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Time Team S07E13 york

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 เม.ย. 2013
  • Tony Robinson and the Team faced one of their biggest challenges when they travelled to York to excavate three sites from three different historical periods in just three days.
    The finds ranged from a Roman skeleton complete with hobnail boots to a Viking's discarded leather shoe and the pillars of a monastic hospital.
    But what does all this evidence reveal?

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  • @PamelaTallant
    @PamelaTallant 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I've been watching Time Team since it's beginnings. I'm 70 years old now, and though I've altered my thinking through the years, this series never fails to engage my mind. It absolutely is my go-to source for mental enjoyment and nourishment. How wonderful to have access to such unfailing quality!

  • @AimeeHarrisonDesigns
    @AimeeHarrisonDesigns 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    This is a great episode. I listen to this entire series every few months while I work and I LOVE IT SO MUCH. Thank you to Reijer Zaaijer to posting these for us to enjoy. It is a huge part of my life.

  • @bettygreenhansen
    @bettygreenhansen ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I just realized…
    I have re-watched episodes of TT so many times that now I can listen to it like a podcast and in my mind picture all the things and places being talked about!
    WOW….
    All hail Time Team!!!
    👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @moogiealways3016
    @moogiealways3016 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Phil in cut offs always makes the day great.

  • @conniepenner4795
    @conniepenner4795 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I love Time Team. Can watch it over and over,

  • @GevinShaw
    @GevinShaw 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    I recently found out about Time Team and am enjoying wandering around the 20 seasons the show carried on. So, thanks to Reijer Zaaijer for all the work half a decade ago putting so much of the series up here.

    • @TheShootist
      @TheShootist 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      copyright violations and ignoring other people's property rights notwithstanding.

  • @Fritter70
    @Fritter70 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    So respectful how they do the sketches of the dead they find. 👍🏻

  • @WeeeWriter
    @WeeeWriter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Wow I was so impressed with the glass blowing of that glass water jug!!

  • @ohkaygoplay
    @ohkaygoplay 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Stewart: "We know from other excavations in York that properties were set out in perches."
    Sandy: "So, that's a fish that's about that long."
    Stewart: *laughs* "Unfortunately, the tape isn't measured out in fishes."
    I like her sense of humor. :D

  • @juttamaier2111
    @juttamaier2111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I love Victor's mind. He's so imaginative and kind

  • @jeffinkhobar5711
    @jeffinkhobar5711 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Tony to Mick (sarcastically 46:20 or so): You must be over the moon!
    This is the kind of (somewhat camp) character that made this show great.
    Well done, Tony!

  • @uw1955
    @uw1955 10 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Victor's drawing with some wel known patients made my day.

  • @gregb6469
    @gregb6469 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    It's neat that they brought in those young people to help with the digs. What a great way to teach history!

  • @adamsjerome1839
    @adamsjerome1839 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Victor. A galaxy of talent crammed into a human body.

  • @philgreen1944
    @philgreen1944 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Love Sandy, she makes me smile...

  • @brianvittachi6869
    @brianvittachi6869 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "If you cut through me finger I'll shout ok?" Good ole gentle Mick.

  • @joshschneider9766
    @joshschneider9766 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    As a Glass blower myself I really appreciate the glimpse into Roman glassmaking. Only real changes since then are ingredient purity and electric controls. I wonder if any Roman classmates shops have been excavated...

    • @bevanpope7924
      @bevanpope7924 ปีที่แล้ว

      Would love one of those vessels for my home!

  • @morrigan191
    @morrigan191 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Anyone upset by bones being disturbed should look into how graveyards work in Europe.
    It's not a permanent burial, it's more like a rental, otherwise the entire continent would be covered in bodies.
    Americans have a very different idea about what being buried in a graveyard means.

  • @georgiewalker1069
    @georgiewalker1069 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love Time Team, it’s so interesting. Thank you Reijer from South Africa 🇿🇦

  • @sstanley4333
    @sstanley4333 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Brilliant. It's a vertical section of York's history in less than an hour, complete with real artifacts, actual sites, illustrations, proper dating, and demonstrations. I just hope they took the leech off the poor man in a timely fashion. And that was beautifully blown glass.

  • @billyank1864
    @billyank1864 10 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Welcome to the Royal York Hotel, never mind the dead folks in the front yard...LOL

  • @neeters5
    @neeters5 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thanks again for posting this fantastic series!

  • @Rbattam
    @Rbattam 11 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Man that guy is one ace glass blower.

    • @joshschneider9766
      @joshschneider9766 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's actually not changed much at all process wise in all this time since then. All you would have to do is explain modern controllers and standalone reheat chambers and a couple other modern conveniences and he's be churning out work as he did back then. It's such a wonderful feeling to have that connection to rome.

  • @patrickwentz8413
    @patrickwentz8413 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Phil in the trench sounds like Frodo riddling with Gollum. Time Give me Time!

  • @treybarbour2146
    @treybarbour2146 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Gotta love Phil’s cutoff shorts.

  • @lisakilmer2667
    @lisakilmer2667 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I loved this dig, in spite of the guest presenters. The work was so complicated and they had such a well-organized incident room. Very impressive.

  • @jonathaneffemey944
    @jonathaneffemey944 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for posting

  • @chrispascoe8116
    @chrispascoe8116 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Dig? I really dig Phil. :))

  • @schalkespringer
    @schalkespringer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That pen Stewart has at 5:30, oh man blast from the 90's that. I swear businesses in USA, Canada, Germany and now proof UK, too, gave those out!

  • @zeroDOTjon
    @zeroDOTjon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
    Why'd the change it, I can't say.
    Guess people just liked it better that way!

    • @janetsanders5356
      @janetsanders5356 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It's Istanbul, not Constantinopl
      🎷🎵🎺🎶

  • @watersrising8044
    @watersrising8044 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Youngsters, google Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber. SNL classic.

  • @stannousflouride8372
    @stannousflouride8372 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Site number 1, the burials:
    53.959484ºN, 1.091878ºW
    Site number 2, Walmgate (now hidden by a new bldg)
    53.956753ºN, 1.075464ºW
    Site number 3, the vault/hospital
    53.961269ºN, 1.086653ºW

  • @MrHowardking
    @MrHowardking ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The glass bit deserves its own slot

  • @MeMommyEms
    @MeMommyEms 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    At 41:51 Tony, Phil and Mick! Lol! 😂😂😂

  • @Metaphix
    @Metaphix 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    love phils shorts lol

  • @macsjag
    @macsjag 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'd like an explaination of how the romans or whom ever produced the tools for making the glass, Blowpipes of metal, etc.

    • @spookytkid
      @spookytkid 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      i know that early roman glass making did not use a blowing method like they showed. i don't recall many details but i think it was a casting type of construction. if they did use a blowpipe, which is made of iron i'm sure it could be cast just the same. i am speculating in part and i agree totally.

    • @venomouscarebear
      @venomouscarebear 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ***** Actually they did. Well, sort of. Roman citizens (those actually born in Rome) didn't as they weren't allowed to be "in trade", but it was supported by their government and was manufactured in many parts of the Roman world. Free blowing glass was introduced in the middle of the last century BC and coincided with the rise of the Roman empire. Mold blowing (what I think you referred to as casting) came along a bit later during the first part of the second quarter of the first century AD and uses a different ratio of ingredients to change the consistency of the glass. The most common theory is that the blow pipes were made of clay and shorter than those used by modern glassblowers. One of the Renaissance faires I work at has a glassblower right next to our booth. Five times a day Stuart goes into detail on the origins of his trade while demonstrating the techniques.

    • @jamespfp
      @jamespfp 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Romans were *LATE* Iron Age, by the time they made it to western Europe. Metal working had been understood for over 1000 years by that time.

  • @markgarin6355
    @markgarin6355 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well, they were trying to keep their DNA out of the skeletal remains, then he's handling it by hand....ooops

  • @davidtownsend6092
    @davidtownsend6092 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    37:50 sick burn on th lufftwaffe XD britain will never let germany live that down lol

  • @maddiethomas5892
    @maddiethomas5892 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Is there any such thing as a stone, round Roman house? It seems to me that SOMEONE would have tried it. They did it in the iron age up north like brocks. Or perhaps that was considered bad form because temples were round?

  • @stevedelaney
    @stevedelaney 8 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I see Phil has got his sexy denim hot pants on again lol

    • @kristenharris421
      @kristenharris421 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Torbay 74
      He has nice legs..lol

    • @lisakaz35
      @lisakaz35 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LOL. He shoulda been allowed to marry the couple wearing them.

  • @ohmeowzer1
    @ohmeowzer1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very good

  • @J70a.m-zg6gi_wha0
    @J70a.m-zg6gi_wha0 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Cloris Leachman was Emperor of Rome? I never knew....👑

  • @sgrannie9938
    @sgrannie9938 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If they don’t want to contaminate the bones why isn’t Tony masked and why does the osteo-archaeologist remove hers while sat right by the skeleton?

    • @deborahparham3783
      @deborahparham3783 ปีที่แล้ว

      That is a picky detail we are not supposed to notice.

  • @jayebyrd9953
    @jayebyrd9953 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    28:04 Young Michael would be 30 years old now.

  • @themancalledx1342
    @themancalledx1342 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Time team addict NY,USA

  • @readmycomment3157
    @readmycomment3157 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting fact, York is quite a modern city, pre 1900 it was just a small collection of farms and very unknown

    • @lizzy66125
      @lizzy66125 ปีที่แล้ว

      dont think so,it was a stronghold for the Vikings,their'capital' for a while in the 9th centuary

    • @readmycomment3157
      @readmycomment3157 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lizzy66125 thats a common misconception, the victorians managed to hold off the vikings until at least 1680

    • @judithmacfadzen9516
      @judithmacfadzen9516 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@readmycomment3157 You haven't read any history have you?? 🙄

    • @readmycomment3157
      @readmycomment3157 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@judithmacfadzen9516 I'm a professor of British and Scottish history actually

  • @DragonFae16
    @DragonFae16 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'd love to know if any of the kids who were on this episode ended up going into a science career, especially archeology.

  • @jocosot
    @jocosot 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    33:51 - What's up with that giant worm?!!

    • @ELCADAROSA
      @ELCADAROSA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Haha! You noticed him, too!
      Just another Time Team volunteer digger in his natural habitat!

  • @sstewart18761
    @sstewart18761 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Raven's dung for tooth-ache, to rot the tooth out....dang !

    • @CompetitiveAudio
      @CompetitiveAudio 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Scott Stewart YIKES!!! That is HARD CORE..I think I'd prefer a solid kick in the jaw over that..

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      And you have to pay for it!

  • @Jaqueli9er
    @Jaqueli9er 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved Paul Thompson, too bad I don't recall seeing him in other episodes =/

  • @tomtully5970
    @tomtully5970 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    you folks need to go to OAK ISLAND and help Rick and his Brother Marty figure out what they really have buried beneath the island, because it is quite evidently clear that they DO NOT KNOW!

    • @Mistahhuntah
      @Mistahhuntah 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @timhazeltine3256
      @timhazeltine3256 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The only treasure on Oak Island is the money the brothers make off their series

    • @johncarmon9528
      @johncarmon9528 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Greatest comment ever lmbo 🤣😂🤣😂

  • @garychynne1377
    @garychynne1377 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    THANK U GARE

  • @jamespfp
    @jamespfp 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    19:20 -- The NORMANS took York, and burned most of the "Viking" settlement down.
    Let's also remember that the NORMANS were themselves NORSE, like the Vikings. *LULZ*
    Vikings calling Vikings "rotters" -- sounds about right. #Rotterdam

    • @thibaudduhamel2581
      @thibaudduhamel2581 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Except the Normand weren’t vikings anymore, having intermingled with mocal french for almost 150 years by the point they invaded england :3

  • @FanFicnic
    @FanFicnic 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Baby Sandi!

  • @rhoddryice5412
    @rhoddryice5412 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This could easily been split into three episodes.

  • @richardbaker6055
    @richardbaker6055 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ‘I feel sorry for the leach’ - I have to agree, that guy is a waste of screen time

  • @billie-jobenway8658
    @billie-jobenway8658 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    A link to the full live coverage in a playlist
    th-cam.com/video/QDx6MSBM5tg/w-d-xo.html
    Fillask is the other person I rely on for the episodes Reijer Zaaijer doesn't have and vice-versa. Both of them have done a great job.

  • @desslokbasileus571
    @desslokbasileus571 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    6:10 7:49 9:27 12:40  14:43  15:06 27:53  30:17 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

  • @Zavala1
    @Zavala1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is this episode on 1.5 playback speed?

  • @empirehistorian7729
    @empirehistorian7729 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This episode was very rushed. They should have spent three days each on all three sites. Too much going on, and no depth.

    • @alijud
      @alijud 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This was the edited highlights of a live dig that was broadcast over a number of time slots covering the weekend.

  • @BryonLape
    @BryonLape 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Discovery Channel? Is that what Channel 4 became?

    • @gregb6469
      @gregb6469 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Discovery Channel is American, Channel 4 is British.

    • @Wally-H
      @Wally-H 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Totally separate things. A lot of people get confused by this, probably because Discovery show old Time Team episodes now. Channel 4 is the UK channel that made the original programmes and they still own the rights to the series. Discovery will be paying a fee every time they show one.

  • @mikeleach4201
    @mikeleach4201 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ah ha! Finally found my name origin…

  • @bokhans
    @bokhans 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is a strange episode. Obviously a live thing and best of. To much on squeezed in to a rather short program.

  • @JN-bu3py
    @JN-bu3py ปีที่แล้ว

    HOW THEY LIVED HOW THEY DIED... how they pooed how they peed

  • @chinamanjw
    @chinamanjw 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Corenza😍😍😍😍

  • @bigbensarrowheadchannel2739
    @bigbensarrowheadchannel2739 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My least favorite tt episodes are the ones when they dig urban areas. Takes all the magic out of it to me.

  • @barbmcconnaughey3070
    @barbmcconnaughey3070 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yorick of Yorvik?

  • @cjw2661
    @cjw2661 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    how do they know that the young woman died childless ???

    • @Wotdermatter
      @Wotdermatter 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      The shape of the pelvic arc changes when a female has a baby.

    • @smplyjenn
      @smplyjenn 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Notches on her pelvis indicates she had a child. No notches no kids.

    • @kristenharris421
      @kristenharris421 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Connie Williams
      Many things can be found out from a skeleton.

    • @Gitarzan66
      @Gitarzan66 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jennifer LeBlanc. I thought the notches were found on the bed post.

    • @eboracum2012
      @eboracum2012 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Wotdermatter Yes, trying to snap tight shut so it won't happen again.

  • @bevanpope7924
    @bevanpope7924 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonder if Micheal ever became that footballer? My money says Midas sales clerk or on the doll?

  • @reimagine207
    @reimagine207 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live in York...York Maine, USA New England

    • @josephpetrino1741
      @josephpetrino1741 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I live in New York. Never been to any other York's.

    • @SB-sj4uz
      @SB-sj4uz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is the original York.

  • @PibrochPonder
    @PibrochPonder 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Look at all the people. This IS what Britain is not the multicultural mess of mass migration that the Labour Party created. I miss the country of my childhood

    • @garethamery3167
      @garethamery3167 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Did you not watch the program? The whole point was about the multi-cultural influences of a cosmopolitan Roman empire (Emperor Severus who died in York was Libyan), Vikings from North Europe and Normans ... If you are going to insist on racial purity where do you draw the line? After all you carry a Saxon name and the hero of jingoists PM Johnson is part Turkish...Perhaps you both should leave to regain Celtic purity?

    • @PibrochPonder
      @PibrochPonder 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Gareth Amery every example you use is that of an invasion! Going into other people country against the wishes of those that live in that country is wrong. The Romans pretty much wiped out the Celtic and Druidic culture. The Viking and Norman’s reeked untold bloodshed on the natives. Sorry but invading or moving to other people country’s against the wishes of the indigenous population is wrong. The point of the program is NOT to say that this sort of behaviour is right. Just because it was done in the past does not mean it’s ok to do it now. If it was wrong then it’s wrong now. Honestly I can’t believe your attitude. Your attitude is the exact argument used by colonialism to settle in other countries. Also it says a lot about you that you bring race into this. All I said is that I don’t like multiculturalism. I am fine with multiracial but it needs to be with integrated people. The best way for people to integrate is via marrying an indigenous person and adopting the culture. Let’s be honest, that’s NOT happening in certain community’s is it! Also with the volume of immigration form certain areas of the world that are very culturally different it’s highly unlikely that this form of integration will occur. Honestly your last statement saying that indigenous people should leave is pretty low.

    • @PibrochPonder
      @PibrochPonder 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Gareth Amery all I am saying is that two wrongs don’t make a right. The natives of the UK Never wanted mass immigration. All the mass immigration that has occurred has been against the will of the people that already live here. The Labour Party actively hid what they were doing under Blair and the Conservatives are dishonest in saying what they will but never intended to do. Both political parties have opened the door to mass immigration against the wishes of the the indigenous population. Both political parties have just taken the electoral votes and pretty much ignored in the case of the conservatives and out right deceived in the case of labour. The indigenous population never wanted this. Sorry but that’s true.

  • @clairemybodyandme8117
    @clairemybodyandme8117 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I feel very uncomfortable with bodies been removed to sit in a box in storage effort put into buriel to be dug up and boxed. Shame they are not reburied rather than sat in storage.

    • @Wally-H
      @Wally-H 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      All sorts of questions are raised by this type of archaeology. I once took a friend to a museum in Canterbury, on the site of a medieval monastery; they had an excavated bishop, complete with his mitre and coffin, in a glass case. My friend is a devout Christian and she quickly exited the building and sat on the grass outside until I'd finished looking. I guess for some, including those with faith, it's plain wrong to dig up any sort of grave and certainly not right to display the results. Personally I'm an atheist but I do understand her point of view

    • @meemurthelemur4811
      @meemurthelemur4811 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is a conundrum, but I do understand the reasoning behind it. If we were to leave all of the remains where they were, there literally wouldn't be anywhere left to build. The best example I can think of for this is the catacombs in Paris. The cemeteries were so full that they were burying bodies under a foot of earth and less. Dogs and other animals were digging them up and eating them. The stench was unbearable, not to mention the risk of disease and sanitary conditions were horrendous. People certainly weren't going to stop dying or having more babies, so something had to be done. They had no choice but to dig them up and move them somewhere else.
      At least these days, the remains are being treated with the utmost respect and are stored individually, not just separated and thrown into piles.

    • @bevanpope7924
      @bevanpope7924 ปีที่แล้ว

      True Christian’s don’t care about what happens to the body or corpse post life… That’s why they believe in the afterlife. They are prepared to leave this earth for a better place.

  • @westwingr5516
    @westwingr5516 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Why Sandy Toksvig? She's incredibly annoying. Her voice is like nails on a blackboard. I love Time Team and would love to see the entire show but I have to skip all the scenes that she's in. If this was an attempt to increase the shows ratings it's easy to see why it failed.

    • @emilyhandler122
      @emilyhandler122 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe they picked her partially because of her Danish background?

    • @CompetitiveAudio
      @CompetitiveAudio 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      westwingr Her style and manner of presentation is different than the normal crew who with the exception of Tony are very laid back and low key. Tony of course is more "foreground" as he's responsible for the pacing of the program and the "interface" between the team and the average causal viewer. From your description, I had prepared myself for something much worse LOL. Not to sound overly generic, offensive and strictly as an observation, Sandy does have the manner of most people of smaller than average stature. She's more hyper, with an air of cockiness I guess you'd say. She seems to know her subject quite well and once you get acclimated to her style she's just fine.

    • @GreenFlash1790
      @GreenFlash1790 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      westwingr I was prepared to be annoyed, too, as I have been by her in the past. But she was fine here, and is a very sharp minded archaeologist. Sandy in small doses is okay by me.

    • @fedraescuderohaldane6962
      @fedraescuderohaldane6962 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +westwingr Sandy's fine, it's Paul Thompson that's really annoying.

    • @TheSpikehere
      @TheSpikehere 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +westwingr The inclusion of both Sandy and Paul had nothing to do with "an attempt to increase the shows ratings". This is not a standard edition of Time Team. The show was normally one 1-hour long episode filmed on 1 site over 3-days. The live digs like this one were completely different. Three or four 1-hour episodes per day, and 3 sites, over one weekend. There was no way for Tony to be everywhere at once, hence the inclusion of guest presenters, on this, and all the other "Live" digs shown over the years.

  • @claudeusgothicus6453
    @claudeusgothicus6453 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    John Gator "I need another trench.." I'm perplexed about John, a geophysicist, making demands about where to put trenches.. and MA who's supposed to be the lead in charge treating him like his voice carries as much weight as one of the archaeologist.. I realize the geophysicist play an important role within the team as a unit.. but their role is to interpret and then convey the data pertaining to their field of study only.. mostly prior to this they rarely ventured to make a suggestion, unless asked directly.. and they certainly didn't get pushy about testing their own theories.. maybe I'm missing something but I thought the geophysicist were there to be a resource for the actual archaeologist.. similar to Stewart evaluating the landscape.. or the junior archaeologist who do the actual digging.. not to start exploring their own lines of inquiry and taking up valuable time.. seems a wee bit obnoxious for a geophysicist to start demanding where he "needs another trench.. so he can see what it is"
    -(note that I do understand the need to further the analysis of data gained by geophysics in relation to its use in archaeology.. obviously it is a good thing to help geophysicist understand their data better through using archaeology to help build a baseline and interpret variances in that context.. however considering TT has such a limited amount of time available for actual digging.. that allowing geophysicist to build up their skills at deciphering archaeological data during Time Team digs, rather than some other longer dig somewhere.. seems really stupid)-

    • @jamespfp
      @jamespfp 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      There is a very good answer for why John Gater & the Geophysicists ask for trenches. They're the ones making modern-style measurements first, and they're very curious about what, if anything, these measurements *exactly* mean. They cannot tell, in other words, random anomalies from *significant* ones, as in, the ones that are caused by human activity and nothing else.
      After 10 seasons, the Geophysics started to include ground-penetrating radar too, perhaps the single most important piece of equipment for the issues you're raising, which is to be able to quickly interpret the results. *BUT UNTIL THEY LEARN THE LANGUAGE,* there's no quick interpretations to be made by scanning and processing the results.

    • @georgedorn1022
      @georgedorn1022 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      John is an archaeological geophysicist - a qualified archaeologist who happens to specialise in geophysical techniques.
      As for Stewart - his 'success rate' throughout the series of Time Team demonstrates the importance of landscape investigation in a holistic approach to archaeological sites.

  • @BackFromTheMadeUp
    @BackFromTheMadeUp 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well, I've thought about it a lot, and reached my decision.
    No, archeologists should not go digging up the dead unless a reason can be provided that satisfies a set of criteria established by a committee representing groups such as clergy, archeologists and members of the general public.

    • @rogerwilco2
      @rogerwilco2 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      +Phillip Cowell We can often learn a lot from human remains. Signs of diseases, their diet, war wounds, etc. Most modern graves are cleared after 50 years any way.

    • @vilhelmvonbraun3093
      @vilhelmvonbraun3093 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      +Phillip Cowell What has clergy to do with it? Time to leave the bronze age behind.

    • @BackFromTheMadeUp
      @BackFromTheMadeUp 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      You and I may have, but a fair percentage of our countrymen haven't. We should respect their opinions in this kind of matter. too IMO

    • @JayFe0
      @JayFe0 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I could understand it might upset people if a graveyard with an existing church was dug up for a housing development but I've never heard much religious objection to digging up Roman remains. They were only pagans after all. Should we have immediately stopped excavating Pompeii or does that meet the criteria?
      Please let's not leave this up to a committee. Archaeologists have a perfectly good criterion: "Can we learn from this?" A committee would take six months to investigate the feasibility of a report on local sensitivities, six months to draw up the report with a verdict six months later. To paraphrase someone "The more legs an organism has the stupider it gets."
      As for me, you can play music on my ribs with my tibias and juggle my skull for all I care. I suppose treating them with respect is the right thing to do though. In 20 years I've never seen Tony do any of the above so I think they're OK.

    • @gregb6469
      @gregb6469 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Any remains found that were buried so long ago that no one knows who they were is fair game for the archaeologists. It's not like the people still need their bones! If a thousand years from now they can learn about life in the 21st century by examining my remains, go at it!

  • @callmemonkh9020
    @callmemonkh9020 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    carenza is SUCH A GEM...standing next to 'Toxic sand-e.'