Is that really a cheetah? And that guy is petting it and poking at it? Wonderful video, but I don't think I'm the only one that will want to know about the cheetah.
@@msaudreylee Cheetas are really human friendly, even the wild ones, except when you're under a meter (yard) tall. Check out numerous films about cheetas on TH-cam.
Thank you so much qe really appreciate what you doing you are the best at what you do. I wana point out one thing The name somalia is from the Italian colony name for somali regions The called somaliland. .English somalia..Djibouti the called France somalia. The British called the somali regions somaliland so France somaliland Italian somaliland and British somaliland when we united June 1 1960 the official name was THE SOMALI DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC not Somalia and not somaliland but like everything else in that union this incompetent arrogant somalia changed it 1991 The somali people collectively we call are self's " dhulka shanta somali" meaning 5 somali regions. That wher divided by the colonials and that is what the white star on the bleu flag of Somalia represents and the somaliland BLACK star alsow represents that but opposite reasons.so what I really means is when you say greater "somalia" and if you said greater somaliland would be the same one name is from the Italians and one from the British Thank very much again you are the GOAT 🐐
For me, the romance of these places comes from the fact that, even though much of their meaning and implication is lost on someone so many years later like myself, someone from so long ago is communicating with me, someone so disconnected in time that they may as well be from another planet. There's something exciting about that difference. Even if all I can interpret is the beauty, I'm listening and ever-so-slightly understanding.
Same. As an Ethiopian I also really enjoyed the visit to Ethiopia. Most people who make documentaries gloss over or neglect to mention the complexities and dynamics of the region.
@@yetlin8386 *How do you explain how Britain knew where the border started and ended?* Keep being sour, Gods wrath is upon you SomaliA and boy do you know it!
Cave paintings like Laas Geel often provide a valuable insight into the distant past as they give a clear picture of not how just a culture acted but what type of environment they lived in and how it worked. In this case, it shows that the Horn of Africa was a lot less arid about 5,000 years ago. At the same time much of the Saharan Desert did not exist, instead it was home to a vast river basin that would have supported a vast grassland that would have been home to animals we wouldn't usually associate with the Sahara such as rhinos.
Beyonce Why do I notice things? Jump to the clip 1:57 and you'll see Laas Geel (Somali: Laas Geel), also spelled Laas Gaal, are cave formations on the rural outskirts of Hargeisa, Somaliland in Somalia, situated in the Maroodi Jeex region of the country. They contain some of the earliest known cave paintings of domesticated African aurochs (Bos primigenius africanus) in the Horn of Africa. Laas Geel's rock art is estimated to date somewhere around circa 18,000 BC or 20,000 years ago. th-cam.com/video/agCgvFTJeRs/w-d-xo.html
6:44 Someone please send this speech out to the world. There's too much of this planet that dismisses art, to our eventual peril. There just seems to be something in our species that wants to tell people "We Were Here". This is just amazing! Another superbly filmed, edited and narrated video. I know when I look at one of your videos, I'm going to be learning something fascinating. Thank you for your continuing efforts to bring the overlooked stories to us. You are an incredibly valuable resource. You prove that TH-cam is more than just cat videos (O.K. it's MOSTLY cat videos, but you see where I'm going).
The people who made the pyramids could have chosen not to build it but they still did. Why? Because they wanted to tell people, I was here. All artists around the world in different times and geographical locations showed the world what things were like in their time. Now that everything is digitalized how could our generation tell people in the future we were here?
One of the guys in the rock art is shown praying to the cow with his hands up ! The cow was sacred to the ancient Egyptians and the ancient Puntites (Somalis). The ancient Egyptians said that the cow goddess Hathor came from Punt ! You can clearly see the first painting of Hathor in Laas Geel cave paintings.
Art is key , the paint is plants an rocks ,minerals tend to be brightly colored , and orchre ,red and yellow Clay's , glue pigment and gloss , is paint , blood is a good glue , so is pine sap , both leave traces , come from specific spots ,sometimes, also brushes ,what kind of hairy stuff did the artist use , dna test everything , accums razor , the simple shortest trip ,is the path taken ,quite often , he came from a rich inviroment , prolly by the sea , very near fresh water , wood an farmable lands ,flat moist ,in a valley to avoid winds ...press on find your answers.
Amen, brother! Amen! Such a stirring reminder to all the bean counters in the world that ANY culture is importantly enriched by their art. When faced by budget cuts, PLEASE do NOT cut art programs! Some of the most eloquent art still gets out there, but just imagine a world where it doesn't take a trip out into the middle of a desert in the middle of nowhere to see it, to understand it, to understand the people who made it. Art is IMPORTANT. Thank you, @Rare Earth
Just recently stumbled upon this channel. I have to say it's one of those rare epic channels worth to enjoy. And in the same time I'm in shock it has only 745k followers. Just to compare, Pewdiepie has almost 100 million. Sometimes I feel ashamed for being human and this is exactly that moment.
I'm reminded of Ursula K. Le Guin's closing remarks in her National Book Award speech regarding literature and art. "But the name of our beautiful reward is not profit, it's name is freedom."
I miss my country Somaliland ! Thank You for filming this video ! Also I think the paintings are older than 5000 years, I think they are 9000 years old !
Choosing the location that would preserve them sounds like survival bias of roman buildings... I know, nothing much, but it discard the possibility that they painted everywhere :D
👏👏👏BRAVO! BRAVO! 👏👏👏 Absolutely one of your best Evan! 💖 These videos you do. These little peeks into history, archeology, sociology, political discourse and progress, plus your exceptional narrative make rise that "desire to wander" I've always had. I want to SEE what you see, interpret what's there and what you show us, always, always leaves me awestruck. Every. Single. Time! 💯% my favourite channel on this platform. My second favourite is a far, far second. These make me think, yearn for knowledge and sometimes, ache for those gone before. That you are bringing us the "inside story" to places rarely viewed, showing us~not the poverty and toil of the people ~ but their history, pride of place and love of their homeland, makes this a joy. Rather than make us feel like voyeurs (as did the video about slum tourism. I was both disgusted and deeply saddened by that video) you make us feel like we are doing exactly what we are doing. Looking from the outside in, being respectful and with no ideals thrown in. Pure and simple. Wonderful. Thank you Evan et al. You do really, really good work. Jenn 💖 in Canada 🍁 ☺
The people who made these paintings are the progenitors of Somali civilisation. These are the people who's decendants would go on to found the ancient kingdom of Punt and Macrobia and the many wealthy cities throughout from the gulf of Aden to the coast of Kenya. If our ancestors could see us today they would be ashamed of us, weak and divided and most importantly forgetting their legacy. If more archeological work is funded and we begin digging up our past all across greater Somalia we might remember how great we could be.
Thank you Rare Earth for your own explanation of the aim of the herdesmen to paint these eternal, beautiful, unique paintings on this hard Rock in Laas Geel thousands of years ago, depicting their daily life, way of life, their beliefs and philosophy on life.
Nice video thanks I have been to hargeisa many times but I didn't had chance to visit laas gaal next time I will make sure I visit laasgaal . Hopefully next year I will be in #somaliland#
I love that the unnamed artists essentially immortalized their animals this way. If herding was their way of life, then they would have felt very strongly about their stock. Herd animals are more intelligent than they're given credit for and can have a *lot* of individual personality. Who knows if honoring their animals was their intent, but it's certainly an effect!
we have very similar rock painting s here in Botswana done by the san/bushmen they still live the same way you should spend some time with them and youll find your answer
Sorry to burst your bubble but the Dhaymoole cave painting and the Laas Geel rock art cave pai time also depict horses (something hunter gatherers never even knew about let alone draw), camels (again o ly pastoralists people like Skmalis would draw this) Crucially, the Somali caves such as Dhaymoole and Laas Geel, among others, show depictions of an ancient 28 day calendar system and complex constellations of stars Importantly there is also rock art drawings of a moon, a half moon and a rectangle with two intersecting lines, dividing it into 4 parts, there are also various drawings of a constellation of stars shows as a few stars drawn in a certain patter .. this is direct evidence of of an ancient neolithic calendar system that has 28 day cycles, dr Saada mire also worked with local Somali astrology experts and they managed to easily explain the rock art depicting the star constellations as show a well known existing star constellation These findings from an archeological perspective are extremely interesting, the fact that we have evidence of a neolithic 28 day cycle calendar system and knowledge about complex star constellations dated to more than 5000 years ago..as well as the first depictions of sheep cows and even humans on horseback in the horn of africa and possibly all of africa You san orKhoisan hunter gatherer cave paintings WILL NEVER EVER EVER show any ancient calendar systems especially a Somali cusbiric 28 day cycle calendar systemt in our rock art sites like Dhaymoole that show rock art drawings, they will also never show any drawings of actual constellations of stars, or horses etc Our paintings are more advanced because our society was the first advanced pastoral society in east africa called proto Somalis proto Cushites descended from the Natufian levantine neolithic farmers
@@DhammeMaxmoud iyo ciise gabooye fiqishini laylkase samaroon warsangali and many more I don't know we are somaliland...but yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey beautiful I am so happy our story is getting out slowly but surely and it is getting momentum everyday yeeeey
Somaland is a state that disengaged from Italian Somalia as Egypt and Syria dismantled the union between them and was the first part of Somalia liberated from colonialism in June 26, 1960 and recognized by many countries, but preferred unity with Italian Somalia, which took exploitation in July and after bitter fighting with the regime of Siad Barre Somaland dismantled its association with the south in 1991 and is still until now an independent, free and democratic state in which the peaceful transfer of power is safe from terrorist movements, piracy, Turkish foreign bases and others that It is teeming with the South and it is important for the nation
@@RareEarthSeries Aren't they endangered for extinction? Its still a wild animal quite capable of killing you in 2 mins if it decided to. If you mention Cheetah here in Atlanta it would mean a very different thing Atlanta is famous for (see if anyone knows)
There's a bit in one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books that mentions a means of execution. A device (plugged into a fresh hot chip of tea) shows to you the staggering scale of the universe and it blows your mind so thoroughly that you're as well as dead. This feels a little like that. A little like a mix of awe and being crushed at the idea of someone reaching out to us from centuries ago, someone who probably had no intention other than making something for the people around them, or maybe just themselves. And we can take so much information from it about the artist's surroundings, but nothing about the artist themselves. A message in a bottle from so long ago has to mean something special, but also could reasonably mean nothing more than "I feel like expressing my surroundings".
Welcome to the most important country before 150 years ago in Africa and the most beautiful, peaceful countries in Africa .Come and see Laas geel, Zeila, Sanag and las'anod. welcome in an open hands.
and on top of the gathering, and making of colour she/he/they would also have to know that it needed to be applied in a place away from the sun and wind to survive into the future for us to find and wonder at
@@ogolow570 You keep on saying what what when i call you jealous of Somaliland history because you are happy to give away somaliland history to the san people and trace us to sudan , when the statues that been found in Somaliland do not looklike anything like san (khosain) people who have round faces and small eyes asian like , when statues have long oval face and full lips and almond eyes and goaty beards , guess what somalis have all these features till this day even the dress code and all have nothing to do with san people you trying to force into somaliland ancient history . Here a video of Somaliland meusem👇 . th-cam.com/video/GQn4cHp1zFk/w-d-xo.html San people never settled in the north (somaliland) afroasiatic people were there way way back , lees geel is 9000 years bc and the statues in the video is proven by archaeology that it is older than ancient sudanis paintings which is between 6000bc to 4000 bc , las geel is between 9000bc to 5000bc that proves that it was punt when you add the stautes in the musuem that recently found in somaliland and punt is where the egyptions orginated from not other way around .
@@ogolow570 History : "Encyclopædia Britannica describes Punt as follows: “in ancient Egyptian and Greek geography, the southern coast of the Red Sea and adjacent coasts of the Gulf of Aden, corresponding to modern coastal Eritrea, Somalia and Djibouti ."/ In “The Making of Egypt” (1939). Petrie states that the Land of Punt was “sacred to the Egyptians as the source of their race.” ^ In " Short History of the Egyptian People", by E. A. Wallis Budge. Budge stated that “Egyptian tradition of the Dynastic Period held that the aboriginal home of the Egyptians was Punt…” « Again the representations of the early Puntites, or Somali people, on the Egyptian monuments, show striking resemblances to the Egyptians themselves. » By Brian Brown New York: Brentano's[1923]/ We can understand theses Similarities through their ancestral history : According to the historian Richard Pankhurst :"""The Egyptians sometimes called Punt land Ta-Netjeru, meaning "Land of the Gods," and considered it their place of origin ." (Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopian Borderlands:1997) Punt was Somalia the northern part of it , some people like to dance around the issue but your eyes are your witness , I won't just type but i'll show you our own puntite culture with maps and ancient statues . Punt : It wasn't nubia because nubia is very close to luxor where queen Hatshepsut sailed from and where her paintings are , its not possible she sailed from luxor to nubia , because luxor is in south of egypt and nubia in the Sudan egypt border (Wadi halfa north and dongula south) they could reach it by horses or comles or even donkey its that close , its foolish to say they sailed to وادي حلفا wadi halfa . its funny when they go far from the truth by saying its in Lebanon because the egyptions sailed south to punt not north as Lebanon is located north of egypt , some also say its in Sri Lanka (How funny ) , punt was in parts of modern day Eritera, northern Somalia, Dijibouti, north east of Ethiopia (horn of africa) and maybe parts of southern yemen. **And guess what all these countries that mentioned with somalia has no phaoronic statues like the one in somaliland museum , except Eritera that have baboon statue not a phaoronic but a baboon . I have egyption governmental maps that pionting out somaliland and puntland as punt and it is an old one that western historian published but i do not know how to post it here.
I hope you're enjoying Somaliland. It's nice to know that at least *one* country in the world has managed to pull itself together. With practically no foreign support, it has become one of only two functional democracies in the Arab World, along with Tunisia.
@@thetruthSL it depends on the metric. The Arab ethnic group is defined solely by the Arabic Language, and in Somaliland, Arabic has been the language of culture and learning for centuries, and is one of two constitutional official languages. It is and Arab country as much as Francophone Africa is Francophone, and as the Dutch Caribbean is Dutch.
@@appleislander8536 Nope we are not Arabs , we are puntites and cushites combined, and the offical language in Somaliland is somali unlike tunisia , plus we learn arabic as a subject in schools for religious porpsess.
You should go to Zelia next. Their is a lot of ruined structures dating back to the Adal Sultanate, Ifat Sultanate, ruined Islamic towns, and a Musjid that was built after the haaj to the Horn of Africa in the 7th century ad.
🤔Curious as to why to assert around 2:50 that they deliberately sought out the sight for its preservative qualities; isn’t it just as likely they were one of many doing this, but happened to paint on a forgiving/stable surface?
Has any archaeological excavation taken place around those sites? It would be interesting to see if they were common stopping points: read a comment saying that's the site's name ment a form of watering hole. Times may change but people never really do: we always like to decorate our abodes, places of worship, and ritual sites. And to be fair... we wouldn't really know if they truly sought protected locations to paint: the unprotected sites would never have survived. And as for pigments, red soil, charcoal, ash, limestone and such are fairly readily availible and have been used to adorn people (primitive forms of makeup) and could have been used on the rock as an extension of that art form: not to diminish the site or the effort involved.
This was a great video, however I feel it needed to detail the rock paintings better, via some sort of subtle video overlay that highlighted the shapes and colours of these paintings, to then give us a better understanding of what we were seeing.
I've watched dr Saada Mire videos on these neolithic cave rock art In sum, they show a variety of images with sheep coloured in red, and also coloured in white, giraffes, cows again coloured in red and also in white, dogs next to humans, horses, and other wildlife..the rock art also shows the humans in some instances touching the cows and sheep maybe to show that they were milking them or interacting with them for any reason such as healing an injury a wound applying some herbal medicine on the animal etc..it just shows the humans touching the cows and sheep sometimes Crucially, it also shows the human figures raising their hands next to the cows, this may indicate some local religion at the time more than 5000 years ago, either worshipping the cows as their source of food and other items (meat and milk, yoghurt, butter in the form of ghee, hides etc)..lowland eastern Cushites including Somalis worshipped a monotheistic preislamic prechristian prejewish sky God religion called Waaq, so those human depictions on the caves raising their hands could also be interpreted to thanking Waaq the sky god for his sustenance and provision of bounty ...it certainly shows some form of worship and prayer Importantly there is also rock art drawings of a moon, a half moon and a rectangle with two intersecting lines, dividing it into 4 parts, there are also various drawings of a constellation of stars shows as a few stars drawn in a certain patter .. this is direct evidence of of an ancient neolithic calendar system that has 28 day cycles, dr Saada mire also worked with local Somali astrology experts and they managed to easily explain the rock art depicting the star constellations as show a well known existing star constellation These findings from an archeological perspective are extremely interesting, the fact that we have evidence of a neolithic 28 day cycle calendar system and knowledge about complex star constellations dated to more than 5000 years ago..as well as the first depictions of sheep cows and even humans on horseback in the horn of africa and possibly all of africa Very interesting indeed
Long time viewer and big fan. When your opening monologue ends with "they came to paint laas geel" I feel like you looking away was somewhat awkward. Like the camera could've panned to a portion of the sight, or you could've kept looking at the camera, or I don't care if you even did like how vannah white would show prizes on wheel of Fortune.... But it felt like weird. Idk Thanks. Soon maybe I'll be able to donate I'm currently on a strict diet of Costco chicken and vegetables until I can make more money.
As an archaeologist and a human, "selecting the location that would preserver them." um, you're survivor bias is showing; you're ignoring all of the art that was drawn on the rocks that have been eroded away. (Still a lovely video of a location worth recording.)
Thanks you Rare Earth, i Recommended u to Visit This Place on ur Last video About Somaliland, You are The best of the best TH-camrs out there, Only genius people understand ur videos and u Are one of em. thanks u again.
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Is that really a cheetah? And that guy is petting it and poking at it? Wonderful video, but I don't think I'm the only one that will want to know about the cheetah.
@@msaudreylee Cheetas are really human friendly, even the wild ones, except when you're under a meter (yard) tall. Check out numerous films about cheetas on TH-cam.
Some of that art is just incredible. Semi-abstract and nice colors. I would frame and hang a nice print of that art.
Thank you so much qe really appreciate what you doing you are the best at what you do.
I wana point out one thing
The name somalia is from the Italian colony name for somali regions
The called somaliland. .English somalia..Djibouti the called France somalia.
The British called the somali regions somaliland so France somaliland Italian somaliland and British somaliland when we united June 1 1960 the official name was THE SOMALI DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC not Somalia and not somaliland but like everything else in that union this incompetent arrogant somalia changed it 1991
The somali people collectively we call are self's " dhulka shanta somali" meaning 5 somali regions.
That wher divided by the colonials and that is what the white star on the bleu flag of Somalia represents and the somaliland BLACK star alsow represents that but opposite reasons.so what I really means is when you say greater "somalia" and if you said greater somaliland would be the same one name is from the Italians and one from the British
Thank very much again you are the GOAT 🐐
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For me, the romance of these places comes from the fact that, even though much of their meaning and implication is lost on someone so many years later like myself, someone from so long ago is communicating with me, someone so disconnected in time that they may as well be from another planet. There's something exciting about that difference. Even if all I can interpret is the beauty, I'm listening and ever-so-slightly understanding.
Love your stuff man
Please upload something soon. I can't stand waiting so long.
@@cooly2165 New script should be done tomorrow. Won't be long.
let's make something together sometime
@@RareEarthSeries I would adore that.
*We are very grateful for what you have filmed in somaliland so far* You’re doing a great job
Same. As an Ethiopian I also really enjoyed the visit to Ethiopia. Most people who make documentaries gloss over or neglect to mention the complexities and dynamics of the region.
Somaliland he said Somaliland was carved out by Britain. Which is a false statement, something that would be categorized as fake news.
@@thetruthSL It was literally was carved out by Britain. Before them different clans like the warsangali ruled the area.
@@yetlin8386 *How do you explain how Britain knew where the border started and ended?*
Keep being sour, Gods wrath is upon you SomaliA and boy do you know it!
The Truth dude you sound so dumb.
Cave paintings like Laas Geel often provide a valuable insight into the distant past as they give a clear picture of not how just a culture acted but what type of environment they lived in and how it worked. In this case, it shows that the Horn of Africa was a lot less arid about 5,000 years ago. At the same time much of the Saharan Desert did not exist, instead it was home to a vast river basin that would have supported a vast grassland that would have been home to animals we wouldn't usually associate with the Sahara such as rhinos.
I don’t know why, but this video made me cry. In a good way. 💙💙
Beyonce
Why do I notice things? Jump to the clip 1:57 and you'll see Laas Geel (Somali: Laas Geel), also spelled Laas Gaal, are cave formations on the rural outskirts of Hargeisa, Somaliland in Somalia, situated in the Maroodi Jeex region of the country. They contain some of the earliest known cave paintings of domesticated African aurochs (Bos primigenius africanus) in the Horn of Africa. Laas Geel's rock art is estimated to date somewhere around circa 18,000 BC or 20,000 years ago.
th-cam.com/video/agCgvFTJeRs/w-d-xo.html
So do I it's TRUE ancient thing you can come and see this as real...
Amazing Laasgeel is one of our historic places, thank you Bro.
The point is to create art 🖼
6:44 Someone please send this speech out to the world. There's too much of this planet that dismisses art, to our eventual peril.
There just seems to be something in our species that wants to tell people "We Were Here". This is just amazing!
Another superbly filmed, edited and narrated video. I know when I look at one of your videos, I'm going to be learning something fascinating.
Thank you for your continuing efforts to bring the overlooked stories to us. You are an incredibly valuable resource.
You prove that TH-cam is more than just cat videos (O.K. it's MOSTLY cat videos, but you see where I'm going).
The people who made the pyramids could have chosen not to build it but they still did. Why? Because they wanted to tell people, I was here. All artists around the world in different times and geographical locations showed the world what things were like in their time. Now that everything is digitalized how could our generation tell people in the future we were here?
One of the guys in the rock art is shown praying to the cow with his hands up ! The cow was sacred to the ancient Egyptians and the ancient Puntites (Somalis). The ancient Egyptians said that the cow goddess Hathor came from Punt ! You can clearly see the first painting of Hathor in Laas Geel cave paintings.
Someone is in tune with their history
Indian Hindus also pray cattles 🙏
Thousands yrs ago we r frm one
Community Sanatan Dharma May be
@@orangewire2026 hell no we were always monotheistic nation and people unlike you who is pagan
@@bigie2264 no every old religion is polytheistic.
@@bigie2264 Monotheism wasn't created until about 5000 BC. The ancient peoples of the area were around LONG before your god was invented.
It's like the Lascaux cave paintings in France, cool. You visit the most interesting places
I didnt know about thay. Im from lasgeel area.
It is interesting just as Somaliland in itself is.
@Daniel Appleton It does have resemblance
Greetings Друзья! Somaliland doesnt exist. The people are somali and are proud somalis. Foreigners should stay out
no its not lascaux were cave men and mostly hunter gatherers these paintings show domesticated animals
I miss my country Somaliland thank you for these videos
Insha Alla You Will Come Somaliland
Art is key , the paint is plants an rocks ,minerals tend to be brightly colored , and orchre ,red and yellow Clay's , glue pigment and gloss , is paint , blood is a good glue , so is pine sap , both leave traces , come from specific spots ,sometimes, also brushes ,what kind of hairy stuff did the artist use , dna test everything , accums razor , the simple shortest trip ,is the path taken ,quite often , he came from a rich inviroment , prolly by the sea , very near fresh water , wood an farmable lands ,flat moist ,in a valley to avoid winds ...press on find your answers.
@@garymingy8671 somaliland is a region of Somalia bro
*Somalia
@@Newpoliticalorder😂😂Somalia? no way Somalia does not have this type of history 😊
Probably my favorite vid by you guys yet to date!
Amen, brother! Amen!
Such a stirring reminder to all the bean counters in the world that ANY culture is importantly enriched by their art. When faced by budget cuts, PLEASE do NOT cut art programs! Some of the most eloquent art still gets out there, but just imagine a world where it doesn't take a trip out into the middle of a desert in the middle of nowhere to see it, to understand it, to understand the people who made it. Art is IMPORTANT.
Thank you, @Rare Earth
Art isn't dependant by government money.
Thank you do much for sharing. Can you imagine the artist had to gather all kinds of natural material to make the pigments all by hand. Amazing. 💖
I've been here!😄 The history has been preserved well.
The desire and drive behind the production of art never changes.
Just recently stumbled upon this channel. I have to say it's one of those rare epic channels worth to enjoy. And in the same time I'm in shock it has only 745k followers. Just to compare, Pewdiepie has almost 100 million. Sometimes I feel ashamed for being human and this is exactly that moment.
PewDiePie reacts to Rare Earth! Make it happen!
T-Series i even worse. At least Pewdiepie is just a Swedish man.
I like the outro screens
Wow you only for 8 likes? What?
your writing is sublime. keep up the good work.
Laasgeel , Somaliland .
5,000 yrs old rock.
rock paintings
Not 5 but 9 tusen years
Med Mahdi They are 9000 years old
5 to 10 thousands years is the estimate
I'm reminded of Ursula K. Le Guin's closing remarks in her National Book Award speech regarding literature and art. "But the name of our beautiful reward is not profit, it's name is freedom."
Lol I wanna know about these dudes with a cheetah we keep seeing. Awesome vid btw
Great video, you're indeed Africa's Louvre in Somaliland.
Thanks!
thank you evan
Somaliland seems a interesting place, I have currency from across the globe and like Somaliland paper money.
I'll post it to you
Somalia is rich is history we it’s need to put effort into finding these historic places. Thanks a lot for this amazingly informative video
I miss my country Somaliland ! Thank You for filming this video ! Also I think the paintings are older than 5000 years, I think they are 9000 years old !
And back to working on my weaving, take motivation when it comes... willpower is harder work.
Last time I was this early, Evan was still shooting footage on site
Choosing the location that would preserve them sounds like survival bias of roman buildings...
I know, nothing much, but it discard the possibility that they painted everywhere :D
👏👏👏BRAVO! BRAVO! 👏👏👏
Absolutely one of your best Evan! 💖 These videos you do. These little peeks into history, archeology, sociology, political discourse and progress, plus your exceptional narrative make rise that "desire to wander" I've always had. I want to SEE what you see, interpret what's there and what you show us, always, always leaves me awestruck. Every. Single. Time! 💯% my favourite channel on this platform. My second favourite is a far, far second. These make me think, yearn for knowledge and sometimes, ache for those gone before. That you are bringing us the "inside story" to places rarely viewed, showing us~not the poverty and toil of the people ~ but their history, pride of place and love of their homeland, makes this a joy. Rather than make us feel like voyeurs (as did the video about slum tourism. I was both disgusted and deeply saddened by that video) you make us feel like we are doing exactly what we are doing. Looking from the outside in, being respectful and with no ideals thrown in. Pure and simple. Wonderful. Thank you Evan et al. You do really, really good work.
Jenn 💖 in Canada 🍁 ☺
The people who made these paintings are the progenitors of Somali civilisation. These are the people who's decendants would go on to found the ancient kingdom of Punt and Macrobia and the many wealthy cities throughout from the gulf of Aden to the coast of Kenya. If our ancestors could see us today they would be ashamed of us, weak and divided and most importantly forgetting their legacy. If more archeological work is funded and we begin digging up our past all across greater Somalia we might remember how great we could be.
Among the best stuff online
really well done, very interesting, thanks so much for this video!
LAAS GEEL 🐪
Thank you Rare Earth for your own explanation of the aim of the herdesmen to paint these eternal, beautiful, unique paintings on this hard Rock in Laas Geel thousands of years ago, depicting their daily life, way of life, their beliefs and philosophy on life.
Nice video thanks I have been to hargeisa many times but I didn't had chance to visit laas gaal next time I will make sure I visit laasgaal . Hopefully next year I will be in #somaliland#
"The point is not to be an artist, but to create art". Another stellar quote
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I love that the unnamed artists essentially immortalized their animals this way. If herding was their way of life, then they would have felt very strongly about their stock. Herd animals are more intelligent than they're given credit for and can have a *lot* of individual personality.
Who knows if honoring their animals was their intent, but it's certainly an effect!
Here is to you and your team in appreciation the vivid art you bare forth every Saturday.
the speeches you make are incredible
This channel makes me a better essay writer. Thank RARE EARTH for all these videos the style is perfect
So beautiful. Looks like Picaso or more like Joan Miro. Picasso is quoted as saying, or allegedly quoted as saying;
“We have invented nothing new”, after seeing the cave paintings at Lascaux France.
“After Altamira, all is decadence”, when he exited the infamous caves in his native Spain.
Curiously there are no official cited sources for Picasso to have ever uttered the above two quotes. When you research both quotes, you will find variants and subtle word changes, but essentially you can find numerous sources that redact these quotes. Whether he said something similar (or not) is not the point of my discussion and I am not about to challenge the quotes validity. His body of work in painting and sculpture does mirror the prehistoric cave images in some pieces. He possessed two reproductions of the, “Venus of Lespugue”, and is cited as saying the following:
“In reality, we know very little. What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man. I don’t think I’m wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the “stone age” were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The “stone age” ought to be called the “wood age.” How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now”.
Copyright notice: Excerpted from pages 92-102 of Conversations with Picasso by Brassaï, translated by Jane Marie Todd, published by the University of Chicago Press. ©1999 by the University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Originally published as Conversations avec Picasso text and photographs © Gilberte Brassai and Editions Gallimard, 1964, 1997.
So the argument that Picasso was only minimally influenced by prehistoric art is a realm of discourse that I dare not to tread in. Picasso was influenced by prehistoric art. He was a man of art and knew that prehistoric artisans would have created art from skin, fabric and wood. And these are the organic elements of art that unfortunately cannot be dug up by archeology-they are gone! So the theater of speculation and postulation is the only way to approach the subject. What did the Palaeolithic art, made from skin, fabric and wood resemble?
Spoken with the biases of an artist.
Perhaps simply a comfortable place to educate and plan. Ancient lecture board.
we have very similar rock painting s here in Botswana done by the san/bushmen they still live the same way you should spend some time with them and youll find your answer
Sorry to burst your bubble but the Dhaymoole cave painting and the Laas Geel rock art cave pai time also depict horses (something hunter gatherers never even knew about let alone draw), camels (again o ly pastoralists people like Skmalis would draw this)
Crucially, the Somali caves such as Dhaymoole and Laas Geel, among others, show depictions of an ancient 28 day calendar system and complex constellations of stars
Importantly there is also rock art drawings of a moon, a half moon and a rectangle with two intersecting lines, dividing it into 4 parts, there are also various drawings of a constellation of stars shows as a few stars drawn in a certain patter .. this is direct evidence of of an ancient neolithic calendar system that has 28 day cycles, dr Saada mire also worked with local Somali astrology experts and they managed to easily explain the rock art depicting the star constellations as show a well known existing star constellation
These findings from an archeological perspective are extremely interesting, the fact that we have evidence of a neolithic 28 day cycle calendar system and knowledge about complex star constellations dated to more than 5000 years ago..as well as the first depictions of sheep cows and even humans on horseback in the horn of africa and possibly all of africa
You san orKhoisan hunter gatherer cave paintings WILL NEVER EVER EVER show any ancient calendar systems especially a Somali cusbiric 28 day cycle calendar systemt in our rock art sites like Dhaymoole that show rock art drawings, they will also never show any drawings of actual constellations of stars, or horses etc
Our paintings are more advanced because our society was the first advanced pastoral society in east africa called proto Somalis proto Cushites descended from the Natufian levantine neolithic farmers
Reer somalilanders yey
Ciid wanagsan isaaq iyo daaroodoow hhh
@@DhammeMaxmoud iyo ciise gabooye fiqishini laylkase samaroon warsangali and many more I don't know we are somaliland...but yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey beautiful I am so happy our story is getting out slowly but surely and it is getting momentum everyday yeeeey
The most important archaeological site in Somaliland!
Great video again
Art is who we are.
These are works of art hanging on gallery
Somaland is a state that disengaged from Italian Somalia as Egypt and Syria dismantled the union between them and was the first part of Somalia liberated from colonialism in June 26, 1960 and recognized by many countries, but preferred unity with Italian Somalia, which took exploitation in July and after bitter fighting with the regime of Siad Barre Somaland dismantled its association with the south in 1991 and is still until now an independent, free and democratic state in which the peaceful transfer of power is safe from terrorist movements, piracy, Turkish foreign bases and others that It is teeming with the South and it is important for the nation
Thanks you Sada Mire you made Somalilanders proud 😊
The last minute in a way simply summarizes myself so feels comforting listening it from someone as yourself
Domesticated Leopards ...nothing to worry about there. Not so sure how I would feel even behind the camera.
Cheetah. It was super chill. Like a house cat.
Scott P it’s a Cheetah 😂
@@RareEarthSeries Aren't they endangered for extinction? Its still a wild animal quite capable of killing you in 2 mins if it decided to. If you mention Cheetah here in Atlanta it would mean a very different thing Atlanta is famous for (see if anyone knows)
I'll be the one to make the bad joke of the day... That wild cat will never be allowed in foot races because it's a Cheetah.
Scott P It’s a Somali cheetah, our ancestors used to have them as pets back a few thousand years 😂😂
Thanks rare earth.
Thank you prehistoric Picasso.
May your offspring prosper in peace.
“The point is not to be an artist. The point is to create art.” That’s a goooood one.
There's a bit in one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books that mentions a means of execution. A device (plugged into a fresh hot chip of tea) shows to you the staggering scale of the universe and it blows your mind so thoroughly that you're as well as dead.
This feels a little like that. A little like a mix of awe and being crushed at the idea of someone reaching out to us from centuries ago, someone who probably had no intention other than making something for the people around them, or maybe just themselves. And we can take so much information from it about the artist's surroundings, but nothing about the artist themselves.
A message in a bottle from so long ago has to mean something special, but also could reasonably mean nothing more than "I feel like expressing my surroundings".
Friking awsome
You just missed the Geography NOW! guys, they were just there too. Suddenly many TH-camrs and istagrammers i follow are going to Somali land
Come somaliland too it is one of the most securty places in africa i am somalilander i ready to wellcome you
Welcome to the most important country before 150 years ago in Africa and the most beautiful, peaceful countries in Africa .Come and see Laas geel, Zeila, Sanag and las'anod.
welcome in an open hands.
I'm going there tomorow
and on top of the gathering, and making of colour
she/he/they would also have to know that it needed
to be applied in a place away from the sun and wind
to survive into the future
for us to find and wonder at
Outstanding
Excellent video. May you never run short of "bribery khat".
Hadn't heard of it before, thanks. Enjoyed it :-)
5000 years ago: ABEBE! I told you to stop painting on the walls! Come here and do the dishes.
i live in hargaisa and iam an artist they are our ancestors. i think there genes are living with us.
Those people who made those art carvings are not ancestors of Somalis. Ancestors of Sonalis were in Sudan at this time.
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Stfu qadaadwayn
@@yahy5456 Tf did I do to you? Does reality hurt your feelings?
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You keep on saying what what when i call you jealous of Somaliland history because you are happy to give away somaliland history to the san people and trace us to sudan , when the statues that been found in Somaliland do not looklike anything like san (khosain) people who have round faces and small eyes asian like , when statues have long oval face and full lips and almond eyes and goaty beards , guess what somalis have all these features till this day even the dress code and all have nothing to do with san people you trying to force into somaliland ancient history .
Here a video of Somaliland meusem👇 .
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San people never settled in the north (somaliland) afroasiatic people were there way way back , lees geel is 9000 years bc and the statues in the video is proven by archaeology that it is older than ancient sudanis paintings which is between 6000bc to 4000 bc , las geel is between 9000bc to 5000bc that proves that it was punt when you add the stautes in the musuem that recently found in somaliland and punt is where the egyptions orginated from not other way around .
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History :
"Encyclopædia Britannica describes Punt as follows: “in ancient Egyptian and Greek geography, the southern coast of the Red Sea and adjacent coasts of the Gulf of Aden, corresponding to modern coastal Eritrea, Somalia and Djibouti ."/ In “The Making of Egypt” (1939). Petrie states that the Land of Punt was “sacred to the Egyptians as the source of their race.”
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In " Short History of the Egyptian People", by E. A. Wallis Budge. Budge stated that “Egyptian tradition of the Dynastic Period held that the aboriginal home of the Egyptians was Punt…”
« Again the representations of the early Puntites, or Somali people, on the Egyptian monuments, show striking resemblances to the Egyptians themselves. » By Brian Brown New York: Brentano's[1923]/ We can understand theses Similarities through their ancestral history :
According to the historian Richard Pankhurst :"""The Egyptians sometimes called Punt land Ta-Netjeru, meaning "Land of the Gods," and considered it their place of origin ." (Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopian Borderlands:1997)
Punt was Somalia the northern part of it , some people like to dance around the issue but your eyes are your witness , I won't just type but i'll show you our own puntite culture with maps and ancient statues .
Punt :
It wasn't nubia because nubia is very close to luxor where queen Hatshepsut sailed from and where her paintings are , its not possible she sailed from luxor to nubia , because luxor is in south of egypt and nubia in the Sudan egypt border (Wadi halfa north and dongula south) they could reach it by horses or comles or even donkey its that close , its foolish to say they sailed to وادي حلفا wadi halfa .
its funny when they go far from the truth by saying its in Lebanon because the egyptions sailed south to punt not north as Lebanon is located north of egypt , some also say its in Sri Lanka (How funny ) , punt was in parts of modern day Eritera, northern Somalia, Dijibouti, north east of Ethiopia (horn of africa) and maybe parts of southern yemen.
**And guess what all these countries that mentioned with somalia has no phaoronic statues like the one in somaliland museum , except Eritera that have baboon statue not a phaoronic but a baboon .
I have egyption governmental maps that pionting out somaliland and puntland as punt and it is an old one that western historian published but i do not know how to post it here.
love yall
Thank you for another great video.
Thank you very much for sharing this beauty with us .
this was wonderfully profound Evan
This channel is amazing,it isn't well put in words, but it is fantastic
Save Nature Cultures Civilizations 🙏
Thanks for your filming i am from somaliland and i am very proud of it to see my country to learn more poeple life in the world
Bang!
Finally something amazing from rare earth far from politics
I dig your videos and wish you well! Keep it up!!
I hope you're enjoying Somaliland. It's nice to know that at least *one* country in the world has managed to pull itself together. With practically no foreign support, it has become one of only two functional democracies in the Arab World, along with Tunisia.
*Its not Arabic.
@@thetruthSL it depends on the metric. The Arab ethnic group is defined solely by the Arabic Language, and in Somaliland, Arabic has been the language of culture and learning for centuries, and is one of two constitutional official languages. It is and Arab country as much as Francophone Africa is Francophone, and as the Dutch Caribbean is Dutch.
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Nope we are not Arabs , we are puntites and cushites combined, and the offical language in Somaliland is somali unlike tunisia , plus we learn arabic as a subject in schools for religious porpsess.
Apple Islander we’re not Arabs and will never be
Freaking awesome.
You should go to Zelia next. Their is a lot of ruined structures dating back to the Adal Sultanate, Ifat Sultanate, ruined Islamic towns, and a Musjid that was built after the haaj to the Horn of Africa in the 7th century ad.
Cool
Great.
🤔Curious as to why to assert around 2:50 that they deliberately sought out the sight for its preservative qualities; isn’t it just as likely they were one of many doing this, but happened to paint on a forgiving/stable surface?
these ancient people were the youtubers of the past
Amazing!
Has any archaeological excavation taken place around those sites? It would be interesting to see if they were common stopping points: read a comment saying that's the site's name ment a form of watering hole. Times may change but people never really do: we always like to decorate our abodes, places of worship, and ritual sites.
And to be fair... we wouldn't really know if they truly sought protected locations to paint: the unprotected sites would never have survived.
And as for pigments, red soil, charcoal, ash, limestone and such are fairly readily availible and have been used to adorn people (primitive forms of makeup) and could have been used on the rock as an extension of that art form: not to diminish the site or the effort involved.
Laas-Geel code!
@ rareearth I watch every single episode for something I can criticize to, I hate to admit so far so good. Keep it up mate .
I am proud to say not only am I somali but cushitic. The oldest civilisation known to man. Make Somali Civilisation Great Again!
? Sumer in Iraq is the oldest civilization. Earliest Cushitic civilization is from 2500 BC in Sudan.
@@ogolow570 humanity is from Africa not middle east 🙈
This was a great video, however I feel it needed to detail the rock paintings better, via some sort of subtle video overlay that highlighted the shapes and colours of these paintings, to then give us a better understanding of what we were seeing.
I've watched dr Saada Mire videos on these neolithic cave rock art
In sum, they show a variety of images with sheep coloured in red, and also coloured in white, giraffes, cows again coloured in red and also in white, dogs next to humans, horses, and other wildlife..the rock art also shows the humans in some instances touching the cows and sheep maybe to show that they were milking them or interacting with them for any reason such as healing an injury a wound applying some herbal medicine on the animal etc..it just shows the humans touching the cows and sheep sometimes
Crucially, it also shows the human figures raising their hands next to the cows, this may indicate some local religion at the time more than 5000 years ago, either worshipping the cows as their source of food and other items (meat and milk, yoghurt, butter in the form of ghee, hides etc)..lowland eastern Cushites including Somalis worshipped a monotheistic preislamic prechristian prejewish sky God religion called Waaq, so those human depictions on the caves raising their hands could also be interpreted to thanking Waaq the sky god for his sustenance and provision of bounty ...it certainly shows some form of worship and prayer
Importantly there is also rock art drawings of a moon, a half moon and a rectangle with two intersecting lines, dividing it into 4 parts, there are also various drawings of a constellation of stars shows as a few stars drawn in a certain patter .. this is direct evidence of of an ancient neolithic calendar system that has 28 day cycles, dr Saada mire also worked with local Somali astrology experts and they managed to easily explain the rock art depicting the star constellations as show a well known existing star constellation
These findings from an archeological perspective are extremely interesting, the fact that we have evidence of a neolithic 28 day cycle calendar system and knowledge about complex star constellations dated to more than 5000 years ago..as well as the first depictions of sheep cows and even humans on horseback in the horn of africa and possibly all of africa
Very interesting indeed
Long time viewer and big fan. When your opening monologue ends with "they came to paint laas geel" I feel like you looking away was somewhat awkward. Like the camera could've panned to a portion of the sight, or you could've kept looking at the camera, or I don't care if you even did like how vannah white would show prizes on wheel of Fortune.... But it felt like weird. Idk
Thanks. Soon maybe I'll be able to donate I'm currently on a strict diet of Costco chicken and vegetables until I can make more money.
I want to buy the picture of the gun shooting the plant!!
this was beautiful, thank you
My country Somaliland ... laas geel
Louvre.
As an archaeologist and a human, "selecting the location that would preserver them." um, you're survivor bias is showing; you're ignoring all of the art that was drawn on the rocks that have been eroded away. (Still a lovely video of a location worth recording.)
Laasgeel .. Somaliland
9.000 yrs old rock
Thanks you Rare Earth, i Recommended u to Visit This Place on ur Last video About Somaliland, You are The best of the best TH-camrs out there, Only genius people understand ur videos and u Are one of em. thanks u again.
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