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I would contact Praveen Mohan and team to explore this area. Ukraine does have names that sound like Indian/Hindu languages. Definitely there is some past correlation to Hinduism/Zorastrianism etc.
Yea, we,us,they? Had Mound Builders in ohio...sure we said back in the 19th century they made these mounds with nude people that moved soil with lil baskets like Longerber baskets or a d_9 Catappler thing.. Oh shue mo:e a mountain it was easy back then when star forts dotted the world.😢
Oh, I visited Kam'yana Mogyla (Stone Tomb) as a kid as a part of a school trip. It was very enlightening. It's fascinating to understand that people have been living there for thousands of years, they had theirs own lives and culture there and it was probably the first time I had an opportunity to physically feel how long humanity existed. Just fascinating
I had the same feeling visiting Syracuse, Sicily, Italy. The tomb of Archimedes is literally behind a chain link fence, a dozen meters beside the road.
I had that feeling a few years ago when we visited Scara Brae and the many stone circles and other signs of Neolithic life. We happened to be there on a day with no other tourists and I could almost feel those ancient people there on the other side of a thin curtain
Thank you so much for this video! I’ve visited Kamyana Mohyla/ Stone Tomb in 2021. That is a beautiful place, full of signs from different era and people. Bought many books in a souvenir shop, and a little stelae even, which is now travelling with me. Now Mohyla occupied and who knows what was done to complex and museum. For Kherson region museums occupation was horrible. Please make a video about it, If you have a time❤
How disappointing that most of the kurgans in Ukraine (c.100 out of 129) were destroyed -- including their burials and artefacts -- during the Soviet era. In Britain, most of our own Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic structures were likewise damaged or destroyed before they could be properly excavated.
You do realise the German army marched all across this area, virtually levelling it. They would have done far more damage than soviets, given that Ukraine itself was a founding member of the soviet union, and the country in these regions were left as agricultural areas...
@@vanrensburgsgesicht That wouldn't surprise me. In terms of stone circles I've read at least 800 are known from Britain but only around a quarter are intact or near-intact. Farming tended to remove many megaliths, with some of the best sites remaining in poor soil areas with historically low population densities. Some menhirs were adopted within Christian church precincts which may have allowed the giant Rudstone monolith to survive, for instance. Famously, many of the prehistoric stones were undercut and broken up for walling. The mediaeval Avebury 'Barber Surgeon's' skeleton found squashed under a stone was likely involved in trying to undermine it for removal. Many ancients clearly didn't respect these enigmatic monuments as much as we do today.
No, the German army didn't systematically destroy tens of thousands of barrows. Why and how would they do that? Even driving tanks over them wouldn't do it. It was Soviet farming that destroyed them, as I explained.
Wow, 75% ploughed over! Criminal! I remember reading about what's thought to be a temple in Ukraine which was made into a public park after its excavation by the Soviets. Made out of clay, not much now survives & it looks no more than 10' clay mounds now. Photos from the 1950s show that it was a well made complex originally.Thanks Dan, I've been interested in these cultures for a while now & you still add greatly to my small knowledge. A video about the Stone Tomb Complex would be very welcome cheers
Dan, I greatly enjoy all of your videos - they are interesting and highly informative. I am a student of Ancient History. However, there is not much info available on the Steppe Cultures of Eastern Europe, but your excellent and well-researched videos help fill in this gap. Yes! I would look forward to seeing a full video on the stone grave complex. Keep up the good work in educating your viewers about the magnificent Stone Age, Copper and Bronze Age cultures and civilizations of the European Steppes.
Can you do a video about Lysivka Hill? It's a historical site in Ukraine that has been used for centuries by various cultures following each other from Scythians to Cossacks. It was sold and is now in danger of being mined for rubble. Imagine that! People must raise awareness about this.
Excellent work Dan. Plenty of data & minimal fluff. Curious how similar these mounds are to the over 100,000 mounds in North America. Too bad so many were destroyed. In America, the flattop mounds typically had pole structures on them, and the conical mounds served for burials. I wrote a fiction book, "Spirit Arrow", and a subsequent study, resulting in my "Ancient Native American Art & Culture" series here, and Rumble. I cannot present a link, but one of interest is "The Demise of the Hopewell & Mississippian Cultures Mystery". I wonder what the climate was like in Ukraine 4000 years ago?
I really appreciate that final comment of "I wouldn't say that necessarily follows" regarding it being a state level society, it's like the opposite of when pseudo-archeologists take one thing that maybe points to another and they run with it. You can tell that you genuinely take care not to mislead people
Dan Davis: SO MANY people have responded to your question at 10:29, and are asking for a full video on that stone tomb complex, that is mentioned by you at 10:29, meaning the one that is formed by natural limestone slabs, and is 20k from the kurgan complex that is mentioned both 1st and last in the video. PLEASE do it Dan ! ! ! ❤❤❤
Yes, would love a video on the stone tomb complex, Dan. Thank you for this very interesting and enjoyable video on the mysterious temple of prehistoric Ukraine.
An important feature and important reason for this region being exporting cultures was that hard winds covered the surfaces with fertile black soil - not sand! So the region "kept itself green" instead of ending up as a desert.
Another fascinating video Dan. I would be very interested in learning more about the stone tomb complex. Please consider doing a full video on it. I was unaware that the Soviets had destroyed so many of the mounds. Very sad to learn of so much cultural destruction.
So many in mass graves for US global hegemony and their military industrial complex -- and there'd be no conflict in the first place without Washington's interference.
Your analysis of the evidence and ensuing speculations about this mound are very measured and academic. You also have class. Other channels immediately ask viewers to like and subscribe, but you ask it at the end. That is cool.
Thank you Dan! And thanks for posting that link, my feed did not show me this yesterday and I was driving the family all day. Love your work! Merry Christmas happy new year!
Awesome.. this is JUST what I needed today! Thanks Dan! You’re the best.. happy holidays to you! ATB 😊 I’ve got something excellent to watch while beading up the last few gifts 😅 lol
I would like to see a video about the stone tomb complex too. The idea of a ritual site being in use from possibly the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages sounds intriguing - even if it wasn't obviously in continuous use during that period. Great video again!
A key factor contributing to this region's cultural export was its fertile black soil, deposited by strong winds instead of sand. This prevented desertification and maintained a lush environment.
Britain has an artificial flat topped mound in Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, from a similar time frame. When the ground around it floods in the rain it appears as a conical island. when built it had ramps, now filled in, though one of which is still visible leading to the flat summit. It's unlikely this was connected to the Ukraine site but could denote similar thought processes from a society with similar level of development.
This structure is located on the top of the plateau, so, likely, bolts of lightning strike there often in summer. This supports the idea the place was dedicated to the god of lightning.
In an age where youtube is increasingly full of regurgitated crap your stuff stands out man thank you for staying the course and for your amazing work.
Over here in Finland, burial mounds were made from piles of stones molded by the retreating Ice Age glaciers. In fact, the most impressive monuments here are all carved by the expansion and contraction of Ice Age ice.
@13:00 Lithuanian here. Perkūnas is one of main old pagan Baltic deities. Till now we call thunderstorm- perkūnija- a word as common as any other. I wonder how many hundreds of years this name goes back and where it originates.
13 is interesting , the church tried to make it an unlucky number but people are drawn to it, 13roads is interesting too, 13 months of 28 days , this is a very interesting video.
The cabal tried to make it an unlucky number; one of their heroes, Jacques Demolay, was killed on a Friday the 13th. More like an international celebration day if you ask me.
Can't believe you didn't even mention how Colonel Zim, the last Kurgan, killed James Bond and then went on a rampage for over 400 years before he was finally killed by Raiden from Mortal Kombat Congrats to both of you who know what I'm talking about
Fortunately some of these sites are quite distant from the frontlines. Just imagine if the war would eventually destroy these unique sites... we will lose important informations about our specie's past.
In addition to being ritual monuments they would have also served as navigation aids on an otherwise featurles lanscape. Basically islands in the steppe. Mr Khan would have used them during his tour of Europe.
That's definitely a Thracian Tomb there are many of them in Thrace. The northern Thracian tribes were the most skilled horsmen like all Thracians but they were more nomadic because they lived in the steppe and some of them reached Iran and South Asia where they established the Vedic culture. Thr Amazons were such Northern Thracians often called Scythians.
It is very important to mention about the similarity of the mound`s structure and the rosette of the medieval Bulgarian rosette stone carving in the medieval capital of Bulgaria,Pliska (close to the modern day city of Sumen) The rosette was carved on a stone column in the main temple of the ancient city.The rosette is identically the same as this mound and every side of it represents spirit,mind,body and in the center lies the symbol of the Dulo clan ( IYI ) Little is known about the history of the ancient Bulgars and whatever is found in ancient text continues to be unresearched and suppressed by media and scientists.Old Great Bulgaria had its borders much farther than where this mound is located,and its place is really close to the old capital of the state (Phanagoria) I think the sarmatians and the scythians were the ancestors of my proto bulgar predecessors
there're mounds (sacral construction) represented orion's belt and kurhans (tombs) dedicated for chosen people - we have many mounds here in poland ("ukraine" is just part of them taken by soviets),each important grod (castle,town) or grod built to protect sacred place (sanctuary) had own system of similar mounds,which once connected looks like orion's belt,some surived,some have been destroyed by austrians and prussians,while industrial era like in germany,some might be abandoned,but better to keep them hidden as might be destroy by looters (no treasure inside,but many had been destroyed by thieves as well)
Oh this site is so cool. Maybe I missed it, but were there no connections made between the thirteen embankments and the thirteen constellations of the zodiac?
I agree with the watch tower suggestion. A people need to defend themselves, and signal towers were a common thing in the era. Having defensive watch towers over burial grounds: protects the buried, and allows the spotter to work with and for the spirits of their ancestors.
I’m half way though this one Dan and I’m totally diggin’ it. YES on stone tomb mound idea for a video, please =] I’m fallowing g the war in Ukrain pretty closely and I love that several of your films are about prehistory in that region. Fascinating!!! 🌊🌊🏄♀️🏄♂️
I was afraid that this site, since it is close to the front lines, might be endangered. A local told me, that it indeed is at least damaged and maybe destroyed by fighting and trenches. Hope things can be recovered and that the worst of humanity stops doing stupid things.
Very interesting these artificial steppe-hills, Thank you. - Ever looked into the old Hungarian crowning-ritual last performed for FJII in Bratislava? Each comitat was assigned to bring a cartload of earth to form a hill that would be fortified with ramps, so the newly 'elected' & crowned king could ride his horse up there and swing the sword into all directions as a symbolic gesture of defending all his people from enemies coming from all directions. For a ... let's call him a Khan or Khagan or Rheigon it would make a lot of sense doing this on your forefathers or predecessors graves. But if you start out new in a new region with a new dynasty... you build a new hill. The hungarian crowning and the graves were relocated into a church with St. Stephen converting, and the electing and proclaiming happened elsewhere, too, only the mound remained of the old 'steppe-ritual'.
Newgrange is the oldest & probably the most impressive especially architecturally & engineering genius of it in Ireland, didn't get a mention but stonehenge a stone circle Not a tomb is there,fascinating video i would love to see more on these Ukrainian tombs& hope they survive to be excavated properly
13 is the ancient reckoning of months. 7 days per week. 4 weeks per month. 13 months = 364 days. this reckoning has the benefit of regularity and lunar alignment.
I showed it on Google maps didn't I, in terrain and satellite view. There's no ground level view of the area and there's nothing to see anyway, the mound was destroyed by the excavation.
The carved stellia are reminiscent of the Gobleki Tepe stone ‘T’ pillar anthropomorphic carvings and burial masks are also similar. It’s not really all that far away either. *Yes, a video of the stone complex would be cool.
They're mostly written by Ukrainians writing in English, or are translated into English, and some I translated myself using optical character translation.
Brilliant. It was so interesting seeing the different layers and how the structure changed over time. I wonder if the changes represent a change in deities or how they worshipped.
Awesome video.... great research and overview. Certianly an interesting culture, burial mounds are rare but u can find em everywhere..... native americans had a bunch that were also destroyed in like ohio region. Pretty sad. The thunder god u mentioned has similar name to CErnunos the forest god with deer antlers, but reminds me of possibly Varuna or Indra from indian religion for their association with thunder lightning storm oceans and the thunderbolt weapon. And I think there might be more with that Donets culture. There is a similar name scheme with Donets, like a Torus or Taruas the bull which was a popular sumbol then. Daurus or Tonets.. hmm i dunno. But yea, the geometry of these mounds an dhow they were built.... the prcise way their ancestors were buried including body aligninment.... all seem connected.
It's always a bummer to hear that so many mounds that survived for thousands of years were unceremoniously and abrubtly destroyed. I wonder how much more we'd know today about these cultures.
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All that Bulgarian -trace culture and in Provadia salt -mine is a similar after in trace valay of trace kings are also similar.
Please talk about Cahokia and the mound building culture of pre contact north America
Are you books ever going to be back on audible?
I would contact Praveen Mohan and team to explore this area. Ukraine does have names that sound like Indian/Hindu languages. Definitely there is some past correlation to Hinduism/Zorastrianism etc.
Yea, we,us,they? Had Mound Builders in ohio...sure we said back in the 19th century they made these mounds with nude people that moved soil with lil baskets like Longerber baskets or a d_9 Catappler thing..
Oh shue mo:e a mountain it was easy back then when star forts dotted the world.😢
I am interested in a full video about the stone tomb complex, that sounds awesome
It's an interesting site. Would love to visit but unfortunately it is a war zone now.
@@DanDavisHistory time for a gun tuber crossover episode.
i second that. full video about the Stone Toomb Complex, yes please.
Absolutely agree. ☝🏻🙏🏻
Oh, I visited Kam'yana Mogyla (Stone Tomb) as a kid as a part of a school trip. It was very enlightening. It's fascinating to understand that people have been living there for thousands of years, they had theirs own lives and culture there and it was probably the first time I had an opportunity to physically feel how long humanity existed. Just fascinating
I had the same feeling visiting Syracuse, Sicily, Italy. The tomb of Archimedes is literally behind a chain link fence, a dozen meters beside the road.
I had that feeling a few years ago when we visited Scara Brae and the many stone circles and other signs of Neolithic life. We happened to be there on a day with no other tourists and I could almost feel those ancient people there on the other side of a thin curtain
Камена могила! На български език.
Dan, please tell us more about the Stone Tomb (Kamennaya Mohyla) site. It looks truly fascinating according to what I could find online.
Thank you so much for this video!
I’ve visited Kamyana Mohyla/ Stone Tomb in 2021. That is a beautiful place, full of signs from different era and people. Bought many books in a souvenir shop, and a little stelae even, which is now travelling with me.
Now Mohyla occupied and who knows what was done to complex and museum. For Kherson region museums occupation was horrible.
Please make a video about it, If you have a time❤
Yes, a video please on the stone grave mound.
Yes to the stone tum complex
How disappointing that most of the kurgans in Ukraine (c.100 out of 129) were destroyed -- including their burials and artefacts -- during the Soviet era. In Britain, most of our own Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic structures were likewise damaged or destroyed before they could be properly excavated.
That's "progress" for ya...
You do realise the German army marched all across this area, virtually levelling it. They would have done far more damage than soviets, given that Ukraine itself was a founding member of the soviet union, and the country in these regions were left as agricultural areas...
I've heard around 90% of megalithic structures in northern Germany were destroyed, mostly after the invention of dynamite.
@@vanrensburgsgesicht That wouldn't surprise me. In terms of stone circles I've read at least 800 are known from Britain but only around a quarter are intact or near-intact. Farming tended to remove many megaliths, with some of the best sites remaining in poor soil areas with historically low population densities. Some menhirs were adopted within Christian church precincts which may have allowed the giant Rudstone monolith to survive, for instance. Famously, many of the prehistoric stones were undercut and broken up for walling. The mediaeval Avebury 'Barber Surgeon's' skeleton found squashed under a stone was likely involved in trying to undermine it for removal. Many ancients clearly didn't respect these enigmatic monuments as much as we do today.
No, the German army didn't systematically destroy tens of thousands of barrows. Why and how would they do that? Even driving tanks over them wouldn't do it. It was Soviet farming that destroyed them, as I explained.
Stone tomb complex bump. Thanks for what you do Dan. Another great video.
Wow, 75% ploughed over! Criminal! I remember reading about what's thought to be a temple in Ukraine which was made into a public park after its excavation by the Soviets. Made out of clay, not much now survives & it looks no more than 10' clay mounds now. Photos from the 1950s show that it was a well made complex originally.Thanks Dan, I've been interested in these cultures for a while now & you still add greatly to my small knowledge. A video about the Stone Tomb Complex would be very welcome cheers
Dan, I greatly enjoy all of your videos - they are interesting and highly informative. I am a student of Ancient History. However, there is not much info available on the Steppe Cultures of Eastern Europe, but your excellent and well-researched videos help fill in this gap. Yes! I would look forward to seeing a full video on the stone grave complex. Keep up the good work in educating your viewers about the magnificent Stone Age, Copper and Bronze Age cultures and civilizations of the European Steppes.
Can you do a video about Lysivka Hill? It's a historical site in Ukraine that has been used for centuries by various cultures following each other from Scythians to Cossacks. It was sold and is now in danger of being mined for rubble. Imagine that! People must raise awareness about this.
dude I am so interested in the stone tomb complex. Another awesome Vid Dan. Thank you for making these.
Excellent work Dan. Plenty of data & minimal fluff. Curious how similar these mounds are to the over 100,000 mounds in North America. Too bad so many were destroyed. In America, the flattop mounds typically had pole structures on them, and the conical mounds served for burials. I wrote a fiction book, "Spirit Arrow", and a subsequent study, resulting in my "Ancient Native American Art & Culture" series here, and Rumble. I cannot present a link, but one of interest is "The Demise of the Hopewell & Mississippian Cultures Mystery". I wonder what the climate was like in Ukraine 4000 years ago?
Wow very nice class. Merry Christmas & happy new year.
Tack!
Thank you very much indeed.
New episode! Thanks for the early Christmas present
I really appreciate that final comment of "I wouldn't say that necessarily follows" regarding it being a state level society, it's like the opposite of when pseudo-archeologists take one thing that maybe points to another and they run with it. You can tell that you genuinely take care not to mislead people
Thank you.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. The information I get is better than anything on television, period.
Dan Davis: SO MANY people have responded to your question at 10:29, and are asking for a full video on that stone tomb complex, that is mentioned by you at 10:29, meaning the one that is formed by natural limestone slabs, and is 20k from the kurgan complex that is mentioned both 1st and last in the video. PLEASE do it Dan ! ! ! ❤❤❤
Yes, would love a video on the stone tomb complex, Dan. Thank you for this very interesting and enjoyable video on the mysterious temple of prehistoric Ukraine.
I enjoyed hearing about this. It was all new to me . Thanks
An important feature and important reason for this region being exporting cultures was that hard winds covered the surfaces with fertile black soil - not sand! So the region "kept itself green" instead of ending up as a desert.
Huge Appreciation for your Passionate Sharing😊😊😊
Another fascinating video Dan. I would be very interested in learning more about the stone tomb complex. Please consider doing a full video on it. I was unaware that the Soviets had destroyed so many of the mounds. Very sad to learn of so much cultural destruction.
I jump to your videos when they come out. I would love it if you did a series on ancient North and Central America.
The area now known as Ukraine has given us so much. 😊
SLAVA UKRAINI ! ! ! 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦
So many in mass graves for US global hegemony and their military industrial complex -- and there'd be no conflict in the first place without Washington's interference.
Borderland? 🤔
In the future people will ask “ really there used to be a country called Ukraine”, sadly.
If you mean debt, then yes, they have.
Your analysis of the evidence and ensuing speculations about this mound are very measured and academic. You also have class. Other channels immediately ask viewers to like and subscribe, but you ask it at the end. That is cool.
Thank you very much 🙏
Thank you for this fascinating information about archaeology in Ukraine (my ancestral homeland).
Christmas come early this year 😊
An episode about the stone mound tomb would be mych appreciated.
I'm really "digging" the mound builder related videos😮
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
Yes, please do a video on the stone mound.
I'd never heard of this! Thank you for sharing.
Another video from Dan Davis. Merry Christmas to you too, Dan :)
Stone tomb complex sounds fascinating.
Yes we would love a video on Stone grave mound. Merry christmas and thank you for all the videos
I know you focus on Bronze Age Europe, but videos in your style would be incredible about Cahokia, Spiro, and the Mississippian world as a whole
Thank you Dan! And thanks for posting that link, my feed did not show me this yesterday and I was driving the family all day. Love your work! Merry Christmas happy new year!
Definitely want a full episode on the stone temple complex!
Awesome.. this is JUST what I needed today! Thanks Dan! You’re the best.. happy holidays to you! ATB 😊
I’ve got something excellent to watch while beading up the last few gifts 😅 lol
Yes, please make a video of the Stone Tomb complex..
I would like to see a video about the stone tomb complex too. The idea of a ritual site being in use from possibly the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages sounds intriguing - even if it wasn't obviously in continuous use during that period.
Great video again!
A key factor contributing to this region's cultural export was its fertile black soil, deposited by strong winds instead of sand. This prevented desertification and maintained a lush environment.
Thanks for this
Britain has an artificial flat topped mound in Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, from a similar time frame. When the ground around it floods in the rain it appears as a conical island. when built it had ramps, now filled in, though one of which is still visible leading to the flat summit. It's unlikely this was connected to the Ukraine site but could denote similar thought processes from a society with similar level of development.
This structure is located on the top of the plateau, so, likely, bolts of lightning strike there often in summer. This supports the idea the place was dedicated to the god of lightning.
Stone tomb complex please. Fascinating stuff.
In an age where youtube is increasingly full of regurgitated crap your stuff stands out man thank you for staying the course and for your amazing work.
Thanks mate, great work on this sone. Happy holidays to you and yours.
Thank you for this. I also like that you do go into wild theories.
Over here in Finland, burial mounds were made from piles of stones molded by the retreating Ice Age glaciers. In fact, the most impressive monuments here are all carved by the expansion and contraction of Ice Age ice.
@13:00 Lithuanian here. Perkūnas is one of main old pagan Baltic deities. Till now we call thunderstorm- perkūnija- a word as common as any other. I wonder how many hundreds of years this name goes back and where it originates.
Stone tomb complex video, 'yes' !
SWEET ! Thank you. Merry Christmas !
Video on Stone Grave Mound would be a great endeavor☆☆☆☆☆
It would be very interesting to see a video about the Stone tomb complex, thank you 😊 Great video, and Greetings from Denmark 😊
13 is interesting , the church tried to make it an unlucky number but people are drawn to it, 13roads is interesting too, 13 months of 28 days , this is a very interesting video.
The cabal tried to make it an unlucky number; one of their heroes, Jacques Demolay, was killed on a Friday the 13th. More like an international celebration day if you ask me.
Thank you for this video 👍👍
Can't believe you didn't even mention how Colonel Zim, the last Kurgan, killed James Bond and then went on a rampage for over 400 years before he was finally killed by Raiden from Mortal Kombat
Congrats to both of you who know what I'm talking about
Read a book
@@exterminans watch something besides capeshit
Fortunately some of these sites are quite distant from the frontlines.
Just imagine if the war would eventually destroy these unique sites... we will lose important informations about our specie's past.
In addition to being ritual monuments they would have also served as navigation aids on an otherwise featurles lanscape. Basically islands in the steppe.
Mr Khan would have used them during his tour of Europe.
That's definitely a Thracian Tomb there are many of them in Thrace. The northern Thracian tribes were the most skilled horsmen like all Thracians but they were more nomadic because they lived in the steppe and some of them reached Iran and South Asia where they established the Vedic culture. Thr Amazons were such Northern Thracians often called Scythians.
It is very important to mention about the similarity of the mound`s structure and the rosette of the medieval Bulgarian rosette stone carving in the medieval capital of Bulgaria,Pliska (close to the modern day city of Sumen) The rosette was carved on a stone column in the main temple of the ancient city.The rosette is identically the same as this mound and every side of it represents spirit,mind,body and in the center lies the symbol of the Dulo clan ( IYI ) Little is known about the history of the ancient Bulgars and whatever is found in ancient text continues to be unresearched and suppressed by media and scientists.Old Great Bulgaria had its borders much farther than where this mound is located,and its place is really close to the old capital of the state (Phanagoria)
I think the sarmatians and the scythians were the ancestors of my proto bulgar predecessors
It's great to learn the history of the steppes after the Yamnaya migrated out.
Thanks,very good job! The catacomb culture building the kurgans?
When you going to get Clancy Brown to narrate one of your Kurgan vids? 🤔😱😂🤣
Hello pretty 😂
@@dotdashdotdash I'm a dude, Mr. Immortal. 🙄
Fascinating! It's a shame so many of the sites were razed, we could have learned so much from them.
there're mounds (sacral construction) represented orion's belt and kurhans (tombs) dedicated for chosen people - we have many mounds here in poland ("ukraine" is just part of them taken by soviets),each important grod (castle,town) or grod built to protect sacred place (sanctuary) had own system of similar mounds,which once connected looks like orion's belt,some surived,some have been destroyed by austrians and prussians,while industrial era like in germany,some might be abandoned,but better to keep them hidden as might be destroy by looters (no treasure inside,but many had been destroyed by thieves as well)
This was interesting.
You certainly weren't joking when you wrote "Stick with me ,it's complicated "!❤
Oh this site is so cool. Maybe I missed it, but were there no connections made between the thirteen embankments and the thirteen constellations of the zodiac?
I agree with the watch tower suggestion. A people need to defend themselves, and signal towers were a common thing in the era. Having defensive watch towers over burial grounds: protects the buried, and allows the spotter to work with and for the spirits of their ancestors.
It could be a type of ritual calendar since there are 13 moons (months) in a natural year.
A video on the stone tomb complex sounds amazing. Thanks for this video, it was very informative and I enjoyed it!
Yes please to the a video on the stone tomb complex. Great video once again! Thanks for another fascinating video!
Yes to the stone burial mound complex video, please.
I’m half way though this one Dan and I’m totally diggin’ it. YES on stone tomb mound idea for a video, please =] I’m fallowing g the war in Ukrain pretty closely and I love that several of your films are about prehistory in that region. Fascinating!!!
🌊🌊🏄♀️🏄♂️
I was afraid that this site, since it is close to the front lines, might be endangered. A local told me, that it indeed is at least damaged and maybe destroyed by fighting and trenches. Hope things can be recovered and that the worst of humanity stops doing stupid things.
Very interesting these artificial steppe-hills, Thank you.
- Ever looked into the old Hungarian crowning-ritual last performed for FJII in Bratislava? Each comitat was assigned to bring a cartload of earth to form a hill that would be fortified with ramps, so the newly 'elected' & crowned king could ride his horse up there and swing the sword into all directions as a symbolic gesture of defending all his people from enemies coming from all directions. For a ... let's call him a Khan or Khagan or Rheigon it would make a lot of sense doing this on your forefathers or predecessors graves. But if you start out new in a new region with a new dynasty... you build a new hill.
The hungarian crowning and the graves were relocated into a church with St. Stephen converting, and the electing and proclaiming happened elsewhere, too, only the mound remained of the old 'steppe-ritual'.
Wow, thank you ❤
Awsome 😍
Newgrange is the oldest & probably the most impressive especially architecturally & engineering genius of it in Ireland, didn't get a mention but stonehenge a stone circle Not a tomb is there,fascinating video i would love to see more on these Ukrainian tombs& hope they survive to be excavated properly
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Thank you very much 🙏
13 is the ancient reckoning of months. 7 days per week. 4 weeks per month. 13 months = 364 days. this reckoning has the benefit of regularity and lunar alignment.
Thank you Dan
Stone Tomb Complex? I’m all in!
I think a cool touch would’ve been to use Google Maps or Google Earth to find it so that we can see a real life image
I showed it on Google maps didn't I, in terrain and satellite view. There's no ground level view of the area and there's nothing to see anyway, the mound was destroyed by the excavation.
13 roads, 13, ramps, down to one with a mound covered in bones and ashes?
Sounds like one clan won the bet
" The Thirteenth Tribe" comes to mind, no doubt.
There were so many of these around my home
Nice! An early Christmas gift from Dan Davis!
Hallelujah!!
Finally! ❤
Apologies, we've all been rather ill in sequence in the Davis household this month, including me. All steam ahead again now though.
I think the mounds were the dew retting sites for extraction of the threads from the straw, flax straw into linen.
Interisting toping. Hmmm and here some more words i m not sure for what they are😅
The carved stellia are reminiscent of the Gobleki Tepe stone ‘T’ pillar anthropomorphic carvings and burial masks are also similar. It’s not really all that far away either.
*Yes, a video of the stone complex would be cool.
Very interesting as usual. I noticed the poor english of some of the texts. Explanation?
They're mostly written by Ukrainians writing in English, or are translated into English, and some I translated myself using optical character translation.
Brilliant. It was so interesting seeing the different layers and how the structure changed over time. I wonder if the changes represent a change in deities or how they worshipped.
Another outstanding video from Dan. Yes, do please do another on the cave site. Fascinating work- thank you again.
Awesome video.... great research and overview. Certianly an interesting culture, burial mounds are rare but u can find em everywhere..... native americans had a bunch that were also destroyed in like ohio region. Pretty sad. The thunder god u mentioned has similar name to CErnunos the forest god with deer antlers, but reminds me of possibly Varuna or Indra from indian religion for their association with thunder lightning storm oceans and the thunderbolt weapon.
And I think there might be more with that Donets culture. There is a similar name scheme with Donets, like a Torus or Taruas the bull which was a popular sumbol then. Daurus or Tonets.. hmm i dunno. But yea, the geometry of these mounds an dhow they were built.... the prcise way their ancestors were buried including body aligninment.... all seem connected.
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Please do make a video about the stone tomb complex, but I'd also gladly see a video about the connections between Catacomb Culture and Myceaneans
On one hand, I'm sad that so much has been lost.
On the other hand, I'm grateful for what was preserved, and what we can learn from it.
Russia is waging war against Ukraine. Even greater losses are ahead if Russia is not stopped.
It's always a bummer to hear that so many mounds that survived for thousands of years were unceremoniously and abrubtly destroyed. I wonder how much more we'd know today about these cultures.