Alice Roberts' melodious tone of voice and gentle smiles are as efficient as Viking hatchets and swords. Once we are won over by her communication weapons, we simply can't stop watching documentaries presented by her. Her success is deadly, it kills boredom and ignorance and makes anyone like science.
Alice has the most relaxing voice I have heard in some time, her presentation is simply the best. She should run for prime minister and she’d easily win and do a darn good job too !
Yes. Unhurried unlike previous archeo presenters, and meticulous in her wording. How she shows clear yet controlled emotion when handling evidence of brutality and trauma, shows exceptional authenticity. Definitely doesn't play to the camera, which is so rare nowadays.
This is why I quit cable TV and thrive on TH-cam. The game pieces blew me away, @ 12:04, the bishop piece is so detailed, he has his blessing fingers extended on his right hand. That 1000 year old + attention to detail is amazing.
I have a repro set that I made over 55 years ago. The pawns took ages to complete. I also made extra queens so's to have two when a pawn reaches the other side.
What you fail to realize is these programs aren’t made by TH-cam but by public or commercial broadcasting companies. Your shortsighted decision will result in these programs not being made!
These British archeology documentaries and TV shows are so damn interesting and engrossing that I would much rather watch them than any movie. Fiction be damned. There's nothing more interesting than real life.
Love Alices' info and the way she delivers it. We are transported back to a lifestyle long forgotten, without bias as to who was more worthy to occupy these lands. The only comment I would make when they were studying the injuries to the fallen, would be that the small square holes in the bones were impacts from arrows, not spears. Arrows probably brought the victim down, then they were attacked with swords etc. I believe spears would have made a larger, and wider hole in their bones, not small square holes. Just an observation.
I got rid of TV 25 years ago because I didn't want the violence, nasty language, and radical programs in my home. I LOVE reading and learning, and watching great programs like this on my computer, especially those filmed in Britain where some of my ancestors came from, including in York. THANK YOU! Please continue the fascinating programs and I am happy to subscribe.
I have always loved the Lewis chess set, especially the Berserker biting their shield. The amazing, tiny little details. The teeny tiny teeth 😬 Just amazing. I love it. 🙂🐿🌈❤️
Prof. Alice Roberts wears her multiple hats well. Academic, osteoarcheologist,, historian, writer and presenter. With a careful, thoughtfully aware approach to each subject presented in this series, she invites us in to explore each fascinating artifact, which are also beautifully filmed in exquisite detail. A superior episode, and a pleasure to watch :)
@@cerdic6586 So sorry, but I am afraid you are incorrect. Whilst her specialist subjects have been anatomy and biological anthropology, over her extensive and long career she has made many presentations as an historian, all under the umbrella of being a ' Professor for Public Engagement with Science ' As an Emeritus Professor of Early Medieval History myself, I am more than comfortable to consider Alice as part of the team - as it were :)
@@MrTorleon *She is not a serious historian. She analyses history through the narrow lens of material culture, has not really contributed to historiographical debate, and focuses on popular history. I do not doubt her general erudition though.
@@cerdic6586 Mmm, perhaps, but in my own long academic career, I could name any number of historians who have viewed history ' through the narrow lens of material culture ' so consider this criticism lacks a certain validity.What is certain though is, that many aspects of ' history ' have been undergoing some radical reappraisal over the last few decades, with some splendid research being undertaken by a number of quite brilliant social historians, so that history is being rewritten as we speak. So, SERIOUS historian or not, I value your point of view, even if I cannot agree with your analysis or your overall opinion - but that is fine, nothing wrong in a healthy debate, or expressing differing opinions :)
As an American I find this fascinating mainly because I’ve discovered that my genetics are Scottish and English along with a little Irish, Welsh, and Swedish. I feel like you’re talking about my ancestors.
CORRECT. THEIR WAS A COMPLETE REVUE OF OUR DNA BY REGION. AND EVERYONE HAD CELTIC AND VIKING CONTEN, PLUS OTHE DEPENDING O WHERE THE INVADERS SETTLED. MOST WHITE AMERICANS ARE LINKED TO EUROPE., AND BRITAIN IN PARTICULAR, IT'S OBVIOUS REALLY.
I found, through family search, tracing way back through my lineage, if I lived in 900 ad Iva the boneless would have been my father so that would make Ragnar my grandfather. There are a whole bunch of other things that I found out as my father was from England my mother was of German decent. I whole bunch of characters came out through family search. My next move is to do a in-depth DNA to prove all of this.
History & archaeology fascinate us. We seem to peel back the history by layers. Alice Roberts adds a gentle and very informed narration to all of this. She has a lovely and sweet demeanor, and that helps a lot. Well done ❤❤😊
I'm pretty sure that the Lewis Chess Pieces were made from Walrus Ivory from Greenland--I believe I read about this from the account of the ultimately unsuccessful Norse effort to colonize Greenland, which was based on the abundance of walrus ivory as an export material used to create Ecclesiastic artwork during that period. Please correct me if I've gotten this linkage wrong--but it just sparked up this connection in my mind.
Fascinating as always, what these wonderful archaeologist's tell us about everyday life a thousand years ago is amazing and the artefacts are so wonderful to see. Thanks so very much for this!
And to think, her first TV gig was on TIME TEAM, well done Dr. Alice Roberts a fan then and still today, I know Sir Tony is impressed with her career also, he said as much on the new Time Team recently.
That is the magic of Briton is the history. As an American I can't get enough of everything English, it a treasure of Western Civilization and the beginning of so much of what goes on in the rest of the world. Canady, Australia and America are direct decedents of British Civilization. People that don't study history can never understand how England and the countries it birthed are the countries that made the world modern.
Think Dr Alice Roberts is going to be added to my favourite Brit female academics - along with Mary Beard, Lucy Worsley, Eleanor Janega, and the fantastic Bettany Hughes!
@@Colourmad314 She did also get her hands dirty, as one of the on site 'dig team' at the beginning of her Time Team career. I suppose that there's no room for anyone on an archeology programme who wouldn't actively work on the digs. Time Team was a fantastic format - an eclectic mix of academics and specialists, a rigid timeframe, the beautiful (usually) British countryside, a massively popular presenter at the helm, and most importantly, no dumbing down of the subject matter. I don't know the ratings over the years, but I'm sure that a lot of people were surprised by it's popularity and longevity
@@Colourmad314 I'd imagine that Professor Roberts has inspired a lot of young people to consider a career in medicine/forensics/osteoarcheology, particularly girls. She's far from alone though - Dr Caroline Wilkinson and Dame Sue Black - both World renowned experts with significant television profiles. We've been extremely fortunate to have plenty of quality documentary programmes produced in the UK over the last couple of decades.
Thanks for posting. I preferred Time Team but she does an excellent job. A knowledgeable physical anthropologist with a lovely voice and manner, and a sense of humour she occasionally demonstration, she's the best substitute available. She deals with archaeologists who've been working for weeks or months, day in and day out, and of course don't ahve the "first days" enthusiasm of the Time Team crew, and of course aren't working because of their personalities.
i enjoy your evident enjoyment in telling these stories - well done - looking forward to more - now the important part ... where did you get your necklace ?
What I am surprised by is that with all these human remains, there is no mention of DNA. Shouldn’t it be possible to extract DNA from these bones and teeth? And wouldn’t this DNA shed light on the origins and ancestry of these individuals? Also, it would be interesting to learn about the share of „Viking“ DNA in today’s inhabitants of England and Scotland!
Dna doesnt always survive in badly degraded remains and is still not cheap to sequence archaeologically (which is far more thourough than ancestry/23 and me sequencing)
30:45❤ 👑🏆"Will you search through the loamy earth for me? Climb through the briar and bramble I'll be your treasure I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind I knew the call of all the song birds They sang all the wrong words I'm waiting for you I'm waiting for you" When I hear the word "detectorists"😊
A superb, balanced take on Viking Britain! After twelve hundred years, archeology finally overrides monkish propaganda riddled with demonizing misconceptions of the Norse. Until now, the sort of English history often deified by Brexiteers lauds Alfred and the Anglo-Saxon narrative as an origin story for ‘God and Country’ on the road to empire, whereas this episode of ‘Digging for Britain’ demythologizes any Anglo-Saxon moral superiority. Thanks to science, the St. Brice’s day massacre of English Vikings unearths a genocidal, proprietorial template soon to be repeated against the Welsh, Scots and Irish, and that would later manifest through land grabs across continents. Quite brilliantly, this new archeology shows how Christianized Anglo-Saxon kings of the Viking age were no less thuggish and ambitious than their Nordic counterparts, but without the Viking capacity to absorb peoples into racially diverse communities wherein women, in particular, often enjoyed levels of power and freedom centuries ahead of what Christendom ever offered.
Alice Roberts is as lovely as an English rose that blooms in my gardens .As educated as the Earth and can make a dull day interesting .Yours Kevin, Lord Parr
I’m so grateful that our ancestors used natural resources and therefore left behind tantalisingly scant clues as to their existence. Imagine what will be dug up in the future regarding our existence. How will all of the plastic and synthetic items be used to interpret us?
I loved the decorated combs. When they said that they found so many combs in one place, I’m glad that they thought it could have been a comb maker. Ha ha - I honestly think I would have screamed if they had said anything about the amount of combs in one place being evidence of ritual offering to the “hair gods” 🤣 or something like that. A comb maker seems perfectly reasonable - but just in case I’m completely wrong.....I’d like to sincerely thank the hair gods for looking after my family’s hair ❤🤣
⚜️ I’m voting for the Hair Gods and worship the thought that combs had a far more fundamental purpose other than practical, utilitarian or unholy ritual for these people 😺
I don’t know why the curator seemed to think of spear wounds to the exclusion of wounds caused by knives or dirks. Some dirks were made in that square pattern-like 4 sharp blades rather than a flat knife-weren’t they? It would have been easier to use a dirk rather than a spear at close quarters….
York is my favourite city in the world, talk about a rich history, it's almost ridiculous!! Within the walls of york there are 40 churches 3 monastries, and that's not including the minster, all of them worthy of spending a day in learning their history. Both the Roman and viking occupations of the city or worth their individual visits to York in my opinion, with the guided tours always worth joining in (unless you happen to have your prof Alice Roberts talking 3D hologram with you), them able to point out lots of things you would likely of missed on your own. My American friends were in raptures when I took them to York, they didn't want to leave.
At 39:50. I morevthan bet a good sum of money that one of those pins fits the silver broach of the previous find in this video. But which one --well it has to be silver, and perhaps a ball of silver on its top ..?
In Scotland, the iron age was 800 BC to AD 400. In Denmark, the late iron age was the Early Germanic Iron Age (Migration Period), AD 400 to 550 AD, and the Late Germanic Iron Age, AD 550 to 800. {:o:O:}
I’ve always had a problem with men who gain power and riches by telling peasants they were given authority over everyone by some invisible man in the sky. Whether king or priest, I always thought it was wrong to claim power for a lie. And with that power, they took money and goods from people with either a promise of protection they couldn’t keep or the threat of eternal damnation for rebellion. So I’m ok with the Vikings looting the ill gotten gains of the priests. It seems like poetic justice to me.
We just saw the Viking Festival in Scotland, where the burial 'ship' burning was the grand finale of the event, which makes me think any burials found on land were sacrifices. Too simplistic maybe?
"Vikings landed their boats here to start a new life." ... "But first, they came here to plunder." 🤔 I have to admit, even as someone with scandinavian ancestors, it's hard for me to see invaders as victims, when the attacked finally fought back.
The St Brice's day massacre was perhaps unsurprising given the continuing raids & Danegeld paid. The Anglo Saxons had difficulty discriminating between 'Danes' who had settled & others who continued to raid finally in 1066 there was a vast battle between the forces of Harold Hardrada & the Saxons at Stamford Bridge in which 'the Danes' were massacred.
I could listen to Alice all day - she has a wonderful melodic voice that is only enhanced by her beautiful pronunciation that pulls you in . She could be making a video of match making and I would remain entranced 😊
Not sure how you can cover the vikings without reference to slavery. Getting rid of the heathen vikings was also getting rid of slavery. BBC like Alice because she is such a good narrator. Occasionally she goes off script where it’s obvious the narrative is wrong. I feel she should have done so here to destroy the myth that the vikings were nice people. Twenty to thirty men between the ages of 17 and 25 are probably a Viking raiding party looking for slaves and were caught red-handed and suffered retribution. There are similar burial mounds around the country. The manufacture of combs on a remote island is a good place to keep slaves and put them to work as it’s difficult to escape. Again, the dirham coin from Afghanistan, could have been picked up from the Muslim slave market at Constantinople.
@@biddiemutter3481 Which women? The women kidnapped by the raiders and kept as slaves? Vikings didn't sail out with their women - they relied on killing men and kidnapping women to take home with them.
@16:59 "York or _Jorvik,"_ which she pronounces as "yor-vik." This is incorrect. *The 'v' of Old Norse was pronounced as the Modern English 'w.'* This shows that it was an easy, even slight, transition from the Old Norse to the English pronunciation of the city's name.
At 37:00 the king ordered that coin made to be buried with many witnesses. Then a 2nd duplicate was made for him to carry in his afterlife. Then find that second coin and it will giveaway the real king--whose likely tombed as a king. The silver cup was the stolen piece to cause the Saxons to kill those 35 vikings. Upon the Saxons knowing they would never recover it.
I was in Scotland in June some years ago. We only had 2 days of rain in 2 weeks. I got sunburned. And the sun just barely set below the horizon and you could see it move sideways and then come back up. Birds sang all 'night' long. So sometimes you get lucky.
Something they seemed to have misinterpreted were the scorch marks on the bones. The fact that the burns were mostly on the face, hands and pelvis would seem to suggest members of a force attacking a fortification. Often oil was poured over walls and set ablaze. These injuries would suggest the bones came from attackers and not people being hunted down. The multiple wounds would actually suggest that someone put a suffering person out of their misery.
As it is recorded that Jewish peasants used it against Vespasian's troops in 47 A.D. and it was also used at the siege of Orléans (1428-29), the Great Siege of Malta (1565) and the siege of Sommières in the French Wars of Religion (1573) in the later middle ages; it was most likely used on occasion during the early middle ages. While not used often because of the expense, it cannot be assumed it wasn't used in dire circumstances. @@georgedorn1022
Watching Time Team🕳️ in the late 90s ..I always wondered what the future might hold for girl with the bright red hair👧🏼 digging in the trench next to Phil Harding 🤠😂❤
An interesting subject presented in an engaging way by Alice Roberts. But I think her sweeping conclusions aren't much backed up by what she's presented. So towards the end she claims that the Vikings "shaped our landscape". It's a melodious phrase, but what does it mean, exactly? Fine English prose, but that's about it.
I’m interested to learn how Vikings managed to stay healthy, evade plague, preserve food, apply medicine and wonder how environmentally friendly they were. Did they just pillage, plunder, maim, loot, murder, make amazing swords, weapons, sailing vessels and worship Gods because they could…or was there a much higher purpose? How did they learn to navigate and what drove them to value one thing more than another? Is a cesspit an indicator that hygiene was valued or that excrement had further use? In all honesty they must have had a brilliant teaching system where knowledge was taught, learned and extended…and they must have had brilliant minds and tools to do this. What was their average lifespan? How many children survived a brood and reached adulthood …were cripples supported or left behind to die and were criminals who didn’t support a healthy society (or clan) outcast, punished or bedridden? Chess was a teaching aid - not just a game…and hair combs may have not just been for beautification and adornment…beholding one may have been a sign of tribal standing, or that you were not a slave, or that you worshiped a particular God or maybe they stood for all of these things and also acted as a de-lousing tool to support health. This makes me wonder if they thrived on far more wisdom and knowledge than what we recognise them for…yes the artefacts are fabulous but they are also pointers to understandings and beliefs long lost. This provided a beautiful (albeit tiny) window into viewing the crumbs of Viking history that remain and planted seeds that urge me to learn more about these incredible people and better understand what drove them. But it also drives me to better understand what I should value and perhaps what I shouldn’t value. Thank you for a video well worth watching!
Are you meaning The Grand Old Duke of York? More a reference to an event, or events during the Wars of the Roses I think. Nothing to do with the Norsemen or ancient Brits.
It is worth noting that such Islamic coins were found by the tens of thousand in the Eastern Scandinavians areas, foremost on the Island of Gotland, now in Sweden.
It was completely inconsiderate of the Norsemen to not have a written history of their daily life thereby causing modern day archeologists to literally get their hands dirty to make speculations.
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Alice Roberts' melodious tone of voice and gentle smiles are as efficient as Viking hatchets and swords. Once we are won over by her communication weapons, we simply can't stop watching documentaries presented by her. Her success is deadly, it kills boredom and ignorance and makes anyone like science.
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Alice has the most relaxing voice I have heard in some time, her presentation is simply the best. She should run for prime minister and she’d easily win and do a darn good job too !
Yes. Unhurried unlike previous archeo presenters, and meticulous in her wording. How she shows clear yet controlled emotion when handling evidence of brutality and trauma, shows exceptional authenticity. Definitely doesn't play to the camera, which is so rare nowadays.
"a young man, being hacked to death".... yup, soft and gentle, i've never felt so relaxed.
Shes just really hot!
The people who have carved those chess pieces obviously have some excellent carving skills to be admired for all of history to enjoy.
One of them might have known as “Margaret the Adroit.”
This is why I quit cable TV and thrive on TH-cam. The game pieces blew me away, @ 12:04, the bishop piece is so detailed, he has his blessing fingers extended on his right hand. That 1000 year old + attention to detail is amazing.
I have a repro set that I made over 55 years ago. The pawns took ages to complete. I also made extra queens so's to have two when a pawn reaches the other side.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t watch TV anymore… I find so many great doc and history channel here on YT … and many others!
What you fail to realize is these programs aren’t made by TH-cam but by public or commercial broadcasting companies. Your shortsighted decision will result in these programs not being made!
These British archeology documentaries and TV shows are so damn interesting and engrossing that I would much rather watch them than any movie.
Fiction be damned. There's nothing more interesting than real life.
AGREED, I WISH MY HISTORY TEACHER HAD BEEN LIKE HER.
Yeah, but don't believe what they tell you, listen to the words, we believe we presume...😂😂 In other words we haven't got a clue 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@jonesyacdc so why do you watch them, is just that you think you’re funny? Well you’re not funny that’s a historical fact!
@@kevdimo6459 because I love watching people like you get irate. 🤣🤣🤣👍
@@mrfester42 do you think she could sit with Graham Hancock and Joe Rogan and have a conversation.?
when it comes to archaeology videos, its hard to beat Dr. Roberts as the presenter. Thank you for the great information you have provided.
She’s a 10 on scale of 10. Professional. Delightful & seriously interested in her work. Simply a wise & credit to this episode. D.R, Capt ;(ret)
Love Alices' info and the way she delivers it. We are transported back to a lifestyle long forgotten, without bias as to who was more worthy to occupy these lands. The only comment I would make when they were studying the injuries to the fallen, would be that the small square holes in the bones were impacts from arrows, not spears. Arrows probably brought the victim down, then they were attacked with swords etc. I believe spears would have made a larger, and wider hole in their bones, not small square holes. Just an observation.
A beautiful and intelligent woman fires the imagination . . . especially when she reveals mysteries and stories from the past.
Dr Alice is an incredible presenter.
*Professor.
I got rid of TV 25 years ago because I didn't want the violence, nasty language, and radical programs in my home. I LOVE reading and learning, and watching great programs like this on my computer, especially those filmed in Britain where some of my ancestors came from, including in York. THANK YOU! Please continue the fascinating programs and I am happy to subscribe.
It is your history as well
And this isn’t violence🤔
This is all about violence though?
I have always loved the Lewis chess set, especially the Berserker biting their shield.
The amazing, tiny little details. The teeny tiny teeth 😬
Just amazing. I love it.
🙂🐿🌈❤️
I was blown away by that detail. All of them. So amazing.
Prof. Alice Roberts wears her multiple hats well. Academic, osteoarcheologist,, historian, writer and presenter. With a careful, thoughtfully aware approach to each subject presented in this series, she invites us in to explore each fascinating artifact, which are also beautifully filmed in exquisite detail.
A superior episode, and a pleasure to watch :)
She is not a historian
Be still my beating heart! Dr Roberts has caught my attention since the first time she appeared on Time Team. 😍
@@cerdic6586 So sorry, but I am afraid you are incorrect. Whilst her specialist subjects have been anatomy and biological anthropology, over her extensive and long career she has made many presentations as an historian, all under the umbrella of being a ' Professor for Public Engagement with Science ' As an Emeritus Professor of Early Medieval History myself, I am more than comfortable to consider Alice as part of the team - as it were :)
@@MrTorleon *She is not a serious historian. She analyses history through the narrow lens of material culture, has not really contributed to historiographical debate, and focuses on popular history. I do not doubt her general erudition though.
@@cerdic6586 Mmm, perhaps, but in my own long academic career, I could name any number of historians who have viewed history ' through the narrow lens of material culture ' so consider this criticism lacks a certain validity.What is certain though is, that many aspects of ' history ' have been undergoing some radical reappraisal over the last few decades, with some splendid research being undertaken by a number of quite brilliant social historians, so that history is being rewritten as we speak.
So, SERIOUS historian or not, I value your point of view, even if I cannot agree with your analysis or your overall opinion - but that is fine, nothing wrong in a healthy debate, or expressing differing opinions :)
Love this show and love Alice Roberts presenting it. Cheers!
As an American I find this fascinating mainly because I’ve discovered that my genetics are Scottish and English along with a little Irish, Welsh, and Swedish. I feel like you’re talking about my ancestors.
CORRECT. THEIR WAS A COMPLETE REVUE OF OUR DNA BY REGION. AND EVERYONE HAD CELTIC AND VIKING CONTEN, PLUS OTHE DEPENDING O WHERE THE INVADERS SETTLED. MOST WHITE AMERICANS ARE LINKED TO EUROPE., AND BRITAIN IN PARTICULAR, IT'S OBVIOUS REALLY.
Your ancestors committed a genocide in what is now known as the US.
They are
Same here
I found, through family search, tracing way back through my lineage, if I lived in 900 ad Iva the boneless would have been my father so that would make Ragnar my grandfather. There are a whole bunch of other things that I found out as my father was from England my mother was of German decent. I whole bunch of characters came out through family search. My next move is to do a in-depth DNA to prove all of this.
History & archaeology fascinate us. We seem to peel back the history by layers. Alice Roberts adds a gentle and very informed narration to all of this. She has a lovely and sweet demeanor, and that helps a lot. Well done ❤❤😊
Prof Alice makes this interesting history even more interesting...
I'm pretty sure that the Lewis Chess Pieces were made from Walrus Ivory from Greenland--I believe I read about this from the account of the ultimately unsuccessful Norse effort to colonize Greenland, which was based on the abundance of walrus ivory as an export material used to create Ecclesiastic artwork during that period. Please correct me if I've gotten this linkage wrong--but it just sparked up this connection in my mind.
Brilliantly presented by a very talented orator. Kudos ❤
Fascinating as always, what these wonderful archaeologist's tell us about everyday life a thousand years ago is amazing and the artefacts are so wonderful to see.
Thanks so very much for this!
No problem. You know what it is.
Thank you for sharing these full episodes, your contributions are appreciated!
And to think, her first TV gig was on TIME TEAM, well done Dr. Alice Roberts a fan then and still today, I know Sir Tony is impressed with her career also, he said as much on the new Time Team recently.
*Professor.
@@ianmacfarlane1241stop being so pedantic
An editorial suggestion for your subtitles: a HORDE is a mob of people ; a hidden treasure is a HOARD. Same pronunciation.
That is the magic of Briton is the history. As an American I can't get enough of everything English, it a treasure of Western Civilization and the beginning of so much of what goes on in the rest of the world. Canady, Australia and America are direct decedents of British Civilization. People that don't study history can never understand how England and the countries it birthed are the countries that made the world modern.
Great series, good to see a Time steamer again.
This is so good! I have Viking roots, so these discoveries give me chills. Thank you
I can feel the spear points jabbing into my hip. Thanks for the imagery. And those were misses. They were probably trying to disembowel him.
AU-AH !
Hello ❤ Boston here. Truly a wonderful show, and so very informative! Thank you.
Good isn’t it, been to Boston, was impressed by how well looked after your old buildings are.
@@davidgray3321 Thank you ♥️ I'm glad, that ❤️you were able to see our good side!
History presented by intelligence and beauty. What more does anyone need?
The shows are so awesome
Great to watch and listen too , chilling at home
Brilliant
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Think Dr Alice Roberts is going to be added to my favourite Brit female academics - along with Mary Beard, Lucy Worsley, Eleanor Janega, and the fantastic Bettany Hughes!
*Professor Alice Roberts.
@@Colourmad314 She did also get her hands dirty, as one of the on site 'dig team' at the beginning of her Time Team career.
I suppose that there's no room for anyone on an archeology programme who wouldn't actively work on the digs.
Time Team was a fantastic format - an eclectic mix of academics and specialists, a rigid timeframe, the beautiful (usually) British countryside, a massively popular presenter at the helm, and most importantly, no dumbing down of the subject matter.
I don't know the ratings over the years, but I'm sure that a lot of people were surprised by it's popularity and longevity
@@Colourmad314 I'd imagine that Professor Roberts has inspired a lot of young people to consider a career in medicine/forensics/osteoarcheology, particularly girls.
She's far from alone though - Dr Caroline Wilkinson and Dame Sue Black - both World renowned experts with significant television profiles.
We've been extremely fortunate to have plenty of quality documentary programmes produced in the UK over the last couple of decades.
Add in Janina Ramirez
Add Professor Joann Fisher
Professor Alice Roberts, is such a Star?
Dr Alice Roberts is such an eloquent presenter, I enjoy her immensely!
Alucinante el viaje a otros tiempos.. gracias por amar y hacer amar la arqueología!
Thanks for posting. I preferred Time Team but she does an excellent job. A knowledgeable physical anthropologist with a lovely voice and manner, and a sense of humour she occasionally demonstration, she's the best substitute available. She deals with archaeologists who've been working for weeks or months, day in and day out, and of course don't ahve the "first days" enthusiasm of the Time Team crew, and of course aren't working because of their personalities.
thank Dr Alice Roberts!
Alice is such a lovely person :)
i enjoy your evident enjoyment in telling these stories - well done - looking forward to more - now the important part ... where did you get your necklace ?
Nice finds . great show .only thing I find in Los Angeles is old big gulp cups . And Burger King bags .ha ha ha
An Angelic touch to history ,
As it should be
Brilliant. Well done.
Never enough of those fantastic documentaries presented by such a beautiful, and inteligent person. Professor Alice Roberts..... Kudos ❤
Every time I see an ad for Viking Cruise Lines I can feel my Scottish relatives smirking.
Fantastic researched vid . Wish it was shown in schools but alas the truth is despised by some who lack self esteem.
American schools really edit history, especially the history of European countries.
Next to Tony Robinson, Professor Alice Roberts, my new favourite archaeology presenter!
Fabulous depiction of this period of history.
What I am surprised by is that with all these human remains, there is no mention of DNA. Shouldn’t it be possible to extract DNA from these bones and teeth? And wouldn’t this DNA shed light on the origins and ancestry of these individuals? Also, it would be interesting to learn about the share of „Viking“ DNA in today’s inhabitants of England and Scotland!
Dna doesnt always survive in badly degraded remains and is still not cheap to sequence archaeologically (which is far more thourough than ancestry/23 and me sequencing)
30:45❤ 👑🏆"Will you search through the loamy earth for me? Climb through the briar and bramble I'll be your treasure I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind I knew the call of all the song birds They sang all the wrong words I'm waiting for you I'm waiting for you"
When I hear the word "detectorists"😊
I'm waiting for you and I'm still alive. I have a game of connect four with plastic pieces stood ready.
I’m proud to be a Brit when we have great representation, well done Alice you are a fantastic rep for the UK.
Not crazy about that game, but enjoyed watching you win! Congrats!
Stornoway area (Melbost) is where my Grandfathers family lived for who knows how long!
A superb, balanced take on Viking Britain! After twelve hundred years, archeology finally overrides monkish propaganda riddled with demonizing misconceptions of the Norse. Until now, the sort of English history often deified by Brexiteers lauds Alfred and the Anglo-Saxon narrative as an origin story for ‘God and Country’ on the road to empire, whereas this episode of ‘Digging for Britain’ demythologizes any Anglo-Saxon moral superiority. Thanks to science, the St. Brice’s day massacre of English Vikings unearths a genocidal, proprietorial template soon to be repeated against the Welsh, Scots and Irish, and that would later manifest through land grabs across continents. Quite brilliantly, this new archeology shows how Christianized Anglo-Saxon kings of the Viking age were no less thuggish and ambitious than their Nordic counterparts, but without the Viking capacity to absorb peoples into racially diverse communities wherein women, in particular, often enjoyed levels of power and freedom centuries ahead of what Christendom ever offered.
Excellent show.
Alice Roberts is as lovely as an English rose that blooms in my gardens .As educated as the Earth and can make a dull day interesting .Yours Kevin, Lord Parr
Dr. Jackson Crawford may have some insights into the runic inscriptions.
I’m so grateful that our ancestors used natural resources and therefore left behind tantalisingly scant clues as to their existence.
Imagine what will be dug up in the future regarding our existence. How will all of the plastic and synthetic items be used to interpret us?
I loved the decorated combs.
When they said that they found so many combs in one place, I’m glad that they thought it could have been a comb maker.
Ha ha - I honestly think I would have screamed if they had said anything about the amount of combs in one place being evidence of ritual offering to the “hair gods” 🤣 or something like that.
A comb maker seems perfectly reasonable - but just in case I’m completely wrong.....I’d like to sincerely thank the hair gods for looking after my family’s hair ❤🤣
⚜️ I’m voting for the Hair Gods and worship the thought that combs had a far more fundamental purpose other than practical, utilitarian or unholy ritual for these people 😺
I'd love to meet her back in the Viking days! I'll tell you this there wouldn't be much pillaging I'd be too busy with the.. other stuff.
A VERY SMOOTH WOMAN WHO'S SO SPOT ON TO BRING THE FACT'S AND MAKE IT INTERESTING TO ANYBODY WHO READS ABOUT THE VIKINGS
The chess pieces are wonderful! I don't play chess, but i want a replica of them!
What is fascinating to me is the 'measuring weights' for silver exchange were made of Leaed, some even with decorations and imbedded stones!
The spear wounds could have been made after the slaughter as the victors went around to ensure each body is truly dead. Or arrow wounds.
I don’t know why the curator seemed to think of spear wounds to the exclusion of wounds caused by knives or dirks. Some dirks were made in that square pattern-like 4 sharp blades rather than a flat knife-weren’t they? It would have been easier to use a dirk rather than a spear at close quarters….
York is my favourite city in the world, talk about a rich history, it's almost ridiculous!! Within the walls of york there are 40 churches 3 monastries, and that's not including the minster, all of them worthy of spending a day in learning their history.
Both the Roman and viking occupations of the city or worth their individual visits to York in my opinion, with the guided tours always worth joining in (unless you happen to have your prof Alice Roberts talking 3D hologram with you), them able to point out lots of things you would likely of missed on your own. My American friends were in raptures when I took them to York, they didn't want to leave.
Sometimes I enjoy the "SHROOMIES" in the summertime, outside, listening to nature all day just relaxing.. ... .... .
At 39:50. I morevthan bet a good sum of money that one of those pins fits the silver broach of the previous find in this video. But which one --well it has to be silver, and perhaps a ball of silver on its top ..?
When they say "very late Iron Age" what does that mean in the context of the western isles of Scotland (and thus the romans not being in play)?
In Scotland, the iron age was 800 BC to AD 400.
In Denmark, the late iron age was the Early Germanic Iron Age (Migration Period), AD 400 to 550 AD, and the Late Germanic Iron Age, AD 550 to 800.
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I’ve always had a problem with men who gain power and riches by telling peasants they were given authority over everyone by some invisible man in the sky.
Whether king or priest, I always thought it was wrong to claim power for a lie.
And with that power, they took money and goods from people with either a promise of protection they couldn’t keep or the threat of eternal damnation for rebellion.
So I’m ok with the Vikings looting the ill gotten gains of the priests.
It seems like poetic justice to me.
love the series
We just saw the Viking Festival in Scotland, where the burial 'ship' burning was the grand finale of the event, which makes me think any burials found on land were sacrifices. Too simplistic maybe?
"Vikings landed their boats here to start a new life." ... "But first, they came here to plunder." 🤔 I have to admit, even as someone with scandinavian ancestors, it's hard for me to see invaders as victims, when the attacked finally fought back.
The St Brice's day massacre was perhaps unsurprising given the continuing raids & Danegeld paid. The Anglo Saxons had difficulty discriminating between 'Danes' who had settled & others who continued to raid finally in 1066 there was a vast battle between the forces of Harold Hardrada & the Saxons at Stamford Bridge in which 'the Danes' were massacred.
With a 2011 production date this doc belongs to history already...
Alice Robert's is an awesome lady
I dig this video.
I could listen to Alice all day - she has a wonderful melodic voice that is only enhanced by her beautiful pronunciation that pulls you in . She could be making a video of match making and I would remain entranced 😊
Not sure how you can cover the vikings without reference to slavery. Getting rid of the heathen vikings was also getting rid of slavery. BBC like Alice because she is such a good narrator. Occasionally she goes off script where it’s obvious the narrative is wrong. I feel she should have done so here to destroy the myth that the vikings were nice people. Twenty to thirty men between the ages of 17 and 25 are probably a Viking raiding party looking for slaves and were caught red-handed and suffered retribution. There are similar burial mounds around the country. The manufacture of combs on a remote island is a good place to keep slaves and put them to work as it’s difficult to escape. Again, the dirham coin from Afghanistan, could have been picked up from the Muslim slave market at Constantinople.
It doesn't appear from the statement by the king that they were focused on raiders in the massacre rather people already living among 'his ' people.
@@biddiemutter3481 ...but all were young men. No children, no women. That's not "people living among us", that's a raiding party.
@@xcrockery8080 that's a possible explanation another would be that the women were taken alive to be enslaved or 'married '
@@biddiemutter3481 Which women? The women kidnapped by the raiders and kept as slaves?
Vikings didn't sail out with their women - they relied on killing men and kidnapping women to take home with them.
Loved this.
What would archaeologiists do if our ancestors were not so careless about droppping pottery,losing tools, and leaving jewelry stashed behind?
@16:59 "York or _Jorvik,"_ which she pronounces as "yor-vik." This is incorrect. *The 'v' of Old Norse was pronounced as the Modern English 'w.'* This shows that it was an easy, even slight, transition from the Old Norse to the English pronunciation of the city's name.
At 37:00 the king ordered that coin made to be buried with many witnesses. Then a 2nd duplicate was made for him to carry in his afterlife. Then find that second coin and it will giveaway the real king--whose likely tombed as a king. The silver cup was the stolen piece to cause the Saxons to kill those 35 vikings. Upon the Saxons knowing they would never recover it.
Why is it whenever I go to Scotland its pouring with rain, but these documentaries don't hint at it!
I was in Scotland in June some years ago. We only had 2 days of rain in 2 weeks. I got sunburned. And the sun just barely set below the horizon and you could see it move sideways and then come back up. Birds sang all 'night' long. So sometimes you get lucky.
Every time I'm in England it has bucketed doon. Funny that.
@@forbesmeek6304 I'm writing outback Western Australia.
Something they seemed to have misinterpreted were the scorch marks on the bones. The fact that the burns were mostly on the face, hands and pelvis would seem to suggest members of a force attacking a fortification. Often oil was poured over walls and set ablaze. These injuries would suggest the bones came from attackers and not people being hunted down. The multiple wounds would actually suggest that someone put a suffering person out of their misery.
Is there evidence for burning oil being used as a weapon in Early Medieval fortifications?
As it is recorded that Jewish peasants used it against Vespasian's troops in 47 A.D. and it was also used at the siege of Orléans (1428-29), the Great Siege of Malta (1565) and the siege of Sommières in the French Wars of Religion (1573) in the later middle ages; it was most likely used on occasion during the early middle ages. While not used often because of the expense, it cannot be assumed it wasn't used in dire circumstances.
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I don't know about the vikings but I lose combs so regularly my wife just bought me a collection of 50.
I remember her on time team
Watching Time Team🕳️ in the late 90s ..I always wondered what the future might hold for girl with the bright red hair👧🏼 digging in the trench next to Phil Harding 🤠😂❤
Imagine living in Orkney in the old days 🥶
I have Scandinavian ancestry from the Isle of Man before the year 1300.
I think everyone in britain and ireland probably have
An interesting subject presented in an engaging way by Alice Roberts.
But I think her sweeping conclusions aren't much backed up by what she's presented. So towards the end she claims that the Vikings "shaped our landscape". It's a melodious phrase, but what does it mean, exactly? Fine English prose, but that's about it.
That's archeology for you.
THIS IS HER I'M TALKING ABOUT, SHE'S SO BEAUTIFUL.
Alice Roberts is simply gorgeous!
I’m interested to learn how Vikings managed to stay healthy, evade plague, preserve food, apply medicine and wonder how environmentally friendly they were. Did they just pillage, plunder, maim, loot, murder, make amazing swords, weapons, sailing vessels and worship Gods because they could…or was there a much higher purpose?
How did they learn to navigate and what drove them to value one thing more than another?
Is a cesspit an indicator that hygiene was valued or that excrement had further use?
In all honesty they must have had a brilliant teaching system where knowledge was taught, learned and extended…and they must have had brilliant minds and tools to do this.
What was their average lifespan? How many children survived a brood and reached adulthood …were cripples supported or left behind to die and were criminals who didn’t support a healthy society (or clan) outcast, punished or bedridden?
Chess was a teaching aid - not just a game…and hair combs may have not just been for beautification and adornment…beholding one may have been a sign of tribal standing, or that you were not a slave, or that you worshiped a particular God or maybe they stood for all of these things and also acted as a de-lousing tool to support health.
This makes me wonder if they thrived on far more wisdom and knowledge than what we recognise them for…yes the artefacts are fabulous but they are also pointers to understandings and beliefs long lost.
This provided a beautiful (albeit tiny) window into viewing the crumbs of Viking history that remain and planted seeds that urge me to learn more about these incredible people and better understand what drove them. But it also drives me to better understand what I should value and perhaps what I shouldn’t value.
Thank you for a video well worth watching!
yep, she's a star
Runes were used as abbreviations like text messaging in the 8th century. This best explains the Heavener Runestone in Oklahoma.
Is there any connection made to the child song, " The noble duke of York, he had 10,000 men he marched them up a hill and marched them down again."
No, none whatsoever.
Are you meaning The Grand Old Duke of York? More a reference to an event, or events during the Wars of the Roses I think. Nothing to do with the Norsemen or ancient Brits.
@@derekmclean5603 Yeah, the Duke of York was trying to promote the idea of a trained, professional army.
Hence all the marching.
It is worth noting that such Islamic coins were found by the tens of thousand in the Eastern Scandinavians areas, foremost on the Island of Gotland, now in Sweden.
By the way, is it the hoard of the horde? (see label).
What about arrow wounds at the back?
It was completely inconsiderate of the Norsemen to not have a written history of their daily life thereby causing modern day archeologists to literally get their hands dirty to make speculations.
My family are from York
I have a Viking gene. I have inherited Ankylosing Spondylitis!
Most of vikings objects are not from Scandinavia but natives. Yet, viking pulp fiction became popular like boys bands.
We will show close ups of finds, but we will blur 2/3 of the item so you can't get the full scope. Yay.