I love listening to someone whose passion for history can be heard in their voice. I could listen to these for hours and in fact do so. They are great for me to listen to while packing boxes at work.

I could watch Dr. Roberts all day.

@roydavis5613

4 ай бұрын

@palanthis Me too !! 😍

@abQUINTON1

2 ай бұрын

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

@admiralbenbow5083

2 ай бұрын

Thats known as stalking.

@GhastlyCretin85

2 ай бұрын

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

@admiralbenbow5083

2 ай бұрын

@@GhastlyCretin85 All you need to do is change your user name.

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

@thekeeler846

5 ай бұрын

❤

@lawnmower4884

2 ай бұрын

I feel you, take care. 🕊

I enjoyed years with Tony Robinson and Time Team but you Alice have stolen my heart for the foreseeable future!

@philgallagher1

13 күн бұрын

Do you know Tony's back on the Time Team KZread channel? So now we've got both to enjoy! (But I must agree, Alice has a small piece of my heart!)

We would really benefit as a species if more of our educators were as excited, dynamic, curious and interesting as Prof Roberts. Eminently watchable, again and again.

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

Fascinating. Can listen to this all day long.

Wow... you make history exciting and beautiful 😅

Awesome! Philomena Cunk couldn't have done it better

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

@matimus100

5 ай бұрын

Only for you

@thomasbell7033

Ай бұрын

​@@matimus100Another sculking, lurking, angry db with the vocabulary of a pubic louse. You should be pitied, but not by me.

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

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

@BlaBla-pf8mf

5 ай бұрын

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

@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602

5 ай бұрын

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

@anthonyproffitt5341

5 ай бұрын

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

On my mom's side, my ancestors came from Banffshire and Perthshire, Scotland with a little from Armauge County, Ireland. According to my computer, the Scottish men were also in Ireland. My family's last names are Thain, Cochran, and Dick. My several times Great, Grandpa Major General Sir Robert Henry Dick was killed in Punjab, India in the first Sikh war. I have been working on my family history for several years,[ I am 86 now as of January 3rd, 2023], and because my health is good have years to go! On my Dad's side, we are from Novastifta, Slovenia. What a combination!👵🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ me, Teo, andTwoTwo my kitties

@anthonyproffitt5341

5 ай бұрын

Quite interesting, young sir. Hope you have many more years of happiness. I’m 47 and most of my family from Scotland lives well into their 90s. My father’s side, paternal ancestors come from Perthshire, and Dumbarton back in the1600s. My mother is Predominantly Native American with Mediterranean admixture.

Just a suggestion to the makers of these documentaries....why not investigate Loughton Camp in Epping Forest, Essex? A dig was done there over 100 years ago and finds were apparently made dating back to Mesolithic times. It's an eerie place with a bit of superstition attached to it (the pond next to it is sometimes known as the Suicide Pool!). The earthworks are much worn away so the site possibly pre-dates the Iron Age.

@stephanieyee9784

5 ай бұрын

I'd definitely watch that.

@TracyD2

2 ай бұрын

I’m going to look that up and see if I can find more information

@sirdudleynightshade8747

2 ай бұрын

@TracyD2 There's very little that I could find, but what has recently intrigued me is that the oldest man-made weapon ever found was discovered at Clacton which is not so very far away. I sometimes wonder if this little piece of Essex could be England's oldest area of settlement.

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

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

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

@vox95831

2 ай бұрын

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

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

I still consider The Incredible Human Journey to be the greatest documentary of all time. Even though I know that the pace of paleoanthropological study meant that it was out of date by the very fact that it needed to be written, filmed, edited, and released. Full disclosure: My wife is a talking head in a lot of space documentaries.

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

@katharinecooke1873

4 ай бұрын

I looked up meadowsweet and immediately had this thought also.

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

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

Great show ❤ I really enjoyed this

Great content, excellently presented. Nice work Doc

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

Fantastic . . Thank you Professor 😁👍👍

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

@aurevoiralex

9 күн бұрын

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

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

Brilliant series!

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

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

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

@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq

11 күн бұрын

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

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

Excellent AAA+

Very interesting doc!👏👏👏👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

I LOVE this so!!!

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

@lindadeal3344

5 ай бұрын

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

16:26 this rock art just can’t be the only one.

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

Diving team is pretty amazing.

One of the greatest discovery of my lifetime is Terra Preta a Ancient man-made soil, consisting mixture of bacteria, charcoal, bones, broken pottery, compost, manure it lasts for thousands of years when researcher discovered Amazonian Terra preta it covered a man-made garden twice the size of Great Britain.

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

Oooh need a track ID for 20:47 - so nice

Awesome....

Good on you both! Time for a warm spot and a pint or two. 😊❤

Brilliant documentary!

Top quality TV.

Looks like a nice block of Solid on the thumbnail 🔥💭

Thank you Dr. Alice for another interesting bit of British history. How did Britons get there accent? 🤔

@davidfiler7439

5 ай бұрын

Britons don't have an accent, you just don't spoke England proper like wot we duz.

@chrisgibson5267

5 ай бұрын

Isolation and invasion. I live in an area where, until recently, each town had an variation of the Northern English accent. It's rhotic, and has it's roots in Anglo-Saxon English, with a sprinkling of Old Norse. The advent of travel and TV has levelled out these accents and they're now almost intelligible to Southrons. The professor here still seems to retain a little of the West Country accent.

@ciarandevaney385

5 ай бұрын

​@chrisgibson5267 what about the British celts?

@davidfiler7439

5 ай бұрын

@@ciarandevaney385They are Celts living in Britain.

@larryzigler6812

4 ай бұрын

From their parents

❤this Digging for Britain

just at the beginning and they're sifting the sea! (just finished reading Harry potter, sounds like something mr z lovegood might try.. 🙂 x )

I'm writing a time travel novel for children and the main characters find themselves in the ice age so this video is fascinating. can learn from this.

@anthonyproffitt5341

5 ай бұрын

Sounds quite interesting. Would love to be able to get it for my niece and soon enough my grandchildren.

Alice Roberts is more talented, beautiful and insightful than she realises.

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

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

LOL the ad hoc “Missile Launch” plastic cover @ 28:55 for which a patent was supposedly applied for! 😂

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

My theory for the abandoned Farm would be as if they got struck with a last big event that broke their neck. Like a fire that killed the kettle and maybe destroyed their crops. That must have been a devastating blow to their lives as they now wouldn’t have enough to go through the winter. Hunger was followed by sickness and it may have took the life of the settlers children. And so, in a last ritual before abandoning the farm, they buried those figurines as a goodbye gift before wandering off into the mist of time…

Great episode yet again and to top it off she is absolutely beautiful!

It's amazing what we don't know, thinking about the cattle sculls in the walls makes me think they were using them as wall ties to stop the walls moving apart and slumping?

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

Was just watching a video on Çakmaktepi, as well as one on Boncuklu Tarla, and both mention cattle skulls built into the walls. Seems like more than a coincidence…

Fascinating as always. What puzzles me is why do presenters walk while they talk? Is this necessary?

9:24 "its still sharp.."

There were Hippo's and crocodile in Britain back then too. Hippo and crocodile were, and are, an Equatorial species. That can only mean one thing. I'll let you guess why.. It's the same reason Siberia was once a warm lush wooded grassland in the not so distant past. Siberia, one of the coldest places on Earth, was warm and lush during the last Ice-age.. only to get colder when that Ice-age ended. ....Gold Star if you can guess why

Love this show. I'm trying to figure out - can anyone identify the region she's originally from based on her accent? Is it Devonshire?

When was this first broadcast?

@jinxterx

5 ай бұрын

August 2010.

Oh, Alice Roberts - A beautiful woman with a beautiful mind. There really is something about her.

End titles MMX, 2010?

Fantastic finds on here. With those finds off the Devon coast, would the sea level be the same as today, or was the coastline somewhere else? Is it the result of a shipwreck?

@donnyskinglongliveme

5 ай бұрын

That's what sprung to my mind too! That these were deposited in what was a river at the time, or a marsh like many bronze age items are.That fella at the museum said there can only be 2 explanations for the items from different times being found there. The first thing i thought he would say is that whoever was trading was not only trading brand new items, but also old stuff. But that didn't occur to that museum man.

@Afro408

5 ай бұрын

@@donnyskinglongliveme Yes. More possibilities than two alright.

It`s a pitty this will all come to an end soon.😞

Triple R, Nice video. Do you know the geology of Raspberry Rock? Is it granite? How old is it? Just asking. Peace ✌️

England has flint and other rocks like quartz, it would be easy enough to make a fire. you could use two flints but that makes sharp shards fly, they might have had iron ore

Awesome video 👍🏻 DUKE

I doubt if the copper and tim were found in the same area. Either one of them was brought or send but not both together on the same ship

@philipr1567

5 ай бұрын

Some mines in Cornwall produced both copper and tin.

That deer scratched into the cave wall was a PRAYER. Please, oh great whoever, please let us have enough deer to help us survive the winter.

@maryanneslater9675

5 ай бұрын

Or a thank you. Some indigenous hunters thanked the animals they killed for helping the hunter's community survive.

40:54 Did she say "homonyms"? Sounds like that through my speakers. That segment was quite interesting and while it's great that the divers have found that site, I suspect actual marine archeologists watching would be sputtering with rage, as it seems there's no recording of finds on any type of grid to try and determine pattern, distribution of objects, etc.

@deborahrussell2507

3 ай бұрын

Hominin - the group consisting of modern humans, extinct human species and all our immediate ancestors (including members of the genera Homo, Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Ardipithecus).

@yensid4294

2 ай бұрын

​@@deborahrussell2507funnily enough hominem/ homonym is a homonym 😊

@yensid4294

2 ай бұрын

Used to say hominid (from homididae) but has been replaced by hominin ( from hominini)

Here's a fact Despite his military achievements, Alexander's reign was relatively short-lived. He died at the age of 32 under mysterious circumstances, sparking various theories about the cause of his death.

Most people think of Norman, Viking or Anglo-Saxon England, about a 1000 years old, or the Roman times, 2000 years old. A million years is a thousand thousands!

I am very interested in stuff like this as I have actually found out that my ancestors are britons

So you build a double skin wall and put compostible material in the cavity......it is warmer, first form of central heating! They love the "ritual" word but prehistoric man purely concentrated on "practicality".

@philroberts7238

2 ай бұрын

And in every other human society we know of, in every time and in every place, this "practicality" has included some kind of interpretation of a supernatural or spirit world. Why would you imagine these people would have been any different? They would have needed all the help they could get and a lot of that would have been furnished from their own imagination. That's why "ritual" in some form or other has always been present in any organised human society, however "primitive". (Or however "advanced", come to that!)

Their a miniature version of the statues of the statues of Christmas islands

Important not to forget that these bones are found there because the coast was so far from there at the time.

I find bits of flint on my land .on the edge of dartmoor

Dad carved the small figure for his daughter. It was her doll.

"Hey Boss! Whattaya want me to do with all these old cattle skulls?" "I dunno. Just toss 'em in the wall so we don't have to look at them any more." "Heh. Someday this is really going to confuse some archaeologist."

If one take a moment to digest the thought, as a human species we r so tiny compare to the endless time of the universe. Yet, if we never make contact to recognizable intelligence, therefore in our reality unique at least in one way. The universe created consciousness that could unravel its own secrets of origin.

Heres a thought... people migrated like birds do. In warm months move north following big game. Easy to do 100 plus miles a week. 20 or 30 miles a day, couple of days camped up. London to rome is about 1000 miles. Thats 2 to 3 months strolling. 3 months out, 3 months back, winter in the warm.

cool

You must admit, it'd be dead interesting if she looked down the beach and saw the top of Nelson's Column sticking outtov the sand!

@kevinroche3334

5 ай бұрын

or the statue of liberty?

@larryzigler6812

4 ай бұрын

Or a giant skunkape

Terrific stuff. Although art (inc rock art I suppose) is less a frivolity more an intelligent response one or more traumatic events. The artist isn't an artist (according to themselves initially) but just a human attempting to process a situation that has happened to them or loved ones, ensuring (at least in the hope of) the avoidance of perpetuating the trauma by behavioural response. A learning process, so next time it happens they have more agency. Anyway my penny's worth for out there in the world. Appreciating a lot of what in the world this program is also putting out there!

If the people of Westray stuck it for 50 generations before the struggle became too great. That takes us back to William the Conqueror and we’d just be throwing in the towel around now. There must have been some good bits to last that long..

I am certain that they are at least 200:000 years out on the rock art..People go back way longer than we are taught

Brilliant and informative, but so difficult to arrive at the correct interpretation of why people did things. It did look as if we honoured people when they had died, which makes today's war monuments more important to us.

There is another image behind the deer, looks like a wolf. I can't paste a screenshot with the outline here.

Carbon dating which you said you used, only works up to 50,000 so how did you date that million years?

pinecone kept in a film canister, goodness me

Any chance that disease killed those cows and they abandoned the “plague “ site?

Janet and Jane have a good sense of humour, "Patent pending missile launch key use only in black special alert". 🙂

Yuo are so goog looking dearest Alice Robert s