In a nutshell: We dig deeper so you don’t have to. News, views, podcasts & films connecting you the world of prehistoric archaeology.
It's over twelve years since we produced our epic film 'Standing with Stones', but in the last couple of years we've been expanding the range of our output to include podcasts, short films and live shows. We've also been expanding our reach into the academic archaeological community. This means we can bring you the very latest research into and thinking about our ancient past, in an entertaining and varied way.
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To create the best audio and visual content we can to illustrate and explain the lives of people of the past and the materials and monuments they left behind.
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We'd love to see the headdresses, grave goods, etc you describe
First time in with you guys. This is my time period place to think about
threshing slegdes are still used in turkey... theyre called düven in turkish... both oxen and horses carry the sledge the birthplace is anatolia use automatic translation when watching the last video kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKN2mrOzeKneaaQ.htmlsi=XJdY4q5YLCuKe0P3 kzread.info/dash/bejne/fGhk3K6saMzHgbg.htmlsi=7naZQinWtMG7q03K kzread.info/dash/bejne/q41hzZpvYZWaY7w.htmlsi=epDLg6koOvCIXQXa
All I think of is Stonehenge I think about it when I dream, The biggest henge that I have ever seen. *What's the purpose of Stonehenge?* A giant granite birthday cake Or a prison far too easy to escape? Stonehenge! Stonehenge! Lots of stones in a row! They were 25 tons each stone, my friend But amazingly they got them all down in the sand. And they moved it, And they dragged it, And they rolled it 46 miles from Wales! *What's the deal with Stonehenge?* You should have left a tiny hint When you made this fucking labyrinth of stone! *Who the fuck builds a Stonehenge?* Two Stone Age guys wondering what to do Who just said: "Dude, let's build a henge or two!"
All I think of is Stonehenge I think about it when I dream, The biggest henge that I have ever seen. *What's the purpose of Stonehenge?* A giant granite birthday cake Or a prison far too easy to escape? Stonehenge! Stonehenge! Lots of stones in a row! They were 25 tons each stone, my friend But amazingly they got them all down in the sand. And they moved it, And they dragged it, And they rolled it 46 miles from Wales! *What's the deal with Stonehenge?* You should have left a tiny hint When you made this fucking labyrinth of stone! *Who the fuck builds a Stonehenge?* Two Stone Age guys wondering what to do Who just said: "Dude, let's build a henge or two!"
There is a time team episode where they made a Roman threshing sledge aided but expert Peter. It explains clearly how it works n why constructed. Phil even made the flints. Check it out
Of course. They were hunting pits Only an idiot would think they were something else.
Listening to you stumble over the answer how big the map is made me want to break out: 🎶It was nine feet high and six feet wide And soft as a downy chick It was made from the feathers of forty 'leven geese Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick It could hold eight kids and four hound dogs And a piggy we stole from the shed We didn't get much sleep but we had a lot of fun On grandma's feather bed🎶
10,000 yrs is kinda hard to grasp, five times into the time of JC. I wonder how many humans were on the planet back then?
Dear God you guys weren’t kidding about Aurochs being scary s.o.b.’s! They stood 6ft tall at the shoulder, weighed up to 3,300lbs and had 31” horns. Its size is like in between a modern bull and an elephant.
Agriculture is a by product of medical cultivation that predates its by thousands of years. Wild grasses were cultivated for the fungus that grows on the grain. These fungi were used to reduce bleeding during child birth. I talk about this in my book.
Born in 52 and I have seen them. My grandfather used it.
thank you for your content. I knew about the sledges, but what is the story about the ankle bones you mentioned. please enlighten me/us. thx T
Great show as usual. Thank you. You really separated the wheat from the chaff on threshing sledges. One thought jumped out at me. I think more likely to find single blade pulled out possibly away from site and a threshing sledge would be valued and not left out. Any wear on it would possible make stand out a bit. Anyway, thanks again. I am going to work in threshing sledges into some upcoming conversations and be that guy.
Fantastic date map … where does that come from guys? ⚔️👍⭐️🙏👀
Our historical accuracy gets worse the further you go back. Almost like a global flood wiped out humanity and we had to start over from scratch.
These guys are so pretentious....it hard to watch
Dates keep getting put back...
Thanck you....prehistory guys....loves you!!!
Realmente fueron más inteligentes que en la actualidad......mucho!!!
were those olive trees or juniper trees you have passed around minter 12:00?
Given that wheat was invented in Turkia after the Ice Age ended, I would expect threshing sledges, etc., would also be developed.
Some inventions are gradual refinements of a pre-existing more primitive tool. The threshing sledge seems to be a tool that must have been devised in one intuitive leap of the imagination! One can see a stick becoming a club, becoming a club with a knob on the end, becoming a shaft with a cobble lashed to it, becoming an axe. It's hard to imagine such a process for the development of the threshing sledge. Without all the blades--it would not have been effective as flails or the tramping of animal hoofs. So it seems unlikely that it was ever used for threshing before the concept of the blades. Though the sledge itself no doubt pre-existed--perhaps as a stone-boat used to drag rocks from the fields.
I wonder what limited human population growth before the spread of agriculture? Research consistently shows that hunter gatherers were frequently taller and healthier than farming populations due to the more varied diet. Heavy dependence on a single grain crop seems to have led to malnutrition in many cases. Did hunter gatherers experience periods of starvation due to periodic crashes in the prey species? This seems to be a limiting factor on predator populations that depend on the snowshoe hare. There is a boom and bust cycle in hare populations caused, I believe, by the spread of disease when the population is dense. When the snowshoe hare population crashes, the predator population crashes due to starvation (whether by death from hunger, or reduced litter sizes, I don't know). Was a similar mechanism limiting human hunter gatherer population? Is this known? Very dense populations of hunter gatherers were possible, such as in the case of the Pacific Northwest tribes. But even in harsh conditions like the Kalahari desert, the San seem to thrive on fewer hours of work per day than an agriculturist.
Very interesting, much earlier than I thought. Winnowing itself is an art, not just because of the chaff, but also because of the various unwanted seeds that occur, such as darnel. (Wild oats. Looks just like oats, but with a far lower yield.) Thank you!
Are we sure all the burials happened at the same time? Could the murders be a later thing, say, a later sacrifice to an older burial (or a punishment for defiling it)? A few years' difference wouldn't necessarily be seen in the record, if the grave was otherwise undisturbed, would it?
I can definitely think of some people I'd make sure stay in the ground once they're buried... I'm supposing if you actually were burying someone alive intentionally, as in for a punishment, you'd either leave them overground for the animals to eat or in a shallow enough grave that they wouldn't die immediately, thus leaving very little evidence of the practice? I've heard that the "uncanny valley" thing stems from dead bodies, things that are almost but not quite like living people. Having seen my mother dead a few hours after her passing, I can understand why.
Only 23 minutos for such a topic? It´s too short. We love to see you guys so... make longer videos please xD
This marries with the early example of threshing floors as noted places.
Sheshing thredge Rupert? Haha interesting stuff as always guys :)
The can of worms is circular too, guys! Well done!
Who, in the hell, hits thumbs down?
Nah, as an aerator not for threshing
Well even in a lost battle swords, being very expensive would more likely be policed up and carried off by the winner.
What a terrible presentation. These people might be educated. But have no idea of practical agriculture
New Video "Threshing with 1000 flint stones. Agricultural implement to separate wheat from chaff" Eugenio Monesma - Documentales, youtube channel. Released April 1st 2024 Captions in all languages (almost)
Highly recommend his channel.
I absolutly love the Idea that someone somewhere put the first thresher together and shapped the first piece of potery. We can hardly expect to find the first one of any of these inventions, its such a big world! You guys are hands down the most entertaining informers of archeology, keep it up!
All piss and Wind.
Circles, meh. Thier just a passing fad. We won’t hear about circles again, ever. Lol
thanks again
neolithic people didn't plow the land... they only furrowed it for seed..... plowing fields only began with steel...
There were wooden plows (ards) for thousands of years, and then the Roman plow came along that was made of iron (which Virgil talks about). That's what the word "plow" (or "plough") refers to. Modern plows are the weird plow out.
@@suburbanbanshee the word plow doesn't have a specific origin but it means to open up... people through most of the middle ages didn't plow or till fields... they furrowed them... China invented the heavy plow in the beginning of the common era but Europe didn't adopt it till near the end of the middle ages....
I am going to have to modify the diorama which is used by the bible class teachers! This is so fun. There is a tiny threshing sledge in my future!
Gentlemen, do you believe the Bible? Have you studied Genesis? Thank you. Suzanna
Was there a point?
I've seen a very similar thing been used in Portugal up in the mountains
I've never understood how people could get cattle or donkeys to walk around on top of their grain when I know the animals eat a high fiber diet. I suspect before threshing the animals are fasted and also they dehydrate them a bit.
If you just follow the subtitles, every 5th word is um. So boring. And your teeth, my friends are appalling, green and ugly. Nothing I'd want to watch. Take yourselves out of the equation is my advice.
I would say that this technology would indicate that farming took hold in Greece far earlier than is assumed at present
You can still see these threshing boards in Spain in some of the villages and local museums.
thats an incredible date and tool. once again i learn something when i visit your channel
The Bible mentioning separating the wheat from the chaff wouldn't be out of place with what critical scholars have to say when Psalms or the dead sea scrolls were first written. There is a good chance Christians might try to use this one, that will be another mistake. thank you very much for the update.
Threshing sledges would turn the straw into chopped straw I think. It might be OK as a building material but less useful for winter bedding of livestock. Now I wonder if threshing sledges were employed in more Northern climes.