Hi Everyone, thanks for watching and please.. hit the subscribe button, I'm current in Iberia exploring and filming Neolithic sites and will be bring them to this change soon.. so don't miss out. best xJ

What a beautiful piece of art. I can only prize the photography as well as the research made into an exquisite audiovisual narrative. Thank you. Looking forward to watch more of your work.

@julesdingle

2 жыл бұрын

very glad you enjoyed it...certainly more videos in the pipeline..currently hunkered down in a very wet and windy December, and thank you.

👋🇨🇦 I ❤ ❤ ❤ your brilliant drone videography, comprehensive historic timeline research, and your interestingly informative narrative 😍🌟🥰 Thank You, Very Much, From Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada. 🇨🇦 🦌🍁

@julesdingle

4 ай бұрын

thank you

@TheJoan48

2 ай бұрын

@@julesdingle The music is also somehow familiar.

I want to learn as much as possible about the history of Ireland because it's in my DNA. Have you heard people say they're fascinated on a gut level by the ancient stones? I sure am.

Super footage - well done.

I can't remember when I last heard such intelligent commentary.

This was very informative and produced well. I believe that we have been farming and raising livestock for much longer than 12 000 years.

a most coherent exposition

good document

Wow - beautifully made and fullsome

@rachelhenderson2688

7 ай бұрын

I fell in love with Orkney the first time I went there! I'm not able to go there any more, but I can watch programmes like this, what a treat!

Your research of history is amazing

Stunning and fascinating.

@julesdingle

Жыл бұрын

thanks.. I'm off to Brittany and Spain this winter so will have more on these incredible ancient builders.

Thank you for not using AI to narrate. I really enjoy these kind of videos and especially this period of time in this region (UK & Northern Europe in general) so thanks for sharing your knowledge!

@julesdingle

9 ай бұрын

I'm very glad you enjoyed the video, and yes it would be tempting to use a bot to narrate as its a skill I sometimes struggle with.. especially keeping it understandable and not mumbled!

@carolfranklin758

4 ай бұрын

So glad you didn’t use a bot. They mispronounce names have a strange unsatisfactory cadence and are generally without affect. Ugh! But this was a fine film with wonderful drone shots and good script!

@Andy_Babb

4 ай бұрын

@@julesdingle please keep up the great work my friend. Great video!!

Very informative and interesting

Can't wait for the next episode!

Some dolmens are almost exactly to one I saw in Vasque Country (Spain). Is the first time I see them in other place. Thank you for this great document!

@julesdingle

Жыл бұрын

Hi, I actually got to Spain this winter and have some videos on the way, and yes it's all fascinating ..haven't quite worked it all out but a video will emerge this year.

We will be visiting Orkney in June 2024, and we learned a lot from your excellent video! It always helps to study a place before one visits it. The drone clips were superb! I plan to have my drone along and hope I can create something as fascinating (weather permitting)!

@julesdingle

4 ай бұрын

Orkney is very much weather permitting! I hope you will a lovely time either way

@julesdingle

4 ай бұрын

Check out my other video on Orkney. Dragon’s Lair it’s about war time Scapa flow

@anthonyodonnell6105

3 ай бұрын

We're planning to be there for the solstice this year (2024). We live in Vancouver, Washington. My parents are from the West of Scotland.

@julesdingle

3 ай бұрын

@@anthonyodonnell6105 you will simply love it. The Stone circles are free to access, it is all very chilled out, the curlew and snipes have a very strange call before dawn. And it is early enough the wee midges are not around to bite. If you visit Scara village after 6pm then the staff are gone and there is a gate by the beach allowing you to explore the site alone.

@anthonyodonnell6105

3 ай бұрын

@@julesdingle Ah, the midges! We're really looking forward to going. Among other things, I want my sons to experience the long days and gloaming.

As good as any other history and archaeological KZread channel I’ve seen lately. The drone shots and atmospheric tone really work well when it works. The information could be “punchier” but that might ruin it also

@julesdingle

2 жыл бұрын

I am working on delivery! so perhaps punchier in the future.

what a great video

@julesdingle

6 ай бұрын

hey, thanks glad you enjoyed it

@robertthomas7176

6 ай бұрын

@@julesdingle I will share your channel with my friends! Excellent content. My wife is reading a book centered in the Orkneys right now. So last night we decided to find some videos that shed some light on the place and yours popped up. We both thought that referring to a stone circle as a fertility app was both funny and thought provoking at the same time. Having always though of those places as centers for solemn ceremony it was actually nice to think that maybe it was, at least some of the time, a place to party and connect. Like going to a rock concert as a younger adult it makes their life experience more relatable to what we live now. And your narration, your voice, is top shelf. Sending wishes from Nova Scotia in this merriest of seasons across the pond, .

Thank you.

@julesdingle

2 жыл бұрын

thank you, it makes the late nights of editing worth it

A good video with lots of relevant information.. many dubious assumptions too, though.

@julesdingle

2 жыл бұрын

I'm always interested in different opinions.. which assumptions do think are dubious? thanks.

It took many generations for the farmers to reach Orkney after them leaving the Eastern Mediterranean and they would be interbreeding with the local hunter-gatherers along the way. DNA studies for the whole of europe have shown that the Neolithic Farmer DNA decreases as the distance from their original homeland increases. In Europe, Scotland has some of the lowerst proportions of Neolithic Farmer DNA.

@julesdingle

2 жыл бұрын

There is a tiny amount of Mesolithic DNA across the population and so far there appears to be little evidence of inter breeding [although some would have happened] .. and only a small amount of Neolithic DNA as sometime around 2000-1000 BC the Bronze Age N.European DNA dominates. One thing I noticed was despite Vikings colonising the Orkneys there is not much blond DNA.. the locals tend to be shorter, with dark features and hair.. Bronze Age culture had less of an impact on the Orkneys and the N Scotland so perhaps more ancient farmer DNA survives. What is curious is the Bronze Age monuments like the Stone Henge we see today came much later after the first stone circles in Orkney and Harris.. and the Beaker people learnt from them.

more ancient stuff please!

@julesdingle

2 жыл бұрын

no problem.. there will be more over the summer as the weather improves.

The idea of the culture of Orkney being an immigration from the Mediterranean through the sea hasn’t really occurred to me until now. The people in Scotland up to then had been immigrants from Africa post ice age and were Hunter gatherers. Orkney Neolithic archeology has more in common with Greece, Italy, France than it does than it does those people. Is there a date for the first immigrants to arrive in Orkney from the Mediterranean?

@julesdingle

2 жыл бұрын

They travelled up within 2 or 3 generations of the first migrants from Brittany.. so they would have been 'British' for several generations. One thing I noticed is that despite Norse colonisation the Orkadians frequently have dark hair, strong eyebrows, tend to be shorter [and a little rounder] so perhaps their DNA carries traits of the first farmers. The first Britons came form Europe that had been inhabited for 20- 40,000 years.. so it was dark skinned Europeans who followed the retreating ice sheets 12,000 years ago.. with some living in the shadow the glaciers in Doggerland.. now the flooded North Sea

@somerfeeild

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry only just realised you replied to this! My impression was that early post ice age hunter gathering people had lived in Scotland initially, crossing on doggy land, and then “sea people” who could farm had migrated from France, Spain etc. after them and colonised the islands and coasts and eventually the mainland. Maybe outcompeting as they could farm and had a wide trade network across Europe. The only people that could live on orkney would have been very god at sea travel I’d imagine.

@somerfeeild

2 жыл бұрын

Ah I get you now. So it was a reasonably quick immigration up to Orkney from France. Imagine how an exciting time would of been. Pioneers immigrating to a new land that had never been farmed

@somerfeeild

2 жыл бұрын

Exciting is maybe the wrong term 🥲

I understand that following the introduction of farming there appears to be evidence of starvation and an absence of fish eating.This appears also on the mainland/costal settelments despite there being vast resources. I wonder if their law was absolute ?

@julesdingle

10 күн бұрын

is there an article or study on the subject? it does sound intriguing

@David-mo5jw

10 күн бұрын

I couldn’t say specifically but I know it’s a thing having read of burials found next to the sea severely malnourished.I’ve had Consequently discussions with archaeologists who confirmed that there did appear to have been a prohibition about eating fish .Something to keep an eye out for and you will find it

@julesdingle

10 күн бұрын

@@David-mo5jw will do- a problem with Orkney is the extreme timescale farmers were resident .. with overlaps with Bronze Age burials and changing climate that disrupted the first neolithic farmers

Very interesting video. But perhaps more care about enunciation in the narration would be useful.

@julesdingle

Жыл бұрын

yes, an ongoing learning curve.. as a one person 'studio' and only doing voice overs in the last few years every video I hope is an improvement

Opening screen looks like the US State of Florida and Key West bridges, sort of!

@julesdingle

Жыл бұрын

yes it does look like a space picture although only 100 metres!

The introductory music is piercing! I hope it doesn’t go throughout!

@julesdingle

Жыл бұрын

Hi, selecting music is personal, and being a KZreadr I'm reliant on copyright free music, and choice is always problematic..not everyone is going to appreciate my choices. as the years go by I have started to hold back on the volume. I will try and be more nuanced in the future. Thanks for the feed back

This doc references the possibility that the stone circles are tied to fertility. (around the 28th minute mark) This seem an obvious theory to me and I can't help feeling we have avoided it due to good clean Christian scholarship. I have read about, and spent hours in stone circles in Ireland. I have contemplated their purpose as do all who learn of their existence. It has occurred to me many times that they could well be places for ritual intercourse. This might be in groups or couples.

@julesdingle

Жыл бұрын

Hi, I came to my conclusions based on growing up in farming and farmers being particularly concerned about fertility and when prize animals come on heat. Neolithic Britons were primarily farmers so breeding and fertility are a no brainer. BUT.. on this issue we can all have our own theories!

@lamontcranston3177

Жыл бұрын

@@julesdingle I thought of the possibility of sexual activity in the circles when I was at Lough Gur in Co. Limerick. Right next to the big stone circle is another small circle. You get the impression that the smaller circle is for something private. Who knows though. It could be for livestock.

Largely confusing...

We can never learn anything about their beliefs. There are no sources whatever for that.

@julesdingle

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it is a hole in academia yet many insist they know better [including a top Orkney archeologist who is very certain]. As I point out anything speculative is purely my opinion.. ancient history is our collective history and with some learning I think its right people do have opinions to help make the past a little more accessible and interesting.

@naradaian

Жыл бұрын

Most Jungians would know you are being literal but not wise

@danhanqvist4237

Жыл бұрын

@@julesdingle Speculation can certainly be interesting, but if it's not testable it doesn't really provide knowledge. Accessibility is good, but should not be accessibility to fiction. What we can't know we don't know.

@danhanqvist4237

Жыл бұрын

@@naradaian I can't really se how Jung is relevant to anything.

@julesdingle

Жыл бұрын

I have a video coming out soon on my visit to the Portuguese stone circles and ancient neolithic culture yet there is so little information.. I will set out more clearly my speculation ..story telling if you like from the facts. And it gives me a chance to explore an important topic and give my case for dreaming [in moderation]

Interesting. Not very Orkney relevant though.

@julesdingle

10 ай бұрын

sorry, I hate to disappoint .. but I do cover the main sites, as important Orkney was in neolithic times the number of actual sites to visited is limited to the two stone circles, the tombs and the village of Scara Brae and that pretty well is it. You can do a through visit over a weekend.

You have not heard of vitamin D. I think some of this is a load of bull

@julesdingle

Жыл бұрын

??? do explain...vitamin D?.. and yes as I clearly state some of the views are personal, and to make it more interesting than reading the wikipedia entry for ancient locations.