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@@AncientArchitects you could do sort of mini-series about these sites, finding the information in the internet regarding these topics is kinda hard and I’d love to know more about this site but also many others. Also with mini series I don't mean like several videos regarding the same topic published one after another, you could split them up and later create a playlist? Or something like that so that you can talk about it fully and don't have to select which information to put in the video
Thank you Matt for this upload. Wonderful you keep discovering these sites and SHARING. You're the best. Can't wait for your trip to Egypt. Take care Matt🌺🗽🌺
I'm so glad this content is based on scientific sources. It's sad I even have to say that. Keep up the good work these videos are moving the needle towards truth and away from alternative history channels that will say anything to get views.
Not really.... According to scientists the human race goes back 100s of thousands of years, whereas the earliest civilisation (like this) is at most 12 thousand years old...
Wow thanks for the video. It’s crazy that there are places like this, Tell Qaramel, and Göbekli Tepe that are still so obscure, relatively speaking. I guess it takes a while for stuff like it to become known to the wider public. It’s interesting how much cool historical knowledge I’ve found solely through the works of TH-camrs like yourself, keep doing what you do, it’s greatly appreciated!
Thank you for making this area of archaeology accessible, Matt. I’ve watched a couple of the videos you translated from the original Turkish archaeology team, which I wouldn’t have been able to understand or even find. I hope they appreciate what you’re doing too!
Wow, another incredible site! My heart is breaking for the people of Southern Turkiye and Northern Syria - absolutely terrifying videos. As if Syria needed more heartache.
It's humbling to realise that people were well organized and laborious 10k years ago, and no owner class, managers or financial economic system was needed. Structures were still built, pottery was being made, farms kept and art produced. People lived and apparently still thrived. Great video as always Matt!
Its seems our engineering skills have always been pretty sharp. We were extremely skilled craftsman and engineers thousands of years before we even had mathematics. Our intuitions allowed us too engineer projects without actually knowing the science behind what was being done.
@@johncollins211 theres a lot of reason to believe we had a lot more math a lot sooner than we assume. Just like has started to become more accepted about toolmaking and language
Love it! I think these were the universities of their day. Where science, medicine, religion, survival, socialization, culture, language, hunting, farming, building, cooking, art, clothing, weaponry, etc., were at the the cutting edge of their developments. These were hot spots of evolutionary unfolding, examination, experimentation, learning, questioning, understanding, governing, etc.. These centers were their laptops, laboratories and libraries. The recent earthquakes in this area of the world might be a clue to how/why these settlements were abandoned.
Impressive. The thought occurs to me that there may have been towns made of wood in the forested areas of Europe and the Middle East. The mind goes to the Swiss lake dwellers or other inhabitants of Neolithic Europe whose wooden buildings and artifacts would be long gone. Perhaps actually major wooden towns now gone represented a much larger portion of inhabited sites in the late Neolithic. The Mayans, for instance, possessed excellent wood working skills even architecturally of which only traces remain because of the jungle environment.
with the forest constantly growing and decay taking place over time or being used up by builders, it makes sense with what stone creations have lasted.
There probably were some settlements in Europe in that era. However, I doubt they would have structures of the same size precisely because they would be using wood. These places in the Levant may have survived antiquity because they used the abundant stone. Stone's sturdiness may have allowed them to have more stable constructions than their building techniques would be capable of otherwise.
@@kyriacosstavrinides893 Wood was not so poor a structural material that it wasn't used in say the Bent Pyramid or the Djoser Pyramid at Saqqara. So people knew about wood. Finally in the Great Pyramid they learned to substitute granite beams for wooden supports as the ultimate structural solution.
Thanks, Matt, for another fascinating peek through the curtain of time to see some of what our distant ancestors were able to do. I agree that the term "civilization" should include places and cultures like this, even though it derives from the Latin word for city. Thanks again for another great video, and following after Prof. Miano's first installment of his trip to Egypt. My cup runeth over!🥃🍺🍷
Thank you Matt. As always, your video was extremely informative. Many of your videos tend to cause reevaluation of what is thought to be commonly acceptable.
Theatric performances must go way back. People love it and it’s an effective influential form of communication … especially considering no radio or tv.
It is not unreasonable to imagine that if one could travel through time and visit WF 16 in its heyday, there might have been every profession as we know them represented in society.
As someone who works in marketing I was thinking the other day of what that profession would have looked like in the ancient past. Especially around the advent of larger cities there must have been something that served the function of telling people about products and services for sale in the city. Maybe it was just word of mouth, or the bazarre being located in a central area, but I still wonder.
@@JonnoPlays haha, yeah dude. You guys were in high demand. At emptying poop buckets or a being a good slave. If you were really good they might even feed you once a week or let you sleep inside on really cold nights. Holy crap dude. Marketing
I feel the great Celebration was the Ritual, too. A gathering of people to connect with others and their Cosmogonia. I imagine it happy, exciting, and even challenging. And overall, a fantastic annual experience for humans to cooperate and achieve something great. Just my imagination.
Explanation Real European History : Haplogroup R1b,R1a (Indigenous Europeans)(Basques, Gaels, Poles) Haplogroup I (Neolithic Indo European wave from Anatolia. Megaliths, Polytheism, Pottery, Longhouses, Axes, Sailing ships)(Bosnians,Scandinavians,Sardinians) Haplogroup J2b (Bronze Age Indo European wave. Ancient Mycenean/Minoan Greece. Rome. Writing and Metallurgy) (Modern Cretans) And some lesser sporadic influxes of Haplogroup E (North Africa) and Haplogroup G (Western Caucasus) Proof Every single word associated with agriculture in Europe is of Indo-European origin. Also many of our maritime words as well, such as "sail". Suggesting the Indo-Europeans were avid seafarers.. "Plough" "Sickle" "Wheat" "Bread" "Milk" "Cattle" "Goat" "Sheep" "Lamb" "Wool" "Swine" "Wine" "Olive" "Beer" "Mead" "House" "Floor" "Wall" "Roof" "Hull" "Rudder" "Sail" "Pot" "Axe" And there is no "alternative explanation" either. Theses words come from no other linguistic family but Indo-European... Meaning the first farmers in the Near East 10000 years ago, were speaking Indo-European. And they spread their language from there, most likely by "sailing" ship.
I'm always happy to get to see a new video from you. I like to speculate about how comfortable it was for the people who lived in all these stone structures. Sitting and socializing, reclining, sleeping, cooking, eating, bathing, medical care, working at many crafts, doing rituals, hunting, foraging, and all the cleanup chores necessary after these activities. What sorts of textiles -- mats, mattresses, blankets, pillows, cushions, bags, nets, and of course clothing were they making to pad all those stony surfaces? They must have been weaving as well as cutting up and sewing animal skins and gathering leaves, pine needles, grasses to use for padding. Maybe they could spin yarn from wild sheep wool and goat hair and knit it and make nets too. Of course all of those are items long gone after over 11,000 years. How exciting it would be if they could ever find any vestiges of such work, or carved illustrations of people in clothing.
Another wonderful outing. I like the way site maps and photographic images are displayed side-by-side enabling greater understanding of what we are looking at than the photos alone would allow. I still find the narrative delivery distracting. I don't know anywhere in Britain where the tonal changes are typical. I would recommend listening to and following the tonal structure of the speeches of Winston Churchill or the scene in ''Hannibal'' where Anthony Hopkins is delivering the library lecture on Pietro della Vigna as excellent templates. I used the latter to good effect in university presentations. There's a reason why oratory used to be practiced in the Trivium as part of Rhetoric.
Thank You. It's so satisfying seeing our ancestors come out of the Ice Age. Better opportunities lead to increased population and the wonderful community you introduced to us today.
I just wish that all this knowledge cab be spreaded, teached, showed, learned in schools, houses and everywhere!!! We need to start thinking different about us as species, in order to achieve a better world. Thanks Matt... you blown my mind again..!!!
I really appreciate what you are doing man. Pretty awesome work. I do miss the somewhat crazy notions you had when you first started your channel though; that was great entertainment. However, keep doing what you are doing, progress and evolution is always the goal. Thanks, still a fan.
The circular ground dwelllings are vrey similar to the Kiva's of Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico , USA. Excellent research and presentations as per usual, thank you!
Definition wise, when does gathering food become farming? I expect very early on people planted fruit bearing trees and encouraged food plants to grow by various means. People were moving rocks around in rivers/streams to make channels that made catching fish easy. Also adapting the terrain and vegetation in a way that channels game animals. Also I don’t doubt game animals were trapped inside barriers or hobbled to provide a stable food source. I speculate they also did a lot to their environment to promote food growth from plants.
The process of Neolithisation took hundreds of years but looks to have began in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (11,650ish) and by the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, grains and animals look pretty domesticated, differentiated from the wild varieties.
The general area Mediterranean seems to have been a serious global center for all kinds of human interactions - better or worse. But, there have been many extremely ancient finds worldwide. Thank you for your very serious studies into these findings!
The Mediterranean area was a fertile stopping point as humans and other hominims traveled out of Africa. It became the birthplace of civilization and genocidal wars over these resources.
@@GeckoHiker Okay, just to note, perhaps it should be said that the area of the Mediterranean is the birthplace of "modern civilization" . The Mediterranean is not the only area to have developed written languages over the past 5000 years. Therefore, the Mediterranean area is entirely the ultimate birthplace of all modern civilization. Even the Egyptians did not have a written language that compares and comes up to par to more modern developments.
@dandavatsdasa8345 I think the neolithic era qualifies as modern in the long history of humans. The Egyptian writings kept a civilization alive for many centuries. Our current "modern era" is no more than a blink, and it's still rather primitive. We are always a weather or geological event away from a shutdown. Our middens pollute the ocean, our technology chokes the atmosphere, and our diets also ruin our teeth. Like Egyptian bread.
@@GeckoHiker Could certain civilizations have had technologies more advanced than the modern situation? Even if they had more advanced technologies their civilization still fell apart in due course of time. Unchecked Pollution has, by itself, been blamed many times for the potential to even destroy the whole world.
Thanks your videos are always so informative. As I was looking at the back drop of some of the site pictures, I was thinking how much it looks like areas of AZ. I think they are about the same Geographic parallel. That was pretty awesome.
I have real propblems wirth the wording here. "First settlement" ? So much sophistication is a sign for me that it is not the first. Those people already knew how to build and where. So there should be much earlier settlements (possible under water now) we just have not found them yet.
Their culture - although cooperative - must have been so different from ours in so many ways! When they did a rebuild every century or so a new, strong, imaginative leader will have emerged THANK YOU - old git, UK
There's a 32,000 year old cave painting that left Picasso speechless. When you consider the artist had to make his own paint, brushes, pot holing gear to get to it( it's deep and dark),candles to burn for light, and fire. That's some bloody achievement. The fact the paintings look like they were done by Leonardo Da Vinchi only adds to the magnitude of it.
Interesting how agriculture, architecture and food storage seems to come right after the younger dryas period... but i would bet it was these techniques during that period that helped people survive. We are just able to find more evidence, as it spread later as a valid means of thriving after the event, as more sites would statistically leave more surviving evidence.
This is the beginnings after a world wide catastrophe I would love to see civilization found from before the younger dryas. Although difficult, it must be out there, somewhere
From all your research and videos do you have a spreadsheet with all the settlements, tepes, population centers and their respective estimated age ranges?
@@AncientArchitects That would be great. Thanks. It would put into perspective for me to see how close all of these sites are to the end of the younger dryas (11,600 bce), and how going through the YD event really shifted the human population way of life to settle down, start agriculture, and build megalithic structures.
At 9:30 the picture on the left, is interesting. Note the "boat shaped" room. The ditch(?) Down the center could be seen as a basic keel brace. Made of mud brick, it seems more a grain storage area in a place designed to look like a boat. I can almost feel a story behind this.
The Cave of Forgotten Dreams video is proof of the advanced intellect of pre-historic civilizations with solid evidence dating to between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago.
The Gobekli Tepe pillar has an engraved image of a fence. That’s what it looks like to me compared to other ancient evidence and some current practices. A fence made by weaving small sticks together. That implies animals were penned and probably bread … an important food source before refrigeration during lean times.
There’s a compelling theory that the sedentary lifestyle, evolving into farming etc, was brought about by “religion”, or whatever their belief system was. The growing and centralisation of their religion and religious practices, with the attendant hierarchical structure of a “Priesthood” or those who “held the knowledge”, required the first monumental buildings and structures, such as Gobleki Teppe. This in turn repaired a large workforce, not only builders and labour but also food production and all the other artisanal skills and practices. It goes some way to explaining the move into a sedentary lifestyle before farming was common, which was in the past thought to have come first, requiring sedentary lifestyle and villages or settlements. I buy this hypothesis anyway.
Totally agree with you in finding these pre-pottery neolithic A sites the most interesting part of our history being investigated right now. Is there any consensus about these sites being centers for trading?
I really like the new icon for the channel. If you change it in the future, which I hope you don't, make sure enough time has passed for everyone to forget the last icon before moving to a new one. Too many changes or rebranding in a short time could hurt your channel and reach. Ik I'm not the only one that got confused and almost didn't click it. Then I saw the name, and I was like, oh, it's Matt. Lol. If you do change up in the future, be sure to tell us so we know beforehand to expect it. It will cut down on confusion.
We took for granted that all ancient artifacts were buried waiting there to the next archaeologists. Some even hypothesis that the builders bury it themselves for insane reasons. I have not heard of anyone asked why / how it was buried shortly after built, regardless of the site isn’t prone to mud flood or not. One of the cause these constructions were buried was caused by “mud from the heaven” taken as “mud fall”. All comets, large and small have two tails, approaching and departing from solar. Solid debris in one and liquid, gas in the other. Littering debris on earth as it flies by, in various scale, from local to global on earth, in our ancient past.
I'm starting to believe that pre-pottery Neolithic A may have been a much busier landscape than we think, and was 100% a civilization. Hope one day the fighting in the middle east will end and more excavations can be done. In regards to the functions of the megastructure, I am wondering if the answer could be "all of the above." A modern day village hall or church can be used for celebrations, performances, food preparation and distribution, maybe even arts and crafts. So why not a similar multipurpose structure? Loved the video, thanks.
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Did you mean half a hundred thousand years ago instead of half a million? I was not aware modern humans were anywhere 500,000 years ago ! 5:13
Hopefully this earthquake that just happened there, didn't destroy everything we left exposed to the elements.
Such beautiful videos! History has definitely been altered since I studied ancient history nearly 40 years ago. Just amazing. Thank you.
Hey I want to bring it to your attention on Ratnagiri's Prehistoric Rock Art can you please make video on it .
@@abheek160 Is that in Scandinavia?
Greetings from 🇪🇬 Jordan will probably be next. As always your videos inspire me to travel further✌️
Hello! Hope your well!
Such an amazing find!! Civilization began so much earlier than we used to think
Another winner!🏆That was so well done.👍👍Thanks for taking the time to sift through the archeologists' voluminous documentation for us.
Structure 075 is totally amazing, but I also found the burial practices interesting. Great stuff! Thanks Matt!
There’s so much more but had to leave a lot of detail out. Thanks for watching Barry.
@@AncientArchitects you could do sort of mini-series about these sites, finding the information in the internet regarding these topics is kinda hard and I’d love to know more about this site but also many others. Also with mini series I don't mean like several videos regarding the same topic published one after another, you could split them up and later create a playlist? Or something like that so that you can talk about it fully and don't have to select which information to put in the video
Thank you Matt! Another masterful program.
Thank you Matt for this upload.
Wonderful you keep discovering these sites and SHARING.
You're the best. Can't wait for your trip to Egypt.
Take care Matt🌺🗽🌺
Thank you 🙏
I'm so glad this content is based on scientific sources. It's sad I even have to say that. Keep up the good work these videos are moving the needle towards truth and away from alternative history channels that will say anything to get views.
Hopefully we can be allowed to dig further and learn more
Human civilization seems to back farther each year. So amazing.
😂
fr man, and its gonna keep going back
Not really.... According to scientists the human race goes back 100s of thousands of years, whereas the earliest civilisation (like this) is at most 12 thousand years old...
The ancient world gets more amazing by year and I sure am glad that I found this channel!
Wow thanks for the video. It’s crazy that there are places like this, Tell Qaramel, and Göbekli Tepe that are still so obscure, relatively speaking. I guess it takes a while for stuff like it to become known to the wider public.
It’s interesting how much cool historical knowledge I’ve found solely through the works of TH-camrs like yourself, keep doing what you do, it’s greatly appreciated!
I think current events help explain how these cultures disappeared. 7.5 & 7.8 earthquakes within 100km.
And the actual written story of Jericho.
Thank you for making this area of archaeology accessible, Matt. I’ve watched a couple of the videos you translated from the original Turkish archaeology team, which I wouldn’t have been able to understand or even find. I hope they appreciate what you’re doing too!
The fact that they were able to make stone implements like that shows they were very industrious and crafty.
OUTSTANDING!
Another superior presentation my friend. Nicely done.
Wow, another incredible site! My heart is breaking for the people of Southern Turkiye and Northern Syria - absolutely terrifying videos. As if Syria needed more heartache.
It’s truly devastating. So so sad.
Thanks Matt ~ another fascinating archaeological treasure ! 👍👍
It's humbling to realise that people were well organized and laborious 10k years ago, and no owner class, managers or financial economic system was needed. Structures were still built, pottery was being made, farms kept and art produced. People lived and apparently still thrived. Great video as always Matt!
I suggest you read Hobbes and Locke about how they came to be organized and labor together.
Its seems our engineering skills have always been pretty sharp. We were extremely skilled craftsman and engineers thousands of years before we even had mathematics. Our intuitions allowed us too engineer projects without actually knowing the science behind what was being done.
Yes but you dont know they didnt have those things.
@@johncollins211 theres a lot of reason to believe we had a lot more math a lot sooner than we assume. Just like has started to become more accepted about toolmaking and language
Slaves
Love it! I think these were the universities of their day. Where science, medicine, religion, survival, socialization, culture, language, hunting, farming, building, cooking, art, clothing, weaponry, etc., were at the the cutting edge of their developments. These were hot spots of evolutionary unfolding, examination, experimentation, learning, questioning, understanding, governing, etc.. These centers were their laptops, laboratories and libraries. The recent earthquakes in this area of the world might be a clue to how/why these settlements were abandoned.
There is an idea that Bodmin moor in Cornwall was a college teaching 'how to build a stone circle' ...see Christian O'Brien 'the shining ones'
Truly amazing site. I have to agree that the Pre Pottery Neolithic A was definitely a crucial period when it comes to development👍🏻
WOW!! A profound thank you! My wife and I will be in Jordan this September and this site will definitely be added to the list!
Always more to see. Thanks much.
Thank you for watching
This one was very interesting just like all of your other presentations. Thank you.
Impressive. The thought occurs to me that there may have been towns made of wood in the forested areas of Europe and the Middle East. The mind goes to the Swiss lake dwellers or other inhabitants of Neolithic Europe whose wooden buildings and artifacts would be long gone. Perhaps actually major wooden towns now gone represented a much larger portion of inhabited sites in the late Neolithic. The Mayans, for instance, possessed excellent wood working skills even architecturally of which only traces remain because of the jungle environment.
with the forest constantly growing and decay taking place over time or being used up by builders, it makes sense with what stone creations have lasted.
There probably were some settlements in Europe in that era. However, I doubt they would have structures of the same size precisely because they would be using wood. These places in the Levant may have survived antiquity because they used the abundant stone. Stone's sturdiness may have allowed them to have more stable constructions than their building techniques would be capable of otherwise.
@@kyriacosstavrinides893 Wood was not so poor a structural material that it wasn't used in say the Bent Pyramid or the Djoser Pyramid at Saqqara. So people knew about wood. Finally in the Great Pyramid they learned to substitute granite beams for wooden supports as the ultimate structural solution.
They can find post holes of wooden posts in the dirt even when the wood is gone.
Absolutely FASCINATING
Thanks, Matt, for another fascinating peek through the curtain of time to see some of what our distant ancestors were able to do. I agree that the term "civilization" should include places and cultures like this, even though it derives from the Latin word for city. Thanks again for another great video, and following after Prof. Miano's first installment of his trip to Egypt. My cup runeth over!🥃🍺🍷
Thank you Matt. As always, your video was extremely informative. Many of your videos tend to cause reevaluation of what is thought to be commonly acceptable.
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for this video , I love this era of our distant past .
I would strongly recommend a visit. The entire area is packed with fascinating archaeology.
Thank you for sharing! Extraordinary!
Theatric performances must go way back. People love it and it’s an effective influential form of communication … especially considering no radio or tv.
Thanks a lot! And just imagine what could be found on the continental shelf
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It is not unreasonable to imagine that if one could travel through time and visit WF 16 in its heyday, there might have been every profession as we know them represented in society.
As someone who works in marketing I was thinking the other day of what that profession would have looked like in the ancient past. Especially around the advent of larger cities there must have been something that served the function of telling people about products and services for sale in the city. Maybe it was just word of mouth, or the bazarre being located in a central area, but I still wonder.
Yeah, they might also be arguing about pronouns, for all we know. ❤
@@JonnoPlays haha, yeah dude. You guys were in high demand. At emptying poop buckets or a being a good slave. If you were really good they might even feed you once a week or let you sleep inside on really cold nights. Holy crap dude. Marketing
@@OrdinaryCritic nah we never would have progressed
IT techician? Pilot? Astronaut? Game show host? Reality TV star? God, I hope not!
Great video Matt, keep up the good work 😊
Awesome work guys! 🙏
Cheers
And I absolutely love your channel! So well done and informative I am impressed sir !! A new sub as well but you knew this . ❤👍🏻❤ thank you !!
really love your videos.. thanks for your research and hard work. Keep up the good work sir!
I feel the great Celebration was the Ritual, too. A gathering of people to connect with others and their Cosmogonia. I imagine it happy, exciting, and even challenging. And overall, a fantastic annual experience for humans to cooperate and achieve something great. Just my imagination.
I remember when you first started and now look! Over 500k subs. So glad you channel took off.
Wow are you churning these videos out! Not complaining!😃
Explanation
Real European History :
Haplogroup R1b,R1a (Indigenous Europeans)(Basques, Gaels, Poles)
Haplogroup I (Neolithic Indo European wave from Anatolia. Megaliths, Polytheism, Pottery, Longhouses, Axes, Sailing ships)(Bosnians,Scandinavians,Sardinians)
Haplogroup J2b (Bronze Age Indo European wave. Ancient Mycenean/Minoan Greece. Rome. Writing and Metallurgy)
(Modern Cretans)
And some lesser sporadic influxes of Haplogroup E (North Africa) and Haplogroup G (Western Caucasus)
Proof
Every single word associated with agriculture in Europe is of Indo-European origin. Also many of our maritime words as well, such as "sail". Suggesting the Indo-Europeans were avid seafarers..
"Plough"
"Sickle"
"Wheat"
"Bread"
"Milk"
"Cattle"
"Goat"
"Sheep"
"Lamb"
"Wool"
"Swine"
"Wine"
"Olive"
"Beer"
"Mead"
"House"
"Floor"
"Wall"
"Roof"
"Hull"
"Rudder"
"Sail"
"Pot"
"Axe"
And there is no "alternative explanation" either. Theses words come from no other linguistic family but Indo-European... Meaning the first farmers in the Near East 10000 years ago, were speaking Indo-European. And they spread their language from there, most likely by "sailing" ship.
I'm always happy to get to see a new video from you. I like to speculate about how comfortable it was for the people who lived in all these stone structures. Sitting and socializing, reclining, sleeping, cooking, eating, bathing, medical care, working at many crafts, doing rituals, hunting, foraging, and all the cleanup chores necessary after these activities. What sorts of textiles -- mats, mattresses, blankets, pillows, cushions, bags, nets, and of course clothing were they making to pad all those stony surfaces? They must have been weaving as well as cutting up and sewing animal skins and gathering leaves, pine needles, grasses to use for padding. Maybe they could spin yarn from wild sheep wool and goat hair and knit it and make nets too. Of course all of those are items long gone after over 11,000 years. How exciting it would be if they could ever find any vestiges of such work, or carved illustrations of people in clothing.
Another wonderful outing. I like the way site maps and photographic images are displayed side-by-side enabling greater understanding of what we are looking at than the photos alone would allow.
I still find the narrative delivery distracting. I don't know anywhere in Britain where the tonal changes are typical. I would recommend listening to and following the tonal structure of the speeches of Winston Churchill or the scene in ''Hannibal'' where Anthony Hopkins is delivering the library lecture on Pietro della Vigna as excellent templates. I used the latter to good effect in university presentations. There's a reason why oratory used to be practiced in the Trivium as part of Rhetoric.
Native of the UK here, I believe it is a west midlands accent ( guess only ) I play at 1.25 speed it makes it more bearable 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hi Matt, Please visit India. Keeladi in Tamilnadu state, the new museum will give you more insights about our Old Culture
The rebirth of our civilization but we know there has been several before this one. Great video thanks!
Always incredibly fascinating!
Thank You. It's so satisfying seeing our ancestors come out of the Ice Age. Better opportunities lead to increased population and the wonderful community you introduced to us today.
I just wish that all this knowledge cab be spreaded, teached, showed, learned in schools, houses and everywhere!!! We need to start thinking different about us as species, in order to achieve a better world.
Thanks Matt... you blown my mind again..!!!
Gracias amigos desde la patagonia Argentina.
I really appreciate what you are doing man. Pretty awesome work. I do miss the somewhat crazy notions you had when you first started your channel though; that was great entertainment. However, keep doing what you are doing, progress and evolution is always the goal. Thanks, still a fan.
Amazing. Great job. This the period that most interests me. I hope we can learn more about the people of this site
Great lecture, great topic, excellent explanation, You are doing better and better with interesting videos, and I agree with your suppositions 100%.
It is safe to say, at this moment, that we know very little about history.
We’re just learning with every new discovery :)
So much has been kept from us, but its now starting to filter out.
8:12 maybe an ancient dildo?
The circular ground dwelllings are vrey similar to the Kiva's of Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico , USA.
Excellent research and presentations as per usual, thank you!
Brilliant as usual!
Thank you 🙏
Definition wise, when does gathering food become farming? I expect very early on people planted fruit bearing trees and encouraged food plants to grow by various means. People were moving rocks around in rivers/streams to make channels that made catching fish easy. Also adapting the terrain and vegetation in a way that channels game animals. Also I don’t doubt game animals were trapped inside barriers or hobbled to provide a stable food source. I speculate they also did a lot to their environment to promote food growth from plants.
The process of Neolithisation took hundreds of years but looks to have began in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (11,650ish) and by the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, grains and animals look pretty domesticated, differentiated from the wild varieties.
Exellent presentation !!!
The general area Mediterranean seems to have been a serious global center for all kinds of human interactions - better or worse.
But, there have been many extremely ancient finds worldwide.
Thank you for your very serious studies into these findings!
The Mediterranean area was a fertile stopping point as humans and other hominims traveled out of Africa. It became the birthplace of civilization and genocidal wars over these resources.
@@GeckoHiker
Okay, just to note, perhaps it should be said that the area of the Mediterranean is the birthplace of "modern civilization" . The Mediterranean is not the only area to have developed written languages over the past 5000 years. Therefore, the Mediterranean area is entirely the ultimate birthplace of all modern civilization.
Even the Egyptians did not have a written language that compares and comes up to par to more modern developments.
@dandavatsdasa8345 I think the neolithic era qualifies as modern in the long history of humans. The Egyptian writings kept a civilization alive for many centuries. Our current "modern era" is no more than a blink, and it's still rather primitive. We are always a weather or geological event away from a shutdown. Our middens pollute the ocean, our technology chokes the atmosphere, and our diets also ruin our teeth. Like Egyptian bread.
@@GeckoHiker
Could certain civilizations have had technologies more advanced than the modern situation? Even if they had more advanced technologies their civilization still fell apart in due course of time.
Unchecked Pollution has, by itself, been blamed many times for the potential to even destroy the whole world.
Thanks your videos are always so informative. As I was looking at the back drop of some of the site pictures, I was thinking how much it looks like areas of AZ. I think they are about the same Geographic parallel. That was pretty awesome.
Thank you Matthew.
Excellent work
I have real propblems wirth the wording here. "First settlement" ? So much sophistication is a sign for me that it is not the first. Those people already knew how to build and where. So there should be much earlier settlements (possible under water now) we just have not found them yet.
Their culture - although cooperative - must have been so different from ours in so many ways!
When they did a rebuild every century or so a new, strong, imaginative leader will have emerged
THANK YOU - old git, UK
Love your show. You do a great job of explaining these excavations.
Thank you for this video
There's a 32,000 year old cave painting that left Picasso speechless. When you consider the artist had to make his own paint, brushes, pot holing gear to get to it( it's deep and dark),candles to burn for light, and fire. That's some bloody achievement. The fact the paintings look like they were done by Leonardo Da Vinchi only adds to the magnitude of it.
What’s it called?
I think NOT - please link information source for us to consider --- old git, UK
Nice work!!
Interesting how agriculture, architecture and food storage seems to come right after the younger dryas period... but i would bet it was these techniques during that period that helped people survive. We are just able to find more evidence, as it spread later as a valid means of thriving after the event, as more sites would statistically leave more surviving evidence.
That was very interesting!
Well done video. Thank you
Many thanks, excellent!
rebirth in my mind
Another good one.
Looks like it could also be a re-booting spot, too. Interesting.
Loved this.
Very illuminating video! Also, perhaps structure 075 was a ritual site and not an entertainment arena?
Amazing thank you 👍
Or a re-settlements? Great video. Thank you.
fantastic video
It is always fascinating to learn about our history as a race upon this planet..
1.2k View, dropped 25 min ago, 201st like. Keep them coming!
Thank you 🙏
This is the beginnings after a world wide catastrophe
I would love to see civilization found from before the younger dryas. Although difficult, it must be out there, somewhere
ok Graham
From all your research and videos do you have a spreadsheet with all the settlements, tepes, population centers and their respective estimated age ranges?
I do actually, yes! I’m working on my website where I will have a section called resources!
@@AncientArchitects That would be great. Thanks. It would put into perspective for me to see how close all of these sites are to the end of the younger dryas (11,600 bce), and how going through the YD event really shifted the human population way of life to settle down, start agriculture, and build megalithic structures.
@@AncientArchitects cool! I'll look forward to seeing that.
I agree Matt, this time period IS the beginnings of real civilization.
thanks for the vid
Thanks for watching
Ancient architecture are far more better than ours today...why people before are not corrupt
Was also fascinated by the boat-like structure in what seemed to be dig O45 =)
Amazing how they keep finding these places...
With there craze dates...
At 9:30 the picture on the left, is interesting. Note the "boat shaped" room. The ditch(?) Down the center could be seen as a basic keel brace. Made of mud brick, it seems more a grain storage area in a place designed to look like a boat. I can almost feel a story behind this.
The Cave of Forgotten Dreams video is proof of the advanced intellect of pre-historic civilizations with solid evidence dating to between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago.
Interesting video!!!! Amazing! Neat coincidence: the people of Sumer buried their dead under the floors of their rooms, or between walls.
The Gobekli Tepe pillar has an engraved image of a fence. That’s what it looks like to me compared to other ancient evidence and some current practices. A fence made by weaving small sticks together. That implies animals were penned and probably bread … an important food source before refrigeration during lean times.
There’s a compelling theory that the sedentary lifestyle, evolving into farming etc, was brought about by “religion”, or whatever their belief system was. The growing and centralisation of their religion and religious practices, with the attendant hierarchical structure of a “Priesthood” or those who “held the knowledge”, required the first monumental buildings and structures, such as Gobleki Teppe. This in turn repaired a large workforce, not only builders and labour but also food production and all the other artisanal skills and practices. It goes some way to explaining the move into a sedentary lifestyle before farming was common, which was in the past thought to have come first, requiring sedentary lifestyle and villages or settlements. I buy this hypothesis anyway.
Totally agree with you in finding these pre-pottery neolithic A sites the most interesting part of our history being investigated right now. Is there any consensus about these sites being centers for trading?
I really like the new icon for the channel. If you change it in the future, which I hope you don't, make sure enough time has passed for everyone to forget the last icon before moving to a new one. Too many changes or rebranding in a short time could hurt your channel and reach. Ik I'm not the only one that got confused and almost didn't click it. Then I saw the name, and I was like, oh, it's Matt. Lol.
If you do change up in the future, be sure to tell us so we know beforehand to expect it. It will cut down on confusion.
I wonder if we will ever know what steps led to progressively larger, better developed building designs preceded these.
We took for granted that all ancient artifacts were buried waiting there to the next archaeologists. Some even hypothesis that the builders bury it themselves for insane reasons.
I have not heard of anyone asked why / how it was buried shortly after built, regardless of the site isn’t prone to mud flood or not.
One of the cause these constructions were buried was caused by “mud from the heaven” taken as “mud fall”. All comets, large and small have two tails, approaching and departing from solar. Solid debris in one and liquid, gas in the other. Littering debris on earth as it flies by, in various scale, from local to global on earth, in our ancient past.
What a great village and civic center
Human cultures around the age of the younger dryas shannanigans are so fascinating.
I'm starting to believe that pre-pottery Neolithic A may have been a much busier landscape than we think, and was 100% a civilization. Hope one day the fighting in the middle east will end and more excavations can be done.
In regards to the functions of the megastructure, I am wondering if the answer could be "all of the above." A modern day village hall or church can be used for celebrations, performances, food preparation and distribution, maybe even arts and crafts. So why not a similar multipurpose structure?
Loved the video, thanks.
Its hard to believe that people who could build these had not already discovered pottery.