Future archaeologists unearth the sacred scribbles of the Crayola Caveman, preserved for millennia on the hallowed walls of my childhood bedroom!!!! These crayon hieroglyphs, born from a potent cocktail of boredom and destructive energy, are now hailed as the new Dead Sea Scrolls. Little do the future scholars know, they're not decoding the secrets of an ancient civilization, but rather the artistic manifestations of a bored kid who didn't want to clean his room.
btw - those hand print ochre paint stencils in the spanish cave from 30,000 years ago.... there is an identical paint marking at Spirit Mountain in Nevada, USA - its on a cliff above the valley behind all the petroglyphs.. i have a really nice photo of it - it looks exactly the same, a hand print where someone blew ochre paint over it
Hello @@thomasbell7033. Sorry. You'll have to do your own research. I'll give you a hint ... look up who was buying the oil that ISIS was stealing from Syria. wink.
His name is Khaled al-Asaad. He was an archeologist and as you said, a hero. That's not a word I use lightly. In fact, I think this is the first time I do.
I've been to most of these places in the first half and China. If you ever visit, it's so hard not to believe that we should be further ahead in society than we are... It's crazy how many of the ages, conquering and colonization based on religion has suppressed so much of what we should know
Religion?? 😂😂 it's your speculation. It's just history guys. And history is not something that you wished happened according to your liking. It's all over and done with. Like a tumbleweed rolling down the highway. ALL civilized peoples had Religion. Wars. Famine. Children. Graveyards. Art. Language. Culture and Reason.
Repeated message in this video is that art wasn’t creative expression, rather art was used to express their religion and culture. Creativity is a differentiating behavior of human from other animals. Creativity was ultimately expressed in belief through art. All ancient masterpieces are expression of their beliefs.
Jack and Sharrie were excavating graves and came upon 1500 artifacts, time capsules of a Minoan Warrior. Any archeologists dream. How wonderful for them both. I enjoyed this episode. Thank you.
It’s called ART. A human need under appreciated and misunderstood in the world. Even today we destroy our art history . Technology, power, greed. Megalomania and religious zealots has blinded us to what we have created in Art. With art we would not have progressed to where we are today.
Technology does not destroy art. Greedy people, if anything, collect art and pay for much of its safekeeping. Many museums in the world could simply not operate without donations by rich people.
@@schmetterling4477 I hate to break the news to you but it’s ‘ rich people’ who deal on the black market and pay for stolen artifacts and decorate their homes. Away from public view or access. Museums have been known to turn a blind eye as well. Recently, an arts mag did a photo spread on one of those “ rich people” and the photos showed many stolen ancient art pieces in their home. So don’t don’t go under he notion they are protecting antiques.
It was not originally narrated by LS. That was added in the U.S., AT THE EXPENSE OF FACTUAL AND EXPERT COMMENTARY BY SCHAMA (and the other producers) THAT WAS CUT OUT BECAUSE PBS THINGS WE ARE TOO DUMB TO APPRECIATE IT.
@@cliffdariff74 A discussion of civilization is totally incomplete without it. Especially when you also leave out the empires even further south where agriculture art and domestication actually begin.
At 37:57, those sculptures look like early native American totem poles carvings. When Alaska and Russia were still connected by land and the three different groups of homosapiens converged and intermarried to become today's native Americans - that is where the art style survived to today it appears to me.
The achievement of any civilization can be determined by the art they leave behind. And a great society will support the development and evolution of art, music, architecture, dance, science. Our society is really going backwards with all these wars.
I liked this very much but wish it had kept Simon Schama's narration. It's weird to see Schama walking around these places while Schreiber narrates. PBS audiences don't care about celebrities narrating so I wonder why American executives decided to jettison the original narrators.
I beg to differ, I liked the narration. It was not intrusive as some are. I don’t know who these scholars are so I don’t know if the are celebrities or not.
Thank you so much, Simon Schama and Liev Schreiber; your voice is amazingly soothing when telling US how we became in our today society so unaware of our past and all the vast knowledge we have lost due to wars or just hate because of political ideas, they do not share or think it is Idolatry that should be destroyed. I remember years ago when the magnificent Boudha was destroyed by dynamite. One of the many civilizations that were damaged or rather lost is the Maya, and everything related to before the Spanish Conquistador brought with them; I own a few duplexes in my town, it is making me very aware of all the history lost due to the Spanish invasion. I am a Russian, German and French mix man, I do understand what horrible crimes were committed by my own past ancestors. What is also making me angry is people that think or assume anyone from Central-middle-current America are less of a stunning culture that was destroyed by those who were looking for Gold and Silver.
mayan civilisation was lost almost 700 hundred years prior the european presence in america and rather than lost it was instead melted, any mayan descendant can testify that,Beside they didint come just for gold and silver but to bring to this shores the western civilistion
@@hectorarbolaythe whole world is watching , thanks to the social media . Watching the unleashing of Barbarism over the natives of Palestine , by the European Zionists . And who went to the cradle of civilization of Babylon ( Iraq) with lies of weapons of mass destruction and killed a million innocent human beings . Shamelessly no regret of it but weeping for the destruction of art or statues . How shameful . How barbaric and how much more uncivilized can it get . ?
@@hectorarbolaythe whole world is watching , thanks to the social media . Watching the unleashing of Barbarism over the natives of Palestine , by the European Zionists . And who went to the cradle of civilization of Babylon ( Iraq) with lies of weapons of mass destruction and killed a million innocent human beings . Shamelessly no regret of it but weeping for the destruction of art or statues . How shameful . How barbaric and how much more uncivilized can it get . ?
A great many artist like myself believe our human creativity originated and continues to originate from the heart of our Creator. Evolution is the Creator's artistic hand, a work in progress.
By that time he'd already been to African countries and even collected masks. Bulls are a common motif in Africa well before Minoan civilization. They didn't even mention the Apis bull of Egypt and even earlier ones further south. This has very bad very old and out of date scholarship.
PBS with a Dragon Drop of a different kind but still one of 🎼. An organized account and classical record that is it's own report of humanity's song/music. Thanks PBS!!!! You have been a cherished melody that's been established on Earth for my entire existence. That's Super Solid🗿✊🏼. Rock On!
@@evrythingis1 sure thing. then doesn't that make u a botfly. Jeesh, folks that hover to eat shiet and project it onto others, sure have a boatload of insults that they think are zingers.
The cave art is the most astounding for me ❤️ we were already perfect artists in our world. The beautiful depictions of fertile women from antiquty are the most telling. Woman, who brings forth and nourishes life with her very self 🙏 to be treasured and protected!
I’ve watched this several times - I just Love Simon Shuma (I hope I’m spelling his name correctly) - I’m a visual Artist - I’ve owned - directed - and curated an Art gallery with 60, Artist on board - But anyway, ❤ THANK YOU SO MUCH
I've always found it interesting that civilizations like in Mexico had the knowledge and wisdom to map the stars, build enormous structures, make art that even by todays standards is awe inspiring, and craftsmanship that makes our modern manufacturing look like they took a step back...But nobody figured out the wheel. It seems like an easy leap in logic, but I'm seeing things from now. Does anyone have thoughts on this? Or is there something I am missing and I sound dumb?
They did know of the wheel. For example, there were children's toy animals made with wheels so kids could push them around and play with them. But with no pack animals like horses to pull them, there was no point to making something like wagons or chariots.
How does an "Advanced" civilization devolve so rapidly into murdering people so the sun rises. Answer? They never were advanced to begin with and those structures were there already for 10k+ years. The same as Egypt and everywhere else with megalithic sites.
So where did my comment go? Did you all report it because I said the truth?. I'll say it again, they didn't build anything at all. It was already there and they desecrated these structures by m ur der ing people so the sun could ride.
@@hershelfowler6257 grains were useful for travel and for riding out the storms (so to speak). grains didn't do much for nutrition or longevity - unless you count dying of a lack of calories.
We can now with our eyes observe how people in the stone age acted. Just look how this vandals acts. We all live to day in different timeages, it is the rulers behaviors to their citicens who decide their " timeage" Some behaves as " animals" ....... ruled by an animal...
At the time art is created it's an experiencial community experience. very much in the present moment. But after millenia of artistic record, it very much becomes our art history.
Yes, they even build sculptures out of twigs and they tidy up the area around it! They take months building the sculpture which could be two meters tall.
Yes, they decorate their nests. However, they do this to achieve a goal: attracting a mate. Whereas humans decorate for many reasons, but also just for art's sake, no other purpose. I think that is the difference here.
You'd do better looking up the university of Chicago seminars here and for earlier African history the seminars from Harvard on African history to help you make even earlier connections direct from actual archeologists.
Actually, it's. Highly incomplete and eurocentric. It doesn't do much to bring people's knowledge forward from what we learned in college way back in the 80s. We need to have the younger scholars on with the newer information.
I would say the older cultures around the Black SEa, like Cucuteni-Tripillia, Varna, and so on are the foundations of "Europe", and not Greece. Greece and Egypt came way later. The Varna gold buriel occured around 4600 BC, so long before dynastic Egypt and Greece
He died just as how he lived- protecting and defending the land of his birth. In killing him, these terrorist prove how 'peaceful' their religion of peace is. Palmyra is an equally important ancient city like Rome and Memphis, then these fanatics decided to tear it all down all in the name of their interpretation of the history. I believe that, he knew that he has always had a choice- abandon the city where he spent his entire life or safeguard the relics and die. And I believe that he chose to fight. He paid with his life the preservation of knowledge, artifacts, identity of Palmyra for the whole world to see. The world seems to be full of hatred and destruction but once in a while, a human being like Director Khaled al-Asad comes and reminds us that there are still things worth fighting and dying for.
Had i been inclined growing up to watch, i imagine PBS would have taught me a thing or 2...i did at least get to experience Bob Ross tho, a gift to humanity by his own accord..🏞. Thanx for keeping it public. 💓🙏
I saw a video of a male bird, of incomparable beauty, decorate the outside of his nesting area (on the ground) with beautiful rocks and flowers. Hoping to attract a female, he too, is using art.
The moment mankind became man, is when he realized his creative potential and that began when they became masters of 'meditative wisdom', recorded in Vishnu Purana, in a prayer by Krishna, 11,000 bp.
I want to Thank Them with different Colors , you left many mysterious that we Try to Solve, that Was and Still EPIC, Also i Want to inform Them that we try to Reach what seems bright at night in the Skys, and we WELL 🥰
@tracymcgeachie7525 LOL, first, check out the BBC and Channel 4. So much of PBS's programming has traditionally been licensed from the UK or co-produced with UK television companies. Even our local PBS broadcasters do this. It's how most of us over here discovered Blackadder and Alan Partridge and, when I was young, Monty Python.
The woman historian, who is an expert on human history, not animals, felt qualified enough to declare that Art is distinctively a human trait. She apparently has not seen videos of birds and fishes decorating their nests. Granted their art is for the purpose of mating or to serve some other biological needs, but it is art nonetheless.
I’m not sure that is art which is a kind of artifice. Art needs no purpose other than itself; it is its own raisin d’etre and it distinguishes us not only from animals but from other human beings, which is fine. Our artists show us things about our inner lives, and show others what we thought beautiful, numinous. Animals do what they do for purely biological and instinctual purposes. Their decorative acts are not a matter of free will. Art in human hands is so much more than decorative or merely for the purposes of mating and it is decidedly an act of free will.
The Mayans just walked off into the forest and gave up their creations huh? Lol. It was indeed something epic that wiped everyone out of these great creations. It's the younger dryas impact
Some Australian indigenous people call the bull-roarer, “mother in law’s tongue”. Representations being seen as the capturing of the spirit is an immemorial perception/intuition about reality, especially the face. This condition has been elaborated and exploited in a myriad ways … and the future is pictured as erasing the distinction.
Thank you for this wonderfully polished and informative video. I really enjoyed it. Again, thank you so much. PS: Do you have something intense about Thera Frescoes and how does it go with their restorations ? this is what I m waiting for since 2 decennia, so, if you edit something, you'll make me a happy man for real...
3:00 what's not said is that the ISIS destruction was a even more despicable red herring op. The difficult to transport and easy to identify Monuments were destroyed, while everything else went up in prices immediately and to the black markets to finance ISIS operations. Most ended up in Lebanon and Turkey, and ultimately in London, Switzerland or even the US...
No mention of one of the cradle of civilization, India. Also, the largest cultural sphere of influence to this day in Asia, and arguably the largest there ever was in the ancient world.
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Future archaeologists unearth the sacred scribbles of the Crayola Caveman, preserved for millennia on the hallowed walls of my childhood bedroom!!!! These crayon hieroglyphs, born from a potent cocktail of boredom and destructive energy, are now hailed as the new Dead Sea Scrolls. Little do the future scholars know, they're not decoding the secrets of an ancient civilization, but rather the artistic manifestations of a bored kid who didn't want to clean his room.
btw - those hand print ochre paint stencils in the spanish cave from 30,000 years ago.... there is an identical paint marking at Spirit Mountain in Nevada, USA - its on a cliff above the valley behind all the petroglyphs.. i have a really nice photo of it - it looks exactly the same, a hand print where someone blew ochre paint over it
"The title he deserves was protector of Civilization" ❤
Rest in peace brave man! Thank you!
Early right of the cucumber!zNow that’s entertainment!
Frankenstein and Myrtle? Naw ?
That director is a hero of all mankind
Yes. And who trained ISIS? Who supplied them with guns and bullets? Who has caused wars all over the world?
@@Finness894I give up. Who?
@@thomasbell7033 little hats ?
Hello @@thomasbell7033. Sorry. You'll have to do your own research. I'll give you a hint ... look up who was buying the oil that ISIS was stealing from Syria. wink.
His name is Khaled al-Asaad. He was an archeologist and as you said, a hero. That's not a word I use lightly. In fact, I think this is the first time I do.
I've been to most of these places in the first half and China. If you ever visit, it's so hard not to believe that we should be further ahead in society than we are...
It's crazy how many of the ages, conquering and colonization based on religion has suppressed so much of what we should know
I think exactly the same, today is tribalism what took the place of religion. We continue de-evolving no matter what.
land was and is an old stone, but, imo , now, it's land and info where the power is.
Religion?? 😂😂 it's your speculation. It's just history guys. And history is not something that you wished happened according to your liking. It's all over and done with. Like a tumbleweed rolling down the highway. ALL civilized peoples had Religion. Wars. Famine. Children. Graveyards. Art. Language. Culture and Reason.
...yawn
Religious fanaticism destroys anything and everything that stands in it's path.
Repeated message in this video is that art wasn’t creative expression, rather art was used to express their religion and culture.
Creativity is a differentiating behavior of human from other animals. Creativity was ultimately expressed in belief through art.
All ancient masterpieces are expression of their beliefs.
Jack and Sharrie were excavating graves and came upon 1500 artifacts, time capsules of a Minoan Warrior. Any archeologists dream. How wonderful for them both. I enjoyed this episode. Thank you.
I got scared !
Like a cameo appearance 😅😅 is the 'archeo duo' in other episodes?
Art is history and no machine will replace the effect of the human touch
Absolutely, thank you!
Millions of machines already have....
Liev never sounds like himself when he narrates.He’s still my favorite narrator,tho. Simon Schama is brilliant,too.
It’s called ART. A human need under appreciated and misunderstood in the world. Even today we destroy our art history . Technology, power, greed. Megalomania and religious zealots has blinded us to what we have created in Art. With art we would not have progressed to where we are today.
Technology does not destroy art. Greedy people, if anything, collect art and pay for much of its safekeeping. Many museums in the world could simply not operate without donations by rich people.
The great reclining Buddha of Afghanistan was destroyed by fanaticism & ignorance.
@@schmetterling4477 I hate to break the news to you but it’s ‘ rich people’ who deal on the black market and pay for stolen artifacts and decorate their homes. Away from public view or access. Museums have been known to turn a blind eye as well.
Recently, an arts mag did a photo spread on one of those “ rich people” and the photos showed many stolen ancient art pieces in their home. So don’t don’t go under he notion they are protecting antiques.
@@CQ-369all Buddhas were destroyed in Afghanistan, Bamiyan Buddha’s were ancient and a huge lost to the world
And yet we still have crazies who want to destroy it all.
"Religion poisons everything" - C.H.
not just the past, they want to destroy the present, you included
Goodness builds; evil demolishes.
Nope.... Goodness needs and does demolish evil more often than not. Otherwise no goodness comes about.
A PBS doc hosted by Simon Schama and narrated by Liev Schreiber? Perfection.
It's a BBC documentary!
@@samantarmaxammadsaciid5156😅
It was not originally narrated by LS.
That was added in the U.S., AT THE EXPENSE OF FACTUAL AND EXPERT COMMENTARY BY SCHAMA (and the other producers) THAT WAS CUT OUT BECAUSE PBS THINGS WE ARE TOO DUMB TO APPRECIATE IT.
@@MichB1Or, he has a really awkward way of speaking and emoting.
In the future I wonder what our past will reveal to those who dig out our graves. How will we be remembered and what will be forgotten?
Check out 'Fall of Civilizations podcasts if you dig this. The whole, "Surprisingly Modern and too delicate to move" comment really bugged me.
RIP Kalid
Nothing like continuing to learn.
Pre-Dynastic Egypt is currently a fascination of mine, and it should have been included here.
Look up the Kemet people
That's the forerunner of the Egyptian
😂 only one episode at a time bro.
@@cliffdariff74
A discussion of civilization is totally incomplete without it. Especially when you also leave out the empires even further south where agriculture art and domestication actually begin.
I’m glad you said this was 2,000 generations ago for perspective.
Tens of thousands is innacurate
@@joestitz239 based on what?
I love this narrators voice.
The idea that a written language is what makes a civilization is archaic.
Let's go Humans!!!!😊
At 37:57, those sculptures look like early native American totem poles carvings. When Alaska and Russia were still connected by land and the three different groups of homosapiens converged and intermarried to become today's native Americans - that is where the art style survived to today it appears to me.
The achievement of any civilization can be determined by the art they leave behind. And a great society will support the development and evolution of art, music, architecture, dance, science. Our society is really going backwards with all these wars.
I liked this very much but wish it had kept Simon Schama's narration. It's weird to see Schama walking around these places while Schreiber narrates. PBS audiences don't care about celebrities narrating so I wonder why American executives decided to jettison the original narrators.
I beg to differ, I liked the narration. It was not intrusive as some are. I don’t know who these scholars are so I don’t know if the are celebrities or not.
@@annemiura7767look up schama power of art series (maybe start with Van Gogh or Rembrandt). They’re awesome.
Thank you so much, Simon Schama and Liev Schreiber; your voice is amazingly soothing when telling US how we became in our today society so unaware of our past and all the vast knowledge we have lost due to wars or just hate because of political ideas, they do not share or think it is Idolatry that should be destroyed. I remember years ago when the magnificent Boudha was destroyed by dynamite. One of the many civilizations that were damaged or rather lost is the Maya, and everything related to before the Spanish Conquistador brought with them; I own a few duplexes in my town, it is making me very aware of all the history lost due to the Spanish invasion. I am a Russian, German and French mix man, I do understand what horrible crimes were committed by my own past ancestors. What is also making me angry is people that think or assume anyone from Central-middle-current America are less of a stunning culture that was destroyed by those who were looking for Gold and Silver.
mayan civilisation was lost almost 700 hundred years prior the european presence in america and rather than lost it was instead melted, any mayan descendant can testify that,Beside they didint come just for gold and silver but to bring to this shores the western civilistion
@@hectorarbolaythe whole world is watching , thanks to the social media .
Watching the unleashing of Barbarism over the natives of Palestine , by the European Zionists .
And who went to the cradle of civilization of Babylon ( Iraq) with lies of weapons of mass destruction and killed a million innocent human beings . Shamelessly no regret of it but weeping for the destruction of art or statues .
How shameful . How barbaric and how much more uncivilized can it get . ?
@@hectorarbolaythe whole world is watching , thanks to the social media .
Watching the unleashing of Barbarism over the natives of Palestine , by the European Zionists .
And who went to the cradle of civilization of Babylon ( Iraq) with lies of weapons of mass destruction and killed a million innocent human beings . Shamelessly no regret of it but weeping for the destruction of art or statues .
How shameful . How barbaric and how much more uncivilized can it get . ?
A great many artist like myself believe our human creativity originated and continues to originate from the heart of our Creator. Evolution is the Creator's artistic hand, a work in progress.
Art, what is art? One's understanding of time, place, medium, and self.
It will be interesting to see what will be done to protect art and past cultures.
A great documentary for great ancient people
love it when LIev narrates.
Thank you for bringing this information forward. This is all of our history, our legacy.
Always world-class from PBS.
Hard knocks voice of lieb talking ancient history? How blessed are we.
When is ep 2???
Picasso came out of those caves, saying "I've invented nothing..."
"Apres Lascaux all is decadence."
Picasso
By that time he'd already been to African countries and even collected masks. Bulls are a common motif in Africa well before Minoan civilization. They didn't even mention the Apis bull of Egypt and even earlier ones further south.
This has very bad very old and out of date scholarship.
PBS with a Dragon Drop of a different kind but still one of 🎼. An organized account and classical record that is it's own report of humanity's song/music. Thanks PBS!!!! You have been a cherished melody that's been established on Earth for my entire existence.
That's Super Solid🗿✊🏼.
Rock On!
This is the kind of bot activity that PBS relies on for viewership....
@@evrythingis1 sure thing. then doesn't that make u a botfly. Jeesh, folks that hover to eat shiet and project it onto others, sure have a boatload of insults that they think are zingers.
The dichotomy of being human; the best and the worst within ourselves and the utilization of our system of beliefs to justify our actions.
What do you mean justify?.. it just happens.
Im a painter. I love painting for a living. Red oakwr is still a pigment used to tint paint and stains today
In a small way you’re connected to people 50k years ago
amazing
This documentary is fucken stylish!!!!!! I've had the DVDs for years!!
The cave art is the most astounding for me ❤️ we were already perfect artists in our world.
The beautiful depictions of fertile women from antiquty are the most telling.
Woman, who brings forth and nourishes life with her very self 🙏 to be treasured and protected!
Thank you, PBS!
Thanks to Simon Schama🎉
Ya know what? Im misty eyed. My future? Its so hard sometime to face our truth. Thank you A.J. and team.
How wonderful and amazing ❤❤❤❤❤❤!!!! Toooo fine beautiful .
Things like this from the pass.!!!!
I’ve watched this several times - I just Love Simon Shuma (I hope I’m spelling his name correctly) - I’m a visual Artist - I’ve owned - directed - and curated an Art gallery with 60, Artist on board - But anyway, ❤ THANK YOU SO MUCH
I've always found it interesting that civilizations like in Mexico had the knowledge and wisdom to map the stars, build enormous structures, make art that even by todays standards is awe inspiring, and craftsmanship that makes our modern manufacturing look like they took a step back...But nobody figured out the wheel. It seems like an easy leap in logic, but I'm seeing things from now.
Does anyone have thoughts on this? Or is there something I am missing and I sound dumb?
They did know of the wheel. For example, there were children's toy animals made with wheels so kids could push them around and play with them. But with no pack animals like horses to pull them, there was no point to making something like wagons or chariots.
@@FLMD-row- correct
How does an "Advanced" civilization devolve so rapidly into murdering people so the sun rises. Answer? They never were advanced to begin with and those structures were there already for 10k+ years. The same as Egypt and everywhere else with megalithic sites.
Like native American Indians, there was no written language either.
So where did my comment go? Did you all report it because I said the truth?.
I'll say it again, they didn't build anything at all. It was already there and they desecrated these structures by m ur der ing people so the sun could ride.
Now they have found a phenomenal artistic display in Australia. Look it up. It's stunning!
cooked food allowed our minds had the time & nutrients to expand.
Yep, and the cultivation and consumption of grains.
@@hershelfowler6257 grains were useful for travel and for riding out the storms (so to speak). grains didn't do much for nutrition or longevity - unless you count dying of a lack of calories.
@@genkiferal7178 After the discovery of agriculture, the cultivation of grains, cities begun to pop up. Grain made people sedentary.
Thank you very much for this beautiful, well-done documentary. Truly enjoyed it. 🎉❤🎉
We can now with our eyes observe how people in the stone age acted. Just look how this vandals acts. We all live to day in different timeages, it is the rulers behaviors to their citicens who decide their " timeage" Some behaves as " animals" ....... ruled by an animal...
Once we acknowledge where we come from!
We get the vision of where we heading to, clearer!
Unfortunately they're leaving out a lot by focusing so much on the west.
Art is not history, it’s an experience, a shared abstract experience. Artifacts are history but cannot define art, they can only add another layer.
Saying art isn’t history is like saying science isn’t math (but it’s ALOT of math)
yes sure there is no history of art for you 😂
At the time art is created it's an experiencial community experience. very much in the present moment. But after millenia of artistic record, it very much becomes our art history.
There are some birds of paradise create art, they decorate nests as a means to attract a mate. Humans aren't the only ones
Yes, they even build sculptures out of twigs and they tidy up the area around it!
They take months building the sculpture which could be two meters tall.
And your point is ??😅
@@cliffdariff74 the point is in his very observational message🤣😊
I find their work repetitive and sophomoric. I am still waiting for the Andy Warhol of bower birds to transform the work from craft to art.
Yes, they decorate their nests. However, they do this to achieve a goal: attracting a mate. Whereas humans decorate for many reasons, but also just for art's sake, no other purpose. I think that is the difference here.
Awesome.... I took lotsa notes! Thanks very much...😃 Simon Schma's da MAN!!
You'd do better looking up the university of Chicago seminars here and for earlier African history the seminars from Harvard on African history to help you make even earlier connections direct from actual archeologists.
amazing documentary; the beginning going over the cave paintings nearly brought me to tears
Beautiful
He did because of thy greatest wisdoms and knowledge
Excellent documentary😮❤👋🏼
Actually, it's. Highly incomplete and eurocentric. It doesn't do much to bring people's knowledge forward from what we learned in college way back in the 80s. We need to have the younger scholars on with the newer information.
The term modern society, ought to be revised !
Fascinating
This is a great intro into ancient civilizations, thanks for uploading!
I would say the older cultures around the Black SEa, like Cucuteni-Tripillia, Varna, and so on are the foundations of "Europe", and not Greece. Greece and Egypt came way later. The Varna gold buriel occured around 4600 BC, so long before dynastic Egypt and Greece
He died just as how he lived- protecting and defending the land of his birth. In killing him, these terrorist prove how 'peaceful' their religion of peace is. Palmyra is an equally important ancient city like Rome and Memphis, then these fanatics decided to tear it all down all in the name of their interpretation of the history.
I believe that, he knew that he has always had a choice- abandon the city where he spent his entire life or safeguard the relics and die. And I believe that he chose to fight. He paid with his life the preservation of knowledge, artifacts, identity of Palmyra for the whole world to see.
The world seems to be full of hatred and destruction but once in a while, a human being like Director Khaled al-Asad comes and reminds us that there are still things worth fighting and dying for.
Had i been inclined growing up to watch, i imagine PBS would have taught me a thing or 2...i did at least get to experience Bob Ross tho, a gift to humanity by his own accord..🏞. Thanx for keeping it public. 💓🙏
I saw a video of a male bird, of incomparable beauty, decorate the outside of his nesting area (on the ground) with beautiful rocks and flowers. Hoping to attract a female, he too, is using art.
The moment mankind became man, is when he realized his creative potential and that began when they became masters of 'meditative wisdom', recorded in Vishnu Purana, in a prayer by Krishna, 11,000 bp.
Thank you PBS For another great, informative video.
I want to Thank Them with different Colors , you left many mysterious that we Try to Solve, that Was and Still EPIC, Also i Want to inform Them that we try to Reach what seems bright at night in the Skys, and we WELL 🥰
This is absolutely wonderful!
0:54 "opened our eyes" - image of indian woman with bindi dot (depiction of Third Eye / pineal gland)
I need episode 2 please
You can watch the rest of the series over on the PBS App! to.pbs.org/2GKNvGK
@@PBShow do you get it in the UK?
@tracymcgeachie7525 LOL, first, check out the BBC and Channel 4. So much of PBS's programming has traditionally been licensed from the UK or co-produced with UK television companies. Even our local PBS broadcasters do this. It's how most of us over here discovered Blackadder and Alan Partridge and, when I was young, Monty Python.
@@tracymcgeachie7525 use a vpn
@@tracymcgeachie7525BBC iPlayer. This is a British documentary made by the BBC.
Fascinating documentary!
Excellent.
great ending 👌🏽
5:21 beautifully said! That’s how I feel about African true history.
If ALL humans migrated from Africa to the rest of the world, then it only makes sense that creators lived there also.
The woman historian, who is an expert on human history, not animals, felt qualified enough to declare that Art is distinctively a human trait. She apparently has not seen videos of birds and fishes decorating their nests. Granted their art is for the purpose of mating or to serve some other biological needs, but it is art nonetheless.
I’m not sure that is art which is a kind of artifice. Art needs no purpose other than itself; it is its own raisin d’etre and it distinguishes us not only from animals but from other human beings, which is fine. Our artists show us things about our inner lives, and show others what we thought beautiful, numinous.
Animals do what they do for purely biological and instinctual purposes. Their decorative acts are not a matter of free will. Art in human hands is so much more than decorative or merely for the purposes of mating and it is decidedly an act of free will.
@@jeanettesdaughter Haven't you heard? There is no free will. For anybody. Neither animals nor humans.
“Nuestra cultura no está muerta, nuestra cultura vive y sobrevive en nosotros mismos/Our culture is not dead, our culture lives and survives in us”
Unfortunately all the cultures discussed here are dead and gone.
well presented documentary TYVM for sharing ❤
Woman around 7:30 is wrong. Many animals create art. Bower birds make major installations. Varieties of fish sculpt the sand into fancy shapes.
Imagination is the beginning of Co-Creation
Great series
and here i am, trying to fall asleep at night, not ready to hear the first five minutes at all… welp
Excellent programming
Thank you
Brilliant.
Great documentary
Very Cool 😎 Thank you 😊
The Mayans just walked off into the forest and gave up their creations huh? Lol. It was indeed something epic that wiped everyone out of these great creations. It's the younger dryas impact
Some Australian indigenous people call the bull-roarer, “mother in law’s tongue”. Representations being seen as the capturing of the spirit is an immemorial perception/intuition about reality, especially the face. This condition has been elaborated and exploited in a myriad ways … and the future is pictured as erasing the distinction.
🤭 tiny is one of my favourite words. 💖💖💖💖💖💖🤭
and what advancements we gain, and wonders that we build, we also destroy...
Pope Gregory notated his calendar with BC and AD. If you want to use a different notation, then invent your own calendar.
Who cares what some Catholic did
Get with the times
@@Dovahkiin0117 Then go ahead and invent your own calendar.
Water holds memory. Thats why everything is repeating. Doomed to repeat ourselves. Or Domed to? 😉
Thank you for this wonderfully polished and informative video. I really enjoyed it. Again, thank you so much.
PS: Do you have something intense about Thera Frescoes and how does it go with their restorations ? this is what I m waiting for since 2 decennia, so, if you edit something, you'll make me a happy man for real...
Statue of Beavis at 37:52 and Kenny from South Park at 43:05. Who knew?
Amazing documentary!
"May PBS always remain Authentic, Ethical, and Non-biased, even thru the money of the Elite"
Beth Bartlett
Sociologist/Behavioralist
and Historian
It's a BBC documentary!
Unfortunately PBS is usually a tool for dems and libs.
The Maya civilization, with its city-states, reminds me of pre-Akkadian Empire Sumeria.
3:00 what's not said is that the ISIS destruction was a even more despicable red herring op. The difficult to transport and easy to identify Monuments were destroyed, while everything else went up in prices immediately and to the black markets to finance ISIS operations. Most ended up in Lebanon and Turkey, and ultimately in London, Switzerland or even the US...
"One art, please"
No mention of one of the cradle of civilization, India. Also, the largest cultural sphere of influence to this day in Asia, and arguably the largest there ever was in the ancient world.
Those rings look like molds for casting something maybe with clay. Or perhaps as wax signet seals