11 years ago! Made 11 years ago and still it’s worth watching again. That’s when you know it’s a high quality documentary. Fantastic job making this for us to enjoy and learn from. Tx
I didn’t even know about Time Team until a few short years ago and I realized this is a relatively old show. It never was shown in the USA to my knowledge. I have been trying to catch up on this brilliant series. I looked it up and it stated it started in 1994.
Being the first born Canadian of a British family I absolutely adore this show. My family is very specifically from Yorkshire and I have traced my family tree back quite far and i love being able to see what and who and where things are that are part of my heritage. I absolutely love the fact I live in a time we can see all this history come back to life. And what great group of people to watch, very educational and entertaining.
MsAnpassad tried to check myself into rehab for that but they laughed I showed them the show since then I have been lining in a palace next to a mighty lake lots of children running carefree women throwing themselves at me food so tasty that....,Hold on time to take meds
This American is totally hooked on Time Team! Living in Montana, I enjoyed Tony's series on the American West. I live about 50 miles from the Little Bighorn battlefield where the Sioux/Northern Cheyenne tribes defeated Gen. Custer, so I enjoyed seeing that part of the series. If you haven't seen that series, it is very enjoyable, and I especially enjoyed his interviews with the native Americans very interesting. Here is the link to the 1st episode (it is 2 episodes all together): th-cam.com/video/R-L43H2Tf2Y/w-d-xo.html
You should check out the American equivalent. An Ice Age glacial dam. "Mystery of the Megaflood" on PBS's NOVA. It's about the formation of the Scablands.
Back when I was a devoted fan of Blackadder, I would have never imagined Tony Robinson...aka Baldrick...would eventually become such a superb narrator in what are some very good documentaries. I thoroughly enjoy all of his programs, particularly the Worst Jobs series.
Barnaby ap Robert And what a cunning little twit he was....God, I'd about the floor in laughter whenever Rowan Atkinson would call him an addle-brain twit...
I wish we had an American version of Rowan. Instead we have mindless sitcom with recycled jokes and plot twist you can see from the first 30 seconds of the show.
same here. while it is though not fair to the new team, they also do an excellent job, Sir Tony Robinson was just THE presenter for such a series. Not for nothing, and for sure well deserved, he got his title for that. but the most horrifying though amazing story was that of Carenza Lewis. What a lady! - chapeau - !
Looking at that recreation of the 8000 year old lakeside hut,which was occupied for some 400 years, I was struck by the thought that most of what is produced by us is, in the end, noise and want.
@@devonseamoor Lay not up treasures on earth, But lay up your treasures in heaven, for where your treasure is, there will also be your heart. Matthew 6:19, (paraphrased) I say this could be read free of any religiosity, as a wise injunction to beware of spiritual dissipation in the pursuit of the material. I think people are beginning to look around and wonder: Why? What is the purpose of all this? Can we not do better?
Loved time team and still do. Thank goodness for youtube. Love Phil's huge character and passion of human history. Thank you for hours of fascinating! finds and very important stories that we all as a human race should remember and add as much of our history to understand the struggles and wonderful! inventions in order to survive in such harsh times. Any chance of bringing time team back with some of the original casts of course. ❤
I don't know if you have discovered Time Team Official yet, but it's a good part of the old team and they are doing digs! They expect to post to TH-cam sometime in 2022.
12000 years ago ... such an incredible time... the mysterious end of the Ice Age .... Göbekli Tepe ... The beginning of agriculture ... the start and rise of the cities ... so many parts of the puzzle that we are still trying to piece together ...
What a fantastic journey into this ancient time. Amazing analyses, discoveries, re-creations, revealings, educated assessments and conclusions, and so much more! WOW! I hope schools throughout Scotland (and the rest of the Britain) buy/donate money to Time Team and add this programme to their history classes. I noticed this: 37:00. ‘2 mysterious holes were bored into the back of the skull’. Says Sir Tony. Leading up to this, the actual specimens looked, to me, face-forward. BUT the animated graphic shows the holes in front, too. 37:59 ++ Okay. Now things are becoming clearer. Also, it would equally interesting to have a companion video about a German equivalent. Great production, as usual, Time Team ❤
The way they experimentally built that hut - thatching from the top down, and the reeds sticking up - they are experimentally building the wettest shelter ever.
it's all a load of bollocks... as for that clay wrapped fish, they have shards of clay pots that show they've sat in fires and contain cooking residue.. As if you're going to dig up clay every day to cook some fish haha... makes me laugh. There's a video on here some where of that same women explaining something else on some other show, but she didn't bank on there being an expert in plant meterial, who said to her, no couldn't have been such and such.. that plant wasn't native to this area. I laughed my head off.... her face was a picture!
@@LindaTCornwall People in the Americas still cook food wrapped in leaves and clay. I haven't had the pleasure but they say it makes the most tender and succulent meat they've ever eaten.
The Cornish name for St Michael's Mount is Karrek Loos yn Koos, which translates to grey rock in the woodland, it wasn't until a number of years ago after a serve storm stripped the sand away, that the remains of a submerged forest was found in the whole surrounding area of mounts bay... The trees have since been carbon dated to between 6000 and 4000 years old. Which would suggest that an oral history was passed down for thousands of years between my Cornish ancestors.
Linda T , you might like the GeoCosmographic REX or Randal Carlson YT channel. Lots of vids about Randals' work looking into the Younger Dryas Catastrophe and evidence of more later catastrophes. Pretty wild stuff.
I’m Belgian an if any place names here include “lo”, it refers to woodland or a place where the wood is cleared. It’s a germanic word, but “loos” and “lo” I couldn’t unsee that
Linda T I’m Belgian and if any place names here include “lo”, it refers to woodland or a place where the wood is cleared. It’s a germanic word, but “loos” and “lo” I can’t unsee it now
Thank you, for a great episode with a valuable education about this tsunami that hit Britain once upon a time. I did know that the North Sea Channel was a tundra once, where people and animals crossed from what's now the European continent, to what's now the east coast of Britain, more or less. On one of our Wadden islands in the North of Holland, there's a museum and educative centre, where this is shown. I enjoyed Phil's reverence for the deer skull object, taking his hat off, haha. But most impressive is what he said about those Mesolithic ancestors, conscious of the existence of the spirit world, intuitively. With the company of a shaman as well, who may have contributed to the shaping of these skull masks.I
I've just spent the last week or two watching your uploads and must send a big thank you. I have most of the programs but missed a good number. You made my day(s). You've done a wonderful job.
Thanks to the whole time team for uplifting the lives of ancient peoples. Too many docs paint their lives as the unending misery- a holdover of 18th and 19th century projection. I'll take the Mesolithic over the 1830s any day
Or attach a deer skin to drape over himself. Masking the hunters scent whilst he mimics the prey to approach within striking distance. We'll never know.
There is something theorized that a group of comets hit 12,900 years ago. One in Saginaw Bay in the US, others perhaps in Greenland, maybe South America, maybe Siberia. Wiped out all the biggest animals (megafauna) in North America. Perhaps from ice chunks thrown out by the main impacts. Hundreds of thousands of secondary craters recently found on Lidar imaging in places like North Carolina. I wonder if this is the right time period for the Tsunami's if the dates could be made more exact. Sea level rise would also happen at the same time which ties into other old stories and even the date of Atlantis's destruction.
The comet impact isn't just theorized. It is established science. You can go to the cosmic tusk website and see the peer reviewed literature in the bibliography. All of it. The tsunami from the Norwegian land slide is a completely different event. No point in mixing the two together. The op asked about evidence for the latter in the rest of the Atlantic. And please forget the 12000 year sun nova cycle theory nonsense. Better yet go to the source of it and see for yourself how it ignores anything that doesn't fit the narrative. Douglas Vogt who is pushing it on youtube does nothing but wrap nonsense into videos dismissing and ignoring decades of established science in one slide PPTs. With nothing to back it up other than a CIA cover up fantasy and mental gymnastics. For God's sake the guy claims that any comet forms when a glorified CME blows off the oceans from Earth. A 5 minute read on the Rosetta mission throws his brainfart out and beats it into a pulp.
Very interesting progam about Doggerland, which on it's eastern part was hooked up with Jutland. The tsunami must have affected Danes a lot also. However - I haven't seen any Danish programs about it. Also interesting to learn that you can actually use soap-weed as soap. I thought it got the name because of the sweat smelling flowers. I have had some in my garden for years and worked very hard to prevent them from spreading too much. They spread very quickly.
Back in the late 70's/early 80's, the "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" skit "THE ANTLER DANCE" MIGHT have had an actual archaeological basis after all. So bloody cool! (Way to go Lorne Michaels!)
Coastal houses that stood up for 400 years and only were only demolished by a 10 metre high tsunami. When they build houses now, If it lasts 30 years you've been Lucky... You've got to ask yourself..whos in the Stone age, them or us.
You don't have to go that far. Think about Roman bridges that still are in good shape, while concrete bridges we built 50 years ago are about to crumble.
I live near Tarragona in Spain. In the old part of Tarragona the shops and buildings have the original foundations of what was once the Roman circus from over 2000 years ago., they've simply bult on top of them they're so solid.
BEN AVEIGA I live in Cologne/Germany, a city with lots of traces of the Roman buildings. Everything that is left is solid, more solid than what we built during the last 100 years.
We are so retarded as a race, that we can put a man on the moon and send a robot to mars, but we can't build a damn building that stands up for more than half a century..we are doomed..
@B uppy - Also, your cherries have the benefit of 8,000 years of agricultural cross breeding. They are undoubtedly much different that the cherries that these stone-aged people had access to.
On tsunami's. I recall reading about a threat posed by a huge unstable section of rock on/of the volcanic Gran Canaria's, which if & when it dislodged & slid into the Atlantic would displace a large volume of water causing a massive series of tsunamis, which within hours would reach the eastern seaboard of the Americas & ricochette a few times across that stretch of ocean thereby affecting the western coasts of the British isles, Europe & the African continent. Perhaps this channel could look into this......
The peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, were in the Mesolithic when Capt Cook arrived in the 1770's. The Haida and other Nations, lived in wooden houses as big as any in England.
Absolutely. I think there are a lot of parallels between northern Europe during the neolithic and even the Bronze Age and American Indians. With similar climates and similar plants and animals, they developed similar technologies and similar cultures.
christosvoskresye It's interesting to compare the Queen Charlotte Islands and Japan. A few environmental differences and some cultural ones, caused quite different cultural developments.
geezzerboy I suppose "some cultural ones" means the existence of China nearby? That is not a small difference! Or maybe you are thinking of the Ainu, who were in Japan before the people we think of as "Japanese" arrived? I'm not sure it's really correct to think of Japan under the Ainu as Japan, though, any more than it is to think of a big chunk of North America before Columbus as the USA, or Asia Minor before the fall of Constantinople as Turkey.
WHY is there is no mention of Isostatic upheaval from the retreating ice shelf? The very cause of the underwater land slide and earth quakes in the first place?
@@ianrutherford878 Hmmm. I missed this statement but mostly by the context that this upheaval happened gradully vs. Rapidly (even catastrophically). Comes back to the uniforitarianism view is largely represented while the caveat of how and why the change happened so rapidly. Is difficult to represent without its chronological context. Thats really the part that could have been elaborated further. Not to nitpick. Still very good and interesting work though. Much credit to TR.
@@patalbor3507 I lived in Finland for a while.The rising land after the retreating ice is something that is very visible in the score marks on exposed rock and its rate is 'displayed' with markers and signs in at least one city. TR and his co producers sell TT with drama and sensation and a kind of obsessive tunnel vision.The tsunami and his imaginings of 'the problem'!!! facing Doggerlanders suited the format more than other factors..
@@patalbor3507I agree with you. The program even seems to suggest that the whole Doggerland was flooded and drowned at once by the Storegga slide, 8000 ya. One has to listen really carefully to understand they're really talking about GB east coast affected by the tsunami, and that in itself was correct. Doggerland was already steadily flooded and gone because of the higher sea level. This result of the melting icecaps is mentioned only at the end of the program.... A brief overview of these events somewhere at the start would have been nice. At the time of the tsunami, there was only a Dogger island left.
Love your programs, Sir Tony. Dr. Phil always has cool insights to add. 'Star Carr' is my next study thru Futurelearn. Thanks for sparking that interest!
There are a few submerged tree stumps to be seen at extreme low tides, on the N. shore of the Forth, just E. of the rail bridge. Inverkeithing area. I never seen any mention of them anywhere. Thought they might have been beech. (Not sure why: Long time ago'80's.)
A few years ago, researchers discovered sonar evidence of the collapsed or washed out land bridge in the English channel. They speculated this tsunami may have been what did it. (or you may already know this by now)
Happy New year to Meso & Neo enthusiasts in 2023, That decade really flew by quickly, I'm starting to feel like a meso fossil myself at 70. Just love the history of British Isles & surrounding area of the euro northlands the Stone Age episodes &.cheers to all Craig Harald a mestizo-norseman from Death Valley California.
Pre shaped needles are already existing in a deers leg. All modern deer have lost portions of the lateral metacarpal bones (think of your ulna and radius bones, and imagine if you only have a 2" sliver of you ulna above the wrist, etc). This is because of evolutional morphology. In America is there is a sliver of bone on lower leg, front, called distal remenant of the metacarpal. And in Europe is located on the upper limb, called the proximal remnant of the lateral metacarpal. The reason I mention this because it took very little time to make these needles, unlike the estimate in the program. I know this because I'm from a Reservation, and we removed these bones quickly from a fresh kill, the bones would be fresh and "wet", then they were chewed (in our mouth) to remove a sinew sheath, then drilled out easily (we used a steel triangle in wood spindle, but flint would be just as fast). The tip was left unsharp, and a little blunt, because if you sharpen it, it could fracture while sewing, the needle does not make the hole, like modern needles. Old needles just guided the thread, and a hand awl was used for punching holes, made from fish teeth, sewn into the palm of a glove. Now, later I left the Reservation, got an undergrad in biology, hence the technical terms. There, now i feel better.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, wonderful. Hope you still feel better 😊, I will when I've looked up those particular bones you mentioned!
This is why there are so many "Great Flood/Noah" stories. Getting carried off on a raft/debris/boat and being stranded for days with no land in sight (because the water hadn't receded yet/swept out to sea and/or section of the Nile that's miles wide even without the super-flooding, etc) would certainly cause a pre-scientific person to chalk it up to divine buyer's remorse.
The marine geologist pronounces the Norwegian slides wrong. It's the Storegga Slides, pronounced stor-egga, meaning big ledge, and there were three of them about approximately 6225-6170 BC. Still not clear to me how their timing was dated so precisely...
As a species, we love living next to water. There's anthropoloģical reasons for that, leading to the growth of the human brain. Unfortunately, our connection to coast lines has left us open to the dangers from the water: tsunamis and severe storms and floods.
around minute 17:00 me thinks the sheaves of reed were laid on the teepee frame upside down. would not the base of the sheaves be placed above the top?
Now that the Younger Dryas event is becoming better understood there are suggestions that the people of the Mesolithic period were descendants of survivors trying to recreate civilisations that had been lost in that earlier cataclysm. This means that although their tools were simple their dreams were not. So not hunter gatherers except under duress and all the while dreaming of a return to organised society. Their way of life perhaps does not reflect an emergence from a more animal like stage to a more modern lifestyle but rather reflects their preexisting knowledge of what humans could aspire to. Well it's a thought.
@Phil Wheadon - If the Younger Dryas Event occurred about 12,000 years ago and this event was 8,000 years ago, that is one huge gap. Stabilization must have occurred well before that.
Nobody educated thinks that. Graham hancock is not only wrong but actively lying to make a book. Bc he's a writer. And his son works at Netflix. Any point he makes van be quickly proven wrong or a lie in a 5 second Google and I challenge you to offer any of his fake evidence and I will bust it wide open
Love this episode. Is there any evidence that their homes were actually mud daub? Sure seems like people and communities were more settled, organized, and industrious than previously thought. Fascinating, does this not imply much more about the folks that came after them? Knowledge and organizational skills existant perhaps?
6 years old and just caught up with something else that has caused question but no research from this viewer. Fascinating. Perhaps the Time Team guys could look into AD535 Krakatoa, releasing such huge amounts of ash it covered the planet for hundreds of years. The original "Dark Ages".
I wonder if the dating on this, combined with the new evidence found over the last decade since this film was made, more aligns this incident with the Younger Dryas Impact... Could it be, that this tsunami, is part of that destruction?
@@scamacho773 I've watched all of the Rogan podcasts with them, as well as studied Carlson's work closely - fascinating stuff. Which is part of the reason I asked the question - it was somewhat rhetorical to start the conversation.az
I was thinking that too but theres about a 3500 year difference between this and younger dryas and the articles i've seen on the storegga slide all agree with the 6000ish bc date. Plus lake aggassiz had its final drainage around 6002 bc as well. is it possible that their dating methods are that innacurate?
@@bobnoxious666 I don't think they would be far off in the dating. In terms of geologic time, a few thousand years, really isn't much. So much new information, and so many new sites have been found. I'm from the Montana-Dakota region, which was right along the edge of the Laurentide during the impact - and using Google Earth, you can really see some of the massive flood damage from the melting of the Laurentide. You have to know what you are looking for, but you can find evidence all over the place. Take a look at Devil's Tower sometime, and you can really see how the water flowed around it.
We tend to think that stone age people weren't very bright etc. Etc.etc. how wrong we have been and how wonderful to have this series to widen our knowledge.
Immanuel Velikovsky's books "Earth in Upheaval" and "Worlds in Collision" theorize that many such tsunamis occurred around the world..very interesting reading for out-of-the-box thinkers..
Sort of wonder if this event is the reason for the worldwide story of the Great Flood. Maybe even the tales of drowned Atlantis. I know there''s a Welsh folktale that preserves the breach of a levee/dam/wall that erased an entire kingdom in a few hours. Eyes in the back of your head would let a spirit person see "everything", future and past. Reminds me of that cave painting of the "shaman". Shamans don't require halucinogens to get into trance, btw. Might also just be the means of attachment to the wearer's head. Lake Agassi? I'm familiar with Lake Iroquois, not heard of Agassi.
Lake Agassi was on the Canada/US border. Bigger than all the Great Lakes put together. When the glaciers started melting, the lake over-filled and overflowed into the Arctic Ocean. There was so much water, the ocean level was raised: estimates range from 2.5 feet to 10 feet.
Ice dams cannot hold back the pressure created by a thousand foot + deep lake (no more than about 200 ft really). Same problem with glacial lake mizzoula. The proposed 1800ft deep lake would have almost a thousand psi where the ice meets the bedrock. Glacial ice is porous with rocks, melt channels, etc. As we see with modern concrete dams that have to be specially anchored and sealed to the solid bedrock, any little leaks become eroded over time and the bigger the whole gets the faster it will cut away at the concrete, rock, ice, or whatever. Glacial lake agasi or mizzoula is a false presumption for the problem with these huge meltwater pulses and sudden sea level rise that we have evidence of. I think cometary impacts on ice sheets creating enormous ice flows all the way to the ocean on both sides of north america is a good place to put more research into. No crater left behind.
Saw a science bullet gun cannon used on an ice sheet in a documentary. Both vertical and horizontal results causing sheets of ice to displace slicing and covering all in it's path. Then ice rained down in big chunks...then everything melted. No sure if would be called a flow. The for the great info.
This is one of the best documentaries I've seen on the Mesolithic.💕
Awesome. Next check out the magnificent works of Asops fables.
11 years ago! Made 11 years ago and still it’s worth watching again. That’s when you know it’s a high quality documentary. Fantastic job making this for us to enjoy and learn from. Tx
I didn’t even know about Time Team until a few short years ago and I realized this is a relatively old show. It never was shown in the USA to my knowledge. I have been trying to catch up on this brilliant series. I looked it up and it stated it started in 1994.
Being the first born Canadian of a British family I absolutely adore this show. My family is very specifically from Yorkshire and I have traced my family tree back quite far and i love being able to see what and who and where things are that are part of my heritage. I absolutely love the fact I live in a time we can see all this history come back to life. And what great group of people to watch, very educational and entertaining.
Over here in the Americas.
First chance I have had to see a Time Team episode. I am HOOKED!
Still on binge watching all those 280 episodes? Or are you done now? Or did you die from a Time team overdose? ;)
MsAnpassad tried to check myself into rehab for that but they laughed I showed them the show since then I have been lining in a palace next to a mighty lake lots of children running carefree women throwing themselves at me food so tasty that....,Hold on time to take meds
I absolutely adore Tony Robinson and the Time Team series. I'm so glad I found all the Time Team shows on You Tube..
This American is totally hooked on Time Team! Living in Montana, I enjoyed Tony's series on the American West. I live about 50 miles from the Little Bighorn battlefield where the Sioux/Northern Cheyenne tribes defeated Gen. Custer, so I enjoyed seeing that part of the series. If you haven't seen that series, it is very enjoyable, and I especially enjoyed his interviews with the native Americans very interesting. Here is the link to the 1st episode (it is 2 episodes all together): th-cam.com/video/R-L43H2Tf2Y/w-d-xo.html
This was a superb program about a world event I never knew about. Tony and the team delivered.
You should check out the American equivalent. An Ice Age glacial dam. "Mystery of the Megaflood" on PBS's NOVA. It's about the formation of the Scablands.
Try Neil Oliver’s podcast episode on the Storegga Slide.
They still/again exist. Look up "Time Team Digital" or "Time Team Official"
Back when I was a devoted fan of Blackadder, I would have never imagined Tony Robinson...aka Baldrick...would eventually become such a superb narrator in what are some very good documentaries. I thoroughly enjoy all of his programs, particularly the Worst Jobs series.
+robert glenn It was all part of his cunning plan, my lord.
Barnaby ap Robert And what a cunning little twit he was....God, I'd about the floor in laughter whenever Rowan Atkinson would call him an addle-brain twit...
I wish we had an American version of Rowan. Instead we have mindless sitcom with recycled jokes and plot twist you can see from the first 30 seconds of the show.
Oh, God how you nailed it! Anytime some American crappola hits the air, I've got it line for line after the opening kick...
Which is such a shame! They don't even run the original "The Office" here! Instead we get an American version with its guts cut out!
I got into geophysics because of Time Team! Thanks Time Team for the adventure!
if I ever hear anyone saying "Geofizz" my ears are going to perk up and I am jumping in on that convo lol
So good to see Phil. He still has the same felt hat that he may have dug up at an archeological site. I miss the old time team.
same here. while it is though not fair to the new team, they also do an excellent job, Sir Tony Robinson was just THE presenter for such a series. Not for nothing, and for sure well deserved, he got his title for that.
but the most horrifying though amazing story was that of Carenza Lewis. What a lady! - chapeau - !
Looking at that recreation of the 8000 year old lakeside hut,which was occupied for some 400 years, I was struck by the thought that most of what is produced by us is, in the end, noise and want.
And garbage/waste.
This time of plague may invoke awakening and a realisation that it's time to change it, yes.
@@devonseamoor Lay not up treasures on earth, But lay up your treasures in heaven, for where your treasure is, there will also be your heart. Matthew 6:19, (paraphrased) I say this could be read free of any religiosity, as a wise injunction to beware of spiritual dissipation in the pursuit of the material. I think people are beginning to look around and wonder: Why? What is the purpose of all this? Can we not do better?
@@devonseamoor that was my hope, but it seems to have had the opposite effect 🙁
That last sentence of your's..says it all
Reintroduce this programme please!,!,
I Wish they would reintroduce Time Team today because archeology is ever advancing further today!
I heard they are. Check official time team TH-cam channel.
They did! Time Team is alive and well 😀. You might wanna look up "Time Team Digital". New team, fantastic episodes
Reijer Zaaijer: Thanks for posting so many Time Team episodes!
Absolutely terrific program! You can watch them over and over again, and learn something new every time. Yea TT!
Outstanding photography - simply brilliant ! I could (have) study this for hours. Bravo
Loved time team and still do. Thank goodness for youtube.
Love Phil's huge character and passion of human history. Thank you for hours of fascinating! finds and very important stories that we all as a human race should remember and add as much of our history to understand the struggles and wonderful! inventions in order to survive in such harsh times.
Any chance of bringing time team back with some of the original casts of course. ❤
I don't know if you have discovered Time Team Official yet, but it's a good part of the old team and they are doing digs! They expect to post to TH-cam sometime in 2022.
First two digs are up and excellent, if a bit bittersweet for the absence of so many of our old friends.
Before seeing the show,I didn’t have an archaeological documentaries playlist/folder,as I’ve now.
Keep it up.Time Team.
This was one of my favorite episodes. Thank you for posting
12000 years ago ... such an incredible time... the mysterious end of the Ice Age .... Göbekli Tepe ... The beginning of agriculture ... the start and rise of the cities ... so many parts of the puzzle that we are still trying to piece together ...
Aliens from another planet
@@Catapults4U LOL ... perhaps it was our ancestors from that other planet ... We might be the aliens
What a fantastic journey into this ancient time. Amazing analyses, discoveries, re-creations, revealings, educated assessments and conclusions, and so much more! WOW! I hope schools throughout Scotland (and the rest of the Britain) buy/donate money to Time Team and add this programme to their history classes. I noticed this: 37:00. ‘2 mysterious holes were bored into the back of the skull’. Says Sir Tony. Leading up to this, the actual specimens looked, to me, face-forward. BUT the animated graphic shows the holes in front, too. 37:59 ++ Okay. Now things are becoming clearer. Also, it would equally interesting to have a companion video about a German equivalent. Great production, as usual, Time Team ❤
The way they experimentally built that hut - thatching from the top down, and the reeds sticking up - they are experimentally building the wettest shelter ever.
I also silently laughed at this "house". Lol.
it's all a load of bollocks... as for that clay wrapped fish, they have shards of clay pots that show they've sat in fires and contain cooking residue.. As if you're going to dig up clay every day to cook some fish haha... makes me laugh. There's a video on here some where of that same women explaining something else on some other show, but she didn't bank on there being an expert in plant meterial, who said to her, no couldn't have been such and such.. that plant wasn't native to this area. I laughed my head off.... her face was a picture!
Ha ha yea I remember Balders the clever twit thinking a parsnip was a turnip
@@LindaTCornwall People in the Americas still cook food wrapped in leaves and clay. I haven't had the pleasure but they say it makes the most tender and succulent meat they've ever eaten.
@@LindaTCornwall You cluless sneering arsehole.
The Cornish name for St Michael's Mount is Karrek Loos yn Koos, which translates to grey rock in the woodland, it wasn't until a number of years ago after a serve storm stripped the sand away, that the remains of a submerged forest was found in the whole surrounding area of mounts bay... The trees have since been carbon dated to between 6000 and 4000 years old. Which would suggest that an oral history was passed down for thousands of years between my Cornish ancestors.
How interesting.
Linda T , you might like the GeoCosmographic REX or Randal Carlson YT channel.
Lots of vids about Randals' work looking into the Younger Dryas Catastrophe and evidence of more later catastrophes. Pretty wild stuff.
I’m Belgian an if any place names here include “lo”, it refers to woodland or a place where the wood is cleared. It’s a germanic word, but “loos” and “lo” I couldn’t unsee that
Linda T I’m Belgian and if any place names here include “lo”, it refers to woodland or a place where the wood is cleared. It’s a germanic word, but “loos” and “lo” I can’t unsee it now
The Breton legend of the city of Yz, demise is another example of past watery events that has marked our psyche.......
Thank you, for a great episode with a valuable education about this tsunami that hit Britain once upon a time. I did know that the North Sea Channel was a tundra once, where people and animals crossed from what's now the European continent, to what's now the east coast of Britain, more or less. On one of our Wadden islands in the North of Holland, there's a museum and educative centre, where this is shown.
I enjoyed Phil's reverence for the deer skull object, taking his hat off, haha. But most impressive is what he said about those Mesolithic ancestors, conscious of the existence of the spirit world, intuitively.
With the company of a shaman as well, who may have contributed to the shaping of these skull masks.I
I am really enjoying the Time Team programs! I want to get in there and dig with them.
RIP Mick Aston
In a thousand years an archaeologist will uncover a high status burial in a multi-colored sweater.
Love to see you guys! Always enjoyed narrator and the whole Time Team crew! So love these!!!
I've just spent the last week or two watching your uploads and must send a big thank you. I have most of the programs but missed a good number. You made my day(s). You've done a wonderful job.
Ah, Baldrick! How good to see him again! Great character out of one of my fav TV shows.
I live in America and I’ve learned so much about British history from the show. More than a lot of documentaries that I’ve watched
Pete is a great old fellow. It was thoughtful of him to keep all that stuff around for archaeologists.
Ok, but he was kinda creepy . Keeping all those mummified murder victims around too and all.
Every show keeps me captivated....learning made interesting and memorable
I appreciate the posting of this video, as I like these type Documentaries, History.
The problem cleared up and I've just finished watching the video, many thanks from a Brit in California.
Thanks to the whole time team for uplifting the lives of ancient peoples. Too many docs paint their lives as the unending misery- a holdover of 18th and 19th century projection. I'll take the Mesolithic over the 1830s any day
Could it be possible for the deer skull hole used for straps to tie the thing the head?
Or attach a deer skin to drape over himself. Masking the hunters scent whilst he mimics the prey to approach within striking distance. We'll never know.
That drawing of the pagan with drum-his headpiece with antlers had two holes in it like the antler sets shown!
...deer me, thats true.
@@hellonwheels6887 Which if you think about it probably means that ritual was thousands of years old even by the time that drawing had been done.
Phil takes off his hat in deference to the artifacts....brilliant.
Leave Phils hat alone, a man of such character could wear the skin of a swine and still be allowed onto the archaeological dig site
That's rare. Almost as rare as him cutting his finger nails. XD
I didnt realize though I totally understand. Thank you for enlightening me !!
@@Shigawire He’s an accomplished guitarist. Didn’t you know?
@@RKHageman any video of him playing.
I wish they had mentioned even briefly what the tsunami did to Iceland, Greenland, and North America that could be found today.
There is something theorized that a group of comets hit 12,900 years ago. One in Saginaw Bay in the US, others perhaps in Greenland, maybe South America, maybe Siberia. Wiped out all the biggest animals (megafauna) in North America. Perhaps from ice chunks thrown out by the main impacts. Hundreds of thousands of secondary craters recently found on Lidar imaging in places like North Carolina. I wonder if this is the right time period for the Tsunami's if the dates could be made more exact. Sea level rise would also happen at the same time which ties into other old stories and even the date of Atlantis's destruction.
Actually, if you listen closely, the Tsunami's going to Iceland and North America is mentioned.
@@garywheeler7039 there was global extinction type events 12000 yrs ago . Our sun has a nova cycle every 12068 years .
The comet impact isn't just theorized. It is established science. You can go to the cosmic tusk website and see the peer reviewed literature in the bibliography. All of it.
The tsunami from the Norwegian land slide is a completely different event. No point in mixing the two together. The op asked about evidence for the latter in the rest of the Atlantic.
And please forget the 12000 year sun nova cycle theory nonsense. Better yet go to the source of it and see for yourself how it ignores anything that doesn't fit the narrative. Douglas Vogt who is pushing it on youtube does nothing but wrap nonsense into videos dismissing and ignoring decades of established science in one slide PPTs. With nothing to back it up other than a CIA cover up fantasy and mental gymnastics. For God's sake the guy claims that any comet forms when a glorified CME blows off the oceans from Earth. A 5 minute read on the Rosetta mission throws his brainfart out and beats it into a pulp.
@@sirmoke9646 no it does not and from the sound of it u r also a red herring .
Very interesting progam about Doggerland, which on it's eastern part was hooked up with Jutland.
The tsunami must have affected Danes a lot also. However - I haven't seen any Danish programs about it.
Also interesting to learn that you can actually use soap-weed as soap.
I thought it got the name because of the sweat smelling flowers.
I have had some in my garden for years and worked very hard to prevent them from spreading too much.
They spread very quickly.
Back in the late 70's/early 80's, the "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" skit "THE ANTLER DANCE" MIGHT have had an actual archaeological basis after all. So bloody cool! (Way to go Lorne Michaels!)
Fascinating..... absolutely riveting. I greatly enjoyed this, thank you for posting
I won't suggest preparing for the next tsunami, we can't even prepare for snow and that is a dead cert.
Sounds like people in the hurricane zones in the US. Huh? Prepare? I'll think about when it hits.
I like what Phil is telling us. This retelling shows great things about the old times.
I am very glad I found this site. Education with a sense of humor
Coastal houses that stood up for 400 years and only were only demolished by a 10 metre high tsunami.
When they build houses now, If it lasts 30 years you've been Lucky...
You've got to ask yourself..whos in the Stone age, them or us.
You don't have to go that far. Think about Roman bridges that still are in good shape, while concrete bridges we built 50 years ago are about to crumble.
I live near Tarragona in Spain. In the old part of Tarragona the shops and buildings have the original foundations of what was once the Roman circus from over 2000 years ago., they've simply bult on top of them they're so solid.
BEN AVEIGA I live in Cologne/Germany, a city with lots of traces of the Roman buildings. Everything that is left is solid, more solid than what we built during the last 100 years.
We are so retarded as a race, that we can put a man on the moon and send a robot to mars, but we can't build a damn building that stands up for more than half a century..we are doomed..
BEN AVEIGA them
In my area cherries ripen in June. What a difference latitude makes...
@B uppy - Also, your cherries have the benefit of 8,000 years of agricultural cross breeding. They are undoubtedly much different that the cherries that these stone-aged people had access to.
On tsunami's. I recall reading about a threat posed by a huge unstable section of rock on/of the volcanic Gran Canaria's, which if & when it dislodged & slid into the Atlantic would displace a large volume of water causing a massive series of tsunamis, which within hours would reach the eastern seaboard of the Americas & ricochette a few times across that stretch of ocean thereby affecting the western coasts of the British isles, Europe & the African continent. Perhaps this channel could look into this......
Similar situation on the south side of the Big Island of Hawaii.
The peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, were in the Mesolithic when Capt Cook arrived in the 1770's. The Haida and other Nations, lived in wooden houses as big as any in England.
Absolutely. I think there are a lot of parallels between northern Europe during the neolithic and even the Bronze Age and American Indians. With similar climates and similar plants and animals, they developed similar technologies and similar cultures.
christosvoskresye It's interesting to compare the Queen Charlotte Islands and Japan. A few environmental differences and some cultural ones, caused quite different cultural developments.
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I suppose "some cultural ones" means the existence of China nearby? That is not a small difference! Or maybe you are thinking of the Ainu, who were in Japan before the people we think of as "Japanese" arrived? I'm not sure it's really correct to think of Japan under the Ainu as Japan, though, any more than it is to think of a big chunk of North America before Columbus as the USA, or Asia Minor before the fall of Constantinople as Turkey.
And I find that one hut to be similar to the teepees of the Plains Indians...similar lifestyles as well.
So climate change has been going on for millions of years thank goodness. Change in everything is forever.😀💕
Excellent Documentary,....worthy of watching
WHY is there is no mention of Isostatic upheaval from the retreating ice shelf? The very cause of the underwater land slide and earth quakes in the first place?
You mean the bit where TR says ....'end of the Ice age...major upheaval...Earth's crust was creaking and uplifting'27 minutes?
@@ianrutherford878 Hmmm. I missed this statement but mostly by the context that this upheaval happened gradully vs. Rapidly (even catastrophically). Comes back to the uniforitarianism view is largely represented while the caveat of how and why the change happened so rapidly. Is difficult to represent without its chronological context. Thats really the part that could have been elaborated further. Not to nitpick. Still very good and interesting work though. Much credit to TR.
@@patalbor3507 I lived in Finland for a while.The rising land after the retreating ice is something that is very visible in the score marks on exposed rock and its rate is 'displayed' with markers and signs in at least one city.
TR and his co producers sell TT with drama and sensation and a kind of obsessive tunnel vision.The tsunami and his imaginings of 'the problem'!!! facing Doggerlanders suited the format more than other factors..
@@patalbor3507I agree with you. The program even seems to suggest that the whole Doggerland was flooded and drowned at once by the Storegga slide, 8000 ya. One has to listen really carefully to understand they're really talking about GB east coast affected by the tsunami, and that in itself was correct. Doggerland was already steadily flooded and gone because of the higher sea level. This result of the melting icecaps is mentioned only at the end of the program.... A brief overview of these events somewhere at the start would have been nice.
At the time of the tsunami, there was only a Dogger island left.
This is such a great show ! Thank you for sharing ❤
Excellent episode time team thank you all
Love your programs, Sir Tony. Dr. Phil always has cool insights to add. 'Star Carr' is my next study thru Futurelearn. Thanks for sparking that interest!
There are a few submerged tree stumps to be seen at extreme low tides, on the N. shore of the Forth, just E. of the rail bridge. Inverkeithing area.
I never seen any mention of them anywhere. Thought they might have been beech. (Not sure why: Long time ago'80's.)
A few years ago, researchers discovered sonar evidence of the collapsed or washed out land bridge in the English channel. They speculated this tsunami may have been what did it. (or you may already know this by now)
Happy New year to Meso & Neo enthusiasts in 2023, That decade really flew by quickly, I'm starting to feel like a meso fossil myself at 70. Just love the history of British Isles & surrounding area of the euro northlands the Stone Age episodes &.cheers to all Craig Harald a mestizo-norseman from Death Valley California.
Pre shaped needles are already existing in a deers leg. All modern deer have lost portions of the lateral metacarpal bones (think of your ulna and radius bones, and imagine if you only have a 2" sliver of you ulna above the wrist, etc). This is because of evolutional morphology. In America is there is a sliver of bone on lower leg, front, called distal remenant of the metacarpal. And in Europe is located on the upper limb, called the proximal remnant of the lateral metacarpal. The reason I mention this because it took very little time to make these needles, unlike the estimate in the program. I know this because I'm from a Reservation, and we removed these bones quickly from a fresh kill, the bones would be fresh and "wet", then they were chewed (in our mouth) to remove a sinew sheath, then drilled out easily (we used a steel triangle in wood spindle, but flint would be just as fast). The tip was left unsharp, and a little blunt, because if you sharpen it, it could fracture while sewing, the needle does not make the hole, like modern needles. Old needles just guided the thread, and a hand awl was used for punching holes, made from fish teeth, sewn into the palm of a glove.
Now, later I left the Reservation, got an undergrad in biology, hence the technical terms. There, now i feel better.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, wonderful. Hope you still feel better 😊, I will when I've looked up those particular bones you mentioned!
Wonderful program
It is great to see it again.
And once more,even if the episode is already 11 years old.
And it is more than - 3 days only-...
The split log boards ! That is important!
Thank you!!! I loved this episode!!!😍❤❤
Awww, I love Phil! Too bad for you, you're missing many of the good bits.
Thank you for this. I had never heard of this. Just bits and pieces that didn’t connect
Revisiting this great show !
Thanks. I love this program.
This is why there are so many "Great Flood/Noah" stories. Getting carried off on a raft/debris/boat and being stranded for days with no land in sight (because the water hadn't receded yet/swept out to sea and/or section of the Nile that's miles wide even without the super-flooding, etc) would certainly cause a pre-scientific person to chalk it up to divine buyer's remorse.
Tony is great 👍 on these history shows
The marine geologist pronounces the Norwegian slides wrong. It's the Storegga Slides, pronounced stor-egga, meaning big ledge, and there were three of them about approximately 6225-6170 BC. Still not clear to me how their timing was dated so precisely...
That was us, no smarter, no dumber. They watched the sky at night like we watch TH-cam.
Our ancient ancestors were just as advanced as we are. We would struggle to survive if we could go back 8,000 years in time.
I had not heard of this. My eyes are open ! Thank You. Thank You.
So much history. And not just a rehash! Civilizations have risen and fallen and it's all beyond our control.
The didn't have Progressive Liberals to save them. Lol
@@clintonmiller1698 - We do now.
This time team special confirms what I thought of ancient people. They weren't as ancient as we think they were.
Great program ty
As a species, we love living next to water. There's anthropoloģical reasons for that, leading to the growth of the human brain. Unfortunately, our connection to coast lines has left us open to the dangers from the water: tsunamis and severe storms and floods.
around minute 17:00 me thinks the sheaves of reed were laid on the teepee frame upside down. would not the base of the sheaves be placed above the top?
+wright gregson I had the same reaction!
Why wouldn't these people not have this common sense idea?
Now that the Younger Dryas event is becoming better understood there are suggestions that the people of the Mesolithic period were descendants of survivors trying to recreate civilisations that had been lost in that earlier cataclysm. This means that although their tools were simple their dreams were not. So not hunter gatherers except under duress and all the while dreaming of a return to organised society. Their way of life perhaps does not reflect an emergence from a more animal like stage to a more modern lifestyle but rather reflects their preexisting knowledge of what humans could aspire to. Well it's a thought.
@Phil Wheadon - If the Younger Dryas Event occurred about 12,000 years ago and this event was 8,000 years ago, that is one huge gap. Stabilization must have occurred well before that.
Well said.
Oh, good. Pseudoscience bs.
Nobody educated thinks that. Graham hancock is not only wrong but actively lying to make a book. Bc he's a writer. And his son works at Netflix. Any point he makes van be quickly proven wrong or a lie in a 5 second Google and I challenge you to offer any of his fake evidence and I will bust it wide open
@@ladyflimflampeople are so dumb. It's all nonsense and if people had the mental capacity to look into shit themselves they'd easily find out.
so funny that he flies about in a Robinson heli for this bit (;-)
Love this episode. Is there any evidence that their homes were actually mud daub? Sure seems like people and communities were more settled, organized, and industrious than previously thought. Fascinating, does this not imply much more about the folks that came after them? Knowledge and organizational skills existant perhaps?
6 years old and just caught up with something else that has caused question but no research from this viewer. Fascinating. Perhaps the Time Team guys could look into AD535 Krakatoa, releasing such huge amounts of ash it covered the planet for hundreds of years. The original "Dark Ages".
They've done that, you may have found it by now. It's called something like 536 AD, the worst year ever for humanity.
Its gone now can't see it. Ty though I never knew they covered it. Seems them up there don't want folks to know !@@deborahcavel-greant6155
Love the show of course. Also think seeing Phil with that full head of hair is fantastic.
I am so fascinated by Doggerland :) This is my happy-place viewing.
Interesting and weird to see this again in 2020.
great show and information/ thank you
I always said study geology because just as important as History of People as Earth and Space affects EVERYTHING!
My maternal grandmother's family is from the Swindon, Yorkshire area -- I wonder if any of my ancestors were there!
"I want to dig it!" 34:10
That is the Grand Canyon of Scotland, cheers from the US.
Awesome channel.
You got yourself new subscriber and a thumps up.
I wonder if the dating on this, combined with the new evidence found over the last decade since this film was made, more aligns this incident with the Younger Dryas Impact...
Could it be, that this tsunami, is part of that destruction?
Very possible yes
Randal Carlson and Graham Hancock are experts on the Younger Dryas event and they explain this on the Joe Rogan Experience
@@scamacho773 I've watched all of the Rogan podcasts with them, as well as studied Carlson's work closely - fascinating stuff. Which is part of the reason I asked the question - it was somewhat rhetorical to start the conversation.az
I was thinking that too but theres about a 3500 year difference between this and younger dryas and the articles i've seen on the storegga slide all agree with the 6000ish bc date. Plus lake aggassiz had its final drainage around 6002 bc as well. is it possible that their dating methods are that innacurate?
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I don't think they would be far off in the dating.
In terms of geologic time, a few thousand years, really isn't much.
So much new information, and so many new sites have been found.
I'm from the Montana-Dakota region, which was right along the edge of the Laurentide during the impact - and using Google Earth, you can really see some of the massive flood damage from the melting of the Laurentide.
You have to know what you are looking for, but you can find evidence all over the place. Take a look at Devil's Tower sometime, and you can really see how the water flowed around it.
We tend to think that stone age people weren't very bright etc. Etc.etc. how wrong we have been and how wonderful to have this series to widen our knowledge.
Seems like others should have been mentioned in the credits if their input was significant. Professor Nicky Milner of York University for example.
Enjoy the videos! Love learning about British history!
for a show about archaeology Time Team sure has some plunging necklines.
Ah sweet, time team episodes I haven’t discovered yet!
Alex is fun in the other programs he's done as well ❤
Fascinating program!
Really interesting you all are so smart to find this stuff.
Fascinating !!
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Immanuel Velikovsky's books "Earth in Upheaval" and "Worlds in Collision" theorize that many such tsunamis occurred around the world..very interesting reading for out-of-the-box thinkers..
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Sort of wonder if this event is the reason for the worldwide story of the Great Flood. Maybe even the tales of drowned Atlantis. I know there''s a Welsh folktale that preserves the breach of a levee/dam/wall that erased an entire kingdom in a few hours.
Eyes in the back of your head would let a spirit person see "everything", future and past. Reminds me of that cave painting of the "shaman". Shamans don't require halucinogens to get into trance, btw. Might also just be the means of attachment to the wearer's head.
Lake Agassi? I'm familiar with Lake Iroquois, not heard of Agassi.
the "world wide flood" is just as much a fairy tail as Noah.
S L Hughes - Why couldn't the holes be for leather ties to keep the sculpture attached to the head, hmmmm?
Lake Agassi was on the Canada/US border. Bigger than all the Great Lakes put together. When the glaciers started melting, the lake over-filled and overflowed into the Arctic Ocean. There was so much water, the ocean level was raised: estimates range from 2.5 feet to 10 feet.
Ice dams cannot hold back the pressure created by a thousand foot + deep lake (no more than about 200 ft really). Same problem with glacial lake mizzoula. The proposed 1800ft deep lake would have almost a thousand psi where the ice meets the bedrock. Glacial ice is porous with rocks, melt channels, etc. As we see with modern concrete dams that have to be specially anchored and sealed to the solid bedrock, any little leaks become eroded over time and the bigger the whole gets the faster it will cut away at the concrete, rock, ice, or whatever. Glacial lake agasi or mizzoula is a false presumption for the problem with these huge meltwater pulses and sudden sea level rise that we have evidence of. I think cometary impacts on ice sheets creating enormous ice flows all the way to the ocean on both sides of north america is a good place to put more research into. No crater left behind.
Saw a science bullet gun cannon used on an ice sheet in a documentary. Both vertical and horizontal results causing sheets of ice to displace slicing and covering all in it's path. Then ice rained down in big chunks...then everything melted. No sure if would be called a flow. The for the great info.
Younger dryas