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Stop over accentuating your last syllable of every sentence! It’s so annoying dude. If that’s the way you talk then hire a person to do the dialogue because you really are just over doing the accent man.
Talk about 'social constructs' ... interpreting archeological finds by projecting the author's political biases onto the past is well ... smh silly ... It's as bad as seeing everything through the lens of space aliens or 'young Earth' Biblical models ...
Appreciate you keeping us so up to date on latest archeological findings. Amazing to think that people of this period, those we have been taught were nomadic, are revealing themselves as organized builders of civilizations! Thank you for everything you do in bringing us the latest discoveries in archeology!!
Thank you for pointing out that the tower may have played multiple roles for the people of Jericho. It’s baffling to me how often a single interpretation will be defended ad infinitum when, not only is it unlikely we will ever know which competing interpretation is right, but the interpretations don’t actually need to compete!
I was thinking to myself during this video - wouldn't be interesting (although as you said - there is no way to really know) if things like the alignment was just accidental. Bob - we need a tower over by that wall - Right O, I will get it done. Say Bob , doesn't that finished tower cast a neat shadow.? - Yes , I suppose it does. . . . LOL.
@@sociallyferal4237 LOL I was thinking the same thing. Some scientist says the same thing about almost every ancient structure. Except if the people who built it were sun worshipers I don't see how it would matter to them? If it's a round tower does it make a difference? If it's the tallest architecture in the area The sun is going to hit it.
@@lennybuttz2162 I mean it's not to say they didn't put more thought into something that involves an awful lot of work for early tools. But sometimes I like to think of people assigning more emphasis on things that may not have been significant to the people back then. Just like say in 1000 years the WhiteHouse and its Obelisk and whatever they might align to. May be hearsay - but I recall watching some documentary that kind of joked about Archaeologists assigning anything that they can't quite find a purpose for in a dig as 'Religious Significance'. :D Doing it on purpose 11,000 years ago is also a pretty nifty thought too.
It may have served multiple functions, but it was obviously built for a very specific purpose. The people living in that area probably viewed the site as holy ground, because the shadow of the mountain overtakes it at exactly 6:30 pm on the day of the summer solstice. Why would 6:30 pm be significant? I'm not sure, but it is a natural time in the evening to quit working. The fact that there is a natural spring nearby is probably also significant. They call it a "city", but I think we should consider the possibility that it was a city in the same sense that the Vatican City is a city. It was a spiritually significant site for the people living in the region during the early Neolithic, possibly even the Paleolithic.
Thank you Matt. Fascinating as always. It is hard for me to grasp how pre-pottery humans quarried stone, transported and constructed challenging projects with it.
Hi Matt, thank you for all your hard work/research uploading these wonderful videos for us. Very appreciated. 🎄❄Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas to you and Family🎅🏼❄ Thank you Matt❤
You're awesome, Matt. Thank you, once again, for the hard work you put into these videos. You are very appreciated. Happy Holidays to you and your family. ❤️
Oh come on mate...he Repeats what we all know. Not His theories at all. As said, he repeats what we all know. No need for Praising one whos repeating Others efforts. Cheap, mostly incorrect and NOT his work.
Anyone else use Ancient Architects as sound check? I do this quite often. Like in the middle of the night when I want to watch a video, but most videos begun with someone yelling HELLO into the video. Of course I watch all AA videos as soon as they drop because they are just awesome!
It's neat how much stuff is being discovered, so many more people are studying the field than 20 years ago and the results are great, there is just about daily news that is huge these days, great to see.
I find it very interesting that All the ancient sites are either related to the solstices and or the stars..The older they are the least findings of any type of war and more wonderment on the world around and above them. Beautiful ❤️
Knowing the seasons of the year are very important to agriculture. One way to know the season is to track the solstices. This knowledge has been handed down for melenia.
Hi Matt. Truly incredible that such a civic building was building at the time. It makes me wonder if any artifacts pointing to early war fare have been found in the levant and the Fertile Crescent back then? I don't recall any in Gobeklitepe or Catalhoyuk. So is it really a tower to watch out for enemies?
Hello Matt. It’s amazing to me that people are so quick to assume that Neolithic man was not intelligent or creative. The human brain was just as wonderful and creative then as now.
@@tonyadams6375 evidence to support your world shattering assertion? because there is PLENTY of evidence (scientific and empirical: human remains, archaeological and anthropological data points, everything we know about the past basically) that supports the SCIENTIFICALLY INDISPUTABLE FACTS that neolithic etc "humans" were less artistic, less creative, and less intelligent than 'modern man,' which is precisely why technologies essential for civilization and culture didn't exist yet, because no one was yet intelligent enough or creative enough to solve the problems later people solved to develop those technologies.
Love ancient history so thanks for this discussion Matt. Watching from the Philippines islands which have an amazing and complicated ancient history as well.
Hey Matt. Just a quick question. With all the amazing discoveries in that neck of the woods, I was wondering with it being in close proximity, have you come across anything being found in Cyprus? Love the channel and have been with you for years.
There is the wonderful site - UNESCO World Heritage status since 1998 - of Chirokitia Neolithic village, one of the best preserved prehistoric sites in the Eastern Mediterranean. In the middle of the Southern part of the island,the circular dwellings are well worth looking at.Dates 10/9,000BCE with first believed human habitation.Every island in the Mediterranean is/has incredible sites & there must be a common denominator to explain the similarities.
Hi Matt. Tonight I've switched off music by Kevin bloody Wilson to watch your vid😁I suppose I've just swapped one cultural insight for another🤣😂merry Christmas friend😁👍
I find it hilarious that in at least one case, religious zealots who attacked and decimated one ancient site inadvertantly opened up a tunnel to an older and more incredible one beneath it!
Looking at the stones used to build this tower or most of the others sites you've shown now you wonder why we had a brief period in history where we used those huge megalithic blocks to build stuff.
I wouldn't mind seeing an overview of how the Younger Dryas, older Dryas, and the preceding warm spell effected civilizations. I think that we miss the effects of the ending of the last glaciation on things.
That is amazing! It reminds me of the place where Rahab helped the spies to escape in biblical times. Interesting to think that it could have been in use then, already some thousands of years later.
Matt ,you can walk from deep beneath the old city in Jerusalem (enter through zedikiahs cave) and walk entirely underground to this site in jericho, you walk through citadels and chambers the main tunnel to jericho is 34miles ,
We have been unearthing history ever since we could in small and large scale. But have never ask this question - where and how did these construction get covered under earth?
Great video very interesting. Historians have been wrong because of missing information. Now we are discovering more of our past it is very interesting to see. I am not that old and the history I learned in school is different than the new research results we have today. I love history ♥️
Most historians had to be approved by the bible thumper foundatations thats why they have the view of one side only , the smithsonian institute made it there buisiness to destroy and erase much of the old world . And they sponsored much of the work that was called research , thats just my opinion .
I think this is a great platform, find all the videos very interesting. But I'm having difficulty visualizing what these people living on top of each other used if not pottery? Did every dwelling have animal skins hanging on the walls, eat off the floor, drink from shells? Etc. How do we know that whatever pottery might have existed, wasn't absconded with when invaders showed up? Is it possible each neighborhood/family had a way to make it, since they certainly knew how to make mud "bricks" and lots of'em, and lasting 10,000+ yrs.? I'm trying to find an episode that explains how a settlement of 100s could not have any kind of pottery. Thanks again for a great video.🙋
Animal skins or reed roofs… vessels were made from wood (yes!), stone and also terrazzo - lime based mixture they used for flooring - like a proto-pottery but not clay based.
There's theories of a 2 groups. Hunter gatherers and advanced people. Like today, take away power and how much of the earth's population would be dead? 50%? 90%? We don't know how to survive. But take backwards tribes in remote parts of the earth, they would live on. And may even occupy our deserted cities. Even the Bible hints that Jericho and Jerusalem were built from an earlier civilization. We can find clues written inyths and other ancient documents of advanced civilization. Not today's advanced, but civilized vs loin cloth people.
Multi functional makes a lot of sense ... If you are learning how to grow crops then knowing the movement of the sun is very important ... Like bell towers in medieval towns, a tower gives you the ability to alert the town's people of necessary events, a look out position for protection ... a meeting point for some important news, etc.
I'm sure if we could travel in time, we would be surprised by much these people were capable of, I don't know if things would have always been as we would expect.
This looks like a structure that was built to get a certain person to a certain place at a certain time. The stairs imply that ascent and descent may be difficult for the person, or impossible. It also appears very much like a landing pad or a place to be "picked up" from...like a cosmic bus stop.
absolutely incredible. thank you so much for showing us this. i never would have seen this otherwise. i dont think it was used to control people in a sense of awe, i think it was the only fucking way to find your way home so they made a fire pire on top of it. so everyone would come there.
Fortification at it's earliest. The oldest walled city on record - Jericho. The Urban Revolution and the need for protection against intrusions, mainly other humans. That tower must have been very prestigious - a political statement. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
Great video. Can explain why pre-agriculture people's may build these structures. Jericho is one of the few places in the Levant - with a dependable, year-round water source. In hunter-gatherer days - game animals had no choice but to visit. (Easy meals.) As pastoral herding developed - even easier food. Plus, economic incentive to fortify - so you can tax your allies in grazing fees, and, keep your enemies away. Strengthen your friends, hurt your foes. As for the sunlight thing - yes I agree the tower served as a calendar. It is extremely important to know what months of the year nearby, seasonal springs will dry up. (Means your desperate enemies may show up.) Most ancient calendars were "wood henges" - sticks and logs, in a circle. You can tell what month it is by shadow length. As wood rots and burns - it's extremely important to replace with permanent structures - stone. It's breathtakingly- incredible that they used stone. (Mud clay bricks aren't an option because people haven't figured out simple heat-firing of clay yet!) Pre-pottery means - people boil water, and drink from leather bags! There's no metal, not even copper tools yet. The fact that it takes Engineering to build any stone wall higher than 2 meters - means they had advanced math. Can you imagine them doing calculations on dried skin, or drawings in the sand because they had no paper yet? There's no writing yet, but this tower's very existancemeans that they definitely wrote down numbers. They calculated wall thickness, and the weight-bearing load. Many academics will challenge this towers dating no matter what evidence is before them. That's because so few other examples like this survive from the time period. But let us consider this - structures like this may have been relatively common. But as the eons wore on, in a land with little stone - dismantling them to build the structures of later civilization would have been a very tempting. Amazing video mate, I love what you do.
There is much to add to this video. The entrance to the tower steps is a few metres above ground level, why? The incline of the 22 steps mirrors the incline of the pyramid in Giza? The ratio of the towers diameter to its height? This city was the first canaanite city conquered by the Israelites in the Bible and back then it was called Moon city ( not city of the sun equinox) although the name now is said to mean city of the palms after the Jews conquered it's God's. The same archaeologists have proven the Biblical events by studying the walls of Jericho so this must give us a better window into its ancient significance than just the pottery. It's a fascinating place as you say but so much more you could say about it that would take us closer to the truth.
Hiya Matt, incredible! Fínally , a building that clearly had an astronomical purpose, now does this help you to see that the structures in the last few videos too most likely had an astronomical purpose too. These were smart people, like us today but without the plastic and iPhones. We keep getting resetted just enough to stop us progressing past where we are today.😜😜
There is an obvious question here:- How do the archeologists know, and have determined, that this tower was only 30ft tall? This could be yet another presumption that turns out to be wrong. As you reveal the top of the tower is about 25ft wide, and with 5ft thick walls at its base, it could have supported and been at least 20-30ft taller, or more. It is a well known fact that post construction phases borrow stone from earlier constructions that are present. Hadrian's Wall is a very good example of this where stones have been taken to construct later farm buildings.
TH-cam has made watching videos pretty much unbearable these days. You have a set of ads at the beginning then another set every 3 to 5 minutes. It’s maddening.
Just as modern cities are a magnet for the rural poor today I suspect that Jericho produced wealth that attracted labour from the countryside and that the tower acted as a symbol of that wealth and power. Organised societies always produce more than fragmented ones. Such wealth production has an irresistible veneer of safety and security for those whose lives are on a day to day knife edge of existence. Great investigative reporting as always Matt.
Thank you for your work Matt. Do you know if at the top of the tower there was an upper part built of wood? Wooden fortification type at the top. I think of this because the tower of Jericho is presented, in its upper part, very flat to receive a second part of another material. Making it an even taller tower in the end. More majestic. Thank you again for your work, bonjour from the south-west of France - country of wines and foie gras ^^
What an incredible tower. Multi-functional is what makes sense to me as well. I found pretty much the same when researching north american mounds recently. Looking forward to next vid👍🏻
@AncientPuzzles You found that the N American effigy mounds… are multi-purpose things… like the tower of Jericho was a multipurpose thing. The two are not related in any way. Wt actual fuq are you talking about? Jesus.🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🙄🤡
@@spanqueluv9er I perfectly know they are not related in any way. I'm just pointing out that this was very common in ancient times. A super normal coincidence. What is your problem? Calm down
@@AncientPuzzles😂🤣Your more recent words do not reflect the reality of your earlier comment. You, speaking of the tower of Jericho: “I found pretty much the same thing when researching (^*North American, not )north american mounds recently.” How can there be a coincidence between the two line you’ve just suggested when they aren’t related in any way?🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ That’s not the comment of someone who knows perfectly well that they aren’t related.🤷♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤡🤡🤡🤡🙄
@@spanqueluv9er it does not reflect what I said, and it also does not reflect what you said. The problem is you assumed I was suggesting a connection, and never did such a thing. Nothing incorrect about saying it's just a coincidence: If I thought the cultures were connected, I would have said it is NOT a coincidence. Hope that once and for all you understand it, cause next step is blocking you. Have a nice day👍🏻
I saw this tower in 1982,& it leaves a lot of questions & fewer answers especially to the date of it's construction; there are some that believe that this is part of the wall that is mentioned in the Bible when Joshua marched around & the walls fell down; that is straight down,as if the walls were sunk in quicksand!
The city was built up around it, some buildings were connected to it, then more structures added second and third stories over time as the original lower levels filled up with refuse of daily life, staircases were integrated into the growing mass of very tightly packed buildings. When a structure burned or collapsed new structures were built on top of the remains. Ancient cities all developed this way. Think of London, Rome, even New York City.
Cheers Matt. Stuff keeps getting older. While not quite the flying cars of Atlantis, ancient humans do appear to have been more civilised and advanced than we have previously given them credit for. You don't wake up one morning and invent money, writing, agriculture, animal husbandry, metal working and architecture, but the nature of man is curious and experimental. I'm sure we didn't just jump from prepottery to glazed tableware overnight, it's just that remnants of the first potteries are going to be extremely difficult to find. What about sacks, ropes, weaving, planks, wood joining, all sorts of things that we go from pre to post where there is going to be a hard time finding evidence, but would help us with timelines. Necessity is the mother of invention, so it stands to reason the the YD boundary and other abrupt changes would spark innovation and change.
You are right. I saw the question in an earlier comment. I responded that at the time it was built it was ground level. Then as years went by more buildings were added to make a tightly packed city, and as refuse and decayed structures piled up construction continued on top of the lower layers. But you knew that!😉
Well, if the Jomon pottery is identical to pots from the Varna Black Sea civilizations which proves distant sea trade, this site at the far inside of the Med would also be a trading site. The watch tower would have alerted the citizens to the arrival of the trading ships. It is possible that the great flood that destroyed the Black Sea civlization actually sent settlers to the Levant.
The tower with it's rather rough looking inner masonry, the more organized looking outer masonry and the inner staircase has the same basic design features that can be found in most of the pyramids that have ever been built. The official explanation for the rise of civilization in the holocene is, it represents an age of 10000+ years of nice climate without major interruptions. Longer than ever before, giving a unique opportunity for developement without getting pushed back after a short time. But whenever I see how fast the basic trades of civilization emerged in the closing stages of the Younger Dryas and the first 1000 years after the YD (9:24), it seems strange to me. I know that all the hard evidence (dating of preserved architecture, visible developement of architecture, preserved remains of their goods and food, content of their garbage dumps, genetic analysis of domestically bred livestock and veggies, genetic analysis of humans and all things living to find out the routes of migration and much more) undeniably supports that sudden rise of civilization. But still, it looks strange. Yes, selective breeding is very intuitive. It happens automatically as soon as seeding is used intentionally. We will always tend to use seeds of the most beautiful plants for the next generation. We will always tend to keep friendly and useful animals and by keeping and breeding only them, we automatically come to the same selective breeding that happens in veggies. We don't need to know that genes exist to do it that way. It's just the same as prefering a healthy looking spouse. The concept is as old as life on Earth. Also yes, selective breeding is a very tight genetic bottleneck, that supercharges evolution. It shows very visible results within a few generations of breeding. That's all logical, testable, undeniable. It really works that fast. But, when it obviously is that intuitive and it works that fast, why was it never done before?
I've got a friend who argues that Indus Valley was the bas of all the civilization on the face of the earth. He says it was from Indus valley that the ethics, political system, structured cities, religion, written language, knowledge of trade spread across the world. When I see this documentary, I feel how blind some can be.
i think it is ALOT LESS impressive than gobekli tepe etc. Those sites are aesthetically pleasing to the eye, not just the 'decoration' and the stones were much MUCH larger, as well as being created earlier. Im sure the tower was a great feat for it's time. i imagine it was to help the citizens prepare for warfare, by gaining them precious minutes to organise and for spying animals to hunt in the distance. Gobekli tepe and it's kin are more impressive to me EDIT, ok, having watched the next part of the vid; im less certain about defensive reasons as it may not give vision in all directions and there seems to me to be a reason to have at least two such towers. Now i believe it was all of the other reasons equally, with defense as an extra bonus, unless they knew their enemies would only come from one side of jericho, which i doubt as hunter-gatherers wouldve known about the power of surprise and ambush from hunting game, such as being down-wind and dressing-up to look more animalistic n less threatening
We shouldn't assume that a large structure like this needed leaders to compel others to build it, especially if these towers were somewhat common for the time period. Communities could have constructed them cooperatively.
Please, when you use metrics like feet, stone etc. , put some text on screen to convert it to normal measurements like meters and centimeters, thanks! 😂👍👀
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So the Great Deluge happened no more recently than 11k years BP. (Otherwise this tower would have been completely erased from the face of the earth.)
@@johnbuchman4854 It could have been buried by 5,600 BC., The Black Sea Flood.
Stop over accentuating your last syllable of every sentence! It’s so annoying dude. If that’s the way you talk then hire a person to do the dialogue because you really are just over doing the accent man.
Very interesting accent 🤔
Talk about 'social constructs' ... interpreting archeological finds by projecting the author's political biases onto the past is well ... smh silly ... It's as bad as seeing everything through the lens of space aliens or 'young Earth' Biblical models ...
By far my favorite discovery of 2022 was. . .your YT channel. Constantly blowing my mind dude. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you
8000 years of continuous occupation is mind blowing.
Appreciate you keeping us so up to date on latest archeological findings. Amazing to think that people of this period, those we have been taught were nomadic, are revealing themselves as organized builders of civilizations!
Thank you for everything you do in bringing us the latest discoveries in archeology!!
Thank you for pointing out that the tower may have played multiple roles for the people of Jericho. It’s baffling to me how often a single interpretation will be defended ad infinitum when, not only is it unlikely we will ever know which competing interpretation is right, but the interpretations don’t actually need to compete!
mm exactly...
I was thinking to myself during this video - wouldn't be interesting (although as you said - there is no way to really know) if things like the alignment was just accidental. Bob - we need a tower over by that wall - Right O, I will get it done. Say Bob , doesn't that finished tower cast a neat shadow.? - Yes , I suppose it does. . . . LOL.
@@sociallyferal4237 LOL I was thinking the same thing. Some scientist says the same thing about almost every ancient structure. Except if the people who built it were sun worshipers I don't see how it would matter to them? If it's a round tower does it make a difference? If it's the tallest architecture in the area The sun is going to hit it.
@@lennybuttz2162 I mean it's not to say they didn't put more thought into something that involves an awful lot of work for early tools. But sometimes I like to think of people assigning more emphasis on things that may not have been significant to the people back then. Just like say in 1000 years the WhiteHouse and its Obelisk and whatever they might align to.
May be hearsay - but I recall watching some documentary that kind of joked about Archaeologists assigning anything that they can't quite find a purpose for in a dig as 'Religious Significance'. :D
Doing it on purpose 11,000 years ago is also a pretty nifty thought too.
It may have served multiple functions, but it was obviously built for a very specific purpose. The people living in that area probably viewed the site as holy ground, because the shadow of the mountain overtakes it at exactly 6:30 pm on the day of the summer solstice. Why would 6:30 pm be significant? I'm not sure, but it is a natural time in the evening to quit working. The fact that there is a natural spring nearby is probably also significant. They call it a "city", but I think we should consider the possibility that it was a city in the same sense that the Vatican City is a city. It was a spiritually significant site for the people living in the region during the early Neolithic, possibly even the Paleolithic.
Thank you Matt. Fascinating as always. It is hard for me to grasp how pre-pottery humans quarried stone, transported and constructed challenging projects with it.
Just discovered your videos. Really awesome job. Thank you.
Welcome!
Excellent video! Very interesting, I haven't ever heard of this before. Great work with the images and maps.
Great stuff! Fantastic visuals. Thanks Matt!
The ancients were amazing. Thank you Matthew.
They were indeed!
really enjoy the channel and find it very educational , thank you for doing this
Hi Matt, thank you for all your hard work/research uploading these wonderful videos for us.
Very appreciated.
🎄❄Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas to you and Family🎅🏼❄
Thank you Matt❤
amazing research analysis video!
Thanks for watching
You're awesome, Matt. Thank you, once again, for the hard work you put into these videos. You are very appreciated. Happy Holidays to you and your family. ❤️
Oh come on mate...he Repeats what we all know.
Not His theories at all. As said, he repeats what we all know.
No need for Praising one whos repeating Others efforts.
Cheap, mostly incorrect and NOT his work.
Nice info. TY for your research.
Thanks for watching!
Anyone else use Ancient Architects as sound check? I do this quite often. Like in the middle of the night when I want to watch a video, but most videos begun with someone yelling HELLO into the video. Of course I watch all AA videos as soon as they drop because they are just awesome!
I have been following your videos since the beginning. You are outstanding. I am a fan for life.
Many thanks for another great video 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
what a time to be alive.
regular mind blowing discoveries in turkey,
genetic research discoveries,
precise C14 dating
lider
etc
^*LiDAR, not lider
It's neat how much stuff is being discovered, so many more people are studying the field than 20 years ago and the results are great, there is just about daily news that is huge these days, great to see.
Another fantastic video. Thank you
The design of the tower at Jericho reminds me of the design of towers found all over Sardinia.
Yes! I was wondering along the same line of thought!
I find it very interesting that All the ancient sites are either related to the solstices and or the stars..The older they are the least findings of any type of war and more wonderment on the world around and above them. Beautiful ❤️
I don’t. Pick any modern building and I guarantee you can find some star or constellation it appears to be aligned with.
Knowing the seasons of the year are very important to agriculture. One way to know the season is to track the solstices. This knowledge has been handed down for melenia.
Hi Matt. Truly incredible that such a civic building was building at the time. It makes me wonder if any artifacts pointing to early war fare have been found in the levant and the Fertile Crescent back then? I don't recall any in Gobeklitepe or Catalhoyuk. So is it really a tower to watch out for enemies?
At the time there is no archaeology that implies war or that Jericho was under attack in the Pre Pottery Neolithic, but we can’t say for sure.
@@AncientArchitects What a stupid stair case!
Hello Matt.
It’s amazing to me that people are so quick to assume that Neolithic man was not intelligent or creative. The human brain was just as wonderful and creative then as now.
@@tonyadams6375 evidence to support your world shattering assertion? because there is PLENTY of evidence (scientific and empirical: human remains, archaeological and anthropological data points, everything we know about the past basically) that supports the SCIENTIFICALLY INDISPUTABLE FACTS that neolithic etc "humans" were less artistic, less creative, and less intelligent than 'modern man,' which is precisely why technologies essential for civilization and culture didn't exist yet, because no one was yet intelligent enough or creative enough to solve the problems later people solved to develop those technologies.
Is it the oldest city in the world??? Fascinating topic, thanks!😍
Depends how you define city! But maybe :)
So far
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the oldest continually habited, maybe?
@@Sealia77 1:54 not continuous.
Love ancient history so thanks for this discussion Matt. Watching from the Philippines islands which have an amazing and complicated ancient history as well.
True, I'm from Palawan. Palawan is rich in natural history from Northeast - El Nido, to Southwest - Quezon.
Excellent scholarship presented excellently to a lay audience...
I had no idea the Tower of Jericho was a real, proven, thing. Just wow! Thanks mate, that was brilliant 👍👍
Just because it's attributed to that doesn't mean it definitively is.
@@VndNvwYvvSvv well, a tower in Jericho, anyway
@@VndNvwYvvSvv 😂😂😂😂 🤦♂️
@@VndNvwYvvSvv oh it definitely is . Biblical facts proven
Me leí los comentarios y si, aprendí cosas nuevas. Gracias a todos por su trabajo. Saludos
Hey Matt. Just a quick question. With all the amazing discoveries in that neck of the woods, I was wondering with it being in close proximity, have you come across anything being found in Cyprus? Love the channel and have been with you for years.
I’m going to research Cyprus properly soon. Keep an eye out for a future video.
There is the wonderful site - UNESCO World Heritage status since 1998 - of Chirokitia Neolithic village, one of the best preserved prehistoric sites in the Eastern Mediterranean. In the middle of the Southern part of the island,the circular dwellings are well worth looking at.Dates 10/9,000BCE with first believed human habitation.Every island in the Mediterranean is/has incredible sites & there must be a common denominator to explain the similarities.
Hi Matt. Tonight I've switched off music by Kevin bloody Wilson to watch your vid😁I suppose I've just swapped one cultural insight for another🤣😂merry Christmas friend😁👍
Ha! Merry Christmas 🎄
Extraordinary how these old structures get buried by later constructions and completely forgotten.
I find it hilarious that in at least one case, religious zealots who attacked and decimated one ancient site inadvertantly opened up a tunnel to an older and more incredible one beneath it!
Great vid.
Made me want to Sound the Trumpets!
-“Whoa! Whoa! Easy with the Trumpets, pal!”
Good show . thank you !
Looking at the stones used to build this tower or most of the others sites you've shown now you wonder why we had a brief period in history where we used those huge megalithic blocks to build stuff.
Very Interesting
Thanks very much
HAPPY HOLIDAYS Matt.🤓😻😃
You too! 🎄
I wouldn't mind seeing an overview of how the Younger Dryas, older Dryas, and the preceding warm spell effected civilizations. I think that we miss the effects of the ending of the last glaciation on things.
Yes it's called climate change these days, but it's been going on for most of humsn history. Not really a new thing
I've been to Catalhoyuk and Gobekli Tepe. Amazing sites to visit and experience.
Another fascinating tale! Thank you. :)
That is amazing! It reminds me of the place where Rahab helped the spies to escape in biblical times. Interesting to think that it could have been in use then, already some thousands of years later.
Matt ,you can walk from deep beneath the old city in Jerusalem (enter through zedikiahs cave) and walk entirely underground to this site in jericho, you walk through citadels and chambers the main tunnel to jericho is 34miles ,
Thanks Matt. Dunno how I missed the one on Cakmaktepe? Heading over there now!
Thanks. Enjoy!
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We have been unearthing history ever since we could in small and large scale. But have never ask this question - where and how did these construction get covered under earth?
8:00 + is great perspective, channel is great 👍
Great video very interesting. Historians have been wrong because of missing information. Now we are discovering more of our past it is very interesting to see. I am not that old and the history I learned in school is different than the new research results we have today. I love history ♥️
Most historians had to be approved by the bible thumper foundatations thats why they have the view of one side only , the smithsonian institute made it there buisiness to destroy and erase much of the old world . And they sponsored much of the work that was called research , thats just my opinion .
Awesome video. Thank you
Amazing to think how old and continuously occupied Jericho is.
Astonishing stuff
I think this is a great platform, find all the videos very interesting. But I'm having difficulty visualizing what these people living on top of each other used if not pottery? Did every dwelling have animal skins hanging on the walls, eat off the floor, drink from shells? Etc. How do we know that whatever pottery might have existed, wasn't absconded with when invaders showed up? Is it possible each neighborhood/family had a way to make it, since they certainly knew how to make mud "bricks" and lots of'em, and lasting 10,000+ yrs.? I'm trying to find an episode that explains how a settlement of 100s could not have any kind of pottery. Thanks again for a great video.🙋
Animal skins or reed roofs… vessels were made from wood (yes!), stone and also terrazzo - lime based mixture they used for flooring - like a proto-pottery but not clay based.
We have found pottery 20-30.000 years old, dont believe to every YT bullshit you hear ;)
There's theories of a 2 groups. Hunter gatherers and advanced people. Like today, take away power and how much of the earth's population would be dead? 50%? 90%? We don't know how to survive. But take backwards tribes in remote parts of the earth, they would live on. And may even occupy our deserted cities. Even the Bible hints that Jericho and Jerusalem were built from an earlier civilization. We can find clues written inyths and other ancient documents of advanced civilization. Not today's advanced, but civilized vs loin cloth people.
I know! No progress for 20,000 years! I think we're getting closer to the answers.
Pottery came to the middle east around 7000 BCE
Multi functional makes a lot of sense ... If you are learning how to grow crops then knowing the movement of the sun is very important ... Like bell towers in medieval towns, a tower gives you the ability to alert the town's people of necessary events, a look out position for protection ... a meeting point for some important news, etc.
I'm sure if we could travel in time, we would be surprised by much these people were capable of, I don't know if things would have always been as we would expect.
You would also be surprised by the human sacrifices taking place in those times. Mankind is reallyvwicked when following false gods.
Great analysis.
The reason it was built is still in us. When you were young did you ever play the game "king of the hill"?
Two men enter one man leaves. lol
Since everything is built on top of each other I suspect that we might find stuff built 20 thousands years ago.
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Make video on pyramid of userkaf
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Good subject. Nice idea! Ok!
Thanks, Sibs!
This looks like a structure that was built to get a certain person to a certain place at a certain time.
The stairs imply that ascent and descent may be difficult for the person, or impossible.
It also appears very much like a landing pad or a place to be "picked up" from...like a cosmic bus stop.
Wow 11.000 years.. it's incredible to think how long ago that is.
^It’s the blink of an eye- not that long ago at all.🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@spanqueluv9er You're gonna need some Visine...
absolutely incredible. thank you so much for showing us this. i never would have seen this otherwise. i dont think it was used to control people in a sense of awe, i think it was the only fucking way to find your way home so they made a fire pire on top of it. so everyone would come there.
Nice! Makes sense 👍
I named my baby boy Jericho. He's really bright and stoic. I'm missing him atm. 😢
cool name!
That whole area has decades of digging and scraping to be done and sadly I don't think we'll see it anywhere near finished before we pass.
Fortification at it's earliest. The oldest walled city on record - Jericho. The Urban Revolution and the need for protection against intrusions, mainly other humans. That tower must have been very prestigious - a political statement. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
Great video. Can explain why pre-agriculture people's may build these structures. Jericho is one of the few places in the Levant - with a dependable, year-round water source. In hunter-gatherer days - game animals had no choice but to visit. (Easy meals.) As pastoral herding developed - even easier food. Plus, economic incentive to fortify - so you can tax your allies in grazing fees, and, keep your enemies away. Strengthen your friends, hurt your foes. As for the sunlight thing - yes I agree the tower served as a calendar. It is extremely important to know what months of the year nearby, seasonal springs will dry up. (Means your desperate enemies may show up.) Most ancient calendars were "wood henges" - sticks and logs, in a circle. You can tell what month it is by shadow length. As wood rots and burns - it's extremely important to replace with permanent structures - stone. It's breathtakingly- incredible that they used stone. (Mud clay bricks aren't an option because people haven't figured out simple heat-firing of clay yet!) Pre-pottery means - people boil water, and drink from leather bags! There's no metal, not even copper tools yet. The fact that it takes Engineering to build any stone wall higher than 2 meters - means they had advanced math. Can you imagine them doing calculations on dried skin, or drawings in the sand because they had no paper yet? There's no writing yet, but this tower's very existancemeans that they definitely wrote down numbers. They calculated wall thickness, and the weight-bearing load. Many academics will challenge this towers dating no matter what evidence is before them. That's because so few other examples like this survive from the time period. But let us consider this - structures like this may have been relatively common. But as the eons wore on, in a land with little stone - dismantling them to build the structures of later civilization would have been a very tempting. Amazing video mate, I love what you do.
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There is much to add to this video. The entrance to the tower steps is a few metres above ground level, why? The incline of the 22 steps mirrors the incline of the pyramid in Giza? The ratio of the towers diameter to its height? This city was the first canaanite city conquered by the Israelites in the Bible and back then it was called Moon city ( not city of the sun equinox) although the name now is said to mean city of the palms after the Jews conquered it's God's. The same archaeologists have proven the Biblical events by studying the walls of Jericho so this must give us a better window into its ancient significance than just the pottery. It's a fascinating place as you say but so much more you could say about it that would take us closer to the truth.
I've seen videos on this at least 3 years ago now
Hiya Matt, incredible! Fínally , a building that clearly had an astronomical purpose, now does this help you to see that the structures in the last few videos too most likely had an astronomical purpose too. These were smart people, like us today but without the plastic and iPhones. We keep getting resetted just enough to stop us progressing past where we are today.😜😜
There is an obvious question here:- How do the archeologists know, and have determined, that this tower was only 30ft tall? This could be yet another presumption that turns out to be wrong. As you reveal the top of the tower is about 25ft wide, and with 5ft thick walls at its base, it could have supported and been at least 20-30ft taller, or more. It is a well known fact that post construction phases borrow stone from earlier constructions that are present. Hadrian's Wall is a very good example of this where stones have been taken to construct later farm buildings.
TH-cam has made watching videos pretty much unbearable these days. You have a set of ads at the beginning then another set every 3 to 5 minutes. It’s maddening.
Just as modern cities are a magnet for the rural poor today I suspect that Jericho produced wealth that attracted labour from the countryside and that the tower acted as a symbol of that wealth and power. Organised societies always produce more than fragmented ones. Such wealth production has an irresistible veneer of safety and security for those whose lives are on a day to day knife edge of existence. Great investigative reporting as always Matt.
'The rest is history'! How satisfying to be able to say that and mean it in the most literal and comprehensive sense!
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Is this narrated by an algorithm? (this question accented on the the most annoying, random, unexpected syllables) 🙂
There could have been a bronze pole on top and kootchie dancers would perform for sea shells or some other trinket.
Thank you for your work Matt. Do you know if at the top of the tower there was an upper part built of wood? Wooden fortification type at the top. I think of this because the tower of Jericho is presented, in its upper part, very flat to receive a second part of another material. Making it an even taller tower in the end. More majestic. Thank you again for your work, bonjour from the south-west of France - country of wines and foie gras ^^
Good thinking that’s how dark age medieval wall towers were built as well
Interesting
What an incredible tower. Multi-functional is what makes sense to me as well. I found pretty much the same when researching north american mounds recently. Looking forward to next vid👍🏻
@AncientPuzzles You found that the N American effigy mounds… are multi-purpose things… like the tower of Jericho was a multipurpose thing.
The two are not related in any way. Wt actual fuq are you talking about?
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@@spanqueluv9er I perfectly know they are not related in any way. I'm just pointing out that this was very common in ancient times. A super normal coincidence. What is your problem? Calm down
@@AncientPuzzles😂🤣Your more recent words do not reflect the reality of your earlier comment.
You, speaking of the tower of Jericho: “I found pretty much the same thing when researching (^*North American, not )north american mounds recently.” How can there be a coincidence between the two line you’ve just suggested when they aren’t related in any way?🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
That’s not the comment of someone who knows perfectly well that they aren’t related.🤷♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤡🤡🤡🤡🙄
@@AncientPuzzlesYou should change your TH-cam handle to PermanentlyPuzzled.🤦♂️
@@spanqueluv9er it does not reflect what I said, and it also does not reflect what you said. The problem is you assumed I was suggesting a connection, and never did such a thing. Nothing incorrect about saying it's just a coincidence: If I thought the cultures were connected, I would have said it is NOT a coincidence. Hope that once and for all you understand it, cause next step is blocking you. Have a nice day👍🏻
Love your videos, thank you. It would be helpful if you mentioned metric measurements too.
^No, it wouldn’t.🤦♂️
Yes it would.
I saw this tower in 1982,& it leaves a lot of questions & fewer answers especially to the date of it's construction; there are some that believe that this is part of the wall that is mentioned in the Bible when Joshua marched around & the walls fell down; that is straight down,as if the walls were sunk in quicksand!
You missed one important item for the use of that tower. They had moved to agriculture. It was a Grain Elevator.
Amazing that there have been no rock falls in the stairway passage. Or has it been repaired in modern times?
Where did all the dirt come from? It's a huge tower, so why was it so far underground?
The city was built up around it, some buildings were connected to it, then more structures added second and third stories over time as the original lower levels filled up with refuse of daily life, staircases were integrated into the growing mass of very tightly packed buildings. When a structure burned or collapsed new structures were built on top of the remains. Ancient cities all developed this way. Think of London, Rome, even New York City.
Cheers Matt. Stuff keeps getting older. While not quite the flying cars of Atlantis, ancient humans do appear to have been more civilised and advanced than we have previously given them credit for.
You don't wake up one morning and invent money, writing, agriculture, animal husbandry, metal working and architecture, but the nature of man is curious and experimental. I'm sure we didn't just jump from prepottery to glazed tableware overnight, it's just that remnants of the first potteries are going to be extremely difficult to find.
What about sacks, ropes, weaving, planks, wood joining, all sorts of things that we go from pre to post where there is going to be a hard time finding evidence, but would help us with timelines.
Necessity is the mother of invention, so it stands to reason the the YD boundary and other abrupt changes would spark innovation and change.
I'll bet a pile of coins that someone, somewhere has posed the question, "Why did they build a 12-meter tower BELOW ground level???"
Betcha.
You are right. I saw the question in an earlier comment. I responded that at the time it was built it was ground level. Then as years went by more buildings were added to make a tightly packed city, and as refuse and decayed structures piled up construction continued on top of the lower layers. But you knew that!😉
Well, if the Jomon pottery is identical to pots from the Varna Black Sea civilizations which proves distant sea trade, this site at the far inside of the Med would also be a trading site. The watch tower would have alerted the citizens to the arrival of the trading ships. It is possible that the great flood that destroyed the Black Sea civlization actually sent settlers to the Levant.
The tower with it's rather rough looking inner masonry, the more organized looking outer masonry and the inner staircase has the same basic design features that can be found in most of the pyramids that have ever been built.
The official explanation for the rise of civilization in the holocene is, it represents an age of 10000+ years of nice climate without major interruptions. Longer than ever before, giving a unique opportunity for developement without getting pushed back after a short time. But whenever I see how fast the basic trades of civilization emerged in the closing stages of the Younger Dryas and the first 1000 years after the YD (9:24), it seems strange to me.
I know that all the hard evidence (dating of preserved architecture, visible developement of architecture, preserved remains of their goods and food, content of their garbage dumps, genetic analysis of domestically bred livestock and veggies, genetic analysis of humans and all things living to find out the routes of migration and much more) undeniably supports that sudden rise of civilization. But still, it looks strange.
Yes, selective breeding is very intuitive. It happens automatically as soon as seeding is used intentionally. We will always tend to use seeds of the most beautiful plants for the next generation. We will always tend to keep friendly and useful animals and by keeping and breeding only them, we automatically come to the same selective breeding that happens in veggies. We don't need to know that genes exist to do it that way. It's just the same as prefering a healthy looking spouse. The concept is as old as life on Earth.
Also yes, selective breeding is a very tight genetic bottleneck, that supercharges evolution. It shows very visible results within a few generations of breeding. That's all logical, testable, undeniable. It really works that fast.
But, when it obviously is that intuitive and it works that fast, why was it never done before?
I've got a friend who argues that Indus Valley was the bas of all the civilization on the face of the earth. He says it was from Indus valley that the ethics, political system, structured cities, religion, written language, knowledge of trade spread across the world. When I see this documentary, I feel how blind some can be.
i think it is ALOT LESS impressive than gobekli tepe etc. Those sites are aesthetically pleasing to the eye, not just the 'decoration' and the stones were much MUCH larger, as well as being created earlier.
Im sure the tower was a great feat for it's time. i imagine it was to help the citizens prepare for warfare, by gaining them precious minutes to organise and for spying animals to hunt in the distance.
Gobekli tepe and it's kin are more impressive to me
EDIT, ok, having watched the next part of the vid; im less certain about defensive reasons as it may not give vision in all directions and there seems to me to be a reason to have at least two such towers.
Now i believe it was all of the other reasons equally, with defense as an extra bonus, unless they knew their enemies would only come from one side of jericho, which i doubt as hunter-gatherers wouldve known about the power of surprise and ambush from hunting game, such as being down-wind and dressing-up to look more animalistic n less threatening
We shouldn't assume that a large structure like this needed leaders to compel others to build it, especially if these towers were somewhat common for the time period. Communities could have constructed them cooperatively.
Please, when you use metrics like feet, stone etc. , put some text on screen to convert it to normal measurements like meters and centimeters, thanks! 😂👍👀
I suspect they started as trading posts. Places where hunter gatherers could come to trade.
I wonder if they managed to dig down to the water table and build cisterns at this site? 🤔 Being that it is close to that spring.
I’ll try and find out more as this video was really just focusing on the tower. But interesting subject for sure
Indeed. Thank you for all the awesome content and passion for this stuff sir. Truly awesome
Joshua fought the battle of Jericho... And the walls came tumbling down.
Excellent content and some very weird comments.
I'm Just Not Buying Into The Notion That It Took 11,000 Dsys To Stack A Bunch Of Rocks °28-Feet High !
there is definitely some amount of speculation on these very old places like this... definitely incredible, but, grain of salt, I say..
talking about ancient towers, check out the Nuragic civilization in Sardinia, Italy
Excavations in Turkey have also uncovered the ruins of 11,000-year-old cities. With a much more developed couture than Jericho.
See my channel! I have videos on Gobekli, Karahan, Cakmak, Sefer, Harbetsuvan, Gre Filla Hoyuk, Boncuklu Tarla and more!