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Video maker of history and prehistory documentaries. Author of bronze age and medieval fantasy and science fiction novels. Check out my videos:

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NEW VIDEO ALERT! My new video on the ice age mammoth hunters, the Gravettians, is live now on my channel. As always, if you can hit "like" and share this video I would appreciate it enormously! I hope you enjoy the film.
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Those remote or uncontacted Amazonian tribes are not living in a state of primordial stasis, like living fossils of the Paleolithic or whatever, but are the descendants of a collapsed civilisation living in a post-apocalyptic landscape.
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Percy Fawcett keeps being right. More and more cities keep appearing in the Amazon. At this point we have to accept that the 'pristine' rainforest is a post-collapse regrowth, not a timeless primeval forest.
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There's so much still to learn about very early human migrations and interactions. It's an exciting time.
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Australian archaeology not drive me insane challenge (impossible mode)
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People arguing over whether Crimea is Russian or Ukrainian are missing the fact that Crimea is ENGLISH.
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Thread: New England, Crimea. How Anglo-Saxon migration transformed Byzantium and created the first English colony.
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So what was it that motivated the steppe herders to move west into the lands of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture? Hmmm no idea, could have been anything...
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You can see why every society that encountered them from Neanderthals to the Ainu developed a bear cult.
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Intense battle between 2 HUGE Brown Bears in Full HD 34
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Sydney Sweeney reveals in a recent interview that she believes ancient Minoans were a violent race. "The popular perception that Minoans were merely bare-breast enthusiasts doesn't stand up to scrutiny." She added, "There's no doubt warfare was a core part of their society!"
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What eldritch horrors did our ancestors discover when they first ventured into primeval Europe?
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The news of a fortified Neolithic stilt village surrounded by 10,000 spiked planks on the edge of Lake Ohrid, Albania, is worth exploring in more detail.
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Low T beer drinkers:
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Beer is one of the most successful psyops of all time This supposed "manly" drink: - Increases estrogen - Decreases testosterone - Decreases muscle protein synthesis - Increases bodyfat - Impairs emotional regulation Bonus: Phytoestrogens in IPAs cause breast tissue growth
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Some R1b Italian researcher totally ruining precious aDNA extraction / processing through repeated contamination. "Ancient Egyptians, Ancient Mesopotamians, all literally me."
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Undeniable proof that the new Ancient Egyptian samples are completely contaminated by a modern North Italian (possibly the same individual that has contaminated many other samples from Sumer to Middle Kingdom Egypt to Neolithic France with Southern Euro ancestry)
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The Englishman's diet through the ages; some examples. From one of my favourite history books The Englishman's Food by JC Drummond and Anne Wilbraham.
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The Sintashta culture was of the most incredible societies of the Bronze Age. Highly patriarchal and warlike, they were also bronze workers who built huge fortified settlements like Arkaim east of the Ural mountains...
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Ah yes, that barren coastal wasteland, Mesopotamia. A still from the opening of Marvel's Eternals.
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Who else is part of the Sycamore Gap Vandal Truther Movement?
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Dr Jonathan Foyle 
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Personally find it unlikely a 16 year- old would bother to do this in a storm for a prank, let alone mark a saw cut with white paint #SycamoreGap
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Mr MacLean is correct.
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People frequently claim unusual or outlandish artifacts were "ceremonial" but were they? There are some Roman accounts of outlandish Celtic behavior on the battlefield, and equally so in Gaelic tales. I would not at all be surprised if a Celtic chieftain charged into battle
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608 years ago today, the English defeated mighty France at the Battle of Agincourt. The most profound consequence of which was causing tedious know-it-alls in the pub and on YouTube to pontificate about the myth vs reality, longbows vs armour, and the real numbers involved.
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Horned helmets were worn by men in battle because they transferred immense martial power to the warrior.
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Nordic Bronze Age rock art depicting what looks to me like one ship ramming into another with a boarding action and spear duel between the two leaders. The figure in the middle - if the theory that these designs are depicting long hair is true - is probably a woman...
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What a shrewd looking dude. Looks like he's about to give you a quote for a new roof.
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东北傻狍子，呆萌可爱 Eastern roe deer
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What do you think was the most important factor in Napoleon’s defeat in Spain? A) Napoleon’s strategic mistakes B) The resistance of the Portuguese & Spanish people - the ‘guerrilla’ C) Spanish regular forces D) Wellington’s Anglo-Portuguese army
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Elaborate battle headdress deniers seething.
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@DanDavisWrites A Scythian noble warrior wore this to his final battle 2,300 years ago. There’s damage to the headdress that corresponds to a fatal blade wound on his head.
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Men only want one thing and it's a cosy fortified village.
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TOOOT! TOOOOOOOT!!
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Such an amazing day at @butserfarm . Thank you for having us. Photos to follow.
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Yamnaya aspirational fever dream made flesh.
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Horses on a plane
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Interesting reading the replies to this viral tweet. Most people know nothing about bronze age Europe. I must work harder.
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Feel quite strongly that this isn’t a normal sword
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It's a sad fact that England is one of the most densely populated major countries in the world at 432/km2. Probably ranks about 6th just behind the Netherlands.
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What I hate about England is how overcrowded it is
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@DovySimuMMA When Lewis knocked out Blaydes and Blaydes was on his back unconscious groaning for ages while being attended to and you could hear it on the mic.
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You think your life sucks, try being a peasant in medieval France.
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Concentration of castles in Europe.
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"But how did they make perfect holes through the stone?!" This question comes up often on my stone battle axe video, where I should have explained. It's actually pretty simple...
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Sometimes I'm asked "Why didn't European Neolithic / Bronze Age people eat seafood, even if they lived on the coast or on islands?" Well the answer is obvious. It's because seafood is profoundly disgusting.
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Scallops may look like simple creatures, but they have 200 eyes that function remarkably like a telescope, using living mirrors to focus light [read more: ] [📹 Janet Melton: ]
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This helmet seems impractical to me. Therefore, it did not exist. Oh wait.
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"Dumnovellaunos, would you like a crest on your new helmet?" "Birb, flap"
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Plan and photo of the incredible, enormous settlement at Su Nuraxi on Sardinia, dating to about 1600 BC to 600 BC. This is one of the most spectacular sites from Bronze Age Sardinia, home of the Nuragic Civilisation.
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Yorkshiremen are so obstinate they still had a megalith culture in the early 20th century.
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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones
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This towering stone above Todmorden in Yorkshire hides a mystery. It doesn’t seem to be ancient - not in its current position in any case. It appeared between 1912 and 1921 and no one really knows where it came from. #StandingStoneSunday More 1/
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Incredible sense of movement and vitality. Even how the eyes of the lions are aligned, drawing your own eye toward the prey.
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The fantastic 30,000+ year old Lion Panel from Chauvet Cave. A group of lions appears to be stalking bison and wooly rhinoceros. Chauvet Cave contains some of my favorite artwork of all time. We will talk about it in depth this Saturday on the channel! Visa
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It's a very impressive reconstruction, considering how little of the original plaster was found.
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Textile manufacture was the most important export industry in Bronze Age Knossos, and depictions such as the ‘Ladies in Blue’ fresco shows that women remained closely associated with these colourfully dyed textiles and perhaps controlled their production.⁠
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During the English Civil War, a group of foraging Roundhead soldiers discovered a woman scooting about the river on a plank of wood. She probably made her living catching eels or something. The astonished soldiers captured her, called her a witch, and shot her to death.
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The ancient Gallic Carnyx. This bronze horn with a boar’s head would blast before the charge of paint daubed warriors.
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Did you know Mesolithic hunter-gatherers may have been snail farmers? Seems a bit far fetched but then again they did manage wild plants like hazel and bring wild animals like boar, deer, and bear to islands. So carrying live snails to new lands is plausible, right?
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Egyptian acrobat gf, Mycenaean pirate warlord bf Perfect couple for the late Bronze Age collapse.
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A startlingly beautiful image of an ancient Egyptian female acrobat painted on a c. 3,250 year old potsherd. Found in Deir el-Medina,the ancient village where the community of workmen & craftsmen responsible for the construction and decoration of royal and princely tombs lived.
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New paper identifies the oldest zoonotic pathogens (animal mediated diseases) no older than ~6,500 years ago, but they spread madly ~5,000 years ago with the Indo-Europeans of the steppe. Strengthens argument that decline of EEF societies ~3600 BC was caused by plague. IE groups
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Mesolithic hunter gatherers occupied the valleys of the Alps. It's possible to recreate the routes they took from their home valleys up into the surrounding hunting grounds by plotting finds of stone tools and flint working. Amazing to think of people up here 10,000 years ago.
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This mummy is a fake but Angus MacAskill wasn't. He didn't have gigantism from a pituitary tumour or whatever (like Robert Wadlow), and wasn't crippled by his size. He was just a really big bloke and thus capable of superhuman feats of strength.
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The quickest path to becoming a high-value man: 1. Kidnap women from rival tribes 2. Father dozens of sons 3. Father dozens of daughters 4. Master the weapon dance 5. Drink intoxicating soma 6. Make many guest friends 7. Aquire vast herds of cattle 8. Honour your ancestors
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The quickest path to becoming a high-value man: 1. Do not get married 2. Avoid family creation 3. Vasectomy in your 20s 4. Lift consistently 5. Eliminate all sedations 6. Learn Game & Networking 7. Play to your strengths, build wealth 8. Resist easing up on your focus
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Peaceful matriarchal Neolithic Europe with their fractured skulls, massacre sites, and fortified settlements.
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@ThaWeasle It's tiramisu.
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@lmrwanda Please don't let us become a desperately poor backward region on the edge of civilisation again.
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"Mr Ötzi, could you explain what were you doing up that mountain in the first place?" "Are we having a talk show or a serious interview? First of all, let me give you a little historical background to this situation. In 6500 BC, my ancestors set out across the Adriatic..."
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Did you know there are over 7,000 ruined nuraghes on Sardinia? They date from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age. These astonishing stone fortresses could be single towers or sophisticated complexes with defensive outer walls.
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Some sort of huge battle seems to have taken place in Bronze Age Germany around 1250 BC. We only know about it thanks to the discovery of the bones of some of the slain and the weapons and belongings they carried.
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Did you know there's over 20,000 bronze age burial mounds in Denmark? (If you've watched my videos you probably did know that). That's crazy, huh!
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Gigachad being more attractive to men than to women is a real gigachad move.
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These results are similar to the Gigachad facial ratings. Men found him very attractive, women not so much on average. Men tend to think extreme dimorphism in other men is more attractive than women do.
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@sanstitre2000 Hieros gamos on the left and the Indo-European king inauguration rite involving a little bit of horse sex. The calf muscles were emphasised on leaders for some reason and the union between the lower limbs is significant but no one really knows what it means exactly.
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Get shredded in just 5200 years with the new diet craze taking the Chalcolithic world by storm. On the Iceman Diet you will: - Eat as much ibex as you can hunt - Spend 14hrs a day hill walking in the Alps - Become riddled with parasites - Suffer crippling heart disease
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Get your orders in now!!
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A lion koryos. 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 Incredibly powerful.
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The story of the Mapogos, a coalition of 6 sibling male lions that conquered a territory 7 times larger than Manhattan and killed more than a 40 lions per year [full story: ]
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This modern reconstruction of everyone's favourite Minoan fresco did not accurately represent the woman's nipple. Seems like a minor point ( 😐 ) but this is one detail by the original artist perhaps meant to convey that this is a mature woman rather than an unmarried girl.
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The Sea People did it.
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The causes of the Bronze Age Collapse have become associated with the Sea Peoples almost in their entirety amongst the popular imagination. This stands in contrast with the modern model seeing the Sea Peoples as a symptom of the multifaceted causes of the collapse.
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This is crazy, I never heard of this. But the images made me think of this Bronze Age rock art panel from Bohuslän. Look at that dude hanging there on the right! I always thought of it as a May pole but now I'm not so sure...
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Throughout the 19th and early 20th century, colonial govts in India and North America actively discouraged and banned two ceremonies which had one thing in common. The suspension of participants by their skin with hooks. Researchers call these rituals 'hook swinging'.
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Yamnaya koryos after crossing the Dnieper, 3000 BC (colourised)
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You'd have seen this kind of conflict between Early European Farmers and Mesolithic hunter gatherers too. Imagine just leaving your nice juicy cows right there to be hunted. What do you expect?
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TIL Angus McBride also made wall charts for school history lessons
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Amazingly I now have a second video that has 1 million views. When I made it I was really hoping that it would get 10k views. That was as many views as I could imagine just 1.5yrs ago. Thank you all for your support with watching and sharing my videos.
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Profoundly unaristocratic, doesn't make any sense for this universe. You don't get to not be the next duke. Terrible bum note, a real clanger.
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Still my favourite scene from both Dune 1 and 2
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Our ancestors accomplished feats we can hardly imagine. Coastal living along frozen shores, paddling canoes with swaddled babies beneath vast ice floes, heading onwards into the unknown, day after day. Incredible stuff.
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POV: You are a Mesolithic fisherman at Lepenski Vir and you're about to smash this giant fish's head in with your stone club.
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Nature is Amazing ☘️
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Giant Sturgeon fish in Canada
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In 1932 at Sheepen, Colchester, Essex, England a huge bronze cauldron was recovered, lying on its side in an oval pit. Once it was assumed that prehistoric cauldrons were innovations of the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, inspired by Mediterranean prototypes. But...
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Check out these ritual walls: "The purpose of these walls has long been debated, with Tsountas initially claiming that they had defensive military purposes. However, over time more and more archaeologists have concluded that they instead functioned as retaining walls, to mark
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What was it about Neolithic societies that made them so prone to committing massacres? Why were they always getting so upset?
@Paracelsus1092
Stone Age Herbalist
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This paper is insane - potentially the largest mass decapitation event in prehistoric Asia - perhaps 43 people, mostly women and children, killed by their Neolithic neighbours.
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Thank you all so much for your support over the last 12 months. It's been a great year for my history channel and there's even better stuff to come next year. Thanks again and happy new year!
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Which are you?
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I hope you enjoy my new video on the Nuragic Civilisation of Bronze Age Sardinia. Please share it! Cheers.
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These Bronze Age kings of the Ancient Near East call each other "bro" more often than today's urban youth.
@ensi_gudea
Gudea, Ensi of Lagash
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Ea-Nasir has nothing on scale of this scam the King of Alašiya is running on the Egyptians. “Nergal killed all the copper workers” is oldest excuse in the book.
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North Eurasian bronze age was super cool huh.
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Stone Age Herbalist
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Bronze age ice skate found at a possible Andronovo site, Gaotai Ruins, in Xinjiang. Curiously it looks identical to the earliest such skates found in Europe, suggesting long-distance trade and connectivity across the steppe.
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Good morning.
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@Dokk_Draws After unifying Egypt, Narmer returned to his homeland in the Alps to peacefully retire as a shepherd, only to be killed by a vengeful son of the conquered ruler of Lower Egypt. Narmer's supposed tomb was empty other than loads of flint arrowheads. Coincidence? 🤔
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Focusing on the important details 👍
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The Dieskau II hoard discovered in Germany in 1904 was buried by warriors of the bronze age Únětice culture of central Europe. Analysis of the metal composition of the items, as well as study of the nature of Únětice burial traditions, tells us something incredible:
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He looks like he knows it's over.
@Anatolian2023
Anatolian Archaeology
@Anatolian2023
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Statue of Suppiluliuma II made of basalt stone. It is exhibited in Hatay Archeology Museum. Suppiluliuma II was the last known king of the Hittite Empire, who reigned between 1207 and 1178 BC and was contemporary with the Middle Assyrian King Tukulti-Ninurta I.
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Yamnaya, Bell Beaker, and Mycenaean meeting on the Danube.
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On the origins of the R1b menace.
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What were the Neolithic priests pouring into these giant ritual bowls? 🤔
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Brú na Bóinne - Newgrange and Knowth
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There are two basin stones in the right hand recess of the chamber at Newgrange. The upper one is exquisitely carved from Mourne granite. the lower one is too big to have been brought inside after the monument was built so the chamber must have been built around it.
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Today I finished recording a new video related to the Sea Peoples and the Bronze Age collapse. I think it's an element of the story not many people know about. Now I just need to make about 50 maps... I am pain. Anyway, should be good!
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The earliest artistic depiction of a human being from anywhere in the world looks like this. The Venus of Hohle Fels, mammoth ivory, Germany, c. 42,000 - 40,000 BP (Aurignacian).
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Incredible QTs and replies from so many smug people who have zero knowledge of the shared Indo-European mythology.
@UpdatingOnRome
Daily Roman Updates
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Neolithic Europe wasn't urban, peaceful, or egalitarian. I'm making a video about Neolithic Europe now. They had warfare and maybe even proper "warriors", despite what I might have said before...
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I don't read them, I just look at the pictures.
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Imagining the Romans turning up and finding the Britons charging about in chariots. It totally blew their minds. It was like stepping back in time, like finding themselves in the Trojan War. They loved it.
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NEW VIDEO NOW LIVE! On Dan Davis History. This is the epic story of England's naval hero, the pirate, explorer, adventurer, and king's beard singeing expert, Sir Francis Drake.
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If it's just the one film then:
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@imodernman
MODERN MAN
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10 months
What is ONE film that every man should watch?
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Incredible similarities to the Indo-European koryos tradition.
@HaudenosauneeWP
Bloodthirsty Savage
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Hadrí:yohsgęnyohgwaˀ The Haudenosaunee "Iroquois" War-Band. The Infamously Violent Warriors who fought like madmen in a trance like state. Striking fear in the hearts of many. A Thread. Will likely add more to it later after I upload it as well because there's a lot to cover.
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POV: Your Nordic Bronze Age sun worshipping wife has arrived from the household of your distant trade partner to cement your alliance. [Watch my videos on Bronze Age hairstyles, Bronze Age beauty, and NBA rockart for more on this]
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Joan Francesc Oliveras
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I’m starting a series of Bronze Age illustrations. The first one is a reconstruction of a Sun dancer girl from the #NordicBronzeAge , based on the burial of the #EgtvedGirl and bronze figurines of ritual female dancers in short string skirts
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Imagine actually believing this. You'd not only have to be historically illiterate you'd need to have a sub-100 IQ.
@BornLik23266
ÞuliR 🍃🧙‍♂️ᛉ🌲🍄ᛟ🌞ϟ🌳🏴‍☠️🧝🏻‍♀️
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@JucheJochen @DanDavisWrites Stone Age: they needed 30 minutes of work every day to survive Bronze Age: 1 hour of work Iron Age: 2 hours Today? At least 8 hours a day, and THEN they need to do the 1-2 hours needed in the BronZe/Iron Age, when at home, for themselves.
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Love the story of Alexander the Great's fleet commander Nearchus sailing back from India and encountering a group of whales. The fleet drew up in battle formation, sounded trumpets, and charged the monstrous enemy at ramming speed. The whales disengaged and the fleet continued.
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Jacob Shell
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Fascinated by the "lone-wolf" sperm whale Porphyrios who terrorized Constantinople for a half century. Odd for a sperm whale to hang out in the Bosporus long-term, but this one really, really loved sinking Byzantine boats.
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I keep telling you guys, everything started in the Bronze Age.
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Durotriges Project
@Durotrigesdig
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A curious find fresh from Trench L A section of worked deer antler from the fill of a Later Bronze Age ditch Looking very like Edvard Munch's *the Scream* we're not sure why these holes have been cut and drilled (unless this was some sort of *practice piece* ?) #Durotriges23
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Impractical, therefore it couldn't possibly exist.
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Alison Fisk
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Celtic warrior’s bird helmet, 3rd century BC. A remarkable iron helmet crowned by a bronze bird of prey with hinged wings which flapped when the wearer moved. Found amongst a warrior chieftain’s grave goods at Ciumești, Romania, in 1961. 📷 my own #Archaeology
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Merry Christmas everybody!
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Wow this would be very cool if true! A Neolithicised Western Hunter Gatherer population living like Tolkien's dwarves in the mountains, growing wealthy and powerful from their craftmaxxing obsidian and ceramics...
@Paracelsus1092
Stone Age Herbalist
@Paracelsus1092
8 months
Clear research seems hard to come by here - but it looks like the eastern LBK Neolithic settlement in Hungary pushed Mesolithic foragers into the Bükk mountains. There they mastered and traded fine ceramics and obsidian, monopolising the flow of the stone.
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Had quite a few comments on that last vid along the lines of "What's that cup thing between his legs?" And "The axe isn't the only shaft encased in gold." And "Why didn't you mention his golden dong?" Well, I did mention it but maybe I should have said more.
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There were some really huge changes throughout Europe around 1600 BC - 1500 BC. Europe became massively more interconnected with commodities moving further and on a far larger scale then ever before. Most researchers will not (in print) hazard a guess about why this happened.
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Hundreds of thousands of years' worth of wooden structures have been lost. What were homo heidelbergensis carpenters building? What wonders did Neanderthal woodworkers craft?
@archaeologymag
Archaeology Magazine
@archaeologymag
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Unearthed beneath a bank of Zambia’s Kalambo River, ancient wooden tools and a 476,000-year-old log structure—the world’s earliest known wooden architecture—are one of ARCHAEOLOGY magazine’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2023.
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The migration path is quite clear isn't it.
@nrken19
Nrken19
@nrken19
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Map of Early Bronze Age samples genetically similar to Sintashta.
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Apparent similarities between the Indo-European koryos tradition and Haudenosaunee warbands of NE America? Replies below suggest these traditions could relate to shared Ancient North Eurasian ancestry from the Upper Paleolithic. That seems too long ago though doesn't it?
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Incredible similarities to the Indo-European koryos tradition.
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Once read an article about a couple who had carefully restored their woodland over a period of years. On advice they introduced a couple of heritage breed pigs who proceeded to do this to the entire woodland. They were horrified and almost got rid of them but
@GaryDickenson
🌱Gary Dickenson 🇪🇺🇱🇻🇬🇧🇺🇦
@GaryDickenson
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Just a normal school run. If you think boar are cute little creatures that should roam freely everywhere…
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Forget the Roman Empire thing; how many men think about being a pirate during the late Bronze Age collapse every day? 🙋
@hermahai
Hermahai
@hermahai
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1/ The sea raids were a phenomenon that appears in the written sources of the Eastern Mediterranean as early as the 14th century BC and it was a difficult to overcome problem for the Great Powers of the time, which seem to have implemented various countermeasures to limit it.
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When you come home from the raid without the new slave girl she asked for and she hits you with the Sredny Stog stare.
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Nrken19
@nrken19
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Some busts of women from the Sredny Stog culture in Ukraine.
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