Thank you to everyone who joined us on the premiere viewing and to all of you who have commented since. We're quite overwhelmed with the response to our film and we're full of gratitude for the amazing support there is for this channel. You make it all possible and we so much hope our upcoming projects and shows will continue to bring you pleasure. Next stop: Göbekli Tepe ... ! 😊
Looking forward to more. I've been sharing tour stuff since getting a copy of Standing With Stones what seems like decades ago and in fact is. Your presentation style is always engaging and inviting and it's great to see these themed and site specific works unfolding. It used to be less of a popular topic, which the internet was bound to change. I'm fortunate that a lot of the sites you've covered in UK and Ireland I've actually visited, so it's bringing back the amazing scenery and scale of the landscapes and artifacts I've enjoyed in real life too and doing a very good job of that too
Hi guys love you’re work I’m currently wanting to explore all these sites is there anywhere I can gain access to a map so I don’t get lost lol. Luv u guys @prehistoric guys ❤
Wow gents, such a brilliant film! The fabulous script, narration, cinematography and editing could easily pass for a high-budget BBC documentary - only thing giving away it's not was the fact you guys avoided all the classic misinformation by digging much deeper, both literally and metaphorically. 👏😁
"We build replaceable houses and permanent tombs" I was surprised at myself that when my husband died, I spent so much time on a stone for his grave. I would nt have predicted I would do this, but it was extremely important to me. It was nt until I watched this wonderful film that I understood. 'Its a human thing". Thank you..
I have watched Standing With Stones at least 4 times. I cannot express my appreciation of such a superb documentary. Please continue and never doubt you have devout subscribers. Thanks for your efforts from such a small group. Take care - JP PS, The music fits perfectly.
I've been listening/watching you guys for a while now, and I am simply in awe of your ability to make this complex study understandable. After this film, I really feel like I understand long barrows for the first time. (I'll have to watch it multiple times to absorb the knowledge you present - but I can see a glimmer!)
Rewatching already, a half hour after debut. Beautifully filmed and scripted. The music also fitted so well. Rupert's words with the skull reminded me of the end of Standing with Stones .. We're still here. I wish I could like twice.
Thank you Mr. Rupert Soskin and team for the history and archaelogy film..brings the knowledge and enlightment. The research, the filmography and the presentation, just briliant and way leading.
Absolutely bloody brilliant…. My goodness Guys you make Brilliant documentaries. I 💚 it!!!! (I so appreciate the fact that you didn’t put musick over Rupert’s narration) So great….well done The Pre-history Guys.
This is one of the most informative and well produced film I have seen on this topic. Thank you for your incredible dedication to sharing your knowledge
Thank you so much for your dedication to telling us the stories of these far off times, everything that you two do is well thought out , scripted and filmed/edited wonderfully, again, thank you both so much! All the best Jules
9:10 It is very refreshing for a historian/archeologist to offer the point of cause to be nothing more than human stupidity, which is as old as time. "I don't know" is the most powerful statement you will ever make to yourself because it means there is work to do and a mystery to solve. People drop things, hide things, accidently set things on fire... not everything has a deep meaning.
Wayland's Smithy is the most amazing place I have ever been. Truly otherworldly place. I am not superstitious at all, but if an elf walked out of the entrance I would not have been surprised one bit. Imagine the power of that place on the minds of Neolithic people?
Places like that continue to feed our minds and I'd say our souls. There wouldn't have been a Utha Pendragon or a Gandolf without them. Whoever planted those beech trees around it did us all a great service. They really enhance the reverence one feels for the place. Being a discrete distance off the Ridgeway, and on the way to the Whitehorse just adds to the mystery of that big sky and those distant views.
A wonderful short film that taught me a lot in a short time. You guys are great film makers! I will watch this several times, as I have your “Standing with Stones” film.
Starts 3am in Western Australia. I have absolutely no idea what happens at 3am here, I don't start existing till 4:30 at the absolute earliest. I'll watch this on the beach, with the dog, as the sun starts to warm the sky.
This was a great video! The cinematography and music were fantastic and of course Rupert’s narration. All so enjoyable. This was right up there w/ your Standing with Stones movie.
This is fascinating , thank you for uploading. Just discovered your channel, but will be checking out the other videos as soon as I can, hope they’re as good as this one👍
I enjoyed this so much. I know I'll watch it over and over. This is a beautifully done film, well written, presented and shot! You two are a film making, story telling phenomenon. I suspect it is not what you are after, but I hope you get the widespread recognition you deserve!
Just Amazing! I love how the two of you lovely men put together your shows. Either a happy chat, or a grand, inciteful documentary. It shows us that the family unit is not new, neither of Judeo/Christian origins. I have a tear in my eye, my heart moved as you look respectfully, and admirarily into the face of our human family member not lost to us, only an unnamed soul, of one moment, long, long ago. Thank you sincerely!
Interesting that on the tv TH-cam has the date in American standard- 11/10/23. So I thought I’ve missed it. But fear not! It’s actually the 10/11/23😅 Also, I can’t wait. Thanks MnR ❤I’ll be signing up for the Patreon soon- I’ve literally watched everything two or six times on the tv whilst I convalesce from recent surgery. My favourite Channel in the Prehistoric World. Cheers 🍺🍺🍺
I just watched this for the 2nd time - and picked up a couple of things I missed first time. I'm hoping to include Stoney Littleton LB in a trip I'm planning for 2025.
Simply fabulous! I particularly love hearing about the reconstruction of familial groups using DNA because of the possibility many of us may be related to these ancient people!
Great informative work, enjoyed the film very much, I find some of your pod casts ramble on a bit but this is educational informative and entertaining, looking forward to more.
Avebury has a pretty close long barrow called the Beckhampton Long Barrow and near the famous West Kennet Long Barrow there's the huge but,i think, unopened East Kennet Long Barrow.
Thank you! Australian here - I've been fortunate to visit a few long barrows in England, including Weyland Smithy. They've always fascinated me, and I'm very grateful for this wonderful information. 🙂 I look forward to more.
OH MY, GREAT JUST GREAT DO CARRY ON, THIS FILM WHEN DONE WILL BE OUT OF THIS WORLD IN MORE THAN ONE WAY, YOU GUYS DO MAKE GREAT FILMS AND PUT YOUR ALL INTO THEM. I ALWAYS SHARE WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND DO POSTS, THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK U BOTH DO TO BRING THESE FILMS TO US ALL. MAY THE FORCE BE WITH U BOTH, BE SAFE, STAY WARM (Sorry for caps. Vision problems.)
I visited a small long barrow,ie passage grave in ireland many years ago, where I experienced a time slip? Very strange place ....facing the setting sun...a bubble in time !
tbh, after almost Dying in a Snowdrift 200 yds from home in a pretty vicious Blizzard, I have come around to the idea that Long Barrows were uilt as protections from extreme Winter conditions of very strong winds and heavy snow. the barrows being copied from the aerodynamic form of Snow Drifts, and the residue downwind of obstructions such as large, heavy boulders or standing stones. Downwind entrances therefore offering sheltered from the wind areas for fires for filling up hot embers has personal heaters for Beaker people's beakers or Japanese Hibachi type fire storage ? Drift shapes being a bit obvious and easy to copy ? 🤔 Bob. 👍
Worth adding. When my car got buried in the Snow drift 300 yds from home, I was wearing a German Army Parka, thick padded Shirt and Damart Thermals, had a bag of shopping and added a bag of Coal over my shoulder as well. the next Snow drift was about 12 feet high, got through that with a struggle, but the one after beat me, and that was about 10 feet high, so I dropped the coal and sank into the Drift. The Relief of getting out of that Blizzard was indescribable but it was hard to appreciate just how cold I was getting, and I was getting more and more cosy, and was about to fall asleep when the words Hang on, if you fall asleep here, you're going to die popped into my head. but Die comfy and cozy here or out into that Blizzard ? tough choice but ditch the coal and should be ok. so up I got and out through the drift, next drift about 7ft high, one after about 4ft high, then into the clear which had been sheltered by the trees around my place. Then I found out just how cold I had become. I couldn't even feel the door key in my pocket, let alone get the key out of my pocket. it took rubbing my hands together for what must have been half sn hour to get the circulation going enough to get the key out and unlock the door. Once in, I lit the stove - A Morso Squirrel, brilliant stove, but chronically Overpriced - luckily still had three quarters of a bag of Petro Coke left, and got the Kettle on for hot Drinks. Then once warming up, got the Generator started, and got the electric blanket on to highest setting, and the 4 seasons sleeping bag on it to warm up. I was snowed in for 3 weeks, neifhbours bringing in coal and shopping in 4 wheel drives, one bringing Me 2 litres of milk out of the cooler in the Dairy, and such. About 5 weeks later, the bag of coal finally became visible at the side of the track. Biggest Take Away ? Dying in a Snowdrift os possibly the nicest imaginable ways of Dying, and no wonder Native Americans when they got very old and close to death would walk put into the snow ? 🤔
In 2018, on two separate business trips to the UK (April and December), I visited Stoney Littleton and West Kennet respectly and they are both fantastic! I am still amazed that these sites are completely open to the public and thrilled that they are. I was dubbed with the nick name, "Indiana Sleppy", by my colleague for entering the Stoney Littleton "tomb" against his better judgement. As well as for actually being from Indiana. 😉 Lovely video, thanks for sharing, Mark "Indiana" Sleppy
Brilliant. I’m wondering if any data was collected on the soil samples from just in front of the false entrances. Were gifts/offerings/flowers left for those interned inside? Pottery, bones, flints or seeds?
Can anyone tell me if Rupert has suffered an injury recently. I just watched their walk around Dorcester and the poor guys hobbling about on a stick. I'm "of a certain age" and when I seen a hill walker reduced to using a stick I begin to fear for how much linger I'm goung to be able to keep going.
Hi Andy J and thank you Andy W, Yes, my hip was getting progressively worse over the last year or so. Had surgery in September and am recovering nicely. I still need to be careful as it's all a bit fresh, so I may not be quite back to my previously spritely self on the Turkey trip. I appreciate you asking:) R
Amazing job y’all! Gosh damn I wish you did one of these every week but I know it takes a long time. I’m just saying selfishly I wish I could see this every week and am so very excited about the next one
I am so happy that you appeared on my feed.I have always been fascinated by ancient history and living in Canada I love to learn about the history of the land my ancestors are from.
Great stuff and superb photography. I'm lucky to have 5 within walking distance of home; Hetty Pegler's Tump, Nympsfield LB, Randwick LB, The Toots LB and Whitfield's Tump. Point of order I think it's pronounced Hazleton as in Hazard not Hazel for some reason.
Glad you enjoyed it. You're right about the pronunciation, I found that out after the event. I didn't even consider a variant because I knew the place was named after its many hazel trees - can't beat the contrariness of English:). R
Watched your pre-Gobekli video and shared it. Had to add this commentary to my FB post... So, most people after retirement become sedentary and comfortable in their relationships, family, etc. Me? I became a super-geek. Pardon my rant, but Gobekli Tepe is now nothing in terms of how long the humans have been hanging around. There are sites that are thousands of years older, into the Younger Dryas! So, old farts like me who were taught that we became civilized a couple of thousand years B.C. were way wrong. Climatically, kind of like now, there was a major shift in the hot/cold cycle. Culminating in what we now know as The Great Flood. Every culture has one. Anyway, It looks a lot like these Post Dryad sites are refugee sites/ There was a major cold shift then, potential flooding, and possibly an impact crater event. It was a bad day to hang around on the beach. The question becomes, 'What and where were they refugees from?' There are legends of other cities, continents, etc that would have been around since before the Younger Dryas. God, I love a good conspiracy theory, so those stories of advanced civilization? Atlantis, Mu, Lemuria, etc.. suddenly they get more reasonable. The ruins they found in Turkey are more sophisticated than mainstream archeologists and anthropologists would - except they are. The facts are staring them in the face. Now they have to deal with them and admit they were wrong. So, back to the pre-Gobekli Tepi sites, show what I could consider to be immature replications of a more advanced system. This means I have to ask myself the question: 'How much more were the amateurs used to?' They were able to recreate everything from homes, and shops, (God bless the Swifties!) all the way to sewers. It's like the whole North Shore teenage community got stranded on an island somewhere and had to recreate the necessities of their community. Shopping and poo. They were used to a more sophisticated community then they got landed with this... It doesn't hurt that the two British speakers are old farts like me with books behind their heads. Anyway, anyway, if we have come so far in 2000 years since rome, and Homo Sapiens are hundreds of thousands of years older than that, it makes sense that if we were given a run-up-time of a few thousand years, we would amount to something before now. Let me speculate that the Pre-Younger Dryas period had a much more advanced civilization than we are comfortable talking about. It makes us look bad, and dumb. One last thought - we are about (I hope) to become a multi-planetary species. (I hope.) If they didn't get there before we did, and as long as we aren't some colony of an extraterrestrial species, then they weren't more advanced as we are, but perhaps on a similar level. Oh, God, does that mean we are about to get hacked by a comet or volcano? Again? Well, we will see. (Oh boy, it seems I have written a concepts page for a new novel... Pardon me, but this is Copywrite to me. Also, it's been done before.) It's as though the archeologists have some kind of myopia and won't consider the most reasonable conclusion to some facts in their face... It would be nice if they consulted with a few sociologists and psychologists from time to time.
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Thank you to everyone who joined us on the premiere viewing and to all of you who have commented since. We're quite overwhelmed with the response to our film and we're full of gratitude for the amazing support there is for this channel. You make it all possible and we so much hope our upcoming projects and shows will continue to bring you pleasure. Next stop: Göbekli Tepe ... ! 😊
Thank you Rupert and Michael for all the time you give to make such wonderful videos 🙏🙂
Wishing you guys a safe and happy trip! ☀️👍
Looking forward to more. I've been sharing tour stuff since getting a copy of Standing With Stones what seems like decades ago and in fact is.
Your presentation style is always engaging and inviting and it's great to see these themed and site specific works unfolding. It used to be less of a popular topic, which the internet was bound to change.
I'm fortunate that a lot of the sites you've covered in UK and Ireland I've actually visited, so it's bringing back the amazing scenery and scale of the landscapes and artifacts I've enjoyed in real life too and doing a very good job of that too
A cracking video.
Hi guys love you’re work I’m currently wanting to explore all these sites is there anywhere I can gain access to a map so I don’t get lost lol. Luv u guys @prehistoric guys ❤
Wow gents, such a brilliant film! The fabulous script, narration, cinematography and editing could easily pass for a high-budget BBC documentary - only thing giving away it's not was the fact you guys avoided all the classic misinformation by digging much deeper, both literally and metaphorically. 👏😁
"We build replaceable houses and permanent tombs" I was surprised at myself that when my husband died, I spent so much time on a stone for his grave. I would nt have predicted I would do this, but it was extremely important to me. It was nt until I watched this wonderful film that I understood. 'Its a human thing". Thank you..
That's a very touching message, thank you. R
Scholarly without sucking the life out of the subject. Marvellous.
What a film! Presentation, cinematography, editing, music, storytelling, just superb!
I have watched Standing With Stones at least 4 times. I cannot express my appreciation of such a superb documentary. Please continue and never doubt you have devout subscribers. Thanks for your efforts from such a small group. Take care - JP
PS, The music fits perfectly.
Oh I am SO looking forward to watching this. Thanks pre-history guys!
I've been listening/watching you guys for a while now, and I am simply in awe of your ability to make this complex study understandable. After this film, I really feel like I understand long barrows for the first time. (I'll have to watch it multiple times to absorb the knowledge you present - but I can see a glimmer!)
Rewatching already, a half hour after debut. Beautifully filmed and scripted. The music also fitted so well. Rupert's words with the skull reminded me of the end of Standing with Stones .. We're still here. I wish I could like twice.
yes, there's a beautiful symmetry there!
29 hours? I have to wait 29 hours? Ok, turn on notify!
Brilliant. Looking forward to watching this
Great content! Worth the wait!
Thank you Mr. Rupert Soskin and team for the history and archaelogy film..brings the knowledge and enlightment. The research, the filmography and the presentation, just briliant and way leading.
This is AWESOME!
Absolutely bloody brilliant…. My goodness Guys you make Brilliant documentaries. I 💚 it!!!! (I so appreciate the fact that you didn’t put musick over Rupert’s narration) So great….well done The Pre-history Guys.
Hi gents, it's back to binge-watching TH-cam season again... and what a video to start it off with - excellence.
This is one of the most informative and well produced film I have seen on this topic. Thank you for your incredible dedication to sharing your knowledge
Fantastic! You guys make such a good team. More like this, please :)
Thank you so much for your dedication to telling us the stories of these far off times, everything that you two do is well thought out , scripted and filmed/edited wonderfully, again, thank you both so much!
All the best Jules
Thank you so much!
Beautiful documentary, first video I've watched, brilliant quality.
9:10
It is very refreshing for a historian/archeologist to offer the point of cause to be nothing more than human stupidity, which is as old as time.
"I don't know" is the most powerful statement you will ever make to yourself because it means there is work to do and a mystery to solve.
People drop things, hide things, accidently set things on fire... not everything has a deep meaning.
Wayland's Smithy is the most amazing place I have ever been. Truly otherworldly place. I am not superstitious at all, but if an elf walked out of the entrance I would not have been surprised one bit. Imagine the power of that place on the minds of Neolithic people?
How did they bury under the false portal 😅
Places like that continue to feed our minds and I'd say our souls.
There wouldn't have been a Utha Pendragon or a Gandolf without them.
Whoever planted those beech trees around it did us all a great service. They really enhance the reverence one feels for the place.
Being a discrete distance off the Ridgeway, and on the way to the Whitehorse just adds to the mystery of that big sky and those distant views.
Wantage hippies used to hold Solstice parties there...very nice.
@@bamspam23 😍
I've been to Wayland's Smithy, but my drone camera didn't work that day - unlike the picture at the end of this film.
A wonderful short film that taught me a lot in a short time. You guys are great film makers! I will watch this several times, as I have your “Standing with Stones” film.
Starts 3am in Western Australia. I have absolutely no idea what happens at 3am here, I don't start existing till 4:30 at the absolute earliest.
I'll watch this on the beach, with the dog, as the sun starts to warm the sky.
starts at 6 am in NSW - I'll at least see the first part of it live! Lucky me
never dumbed down. Excellent .
Absolutely fantastic. Bravo Rupert and Michael.
Excelent job.......clear explication.....exvelent video.....thanck you!!!!❤
First class work gentlemen.
Please take a well deserved bow.
As usual. A superb insightful production
Clappitty, clap, clap. Well done!
What a great production, guys! Thank you so much.
I’m addicted to this wonderful channel!
This was a great video! The cinematography and music were fantastic and of course Rupert’s narration. All so enjoyable. This was right up there w/ your Standing with Stones movie.
What a gorgeous film! I especially loved how well tended many of these sites appeared to be.
That was fun! Great documentary.
This is fascinating , thank you for uploading. Just discovered your channel, but will be checking out the other videos as soon as I can, hope they’re as good as this one👍
Iv been so looking forward to seeing this thanks guys best from Ireland best of luck on your travels can’t wait to see what you uncover in Turkey
If you guys make Standing With Stone the second with the same production value as this, you're on to a winner.
I enjoyed this so much. I know I'll watch it over and over. This is a beautifully done film, well written, presented and shot! You two are a film making, story telling phenomenon. I suspect it is not what you are after, but I hope you get the widespread recognition you deserve!
Just Amazing! I love how the two of you lovely men put together your shows. Either a happy chat, or a grand, inciteful documentary. It shows us that the family unit is not new, neither of Judeo/Christian origins. I have a tear in my eye, my heart moved as you look respectfully, and admirarily into the face of our human family member not lost to us, only an unnamed soul, of one moment, long, long ago. Thank you sincerely!
Thanks so much!
Bravo, Gentlemen, Bravo!
Beautiful and well crafted film. Thank you guys! You are just the best 👌
Brilliant! Thank you for sharing!❤
So pleased to see your documentary back again . exquisite filming and brilliant narrator 😊
No one else produces prehistory documentaries as well as you do. Quality script, stunning visuals, clear and informative story.
Thanks so much Nigel:)
That was amazing, truly wonderful
Watch 😊
Wow. That was gorgeous. Informative and engaging as it is, the beauty of its making blows me away. Thank you so much.
Wonderful.
Very interesting. Thanks.
Fascinating, beautifully put together
Interesting that on the tv TH-cam has the date in American standard- 11/10/23. So I thought I’ve missed it. But fear not! It’s actually the 10/11/23😅 Also, I can’t wait. Thanks MnR ❤I’ll be signing up for the Patreon soon- I’ve literally watched everything two or six times on the tv whilst I convalesce from recent surgery. My favourite Channel in the Prehistoric World. Cheers 🍺🍺🍺
Hi Nathan, glad you like our stuff, thank you. I hope you enjoy the new film and wish you all the best for your recovery. R
… but, it's nov 9th … possibly the 8th
Loved the review of the barrows and their mystery.
I just watched this for the 2nd time - and picked up a couple of things I missed first time. I'm hoping to include Stoney Littleton LB in a trip I'm planning for 2025.
You're right. That's a lot of info packed into a short film.
You guys are simply awesome!
Thanks for sharing what you do
excellent work as usual, thanks.
Great job once again, thank you guys, enjoyed it very much!
Gorgeous & educational !!! Bravo!!!
That was superb! Thank you very much.
Simply fabulous! I particularly love hearing about the reconstruction of familial groups using DNA because of the possibility many of us may be related to these ancient people!
I love your films. You are a continued inspiration! Thank you.
Thank you Guys that was outstanding.
Great informative work, enjoyed the film very much, I find some of your pod casts ramble on a bit but this is educational informative and entertaining, looking forward to more.
That was really, really well done. Bravo!
Very well done . As a Cotswold resident I know exactly where this new dig is but I’m not saying !
Wonderful thanks. My biggest bucket list item is to visit the long barrows in the UK. Can you suggest someone who could help me organize this?
Avebury has a pretty close long barrow called the Beckhampton Long Barrow and near the famous West Kennet Long Barrow there's the huge but,i think, unopened East Kennet Long Barrow.
Thank you! Australian here - I've been fortunate to visit a few long barrows in England, including Weyland Smithy. They've always fascinated me, and I'm very grateful for this wonderful information. 🙂 I look forward to more.
Superb quality film. Great narration, beautifully shot, informative and engaging presentation.
Chapeau.
First time watching your channel really enjoyed it subscribed. 😊
Hi Tracy and welcome. Really glad you're enjoying our work:) R
OH MY, GREAT JUST GREAT DO CARRY ON, THIS FILM WHEN DONE WILL BE OUT OF THIS WORLD IN MORE THAN ONE WAY, YOU GUYS DO MAKE GREAT FILMS AND PUT YOUR ALL INTO THEM. I ALWAYS SHARE WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND DO POSTS, THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK U BOTH DO TO BRING THESE FILMS TO US ALL. MAY THE FORCE BE WITH U BOTH, BE SAFE, STAY WARM (Sorry for caps. Vision problems.)
I visited a small long barrow,ie passage grave in ireland many years ago, where I experienced a time slip? Very strange place ....facing the setting sun...a bubble in time !
Cracking stuff gents. Thoroughly enjoyed that :)
Thanks
Low key, excellent narration, wonderful drone shots.
tbh, after almost Dying in a Snowdrift 200 yds from home in a pretty vicious Blizzard, I have come around to the idea that Long Barrows were uilt as protections from extreme Winter conditions of very strong winds and heavy snow. the barrows being copied from the aerodynamic form of Snow Drifts, and the residue downwind of obstructions such as large, heavy boulders or standing stones. Downwind entrances therefore offering sheltered from the wind areas for fires for filling up hot embers has personal heaters for Beaker people's beakers or Japanese Hibachi type fire storage ? Drift shapes being a bit obvious and easy to copy ? 🤔 Bob. 👍
On top of a lot of mountains in the UK there are rudimentary shelters like that which you describe.
Worth adding. When my car got buried in the Snow drift 300 yds from home, I was wearing a German Army Parka, thick padded Shirt and Damart Thermals, had a bag of shopping and added a bag of Coal over my shoulder as well. the next Snow drift was about 12 feet high, got through that with a struggle, but the one after beat me, and that was about 10 feet high, so I dropped the coal and sank into the Drift. The Relief of getting out of that Blizzard was indescribable but it was hard to appreciate just how cold I was getting, and I was getting more and more cosy, and was about to fall asleep when the words Hang on, if you fall asleep here, you're going to die popped into my head. but Die comfy and cozy here or out into that Blizzard ? tough choice but ditch the coal and should be ok. so up I got and out through the drift, next drift about 7ft high, one after about 4ft high, then into the clear which had been sheltered by the trees around my place. Then I found out just how cold I had become. I couldn't even feel the door key in my pocket, let alone get the key out of my pocket. it took rubbing my hands together for what must have been half sn hour to get the circulation going enough to get the key out and unlock the door. Once in, I lit the stove - A Morso Squirrel, brilliant stove, but chronically Overpriced - luckily still had three quarters of a bag of Petro Coke left, and got the Kettle on for hot Drinks. Then once warming up, got the Generator started, and got the electric blanket on to highest setting, and the 4 seasons sleeping bag on it to warm up. I was snowed in for 3 weeks, neifhbours bringing in coal and shopping in 4 wheel drives, one bringing Me 2 litres of milk out of the cooler in the Dairy, and such. About 5 weeks later, the bag of coal finally became visible at the side of the track. Biggest Take Away ? Dying in a Snowdrift os possibly the nicest imaginable ways of Dying, and no wonder Native Americans when they got very old and close to death would walk put into the snow ? 🤔
He finally got to talk without being interrupted. 🤣😂🤣😂 Just joking guys. I love your channel.
In 2018, on two separate business trips to the UK (April and December), I visited Stoney Littleton and West Kennet respectly and they are both fantastic! I am still amazed that these sites are completely open to the public and thrilled that they are.
I was dubbed with the nick name, "Indiana Sleppy", by my colleague for entering the Stoney Littleton "tomb" against his better judgement. As well as for actually being from Indiana. 😉
Lovely video, thanks for sharing,
Mark "Indiana" Sleppy
This is the best video you have made, brilliant
Wow, thanks
Brilliant. I’m wondering if any data was collected on the soil samples from just in front of the false entrances. Were gifts/offerings/flowers left for those interned inside? Pottery, bones, flints or seeds?
Wonderful. Thoroughly enjoyed!
Can anyone tell me if Rupert has suffered an injury recently. I just watched their walk around Dorcester and the poor guys hobbling about on a stick.
I'm "of a certain age" and when I seen a hill walker reduced to using a stick I begin to fear for how much linger I'm goung to be able to keep going.
I believe he had a hip operation. All well and recovering quickly.
Hi Andy J and thank you Andy W,
Yes, my hip was getting progressively worse over the last year or so. Had surgery in September and am recovering nicely. I still need to be careful as it's all a bit fresh, so I may not be quite back to my previously spritely self on the Turkey trip. I appreciate you asking:) R
@@ThePrehistoryGuysgreat news, bushwalking buddies of mine have had the same op. Too twenty years off them.
This is sublime. I just know I am going to watch this many times! Thank you pre-history guys - a really excellent programme.
Amazing job y’all! Gosh damn I wish you did one of these every week but I know it takes a long time. I’m just saying selfishly I wish I could see this every week and am so very excited about the next one
Fascinating documentary. As good, actually better ,than any you can see on TV.
I am so happy that you appeared on my feed.I have always been fascinated by ancient history and living in Canada I love to learn about the history of the land my ancestors are from.
Great stuff and superb photography.
I'm lucky to have 5 within walking distance of home; Hetty Pegler's Tump, Nympsfield LB, Randwick LB, The Toots LB and Whitfield's Tump.
Point of order I think it's pronounced Hazleton as in Hazard not Hazel for some reason.
Glad you enjoyed it. You're right about the pronunciation, I found that out after the event. I didn't even consider a variant because I knew the place was named after its many hazel trees - can't beat the contrariness of English:). R
no no no, now I have only MORE questions and I don't have the time to become an archeologist! =(
Excellent. Thank you Rupert.
This is so beautifully done and this is why I am a Patreon subscriber:) Thank you
I wonder where they have taken our relatives who's tombs have been plundered
loved it. I definitely want to watch it again
difficult to folow the lialouge at times re backround music
Absolutely magical. Thank you.
Beautiful work guys!
Watched your pre-Gobekli video and shared it. Had to add this commentary to my FB post...
So, most people after retirement become sedentary and comfortable in their relationships, family, etc. Me? I became a super-geek. Pardon my rant, but Gobekli Tepe is now nothing in terms of how long the humans have been hanging around. There are sites that are thousands of years older, into the Younger Dryas! So, old farts like me who were taught that we became civilized a couple of thousand years B.C. were way wrong. Climatically, kind of like now, there was a major shift in the hot/cold cycle. Culminating in what we now know as The Great Flood. Every culture has one. Anyway, It looks a lot like these Post Dryad sites are refugee sites/ There was a major cold shift then, potential flooding, and possibly an impact crater event. It was a bad day to hang around on the beach. The question becomes, 'What and where were they refugees from?' There are legends of other cities, continents, etc that would have been around since before the Younger Dryas. God, I love a good conspiracy theory, so those stories of advanced civilization? Atlantis, Mu, Lemuria, etc.. suddenly they get more reasonable. The ruins they found in Turkey are more sophisticated than mainstream archeologists and anthropologists would - except they are. The facts are staring them in the face. Now they have to deal with them and admit they were wrong. So, back to the pre-Gobekli Tepi sites, show what I could consider to be immature replications of a more advanced system. This means I have to ask myself the question: 'How much more were the amateurs used to?' They were able to recreate everything from homes, and shops, (God bless the Swifties!) all the way to sewers. It's like the whole North Shore teenage community got stranded on an island somewhere and had to recreate the necessities of their community. Shopping and poo. They were used to a more sophisticated community then they got landed with this... It doesn't hurt that the two British speakers are old farts like me with books behind their heads. Anyway, anyway, if we have come so far in 2000 years since rome, and Homo Sapiens are hundreds of thousands of years older than that, it makes sense that if we were given a run-up-time of a few thousand years, we would amount to something before now. Let me speculate that the Pre-Younger Dryas period had a much more advanced civilization than we are comfortable talking about. It makes us look bad, and dumb. One last thought - we are about (I hope) to become a multi-planetary species. (I hope.) If they didn't get there before we did, and as long as we aren't some colony of an extraterrestrial species, then they weren't more advanced as we are, but perhaps on a similar level. Oh, God, does that mean we are about to get hacked by a comet or volcano? Again? Well, we will see. (Oh boy, it seems I have written a concepts page for a new novel... Pardon me, but this is Copywrite to me. Also, it's been done before.)
It's as though the archeologists have some kind of myopia and won't consider the most reasonable conclusion to some facts in their face... It would be nice if they consulted with a few sociologists and psychologists from time to time.
That was wonderful, one of your very best. thank you.
Thank you too!
What a wonderful documentary! I wouldn't expect anything else from you two! Would happily watch that level of production for 5hrs 😂...
The fascinating interplay between West Kennet and Silbury Hill just fires the imagination. Was this a religious and culture revolution?
You guys haven't lost your touch. Fascinating stuff and set to beautiful music.