftruth5951
    @keeperoftruth59513 жыл бұрын

    Great video

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @magnusekenhjarta3436
    @magnusekenhjarta34362 жыл бұрын

    Another great video, well researched and wonderful storytelling. I really love your sincere love and respect for the various peoples and and cultures that are the subjects of your educational videos. As a modern, blonde and blue eyed scandinavian, I feel humbled and proud, adding bits of insights insights into what may well be part of my genetoc ancestry. I just finished listening to "Godborn", and I really loved it. Knowing how well researched you are and the level of committment you have for the subject really brought a lot of depth and sincerity to the story. Now I am very much looking forward to "Thunderer", and beyond!

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Magnus, I'm so glad you've enjoyed the videos and Godborn. And I hope you like Thunderer too! Cheers.

  • @973Marcelino
    @973Marcelino2 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting ! 👌

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, glad you thought so.

  • @mountainclimber9964
    @mountainclimber99643 жыл бұрын

    I like the moose figurines that they made

  • @CeeCee630
    @CeeCee6302 жыл бұрын

    It would be so wonderful if you provided a bibliography of your source materials so we could do more reading on the subjects you cover.

  • @philipverity113
    @philipverity1132 жыл бұрын

    I used to use a slate knife I made for myself when I was a kid before I was allowed to have a pocket knife. It was confiscated at school. I made another one & carried on my activities.

  • @Huyedelomalo
    @Huyedelomalo3 жыл бұрын

    wow this channel is a treasure!

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, you're a treasure too, bro.

  • @crypticreality8484
    @crypticreality84842 ай бұрын

    What do you think about the R1b dominant Unetice incursions into Southern Scandinavia? Does that play into your fictional accounts?

  • @brentanderson1130
    @brentanderson11302 жыл бұрын

    Still watching, where can I get your books?

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Links to my books in the description.

  • @sofiag7450
    @sofiag7450 Жыл бұрын

    Is this your own art you included in to show the different visual groups? I love it! That is such a great an informative tool I feel is often missing from a lot of archeology videos. So many people talk about all the history and items... and gloss over the people that made them!! Great Job!

  • @redbeardsbirds3747
    @redbeardsbirds37473 жыл бұрын

    I so much am enjoying your channel! Appreciate the creative work that you put into these videos...very educational and fascinating looks into our past....or shall I say the life,times and culture of our great ancestors ! Subscribed! 🐦

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much. Positive comments like this make my day.

  • @Grenadier311
    @Grenadier3118 ай бұрын

    Thanks for not portraying them as black.

  • @andersaxmark5871
    @andersaxmark58713 жыл бұрын

    Well done

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @jsuttonii
    @jsuttonii11 ай бұрын

    Best channel on KZread. Keep up the great work!

  • @rollo6038
    @rollo60383 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant mate! I'm not the brightest but our history is mesmerising to me! Videos like this allow me to follow and understand. So thankyou you got a new fan 👍

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Sounds like you've come to the right place then. Cheers.

  • @AmandaMerkel

    @AmandaMerkel

    19 күн бұрын

    The people who say things like "I'm not the brightest" usually are way smarter than the ones who call themselves intelligent.

  • @rollo6038

    @rollo6038

    19 күн бұрын

    @@AmandaMerkel very kind thankyou.

  • @jennistone364
    @jennistone364 Жыл бұрын

    what an adorable seal .. and I love the pottery

  • @longbowarcher100
    @longbowarcher1002 жыл бұрын

    dan have you written a book dealing with the KORYOS . if so could you leave the title for me.

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    My fantasy novel Godborn features the koryos. A link to the book on Amazon is in the video description. The koryos is mentioned in my story the Wolf God which you can get for free by joining my email newsletter. The link is also in the description.

  • @alistairfletcher6187
    @alistairfletcher6187 Жыл бұрын

    Pitted Ware Culture is a very cool prog rock band name. Way better than those Linear Pottery Culture sell outs. Especially their early stuff.

  • @lentlemenproductions770
    @lentlemenproductions7702 жыл бұрын

    I’ve seen too many other KZread videos, every time his book is mentioned I assume the video’s over and go to find something else to watch.

  • @rolandsarins7151
    @rolandsarins71512 жыл бұрын

    Is it seal hunting been done by rzucewo culture to? They where something like Corded ware +WHG

  • @jeffersonwright9275
    @jeffersonwright92752 жыл бұрын

    Hope your novel addresses the fact that Beaker / Corded Ware peoples, presumed to be the direct descendants of the Yamnaya Culture, are known to have carried Y-pestis anti-bodies and it is now suspected that they brought an early variation of the Black Death with them into Europe from the Pontic steppes which would explain why they were able to replace ie wipe out existing cultures

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    I will be making videos about this in future!

  • @jagosevatarion8822

    @jagosevatarion8822

    Жыл бұрын

    Its come to knowledge by dna that corded ware were not descended from yamnaya but from another culture much like yamnaya, like sredny stog culture

  • @marissamattingly1734
    @marissamattingly1734Ай бұрын

    I gedmatched to the motala victims

  • @shawncordeiro5078
    @shawncordeiro50782 ай бұрын

    15;32 guy num 2 has got some finn in him 5-10% %asain and guy num 4 got 2-5% asain "reverse epacatic fold "

  • @paulfranklin4276
    @paulfranklin4276 Жыл бұрын

    how come they look like the cast of Little Britain?

  • @swainscheps
    @swainscheps Жыл бұрын

    Never ashume…when you ashume it can only make an ash of yew and me.

  • @nurrnena7798
    @nurrnena7798 Жыл бұрын

    Isn't Narva culture the last hunter-gatherer culture in Europe?

  • @kevinmoore.7426
    @kevinmoore.74262 жыл бұрын

    So, who was Otzi ?

  • @DanDavisHistory

    @DanDavisHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    A late Neolithic / copper age farmer of southern europe.

  • @crypticreality8484
    @crypticreality8484 Жыл бұрын

    The high incidence in Norway of R1a (besides the Indo European clade) is likely due to the Eastern Hunter Gatherers moving into Norway along the coast. Is there any mention of the Bell Beaker/Unetice R1b dominant peoples in this publication?

  • @xcaptainspookyx6115

    @xcaptainspookyx6115

    11 күн бұрын

    Which people did haplogroup I2 originate from?

  • @bobyoung1698
    @bobyoung16982 жыл бұрын

    Wrong. My sister-in-law is a hunter-gatherer. She never, ever misses a garage sale.

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