What Makes Us Human? - The Dartmoor Podcast Episode Thirty

Who were Dartmoor's earliest inhabitants? And what did they have in common with us?
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  • @tylerjackson3259
    @tylerjackson3259Ай бұрын

    Theres quite a depth to you, and intelligence in the topics you navigate. Such a calm and relaxing channel.

  • @thedartmoorpodcast

    @thedartmoorpodcast

    Ай бұрын

    Thank you very much! Don't tell anyone, but the depth and intelligence is mostly just googling stuff.

  • @guybirks9299
    @guybirks92996 ай бұрын

    Thanks George. I love how your videos always help me consider Dartmoor from a different perspective, while they look so damn great! Your video was a good reminder on the importance of staying connected to our ancestors and their stories. Something I don't think enough about... PS: You spearing technique is about as good as mine 🙂

  • @dartmoordog7912
    @dartmoordog79126 ай бұрын

    Thought-provoking, as ever, George, with wonderful filming. Thank you so much. When walking on Dartmoor my mind processes similar thoughts about our ancestors, the rocks and menhirs, as espoused in your piece. But what causes us all to individually share similar thoughts and questions? I'm pretty sure that many people share the same, or similar thoughts. Humans with perception, the love of the natural world, evidently ponder the same things, and come to similar conclusions, even though we have never met. Are we linked by a universal human consciousness, or do we share a cell or gene that pushes us to think and to discover?

  • @billdevil-dog9957
    @billdevil-dog9957Ай бұрын

    Brilliant video thank you.

  • @theinvisiblecamper
    @theinvisiblecamper6 ай бұрын

    What a brilliant video - truly though provoking. Your editing skills are pretty slick too👍

  • @TommyBrookman
    @TommyBrookman6 ай бұрын

    Another great video. I think we've seen all the different species of human through the guests in your series. I thought it was just an apple...

  • @HeffalumpHorralump1
    @HeffalumpHorralump16 ай бұрын

    Very beautiful and thoughtful as ever George. You seem to drop your videos just when I need something relaxing but engaging, thank you! One note; I believe the ‘overkill’ hypothesis is old hat, and rightly so.

  • @thedartmoorpodcast

    @thedartmoorpodcast

    6 ай бұрын

    Thank you! I'll definitely look into the criticisms of the overkill hypothesis - my main sources for this were perhaps a little out of date, and I'm just dipping my toes into anthropology which has really captured my interest recently.

  • @jonathanpork-sausage617

    @jonathanpork-sausage617

    6 ай бұрын

    None of the experts even the latest ones really know what happened, many of them dig their own heffalump traps in the pursuit of academic ego. Happy Christmas, tiddly pom.@@thedartmoorpodcast

  • @Oggleflip78
    @Oggleflip786 ай бұрын

    Love this channel and look forward to a new video more than any other. Don't give up on this.

  • @thedartmoorpodcast

    @thedartmoorpodcast

    6 ай бұрын

    Thank you! I only wish I had the time to make more of them.

  • @h.bsfaithfulservant4136
    @h.bsfaithfulservant41366 ай бұрын

    Beautiful... thankyou 🙏

  • @timrumble6945
    @timrumble69453 ай бұрын

    Fabulous I have just discovered your channel, so entertaining and thought provoking with great humour.

  • @thedartmoorpodcast

    @thedartmoorpodcast

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much - enjoy!

  • @devonwalking
    @devonwalking6 ай бұрын

    My mother would agree with you, she believed that literature was everything. I tell myself stories (based on Dartmoor, often including pixies!) to help myself sleep at night. Another great video. Happy New Year to you. :)

  • @thedartmoorpodcast

    @thedartmoorpodcast

    6 ай бұрын

    And you!

  • @dogdadoutdoors
    @dogdadoutdoors6 ай бұрын

    I love the style of your videos, not seen anybody do anything even close.

  • @jonathanpork-sausage617

    @jonathanpork-sausage617

    6 ай бұрын

    Hideously under viewed.

  • @sxfia9450
    @sxfia94506 ай бұрын

    lovely video :)

  • @TigerLily7.
    @TigerLily7.6 ай бұрын

    Fascinating, George - must be one of my favorites! Deep and thoughtful topic; always love a philosophical one. I have to agree on what you said about Literature, as I'm some kind of species of my own who process life through poetic mind. Also not to ignore your intriguing skull collection and a glamorous leopard gown! 😉

  • @thedartmoorpodcast

    @thedartmoorpodcast

    6 ай бұрын

    Thank you! It was made from a Dartmoor big cat.

  • @TigerLily7.

    @TigerLily7.

    6 ай бұрын

    @@thedartmoorpodcast And I thought you were Vegan! That's why they're hiding from you. 😄

  • @thedartmoorpodcast

    @thedartmoorpodcast

    6 ай бұрын

    It's okay - it was a Quorn Leopard.

  • @TigerLily7.

    @TigerLily7.

    6 ай бұрын

    @@thedartmoorpodcast Linda McCatney.

  • @ksgonewild
    @ksgonewild6 ай бұрын

    Fascinating, thought-provoking, funny and beautiful as always…. Was this filmed in the Lustleigh Cleave area?

  • @thedartmoorpodcast

    @thedartmoorpodcast

    6 ай бұрын

    Thank you! And yep - very much my go-to place to film if I'm not documenting anything specific. Made use of 'Donkey's Cave' up near Sharpitor for this one.

  • @ksgonewild

    @ksgonewild

    6 ай бұрын

    @@thedartmoorpodcast I knew I recognised it!! 😍 Merry Christmas!!

  • @lawrencew498
    @lawrencew4986 ай бұрын

    "I watch the Dartmoor Podcast, therefore I am..."

  • @thedartmoorpodcast

    @thedartmoorpodcast

    6 ай бұрын

    Yep, it's another one of those meandering philosophical ones!

  • @jonathanpork-sausage617

    @jonathanpork-sausage617

    6 ай бұрын

    More in 24 please George@@thedartmoorpodcast

  • @sonsoffalstaff2600
    @sonsoffalstaff26006 ай бұрын

    Good sarcastic Ray Mears pisstake start. You are wrong about the human subspecies disappearing. Go into any pub in Okehampton on a Saturday night and you will find each one well represented. Also, please don't tell me Greggs was invented for creatures with a large brain and even a rudimentary imagination. Happy Christmas.

  • @jonathanpork-sausage617
    @jonathanpork-sausage6176 ай бұрын

    Beggar me George you deserve a wider audience. Not sure about the idealism re literature art bit. Being able to use abstraction to illustrate or define reality is not necessarily a good thing nor done by good people for good ends. As for evolution, wait until cats make some leap and can drive and type. We'll be finished.

  • @lawrencew498

    @lawrencew498

    6 ай бұрын

    I agree, casual references to Greggs excepted. Or perhaps a deliberate reference to Greggs, suggesting an evolutionary step backwards? If you dig deep enough in Kents Cavern, sooner or later a fossilised sausage roll is bound to appear...

  • @thedartmoorpodcast

    @thedartmoorpodcast

    6 ай бұрын

    Thank you! And, yes, I am always guilty of over-romanticising the power of art and literature.

  • @jonathanpork-sausage617

    @jonathanpork-sausage617

    6 ай бұрын

    And very bold and noble considering where you teach@@thedartmoorpodcast

  • @mikekelly5229
    @mikekelly52295 ай бұрын

    Read Genesis chapter 1, it's the truth.