Such a shame they didn't make more of these shows. Xanthe did some serious travelling for information. I've been looking up the 3 ladies in the past few days, Sue is now a Baroness and president at St John's College Oxford University. Xanthe now lives in Australia and does some TV shows there including Coast, and Caroline is now a professor at Liverpool John Moore's university. All amazing women who should inspire others out there. I'd love to see them on TV more showing their knowledge.

@joannagodfrey5111

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree, we need more intelligent programmes on TV and less "Keeping up with the Kardashians"

@meridien52681

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, I really enjoyed that show and could watch many more of it!

@kathrynwitte3398

4 ай бұрын

Sue especially resented the popularity and notoriety that the series brought her, though the spotlight certainly highlighted her work to bring the peerage, new funding and opportunities that would have never happened without it.

@tifu3274

3 ай бұрын

Exactly, these cases were all fascinating, both in the UK and US. They could have taken these programmes further, not sure why they stopped. They could have gone to other countries or kept going in the UK, it's a shame.

@alisong2328

Ай бұрын

Xanthe is an associate professor at the University of Newcastle in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

I could watch these 3 smart ladies again and again at home here in Kenya 🇰🇪 . It's sooo refreshing being in the company of knowledgeable people.... It trickles down.

It's a shame that you don't make anymore videos. I love watching these 3 ladies investigate what happened to ancient people. 🥰👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

Thanks so much for posting. Cant get enough of this show !!!

Just found this program and I'm hooked with this team! The results always catch me in the feels. More, please ❣️

@rutharmstrong1081

Жыл бұрын

I agree so addicted to these women

@marielawrence-settle6476

Ай бұрын

I’m hooked too!!

I think it's amazing what they can tell us from old bones!! It's fascinating what stories they tell

What a beautiful site. A bit too claustrofobic for me to enjoy an exploration, but still so incredibly cool. It's actually quite amazing that they found such a well-disguised, narrow opening. This is one of my favorite shows. These anthropologists are truly inspiring.

This show is SO fascinating!!! Love it!

I was just listening to the TV while making lunch then sat down to watch the rest… brought tears to my eyes. Oh my goodness, history keeps telling us how cruel mankind can be

@Cassxowary

Жыл бұрын

what do you mean history? nonhuman animal products, hunting and fishing, breeders, war, deforestation, pollution, bigotry, crimes regarding those, fossil fuels, etc, extinction of tens of entire species every year, planetary annihilation, and even worse, still exist, AND people refuse to take responsibility for their actions and blame the causes of these on others while continuing to make it worse and play the victims. What do you call that?

@Cassxowary

Жыл бұрын

And if you call others cruel, make sure you're not it too first. Are you vegan?

@blahblah-ov5ev

Жыл бұрын

@@Cassxowary being vegan doesn’t magically stop you from being guilty of the awful things in the world. Get off your high horse

@janicehill-es1br

2 ай бұрын

Thank goodness these rituals were only in history and not a part of intelligent people today, only demons, weirdos and monsters!😂

I’m now in love with this channel. Fascinating!!!! Thank you. I would like to request that the music be turned down a bit. I listen to this loudly while working and the music is too overwhelming at times. Other than that, I’m tickled. 🥰

Wish there were more episodes

52:49 strikes me as reminiscent of the famous Sherlock Holmes line, "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

Wishing I had parental support to study and work in this fascinating area of life. Watching these programs and autopsy shows is all I can do now. Just love this

@yvonneemmert904

Жыл бұрын

Maybe you could go on archeology digs just for fun sometime . . .there's always hope . . .

@deethom5902

Жыл бұрын

@@yvonneemmert904 very few in my country and the ones that are don't involve any human remains or anything like that

@yvonneemmert904

Жыл бұрын

@@deethom5902 how would you really feel if you dug up bones and an ancient skull 💀? I would just want dig up household items or coins . . .

@deethom5902

Жыл бұрын

@@yvonneemmert904 I would feel fine digging up ancient bones of humans I see NO ISSUES We would learn so much

@EnyalienMini

2 ай бұрын

I don't know what country you are in, but once you are of college age, do what speaks to you - if that's forensics or archeology, sign your own paperwork for uni and do it. I had the same issue as a teen, am in my 50' s now, and have a lifetime of doing what others told me I was supposed to, and that everything I wanted was wrong in on way or another... And I now have a lifetime of regrets.

Xanthe made me smile when she was ritually sacrificed - what a brilliant team

@nillyk5671

Жыл бұрын

" hold that thought" that made me laugh.

@alisong2328

Ай бұрын

Miranda did seem a bit bloodthirsty! 🩸

39:35 The fact that their legs where probably broken before hand shows it probably wasn't something they volunteered for. Fascinating never the less.

It is amazing that the bones were even found...wow

@rainbowcarebear4530

4 жыл бұрын

just how many more are unfound??😟

Fabulous programs. I think I have seen them all now more is the pity!

So exciting to watch your group perform such amazing work❣️ I’m addicted❣️

Wish there was more episodes!!

Thank you for posting! Very interesting 👌

Fascinating and brilliant researchers.

Top notch!!!

Lv these programs thank you

Did the adolescent skulls have undescended wisdom teeth? They have found that even bones that are thousands of years old can contain dentin with usable dna in the pulp. They have used this dna to develop a complete dna profile.

@michaellarson938

3 жыл бұрын

yes , I agree that they seem to miss a lot.

@briezzy365

3 жыл бұрын

They said the older male was the only skull, I presume they didn’t find any teeth from them, either.

@lovingmayberry307

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaellarson938 They didn't "miss" it, there were no skulls found for the 2 adolescents.

@NuLiForm

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly....actually, even Millions of years old.

Shown on the BBC = 0 ads Shown here = more ads than you can count! Say hello to my ad blocker.

@CelestialCookies

3 жыл бұрын

Please, what adblocker are you using? Mine doesn't work on youtube videos

@Digitalhunny

3 жыл бұрын

@@CelestialCookies - Try 'AD Stopper Plus', on Chrome browser & Firefox.

@heenanyou

3 жыл бұрын

@@CelestialCookies There is a special one for KZread.

Indeed it is a very serious, professional and amazing team. I am very glad to have found this channel. Much to learn!...aaaand, they are women!!!! 🥳🥳

The scientist in me wonders why they didnt document the bones highest to lowest. In regards to how they were piled in the pit. Make sense to anyone?

@heenanyou

3 жыл бұрын

I think they were amateurs and didn't think of that.

@caljaysoc

2 жыл бұрын

And the 1950s

@Lianel402

2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting point.

This is chilling...

sacrificing criminals solves two problems at once.

Xanthe is currently an associate professor at the University of Newcastle in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

As soon as this episode started, I was hearing Francis Pryor saying "It's ritual Tony!"

@aimeebrass5266

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, he sounds an aweful lot like Francis Pryor

@andreaeray

3 жыл бұрын

😆

is anyone else having to watch this during class?

@pup1008

4 ай бұрын

Learning is a wonderful thing - a key to unlock riches, happiness & adventure. The problem is it took me until I left school to realise that!

I can imagine people back then thought the hot air coming from the cave mouth was hot breath.

At about 25:14 there is a landscape shot... the distant hill looks like it might have a burial mound on top?

@Curi0u50ne

5 жыл бұрын

Deborrah Cuttriss Sherman looks more like a “giant petrified mudfossil” main stream scientist won’t touch it I’m afraid.

Are there MORE EPISODES. or just these half dozen..SO INTERESTING!!

@aimeebrass5266

3 жыл бұрын

There are a few American versions. Only Xanthe, from the original team, is in that version.

@abigailsharon32

3 жыл бұрын

@@aimeebrass5266 What's the show called? :)

@aimeebrass5266

3 жыл бұрын

@@abigailsharon32 I tried to find it again . Was unsuccessful. Unless KZread removed it.... It would be under a different name

@abigailsharon32

3 жыл бұрын

@@aimeebrass5266 Ah mann :/ Thanks anyways! :)

Came to these programs late. In Canada. Are you still making them, 2019? I hope so

@rachelcookson3492

4 жыл бұрын

@Cissy Szabo, I’m new to them also and in the process of binge watching the series they have on here. I don’t know the answer to your question, although I do know Sue Black is no longer here or in the position as forensic team leader. She started working at Lancaster University last year. Hope this helped!

@mell682

4 жыл бұрын

Last episode was done on July 21, 2011

"Hold that thought" 😂😂

Slip Gill bone findings should be compared to similar findings of Time Team archealogists, down a very steep tunnel, of infant skulls. Very similar adults in some locales.

@Laura-ug1rr

Жыл бұрын

Love time team

Cutting the muscles so a sacrificial victim can't run away.....hobbling them.

The earth's crust and geography changes over time. Maybe this cave wasn't always a cave. Especially when these were 2000 or so years ago even if it's BC. With the incomplete skeletons how do they know which bones go to which person is what id like to know.

I'll be surprised if they get a conviction.

@kearl3490

5 жыл бұрын

It was Hillary... After the first 45 bodies they don't ask anymore

@kathrynwitte3398

5 жыл бұрын

K Earl and Americans wonder why civilized people think they’re idiots. You advertise.

He looks a little caveman like. I like him and I love this program!

I think the scrapes are from the fall. And by chance these people fell down the hole!

In more recent years, the favored place to obtain sample for DNA are teeth pulp chambers. It would be great if the genetic analyses are attempted again. Maybe it has been done? Time to Google, I guess.

@CelestialCookies

3 жыл бұрын

Have you found any news about it?

all female cold case team

@LuisaD93

3 жыл бұрын

Your point being?

@missymorgan7620

3 жыл бұрын

And, your point is?

@sophiejameson4064

3 жыл бұрын

Great, isn't it?

@cortneyhavens

3 жыл бұрын

@@LuisaD93 where are the men is his point

As modern ghouls get their buzz from individual's horrible death, I couldn't help seeing them as same people 2,000 years ago were the perpetrators.

Love this show. If the bones were found in the 50s why are they in a tent.

@RhosynGwyn

2 жыл бұрын

The bones were stored in a cupboard until the team examined them in a tent

These episodes were from 2010-2011. I wonder what similar investigations would find today, some 14 years later.

I love Xanthe's hair color. I think she would look cute with pale pink hair or pale blue hair.💜👍

@naui_diver9290

3 жыл бұрын

Thats what you took from this? Wow

angus is smol

Did anyone else think of Sean Bean when the face was revealed?

There might of been more bone fragments in the cave if they had look?

Fascinating...but...why put up a mobile lab in the snow, when these bones were dug up in the 50´s? Btw, I like the purple gloves, they are among my favourite brands of nitrile. The skull gloves are fabulous, though.

@erinp.420

5 жыл бұрын

Paavo Bergmann Makes a good photo opp.

@beth7935

4 жыл бұрын

@@erinp.420 Exactly what I was thinking! ;) Ridiculous, but pretty.

Here's another possibility... This could have been a "ruling family" (king/queen, etc) in one of the communities who fell out of favor, for reasons ranging from the legitimate (such as tyranny or corruption) to natural (bad farming season, drought, etc) to supernatural (seeming bad luck or curse for community)... who were then simply "removed, root and stem", so to speak. This would make sense, especially if the two adolescents were their children and heirs, who were perhaps set to inherit the leadership role, or throne in the community. If the community could not "vote" our a bad ruler, or if a village were taken over, then the ruling family would be disposed of, in a manner such as this. And the removal of the crown area on the adult male might signify a literal and spiritual removal, in death, of the, often, divinely given crown he wore, in life, as leader or king or ruler of his village.

@yvonneemmert904

Жыл бұрын

Truly an interesting hypothesis!!! But I always thought that royalty ruled by divine right . . .doesn't sound like their enemies left any hesitation marks on the bones . . .they would have had to coalesce a lot of power to take action with their community members . . .

Love the fact that she worked at a butcher hehe

He was a rather handsome looking guy for the age that he lived in. Such a shame. 😢

So if it was ritual sacrifice, is it more or less likely that they were related to each other?

Did anyone else think the guy in the front at the great reveal looked lot like the victim???

You could not pay me enough to go into that cave!

It amazes me that people who are getting something for free complain about there being too many ads. If you want to watch these ad free stop moaning and buy the DVD's otherwise shut up.

@karenannskreation2022

5 жыл бұрын

Or pay the money for ad free membership

@Capkirk

5 жыл бұрын

Or watch on google chrome! I haven’t had any ads! And if I had I’d have gotten Over it because it’s FREE. smh

@joannagodfrey5111

5 жыл бұрын

@@Capkirk neither have I, some folk just like to bitch for the sake of it

@CurtisD01

4 жыл бұрын

just get ad block lol

@SuzanneU

4 жыл бұрын

What ads? There was one at the beginning, which I skipped at 5 seconds. There wasn't a single ad after that. Long ago, I went into Manage My Ads and unchecked every box. It took a little time and was deeply satisfying!

Where's Fiona?

@Tiger89Lilly

3 жыл бұрын

Who is fiona?

Never forget just how much of this narrative is conjecture and the product of the archeologist's imagination.

you know I havn't heard of anyone breaking legs before the sacrifice. more likely the breaks probably occured on the way down the hole.

If they were bound and thrown down the entrance of the pit then tumbling down the shaft striking the sides on the way, they would have trama on the ankels , knees and heads just as these do as well as strike gashes on the bones (the three scratches) and any other markes.

I just keep thinking maybe if it were cold and the people felt the warm air emitting from the fissure that they may wanted to explore a place for shelter…just a very uneducated hunch.

44:00 : Why not an alimental or ritual cannibalism?.

I'm wondering if some of these human sacrifices were to ask the gods help in getting rid of the Romans

too much ads in between! You shouldn't be soo greedy!

@sainttrinian4570

5 жыл бұрын

I'm watching this on my telly via Chromecast and it gets rid of the ads.

@higgins382

5 жыл бұрын

@Jade Ravenwolf I have AdBlock, and I never see adverts on KZread.

@sueszooinmizzousueszooinmi2613

5 жыл бұрын

I've made the same complaint only to be told that the less a vid is watched, the more commercials YOU TUBE sticks on it. So you are complaining at the wrong place, contact YOU TUBE instead, it might help but who knows?

@erinp.420

5 жыл бұрын

How bout you freaking pay for premium service which is like 10 bucks a month. Greedy indeed!

@SuzanneU

4 жыл бұрын

I went into Manage My Ads and unchecked all the boxes. Now I only ever get an ad at the beginning and I hit Skip at 5 seconds.

They repeat all the time that they want real explanation not the sensation but the team do not consider any other explanation then ritual sacrifice... what about punishment for breaking the rules or power change, like during revolution ...

PUMPKIN

@chonkemanz6915

2 жыл бұрын

yes

@averageghoul5310

2 жыл бұрын

its true

More advertisements than commercial television, what a shame to wreck an interesting show.

@andrewjackson2011

5 жыл бұрын

It's BBC so it's just to make u forget about there pedo years. That never stopped up run by pedos.

@MrDeadhead1952

5 жыл бұрын

@@andrewjackson2011 Moron troll

@XtoriezNovel

5 жыл бұрын

I found that if you hit Page Back then Page Forward back to the video, the ads disappear.

@kathrynwitte3398

5 жыл бұрын

Buy the video or get used to the ads; your choice.

@SuzanneU

4 жыл бұрын

I went into Manage My Ads and unchecked all the boxes. I only ever get an ad at the very beginning and I hit Skip at 5 seconds. That's it.

OK, a body shows that it lived a privileged life and was then murdered. This doesn't have to mean he was sacrificed to appease some time of great crisis. The people may have just had enough of his shit and rid themselves of him.

LOTS OF ADS!

@SuzanneU

4 жыл бұрын

KnoxTN Yankee : I didn't get any. There was one at the very beginning and I hit Skip at 5 seconds. Long ago, I went into Manage My Ads and unchecked every box. No ads ever since!

He should drop light sticks down the cave first

Scary? No, interesting? Yes.

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I'm sorry...but windypits made me laugh throughout the entire show.

WHY did you all use a photo of a Native Americans to depict scalping? Native Americans were taught that practice from the French.

Why isnt she wearing gloves when she is cutting raw meat??

Windy Pits ? Wasn't that a Monty Python skit ?

✖️✖️✖️✖️✖️✖️✖️✖️✖️✖️✖️✖️✖️

Narrator: "...they will investigate the puzzling remains of more than twenty people discovered here in underground caves." As opposed to...caves in the sky? Let's see here. [Cave - definition: "a large underground chamber".

And it could have been the work of a local, serial killer who knew of permanent hiding places for his work. Just as plausible as the guesswork theories presented here. And only finding marks on the skull fragment five minutes before you are about to present your findings to the local community that you are supposed to have been studying for weeks / months is embarrassing.

10 commercials for one show!?! To many!

@donm8317

5 жыл бұрын

Adblock+ for youtube, simple and free.

@sueszooinmizzousueszooinmi2613

5 жыл бұрын

@@donm8317 Thanks for the info. Been looking for an ad blocker as has been suggested but you are the first to suggest one without being rude, for that I thank you!

@erinp.420

5 жыл бұрын

Pay for your shiiiiiiiit

These commercials 🙄

@erinp.420

5 жыл бұрын

Regina Z. What commercials?! Oh yeah that’s right I pay for my shit so I don’t get any ads. Pay for the shit and then bitch about it.

Xanthe looks nice as a blonde, but is interesting as a brunette.

Camera work on this programme is terrible ! It’s unwatchable for me I’m afraid. Ridiculous

Lousy number of advertising. Really annoying. Not worth watching when it gets this bad.

When Jesus Christ good news came to Europe. ..the horrific human sacrifice ended....in European countries

@erinp.420

5 жыл бұрын

Good new came to Europe lmao

@barbaralindhjem2488

4 жыл бұрын

And the burning time? So many people tortured to death in the name of christ

@ktktktktktkt

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure what history books you read that in Lisa, but its different to what the British ones say 😬😅🤣

This is more advert than documentary. Unwatchable

@erinp.420

5 жыл бұрын

Paaaaaaaay foooooooooor iiiiiittttt!

@Lolibeth

5 жыл бұрын

So go buy the DVDs then

Cold cases indeed! Cheap sensationalism

Let me guess... The "team" will get personally involved in the case, and each will have their scene, showing great emotion, as if the point of the show is THEM, and not the dead people. The redhead will always speak very seriously with head tilted, and the brunette will almost cry in each episode. The narrator will try to be as creepy as possible. Every time.

@tyranitorn8632

2 жыл бұрын

shut up