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@STRAKAZulu

Ай бұрын

Something I wish I could do. Aside from visiting bucket-list sites, I'd also be getting some shots of me in my Mandalorian kit.

@davidpachan9121

Ай бұрын

Do you have any update on the safety of traveling in that area, with the ongoing aggression to the east and south?

@PatchouliPenny

Ай бұрын

​@STRAKAZulu you Saffer Zulu's are funny okes ek se ;)

@ccreel64

Ай бұрын

I wish I could join you, so I wish you safe travels and an enjoyable tour instead.

@vickonstark7365

Ай бұрын

👍🏼

I'm a simple man. I see a notification from Ancient Architects, I click.

@AncientArchitects

Ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@STRAKAZulu

Ай бұрын

@@AncientArchitects of course. The information you provide is well done.

@smokingkippers1173

Ай бұрын

I get that.

@fecundloin2780

Ай бұрын

@@STRAKAZulu I got into his content a year or so back and hit his 'early doors' content first and though 'oh noes, I like his content but he's gonna end up to be an alternate history lad', far from it, loves a bit of peer reviewed science does @AncientArchitects✌

@Breakfast_of_Champions

Ай бұрын

meow meow I always watch this show😸

Ancient architecture and ancient cultures are inseparable. One cannot exist without the other.

@AncientArchitects

Ай бұрын

Very true

@LordDustinDeWynd

Ай бұрын

...and also quite obvious.

@WorldResolve

Ай бұрын

Nomadic gang where you at? Gypsy gang where you at?

@Rameus

Ай бұрын

Ancient human 💩 and ancient human buttholes are inseparable. One cannot exist with out the other.

@Scribe13013

Ай бұрын

Dude... you're like...a genius...use it for good

Finding the origin of when man started such systems of belief may never be within our grasp, but this is one more puzzle piece at least. Amazing discovery!

Great job! This is nothing short of incredible as an archeological find. There are so many implications one can imagine from this grave and the use of the cave for multiple burials over time - collective memory, honoring ancestors, etc. Thanks again. JimF Fairfax, VA USA

@harvardarchaeologydept3799

Ай бұрын

They’re ethiopian blacks…..be careful sir. Know this history.

@whansandceros

Ай бұрын

​@@harvardarchaeologydept3799 what

@harvardarchaeologydept3799

Ай бұрын

@@whansandceros Natufians we’re ethiopian blacks. You see him buried in the FETAL POSITION. That’s all ethiopia. Other race was still a caveman neanderthal. It’s tough history some are going to have to deal with. Just like Egypt,Africa history.

The respect and honor given to the deceased is so emotionally powerful

@harvardarchaeologydept3799

Ай бұрын

Be careful sir…..these are ethiopian blacks.

@lisad1993

Ай бұрын

​@harvardarchaeologydept3799 this is in the Levant not Africa though

@sacha11666

Ай бұрын

Yeah ! Loads of respect. Each of important guideful and leading figure in those times of "relearning' the ways of civilisation would of helped alot if they came from "knoledgable families". ... Alot to show to the offspring of the past survivers of the big shit that hit the fan. They played a crucial kickstart for them. Thats's why they were important to them I think.

@Animefightforum

Ай бұрын

@@lisad1993 Everyone of significance was black, apparently. Even Einstein was black if you listen to this lot lmao

@harvardarchaeologydept3799

Ай бұрын

@@Animefightforum ETHIOPIANS ruled this globe buddy. It was no joke. Your greek grandfather Herodotus told you this daily. Why are you upset? Titans were ethiopian. Ethiopian began india……Khoisan began asia.

Google is wrong

@AncientArchitects

Ай бұрын

😂🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@flipflopski2951

Ай бұрын

I agree.

Love your content. Great job

@AncientArchitects

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@michaelholt7994

Ай бұрын

Why was he a shaman,he could have just been a wealthy man amongst them.

Your presentations are world class, no BS, just the facts! WELL DONE!

@beermerican

Ай бұрын

We dont know these are facts….we want them to be….but we dont know for sure.

@revolvermaster4939

Ай бұрын

@@beermerican you missed the point

@xandr13

Ай бұрын

A lot of BS actually. This vid should've been half as long.

Last time I was this early gobekli tepe was still under construction...

@dragonfox2.058

Ай бұрын

Haha haha 👍🏼

@willtricks9432

Ай бұрын

Raised a giggle here.

@tiffanybarbee9316

Ай бұрын

"Tee" hee!😊

The amount of information packed into this is ridiculous. Definitely a double watch. Thank you and hope you're doing well.

Amazing! thank you for keeping us up to date!! 💖

These sites are a fascinating look at the lifestyles of our ancestors. Thanks Matt!

That was excellent. Thank you for the video and analysis!

Thank you once again for doing a wonderful job of explaining things so we can understand it.

Ever since I started watching Your videos I've been impressed with Your research and Your manner of speaking. I have to say, over the last couple of years, You just keep getting better and better! Thank You sincerely from one Matt to another, Cheers!

Evening Matt! Thanks for another great video!

@AncientArchitects

Ай бұрын

Thank you

A more than amazing find. I really hope we can find more, find things that help connect some dots and help us gain further insight into such a culture. Although it will always remain guesswork. Let's see if we can make it informed guesswork.

Amazing find.

@AncientArchitects

Ай бұрын

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The 'extra' foot was there because she walked with a limp (I guess, always follow patterns and logic), like a canopic jar filled with a donor part, without the jar. :D

@harvardarchaeologydept3799

Ай бұрын

These were black ethiopia peoples……..be careful sir.

@tobe2btobe

Ай бұрын

I like this speculation. It makes sense.

@fecundloin2780

Ай бұрын

@@harvardarchaeologydept3799 Ethiopian mate , show them some respect

I think of Ancient Architects as having double meaning, meaning not only builders of ancient structures but also builders of ancient civilizations. Could these people have been breeding captive turtles as a food source?

@oo2free

Ай бұрын

More likely, the tortuous were collected when people went about their routine travel routes, habitually brought back to their settlements, and placed in a stone enclosure they couldn't borrow from. They were provided shade, water, and vegetation to eat, perhaps to be ritually sacrificed and consumed during funeral ceremonies. Maybe that specific shaman's personal spirit guide was tortuous, and the burial and ritual were indeed one-off events. If that lady had an affinity for those tortuous, she may have become famous for having a standing offer to trade for them. She built the tortuous zoo and, over time, collected the exact amount of them found in the grave because now that she's dead, who will keep the tortuous zoo going? So why not? They may even have been giggling about the irony of the fate of said tortuous zoo and put the limestone slab on top to keep her from spinning in her grave in outrage.

@DorchesterMom

Ай бұрын

@@oo2freeI LOVE the story you wove around this wonderful ELDERLY shaman woman ❤️ (Did you know she was elderly? 😜 I wonder if the tortoises we elderly too?)

@oo2free

Ай бұрын

@@DorchesterMom Yes, I am aware. I was inspired by the memories of elderly women in the community who achieved fame due to expressions of individuality that we call excentricity today. Many find them inspiring in a spiritual or perhaps in an occult way. Tortoises are long-lived and grow slowly, so more giant tortoises are old-timers. If only small tortoises exist in a particular habitat, it is because they are delicious. The Seminole in Florida make a slit in the skin above a hind leg of the tortoise to remove the entrails, then bake them in a bed of hot coals.

Very informative and respectfully explained. I enjoy your reports very much. Thank you for that.

Fascinating video! Thanks! 🏵

Great presentation & explanation of this findings,thank you so very much for this class, which is very appreciated,be safe & God Bless Brother & Crew !!!

Thank you for another video, exceptional in content and delivery.

Thanx Matt❤

@AncientArchitects

Ай бұрын

Thanks Lynn

So many thanks for your content, informative, very interesting. And I must say never boring.

This is really amazing, thank you so much! We can only ever guess, but I know (from actual descendants) that Native Americans on the East coast of the U.S. related the tortoise with the lunar year. The number of plates on it's back is 13 (same number as lunar months in a year) and the smaller plates around the base of the shells number 28 (the number of days in a lunar month). Maybe having something in nature that reflected regularity, especially during a time of climactic unrest, was comforting and significant for these people as well as for the Native peoples that I am familiar with. ? :)

@MM-yl9gn

Ай бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for the info!

I always love your work!! Thank. you!

@AncientArchitects

Ай бұрын

Cheers

One of your best episode thanks

In am not for the shaman hypothesis. In my opinion archeologists always link their findings to religion. Of course the woman was buried with richer objects than the rest but the explanation could be just that she was a rarely old woman, probably the mother, grandmother and even grand grandmother of most of the members of the tribe. Because of her age, she could have been admired and respected for her wisdom. Therefore, when she died, the tribe was extremely upset because they lost their most important person of the group. Tortoises could have been captured along time, not all together in the same moment. They could have belonged to each of the members of the tribe and they buried them with the woman as gifts for the afterlife, a way that the woman could have had a souvenir of her huge family. The eagle wing, the bore leg and the ox tail could be precious items for them, protection objects in afterlife that were only offered to those that deserved them due to the status as grandmother, important hunter, a hero…

@jandrews6254

Ай бұрын

Thank you, that’s a more intelligent take on the burial. I’ve always disliked the archaeological mindset that everything was religious in intent, and for that matter, male centric

Your videos and scholarship are fantastic and fascinating. Love your channel

great vid!!!

Very interesting. Long time subscriber. Thank you for your presentations.

@AncientArchitects

Ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

Well done sir. Great video.

I just looked up the pronunciation of Shaman. It gave the long A as British English but the short A as American English. Interesting.

@MarkVrem

Ай бұрын

SHAY-MAN

@LunaticAsylum01

Ай бұрын

I've never understood it, I'll be honest lol Edit: OK Matt addressed it, I was too hasty lol

@scloftin8861

Ай бұрын

Which is really weird as most of the US residents I know in the American Southwest, pronounce it with the long British A ... or maybe Spanish? And that includes my anthropology professors.

@jandrews6254

Ай бұрын

Poe-tay-toe poe-tah-toe. Different accent, different pronunciation. It’s still “English” and we all know what you mean, no need to get stroppy about it.

I love your stuff thx you.

Very interesting Thank you for this video All the best from down under Lewis Sydney Australia 🇦🇺

The fact that so many animals are represented is interesting.

@AncientArchitects

Ай бұрын

I agree 👍

Very interesting video, thankyou.

It could have been a line in that old Billie Holiday song: "You say shah-man and I say shay-man" -- but the former sounds more akin to the original word in the Altai language of Tunguska, which incidentally means simply "man of knowledge".

Thank you sir!👍

Very interesting. thank you

@AncientArchitects

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

That's some super interesting stuff, cool to know they also appreciated the turtle.

@johnpetrakis379

Ай бұрын

Turtles figure into more than one creation myth of course, you all knew that

@krono5el

Ай бұрын

@@johnpetrakis379 its so cool how many are fond of the amazing toitle : D

Very good.very interesting

Thank you

Excellent

@AncientArchitects

Ай бұрын

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Very interesting

It´s wonderfull! My respects to this important lady!

🤠 Good Video!

@AncientArchitects

Ай бұрын

Cheers!

Thanks Matt fab Tuesday night viewing. 3:24

@AncientArchitects

Ай бұрын

Thank you

Thanks

Fascinating

I say. That was proper deep and fascinating.

Amazing.

After noticing what appeared to be a severed left foot on an Aztec sacrifical stone and remembering some Native American burials also depict severed feet, I searched "ancient burials with severed foot" just before turning this episode on quickly falling asleep only to revisit today to find this burial with a severed foot. Oh, how fate loves irony! What is it's significance and how ancient? And especially, what is the linking cultural factor?

Seems as far as pronunciation, "shay-man" is more common in the UK, and "shah-man" in the US.

@Scribe13013

Ай бұрын

Separated by a common language...and the spirit of freedom

By the way.... The iChing mentions tortoise shells as being used in the process of divination. Details of how are not discussed.

There could be many different reasons for the way she was buried and the grave goods. Let’s also consider those could be animals she hunted and provided for her family and the bones were kept until her burial as a show of honor.

Your observation that the grave was prepared in the shape of an inverted tortoise shell is interesting, I wonder if there was decoration on the sides of the stones pressed into the clay...?

"stones were placed.... Or to hold her in the grave" monkaS! Vampire!

Reminds me of the Cosmic Turtle legend.

Thank you and algo's

Great video, but what's up with the illustration at 1:22? Some of the animals in the backgrounds doesn't seem to have any heads. One of them even seems to have two pairs of hind-legs.

There could also be a significant difference in how well the tribe was doing over time impacting grave goods. She may have lived during a period of unusually good weather and easy hunting, freeing up far more resources for honoring what may have been more of a matriarch than a shaman.

I'd have stuck out like a sore thumb in prehistory, it's bad enough in some places in the world today. I'm 6'4" .

Natufia has a nice ring to it

'Shaman' was originally pronounced 'SHAH-mun'. Google's pronunciation is the westernized variant. I suspect she was much more than a simple shaman. She was a seeress and a messenger - i.e., what would later be termed _malik_ in Hebrew. Or what we would call an *_angel._* The eagle's wing and the leopard skin (It _was_ a leopard skin, was it not? You don't seem to say in the video.) are vestments of her office, which explains why she was held in such high and lasting esteem. Later variants from the Caucasus region used condor wings, which were substantially larger than eagle wings. They still used the leopard skins, though. You stated that the tortoise shells were cracked on the bottom. Was there any mention in the study of the shells being _fired?_ I.e., evidence that they were used for _plastromancy?_ Or _pyro-plastromancy?_ (Plastromancy is a very early form of divination where the under part of tortoise shells were fired and the resulting cracks 'interpreted' based on their similarity to local scripts. It reached its pinnacle with the early Chinese, although they weren't the only ones practicing it. And the Natufians may have influenced later proto-Chinese shamans. Those distinctive cultic practices appeared to cover a good part of Asia.) Tortoises were held in especially high regard, because it was widely held in that part of the world that the world traveled on the back of a giant tortoise. (This may actually be a reference to their resemblance to tectonic plates.) The symbolism of the items in that grave are fascinating. I would bet that every item in that grave has a distinct meaning and we would need to think in terms of the mythology behind it to understand the whole story.

@scloftin8861

Ай бұрын

Thank you for making the connection to the world traveling on the back of a giant tortoise. That is a very cool extrapolation.

Pity we can't go back and see these cultures first hand. It's a real shame man.

@brazenatheist1676

Ай бұрын

I see what you did there.

@PatchouliPenny

Ай бұрын

😂

The importance of burials. 14k years later, it makes you still relevant and remembered

@yodasmomisondrugs7959

Ай бұрын

And archeologist rob them with the backing of said Government.

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Take a good look at the floors and The ston3 Foundations of their hut. Does it remind you of anything the shapes how well they all fit so closely together may not be a wall but having those skill way back then sure the skills just got better and better

thx

The World Turtle, The World Serpent and The World Tree are three shamanism mythologies that would cover most every corner of the planet, I suspect discovering red ochre burials will too in time.

what was the beer made from?? Honey and chamomile flowers boiled and left to sit in a dark cool place for a week ?

I imagine from the way she's positioned, she was from a different clan and took part in a sacrificial ritual where she was force fed turtles on the half shell while seated back against the wall of her soon to be grave. When she slumped over they buried her as was and maybe the harvest will turn out this year.

Great video again. Hmmm I wonder what other creatures have human legs eagle wings ox tails and a big cats head.🤐 I come from the worlds oldest living culture if I can speculate on the grave, people with unique deformities are often viewed as being powerful in our culture, large cysts for example are viewed as items of power that come from the spirit world a man born with an extra finger will have magic inside of it etc. With the items in the grave it seems like they were gifting her with specific "powers" in place of her human limbs and if she walked with a limp as you said they may have left the foot for her to walk with in the afterlife (the question of if the foot was given up voluntarily or not is a big one) perhaps in death they have tried to give her the mobility what she hadn't had in life which might be why they have put turtles under her hip to heal the spirit in it's hip region. Later cultures from that region believed fairly heavily in taking things with you when you die and carrying over your physical form so maybe that's a theme we were unaware of that has been around for some time. Possibly the beginnings of what would become the cults of the pharaohs?

@ChristopherJones_terptime_

Ай бұрын

A very plausible hypothesis

Thank you for not saying "It must be aliens".

The rise of the priest in human pre-history is a very interesting subject. Normally the competition among clan members was physical. Physical less fit but clever persons started to find another route to power and respect. Being the intermediate between man and the gods.

Typically, a tortoise shell has 13 plates. American Indian cultures have a saying about time, that it is "thirteen moons on turtle's back," so that turtles are often used, symbolically, to mark the passage of years. Consider the possibility that the tortoise shells are a significant number--potentially, the number of years old this woman was. Shaman drew their "magic" from being able to control any of the five elements--water, fire, air, earth, and time (sometimes called "ether"). Perhaps this woman was particularly gifted with telling time or with predicting what would be available in certain places at certain times. Learning to gauge the passage of time, even in places where the sun's length does not change as drastically as it does closer to the poles, would have been a valuable skill in itself.

I want to paint a possible scenario here. If it contradicts known knowledge, please tell me. Stone age people had places where clans from hundreds of kilometers distance came to on certain occasions for a couple of purposes. A wedding market, religious rituals, whatever. The Natufians built stone markers on those meeting places but seemingly did not live at those places constantly. Or only a small shaman elite, while the rest of the clans went back to their seasonal living places elsewhere. Typically each clan has a totem animal for identification and properties that were important to them. Thus the animal carvings on the stones at the meeting points. Now to the burial of that shaman. The body parts of so many animals could be a sign that she was appreciated by many clans as important person. Maybe a chief of the chiefs, an early sign for a political/religious order, early sign of a modern society beyond a single clan. In early historical times a political leader often was also a religious leader. Pharaos in egypt are supposed to connected to the gods by family bonds... Even roman emperors got worshipped as gods, shamans . In the Natufian case it might be that religious leaders grew into the role of political leaders with growing population, we might never know the order of things for them. There might also be a shift from animistic/shamanistic believes where everything in the world is spirited to a late shamanistic/modern believe in gods with certain powers so as weather, fertility, etc. When shamans who are in the center of different clans and their believe systems, they might come up with a different concept that fits all. That would be an interesting topic for some books, to be honest.

Interestingly, Hindu mythology says that the turtle/tortoise is the avatar or manifestation of Vishnu, the protector of their spiritual beliefs. This mythology also says that the Earth is held up by 4 elephants that stand on the back of a turtle. More, many indigenous North American cultures call North America Turtle Island due to it's shape, roughly, from above (how did they know that???). While this site pre-dates the Indo-European migration, as we understand it by about 10,000 years, after all the years I've studied ancient human cultures on channels like Ancient Architects,, it wouldn't surprise me if the Natufian peoples came from much further east and well before this shaman was buried.

The shape of the grave and the position of the woman also resembles a baby in the womb. As if the woman was laid to rest in a manner that in a sense prepared her for rebirth.

@jandrews6254

Ай бұрын

That seems to have been a usual position for burial, as was the red ochre smeared on the deceased being the blood from the birth. Sort of ashes to ashes

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@AncientArchitects

Ай бұрын

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I find the severed foot to be interestingly strange.

Another fascinating video. Thanks. One assumption you make I disagree with. 50 Tortoise' are simply too many to be wild caught I would think it more likely kept breeding pairs or at least "Ranched" them similar to salmon ranching. at the verry least they probably protected the nests from predators. I can almost hear a grandmother amazing her grandchildren by telling them that the tribe had had the same (breeder/s ?) for four generations, no wander they where linked with immortality.

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Amazing discovery.

14:24 note the position of the legs of the figure, very suggestive of the strange way the legs of this woman were bent

Even eaten animals being buried is a sign of respect for the food animals as well.

This is 500 times longer ago than the 90's

Turtles are lucky in Buddhist & Taoist culture.... a well carved turtle netsuke is crucial for any netsuke collector

The various objects were probably used for divining.

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Some Little Greek Islands still have primary shallow (near surface) burials in wide stone pits or boxes. They come back a few years later for the bones and put them in niches or crypts. Given enough time, the cities of the dead will outnumber the living. It is only in recent times that any city could grow without a massive infux from migration, by their own population. They used to kinda just expire like too many mice in a small cage.

Great video about a great find. There is a thing about the archeologists who interpret this sites ... not about you, you never occured to me as biased, you just tell what the scientsts write in their papers: What if it would have been a male ... of course then there would be speculation about the chief, the leader, the king. The eagle and the great cat - signs of might.

Few know (but now you do) that the natufians were preceded by the Flufians, a pre-megalithic advanced society. The latest thinking is that the Flufians were responsible for the “magic whistles” still strewn about the Scottish highlands. The whistles very accurately mimicked the call of the now extinct Highland Flyfisher, feathers of which have been found in many henges and passage tombs.

"Just like the Flintstones" They were real. Lol. Heard that on a archaeology video years ago. It was a young man quietly talking to his professor while on an important dig. He was in awe of what they were finding. Indoor plumbing... before 10,000 years ago. They have known for a long time. But equipment is better now for dating

Did the shaman really have that unblemished appearance, no decay?

I must say, I've never looked at a tortoise or turtle, and thought, I bet there's good eating on that! 🙀 I suppose they were easy to catch!

@oo2free

Ай бұрын

Florida "natives" of all ethnicities consider them a delicacy. That's why they are a protected species. Also, the fact that the borrows the dig caused many cattle to suffer broken legs, leading to said cattle being put down.