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  1. When I see the Venus figurines I see a representation of a woman that has birthed several children. This seems consistent with the belief that fertility is what was being venerated with the figurines. One can only imagine why this was done but it's not hard to imagine that in a world where life was harsh and probably short, the women who brought new life into the world were held in high esteem. Thank you Dan for another excellent presentation of these fascinating ancient cultures.
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  2. It made me laugh when you pointed out that the ice man was not vegan or vegetarian. Only people who have a overabundance of food can afford to choose what they eat. Being vegan or vegetarian is a modern life choice that would be quickly forgotten if our current supply chain broke down. Survivers are omnivores.
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  3. When I went to school some 50 years ago, the Bronze Age was portrayed as a Middle Eastern thing. Even the Mycenaeans were not mentioned except as a half-mythical past referenced by the Iron Age Greeks. I grew up believing Europeans were fur-clad reindeer hunters until the light of civilization spread from Egypt via Greece and Rome to finally reach Western Europe. Today we know that the real prehistory of Europe was far more complex and fascinating. Or at least some of us know, and hopefully with the help of your videos, some more people will get a glimpse of a world almost lost in the fog of time.
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  4. The real Vlad is so much more interesting than the fictional character.
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  5. Venus figurines were humans' first waifus.
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  6. Seeing the carving of the women with one eye damaged that was found near the grave of the woman with the same damaged eye made a great impression on me. These were real people, the same as you and me, they loved each other, as we do. It's just incredible that after so many tens of thousands of years we can reach back & get little snapshots of their lives.
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  7. “Only the mullet survived” a truly timeless style
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  8. There's thick then there's THICK. These Vinca gentlemen strike me as individuals of most refined taste.
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  9. I think the “experts” might not have enough experience with horses. Riding without saddle & bit is not an impossibility. Doing so with skill & speed is something I’ve witnessed children do. Certainly, growing up with your foal and learning young creates a friendship between rider & horse. This bond is mutually affectionate. In that circumstance, the rider using legs only to control their horse while using weapons is easy enough. Of course no evidence of that is likely to be found
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  10. As a Sardinian archaeologist, I'm amazed by the level of detail you went through in this video. Just to let your subscribers know, the information you reported was correct and very precise. I have to say thank you for spreading the knowledge of our ancient culture. Just one more thing. In the last years, it's more and more spread the idea that the "nuragic" bronzes are not the reflection of the nuraghi builders, but of the people from the next phase late bronze age/iron age. Also, the funerary practices change, abandoning the old giant's tombs for single burials. Votive swords and "bronzetti" were made when the towers were built no more. The culture it's always "nuragic" but the phases are differentiated. Anyway, this is a matter of discussion between archaeologists. Thanks again for your excellent work.
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  11. It is easy to underestimate the hardship of that age. Even thousands of years after the onset of the Neolithic revolution, crops were still closer to the wild grasses and weeds they started out as, rather than the bountiful crops of today. While hardy, they would yield much less food for the labor put into them. Likewise the livestock, while hardy, would be rather gamey and give less milk and meat than in later times. The men and women who took this land from the wood and the wolves were heroes indeed. Sadly, only these mist-shrouded hills and scattered bones remain to tell their incredible tales.
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  12. William Marshall has to be one of the most impressive individual physical combatants for the sheer volume of documented combats he prevailed in.
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  13. Idk why, but the idea of finding a child's fingerprint in the clay is so touching to me. Milennia removed, yet an intensely relatable experience, excitedly waiting for, or even making, a special toy. 😊
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  14. This is the stuff I like to see. So many “Bronze Age” videos only discuss the wars, the kings, and the assassinations. We never learn what the lives of the people were like.
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  15. Warboner would be a great metal band name.
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  16. We still dance in circles on the Balkans, it's so primal and natural. You get into a sort of a trance-like state. You feel the bodies of the others, their movements. On a side note, I think many archeologists don't know much about the symbolism of the old pagan-like rituals to look into them for the meaning of the figurines. I don't say that I know what they were, but it's a little bit simplistic to always think about a mother earth goddess, while reality could be a much more complex affair.
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  17. WRT him looking "older", that's from a life lived outdoors. Go to any rural area especially a fishing community and try to guess the men's ages. UV light ages you, and you get a double dose when you're in a boat on the water. We work indoors, we have moisturizers and exfoliants and god knows what. And we worship "a youthful look". We look young for our age these days. He just worked outdoors a lot, high up in the mountains. Lots of UV exposure.
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  18. Perhaps Otzi was murdered by a member of his own tribe over some local dispute. His valuable axe was left behind on the mountain because possessing it would have identified the killer or started a blood feud.
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  19. Maybe the later "barbarian" steppe people were influenced by the Varna long after its passing, in a similar way that the Germanic peoples in the Dark Ages were heavily influenced by the glory of Rome, for centuries after its fall. Surely this place must have spawned legends that turned into myth that is now long forgotten.
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  20. These sort of massive scale projects always serve to remind me of how clever ancient humans were. It helps demystify the people of the day, and emphasize how unchanged we are on a fundamental level.
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  21. The history of Vlad the Impaler is perhaps one of the most fascinating stories in Medieval History. Vlad and Elizabeth Bathory are two of my favorites.
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  22. I found two Vinca figurines last year while fieldwalking in my area. One is a Y-shaped abstract anamorphic form, considered an amulet, it probably hung by a string in a house. The second is a much more realistic female figure made of blackened clay with her hands on her hips. Both are now at the local museum. I work with archaeologists here to make 3D reconstructions of cultural sites and objects and we're planning on reconstructing a Vinca village in the near future.
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  23. The Copper Age is another one of those things we didn't learn about in school and didn't read about in popular science magazines, and yet it was such an important, formative period at least for Europe. Glad you've stepped up to the task of educating people!
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  24. I absolutely died when I realised you'd used Sebastian Stan as Radu in his portrait.
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  25. I read Thomas Asbridge's The Greatest Knight several years ago and it was good to be reminded again of William Marshall. He served four kings and led an English army into battle at the age of 70. Surely the epitome of knighthood.
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  26. "Not as clumsy or random as a bow. An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age."
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  27. All my drinking is strictly ritual.
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  28. They loved `peace and quiet and good tilled earth'. In other words, they were hobbits. :P
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  29. Yes. We're interested in bronze age armor. We'd like a articular deep dive into boar's teeth helmets, and laminar armors.
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  30. As a Romanian, born in the same city as Vlad, I can honestly say Dan knows way more about this than I do.
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  31. Somebody develops lactose tolerance -> domestication of the horse -> series of dominoes -> I am wearing pants four thousand years later
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  32. Unrelated: about 20 years ago my mom was trying to push a chicken onto a skewer and impaled her hand, straight through. Miraculously, she somehow missed all the veins, tendons, nerves, everything. A couple of hours at the hospital and she was fine, other than the nifty scars she still has. And that's the story of how I learned who Vlad the Impaler was when I was a teenager, and why we still call my mom "Vlad" when she's cooking.
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  33. So basically Kerberos's real name is "spot", good to know.
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  34. After four months of researching what prehistoric people ate, whilst living out in the wilderness subsisting only on a prehistoric diet, Dan Davis returns to tell us what he has discovered.
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  35. Not to detract from other great history channels, but... What a huge difference makes having a professional storyteller producing these videos.
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  36. I’ve a lot of media about this guy but this is the most detailed documentary I’ve ever seen about him. Several facts and alternative reconstructions I hadn’t seen before
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  37. It’s so good to get something for the general public that treats us as intelligent people, a presentation that is informed and well sourced, that gives us an overview without superficiality or sensationalism. I like that you give us sources in the information so that we can go further into something.
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  38. Many many years ago I traveled on the Silk Road using hired cars, old busses and a 20 hour train ride I shared with goats and other animals to get to where I was going. It was such an epic adventure that I described to my friends! I feel ridiculous right now.
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  39. I'm sure the Nordic Bronze Age culture was far more advanced than most people think. They were excellent ship builders and had an extensive trading network with all of Europe. Only they didn't live in large settlements of stone houses and because of that not much is preserved.
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  40. People don't realize just how difficult and expensive it was to get a hold of metal back then. For them to bury him with a copper weapon that large was a huge honor. This was somebody who was greatly respected and probably a great hero and leader of his people.
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  41. The Bronze Age is looking more and more like the Conan the Barbarian universe. I can just imagine the swole bronze horned warriors with bronze swords fighting snake men in deep tombs when I see all those small horned statuettes.
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  42. I find the Neolithic dark age so interesting. It shows how easily and regularly civilisations fall! Learned a lot from this one thanks Dan
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  43. Imagine the quality of the pots they made, after 7000-5000 years, some were found intact and the colours are still very much visible.
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  44. I watched a documentary about this site and never thought about it again. You have given it more life in 20 minutes than those attempting to make an entire documentary about it were able to. Thank you for your channel and keep up the amazing work!
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  45. I think it is a mistake, to assume that the bit is the only way to control a horse. Spanish riding traditional uses what is called a hackamore. A woven strip of rawhide encircles the horses muzzle. Pressure on the muzzle, controls the horse. In modern times, the people of Mongolia ride horses very similar to ancient horses. Very short, and very stocky. The argument that short and stocky horses would not be an advantage, is somewhat ridiculous. Training a wild horse, without the use of a previously trained horse, is nigh impossible. However, if a young foal were captured, after the killing of its mother, it would be quite easy to train that horse. Very much in the same way that wolf puppies we're probably trained, to be domestic companions. I think that modern archaeologists have a tendency to belittle the abilities of ancient peoples. It is important to remember that they were every bit as smart as we are. To say that early peoples were not capable of doing what we do all the time, shows a tremendous amount of hubris. If they were eating horses, they had access to foals. If they had access to foals, then they had access to rideable mounts. Personally, I believe that domestication occurred very early. However, archaeological proof of such domestication would be unlikely to survive. This is why we have not found walrus skin boots, from ancient times. But that's another topic, entirely. Enjoyed the video. Keep it up
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  46. Yes, please Bronze Age weights!
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  47. My friend was telling me about this old medieval french lemonade made with oranges recipe that he found and was talking about how the sheer amount of people in the french county that made most of the lemonade survived better then most of europe because they constantly threw the lemon and orange peels all over but the lemon peels drives off the bugs because of the citric acid or some such sciency reason
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  48. The amount of work, research, reading, and cross referencing you gotta do for these doesn’t go unappreciated my friend. We anthropologists have a special place in our hearts for channels like this! Golly, I respect the dedication you have for this stuff.
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  49. I have a boat axe story! My grandad found one in his field in South Finland back in the 60s. He pocketed it and didn't think much about it, until a few years later there was a masquerade party in the village. A bunch of guys dressed up as "cave men" and grandad suddenly remembered his axe! He strapped a handle on it and ooga-boogad on down to the party. The group of cave men were so popular that a photo of them ended up in the local newspaper. Despite the photo being black and white, and rather grainy, an archeologist immediately noticed that one of the masked men had a rather genuine-looking axe! Within a few days grandad got a visit from the national museum with a polite "ahem, the law sort of requires you to hand over the axe, sir". So now grandad's axe is in a museum, just like Indiana Jones prefers it.
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  50. This makes me think about Anubis, who served a similar role to the spirit dog guarding the path.
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  51. Every time a Dan Davis video comes…cancel everything else and enjoy the 20-30 min of best quality content in YouTube
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  52. I appreciate this not being a 20min "proof" against the obvious. Get it out of the way, then onto something worthwhile. Really cool stuff as usual.
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  53. Just a hypothetical exercise, but imagine if a man of his ability and will power had been the prince of a reasonably strong and stable nation. He managed to make life very difficult for much larger, well trained, and better armed invading armies. Without the horror of his youth and the instability of his position, he may have been a very different kind of ruler remembered for his bravery and tactical prowess rather than his brutality and extreme cruelty.
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  54. As a Californian its insane to me that he made it this far. We dont have many opportunities to physically engage with history. So being at Drake's bay and imagining English sailors landing there so many years ago as a kid helped fire my passion for history! Thank you covering such a fascinating character.
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  55. To say that the Minoans didn't conduct war because there were no scenes of war in their castles is like saying the US does not because there are no scenes of war in many of the homes of rich Americans.
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  56. I'm an archaeologist, and I really appreciate your work, Dan. I also like reading your stories on digs. I always learn something from your videos (as a professional) and I love how accessible you make the information for everyone from people just starting to get interested in their history to professionals. Please keep them coming. 👍
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  57. The Bronze age really had the best hats, didn't it.
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  58. Plagues have always fascinated me since I was a kid, the concept of an invisible force passing through a society and killing off a good chunk of the population captures my imagination. Must have been terrifying for people who didn't understand what bacterial/viral infection was, look how people have reacted to the one doing the rounds at the minute which is barely a ripple compared to the megatsunami that was the black death or the plague of Justinian. If so many people are so frightened now of a relatively benign disease that we understand how to treat and how it spreads, what must have gone through the minds of our ancestors as their friends and family keeled over in droves?
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  59. Excellent video. The prehistoric steppe cultures have had an enormous impact on history, but they're only ever referenced briefly in most World History books.
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  60. Every one of your videos is just so well researched and documented, I just wanted to let you know how much quality content like this is appreciated. It's a crime that you don't have more subscribers, I wish more people knew about ancient cultures.
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  61. Mycenean armor pieces are truly something to behold for its age. It baffles me how obscure they are and never represented on film in favor of some awkward, ahistorical and unrealistic items.
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  62. The last thing the village needed was a large age set of 13 -18 year old males with nothing but time on their hands. Thank you for these brilliant fascinating videos!
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  63. I'm Latvian living in Varna for a year already. Didn't even know this! Now I'm eager to explore sites of this culture scattered around this town. Thank you!
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  64. I think this myth is so well-preserved because its exoteric nature can be easily seen in the night sky. The dog is identified as the star Sirius "Dog Star" in various cultures which guards the bridge, the Milky Way. I found its Indo-European root *sar- in many daughter languages with the meaning glowing or burning. Which makes sense, considering that Sirius was orange-red until the Middle Ages (it's white today). Therefore, Kerberos can be derived etymologically as "spotted with blood" or "stained with blood" (of the people who don't make it to the other side).
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  65. Nobody gives more life to our ancestors than you, Dan. Thank you.
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  66. As a proud Bulgarian, I'm very happy to see someone actually making a video about this. It truly is a remarkable culture and finding. Thank you!
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  67. Love this channel. A British novelist comes out of nowhere to drop fire Indo-European content. Well done, man.
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  68. How has nobody commented on the iceman recreations facial expressions? This was a fascinating watch. And literally had me in stitches when you kept showing the altered faces and the one of the man giving a bewildered insane stare was solid gold 😂😂 education and comedy all in one
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  69. I had no clue that such an urbanised group existed in that part of the world that long ago. I had always thought, based on Greco-Roman histories, that the steppes of the Ukraine and the Danube frontier were home to nothing but isolated and primitive nomadic tribes of horse warriors like the Scythians. To think that such an advanced urban culture existed in the same territory thousands of years earlier is amazing. Thank you for such an interesting, eye-opening, and informative video.
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  70. As a rider of dressage, I can readily see where riding a horse bareback without saddle or bridle would be extremely easy given time to adjust the body to relax and give "signals" through the seat bones and legs. I often rode my horse without saddle or bridle and found that by turning my torso, moving my legs back or forward, would cause my horse to turn or stop depending on pressure of my upper thigh or lower leg. Even turning my shoulders would cause change of direction. All is dependent on the rider's relaxation or minute tension, and going with the horses movement. I suspect early man would have wanted to move with the speed of a running horse at some time or another and would have eventually tried to get on the back of a horse just to go fast. I suspect all this happened much earlier than scientists believe as the curiosity of the human is far stronger than most believe.
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  71. I often think of how privileged we are to receive such outstanding content for free in our time. Not even a hundred years ago such knowledge would be prohibitively expensive to acquire and now I can eat noodles while being given a lecture on par with any university. Your work will be remembered, Sir, for the work of education shapes the future more than any other.
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  72. It's worth mentioning that the "Ying Yang" symbol was found on pots made by the Cucuteni-Tryplilla people, over 6000 years ago. Check out the similarity between the Yangshao and Cucuteni- Trypillia pots, it's mindblowing. They might have traded commercially and culturally.
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  73. One of the things I most admire about you and your channel, is that you freely admit it when you don't know. This has become all too rare these days. It is so nice to have evidence presented, ideas considered and possible conclusions speculated upon... without a predetermined conclusion being forced down one's throat and all alternative thoughts being derided. Thank you!
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  74. It's a great Sunday morning when Stefan Milo and Dan Davis History synchronize their video drop at the exact same time to the minute.
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  75. This is the sort of culture that would be a great influence for anyone interested in writing a Bronze Age style society for their epic fiction.
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  76. They seem to be armed with more than just spears, swords and axes.
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  77. The existence of gold artifacts which could be interpreted as either helmets or bowls makes me think of an item mentioned by Miguel de Cervantes in his novel "Don Quijote." The crazy old knight errant Don Quijote dreams up, among other fantastical items, the "golden helmet of Mambrino." He later spots a traveling barber who has a metal bowl, which is one of the tools of his trade. Don Quijote immediately identifies it as the golden helmet of Mambrino, acquires it, and proceeds to wear it as a ridiculous looking helmet.
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  78. The most likely reason why the shaft of the arrow that killed him was removed, while the copper axe, his arrows and all of his belongings were left there, is that both the killer's arrow on his body and Ötzi's belongings in the hands of the killer, would have been damning evidencies. Like most murder victims, Ötzi knew his killer. They were of the same community, or from communities very close.
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  79. To think the Kurgan burial mounds were already a thousand years old by the time that we have evidence of these sacrifices being carried out by descendant cultures makes me realise how long these traditions lasted.
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  80. I have watched so many Vlad the Impaler documentaries and by far this one is far more detailed, intricate and subtle in its delivery than any others which i have seen so far! Good work keep it up!
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  81. It's the silliest thing that even in Scandinavia, the Viking Age officially begins and ends with events in the British Isles. It's like one day in 793 they up and went to Lindisfarne with this brand new concept of murder and pillaging - not to mention their recent invention: the viking ship. Then, in 1066, they completely stopped all that and became backward landlubbers.
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  82. Hello Dan! Greetings from Sibiu (Romania)! Tărtăria-Gura Luncii, Alba county ( the infamous incised clay tablets, with symbols, were discovered here in 1961-the autumn campaign, by prof. Nicolae Vlassa-long story...), is indeed a complex prehistoric archaeological site (in recent studies there were identified elements of fortifications-ditches and palisade postholes-Luca 2016, „Tărtăria Rediviva”). Now, I'm studying for a master's degree at „Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu (Department of History and Heritage Studies). The main subject of my Bachelor Thesis was about lithic industry (polished/ground and knapped stone tools) from Tărtăria. In 2021 and 2022 (summer campaigns), I have taken part in archaeological excavations here and I can assure all of you that, Vinča female clay figurines, are very THICC ;)!!! I'm pleased to see, that there is interest for the complex Neo-Eneolithic cultures in this part of Europe! Your high-quality documentaries contributed a lot to my passion for prehistory, so keep up the good work.
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  83. I love how you explain the size of known archeological material with those maps... this really puts things into a proper perspective
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  84. Ah, the longbow, defeater of huge, technically advanced armies. The Toyota pick-up of it's day.
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  85. I've been to the petroglyphs in Tanumshede as I live nearby, and pictures and videos don't do them justice. They are MASSIVE in person. Worth a visit if anyone is ever in western Sweden.
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  86. I like how foreigners go: "Vlad was so evil to his people!" While Romanians( all of them, not just Wallachians)go: " love the guy, that's ma boi!"
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  87. i think i've learned more about European bronze age from this channel than anywhere else. top notch as always!
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  88. Having crossed over Asia from Mongolia in 2013, I came eventually to Romania, and Transylvania. The bus made its way through the hills during the closing evening, and with the sun setting on cumulus clouds, the steep valley sides, lengthening shadows, and crooked graveyard headstones, you really got an eery sense as if Dracula could be real.
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  89. Dude, if my descendants drank from my skull on my birthday I'd be a pretty honored ghost. Just so long as it's the good stuff. None of that bottom shelf trash.
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  90. The samurai used to compose poems about the falling of a snow flake or a cherry blossom petal... Didn't make them peaceful... :)
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  91. Absolutely enthralling and captivating tale. I had no idea this man existed or that such a journey took place until now. I wonder what a Mongol-dominated Europe would have looked like, and what its legacy would have been.
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  92. I think the real mystery is why widespread use of metals never took hold in the Americas. The people of North America used copper to some extent for a while and then apparently stopped using it. In South America, they apparently even smelted a limited amount of copper alloys but AFAIK it never got significant use for weapons or tools. I would think copper and bronze would confer the same advantages in the Americas as it did in Europe but apparently for some reason the Native Americans didn't think so.
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  93. Your videos and narratives transport me. My undergrad was in anthropology and none of my harvard-educated professors were able to bring history to life in a semester like you can in a 20-minute video. Your work makes me life better. Thank you
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  94. Praise be to the algorithm that has blessed us with this recommendation
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  95. I understand that ceramics are one of the more important archeological data points, but man. Can you imagine being known as the Ziploc Confederacy?
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  96. the American west was briefly a parallel of the yamnaya culture with migratory wagon trains, small bands of horse warriors, surviving on the steppe off of hunting and cattle, and interacting with new and interesting people, the Cossacks were probably similar as well with their expansion into Siberia
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  97. 5:52 There's a practical reason for the ends of his cape being unwoven. Like any fringed garment, the loose ends help to shed water by breaking up the surface tension.
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  98. The quality of Dan's content is astounding. I've always been interested in the bronze age, but it's such a remote period in human history that we know very little of the bronze age peoples that inhabited Europe aside from what they left buried in the earth. Dan's thorough presentation of the archeological record, beautiful illustrations, and his talent as an author bring these people and their societies to life in a way that I've never experienced! Amazing work Dan
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  99. This is really , really good channel. I hope you reach million subs not just because you deserve it but because people also deserve this kind of videos and knowledge. Sorry for broken english, greetings from Serbia. : )
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  100. There's a Cucuteni festival in Iasi - Romania, where craftsmen come and bring traditional Romanian potery, clothing etc, and it's really striking how similar the decorative styles are to those of the people from the Bronze age.
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  101. I really appreciate the videos you're making: I'm a historian of the Caucasus by profession, so it makes me very happy to see such a high-quality video to inform people about this sadly neglected part of the ancient world. I'd also very much recommend Antonio Sagona's 'The Archaeology of the Caucasus' as a source, if you don't have it already. Any chance of a video on the Koban Culture in the future?
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  102. Polished axe-head vs. carved axe-head Knapping stone creates razor-sharp edges that bite the wood, more like a metal axe head. The problem with knapped stone is that they have microscopic indentations in which pieces of wood get stuck, overtime this rots and become a place in which humidity accumulates, creating weak points that would cause the entire head to shater. If you touch the edge of a polished axehead, you will immediatly realize it's not "sharp", in fact you can press as hard as you want the edge against your skin and it would left nothing more than a mark. The way these axes "cut" is by causing the wood fibres to break due to the entire preasure accumulating in a very, very small area. These axes can't "bite" into the wood, since they have no sharpness at all. But what they lack in sharpness is what they have plenty of durability, since their surface don't have those indentations in which wood fibre accumulates and rots. In fewer words; Although the knapped axehead is razor sharp, the polished axehead is more reliable and it can last forever if maintained correctly.
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  103. Something to think about that a I realized a while back. The famous and old country song, "Ghost Riders in the Sky," is in many ways describing a type of Wild Hunt. There are obvious Christian overtones, but there is a definite and obvious Indo-European basal nature to it.
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  104. When I lived in New Zealand we would come across wild horses around a place called Waiouru, quite magnificent to see them running free, I have a Hungarian horse bow but alas as close as I've come to a wild horse in the UK was a Tesco's lasagna. 😬
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  105. I can definitely see a lot of parallels between the migration of the various "Sea Peoples" and the dispersal of many Germanic, Slavic, and nomadic tribes starting in the 4th century AD that resulted in a similar domino effect with one migrating group displacing another and ultimately overwhelming the Roman Empire.
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  106. Romanian here: I commend you for your independent analysis and thorough understanding of the local, historical conjunctures that forced him to appalling acts that would gain him an ever-lasting notorious fame. Romanians respect and admire him for being a defender of the country’s interests, many even regret a ruler with a strong commitment to defend the simple people against disloyal governances (don’t get me wrong, not through impaling, of course).
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  107. I learned recently that dogs form a bond with their favorite human which leads to release of oxytocin in their brains. Thus, a dog feels "love" in the same way that humans do for their partner, and mothers do for their children. This has been experimentally demonstrated. Perhaps our ancient ancestors felt this. On the note of multiple souls, tribes in the Bukidnon province here in Northern Mindanao Philippines traditionally believed in multiple souls. I understand my wife's tribe, the Higaonon, believed that there were seven souls in each person. If some went missing, the person would be ill. If all left, the person died.
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  108. Back when my hair was very very long, I would keep it mostly up in a hair tie, but then saw a video talking about bronze age Scandinavian hairstyles and decided to try out the Bredmose woman's hairstyle (the video called her the Arden Woman), with the two long braids sewn into a crown, and the hairstyle was actually surprisingly very comfortable and sturdy and looked simple and regal! Your video brought a big smile to my face, and the information on something so fascinating to me is definitely something I'll be watching again! Huge greetings from Mexico!
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  109. Vajra, prononunced almost like "vasara" (hammer) in Finnish. It is one of the earliest loan words from PIE in Fenno-Ugrian languages.
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  110. 33 pounds. The whole armor? My work out vest is 40 pounds. This soldier was also carrying a spear a knife an axe, footwear perhaps a sword with any incidentals luck charms, sentimental trinkets. Very strong people.
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  111. people have never stopped trying to get away from their relatives have they?
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  112. Regarding more women surviving the plague than men, women naturally have stronger immune systems than men and usually have a better survival rate from infectious disease. (additionally, auto immune disorders are more common in women.)
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  113. "Hamar" or hammer as a word for cliff is still widely used in Norway today, not just Icelandic. So the connection between hammers and stone is still very much alive. Also, fun fact: "Stein Hammer" (Stone Hammer) is a perfectly valid Scandinavian male name, and there are guys with that name alive now.
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  114. Fantastic work Dan! It's truly astonishing that we know of his great deeds 800 years later. This is the first I've heard of him, keep up the great content!
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  115. I think that the role of children in the development of riding has been ignored. If captured ponies were being used as pack animals or to pull travois, it would not be long before they were used to carry small children, in the same way that burros and asses are commonly used. Everywhere in agricultural societies, you see children astride a variety of domesticated animals (my Philipino nephew was riding water buffalo practically from birth). I suspect that this practice familiarized the horse with the human and the human with the horse in such a way that older and older children remained on the horses until they began to direct them autonomously, rather than just being carried as baggage.
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  116. Mr Davis you raise YouTube to the level of the old history channel before the aliens stuff! Your voice is so impactful, your knowledge runs deep, and your topic choices are so specific and unique. The presentation is magnificent and attention grabbing. I absolutely love your channel and I’m not even into history that much but you make it soooo damn good!
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  117. It's a shame the Bronze Age is so much underrated, underrepresented and overshadowed by the following ancient world in all kinds of media. Although it's obviously a period full of wonders and mysteries! It reminds me of the Paleozoic which doesn't get equal attention as the Mesozoic. Thanks for this wonderful channel!
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  118. Hello everyone, I live a around 10k away from the main El Argar archeological site. It is great to see people bring light to how important and advanced the culture was and how important a piece of history this little and mostly forgotten area of Andalucia has, also having the first settlement from a foreign power a measly 15km or so to the east of El Argar in Villaricos, being first settled by the phoenicians, then conquered by the greek and lastly by the romans. I'd like to use the opportunity to bring your attention to the state of consevation of these incredible sites. The El Argar site is nowadays little more than a few holes in the ground marked with construction tape and used for the dumping of plastics from the greenhouses around it, the phoenician and roman ruins have mostly been built over for tourist apartments while the Los Millares site is actually pretty well kept. It is nice then to see these sites be talked about in the community, seeing how forgotten they are and how little love their remains are kept with even by the people that live here.
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  119. One of the hardest things to do as a historian is keeping the present day from coloring interpretation of poorly/not recorded events/behaviors. I've only met a handful of historians that can even sort of manage it. Unfortunately the stronger your intrests/concerns the more they'll leak in. That, coupled with most of us having a latent desire to not be wrong, leads to some really stupid conflicts in the field. I applaud this video as it manages to present the few facts available and presents possible explanations without backing one or two explanations as fact.
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  120. Spears not being prevalent in the Neolithic is very interesting and also counterintuitive to me given the first hafted weapons in history were flint tipped spears hundreds of thousands of years ago. I have a huge gap in my knowledge between the end of the Ice Age and the start of the Classical Era that you've managed to shrink with your excellent videos. Keep em coming!
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  121. If any story deserves film adaptations it's this one.
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  122. Hey Dan. As I watched the end of the video with the split between the Iranian and Vedic cultures from the Andronovo culture and it made me wonder about something I've thought about for a long while now. It's namely from their beliefs and how they seemed to be opposite of each other. The devas from the Hindu tradition were considered akin to angels, whereas in the Iranian tradition they were evil spirits and I suspect it's from there that we get the word "devil." Likewise, ashuras in Hindu mythology were considered a form of rage-filled demon while Ahura Mazda is the supreme benevolent deity in the Iranian Zoroastrian religion. My guess was that before the split the two cultures were unified, but by around 1600 BCE there was a "schism" that caused the two cultures to split and antagonize each other ever since. Can you make a video delving into this? I'd love to see your findings on this!
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  123. Guy mounts horse Horse: "Wh- what are you doing, steppe bro"
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  124. We are living in unbelievable times. I can watch for hours, for free, in YT quality history documents with captivating story telling and superbly made content. Thank you for sharing your stories with the rest of the world.
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  125. I'll never understand how this channel isn't huge. So so good. One of my few must-watch YouTube channels.
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  126. Every Aegean Bronze Age video you make is a must watch
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  127. The replacement of essentially all of the previously domesticated horses by the Sintashta breed is such an interesting historic phenomenon. While clearly a dominant military force, the Sintashta must have also wielded significant economic power due to the widespread demand for their superior horse breed. It’s definitely a topic I need to do some reading on! Really interesting Dan.
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  128. This short video had more substance than the 51min long documentary I tried to watch made by NOVA before it. Thank you
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  129. Always wondered what prompted the Indo-Europeans to expand over such a vast region over thousands and thousands of years. Sometimes the simplest explanation is the best one and it seems the Koryos probably was the driving motivation for such consistent aggression and subjugation, with revolutionary technologies and a good geographic placement encouraging the success of these ancient young men
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  130. William Marshal was certainly the Greatest Knight in English history, and if it wasn't for him then Louis might've succeeded in taking control of England. The course of Human History would have been Drastically different if not for this one man, and that cannot be said of most historical figures.
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  131. Absolutely fantastic! I am getting my Master's Degree in History in Ireland starting this fall, and my tentative research thesis concerns cultural continuity and Medieval use of Neolithic sites.
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  132. I never heard of this before. In fact, many times I learned on this channel about subjects I have never heard about. Which is great!
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  133. I am interested in a full video about the stone tomb complex, that sounds awesome
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  134. Fantastic history telling. I appreciate how you do what an academic anthropologist generally can't get away with--putting these times and people into a narrative form. Even if some, or even half, of your careful, informed speculation ends up being incorrect, you've helped me enormously to contextualize what the heck was going on in these times. I hope other historical world builders take inspiration from you to pursue this kind of 'side job'. Bravo.
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  135. All it takes is a breakout of something as simple as "bed bugs" to make you want to burn-down your house.....
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  136. Another one hit out of the park, Dan. The images are fantastic, and the subject really helps draw me into the world of our ancestors a little more. The blend of history and storytelling is your particular gift, thank you!
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  137. These people are literally the biggest admixture of Northern and Eastern Europeans but you are like the only one that have made a full fact history video about them. Well done and you got a new subscriber.
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  138. Indeed! As a Scandinavian, vikings were simply typical Indo-european warbands bourne by ships rather than horses and wagons, probably as a result of the Scandinavian topography where mountains, seas, rivers, rocks/hills and forests were frequent obstacles unlike the flatness of the eastern European steppes. The cattle raids described by the ancient Irish and Indians are similar examples.
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  139. Definitely one of my pre battle thoughts would be “I’d rather die by the sword than be clubbed by that bloody Shillelagh!”
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  140. I commented years ago i was injured at work and came across your channel since then mate im glad people have seen and appreciated what research and effort you put into these and your starting to take off. Your passion for history shines through, more power too you pal.
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  141. By the way, just recently a reconstrution of Sintashta chariot was made by a team of researchers from Russia. Also, a couple years ago another team from Greece reconstructed a Sintashta bow. Both are quite complex. Especially interesting that Sintashta chariots are mostly wooden, and wood is a scarce resource in steppe. Also for some elements they used moose antlers - also not the most typical resource in steppe.
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  142. Fascinating and grisly tale. I attended a high school named after Joan of Arc, and it's certainly a (dare I say "refreshing"?) wake-up call to hear her legend more critically assessed. Cheers Mr. Davis, thanks for narrating this story for us.
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  143. I think these figurines aren't only about women having many children, but also men being so successful at hunting they could bring enough calories AND spare their wives of hard physical labor. Walking long distances is only necessary when the current location no longer has enough resources. Good hunting = sedentary lifestyle for women + lots of calories.
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  144. Highly underrated channel. Dan’s story telling approach to history is so refreshing.
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  145. This would make a stellar Netflix series.
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  146. "Very honoured my bronze axes are going in with the chief, my work will be remembered forever. Let's hope they don't bury a massive, gold, esoteric hat alongside them..." - a Bronze Age blacksmith c. 1600BC
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  147. The battle at Alken Enge in Denmark was around the same time as this one. And it was also a well equipped army vs poor local farmers. A whole generation of local people died in that battle. They can see how many farming fields turned into thick forrest in the decades after the battle. And, we know nothing about the reasons for the battle either. Our local museum have the bones and weapons from the warriors on show.
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  148. Vlad the Impaler is a national hero in Romania
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  149. I love how dan’s narration. His skill as a fiction writer really helps these documentaries come to light with narrative structure and description
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  150. One of my university lecturers always called hazelnuts the 'trail mix of the stone age'. People loved their hazelnuts
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  151. Glad you label him exactly what he was….an evil con man.
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  152. It's quite a long while after the Bronze age, but I've always been fascinated by the Osterby Man, who was uncovered by peat moss cutters in Germany in 1948. Only his head was discovered but he was still rocking his Suebian knot with fire-red hair. He allegedly lived between 75-130 CE
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  153. Nice video! I'm from Crete and live less than a mile away from Knossos. I always thought that the "peaceful Minoans" myth was an exageration because they were being compared to the Myceneans. If anyone of you wants to come visit Crete for its ancient past or its wanderful landscape you are always welcome! 😁
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  154. You'd think this guy would be much better known. This is just the kind of story the English love, and just the way they like to imagine themselves, or it was until recent times.
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  155. Just found this channel and binged everything on it. Top tier history channel. Love how thorough and informative your videos are about sometimes obscure topics, and I can tell you're an author just by how you articulate yourself and infuse the videos with an imaginative aspect.
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  156. Very good video, as always. I’m Italian and i’ve spent many summer holidays in Sardinia, it’s an amazing place with stunning beaches. And everywhere you go you can see nuraghis, some are as big as massive medieval castles. When you think of their age it’s amazing that the nuragic civilization is so little know outside Italy.
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  157. I never believed that minoans were bronze age peaceniks but I always appreciated their fashion sense.
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  158. A brave man in some dark times, this is the best description for Vlad III. I believe that he's a underrated personality(vampire stories aside)compared to others. Achieving so many things with an army so small is truly something, imagine if he had an army the size of his neighbouring states.
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  159. One explanation I've read for this is that dogs are seen as liminal creatures: they are the guardians of the border between life and death because, in the real world, they straddle the border between the human realm and that of animals.
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  160. Real Männerbünde hours - press F for fido
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  161. As a spaniard i only ever learned this last year at the madrid museum of archeology, since then i wholeheartedly believe chalcolythic spain must have literally been the world of conan the barbarian
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  162. This video is like a dream for me. I've been fascinated by Bronze Age trade routes for more than 20 years, and this is the most comprehensive explanation of routes and items traded that I've seen or heard of so far. I guess I have to check out the sources and read a few more books. Thanks for putting this together. Love it.
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  163. Love these videos Dan! Having a professional author like yourself as a presenter of history goes a long way in adding a depth of narrative that truly makes history gripping. Looking forward to the next one!
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  164. some people just don't like heroes, they think that heroes can't exist because they could never be one, and thus they try to tell you why they weren't heroes to make themselves feel better out of jealousy
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  165. I wonder if anyone has tried tracing the centaur myths to their origins. I always imagined they were the result of the first mounted warriors attacking a village or people that hadn’t seen horses before or at least never seen someone ride one. “Man they came out of no where big 4 legged animals with human torsos attached to them and just started killing us!!”
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  166. Dan, you've got some of the most engaging bronze age content on the entire platform. Thanks for all the great videos. Edit: bronze age armor video would be greatly appreciated
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  167. I would be interested to know if there are any fairy tales or old fireside stories from Northern Germany/Scandinavia that might help explain the battle. It could easily be a northern Helen of Troy style event, it would appear men from all over southern Germany gathered together to head north.
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  168. it's a nice day in 1605 BC and the first thing you hear is that BROPEC will cut down production to keep bronze prices up
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  169. Wow! What a great lecture! Very thorough and with lots of great examples. In Ukraine, we learn about Trypillian culture in school. Plus, there is usually at least one school trip to a local museum that usually has some ceramics or at least mentions the culture (if you are from the area, of course). But I was surprised to discover that almost no one knows about it in the west! Later I understood that it was because of the separation of Soviet and Western archeology that you've mentioned. An interesting fact is that Vikentiy Khvoika, an archaeologist who discovered and studied Trypillina culture, actually was a teacher who lived in Kyiv. When he accidentally discovered the remains of an old home at some construction site near his house, he was so impressed that he decided to dedicate his life to studying these remains and eventually became an archeologist.
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  170. i suppose it is surprising to most, but when you consider HOW much the Vikings spent time on hair, and looks, and grooming (including especially care of their hair) to the point that other peoples of the time commented on their constant bathing and combing... i think this is something that comes up over and over in cultures... always interesting to hear/see your videos!
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  171. The possibility that the Przewalski horses are just the long-free ferals of the Botai culture blew my mind when I first heard of it. Shows how few certainties there are even in the ancient past, or at least how we understand that past.
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  172. hedgehog with mushrooms on its spines at 4:40 was the surprise hit
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  173. Oh baby I'm gonna get comfy with this one. You are the best history-based channel on youtube right now, Dan! Top content.
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  174. There's something about a hammer. Pick one up and it always occurs to you that you can really impact your environment with it. It makes you think of power!
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  175. I have to say this is one of the best history channels I have ever watched. Dan Davis does a superb job of explaining things clearly, concisely, and chronologically. The use of maps and the icons moving about them really helps understand the movements of the armies and people's of the story. Absolutely, absolutely amazing. I can't wait to watch more of Dan's videos.
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  176. I like the somewhat romanticised notion that the maritime trading/raiding/fishing lifestyle these people probably engaged in was very similar to that of their not too distant ancestors on the steppes. The seas simply replacing the open steppe and the horse and chariot by their ships. Theres a sort of poetry in the perenniality of their way of life.
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  177. I like how you stress the things which we simply don't know.
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  178. With the arrival in Neolithic Britain of the Bell Beaker peoples came the renewed growing of barley in a massive way. Barley at the time was strongly associated with beer brewing. The spread of the Beaker culture in Britain introduced high levels of steppe-related ancestry, resulting in a near-complete transformation of the local gene pool within a few centuries, to the point of replacement of about 90% of the local Neolithic-derived lineages. It clearly demonstrates the power of beer.
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  179. First time I clicked this fast, people hadn't even domesticated horses for riding yet. Thanks again, Dan!
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  180. Those sheilds! As a hobby metal worker, they blow my mind. To think they started with a lump (!) of bronze and worked it to such high precision and so thin. You only get one shot to get it right and any mistake could mean the project would have to begin again from the crucible. Even small elements like the wire are incredible displays of skill and ingenuity. No rollers, braising torch or steel tools that are considered 'must haves' today. Astounding.
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  181. Nordic Bronze Age is honestly the most intriguing time period to me, it is so mysterious and hints at such greatness and complexity, yet so little has remained due to the wet, dynamic and corrosive nature of the region.
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  182. This channel is such a strange gem for someone who is into history, mythology and fantasy.........shits so cool, all of it
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  183. Great Orme certainly delivered up an amazing tonnage for it's time. As a matter of great pride to me as a former miner is the tonnage of copper lifted from just one of our Cornish mines. Before it closed in 1820 Dolcoath had delivered up a staggering 350,000 tons of copper...and 80,000 tons of tin. One mine.
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  184. I also first heard of them in David Anthony's book, its really amazing that at around 4000 BCE their settlements were bigger than those in Mesopotamia and the Levant.
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  185. Smiling Vlad is such a treat to behold
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  186. I feel like these academics have never actually rode on a horse. That should be a requirement in order to fully understand what they are theorizing.
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  187. *Raids a friendly clan Them: What are you doing Steppe-brother?
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  188. Many of the pictured objects were found together due to a Proto-indo-European stone axe buyback program.
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  189. Imagine the internal drama of deciding to start a new clan yet missing home, or realizing you’d be responsible for maintaining your traditions so far from home.
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  190. An unbelievably thorough presentation as always. It's refreshing and impressive how much information you cram into every video without even allowing it to become dull or dense.
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  191. Nice one Dan
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  192. My knowledge of pre history has changed so much in the last 10 to 15 years or so. The bronze age especially I find so interesting. Have just received the three books in the Gods of Bronze series. Looking forward to reading them.
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  193. You got my vote for a weights and measures video of the bronze age. Knowing how they kept everyone as honest as possible back then would be fascinating
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  194. This is the quality of the video we need on this platform
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  195. "Extinguishing the existing male lineages while taking wives from the existing Iberian population" is quite the euphemism
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  196. The fact that many of the Vinca inscriptions are similar to those found in Linear A of Crete should be taken into account before dismissing the possibility of representing writing. It's also worth noting that other writing forms, like cuneiform, started as pictograms for trade items as well.
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  197. I really respect the fact that you make it clear that you're an author of fiction, and not a domain expert. And you base your work on the work of domain experts.
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  198. The time, effort, love, dedication and work you put into this documentary is commendable. Above and beyond. Well done.
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  199. Very good content packed into a storyline that's condensed enough to avoid bogging down in mind numbing academic minutiae, but with the right amount for a decent understanding. The flow or cadence of the narrative is superb which makes Dan's videos so enjoyable to hear and learn.
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  200. I love the vocab used in this one, hope it still makes him money despite the platform's prudishness
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  201. The ancient Irish also had mythological spears: the spear of Lugh, the spear of Cuhulain and another which legend says came from their homeland and was given to the Tuah De Dannon by a great God. All of them had magical powers.
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  202. Very well researched. Fascinating to compare the crew size with settlement size. I wasn't aware of this theory
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  203. Bronze Age Europe is so fascinating. I really like the stylistic expression of the period. Really wish I could go back and see what it was like, without dying or being enslaved..
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  204. Imagine having to go over 40m underground to mine copper with nothing but candlelight--and nothing to protect you from collapses other than rituals... geez
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  205. Fascinating, it shows that Early Europe was a fluid, ever changing world back then even before recorded history was collected. It could make a nice TV series if more details were available.
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  206. Please do more of these! I love being able to visualize what people looked like when I read historical fiction, so this is just right up my alley. Well done 👏
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  207. Remember lads; always aim to be so famous your enemies make a passtime of your death. Really love these videos Dan, great history coverage.
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  208. Wow, the notion of goldsmith-kings reminds me of how blacksmiths (and other skilled workers) were often regarded as magic in pagan and medieval cultures. Must be an old idea. Fascinating video!
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  209. "Their hearts truly lay in peace and quiet and good, tilled earth." Excellent Tolkien quote. I approve.
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  210. wow, The Bronze age is truly one of the most interesting and important ages of man!
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  211. There was an interesting paper that hypothesized that heavily bronze armored warriors in Mycenaean Greece in the Late Bronze Age was a similar change in fighting doctrine like the introduction of plate armor in the Late Middle Ages. It upset the mix of light infantry and charioteers that came before. Almost immediately at the same time you see slender but robust Naue II swords, narrow bladed spearheads, maces, and spiked war hammers, all traditional "can opener" weapons.
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  212. that moment when a history youtuber starts talking about a village you lived close to for decades
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  213. This reminds me of the “werewolf” trials of repulsive killers like Peter Stubbs. It seems like the medieval mindset categorized the most vile serial killers into monsters and witches, because frankly it’s more satisfying than the non answers of modern criminal psychology
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  214. "While Heracles has his wood..." * Proceeds to zoom in on crotch*
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  215. I love reading the comments on this channel. It truly is a very informed, educated audience here. Very enjoyable!
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  216. burning the house down and building a new one sounds like a kind of purification ritual, done for probably several reasons, including the ones you mentioned. a new building is less likely to have collected mold and disease, and may just be more structurally sound than the previous construction, as they learned new building techniques.
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  217. A nice refreshing review of this amazing character, told in a great way. Glad you didn't follow the popular opinion. Richard wasn't perfect but he was a hero, let's remember that.
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  218. Love the Louis Vuitton rip off comparison. I feel like that detail somehow humanises these people so much - they cared about the prestige of their belongings just as we do. It’s a fascinating reflection.
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  219. Been studying this part of history & even it's mythology a ton lately, in preparation for my next episode. This is yet another sync encountered in my research. skål 💪🏽🐻
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  220. Absolute banger, as always. Paleolithic society vids always fascinate me, since it always seems that their cultures and ways of life persist for far longer periods of time than our cultures tend to in more recent times.
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  221. I'm so curious about these metalworking "shamans," and the power that their knowledge conveyed. The knowledge would give a culture such power, it's a wonder they shared it with outsiders.
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  222. It is truly incredible that so much history hinged on the life of this honorable fellow that is relatively unknown today. Even as an American I owe him a debt of gratitude due to his role in sealing and reissuing the Magna Carta, which has been so influential in shaping our own conception of Anglo-American law. You have done us all a huge favor in bringing his story to life here, thanks Dan.
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  223. Great content. This brings into mind the connection of the agogi of Sparta, the Wolfskin-wearing Roman Velite Skirmishers and the Viking Beserkers even if they are all separated by so much distance. Keep it up.
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  224. That was a fascinating documentary. The fact that all modern horses are descended from the steppe warriors' horses was amazing
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  225. This story is better than anything Hollywood could come up with.
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  226. If I had had you as my professor in college, this would’ve been far and away my favorite class!
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  227. If Botai horses were not domesticated then we need not assume Przewalski's horses were ever domesticated since they descend from Botai horses. The big DNA paper looking at steppe horse DNA has been in the pipeline since 2018 and still isn't published but when it is out we will know for sure whether modern horse breeds descend from WSH horses and that will be very telling in regards to who domesticated them. As for mounted warfare - i don't believe WSH used horses in battle either. I think they would be perfect for scouting and also as symbols of power to intimidate enemies though.
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  228. I am very impressed by the respect you have for ancient cultures and beliefs - you never denigrate how societies from back then considered things, such as smithing/metalworking and the perceived metaphysics surrounding it. You speak about it as if it's a perfectly legitimate worldview and I appreciate that greatly; I feel it communicates a tremendous, and proper, amount of respect to those that came before us. It respects the logic they had, and showcases how sensible the way they interacted with their world was. Cheers, Mr. Davis. Phenomenal work specifically relating to the topic, too.
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  229. this is one of the most amazing documentaries about Otzi i've seen!! didn't even realized it was almost 45min long, i was so captivated by the narration and care given to the info provided. Me personally being from Mexico, i wonder what amazing stories of my ancestors have been lost because forests and jungles don't preserve their remains, and because of the intervention of Conquistadors
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  230. I just love your channel Dan. :D BY FAR my favorite channel that covers bronze age content. It's crazy how empty this niche is in the youtube history community, and you are filling it AMAZINGLY! It always blows my mind how long these periods of history actually went on. We have such a warped frame of context in the modern world of what 'progression' looks like. These people lived virtually the same way as their ancestors 50 generations removed. Can get lost in that thought for days. :)
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  231. Many years ago, when I was a little girl of 6 or 7, my father visited an old farmer (West Jutland, Denmark). I think it was to keep me busy so the adults could talk without my interference that this old man took me to two wooden chests that stood on the floor and opened one of them. It was filled to the brim with “funny” stones, and he explained that they were different tools. I asked who had made them and he replied "your great-grandfathers, thousands of years ago". I can so vividly remember this exact moment; I was so fascinated that I hesitated to touch these stone tools, and when I did, I felt a strange sense of comfort by holding something my “great-grandfathers” had made. To this day, when I pass burial mounds or stone dolmens, I feel an urge to touch. I have observed that many others do the same, some people even give old stone tombs gentle pats.
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  232. So we got a people of great Smiths, living in the moutains and mining precious materials... Wait were those Dwarves ???
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  233. Vaqueros, Cossacks, Gaúchos, Hussars, Cowboys, Cattle Drivers, all came to existence thanks to those peoples and their technology. Amazing
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  234. Bronze Age armour would be interesting.
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  235. Dan you make fantastic content. But. These bronze age videos you make are the absolute best. You're the only person ive seen who makes easily digestable long form content like this. Thank you!
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  236. Interesting hypothesis. An interesting side note. I read that Alaskan Indians have a myth that the "dog originally lived with the wolf in the deep woods. But one night, during the subarctic winter the wolf told the dog to sneak into the village of man to steal fire, and bring it back to the wolfpack. The dog was discovered in the village by the humans, who proceeded to feed it salmon, and...the dog abandoned its mission to steal fire, and opted to live with man, and has done so ever since. Interesting how the ancient Greeks have the myth of Prometheus (the man who stole fire from the gods), and Alaskan natives believed that an animal, in turn, tried to steal fire from humans.
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  237.  @DanDavisHistory  yes, our dances can be very slow and the bodies extremely close and interwoven, but also very fast, often the two are alternated. They are used for everything, literally. I find it fascinating too how humans can preserve such traditions but on the other hand, they are so powerful and primal, it's difficult to let them go. Btw, it's the same with the figurines. I know of so many ways of using figurines in healing, weather spells or personal spells/rituals in Bulgaria, that it just irks me to hear how little is considered in modern science. Btw, huge thank you for your videos and research and the beautiful way you present everything.
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  238. Wow. Some of the best narrated content on prehistory online. Very excited to have found your channel.
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  239. The Marshall of England ! Amazing that more movies have not been made about this guy and his astounding life.
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  240. Man there is something to the Horse warrior than never fails to stirr the heart. The Freedom under the endless sky? Great video.
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  241. Thank you from Únětice, Czech republic 🇨🇿
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  242. The Shardana were possibly the majority of the reason for the Mediterranean horned helms, as the more we learn about the collapse, the more it seems that they were connected with the Mycenaeans. Not from bloodlines but through alliances, as the Greek sphere of influence formed settlements all around the Med, from the Iberian peninsula and southern France around the coastline, both north and south (but more predominately the north). Eric Cline's book 1177 goes into things quite deeply, and helps bring together many ideas regarding tribal interconnection and the reasons for the Bronze-age collapse.
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  243. Fantastic video as always Dan! Looking forward to the one on men's styles. I do talks at events on historical cosmetics in the medieval world and to fully grasp cosmetics practices it's REALLY hard to not "start at the beginning...." and give the patrons a 3 hour long lecture because it really does all go back to this time period!
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  244. Take a shot every time he says ritual
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  245. Thank you so much for this! Prehistoric and ancient Iberia is one of the most underrated historical topics of all. Original people of the Iberian peninsula and their wonderful art, their relations with Celts and Carthaginians, "the boring province" of the Roman Empire, the conquest by German tribes. I don't get why these subjects don't get more attention, but your video is that much more valuable because of that.
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  246. I can't believe I'm only just hearing about these chaps.
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  247. Us Indo-European’s are just tasty. It’s one thing to capture Europe & Central Asia, it’s another to do so while looking amazing.
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  248. It goes beyond even just Indo-European as seen with Marduk vs.Tiamat in Mesopotamia and Ra vs. Apep/Apophis in Egypt.
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  249. I've always been fascinated in the concept of myths and legends as some kind of cultural memory vaguely recalling the past. Discovering your channel which focuses a bit more on this aspect of myths has been a great experience for me.
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  250. I like the idea of them holding it up to the sun and going 'the sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hooray'
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  251. Bronze age weights !!!!! Yeah !!!!!
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  252. I love these "Old Europe" cultures. You always bring so many interesting facts that nobody mention. Do you plan to explore more of these kind of cultures in old europe? Are there any interesting findings close to today Slovakia? Thanks
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  253. Around twenty years ago, my father rediscovered the grave of my great-great-grandfather. The grave was about to be abandoned because our family cemetery is now elsewhere. But we were able to save the two-meter-high, 600 kg gravestone (donated by his eight children). Since then, it has been placed in a quiet corner of our garden and is a nice surprise for visitors.
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  254. Has Dracula's spirit come back to us!? Great video as always!
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  255. Almost swept away to those ancient times. Goosebumps and excitement running through me. Very nice storytelling.
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  256. A good documentary of Richard. There are some parts I wished you would discussed more but still better than most of the "History Channel's" documentaries. I was always under the impression that Richard was a great King and him going on the Crusade seems to solidify his status as a legendary figure. So eventually I read John Gillingham's Richard I and gave a more insight of his reign and more of a response to the critics of Richard and I'm convinced that it was ultimately John and Philip's collusion to sabotage the Empire and then Richard's imprisonment that destroyed the Angevin empire
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  257. I love Dan Davis’ videos because they don’t have a sense of academic pretension or fear of retribution in case of an error. They instill a sense of wonder and a deep yearning for knowledge in the viewer, and they bring what can easily feel like distant peoples and cultures to life in a way that is truly wonderful. Dan, if you see this comment, thank you for sharing all the amazing information and stories that you do with us; we truly appreciate it
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  258. One thing, I have speculated, is that the reason the highly prized copper axe was left, is that it could have been instantly recognizable as belonging to Ötzi. That if the man, or men who killed him returned with it, everyone would have immediately known what they did. So they had to leave it, no matter how valuable it might have been, to keep Ötzi's murder a secret.
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  259. Your videos helped me develop some prehistoric fantasy settings my players are absolutely fascinated by. Thank you for your work!
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  260. Those clay bullets were still somewhat in use when I was deployed to Iraq in 2008. I was stationed in a Theater Internment Facility providing medical care to Iraqi detainees. They would sometimes mix their tea with sand, make it into a ball, and leave it out in the sun to bake. Most of the time, they used them to lob messages back and forth between separate compounds, but they did occasionally use them as weapons, throwing them at us from time to time.
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  261. Hell yeah! New Dan Davis just dropped
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  262. Really interesting. I think the Bronze age history of Britain is a fascinating story of waves of invasion. But I can't help but wonder what happened before all this.. I'm talking of the history of Doggerland and the deep dark ice ages. As I live near Creswell crags, I know where I live these stories go back into even deeper histories, of people arriving between one ice age and the next. If you could do a video about these people that would be amazing. Although I know we know very little about them. But very interesting, thank you.
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  263. Oh, that's where you got your twin characters from. One was God born and one was mortal born. Interesting video. I love this kind of thing.
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  264. Wow! This was great. I can't believe all of the political machinations and reversals of fortune! All you ever hear about Vlad is the impaling, but after watching this I found him to be a much more sympathetic, and even heroic person. I was really looking forward to this one, and it was even better than I expected. Great job! Thanks for your time and effort.
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  265. In mid December 2019 I was working in a ravine called Grimes gill with another lad, dry stone walling in some strong wind and rain. At one point the wind carried the sound of barking hounds but neither of us could see a hunting party or people up the isolated gill. We both shrugged our shoulders and didn't think much more of it. It was only later when reading a story about the wild hunt that I found it more queer, also more peculiar as Grim is another name for Odin and we were in Grimes Gill 🤔 great video as usual, brilliant analysis and perspectives
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  266. A salute to our Yamnaya forefathers.
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  267. I've seen the shaved heads of the Minoans sometimes depicted as a type of hair net or skull cap that covered the head but had some holes allowing the hair to flow out. It seems far more likely that the bluish parts do represent shaved heads as stated in the video. It would have to be very close fitting to an uncomfortable degree to be some type of head covering. It would also be irritating to wear in the climate of the Aegean.
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  268. Humor aside, I've long awaited a lengthy deep dive to expose the hard facts about these famous phallic nordic pics. Hard not to notice that your member base is growing, Dan!
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  269. Can't believe I sat down for my cup of coffee and this pops up. Don't mind if I do :)
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  270. Dan Davis, Pete Kelly, and Paul Cooper are doing what The History Channel constantly fails to do.
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  271. I ride bareback and without a bit all the time, you don't control a horse with a bit, you control them with their nose. Its not impossible to ride without. Maybe for someone who doesn't know horses. I also ride a dominant mare, the head mares are worth their weight in gold, she was search and rescue. Bought her for about 500$ and learned to ride on a dominant male gelding, and gentled the ex stud in my profile pic. I have some quams with the experts, I actually went to school for equine studies, and have lots of yeses and nos. I recommend looking up mustang makeover contestants if you really wanna learn about the wild ones. Bits also predate the wheel, riding did come first, I remember that test question in My equine history class very well. It was stirrups that were the HUGE game changer. Mongolia and Kahastekstan were the first to domesticate and did it around the same time. Many native tribes in rhe US favored mares for their overprotectiveness and willingness to defend their riders. Mares, and horses in general will lay down their life for you. Mules and donkeys, to the 11th degree. Even though we originally domesticated for food, they're mankind's most underrated and misunderstood MVP. Horses originated in North America, migrated, and died off, but continued to live everywhere else
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  272. this is simply one of the best channels on youtube imo -- will patreon support when a little more financially sercure in a few months. Incredible work thanks for doing all this synthesis so carefully.
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  273. Dan, this is the most in depth and fascinating look at Vald Dracula I’ve ever seen!
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  274. Fantastic as always. Makes me think of a small handful of men I grew up with who just seem dispossessed by modern society. In another time there may have been a marginally productive role for them. Today it’s a sad life of conflict and recidivism.
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  275. The business of a man is to be true to himself & others. And whenever possible, do it with style! (advice from my dad)
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  276. The weird prow on the ships made no sense to me until I realized they would often be beached, or dragged over obstacles in smaller rivers, or portaged. The lower projection on the bow helps getting up and over obstacles and also provides something to hang on to for dragging. I think this is also what is going on in the cases where there is a vertical strut between the two bow projections: the strut would be a perfect handhold for dragging the vessel.
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  277. When my faithful hound passes away she is getting a proper pagan burial.
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  278. This is the best theory of the BAC I have seen so far. Even if it's not 'the' event that kicked off the collapse, it provides an excellent example of why and how similar cultures contributed to the phenomenon.
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  279. I was shocked when I saw 6000+ years old artefacts in Piatra Neamt museum.. they looked amazing
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  280. Just imagine all of the different events that happened all around the whole world, - and all through each and every one - Otzi was always lying right there, in that very same spot; a silent witness always right there, somebody who was actually personally present through more than five thousand years of world history.
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  281. Stirring speech: "What we do this day shall never be forgotten!" Actual future: named after your crockery
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  282. The Bronze age is definitely one of the area's of history that seems almost out of reach, even people in the classical age referred to the era as the time of hero's (I could be totally wrong but the time of heroes thing rings a bell). That little aura of mystery and legend is very compelling. I will be reading this series of books after all the ideas are down for mine but not until. Hate the idea of even accidentally nicking ideas off modern writers.
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  283. Great job mate. This videos got me reading more on Nuragic civilization. Ancient stone structures is a real interest of mine.
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  284. In so many tales of Slavic folklore the cudgel is referred to as almost necessarily cut from the aspen. Having lived in aspen country, these references had special resonance. Young aspen trees can have knotty, warty trunks with wavy grain encasing knobs; the grain coarse, fibrous, long moist; flexing and inflexible, rebounding- shock absorbing and shocking. Deadly indestructible. Well cut and sized then perfect, large lump at the striking end--- small knots at the grip to keep one's hand in place. The bark goes cream to buff with shades of bilious green highlighted black. Such a cudgel one would never want to peel, nor could you such a surface--- pustulent, imposing. A deadly dealer.
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  285. Just did the modern version of one of these at work today. For the same reason. Nice to see that some things are eternal.
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  286. These Venus figures are clearly matronly (post pregnancy, mothers). What's fascinating to me is that these figures almost certainly represent individuals that would have existed within the community (everyone today recognizes this body type). The fact that these individuals existed highlights how successful these Paleolithic hunters had to have been. (If we were scraping buy, waiting for someone to invent agriculture. It would have been impossible for these women to exist.)
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  287. I forget which nation here in British Columbia it is, but there was a story about this people escaping from an advancing wall of ice; and the tale concludes that the people had to live on a specific island as a result. Several years ago archeological & geological studies confirmed that barring the supernatural elements tagged onto the story over the eons, the story had remained relatively true over an 8000+ year period of retelling. Oral histories are way more accurate than we give them credit for.
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  288. New to your channel, but I wonder if you ever touched on the myths about the constellation Ursa Major? From Europe to the Americas there seems to be a common myth about a group of hunters chasing either a bear or elk and this scene becoming the constellation. I really love learning about prehistoric cultures and figuring out details about them hidden by time. So to learn of another reconstructed myth that could have gone back to the Upper Paleolithic is really exciting! So glad to have subscribed to your channel!
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  289. Ancient Americas is an excellent channel and applaud your shout out!
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  290. Fantastic video!  I have spent a lot of time replicating Gravettian, and Solutrean tools, art, and material culture. It is awesome to see these fascinating people getting some attention.
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  291. imo, this is the origin of the werewolf mythos. Great work, as always, Dan. Thank you.
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  292. Yes, a video please on the stone grave mound.
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  293. I find the old civilisations of Western Europe absolutely fascinating, and I feel like for a very long time, they were never given the credit they deserve as far as being great architects and builders. This part of the past as been slowly taken out of the shadows those past decades, and it is only fair (and great for us). Thank you for this video. This is why I love YT.
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  294. I'm a professional hair and makeup artist, and I always find historical hairstyling so fascinating. I really enjoyed this video. I used to watch Janet Stephens, and still reference those sometimes, but she hasn't made a video in a couple of years. Thank you for this video!
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  295. I'm imagining the Mycenean kings during this time, it probably seemed like a flood of people. Many of them were armed and well trained. I can't help but draw parallels with the fall of Rome. To many, it probably seemed like the end of the world.
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  296. Thanks for the video! I remember picking up a book on Rais from a library in Loughton for about twenty pence. I wondered at the time why they were getting rid of what to me appeared to be a brand new book, then I read it and realised lol. I have often wondered just how much was true and how much was defamation for political ends. Some of it is so outlandish, but who knows?
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  297. I've always wondered if any of these young men found hunting and gathering to be more plentiful than raiding, and ultimately decided to permanently give up living among society to return to a more prehistoric way of life. Regardless, it seems that this tradition was basically taking a far older hunter-gatherer way of life involving animal shamans who'd previously done hunting magic and placed it into the context of herding societies, where hunting magic gradually became war magic.
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  298. I swear, Dan Davis is one of the best creators of videos out there. I jus love all of his work about the Bronze Age!
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  299.  @AmandaSamuels  I am Bulgarian, as I stated in my other comment, I know where the Balkans start and end, both definitions. This has nothing to do with my point though. I am not pretending that this specific culture is some kind of direct ancestor to the current Balkan ones, it would be ludicrous. But humans have fortunately retained in our corner of the world quite a lot of ancient rituals that are close to the those we have some pottery remains from, and that happen to be from this culture specifically.
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  300. I love that you are able to blend the uncertainty inherent in archaeology with storytelling. This video was very well done.
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  301. equestrianism and the concept of chivalry are deeply intertwined. many people associate chivalry with the middle ages, but it has existed long before like a thread stretching from the indoeuropean invasions through to the medieval period. the horse and it’s significance to human history is fascinating.
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  302. Being a ships enthousiast, and wrking as a professional boatbuilder, I rarely have seen such an accurate display of what was, might have been and could not have been about boats, boatbuilding and sailing with them. In particulair archeologists have a tendency to misunderstand boats as they rarely inform themselves enough by boatbuilders, sailors. My appreciation for this! And of course I would love to see more videos about these ancient boats!
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  303. It seems likely they were companion animals; given the significance of the sacrifice. It certainly would be a traumatic experience. Excellent content as always Dan!
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  304. I just want to say that this is probably the best way to promote a book I've yet to see. My interest is well beyond piqued at this point.
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  305. Nice introduction. The basic farmhouse design, with thatched roofs, still exist in this area. The biggest change is that wattle and daub is replaced with brick and the three room partition is reorganised. They average around 40 meters in length and are referred to as Saxon farms, however they are a historical continuity from the TRB culture to this day. In some rare cases the megaliths are still on the same property. By the way, you can combine the Swifterbant with the Ertebølle they are the same people just classified different by modern regional archeologists.
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  306. I have to fix my lunch first, but the moment I'm back I am gonna watch this. Otzi is one of my favorite archaeological stories, has been ever since I first read about him as a kid in my Eyewitness book on early humans - it never fails to make me emotional that we can look into the (admittedly damaged) face of a Copper Age man, and know we'll never learn everything about his life and world, but still learn so much that we never would without him. I wonder what he'd think if he ever knew he was now a planet-wide celebrity in a far distant future he never could've imagined?
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  307. Your description of the ancient soul is excellent. There’s often way too many modern assumptions baked in when we hear soul. There’s a reason why the soul is called the breath of life in the Bible for instance
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  308. There sure was a lot going on in Europe before the Romans. Alas, only with them came the practice of writing things down.
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  309. What people tend to forget is what is taboo to us is quit normal to other societies and our ancestors. Some commentors found this gross or off putting. I found it incredibly entertaining and informative. Thank you.
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  310. I love how you talk TO your audience, not AT them👍🏻
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  311. great work Dan!
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  312. The intro was amazing. So sad your books are not available in Poland. The video is great, as allways. Greetings and salutations.
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  313. Yes! finally a video on the Vinca culture ;)
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  314. Visiting West Kennet and Wayland's Smithy was legitimately one of the greatest experiences of my life. Crazy to think that when these were made there were relect populations of wooly mammoths on Wrangle Island.
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  315. Your documentaries are so deeply engaging, Dan, thank you! The narration, the detailed graphics - just exceptional! Happy to be a Patreon.
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  316. Very enjoyable video, Mr. Davis. I remember chatting with people about a Bronze Age European grave that had a body foreign to the local culture; we were wondering how it might have ended up there, seemingly buried with honor. Someone suggested the man was accepted into society through his service to the local chief. Interesting to see that concept expanded upon here! Top quality, as always. Cheers!
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  317. Very interesting! I am very interested in the female tattoos from prehistory and the ancient world. Can you please do a video on the masks of Europe? Where all the European end of year/early spring celebration of the evil spirits going away and the rebirth of nature with masks and jumping over fire. It exists basically in all Europe and nobody truly knows the origins of these similar rituals and customs.
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  318. I wouldn't be surprised if the first person to mount a horse, was a kid who mounted up on the back of their pet, because they didn't know any better. The horse trusted the owner, and the kid didn't weight too much to cause the animal pain and discomfort.
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  319. The Lake District has a unique variety known as 'Long Cairns', dating around 3700 BC. A few examples, notably Raiset Pike Long Cairn, show evidence of stone rows along their spines, and a staggered building process over centuries. Many examples have very close landscape features, either small valleys or crags (rocks) - suggesting they were positioned to overlook them. This may suggest they were built in woodlands. They're also often found in later Bronze Age cairnfields; areas where people dumped field clearance rubble. Rather than treating them like a dump, it seems Bronze Age people chose to cultivate landscapes away from the long mounds, while depositing smaller cairns around them as a way of preservation.
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  320. I actually live very close to where amesbury archer 's burial place was discovered. Beautiful sky, beautiful sunsets. I sometimes feel in touch with those of long ago who must have also watched the wonderfully beautiful sunsets. what a great privilege for me.
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  321. This reminded me of something I haven’t thought about in years. In wales there’s a tradition called the Mari lwyd, a guy hidden in a horse skull costume and a few supporters go around the village trying to get into peoples houses by challenging the families to a singing battle. if the Mari lwyd gains entrance into the house it and it’s supporters help themselves to the households food and drink, this is said to bring the family good luck for the coming year. Seems like an obvious connection.
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  322. Amazing in depth analysis of the man and his times. Finally someone broke the taboo and told the story of the sexual abuse he had to endure at the otoman court. He lived in cruel times and he had to be cruel in order to survive. Though he should have not broken the sacred rule of hospitality. You can't invite people for a feast and then impale them
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  323. 25:00 I work in the oilfield. I use a sledge hammer as one of my main tools. You will almost never find a sledgehammer out there that has not had the handle cut down to make it way shorter. You get less power from the swing. But it's an exponentially more accurate swing. I just wanted to add that to think about.
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  324. This era in Europe is so underestimated. This was a thousand years before Stonehenge and the standing stones all around Europe! And such an early admixture of Yamnaya - very interesting in deed!
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  325. Not quite a myth as much folklore but a group of aborigines had an origin story that millennia previously they'd lived on the did did a mountain that one day caught fire and their ancestors had fled through a jungle and settled where they are now. This was dismissed by anthropologists but later geological analysis etc showed that an extinct volcano miles and miles away had last gone off roughly 12000 years previously and there is been a forest between the volcano and where the people lived in the 20th century. Amazing how a story can survive for so long
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  326. When I saw the thumbnail and title of this video I was a bit skeptical and was hoping it wasn’t (but assuming it was) one of those exploitative, salacious videos from channels that hire some random actor to essentially read out a Wikipedia article and skip all the “boring” parts while focusing on the gory details. Imagine my pleasant surprise when I find the exact opposite of that! This is an extremely educational, informative, well-researched video. You’ve definitely gained a new viewer in me. The state of historical videos on YouTube can be truly pathetic at times, but this is the exact kind of content I’m craving. Maps! Successions! Detailed political maneuvering! Sources! Pictures of things and THEN CLARIFICATION THAT THE PORTRAIT WASNT CONTEMPORARY HOLY SHIT! You know 3/4 of YouTube “history” channels would 100% just throw that portrait in as a visual without clarifying or even KNOWING that no contemporary likenesses exist. It feels like you’re truly going the extra mile to make your videos actually educational with accurate and essential information. Awesome job!
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  327. i cannot tell you how much i love these vids,, but this one is a pure masterpiece for me thanks so much, i have studied Rodrigo since i was a little boy and have walked the streets of Valencia and Vivar and all about as a US Marine. and this vid just brings back so many good and old cherished memories... I also must say you prove Shelby Foote correct when he said historians could learn something from writers, for writers have a way of telling history in an easy way on the mind and much more interesting. i have read so many transcripts from ancient sources on many historical subjects, but hearing a story teller put all those facts in a poetic manner is so pleasant.
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  328. Schifferstadt is my home town, learned about the Golden Hat in primary school. It is on display in the nearby historical museum of the palatinate in Speyer.
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  329. My jaw dropped when I saw it was 43 minutes long! You deserve a thumbs up for sure, just marvelous
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  330. "but I prefer 'axe-hammers' because... that's obviously better" LMAO love your work Dan. Another great video, dense with information and your customary dry humour.
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  331. Better get a big breakfast!
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  332. I checked with my ancestors and we agree that this was very good! rock carvings are very beautiful, when you are looking at these works of art you can literally feel how you travel back in time. Greetings from Sweden!
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  333. Three videos in two weeks?! Thank you, kind sir! Truly a river to his people!
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  334. I'm always annoyed when modern archeologist put forth the idea that we weren't warlike in the times before recorded history. My response: Have you met people!?! All anthropological evidence shows that we weren't that different 6000-8000 years ago to what we are today. Taking that in to account what makes you think Ugg-Mug didn't whack Mug-Ugg over the head because he wanted the shiny new rock he found by the river that morning? Or because his earlobes are too big (seriously, there are people that have been fighting each other over that one for a few centuries)? Disregarding the idea of violence in archeological finds is ignoring one of the defining aspects of human technological advancement. Damn, dirty, hippies :P
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  335. The "chariot first" theory for warfare makes more sense to me. Trying to fight and control a large animal by yourself seems daunting. Having someone else drive leaves you free to shoot and throw. It is also a much shorter leap from wagons to chariots, than wagons to riding.
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  336. Slavs had god called Perun. Today “ pierun” in Polish means thunder.
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  337. Hearing your reconstruction of the circumstances of his death, I think it's very unlikely that whoever killed him were common thieves or sheep rustlers. It seems to me like somebody had some personal vendetta and just really wanted him dead. For what reason, no amount of archaeological evidence could possibly tell us. A prehistoric drama that's been lost to the ages.
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  338. Fascinating! The Neolithic and Chalcolithic had so much variation in culture, both across time and space. And yet it is almost entirely forgotten today, only a few thousand years later.
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  339. I really never knew about Sir Francis Drakes moral compass I’m happy to know that he led a chivalrous life.
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  340. The bronze club being the famed vajra probably has some merit, although  every depiction from babylon to greece to india shows something more similar to a short trident. The club of hercules, ogmios and their equivalents seems to be a better match. More importantly, the weapon is unique. There are no other examples anywhere else in the bronze age of this weapon type. So this man wasn't just a member of a club cult, he was almost certainly the basis for those legends.
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  341. I've waited a long time for a very detailed video about the Bronze Age horned helmets. Finding this made me so happy.
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  342. Another great video! The Minoan women's dresses looked amazing. It's such a shame that with the rise of the Urnfield tradition of cremations we were denied an insight into late Bronze Age/ Early Iron Age fashion in Central & Western Europe. Something similar happened with the shift between Pagan and Christian burials in Early Medieval Britain. There is a wealth of information for the Saxons in comparison to the Britons for example. If only we had Minoan & Mycenaean style frescoes for Central & Western Europe during that era - what an amazing insight that would be! As for the suggestion at the end of the video, an overview of Bronze Age male fashion would be great.
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  343. I stumbled across your channel while doing research on the Tollense Valley battle and have since been going through all the content on your channel like a kid going through his Halloween candy. Love the informative and thought provoking style in which you present these videos. Also picked up the Gods of Bronze series on Audible and am 10 hours into the first book. It has been an absolute blast so far. Can't wait to see your next video, keep up the good work!
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  344. It’s incredible to think that during a period when chaos ruled, pirate raiders looted tombs that were already ancient, or captured a diverse collection of heirlooms from civilizations throughout the region, and created hordes of treasures spanning hundreds if not thousands of years.
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  345. Excellent video. Sometimes we forget just how much the English-speaking world owes this splendid knight for without him, England stood at the mercy of the Capetian monarchy in 1216-1218. Without Marshal, we should have had no lasting Magna Carta for it was he who ingeniously modified and reissued it—it was this charter and not the 1215 version which survives marrow-deep in the Anglophonic world. Also, I applaud the detailed inclusion of Marshal’s loyalty in the dying days of the incomparable and peerless Henry II. It’s deeply moving how the great king rewarded Marshal with a young heiress and the massive fortune that came with it, though tellingly Henry left Richard to confirm it—a sign of how the father wished to allow his son to ultimately gain legitimacy through the service of his own men. I sense more than a hint of Thomas Asbridge’s biography in this video and that’s superb.
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  346. Subscribed. I appreciate that you do not deal with the goulish aspect of this man and his activities but concentrate on the facts of the historical story so far as they are known. Thank you.
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  347. Absolutely brilliant video like always. I'm very happy you brought up, towards the end, how modern historians project onto history 'causes' and effects. To sya it is intentional or not does not matter, but like you said it teaches us as much about 'now' as it does 'then.' Keep the videos coming!:)
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  348. These videos are such a welcome antidote to all the "peaceful diffusion" narratives that seem to be put about when it comes to the spread of ancient cultures.
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  349. I've been a long time fan of yours, Mr. Davis, and a lurker in the comment sections of your videos just as long. I thank you for your work and for your ability to enrich my knowledge regarding the bronze age from not a genetical, but materially cultural view. Your work is adored and appreciated deeply by me, and many others who share my interests. With all respect, an aspiring archeogeneticist from somewhere in the Balkans.
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  350. This is standard (up to this day), the standard weight of the equipment of an infantry soldier going into combat has been and still is 35kg to 40kg (75lbs to 90lbs). The more things changed the more they stayed the same. Armor was one thing, then shield, spear, sword, axe, etc. Added up always the same.
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  351. Hearing you talk about William Marshall's biographer made me think of an interview, middle ages style, of this writer tracking down people to ask them their words on the matter, having to go to great lengths to track them down... it's an interesting picture you painted in my head, thank you very much! It would make for a good premise to a story all on its own 👍
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  352. Whipworm infection seems to cause the immune system to relax - which can often ameliorate the (often inflammatory) effects of other immuno-related issues, such as asthma and IBS. It's interesting to note that high instances of whipworm tend to occur when communities of people use a communal area for defecation. Also, some whipworms can be caught from livestock - usually pigs.
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  353. Totally Wild. I've slipped into that state in combat, it didn't happen to me until I'd been on a LOT of missions one after another. I hit a state where I just didn't care at all about the danger and just wanted to destroy. It was a very weird and amazing in a way to know that it's inside of you. I never ran from a battle even without being in this state, but once in it, well it was just different. I don't know how to explain it any better than that. It's also why I hold the Brass and Politicians who send us to war for all of the deaths. They scapegoat a few guys who go Berserk in every single conflict. I know two people who became their scapegoat after losing it. But they can't send men to battle and not expect the wolf to come out, because it will, at least in some of them, if they have seen enough.
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  354. The EEF (Early European Farmers, of which the Cucuteni folk descend) were smaller and overall more gracile than the tall, robust steppe folk, so yeah, Hobbitses.
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  355. They look like they're 'armed' with a little something extra. ☺️
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  356. The story about robin attending a bow contest in disguise is likely of Indo European origin. I did a blog on it
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  357. This is also exactly like roman velites. youths who skirmish before the battle lines, occasionally while wearing wolf skins
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  358. I like the style of these videos, lots of information delivered in a small space of time. I found you through Survive the Jive whom I've learned a lot from over the past couple of years. It's nice to see these subjects getting explored in such a coherent way
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  359. So called “p___s sheaths” have been documented being used all over the globe, and they are worn styled in a variety of angles, depending on culture. One could even consider the late medieval and early modern “codpiece” which was often styled erect, and even styled in tumescent form in steel armor, as being a relevant example. One reasonable possibility that would connect to the phenomenon you describe would be that Bronze Age Scandinavians used erect codpieces as items of warlike clothing, and so they would literally “gird up their loins for war” by putting one of these on when they were fully prepared for combat. Treating a sheath or codpiece of this sort as showing that someone was fully prepared for war would serve the cultural purpose of encouraging warrior champions to “fight fair” to at least some degree, in an environment when raiding was common, and it would also serve a narrative purpose in rock art and other visual portrayal distinguishing between champion combat or pitched battle where everyone was ready for battle, and other sorts of combat and violence in a maritime raid, or distinguishing between a champion in armor and his young ‘squire.’ A man who was surprised by raiders early in the morning might well have time to grab a spear without really being prepared for combat, or a man who was surprised while working in his fields might well have had an axe or dagger or both, but still be far less capable of defending himself than he would have been if he had time to put on armor. Overcoming an unprepared man would not show off your skills and bravery to the same degree, and so a brave man would have reason to distinguish between this kind of combat, while a man who feared being murdered in his bed by raiders would have practical reasons for wanting to grant more honor and respect to the warrior who fought prepared opponents. If the Battle of Tollense Valley is anything to go by, there was probably a really wide variation in the range of weapons and armor that a warrior might have to deal with, and so just using a specific type of armor or weapon to show warrior status, or the degree to which a warrior was prepared would be problematic. There might well have been warriors who did not wear armor for example, or warriors who wore bone, wood or leather armor, and at the extremes of “no protective clothing” there is a great difference between killing a young Koryos warrior fighting in a berserk rage in pitched battle, and slaying a man as he flees naked from the arms of his wife in a night raid. Wearing the ‘codpiece of battle’ and depicting this in art would tend to clarify the difference.
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  360. Another really fantastic video Dan. That quote from The Iliad about Odysseus’ helm is such a great reminder of why Homer’s works are some of the most important works of literature in all of human history. It is amazing to think that someone made the choice to include in their epic poem this detailed provenance for a prestige artifact that was at the time already a piece of history. I can only imagine what the archaeologists who first discovered the boar tusk helmets felt upon making this connection.
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  361. This was a great supplement to "The Horse, The Wheel, and Language" by David Anthony, thanks!
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  362. "They ate Horses, Sheep, Pigs and male Early Anatolian Farmers."
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  363. Him and el Cid would have been a hell of a fight.
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  364. It's so strange that killing and eating dogs is considered to be so taboo in the northern peoples, that it cannot be mere coincidence. There has to be a solid (almost embedded in the psyches) connection as for thousands of years peoples have moved with their dogs as part of the tribe. Also its notable that people will pick up puppies found alone and care for them. Especially considering, soldier's who often bring back dogs that they have adopted as puppies in war zones. Thanks for the video.
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  365. All this scientific data and researches gives us the flesh and bones of the events and characters, yet it takes a great story teller like you to blow life into it! Very nice narration. I also felt kind of emotional about the two broken arrow shafts with heads. I shoot traditional bows and make/repair my wooden arrows, and obviously they break often, and I find myself more often than not collecting the broken ends to repair them at home. And these cost 0.50c a piece nowadays. But back in the days, these stone arrowheads would have been of immense value, no wonder he'd carry back with him. It makes total sense. I imagine him at his campfire preparing the tar glue to remount those heads on spare shafts, or redo the fletching binds like I'm doing sometimes...
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  366. It's amazing how similar their architecture and art was to the ancestral people's where I live in the southwest US. Like the Anasazi, Sinagua, and others separated by 1,000s of years and an ocean. It shows how similar the ingenuity of our ancestors was when they had to deal with similar resources and climate. Really cool!
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  367. I've never even heard of the El Argar culture and I probably never would were it not for you, Dan my man. Thank you as ever for the fantastic video about an underrated Bronze Age culture!
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  368. average scandianvian man XD
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  369. Thanks again, Dan, for teaching me something I never knew. Given the ecological challenges we're facing, we have a lot to learn from episodes like the Late Bronze Age Collapse.
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  370. The brilliance of these vids is that they fire the imagination and evoke scenes of histories with no written record, but without taking undue liberties with the archaeology for titillation's sake. Bloody well done mate.
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  371. As a Croat of Kvarner bay this was extremely interesting to me. Altho we are indeed catholics, our famous local Znončari are the embodiment of everything spoken in this video. I cannot thank you enough for delving into matters such as these. I am looking forward to more videos! As for our own "bell-carriers", we have multiple bands depending on what villages they pass throught. Some wear flowers on theor heads, and some wool. The ones from my village bear oxen skulls with horns, their daces blackened with pitch as they attebd the villages by foot near the end of winter.
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  372. This channel is going to blow up. The visual and information quality is crazy good!
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  373. The Barons: "We don't like this John fellow. Let's invite the crown prince of France." Also the Barons: "Oh look, John's dead now. We'll back his son instead. Screw France."
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  374. I watch quite a few of these channels that do similar style history related content. I gotta say, the way you put these together and tell the story really reels me in every time. Usually I get bored a half hour in and half to come back and finish a video but with your content its like the time flies because I'm so consumed by the story. Keep up the amazing work my friend!
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  375. Patron Saint of Chads, why not just walk to Mongolia? Thanks for the video, it's always genuinely original history content no one else covers. Would love a William Marshall video but just do whatever, you made hairstyles interesting so what do I know?
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  376. Thank you so much for this video. I'm Georgian and love bronze age history but can barely find proper sources and detailed descriptions of my peoples past. I feel like it's a giant unsolved mystery which is ignored by my own people not to mention the rest of the world. Would love to see a video on Kura-araxis culture as well! Or the dozens of Megalithic city ruins scattered throughout the Caucasus.
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  377. I've listened to this video several times now. Excellently worded. It's like it comes alive in the imagination. Going to try the novella now. Thanks stj and the author
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  378. Another important factor in the wealth of elite burials is gift exchange. Such exchange could be from the chief or lord to his retinue, within the clan to reinforce bonds such as marriage, with the links reinforced by gifts, or as part of diplomacy between the leaders of different clans. Warriors might gravitate to a particular chief or lord based on the probability of being gifted with such high status items as pins, brooches and, of course, weapons.
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  379. Learned about Sir Francis Drake by my Mum as a child in Jamaica. She would always give us extra homework and caused us to love world history so much! Sir Francis Drake was such a fascinating discovery for us, we read, talked and sang about him. Still love history today because of her and Drake will forever be a favorite... So glad to be able to partake of this lovely piece!❤️
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  380. It wasn't that the village didn't need them. It needed them transformed, in touch with their savagery, or the village would be vulnerable
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  381. Neolithic/Chalcolithic societies are so fascinating - no longer hunting nomads, but a ways off from even the early true cities. And so many different ones, almost as if humans as a whole were trying all possible styles of truly settled life to see what worked the best for a given region. It's an underrated period of study for sure!
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  382. Dan, as always, great video. Your point about healthy modern people being diagnosed with scores of issues after a CT scan made me smile, but it’s also a great way to give your viewers perspective. It’s easy to view an historical record in absolute terms, but taking a step back gives us a better sense for a person or issue’s complexity. Keep up the good work!
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  383. Thank you! I live in Germany and visited the places you mentioned. Also Landesmuseum Halle/ Saale, which i can highly recommend. Very interesting and suitable for the whole Family.
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  384. THIS. IS. FASCINATING. I've always been intrigued by ancient cultures, and I wonder often how many incredible stories they had to tell that just got lost to the flow of time. And wouldn't you know it, but I'm also writing fantasy and sci-fi! So yeah, I think I might have just stumbled across a new favorite channel. Thanks Dan! *proceeds to binge these videos with reckless abandon*
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  385. Many years ago(I'm 82), My then wife and I had a foreign exchange student for a year who was from Valencia. She was a joy to live with. This video brought back some nice memories of a time long ago. Thank you for bringing back those memories.
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  386. Gilles de Rais actually reminds me a lot of Gacy. He was involved in politics, he was known around town, a showman of sorts with his clown gig and his construction business. He also reminds me of Dean Corll "the Candyman", who used 2 young men to lure boys into his trap.
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  387. The "Western Steppe Herders like the Yamnaya and related groups" :: were they the people who brought the Common Indo-European language into Europe?
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  388. Oddly enough, I never considered the mining question, when thinking about the 'Bronze age'. I had no idea, that there were actual, tangible remnants of mining operations of that scale from so far back! Fascinating. I live in a region with lots of mining history in Germany, so I otherwise know my way around the topic a bit. The guide of a 18th/19th century copper mine I visited here, mentioned the indicator plant thing as well. It's truly astounding to consider, that 4000 years of civilization later, copper mining was still done in pretty much the same fashion. Aside from steel tools, the process was probably very similar. And similarly gruelling work as well.
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  389. A future video discussing the Eastern "Heryos" of the Fatyanovo, Sintashta and Andronovo would be great! Thanks mate. Your books are wonderful. It's funny, before STJ made me aware of you, I had been working for several years on creating a historical-fantasy world based on this exact time of history and centered around the early Indo-European peoples. As well as some other elements too. Truly love your work.
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  390. I live in Norrköping, which is apparently the city with the most rock carvings in the entire world (over 7000), according to Norrköping municipality. I've visited the Himmelstalund area many times and seen the petroglyphs there on a number of occasions. They look very much like the ones shown in the video, however I can't recall ever seeing any phalluses in any of the depictions. I'll have to check extra carefully next time I take my dog for a walk there. Great video!
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  391. This is such a heavy topic. Seriously, bronze is about 7.7 times as dense as water.
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  392. Great doc Dan. The terminology for longbarrows and related tombs is a nightmare minefield. Even in Britain the terms barrow, cairn, howe, tomb and dolmen are used interchangeably, and that's just among academics! Now that scholarship is even more international, it makes it even more confusing. While we took the Breton word "dolmen" for smaller megalithic tombs, or the stone tomb sections of large longbarrows, in Brittany itself dolmen is used just for freestanding small chambers and sometimes for the elongated versions of these which are intermediary between the small dolmens and later large passage tombs, but sometimes they are called Allée couverte (covered alleys) whereas the larger tombs are either called tertre or tumuli - not consistently - but tertre is supposed to be a type of Neolithic barrow that is more round, according to some, yet for eg. the Kerlescan Tumulus is also known as the tertre du Manio and yet it is described by British archaeologists as a "long barrow" since at least 1868!! Here in UK we can be sure that no one will call for eg. Maeshowe a longbarrow, but it seems to me as much like one as some of the things on the continent that get called such.
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  393. That's so strange, the "thunder stone" myth is, or was, very common all the way here in Brazil. The older people that had them always kept the stones in their homes as some sort of protection against lightning. The knowledge and the tradition probably came with the colonizers some five hundred years ago.
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  394. I wonder if it was more common to get hit by lightning out on the steppes and plains. Which might explain why a culture would have a lightning god as its main deity
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  395. They are called ' CĂLUȘARI' in romanian and never had a dark conotation . The name itself comes from the Romanian word " CAL " which translated means " horse" . They formed a sworn brotherhood of nine young chaste men and an older leader and up until modern times they formed the smallest unit in any army , a group of ten men . They had to stay inside this secret group for nine years and during certain period of the year they performed ritual dances in order to exorcise all sort of illnesses through music and special rithmic dances. The whole thing is pretty well documented due to the fact that the Orthodox Church was not as predominant as many thinks
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  396. Wow! I've never even heard of him until now! So glad I stumbled upon it, and your channel. I don't see why a bard wouldn't pull stories from history to weave into their characters, modern storytellers do the same. I'm not much of a vampire fan, but I appreciate that your writing draws upon historical fact and figures. Thanks for this! You got a sub up.
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  397. This has quickly become one of my favourite channels on YouTube. The information you relay is enormously valuable and insightful, carrying on, to a certain degree, the traditions of those who came before and gave us the foundation of what we have today.
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  398. I was lucky to see one of these hats and other 'golden clothes' last month at the museum of antiquities in Leiden in the Netherlands. Very cool!
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  399. Always a great day when Dan posts a new video! It's such a blessing to live in the times we do now, free to explore the past in ways out ancestors could only dream of.
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  400. The Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age videos are unmatched on Youtube keep it up. :D
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  401. Having studied the bronze age collapse quite a bit, that was a surprisingly enlightening video. I feel like parts of the story just became a lot more visible
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  402. All those cave art in different parts of the world at various times show how ancient people longed for preserving their views and life events. It's totally amazing.
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  403. I’m transfixed by this koryos series. It’s a concept that really allows your imagination to run wild. I could imagine how outsiders (perhaps groups of other Bronze Age Indo-Europeans) perceiving the koryos on the hunt would help in the formation of the cultural concept that the war band embodies an army of the dead or channels the spirits of dead ancestors. Another really great video
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  404. Dan you do such great high quality work, I really appreciate you do all of these narrations yourself and havn't gone down the AI route so many others have. Looking forward to listening to this!
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  405. It's neat to find a popular channel before it's popular. Great video, loved it, really opened my eyes to an under-appreciated portion of history. As a person of european descent, it always struck me as odd that my ancestors were just doing nothing for so long, but it appears that wasn't the case.
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  406. I picked up The Living Goddesses by Marija Gimbutas. It's a great read and it offers an in depth exploration of, what she calls "old Europe". She discisses cultures like the Vinča or Cucuteni Trypillia culture. They are absolutely fascinating and I've always wondered what people from this remote period were like
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  407. The BBC could never make a documentary this good, thank you
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  408. The pottery reminds me of the Jomon pottery of stone age Japan. Also a very "simple" and "primitive" culture that created these works of amazing ceramic art that could have been made today in terms of creativity and style. I think any society that gives people the time, stability and peace of mind to make stuff like that on the regular is pretty advanced...
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  409. As someone who is very interested in the more material aspects of our ancestors cultures, clothing, hair styles, jewelry, tattoos, food, utensils, etc, this is right up my alley. It's good to discuss such things because it helps to give a more vivid picture of our ancestors, what they looked like and their way of life.
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  410. Refreshed memories of playing El Cid Compeadur campaign in AoE as a kid on the family 🖥️
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  411. I was researching Koryos as the prototype for werewolf mythology and this was fantastic to listen to. Checking out the rest of your work!
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  412. It's nice that all those archaeologists and historians have not worked in vain, and now on YouTube we are treated to audiovisual treatments of their findings. I enjoyed this, thanks.
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  413. Thank You Dan for this marvelous documentary. My husband wrote the book, The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake (by Samuel Bawlf) mentioned by @bietuns earlier in this comment section. He was passionate about Drake's historical voyages since his childhood. Thoroughly enjoyed this. He would have enjoyed this as well but sadly passed away in 2016.
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  414. Richard The Lionheart has always been my favourite King of England, thank you very much for such an amazing work
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  415. As a native Vancouver Islander, I learned about Drake in school (along with other European explorers of Canada's west coast). The highest mountain on the island, at 2195 m (7200 ft) is named "The Golden Hinde," as Drake reported spotting it in the far distance. I think it's kind of cool that the northernmost part of his epic voyage was where I grew up and live! Thanks for this, Dan.
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  416. Yes, I want to learn about Bronze Age weights, scales, and standards.
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  417. One has to wonder how these horned helmet motif and practical examples evolved into the Iron age. The Gundestrup cauldron has a depiction of a man wearing a helmet very similar in design to those uncovered at Vekso. Perhaps gods such as Pan and cernunnos are part of a much older tradition. There is even a horned Viking depicted on the tapestry fragments located on the Oseburg ship burial, showing that the wearing of Horns may have persisted in Scandinavia. Those this could instead be depicting the 'spear dancer' motif
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  418. This such a powerful dive into our ancient diets
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  419. Awesome! Finally you made a documentary about this strange but impressive culture!!! Love it!
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  420. Charisma Stat is not to be underestimated
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  421. Love horses and how they played a role in our history. RIP to all the horses that died in battle
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  422. Interesting. Reminds me of how Sikhs keep long hair and combs as articles of faith and have a martial history.
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  423. The big problem with these videos is that they always leave you wanting to learn even more!
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  424. God damn, Ötzie was so damn tough, I don't know who he was as a person, but seeing what he was like, I absolutely can respect him for just his sheer toughness
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  425. My favourite film as a kid. Lived in Spain for twenty years and married to one, with Spanish children. There is no getting away from the fact this is an epic story. Glad Dan Davis did it as his videos are superb. And Rodrigo deserves it. RIP El Cid, we shall see you again when Spain needs you.
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  426. It seems so super obvious to me that the reason the Minoans were able to have such a rich and luxurious culture was a result of them having military dominance over their immediate surroundings, perhaps even the wider region
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  427. As a Romanian all I can say is congrats on presenting the real Vlad behind the legend, thank you.
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  428. There's supposedly a Greek proverb that goes: "Where there is a sea, there are pirates." These types of things tend to be said because they are true.
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  429. Fascinating stuff as always
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  430. This documentary is one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. I really appreciate your humility when you explain things we don’t currently understand about Ötzi. Other documentaries often present their facts with surety and finality but you explain what we know, what we might know, and what we don’t know.
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  431. YouTube recommended this video to me while watching a popular history video so, hopefully that means you’ll be seeing an influx of subscribers! You deserve them with how fascinating and thoroughly researched your subjects are. Thank you for your hard work and, if it’s any encouragement, you have at least one new sub now.
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  432. There is a rich full history of man that occurred before our known history. I believe the rule of ten applies. Whatever you think ancient man did, times it by at least ten. Nice video.
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  433. Thanks Dan for yet another absolutely fascinating video. You brilliantly capture the humanity within the history.
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  434. Well-researched, well-composed, and aesthetically pleasing, I like your videos even better than your books. Finding this much resources on such an obscure topic must have required a great deal of effort. Hats off to you!
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  435. I raised a dog from the age of 7. We hunted and we herded cattle together. When I was 19, my dog slipped on ice, fell beneath a visitor’s tires and sustained a painfully crippling injury. My dad and I drove through a blizzard at night to a vet. My dog whimpering, screaming. I carried him in. I held him during the injection. I carried his limp body back to the van. We drove home. We told my mom and sister who burst into tears. I wanted to bury him that night. So, Dad and I drove to the highest point on our farm. It commanded no view in the blizzard and dark. We cleared away snow. We broke through frozen earth to the loose soil beneath and dug deeply. We placed him and covered him. My dad in broken voice saying, “He was a good dog”. Returning home I went to my room. Lay down and finally permitted myself just one tear. One. (At that time I thought this manly virtue, not repression). Those boys were well practiced at killing. Having witnessed the slaughter of steers from my toddlerhood, hunted and sometimes killed sick animals, I’m confident they were fine with killing. I believe these boys were bearing the responsibility of manhood. Hands steady, their strike sure. No hesitation. What greater shame than two strikes? What betrayal to the dog if I must strike twice. What a burden of shame and guilt to not follow through and do it right. If you can’t do right by your dog their is no man to be found in you. Your dog fears death no more than napping. But aged with muscles stiff, eyes graying and easily winded; what troubles the dog is not being able to keep up with you; For to be with you in hunting and herding and feasting is All to them. When the time comes, a man does what he must. The old men know. As I chew the roasted flesh, my faithful companion and joyful servant joins my life as a man. My dear dog, what greater honor there may be, I am not worthy to offer. You gave all. May I be worthy of thee. I shall remember you even as I do my duty. These men knew fate called on them to give their life. They would go to their fate as willingly and gracefully as their dogs. And If fate should call on them to a strike a mercy killing of father, brother or friend, they would.
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  436. I Just graduated in archaelogy, my thesis was about the demographic distribution and the exploitation strategies of Natural resources during the paleolithic, mesolithic and neolithic in the north-eastern part of Italy. Getting to know what people ate in others parts of Europe makes me happy. Keep up with the good work you are doing, greetings from Italy.
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  437. I loved the movie Master and Commander. Now I need a movie based on Sir Francis Drake. What an adventurer.
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  438. spirits are thought to be everywhere (where they go on death?) + dogs became actual guardians of settlements = where ever souls go, dogs will guard. that really makes sense.
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  439. GREAT Video !!!
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  440. Yup, killing your own dog was certainly a way of hardening your senses, to bring yourself to kill others without remorse. If you did it once with something so close to you, then obviously you can do it again against those who are not close to you. By the way, a video on how, possibly, the worship of Wodanaz might've developed from PIE to Germanic Tribes would be interesting.
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  441. Thank you for this. I've begun to re-research an old manuscript to improve it and to re-write it. I've decided to put my Masters' Degrees to good use through storytelling. Lots of fertile, untold stories throughout the entirety of human history.
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  442. I think people buried food in antiseptic sphagnum moss in holes in the ground or snow,so I think the moss fragments came from a food rapping of sphagnum moss not from his finger's.a good example is perfectly preserved gigantic ball's of cheese found in the irish bog's perfectly preserved after thousands of year's,the sphagnum moss,because of it's anti septic/antiviral properties it was commonly used as a wound dressing,but also as a food rapper
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  443. Fantastic! So good to see 'cave men" looking so stylish! Despite the difficult environment, I think that the Venus figures show that these people valued, and aspired to their best life: beautiful clothes, ornaments, bodies. Their stories, songs and partying must have been amazing too!
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  444. I'd imagine that Europe is full of these cultures, yet still buried under the earth
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  445. Especially the last part drives home again how many of the "iconic" images we are used to are in fact 5-10% evidence and 90-95% artists best guesses... Which is nice, don't get me wrong but let's say we found only the hands of Simon, the partial faces of Matthew and Thaddeus and a section of table between them of Da Vinci's Last supper, would any artist reconstruct it into anything more than an argument at a tavern with it's true meaning, significance and grandeur forever lost to us?
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  446. Great subject, you tend to get a lot of El CId bio’s when it comes to famous knights. Great to see the Marshal get some more shine. He has a brilliant story
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  447. Such a prominent and well preserved grave. He may have very well been the original Thor/Indra who was later mythologized.
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  448. 7:37 Obviously took an arrow to the knee. Possibly not a "warrior" as such, but certainly an adventurer.
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  449. My opinion is if they were raising them, someone would try riding them.
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  450. Every time you drink a mojito, you must toast this bad lad
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  451. I guess this is also a form of Darwinism. The strong, the skilled and the lucky survived each carnage to go on to spread their genetic code.
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  452. I wonder if these rituals could also be tied into the myth of werewolves? Men becoming blood thirsty wolves, only deterred (or bribed) by silver.
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  453. God bless everyone! Thanks Dan for your hard work! It's really nice to be able to learn about historical eras that are often left out by mainstream history creators.
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  454. I had never heard of this culture until you made mention of it, and I'm a bit ashamed of myself for that (just as how I hadn't heard of Cucuteni-Trypillia). It's a travesty these amazing ancient cultures are not more well-known, and while maybe not that Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley Civilization get the lion's share of the attention, that Europe is virtually never included in these discussions. With these Varna artifacts, it's the first time I've truly marveled at European grave goods. Stupendous. With regard to their ethnolinguistic affiliation, I know Suvorovo is associated specifically with Anatolian or Pre-Anatolian Indo-European speakers by some scholars. Anatolia has become famous for its dearth of Steppe ancestry in skeletons from times when Anatolian languages were spoken; do you put any stock in the notion that it was amongst Pre-Anatolian Indo-Europeans that the model of "elite dominance" had its strongest showing? Perhaps this persisted into Anatolia itself and resolves the issue of why there's so little Steppe admixture there? Could the Varna chiefs represent the vanguard of a possible "Anatolian-style elite dominance model" for Indo-European language spread in the region?
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  455. Cucuteni-trypillia towns didn't have a central building. Instead they had a central plaza (maidan in modern language). Maidan in Ukrainian history (including contemporary one) is a heart of democracy, a place, where all news are spread and all political or economical decisions are made. So, maidan instead of central authorities building.
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  456. Blood found on Ötzi's dagger & arrowheads; almost sounds like Ötzi could be the earliest known revenge killing or vendetta casualty.
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  457. I wouldn't mind having pottery like that in my home. It's quite beautiful and very "modern". (Modern 20th century art was very inspired by prehistorical and "primitive" art)
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  458. Your mention of the hero twins in Indo-European mythology and the association of them with travelling and journeys/quests is interesting. The Navaho of the American South-West have a similar myth of twin heroes who journey to the place of the Sun (who was their father) and from him they receive knowledge and weapons to defeat monsters who are terrifying the lands in which the Twins live.
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  459. Thanks for this really is brilliant and informing for what kind of figure Saint George is. I hate it when people berate the English by saying he was not English and using it for their political agenda, they really do miss the point. Saint George is now part of our heritage, and has been for the last 700-800 years.
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  460. I'm surprised you don't mention the 'cults' of 'St Nicholas', still celebrated today in the Netherlands, Belgium and parts of Germany. Sinterklaas being an obvious christianisation of Wodan (beard ,staff and strange hat). He has his entry parade, riding a horse that can fly, accompanied by young black painted people that do cartweels and stuff. Brandishing their bundles of rods with which to punish those that have been bad.
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  461. I have heard of Gilles de Rais, but only in accordance with Jeanne d'Arc . I knew he was quite the war hero but I did NOT know this messed up life beyond the sieges and battlefields. Thanks for this very entertaining but most importantly informative and disturbing retelling of his life.
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  462. It's nice to have an actual human doing the voice-over for a history video. I keep getting recommended history videos with AI voices these days, and whether the information is good or not, I'm always so put off that I don't bother watching them. Keep up the amazing work, and I and I'm sure many others will keep watching.
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  463. Wow. Every time I start thinking I have a half-decent grasp of what was going on in the ancient world, I get a nice surprise like this. I'd love to see more like this, only about other somewhat isolated places. It's fascinating, how long-lasting cultures change over time, due to changes in environment or contact with outsiders. Cultures that manages to retain their identity, despite outside groups invading, always amaze me. I've paid too much attention to the larger, more powerful civilizations;, and not enough to the ones that didn't go out and conquer all their neighbors. How many other cultures have I ignored? No idea, but I'm getting more interested lately. I can't think of the name of the islands in the Atlantic that I'm thinking of, but I've been seeing videos about them popping up recently. Until those appeared in my feed, I'd barely remembered those islands existed...and no idea that they'd been inhabited for thousands of years. Humans seem to have gotten to just about any inhabitable land you can name, long enough ago that we barely know anything at all about them. I think it would be interesting to do a sort of survey of all these little places, especially the ones that haven't been studied extensively.
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  464. Wow - what an incredible story - I had never heard any of this before. Thank you so much, it was spell-binding ! This is wonderful history, and you tell it so well !
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  465. Could watch all day
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  466. You've a great way of making history interesting, the way I believe it should be taught, not always just believing, but also questioning. Good stuff as always, Dan.
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  467. I'm Bulgarian and was actually lucky enough to see this treasure live, probably about 15 years ago. It was quite amazing, honestly.
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  468. Well done! I am over the Moon to see William Marshall receive some recognition! I have always suspected that GRRM was inspired by Sir William the Marshal when he was creating one of my favorite characters, Dunk/ Ser Duncan the Tall.
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  469. This topic is a favorite of mine. I've always been so interested in this culture. I spent 8 months in italy but never got a chance to go to Sardinia to look at their tombs. It's on my bucket list.
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  470. Absolutely brilliant work. As an armchair historian, i love the journey into a previously unknown time and culture/s. Especially when they are revealed to be part of the foundation upon which so much was built. Outstanding.
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  471. I find all aspects of historic technological inovation fascinating. Bring on the weights video please.
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  472. This isn’t my usual era of history that I enjoy but I found this fascinating. Thank you
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  473. People who fall asleep to your videos probably do so because your narration is very consistent in tone and cadence. You sound relaxed, so when repeated consistently it relaxes others.
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  474. Most people are not aware how cold resistant horses actually are: the breed of the turkic yakut/Sakha people in north-east siberia can deal with temperatures of -70°C/-94°F, being outdoors all the year - and winter lasts almost 9 month there. The yakut cattle is extremly resistant too - although it is less resilient than the horses and is usually brought to stables during winter occasionally cattle escapes into the wild and survives to the next spring. I'm extremly fascinated by the yakut/Sakha who fled from the mongols to the north and adapted their typical turkic nomadic lifestyle to one of the harshest environments on earth.
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  475. This is incredible! I love reading on Indo-European mythology and gushing over all the similarities knowing full well the people who narrate these stories are related, albeit being thousands of KMs apart. I was reading on Mesopotamian myths and founds stunning similarities between Sumero-Akkadian creation myths and that of the Indo-Europeans, such as the slaying of Ymir and Tiamat, and how Odin and Marduk respectively dismembered the their bodies and created the world from those pieces.
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  476. You are 100 percent correct, just like archaeologists claimed that Ancient Man selected the wolves with little fear for humans that followed the camp, no they didn't they took puppies and the puppies had no fear of humans because they are pack animals same thing with horses oh, they killed and ate the adult and raised the foal which had no fear of human
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  477. It's great to see another video on an ancient culture that don't usually get much attention. Great video. Their burning of their homes remind me of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture. I wonder why so many prehistoric groups did that.
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  478. I must say that's so cool. When the people talk about Bronze Age, Mesopotamia and places close to this part of the World. Nobody really talks about other places having Bronze Age.
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  479. I've never heard of Gilles de Rais which, is why I clicked on the video. It is very informative and interesting.
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  480. This is some of the best content on YouTube ever! I have watched this video more than ten times now. Thank you for putting so much effort into presenting this fascinating story.
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  481. After Ive had a bad week, seeing this kind of content really grounds me and brings me back to reality. All the little problems I've had really are nothing compared to absolutely amazing lineage and story we are all a part of. People nowadays throw away history like it's a waste of time. But perhaps its the key to some of the problems western society is facing today. Especially lack of purpose in life alot of youths feel today.
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  482. The Yamnaya were smaller than some of their immediate forebears, like the Dnieper-Donets people. Their large size was probably mostly genetic, from the EHG Dnieper-Donets ancestors moreso than anything else.
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  483. Mad respect to you Dan. You are a man to look up to. I am shocked one single individual can be so damn good at both scholarship, artistry and communication. Your name will live on, your ancestors are honoured and proud. I trully hope you are getting all the glory, gold, women and followers you deserve. Thanks for your immense contribution to the spread of knowledge among us lay folks. Your content is nothing short of a treasure. Also, your books are real page turners, I am addicted to it.
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  484. Along with "HomeTeam History" and the "Fall of Civilizations" podcast, this channel has made the top 3 on my favorite history channels list on YouTube. Love this content!!
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  485. I have always seen the Sumerian army depicted in stele described as a phalanx or less often as a shieldwall so it's interesting to see that such descriptions are open to interpretation. I wonder how well trained a Sumerian force would've been in combat. Considering the numerous accounts of their defeats by mountain tribes it would seem that perhaps it wasn't as well trained or motivated as a name like 'phalanx' (which tends to conjure up images of Alexander's army) would have people believe. On another note, I was lucky enough to see the Standard of Ur and the golden helmet in the British museum a few years back. Amazing artefacts. I also wonder, despite being the earliest civilization, why Sumer hasn't really penetrated the public consciousness much. I can't think of any representation of Sumer in pop culture - not in novels, comics, films, TV, or games, unless it's a passing mention - they never take centre stage. Another excellent and informative video too.
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  486. It's a wonder, modern civilization ever developed, isn't it? I mean, surviving would have been hard enough, as it it...if you add in warfare and horrific diseases like this...it's pretty marvelous, we even survived as a species, never mind managed to built large cities and invent technologies.
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  487. 1. Thank you for this awesome video! I simply love ancient history very much. 2. Fun facts about Cyprus from German documentary "Das Bronzekartell": - One mine in Cyprus ist active for about 7000 years until today - It's estimated that Cyprus produced about 200.000 tons of copper within the last 7000 years - mostly without any machinery - The cooper of the Uluburu shipwreck has been matched to a cypriotic cooper mine via radioisotopes (see Das Bronzekartell) - My fav one: Cyprus mines melted the cooper directly on the Cyprus, burning EVERY available tree on the island - at least 13!!! times
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  488. Really love the narration in the beginning man it's obvious you're a novelist. You have a talent for storytelling
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  489. The story is absolutely insaneeee. Listened to it as a bed time story and now Im wide awake in awe
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  490. humans and physical attraction, an age old tradition that each generation thinks it invented. Love your work and I am grateful you publish it.
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  491. As an Englishman this moved me I love our rich history so much. What a time to be alive! Thanks for the video
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  492. Dan, I just want to thank you for your very enlightening and educational videos. You have opened up an area of history that I previously thought was of little importance in the Steppe region, but I have now come to realize just how enormous an impact these waves of destructive creation have had on the world.
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  493. So you can sword fight while you sword fight
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  494. Somewhere in Central Asia, ~3000 BC “Guys, if it worked on horses, why wouldn’t it work on tigers?!”
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  495. Brilliant. Came for the Kurgan memes (there can be only one) but stayed for the evocative narration of this revered Yamnaya hero and his people's story - left in the earth. Bloody awesome.
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  496. the defeat of chaos is really important to Indo European cultures.
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  497. What a great video. Can you even imagine what a global treasure that site would have been if left in its natural state? I fully understand its sacrifice for the advancement of western civilization, but as an amateur Geologist, I am also aware of that magnificence that amount of malachite and azurite would have been.
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  498. I find the meeting point between farmers and hunter gatherers a fascinating topic. I've often wondered how long hunter gatherers survived in Britain and whether, in fact, there may have been pockets of people living in that manner in wilder areas until relatively recently alongside the established history of settled peoples abiding by the dominating cultures we visualise. I wonder too about diplomacy and trading between these groups. The offering of milk to maintain relations with folkloric entities (such as hobs, an illusive tutelary spirit seen to act as guardians of localities in the North of England with counterparts right across Europe) is a recurring theme and I wonder whether these beliefs may have been derived from the means by which settled pastoralists kept surrounding hunter gatherers on good terms, and perhaps persuaded them not to hunt their livestock [since milk is one thing a hunter gatherer cannot find by other means]. Thanks for the insights you share here, I very much appreciate your middle-road approach, well researched yet sharing your own thoughts too.
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  499. True berserking have someting to do with elevated level of adrenaline. This pushes pain and fear aside, gives additional strength and makes time go slower.
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  500. I've seen a LOT of videos on Otzi but none have tied it together as coherently and imaginatively. I hope 🤞🤞🤞🤞to teach an Anthropology course next year and this would be an excellent way to discuss the Neolithic/ Bronze Age transition as well as the breadth of information we can now access through the archaeological sciences.
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  501. God bless Romania and it's people!
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  502. I think this guy is a legend partly because he not only had plenty of victories and against-all-odds success, but several moments where he got to personally stick it to people who underestimated or rejected him. Isn’t that the stuff we all fantasize about? Having a jerk boss who fired you show up to a few years later to a job interview you’re running, and you get to go “Well, well, well…”
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  503. "The Cunning Headed Gent who's run amuck in Kent, King Louis best stay close to Mayfair, Ah-hoo William of Cassingham."
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  504. The Yamnaya are derived from the Khvalynsk Culture and earlier Samara Cultures along the Volga River to the lower Ural Mountains. Horse scepters are found in the Khvalynsk Culture as well as rich horse burials. Although the Khvalynsk Culture did not domesticate the horse, it is likely the horse was revered as scepters, or staffs are signs of power. Horses have always been expensive and only the elite could afford to maintain them as well be trained to use them in warfare. Samara Culture has horse burials as well. Obviously, this would be a sign of respect or reverence for the animal versus just using it as a meat source. R1b is typical of Samara, Dneiper-Donets, Late Repin, or Khvalynsk Cultures. Interestingly, R1b is found in proto-Tocharian cultures farther to the east. R1a is predominantly found in Corded Ware Culture as well the back migration of Corded Ware to Arkaim-Sintashta Culture. I find it interesting that Nordic Mythology has a lot of similarities with Rig Veda or Hindu mythologies as well as R1a being more common in India and Iran than in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Spain, France, and northern Italy. R1b is mostly found today with Bashkirs (near the homeland of R1b between the Volga and Ural Rivers) and Western Europe.
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  505. Explains why all the tombs in Lycia i visited were empty. Think those tombs you showed at the end are at Tlos?
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  506. I wanna say thank you, I had pneumonia over Christmas and into February and in the time I was awake I watched lots of your content it is fascinating. I'm lucky to be based in Dover at the moment and as you know there's many historical sites locally and I can look at it all with a greater knowledge thanks to you. YouTube is something else mate, thanks again.
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  507. I am torn between the time you spend educating us on civilizations of the past and wanting you to continue writing further novels in your Gods of Bronze and Vampire immortal Knight series. Your talent is being spread so far. I love it.
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  508. The last bit about connecting warriors, canoes, social structure and production structure was brilliant.
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  509. If I remember correctly, in Choctaw afterlife myth dogs are buried with out near their owner's burial location and serve as a guide as the spirit travels west. The log that spans the river has guardians on both sides (However they're not dogs) and the guardians would throw rocks and such to knock the spirit off of the log. If the spirit was brave enough and ignored the guardians they would make it across, but if they tried to dodge the objects thrown at them, they would fall into the river and be swept away.
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  510. Although I know I could not survive this kind of life, I can’t help but think that life must have incredibly beautiful. So very few people in the entire world, absolutely no pollution anywhere, very connected small groups of people living together. Of course it was a very hard life, lots of loss through death and illness, not to mention no pain killers.
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  511. I am simple man: I see Vlad, I click "like"
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  512. Fantastic as always. It makes me think about those families and their wagons and the love of vehicles. I’m sure those men loved them as much as I love my truck, I get a little bit of a sense of the experience when I’m camping. And I can imagine that cultural attraction transferring to boats and ships later on. Just a thought…. Keep it up!
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  513. Unbelievable how much history have been lost from the Bronze Age. I'm glad archeology is helping us recover some of that knowledge.
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  514. I am from Romania. I love the documentary! Great work! Thank you!
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  515. There is a saying in Dutch/Flemish "De beste stuurlui staan aan wal", this means that the "best and most insightful" people judge your from afar. Like in the comments, they always know better, yet have 0 knowledge or experience. But you made a great video as a response and i loved watching it ^.^
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  516. Absolutely fascinating. Thanks Dan for your research and exposition of it. What connection do you think may be between the Terramare and Etruscans?
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  517. Start as a bear cub, and work your way up to eagle scout.
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  518. You are a great storyteller, Dan. Not only detailed, but very pleasantly to listen to. 👍
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  519. I think a good piece of evidence for the early riding hypothesis is the high value placed on horses by Yamnaya (and descendant peoples) who were mainly eating sheep and cows. They were burying people with horse skulls and hides, had horse head shaped maces, and horse inscribed stones. Also the horse was very important ritually to the indo european peoples, with a common ritual significance shared by peoples whose ancestry split before the late horse riding hypothesis is dated to.
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  520. How have I not found this channel before? History is my favorite subject and this is by far one of the better history channels I've come across.
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  521. Love your channel, sir. You present information in a coherent and scholarly way while still being entertaining, but without all the silly gimmicks that another channel might employ for shock value. Thank you and please don't stop! Cheers from Florida.
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  522. This is one of my favourite short quotes about chariot fighters:  "... by daily training and practice they attain such proficiency that even on a steep incline they are able to control the horses at full gallop, and to check and turn them in a moment. They can run along the chariot pole, stand on the yoke, and get back into the chariot as quick as lightning" (Gallic War, IV.33). It must have been a sight to see
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  523. Bronze just got melted again for other use thats why we just dont find enough weapon or amour pieces, Iron was less expensive and more common, they just made new iron weapons or armour. In the bronze age a father would give his copper stash to his sons to they coule use it time and again. Fantastic video. Congrats.
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  524. shared! i always debate, whenever we have a "sudden" collapse or disappearance, whether it was as sudden as we think. the archeological record can get rather compressed, and the difference between Pompeii (actually sudden) and , say, the wells getting unreliable and people leaving (maybe 20 years) can be hard to see after only a few hundred years. after a few thousand?
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  525. Thank you for a excellent biography of William Marshal a figure who has been sadly overlooked by many historians.
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  526. I love this one! Hair and clothing is something I'm always curious about, because it helps me form a vision of these people's daily lives
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  527. As a kid I watched the Stephen King's "The Stand". (The 1994 TV miniseries). I was way too young for it. Man, that story terrified me. It looks like this discovery could easily be turned into a ancient version of that story.
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  528. Excellent video, very interesting and informative! I can't help but associate the Nuragic towers with Medieval castles and watchtowers, at least visually. It's almost as if the Middle Ages got dragged back into the Bronze Age. When you mentioned the sacred swords in stones I immediately thought of King Arthur! The Nuragic civilisation was ahead of their time it would seem.
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  529. It would be interesting to see more content on the Sintashta culture, very fascinating stuff.
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  530. Fascinating, thank you! I think it's essential to involve anthropological studies in this (as you did) not because they can directly tell us what people in the past did, but because they can illustrate different mindsets. It can be hard to even imagine what it would be like to eat someone dead out of love and respect, but it might be equally strange for someone who did to imagine our practices - "You put them in a hole in the ground? With the worms? You monster!". Through the study of human nature and the past we learn more about our species than we ever could by ignoring it.
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  531. It's like an epic fantasy quest. A small band setting out to stop the enemy, the people they meet on the way giving them their blessing and help...
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  532. Excellently researched and thoroughly engaging Content. Everything that a History channel should be!
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  533.  @DanDavisHistory  That's the one, I'm given to believe it is easily accessible by boat which was the most efficient form of travel then so could have been used by multiple north European countries. Gets the old grey matter in motion!
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  534. Your channel has become one of my absolute favourites for historical content. Your descriptions of historical figures getting carried along by the momentum of forces outside of their control is so compelling to me, and that tension between the will of individuals and the will of societies is so fascinating. Thanks for doing what you do!
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  535. When times are rough because of corruption and lawlessness, we Romanians say: Cum nu vii tu Țepeș Doamne… Meaning: why don’t you come, Lord Țepeș
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  536. “Bronze Age Kings of the Caucasus”...that’s gonna be the name of my rock band.
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  537. Not being a show off by saying that I have a PhD In medieval history but I can honestly say that your video was one of the clearest and most concise I have seen on this period of history. Loved every minute and wished it ran for much much longer. Get some more done, soon. Please cover the guerrilla war in Kent, the siege of Dover and the Battle of Lincoln. A brilliant gold star production.
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  538. Great job, your channel has quickly become one of my favorites and has given me lots of questions to ask while I’m pursuing my degrees in Archaeology and History.
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  539. Reminds me of the young Spartans tasked with harassing the Helots. Explains why car ins costs our young males the most money also! These younger warriors might also be merely Cannon fodder.
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  540. I recall reading an article in an archaeology magazine many years ago about this topic. It's really surprising how widespread, both geographically and temporally, these practices are. The Aztecs and Maori practiced ritualised consumption of human flesh, but other examples come from starvation. I remember a discussion on the subject of Herxheim in a Stefan Milo video from a while back. I'm sure he was of the opinion that it was an example of mass cannibalisation of an enemy tribe, so it was interesting to hear another perspective on it.
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  541.  @DanDavisHistory  I have often said that antibiotic resistance in microbes proves the theory of evolution or the malevolence of the Supreme Being. Not really a third alternative.
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  542. The origin and expansion of equestrianism! One of my favourite topics! BTW, Dan, I'm a recent Patreon supporter who asked recently for a recommendation of one of your books. Thanks again for the amazing content!
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  543. Love these prehistoric videos. Always feels like peeking behind a usually-impassable veil
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  544. Greetings from Únětice, Dan :-) great work as always. Keep it coming.
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  545. Reminds me a lot of traditional trick-or-treating on Halloween here in America (not sure if it's the same in the UK): Bands of masked children demanding offerings and threatening minor vandalism if none is given. Also in Louisiana, where I grew up, the Cajun people have their own version carnival or Mardi Gras where mostly men dress in costumes, act wild, and seek "charity" from their neighbors. It's interesting learning about different versions from commenters here from other cultures. I hope these fun traditions never die out!
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  546. I believe in Caesar's Gallic Conquest he wrote about the charioteers causing quite a bit of panic for the Romans in Britain. Great content.
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  547. Mr. Davis, the podcast of the Lotuseaters recently did a 'contemplations' segment on Romulus, his historicity and the mythology of Rome's founding. I referenced you in a comment and there are many fans of yours there. A collaboration or guest appearance by you would be great for both parties and much appreciated by many. You're both Brits, so travel shouldn't be an issue. Food for thought.
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  548. Gosh! This sounds even worse than high school!
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  549. So glad we have someone covering these incredibly important but much less well known periods. These very early civilizations are endlessly fascinating.
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  550. I was just thinking of using cannibalism in my current novel. I want to avoid making it an act of evil but I do want it to be a source of conflict among various belief groups. The idea is very fresh so, who knows what will come up when I read more on it. Great content, sir.
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  551. Thank you, patreon people, for supporting this great site. I would if I could.
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  552. As a child, I rode horses bareback and used my knees and the horses' manes to transmit commands. I often use a halter instead of a bridle. I have seen people giving commands to horses with their feet while standing up on them and also using clucking sounds. A wild horse can be trained for basic riding in less than a month. Surely modern horses, even wild ones, probably have traits selected over time by humans that makes training easier. I suspect, however, that those traits were always there in some horses. While I doubted it until I saw it, there is the phenomenon of the horse whisperer. I wonder how that could have played into the domestication of horses to allow riding them. There's something special between some people and some horses.
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  553. Great video Dan. Werewolf myths are definitely founded in these IE traditions and ceremonies
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  554. First "professional" warriors could have been "second sons". When father died, 1 adult son inherited the wealth and the other one was given a weapon to sent to world to earn his wealth. It was more practical then splitting the heard and make both sons poorer than their father or giving it all to one and leaving the other one sour and potentially cause trouble.
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  555. I honestly wish more authors would do this, can you imagine all the information they've gathered? Storytelling is a practice as old as humans themselves, they are our teachers who devoted themselves to preserving and retelling stories. Sure it may not all be that way in 2021, but videos and channels like this I feel give homage to that concept 💯💕 Side note: I have not heard of this author or his works, this randomly popped up in my feed. I'm glad it did tho, I'm now very curious to explore his novels!
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  556. Hey Davis - I'm really enjoying your work. It's crazy that you've got less than 8k subscribers at this point. Don't give this up, keep this content coming. I'm a fiend for it and I know I'm not alone. The algorithm will catch up to you in due time.
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  557. I'd say that once horses started being domesticated for food that's when the riding began. It's a natural progression of human thought. Human wants to sit on rock, stone or log as opposed to ground. Here's a seemingly docile animal right next to me about hip height, I'll indulge my curiosity or your dare and see what happens if I do this.
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  558. Part of my family is from this part of Croatia. I know we always had pirates around there, but had no clue it went back all the way to the bronze age. Also never heard about Makarska hoard before. Thank you! I love learning about my ancestors history. Would like to hear more about bronze age in Croatia, east Adriatic and the Balkans
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  559. I come from a more linguistic background so it's absolutely fascinating to have a channel like yours flesh out the culture and customs of people like the PIE's but other prehistoric peoples as well. Love your videos!
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  560. I've been asking historians for a video about these guys forever and ever and ever and now you finally did one thank you I tell everyone the oldest civilizations in Europe not the Middle East
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  561. I'll take the cuckoo clock culture any day over being under the Borgias.
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  562. We should never assume that political or social hierarchies cannot exit without physical structures. The central spaces in the middle of the settlements were empty for a reason....there may have been temporary ceremonial structures erected there, most certainly some kind of organized pagentry. Who knows what kind of social and political issues were expressed there. Or it could have been a huge corral to keep cattle safe each night...
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  563. Thanks for the video. It was a fascinating watch. Thanks also in particular for pointing out details like the high standard of evidence at the time in courts and how legally difficult it was to prove cases of witchcraft. People today are apt to think that there was little due process or extremely biased courts back then, when in fact it was the determined legal shenanigans of the accusers that caused much injustice. A skilled and heartless lawyer today can oppress the poor and marginalized on whatever flimsy pretext. I'm sure many modern prosecutors make a decent income that way.
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  564. Bingeing the paleolithic content at the moment. More please.
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  565. Last time I was this early, it was the pre-pottery neolithic.
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  566. Best historical content produced these days. Even light years beyond what history channel used to produce before they jumped the shark with their hocus pocus shows
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  567. Brings to mind what they always said of the close connection between sex, death and violence.
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  568. Yeah. Good point Magnus Itland. I am also skeptical of the narrative that western civilization is a byproduct of the ancient Near East, then Greece, then Rome, then rest of Europe. There seems to be a misconception that whoever was the most advanced civilization at a point in history, must be the foundation for all future civilizations. So it seems some people think because the Near East civilization was the most advanced in the Bronze age, must mean all later civilizations in Western Eurasia come from it. Videos like this from Dan Davis, help us see some of the basic innovations (specifically professional military) which western civilization grew from, already existed in Bronze age Europe.
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  569. Would you consider doing a Part 2, looking at Middle Palaeolithic (i.e., Neanderthal) & Upper Palaeolithic diets? This was a supremely interesting topic!
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  570.  @DanDavisHistory  absolutely. Even today people will collect, sell and recycle scrap metal. And it could only have been more valuable to recycle it back in those days. It's curious to think that some miniscule part of my ancestors old copper axe can be in the electronics of the computer I'm writing this on, or the transmission lines for the power I'm charging it with.
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  571. Best bronze age content on the platform.
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  572. Oh what an unexpected surprise! And a topic close to home too, he said from the south eastern coast of Sweden ^^
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  573. I love these sorts of videos. The neolithic, copper age, and bronze age is largely ignored outside of maybe ancient Egypt and even then mostly centers around their pyramids, similar major infrastructure projects, and their ability to summon aliens to do their bidding. The rest of the world seems to be completely forgotten and the major technological advances and shifts in society and culture, such as the rise of a warrior class and advent of large scale warfare is forgotten about.
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  574. Superbly researched. It made me smile when you said "Gold cups fit for a king". George V used the Rillaton early Bronze Age cup as a shaving mug before it was 'rediscovered'...which sort of fits the sponsor of the video too.
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  575. Great video and I really want to thank you for leaving the death details out. There is no point and at least for me, I find it repulsive enough that the horrific deeds were done. Don't think this kind of behavior has stopped either. It's still with us.
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  576. The man couldnt have been ill, weak and old. He was found at 3000m. Most perfectly healthy young men can‘t walk up that far.
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  577. Thank you so much for your hard work, Dan. Your videos are especially relevant for the quotes you give from ancient texts, like this one 0:13 "From the city of Nipur an inscription on the pedestal of a statue erected by Sargon, says the following, 'Sargon, king of Akkad, overseer of Inanna, king of Kish, anointed of Anu, king of the land, governor of Enlil, he defeated the city of Uruk and tore down its walls. In the battle of Uruk he won, took Lugal Zaghezy, king of Uruk, in the course of the battle and led him in a collar to the gate of Enlil.'"
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  578. I come from a fucked up country were stray dogs run the streets in gangs. They are always hurt and needing help so I made a habit of adopting whichever dog came my way in need and had something between 3 to 6 dogs at all times growing up. I love them beyond almost anything else. I also had to kill many of the worst injured ones. The worst was one I had to kill with a machete, which was the only weapon available at the time for me. I was 13. I am 38 now and I never forgot it. Another bad one was one that looked in my eyes and feebly waggled its tail while I aimed the rifle at its head. Both died quickly but it was little comfort to me. I have had killed at least 6 dogs for similar incurable wounds or diseases.I cannot even imagine doing that to a dog you raised and that is perfectly healthy. Powerful rite indeed. It made me stronger though. Just the other day I came across a young seagull in a parking lot with a compound fracture on the wing that was festered and rotting and smelling bad already. I ended its suffering with my bare hands. Tough as always, but I never lost the ability do do hard things when inevitable. Like they say, some things either make you or break you. Excellent content as always Dan. Keep up the good work. And go work on those books, I cannot wait for the next issue of the tale of Herkulos. Cheers
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  579. There is an expression, a figure of speech, if you will, in English, that is “ to take up the cudgel” in other words to prepare for a fight or battle. That expression is likely to be very very old.
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  580. I've known about the Japanese myth of Orochi, an eight headed serpent slain by the storm God, Susa-no-o for decades but somehow, only made the connection to the other similar myths a few years ago. It blew my mind. While the myth is ancient, it isn't likely native to Japan. It was probably imported in the first few hundred years of the first millennium AD through contact with the Chinese who spread religious concepts from India. And so we have our proto-indo-european connection, all the way in Japan, so often isolated through history.
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  581. This channel sometimes feels a little...'tenuous', based on decision to keep writing novels. That's Not a criticism, any # of channels come & go for all reasons. Not to mention the time spent on book promotion could not be more minimal. Overall I find it unique in terms of the pre-historical content. It withholds some of the more "flashy" production with focus on a more casual delivery, which nevertheless gives the sense of containing an in-depth understanding. aka, thanks!
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  582. This is wonderful! I knew the Yamnaya had "a" mine, if not several, but had no photos or film footage or even a diagram of what the layout might actually look like. I hope sites like this survive the present war.
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  583. I was unfamiliar with the claim about copper being transported from North America to Europe in Prehistory. From a logistical standpoint it seems next to impossible for the time period. Thanks for the fascinating video. Bronze Age mining and economics tend to be ignored in favour of more enticing topics like warfare, but without understanding how technology was made and how it impacted society you can't really get the full picture with regards to war. The fact that the people of the Bronze Age steppe (the Yamnaya) were already capable of making an iron dagger centuries before the official start of the Iron Age is an interesting topic in of itself.
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  584. Can you make a video on the Ötzi the Iceman? There is some new research on his body and his story. Thank you for the work!
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  585. This channel has some of the very best historical content on YouTube! Thank you for your incredible work Dan Davis!
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  586. A theory of pastoralism for Eastern HG: The EHGs abducted women (as you do), who knew how to take care of the animals. Bride stealing has been pretty common (practically universal) between neighboring peoples of different subsistence strategies, and once the woman has children, it is in her interest for her new community to prosper. When the practice of bride abduction is ongoing for generations, it becomes normalized in both cultures, and it is not unusual for "stolen" brides to achieve high status in their new communities. This sort of thing happened as recently as the 19th century in the American West. There is a very good book, "Empire of the Summer Moon", about Quanah Parker, a Comanche leader whose mother was a white abductee. I recommend it. The book, not bride stealing.
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  587. Also, especially since you mentioned the Comanche, early horse warriors could have used horses to transport themselves to the site of battle, dismount to fight, then remount and ride away, rather than fighting from the saddle like you see in later cavalry developments. The Comanche used horses in this way on their infamous raids rather than fight from the saddle, and this is possibly how horses were used early on
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  588. Freyr, in his role as a fertility god, is also often represented with an erect phallus. As well as the obvious reasons for such, there is also the interesting concept of his relation to an older period in Nordic culture. It has often been theorised that the Vanir (Freyr, Freya, Njordr etc.) and the Aesir (Odin, Thor etc.) going to war, may be as a result of newer ideas entering into the Nordic sphere. The clash of a more warlike ideology in the Aesir, with the more Naturally based Vanir. The Aesir won out, perhaps resulting in the warrior based culture we are familiar with in 'Vikings', ahead of perhaps the hunter and pastoral culture of the past. But Freyr's appearance, and the appearances of the men in these petroglyphs, may point out a period in which fertility symbols associated with masculinity, combined with the warlike nature of the scenes may convey a time where these ideologies were in transition.
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  589. Great in-depth analysis on this, and a great supplement to your original Neolithic Britain documentary, along with the previous upload on the Amesbury Archer. I wonder if these structures represented syncretism between the WHG & EEF cultures; I see some of the artwork (which was especially good in this video) showcases leaders or ritual specialists of sorts wearing antler headdresses, which also makes me think of the apparent selection for, and preservation of, WHG lineages elsewhere in the British Isles (Ireland, if I'm not mistaken, and maybe elsewhere as well?).
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  590. As I read this again, there is a staggering similarity between Sirius (Garmr) called LOKABRENNA in Iceland and Sirius (Sharvara) in India. "Sharvara is identified with the constellation Canis Major, the other dog with Canis Minor, together they guard the gates of the netherworld, known as PITRILOKA or vaivasvataloka, which is the domain of Yama. Pitriloka means "land of the forefathers" (patrilocal?!). This reminds me of the old idea that the enlightened souls of the ancestors are the stars in the sky.
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  591. The Vinča culture is unique and very interesting. Thank you for the video.
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  592. Funny thing is that the Weald is pretty much still as you described it being... Just with more ale houses, and better roads to work as a highway man on!
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  593. The Maasai in East Africa have similar child-bands... so it's possible that such organizations are a natural result of the nomadic lifestyle, and not specifically inherited from the Yamnaya.
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  594. My grandparents were survivors of Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-1933. Horrible times, cannibalism was reported during Holodomor. A sort of Endocannibalism as you say. Desperate conditions of living, a struggle to survive make people to resort to a desperate measure in the middle of 20th century. So our Neolithic ancestors had their ups and downs as well.
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  595. 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.
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  596. Interesting to consider how the varying levels of assimilation [of genes, languages, mores, traditions, and knowledge] between the three European founder populations (HGs, EEFs, and Steppe Conquerers) would eventually coalesce/maturate into the great Indo-European civilizations of subsequent epochs. These events were truly transformational. Those early Bronze Age populations would never have imagined how monumentally impactful their interactions with one another would turn out to be.
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  597. He was ruthless and often brilliant.
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  598. It's really amazing looking back on these far periods of history. Our recent history as a civilization has massive, world changing events happening on a decade-by-decade basis, or even sooner. Even in the early modern period you had countries rising and falling in power in as little as a century; see Sweden as an example. But these periods of history that one may consider a mythic age lasted for as long, or longer than the time between us and the birth of Christ. What stories have we lost? What history was forgotten? Were there kingdoms? Wars? Heroes and villains? What stories did they tell each other. What explorers dared venture forth and bring back tales of far off lands? Sadly we have lost this information, and probably will never know. Something to mourn, I think.
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  599. Wow, I knew that dress style was popular in Minoan civilization, but I didn't know it extended to the broader Greek Aegean and the Mycenaeans as a whole.
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  600. With a narrators voice like that I want to hear you talk about "all" the people's of the bronze age. Please sir may I have another??
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  601. This was very interesting! I agree, Cassingham was a hero on his own merits. I saw a documentary that claimed that Robin Hood really came from Yorkshire and could have been two or three men fused into the legend.
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  602. And to think this beautiful culture was almost forgotten forever. I'm upset that I was never taught about them in school, we learn about Sumeria, Egypt, Indus, and the Chinese river civilizations but this is left out, always, eventhough they are just as interesting. Also, I was surprised to hear that there was some coexistence between the Yamnaya and these people, but that obviously didn't last forever, actually it ended relatively quickly
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  603. He would have towered over the 5'2" Neolithic farmer though.
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  604. I am Afghan and the word literally means "Horsemen" in Persian because the Sassanian knew we had the best breed of horses and were excellent breeders. The Proto-Indo Iranians (Aryans) are believed to be the first people to domesticate the horse in the Eurasian steppes, even the oldest chariots trace back to the Sinastha culture in Central Asia where they came from. In Pashtun culture, horses are well revered.
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  605. Thank you, Dan. One reason - of many - that I like your presentations is that you address, either directly or indirectly, the complexity of the different periods you research and study. I, for one, appreciate that approach. ;)
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  606.  @DanDavisHistory  Lets sacrifice somebody to apease them! Indeed I have already somebody in mind :)
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  607. I visited Great Orme a few years back on a whim to fill a spare afternoon without being aware of its importance, and I'm so glad I did. Incredible place and I'm looking forward to watching this video tomorrow. You always seem to do videos on subjects that I have great interest in, Dan! And fantastic videos at that!
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  608. As chariot warfare fan…this is such an interesting documentary. Amazing how much was going on outside of Summer, Akkad and Egypt.I would guess Hammurabi chariots to be like the reconstructed shown. Will watch again.
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  609. I actually visited his castle in Romania when I was a little kid...it was fascinating...very well made video, it's nice to hear some real life stories about my country 🙂
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  610. Total speculation (given the burial situation): these people may have been considered 'undead' on some level. Perhaps many had brain injuries from the original trauma. Loss of memory/concentration, diminished speech and physical coordination could effect a large number of the survivors. Perhaps they felt that the person who came back wasn't all together the same as the one they had lost.
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  611. You were recommended to me by Survive the Jive.
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  612. Both visits (to La bastida, the main city; and La Almoloya, the ruling place) are highly enjoyable. I strongly recommend to do both of them if one is travelling to Murcia region and is into archaeology/ancient history. Cheers from Spain! Un saludo, Mr. Davis. :)
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  613. The cultures that made up the Carthaginian vassal states are very interesting but there's so little said about them. I would love to know more about the Balearic islands culture.
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  614. Boosting this for the algorithm. It's sad how what might seem like commonsense (you get what you need from it's nearest convenient source, not the other side of the planet) is ignored by lots ot people when it comes to our history
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  615. I love the Bronze Age! It's so exotic, not just in the sense of distance in time, but also in how little it's used in our modern media, be it books, films, videogames. Very interesting video, Dan, and I appreciate all the work that went into it, great production value! I also appreciate writing books in such a setting.
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  616. This was really good! You have a unique skill at humanizing ancient life for us.
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  617. Thank you Dan. I am finding this video to be very interesting. I would indeed like to see a video on weights and measures used in various ages. Thank you all of the work that you put into all of your videos.
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  618. I don't know about dogs but wolves mate from January to march or in the late winter. The time most associated with Sirius is the high summer when it reaches its highest position in the southern night sky. Here too you have the connection to heat, fire, burning, or glowing (it was once glowing red). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_days
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  619. My master thesis was on TRB in Eastern Bohemia. I was really fascinated by TRB as well as Bell Beakers while studying Archaeology.
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  620. If I had to guess the Yamnaya provided horses and wagons. To the point they didn't conquer but united whole groups who for centuries could only walk to get information across. So their language became a diplomatic/commerce language.
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  621. I'm so glad Tom Rowsel recommended this channel
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  622. Reminds me of the story of samson, who was known to go berserk, raid and lootrival settlements, and whose power came from not cutting his hair. He only lost his power when he became married and had his hair cut by his deceptive philistine wife.
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  623. dog sacrifice existed among the native Americans. George Catlin described a Sioux ritual. A sacrifice of a companion for sharing friendship. Maybe it goes back to the ancient north eurasians. And thank you for another great video.
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  624. This debunks Arab nationalist who think Horses were first tamed in Arabia (they literally believe that)
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  625. I'm sardinian and I like a lot your video! You could have mention Mont 'e Prama worriors too, but what you said is so well detailed I am thinking you have sardinian blood too! And thanks also because you showed the Nuraghe of my village, Barumini (in the thumbnail too)
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  626. This should be shown in schools. Great content! You're a treasure Dan.
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  627. The detail on horse domestication in the Horse, the Wheel and Language was one of the best parts of the book.Domestication of the horse was the central most important basis for spurring the economy of the steppe people, from what I have read in this and other sources. I think it's what makes the steppe cultures so very fascinating. They were such innovators and this one thing changed the course of all of future civilizations. It's vital to the history of human civilization, so you need to devote enough time to sufficiently explore it.
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  628. Man this gotta be one of your best works. The structure and pacing as we arch across millenia leading up to Sargon and the pay-off 👌👌 You do have "profesional documentary writer" on your resume besides "professional book author", right?
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  629. This is my first time meeting another author who writes Bronze Age historical fantasy! So great to see. I know embarrassingly little about Bronze Age Europe, though. (I mostly focus on the ancient Near East, specifically Mesopotamia.) Definitely going to check your books out!
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  630. The best documentary on William Marshall I have ever seen. Bravo !Why the HELL hasn't Hollywood made a Blockbuster out of this story. Considering the Garbage they usually pump out, this would in turn be Monumental !
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  631. Many of the native peoples here in North America who captured and used the feral horses that escaped from the Spanish, trained and rode them without bits and bridles. They used a leather thong with a loop in the end that was placed in the horse's mouth for steering and control. Other leather straps were braided into the horse's mane for a handhold, and a simple pad and strap were used for a saddle. The person riding the horse invested a lot of time and effort into training it to work with the rider, just like people do today. Different methods, similar results. There's no reason why the ancient steppe people didn't do the same thing. The leathers would leave it no trace being organic, and it was more than likely only some people were of a mind to try the idea out... There's always one guy or gal who says "I wonder what would happen if..." So, I am of the mind that horse taming and riding was early, but the idea didn't exactly spread like wildfire until later
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  632. Stonehenge - not midsummer sunrise, but midwinter sunset. Brilliant series of videos! I'd like to read a story describing the travails of Doggerland people, as they cope with the aftermath of the Storegga catastrophe, and a video of the research that went into it. Any chance, Dan?
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  633. Amazing documentary, Dan, as always. As a Spaniard, I never learned a single word about Drake as a kid in school; just, from the movies, that he was a pirate and a buccaneer. I was surprised by all the parallels between his circumnavigation of the world and that of the Magellan-Elcano (el Cano) expedition 60 years earlier. Both Drake and Magellan faced challenges to their command from high-born people in their armadas due in part to a lack of clarity as to the chain of command, both confronted this obstacle in the exact same spot, the Bay of San Julián, and both ended up eliminating the challengers to their authority (Magellan had two men executed, marooned other two). After the Pacific crossing, both reached the exact same islands, both had the exact same experience with the natives and both gave the island the exact same name! (Magellan called it Isla de los Ladrones: Island of Thieves). I wonder if Drake had available any chronicle of the Magellan journey (if I am not mistaken, Pigafetta’s account made the rounds in Europe) and he may have just confirmed the name he may have known Magellan gave the island. I also wonder if Drake encountered the same troubles with scurvy during the Pacific crossing as Magellan. No one knew about the effects of carrying citrus fruits on board at either time, right? Then, both expeditions stopped at Ternate and acquired great amounts of Clove... I was also surprised of how fast Drake travelled the Indian Ocean and made it back to Europe compared to el Cano (who took 5 months, although he lost the mizzenmast in a storm in Cape of Hope and also went out into the Atlantic to shake off Potuguesse pursuers from Cabo Verde). Both el Cano’s and Drake’s ships spent 3 years at sea, being both brand new when they started, so they must have been equally deteriorated by shipworm. I wonder how much ships and the art of navigation may have advanced in the intervening 60 years... neither one had steering wheel yet, which was introduced in the 1700’s... The whip-staff (or gooseneck? for the rudder?) appears around 1513 in Spain, so Magellan might have already had it in 1518, but I read descriptions in which they seem to have been steering with just the rudder arm (tiller?), as they did at the time of Columbus; by Drake’s time they must have all been fitted with the whip-staff... Although in many modern retellings of Magellan’s trip it is presumed that they used the common log to calculate speed, I believe in 1518 the device didn’t exist yet... but it probably did by the time of Drake... They both had quadrants but not Sextants or Octants (I ignore if the English also used astrolabes like the Castilians)... Regarding the Invincible Armada, I understand that the Castilians meant to bring their infantry on board in Flanders, but weren’t able because the English engaged them in the English Channel (as you describe) and the Dutch blocked access to the Flemish ports (considering the ultimate outcome, if the Castilian tercios had all been on board, they would have drowned and that would have really been a crippling blow to Spain’s grip on Europe). From what I read, after several gunnery exchanges both armadas ran out of ordnance, but while the English were able to re-ammunition in their own coasts, the Castilians were cut off from Spain by the English fleet and from their Flemish safe harbor by the Dutch and became sitting ducks. If the English had previously been hard pressed to penetrate the Castilian hulls, they were now able to fire at a much closer range; then, as you describe, when the Castilians attempted to flee around Scotland and Ireland to save their ships, their armada was shipwrecked by storms. In Spain, of course, we emphasize how few ships were lost to enemy fire and how many to the storms :)
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  634. Holy crap. From my dutch perspective: The odd times from November to new years, the way festivals felt accros Europe, the way so many small customs and practice have evolved and continue to evolve The human experience across so much time and space I can't even I think I can safely say this video has deeply changed my view on life in so many aspects. I wonder what revelations might dawn on me now Idk how much, but I feel this might have a profound impact on my own grand story telling and world building near future projects.
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  635. The fact that he was so highly esteemed despite his disability implies that he was either a hereditary ruler or performed some truly impressive feats in his youth, quite possibly both. But then he may have taken an arrow to his knee, cutting short his adventures.
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  636. Great video. I love the attention you gave to the maps and all the persons' infocards
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  637. Thank you Mr. Davis. Through your presentations I’ve embarrassingly learned more about prehistoric European archaeology from you than from my European Archaeology course in university. That’s not to say I had a bad professor, he was actually very good. But there has been so much more advancement in the field since those days.
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  638. What a man! I'm lucky enough to have lived,worked and retired on his wider Manor! Great man.
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  639. Nice work Dan. Could you make a piece about his mother ? I'm fascinated with Eleanor.
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  640. Thanks from Poland👍🇵🇱
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  641. I was unfamiliar with a lot of the dates for the adoption of horses for combat, therefore I was genuinely surprised at how late in history mounted cavalry were used by the Chinese for instance. Same with the Greek Dark Age - I had always thought that the Greeks had adopted cavalry not too long after the Bronze Age collapse, but it appears centuries after the fall of Mycenaean civilisation for cavalry to become widespread. A very informative and thought provoking video.
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  642. Hi Dan, thank you, that was really interesting. It occurred to me another association between stone hammer/ axes and thunder is that, when struck, they would have emitted a spark. This may have inspired the belief, by stone age people, that during thunder storms, there was a massive bloke in the sky striking an enormous hammer.
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  643. I was wondering how you would approach the enigma of 'The Sea Peoples'. You held it lightly, and didn't force assumptions upon a period that is , as yet , unknowable. Good work. An informative addition to a period of history that retains it's shroud of secrecy.
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  644. Those female figurines are obviously Barbies.
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  645. Another great video! It seems you keep digging up underrated cultures from the time around the Copper Age, like you're laying down pieces of a puzzle that most of us can't see yet. It has been clear to me for a while that the usual few cultures found in classic history books are at best the skeleton of our civilization, that the reality is far richer and more complex. Seeing someone who is far ahead of me in that understanding is quite inspiring!
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  646. This is one of the most intriguing videos you've produced so far. To think that the Terramare culture would've played a major role in the Bronze Age collapse, and were among the mass of the Sea Peoples is highly likely.
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  647. In my opinion those exquisite head gear is all about the recognition of the user. They were all covered by theyr shields an even helmets, so visible head gear would make easy to identifie each individual in the field. Early Bronze Age was the time in witch the "Warrior Nobility" idea seems to have originated in the Mediterranean region, so, being recognized while doing some great deeds in battle could be vital to theyr cultural and social stuctures. Also, receiveing some "divine assistance" would never be turned down, so, they would honor the gods by briging a simbol assossiated with them to battle. Like it was for the samurai, a warrior nobility that rised in Japan much later, that used those crazy "Kabuto" helmets, some of wich had Shinto, Buddhist and, at least one that I have seen, Christian simbols. OBS.: the last one I have only seen one picture on-line, no references associated to it, so I don't know if it is true or a fake one.
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  648. Amazing work. Mining is a tough and dangerous job in the modern day. I can only imagine how hellish it would have been for people in the bronze age. It would be interesting to know what the average lifespan of a miner from that mine would be. I imagine fairly low. Which also brings into question how they would have kept the mine filled with workers. Obviously, raiding for a fresh supply of slaves would have been one way, and they probably did just that. However, I wonder if there was any sort of freeman, adventure situation which would attract people to the mine in a similar manner to the gold rushes of North America. People looking to better their status in life. Although, much of the gold rush was predicated on the idea of staking a claim and therefore owning what you find. I imagine the entire mine would have been owned by one elite family or another. In which case anything found within the mine would automatically belong to the Chief. Whatever the case, it would have been brutal, hard work.
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  649. Thank you for an appraisal of Richard from the perspective of his times.
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  650. Please do a video about Mediterranean Bronze Age sailing ships
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  651. Not only does this man take notice of his subscribers despite his channel's size, he picks up on a pattern and helps to guide us on what we may need, kudos to you man! On a note with the topic at hand, given how good humans are good at slapping eachother with various objects when disagreements arise, I have always been skeptical of such a successful civilization being "peaceful"...plus the Myceneans probably didn't just show up on Crete and conquer it "just because", they probably accumulated reasons from the Minoans yeeting sling rocks at them.
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  652. It is interesting to note Lupercalia was in February. The month gets its name from instruments used in the ceremonies for this festival called februa. So our very calendar preserves a reference to this ancient Indo-European practice as a hidden relic!
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  653. This is solid. I am not getting a twitch of nerd rage or anything. Pretty good so far.
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  654. If only two thumbs up were possible for this fantastic installment. You served the king well, bravo.
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  655. A video like this is pure gold. The first proper summary of the El Algar culture. Thank you.
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  656. It's funny. Ive been to 42 countries and caught many planes.. but yet I'm still jealous to understand the feeling of discovery these people must have felt ferrying over their livestock from Europe
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  657. Excellent episode as always! What a fascinating culture!
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  658. The perfect thing to listen to while firing up a new Dawn of Man playthrough!
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  659. Another unique and banger of a video. Great work as always Dan ❤️ Eagerly waiting for the next one. A probable video idea: i think history related to transitional period (like from Copper to Bronze to Iron etc), isn't talked about very much. How the cultures, weapons and armour changed, how combat, warfare etc changed, how leadership, ruling etc changed... etc. With your research capability and amazing narration, presentation skill...if there are substantial information about those, you will be able to make a great video!
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  660. Many years ago I researched Mitterberg copper slag analysis. Since then those old mining activities fascinate me. Many thanks Dan! Can we expect a video about tin mining?
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  661. Great video, Mr. Davis! I felt like throttling that farmer through time, that was a very terrible thing he did. Sad reality about humans
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  662. What an amazing adventure! Walking a knife's blade between the greed and the generosity of strangers...
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  663. This is what i found in my notes on the Dog Star: to pruzz. sari = embers; pol. zar = glow, passion; thrak. sartas = bright red; perhaps heth. jarri = plague god; oldnorth. surt, sutur (supposedly from svart = black, but actually from *ser-) = fire giant; Greek seirios = the burning one; Ital. sera, serata = evening(red); skr. sura = light being; from idg. *ser- = red, reddish, glow; urvew. idg. *ker- = to burn; thus the "glowing one" or "the reddish burning one". The star Sirius had in the Middle Ages still a reddish coloring (documented by a manuscript of Gregory of Tours) and was called Lokabrenna "Lokis Brand" in Iceland. Sirius, according to the Iliad (22,30), brings the fiery blaze and is called (11,62) the corrupting star. The Riddle of the Edda vol.2 p.180 "Surt comes from the south with scorching embers; ...") (Völuspa 39.) The same root is present in one of the names for the goddess of the dawn but with a positive meaning: * SERATTA (my reconstruction of the name) to Celt. sirona = dawn (supposedly from stirona = star); avest. Ardvi Sura Anahita = dawn; germ. freyja syritha (supposedly from sy ritha = sow rider, probably folk etymological. from *syr = glow); pruzz. sari = embers; thrak. sartas = bright red; pol. zar = glow, passion; Greek. seirios = the burning one; Ital. sera, serata = evening (red); osset. dserassa = dawn; skr. sarasvati = dawn, sura = light being; pashtu. sur = red; from idg. *ser- = red, reddish, glow; urvew. idg. *ker- = burn with the -ending *-atta = water;
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  664. Long live Dan, it's the first time I have ever seen someone acknowledge this part of history. you really made my day.
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  665. At skanderborg in denmark they found a battlefield with I think 3000 butchered local men of all ages supposedly having met a much stronger maybe bigger army
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  666. I have watched all of Dan’s videos and finished reading Gods of Bronze book one last night. It is a great combination for learning about historical concepts and also being entertained. I could almost hear Dan’s voice while I was reading. I did have one surprise, though, which was how much the described way of life reminded me of the Native American Plains peoples. I have not read anything about them before the introduction of the horse, but that seems like it would be an interesting topic.
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  667. The legend of a warrior raising a dog and having to kill it as part of "graduation" is still told about special forces around the world (SAS, Navy Seals, Spetsnaz etc ).
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  668.  @ario4795  Yes, and today archaeogenetics are adding even more depth to our knowledge. This is an amazing time to be alive and be able to read.
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  669. His reconstruction confirms that he was an ancestor of Kris Kristoferson.
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  670. As a sailor, a fan of naval history (Patrick O’brian, et al.) and museums, I loved this video. Thank you. I hope Drake’s statue is still standing. 🙄
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  671. Can’t wait to watch! Always a great day when you release a video Dan! Thanks again for your amazing work!
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  672. I lean towards the hypothesis that the first domesticated horses were used as pack animals, or for hauling sleds and later, carts. Horses at that time were too small to carry an adult human, and increasing their size took centuries of breeding. Evidence for this argument is that battle-carts and chariots ruled Mesopotamia and Egypt for centuries. They were used as mobile platforms for archers. They could not have dominated warfare for so long if horse-archers existed.
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  673. You could do 100 hours of content talking about bronze age and early iron age Italian cultures, I would binge watch every minute. Un abbraccio, buone feste!
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  674. Thanks for this video Dan. Fascinating stuff on a subject that barely gets any attention. I've been meaning to visit Los Millares for years, I'll have to add the sites of the Agaric Culture to my list. There was so much going on in Iberia during the Bronze Age
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  675. If I understand correctly, the warbands/beserker initiation lost its popularity quite early - as soon as the groups of hunters-gatherers transformed themselves into class societies, since rise of the Bronze Age. Since then, the ancient, predatory form of initiation became the privilege of small class of warriors only, especially elite, and in the most valiant cultures only (Spartans, Germans, Vikings, etc).
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  676. I would imagine whatever was left on a battlefield was likely looted either by the winners or the locals. Farmers gathering armor would likely find a use for the metal. No point having a wagon load of armor if you are not going to use it.
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  677. Love these cultural videos! Keep em coming!
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  678. Consider that the axe-hammers may be blót-hammers, like the Cretan Labrys-axe. I.e. a tool for knocking the sacrifice over the head, worn and wielded by heads of households, and thus a status symbol. They certainly seem to have disappeared as soon as bronze blades assumed that role.
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  679. Choaskampf. Interesting and universal myth. I will say that the motif isn't exclusively an Indo-European myth. Examples can be foubd as well in chinese and even mesoamerican and hawaiian mythology
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  680. Very well done! Loved all the details you packed in.
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  681. ​ @DanDavisHistory  Absolutely. On an unrelated note, and with much speculation and a lack of in depth knowledge, I'd suggest the factors contributing to Yamnaya spread and the rise of the Norsemen across Europe to be reminiscent of each other. Overpopulation due to a population boom, lack of women relative to the number of young of men, and technological improvements are probably shared factors in the expansion of both peoples. Again, this is entirely the speculation of an unqualified individual, however I'd suggest the advent of horse riding and the rise of pastoralism probably contributed to an initial population boom, which even though the Yamnaya could now harness more calories from their land, were still unable to sustain themselves. If the Yamnaya were polygamous then to a young man, who could have been the second son of even a high status father, living directly after this population boom, there would be little to no chance of him attaining status or the means to live. The only option available was warfare. Perhaps it is under conditions like these that the Koryos as you know it came to be in the first place. Before the advent of horse riding, Yamnaya would fight along the riverways and conflict would be constrained to a limited geographic area (as were the people themselves), the Koryos was the tool by which clans arranged hierarchy and status. However, with the rise of the horse, the Koryos was turned from a tool of equilibrium, to a weapon of subjugation and expansion which would see the Yamnaya and their descendants engage in a process that would seem them conquer the world thousands of years later.
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  682. Ex of St. Albans, Herts here, now living in CO, USA. I grew up playing on new housing developments near my mums house. Every so often work on the building site would stop due to a piece of Roman pottery being dug up. My and my mates would hang out at the archaeological dig hoping for treasure to be discovered, lol. I never gave up my fascination with British history and channels like yours are a God send. Thanks for doing what you do, much appreciated!
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  683. I think a video like this was really needed. I always see this culture get referenced but never anything focusing entirely on them. always glad to see one of your uploads
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  684. Y. Pestis, an old "companion" of humanity. I always marvel how sone scholars want to promote THE (1 & only) CAUSE of such&such event. In reality, many airline crashes are often the end result of a chain of causalities each of which in of itself lead to the crash but together do. Likewise, the Bronze Age or neolithic collapse likewise are the result of cumulative effects of events each if which alone would not have lead to collapse. Over population + drought (or other climatic variation) + Y Pestis were too much.
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  685. Really impressed that you were able to draw on a June 2024 paper to use it in a video on these people. Looks like a fascinating culture. I would have to think that they had a whole religion centered around the horse. And the domestication would be incredible if that is what happened. Riding bareback seems like an accomplishment in itself. I can't believe they would do it without any kind of stirrups.
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  686. Love the video Dan. And two things especially: That you intersperse the video with maps that have dates for migrations, and also that you own your earlier misconceptions. On the first point, it gives viewers a chrono-spatial context to work by. Especially if they have picto-graphic learning leanings such as myself. On the second point you become inclusive of your viewers possible fallibilities. Thanks for the large section on the ritual sites of the Orkney's, as that is one of my ancestral origin areas through my mum's mum. I can never hear enough about that site.
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  687. Dan, youre the greatest. Prehistoric hair (and clothing) is one of my favorite topics and the bronze age is one of the most elaborate and fascinating eras on that front. Would love if you could discuss clothing actually, the intro of wool production has a huge impact on style, culture, and the economy of the bronze age. Ive enjoyed watching the channel grow, best wishes.
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  688. Fascinating as usual. The reality of these variations of the bubonic plague makes our current situation seem pale in comparison.
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  689. The close proximity of copper and tin in the British isles and Ireland would have made it a magnet for metal aware "beaker people", from mainland Europe, I'm thinking like the California gold Rush for migration and drawing prospectors and miners let alone smelters and metal workers. Another pressure on the Neolithic farmers who already inhabited the islands.
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  690. That quiet, sly change to Drake's portrait 1:06:35 was the best part of all of this! Nope, the full grin is! 1:07:31
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  691. Even though I grew up in Germany and know a lot about it and have been following this topic for years, this has been super fascinating and so well told!
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  692. An hour and a half of awesomeness! I can't wait 😊. Thank you for your top notch content Dan 🎉
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  693. Ermagerd a new video!¡! Also, I wonder if those clay figurines could've been kids' toys? Something like modern-day toy soldiers. Maybe even made by the child.
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  694. Donder and blitzen mean Thunder and lightning. Two of Santa's reindeer.
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  695. You sir need to write a new series like Godborn. This is amazing stuff and there just isn’t enough fiction out there on Indo European origins. Yours really are the best fiction writing on PIE origins I’ve come across. About time you released a new one for fans like me!
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  696. These are the jotuns of the old norse edda poems. jotun is connate with english eat and swedish jatte. original meaning was those who ate themselves big and fat. Trolls in scandinavian folklore would often eat humans. this is a cultural memory of cannibals who violated the divine order by eating humans. You see their children today in greedy and malicious people roaming modern society.
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  697. Say what you want but I still enjoy Coppola's Dracula...
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  698. I've seen this structure play out in real life, young dudes join gangs get taken under the wing of an older member who just can't leave the life behind, schooling them up. Like they say there's nothing new under the sun
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  699. Already knowing most of this factology, I still really love these videos for they visualize maps, express life and feels of ancient people who even couldn't write. It really helps to get the FEEL of it - how it lived in space, time and human lifetimes. It's great to feel them as real people, who travelled, fought, communicated with other peoples etc, and not as bones and their shards.
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  700. I've always been really interested in Indo-European origins and devour books by Renfrow, Mallory and David Anthony. I love how you've distilled so much of this information into your videos and look forward to seeing more of them.
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  701. Hey Dan! Just wanted to say thank you for releasing such excellent, informative, and well-formed content that still has the clear narrative wit of an author behind it. Your investment of time into the history of the Indo-Europeans got me to reconsider going to college, and now, I'm working towards a Biological Anthropology degree, with the intent of focusing primarily on the history of Indo-European groups and their effects on latter cultures, as well as their origins. I hope to write a dissertation on the Cucuteni Trypilia culture, and the western Mediterranean origins of several of the Sea Peoples, two topics I've invested a ton more time doing personal research on since your videos sparked my curiosity. Anyways, I'll be buying Godborn very soon, and thanks again!
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  702. I recall the passage from Tacitus' Germania you mentioned that referred to the rite of being unkempt until the slaying of one's tribe's enemy. I belive he was speaking of the Chatti who lived in whats now modern Hesse/Saxony. Thank you tremendously for preserving the lesser known periods of history!
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  703. The large amount of charcoal was probably met through coppice or pollard practices rather than clear cutting of forests. Perhaps forest management that accompanied metallurgy would make interesting topic for a future video
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  704. A lovely Sunday morning installment. I’m originally from the north east of Scotland now living in the Pacific Northwest of USA that’s heavily populated by Scandinavians and Eastern Europeans. Many of the locals think I’m Russian because of my looks. I’m certain that’s a result of the raiders who hit up the NE of Scotland “back in the day.”
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  705. Lovely editing, footage and narration as always. I'm definitely looking forward to watching the documentary fully after work. Respect from Germany! 💪
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  706. Dan Davis. Your research and sources are astonishing. I am an archaeologist and I find your content brilliant. Please keep up the good work
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  707. Any plans to cover the Tollense Valley battlefield? Not sure if there's even enough information for a full video, but it's a really interesting site.
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  708. The seafaring abilities of these ancient peoples astounds me. Even without metal, they made and navigated craft capable of transporting huge cargoes or large numbers of people. Even reaching the Azores in the mid-Atlantic. Simply amazing.
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  709. I am from the Republic of Moldova and I affirm all this, indeed not far from my home or found many old artifacts from the time cucuteni-tripoli, thank you
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  710. Having worn "bullet-proof"-vests and other modern body armor, modern and steel helmets, with weapons and kit for a few years in operations I find this very interesting. Trying to visualize their full kit, if a fighting soldier actually used this or just the chieftains etc is very fascinating. I appreciate that you are clear on what is known and what is speculation.
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  711. I love it. This is excellent, Dan. Could you make a video about Highwaymen? Claude Duval, Dick Turpin and the like.
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  712. Reminds me a lot of Plains Nations warrior traditions like the Lakota Dog Soldiers.
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  713. The bronze club reminds me of a Chinese sword breaker, which is essentially an all metal club. I believe they also go back to the bronze age (there are bronze examples, but I don't know when they were made), although perhaps not as old as the time frame here. I don't see how they would be directly related, but it does show that it has functionality as a weapon. Also if that shape was carved in hardwood it could easily pass for a war club from any number of Pacific cultures. (Form following function, I would suggest.)
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  714. you have no idea how much this vid made my day. im a farrier, i do this to live closer to my ancestors. i have been saying it for years theres missing info on the domestication of horses and we will find it in the step hunters/herders before the yamnaya and look at that there it is!!! i will ask people who float horse teeth on their opinions on the teeth wear patterns. i am so excited to hear more about this discovery in the future. finally proof that pushes the date back! As horses changed due to domestication so did tack and horsemanship one group the numidians, had an older style of horsemanship that they imported from anatolia. i believe it is a good historical account to use as reference to how early horsemanship would have looked like, likely not to dissimilar to the botai despite the thousands of years.
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  715. Otzi has to be one of the greatest archeological finds in history
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  716. I have ADD and dyslexia your videos and amazing learning tool. I am in my 50s and I finally learned so much about history and become a real history off because of your videos. Thank you so much for sharing all your wisdom to especially for someone like myself who is always had difficulty reading and learning now I know so much more about the world history again thank you.
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  717. Drake was my childhood hero. He was one of the greatest sailors in history.
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  718. Dont know why but I immediately thought of Orion Constellation when I see the remains and the ''club''. Also I guess the earliest version of that ''club'' would be Sharur ''The Smasher of Thousands'' from Sumeria. Sharur is the club, God Ninurta slays the serpent with.
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  719. the sneaky editing at 25:00 of adding the hat in made me laugh, but also i think it was a very clever clip to include so you had the hats in more than just still images.
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  720. Aww yeah! As a teenager I read the "Ramses" novels serie by the French author Christian Jacq: I wonder if you happen to come around some English translated versions of these books... One of the main characters was a Sardinian mercenary acting as a body guard of yound Ramses II, echoeing well to this video. These novels were so great! It also reminds me of the Egyptian novels saga from Wilbur Smith, one of my favorite adventure novelists.
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  721. One of your videos brought me to your novels, and they brought me back to dive into the rest of your channel. Excellent content across the board 👏🏻
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  722. How many of the original Yamnaya do you reckon there were, roughly?
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  723. The clay covered log floors is really interesting. 6" logs have an something like an R-8 insulation value, whereas adobe only has R-2. I'm assuming that's the reason they wouldn't just dump clay on the ground. That's pretty sophisticated.
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  724. 19:59 is pretty much the ideal of today's aesthetics, at least in the western world. She is so beautiful, just classic and very impressive because we speak about thousands of years. The epitome of classic beauty.
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  725. Thanks for publishing this. It deserves to be better known. A Romanian anthropologist explained to me the origin of werewolves as part of an initiation rite. Young males were reborn as wolves and warriors after emerging from a wolfskin.
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  726. Dan Davis’ content is an absolute treasure. Thank you Dan. It is such a treat to see a new video from you, and this one being so long is a delight.
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  727. When I was at uni my lecturer for the hunter gatherer societies module promised us he'd do a lecture on cannibalism because he found it really interesting but he never made good on it. Dan Davis comes to the rescue years later
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  728. Wow very nice class. Merry Christmas & happy new year.
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  729. I've been enjoying your novella on Audible and it reminds me of the idea/process/institution of "second son" in the Viking/Norman culture. Second sons settled in Russia, Italy, no doubt were involved in the several invasions of England, served as imperial guards in the Byzantine Empire and some claim that Norman second sons made up the majority in the First Crusade. "For glory and honor" may be an idea that is lost to modern mankind, there is no doubt it did exist.
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  730. Perfect time for a break, pause everything and watch Dan ❤
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  731. Halfway through I realized this video was 50 minutes long; it felt like 5! You really make these artifacts come alive and tell such rich but easy to follow stories!
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  732. Having spent 6 months in Sardinia in the early 90s I've always wondered about these buildings and the people that built them, thanks you for answering so many questions I had, that i had never been able to find answers for.
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  733. In Normandy, Richard was our last true powerful Duke. His heart is in our cathedral in ROUEN, with Rollo.
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  734. wow, you quoted Mircea Eliade! And I thought only the old ones like me still know his work :))) Beautiful content, btw, thanks!
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  735. Oh gawd - next thing, someone is going to translate the Harappan texts and discover those inscriptions were all blood-curdling threats and curses! Great video!
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  736. The area now known as Ukraine has given us so much. 😊
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  737. Thanks kindly, Dan, for another spectacular installment!
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  738. Excellent video about a horrible individual. It's interesting to note that Hopkins is the only person in history to hold the title 'Witchfinder General' as when I was younger I thought it was a generalised title given to witch hunters. I read Ronald Hutton's 'The Witch' from a library earlier this year and found it to be a fascinating and eye-opening global history of Witches and Witchcraft. I will try to check out the other books mentioned at the end of the video.
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  739. Brilliant - I have been addicted to your vids for at least a couple of years and you have constantly provided quality, thought provoking insights - wish I could sub twice though I know it wont any difference. So impressed by your body of work here on YT
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  740. 13:45 "They are also shown as violent boasters and bullies". Just a note: for example icelandic Grettis saga (written in age of christianity) berserks were said to be bullies, and they were outlawed in Norway in 1015. Whether it had anything to do with christianity (and christian politics) or not, is up to debate (according to my memory/knowledge).
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  741. New episode! Thanks for the early Christmas present
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  742. I've been hearing all about the great empires - Rome, Greece, Babylon, Persia, Egypt, Mongols and so on my whole life. I love learning about those, but it's also great to hear about the ancient late Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures that came before these and gave birth to them. Things like videos on currency, weights and measures, and other mundane things that were a part of their lives help paint a picture of the entire culture and the people that make it up, not just their most famous members. So yes please, do the weights and measures.
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  743. This channel is one of the best things that happened to the internet
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  744. Truly amazing video. Probably the best video on Ötzi I have seen.
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  745. Another great video! I don't think anyone could ever argue that Richard wasn't a great warrior. As you pointed out, even the Islamic sources are respectful of his martial prowess. I still remain unconvinced of his being a great King. He never seems to care anything about England or the English except as a source of funding for his personal glory. No doubt he was popular among his subjects. I too would probably follow him to the gates of hell, but his absence allowed French invasion, and empowered John to become one of the most hated figures in British history. BTW Excellent job at sound editing. My heart was racing during the battle scenes.
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  746. I have to wonder why wolves were used in some situations, particularly if it was a “bring your own” dog to sacrifice scenario. Men who didn’t have valid dogs? Men who chose not to use their own dogs and would rather risk the danger of hunting a wolf? Different social rank? I can say that if I were in that position and it was a valid option I would face down an entire wolf pack to capture one over killing a dog close to me. I think I would have little qualms killing enemy humans if I have to, but I’m closer to my dog than I am to most of my friends. I think I would gladly fight anyone to the death that would have me kill my dog (assuming it was happy and in good health).
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  747. Absolutely remarkable. So many things describe a sophisticated, long lasting, but forgotten civilization. Sardinians were not mentioned in my History course. Those figurines are so well crafted, the singular edifications and burial traditions mean we should look deeper. Mediterranean has so many histories that are yet to be discovered.
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  748. There are several distinct domestication events found in the DNA, and thought they domesticated themselves by hanging around the clan. There might have been others that were lost due to that particular line dying off or unelected during breeding. It is unfortunate that many strains of New World dogs have been lost. I think there are two still surviving, one is the Chihuahua.
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  749. Before internet, usually it took at least 25 years, before new knowledge leaked down into public education and could be found on schoolbook sites.
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  750. Fascinating video. I worked on this site as an archaeological volunteer in the summer of 1989, in the early stages of its excavation. We got to go down and explore the tunnels, which brought home just how extensive the workings are. There was so much bone in the site that most of it ended up in the spoil heaps, and I still have a few green-stained pieces I took as souvenirs. It's a pity this ancient mine isn't better known to the general public. In its own way it's just as impressive as any of the megalithic monuments or tombs that we associate with the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
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  751. There is so much to learn about these topics and issues, that the more you learn, the more you realize how truly ignorant we really are, when it comes to ancient history. You're doing great work, Dan. Keep after it. ;)
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  752. Archaeology is a kind of hobby for me. However, I, like many posters here, had never heard of these people or of the narrator, Dan Davis. Davis cites all of the leading writers on archaeological matter and the people are well cited for a group with their traits. Thank you, Dan Davis for posting this.
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  753. Remember Doggerland
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  754. Thank you Sir. You certainly do weave magic. As a young boy, my across the street buddies were twin boys. Their father was an Englishman. He was a sailor in Royal Navy during WW II . His ship took damage and he was wounded. His ship came here to Charleston, South Carolina for repairs in our shipyard. While he was recovering, he met a local girl. After the war, they were married and settled here. He was talented carpenter who built sailing dinghies in his workshop. He taught how to sail and compete in local regattas. While we watched him build his boats, he regaled us with the adventures of Sir Francis Drake. He was a good man.
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  755. Great video, really interesting. I've heard people are close to death are met by someone who they were close to but has already died. I wonder if these boys expected to be met by their particular dog that they'd killed when the reached the afterlife? Maybe this then changed over time, and dogs or wolves became the guardian of the underworld.
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  756. I've seen the Berlin Gold Hat while visiting the Neues Museum. It is astounding.
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  757. I'm reminded of the idea that you couldn't use a lance on horseback as a shock trooper before the invention of stirrups. Then some people tested it and found out that you could even use a lance on horseback without the benefit of any sort of riding gear. Instead the stirrup probably better enabled melee on horseback, making it so a fighter could extend his reach by using his legs to regain his balance and make it that much harder for footmen to dehorse him.
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  758. Herodotus: "In winter when the rains ought to fall in Scythia, there is scarcely any rain worth mentioning, while in summer it never gives over raining; and thunder, which elsewhere is frequent then, in Scythia is unknown in that part of the year, coming only in summer, when it is very heavy. Thunder in the winter-time is there accounted a prodigy; as also are earthquakes, whether they happen in winter or summer." (Herodotus, Histories, book 4, passage 28).
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  759. I’m loving that art predated functional pottery. Art is in our DNA!
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  760. Wow!! What an awesome presentation. All the detail along with DNA and dating made this the most complete, understandable, straightforward video I've ever seen...ever. You knocked this ball way out of the park.!!
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  761. The first horsemen were the kids that raised the little foal, with the help of several of the old tribe elders. They played with it, used it to help them gather firewood and other items.. As the colt grew, and several of the youngsters managed to learn to ride it, the young horse and rider began scouting for the tribe, accomplishing in hours, what would otherwise have taken days. Thus the value of the young horse and rider was understood beyond question. Similarly, paleo kids were probably the first to use flattened frozen hides/skins as play to slide down snowy slopes and hills.. Huge fun and learning experience.
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  762. As a geologist and an ancient history fan I really loved this one. Thanks!
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  763. Hey Dan! Recent sub here, just wanted to say how amazing your videos are. I’ve been binging the hell out of them and they are some of the highest quality stuff on YouTube the fact this is all free is just incredible and I honestly need to order a book in. Glad to have a new video :p
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  764. I’m already hyped to watch this after my shift is over! Great Work as always, the ambience turned out great.
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  765. Or something you completely missed: It could just be that there is indeed a dog or a canine-looking thing guarding the after-life, and these legends are simply the representation of that fact.
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  766. The icon of St. George is based upon the Thracian Rider or Thracian Horseman and is part of the Pagan Cult of the Danubian Knights/Danubian Horsemen which predates the well known Christian image with the dragon. The images are almost identical except that in the original Thracian Horseman instead of the dragon was a boar but interestingly enough same Thracians/Dacians had a dragon on their flag also known as Draco.
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  767. I’d been feeling the “Dan Davis tingle” like there would be a new video out soon! Glad to hear your rosing rendition of this iconic man’s story
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  768. 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❤
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  769. >You'll never fight a guerrilla war in the woods against foreign occupiers to win your country back Why live?
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  770. Would love to see you on a stream with Survive the Jive 👍
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  771. How do you suppose the 'koryonos' was chosen? Are there any good theories or evidence on the subject? Was he a boy like the others in the koryos? Or was he an older proven warrior? If a boy, could he have been one chosen based on merit? Perhaps he was chosen based on his descent from the leaders of the clan - that is, a higher ranking boy. Perhaps, too, he may have been chosen by the gods in a rite. Whoever he was, the success of the Koryos and the survival of the clan's sons depended on his judgement.
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  772. Disease as a cause of death for the Neolithic inhabitants of Britain is more likely than in other parts of Europe due to the fact that both men and women died in high proportion and not only men as was the case in other places.
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  773. Burning the house down for pest control? Based on the historiography of the Meme Age, I conclude spiders caused the collapse of the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture. #Killitwithfire
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  774. Swiss Army Knife comes to mind. Multi-purpose. The least effort in production for the most uses.
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  775. Regarding endocannibalism, I wonder to what degree it may have been linked with conceptualizations of reincarnation - you consume your father or bone broth from your grandfather, and his essence literally nourishes you and gives you life. He becomes you (you are what you eat)
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  776.  @DanDavisHistory  Please make a video on Dravidian links to Indus valley Civilization.......
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  777. I received my BA in Anthropology in '81. I remember that a couple of topics inspired almost violent disputes among the Professors. One was cannibalism. Another was Humans pooping in the house. Go figure.
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  778. I was totally absorbed in the show from the first moment till the end. You provided so many really fascinating details that i have never heard before in all the years since the discovery of Otzi. The whole thing is very high quality. I'm looking forward to watching your other work!
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  779. We see these ritual preparations even today, ice hockey players not shaving until their team has lost, and sometimes until they have won a championship. Maybe there was a degree of superstition in there too.
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  780. I love that an Iranic culture is getting attention, often times the old European Iranic cultures are overlooked in the west :(
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  781. '...And only the mullet remained.'
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  782. This is spectacularly narrated. Even if the subject matter weren't factual, and were entirely fictional, it would have been a pleasure to watch all the same. Bravo!
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  783. Cant wait for the bronze age weight video.
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  784. I have read the books. They're really good and now that I see where they came from I want to read more of them. I've always been interested in Bronze Age trade routes and civilization and this is really rewarding to hear/read.
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  785. Survive the Jive. Dan Davis. Simon Roper. The 3 horsemen of making your day 50× better
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  786. My favorite ancient look is probably Minoan people, although I’m very inspired by the braids on mummies! Scythian warrior braids are my go to style-way better than boring old plaits
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  787. The human Odyssey is more than just the story of war, conquest and economic progress but also of daily personal desires and pleasures. Thank you for the reminder.
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  788. Amazing work! I remember the absolute astonishment in Europe when Otzi was found! It left a wonderful spark in my 7-year-old mind about the ancient world and how little we know. Keep on doing what you do, good sir!
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  789. I can’t watch the video right now, but I wanted to make sure I liked it and added it to my watch later playlist. Thank you for all the amazing content Dan, and have a Merry Christmas!
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  790. I find it incredible thinking what our ancestors were doing so long ago. I want to visit the Great Orme mines now.
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  791. Neat. Excited for upcoming vids "I am not an academic and thus reserve the right to be not reserved about conclusions" - author bloke
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  792. Thank you for such a full fascinating story of one of my Childhood heroes. I well remember our primary school teacher Mr Dunn telling us, "Sir Francis Drake, took gold from the Spanish Galleons, but he didn't really steal it because that gold had been stolen, by the Spanish from the native people, it didn't belong to the Spanish they had stolen it, so Francis Drake took it off them". "When he got home, the Spanish King complained to Elizabeth and she was going to punish him, but Sir Francis said he had taken to gold as a present for her, because she as Queen would know what to do with it, and so the Queen changed her mind"... I've remembered that all these years.
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  793. That is a great point about how debilitating his medical issues really were. Things we would find horribly painful might be barely noticeable to a pre modern man who's had the issue for years. I'd hate to find out how many things are wrong with me after the best medical teams spend millions testing me
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  794. ...having a written language means (almost) everything to posterity.
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  795. I'm only halfway into this, but just had to take a pause to say how much I loved this story telling, and the feeling of adventure it gives me. I have to commend you for the beautiful illustrations, pictures, video, music and well spoken storytelling. Have you perhaps thought about writing non-fiction books, after having studied it to the depths? I would certainly not mind reading it, or rather listening to audio-books of it, preferably with you yourself as the narrator of it. Great job Mr. Davis, looking forward to more, so changing the subscription to get notified for every new one.
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  796. Thanks for the fascinating video. I think it's interesting that during the Hellenistic age cultures outside of Greece adopted Greek style helmets and armour like in North Africa, Italy and parts of the Middle East. I wonder if that was also the case in the Bronze Age, with many different cultures deriving their horned helmets from a single original culture or civilisation through trade as your video states. Maybe it was Mycenae or the civilisations of the Near East that kicked off this trend. I remember reading that samurai helmets from 16th century Japan also had horns attached but they were manufactured from lightweight materials that were lacquered. Perhaps Bronze Age helmets didn't have real animal horn attached to them but were made from other materials (maybe wood, leather?) Which would be more practical for combat as they'd be lighter in weight and would be less likely to snag on an enemy's weapon.
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  797. This guy's story always fascinated me but I never was terribly knowledgeable about all the aspects of it...thanks for making a video on him!
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  798. Another Bronze Age home run, Dan. Thanks for sharing such a well-researched and entertainingly presented video. Extremely interesting and informative as always!
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  799. I would definitely like to see a video on bronze age weights and measures
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  800. Thanks for not using an annoying dramatic voice. And thank you for not using way to loud music. Subscribed.
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  801. Someone he knew needed him dead. He was beaten for something personal, then got away. The assailants realized he could not be allowed to tell his tale. 3-4 men hunted him down. They took the arrow because that could be traced to them. They did not take the axe because that was a well-known item that was Otiz's.
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  802. I'm obsessed with Otzi. My favourite thing about him are the potentially medicinal tattoos. Really makes you wonder what the world was like before people wrote stuff down
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  803. Your videos are getting better and better, I would love to hear more about bronze age scandinavia! I recognized the image you used from Håga Mound instantly even though I haven't been there for a years and years, since I went there so many times during my childhood. I grew up 2km from there and did not have a single clue that it's one of the most amazing archaeological finds from the bronze age, and learning more about the period now makes me feel really connected to home and the (pre-)history of my region. So thank you so much for this!
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  804. Thanks for another fantastic video! A great thing about your videos isn't just the wonderful information given, but the way it's presented. The ambient music, photos, graphs etc. all really work together to give a vibe I don't get often from other similar presentations. I really feel immersed into a long gone period of history whenever I watch your work.
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  805. Fabulous! You're a star, I love your work. :trophy-yellow-smiling:
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  806. Polish knight Zawisza Czarny (1370-1428) was as great as William Marshal. He was invincible knight, very good diplomat, and extremely reliable person. In the absence of wars he earned a living fighting in tournaments and working as a diplomat.
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  807. Great history delivery...thorough, interesting and humble. "Could be this....yet it could be that, these are the facts that we know." Thanks again, I enjoy your videos on some of the most difficult history to pin down.
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  808. I was thinking, running with the idea that kingship in the Nordic Bronze Age was a diarchy, maybe similar to the Cherokee War Chief/Peace Chief system, so that the long horns could be reserved for the priest-king (magnificent, unwieldy, decorative), while the shorter horns were for the warrior-kings (tactical, battle-ready symbolism). Also, while I have you here, maybe the Minoan labrys is a symbolic, regionally stylized version of the 'wielding two axes' thing? Fun stuff!
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  809. Really looking forward to getting into your fiction, but I'm already having a hell of a lot of fun hearing these factual summaries.
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  810. Nice video! I remember hearing about Ötzi when I was a kid, and the popular depiction often made him out to be a primitive, 'caveman', not a member of a complex agricultural society that was already using metal. I'm finishing my Master's thesis on the Hill of Tara in Ireland, so I have been reading quite a bit about Europe from around this time.
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  811. As a romanian I can say, you won a new subscriber
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  812. I imagine the early horse-eaters used them somewhat as the Suomi use reindeer. Riding, if it happened at all, would be of minor importance, and I can't see it happening at all until well after mares were first milked. Possibly horses were first used as pack animals, or to pull a travois. The early Irish used to hitch horses to the plough by tying it to their tail. The Mesopotamian horse racing looks remarkably like a donkey derby, and that is still the most popular way to ride a donkey bareback. A proper saddle, even a Roman style one with no stirrups, makes a great difference in speed for either horse or donkey.
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  813. War is a young man’s game
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  814. If there arent dogs in heaven, I'm not going. I can't leave my best friend behind.
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  815. Excellent video as always, Dan. You offer your audience very precious insight into so many interesting topics.
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  816. The Koryos was a way to get young males who were at their most violent and reckless state of development the hell out of the village so they didn't disturb the adults and children.
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  817. Great production, Dan. Your honesty and plain speaking is greatly appreciated. Its good to get the closest juxtaposition to how things likely really were so long ago. My only comment regarding improving such a production (just a personal preference that may or may not resonate with others) is I think it is possible to overuse musical accompaniment. You have a good clear speaking voice. The information is compelling enough. I would suggest looking into selecting phases or moments where music can be best used to highlight. Otherwise it can get a little wearing. Well done.
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  818. Great video Dan, my dad did his training in Wiltshire and used to paint Stonehenge. Certainly a magical place. Love your books, yours videos and what a lovely voice you have : ) X
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  819. Interesting to see the parallels in the time of year and consequences in swedish christmas traditions. The Tomte Nisse lived with you all year (something like a house spirit) and took care of the things you forgot. On christmas eve you would leave him a bowl of porridge, but if you didn't, there were consequences. Stories i was told as a child said that he would cut open the cows and animals or make their milk spoil, let cold winds in the the doorway, and he might make your roof burn. And the long term consequences of disturbing the tomten, was that your family would be open to sickness and your land might be tainted. I see direct parallels, even after long millennia of religious change and modernization, in the same "hunt" story. Thanks for the video!
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  820. I visited Newgrange in Ireland a year ago. What an incredible and beautiful place. The workmanship of those ancient people is astonishing. It’s utterly astounding that they built it so that it aligns with the winter solstice sunrise. The Neolithic peoples of ancient Britain and Ireland must have been incredible.
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  821. It's such a shame that people have had such disrespect for their own ancestors that they would destroy their own graves.
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  822. I'm going to say this yet again: your research and commentary are balanced, judicious, and sane. Everything is so well produced, too. I often pause the vid. at a map or diagram to absorb the loads of extra information they contain. A program on weights (and other measures?) of the Bronze Age would be welcome, thank you.
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  823. I'd love more research material about the Caucasus. They stand out through history as this critical link between cultures but it is so hard to find information on them.
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  824. Very cool paper on the subject of berserker as a fighting style from Indo-European tradition in 2002 paper: Berserks: A History of Indo-European "Mad Warriors" September 2002, Journal of World History Michael Speidal
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  825. These videos are awesome, and I would love to see a more in depth video for the wild hunt. I would also like to see more of the Eastern indo-european versions of the ancestor cult and war band traditions.
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  826. Using Sebastian Stan as "the handsome" son was perfect!😂👌🏼
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  827. Leaving your mother at 7 & having to survive with nothing & no aid by stealing as a young teen sounds very Spartan-like
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  828. It's not even my birthday but it sure as hell feels like it. Ancient Mesopotamia is where my interest lies the most. I love history but esecially these times all the way up to the Bronze Age Collapse are so incredibely interesting! Thanks for these amazing documentaries!
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  829. I am thrilled to have found your brilliant channel a few weeks ago. Your examination of history is fascinating. I have shared it with my son, and he is as impressed as I have been. Thank you for your hard work!
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  830. That Cheshire flood plain you highlighted on the map is still some of the best agricultural land in Britain today! The Cheshire show is still the largest agriculture and livestock show as well, I believe. I can see how that relationship could’ve risen to great local power. Isn’t it also weird that the area surrounding that mine, north wales etc, is still the area with the most Welsh speakers and that area around there and Anglesey is where the ancient welsh kings survived through the Roman period and the Anglo-Saxon period and the Norman period - in fact the Tudors hail from there originally, do they not? That copper mine sure has left a legacy. Really appreciate your videos - some of the very best content on here, thanks!
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  831. Never though we, romanians-moldavians could have so much in common with ukranians, its quite impressive! Greetings to our neighbors and possible ancestors 🇺🇦 🇲🇩 🇷🇴
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  832. Im actually living in Samara Russia right now. It was cool seeing you bring it up in this vid, I had no idea about these things lol
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  833. As always, well done. I enjoy your take as a writer combined with your extensive research, it allows for speculation and analysis that’s a bit more cutting than what a historian or archeologist can put out there. Thanks for some quality content.
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  834. Such an ancient urban-agrarian culture is amazing, and their mastery of ceramics was first class. It is a pity we will never know how beautiful their textiles were.
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  835. Lmao at Clint Eastwood reaction
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  836. Why do I always stumble across great docs when I'm supposed to sleep.
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  837. Just found your channel and I'm binge watching everything. Love it
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  838. Thank you. So much more detailed than anything else I've found online
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  839. I love these ancient culture videos; you really being them to life. I love that you speculate on what things like these figures mean (could this be for planning strategy, or the roles of different war bands before a raid?) I think your talent as a writer gives you a unique advantage in helping imagine how things were for our ancestors.
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  840. I'm an R1b and love the way you convey the early history of Britain.
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  841. Love that you show high amounts of seals and average Scandinavian people in your video. Subscribed for more videos of seals as a background to discussions of prehistory.
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  842. I say it every time. This is my fav channel! It checks every single box for me. No long panned out scenes of overly winded filler. Always straight to the juicy stuff with so much detailed information and non biased perspectives. Smooth relaxed story telling. And the time periods you cover are what I've been searching for for so long. Migration periods I have always found the most fascinating and since learning of the Sea Peoples years ago I've always wanted to know more of the lesser known cultures of the bronze age and pre history. You sir are a bad ass. Please keep this amazing content coming!!
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  843. I am brand new to this channel. All history and folklore are things I'm really into. There's just no one I know to talk about this with. Awesome!
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  844. I thought I knew a great deal about Richard, but I learned more from this video than from all the books I have read. This is the best researched video about Richard by far. Well done Dan.
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  845. 17:30 On petroglyphs from the Nordic Bronze Age, some boats also have a swan's nose. Jürgen Spanuth speculated that these only became dragons with the onset of climate deterioration and increasing conflicts. (I once made a comb for my niece in the shape of a Viking boat, but with a swan's head. One with a dragon head was intended for my nephew). Many people are also unaware that Jutland used to be twice as wide as it is today. Everything up to the island of Helgoland (Holy Land) was once fertile, flat land. From 1400BC onwards, the climate became increasingly worse and the first waves of emigration began. Around 1220BC a 20m high tsunami swept the west coast and a large part of the land was lost (the last part in a storm tide in the Middle Ages). In addition, few know that a good part of the amber and copper came from this region. It was only after the flood that the amber came from the Baltic. And on Helgoland, deposits of pure copper (with naturally high arsenic content!) can still be found today.
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  846. Damn, never had better timing than this. Thanks for the new video! :)
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  847. This is my Rifle This is my Gun This is for Fighting This is for Fun
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  848. I would add that we have few concrete ideas on the spread. As Dan also said, IMO trade was more popular than warfare. And the ones conducting warfare were more on a tribal level rather than on a civilizational level. Plus heavy warfare conducting cultures seem to have died of faster. As with everything in life i believe answers must be more complex than an all conquering horde.
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  849. I remember having this vivid dream of wrestling a large black dog in a cemetery when I was very little. I later found out about the ghostly black dog folklore from the UK, which was spooky. I think there's something to this myth on some deeper level. Maybe not supernatural, but I wouldn't bet on it.
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  850. Outstanding AF Mr Davis! Had been eagerly awaiting this one! Was not disappointed!! Love the longer format.
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  851. This video is giving me Robert E. Howard vibes especially when Conan or Brule the Spear slayer talk about their homelands and how they used to hunt. Great job!
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  852. The art style kind of reminds me of some of Picasso’s works, I know he was heavily influenced by a lot of Palaeolithic and Neolithic art. I think it’s really beautiful
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  853. Independent YouTubers are putting the mainstream to shame. 👍
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  854. Brilliant video as always! Especially fitting given that I'm currently writing my own story set during the Nordic Bronze age, which of course forces me to constantly make decissions on how to portray life back then based on what evidence we have. You are a great inspiration and I cannot wait for the next Gods of Bronze book. Cheers from Sweden!
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  855. Another great video. Also, for mycenean or minoan art, the Pylos Combat Agate seems to show hairstyles of two warriors quite clearly.
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  856. I love all your videos Dan, so well put together. I really look forward to them.
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  857.  @DanDavisHistory  Oh yeah, especially given the analysis of remains at places such as Newgrange. It kind of does seem like the 'ghost' of the Neolithic lived on.
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  858. This shows us the importance of museums offering proper prices for any valuable artifacts being found, rather than insisting that they belong to the state or to "science".
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  859. I dont have any heroes, I don't worship any celebrities and could care less about politicians..... Richard Lionheart however will always be an inspiration, age 25 and took a castle thought to be impenetrable, Legend ♥
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  860. Fantastic video Dan. I’ve often wondered if young men in modern society would benefit from living in some sort of modern day “koryos”, a time to work out what it means to be a man, exploring and working through some of the more destructive urges young men have. Provide an alternative to drugs, crime, gangs, etc.
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  861. I jump to your videos when they come out. I would love it if you did a series on ancient North and Central America.
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  862. This was perfectly done. It's easy to loose track of names in history docs but the narration over the maps is perfect.
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  863. Thank you so much for your work as a historian, novelist, and storyteller. There is not much honor to be found on earth these days; so it is good to be reminded that it has existed in extraordinary cases through the ages.
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  864. no joke I was wondering about this stuff the other day so great timing. also love your books
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  865. We're with you all the way Dan. Keep making history
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  866. How dare you confuse my mind with facts. I loved Robin Hood, Wil Scarlet and Fryer Tuch and Little John since I was in the 5th grade.
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  867. As far as i know from Prof Joh. Krause, the original hunter-gatherer had brown skin but ALL blue eyes. The then mixing in early farmers coming from anatolia had mostly brown eyes and dark hair - the now living north sardinians look most similar to them since they have 90% of that DNA. The Yamnaya are a mix of caucasus originated people with eastern hunter-gatherer and had mostly brown-fair hair and light eye color but not distinct to one color as the western hunter-gatherer. The europeans with the highest Yamnaya percentage today are the scandinavians. The germans, celts, italian, spanish, greek have also some Yamnaya part but less than the scandinavians.
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  868. 4:20 "..masters of their Environment, although they never did much to change it..." Well - that's the very point of the thing; mastery of a thing doesn't require the destruction of a thing. I feel this one statement really underlines how messed up we are as a species atm, that we seem to assume that mastery requires destruction.
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  869. Fantastic, absolutely love your videos for content, style and narration....and of course we Beautiful women deserve a mention ❤🎉🎉
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  870. I love this idea, great research and production. I like the Minoan's practice of keeping kids mostly bald. A timesaver and much cleaner ...
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  871. Fascinating video! On the section about socketed bronze arrowheads you mention that they were rare because of the scarcity of tin, and that most arrowheads were made of flint. I wonder how widespread were the use of copper arrowheads? Perhaps they weren't widely available as copper was kept stored for use to make bronze when tin became available. In a time when the vast majority of warriors were unarmoured perhaps copper arrowheads could've been effective. Maybe it was easier to make flint tools rather than copper ones as flint was more readily available, or the tribesmen were more proficient in their manufacture. Thanks for the video.
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  872. It has to be asked. What was happening in this period? I know from Dartmoor and other high moorland areas the Bronze Age people moved into the valleys and low lands, this has been blamed on a change in climate. So were the people of the Tollense Valley moving for the same reason? It's more than coincidence that the fall of the Eastern Med empires, the Sea People, Troy, Tollense and the movement of people in the UK were all around the same period. As for more battle sites, there were more people on Dartmoor in the Bronze Age than there are today, I can't see those already in the lower lands accepting so many with open arms, the same elsewhere in the UK. The sites have to be there, but where? For the UK I would start in East Devon and the Somerset levels.
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  873. Myths are similar in America and Europe and because I think continents were mythologically multi-connected, remember the human being was at first nomad and they moved the myths or totems with them from one place to another…one point to consider is that the dogs are also hunters and hunting companions. They are markers of prey but also of mythical animals (hind, deer, raven, bull) for some symbolic reason and with magic…Another very interesting topic is that mythological dogs can carry with them the names of other animals (see R. Graves), or ghosts and creatures like pwkas take the shape of dogs …
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  874. Every now and again I go through your whole channel. The amount of information you cram into an episode never ceases to boggle my tiny mind, and you are so engaging that listening to your uploads never gets old.
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  875. That reminds me the El Cid the Movie from 1960s...
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  876. The other great old 'myth' is that of the hairy wild man aka Bigfoot, Almas, Yowie etc. Found in almost every culture through out the world.
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  877. @Dan Davis Author Excellent video. Most, but not all, of Richard's Knights would have been Norman's, but vast majority of the English Crusaders, men at arms, etc would have been Anglo-Saxons and it was on the Third Crusade, under Richard the Lionheart, where English warriors first used the battle cry "St. George!" who was a ancient Roman soldier.
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  878. What a fascinating story. It strikes me that Drake was a lot like Captain James Cook in his attitudes towards native peoples. Both enlightened men for their times.
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  879. To this day, in my native dialect of Croatia we still call livestock of all kind "blago" which in literal sense means treasure/wealth. As such, a man blessed with livestock/horses is blessed in wealth indeed. This most of all regards to bovines and horses.
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  880. The pottery is amazing.
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  881. Bellissima descrizione, finalmente qualcuno che descrive la nostra antica storia! Per chi non ha mai visto la nostra isola è un buon inizio..👍
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  882. Hi Dan I know this video is 9 months old but I think I've watched this video 4 times now! I absolutely love it, it brings history to life. I'm fascinated by the neolithic period on these Isles. I live in Sligo Ireland. I'm surrounded by neolithic megalithics, its one of the richest part of Ireland for such sites. Carrowkeel in Sligo is several hundred years older than Newgrange.
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  883. perhaps the hats were tall so they would cast a longer shadow. the "priest" would stand at a key point as the sun rose to know the precise date.
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  884. Yes, and one catastrophy often had a domino effect, plague caused famine, famine caused toppling of elites, conflict and the end of established religions/societal bonds.
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  885. I'm very glad that YT recommended this channel. I love human history in general so always keep my eyes open for interesting videos. Your concise clear presentation is really appreciated here. I registered and look forward to view more of your presentations.
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  886. So interesting these long barrows. We have them in Denmark too, some close to where I grew up. Thanks for uploading this video, it was very informative and educating.
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  887. Great stuff Dan, really enjoying all your videos. I just wanted to add that, although William and his warband probably weren't themselves the direct inspiration for the Robin Hood story, their actions might still have had a significant influence on the foundational myth that inspired these stories. It is not hard to imagine that their deeds proved to be incredibly populair amongst the peasantry and the lower gentry of the time, probably even for several generations. Deeds that must have been a rich source for boastful tales and local legends, all of which most likely then merged into the stories of the ever evolving Zeitgeist for many decades and centuries afterwards. Probably didn't need to tell you any of that, but your videos are so well made that I still wanted to drop a comment just to amp up the engagement. Thank you for your well researched short documentaries!
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  888. Greetings from North Central Asia, where I have lived for the last ten years. This doesn't make me an expert on ancient steppe cultures by any means, but one thing I would suggest is that perhaps necessity was the mother of invention. The weather in this region is incredibly variable, moving from -40 in the winter to +40 in the summer, which made planned agriculture difficult and a yearly migration from north to south in the winter, and south to north in the summer a necessity. As I understand it, the peoples of this time survived by following the herds of horses, and their cultures still reflect this to this day, where their diet is still heavily based on dried foods, meat and dairy. The steppe is vast and harsh with few natural resources that would be useful to ancient peoples, so there were few stable settlements - all of which makes warfare far less common than it would have been in the crowded, settled lands further to the west - wolves and bears were far more of a threat than other people.. So, you have the ancient people of the steppe, following the herds for food, likely living right alongside them for generations to the point where the horses no longer feared them, sharing a threat from common predators, and needing to migrate thousands of miles every year due to the weather conditions. In these circumstances it seems almost inevitable that the humans would eventually realise that they could climb onto the horses to move more quickly both for migration and for escape. This relationship would also be symbiotic, since the humans, with their hunting technology, would also help protect the horses, particularly their young, from those very predators as well. But as I said, that's just a half-baked theory I came up with whilst watching your interesting video!
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  889. We are very lucky to have someone who covers cultures most other history youtubers don't mention. And to have such high quality videos that are very entertaining to listen to is wonderful. I'm happy every time I see one of these
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  890. A video on how the koryos tradition evolved in later ages as indo european split into different cultures would be most interesting. Great channel!
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  891. So happy to see such well researched and obscure topics getting a voice on youtube. I found your videos yesterday, and I have watched them all at this point. Thankful to be along for your journey. Thanks again!
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  892. I believe the warrior Otzi makes most sense even though the blood of other men on his weapons has not been verified. He does have a defensive wound on his hand, how would that situation have been resolved. I think it only ends with someone dead and Otzi survived it.
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  893. This is by far the best and most thorough treatment of Outzi. Thanks much, Dan!
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  894. Hi from Sardinia. I also have horns, but I’m not a warrior. It’s my wife’s fault.
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  895. What an intro! I have even more confidence in your storytelling, I'll have to find your books. Also you teased the Indo Iranian phase, I wonder if reading about it, made you more curious?
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  896. The doom metal band Cathedral have a song about him. Hopkins Witchfinder General is a great tune. Excellent video, this was super interesting. Thanks.
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  897. I didn't know male horses have canine teeth . My gosh , I am 62 yrs old and still learning new things and more interested in learning than ever before in my life .
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  898. Also, because you are Mexican, you are also probably of Spanish ancestry as well, meaning you have ancestors from Southern Europe, who have high amounts of Neolithic ancestry, making you especially related to Ötzie
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  899. I'm so happy to find a history channel that isn't seudo history. You explain the uknown instead of inserting what you believe to be as true. looking forward to watching and learning more.
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  900. Not even kidding, during death ceremony in India, we earlier had to recite 10 generation ancestor names, but nowadays the priests have sort of made it simple and bare minimum you need is 3 generations now. The ancestor worship is so clear by what you said in the start of your video.
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  901. Hey @DanDavisHistory great quality content mate. As an Archaeologist myself specialised in Prehistory I wish we had a content like this back then at the University. Bringing the Gravettian to life is a remarkable feat, because you provide a full 365 degrees picture of it all. Thanks again for this. Jose
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  902. I really think john whould be remembered differently had he lived to see off louie
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  903.  @alicelund147  Well of course the nordic bronze age wasn't started by a migration directly from the steppes and I didn't mean to imply so. As descendants of the corded ware people, however, they were ultimately derived from a culture which migrated westwards from the steppe. I have also never heard that the seine-oise-marne culture "replaced" the battle axe culture. It's my understanding that the nordic bronze age is largely a continuation of the battle axe (themselves a mix of the corded ware and funnelbeaker), as well as their gradual absorbtion and assimilation of the SHG pitted ware people.
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  904. hey I've been working on stone age story around the idea of the "first thunderer", and i really appreciate all the work you've done researching and explaining the stone and bronze age cultures
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  905. Who else came here from the short?
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  906. Another great documentary, thanks so much Dan! Well explained, right amount of caution, and engaged with the current research.
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  907. Fascinating information about a culture that I knew nothing about. Thanks for sharing this with us. Well done 👍
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  908. David I was in Sardinia last year. I saw few ancient traditions that made my head spin. Do you plan a video on that island?
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  909. Wouldn't it be funny that the two cultures of the pitted and the corded people's mythologies reflected in their rivalry like how the Aesir gods had a rivalry with the Vanir gods. Would explain why in ancient Scandinavian mythology there is 2 different groups of gods. Was always curious about that.
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  910. As I binge this channel, it is quickly becoming a favorite. As far as the idea that the myth cannot be older than the domestication of dogs, or that perhaps some earlier variants involved wolves and not dogs; myths evolve over time to reflect what is going on in the material world of the the people whos myths they are, and what is going on in the interior world of the same. But its not like the diffusion of mythology is linear. If there are 100 iterations of the same myth, some people will still have the oldest iterations, others will have the newest but the vast majority will have one of the 98 iterations between. The myth, in a given place, is likely to reflect the degree to which domestication has developed in that place. And domestication was a very long process which began with human interactions with wolves. Ethnobiology has a dog in this fight too (haha), "We argue that dog-human coevolution resulted in shared existence as hybrid pack-families". I will cite the paper at the bottom of this comment, it is a really big deal. Hybrid pack-families essentially means hybrid societies of humans and canines. The impact this would have on the part canines have played in the shaping of human society (as co-equals at a formative point), let alone myth, is highly substantial. I suggest that the myth of the dog guardian of the gate to the underworld is probably a mythological narrative describing the process of very early domestication in extremely symbolic terms. When humans were becoming the disproportionately more powerful partner in the relationship. That femininity is associated with otherworldliness throughout the Indo-European sphere and that women were the gatekeepers of dogs inclusion to personhood (during the hybrid pack-family stage of canine domestication) is really interesting. Even more interesting to me than this is the possibility that humans were showing signs of preadaption for domestication by canines, such as "... There was no difference between the influence of men and women on dogs' utility for humans, but affiliation with women had a stronger effect on humans' utility for dogs and personhood of dogs than did affiliation with men. This intriguing finding requires in-depth ethnographic analysis from new studies". I am not sure there could be more clear of a case made for the impact of canines on human ethnogenesis than the information you have correlated in this video. Anyways, here is the study by the Journal of Ethnobiology: https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-ethnobiology/volume-40/issue-4/0278-0771-40.4.414/Dog-Human-Coevolution-Cross-Cultural-Analysis-of-Multiple-Hypotheses/10.2993/0278-0771-40.4.414.full
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  911. As soon as I heard your description of the men's houses, I immediately thought of Beowulf.
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  912. Dan Davis is in the top 3 of my favorite creators. I am always excited when a new one comes out. When I discovered him about a year ago I binged everything made already. Thank you so much Dan & everyone who contributes 💚
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  913. In finnish language there is a word for the blunt side of an axe. It is called "hamara". My mind was blown when I connected it to the earlier indo-european word hamar. We have a word for a hammer (vasara) so I think hamara survived straight from the hammeraxe times.
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  914. This video offers an eye-opening insight into the witch hunts of the 17th century. The story of Matthew Hopkins is both horrifying and compelling, and it's presented in a way that's both respectful and engaging. Great work!
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  915. Read the book he mentioned by Kris Kershaw The one eyed God. Odin and the indo european mannerbund. Thanks @survivethejive for the video tip.
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  916. You've filled in a gap of my mental map of prehistory. Thanks for posting this it must have taken a lot to make it.
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  917. I believe that St. George was a real historical person. And he certainly is a symbol of both Catholic and Pan-European pride! A true Indo-European symbol indeed!
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  918.  @DanDavisHistory  That seems plausible. It definitely is an interesting what if. Could these early Balkan farmers have developed a writing system and real urban centers? Would we today be talking about their king lists and early myths? Obviously it did'nt work out that way, but its interesting to speculate.
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  919. Not just our ancestors. C.S. Lewis (+1963) said, 'You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.' It is a basic idea in Christianity. BTW, I'm reading 'Godborn'. Excellent! I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
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  920. Great video Dan. Gold is sacred. Amazing to think of the Sredny stog connection
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  921. What a gorgeous day when Dan is back with another video! Love you man! Best channel on youtube!
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  922. Outstanding exposition of a great warrior king. It is a crime that there are so many "histories" that have been neglectfully, and some purposely, arranged which conceal the reality while feigning truthfulness.
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  923. Would high percentage of bones of children be more of a sign of endogenous processing as their mortality rate is higher?
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  924. “…but what happened on the Pontic steppe between the late Neolithic/early Bronze Age Yamnaya culture, and the Iron Age Scythians?” This is something I have asked myself for a very, very long time. Thank you for enlightening us Dan!
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  925. This was without doubt one of the best videos I've ever seen. It was exactly the same as reading one of those books that throws open dozens of doors in the mind, for you to enter and explore. Thank you so much. As always with your videos, it drew together and made coherent sense of many loose ends for me. I've just watched it three times! Wow!
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  926. Our Nordic ancestors were quite in on the scene you consider the proliferation of Baltic Amber found around the Mediterranean in the bronze age.
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  927. Great video :) thank you. My personal take away of the decline is as you stated, multiple causes. The drop in the male population to me is a sign of warfare and often after warring in distant countries, diseases often spreads.
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  928. I’m going to buy all your books just for being so based
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  929. I love that you incorporate archaeological evidence into your fiction. I love that so much, that you make a plausible scenario out of a pile of scraps and then go on to explain it.
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  930. When's the next installment to the "Gods of Bronze" series!? I'm seriously hooked! I even have my 92-year-old grandmother hooked on it. Love your work brother!
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  931. Interesting. Also the pre-Etruscan Villanovan culture appeared later close to and among the Po River areas.
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  932. Nobody else puts everything together like this. Outstanding work!
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  933. I'd be curious to hear your take on the BMAC and how it interacted with the Sintashta/Andronovo ... if only because, as others have noted, your novelist story telling tradition makes the material much more alive than dry archaeological white papers
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  934. Loving everything you're putting out my guy. Keep it coming.
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  935. instincts are ancestor's whispering through the ages. only survivor's get to talk. thank yew
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  936. Re; plants that indicate ores; Agricola's "De Re Metallica" (pub.1556) suggests that the prospector seek out barren spots of land where the plants grow thinly and that many metals will be found in such places. I think this might be especially true for copper many of whose compounds are used as fungicides since many plants relay on symbiotic relations with fungi.
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  937. Thank you for this brilliant documentary! I have heard that in some parts, he is still regarded as something of a local folk hero. Brutal and extreme, but he protected (the majority) of his people.
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  938. “Liquefying” people is a good and horrifying way to describe it 😱
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  939. North west Asian cultures were highly influential to the rest of the world.
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  940. Excellent! This time period has always fascinated me and sparked my imagination. Historical writings of this area during this time frame needs to continue and grow as dna evidence helps to paint the picture.
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  941. If you ever visit Stockholm I can recommend a visit at the shipwreck museum, Vrak. It's nextdoor to the Vasa museum and have a good exhibition of bronze age shipwrecks found in the Baltic sea.
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  942. Personally, I have a deep admiration for Richard the LionHeart.
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  943. Can't get over how beautiful the Zwickau axe-hammer is. It's mesmerising. Also, I bloody love how you talk about the short-handled clay-sunk Funnel-beaker axe after hammering us with mythology (pun intended) and then record scratch "Nothing to do with Thor, guys. I just think it's interesting." Awesome.
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  944. I'm portuguese, this was awesome!! Thank you <3
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  945. The idea of several souls is also found in Finnish traditional beliefs, now sadly mostly scattered and forgotten thanks to thousand years of desert nomad monotheism having been imported by force. (Not counting the orthodox faith in that - it was the orthodox areas where even those little traces of the old religion were able to survive.) Itse-sielu is the "self" and gives the modern word for self (cognates in related languages refer to the soul specifically). Henki-sielu is the life force, and the word henki means life and henkäys means breath. There are also haamu-sielu (ghost) that is for general health and luonto-sielu (nature) that is for personal character and may be also partially external / from your ancestors / something that can be strenghtened for and with macig.
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  946. I've heard of the Vinca script, can't say I know much about it either though. I find the cultures of "Old Europe" to be super interesting. I'm hopefully attending a history MA program in Ireland next fall, and want to focus on how ancient and medieval writers viewed the relics of much older peoples, such as Stonehenge and New Grange.
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  947. Interesting that this took place within a century preceding the "bronze age collapse", which is often blamed on invasions of people from the northern coast of the Mediterranean, ie, Europe. The development of hillforts (7:12) suggests that the local population was starting to feel crowded.
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  948. Great video, Mr. Davis. Never had heard of these people before! Thanks for shining some light on them. It's crazy just how much history and archaeology are unknown even to people interested in the subjects, and it's sometimes hard to fathom that the people who lived in these cultures were real folks and that they lived real lives, and that their actions echo into both the history that many people are familiar with and into the present day Cheers
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  949. The Bronze Age Scandinavian Twin King hypothesis calls to mind the twin kings of Sparta. The Nuragic and Sardinian stone towers are reminiscent of Scottish Brochs.
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  950. There is a connection between head trauma and violent/anti social behaviour. Maybe individuals like soldiers who suffered head trauma and a subsequent change in personality were seen as needing this procedure as a form of treatment
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  951. Another fascinating video! You have a true talent for bringing these ancient cultures to life. Are all of the videos you make put together from research you're doing for your fiction books, or are there some videos you just wanted to make for the sake of it? Thank you as always for the hard work that goes into these videos.
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  952. Great video. It's unbelievable how far we've come now with archaeogenetics. The prehistoric past is richer then most could ever imagine. Ty
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  953. I'm fascinated by the cultures of this region, from the Yamnaya through the Scythians and beyond. I hadn't made the connection that the Yamnaya might be associated with the origin of proto-Indo-European language. That's an exciting thought.
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  954. Nice video. What is interesting for me was the Thirteenth Warrior where the Norsemen were not allowed to speak the name of Cannibal Tribes. I had a talk with a Sotho guy of South-Africa and they to must not mention the Word. Was this how humans basically got rid of the idea of Cannibalism within communities or basically any unwanted practice or idea ?
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  955. If I remember correctly,the Battle Axe people spoke an Indo European proto Germanic language. Supposedly Germanic as a whole has a non IE substrate,I wonder from which people and when it came from? Interesting vid man. Glad I subscribed.
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  956. Great video, Mr. Davis. Had been looking forward to this for a long time! Glad to finally get my content fix 😂especially with a culture as under-appreciated as this one! That's what I love about this channel: I had never even heard of cultures like the Nuragic, Cucuteni-Trypillia, or Varna before you brought them up. Thanks for all you do. Cheers
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  957. The saddest but most thankful thing I have ever done was to dig a grave for my dog and give him a dignified burial.
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  958. Reading a bit about Early European Modern Humans(cro-magnons), supposedly they were the most robust humans ever analysed.
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  959. Until watching this video this history has been really hard to get a grip on. Like, I had no idea that agriculture was introduced this early in northern Europe. And the steppe herders arriving making it more complicated still. Thank you!
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  960. Now we're cooking with gas. I'd vaguely heard of this person but wanted your take because of the research involved in your videos. I wonder what you think of Geoffroi de Chany? His book's pretty excellent, and his life was pretty wild.
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  961. The life of this man needs to be made into a TV series
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  962. Another great start to a Sunday morning with a new video from Dan!! Awesome!! Thank you Dan!!
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  963. I absolutely love the bronze age, I find the entire period, artefacts, structures, burial practices and technology fascinating.
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  964. You know what I love the most about your work . I have yet to hear the phrase ancient aliens , Bigfoot , or supernatural spirits were responsible . This is exactly what I wanted the history channel and the discovery channel to be but sadly as we all know, they failed us . Keep up the excellent work. Thanks.
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  965. I wish I learned about these cultures in my college history class over 40 years ago. Nice video.
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  966. These are great and well informed discussions of Scandinavian archaeogenetics.
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  967. I was familiar with this story— but not the hour-long version! Great video; thanks.
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  968. During my time at university I worked on austrian copper age slags, since then I'm fascinated on everything bronze. Thanks for uploading this video on the mining. May I propose to do a similar one on tin mining?
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  969. Why is the belief so universal? Clearly its symbolic but I believe our ancestors knew something we have lost along the way.
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  970. Easily one of your top three videos, with your channel being one of my top three channels. Spectacular work. Cheers, Mr. Davis: this was simply fantastic!
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  971. For people interesting in other nearby cultures of the time: look up the Varna Necropolis (Bulgaria ~4500 BC) - which features a man buried with a huge amount of gold, including even a... phallic cover. This is an interesting contrast to the supposedly matriarchic and egalitarian Cucuteni culture. Near the same time was also used the Vinča 'script' - a possible proto-writing system.
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  972. I'm blown away that I've never heard of this person until I happened to cross this video. Thank you for uploading this! This was fascinating.
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  973. Incredible man and clearly the most honest and honourable of knights.
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  974. Love the video and you should keep the theme going with a episode on the Sami people and there transition from hunting the reindeer to riding them 🙂 keep up the good work
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  975. Very good summary. I'd add that a further advantage of city walls is that it introduces entry points to the polity which can then be used as customs posts for import/export duty, and thus can, over time, help fund themselves.
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  976. Trying to ride a hard-to-find horse sounds a lot like modern rodeo
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  977. Thank you for an excellent lecture. Cucuteni pottery is at least comparable to pottery before dynastic Egypt. It seems even nicer to me. Interestingly, ceramics from the Levant region did not reach such a quality during the late Bronze Age at 1200 BC. Really exciting.
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  978. I wrote something, informally, on this subject in a blog post in March of 2010. I too, was fascinated by the information on Cuceteni-Tripolye in Anthony's book. I had read the occasional archaeological paper on the culture for several years before, but Anthony brought these disjointed patches of partial information into focus for me. In the blog post, I quoted exactly the same paragraph on the culture's social organization that you have in this video. After that, I wrote the following: My instinct, confronted with this archaeological evidence, is not to conclude that something twice the size of Uruk, obviously engaged in large scale trade and manufacturing, is not a city, but that the conventional definition of a city must be wrong. By this absurd convention, neither Amsterdam nor New York are cities (Neither has ever been dominated by a palace or a temple). Instead, I would conclude that monarchy and temple priesthoods are not essential to the appearance and flourishing of cities, at any “stage” or era. Such institutions characterized Mesopotamian cities. Fine. But city life clearly emerged elsewhere without them. Notice the assumptions built into Anthony’s last sentence. Elsewhere in the book, he conveys the impression that the Tripolye “super towns” were ephemeral. They only lasted several centuries (i.e., longer than the United States has). But Uruk and the other Mesopotamian “first cities” only lasted a few centuries before being reduced to dust. They were not replaced, at least not in the same location. Subsequent Near Eastern urban centers appeared elsewhere, further up the Tigris and Euphrates. The acknowledged “first cities” were no more durable than these unacknowledged ones. The idea that a consular system, if that was indeed how they were governed, was disastrously “unwieldly” is mere cartoon imagery, based on the assumption that monarchy or dictatorship are inherently more efficient than democracy. This is a belief that should be very doubtful to anyone who has payed attention to the events of the last century. These urban communities, in what is now Moldova, Moldavia and Western Ukraine, have every bit as good a claim to being the “first cities” as Uruk and Eridu have. True, they do not fulfill the unexamined conventional image of cities as the passive side-effect of aristocracy. Boo hoo. They do fulfill a rational definition of a city, as a settlement in which large numbers of people, far more than characterize a farming village, engage in technical innovation, internal as well as external trade, and the process of replacing imports with domestic production. As for their eventual demise and disappearance, a far more plausible explanation than the supposed shortcomings of consular government presents itself. Settlements of such size would inevitably have exposed themselves to those infectious diseases which thrive in high population density, and for which this pioneering population would have had no previous experience or immunity. It is especially significant that it took place in a region that was coming into close interaction with a new domestic animal, the horse. Domestic animals are the usual vectors of new plagues. The horse-herding and riding cultures of the adjacent steppes would have long acquired resistance to these diseases, giving them a strategic advantage over little cities precariously exposed in this location. This, and the climate change which subsequently parched the region, can easily account for the fact that these early cities declined and were not subsequently replaced. Blaming proto-democratic organization for it is lazy thinking.
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  979. I would not say it's a niche topic. Horse domestication is one of the fundamental events of human history. You did a great job explaining the two main theories.
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  980. Dan, found your channel only a few weeks ago and I'm still being blown away! You keep putting out genuinely incredible content. Your narration/storytelling is top notch, along with the editing and production value. Your passion for these subjects shines through in the best ways possible. THANK YOU for the time and effort you put into these amazing videos!
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  981. The proto-cities in Nebelivka, Trypillia, Talyanky and Maidanske in Ukraine are just wonderful....
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  982. Reminds me of one of my absolute favorite short stories - The Valley of the Worm, by Robert E. Howard. "I will tell you of Niord and the Worm. You have heard the tale before in many guises wherein the hero was named Tyr, or Perseus, or Siegfried, or Beowulf, or Saint George. But it was Niord who met the loathly demoniac thing that crawled hideously up from hell . . ."
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  983. When I was a kid growing up in Denmark, I was told the name of the long barrows where Jættestuer - translate to Giant Rooms. But Giants as in the Giants/Baddies in the old Norse mythology.
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  984. I've been reading William Hamblin's Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC. This video is excellent as a supplement to that book because not only does it refresh the earlier chapter it also brings in some outside knowledge. Love this video Davis.
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  985. That man could be the extremely attractive ancestor of Jason Momoa. I can’t wait to watch!
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  986. Learned about these about a year ago, and put them into dnd right away. I like to think these are just how our bronze age homies stayed looking crisp and drippy
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  987. Free copy?? Fuck that, I'll happily pay for your stuff.
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  988. I've gotta chime in that one of the most mindbending things about attending large festivals is the number of complete strangers you see who look identical to people you've known for years. That rang out to me as a perhaps realworld basis for that part of the depiction in the opening of this video. Interesting to think that such moments may have played into the development of early indoeuropean quasireligious beliefs.
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  989. "imagine getting clocked with that one" i mean you probably wouldn't notice
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  990. Have you ever read Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger? The bit about the young warrior being where the life force manifests itself most abundantly reminded me of the bit where he talks about 18-20 year old shock troopers and how fearless and full of fight they were
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  991. I never had the impression from reading Anthony that he was suggesting the Yamnaya were capable of mounting actual armed cavalry operations. But it isn't hard to imagine that armed warriors, skilled enough in horse control to manage herds, might have also used them for getting to a location for a quick raid and then escaping on them afterwards. People on foot would have difficulty catching up with raiders who could get away on horses even if for a short distance with relative primitive means of controlling the animals. In fact, this would have been such a valuable advantage that it is hard to imagine someone would not have developed the tactic at a relative early date. One might further conjecture that actual cavalry tactics might have developed later as a means of defending against such predation.
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  992. Fascinating stuff, who knows what we might be able to see from Tollense in the future!
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  993. ​ @DanDavisHistory  well, Sintashta people probably came to southern Ural with some sort of a chariot, since in their new lands they, as you said in the video, were in a state of constant warfare. But the fact that they still used expensive materials for chariots for at least a century truly amazes me. Maybe it can even be interpreted as a presence of stable economic relationships with other regions and cultures.
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  994. I absolutely love your channel , content is excellent 👌 and your narration is brilliant. Waiting on you're books to arrive. Great work. Peace all 🇮🇪
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  995. A timeless video. I know I will come back to this one many times in the future and ponder on Drakes deeds and adventures. Keep doing what you are doing. Your storytelling and narrative skills are top notch. Your channel may not be the behemoth that other channels are but you can get there with this kind of content. Grounded, detailed history is the best!
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  996. Only in from work and had a tough day then I get an alert to say Dan Davis has dropped a half hour of sheer BLISS , so going to cook something and sit in my nest and thoroughly relax and enjoy, don't even know what it's about but I definitely know it's going to be just Brilliant. Thank you Dan really appreciate your work. Only moan I wish it was for much longer. 🤣🤣🤣🇮🇪
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  997. You would think that we might have considered massive cities as a bit of a liability then, but we just keep building them.
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  998. Once again as I mentioned in one of your previous videos this this ritual and this The importance of canines really gives insight to the Irish hero Cu Chullain. A video on your take of that could be really fun.
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  999. Always looking forward to your take on the many aspects of Bronze Age history. As always i was not disappointed. Great work, please keep it up!
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  1000. This video is incredible! It totally brings this skeleton to life in such a vivid way. Thank you! Also, this would make a great basis for a movie as well. They should get the team that wrote and filmed and directed The Revenant to do it!
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  1001. Very Indo-European
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  1002. Hi Dan - I am an archaeology student at Oxford and I love your videos - the topics are so well researched, narrated, and visually represented that you often surpass the quality of a good lecture here. Keep up the great work!
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  1003. The horns could be symbolic of the age they lived in. The bull represents Taurus and the ancients knew more about astrology and constellations then we think.
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  1004. This was the most interesting thing I've heard about this man. Thank you for giving detailed theories of how he could of died along with plenty more info about his life
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  1005. Excellent documentary. Well done narration. Your attention to detail really had me pulled into the story! Thank you for this. (Edit: time stamp 39:38 & over the next 10 seconds your sound effects had me rolling..PERFECT EDITING)
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  1006. Great video. Maybe the concept of the four horsemen of the apocalypse has deeper roots than we realise.
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  1007. This is absolutely outstanding. I’ve watched it twice now and will watch it with my son next. Dan Davis’ work is peerless. What a terrific antidote to the parlous state of contemporary history programming.
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  1008. I'm always interested in the Yamnaya era! Also I downloaded your short prequel, gonna read it this weekend and hopefully start the proper series after!
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  1009. The Yamnaya and Corded Ware people did not need to kill and enslave all men to have their descendants predominate, it only takes a higher birthrate and time. Though the killing and enslavement certainly happened.
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  1010. The older I get, the more I realise just how inaccurate historical accounts are. So much so that all historical details are 100% unreliable, even when written records are found. There are millions of inaccurate historical records that are within living memory let alone from hundreds of years ago. Accounts differ because of perspectives, 2nd, 3rd, 4th hand information, political beliefs, social and economic experience, status, agendas, fear etc etc etc. Also If medieval England was as brutal as we think, then writing the truth would have been a death sentence, much like the truth today can get you arrested. Even an event from just 12 months ago will be written by dozens of people who all account those events differently. History is completely unreliable.
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  1011. St George was also the patron saint of Genoa in Italy which during the Middle Ages was one of the great maritime and commercial powers of Europe -the Genoese empire extended right across to the Crimea,Russia and the Ukraine and it was a Genoese ship returning from the Genoese port of Kaffa in the Crimea that brought the Black Death to Europe.There are huge Genoese castles and forts still in existence in the Crimea and elsewhere today.Genoese were also highly skilled archers and their mercenaries fought with the French and others during the 100 Years War.Genoese banks like that of St George fueled the Spanish Empire in its heyday and generals fought in the Spanish and Imperial armies.Andrea Doria was a famed Genoese admiral who fought the Ottoman Turks.
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  1012. This is the best video made by Dan Davis! I knew the basics before I watched this video and I could not find any mistakes in the video. I would mention Akhal-Teke cremello horses - they have blonde hair and blue eyes, so they look like the Caucasoids who domesticated them. I am surprised that Dan Davis mentioned Amazon myth, but did not mention centaur myth.
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  1013. In Spain there's a saying "antes muerta que sencilla" (I'd rather be dead than plain). I think these bronze age warriors also rather die than looking bad and unfashionable. 😂
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  1014. Great video, Dan. I can't help but wonder the extent to which the printing press might be a reason we know the embellished, mythical story of Vlad. As you said, those Saxons were great propagandists and the Danube must have been the 'Wild West' to many Europeans, full of interest. Vlad stories might have been the talk of German market towns in that period, the infancy of printing. Sounds like a best-selling pamphlet to me.
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  1015. Congratulations on 100k subscribers! I genuinely enjoy your channel, and I really appreciate the time and effort that you put into your content. Thank you for doing what you do, and take care.
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  1016. This was really well done, many historical presenters seem to try and dumb things down for the audience and throw in a lot of repetitious CG affects and you are presenting facts in a relevant and concise manner
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  1017. Videos like this are why I enjoy Dan’s channel. Not many people cover ancient Europe since they don’t have the well known empires like the Bronze Age Middle East but have such fascinating and advanced cultures. Happy Dan is showing these cultures love.
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  1018. Really great job!!! Some ancient native american tribes also had this kind of practices, as ritual initiation into adulthood. Thank you once again!
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  1019. The local history museum in the city I was born in has some of the copper that was mined in Lake Superior region. It was transported down from Michigan to Florida hundreds of years ago.
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  1020. Fantastic video as always! As an anthropologist with a focus on the southwestern US, I love getting this kind of information on a part of the world that's very foreign to me. Love the idea of Irish snail farmers, simply the thought makes me smile. The idea of a seafood taboo is also very interesting to me, and calls to mind something from my own experiences. I'm Apache and Akimel O'odham thru one side of my family and Minnesota Norge on the other. The Norwegians love seafood but turn up their noses at river fish (I've heard often how catfish taste muddy, etc). My native family treat fish as exotic and strange, and really only like it breaded and fried. I do wonder if this has something to do with preservation, as others have suggested in the comments. People whose environments would cause fish to spoil faster may have found them gross and associated them with illness, whereas coastal populations tended to eat them fresh, sometimes immediately upon catch. I could definitely see this leading to a historical taboo. Another thing to cap off this long comment: the proto-farming of hazelnuts is similar to sites we've found out here which suggest the same was done in the American West with the agave plant. Mostly outside cave entrances, there's evidence of large patches of agave transplanted there and likely returned to seasonally. Within the caves we find corn, pinenuts, and other such things which could be kept dried (I had to exciting opportunity to handle one of the ancient maize cobs found in New Mexico, still had solid kernels after all those years). The resourcefulness of human beings is one of my favorite recurring themes in this line of study, and it really is impressive what we were able to shape from the raw environments we found ourselves in.
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  1021. Fun I was at the Vitlycke museum just a week ago and have lived in Bohuslän most of my life. Nice hearing something about it on here.
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  1022. I admire & respect your clarity about what evidence shows, and how it changes interpretations over time with differing analyses applied to that evidence.
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  1023. Great video! On another note, it would be so awesome if you could make a video about the incredible sieges of Vienna in 1529 and 1683, two tremendous turning points in the history of Europe against the Turks.
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  1024. Could you pls make another Bronze Age video you are one of the only history channels which cover the time period ? :D
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  1025. When sonic enters Mario world.
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  1026. 19:00 Kind of reminds me of this documentary I saw where some UK "experts" had two completely out of shape volunteers wear Bronze Age armor and told them to run full sprint. Then concluded it was "impossible" for anyone to wear such armor in battle. It was ridiculous. I don't know if they were deliberately manipulating it to confirm their bias or they were so out of touch with reality they forgot to hire actual soldiers, or at least two men who actually lifted weights.
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  1027. Truly the greatest Knight.
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  1028. I would love to hear your presentation on the Western bell beakers and their relationship to the corded Ware and their penetration into Great Britain.
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  1029. Excellent work, Dan. An instant classic for me. Great overview of the best sites' compositions and learnings, and obviously I appreciate the "Top 5 Signs and Portents of Ancient Cannibalism 101". My nomination for driest-delivered line of the video goes to: "When I say they 'used' the site, I mean their bones were smashed up and interred here, of course...".
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  1030. That was one of most entertaining YouTube video's I've ever seen. Mind, officially, blown. William Marshall. We need a proper film/TV Show on this guy.
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  1031. As Ukrainian, I’ve heard about this culture, but didn’t know much. This is truly amazing. When I am looking at these houses, I recognize Ukrainian villages. Wood frame, clay and straw. I still remember those straw roofs and painted clay walls on older houses when I visited my grandparents. Each region in Ukraine has its own pottery and textile styles. They are very colourful and gorgeous. There was a cult of “bereginya” in Ukrainian culture. Bereginya is a goddess who protects your house and family. Even now we call our women bereginya. Agriculture plays very important role in the economy of Ukraine. Even though I have a very small backyard, I still plant lots of vegetables, berries and flowers. It is in my blood. I can’t believe how much my people were influenced by this culture and still have it regardless of multiple wars, occupations, deportations, famine, repressions. When Russians are telling us, Ukrainians, that we have never existed and were created by Lenin, I can only laugh and feel sorry for them… by the way, according to UNESCO, Ukraine has the larges number of folk songs in the world. Now I know why - we have very very deep roots.
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  1032. I live near Lusignan, SW of Poitiers. Richard the Lion Heart is still big in the history here. There is a tourist route through Nouvelle-Aquitaine named "Route de Coeur de Lion"
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  1033. Why then the walls around the town's?
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  1034. Aliens observing humanity in 2300 BC "Ok, the Kurgan era is over. Their prime is over. They took over Europe. They can't possibly do more." Sintashta emerges in 2200 BC mightier than any Kurgans before them. Aliens….. ”You’ve got be kidding me! These frickin' Kurgans just won’t stop.”
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  1035. Of all the historical youtubers very few talk about the bronze age and fewer still talk about anything outside of the ancient Mediterranean. Before I watched Dan davis I had no idea how diverse and fascinating the cultures of Northern Europe are.
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  1036. Absolutely spectacular. What an awesome big budget series this would make. Has it all. Power, deception, intrigue, epic battles with so many players from so many countries, romance, I mean its endless. Almost unbelievable. All these events happened in what? 30? 40 years? Astounding
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  1037. Another excellent presentation Dan. You really have a knack for making these ancient cultures come alive. I consider myself relatively well informed on these topics but I learn things that I did not previously know every time I watch one of your videos. Well done Sir.
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  1038. Amazing story I never heard before, this is why I love your channel
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  1039. "Why do it the easy way when you can do it the hard way" - personal motto Please never stop making it not simple for yourself if that means this damn high quality content 💜
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  1040. Another fascinating video! I think the Varna pottery has similar open ended curves and swirls to those of the La Tène period of the Iron Age. Obviously there's no connection as they were geographically and temporally so distant from each other, but I suppose that artistic styles and motifs are re-invented all the time.
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  1041. I can't explain how I strongly I feel having been in the cold night forrest around fire ready to go and kill men.
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  1042. I'm incredibly glad that you went into my recommendation on the Bronze Age battle. The battle on Dołęża (Tolouse, Tollense) was propably the most important battle leading to Venedization of Europe and to pushing Sea Peoples south. I connect the battle of Tollense (Dołęża, Tolouse) with the rise of Vendi/Veneti/Vengiones/Wendisch/Antes or simply "followers of Queen Vanda/Wanda". Those peoples are ancestors of Slavs, Suavi, Balts, Illirians, Thrakians, Bretonians. Due to tradition held in Polish monastery on Jasna Góra, Queen Wanda lived c.a. 1200BC and her sit of power was some 8km east from nowadays Krakow, in nowadays eastern part of Nowa Huta, where the mound of Wanda, bridge of Wanda, stadium of Wanda and shopping mall of Wanda are located.
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  1043. Lovely story Dan. That's that way it used to be. In pre-Roman antiquity, a boy was considered a man when he turned 14, a girl a woman when she had her first menstruation. Since times immemorial, the land between the Black and Caspian seas agglomerated peoples of different ethnic origins: Magyars, Avars, Slavs, Germanic, Mongolian, Bulgars, etc. After the Huns raided Europe, they retreated back to this area. When the Magyars (Hungarians) raided Europe centuries later, they remained in the Carpathian basin, in the Danube river valley where they are still today, but some did go back further east. Cheers.
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  1044. Even if they weren't riding them into battle, I could easily see a band using them to get from point a to point b, then dismount to fight. Like Dragoons originally did during the 16th and early 17th centuries. Being able to move quickly on a horse from your camp to a fight had to be valuable in of itself or just lash the loot or supplies to the horse as you move along. Even if a cavalry charge wasn't a thing. I could easily see horses and horse riding being a valuable aspect of warfare during the Indo-European migration.
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  1045. Richard's personal descriptions remind me greatly of Henry VIII, with the exception of the attempts to overthrow his father.
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  1046. Still being done today in some form in Moldova Republic. Before New Years eve, children in the village go out and hunt down any dog on the streets, and there are plenty of strays. They club it to death and use their skins to make drums that are used in new year celebrations. Since they don't treat the skin in any way, it goes bad and the ritual is repeated next year. Damn awful to see and hear
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  1047. As always, extremely informative.
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  1048. Gripping. We can imagine that the superior breed of horses was traded west first during the period when the culture existed, continuing after it had expanded and dispersed and were out of the picture. We can imagine that the horse trading to the west occurred remarkably quickly if we harken to how swiftly horses spread, and became integral to, indigenous peoples of North America after European contact. There may be little archeological evidence, but I would like to hear your speculations about how Sintashta horses spread west to supplant all other domesticated varieties in Western Europe.
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  1049. I just ordered your three "Gods of Bronze" novels and can't wait to read them! Love your channel!
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  1050. Many years ago (30+, pre-internet) I stumbled over a very interesting article that argued for quite extensive contacts between eastern Mediterranean and parts of Scandinavia, this due to very similar rock carvings, in Bohuslän among other places. The author even suggested that it would be possible to identify individual rock carvers due to specific carving/napping techniques. I remember having a very good discussion on this with a scholar at the Historiska muséet, national museum of history, in central Stockholm. Unfortunately, I’ve lost the article and haven’t been able to find it again. Now, that would be an area to dive into.📚📖📕📗📚 Great video as always, man. Thanks a lot!
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  1051. I see they remembered to depict their horns along with their weapons.
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  1052. Edward the 1st and 3rd; Henry the 5th and 8th were arguably all better kings of England. Also the laws laid down by Henry the 2nd made him important too. George the 5th had a great modernising effect on the monarchy. Richard the 1st was a great king though.
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  1053.  @DanDavisHistory  I agree with Peleg Wadsworth 100%. I have spent quite a bit of time with the Mongolian nomads since 2005. Their horses are stocky and short and incredibly hardy with enormous stamina. It strikes me that the believers in late domestication view the domestication strictly from a Western warrior perspective. I believe that before horses were used for warfare, they were first used in the nomadic steppe cultures for transportation, meat, milk, hides, sinew, manes and bones, as they still are today in Mongolian nomadic communities. The tack today used for horses are minimal, and in the famous Mongolian Naadams young children often ride bareback. I have also seen horses being ridden without bridles. We know today that horses can be ridden with the slightest pressures of the rider's legs or bridles without bits. Perhaps that is how the earlier domesticators of horses developed relationships with horses. Yes, of course this type of domestication as well as the nomadic steppe cultures go for a great part unnoticed from an archeological perspective. Perhaps the oral history among the steppe nomads can give us some more insight about the early human-horse relationship...
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  1054. What a wonderful video this is. It is of the highest quality in terms of presentation and informative content that is similar, or better, than that made by much bigger organisations. Very well done Dan Davis.
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  1055. I love the way you can transport me to another era so far removed
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  1056. Excellent research and presentation, Dan!
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  1057. Heroes like Wyatt Earp or Robin Hood all come from highwaymen. Cowardly city folk authorized the most feared highwaymen to 'regulate' highwaymen. Now highwaymen are part of everyday life (authority that charges you to drive on your trails)
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  1058. It was clearly a very distinctive weapon in its period, which would probably have served to inspire awe and terror - if polished up nicely - in its foes - particularly if wielded by an impressive and skilled owner. Its uniqueness would also have identified him clearly in a crowd. I'm interested to know where the metal from which it was forged was sourced ? Was it local, or did it travel thousands of miles over some prehistoric trade route.... ? Perhaps, the weapon was so unique that it was picked up and carried into and magnified by mythology, either in the hands of its original owner, or some amalgam of a number of different heroic characters...
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  1059. Thunderstones were also reportedly found in trees struck by lightening. Metal working was associated in Indoeuropean myth with physical deformities. Some myths indicate that some smiths were deliberately lamed. Things like religious and magical authority and social status were probably a good deal more ambiguous than we imagine.
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  1060. I am almost speechless. This is so wonderful, thank you! So clear, so well presented, so based in primary sources but up to date with historiography. Truly, what a pleasure.
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  1061. In North America, coprolites have been used to show direct evidence of cannibalism (see: Cowboy Wash, Colorado, site). I hope the researchers at El Toro Cave in Spain & other European sites with suspected cannibalism keep an eye out for coprolites, which are more likely to survive in dry, stable cave environments. (Didn't find any studies online about them finding any.)
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  1062. I'm fortunate to have learned a bit of English otherwise I would've never heard of this even though I live 20 miles south west of cucuteni,and even though history was one of my favorite subjects in school or high-school no one ever told us about it.
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  1063. This is amazing Dan , never heard of the Sintashta. They are going to be my next 3D characters in Civ 4. Cheers
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  1064. Babe, wake up! New bronze age Dan Davis just dropped And that during the release of Kings and Generals' 2 hour extremely comprehensive video on the history of what we now refer to as celtic.. What a day! After setting a bit of the scene, let us get transported like no one else can have us to the deep, mystic past (may I request or suggest to some day bring us to the bronze age Low Countries, I've recently read about the "Nordwestblock", a non-celtic, non-germanic Indo-European culture. It seemed that this region is where the Hilversum culture and the Nordic Bronze Age culture, and where some old survived. The archaeological finds are many over there, and I'd like to hear you put it in the wider european context)
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  1065. Wow. Families have their problem children, but Gilles beats them all
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  1066. Is it plausible that the Trypillian towns provided the right conditions for the plague to jump from livestock to humans? As I understand it, urban conditions make this far more probable given the level of human-animal contact in such scenarios, and most deadly epidemics come from animals originally IIRC.
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  1067. Hope your novel addresses the fact that Beaker / Corded Ware peoples, presumed to be the direct descendants of the Yamnaya Culture, are known to have carried Y-pestis anti-bodies and it is now suspected that they brought an early variation of the Black Death with them into Europe from the Pontic steppes which would explain why they were able to replace ie wipe out existing cultures
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  1068. After finding your channel I feel like I've got a better grasp on indo european mythos and early bronze age society I also appreciate that you cite your sources. Thank you for your channel
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  1069. Funny how Indo-Europeans have legends about fighting dragons and the Bible describes Satan as a dragon at times, while the Chinese revere dragons.
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  1070. Hi Dan, 13'25" ; everything you post is interesting and well researched. Just keep posting what you find interesting and I'm pretty sure we'll keep listening/watching. Kind regards, Alain
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  1071. I haven't read your books but I like your videos. You have become a master, fusing history with possible possibilities. Onto the corded ware people, DNA is a story teller.
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  1072. Lol Dracula actually pulled a "1v1 me scrub" against Vladislav. What a legend
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  1073. Despite the language difference, the embroidery unites the people of Ukraine and Romania, same for the millennia.
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  1074. Dan that was simply fantastic, I absolutely love your video's, your narration brings it to life an excellent piece of work on a truly impressive human being, I think you should write a screen play for a movie about this man . I only have one gripe and that's your video's are never long enough, I really enjoy the work you do . Fabulous and thanks so much for all your commitment and effort. Super stuff 🇮🇪
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  1075. Smart move showing that you researched the period well before writing. It convinced me, I purchased the books. Now, I'll let you take me back in time.
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  1076. I've heard that there were at least three "Robin Hoods," in both Sherwood and Barnsdale.
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  1077. This was an absolutely fantastic video. Bravo, sir. I'm sending it to my mom who likes history.
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  1078. Wow what a national hero. Ashamed to say (as an Englishman), I’d never heard of him. Thank for enlightening me 🤗
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  1079. I'm grokking on what event would have caused enough distraction to scorch a batch of hazelnuts? Big game sighted? Huge batch of shellfish hauled in? Earthquake? Invasion? Aliens! Thanks Dan! I really enjoyed this one. The coastal hunter-gatherer looks like the men folk of my family lol
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  1080. This is excellent. I appreciate that you're a man of letters, but I hope you continue creating here too.
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  1081. Loved learning about the full story of Vlad, I also enjoyed learning about some of the other great men of this time such John Hunyadi and Stephen the Great.
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  1082. What a fascinating video again Dan. I love how you tell a story, you bring history alive!
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  1083. I can't imagine a cow, especially the cows of those times, being chosen for experimental surgery! I wonder if trepanning was used to cure seizures? Head injuries can lead to seizures. Children can have children, sometimes due to high fevers during illness. Maybe the cow had grande mal seizures and the trepanning was done when the cow was immobile? Somewhere on YT there is or was an archaeological video about digging up the mass burials from the battle of Towton in England. Wounds were particularly nasty in that battle, perhaps because both sides were very emotionally involved. I know Towton happened a long time after the Bronze Age but according to some sources it was one of the most brutal battles ever fought with weapons wielded by hand. Anecdotally, my friend had such severe migraines for awhile that she said if she could have gotten out of bed, she seriously thought of using her power drill on her skull to relieve pressure. I personally have severe, chronic, genetic migraine for which there is no treatment. Doctors have suggested I do a sort of DIY acupuncture. Sometimes veins swell during the procedure and if the pain is especially bad and prolonged, I nick the veins with a small scalpel to induce bleeding. (My doctors did not recommend this.) My point is, migraine is so terrible that drilling holes in the head makes sense. For migraine, Native Americans mixed charcoal and bear grease and pounded this into areas of the head and scalp with a thorn from the Hawthorn tree. Think in terms of the dark tattoos in various areas of Otzi the Ice Man's body. Another report of primitive treatment of head wounds concerns Clyde Barrow's brother Buck. (Bonnie and Clyde gang, 1933.) A top frontal chunk of Buck's brain was blown off by a bullet, exposing the brain according to reports. The gang was absolutely on the run and it has been written that hydrogen peroxide and possibly mercurochrome were poured into the hole. (I would assume when it is said the brain was exposed, that the dura matter was intact, similar to what would be found in trepanning.) Buck survived for a number of days, was eventually captured and died of pneumonia in hospital. A recent video on the life story of the gang said that Buck had been shot in the chest prior to capture and this led to the fatal pneumonia. My point is, Buck Barrow survived a severe head injury for a significant period of time in the primitive, filthy conditions of outlaws on the run in cars and camping out when they could. Injuries and causes of injuries have changed a lot over the millennia but the human body is similar.
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  1084. Thank you for showing traditional Mongolian life style exclusively in your video. Cheers from Mongolia
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  1085. It's always the merchants, they did the same with Cromwell. Great work Dan, I really enjoy these.
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  1086. Can't say I expected to be learning about hair styles from the bronze age when I woke up this morning, but here we are.
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  1087. Thank you Mr Davis! Needed a good video and you always deliver!
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  1088. Wow. I was excited for this, but I didn't expect a whole hour! I can't wait! I know there's a lot of controversy about de Rais.
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  1089. Dan it might be interesting to trace the Bull motifs from Çatalhöyük to Greece and the rest of Europe over time. It is something I've been fascinated with for a long time right up to the Bullfighting that went on in Spain in recent history.
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  1090.  @DanDavisHistory  Im really happy that I have found your channel. Great work. Sub and like of cause.
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  1091. As Ukrainians we spend so many years learning the history of Tripillya bc up until this day so many people keep on finding things in their backyards or when building houses, yet we were never taught anything about the first plague happening in that time, so bezare to revisit this topic now as an adult. What I can say about the culture is that although cities lasted for some time the land indeed ran out of recourses so they moved quite often and left stuff behind all the time, not to mention the rotting “haty” since so much of Ukraine’s land has torf in it that causes fires and rots houses so they kept moving. Also to this day so many people live in haty of clay
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  1092. I loved this! The Venus figurines are so beautiful. I appreciated your captions adding a little bit more info throughout the video too.
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  1093. Very Indo-European
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  1094. Great presentation of my favourite prehistoric epoch. I was born and raised in the area where this culture thrived (east saxony near the czech border) and I recognised almost all landscape shots. If you're in the area, don't miss out on visiting the Museum of Prehistory in Halle a. d. Saale where the Nebra Skydisk and many of the mentioned hoard finds are displayed. What the author missed to mention was that a major pillar of wealth for the regional powers came from trading with salt. In Halle were natural salt springs where the brine was processed on a early industrial level. It's even in the name of the city Halle where 'Hal' is a indo-germanic word stem meaning salt and also the river Saale is associated with salt with the 'Sal' stem. You find this word roots in other place names like Hallein or Hallstadt all over central Europe where salt was also sourced since the bronze age.
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  1095. I am glad to hear someone using words like; could have been, maybe or what if. The truth is that when discussing things from thousands of years ago; we have little to go on except our opinion, but nonetheless it is an opinion. I get so tired of hearing the self proclaimed experts who think that their opinion makes something a fact. In Japan and china most of the ancient weapons of war started out as farming implements and were adapted to be more useful in battle. I see no reason that battle axes or hammers in other areas couldn't have undergone the same metamorphosis. Excellent video and very insightful. Thank you
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  1096. How do I even adequately thank you for this, Dan? The gears in my mind and imagination are set in motion each and every time I come upon your work and I’m so very grateful for it.
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  1097. Wow! Excellently researched and explained, thanks. This period's events have puzzled me for years.
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  1098. This idea seems ridiculous on the face of it. It seems like Occam's Razor is heavily weighted against it, too. Why does it make sense that european copper was hauled across a big giant ocean, as opposed to more local sources? That just seems silly.
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  1099.  @DanDavisHistory  something you might find interesting is that the Varna necropolis, especially grave 43 with its gold clearly showing important social stratification, has been dated around the same time as the majority of the Vinča script/symbols. Of course, it's a neighboring culture, but it's interesting to put them all in a context together in my opinion.
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  1100. I've been kicking around a theory in my head for a while. What if the cause of the historical inspiration for the Trojan war was an act of piracy. Maybe paris' kidnapping of Helen is alagorius of the Trojan kingdom's state sponsored piracy In the aegean. Troy was in a strategic position to control shipping through the northern Aegean and bosphoris strait. I'd imagine since shipping has always been important to greek people if the raiding got so bad isn't it plausible that a number of mycenaean states may have decided that cooperation was necessary to take down a common threat. In that way the Trojan war could be described as a mycenaean police action
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  1101. Basically the bronze age variety of a summer abroad in Magaluf or Ierapetra with your mates from class just before you go to uni
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  1102. I'm sure there's many a community which would appreciate an opportunity to banish their young men for a while until they chill out.
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  1103. Great video, I knew the invasion took place but had no idea about the ins and out, especially the guerrilla warfare in Kent, really interesting. As an aside, why were medieval armies so small compared to Ancient ones? The high middle ages aren't really a period I'm that clued in on but whenever I see battle sizes compared to ones a thousand or so previously they're almost always much smaller, how come?
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  1104. This has become one of my favorite channels! Along with Survive the Jive and Magemasher22.
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  1105. When we speak about the invention of gunpowder, one of the arguments against its convergent invention in Europe and China is that it appears in European historical record alongside basic firearms. While Mesopotamia might have left first concrete evidence of horses being ridden, wouldn't there then have been a period when horses were used for other purposes there, like gunpowder was used for medicine and later fireworks in China, before it was used for weaponry?
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  1106. A wonderful piece of work. You never cease to amaze . Optics, narration and information simply fantastic. Thank you so much Dan . 🇮🇪
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  1107. Very interesting video, Dan. I strongly recommend that you do a tour of the archeological sites of Orkney. It will stimulate your imagination and help you feel closer to the Neolithic people. The stone there doesn't weather much so when it can be hard to tell between a stone wall built recently or one built thousands of years ago. I feel they must have had some sort of ancestor cult that led them want to spent time communing with the bodies of their dead ancestors in spaces which you have to crawl into and must have felt extraordinary. One detail that you didn't include but helps to picture the scene is that the sheep of the Neolithic were not woolly. Woolly sheep must have come in the Bronze Age. So we need to picture the Neolithic people wearing clothing made of animal hides perhaps similar to the sort worn by Native Americans in North America.
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  1108. Dan, another enjoyable video about a fascinating topic. Nuraghe fascinate me. I know it's kinda wonky to recommend a book to read to an author, but you might enjoy Andrea Atzori's novel "ŠRDN - From Bronze and Darkness" about, not surprisingly, what he thinks the Šrdn were gettin' up to in those nuraghe. I really enjoyed it.
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  1109. The end of the Tumulus and Trzciniec cultures lines up with the LBAC in the Mediterranean world. It's probable that a breakdown of society in northern Europe was one of several factors which caused a cascading effect, whereby tribes in southern France, Italy and Illyria were invaded by uprooted bands from the north, disrupting the bronze and amber trades and causing economic hardship there, forcing them to run or join with the northerners in their quest for food/plunder. This would have in turn severely disrupted the economies of Sardinia and Sicily. The main problem is that while Sardinia is rich in copper, it needs to trade with Cornwall for tin to make bronze, and the trade route is now interdicted by an endless tide of bandits. This in turn causes their economy to collapse and for people to seek food/plunder elsewhere, spreading the collapse. And now, with the European bronze trade completely disrupted, everyone in Mesopotamia starts experiencing bronze shortages and has to rely more on the Afghanistan trade routes. To add to that, the entire eastern Mediterranean is currently suffering from a bout of crop failures caused by drought, and Anatolia is suffering from a series of strong earthquakes, which weakens local defenses across the board (but especially so in the Hittite Empire). Currently, the two major empires in the region (Hitties, Egypt) have declared a truce to deal with the rising threat of the Assyrians, and the Hittites have recently concluded some kind of treaty with Wilusa (Troy). By the time the wave of bandits reaches the Aegean, pretty much everyone in the area is at war. On one side is a coalition led by Mycenae, on the other a coalition led by Wilusa. Interestingly, the Iliad records the Achaeans randomly detouring to / pillaging certain places unrelated to Troy, suggesting this was a conflict fought on many fronts. If we take the rest of the story as a somewhat distorted account of real events, it's likely that the decade-long siege of Troy (impossible for armies of that time) was actually a multi-generational conflict which flared up every so often, and eventually ended in the defeat and sack of Troy. Given this likelihood, it's entirely possible that the real Agamemnon might have actually been Menelaus's successor, avenging a slight done to his father, or they could have just been two allied kings (the Amarna letters have lots of kings referring to each other as family members as a way of denoting status, so it's possible the same convention was held in nearby Greece). Either way, everyone is at war and not in a position to stop the bandits coming out of the sea and down out of the Balkans. Greece and western Anatolia are overwhelmed, and the sea bandits set ashore and start heading west, plundering everything as they go. Along the way, many settle down in places, including the Thracians, Lydians, Phrygians and Armenians, who together form one branch of the Indo-European language tree. Then the bandits reach the Levant, and shit really begins to go down. Hittite vassals in the area are all caught with their pants down and their armies hundreds of miles away, likely called away by the Hittites to fend off the Anatolian invaders. Eventually, the Hittites break down into civil war, as each prince declares his own city independent and fights the others for dominance. With bandits approaching from the west and the government broken down, the capital city of Hattusas is systematically stripped of its records and valuables and burned down by the Hittites themselves, probably because the land around it is depopulated and they see no further point in maintaining the place. In the confusion, almost all of the Levant falls to the sea bandits, who establish themselves as rulers over several dozen allied towns. They push back the Assyrians to their homeland, but are defeated by the Egyptians, who install some of them as foederati in the Levant (ex. the Philistines). In this time, minor powers like Israel and Damascus can stretch their wings without interference from the big boys. For the next four centuries, Mesopotamia and Greece sit in a Dark Age, as everyone is too weak to assert dominance and everyone is still suffering from drought, economic collapse and the presence of marauding bandits. The only power that thrives are the Assyrians, who are forced back to their homeland and adopt a series of military reforms which allow them to largely recover their power by the time of Shalmaneser III. We know very little of what goes on in Europe in the next few centuries, but we know the Liburnian people of Illyria establish a maritime empire stretching from Croatia down across both coasts of the Adriatic, before being supplanted by the Greeks in the 5th century BC. The rest of the Balkans are a chaotic mess, with major kingdoms only developing in the 6th century in Macedon and Thrace. In Italy, we see Etruscan civilization beginning to expand into the Po valley and south along the Tyrrhenian coast. In that time, they dominate the Umbrian and Sabine tribes around them culturally. By the 5th century, we see a large influx of Celts into the Po valley, and the Insubri build the city of Mediolanon (Milan). We also see Italic tribes pushing south in a local version of the koryos tradition called ver sacrum all the way up to Roman times, with the Brutti reaching Calabria by the 5th century BC. In Sardinia, the Nuragic civilization continues on in a much diminished form all the way up to Roman conquest. We also see the Celts expand into Spain during this time, butting up against the native Iberians, Vascones and Lusitanians.
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  1110. Warriors be looking like a SNACC back in the day.
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  1111. Great video, I was fascinated with this culture since I was a kid. Greetings from Romania!
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  1112. It’s my understanding that the Nordic Bronze Age economy was largely based on amber trade with the near eastern superpowers. Might the canoes and their crews simply be trading operations? Of course, security of goods would be critical, thus the warriors/weapons. Some additional thoughts (please no one take this as gospel. I’m stringing together fragments of history into a somewhat speculative narrative); It should be noted that these people weren’t Germanic - yet. They were still speaking dialectic Proto Indo European. Also as the video noted, the Nordic Bronze Age system continued for several centuries after the near east Bronze Age collapse. It’s my understanding that this was aided by the Phoenicians (northern Levant city states who survived the collapse) who filled in for the major powers and assured continuity of the amber trade. There is a reasonably well supported (though not conclusive) theory in linguistics that the ultimate development of the Germanic languages may have inflected on the influence of Punic, the Semitic language of the Phoenicians, over the 500 or so years following the collapse.
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  1113. Just found your channel and I love it. I've always been a fan of History and I'm extremely thankful that there's people like you out there making actual history documentaries as opposed to the garbage History Channel puts out.
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  1114. On a similar vein, might be worth doing a video about the Romans who crossed the Sahara, particularly the lot that made it all the way down to what's now Uganda and only a few miles from the actual source of the Nile. I know the sources aren't as detailed as the story in this video but could be worth a crack possibly, would definitely make for an interesting topic if you can get a video's worth of content out of it
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  1115. İ do not think it is a coincidence. These comparisons are important and i have done some comparing of mythologies since several years. Dog and wolf is particularly interesting
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  1116. I love your work and seeing new video drop is always a joy. Thank you for your talent and the hard work that is required to create your art.
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  1117. I've always found Ötzi to be a fascinating topic, glad you got around to covering it!
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  1118. Karios, Corios, Kardos, Cardoso... From ancient names to modern words and names, the warriors never died
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  1119. The loose fringe of the grass cape is for better wicking and dripping properties, this is what "fringes" do. Thank you Dan for the interpretation of the white stone with the additional twisted leather lengths in a loop as a fastener kit. I wrote in a similar interpretation (with a diagram of how the stone makes that end easily belt fastened) to the museum staff ( in a video they actually asked what people thought that was for) that described the usefulness of being able to grab off a tie strip from the belt dispenser while holding a branch connection point to be lashed during construction, or the tying shut a series of bags, holding the tops closed while whipping off a tie strip from the set hanging from the loop with the stone being the around the belt "button" fasteners. This is much the same as available ties you described for tying up hunted fowl. Highest Regards!
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  1120. Exactly. Concise and interesting. This channel is going to do well.
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  1121.  @DanDavisHistory  - Corinthian helmets, perhaps the most beautiful type of armour ever made, were hammered out of a single piece of Bronze.
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  1122. Greetings from descendant of Sintasha culture. Pamir, Tajikistan, Central Asia, Turan, Eastern Iranian
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  1123. Thank you Dan for making this video. I really enjoy your channel and when I saw a video about my city I was very pleasantly surprised. We are quite proud of this heritage we have here
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  1124. He used to be a warrior, till caught that arrow to the knee
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  1125. I swear, with every video on this channel, I can just about see the events being described playing out like a story. I wish this era of human civilization got more attention in all forms of media like video games and film.
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  1126.  @DanDavisHistory  you as well Dan! I love your content and hope you continue doing what your doing! Huge fan!
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  1127. I would love to learn more about the relationship hemp and other medicinal herbs may have played in religious and commercial lives of these prehistoric peoples. Great work btw! Your videos are vital to piecing the story of prehistory together for an independent researcher such as myself. The sources you decide to use are also first class
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  1128. Interesting topic for a new video: a 2019 paper linked Bronze Age Luwian hieroglyphics with symbols on Gobekli Tepe — specifically the hieroglyphs for God and Gate, with the symbol shapes relatively unchanged for several millenai. While it’s pretty unfounded to say the Gobekli Tepe builders language was some proto-PIE or cousin related language and invented writing. The builders were likely one part of the genetic ancestral block for Luwian speakers, and it does show a symbol continuity in Anatolia, with at least two pictographs maintaining a rough meaning for a good 10,000 years before being adopted for formal hieroglyphic writing
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  1129. Makes sense. I'm thinking of national service being in essence the same rite of passage. Without a clear milestone, since it was mostly abolished in the west, no wonder one deals with 30 year old boys on a daily basis.
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  1130. 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!
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  1131. This is brilliant. Thanks for this. If you could recommend some readings on the yamnaya people. I am particularly interested in their influence of Vedic culture in India.
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  1132. Great to see you back Dan, always look forward to your content
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  1133. The thing with the Eurasian Steppe is that the more western you get, the better the climate and weather is (from arid to semi-arid/temperate). E.g. Ukraine has mild winter and tolerable summer, but Kazakhstan has harsh winter and insufferable summer. Also, famous Ukrainian chernozems gave the best grass for the pastoral herds. Every sane person wants to have a better life, steppe nomads weren't an exception. Hence, we have this unending chain Yamna-Cimmerians-Scythians-Sarmatians-Alans. As soon as you get into Ukrainian part of the Steppe, you have two options: to stay or to try going even more western (Pannonian plain), but in order to get there you need to pass the Carpathian mountains. Living a good life in the western most part of the Steppe and contacting with civilizations like Greeks and Romans made nomads more civilized and hence soft and weak and then new pretenders, more feral and desperate, immediately took their place. After IE nomads there were Turkic and Mongolic tribes like Hunns, Bulgars, Avars, Pechenegs, Cumans and finally Tatar-Mongols who brought the nomadic war tactics and way of life to the extreme. Also, Madjars (Finno-Ugric) who managed to preserve their language and culture (Hungary), although their genetics is almost indistinguishable for the surrounding nations. But all this nomadic dominance have ended when the Europeans invented rifles :)
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  1134. Apart from ‘fall of civilizations’ this is the only history podcast I love listening to..thank you Dan; you really make us reimagine the bygone era
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  1135. Although steptomycin can knock the mortality rate down to 10 percent or so, it is fearsome even today: imagine historical times when nobody knew the cause or how to treat it.
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  1136.  @drraoulmclaughlin7423  hmm that’s true steppes don’t get a lot of rainfall. Maybe it’s the fact it was rare but spectacular when it happened. Who knows. I was thinking of some of the severe storms and tornados on the prairies here in Canada
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  1137. Dan's an amazing scholar. I can imagine he himself was a bronze age warrior who, as he lay dying on the battlefield, swore that someday he would come back and tell his descendants what happened, and 3500 years later we get blessed with this incredible student of history who educates us all about the Bronze Age, in far greater detail than we were ever taught in school! Or, as Dan himself might say ...maybe that's not what happened at all...we'll just have to keep researching and see!
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  1138. 37:11 I always thought that Y-haplogroup G and was dominant in non-Western since c.a. 25k BC untill c.a. 4000BC and is found nowadays mostly in Kartveli peoples (Georgians, Chechens, Adjaris) and only in trace amount among other Europeans. Thus I'm honestly suprised that it survived in such big proportion in Sardinia and Corsica.
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  1139. It would be interesting to see your series go far back to Mal'ta Boy and his father, perhaps uncles, going back around 27,000 years ago near Lake Baikal. We are extremely fortunate to have a basal R* meaning this the deepest ancestry any male in haplogroup R can reach back to. Another interesting fact is how many Native Americans have their deep ancestry connection to Mal'ta Boy in South and North America. Just recently, the earliest haplogroup Q male found is on the near opposite side of Lake Baikal to Mal'ta Boy up the Angara River. Haplogroups R and Q are sibling clades under haplogroup P. There is entirely a possibility that people in Western Europe with haplogroup R are related to people who crossed over Beringia albeit very remotely as the move to North America from Siberia begins around circa 15,000 years ago, possibly earlier as there have been earlier findings of remains in various regions of the Americas before the rise of the Clovis Culture.
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  1140. It's become my ritual to listen to one of your videos before going to sleep. Your content is so interesting and your voice is so soothing
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  1141. You are missing the feminine influence in this tale. It took 2 dysfunctional parents to create the mess that was Richard and his siblings.
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  1142. Vlad III was a badass and one of my favorite heroes in all of history.
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  1143. Agriculture was a mistake. Its been downhill ever since.
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  1144. My read of the combs and grooming tools in these burials was always that, yes, they honored and valued their warriors...but their mothers/wives/aunts/sisters/daughters weren't gonna let them go out there without looking pretty.
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  1145. The exquisite craftsmanship of these everyday items, especially the grooming items, says a great deal about this group of people and their relationship with their world. Such a wonderful video. Thank you..
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  1146. Found it interesting that the impression left by reed mats within in mud walls of the ziggurat looked very similar to corded ware impressions. Thanks for your works.
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  1147. This was the most touching video. I felt deeply connected to my dog who was cuddling me as I watched this, while equally feeling deeply connected to our ancestors, the after life, the living. Everything. Peace.
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  1148. It's content of this quality that has meant I hardly watch tv anymore 🙄 this is so well researched, beautifully presented and incredibly intriguing, a real credit to you Dan, thank you for all your efforts, very appreciated, and a very Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones 👏🎅🥃🎄
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  1149. This is an eye opener video for the reason that it gives an authentic account of a little known figure in England's history, a real hero for the English and wonderfully researched and narrated text. Hoping to see more of such informative historical videos. Thanks.
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  1150. 🌵Oh, Dan! You are SO AWESOME!! You've done it AGAIN! With lack of enough skilled history writers, and enough qualified professors in classrooms... YOU! have filled the Void!! ❤️ Thank you! Again!!🏜️🌺🌵
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  1151. I know you have use stock footage to create the videos. Interestingly, many of the species shown are from North America. For example, lodgepole pine and a moose at 5:13 and the oak used at 6:02 . The oak is a red oak, Quercus rubra, specifically. It is a member of the red oak group, which is not native to Europe at all, and exclusively a New World subsection of the Quercus genus. The white oaks were dominant in Europe until red oaks were introduced. Not to nitpick, I just think some people might find that interesting. Enjoyable work, as always!
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  1152. I really like these videos. Please keep making them. There are so many interesting prehistoric cultures. Maybe the Bell beaker introgressions into neolithic Britain!
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  1153. In my youth it was custom for band of young man to go out on new years eve and 'relocate' objects (like carts, large pots) that were left out on farm yards. Could this be an echo of the Koryos? ( I live in the northern part of the Netherlands)
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  1154. Thank you for saying that our interpretations of cause and effect often say as much about us and the times we live in as it does about past peoples. I've noticed that, even when trying to explain modern occurrences, psychologists, sociologists, criminologists, et cetera will allow their own prejudices and obsessions to color their interpretations of what happened. The truth is, most events are caused by a combination of many forces, not just one.
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  1155. Reminds me of the Tlingit in the PNW, they used to raid down the coast from Alaska to California and they were some of the most feared sea-going warriors on the west coast well into European-american colonization times during the 1850's.
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  1156. I found your level of detail in your research and your presentation so captivating, that I just went out and ordered The Wolf God. I'm eager to see if your level of wordsmithing equals your skill as a documentarian. If it does, I found another favorite author to read all their works eagerly.
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  1157. Simply superior work, Dan Davis.... Excellent research, and delivery... you painted a very clear image of the progression of humanity. I do take exception with the take of it being such a hard life. People under stress do continue being creative, but they do not make frivolous artifacts, even as they incorporate difficulty into play. ie; "Ring around the rosy, pockets full of possies, ashes, ashes, all fall down" is a kids rhyme about the black plague.
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  1158. Hello Dan, I have been watching your videos for a little longer than 18 months now and I just wanted to say that your channel really is fantastic! After watching many of your videos (the cult of the ancestors one in particular) I bought the audiobook version of "Godborn"... I was not disappointed in the slightest! Also bought the Vampire Knight series of stories at all and they were just as brilliant! Sorry for rambling on a little, I just wanted to let you know I greatly appreciate all your work. I would love to see you rewarded with a TV series on the various topics you cover as you would absolutely smash it. All the best dude.
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  1159. Your commitment and passion for this subject matter clearly shows through in all your documentaries. Thank you for shining a clear, unbiased light on such an underrepresented part of history, which in my opinion is one of the most interesting and important as well. I love how clear you are about the evidence not being conclusive, but you still manage to keep it entertaining and intriguing nonetheless. Every single scenario you mention in this video sends me down a rabbit hole of imagination, trying to picture what life would have been like for people in this age. One subject that I've always wondered about and would love for you to do a video on someday, we often hear about the long range trade networks that were already well formed in the Neolithic , but we rarely hear specifically how far an individual would have been able to travel in a lifetime. Would most individuals have stayed relatively close to their place of birth, trade goods changing hands many times, and longer migrations of people happening over multiple generations? Or would it have been possible/common for some individuals (perhaps the prehistoric equivalent of a merchant) to travel hundreds or thousands of kilometers? This is a subject I've always been intensely interested in but unable to find a satisfying answer to, probably because of a difficulty in finding good evidence, but maybe you'd be more knowledgeable about where to research that kind of thing.
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  1160. I misread the title as "Cannabis of Neolithic Europe" Nonetheless it would make for an interesting topic.
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  1161. Land rush? Sounds familiar. In fact, there were a lot of land rushes in North America and European farmers displaced North American Hunter Gatherers. Land would be...reserved for the Hunter Gatherers. Then, due to population pressure, it would be opened up. Some leapfrogged ahead to get there...Sooner? Dan Davis, you have a historical model for what may have happened in Neolithic Britain in the colonization of North America, Australia and South Africa.
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  1162. This is a great video. What an excellent peace. I am a fan.
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  1163. Thank you, you do some of the best work on YouTube.
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  1164. that was absolutely fascinating to watch. thank you dan davis you narrate history fantastically.
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  1165. If I have it right, the name "George" means "farmer."
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  1166. Very interesting! Academia think of the Bronze age as peaceful and prosperous... Perhaps it was because in order for trade routes to function you need peace and stability. To keep the peace you have to be strong and sometimes violent... It has been so here in Scandinavia since the beginning of time. Perhaps all the boats in the carvings are symbols of the force the protected the trade routes..? One or many treaties... There is a very interesting rune stone called Rökstenen (early Viking age). Recent interpretations of it by a historian instead of linguists suggests that it commemorates a treaty of Östergötland supplying armed forces and ships (the Ledung) to keep trade routes open to be able to tax them... I live only 6km from Via Sacria (Brastad) - the fly over pics was over the area where I live...
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  1167. I've ridden wild horses, and in my experience, once it is gotten used to a person on its back, its quite docile. This is usually done by tying a rope around its neck, getting the horse calm, first placing a weight on its back and then leading it around by the rope. After an hour or so of this, it is comfortable enough for a person to mount. This doesn't mean that it is tamed or trained by any means, just ridable. Also, you don't need any kind of gear to ride a horse. If you've got someone on foot leading the lead horse with a rope, you can mount the other horses, and they simply follow the lead horse around where ever it is being lead. For safety, you can string multiple horses on a single long rope. It this way, multiple people can ride so long and there one person on foot leading the lead horse. You can also use the other animals as pack animals this way. Maybe this is how early horse-riding worked. I haven't ridden an ox before, but from what I understand this is how ox riding works, and ox riding is still an important mode of transport in many places around the world. Also, historically the predominant military use of horses was for transport rather than battle. At least, this is what I've read. Perhaps the Yamanaya peoples used horses for transport rather than battle, as a means of crossing vast distances swiftly. The warriors could take turns running alongside the lead horse while the rest of the riders rested on horseback. In this way a band of warriors could cover three times the distance than on foot in a day.
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  1168. This reminds me of Kralyevich Marko who, at least in folk memory and paintings, resembles Sabazios the Thracian horse warrior god.
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  1169. I loved this one as well. You never rabble on mindlessly. You always stay on the core of the subject
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  1170. I don't think it's any coincidence that many of the old tales of Ireland seem to revolve around rustling and/or cattle in general. On his channel, the scholar Crecganford has shone a light on how such acts have almost certainly helped to create some of the oldest myths, etc. He's worth a look. My thoughts? >>> A collab between you two would prob break the internets.
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  1171. Actually, my book club is now reading your book. I'm about a 3rd of the way through, and it's damn good.
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  1172. I guess 1066 is arguably the last time England was invaded by sea and conquered pretty much without any English contingents (like in 1485 and 1688)
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  1173. The beginning sounds extremely similar to Spartan training, leaving the home at 7, a cadre of boys your age, having to live off the land, stealing what you need and more, yet it is three thousand years prior !! Amazing.
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  1174. This was a well done and apparently well researched piece of history.
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  1175. Christmas come early this year 😊
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  1176. Best history channel
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  1177. Probably one of the greatest stories ever from history
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  1178. Excellent. All this history we've lost, none recorded for the ages.
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  1179. You have to wonder if there were actual state societies in Neolithic Britain. You don’t need writing to have a state technically and Newgrange has pretty damn convincing evidence of social stratification and coercive power.
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  1180. Love your work. I am fascinated by the later Indo-Iranic split and the religious divide that it created in backing opposite groups of gods. The battle of ten kings in the 3rd book of Rigveda could be a key focus point of a book and the drive for the migration of the Iranian tribes into IRAN. So much potential material to include from the pishdadian chapters of Shahnameh. What do you think?
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  1181. Very nice biopic of a people who seem to have thrived for a significant period of time. One can imagine people raising their families in these communities for thousands of years. Generations of grandparents parents and children come and gone.
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  1182. Clubs. Humanity's favorite basic killer
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  1183. Hello from Pakistan. I appreciate the effort you've invested in making such a remarkable history stuff. Excellent!
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  1184. Amazing. I did not known about this civilisation. I am in Romania at the moment, so not too far from this!
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  1185. (Something I have written on this issue previously when I was bored in lockdown...this is not an attack on anything in the video but simply an expansion of the video in many ways) The idea that Richard I was a good soldier but a bad king is a myth and the idea that he cared more about his French holdings than England, exploited England for taxes relative to his French holdings are more are all popular myths. Richard I was actually extremely administratively competent, he did fight for England indirectly and his people loved him for it and the evidence for all of this is very very clear if you just look beyond the basic internet cliches you see. ''In the first two years of John's reign, for example, over 450 charters for English beneficiaries were enrolled (i.e. file copies were made for the royal archives) compared with less than 100 for both Normandy and Aquitaine and less than 50 for Anjou. It is clear from these figures that English property owners found it advantageous to seek royal charters and confirmations of charters. An analysis of Richard Fs charters listed in the study of the king's itinerary by Lionel Landon showed that out of the 145 which were issued in Normandy no less than 91 were for English beneficiaries (compared with 49 for Normans, four for Angevins and one only for a Poitevin). In the king's courts the king's charters provided the best possible proof of ownership, and from the reign of Henry II onwards the English royal administration was offering routine procedures for bringing cases to court. The flood of litigation which followed suggests that royal justice was relatively cheap,' 'This contrast between England and the continental dominions is made explicit in a charter issued in favour of the Templars and confirmed by John in 1199. From each English shire which brought in £100 or more the Templars were to receive one mark; in Normandy, Maine, Anjou, Touraine, Poitou and Gascony they were to receive one mark, or its equivalent, from each city, castle or vill which rendered 100 pounds or more. In England, in other words, cities, castles and vills were enclosed within a uniform network of shires which, with a few exceptions, such as the Welsh march, covered the entire kingdom (Map 1). On the continent there was no such clear-cut pattern of local administration. In Anjou, for example, there were comital officials, sometimes prevots (provosts), sometimes seneschals, sometimes both, based on the castles at Tours, Chinon, Bauge, Beaufort, Brissac, Angers, Saumur, Loudun, Loches, Langeais and Montbazon. They are to be found in the Loire Valley and in western Touraine; that is to say in those regions where the count held extensive demesne lands. Elsewhere in Anjou comital officials and comital castles are conspicuous by their absence. Here, and in Maine, we are in the land of the seigneurs. They recognized the count as their lord and might be expected to obey the count's representative, the seneschal of Anjou, but their own seigneurial organization was not overlain by a comital administrative unit equivalent to the shire. From their castles the barons of Anjou dominated the surrounding countryside, untroubled by the meddling of some local official who claimed to represent the count.' 'Of all the Angevin continental dominions Normandy was the least patchy. Indeed, one of the longterm consequences of the Norman Conquest of England had been the introduction of English administrative practice into the duchy. The local officials characteristic of eleventh-century Normandy - prevots and vicomtes - found themselves increasingly, but by no means completely, eclipsed by a new type of executive and judicial (and therefore financial) official, the bailli. By 1200 there were about 25 baillis in the duchy at any one time and there was an observable tendency for their bailliages to become more shire-like, but as new creations of the twelfth century they were still subject to rearrangement and boundary alteration (as the English shire had been in the tenth century) according to immediate political or military need. This fact, plus the existence of great franchises like Eu, Aumale, Evreux and Alenc.on, meant that Normandy - as the privilege for the Templars indicates - still remained a land of cities and castellanies. Around 1200 ducal authority was relatively strong in the west of the duchy and along the frontiers (except on the north east) and relatively weak elsewhere (e.g. in the districts of Auge, Ouche and Caux)' The Angevin Empire by John Gillingham page 50-55 https://b-ok.cc/book/885936/69da68 So we can see from the relative focus that Richard placed on all his different holdings that England was by far the most important one regarding the attention his administration played. So Richard definitely didn't neglect England relative to his French lands from a governmental point of view. Not only did RIchard I and his administrators not neglect England, but they literally exported the system of management in England to his French holdings because they were superior. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyway who knows about henry II because Henry II used anglo-saxon law and some new developments made since Henry I (who largely built on anglo-saxon law) to create the worlds first national legal system, the common law. There was absolutely nothing comparable to this in Aquitaine, Anjou or even Normandy and it allowed for cheaper and more effective legal provisions. Another example of big bad Richard I was his alleged exploitation of England for taxes in order to defend his French holdings and go on a crusade. We very regularly get quotes about him 'wanting to sell London if he could' for example.' What most normies completely fail to recognise is that he sold political offices precisely so that he didn't need to excessively tax the regular population. Don't just take his goodwill as reason for this, if you spend your life away from England then if England rebels you have a big problem so he did everything he could to raise money within the confines of the aristocracy and not from taxation which impacted the peasants to heavily. - - Specifically, regarding the crusades, people seem to forget that back then in the medieval era everyone was deeply religious and it was the most important thing in their lives. The idea for English people that their king was fighting for Christianity was something they approved and loved him for. When he fought for god he fought for them. In fact, it wasn't just something they loved him for but it was the very definition of what a king was supposed to do when he was a king according to the definitions of kingship at the time. In respect of the composition of Richards forces while on crusades its important to note that by the time of the third crusade almost all of the ethnic hostility between Normans and English people had gone and they were basically identifying as one group. Some historians say that the Normans had completely assimilated to the English by the 1140's, some say the 1160's, others say the 1180s...every single historian agrees that by the early 1200s at the very latest the ethnic conflict had completely vanished. This is a point that people seem to not know when talking about anglo-norman relations in this time period and medieval England in general. Most of the knights from England would be of Norman descent, but most of them would have identified as English despite speaking French (William Marshall for example identified as English and called it his home) and the men at arms definitely would have been majority English given they weren't equipt to the same degree as the Normans and the Normans were fighting with Anglo-saxon men at arms from the very start of their reign. The Normans for the first 70 years fought on horseback most of the time and the anglo saxons were trained as foot soldiers and trained in anti cavalry tactics. So there's very strong reason to believe most of the regular men at arms and archers were English based on the history of Norman England. At the Battle of Arsuf, in particular, the Richard I said the following...'how essential those valiant crossbowmen and archers were that day, those absolutely inflexible men at arms who brought up the rear of the army and drove back the relentless turks as best they could with a continuous volley of shots.' https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199251230.001.0001/acprof-9780199251230 - Regarding his French holdings, Richard I raised the vast majority...and I mean the VAST majority of his taxation for the defence of his French holdings in France. When Richard was actually in Normandy the taxation from the region literally doubled England...which considering for the most of its history it had been easily lower than England is completely insane. It also wasn't the case that only Richard gained from having these territories. There was a very significant quantity of trade between England and Normandy, Anjou, Aquitaine Poitier ext and it provided a source of wealth not just for the flow of consumption goods into England but also was a great source of power for English taxation as one of the main taxation forms all throughout medieval English history was taxes on imports. For example the taxation of wool in the 100 years war and how Edward I used it to leverage power over Flanders. In fact, the trade and relationship between Gascony was so strong by the time of the 100 years war that there are French primary sources literally describing the Gascons as being 'English' because they had nothing in common with the northern French holdings and a close connection to England.
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  1186. "Exquisite" is the word indeed. Enchanting also. If I could go back in time, that's where I'd be headed
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  1187. Oh the Parthian Shot, from which we derive the term Parting Shot. Funny how a form of practical marksmanship utilized for centuries around the world by equestrian warriors, prior and after, can be named for a single group of practitioners. Hell, even the Plains Indians utilized it, and they were separated by two oceans from where it originated, and ain't a chance in hell they picked it up from someone else.
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  1188. Really makes me sad and angry that many ancient artefacts are just held in private collections rather than held in trust in a museum for us all to enjoy and learn from.
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  1189. It do seems like the Sea people were a kind of domino effect from the west to the east but the question is if it didn't start further west in Iberia initially. The weather changed (likely due to an Icelandic volcano), there was a series of earthquakes and fires. Then we have war and cities often burnt and finally people moved east. You can basically see as one civilization after the other starts to blink out from the west to the east all within a span of 30 years (Except the Minoans and Mitanni who were gone a while earlier). One question is if trade stopped due to the wars and civil unrest or if the war and civil unrest were triggered by the end of trade. It was trade that made these civilization prosper, particularly the Terramare and without trade they were rather poor. It is interesting to note that many of the cities from the time show signs of fires in the ruling class areas but not where the regular people lived though so it seems like civil war or some kind of social revolution happened in many places including Mycenae. Ramses III seems to blame the entire bronze age collapse on the sea people that he defeated but it seems like there were many factors involved here. It also seems like people from the land the sea people invaded joined them. It is a very interesting topic and one where new finds constantly shows up and often makes the situation even more complex. 100 years ago historians assumed that a raiding force like the vikings just traveled around and destroyed the civilizations like vikings based on Ramses III inscriptions but the more we learn the more complex the whole event seems.
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  1190. This is so uncanny, I was just debating my aunt about whether Vlad dracul was an effective leader or not. I took the pro side; time to see just how wrong I was in the points I made
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  1191. Your humility as you reach the edges of your own knowledge of archaeogenetics is an absolute credit to you as a creator. We dont hear people point that out often enough - it should be more normalised, in exactly the way you did it
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  1192. Any combat vet will tell you, getiing a "battle fat" is a real phenomenon
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  1193. So glad I found this channel, once in while youtube actually recommends something really good.
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  1194. It was probably mentioned earlier, but your point on current events influencing historiography of an ancient culture was so well put. Just like now, events unfolded thousands of years ago in the ways they did because of multiple reasons. Thank you for calling that out, because it’s such an easy trap to fall into when we analyze the past.
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  1195. Absolutely fascinating video, and beautifully explained. The brief discussion of the Bronze Age collapse at 12:20 ish totally nails it and should be required listening for anyone interested in perspectives on ancient history!
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  1196. The Cid was also amazing. I think he is in the top of the best knights with Marshal
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  1197. I have to disagree with the assessment that the man mentioned at the five minute mark had post-mortem surgery. It is exceedingly difficult to distinguish between post-mortem and peri-mortem trauma. Based solely on the evidence in this video, I would say it is just as likely that he had unsuccessful surgery and died on the operating table, so to speak. It could be that people were trying to save him in spite of very poor odds, or it just didn't go well. For that matter, maybe it was a cadaver practice trepanation. Your assessment could be correct, but I think some uncertainty is warranted in this case. Love the videos, though.
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  1198. Utterly fascinating. Your videos are some of the best on all of YouTube, covering ancient and obscure topics, but with an incredibly entertaining and informative narration. Can't wait for more. Just wondering, what were the major advantages of horse riding over chariots, that causes the latter to fall out of use so quickly?
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  1199. I wouldn't say panicked. The Romans were irritated. The Britons used chariots similar to how the US used Helicopters in Vietnam. Briton warriors, transported on their chariots, would be dropped off, the warriors then fought on foot. As soon as things became disadvantageous, these warriors would be picked up by their chariots and escape with ease. They were an incredibly slippery foe. Ceasar had a very hard time pinning them down...and so he decided to switch tactics and attack their supply forts instead of trying to pin this slippery foe down in a pitched battle.
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  1200. This is one of my fascinations as I will see elements of shared linguistics with non-IE languages identifying bears such as in Basque, Estonian that are strikingly similar to the ancient hypothetical PIE h₂ŕ̥tḱos. Further, as you stated there is a common feature of the bear in non-Indo European cultures in the same constellation. I believe this is particularly true between IE and Native Americans but probably goes back to the age of haplogroup P* or K* before siblings R* and Q* existed.
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  1201. I'm Apache. I was raised with the belief my dead dogs were waiting for me at a river and would guide me across it into Heaven when I died, so I should not cry for them. As a kid I would imagine the dog swimming along side me crossing the river, but years later when I was active duty I dreamed I had died and my long dead Alsatian "Beowulf" met me at the edge of the river, but instead of swimming Beowulf lead me along the banks until we reached a point where we could walk across the river (probably 50 yds across) since the water was barely ankle deep. I woke up feeling like I had a better understanding of what my mother meant by "guiding me" across the river.
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  1202. Great work here Dan. Your style is so relatable and respectful, and, very importantly, not pushing a particular theory or conclusive analysis when the evidence just isn't in. First saw your vids about a fortnight ago and I'm hooked on you man. Haven't ever seen your books second-hand in my travels but I'll keep an eye out for your name as I think I'd absolutely love them. Question: Were horses known to have been used by any other peoples or cultures before this time period where they seem so integral already to the Maikop? Also, with the peoples of Mesopotamia and wider environs embroiled in cultural and factional spats for a long time previous to the Maikop period, why do you think there wasn't more migration by the southern cultures north and west to greener pastures, say, to beyond the Carpathians? ie. not too far via the water highway? Do you think these areas were defended against migrations somehow? Or that it well could have occurred in a trickle fashion? Or otherwise? Would love to hear your thoughts? Thanks so much for the time and effort you put into these great productions. Cheers mate Michael Barrett
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  1203. Love these videos. Would really enjoy one about Nuragic culture, Gigantija, Neolithic Orkney/Hebrides, etc. There's so much to cover out there but you go into such a depth that I always learn something new. Thanks for making these!
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  1204. I have Swedish ancestry from the Swedish Colony in the Delaware River Valley in the U.S.. So am really interested in early Scandinavian history.
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  1205. Blimey Dan,I think that about ticked every Medieval box! Murder, loot, witchcraft, war,Royalty 😲🗡 definitely guilty as sin😉 excellent video, the quality of your work always astounds me, wonderful stuff 👏👏👏
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  1206. Apropos of nothing, the hedgehog with the mushrooms stuck all over was the very best.
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  1207. I really love Dan's videos, and the best thing about his scripts for me, is how he alwasy gives a bunch of cool but very plausible hypotesis about the use, function or history of artifacts we can't know about for sure. It's like tens of little stories in one.
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  1208. William was a English hero who story should be better known
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  1209. My great grandfather was from this area , so I'm always fascinated by anything about Hopkins. I often wonder if any of my ancestors were victims of his.
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  1210. Excellent, as always, Dan! It's interesting that only two days ago I watched a video on the Crecganford YouTube channel about a common myth across many ancient cultures that involved horses, dogs, and humans. The myth basically says that the Creator was making the first man from clay. He was busy on something else as well, so he left a dog to guard the clay figure. The dog had no fur. In those days horses had wings. One flew down, worried that if humans were created, they would hunt and kill horses. The dog was supposed to guard the clay figure, but the horse tricked him by offering him a fur coat. The horse tried to trample the clay figure, but as he tried, the Creator returned. The horse only managed to make a hoof print in the belly of the clay figure. This is why humans have a navel. After this, the Creator removed the wings of all the horses, and allowed the dog to keep his fur coat, so that he could always guard humans. This is why the dog is "Man's best friend". Also, many later stories, influenced by the ancient myth of the horse as the antagonist against humans, treated the horse as evil. It makes me think that wild horses must have seemed like they could fly, because they were so fast and intelligent. It seems that the Botai people had managed to "remove the wings" of the horses, and were helped by dogs. Sometimes myth and archaeology match.
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  1211. If you want to get a more complete understanding of the dragon myth across cultures, I highly recommend Erich Neumann's book Origins and History of Consciousness. It's a depth psychology (aka Jungian) analysis of religious archetypes, and the dragon symbol definitely factors in heavily.
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  1212. What an amazing intersection of cultures! What DID happen to them? I would imagine that when a culture can only survive behind fortressed walls, its days are already numbered. Parallels with our own times, once again! Great work, Dan!
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  1213. Im not so sure about that. The world in general around that time started to fortify. The Proto Celts started living in hill forts, the Myceneans, Egyptians, Hittites, Assyrians, etc... all were building walls and citadels. Times were changing and people were moving. That means strife.
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  1214. Maybe I am in some kind of unconscious hivemind but I was thinking of El Cid today and what a great story it was, out of the blue. Unprompted, since I never really think of El Cid much. And then you post this...
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  1215. If I’m not mistaken, paternal Haplogroup I2 is actually still fairly common in Sardinia, wonder Neolithic Sardinia was another Hybrid society Fusion of Anatolian farmers, with Western European Hunter Gatherer related ancestry forming a male elite.
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  1216. I've been exposed to horses and horse-riding since the age of 4. I'm also interested in different cultures and history from that age. From this, I can't agree with the arguments advanced by Robert Drews. Like the Comanche's story that was mentioned, and that from other Amerindian tribes, we can see the expansion and migration changes the sudden use of horses initiated. Most riders did not any equipment that would leave any sign on the horses' teeth that would leave any archeological evidence; we only know about it because it all happened in historic times. The horses' smaller size of long time ago is not an argument. Icelandic horses are small and hardly impressive in stature. But they're a joy to ride and have good endurance. I fully agree with the notion that it is unrealistic to think that you can manage horse herds used for meat and milk on foot; you need to do that from hors-back. Even if people did not fight as cavalry in those days, horses could at least provide strategic mobility to fast expanding nomadic people. We could compare with people more to the north, who manage and follow semi-domesticated reindeer herds. Those people also ride reindeer with little or no harnessing or anything that would leave potential archeological proof on the animals' remains. A reindeer is hardly an impressive or powerful animal even compared to the smaller early horses which underlines my earlier argument.
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  1217. I'm loving your videos. It's a great accidental consequence of your research for fiction writing. My 2 cents on arrow volleys: I'm not saying archery volleys never happened, but if you've ever made arrows and realize how long it takes to make one, or realized an archer can only carry a limited number of them, arrow volleys stop making much sense and it's easy to see how an archer would not want to loose an arrow unless he knew exactly where the point was going to end up. </rant>
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  1218. Another amazing video Dan! Truly an impressive documentary for an impressive man like Drake.
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  1219. Finally some decent length documentary on Ötzi! Thank you for the information, was really looking for such a video
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  1220. Had just been reading about the EHG and ANE people this morning, wished there were some proper well put together video detailing the connections from these people and American and European cultures and blimey it just shows up, thank you I never knew about the burials of dogs you speak of that seem to be similar to human ones, I find it heartwarming that even so far back dogs were loved and seen as part of the family as they are today. Also made me think how important dogs must've been to the ANE peoples too, primarily I assume as guardians of the home during times of megafauna, great wolves and big cats roaming the steppes, but also for hunting smaller and faster game. Considering the ANE people are most likely our patrilineal ancestors, and we know Indo-European cultures spread from father to son, I bet a fair much of our myth and traditions goes back to a tribe of those super early people, be cool to see if anything comes out in the future of research showing any more connections.
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  1221. The problem with the horns-are-impractical argument is that as soon as you literally believe in magic and the gods, it's not impractical at all. Perhaps they believed the magical benefits outweighed the risks of having them?
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  1222. Liked. Shared. Thumbs Up 👍
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  1223. do you think that Hercules might also have some element of the Aurignacian culture's lion-man, seeing how he was so often depicted with a lion skin garment and the story of the Nemean lion?
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  1224. A few strands of evidence, love it
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  1225. I like Native American Myths, especially the concepts that seem to be repeated the world over.
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  1226. Personally I think that the early steppe peoples would have used horses to move to and from raids rather than fight from horse back, I remember reading that naitive american tribes when they first got the horse did a similar thing before they got the hang of fighting from horse back
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  1227. I just found your channel today. I had no idea that someone was covering prehistoric human history in such detail. Idk how you don't have more subscribers.
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  1228. Marvellous story! The reprieve of the boy’s execution got me🙏❤️😢
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  1229. This was beautiful, much better and more captivating than what my history teacher has taught me in school. Well done
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  1230. That was great Dan. Thank you. I've been missing a coherent narrative that weaves together all the different threads of the successive migration waves and their ways of life - and here it is presented in digestible form.
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  1231. Are you certain Henry had Richard declared Duke? His mother did that. She also had him symbolically married to St Valerie, the patron saint of Aquitaine, who, here, was much like the Irish Sovereignty Goddess. Richard wore the ring of St Valerie for the rest of his life.
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  1232. Brilliant mate! I'm not the brightest but our history is mesmerising to me! Videos like this allow me to follow and understand. So thankyou you got a new fan 👍
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  1233. You're a damn treasure, Dan! Enjoy your videos in the evening always when you post em. Keep it up lad, your style is so very fluid and not dry at all, without taking any blows regarding quality of information. Happy to see your channel grow over the past months. You deserve it.
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  1234. I always wonder when the subject pictographs is being discussed, why they are rarely interpreted as simply young men drawing pictures. Along the lines of "Kilroy was here", or like when boys draw pictures of planes, tanks, gun fighters, etcetera.
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  1235. I can think of two reasons for riding a horse either on the hip or at the withers. If you look at an equine skeleton you will see that the vertebrae over the centre back have bony protrusions sticking upwards (called spinous processes) where ligaments and muscles attach. These upward-pointing spikes make riding without a saddle very uncomfortable. However, they get smaller at the base of the neck and over the hips. Another reason could be that earlier horses which had not been selectively bred were quite weak in the middle. Cave paintings depict horses with very straight backs which would not have had the elasticity conferred by the more curved back of the modern horse. Of course, it could also mean that the spinous processes were larger and even more uncomfortable than they are today.
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  1236. Love this way of promoting your book, just got it on my kindle, your research is great and I hope it translates into the story. European pre-history is very neglected, happy you are making the effort. Biggest cities in the world at that time should be a huge discovery, yet our archeology is so dogmatic, uninformed, and at this point superstitious that when future humanity looks at will look at us with concern. Science is just becoming a word, politics and narratives the mainstay. What we have left is brave souls to disregard the dogmas and pave the new path, hopefully avoiding being burnt at the steak of the modern cancel culture. Looking forward to your books Dan
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  1237. Oh wow, great to see something we'd created used in this manner ! And thank you for the acknowledgement and link in the vid description. If there's anything else you'd like us to take a look at , don't hesitate to let us know. [-C.A.R.]
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  1238. I would imagine sea trade to have played a far more important role than often imagined, even at a much earlier date in human history. A French man proved in the early 50's you can cross the Atlantic in a dinghy without food, living on fish and drinking sea water. That latter part was eye opening, just don't wait until you are already dehydrated. Point is that early man can have had a much better grasp of how to use the resources at sea than later ones and be less vulnerable than those at sea. Australians have been walking about quite a while as well.
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  1239. Wouldn’t the increase in Barley be indicative of a colder climate and soil changes ?
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  1240. Undoubtedly my favorite Otzi documentary online. Think I've seen every one of the halfagozillion docs out there! Excellent work brother.
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  1241. I was captivated by this video. Perhaps if the Near East becomes a series, a good follow-up would be the Assyria, since they formed what was likely the largest ancient professional army complete with the first cavalry units and advanced siege tactics. Or perhaps the Mitanni, who actually had a respectable empire with their armies being led by a chariot aristocracy, the Maryannu.
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  1242. Wonderful detailed & eloquent descriptions of our past which clearly started long before the Roman/ Green Mediterranean cultures or even the Kelts. Where is my time machine to see with my own eyes what you explain so nicely- thank you Dan
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  1243. Haven't even watched it yet and I'm already excited 1st question: edge of habitable land along east coast- i.e. The Wash. How does this affect the sample of sites and dates? 2nd: I like to imagine the conversations around planning the sea- bound migrations to new areas. How many boats would they need? Who would go? How many baby animals and what kind? Would they maintain intermittent contact with the "home" settlement? This likely took several years of planning. I see them sitting around the fire and the settlement discussing, planning, arguments, broken hearts over those leaving, adventure- minded young adults... Finished: well done, Dan! It was clearly and lyrically summarized as the ebb and flow of societies.
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  1244. It’s surprising this video would be recommended to me on the same day I got my DNA results back and discovered I’m 2% Sardinian.
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  1245. Loved the video! I really appreciate that stone age and copper/early bronze age societies receive so much attention on this channel.
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  1246. It is a pleasure to listen and learn from you. You speak clearly and to the point. We also don't have to battle hearing you over background music that many channels do but are too loud. Thank you.
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  1247. I have a few questions for you. 1. Did the megalithic cultures or ethnic groups of central and northern Europe die out in similar fashion to their counterparts in Britain upon the arrival of the Corded Ware people? 2. If Northern Poles have similar genes to the Germans, could it be because of assimilation of Germanic people by the slavs who arrived there in the Iron Age? Thank you. Btw, you Europeans have a great ancestry and I suspect that your ancestors originally left northern India before arriving at the stepppe. My thoughts only. Excellent videos. Cheers.
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  1248. Brilliant video, very detailed, and very well made. As for Vlad, there had to be some eerie trauma behind this implement fixation. This was not a popular method of execution, very time and resources consuming. I get the shock value at the beginning, but later on? Maybe he really got into it, or it had become so strongly connected to him, that he felt it has to be done to maintain his image. Or it is totally German (Saxon) and Turkish propaganda, exaggerated to absurdity. Very cool propaganda nonetheless. I don't know, but thanks very much sir for this interesting video.
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  1249. Thing I like most about this is that you're getting in to the stuff behind your stuff. I always appreciate these kinda videos. Well done, Dan!
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  1250. This is a very well made and very informative video, thank you ! I would also love a video about Stephen the Great (Ștefan cel Mare), if you ever consider making one. He is a national hero for Romanians and Moldovans, and until I watched your video I had no idea he was related to Vlad Dracula.
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  1251.  @DanDavisHistory  I remember seeing the 'Celtic' bronze age artefacts in the British Museum 30 or more years ago and thought they were outstanding.
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  1252. New Dan Davis video, this Sunday automatically got better!
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  1253. Seems we forget these ancient neolithic people used dogs for hunting. And protection. Had them around them all the time. So they needed to feed them somehow. Maybe feeding them human remains was a way to do it. Without feeding them animals they hunted. Kept that for themselves. Also I would bet they hunted humans to feed their dogs. This would make sense too. Seems this narrative is leaving out some basic things about daily neolithic life a little common sense would answer. But was interesting to watch. thanks
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  1254. Honestly you're my new favorite history channel. I love the Bronze Age. Also your videos are what got me back into Total War Troy lmao.
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  1255. I'd presume that once communities had become settled you would have to behave yourself somewhat more in the bronze age than the iron age as the trading networks were very limited due to copper and tin not being as wide spread as later iron. I'm sure there were still conflicts and wealth stealing but you couldn't get yourself cut out of the trade networks. Maybe after your Kouros era was over there was ritualistic warfare or competition to replace it? A set season and place with pre determined potential losses which gets that testosterone out would be a good idea for these small communities. Maybe the Greek Olympics was a distant shadow of this?
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  1256. This video being promoted by keeps it's a little hilarious 😆
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  1257. Brilliant work Dan. Thanks for your hard work and entertaining life story of Sir Francis Drake.
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  1258. What a Glorious Day
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  1259. a great story! telling us about vlad's life u didn't just told a story of one man but a history of a whole nation and the times when other great warriors, kings and sultans lived! thank u!
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  1260. Wow I’m always so happy to discover another incredible history channel! Thanks!
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  1261.  @zenolachance1181  and they no doubt put their kids up on the backs of the horses as a game...
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  1262. I do love the insightful, open minded and lightly humorous way you cover these very distant nuggets of our history.
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  1263. I love the map! Really make the understanding of topic easier
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  1264. Very interesting. Here in spain they recently discovered that the famous warrior's stone stela were nearly always in relation with mines of metals. It looks like an indoeuropean lord, warrior or army, used that Stones to said "Be carefull, here I am", or so. Mostly of them were moved from their original sites, but we have hundreds.
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  1265. Yeah he said they were effective with there tactics. Britons had upgraded their chariots with iron wheels, or at least iron spokes, and they had massive shields, because they would mount and dismount there chariot to fight on foot. Leaving there chariots just behind them so if the fighting turned ugly, they could mount there chariot and gallop off. I believe in the contested naval landing initially near Dover, the Romans took significant casualties.
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  1266. Hi Dan, just want to add my thanks for another great video filled with facts from legitimate research. Much appreciated.
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  1267. I don't fall asleep to your videos, but I do admit to enjoying listening to you. I really enjoy your well-founded, deeply researched videos. Listening to a guy who actually knows what he's talking about is very pleasant. It's the same feeling I get when I read your books.
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  1268. Dan Davis and Dan Cooper (Fall Of Civilization) are my go to when im thirsty for a historical stuff. Thanks Dan, keep up the good work!
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  1269. Fascinating stuff! I've always assumed that the earliest domesticated horses were very small - too small to take the weight of a rider, but could be used to pull a chariot where the rider's weight is carried on the wheels. Eventually they'd be bred bigger and able to take the load of a rider.
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  1270. Great series you have produced. Will you do a Amber trade episode? Amber is what it was all about here in the north. Northern Netherlands coast and Baltic sea coast (Denmark, Germany,Poland). Amber is what made southerners come here in the Bronze age.
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  1271. I dunno, that Orson Welles quote from "Third Man" is a fine soundbite, but with Switzerland we're talking about a country that has remained neutral and produced Einstein, Pauli, Jung, Hesse, Fuseli, Klee, Bernoulli, Euler, and Paracelsus, among many others.
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  1272. There's a lot to comment on... as for his wild mood swings during the investigation, it seems rather normal for a desperate person, particularly one who might have some psychological issues; one minute he is clutching at straws, madly hoping that some strange twist of fate will free him from the approaching noose, and then a moment later he understands the futility of it all and resigns himself. Did he commit as many crimes as he was convicted for? Perhaps, although exaggeration was common then, and indeed is common now (the story of Henry Lee Lucas's confessions is a case in point). And as for his innocence, his usefulness as the central victim of a conspiracy... well, maybe, though isn't a 'conspiracy' by the Duke of Brittany just as useful for French patriots as a way of casting shade on said Duke, whose duchy was not integrated with France at that time and wouldn't be for the best part of another century. All in all, a really interesting presentation. We are way too far away to have any real certainty of either his guilt or innocence, but one thing seems striking; nobody contemporary seems to queried his conviction which was, after all, based on confession.
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  1273. My understanding of the Bronze age is that armies were not that common and it was more popular with one on one combat or smaller groups going round fighting one another. I have never liked the carvings depicting symbolic weapons displays. It seems to be more like sport, maybe some games being played.
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  1274. This was fantastic. I hope you keep it up in the production of these sorts of videos which recall to us the ways of our ancestors. I dream of the beautiful warriors every day, and I see them in the faces of the kin of my tribe every day.
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  1275. I love history, and as a Scottish descendant, the wild hunt is made up of fairies, witches, warlocks, maybe an occasional diety...of course filled with mythological animals, at the forefront, being the great stag...
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  1276. Great story, never a dull moment in wallachia!
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  1277. Thank you, your work on the subject is really commendable, and you manage to cover in these 23 minutes almost everything known so far. I was born 50 km away from Cucuteni, have spent my childhood in such places like Scanteia, Draguseni (the places of my maternal, respectively paternal grandparents), was actually playing with bronze “jewelry” found by relatives while doing their agricultural tasks (my father and I took over 1.5 -2 kg of bronze artifacts, necklaces, etc to the local museum in Iasi, but never ever saw them exposed, nor were we offered any information about them), however, we were never taught about this in school, although we were studying extensively about the Sumerians and the ancient Egyptians. Even university students with a major in history only found out about Cucuteni during their 2nd year at the time of my studies (early 80s, UAIC University in Iasi, probably the 1st or 2nd important cultural hub for Romanians - I mean, the city). Today we, the locals, as well as everyone interested in our deep past, deplore the efforts made by our Romanian authorities to keep everything silent and to discourage any archaeological work that might help us advance in our theories.
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  1278. Second that
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  1279. I think this channel needs more love, all around it's pretty excellent stuff.
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  1280. It comes with sharp relief to find this. For years I've been trying to write a Bronze Age novel and I had this kind of subconscious fixation to use mercenaries, but I could not be sure whether that was a historical thing or not. I did not exactly have access to information like this. Makes me gladder than ever I found your channel.
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  1281. We will never know why Otzi died. Either a younger, jealous clan member (hence the copper axe being left) or he simply slipped his pursuers and just died alone, on the mountain, far from the attack site. Whether they were "friendlies" or not is immaterial. However he died, Otzi certainly gave us plenty to talk about and I love the movie made about him- despite the lack of dialogue it is a riveting tale that I thoroughly enjoyed. Excellent video, Dan, thanks for all your hard work!
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  1282. Extremely well done video. Really fascinating how you can trace the lineage of the symbolic nature of the hammer from culture to culture through the archeology
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  1283. I'm a DM, and I recently found you through your documentary about Sardinia and the Nuragic civilization. I'm very impressed by your in depth research for the sake of accurate world building. Your channel is a gold mine of lore, backgrounds and plot hooks. Thank you SO MUCH. I'll be recommending you to any player or DM I talk to.
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  1284. It's incredible how much we can learn from ancient art! The level of detail in the Nordic Bronze Age petroglyphs really shows how important masculinity and warfare were to these cultures
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  1285. Thanks for the great video! These lesser known archaeological cultures you bring into the spotlight are incredible.
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  1286. Hi Hendrik, I have some armour making experience, (mostly steel) and always wondered how the Greeks made their beautiful Corinthian helmets. You say they started with a lump of steel, possible... I tend to think more in the direction of starting of with a rough casted shape lately... Bronze can be easely casted, and ( Yesterday I watched a YouTube movie about Pakistan workers casting parts of a brass bull, brazing it together to a complete hollow shape) and they had that technology to do that. So, why first make a lump or a plate, then forming it into a bowl shape? Cast a rough shape of a helmet or bowl, with a comfortable thickness of about 5 mm, then hammer it out to the desired shape and thickness... Just a thought. You cant do this trick with iron or steel. Then you really have to start with a lump.
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  1287. Attended Maharishi University in Iowa in 1980s, and after every am & pm group meditation practice, we listened to 10 min of English translation of 9th & 10th mandala of Rig Veda read aloud. Agni & Soma are as big a deal as Indra, and don't leave out Mitra, Varuna, & Vayu out of your books & obessions dude! Last line of first chapter of 10th mandala, "Agni, son of strength, bring hither the gods". Red Ochre is about Agni. Or Mars (Mangala). Indra is mainly about Vitra slaying.Cudgel seems better than a sword.
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  1288. Incredible how diverse ancient diets were. Another great video Dan 👌
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  1289. We have an old saying in Germany ""Get a Foal and you get the Mare and then you get the Stallion for free"" The Importens is the Foal and the next foal , you let it grow with a young Boy and it will let him sit on top of it , in Mongolia the Jockey are mostly young boys
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  1290. Excellent content, and good to see that subscriber count increasing!
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  1291. Hi Dan. I did my kit and, I'm 85% iberian. 12% Sardenian. 3% Finish. I'm from Almería, and I've work in the archeology works from Los Millares. It's a pleasure to me to work in this kind of things. Thank you for your work!!!
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  1292. Tacitus calls the divine brothers in the sacred grove of the Naharnavals "Alcis" and identifies them with the Roman Dioscuri. "Alcis" probably goes back to the (unprovable but reconstructed) North Germanic *algi- m "elk" and in Gothic it also means "sanctuary, protection" (cf. all Norse place names ending in "-alh"). The twin brothers Vidarr and Vali are brave warriors (Vidarr kills the Fenris wolf and Vali Hödur at Ragnarök, thus avenging the deaths of Balder and Odin) and represent the morning and evening redness or a new dawn. In Solarljöd 55 the brothers bring up the sun stag: "The sun stag I saw coming from the south Led by two on the bridle; On the field stood his feet, His horns lifted to the sky." Gylfaginning 29: "Vidarr is the name of one who is also called the silent Aesir. He has a thick shoe, and is the strongest after Thor. In him the gods trust in all dangers." With his thick shoe, Vidarr kicks the Fenris wolf on the lower jaw, thus killing it. This is reminiscent of a fight between a hoofed animal (thick shoe) and a wolf. Gylfaginning 30: "Ali or Vali is called one of the Aesir, Odin's son and the Rindr. He is bold in battle and a good shooter." And maybe the tips of the Horns represent a spear or an arrow.
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  1293. You always narrate an incredible journey! Thank you, Dan!
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  1294. I truly wish history courses in college would teach about this stuff. As someone currently pursuing a master's in archaeology, the amount of important history I have to look up myself because it goes completely ignored in the classroom is disheartening.
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  1295. Geography and race are not the same things originally a great part of Asia was white today it's mixed with turkic people in central and western asia
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  1296. Another brilliant video. At uni we covered up to the end of the ice age into the earliest farming in the Levant and middle east but never took it any further and my own interest and research since has been further back into the Palaeolithic, so there's a huge gap in my knowledge from the end of the last ice age up to the arrival of the Celts. Videos like your latest series as well as the Orme mines one plus STJ's stuff on the period have really helped map out huge gaps in my knowledge. The idea of multiple disparate groups with different ways of life in particular fascinates me, would love to get in a time machine and see how the three peoples interacted. Looking forward to getting my teeth into Thunderer too, cheers for the vid
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  1297. even though I have heard about this event a number of times, your story made me feel that exciting feeling again that I felt the first time I heard about it! 👏
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  1298. I’ve heard about this Ice man,but at the end of the day,the man died fighting.It’s the fact even when he might’ve been farming,he embraced the violence of his foes even when he didn’t ask for it,he showed anything can be a weapon.He used his strengths and died with them.A warrior in my eyes
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  1299. depending on the size of the pylons their houses were on, and their livestock... it may have had benefits of allowing the pigs to rest in the shade under the houses (pigs being vulnerable to heat) or to raise the floor up enough to keep rats out of the house... much as later farmers raised their hay up on pylons to keep pets out of the hay stores
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  1300. Why am I never surprised by these brilliant, brave and less materialistic ancient societies throughout Europe? It's like we know, deep in our genetic soul that we are not offshoots of something far distant but are an original creation of the soil itself. We extended much further east too. Thanks Dan, for your excellent work.
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  1301. Sort of a detective story. It could work but it would have to be in the right hands: It takes a really good author (or a really good scriptwriter and director) to make literary sleuthing interesting to the reading or viewing audience.
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  1302. Oh man, this is superb content! Fantastic structure, with a great use of quotes etc. Fabulous tension-building and truly evocative descriptions. And to top it, you're an awesome narrator. This is brilliant, it really is! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and endeavours. It's greatly appreciated. 👍
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  1303. The way I was taught in university was that the early Indo Europeans used chariots as horses at the time were too small to be ridden on and only once horses reached larger sizes due to selective breeding. The first large scale of horse back riding was in Assyria in the iron age. At least that's what they taught us 20+ years back.
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  1304. A superb video on about 1/10,000 the budget of the wretched efforts of the BBC and other channels to make history programmes, who prefer to have young women 'history professors' slagging off the English and saying every victory (such as the Armada) was won 'by luck', and thinking the video is all about them dressing up in the ladies' dresses of the period & posing whilst also being extreme feminists.
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  1305. Deeply fascinatint, thank you for putting this video together.
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  1306. So glad this sprung up in my recommendations. It’s hard to pass on quality historical content. As a long time channel member, I must say: solid video as always!
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  1307. Here in Berlin(Köpenick) there is a tale about a big black dog called Morro (PIE. mor-o-s* = dead?). He has his home near a local bridge (the Pyramidenbrücke) and walks around at night with fiery eyes and sits in front of houses of bad and suspicious people.
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  1308. Nice. Thanks Dan Davis. These are really informative. Love it.
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  1309. Great video as usual. I was lucky enough to be able to visit the mine about five years ago or so. It certainly is impressive, especially the great chamber. To think that was all carved out in Prehistory with just stone and bone tools is impressive.
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  1310. Truth is way more interesting than fiction in so many cases, particularly this one!
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  1311. In Polish mountains where Scythian (Shqipheria, Scotish) ethnicity was assimiliated into Slavic one, creating ethnic group called "Górale", we still conduct this rite, with "extatic" dances with axes, with singing epic songs about ancestors and with jumping into fire. Catholic priests hate that to the apogeum. They sometimes even refuse a communion untill next Great Friday for everyone participating in it.
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  1312. Thank you for a very interesting video! The burning of the neolithic houses interests me. I studied archaeology some years ago (I live in Sweden) and visited the site where one of these burned villages had been. I don't remember how many years our mentor said there were between burnings, but I seem to remember that it was perhaps every ten to twenty years. The theory then was that the house was burned partly to get rid of vermin and partly for agricultural reasons. (Getting rid of disease is a good idea, but did they really understand how disease spread and that it was a good thing to burn the house?) The new house was then built a few meters away from the burned area, and the burned ground became the new field where seeds were planted. The potassium in the ashes made the earth more nutritious for the plants. Excavation at the site had shown a pattern of the house being rebuilt again and again in a circle. This was in the south of Sweden, in Småland.
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  1313. I can't help, as a man of significant Brittish heritage, but wonder what life was like for our Mesolithic and Neolithic forefathers on the isles, how rugged and harsh life must have been for our Mesolithic forefathers to live in the harsh northern weather, and bring food home to their family and tribe, the hard manual labor of our Neolithic forefathers, and just what was going through their minds when they constructed the great stone megaliths that now cover our home isles, and how they reacted when the Bell Beakers entered, bringing a whole new culture and way of life utterly alien to them, did they try to resist them ? Did they peacefully assimilate ? I wonder what their languages and cultures were like. I'm also kind of interested in what the language of the Bell Beakers was like, what kind of forgotten Indo European did our ancient ancestors speak ? I like to think it has a weird blend of Germanic, Celtic, and Italic elements in it. The Brittish isles has such a long and rich wealth of history
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  1314. Thanks for another excellent video, Dan! I would love to learn more about the transition to metalworking among Bell Beaker and related cultures; and its possible impacts on migration, conflict, and settlement. The Chalcolithic Era was actually quite brief, no? In retrospect, that period of human history - from stone to copper to bronze to iron - seems almost akin to the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th Centuries.
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  1315. This looks very similar to the Khanda, the holy sword of the Indian warrior castes
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  1316. First to make a sacrifice to the algorithm-gods
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  1317. It’s so interesting that it takes a novelist to arrange all these pieces in a credible way. I wish the BBC would get you to present a series on this prehistory. Maybe you could talk to a group that makes good quality documentaries?
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  1318. Finding out that the name of the dog that guards the afterlife is Spot kinda ruins the mystique. Just makes you want to pet it and tell it is a good boy/girl. Maybe tummy rubs. This coming from someone who doesn't like dogs.
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  1319. You're spoiling us Dan! Another great one
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  1320. Amazing content as always Dan.
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  1321. Love the way you change the character of Ötzi by changing the hairdo and jawline ;-) Helps us see how easy it is to get drawn into the artist's preconceived ideas.
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  1322. The part that showed me what an incredible scholar you are, made me nearly forget the bit that showed you an awesome poet.
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  1323. It makes sense to see that most Indo-European cultures have a deep-seated love for their canine family members, moreso than any other culture on earth
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  1324. I do NOT know WHY I sleep on this channel when I see new video in my feed. I've NEVER been disappointed with your content. Excellent, informative, empowering, and fascinating.
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  1325. Wow what a great video, loved every bit. I watched this while drawing and writing my own medieval illuminated manuscript of King Richards loyal crusader officer Robert de Sable, so the video was really entertaining to listen to while doing that.
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  1326.  @DanDavisHistory  Part of me wonders if the barrow wights in Lord of the Rings were inspired by legends about the old burial mounds and megalithic sites, in America there are similar stories about native American burial grounds, it makes sense to me that a people would view the graves of an older, long gone culture, perhaps one that they replaced, with apprehension.
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  1327. You’re by far the most exciting channel on YouTube. Your videos are so well done.
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  1328. My 2 cents... the helmets identifies your unit, origin and function. It's definitely a WAG.
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  1329. With that title, a must watch. Always a hero in my mind. Thank you.
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  1330. Extremely fascinating topic and very evocative. I wonder to what degree the constantly-bared breasts of Minoan women lost their sexual potency or connotations, like how they seem to have (according to my understanding) in many tribal hunter-gatherer cultures from South America, Africa, and the islands of the Indian & Pacific Oceans? I imagine that they obviously still would be considered beautiful, just as the parts modern women often bare still are today, but it's interesting to ponder that they might not have been considered as sexual as we consider them now. Do we have any indication if the women covered them up as they aged/as their fertility declined, or were they likely bared by at least some women for as long as they lived? My mind also goes to the amber trade. I heard amber jewelry was all the rage back in the Bronze Age, being the height of women's fashion, and was so both before & for a time after, too. I think you've mentioned this trade in your other videos, also! I kind of appreciate that it's not so popular as jewelry nowadays, because it makes it more special to those that still have a taste for wearing it. My mother is Lithuanian, and buying her amber jewelry, sourced from her home, allows her to dress herself in a unique way that honors her heritage quite unmistakably, while also remaining timelessly & objectively fashionable. It's also a point of pride that my ancestors, then, as Balts, would have been indispensable in the stories of the beautiful pieces adorning the women of the cultures showcased here. Thanks for opening up these windows to the past, Mr. Davis. Cheers!
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  1331. Superb treatment of a facet of ancient warfare largely overlooked but I believe to be of the most significant importance to those warriors whose armor was the embodiment of their deeds and identity.
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  1332. A great video! The time of transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age is fascinating.
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  1333. Yesss, another video of an obscure Bronze-Age civilization, I love these!
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  1334. Thanks Dan, I was looking forward to this video. The Bohemian massif has always been a strategically important fortress. Even in the last war it was called "the arms factory of Europe".
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  1335. The ancient Greeks colonized a region of northern Georgia called Abkhazia, starting ~1100 BC, but traces of much earlier pre-colonial contact exists in the form of small excavated settlements. The fall of the Maykop culture may not have been a fall at all, but one that transitioned from mountainous overland trade to the south, to working with costal trade networks. I like your pointing out that materials very to the Bronze age's existence came from the Caucuses.
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  1336. FANTASTIC video!!! Thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. It never ceases to amaze me just what the Ancients were able to accomplish and build with the most basic of tools!
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  1337. I have been riding horses for over 50 years , I have een a jockey and broke in lots of horses and I agree with many of you , a horse has to learn how to be riding , and the bit is completly uselesss the fist month or so , and the saddle is not a most . the fact is that you don´t all this to teach a horse to be riden , he has to game trust in you to let you progressively sit on them
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  1338. The Wild Hunt has parallels in other, non-indo European cultures. The Hawaiians have the huaka'i pō, known as Nightmarchers in English. The huaka'i pō is a retinue of vengeful ghosts that wanders the night coming before sacred chiefs, any who oppose them or violate taboo around them die
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  1339. A fascinating video…enjoyed it tremendously! I found it interesting to see how flint weapons were being used alongside bronze ones.
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  1340. Thank you! I've been waiting eagerly for this video since you announced it in the earlier episode. I can't think of any other YouTuber whose science is more "fresh from the oven" in this field, which is the more impressive from a fiction author. As a Scandinavian, I have taken a special interest in the prehistory of the area, and I am pleased to see it represented so well. Guess it's time to get those books and see how you have used all this information in your writing!
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  1341. Yes to the stone burial mound complex video, please.
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  1342. all bare back short lived and a great deal of fun thats how riding skills where developed
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  1343. "Malice in Wonderland" is an amazing name for that paper. Great video as always!
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  1344. I just found this channel. But sub earned and I would also love too see some epic old school armor
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  1345. I DEFINETLY want a bronze age armor video, specially one about early armor, the very earliest you can find
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  1346. @13:05 The same argument could be made for the German Pickelhaube Helmet or many 19th century helmets that were very ornate in their design, yet many were used in both parade and in battle, albeit often with some ornamentation removed. 💂🏻‍♂️🥁⚔
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  1347. Riding and fighting from horse back would be different things.
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  1348. I see a Dan Davis video and I click and watch without question
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  1349. Yet another excellent video Dan 🏆👍👍
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  1350. interesting stuff, wonder how much more could be discovered what is not underwater beneath the Black Sea
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  1351. Fantastically put together. Really enjoy hearing about lesser known historical figures. Can I suggest Hereward the wake! Would love your insight on him! Cheers again for great content 👍
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  1352. Also, the English, very largely Anglo-Saxon, myth of Robin Hood is pretty clear that 'Good King' Richard was mostly regarded as a good King by average Englishmen.
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  1353. These are some of the best presentations of ancient history you will find, anywhere, in any venue. Dan, I am constantly impressed by the quality of your work and research. Keep up the great work.
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  1354. The hair cutting (or lack of it) is really interesting, I had no idea it was a practice among Germanics. I wonder if the Sikh practice is linked and they're both echoes going back to a shared Indo-European thing or whether it's just a coincidence
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  1355. Interestingly, in the Odyssey there's a passage in my Mandelbaum translation about Heracles wielding a solid bronze club. Wishing you all the luck in the world for that book. I would love to read it someday, once I get out of this plague-ridden hellhole. I've been working on my own stories as well but I could not quite get the Bronze Age feel right, much to my disappointment. Ended up in a different direction.
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  1356. Amazing work on this video. By following a single life from beginning to end, it gives such an illuminating look into the social forces that shaped these people's lives. Thanks for the work that went into producing this.
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  1357. Please continue with history of Mespoptamia, ideally all the way to Assyrian or NeoBabilonian period. Cheers!
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  1358. Very enlightening. I had a very Black/White opinion ofhim, but now I see that it is far more complicated and nuanced. Thanks Dan.
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  1359. Thank you for your amazing films.❤
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  1360. The boundaries between cultures and timeframes isn't as clear cut as many researchers try to let on. The Yamnaya didn't just up and decide, one day, "Well, I'm tired of this *%#@. Tomorrow, we're doing Corded Ware!!" ;) It was a bit more complex - and, much more interesting than that. ;)
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  1361. A comment for the algorithm- great job! 🇸🇪
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  1362. as always i enjoyed the video... to put forward some alternative thoughts, however: even in Europe there has continued, until fairly recently, a limited tradition of secondary dealing with the dead... or in fact, COMMUNING with the dead- revering and visiting the remains, not merely at a burial site (although certainly people do THAT- we even decorate the graves yearly!) You have only to look at the artifacts of saints- or great kings and heroes... the gilded bones, the sacred items incorporating the bones and sometimes preserved flesh, of notable people or the cathedrals of the bones, and the niches of bones and labyrinths of bones, currently in Europe: where people paid to have their loved ones disinterred after the ground had consumed the flesh, and the bones ... displayed. At the displays of death masks, or even preserved corpses... we still do and if you look further than Europe? to the indigenous practices of people world wide, you find there are always a few places where the bones- once stripped of flesh- are painted with ochre, or positioned to sit and watch over... or skulls are kept... its... not that strange a concept, really even today i can tell you that a lot fo people maintain an ancestor shrine- whether they call it that or not: with relics and photos of their beloved grandparents, and tokens representing the place they came from...
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  1363. This is the first video I've watched of yours, loved it- thank you!
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  1364. Great video, Mr. Davis! The uploads never fail to make my day! Cheers!
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  1365. 0:41 "For centuries, generation after generation lived on almost nothing but horsemeat" - IKEA would be proud of them! - Sorry, I know it's a silly joke, but I really wanted to make it, and I didn't have the opportunity until this...
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  1366. The greatest? I'm not sure. It entirety depends on the criteria. However, if Richard Leoheart was the greatest at anything among the medieval kings of England it was perhaps in seeking glory and the fame that comes with it; and the Plantagenets were notorious in that sense. All you need to do is look at those he is competing with. Among them you have Richard's father Henry II, who was essentially seeking a western European empire, albeit one that would be split upon his death. He was the Titan of his era, dominating his french rival Louis VII ( cough , Eleanor, cough ). Another contender is Edward I. With his continental ambitions stifled he sought, and ultimately attained, the domination of Britain. And before he was even king he was a glory chaser. Inspired by his uncle Richard of Cornwall and by that more famous Richard, the Lionheart, Edward went on crusade. More importantly he experienced some success. Our next challenger is Edward III who famously sought glory in tournaments and revelled in the pageantry of it. More importantly he tried reclaiming the huge Plantagenet domains of Henry II. He did pretty well and was much celebrated for it. His many sons, first and foremost Edward, the Black Prince also added to the picture of an idealized warrior-king. And then of course you have Henry V. His success at Agincourt made him famous and the Treaty of Troyes a few years later cemented that legacy when he was named Charlie VI's heir to the Kingdom of France. Henry also obviously owes a great debt to Shakespeare for his modern reputation. However Richard the Lionheart probably takes the cake, even in this stacked field. He was the first English king to go on Crusade, setting an example many subsequent kings tried to emulate with varying degrees of success. Taking the cross was ruinously expensive and was politically dangerous; for Richard especially so, given the temperament of his little brother and the fact he would be absent from his domains for years. So why risk it? Without discounting genuine piety the answer seems clear. He wanted the glory, the fame, the stories and songs that came with it. And if his crusading was not enough you can always look at the near constant wars he engaged in. He was setting the standard for the warrior-king all English kings (and kings in western Europe for that matter) would follow. Winning battles was extremely important and Richard won early and often. Given this fact it is not surprising he died on the battlefield; or at least in a tent next to one. This only increased his fame. The romantic notion that dying on the field was preferable to dying in your bed of old age was another reason his story would be told. His martial prowess, his willingness to travel to a distant land "for Christ", and his demise on the field would be use as a means to measure future kings. In that sense he was certainly the most famous. Even here in America if you asked someone if they had heard of Richard the Lionheart you'd likely get a "Yep". (Thanks Robinhood).
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  1367. Excellent job. Lots of good data, and little speculation so common to historical works.
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  1368. Hell yeah man. Best of all the topics. So excited to watch this. Thanks for making it!
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  1369. Thanks for your continued great work on our recent and ancient ancestors.
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  1370. As I am from closeby Lago di Ledro in Italy, I am very honored to see something about Terramareans portrayed in a video :) great job :))
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  1371. Bravo! Well done. I honestly can't think of anything I can complain about. Love this topic. And, you made it understandable. Really like how you pointed out the need for evolution of both people and horses. A very good example of logical analysis.
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  1372. Once again, I have learned a topic that I have long wondered about but didn't have the time to learn about. I have tremendous respect for your researching a presenting skills.
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  1373. I'm so ashamed that my ancestors ate people! I feel I owe a lot of people apologies - unfortunately, they've all been eaten.
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  1374. I loved the history of this time period as well as the area you describe. I learned something new! I have 2 favorite authors now. One being yourself and the other Dan Jones. I love both history and fantasy. Thank you for making these entertaining videos. I plan to read all your books!
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  1375. "They would've taken great care of their tools, just as we do now," Omg you have definitely not met my husband lol
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  1376. William Marshall is my favorite knight...absolute legend !!! A true knight and loyal to a fault.
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  1377. It is no surprise to me that this CT culture developed in Moldova and Ukraine. If you have ever travelled trough the countryside of this area you will inevitably have noticed how fertile and black the arable land is. Ideal for farming!
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  1378. Your telling of the battle of Arsuf was the highlight for me in this amazing video. I was more immersed in that battle then I've felt watching blockbuster movie battles. Amazing story telling!
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  1379. I read somewhere that the 'local' fighters share a strong genetic affinity with the proto-slavs
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  1380. Since discovering your YouTube channel, sir, I like many others I've seen in the comments find myself relentlessly binging your content. Your storytelling abilities are uncanny and I salute your endeavors to educate those that seek it or happen upon your work due to the Algorithm. You have a supporter in purchasing of your literature and on Patreon. I had to stop midway through my binge to relay this because your in-the-mind of this historical figure, William, evoked in me a need to follow him in defense of the homeland. Great Men theory bedamned, moments like these you described the human male warrior element to a T. Thank you, Storyteller.
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  1381. I live on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan, USA,, aka The Copper Country. Although copper is not currently mined here, there is a well documented history of modern and ancient copper mining. The great majority of copper deposits here are native copper - almost pure copper. As a historian and tour guide I have heard many people talk about this theory that our copper went to Europe. Especially that it was Europeans who mined it. No evidence to support it. Zero. A lot of the unsupported thinking comes from some calculations done decades ago by some investigators. They counted the known ancient mining pits and multiplied that number by "their" estimate of how much copper could have been removed from the average pit. This resulted in a huge amount of copper - many millions of pounds. Proponents of the North America export across the Atlantic theories compare that huge amount of copper to the amount found so far in ancient North American sites - a much lower figure. So, there is *Missing Copper*! This seems to be the main "evidence" that NA copper went to people on other continents.
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  1382. Pliny the Elder describes red paint in Roman religious practices: "on festivals it was the custom for the face of the statue of Jupiter himself to be coloured with red cinnabar, as well as the bodies of persons going in a Triumphal procession. It is said that Camillus was so coloured in his triumph . . . and that one of the first duties of the Censors was to place a contract for painting Jupiter with red cinnabar." (Natural History, book 33, passage 36)
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  1383. Love the work your outing into this.
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  1384. Looking forward to this, this time in history is a favourite of mine, something about it feels very mythical.
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  1385. Ever thought of your books being made into a tv series? What if Amazon or Netflix came to you and said "hey, dan! We need a period drama, and your books fit the bill." Would you do it?
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  1386. This was a fantastic video, so thanks for that. Secondly Minoan and Mycenaean fashion in general really could stand to make a comeback, those people knew how to look fabulous. Not to be crass (but i'm gonna do it anyways) I know more than a few people who'd be fans of that tits-out-for-Troy look returning.
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  1387. I've been a barber/stylist for over 40 years so this video goes in the playlist for sure! Thank you.💈
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  1388. The chanting and rituals remind me of the state of mind induced by heavy metal and rock music intended for war. They still induce a heightened state of mind and ability but the animal ferocity is gone, replaced by cold mechanical, soulless mana. Instead of turning men into animals, it turn them into machines. Machines meant for one thing and one thing only: killing.
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  1389. Is it me or do the Sardinian Nuragic towers resemble the Brochs of Scotland? I realise one is Bronze Age the other Iron Age, but the similarity is stunning. You're probably right about the horn length denoting rank, I like to look at other cultures and in this case I'd look at Native American headdress or even the crown on a monarchs head. The archers were probably the poorest, but the long horns would impede archery and I'd not take too much from that aspect. The swords in the stones is an interesting thing to think on. Brilliantly edited, researched and narrated, giving me much food for thought.
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  1390. The coast north of San Francisco where Drake landed is BEAUTIFUL but it’s also is one of the deadliest beaches in the country. We vacationed there when our sons were seven and four. It wasn’t a beach day but the boys wanted to see the seals. As soon as we pulled in the parking lot a large sign read DANGER in large red letters on the top. Below it read This is the Most Dangerous Beach in California; it then explains very clearly why and how to keep safe. I wanted to leave but I was voted down. The exact same sign was at the top of the stairs: another was halfway down: a third was at the bottom and still others were on the beach. What’s crazy is I couldn’t see any waves, but a ranger explained it’s the undertow that can pick you and suck you in… even if you only have your toes in the water. Even if you’re just standing too close to the surf a wave can pull you in. A lot of people drown there every year because they clearly aren’t taking the NUMEROUS warnings seriously. I kept my boys 50 FEET from the shoreline and it was the most stressed out I’ve ever felt at the beach. No warning signs for Drake and co… I wonder if anyone nearly drowned?
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  1391. I’d have to disagree. You most certainly do not need another horse to tame a horse. Especially mares. You just have to get them penned then it’s a matter of establishing boundaries for the horse. Ive seen mustangs full grown trained to the saddle. Colts are easier of course but it’s still plenty easy.
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  1392. Thank you, Dan! We need more fake history debunking these days!
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  1393. "Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'"
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  1394. Excellent, again. Your experience as a story teller shines through. A bunch of facts is not enough. And I like the way you casually quote an expert, and also your own modest theories.
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  1395. Wonderful Dan, what a story. Still haven't found your books down here in Oz. I only frequent secondhand book shops, and no one it seems, relinquishes yours. I will read them eventually. Cheers mate
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  1396. he Yamnaya Kernosovskiy idol, depicting a naked warrior with a belt, axes, and testicles (mid-3rd mill. BC); and the Celtic Warrior of Hirschlanden (6th c. BC), wearing only a helmet, neckband, belt, and sword.[57][58]
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  1397. Mjolnir= Molniya( lightning in Russian or probably old Slavonic language. ) Also, remember Indo- European languages are interconnected. Can't find clear word meaning in one Indo-European language than look for this word's meaning in another Indo-European language.
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  1398. Even in classical times (thousands of years of later) Italy was considered to be a far distance away from Greece.
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  1399. There is a really good book called "The Tale of the Axe' by David Miles that you might enjoy. Also there is a good collection of these axe heads in the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm. This film of yours is extremely well done and has connected up several loose ends for me - so thank you.
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  1400. Just as I finished watching all your previous videos, ha! Thank you for all your work Dan!
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  1401. Though many recognize a connection between Odin's wolf-band the einherjar and the koryos, it is interesting that Loki is also associated with both wolves and binding.
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  1402. I live about 50 mins from these sites in Murcia. I haven't visited yet, but I'm definitely going to go this summer. Thanks for the vid and inspiration to finally explore these sites. There are so many Roman sites to visit here in Spain that these pre-Roman sites get almost no attention.
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  1403. I feel like the collapse was likely a cascading event. For some reason the area was struck by mass earthquakes during this time, famine, resource overuse and climatic shifts broke logistic and agricultural reliances utterly. The empires turned on eachother in hopes of preserving something only for an absolutely overwhelming force of small kingdoms, mercenary, tribal and nomadic peoples from across the north and all the periferies to rise up from the collapsing conditions and take what remained of the more prosperous empires for their own only to eventually just conglomerate into the prior cultures.
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  1404. Thanks for this, your channel is my favorite new subscription. And thank you for the tone, for not suggesting my people were completely wiped out. I realize it's only a thin slice of my ancestry in a way but I descend from an unbroken male line of the first men of Britain and Ireland. Their surviving of everything discussed in this video and everything after means a lot to my eyes.
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  1405. 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
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  1406. really cool! learning all this really old european tribal/cultural history and migration seems to be my hyperfixation of the week, its hard to find videos about it so thanks!
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  1407. I knew the story, but this brought it to life excellently. Epic social climbing brought about by what must have been fearsome skills. Total loyalty - a dream subject if ever there was one. Great vid.
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  1408. Merry Christmas Dan. Part of my new years resolutions is to patreon a couple people who give me the most entertainment on YouTube...you and Mark Felton will be the recipients for 2022...keep up the great work!
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  1409. Mjolnir= Molniya( lightning in Russian or probably old Slavonic language. ) Also, remember Indo- European languages are interconnected. Can't find clear word meaning in one Indo-European language than look for this word's meaning in another Indo-European language.
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  1410. As a child i was an avoricious reader of histories and had read a YA English version of The Song of El Cid. The movie despite featuring Charleton Heston, was a grand epic and deepened my interest in the Cid as a man of honor with ties to both the Moors and the Christians. When I retired to Spain a few years ago, i was very pleased to improve my Spanish to be able to read the poem in Spanish. It was a great read, probably half history and half hype, but a tale to immerse the reader in the medieval world of Reconquista Spain. Thanks Dan for your rendition of the story of this great man. Tom Mangen PS. I live in Barcelona a couple hundred meters from a plaza featuring a statue of Ramon Berenguer. i am always amused that he is thus glorified here, a man who was soundly thrashed and captured and ransomed by the Cid on more than one occasion
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  1411. Thank you for the insight on one of my ancestors, Willliam Marshall through one of his daughters.
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  1412.  @alicelund147  That sounds contrary to contemporary science, do you have a source you could link? From what I understand the battle axe culture is either replaced or fused with Kurgan tumulus culture (probably by cultural diffusion, since there is not a corresponding gene flow), followed by transition into late nordic bronze age? Genetically, the battle axe culture is yamnaya/corded ware with admixture from the funnelbeaker culture. With the funnelbeakers being the local descendants from the neolithic anatolian farmer population (aka the Early European Farmers, EEFs). To my knowledge, there is no genetic flow associated with central Europe after the appearance of the battle axe culture. Also, the Seine-oise-marne culture is a neolithic/chalcolithic culture(?). To my knowledge, there is no chalcolithic culture in Scandinavia (which transitions directly from neolithic to bronze with the arrival of the Indo-Europeans). Further still, current Scandinavian genetics are VERY close to battle axe culture genetics. And medieval Scandinavian religion (old norse religion, aesir and vanir etc) is most likely descended from proto-Indo-European pantheon. So if the seine-oise-marne culture was in Scandinavia, then they left no genetic, cultural or archeological evidence? Unless you are trying to pass of Scandinavian passage graves as Seine-oise-marne gallery graves? But even then, those pre-date the battle axe culture by 500 years, and stops being constructed before the battle axe culture even arrives. I can't make it fit with my pressent understanding. But I would be very interested to read more, if you have any links to post.
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  1413.  @ducomaritiem7160  iron/steel are different again (although just as remarkable). My (limited) experience with bronze casting has shown how hard it would be to cast anything remotely resembling a sheet of bronze without any cold shuts. (I have tried). My understanding is that outside of bronze production centres, casting bronze was fairly limited. It is hard to make a reliable crucible capable of carrying enough material to make anything of size. Also when you include the time and labour to make the charcoal, I would suggest it was more efficient (faster and less exertion) to just start hammering and annealing. Remember each tree must be felled by (bronze or stone) axe and the charcoal transported. If you are interested Schola Gladiatoria has a current video on helmet development in Europe, which is worth checking out. As for braising together large elements, say for a statue, my understanding is that the two pieces are set in place with flux and braise, a mold formed around them, then the whole thing heated to the braising point. Quite an exersize.
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  1414. Great video Dan, i had long wanted to see a video on this cult of body and martial veneration during the bronze age.
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  1415. Strange to imagine one day nothing will remain of me but my mullet.
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  1416. amazing video! Which source discusses the swords in Arcadia exactly? I do anthropology of archaeology (Mt. Lykaion) and I've talked, somewhat fantastically, with archaeologists there about a presumed lost bronze age palace complex in Arcadia. Perhaps terramare evidence can help out!
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  1417. I’d love to see one about Edward the Black Prince.
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  1418. This is one of the best , concise shows I've seen on this topic. And here I am, an Australian whose ancestors come over in the Irish/British immigration waves of the mid 19th century. They came from the Liverpool area and County Cork. I wonder why the rush in from 4000bce to 3700bce? On day, post-covid, I'll get to Skara Brae as it's on my bucket list.
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  1419. Just a hypothesis, but do you think the thickening of helmets and liners could be in response to the development of siege ware/tactics and or pikes
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  1420. Now, this is quality historical content ladies and gentelmen. Take note history channel!!
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  1421. I had no idea that William Marshall had to wage such a campaign to oust Louis! Everything I've seen just glosses this over implying that once John died all Henry III and Marshall had to do was re-issue Magna Carta (with some edits) and the Barons all switched back to their side and Louis peacefully returned to France. Great video, I can't wait to watch your other videos!
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  1422. You should be teaching ancient history at Oxford. Seriously. Your hypotheses are absolutely brilliant. Your dissertations are precise, well referenced, and should be part of mainstream scholarship debate. Well done !!!
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  1423. Did anyone think that the silver diadem looked very much like sunrise? It would explain why it was upside down on a dead person. Representation of a sunrise in life and sunset in death.
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  1424. Hmm...I tend more to favor the earlier version for a couple of reasons. 1) It's easier to train a horse to ride than pull any form of a wagon. 2) The damage done by a horse acting up while pulling a wagon is going to be far greater than just falling off one. 3) The harness needed for a horse to pull a wagon is a fairly complex piece of craftsmanship. Far more complex than the bridle used to ride one. 4) Taking the step from riding a horse and using a horse to fight from is a major evolutionary step that takes time, and honestly doesn't need to have been taken for centuries, even millennium. Also the last cavalry during WWII used their horses just to travel from point A to point B. Why wouldn't the first have done the same? I would say that it sounds logical to me that horses were first ridden with no intent on doing more than travel quicker. Then came the travois, only later someone came up with the idea to put wheels on a travois. And, as far as no evidence of bits, I've known trained horses that could not take one without getting infection. They're really not that necessary, American Indians rarely used a bridle with any kind of a bit. I also feel that the final say should be an evolutionary genetic evaluation, that can determine how long it took for the domestication. So far, either could be right, or both wrong. They are both just hypotheses.
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  1425. Well I guess I’m not going to bed as early as I was planning, hah! Awesome video so far, always amazed at your level of detail, yet you weave all these tiny details into one cohesive and fascinating story in an easy, smooth, and expressive way, that very few have the skill to match! Keep up the awesome work, you are crushing it! I’m always checking back just in case I missed a notification for your channel. So glad I did tonight! Merry Christmas, and happy holidays, enjoy your time with friends and family, hope you are lucky enough to be spending time with those important to you this holiday season.
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  1426. Those stone battleaxes look remarkably lethal.
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  1427. Okay I literally had to pause the video to say: that intro was amazing! You have crazy story telling skills.
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  1428. Too bad he wasn't there at Bouvines! There is a good book on him by the renown French medievist Georges Duby: "Guillaume le Maréchal ou le meilleur chevalier du monde". Pembroke castle is still standing in quite a remarkable state of preservation, the great tower dating to the time of William Marshall. Some of the castles shown there are rather from the 14th century like Warkworth which is not how a castle would look like in the time of Stephen and Mathilda's wars, although not extremely far, and the gear of reenacters is sometimes from the 15th. Thank you for this fascinating story!
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  1429. Another captivating video. The importance of stone axes reminds me of one well-known anthropological study of a tribe in norther Australia, where only adult men were allowed to make and own this tool. The entire social structure came apart once Europeans introduced cheap steel axes.
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  1430. In this land, the Donbass is located, where people have been melting metal for more than three thousand years. There are a lot of mounds, and ancient stone stelae. The black earth lands there are more than one meter thick. And a lot of coal, which lies almost on the surface. I think the archaeologists will be interested there. But there is a war as usual.
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  1431. Such a difference between someone who is trying to give perspective and understanding versus someone who wants to get rich talking. Well done Dan!
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  1432. This is hands down, in my own opinion, the single greatest historical research channel on this platform. Instantly liked, subscribed, and had to leave a comment for the algorithm. I will be here when you hit one hundred thousand subscribers and I don't think it'll be long.
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  1433. I don't care if you are a celestial werewolf your not getting my beer and crisps.
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  1434. Concerning Bronze Age Mediterranean sailing ships DESIRE TO KNOW MORE INTENSIFIES
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  1435. Makes sense that they would have built ships as big as they could, while overseas markets were healthy: bigger ships can carry much more cargo, and this would lead to a drop in transport costs, meaning that all parties in the trade for e.g. amber would benefit, so they'd continue increasing the size of their ships to the limit of what technology could do at the time. Fascinating stuff! Thank you for this video.
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  1436. Great video! I'm particularly interested in the Hittites, in two weeks I'll be filming Hattusa 🎥 Thanks and greetings <3
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  1437. Glad the Sardinian culture survived, so many ancient cultures, didn't. Excellent video.
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  1438. Fighting in a frenzied state is seen in all indo-european cultures and beyond. In antiquity, the germanic tribes, celts, and thracians are all described as being hellish warriors. In the early medieval period, viking berserkers made their living out of duels and were known for outlandish acts of violence. More on this subject can be found in the book "Ancient germanic warriors: warrior styles from Trajan's Column to Icelandic Sagas" by Michael P. Speidel.
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  1439. Bronze Age!! Wooo! 🥰Love the prehistory stuff so much! Thanks Dan! You do such a great job with these..
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  1440. I was just thinking how the serpent/dragon might also be an archetype for something other than chaos, since the Chinese consider children born in this sign lucky. The viking ships often carried dragonheads, too. Could you please elaborate on this aspect as well? Btw, my hometown, Holstebro, Denmark has in its coat of arms »St. Jørgen and the Dragon« I believe St. George tended to become St. Jørgen in Scandinavia.
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  1441. Excellent video as always, Mr. Davis!
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  1442. Great video.
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  1443. What I know about Ötzi at LEAST tripled from watching this video. Examining multiple possibilities and gauging their likelihood and how they've changed with the research tells a fascinating story -- even stressing the uncertainty of what's known about him paints him as more of a "person" than a "specimen". Really fires up the imagination and got me wondering how much of the sympathy I now feel for the guy is justified, or if he had it coming!
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  1444. Amazing how you merge anthropology, archeology, high tech DNA research and now a focus on geology, which amazing skills in communication and literary excellence.
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  1445. Been too long but what an opus! Absolutely worth the wait 😁
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  1446. You'd think that, if there were warbands wandering all over the place trying to take over, someone would think "Let's not send our own sons out. Let's keep them for when someone tries to take us over". But perhaps they were worried that, if they did so, their young men would just kill them and take over.
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  1447. Nice concept. Dogs are "special" cases of inter species cooperation. A curve ball. Could the pre sea level rise populations of Doggerland and Sundaland in the Indo Pacific be the common meeting point for the two main versions of the myth? I base this on Oppenheimer's "Eden in the East" theory. Instead of one group, say, the Amerivan paleo peoples, descending from the other, Siberian, people, could both be descendents of a centrally located proto-culture originally centred in a now submerged location? One thing I have learned over my lifetime is that no one has a lock on "accuracy" in human origins. Will look up your books. (It is reassuring to see how much research goes into your writings. Kudos.)
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  1448. Excellent work! Thank you for including the sources. It is greatly appreciated!
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  1449. Corios - Agogi very similar still going on in Africa and Madagascar cattle raiders.
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  1450. That is truly fascinating. Especially when you see the Hjortspring boat. The carvings just seem to spring to life! One thing that struck me was that the "Big men", shown in human form in the carvings (as opposed to just straight lines, crewing the boats, for the ordinary warriors) are depicted with what appears to be some form of headgear, fitted with what can only be described as horns. And in "common knowledge", who were the one type of warriors who wore HORNED HELMETS (yes, I know this wasn't strictly speaking true)? THE VIKINGS. This seems to me to be a direct parallel, and shows evidence that the mindset of the later "Vikings" (i.e. Scandanavians), had it's roots well within the Bronze Age. Could it have been that the later Viking warriors, all wore practical, state of the art, steel helmets, in line with the best common practice of the time, as they were the ones doing the "raping and pillaging". But the CHIEFS of the Vikings actually wore a CEREMONIAL type of helmet, which was closely modelled on those found depicted in the rock carvings. Thereby continuing the traditional dress which came from the Bronze Age? It's a very intriguing possibility. VERY Skyrim!
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  1451. And another one! Nice, i found your channel yesterday and already watched all your videos. I didnt know how much i missed this content until i came across you. Keep it up ! :)
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  1452. Thanks for the video! I've been to both Trypillia and Rzyshiv ( a contender city to the Trypillia culture that also has lots of artifacts/etc), I'm happy to say both towns are very proud of this heritage and have large statues of the Trypillia culture in their towns square, including large a "binocular-shaped" statue in Rzyshiv that I'm not sure what the meaning of it was
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  1453. Nice one Dan! It's a fascinating period, and includes the crossover from the old animalistic gods to the appearance of the Norse gods. The idea that the "present" age governed and protected by the Norse gods will eventually fall into a return of the old dark times of the ice giants seems to lay deep in the culture - a whole series there!
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  1454. Looking forward to this! Thanks Dan!
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  1455. I was part of the Maharish (TM) cult in 70s & 80s, we would listen to 9th & 10th mandala of Rig Veda after morn & aft meditation. Often the richa (hymn, poem) that was worshipping Indra involved hustling cattle (or killing Vitra) or great simili's ("like a libertine, to the wife of a friend" always liked that one, till I got married)
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  1456. Fascinating stuff. I swear the Alps is one of the most beautiful spots on earth. I visited the German and Austrian areas a few years back. Wish I could go again.
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  1457. P/R/Q are Ancient North Eurasian/Ancient North Siberian lineages. These lineages probably originated in a population related the Bacho Kiro IUP samples from Bulgaria. It is likely Y-DNA K/K2 originated in an area spanning eastern West Asia, southern Central Asia, and northern South Asia. At some point during the late Paleolithic, this Crown Eurasian-like population would have expanded in all directions throughout Eurasia. Salkhit, Yana, and Tianyuan are their descendants, which makes sense considering they all share a particular drift independent of populations from South East Asia, and both Yana and Tianyuan have Y-DNA K2b/P. Again, it is important to recognize that present day races/ethnicities such as the East Asian Japanese or Han Chinese, they would not have existed 30-60K ybp. Various, complex ancient admixture events are responsible for modern day populations being what they are today, and back in the Paleolithic-Mesolithic, many of these events had not yet occurred, Homo sapiens had only been in Eurasia for around 20K years, more or less. So please stop using terms like “white” or the vague as hell “Asian,” a term which could apply to a multitude of diverse and differing races/ethnicities that inhabit the Eurasian landmass. The use of those words in such a context is very anachronistic, groups such as “whites”/Europeans, and East Asians, as we know them today, didn’t exist yet, so it is misleading as hell to use such terms, it completely distorts the complex realities at play here.
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  1458.  @DanDavisHistory  Very interesting, I'm definitely a horror fan, and have been thinking of running a Call of Cthulhu game set in some Megalithic barrow, where a perhaps not quite human thing was buried.
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  1459. I wonder how much autonomy the elite daughter warriors would have in their marriage and if them immersing themselves in warfare could be some form of husband shopping, since their sons would also be expected to be warriors.
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  1460. Great video... Looking forward to the Funnelbeaker one... #FunnelbeakerLife
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  1461. One of my heroes!
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  1462. I’m not sure why, but I find the quick zoom ins on the livestock faces very amusing
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  1463. I've not spent a lot of time with extremely ancient mythology. I'd love a series on it. You do a fantastic job of presenting the information without editorializing or criticizing. I've had dog meat. If anyone's curious I found it greasy amd stringy much like every other predator meat I've had the distinct displeasure to eat.
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  1464. This is the first time I've heard of a video about this culture. Thank you! The Horse, the Wheel and Language is a fascinating book and I'm glad to hear your research into this little known time period.
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  1465. An awesome analysis of ancient hose riding cultures. A summarized overview of evolution of steppe warriors.
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  1466. Your videos are the best. I’m so fascinated by this period of history.
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  1467. This is really great. I appreciate when we admit to not knowing and then we get to have fun and theorize what might be the truth. I love the idea of him as a bowhunter going after Ibex. I am Austrian/Italian and a bowhunter so it’s fun to think my ancestors doing what I still do today.
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  1468. I have a memory from 1996,when I was in kindergarten. I never could explain it, and when i think back on it after studying in my 20s old norse culture, i look3d back and almost couldn't believe the memory i had of that day in kindergarten. One day near Christmas the teacher told us about a mysterious old man who on Christmas rides violently and fast and leaves candy but you can never catch him. We all thought it wad just storytime and then all us kids sitting indian style went quiey ad the teacjer said, listen! And i swear to this day at 33 years old there was an almost defeaning, ever loudly growing sound of horse hoofs, i remember being terrified like it wad a ghost. I mean im 6,so lol. But just when the sound of hoofs came clos3 enough, the classroom door swung op3n and candy flew EVERYWHERE alpng the floor and the door slamm3d back shut, the spund of hooves getting quieter.we all ran up and lool3d outside and there was no one there. Logically, at 33 years old these days, i tell myself well obviously the faculty was behind it, to kind of spark our imagination. But this wild hunt mythology? Matbe she was Scandinavian our teacher? I guess a child's imagination plays a big role but this memory doesn't make a lot of sense, especially because it took place in Texas. (lots of German less Scandinavian) maybe it was a culture day? The biggest question abou5 tjos childhook memory i have is how scared i felt lol. It didn't feel mysterious or festive, i remember being terrified and trying to understand if that old man on tje horse was a ghost. Anyway thanks for the upload and reminding me of a memory you reminded me of. I think somehow mu memory and the wild hunt are related.
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  1469. You always teach me something new, Dan! Maybe the technologies used in warfare have changed a lot, but the reason behind it has not. It's always about protecting resources, and where possible, expanding your territory and influence. Well done!
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  1470. As an archaeologist, I am always searching for information on little- known cultures, esp the Mesolithic through Early Bronze Age, and especially those cultures where settled cultures were in contact with nomadic ones. Are there any other books you recommend on this? I'm ordering that one by Anthony (?) for sure
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  1471. Love your work! Can’t wait for your next books.
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  1472. 2:40, Chris Pine was a stone-age hunter-gatherer.
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  1473. Stone tomb complex bump. Thanks for what you do Dan. Another great video.
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  1474. A glass of 🍷 and a Dan Davis video are sheer bliss to unwind after a tough day at work, an utter joy to watch! Thank you for all the hard work that goes into producing them, it is greatly appreciated especially as there is so much crap on the TV these days, your content is food for the mind and the soul 👏
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  1475. This is an amazing video! You've got my sub and I'll need to check out your book too. Recently visted my cousins in Guernsey in 2019 before the plague hit, and King John is remembered very differently there than in my home state of Massachusetts. He's seen as a protector of their rights and a builder of strong defences against French privations. The fortifications were so strong they were used by the Germans in the 40's!
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  1476. Every time you put up a new video, my reading list gets longer! It's these intermediary cultures that fascinates me - they serve as "the missing link" in the spread of material goods and their ideological correlates. Interesting info about arsenical bronze- that's news to me but answers the question of how bronze became so widespread before the reliable trade routes with tin- producing areas were created.
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  1477. Fascinating stuff, Dan -- very well told and particularly liked how you pulled it all together with your reconstruction/ joining of the dots at the end. No over-reach, just a plausible synthesis of the available data.
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  1478. Great research in these videos
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  1479. Thank you for these history lessons. I've been in the process of developing lessons for ancient history for middle and high school students and noticed a big gap in the way we teach about our ancient civilizations. The story of how we settled and spread is more complex than our emphasis on river valleys, farming and trade. Being more aware of human activity and psychology of people's in the sea, plains, mountains, and between the river valleys better helps us interpret why we build, expand and continue conflicts in territories throughout our globe today.
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  1480. Didn't think I'd care about another Sumer / Akkad video, but you nailed it
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  1481. Very concise information. No extra ranting. Love it.
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  1482. A fitting production for an extraordinary warrior and leader. Well done Dan. Definitely worth the wait.
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  1483. Feet never seem to be protected and not all greaves have rims to deflect blows down there. A few greaves do extend somewhat. I can only wonder what they wore as defense as feet needed to be flexible in combat and are very sensitive. The Roman caltrop emphasizes awareness of this. Thank you for this excellent overview
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  1484. Seimo turbino armor ftw
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  1485. I am wondering Were there iconoclastic groups that didn’t participate and desired to change these customs. Great video as always
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  1486. I've seen many professionelly made tv for a lot of money and by many people about these times your are focusing on and none came even close. Thanks, I really appreciate your work, always a highlight when a new one appears in my notifications
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  1487. I'm just here to say that both of your book series got me hooked. I'm on the 2nd book of Godborn after finishing the vampire knight series and am anxiously awaiting more.
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  1488. New Dan Davis video drop! Oh it's gonna be a good Sunday. Gonna get a nice drink ready (probably just a soda from the fridge but i'll put it in a glass and get a fun straw to make it fancy LOL) and enjoy the video.
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  1489. Dan Davis, best and most productive history channel on youtube.
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  1490. It's these types of videos that convince me of how valuable Youtube can be and I am grateful it exists. Hello from Italy.
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  1491. Excellent video! Such a fascinating, overlooked yet crucial period of human history. The stone and bronze ages are painfully tantalizing because of the sparse or nonexistent records, and Im left with more questions than answers about what the hell was going on. We just cant ever know a lot of it and thats irritating lol.
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  1492. Another amazing and insightful video David, really appreciate the great production quality of your content always looking forward to another upload.
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  1493. St George would not have had stirrups, but is always pictured that way. Stirrups were introduced to the region hundreds of years after his supposed death from Central Asia. And the other heros in the pictures all seem to be on foot. The exception is the flying horse, but notice the lack of stirrups as well. So I guess the horse is an adaptation by the Crusaders.
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  1494. That final warning he gave to parents about their children is eerily similar to Ted Bundy's final interview with James Dobson (a radical right-wing evangelical and psychologist) where he blamed pornography and drugs for being an absolute psychopath before lamenting that other young boys will turn out the same as him if they're not warned off them.
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  1495. Wow how come when history was taught properly in school we never heard of William of Cassingham? That was fascinating Thanku for this fantastic bit of history. I knew about the brilliant William the Marshal and could name all the kings of England + queens and kids when I was reading all the novels of Jean Plaidy I’m 64 now so I’m not so cluey but am still very interested in the history of England, Scotland and Wales. Thanks again. .Tina from Australia 🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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  1496. Smiling Vlad is amazing
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  1497. "Numidian horsemen rode without saddles or bridles, controlling their mounts with a simple rope around their horse's neck and a small riding stick. They had no form of bodily protection except for a round leather shield or a leopard skin, and their main weapon were javelins in addition to a short sword." (Wikipedia) So the technology needed to be effective mounted warriors would certainly have been available to neolithic horse herders. Whether the horses were capable of being used in the style of the numidians is another question and just because something was possible doesn't mean people actually did it, but it seems a lot more likely that early horsemen would have fought primarily with javelins than as shock troops with battleaxes.
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  1498. This is a marvelous synthesis of a huge amount of information from very disparate sources, well done! I'm amazed that you were able to incorporate the two Nature articles that were only published a month before, that help reinforce the "steppe hypothesis" of the origin of Indoeuropean languages, but from a totally different angle - horses!
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  1499. As a history teacher I can say this video was not only well written but very well illustrated. Thank you Dan, for a job very well done.
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  1500. I have a horse who was a wild stallion. I ride with no bit and trained him initially without a saddle. My daughter jumps him bareback and bridleless. The bit is meant to be communication tool, not a control mechanism. It informs the head and shoulders while the legs inform the barrel and hind end.
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  1501. In old Swedish times, on the 13th of December students would mask themselves and go from door to door to get gifts of food and drink. I wonder if that's related to this.
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  1502. I haven't checked out the story yet, but I definitely will. I've been an avid history lover since I was a child. I had never heard of this before. Thanks for giving me something else to study!
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  1503. The Trypillia people burning their houses down to sanitize their communities of pests and diseases is fascinating. Reminds me of how the Romani people religiously took baths with running water. Sometimes we just kind of stumbled on the right answers to staying healthy.
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  1504. Thank you for following up on the Vinca culture!
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  1505. Wow. The consistency of weights is incredible.
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  1506. 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.
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  1507. East-facing dead, red ochre on the head, red ochre on the feet of females - these are still common among Hindus (red ochre indicates non-widowhood).
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  1508. The intro gave me chills. Top work man!
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  1509. I'll never circumnavigate the globe while meeting interesting new people and dabbing on the Spaniards to the point they still seethe centuries on Why live?
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  1510. Thank you for shedding light on the lesser talked about cultures, that are just as amazing as the ones we hear about all the time. :) Please make a video of the Karanovo culture!
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  1511. Wonderful video! I particularly love the many ancient figurines, paintings and other objects you use to illustrate your descriptions.
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  1512. This is an amazing documentary and incredible content! I've been watching almost all of your videos these past few days and learned so much about prehistoric Europe. Thank you! Also, just wanted to mention how the history of these people mirrors the history of Rapa Nui so much (Fall of Civilizations channel). A population boom and bust, then an equilibrium that evolves into a lot of monument building before newcomers discover them and they succumb to disease and conquest.
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  1513. I want to read your books now.
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  1514. Im apart of a traditional African religion and also actively honor my ancestors these things you said are all very much understood by us, almost like a universal science
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  1515. A movie about the Bronze Age Pirates, especially the Sea Peoples, would be super cool. We have buried treasure, plundering, adventures on the high seas, swash buckling action, and the catastrophic and violent end of a prosperous system that kept advanced civilization afloat for many many years, turn to ruin as hordes of savage sea raiders rush in to harken the death of their civilization
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  1516. Superb storytelling, as we’ve come to expect from Dan
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  1517. Make a Video on ancient West asian/North African Peoples 🥺 Greetings fron Kurdistan❤️👏
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  1518. Well done, much enjoyed! Helps me understand the neo-lithic era more clearly....tons of history to be had, but any chance of some finnic, karelia lake ladoga, oesillian ,curonian interpretations? Always digging for more 👌
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  1519. Higher status males not only get more women, their children are more likely to survive. There's also some effect whereby conquered people produce more female offspring which might be a natural protection to lower violence by reducing the pool of males in the conquered population making them less threatening and therefore less likely to be further attacked by the conquering population while at the same time making more women available for the conquerors to produce offspring with quickly increasing the number of people with blood ties to the conquerors.
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  1520. Please do not stop pumping out content. Right up my alley.
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  1521. >Iwn have a bronze age gf Why live 😔
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  1522. Thanks for this video, Dan! It helped fill in some gaps in my understanding of Ötzi. I greatly enjoy your videos and novels.
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  1523. That explains how did George Martin come about his ideas: Kill the boy and let the man be born. What is dead may never die, but rise harder and stronger. It takes a knight to make a knight. Craster sacrificing his boys to the White Walkers of Winter.
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  1524. Sargon "daily ate with his men". considering his humble origins, perhaps his successes came as some sort of populist revolt against a decadent elite? Eating with the common soldiers seems like a strong political statement in that culture.
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  1525. Great stuff, really enjoyed. Love that you clearly research lots of viewpoints, and in a balanced way offer your opinion. This works really well and moves the videos on at a pace and direction that I can follow. Often I find detailed breakdown of all research available results in me getting lost. You do a great job of guiding me through at a pace and level that results in learning loads within digestable chunks. Often after watching I am armed with an understanding that allows me delve into areas of interest. Thank you!!!!
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  1526. Big fan of Richard the Lionheart, sure he was french but that doesn’t matter to me as much as his great achievements. This was a great video!
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  1527. Look for signs of riding in the bones of the riders and any artifacts related to riding. There is a video of the oldest trousers discovered in Kazakhstan and go from there
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  1528. Some months ago you made a video that I commented on. It had made me think about an article I read many years ago about similarities between Bronze Age carvings in Sweden and parts of the eastern Mediterranean. (I cannot remember if Iberia was mentioned in it.) Very interesting subject. In school when I grew up the north was considered an isolated and primitive part on the far outside of the civilized world. Good to see that archeology and history has improved. This was just what I needed on a Monday. It was a real treat watching. Thanks! 🙏🏻
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  1529. Fascinating, particularly the success rate. I had always envisaged trepanation in a Napoleonic shipboard context, per the fine adaptation of Master and Commander. These ancient surgeons are to be respected for mastering the procedure to a large degree. It's so interesting to consider that they may have practised on their livestock in seeking said mastery. Hail to the human spirit of learning eh.
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  1530. This is one of my favorite 'Dark" stories from history.
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  1531. Thanks for the insight on the Terramare people. The bronze age collapse has always fascinated me, learning more about the people's of the time will help greatly paint a picture. Great work as always and very interesting, I just don't understand how you have so few subscribers..Well hopefully we can help the algorithms out with our comments. Once again thanks for the research and hard work. Cheers!
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  1532. Just giving you a heads up, I have bell notifications on, and was not made aware of this video by YouTube.
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  1533. Interesting piece. I've visited Newgrange in Ireland, years ago, and had the privilege of actually walking in the winter solstice chamber. This was several years before they built an incredible visitor center around it. Being if Irish descent, i felt connected.
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  1534. Haven’t got a chance to watch yet, but I love your content. I’m looking forward to it. Thank you. Any plans on doing a series on the Bronze Age Collapse? At least the Mediterranean collapse?
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  1535. It's always a good day when Dan Davis drops a new video!
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  1536. Phenomenal video, Mr. Davis. You knocked it out of the park; the soundtrack was really good in this video also. I am from the Great Lakes region and love the lakes very much, so even though they had nothing to do with European metallurgy, it was still lovely to see them featured.
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  1537. Being from a country where tripillya resided 🙂 super proud to have such ancient roots
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  1538. This was awesome thanks, loving these bronze age videos. Its my favorite time in history and you tell a great story. I know you are an author and will hate to hear this but, I rarely read. Personally, I like listening. I learn better through watching and listening. Always have and I'm now 42 so I wanted to say thank you. I appreciate what you do and always look forward to your vids. Cheers from Seattle Dan.
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  1539. Woo! Perfect timing.. another awesome history video!! Thank you Dan!! You’re awesome!
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  1540.  @DanDavisHistory  I wonder about a connection with the Etruscan type inscriptions from Lemnos. Perhaps the Teramare folk were Etruscans who settled in Asia Minor and then migrated back to Italy.
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  1541. OH WOW !. One of the very first books I ever picked up and read right through by myself was about Drake. That was something like 53 years ago. :) I had a dictionary by my hand, and probably spent as much time reading that, and learning new words, as I did reading the narrative.
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  1542. Interesting video, thanks for posting. If plague really did wipe out the Neolithic population (which as you state could be one factor among many, and an unlikely one) then the situation in Neolithic Europe would've been similar to the one in Mesoamerica in the 16th century. It seems that diseases brought by the Spanish had travelled ahead of them, so that when the Conquistadors arrived in certain areas the population had already been decimated or completely wiped out by disease.
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  1543. Walter Raleigh next?
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  1544. Fantastic Dan really enjoy your content , could listen for hour's thanks for your work. History could not be made more enjoyable.
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  1545. I just recently found your channel, but I'm very happy I did. Very interesting content, and certainly generates my interest in your novels!
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  1546. Clicked so fast on this one. I've been loving your videos.
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  1547. your narrative style is just the best. if you ever end up researching and writing about gobekli tepe and surrounding culture, that would be so fab
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  1548. 33:10 - "Do you know who this is?" I sure do. That is Maj. Richard Winters, commanding officer of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Another Richard who had the love of the soldiers under him.
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  1549. I was entirely absorbed. Before you venture south, though, is there anything of note about the ancestors of modern Finlanders? Asking for a friend ... 🤭
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  1550. That was really interesting Dan, I even got goosebumps a few times! Very good story telling on your part😊
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  1551. I love hearing detailed information about lesser known cultures, and your videos are always a great way to learn. Lots of good information with a wonderful presentation.
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  1552. Excellent! Thank you Dan! Off subject: I did enjoy the pictures of the three sided flint arrowheads, because one of the best flint knappers in North America has made reproductions of those points and was explaining how difficult they were to make. He let me examine them-I was honored to touch them (like some farmer wanting to trade mead for martin furs) And he thought the three sided points were early Armor piercing points (bodkin). Personally I did not agree (because what armor?) until I began to read about the warlike step cultures. But perhaps the unique arrowhead shape was not armor piercing but actually used by the "Seal People" for punching through a seal, -and maybe once used on of those milk guzzling invaders dressed in heavy winter clothes. However the funny part (to me) in relationship to your video, is that the master knapper is of Norwegian or Swedish ancestry, his name is very difficult to pronounce and has the classic scandi blond hair blue eyes. (a retired dentist from San Antonio) And is very proud of those arrowheads-as he should be.
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  1553. Definitely interested in Bronze Age age armor! Although I've never been into the Aesthetics of bronze age armor I'd definitely be keen to learn more of it's origins and varieties. Also, amazing videos and thanks for making them so interesting💪🏻
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  1554. Considering how arrows take time and material to manufacture it's common to keep your arrows as long as possible. I think removal from the body was an act of practicality rather than hiding evidence.
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  1555. Enjoying your videos a lot. I did a DNA test about 10 years ago with results saying I descend from the CWC. Love seeing how you pull all of this together 🙂👍
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  1556. Very cool, I’ve read an academia paper on this before hand regarding this very link. Many still worship Indra (mostly in India) to this day :)
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  1557. I used to have romantic ideas about living like they did in the past. That was until I started watching this channel. It was brutal back then!
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  1558. Man that was one bass ass group of monks!!! Not soldiers, diplomates or traders but a bunch of old freaking monks went on one of the most epic diplomatic missions/adventures ever. This journey needs to be a mini-series. This journey blows Marco Polo AWAY.
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  1559. Fantastic videos, covering the bronze age peoples of Europe. I like it a lot!
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  1560. Excellent work as always. Voted Neolithic in your recent poll and this was just what I hoped for. Love the long form too! The last five minutes of this are chilling (but only if you put in the full 48 min so don’t cheat yourselves people). Side note, I sure hope your agent is beating down Joe Rogan’s door. You’d be the perfect guest and your stuff is too good not to be exposed to a broader audience.
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  1561. Great stuff, my man!
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  1562. I would love to have a genuine European stone axe
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  1563. Don't know why I hadn't subscribed, yet. Yours is literally a household name in my home, because wifey and I share overlapping interests, here. Thanks for the content.
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  1564. Dude this is fantastic.... just listening to this makes me feel connected to my ancestral forbearers in a way I’m not sure I’ve ever experienced to quite the same degree. Like some ancient blue-faced, wild haired, howling warrior covered in wolf hides and invincibly protected by the armor of tradition and history that I think we, as a people, have come far too close to completely forgetting, is right here with me as I write this. Real. Tangible. Eternal. Thank you, dude. I did not expect this at all.
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  1565. What a badass. So sad he is so little known
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  1566. One surprising place where you can find this mythological connection today is Hindu astrology, where the south node of the moon represents both dogs and liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth (aka the final death). You can also find a more humorous reincarnation of this myth in Pluto, the cartoon dog named after the god of death. And let's not forget Anubis... planning any books about a Chukchi visiting the the Egyptian rainforest of 6000 BC?
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  1567. 15:10 You did well to show the paper of the DNA analysis of genetic variants linked to the color of Otzi's eyes. There are nuances that a reconstruction cannot capture, on the color of the skin, hair and eyes, and even of the overall face (soft tissues > "Soft tissues are the tissues that hold the skeleton and organs together, such as muscle, fat and tendons") In the paper you quote it says: “Individuals who shared Iceman haplotypes had blue eyes in less than 5% of cases, 40% had green or more hazel eyes, while 55.7% of individuals had brown eyes”” But they have nevertheless voluntarily decided to give him "brown" eyes (visually black to be honest), even if 40% of people who share his genetic variants displayed green to hazel eyes, and even some at -5% blue eyes... So it's a choice at this level: they decided to take the highest percentage ("brown at 55.7%), but to leave out +- 45% remaining... I'm not saying that this choice is wrong, but it was perhaps not realistic and this is the essential point: sometimes it comes down to probability. Here the probability for the blue eye color is low, but for the green to hazel color is quite significant (40%!!!), which means that he had at least a good probability that he didn't have "brown" eyes (in truth, close to black, so black visually speaking for the human eyes). The reconstruction of the pigmentation of a former individual is sometimes based on probabilities, but some people with an agenda have tried to pass off "mixed" probabilities (here 40% "other" versus 55% "brown/dark brown/black) for high reliability. People might say "come on man, they based the prediction on the highest eye color probability, that's it" Yes, but 55% is not that high, because there are 40 (and even 45) green or hazel eyes.... It's almost Half-half lol For example, if you take my mother (who is half Sardinian and French, by the way): she has light hazel eyes, but analyzing a few SNPs related to her eye color, we could probably make the same prediction pigmentation than with Otzi: -5% blue eyes, 40% green or hazel eyes, 55% brown/black eyes So if we try to follow the "largest percentage" model, then we would have to say that she is likely to have brown or black eyes, but the reality is that she has light hazel eyes... 40 % is significant, so taking the highest percentage as a basis for asserting iris color is sometimes unrealistic, as it obscures other significant percentages. We can check my mother's iris color, however Otzi died centuries ago, so we can't, so the iris pigmentation prediction model isn't bad, it's just the interpretation that is made of it which is sometimes bad, even misleading (because ideology). The wrong interpretation is to think that a reconstruction of an individual (Otzi) exposing with visually black eyes is based on a DNA analysis which shows a "high probability" close to 100%... If we look at the DNA paper for Obtzi... it's not close at all (we see that 40% of people who share his genetic variants linked to iris color have green to hazel eyes) Same thing hair and other.
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  1568. The connection to the Roman Velites is uncanny and pretty awesome. Good stuff.
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  1569. Another gem! Always enjoy your stories to learn. Thanks once again for sharing, appreciate it a lot! Greets from the Netherlands 🌷🇳🇱, T.
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  1570. Thank you for letting people know about our oppressed civilization. I also photograph the effects of that civilization and publish it. My love for you from Iraq
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  1571. Fascinating video and extremly well done. I've always had a "soft spot" for the not so well known Nuragic civilisation. It's always hard to get some trustworthy information about it. So thank you for an excellent program.
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  1572. Absolutely fascinating, well chronicled and narrated.
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  1573. Really great work Dan!!! The neolithic its one of my favorite subjects in history, and there is still some many mysteries yet to be discovered about this time.
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  1574. "Iron Age Britains" aka Celts. Well done Dan as usual, I find all of this so fascinating especially the horse genetics, as a passionate horse lover who grew up on a ranch trying to breed the best ranch horses we could. I wonder if proto Indo-Europeans consumption of horse milk and our ability to tolerate lactose even as adults is related?
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  1575. Who here actually reads the books?
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  1576. Excellent video, the little humorous touches were excellent (smiling Vlad, Mr Handsome). I think too much of that would potentially detract but just a couple of little ones here and there, like that, are just the mustard.
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  1577. I appreciated the video. Recover some Indo Values would be marvelous, I have been studying more about some Ancient Indo european religions and their similarities, how they assimilated the non Indo european gods into their pantheon. Lightning deities worshipped as the highest makes sense d due to their ancient geography on the grasslands, some elements were more noticed, for instance the rain and the sky more noticed in the opened fields. The Greeks attributed some non Indo european features to the highest deities.
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  1578. Dan you've got a cool voice and awesome content. Thank you sir love from Colorado USA
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  1579. "Everyone wants their own special civilisation to be first" you can say that again lol, Serbs, Indians, Afrocentrists, British Israelites, you name a nation and there will be a movement there explaining why they're the inheritors of the people who invented civilisation
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  1580. I remember reading a article in a Norwegian newspaper about the Wild Hunt and it's connections to Black Metal. It mentioned the dressing in all black, the shrill singing, painting the face with gypsum and ash, brandishing swords, hammers and maces and spiting fire. I can definitely see how a kid into metal would think this looks cool and decide to copy the look for his band.
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  1581. I am a voice actor by trade and I have to say I very much enjoy your narrations!
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  1582. Excellent video! Accurate, interesting, easy to understand, quick, and to the point! Keep it up!
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  1583. This should be a good one
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  1584. This channel makes presentations that are so incredible they defy expectations in every way.. it reaches a place that’s oddly both emotional and intellectual.. it’s just SO GOOD.. ..you are compelled to rewatch all of them..
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  1585. Thanks for all the work you put into your content. It's one of my most anticipated subs here, and I hope you continue to produce.
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  1586. Can you tell us about the Seima-Turbino Phenomenom? They were the paternal ancestors of Finns, Hungarians, Estonians and the Sami people. They were the true Fingols, behind the meme of Fingolia. Supposedly they were contemporary to the Andronovo people. As another tie-in to this video, there's a paper by Asko Parpola pointing out correspondences in language and religion between these peoples. For example, the chief god of the Vedic religion is Indra and not some permutation of the more common Indo-European Perkwunos. Indra would seem to correspond to Finnish Ilmarinen and Inmar, the chief god of the Udmurt people in Russia.
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  1587. Those figurines are amazing! And thank you for not talking about ancient aliens. 🙄
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  1588. Brilliant. As a “Kentish Man” this is new to me. Now I have a new Hero, in history and in historical video publishing.
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  1589. This was a very in depth retelling of the story of Vlad Tepes, I hope you will make a video on Michael the Brave and Stephan the Great. Best wishes
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  1590. This was a FANTASTIC presentation. I had some personal interest in Cucteni-Trypillian culture for a while, but now I have motivation to read some of the Western authors on the topic! Thanks!
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  1591. This is a masterpiece that is better than anything on television. Thank you.
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  1592. An enjoyable lunchtime video. A great video about the Amesbury Archer. Thanks Dan.
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  1593. In Serbia, we often call wolf/wolfs, "kurjak/kurjaci", and a dog- "ker". Also "kuražan" means brave, like courage in english. "Kur" also have connections with male sexual organs...
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  1594. What sources were used to gather such specific information on the koryos and other proto indo-european practices? I didn't think there were any written sources about them from this time period.
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  1595. Another good one, mate. 👊🏻 Never heard of this bloke before.
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  1596. Is there a posibility that the myth did happen in many cultures separated from one another as a logical conection ancient humans made between guard dogs in the human realm and ones in the underworld?
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  1597. Thank you for this very intriguing video about women in the bronze age! I particularly liked the part about the Saffron Cult.
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  1598. I’ve always felt that one of the greatest acts of loyalty & courage shown by William was in his agreeing to take the holy pilgrimage on behalf of his deceased master. In those days, the odds of dying (from disease, at the hands of bandits, or during a regular outbreak of war with the Muslims) were greater than surviving—and returning—from pilgrimage….
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  1599. New to your channel. I LOVE that you include DNA evidence.
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  1600. Just a hypothesis, but do you think the thickening of helmets and liners could be in response to the development of siege ware/tactics and or pikes
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  1601. Hair styles are timeless and are powerfully full of meaning and status
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  1602. I always wonder who murdered Ötzi and why. It was obviously not a robbery because he had all of his belongings. And the retrieval of the arrow makes me think it was a very intentional killing. Had Ötzi wronged someone or was he a victim of random violence? Unfortunately we will probably never know what really happened that day.
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  1603. Looking forward to all the Graham Hancock fans to start crawling out of the woodwork to claim that some old Ancient Aliens writer's vacation photos hold more academic weight than decades of intense archaeological and geological study. Thanks for the great documentary. Hope the comments don't devolve too quickly.
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  1604. Finally! After literal years the YouTube algorithm suggested something I actually WANTED to watch and was very entertaining! Subscribed I'm binging all your videos now!
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  1605. I wholeheartedly agree.
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  1606. Same here
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  1607. Sir Dan, you have a new subscriber from South Africa. I know so little about European history and I strongly suspect that I'm now going down the rabbit hole with you. Thank you for an interesting video.
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  1608. Might be my favorite of your videos. What an odyssey for an insular monk to embark upon.
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  1609. This should be made into a well-funded film series.
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  1610.  @DanDavisHistory  Graham Hancock insisted that simply because of the purity of the copper it had to come from the Keweenaw peninsula of Michigan. Studies however indicate that the copper in the shipwreck is identical to Cyprian copper. This "Michigan copper in the Mediterranean??" is the title on a reddit page Ask the Historians. Some papers are noted a unnamed one from 2002 which Hancock pointed too and another Monroe, C. (2010). Sunk Costs at Late Bronze Age Uluburun. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, (357), 19-33. which pretty much comes to this conclusion and I quote "in Monroe (2010) there was isotope analysis done to the ingots and they are consistent with copper production from Cyprus, considered to be a significant source of bronze-age ore production. "
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  1611. Excellent use of stock footage
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  1612.  @averagewoman6962  Having ridden bareback extensively, I agree that riding atop the shoulder blades or the hips is the most comfortable. Its fine when the horse is walking or galloping, but at a canter it feels like you're bouncing on a saw blade. It's also easier to dismount from these positions if the horse runs into the undergrowth. From the shoulders you can throw your arms around the neck and side down the side even at a gallop, while from the back you can simply vault yourself off like playing backwards leapfrog. If you're riding a small horse, like most early horses would have been, there isn't even a drop since your feet are already almost touching the ground. You only have to make sure you're running when your feet hit the ground.
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  1613. Great! A new upload!
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  1614. Thank you so much again for an excellent overview. Some of the rock art shown tells you where images of the devil and demons came from. Horned combat helmets depicted seem small enough to be worn safely. Many medieval knights had huge complex crests for display frequently made from papier-mâché so very light and easily discarded or safely lost in jousting. There is speculation that the disk worn between the horns on some Shardana meant they were Egyptian allies. It always intrigues me how closely the Odyssey fits into that time period and invasion of Egypt. Also horns as such are frequently related to the rays of the sun the symbology being gradually lost or transformed. Thank you again
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  1615. My theory is that someone kill a crocodile and everyone around was like: "He must be a saint"
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  1616. Excellent production and info. Thanks! And yes to more info on William of cassingham
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  1617. YES! More Dan Davis History, this channels videos are some of the best!
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  1618. Cornwall should have been an empire in the Bronze Age with their tin.
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  1619. Loved it, Food is such a huge part of life. Im very interested in native plants and how we 'forgot' to use them over the ages.
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  1620. The Weald is still there my friend as are people such as myself whos family's have lived there for generations. there are still wild boar in the woods and today we have 80 percent of England's ancient wood lands and we still remember wilikin.
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  1621. Either this is an incredibly interesting topic that I've never found before, or your low-key presentation puts forward so well what we can discover & what we can't know (or at least with certainty). Or, most likely, both. Thank you.
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  1622. We still use this shape today... in wood splitting mauls. I wonder if that rounded back side, was used for whacking with a wooden mallet, to split the logs they were using for... everything. Use on people, it seems from the evidence, was incidental. It would be interesting to read that paper about the surface analysis. Anyone have the link?
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  1623. This channel is so underrated
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  1624. no one need space alien giants from the planet zard as ancestors and a substitute for ancient history. Reality, though more complex, is far more interesting than a comic book history.
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  1625. This is fascinating. Came across it while looking for information on medieval jousting. I didn't realize that the practice of riding horses can be traced back to about 2 or 3 thousand years ago. That's practically a recent development.
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  1626. It is something how many military innovations came from the steppes. Thank you for this great video. A good follow-up could be about the Mitanni, who took chariotry to the aristocracy, with their Maryannu caste being akin to Bronze Age knights.
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  1627. Of course the mullet is all that remained, lol.
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  1628. Just some thoughts. I thought your general overall depiction of this and other groups you've portrayed as probably as 'rea'l as I have seen by those attempting to capture the character of those times. I beleive the biggest point you are articulating generally is the ethic of ethnic tribalism where there is very little mixing of ancient super-tribes and this I beleive you have done wholly on the indisputable evidence of the DNA demographics. I would encourage you to stick to your guns :-) as this view of man conflicts with a tsunami of popular culture world views that have a rose tinted bon hommè view of sweet mankind. The gross replacement of one super tribe by another visible in the big DNA picture speaks of a cultural ruthlessness that we know existed. We need to be careful not to water this down at the less DNAable (new word?) local level. The world of trade I beleive is more likely to have existed within super-family related groups than some of the more imaginative inter-sper tribe bartering portrayed by many. Fundamentally, we in the West are prone to dressing up pre-history in the irenic clothes of our contemporary Judeo-Christian-underpinned culture. Survival of the fittest in Europe was slowly replaced from around 2000 years ago by a different belief system that bore the values and pillars of traditional Western culture namely; fear free learning, fear free justice, fear free care systems manifesting in the libearal deocracy, education and care systems in place in the West. We in the West have largely been brought up in this fear free environment but, I beleive, if we dont introspectively recognise this we will make the mistake of assuming other cultures, both ancient and modern, lived in a similarly blessed and harmonic way. Your U-tube clips therefore are I beleive more holistically accurate. Please dont dumb down the big message you are putting across because of the PC of those living within the Christian-Judeo bubble who are unappreciative of the blessing they are living under :-) Keep the good work up Sunbeam!
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  1629. It's interesting that you say the megalithic people were wiped out by the incoming Bell Beaker culture. That's largely true. After that collision the population was about 90% Bell Beaker and 10% megalithic/near eastern farmer ancestry. This happens to be about the same proportion of Yayoi ancestry to Jomon ancestry in the modern Japanese people. Yet the way it is reported in Japan is that the Japanese are a hybrid between the Yayoi and Jomon people. So that 10% Jomon ancestry clearly matters there. We should also remember that while only 10% ancestry remained from the megalithic/farmers living in the British Isles the incoming people also had significant ancestry from similar megalithic/farming people from the mainland.
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  1630. Contemporary to the Danube Vinca culture. Good clip!
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  1631. Our history is in our DNA. And we are just learning how to read it.
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  1632. dan davis never misses...
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  1633. Brilliant and insane war leader. The level of blood lust, drive ambition by this man is another level
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  1634. The superficial manifestations of the Warrior have changed over the millenia, but men of this core live still. Loners, devoted to the Art of War and the Warrior ethos, tend to not interact well with those who don't adhere to the same code ("bully", can't adhere to civil society social norms)... I present as Exhibit A George Patton. There are plenty more if one just looks hard enough. It's baked into the cake of humanity.
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  1635. Reading Godborn, book one now and I am enjoying. Love the videos as well.
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  1636. I had a very bizarre lucid dream where I dressed someone like a deer. I swear I'm not a psychopath or whatever but maybe there's something deep down in my psyche that remembers the Ice Age.
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  1637. Thanks Dan I'm going to lie in my nest with a cup of lyons tea and A smoke and learn a bit of history. A small things do count. Great work and love you narrating.
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  1638. Nice work. On the subject of copper, Ötzi the Iceman, who was apparently involved in copper production or trade, would be good subject.
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  1639. If I was Spanish, I would be grateful to you for such a rousing tale about one of my people's heroes. That was very interesting.
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  1640. You made my Sunday! Like always, brilliant, thank you.
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  1641. Very interesting theories...maybe the pitted ware culture and the funnel beaker wars/fights are the ancient stories the vikings talk about. And this can be why the north-west germanic tribes developed a god pantheon including nature gods...Like Frey and Frigg, Nerthus and Baldr. Gods who favor rebirth and growth.
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  1642. Can't wait for a weights video!
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  1643. This is going to be awesome !
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  1644. Very intriguing look at the Bronze Age copper trade and mining. Clearly there was massive commerce in copper and bronze in the ancient world.
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  1645. Just wanted to tell you your videos are phenomenal. I kinda got a glimpse of this in modern day being the only female out of 8 male cousins. Growing up in rural area, whose parents were like get outside and play and don't come back until dark. Have to say a wild wolf pack was fairly accurate with them lol
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  1646. Plamena commented earlier in regards to how people in the Balkans still dance in circles to this day, very cool to hear. I thought of ancient Southern European traditions in regards to the figurines. The household gods (often familial ancestors) were called Penates, they were kept in Roman homes. It is what the Aeneid claims that Aeneas took with his father when they fled from Troy as it was burning. Ancient and modern Mediterraneans are the closest genetically to the Neolithic farmers. Arguably the best insight into their culture would be what we know about ancient Southern European culture. Even the multigenerational communal housing in one big home or block like complexes has me thinking about Italy and Greece.
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  1647. Loved this one, makes the imagination flee.
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  1648.  @DanDavisHistory  No worries! The Bronze Age isn't my area of specialism but this seemed pretty good to me. My understanding is that there's a lot of argument between scholars about just how much influence Mesopotamian cultures had on the Maikop Culture, and archaeologists have been arguing about this since the 1890s when Veselovskii first published his results. But what you say is certainly a position lots of archaeologists have argued for. If you're interested in the Bronze Age Caucasus, there is a seminar tomorrow on cool rock art from Azerbaijan: you can register for it at https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsdO-vrjMtGtZ-ZIr3zSNKL622JtKWL82X . You're also absolutely right about how complicated the evidence from the Caucasus is! I study the medieval period and even then there are massive questions about really basic things like how people defined ethnic identity.
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  1649. This is one of the hardest topic there is beacuse the sources to study it are basically none existing. Anyone who tries to study it deserves respect and free visit with a psychiatrist. What I myself found rather usefull when writing my own story was sort of cross referencing method. For example, when writing about Nordic Bronze Age culture I used informations about more primitive cultures that we know of, for example, famous Zulu's bull head tactics, native american and viking "raids" and celtic and greek writings about "planned battles" where kings/chiefs would chose battlefield, decide limit of warriors in said battle and establish order of battle. During my archeology class in college I have learned that close to 300 bronze swords, couple copper/bronze shields and many axes have been found in scandinavia. Now I am not saying that sword was very common weapon in 1700-500 bc, but the fact alone that there have been close to 300 bronze swords found and buried with owners suggest that the Nordic people prefered the sword and shield as their main choice weapon since so many people had them that we found over a hundred of them. That suggest the scandinavian people were alway more into typical mano a mano, you vs me, see who is bigger champion, rather than collective way of thinking akin to romans or greeks. As for the Bell Breaker culture, I had an entire class focused on their topic so I know a little bit but in short I would say that they were originally iberian warriors who adopted/invented more nomadic/horse archery form of combat like native american and mongolian tribes rather than close quarters what allowed them to spread so far and introduce Metallurgy in territories from Spain to today's russia. We have also spent some time talking about battle at Tollense and looking at how many bodies of men and women were seen on the battlefield we came to a conclusion it was an ambush. Most likely large celtic merchant or migrating group traveled eastwards to create new tribe in the east and they were most likely attacked by local Nordic culture raiders or agressive tribe. The battle went more less like this. A convoy of sort was attacked when crossing the river from north and east (read back and side) what forced them to retreat futher south, going along the river, animal bones suggest that at least one group used horse riding warriors as guardians, most likely the celts, at least 5 of them were killed judging by the horse skeletons. When the nords defeated the guards, they followed the non combatans . After the main guarding force was killed the remaining troops were retreating alongisde the river to protect the non combatans and were being slowly finished off what explains why bodies are so dense in one place and scattered in other places. Now, if we are to be "historian" about it, the two female skeletons found on the battlefiel belonged to two women who resist being captured and were killed by bandits, and if we want to be "fantasy" about it they were warriors, what based on the wounds and damage they suffered is pretty likely, maybe they were both celts, or maybe were both nords or maybe one was celt and other nords? we will never know. This theory was supported by the facts the there was no burial mounds and that the bodies were just left lyign where they fell and stipped of all belonging, what suggest it was not honorable battle between clans but most likely attack of bandits who stripped bodies of the fallen warriors and taken the captured people as slaves. This may not be as epic as the idea of large battle where two armies 2000 warriors strong met on battlefield to end a war, but at the same time it tells us that people could travel in much larger groups than we thought, and that even something as ordinary as bandits could have force of 1000-2000 thousands warriors, what may suggest that real battles between tribes could be even larger in scale, or involve entire coalitions of tribes and clans, just like in Mesopotamia wars were being waged by coalitions of cities and settlements who later were becoming empires. Hope that was somehow helpful for anyone who wanted to knwo anything more, the video was also very helpful, I have never before heard about the trepanation I will have to look it up somewhere later. Good luck with your researchs and book writings.
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  1650. Grateful & thrilled that you’re touching on this region’s history! Such a treat! Outstanding and engaging work as always, Mr. Davis; cheers P.S. I have read that at one time, Sumerian’s classification as Indo-European was considered rock-solid. Obviously that’s not the case nowadays; however, some linguists still believe that there is a stratum layer of Indo-European somewhere in Sumerian. What do you make of their ethno-linguistic origins, and what relations may they have had with the IEs?
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  1651. I loved this. I learned more about drake than I did at school!
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  1652. id love to know why he was actually killed. was it random? did they take something he had? were they following him? i am glad to know he died quicky, and did not suffer too long.
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  1653. Dan you’re awesome! Thanks for creating such a detailed and well-researched documentary. Well done!
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  1654. Hedgehog wearing some lovely mushrooms - priceless. Thanks for this video. It fires the imagination to think about being a Mesolithic or Neolithic Briton.
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  1655. It’s possibly not a coincidence that those stone axes were found more on the east coast than anywhere else, because this is closer to Sweden where the “Battle Axe” culture took place. Perhaps cultural exchange is responsible. It’s my impression that the inhabitants of Sweden and Britain at this time were very closely related.
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  1656. Good historical points there. I come from Plymouth and we were taught all about Drake and his exploits a local boy made good. Even today the Spanish do not like him and trying to change history and even his name.
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  1657. I will deff. call all Southern mates of mine "Frenchies"..with history as a backup :))
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  1658. It's interesting to think how Drake would be remembered if instead of dieing during a failed campaign in the far off Spaish Main he had died on the deck on his flagship at Gravelines saving England, like Nelson at Trafalger.
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  1659. Harold Godwinson, take note! I always tend against great man theory of history and towards a more systemic attitude. But Godwinson's decision to rush to Hastings is one of those moments were I believe that a singe decision made pivotal difference in world history.
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  1660. Alot of ancient settlements look like they were abandoned because of disease.
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  1661. Great ! I was so pumped the first time i hear about this culture
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  1662. I wonder how far back that tradition goes?... Deep into the long, long ago, I suspect.
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  1663. Short horns on the archers brings two things to mind for me. It could be a stealth feature for ranged attacks or it could be that you earned bigger horns for a more honorable hand to hand kill over the ranged attack. I lean towards the second interpretation though. I can see how using the big horn to incentivize courageous fighting would be helpful to warring tribes.
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  1664. Looking great! It’s always a good day when Dan puts out another video!
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  1665. You could carry on talking about different events that take place in your books such as the Hundred Years’ War, Third crusade etc. There aren’t any YouTube channels with any good videos on The Hundred Years’ War tbh.
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  1666. 19:45 this right here makes me want to think that one of the groups was fleeing over large distances from a superior force pillaging the region, and that they got caught at the river and were forced to fight.
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  1667. Of course, I clicked on this video because I wanted to know more about the historical figure upon which the Fate/Zero character, Caster, was based, but what an excellent video! Liked and subbed, can’t wait to see more!
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  1668. Perhaps the larger beings being attacked by singular individuals represent the Thurs? Or Jotun of later Medieval Viking mythos?
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  1669. The funny thing is that we have some cave paints with spears in hand, I'd bet that this is a far older evidence than in Mesoptamia. Plus the idea that you can herding horses without riding it's symply redicoulus because the horses are born runners not like sheep, goat or cows.
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  1670. I've never heard about that narrative. All evidence points to both warfare and trading. And, when there is mass migration, there is usually mixing of the invading culture with the invaded one. Maybe you're watching the wrong documentaries.
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  1671. I really like your bronze age videos. I was meaning to ask you if you are familiar with the Varna Culture and Today when I returned home I see you uploaded this gem. Nice.
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  1672. Thank you for posting this and clarifying fact from fiction with Richard. I’ve always liked him but didn’t know nearly this much about him
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  1673. If only I had watched this video a few days ago. Herxheim was the bonus question in my early history archaeology exam
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  1674. Had a DNA test done recently and, despite my family being in America for around 500 years, I'm still 60% English, 20% Scottish, with the rest split between Germanic, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia. Highly recommend getting this done by a reputable organization, as mentioned by Mr. Davis...and no, I had mine done by a different site, so I'm not trolling. 😊
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  1675. Ancient riders probably rode on the back side of the horse because horses spine wasn't adapted to heavy loads in the middle. Even modern horses have a lot of spine problems, even with modern saddles
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  1676. Great video! Appreciate the depth and detail you go into discussing the individual armor components and regional styles
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  1677. The skeletons of Bronze Age copper miners near Barcelona were found with much damage caused by chronic repetitive hard work. Some were also found to have fragments of opium poppy seed capsules lodged between their teeth. Presumably, they needed the pain relief to carry on working.
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  1678. We've a legend in Ireland, Setanta, the boy, killed the guard dog of Culainn , so took the duties of the dog in its stead. From then he was known as Cú Chulainn, (Culainns Hound) the Hound of Ulster. Edit Read another thing there. Apparently Cú Chulainn had a couple of specific "geis" which are "taboos". One was never to refuse hospitality and the second was never to eat dog meat.
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  1679. I used to be a bronze worker in a sculpture foundry. The whole no-steel-tools thing is indeed incredible. Tappity, tap, tap goes the stone hammer!
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  1680. I noticed the pic of Daniel Craig from Sharpe when you mentioned the Redcoats, a man of culture I see :)
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  1681. The most mysterious periods of time, that I've only recently heard of, and you write novels based in them with your knowledge of the workings of these cultures. Sounds at least as interesting as Fatherland, and I will give it a look. Great Video, and thank you.
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  1682. You, Toldinstone, and Thersites the historian are my history Youtube holy trinity. Happy new year.
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  1683. Displaying good health and vitality is something you see all the time in nature and the Human animal is no different. Presenting our best selves to potential rivals and mates is timeless.
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  1684. Should be noted that the late chariots of the insular celts (Britons and Hibernians) were not the antiquated chariots of the bronze age that were abandoned by most of the world, rather they were an updated form that were much lighter and easier to manoeuvre. Still, it was on the decline as standard cavalry was more effective, and probably only remained as symbol of prestige
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  1685. Wow . That’s my County , Moldova ! Thank you for your video . Love it 💙💛❤️
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  1686. Just wonderful video of high historical quality. It is very difficult to find a really good material for Corded Ware culture and its descendants, especially about Sintashta culture (the "mother" of Indo-Aryans)... I've never seen such intersting videos made with a soul and deep knowledge. Thanx a lot!!!
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  1687. In the '80s my grand-parents still had an oven exactly like min 5:27 in OLT department, near Danube river in DACIA(actually Romania).
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  1688. I've been waiting to get around to this all day with bated breath. Great video as always, Mr. Davis. Cheers!
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  1689. Great vid as usual - I always look forward to the Bronze Age docs more than the others. I wonder if a short doc on bronze age medical practices might be interesting.
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  1690. Is it possible that metal clubs became symbols of leadership or kingship for peoples, eventually leading to the royal sceptre? The way the skeleton cradles the club is the same as a medieval king holding a sceptre
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  1691. Wooohoop had to comment before watching. So excited to have a Sunday (Pacific Northwest here) morning episode. Grabbing coffee and off to sit outside with my bees and listen to this one. Cheers.
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  1692. Outstanding day! New content from Dan. Keep up the good work! Thank you for all your hard work; I can only imagine how much time it takes to make your excellent, educational presentations.
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  1693. You got that right. Not only do I find the videos interesting, I usually learn something as well.
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  1694. It has been suggested that the replacement of the black rat (rattus rattus) which harbored the flea species that carry Yesinia Pestis by the larger and more aggressive brown rat (rattus norvicus) that harbors different flea species that don't carry the plague pathogen had some effect on the reduction of the plague in Europe.
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  1695. Always waiting for Dans latest video. This channel is such a gem. Good work and keep it up!
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  1696. 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.
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  1697. Hi Dan - I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for your great content, I really appreciate it! The bronze age is the epoch when our modern world started to form, in its best and worst aspects. Sometimes I think that I'm suffering what one could call "epoch dysphoria" - the wish to have lived in another time when the world was "more magical" and everything was meaningful, when a voyage of one hundred kilometers was a (potentially life-threatening) adventure but there were also no borders and you could be in the wilderness for weeks without finding any hint of other humans. But I'm also not naive and aware that it is easy to romanticise these times from our modern perspective, times when families died of starvation because the winter was a little longer than expected, a man of 40 years was considered old and women were considered legitimate loot in warfare. People were more free and less free as we are today at the same time. Strange.
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  1698. Another excellent video. Thank you for doing this!
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  1699. Very interesting. I'm Swedish and have seen some of these boat petroglyphs "in the flesh." You provided a level of realism and context I have not seen before. Thanks much!
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  1700. The life of Dracula forces us to once again consider the ages old question about leadership: If force has not produced your desired results, have you used too little or too much? Vlad himself, it seems, was prone to assume too little. Increasingly brutal acts surely worked to his favor in the short term, but alao made enemies of those he needed most. A soldier who died as he lived, without ever knowing lasting peace or prosperity, forced above all this to go without knowing the answer to that question. And are we any better off, having read the tale of his life? His cruelty did not lead to lasting success as a ruler, and yet it is by that cruelty that his name is known and feared among people around the world centuries later. So perhaps it depends on what you wish to achieve. ...actually a pretty easy answer. Hm. Wish I'd thought of that before impaling 20,000 people.
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  1701. Great video,thanks a bunch Can you tell me the evidence that Poitou and Henriet were tortured, or why you say they weren't? Is it just asserted by these people with absolutely no evidence? Or even just the sources that I can look it up myself Thanks in advance Best wishes,be safe and be well It's mostly to understand the case we'll enough to argue it with the morons maintaining he was certainly innocent
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  1702. Much impressed by the extensive research behind this video. The visual material is amazing.
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  1703. I always thought that was a long way to go for something they already had in the first place.
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  1704. In my university years I analyzed copper slags from the Alpine Region. Excellent video (again).
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  1705. Fantastic video. Man's relationship with the horse rivals that of the dog. It's amazing to think that calvary was s dominant part of warfare for 2500-3000 years. I also wondered as I watched if Tolkien should have had the Rohirrim in chariots.
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  1706. Damn Epic, Dan!
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  1707. Very interesting narrative of bronze age Yamnaya young men. This is more than likely how R1B and step culture spread eventually into Western Europe. I believe the British Isles and Atlantic cultures remained isolate for a time allowing Celtic culture to actually develop first in the west and not the east. Though thier male founders being R1B "Indo European " with very little influence from other male sources of other halogrops were still today Western Europeans have the highest percentage of the step halogrop. Celtic culture then went through an expansion period rapidly increasing trade and settlements further into "Gaul" , Central and Southern Europe by use of wagon and Rivers. At the same time they were trading up and down the Atlantic coast from Iberia to Scotland. As you stated before R1B (Yamnaya Halogrop) was already dominant in the British Ises within the Celtic culture so when Vikings, Saxons, Anglos, Jutes, Friesians and Norman's invaded and/or settled they just increased this step Ancestry mostly thru the male lines. Also though Roman soilders were not all Italian and from all over the Empire carrying many halogrops many did indeed also carry R1B. My ancestors came almost exclusively from the British Isles though I'm a 9th generation American. I'm roughly about half English and Scots . My fathers halogrop R1b (Plumley) my mother's Montgomery halogrop interesting is actually J2 .
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  1708. Excellent coverage , never heard of this battle and I have read a lot of ancient history. Thank you for enlightening myself. Keep up the good work.
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  1709.  @DanDavisHistory  I would not mind if your videos were even longer. Just take the time you need to tell what you feel is relevant :)
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  1710. Absolutely stunning document. I'm history lover from Czech republic and i appreciate that. Thank you! 👏
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  1711. Yes, Yersinia pestis is a driving force behind our history. Great video!
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  1712. Another intriguing piece of content. As we’ve come to expect from this channel. Your commitment to bringing us the latest research, in a form digestible to the interested layperson, is much appreciated. Thank you!
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  1713. I only ever thought about these mines in the context of the Bronze Age, even then focusing more on tin mines and im-/exports. I never really thought about the scale of these operations this early in time. Besides the enormous qualities, it’s truly astounding what our forefathers managed to achieve with, from our perspective, so primitive yet ingenious tools. Thank you for the great insight!
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  1714. Half an hour into the video and I will say it’s great, very informative and well made. Plus this time in history is one of my favourites.
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  1715. I'm a Bosnian this is great content thank you so much.
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  1716. There's something poetically beautiful about traveling many kilometers just to reach the place where you wish to die. In my experience, people tend to know when they are dying...I wonder how many families carried their elders on litters to complete the journey. I also wonder how many of them were willingly killed by their families once they reached their destination, possibly at their own request?
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  1717. Great video. I’ve spent three weeks over two trips just chilling in Sardegna. (It’s a pretty wonderful place.) Despite knowing that Nuraghe dotted the countryside, I didn’t go to visit them. (My interest in late Neolithic and the Bronze Age is only a couple years old.) I was quite uninformed about them and thought they were Stone Age and not Bronze Age. I learned something new today. The horned bronze figurines look familiar from another video somewhere. My thought was that another culture produced similar horned warrior statues (Minoans?) but maybe the other video I’m thinking of just referenced Bronze Age Sardegna and I didn’t put two and two together, linking them to the Nuraghe.
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  1718. Good work. I like how you portray them as hard working resilient people. i think it's obvious they were, but some people just want to think aliens did everything, or would use magical gods as a crutch so they don't have to think about character development.
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  1719. Lmao that X-files theme at 0:58 Great vid, as always! I am eagerly awaiting the video on boars and its relation to warriors. If there is enough literature, i would love to hear you talk about the corvids and what kind of role they might have had in archaic societies
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  1720. You're the only content creator who's sponsor I chose to visit as a way of support. That and youbue algorythm boosting is all I can afford :D
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  1721. When you going to get Clancy Brown to narrate one of your Kurgan vids? 🤔😱😂🤣
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  1722. Some more mensions are Apollo striking Python, Zeus and Typhon and probably the oldest of them all Marduk and Tiamat though not indoeuropean. New to the channel btw, your content is excellent! Thank you!
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  1723.  @derrickbonsell  there is a saddle that was used that allowed some degree of stability. I belive it was first used my the acheminid empire and then used by Alexander's cavalry.
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  1724. I have a high amount of yamnaya DNA. I am 5'10, and I have a barrel chest. Able to lift Very heavy, never broke a bone, and was told by my doctor í have very dense bones. I have brown eyes, brown hair, fáir skin, and I could drink a gallon of milk a day and not flinch. I also have a voracious appetite for meat. I eat red meat daily. Its crazy how similar i am to my ancestors. Thanks for this info.
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  1725. Nice video again, I have read Anthony's book a view times, personally I was never convinced about the lasting influence of the Maykop culture. The oldest wheels (physical, tracks, depictions) are still coming from Western Europe as he also explains in his book. It feels to me like a attempt of archeologists to explain that 'culture' came from Mesopotamia, a narrative that takes a long time to get adjusted.
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  1726. Great stuff as always Dan, Could you please do a Video on the Thornborough Henges? One of/If not The Largest Prehistoric Earthwork Sites in Britain. Yet barely covered by Historians and very little on YT. Make a great setting for a Book too ;-)
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  1727. Great video, I think you handled a very complicate subject very well. Interesting the execution by sawing in two was the traditional method of execution for homosexuals Is mind boggling the logistics behind impaling 20,000 people…that’s a lot of stakes! Liked the grinning Vlad…good touch!
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  1728. That Mesopotamian 'horse' led by a nose ring (19:54) looked more like wolf to me, like some mythic godlike entity riding a giant wolf and leading it by a nose ring after the fashion of bulls being led by nose rings.
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  1729. You sure have a habit of making some of my favorite videos on YT
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  1730. I find the idea of a fish eating taboo interesting. Europeans observed that many of the cultures of the Southeastern Woodlands of North America had taboos around fish and their consumption
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  1731. Nice to have these videos back again, interesting as always!
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  1732. Unica al mondo. Mia Sardegna ❤️
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  1733. Fascinating! definitely more bronze cultures
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  1734. I love this video. Ancient food sources is absolutely the most interesting subject.
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  1735. Very interesting and informative video! Western and Eastern Europe tend to get ignored when it comes to bronze armour. Usually the focus is on the Near East, Mesopotamia and the Aegean. I've read some of Dan Howard's 'Bronze Age Military Equipment'. It's a great book but the focus tends to be on Aegean armour, especially body armour, and helmets and western European armour aren't covered in much detail. This video is a great addition to the subject.
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  1736. I imagine some of these boats traveled along the great waterways of Eastern Europe, meeting and trading with Minoans rowing north. The remarkable wealth of the princes of the Nordic Bronze Age was surely based on trade, as the land (even in the warmer climate back then) did not support a large population. Maybe some of the warriors even became mercenaries for the inner-Mediterranean civilizations, similar to the Varangians millennia later. If they had boats that could sail from Scandinavia to England, getting to Greece by rivers would mostly be a matter of surviving the locals.
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  1737. I can't get enough of your lectures. Keep up the great work!
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  1738. I've been interested in these changes in the British Isles particularly after I read a vast historical novel called SARUM.
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  1739. I was itching for my fix! Always a fantastic day when there’s a new Dan Davis upload. Cheers!
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  1740. We ate a dog when I was in Iraq after our chow truck got blown up, can't say it tasted good but I guess I unknowingly shared a ritual with my ancestors lol
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  1741. This documentary is "chef's kiss", well done!
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  1742. - Final point is regarding taxation and war. Why is it we seem to single out Richard I as wanting taxes to fight wars? The 100 years war did not benefit the average Englishman very significantly...did the Anglo-Spanish war? Did the war of Spanish succession? Did the War of Austrian succession? Did the 7 years war, Napoleonic wars, ww1, ww2 really help the actual 'average person in England'. The British empire (contrary to popular myth) conferred absolutely no benefit on regular people at all and yet people still took pride in the empire. It seems to me that people very regularly take a unique and unfair approach to Richard I on this specific issue. Another point to add is that when Richard I was in negotiations with the French king he offered to give up Anjou and other French holdings with his primary goal of maintaining England and Aquitaine...despite many of his French regions giving him more money than England in many years and despite him allegedly not caring about England. I could talk for ages about all of the little historical details in his life but I'll finish with something more interesting. Richard I gave England its coat of arms...a coat of arms which foreigners would forever associate not just with Richard but the entire history of England but specifically its very long and successful military history. Let's be honest, the lions he gave us are cool and the representation and association of England with lions is now stronger than probably any other nation. It sounds absurd but foreigners do judge nations on their emblems and we've got a good one which had good associations. It's important to note that this symbol of English history started with a great crusade that won many famous battles against one of the best generals in Muslim history and was (in my opinion) an incredibly successful crusade. he probably did the most of any single man in European history to defend the holy land and he is now remembered as an iconic figure for that. In fact, he is probably the single most well-known figure from one of the most well known historical events (the crusades) in history. The bravery and leadership he showed in his battles and campaigns has become a part of our national ethos and people have used it for inspiration for 100's of years. So even if Richard I was a bad king, which I don't agree with...his representation and simply association with England has created a myth that has long out-lived himself and been very positive for England popular image in the wider world and as a source of pride for England. There's no a lack of precedent for something like this, the French take great pride in Charlemagne and Charles Martel when they were Germanic Franks who spoke a Germanic language while most of the populace of France were Gallo-Romance and spoke another language. But they gave France its literal name and now people forever have this association.
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  1743. So interesting to think that something that probably started out of morbid desperation could be incorporated into everyday life. You paint a vivid picture, Dan. I'm sure glad it's not capable of smellination! (Smell & imagination) Hey, it's the best that I can do on short notice. Smellevision doesn't properly describe it. Now I'm off to look at my genetic history to see if I had family in those areas, at those times. Great video! Thank you!
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  1744. Great production as always.
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  1745. As always Dan, a fascinating video, beautifully put together and edited. Your work really is a joy to watch! Thank you for all the hard work you put into them 👌👏👏👏
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  1746. Thanks for the vid, I like learning and did so. I am of British descent and authors like Alan Garner, Rosemary Sutcliffe and J R R Tolkien set my path of interest many years ago. (My Grandfather and Uncle both bred dogs but I never inherited the taste for them, as it were.)
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  1747. Today is AWESOME! Dan AND Stefan? It’s like a mini intellectual Xmas 😂 Woo!
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  1748. You missed an important bronze age horn,found in the hundreds in Cornwall and Ireland,which lends an interesting twist to what people were thinking,and that is the finely cast horn(known as the lizard)from Cornwall and elsewhere,it is a sophisticated musical horn made of sheet bronze,in very variable shapes and sizes.dont know if it's just a theory that they were used in war,the biggest being the calix (probably spelt rong),the other high art of the bronze age was the couldren,apparently coming from the steps /Mongolia but has parrallel's in the west,some interesting points to investigate,in relation to teck,mobility,custom ,craft,and economics
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  1749. I second this opinion. Great video where you really manage to bring to light how modern archaeology gives us clues to how much we can interpret this event. The introduction alone with a possible interpretation was gripping.
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  1750. That cape being made out of one piece of gold is insane.
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  1751. Sounds a lot like what happens with young male lions who band together once they reach a certain age, by themselves until they finally form their own prides
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  1752. Burning does more for rodent and insect control than plague control
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  1753. Imagine all the Bronze Age battles we have never even heard of or discovered... truly amazing
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  1754. Like many people, I used to have the impression of mothing really happening in Europe north of the alps before the Romans; just huts and warrior tribes. But this is truly fascinating.
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  1755. I truly love this channel and can't get enough of these videos and the quality of this research. It brings history alive like nothing else
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  1756. Is there a connection between these rituals and Halloween trick or treating?
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  1757. I wonder if the victors at Tollense Valley could have been a horde of mercenaries returning from the Mediterranean.
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  1758. The best evidence for cannibalism I’ve come across was human tissue identified in a coprolite found in Colorado. Of course, that was more like 800 years old, not Neolithic.
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  1759. Currently @P#207 in Godborn. So far, so good! You are definitely a gifted story teller. A first rate Raconteur!
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  1760. I really enjoyed reading Barry Cunliffe's book about the Scythians, I am still looking for more titles about the Indo-Iranian Steppe peoples, I haven't found much on the Saka or Massagetae yet, if you could recommend anything it'd be greatly appreciated :)
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  1761. What a wonderful way to live. Imagine a society where everyone is valued and appreciative of others, surrounded by beautiful objects. Can't help thinking that we're infinitely poorer now, maybe if we'd stayed like that we wouldn't have made all the discoveries but where have they brought us? Yet another interesting video, thanks.
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  1762. We've all heard of Ötzi, but I've not seen this level of detail before. It's mind blowing just how difficult life was for humans throughout our history. All the way from australopithecines and homo erectus up to this very modern human - biologically identical to us - we see so much evidence of hardship, disease, injury, pain, and suffering. When I hear people speak of "the good old days", I say there is no such thing. I'll take modern technology and medicine every time!
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  1763. Thank you Dan, once again amazing. You are a great story teller. I take my hat to you sir.
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  1764. Absolutely the best presentation on Vlad that I’ve ever seen. Bravo!
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  1765. Excellent video. I love the detail you go into. The Amber Axe-Hammer was especially fascinating. I've heard from other sources the Battle Axe culture traded Amber all the way as far as Egypt. I also found it fascinating that they may have used the mini Axe-Hammers for grinding herbs. If they (the mini axe-hammers) had a magical representation then I agree that whatever they ground may also have had a spiritual/mystical purpose. Other than mushrooms, are you aware of any other psychedelic or mood altering plants they may have had access too?
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  1766. I have never heard of the Nuragic culture before. I didn’t take as much history in college as i should’ve so your videos always give me something new and interesting to look into.
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  1767. A man/wolf that should be feared could easily be the basis of the werewolf legend. Good thinking.
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  1768. Fantastic video ! Really enjoyed this , incredibly fascinating and brilliantly told. Thank you
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  1769. Don't have much time to read archeology these days. I really appreciate your factual and objective style.
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  1770. Thanks for making these videos! This information is extremely valuable to understanding traditions that are important to me, but do not have full and satisfactory explanations attached :) Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't many native tribes in northern North America have very similar traditions for their male youths? Do you think these were brought over by their ancestors who came from Siberia and Scandinavia? That would be really cool!
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  1771. I would love to see a movie made about sir francis drake What a story
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  1772. If you can start doing a series of these biographies that would be amazing. I'd like to see your take on Saladin, who I think was a great leader himself.
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  1773. I saw one at the berlin museum in person, and it was so impressive!
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  1774. Dan! Please do the late iron age early medieval Celtic peoples of the isles. The Welsh, etc. Would make a great backdrop for a king arthur vid
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  1775. The recent film, "The Northman" has an interesting parallel
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  1776. The same brilliance and story telling and passion that you have spoiled us into expecting. And to any other passer by, let me recommend Dan Davis fictional books for the young adults, especially now in Christmas times. Doing this, combining it with your high standard of helping the rest of us perceive the past, it is extremely commendable. I normally just dislike British people but you are an aristocrat of mind, culture and life and a light in the darkness.
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  1777. Please do one how did bronze age era people.train for war
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  1778. I'm so excited to find this channel! Immediately subbed after the first few minutes! I can't wait to binge watch as many of your videos as I can today!
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  1779. A wonderful follow-up to the Female Beauty, Hairstyles, and Armor videos. Thoroughly enjoyable, as always. Cheers, Mr. Davis!
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  1780. I would be very pleased if you could make a video about bronze age/early iron age ships! Most people probably just have triremes and other, later classical greek ship types in mind. Eventhough minoan and mycenean boats were absolutely beautiful!
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  1781. Great stuff this channel! I've been writing on and off for years now my self, trying to build up a basis for a "civilizations" type novel. Or more probably series of novels. I'm passionate about the topics of archaeology, history, anthropology, mythology/theology, and sociology... I hope you don't mind me saying that his channel is becoming an inspiration to me. I haven't read your novels yet, (I only discovered your work a few days ago), but you've gained a subscriber, and I will certainly be buying your first book, so you'll have gained a reader too. Thank-you for your brilliant work!
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  1782. I see a Dan Davis video drop, I watch. Don't always comment :) But I need to remember to say thanks - so thanks man, great work as always.
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  1783. Very good and informative video on an interesting subject Reminded me on the discussion on cannibalism among the Anasazi of the American southwest, lots of evidence for it, cut bones etc. Modern native Americans vehemently denied this ever happened Few years ago scientists advanced to where they could determine what a person ate by testing their well preserved coprolites ( poop)…now no doubt they ate people. Now the native Americans are blaming it on Aztecs coming north. I collect human bones, skeletons, skulls etc. When I used to set up at shows ( I sold knives and axes I made ) I’d take a trepanned skull and put it on my table filled with unshelled peanuts 😃
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  1784. Another good one mate. Incredible that artefacts of such precise resemblance to real objects and animals from so long ago. It seems like the bronze age had a kind of literal interpretation of objects for representation in art, which we don't see again until the Renaissance or so. (Thoroughly uneducated opinion here)
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  1785. I really love and appreciate the quality of your videos. They are my favorite when it comes to history.
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  1786. Great content as always.
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  1787. I believe what we think we know about ancient culture is just a swag, a Scientific Wild Ass Guess. It seems like every other month evidence is being turned up that blows everything we thought we knew out of the water. To make the claim that early people couldn’t have ridden horses seems fairly arrogant to me. Better to say it isn’t probable but it is possible, IMO.
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  1788. What you said about the end of the Uruk period sounds really fascinating. What do we know about this time. I have never heard that the Kura-Araxes actually invaded northern Mesopotamia. For the origins of Sumerian many say that indeed there is no sign of a replacement of population or an immigration of another group, but then Sumerian has some affinities with the languages of the Caucasus, albeit small and due to the time scale of everything very fickle. Sumerian might also just have been already indigenous or migrated from the east, there was a similar shift between the Proto-Elamite culture and the Old Elamite culture. The theme of the end of the Uruk period also seems to repeat itself a thousand years later with the end of the Akkadian Empire and the invasion of the Gutians, once again trade into far away lands like Meluhha ends. Then after recovering again a thousand years later there was the Bronze Age collapse. In this way a period of far reaching trade is cut by a period of collapse.
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  1789. From a boy who grew up on a mixed farm where horses were used for pulling sleighs, hunting & transportation I can say from experience that it is easier to get a horse to follow you somewhere than it is to chase it somewhere. If you have a pocket full of carrots & are inclined to share occasionally it is easy to gain a large following. I learned to capture my fathers domestic horses and ride them bareback with no bridle at about age 6. I had earlier tried to ride calves with unsatisfactory results. The first recorded use of cavalry & chariots used in battle was at the Battle of Zhuolu in North East China about 2500 B.C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Zhuolu Some claim this is very legendary but investigation by Chinese historians discovered a location still named "the place where the horses wouldn't go any more" and a tomb (that looks very Scythian) dedicated to Chi You that had been tended by one family for hundreds of generations.
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  1790. Perfectly summed up. I couldn't quite put my finger on why I like this channel so much - but you found the reason.
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  1791. Right now all the Robert Sepehr fans are calling on the magical powers of vril to lay a mighty curse upon Dan Davis
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  1792. I have, of course, heard of this battle before, and seen some of the archeological evidence, (do you think that club was bent before it was buried?) but I had no idea the numbers involved. I had pictured maybe several dozen on each side, but thousands!?! Thanks for contextualizing this in time for me. The reference to the battle of Kadesh was especially helpful, as I had thought it was much earlier die to the stone weapons. As always, great video( episode?) Thank you.
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  1793. Nice work, really seems like this kind of structure happens naturally in warrior cultures. One thing I doubt though is the use of mushrooms to reach a berserk state, their effects are hmm unreliable haha
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  1794. Sintashta creation is what "hekatoncheiros exiling" might reffer to. Aren't descendants of Sintashta (Indo-Iranians) beliving in gods with multiple hands and legs? Like dudes of 7 feet and 5 elbows?
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  1795. Fantastic again Dan I thoroughly enjoyed this episode , it was some undertaking, amazing and so innovative our ancestors were, well as usual a brilliant insight into our history. Love the channel and love the books . Peace all 🇮🇪
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  1796. Very interesting. Reminds me of the photographs me and my colleagues took in Afghanistan or Iraq. Posing with weapons, enemy vehicles, tanks, our own vehicles and tanks etc. Posing with each other. All carrying weapons, but not pointing them at each other, all non threatening, but a form of showing off and bragging. Never considered this before. Thanks for the great videos Dan, I'm a huge fan!
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  1797. Hey, Indian Here...A bit more I want to add about Indra's Vajra... Though Indra has been reduced to a lower form of deity in modern day Hindu faith.. But we still use the word "Vajra-pat"("Vajra"- Weapons name "Pat"- To use ) for describing "lightning and thunder" in many Indo-Aryan languages..Like: Hindi, Bengali etc.. A word used 4000 years ago is still in daily use..Great Video BTW..
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  1798. "Burned the town of Sandwich to the ground", what a bastard! Thankfully the Northern town of "Butty" was kept intact.
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  1799. . Superb. Around 20 minutes is an ideal time as every minute is well spent. This is a presentation style I've waited a long time for, very well done. Thank you 👍 .
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  1800. I wonder how it would affect overall the Kurgan hypothesis, if the Kurgans were in fact not those aggressive horse-riders, but rather just fancied horse meat and were really good husbandmen
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  1801.  @DanDavisHistory  Perhaps I chose the word poorly. I was thinking of how the other videos I've seen, they kind of brush through the horned helmets really quickly. Whereas you took the time to bring up the different cultures and sites that had horned helmets. Still, I do look forward to those follow up videos.
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  1802. Amazing video! Before this I never heard of the symbolism of the slaying of the serpent. It represents the fight against the last of the cycles, iron age, kali yuga, ragnarök and generally chaos. Truly eye opening.
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  1803. I think maybe this Koryos is the same word as in my language Lithuanian " karios " which means Soldiers or you could say Warriors. Karys means soldier with kariai as the plural. Karosos meaning something like War Party.
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  1804. It would be intresting to see a video about other "Henges" (inside and outside Britain) their differences and their possible connections. Like the "woodhenge" in Pömmelte etc.
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  1805. I am utterly fascinated by the Neolithic culture.
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  1806. Wow that Steppes area is utterly beautiful! With the mountains and the curving river.
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  1807. I didn't know what you sounded like before I found this channel but I gotta say, now I hear your voice when I read your books... Awesome vids, AND books!
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  1808. Exceptional production quality and great storytelling. One of the best youtube channels i've seen.
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  1809. It's interesting that they picked a shape that's so easy to hold bundled up in your hand. Coins require bags or pockets in any great quantity, but the bars seem distinctly handheld to me
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  1810. Man, super cool videos! This is exactly what I've been looking for on YT. Thank you so much for shining a light on these cultures and peoples that most people never hear about! Cheers from Canada and keep up the fantastic work!
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  1811. Dan, did your research find any mixing of the human processing burials and red ocher burials? I have so many more questions now. I need to start catching up on all the new discoveries over the last 40 years.
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  1812. Thank you for this! Crossing a sea with full grown cattle is quite the feat. I wonder if a younger group might have sought new lands carrying calves given to them by their parents out of the communal herd and I wonder what their boats looked like….
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  1813. The landscapes and the story - enchanting. I would love to see a well made movie about this. Metaphisical and brutal, not some PC bullshit. I dont know why i felt nostalgia, sadnes and pride watching this. Longing for something i never had? For simpler life? Anyway, keep up the good work, its awesome.
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  1814. Dan, thank you so much for these. I'm working on a fantasy novel set in the early Middle Republic era of Rome, and I've been using the videos on the cultures of Europe between the late Neolithic and late Bronze ages to flesh out my otherwise very Gaulic orcs.
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  1815. My guess is that horse riding developed after seeing people ride oxen. We see Rock Art in the Sahara of people riding oxen and some South-African Tribes like the Khoi-Khoi and Xhosa also rode oxen into battle. So I think Neolithic Europeans also used oxen for riding on occasion. Horse Milk residue was found on human teeth from the 3rd Millennium BC. somewhere in the Black Sea Steppe. So again not a massive jump from milking cows to milking horses. Same with pulling carts or a travois. Cattle basically served as blueprint for what can possibly be achieved by using the horse.
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  1816. Thank you Dan, for this astonishing story. I knew a bit about the man who joined Giovanni on this journey - Benedykt Polak. In my previous city of Wroclaw (marked on your map) there is a street for him, it is claimed he was from that city.
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  1817. With the permafrost thawing there's a good chance that some "new" diseases will be released. You have been warned.
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  1818. Re: burning houses. I’ve heard It was pretty common in the American colonial period for cabins to be burnt every generation. More work to maintain than build at that point. Also I’m sure a hell of a party.
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  1819. This is not very interesting topic on yt, not a lot is known, even here in Croatia not a lot of people know about it, but is, literally, our heritage
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  1820. Great video. I was born and currently live in Michigan. It's not uncommon for me to hear some old timers tell me or other people about how most of the copper in the bronze age was from the UP. Definitely great video
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  1821. You do good work. And, at a higher level than 'academic' historians. Good post.
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  1822. I used to watch this channel all the time before I had a YouTube account and I’ve been looking for it for over a year now. So happy I finally found it again. Dude your videos have reinvigorated my love of history like nothing else. Thanks for all the great work you do.
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  1823. Well done, one of my favorite historical warriors.
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  1824. YESSSSSSSSSSS new Dan Davis! Gonna try to get one of your books in rotation on the family road trip next week.
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  1825. I find your voice so soothing especially after a mad day at work (I’m a teacher , every day is mad). So thank you. Great video as always 🙏
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  1826. You could make a good argument for both but my money is on Marshall.
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  1827. Dogs came from eating the dead at battlefields, domesticated by looters then the peoples taking of their fallen brothers' remains, and the wolves developed to be dependent upon the sustenance of humans from their first eating of them. The people must have seen them as holding part of their fallen in soul.
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  1828. Wow excellent video. Yeah I'm inclined to agree with you. He seems guilty to me.
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  1829. Found this amazing channel 3 days ago with the William Marshall video. Have since watched a few every day. It's now one of my favorite channels on here! I've seen many Vlad stories and read books on him, but this video (like all Dan's videos) is exceptionally well done. The use of maps, etc., is a great aid in seeing the action. I love history and the people that forged the world. This is what this platform was made for and Dan nails it every time! I hope Dan continues to make these outstanding videos and I'm grateful for the effort he puts into these! JJ -South Alabama
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  1830. Copper sulfate is very toxic to tree roots but actually beneficial to grapes and berries. Ancient peoples would not necessarily have needed theories why this happened to see these types of patterns.
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  1831. Excellent video, as a local to the area it's always amusing to see it portrayed in media. A little addition - there are an estimated 30 miles of tunnels so far discovered under the Orme, and it is possible to walk underneath much of Llandudno in some of the Victorian era mines, which are apparently connected to the old tunnels somewhere. (All of which are sealed off for good reason, very easy to get lost down there, they seem to go in every direction and have multiple layers which branch off up and down) This means that in theory you can go in at sea level and stay underground until you come out at the summit of the Orme, no one has managed it yet, but the digging continues. Addendum: There are also a bunch of flooded levels in the Victorian era, but nobody has been able to get more than a few metres in due to dirt and sediment blinding the divers immediatley upon any movemnet. Loads of exploration to do!
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  1832. Hi Dan don't believe I got an alert fantastic can't wait to listen to this , just finished God born , Dan what a fantastic book I'm hooked going to read everything loved it , it's the part of history I love the different tribes ,people, places and beliefs just Brilliant great work , now on to the vid looking forward to this. Peace 🇮🇪
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  1833. Oh hell yeah, my favorite historical figure, and my favorite history channel!
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  1834. it amazes me of all the groups of people that existed so long ago. it’s more interesting to me how this isn’t talked about more, keep up the great work i’m really enjoying all your videos
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  1835. I just found you and I'm fascinated. You're a historical fiction author that also nails history while being a great storyteller AND you have great narrator's voice. I'm going to see if you have any self narrated audiobooks...
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  1836. When I die bury me in a ochre stained kurgan
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  1837. Firstly, I want to say that this is an absolutely fantastic video! Fascinating stuff, it really added a whole new dimension to the Koryos ritual you've spoken about in past videos. (Considering you've mentioned writing a story about this exact ritual and how much research you've put into it, I will definitely have to check that out sometime.) Secondly, since you've done a few videos on mythological archetypes before (the "Ice Age hellhound" and the "dragonslayer" come to mind), do you ever plan on doing a video diving into whatever archetype heroes like the Greek Heracles and Biblical Samson are? (Since they're both "semidivine lion-killers", though that might be a bit too specific; perhaps just "strong hero" would work better.) That seems like it'd be one hell of a rabbit hole to go down.
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  1838. Excellent and informative video. The descendants of the Yamnaya, or Kurgan people, largely descendants of the “North Eurasians”, people who occupied the steppe of Eurasia for thousands of years, contributing a large amount of DNA to the people of Northern Europe, and about a third of the ancestry of Native Americans, and some to India, did indeed bring death and destruction wherever they went in northern Europe. But probably not in the way usually portrayed, through warfare. Probably it was primarily disease. Old populations are resistant to being totally taken over by new populations. If this does happen, it is because of one of two (or both) reasons. 1. The newcomers come with a much higher population density, commonly by having agriculture, or more advanced agriculture, then the native population. 2. The newcomers brought deadly diseases that they had some immunity to, but the native people did not. For the Bell Beaker people, it was likely the deadly diseases, that they originally got from cattle. But the native Neolithic people also had cattle. Yes, but that doesn’t mean that they had the same diseases that the Bell Beaker people had. The Bell Beaker people originally came from the steppe. A land that can be very bleak and cold in the winter. Without many trees that can be used to build shelters. It may have been necessary for them to overwinter in what shelters they could build and keep the animals inside with them, at least during the coldest spells. Doing so exposes them to the same diseases that affect cattle. This would not be necessary in the far milder climate of Britain. Where did the newest version of the plague that sweep through Europe starting in 1347 originate from? From the steppe of Eurasia, where by then, it was affecting not just cattle and people but rodents as well. This is not just unsupported speculation but is supported by DNA evidence. The DNA of the ancestor of the plague bacteria has been found in the teeth of four people who died at the time the Bell Beaker people first showed up. If plague DNA is found in five-thousand-year-old teeth, it means one thing. It means they died of the plague. It gets even into the teeth near the end. Further finds are needed. But if the pattern still holds up, no plague found in the teeth of people before the Bell Beaker people show up, but plague first showing up just after they arrive, I think that evidence will be decisive. In California, an early expedition through the Sacramento valley noted the Indian villages they encountered along the way. Returning through the same region a few months later, they noted that a plague was killing a huge proportion of the Indians. They didn’t seem to connect this with themselves because they were all pretty healthy. Likely when the Bell Beaker people first showed up, the disease would spread like wildfire, killing off most, but not all of the people native to the area. Possibly the Bell Beaker people were mystified by what was happening to the natives. In the next few generations, the Bell Beaker population would explode in the now largely empty land, and intermarry with the relatively few survivors, who could pass on knowledge of agriculture. A new population, containing 90% largely Yamnaya DNA and 10% of the Neolithic people’s DNA who were there before. And that DNA has largely been maintained down to the present age in Northern Europe. Five thousand years of warfare has not changed that very much. Why didn’t the native Americans get this disease resistance from their North Eurasian ancestors? Because when North Eurasians mixed with East Asians to make the population of Siberia that would later populate the Americas, they were not yet herding cattle and had not yet developed any resistance to the plague, cowpox or other diseases. Well, a story of warrior kings taking over a land is more compelling than a story of disease making it happen. But I suspect that the disease story is closer to the truth. A book by Geneticist David Reich called “Who We Are and How We Got Here” covers the DNA evidence for the pre-history of Europe, and the rest of the world, very well. It is well worth reading. And don’t make the same mistake the builders of Stonehenge made. Go get vaccinated. Otherwise, thousands of years from now, people may wonder what you were thinking.
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  1839. I love this channel. You deserve far more subscribers, keep going I'm sure they will come!!
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  1840. Oh man you're really getting some wind in your sails lately Mr. Davis, this was a great vid.
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  1841. Excellent story-telling, Mr Davis! I especially love your copper and bronze-age videos.
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  1842. Dan, you did it again!!! You are an amazing storyteller. Thank you.
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  1843. So many comments confusing linguistics and archeology. Cool vid.
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  1844. Great video. It's interesting to note how the use of razors continued into the Iron Age during the Hallstatt and La Tene periods.
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  1845. I appreciate the depth of your videos. I watch this type of content to be informed, and I'm always satisfied by yours. Thank you!
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  1846. Fascinating video ! Has the weapon been subjected to any investigation (X-Ray or CRT scans or whatever - I'm not sure what they'd use) which might show evidence of stress fractures, re-fashioning or painting/plating ? One of the huge advantages of copper and bronze weapons is that they can be beaten back into shape after battle, with the hammering work-hardening it further, where iron weapons just break. Testing might help to indicate whether it was an actual weapon or a symbolic item used like a sceptre. Of course, it's always possible that it could have started as a weapon and then morphed into a symbol once the warrior had established his reputation. Carrying it in the crook of his arm (as it was found in the grave) would show his power and imply the consequences of defying him without the need to actually bop anyone on the head with the thing. It's also interesting to note that unlike most of the bronze weapons from later periods found in Northern Europe, it hasn't been ceremonially broken. My understanding is that it's thought doing that would put it beyond human use and consign it to the gods. So not breaking a weapon suggests that the belief system hadn't developed in that way yet, or that this was very much a human's weapon (whether intended for an afterlife or not).
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  1847. Read about Roman Velites or Greek Peltasts. Unarmored but fast running soldiers tasked at shooting javelines at heavily armed phalanx. And steppe armies were mostly about mounted archers, where less experienced ones were used to draw attention while best shooters prepare truly damaging attack.
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  1848. Damn, youtube actually reads my mind. I was thinking about this kind of channel, turns out it already exists
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  1849. It truly is sad and frustrating how little survived for us to study today. And also how often such artifacts are discovered by ignorant folk who just "rummage" around like that farmer, or thought dynamiting a site was the best way to go like what happened in Hissarlik.
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  1850. Could the rituals been a way to mitigate the emergence of PTSD after returning home? The rituals before battle seem like they would help the warrior w/ what was called ‘shell shock’ during battle as well. It seems the rituals would provide a context for the warrior to help w/ the psychological toll of war. I know Ayahuasca ceremonies/ psychedelic therapies have shown to be more effective w/ soldiers suffering from PTSD than traditional talk therapy and SSRIs. Thanks for the new video! You always have such great insights. I love your channel.
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  1851. Perhaps it was through such raids that Indo-European language and culture spread through so much of the ancient world?
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  1852. I think this is the most fascinating era in history, keep up the good work! 👍🏼
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  1853. I receive a ton of joy from watching your videos. You do a great job.
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  1854.  @DanDavisHistory  I think this is just something we all do. Thinking "Oh how nice it would've been back then", and then after giving it some thought realizing that it wouldn't have been nice at all. Perhaps there was a roman legionnaire hearing about Homer's Troy and wishing that he'd be born in an age when ships were made of wood and men of bronze. Surely he would've made everyone see his true worth instead of being stuck digging outhouses in a forgotten fort at the edge of the empire
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  1855. I believe Robin Hood was not a man ie Mr Robin Hood but the term for a group of outlaws who Robbed with hoods on ,in the same way we use the expression " HOODIES " today. So " He is a robbin hood " got modernized into " He is Robin Hood " ?
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  1856. I recently did the 2 dna tests as they were Christmas presents. Full British and northern Germanic ancestry apparently but with a J2a father line which completely threw me! These videos and the maps are really helping me understand so thankyou. I don't know how reliable the tests are or whatever but our history really is a web isn't it!
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  1857. I couldn't help thinking how this reminds me of the traditional Ka-Gogi (dog meat) meal served in Korea. Only Men were supposed to eat it, as it is supposed to have a profound effect on one's Male energy; especially when consumed with Insom-ju (ginseng liquor). I've had dog both in Korea and the Philippines, the texture is somewhere between beef and pork; and to quote Mel Gibson in The Patriot, "Dog makes a fine meal".
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  1858. The idea that ancient cultures decided teen boys were better left to roaming in packs in the wild until they were ready to rejoin society is honestly hilarious to me. In all seriousness, thank you for providing such quality historical content.
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  1859. Fascinating! I pass by the Tollense Valley (Tollensetal) every day on my way to work. Strange to know what happend there.
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  1860. Pain stakingly researched ,wonderfully represented with maps, photos and depictions, an explosive amount of information concisely delivered and flawlessly presented. Bravo good Sir! I enthusiastically applaud your accomplishment and vigorously encourage you for more! Michael Weeks, a friend in San Antonio Texas.
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  1861. What if the "small horns" are boars tusks? Could make sense given how they are known to be used in helmets in bronze age europe, and have a symbolic connection to warriors as well
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  1862. Any chance you will talk about the bronze age collapse? Are any of your novels based around it?
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  1863. There is also Trypillian culture museum under the sky in Legedzyne village in Cherkasy region of Ukraine, with houses of Trypillian people. But Legedzyne is also famous by its archaeologacal places of later Yamna culture. As well as in Legedzyne the Gothic (Ostrogothic) cemetry of late 4th century AD (Cherniakhov culture) was found. It is a very interesting fact that some graves in the cemetery belong to Sarmatians (Alans), who were satelites of Goths (north-oriented head with Sarmtian inhumation tradition). One child was buried accorging to Sarmatian tradition but with a lot of typically Germanic values, ceramics and other sites (mixed marriages). Some latest graves show typically Christian (Arian) bural tradition (influence of East Roman Empire).
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  1864.  @DanDavisHistory  Well I've been through second hand works about these documents and I've heard about this theory of the bow being a WIP basically, but thanks a lot for bringing these up anyways! It's difficult to be certain, but that would make a lot of sense. I like to think that he actually shot most of his arrows in defense prior to his hicking trip, sometimes between his first meal in the valley (indicated by lower altitude polens), probably in a wooded area, and his last one just before he headed for the mountains. What forced him so abruptly from a populated valley to suddenly seek shelter in the mountains with poorly maintained equipment (bow and arrows) if not a struggle or a fight? I think he lost most of his arrows shooting at attackers, or maybe he tried to attack some people himself, perhaps he was part of a small group, the rest of which died in a fight with people down the valley, and he, as the last survivor tried to flee while the valley dwellers chased him. That's what I always picture.
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  1865. My goal after the war is to have a Time Team style archeology show here in Ukraine to build interest this kind of cultural heritage.
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  1866. I am excited about the extended geographical range of this channel's content!
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  1867. Brilliant stuff mate. Quickly becoming my favorite channel.
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  1868. I think oral histories and mythology are VERY long lasting. So yes it could be so.
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  1869. As always Dan,nothing short of an absolute gem of a production ❤ 👌 Thank you!
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  1870. Dan your killing me you drop a history lesson about Dracula , your videos are my quality time, tea, smoke, ear buds and relaxation in my nest but today Liverpool FC are playing an FA Cup game and that's all about beer, friends, shouting and screaming and now you test my loyalty Jesus's, sorry Dan the match is live so my history lesson will have to wait , I know this is going to be craicing so thanks again for the work and commitment the channel is just Brilliant catch you later after Liverpool progress to the semi's. Peace all 🇮🇪
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  1871. Wohoo my favourite bronze age complex to learn about! Although that's parly due to there not being much to learn about the Nordwestblock complex, just to the south west of the Nordic bronze age, yet.
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  1872. If Frey and Freya are a god pair, then would it not be reasonable that Njord would have been paired with Njärd? Could Njärd and Nerthu be the same? As I understand it, Njord has a strong association with the sea and Nerthy has a strong association with earth. Maybe some strata of culture and perspective was to divide the world into sea and earth rather than heaven and earth? And maybe this perspective is where the bogland becomes sacred, as being both. Aja, I know that Frey and Freya are titles, not names, anyway, I still like the symmetry. I watched a season or two of Vikings before I lost interest. I recall it as being utterly stupid and ignorant in many things. But I remember that they had made water prominent in the pagan temple, like little canals. I thought that was a good idea, a neat speculation. Fascinating video! To me, the long horns with little bulbs at the top look very similar. Also, the Galician and Scandinavian stag-deer motive must be connected. But I think you walk a perfect balance of showing connectivity and not making unfounded assumptions. Then again, it would be interesting to see people putting hard narratives forward because those are easier to shoot down, and then other can make other hard narratives that are shot down and over time a skeleton of narrative might emerge :)
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  1873. I don't know how to phrase it without coming off as cliché, but all of your videos make these people come alive in a way that other documentaries just, like, don't. The thousands of years between us don't seem like such a long time. Guess I gotta start reading your books!
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  1874. Can’t wait to get stuck into the video, do you have a favourite era in history to study? At the moment I’m really getting into the 5th to the 11th century’s.
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  1875. Love the work you’re doing.
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  1876. I am of swedish and finnish lineage, we have clear documented roots to the year 1400 with my clan existing on both swedish and finnish grounds, and there is some evidence of ancient viking involvment that my grandfather has dug up. The end of this video made me tear up and i cant really explain it, growing up without a father i can really feel the pain of the scandinavian soul crying out from within me, that growing up without a primal connection to nature, to beast, to have a strong male teacher that i think all men from the north needs. I will become what my father never was, and i will revive the soul of my ancestors. Love you all.
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  1877. One of my favorite historical figures. Thanks for making this
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  1878. I think you described in this video some origins of Halloween.....
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  1879. Amazing! As always Dan but im grateful. This wonderful prehistoric culture isn't often discussed. I'm so grateful that you explained the venus figurines. Some academics were quick to pervert and profane something as imortant as what seemed like an obviously pregnant figure to me. From the moment i saw them, i was certain they were made by women. The craftsmanship and symbolism seemed obvious, perhaps as some sort of fertility rite. But when i found out almost none of the figures were buried with the men, that pretty much confirmed it for me. Even in my university for a course, a professor asked us to replicate the figures in clay, but oddly requested that we keep our eyes shut as we moulded. Many of the women made the figures without heads!
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  1880. This is the best vlad doc ive watched. As always thank you
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  1881. An amazing story of an amazing life of this man Sir William Marshal a Templar Knight by an amazing ending. Well told.:shelterin:
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  1882. Goddamn it how did you make another video? I haven't finished a video in two months. No just kidding, I'm excited to see another video from you. This is the first comprehensive description of Sintashta I've seen. Kudos to you for making this.
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  1883. At least the first group of people he impaled, he mercifully gave them a quick death. I heard that he liked to impale people so the pole exited the back by one of the shoulders to force the victim to suffer a slow, lingering death in the agony extreme torture
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  1884. Nicely done. Also, maybe the first summary I found that spans several time periods so it's helping me understand the broad context and major changes better. Just a thought, but if I was leading my clan across a narrow sea, I might slaughter the adult cattle, salt the meat for the journey, and then only take calves across in my dugouts. I'm trying to imagine a full-grown bull in a small boat and it's not working in my head. The other implication is they built much bigger boats or rafts. I could see those being cannibalized for the wood on arrival in a way a dugout can't be and so never surviving archeologically, conveniently making my hypothesis unprovable :).
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  1885. Your videos are fantastic! I can't get enough of them!
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  1886. i recon they must have been riding earlier than drew states , homer in the 8th bc talks about the centaurs from an ancient past prospective. i dont think the neo/bronze age steppe people were doing cavalry charges but using horse for mobility ,out flankes etc . any military advancement normally ends in victory. the advance of the beaker into europe and end of neolithic culture suggests an advantage more than a bronze axe would give , poss advanced archery or the horse or both . although plague in neo societies prior to the beaker couldve also lead to the cultural and genetic replacement that happened.
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  1887. To me the Tollense Valley battle look very like events described in old Irish myths detailed in The Book of Invasions: a cataclysmic struggle between neolithic native peoples and bronze age invaders.
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  1888. Great content. Really enjoyed that as I knew very little about these medieval nobles and their battles against the Ottomans. Certainly shows where Bram Stoker's inspiration comes from.
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  1889. It's always a pleasure to see a new video notification from Dan Davis coming up and as usual, he delivers exemplary. Thank you for your thorough and well documented videos Dan, I've been hooked on them ever since I discovered your channel.
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  1890. Very detailed, excellent information to dramatization ratio without being boring at all, rather the opposite. This is exactly what I'm looking for in a history documentary.
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  1891. Can't wait for herc to join up with Jason and engage in some conan aged piracy, another stellar video
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  1892. Good stuff as always, Dan!
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  1893. How does this channel not have a million subscribers!
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  1894. this was amazing, thank you for your hard work and passion x
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  1895. 02:52 Average scandinavian man & woman. Yep. Absolutely. That's what I look like. lol
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  1896. great output man, you're putting all others to shame.
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  1897. Indo-european teenage Warriors Indo-european teenage Warriors Indo-european teenage Warriors Heroes in the bronze age
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  1898. Because of isolation, some aspects of Cucuteni culture survived until very recently. Houses built in wattle and daub, same traditional clothing as shown in prehistoric artefacts, same dances. Not the stuff of folklore groups, but real things that real people do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzLiTIE9tlo
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  1899. I can't wait to watch this
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  1900. Compare with the longhouse cultures - convergent evolution (as it were). Also, the Iroquois culture governed through ‘head of household/clan’ females at the ‘householder’ level - ancient societies generally designed themselves after ‘natural lines’ (like beehives, where bees will abandon whole hives (with brood and honey) when the conditions (including encroachment) doesn’t suit them. Women in ancient cultures, since they are the nucleus of any family (and civilization), would appoint various ‘people, including men’ for various purposes - this has ‘independently evolved on earth in many places at many different times’ - the overall development is both striking and intriguing. Also, Cahokia settlement structures have a similar proto-development. Areas by Georgia and Trebizond also have ceramic trade settlements that contributed to the cultural transfer past the Caspian and Asov. Nice vid tho! Cheers! 🥂
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  1901. Woah! 70+ minute video from Dan - I know how I’m going to unwind tonight after work. Can’t wait to dive into this one
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  1902. Wonderful video Dan! Your comment at 10:34 about fitness had me laughing pretty hard given the photo that accompanied it! Keep up the great work!
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  1903. Great video Dan! Yes the funnelbeakers were an interesting bunch of people alright! I think around the time the LBK culture collapses Danubian farmers in France are absorbed by cardial Mediterranean farmers who then push eastwards mixing with the ertebølle hunters of Northern Europe which resulted in the funnelbeakers becoming largely blonde and blue eyed.
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  1904. Oh! this was genuinely interesting and beautiful. Thank you so much!
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  1905.  @DanDavisHistory  and a well deserved one!
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  1906. Another excellent video, and I like how you went straight for the debunk straight away, and then the depth of research to show the European copper mines. You bring the bronze age to life.
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  1907. Commented on one of your other videos and I've found myself watching many more. It's so refreshing to find content actually exploring what our ancestors believed, what they did, and who they are, rather than simply being berated for their so-called "primitive superstitions" and lack of "intelligence". You've earned a new subscriber. Keep it up friend!
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  1908. Your narration is on point with this one
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  1909. in the UK dogs are often found in iron age pits, once thought to be rubbish pits, usually within hillforts.
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  1910. I think Edward Longshanks could put in a legitimate claim for the Greatest King of England.
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  1911. i like how an ancient real thing or event became a legend and a religion in a late period
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  1912. Video suggestion= the history of freedom (or more precisely the lack thereof) in ancient society. I recently saw another YouTuber describing most people in ancient Mesopotamia as “essentially slaves”. How much of their own lives did people in various ancient cultures control? Thanks again for the channel!
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  1913. Brilliant. Watching it again with the misses. I just wish the video was longer and more detailed. What an amazing life and journey.
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  1914. No one talking about the perfect audio selection. Great video.
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  1915. YESSS, another video on the Proto Indo Iranians, the Sintashta. I subscribed, awesome work.
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  1916. The academic theory is that the majority of the copper in the Bronze Age was produced in Cyprus; named Kipris, because of the copper. It's postulated that the demise of the Eastern Mediterranean civilisations also involved the collapse of the Cypriot civilisation.
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  1917. This is the best channel about ancient history of humankind. It is fascinating to see how humans migrated in bronze age. Well done!
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  1918. Wow.. absolutely amazing.
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  1919. Great video. Interesting that the Bronze Age trade routes you show, roughly correspond with the location of higher levels of Y DNA R1b-L21 in Scandinavia. Presumably, Bell Beakers from the British Isles were coming to trade but settling aswell.
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  1920. Here before this blows up! Incredible video!
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  1921.  @DanDavisHistory  it's alright 👍, thank you for your hard work
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  1922. I'm Swedish and I love to go and visit random runestones and stone carvings etc.
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  1923. The thumbnail being basicly a short answer to the video is hilarously to me, great video as always!
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  1924. Everyone loves an animal story. Perhaps dog domestication would be a good topic. Also, taking another example of Native American fighting style, the Apache are great dragoons. They rode up to battle and then fought on foot.
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  1925. A hair-raising episode!!!
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  1926. Thank you for your efforts, really enjoy the vids. Much love from Amsterdam ✌️
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  1927. Thank you for another great knowledge drop!
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  1928. "Letting ideas percolate" I like that way of putting it.
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  1929. Such a great video. Did the old boy proud. Well done.
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  1930. He happens to be the emblem of Moscow too. A popular figure!
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  1931. May I presume there is a connection between "Koryos" and the statues modernly called "Kouros"? Also, some of the behaviours you describe are very Spartan. I appreciate you are describing a Novel series and not History.
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  1932. I would think that a household pounding implement would likely be how a meat tenderizer would be used today: to soften meat for cooking and easier eating.
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  1933. Dan, I'm really enjoying your videos thank you. Going through a hectic pact in life and taking a bit of down time to watch your interesting, intriguing and thought provoking videos is a daily ritual at the moment. Great stuff 👍
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  1934. This is a great topic, it shows linear progression of cultural and technological developmen of Indo-Europeans in Eurasian continent. I think Indo-Iranian topic was very important to cover since not all people have clear understanding of connection between Indo-European and Indo-Iranian cultures....and how all this migration process was happening....back and forth... Also, I believe so Assyrian Stella's show battle between Assyrian troops and Cimmerians. Cimmerians were basically bronze age Skythians....before they developed into distinct Skythian culture of early iron age.....
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  1935. If the axe heads were used to ward off lightning, I wonder if that's where the saying "Lightning never strikes the same place twice" comes from.
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  1936. There is something ineffably beautiful about this phenomenon that only men can understand. I was surprised at how well this was done. The lack of sensationalized garbage, the attention to the published scientific literature, the careful consideration of alternative hypotheses. It's rare that I'm even tempted to subscribe to new channels here anymore, but this is an exception.
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  1937. A Willikin of the Weald wideo would be wonderful. Ta.
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  1938. That was inspiring... These real tales of honor make my blood flow faster
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  1939. You did a great job summarising the Lupercalia. You should be a writer or something... Another brilliant video. Your content is truly first rate. Many thanks and salute.
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  1940. Gotta see the vid, but man Terramare is some kickass name.
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  1941. William the marshal was amazing you know at the battle of Lincoln he killed the enemy general in hand-to-hand combat even though he was over 80
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  1942. Absolutely great documentary. Top notch work!
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  1943. Nothing gets my pick hard like a good lesson about European Bronze-age copper mines.
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  1944. The megalithic mounds are quite similar to the round, conical dwellings they built later, complete with small, low entrances. The standing stones bring to mind the male member while the stone structures resemble the womb. Sunlight flooding into these chambers at certain times of the year could represent the male seed flooding into the female to impregnate her. Just some thoughts. The Egyptians did the same thing with the obelisks to Osiris, and we see similar structures today in Rome and Washington DC with the obelisks and rotundas representing the male impregnating the female. Same principle.
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  1945. Yessssssss, Mr Davis, a lot of my current writing has been along the lines of Bronze Age mercenary work. This couldn’t have dropped at a better time! I’ve got something to watch over breakfast now!
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  1946. Seems to me that if he was killed by someone known to him or the community, taking the axe would've implicated him in the dissapearance.
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  1947. Can you please do a documentary about William The Conqueror I feel like he deserves alot more credit and respect for being a great English king.
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  1948. Indeed this is true, Stephen the Great of medieval Moldavia is also a national hero, was definitely more successful in reign (also considered a saint by the Romanian Orthodox Church) , and yet Vlad is definitely more famous. His story from early on, the cards he was dealt in life, and questioning weather some of his brutal acts were maybe exaggerated by propaganda of that time (printing press was freshly invented). The docu video is good, but can only present so much of events and detail in 1 hour, there is of course more to his story, or... specially to Vlad's story, if any. P.s. It's said that when Stephen was battling one of his rivals early on, he was wounded pretty badly and fell off his horse, left for dead, in chaos and mud. After he lay there for a long time, awaken, he asked God to give him strength to get through this struggle and then he would never turn his face away from Him. Eventually after every victorious battle he built a new monastery, over 46 victories from 48 battles was it ? Something like that.. against all powers around him. Kingdom of Hungary, Poland (cuz yes Christians tried to interfere and control the area too- a few times), Tatars, others/and of course the Ottomans.
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  1949. Nice One Dan, about time someone covered this topic in depth, makes a change from Corinthian helmets.
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  1950. RIP Gunnery Sergeant Hartman
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  1951. Didn't people in the middle east, during the biblical period, use ossuaries to hold disinterred bones? I've read several articles about researchers finding an ossuary of one of the Apostles or something. Even today there seems to be an incentive to keep the bodies around and even in view. I saw human skeletons in European churches. I also know of people who keep ashes and locks of hair. While I wouldn't ordinarily eat a human corpse I think some people overreact to the idea.
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  1952. 6:26 that's actually a prehistoric rave, that long line is just the edge of the dance floor.
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  1953. 2:20 ..."burst into my house stealing my beer.." I can not recommend that to anyone... All hell will break loose that Wherewolfls will flee whining with their tail behind their legs...
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  1954. Awesome video. I think it was the same in the 6th century UK - the plague of Justinian killed off so many of the locals that the incomers were essentially moving into almost deserted lands. Thats why we have very little evidence of conflict. Might also explain why they eventuaaly only met resistance in the less populated western lands - hence the Arthur legends etc
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  1955. Those houses constructed on poles may also be to avoid some rodents and rotten walls. In Puerto Rico and other parts of Latin America people some people used to build houses like that just a few decades ago.
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  1956. Oh hell yea... I've been waiting for my favorite late night relax and learn podcast for too long now!!! Thanks again Dan 🔥🔥
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  1957. Another 10/10. Thank you Mr. Davis!
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  1958. I love your videos man. they shine a light on a massive part of history that is frequently overlooked. keep it up!
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  1959. Imagine seeing your first Irish elk (the largest of the deer species) it had horns that were over 10 feet across
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  1960. This is the same culture Mary Mackey wrote about in The Day the Horses Came, The Horses at the Gate, Fires of Spring and Sabala's Journey.
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  1961. Outstanding video.
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  1962. I'm very glad I came across your video. I was going to skip it because I thought I knew about Richard, but the question in the title grabbed my interest. You provide the small details that really fill in the overall picture and investigate the usual assumptions to prove them wrong. I can now look upon him as a real hero and so be proud he is my many times over great uncle. (Of course, that means that so is John:)). My ancestors are descended from their sister Eleanor.
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  1963. Absolutely amazing content as always. I was absolutely thrilled when I saw you had uploaded
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  1964. Thank you for another fantastic and extremely well researched video. It's by far the best Otzi documentary I have seen. I saw the movie Iceman. It had great costuming, but the actual story about the sacred mirror rock was just rediculous. Plus DNA evidense of Y chromosome bottlenecks, but no bottlenecks in mitochondrial DNA, suggest that women were usually not killed in battle, as the movie portrayed, but more likely made to be wives or slaves.
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  1965. The vikings did consume mushrooms ( flugsvamp) That made them a bit crazy (hallucinations) mix that with their mjöd (beer) and the fact that they lack any fear of dying, as long it was done in a battle. Some reacted on the mix and went bersark, some went bersark anyway. The story written down by a Muslim about one viking, serving in the Varangian guard at the Byzantine Empire that killed 40 enemies when holding a bridge. Alone, no armour and heavily injured. I belive he went bersark 🤔 Now he is a proud member at Odins table. Skal tamigfan 🍻🍻🍻🍻
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  1966. When Dan Davis uploads, it’s a good day
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  1967. Great video! Told as a riveting story, with relevant, detailed and interesting visuals. Thank you for this beautiful work.
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  1968. Just finished your novel "Godborn", fucking brilliant. I was just wondering, how many novels were you planning this series to be
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  1969. Bloody love this, I do. Another homerun from Mr Davis!
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  1970. I'm from South shields and still live here its not very often you hear our little town's name anywhere 😊
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  1971. This was an excellent video. Thank you for your hard work on it. Subscribed.
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  1972. This was a highly interesting story. How was I entirely unfamiliar with it until now? Thank you for this excellent video.
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  1973. This video and your last one have been my favorite. It feel like I'm getting a grasp of the Bronze age. Thank you for making these!
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  1974. I've got to get your fiction books. If the history is this well researched, the books are going to be great.
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  1975. Every kid who grows up in California learns about the Donner Party in school, I was eleven and in the 5th grade when I learned about it. It is interesting that the Law of the Sea, allows for "survival cannibalism" as far back as the 15th century. But mortuary cannibalism was far more common than one would think, some native tribes in the Amazon basin practiced a form of this. Though the tradition I read about the tribe allowed the body to decompose, enough that the those who ate it, would not enjoy it. It being meant to honour the tribal member, and not as food. National Geographic (I think) had an article about a tribe in Ecuador? Where a local group of traditional magicians would kidnap and kill villagers, to then kill and eat some portion of their bodies. Then would caverns as places of ritual, an leave the body part is a specific arrangement. That was until the local villagers got together and shot gunned them down, and ended the practice.
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  1976. One of the best channels with Indo European content
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  1977.  @DanDavisHistory  "us good them bad" is silly tribalism unless, as you said, you are English, in which case it is objectively true
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  1978. Great topic! Always fascinated with how our ancestors lived. I appreciate your use of photos of the covers of the books you referenced. It gives me a subtle motivation to consider buying the books you have used.
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  1979. ​ @DanDavisHistory  Im interested in the neolithic farmers because im of Italian heritage.. Most videos speaking of the proto-european groups tend to focus more on the steppe migrations impact on northern Europe. Would be nice to learn a little more about the other groups and southern regions of Europe. Just a thought. Im really enjpying your videos either way and believe its more important than ever for people of European descent to learn about our ancestors and history. Keep up the good work mate!
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  1980. Great video. The Sintashta seem so pivotal and so interesting. Is there more you can do about them?
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  1981. Love these vids because they expand a person's knowledge and understanding by so much. This overall region (including going out a little farther in all directions) was so important to civilization.
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  1982. I think it likely that he was chased by a group. it seems like a difficult and dangerous task for a single individual to pursue and kill him given the time period involved. If so he must have been someone both important, and hated with a passion.
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  1983. Still interesting I have to read your books. Carsten
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  1984. Really well put together videos! Always liked your history! Do you edit these yourself with stock footage? Or outsource the editing? Been thinking making more videos with this style
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  1985. What if the dude in the fuck-off large kurgan, and unique weapon, IS Perkwunos? Or rather, an inspiration for him?
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  1986. Great video. I really love the storytelling at the end, think it speaks to why prehistory is so alluring-we absolutely can’t know for certain so much about these people’s lives but we can certainly do our best to imagine. That said, you do a fantastic job of balancing that speculation with a very solid presentation of the evidence that we do have. Well done:)
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  1987.  @DanDavisHistory  how did european martial arts develop ? Like in this era
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  1988. Felicidades y gracias,Dan.
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  1989. Superbly researched and put together, I know the Prehistory Guys think highly of your work, and I'd have to agree.
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  1990. My ancestors believed that the dog was actualy a guide and helper that assist you to cross the river, they do so if they recognize you so rewarding the loyalty that you showed them in life.
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  1991. I was thinking of Dawn of Man as well when I was watching this video. :)
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  1992. Algorithm Comment Cuz!
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  1993. Another great video! You would think a bow would be a better weapon to use out of a chariot then a lance or spear
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  1994. The most terrifying thing about this entire video is without a doubt the smiling Vlad
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  1995. Thank you for presenting. This made a delightful start to my day, at around 0600 drinking my coffee. There is copper here in Cornwall - but those quantities in "prehistoric" times...! Thanks again for introducing me to this more regional / global picture.
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  1996. I wonder if the farmers brought over tame animals or used the aurochs that were already in Britain basically starting a new domestication program when they got there
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  1997. I had a dna test done not so long ago & i have Sardinia in me from my Fathers side. Such wise Ancestors. Thank you, Love leaning about History💚
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  1998. The rendition set starting in 1066, pitting Robin against William the Conqueror begins with the volume "Sherwood". It was written by an American author Parke Godwin. As I remember it was a good read.
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  1999. Great video. As a kid I loved Arnold Schwarzenegger's Conan the Barbarian movie. I know that it doesn't represent this period of time but.... To this day that's what I imagine in my head when I watch videos or read about this era of human history.
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  2000. Once again another beautifully presented, content/fact-rich, thoroughly engrossing presentation. The best at it on YouTube. Thank you, Dan Davis History. 👍👌
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  2001. Bellissimo video ,la Sardegna è una terra ricchissima di meraviglie e sorprese che non ti aspetti
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  2002. This channel is fantastic. I felt stressed out from all of the work. I chose a comfy spot to sit, drank my coffee, and watched this clip, immersed in the pictures, feeling relaxed and refreshed afterwards. Keep up the great work!
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  2003. what a beautiful surprise for the morning, thank you so much for this piece, cheers!
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  2004. Very interesting documentary. I had never heard of William Marshall before...... A true legend
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  2005. I think horses would have been ridden to take men to war long before they were used in the battles themselves. The former is far simpler than the latter yet still provides significant military advantage in both mobility of forces and a relative lack of fatigue from travel. In raiding it adds the ability to take more booty after the fighting is done.
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  2006. You have shed so much light on a period I love daydreaming about, so much food for thought, love it, brilliant content! props to you!
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  2007. Spectacular! Great work as usual, Dan
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  2008. Traditions like this still carry on today.. like a young hunter having the blood of their first kill wiped onto their cheeks or forehead.
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  2009. Plot twist. It's not a myth.
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  2010. These ages were dark indeed. You are a fantastic story teller sir! Enjoyed the vid a LOT 👍 Greetings, T.
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  2011. Greatest knight ever was El Cid just saying (Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar)
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  2012. Ok, so when you mentioned the burial items of a male grooming kit I really thought you were about to segway into a dollar shave club sponsorship or something. That I even expected such a thing is telling about the state of youtube. Anyways, I've been keenly interested in weaponry and warfare of the copper age and later bronze age, it's always held my fascination that so far back in a period we still know so little of that people were very closely connected to one another by trade. Tin and copper are generally found far apart and it necessitated the first global trade network of these goods. Smelting bronze was the key to all other sorts of international trade that followed, and it extended from the great empires of the Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent all the way up to the seemingly isolated tribes of the north. All pitched in, all provided something from tin to copper to salt, and this is a time where men didn't even get into the habit of writing down history and most of it was known through ancient legends that were probably forgotten over the ages. The epic of Gilgamesh comes to mind, and its even thought that the legend of Heracles was once a tale of a real man who lived in the Stone Age that was retold via oral tradition over the centuries until it was finally put to parchment in Greece after many altered retellings. I'd love more of this content, from an analysis of society to the origins of legends. Please do continue.
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  2013. All the myths, tbh
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  2014. Brilliant. Plausible.
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  2015. It’s low-key strange how cannibalism is perfectly normal for animals but strange for humans…. I mean, if you gotta do it, you gotta do it. It’s just an animal at the end of the day. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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  2016. Fantastic vid Dan. Will have to tell my Hungarian mate who's just bought a horse about it. He'll be stoked. Thanks
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  2017. Nice! An early Christmas gift from Dan Davis!
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  2018. I grew up in ranchland of western Nebraska, about as different from Drake’s life as possible. But when I was little, my older brother built a model Golden Hind that fascinated me and began a lifelong devotion to Sir Francis Drake.
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  2019. I would actually love to read a version of this for the women/girls. Did they have an equivalent rite? Do we know? Would you be offended if I wrote something inspired by this but from a girl's perspective (if you don't want to)? I just found your channel and yep, I'm binge watching it because I don't use Amazon and I doubt your books are able to be delivered to NZ because damn I'm so intrigued now!
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  2020. Just helping with the algorithm👍🇺🇸💪💓
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  2021. This is great, I have never heard of the trypillian civilization, thank you for introducing me to it. I will certainly be watching more of your great videos.
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  2022. Thank you, very much! I've heard about ancestor worship all my life (my parents were missionaries to Northern Alberta Indiginous people) and now if understand it! You did a very good job of explaining it 🤗 totally makes sense now!
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  2023. This is one of my favourite ancient societies. Mostly because of the b00bs. I'm not gonna lie
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  2024. I have just been to the Ashmolean in Oxford, an incredible museum, and I think that your video's are a perfect compliment to places like that.
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  2025. Although my ancestors had their hearts at sea, and I also experience that attraction very much, I find this very interesting! Greetings from the north of the Netherlands 🌷, T.
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  2026. Terramare is one badass of a name ngl
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  2027. keep it up this is great pace... great video...
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  2028. I'm so glad I found this channel. Always look forward to your uploads.
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  2029. This was an impressive presentation of one of History's most remarkable Mariners and Heroes, Dan Davis History! KUDOS! Well done, sir!
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  2030. I have the feeling that the horns were a symbol of rank. The short horn caps were a convenient way to communicate that you served a great lord, were a man of consequence on a mission and were not to be fucked with. The association with travel and war to me suggest a representation of authority to protect them as they travel.
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  2031. Thanks Dan, I really enjoyed that - a good story well told. I like your laconic delivery and you have a good eye for a largely unknown tale. It's hilarious how selective British public attention is - nationalism is a very powerful filter. Would be interested to know more about the Dutch 1688 invasion - sorry, Glorious Revolution.
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  2032. Never even considered the plague that far back. I didn't think the population density would support it. It may wreck havoc in a town or city but would die out due to no close populations large enough to support it.
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  2033. In Heathenism, Hella, a primary goddess of death has a huge black hound named Garm, who guards her realm of the dead. However it's not guaranteed which realm you'll go to when you die. It depends on lifestyle. We all know warriors worthy of the Aesir will go to their halls. Some believe the elves (immortal) are spirits of the dead.
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  2034. Yes, please, on doing a video on The Wild Hunt. It's fascinating how it pops up in diverse cultures. There are common elements, which is interesting, but I think the differences speak to the nature of the individual cultures and how they evolved.
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  2035. Another connection I found is the mytheme of the Indo-European Divine Twins Mánus and Yemós, and the Mayan Hero Twins Hunahpú and Xbalanqué. Mánus sacrificed Yemós to bring order and life to the current world we live in. The soul of Yemós went to the underworld, and thus he became the first mortal. In the myth of Hunahpú and Xbalanqué, their father and uncle Hun-Hunahpú and Vucub-Hanahpú are summoned to the underworld to play a ballgame. They face many trials of trickery, they fail and are killed. Hunahpú and Xbalanqué go to the underworld to avenge their father and uncle, to which they won. Both myths involve Twins in the underworld in some way. Mánus is the ancestor of humanity in Proto-Indo-European religion, and the Mayan Hero Twins are considered the ancestors to the Mayan ruling classes. With Indo-European tribes, each ethnic group within different linguistic groups had heroes as their founder of the tribe (Hercules of the Dorians and Spartans, Theseus of the Athenians, Saxnōt of the Saxons, and Gaut of the Geats). I also think that the Proto-Indo-Europeans had hero founders of tribes in the mythology of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. I believe that the Ancient North Eurasian ancestors of the Native Americans, the Indo-Europeans, and the Siberians, also had Divine Twins that involve the underworld in some way.
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  2036. Halfway through and I had to stop make this comment. Why is my mind leaping To the story of the boyhood deeds of Cuchullain. Specifically the story where he earns his name. In the Rémscela, Sort of a prequell or foreword To the Tain the great Irish epic. A series of tales often called the boyhood deeds of Cuchullain Gives the listener cause originally it was an oral tradition A sense of context for the hero. In this specific story he is busy playing and when invited to a feast held by the Smith Cullain He delays So as to continue his play. King Conchobar Forgets to tell the Smith the young boy will be coming in the Smith releases a monstrous hound That guards his home and smithy. Arriving late Cuchullain Is attacked by the hound and is forced to kill it. The Smith is distraught his protection is removed. Cuchullain Promises to stand in the dogs stead as guard dog Until a pup can be raised to replace the killed hound. He is from that time for referred to as Cullains hound - Cuchullain. The Tain Contains in itself much older elements of oral tradition. Is this what we see here- a death ritual the- slaying of a hound and a young man becomes in effect an adult. Food for thought. Back to your excellent video. Addendum: After watching the rest of the video I can't help but note Cullain Is believed by many myself being one of them to be an incarnation or avatar may be a better word of Manannan mac Lir. Manannan is a psychopomp Amongst other things. And his land Magh Mel is in the Western sea. He is also associated with the Fianna, one of the last incarnations of the Korynos. Sorry for the length of my comment.
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  2037. So interesting that people from all over europe build warrior like statues out of stone, a couple weeks ago i visited the pre-historic site of Filitosa on Corsica where i saw such similar stone warrior like sculptures.
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  2038. Though I knew of William Marshal I had little detail. Thank you Mr. Davis for your work. This documentary confirms for me that those who serve morally and with courage are the greatest among us however humble, especially the humble. We really need more people like William Marshal. UKUK
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  2039. Brilliant. Your hypothesis of the positioning of barrows with the boundaries put me in mind of the reaves on Dartmoor. Is there physical evidence of a boundary of some kind? Other than the topographical brow of a ridge/hill.
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  2040. Would you consider making a video about the Sky-Disc of Nebra and its people ? - Thank you in the forehand :D
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  2041. Ahhh finally a Sargon video I like.
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  2042. I absolutely love this channel, you bring fascinating stories of the ancient past back to life. Great job.
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  2043. Not an expert here but with what is known it seems like a control for a valued resource. One might assume this wouldn't have been the only attempt on the part of the attacker at clashing over resources. There are most likely other battle sites just like this throughout parts of Europe. Can't wait to see what's found next.
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  2044. Hello Dan! Really liked this episode but i got a question: if spears, swords, and bows where the common weapons of these eras how obiquitous were the Slings, clubs, and maces? from what I've seen of other societies of these times and of antiquity it seems that for example warriors armed with slings were very much sought after for their value in the battle (like balearic slingers in anitquity) and I like to think that clubs and maces where even more simple to make than swords and axes so where this weapons also used?
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  2045. Awesome as always!
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  2046. Thank you for doing this video. This is in my opinion, one of the most important history subjects for modern people. Because what our ancestors ate is important to guide what WE should be eating 🙂
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  2047. I believe that the appearance of armor first leather,bone and eventually metal is the evidence of a warrior class. With armor the warrior class could dominate the peasant class with virtual impunity.
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  2048. Great stuff. Subscribing. You should consider a collab with history time, another excellent British channel
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  2049. 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!!! 🌊🌊🏄‍♀️🏄‍♂️
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  2050. An alternate history following the cementing of position and power of “King Louis of England” would be fascinating.
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  2051. Tack!
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  2052. Sintashta is cool, but Arkaim (belonging to the same culture) was even better.
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  2053. It's always a pleasure to watch your videos. They are both entertaining and informative.
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  2054. Thank you Dan, another brilliant vid, clearly superbly researched and wonderfully told as usual 👍
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  2055. I cannot understand why I didn't encounter this culture many years ago when researching the symbolic use of tholos form in classical Greece. It is fascinating and extremely well presented and narrated. Bookmarked! But sadly I no longer research!!
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  2056. Excellent video. And, appreciate the look into the world this man lived in. It can, even thousands of years later reveal how human we are.
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  2057. Definitely interested in more ice-age and paleo content. Our beginnings. Thanks Dan. Love your work.
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  2058. These stories are always fun to think about but don't stand up when you apply any real thought to it, there'd be mountains of evidence if there really had been a transatlantic copper mining and trading operation going on.
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  2059. This is the best channel in all of YouTube.
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  2060. Awesome video! I love how you dive deep into these archeological mysteries and come up with plausible answers.
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  2061. Very nice.
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  2062. That's a true sacrifice. Just pondering it leaves me a bit melancholy. Much different than the sacrifice of a goat or lamb, which sounds more like a barbecue. Great video, despite the fact that it bummed me out.
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  2063. Hi Dan, thank you very much and kudos to your next fragment of restoration of the early European archaeological history! Please please please keep them coming! I'm only a common man interested in archaeology. I'm working at the intersection of linguistics, brain science, and computer wicca. I naturally took up historical linguistics but used to be sort of dismissive of the link between languages and cultures (Latin all over Europe or Normann French in England as a societal stratum are counterexamples showing that language ≠ culture). There is a correlation on the whole, but what language which culture spoke is more often is a conundrum than not. I was surprised to learn that Anthony's “The Horse, the Wheel and the Language” has received so much critique, entirely undeservedly if you ask me, from both the linguistics and archeology communities. This at times rose to a grotty level: the burials at Sintasha/Arkhanar(sp?) and smaller surrounding settlement so precisely match the funeral ritual in Rig Veda that it at the least should have been at the least interesting to the archeologists... IMO, the studies combining historic linguistics and archaeology are sorely wanting. 1) A question: were the Únětice culture PIE-speaking? The kurgan burials seem to suggest so, if what you're describing are in fact classified as kurgans. 2) A note: It's been known that the trade around the Mediterranean has not developed money at all, all the way until the 12c. collapse. It's so surprising that a culture of a smaller scale had possibly invented fiat(!) money (there's no intrinsic value in these globular clay tokens) centuries earlier, if it's reasonably confirmed. If so, that attests to the great power of the chiefs, as fiat money are trusted only as much as their guarantor.
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  2064. Thank You, Dan. This was really interesting for me as I now live in Pitted ware country, as far as i can tell by your maps. I left archeology back around 1972. I was fascinated by the Ertebölle Culture as it seemed to me that they were on the edge of moving into agriculture. I really like your way of presenting. My wife and I like to spend time in Brantevik. Lots of petroglyphs! I'm looking forward to your presentation. Thank you so much, and please, keep up the good work. Best wishes, JH
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  2065. Splendidly done! I was on the edge of my seat from start to finish!
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  2066. It's crazy to think just how big this battle might've been as the only things that was perserved were in the river.
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  2067. Brilliant well researched video! William Marshaall's story is truly inspiring❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻⭐️
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  2068. Just ordered book 1&2! I'll be waiting on the front porch for Amazon on saturday! Can't wait
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  2069. Just found out I have Yamnaya dna!
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  2070. I love your maps. They help bring the story to life. {:-:-:}
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  2071. I like the chariot wheels at 2 :42, Aluminum forks and rubber tires were all the rage back then. LOL I do love the channel
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  2072. Great story. Again. Thanks.
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  2073. Thanks for creating, awesome work as usual
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  2074. A video on the stone tomb complex sounds amazing. Thanks for this video, it was very informative and I enjoyed it!
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  2075. Dan I can't believe I got my notification 🔔 , I just had my dinner a got into my nest to chill out, thank you for your work . I haven't watched it yet but I just know it's QUALITY. This is my dessert 🍰. Peace ✌ 🇮🇪
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  2076. As always, so interesting 😮
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  2077. history buff from sardinia here. very pleased to see THIS getting the "dan davis treatment". thank you!
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  2078. It's about a 3000 BC culture and a lot of 'woke' comments 😴
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  2079. Might end up watching all your stuff today, brilliant content 👌
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  2080.  @DanDavisHistory  well whatever you call it it's great! you really set the scene.
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  2081. @Andrew you have a lot to learn my friend
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  2082. Nice video, I always thought the scene with the wolf in 300 was a good symbolic look at the indo european initiation into manhood, whether they meant it to be or not who knows
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  2083. You just keep uploading! It's awesome
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  2084. Tfw you'll never trip on shrooms and perform war chants before battle with your homies and other members of your raiding party.
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  2085. Keep up the great work!!
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  2086. Dan Davis, the one channel whose videos you can safely like before watching the video. I'm a lecturer in archaeology and rate this work very highly
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  2087. Imagine the lost battles we’ve never even heard of or discovered yet..... that’d be awesome
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  2088. Hi Dan, I really enjoyed the video. It enormously clarified a lot of things for me. I just wanted to mention I read an article, a few month ago, that Mesolithic people seem to have formed a powerful elite at New Grange. Prestigious burial sites had individuals with Mesolithic DNA and there was also evidence they were inter breeding to a significant extent -like the Egyptian Pharos. Thanks again.
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  2089. Thank you Dan! It was very interesting to follow. Yet, there's so much more to explore and present about this culture.
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  2090. Just found your channel and I enjoy how you condense the information, yet maintaining the details. I have never heard of this specific area. I can't wait to check out your other videos.
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  2091. I agree with the summary of these. Don't take Scotland seriously.
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  2092. Awesome content!! If you wish to, consider doing the same treatment to King Sebastian of Portugal, there's even a Portuguese messianic myth called Sebastanism based that he would reappear and return to Portugal at some point in the future.
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  2093. As a history enthusiast, I found this documentary to be both educational and compelling. The analysis of Vlad's tactics against the Ottomans and his infamous reputation is brilliantly presented, offering a deeper understanding of this pivotal historical era. Thank you!
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  2094. This is an excellent video. Every time I think you might lead us astray you come back with the true point like with the importance of plant gathering or wild ecosystem management. Our role in our ecosystem after all is very similar to the beaver, we are ecosystem engineers
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  2095. What I'm curious of is how different the sea levels were back then. It's hard to find maps of such things. We know about Beringia connection north america and russia but what about other places, like gibraltar or english channel?
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  2096. the baltic sea including southern scandinavia had contact with the mediterrianian civilizations, the proofs of that is the amber that is found in egypt, mycene, crete, and so on, was of baltic origine. and the burialcustoms and the rockcarvings of brozeage southern scandinavia and the southern mediterranian is as similuar to each others that it is clearly intercultural exchange.
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  2097. Absolutely love this channel. Thanks for all the work Dan.
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  2098. Would you please record yourself reading the entire King James Bible.
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  2099. They may have had drugs that induced an erection. I remember reading about some french soldiers having this problem after eating snails that lived on a certain plant.
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  2100. I've been in construction for 20 years . They still haven't come up with hand protection that allows full mobility and function while protecting the hand fully. I hang rain gutters specifically and more often than not I have to remove the gloves to get the flexibility to feel what I'm doing properly . I have to imagine a person who makes their living with a weapon in their hand wants that same flexibility and would sacrifice the hand guard in exchange.
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  2101. Loved the book Dan. Can't wait for the next one in the series!
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  2102. Dan, I love your output, including your very relevant posts and reposts on Twitter. I appreciate the way you help connect us with the lives of our ancestors!
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  2103. Another great video! I actually got a tattoo of the Nebra Sky Disc on my back a couple of years ago to represent my love all all things history and archaeology!
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  2104. Amazing as always, Mr. Davis. I am really in awe of your work as a whole but this more recent series relating to the Isles is really truly on another level and I just have to thank you for the insane amount of time and love and detail that you put into it. Thank you. I am enamored and cannot wait for the next installment but i must! Everyone I know is probably very tired of me sharing your videos and babbling on about your content but the ones who take the time to check them out are similarly amazed and intrigued as i. Anyway, sorry to ramble, but sincere love and thanks again from North Florida. Your work is a treasure.
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  2105. Yes, a DDH upload! Excellent as usual! ❤😊❤
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  2106. Great video! Would love to see a follow up on the Dorian invasion.
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  2107.  @DanDavisHistory  I have been reading about the Neolithic/ Indo European era for about 35 years, trying, not very successfully, to get an understanding of it. Your channel really helps. Thanks!
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  2108. Great video! Considering that stress causes you to lose your erection, having one would indicate courage. Wikipedia says they had similarities with Mycenae, and trade contacts. Do you know if that's true?
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  2109. Before horse-riding, I would guess a thousand years at least of small horses for haulage, perhaps first without and later with, wheels.
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  2110. Another fascinating work, Thank you Mr. Davis.
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  2111. Thank you for this excellent piece! Educational and entertaining. We need to know so much more about our past history. There is still so much nonsense being taught by Quackademia.
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  2112. Dan Davis returns with an hour of glorious narrative. Happy days! Thank you Dan.
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  2113. Thanks for the video Dan. Just wanted to say that your very well researched and articulated presentations led me to read both of your Gods of Bronze books. I love your take on Bronze Age Europe. Keep up the good writing sir!
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  2114. Brilliantly narrated and researched. I live not a mile from Drakes birthplace and whilst the house is long gone, nothing but an ivy clad wall in a field, it should be recognised in someway. But alas the only change is a notice board beside his statue (the original not the the Plymouth copy) declaring (and apologising for) his small part in the slave trade. Amazing to think somewhere is still a treasure of Drake's to be found, his drawings and notes.
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  2115. you never fail to put out great content, thank you for your hard work! the bronze age and prehistory in general is so damn fascinating, I think I might actually go back to school for archaeo/anthropology
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  2116. This was an excellent documentary, I loved it sooo much. Thanx!
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  2117. Bronze age European ships couldn't sail across the Atlantic. Even when traveling across the Mediterranean they stayed close to the coast. They also couldn't hold many supplies for the crew (another reason for staying close to land) so even if they somehow reached America they wouldn't be able to fill the ships with both copper and enough food for the journey back
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  2118. Thanks for excellent content Dan, this video was fascinating and well produced. Merry Christmas
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  2119. Good video. I was fascinated by this from the moment his discovery was announced, and I ready many of the early studies and accounts of both his body, and all the equipment found with him. Whilst much is speculation, and we can never know much for certain, I think we can safely say some fairly certain things about him. What seems absolutely certain, is that Otzi was primarily a hunter. Much of his food, clothing and equipment was made from wild animals, and wild plants, not domestic animals and plants. Likewise, his equipment of a bow and arrows, and the fact he had started making a new bow, and repairing arrows, says that he was both equipped as a hunter, and was used to making both his own hunting equipment, and clothing. You would have expected if he was a shepherd, or lived in a primarily agricultural settlement, that far more of his clothing, equipment and food, would have been made from the leftovers of slaughtered sheep or goats, and agricultural plants and grasses. It has been posited, that his bow was used in his role as a shepherd, for driving Wolves etc away. I think this is very unlikely, as a bow is not the best or most effective weapon for either driving Wolves or possibly Bears away, or defending himself against them. Typically a shepherd would be armed with something like a sling, a staff or a spear. It would be wasteful and not very effective, firing arrows at more distant predators, which could easily dodge an arrow fired at them. This is not just speculation. I cannot think of any shepherds, who have typically carried a bow. A sling is not unusual for a shepherd, and a hand spear is far more effective for defending yourself against an attacking animal. Arrows don't have much stopping power, and even if you fatally wounded a bear charging at you with an arrow, it would probably seriously injure or kill you before it succumbed to its wounds. The food, the equipment and clothing, all point towards a man who was primarily a hunter. It then goes into the realms of speculation, if you start positing whether he was a hunter who lived in a group that also farmed, if he lived in a small hunting community, if he was a loner who often supported himself etc. I'm aware that a lot of excavations of Neolithic settlements from the era, show that even in mainly agricultural communities, there was a certain amount of hunting of wild animals. It is impossible to know whether this was mainly done by specialists who lived in otherwise agricultural settlements, or if many hunted part-time in such communities. However, being as so much of Otzi's clothes and food, was derived from wild animals or plants, it indicates that Otzi's primary activity was hunting.
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  2120. Kyrios means ''master'' ''lord'' on the other hand the word Kouros (KΟΥΡΟΣ) comes to mind. Kouros (in Ionian) or Koros (ΚΩΡΟΣ) (in Dorian) means ''Lad'' ''Teenager''. Another interesting group that comes to mind are the Kouretes (KΟΥΡΗΤΕΣ). They are supposed to be followers iof Kybele in Asia Minor, or a Cretan warrior group that protected the newborn Zeus from his father Kronos by clashing their weapons everytime the baby cried, in a cave of mount Ida. The result of this was the invention of the Pyrrichios war dance. Also the invention of hunting equipment is attributed to them along with many basic social rules.
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  2121. Bronze age Europe is very underrated. Lots of great innovations and unique civilizations occured in this period.
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  2122. I enjoyed how you wandered through the many possibilities and hypothesis surrounding this individual, his life, and his death, without specifically defining any one of them as being factual. Personally, liked the goat herder robed of his flock as the most likely event, due to the condition of his arrows. If they really were that important, as a hunter or a warrior, they would have been better tended. Thank you for this wonderful video! Subscribing for the next one!
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  2123. Yeh, I have been waiting for new share! Quality as alsways! Baie dankie, meneer Davis
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  2124. I new he was man , but i didn't realize how great he was until i seen this.. this man Is such a legend wow.. what a OG to say the least
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  2125. If you look at mountain shepherd societies of Balkans about 2-300 years ago, you can see that everybody was lean, since you had to walk a lot even if you could afford a horse. Adult males watched over flock, since there was no law reinforcers to fight rustlers. And they carried weapons all the time. They ate meat of domesticated animals only rarely, but would drink milk whenever available. Cheese and wool were valuable trade items and they sold surplus of animals to butchers in towns. Occasionally there were vendettas for years or generations, and raids to valleys happened, especially on people with different faith even as recent as 200 years ago.
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  2126. I think the very early "berserkers", who were those Koryos unhinged from (their)community and never to return who went on to found their own clans and expand ever on out, were(proto germanic) Erilaz. Erilaz in that language meaning someone who operates enough outside the "natural world" to have mastered certain important esoteric principles and formulas. Otherwise known as rune-masters. From the word "erilaz" evolves the word "Heruli", the name of an early Germanic tribe that was likely less a migrating group seeking a place to found a Kingdom, and more a mobile tribe of warriors and mystics who raided, fought for money as mercenaries, and generally lived the koryos lifestyle as (for them) a societal norm. Also from the proto germanic word "erilaz", evolves the old norse word "jarl" and the old english word "eorl/earl". An Earl being a tribal chieftain and ideally someone who won that chiefdom by force and actively expands it. As per the Rigsthula of the Poetic Edda: 34. Earl grew up there at the hall. He began to shake linden shields He fixed bow strings, bent elm, shafted arrows flung spears, sped lances, rode horses, hunted with hounds, swung swords and swam the sound. 35. Then (the god) Rig came walking from the grove. Walking Rig came, taught Earl the runes and granted his own name, saying it belonged to his son. Rig bade him take possession of odal vales and old halls. 36. Earl rode further thence through Mirkwood, over frosty fell, until he came to a hall. He began to shake spears, to shatter shields. He rode forth on his horse, swung his sword, wakened war, bloodied the earth dropped corpses, fought for land. 37. He ruled eighteen halls, he dealt wealth, and granted it to all. He showered rings, gifts and jewels, and slender horses. He divided rings of gold amongst his folk. I think this bit of the Rigsthula is a variation of a theme as ancient as the Koryos. I do not think any daughter culture of the proto indo european has maintained and centralized the koyros phenomenon as much the germanics have. My best bet is that the pre-proto germanic PIE dialect was spoken by late koryos who had congealed into their own mobile tribe much as the Herulians did later on. When this tribe had evolved and differentiated itself enough to be truly distinct from the broader PIE homogenous society, they became their own people, literally a fusion of "the people and army", the word they called themselves and which we today call ourselves: the folk. This was right about 1,000 BCE, the same time as the Great Germanic Soundshift, when proto germanic became its own language separate from proto indo european. There is a bit of supposition laden belief that Odin somehow usurped Tyr as the leader of the Aesir or "top Germanic god". I posit that Tiwaz was never that chief and that without Wodanaz, you do not even have a significant enough differentiation from proto indo european to constitute a separate culture or society. Aka No Chief Odin, no Germanic divergence from proto indo european. Because Tiwaz stays at home, not only in the community as an established male, but as the Irminsul; the axis mundi, the central reference point of cosmic and moral orientation, and as has survived in the Old English Rune Poem, the north star by which geographic navigation can be oriented. Likely, just prior to the 1st germanic sound shift, the myth went that Wodanaz brought home a wolf which Tiwaz had to deal with, and which bit off his sword hand, making Wodanaz chief by necessity. The allegory would be that the wolf brought home was the wolf within the "koryos", which would grow so massive that it would consume not only the "koryos" but all of society ("the world") along with it. This would eventually happen no mater what, but could be delayed for as long as possible if societal moral orientation were to shift to become far more tolerant of "wolf like" behavior. What does the word "gleipnir" mean after all, but "the open one". The binding of the wolf is a trick and only the wolf believes it, after all, the locks which "bind" him have been open the whole time. As a result, "justice" is halved, Tiwaz loses his arm (his ability to effectively control chaos), the wolf god is ascended and will harry all known worlds for at least the next 3,000 years. In the words, or at least the spirit, of Heisenberg from the show Breaking Bad, "I am not the one who loses the hand, I am the one who bites it off".
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  2127. Well done. Thank you. In my old age, I'm filling in the gaps in my knowledge of European history. This so helped.
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  2128. Man, that is some excellent content for prehistory fans you're putting out. Thank you very much for making these, all absolutely fascinating. Gonna go get that book of yours on audible for sure. You know if/when the 2nd book will be on there? Looks like only the 1st one is there now?
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  2129. Bravo! What a cool narative journey into ages long forgotten. Beautiful work, man!
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  2130. Ancient America's Dan Davis crossover when? You are 2 of my favorite people on YouTube!
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  2131. absolutely lost in Godborn...more more more :)
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  2132.  @DanDavisHistory  We appreciate you for it! Cheers Dan, love your work.
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  2133. Quick point, when discussing numbers sources during the anarchy tended only to list the numbers of knights and archers. Which suggests they where considered highly useful.
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  2134. William Marshal is my 27th direct grandfather. This was a wonderful piece. Thanks for the work you do.
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  2135. Probably not a lot from the Bronze Age because of the rarity of the material used, it’s likely after a battle it was someone’s job to go around collecting armor and weapons to be melted down and/or reused.
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  2136. Interesting. I grew up in Kivik and have been in the King's grave many times, but never realized that the cone could be a hat.
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  2137. Heavy dairy diet + lack of lactase persistence, can't have been a pleasant combination lol
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  2138.  @DanDavisHistory  Also you can drink kefir if you're lactose intolerant.
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  2139. dude I am so interested in the stone tomb complex. Another awesome Vid Dan. Thank you for making these.
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  2140. Thoroughly enjoyed that!
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  2141. If you have European ancestry you are in all likelihood a descendant of him.
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  2142. I'll tell ya, without electricity to run TVs Computers and the like. Regular people moved a lot of muck and stones in their spare time.😅
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  2143. Maybe the multi eyeballed warriors were symbolic of the naturally skilled or a tactical genius. We still refer to good successful generals/admirals as being some sort of wizard (or demon). Presenting this to your enemy in a form of a symbol would have been a great piece of early psychological warfare, perhaps Francis Drake should have had some sort of dragon as his coat of arms? The parallels between what you have said over several video's, especially this one and the Spartan culture spring to mind. 2 rulers, turfing the kids out to learn their trade as it were (still practiced in Norman culture and in the UK till the 19th century). Maybe the small horned men were the ones who had been accepted by a family/sub group/guild type institution?
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  2144. I wish there was a better history for this time period. How amazing would it be if there had been a written account of the conflict like there would be for the war upon which the Trojan War is based? To not just wonder what may have happened, but to have an accounting for later generations. What a thing that would be.
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  2145. Hmm what I find interesting about this is the geological circumstances for why this mine and other Porphyry copper deposits are connected to the ancient volcanic arc archipelago of Avalonia the limestone and dolomite are Carboniferous in age but hydrothermal alteration like this requires a underlying magma chamber given that the formation of Laurussia/Euromerica to form the Caledonian orogeny took place 430–420 Mya which would have terminated such volcanic activity this means this copper would have had to have been entrained millions of years earlier than that when Avalonia still existed as an island arc complex much like modern Indonesia today. This means the timescales between when these minerals were entrained by geothermal activity and when humans found and excavated them are unfathomably vast, seeing the formation of Pangaea, the colonization of Pangaea by the amniotes, the rise of synapsids including the mammal like therapsids, their downfall in the great dying leaving only a few groups most notably the small burrowing cynodonts form which mammals are the last descendants, the rise of the equally metabolically active but metabolically more efficient archosaurs outcompeting most remaining synapsids seeing the first dynasty of the pseudosuchian archosaurs terminating at the end Triassic extinction leaving only the crocodylomorphs with dinosaurs rising to their prime for more than a hundred million years ending only in a sudden cataclysm arriving at one of the worst places when when the climate was already stressed, and even when the lucky few mammals and birds survived into the post impact winter it still took over 60 million years for our genus to rise and only come to dominate our world in the last 50,000 years through technological innovation. In essence these ore deposits have sat there for more than 2/5 of a billion years as mountains rose an fell terrestrial ecological dynasties came and ended in unthinkably monuments cataclysms only to be discovered and mined out in the geological blink of an eye by humans the extent which our species has developed to shape our world is frankly astonishing.
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  2146. What a comprehensive and objective presentation of information on such an interesting glimpse into the Bronze Age. I've come across your videos before, but this one earned you a new subscriber. Can't wait to see what you produce next, awesome work! On a side note, I personally really like the idea of Ötzi as a hunter who travels from settlement to settlement trading furs and meat in exchange for goods and other foodstuffs. I imagine perhaps he was pursued by members of the last settlement he stopped in, seeking something he possessed or perhaps to deal justice for a perceived slight against them. What started as a scuffle in the valley led to a brutal murder on a mountain top. Whatever the case, his story will likely continue to fascinate contemporary humans for a long long time.
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  2147. Excellent. Learnt something, reaffirmed stuff I know and covered it all in great visuals and atmosphere. A constant 10 out 10 performance means you must be the Michael Jordan or Ronaldo of You Tubes Historians. Impressive.
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  2148. Here in black Africa this story of Vlad is rivaled by the exploits of King Shaka, who also had childhood scores to settle. In the end, the child is truly the father of men.
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  2149. Seems to me the Corded Ware were precursors to Germanics and the Yamna the precursors to Scythians, once the same people, gradually growing more distinct over centuries.
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  2150. As an amateur history buff of Anatolia and Mesopotamia, I found this video startling and amazing. A whole new twist on the ancients has opened for me here. Oh my oh my oh my, what a wonderful rabbit hole I have found here upon discovering your channel. I look forward to diving deep into your past episodes and will look forward to future ones. Big Thanks
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  2151. Big up Oldeuropeanculture for the ancient wisdom 👌
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  2152. Spot on mate, spot on...
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  2153. Fascinating, maybe the Unetice culture in Central Europe is a successor of the Maykop or Southern Yamnaya people. Have you mentioned them before? They seem to be mainly responsible for bringing the R1b haplogroup to Central and Western Europe. The Unetice culture had excellent metal skills (Nebra sky disk) and is suspected to be the forerunner of the Celtic, Italic and Germanic languages. "The archeological and genetic evidence (distribution of R1b subclades) point at several consecutive waves towards eastern and central Germany between 2800 BCE and 2300 BCE. The Unetice culture was probably the first culture in which R1b-L11 lineages played a major role. It is interesting to note that the Unetice period happen to correspond to the end of the Maykop (2500 BCE) and Kemi Oba (2200 BCE) cultures on the northern shores of the Black Sea, and their replacement by cultures descended from the northern steppes. It can therefore be envisaged that the (mostly) R1b population from the northern half of the Black Sea migrated westward due to pressure from other Indo-European people (R1a) from the north, for example that of the burgeoning Proto-Indo-Iranian branch, linked to the contemporary Poltavka and Abashevo cultures." https://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_R1b_Y-DNA.shtml https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unetice_culture
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  2154. Another excellent video Dan. The stick men have plenty to tell, but I do wish we could further bridge the divide of ages. Maybe one day a key will reveal itself, if these are still being discovered and studied.
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  2155. I named my son for William Marshall (although we called him Marshall William) because I wanted to honour such a great man. People think he's named after Marshall Mathers/Eminem, I enjoy telling them about The Marshall.
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  2156. Interesting and thanks for not interjecting current thinking into history as many do. History is best described from the writings or knowledge from the actual time when it was happening by those who lived in it. The rest is a half educated guess. Well done !!
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  2157.  @DanDavisHistory  You've got me thinking and maybe believing experience and memory can be transferred genetically. What a lovely word "Broch"
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  2158.  @DanDavisHistory  and thanks for giving me a great idea. now i'm going to build a broch beehive!
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  2159. It makes no sense. Copper was in many places so it wouldn't have made sense to go to America to mine or buy it even if there was possible to reach it with the sailing technology of the time, which is also highly unlikely. Only tin was scarce since it was only found in Iberia, Britain and Afghanistan.
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  2160. I don't think they where the first to live on the plains, but the first to have herds of horses and other domestic animals that needed to travel to new grazing areas all the time. Because of that they need wagons and horses, hunter gatherers could live there without that.
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  2161. Straight forward and honest presentation of available evidence. For once i don't feel as though im being manipulated or brainwashed. I'd like to see a future video done on the Maikop "Kurgan" Culture of the Caucasus.
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  2162. Sounds a whole lot like how the nomads of Mongolia live today
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  2163. Thank you, Dan, for creating an understanding to our history.. they say don't read the comments, you deserve to get paid for all your hard work, so partnering with a sponsor and passing befits to us is appreciated
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  2164. I enjoyed your video, especially because I live close to the areas you described (Verona). Unfortunately the quality of the information in Italy on pre-Roman populations or after the Roman-Germanic reigns are not very popular here.
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  2165. Truely amazing story, thank you for bringing it to us in an easy to follow, informative way.
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  2166. Great video ) Hyper_Borea is the forge of peoples! The Yamna culture looks like that forge.
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  2167. great video! i didn't know about this site! this time period was the most significant in European history in regards to laying the foundation of genetic and cultural stock for what all Europe would be until modern times. Its the secret past just beyond the known written one. IMO i think that corded ware culture brought the horse into Europe along with a warrior culture, while metallurgy was controlled by the southeastern nation states of the time. The horse riding warriors made good capital equity through their actions, and created a demand for metal weapons. These warriors in turn merged with metallurgists to control the arms production and create a syndicate. This syndicate used economics and imperial conquest to seed the first warrior kings throughout Europe who would than conquer and impose on the local populations, and the outcome was the cultures we know later, Celts, Germans, Latins, Eutruscans, Greeks, Iberians, slavs ect. ect.
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  2168. I fucking died at the Lyme disease smile. You do excellent work, and the subtly of the humor is prime.
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  2169. So much has changed, but some things have always remained the same.
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  2170. Maybe something on the Huns would be interesting?
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  2171. A really interesting episode about a fascinating figure who is often mentioned but then pretty much overlooked as an 'extra' in accounts of this period. Something in the episode did make me want to ask your opinion - and that of fellow viewers - on something that has been boggling my mind bit since I first heard it. I've seen a few documentaries in which the use of the warhorse, or destrier, has been cast into doubt, apparently based on archaeological finds suggesting that the horses used by knights were actually no bigger than ponies. Like I say, this boggles my mind a bit and although I know that ponies can be pretty hardy little things, it just doesn't seem to compute to me given the nature of the battles/tournaments at this time - in fact, it brings an almost Python-esque image to mind. I'd be really interested to know what you and others think about this theory and also any sources that you know of that might be enlightening. Thank you.
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  2172. Your mention of warriors coming to each other's aid resonates with Beowulf coming to aid Hrothgar...
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  2173. Excellent choice. I'm impressed
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  2174. Panels on the Sutton Hoo helmet also depict twinned warriors wearing what looks like horned helms, but are actually stylised birds. In 3D carvings of the same these are not on a helm, but fly directly from the head, thus they're thought to represent Odin's ravens: Huginn (Thought) and Muninn (Memory). It seems that Iron Age peoples (and maybe earlier) had a sense of what facility could be lost when one side of the brain is injured.
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  2175. Thank you for another brilliant video! You are what truly got me into prehistory
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  2176. Perfect way to start my Sunday morning. Thanks for the video Dan
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  2177. Amazing work. The Western World is in need of a great Wild Hunt. I pray every day for the return of our ancestors.
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  2178. Would be interesting to see a video on the comb ceramic culture by you.
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  2179. Beautiful work here. Such great visuals with your dedicated research… brilliant 👍💕🥰
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  2180.  @DanDavisHistory  Lol, gave me a good chuckle.
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  2181. So southern Europeans retained more of the neolithic DNA which was widespread throughout Europe prior to the arrival of the yamnaya steppe tribes.
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  2182. At first I was quite skeptical of the idea of engaging with a conspiracy theory, and a particularly silly one in this case, but I thought that was very well done and this has to be one of your best video. I guess a nice topic to explore now would be bronze age building techniques.
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  2183. So happy to see your channel is blowing up. Well done mate and keep it up!
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  2184. Were it not for these, I'd have no use for YouTube
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  2185. Farming not steppe, true origin for all. Do not forget other Caucasoid groups.
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  2186. Thank you for this seriously indepth video on the copper and bronze age of britain, I especially loved the section on the mold cape with how intricate it is
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  2187. If Stonehenge was important to the old ruling class I'm not shocked that the new ruling class would continue to use it. It probably represented authority during that time period.
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  2188. Morning Dan, Well put Sir!! Annoys the Hell out of me that the Fleur De Lys is the Flag of my Hometown and that Warrenes were the Local Lords and even worse later the Savilles. Subscribed and will read Crusader Vampires on Kindle, Look forward to the Robin Hood Video, I believe He was Real and that He was a Warren Bastard, Likely Fostered by Odo of Richmond Castle.
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  2189. I too get frustrated with the idea that strife is somehow better than peaceful societies. This sort of 'thinking' assumes an unwarranted causality. Who's to say that we wouldn't have still had Michelangelo and da Vinci even without the Borgias? As for the Renaissance, that had next to nothing to do with the Borgias, especially not with their corruption. It was down to creative stimulation due to contact with other societies, that is, communication. In this case, lots of Europeans traveled through other parts of Europe to the Middle East for the Crusades, but it wasn't the wars themselves that caused the Renaissance, it was the mentally broadening effect of travel.
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  2190. Fantastic stuff, very compelling narration .
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  2191. As a distant relative of Drake, this is very cool to watch. Thank you.
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  2192.  @DanDavisHistory  more on indo aryans in india please
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  2193. Im waiting for this episodes like for nothing else in YT those days. Amazing voice amazing stories freaking amazing
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  2194. Watching a TV series at the moment called Romulus and Remus and season 1 is all about this rite of passage really good show , throughly enjoyed that Dan more please . I usually watch an episode 2 or 3 times so I don't miss anything. Brilliant
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  2195. Who gave the one dislike? Some still pissed about a raid 3000 years ago? One of my favorite channels!
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  2196. Awesome video about my home island. Thank you for advertising it, so more people can come and appreciate it. It's not only beaches, but archeological sites. As a matter of fact, the area with most archeological sites per square meters in the world
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  2197. Thank you, Mr. Davis. You've done it again! I look forward to very few drops on the Tube but you are definitely at the very top of the list. Such a fascinating topic and you as always condense so much useful information into these wonderful nuggets of education. Everyone else tells you the same thing but i must join the chorus to pat you on the back and thank you from the bottom of my history nerd heart. Thank you.
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  2198. Another Master Piece Mr. Davis! Can't Wait to see the Next One on William the Marshal!
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  2199. We also have the story of the Sleepers of the Cave in the Qur'ān (found in Chapter 18) in which a dog guarded the entrance of the cave while the young men slept for hundreds of years.
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  2200. “The concept of the warrior’s physical beauty…” I’d submit that early fighters came to understand the link between external aesthetics & internal discipline. Beauty is only important as a byproduct and advertisement of martial prowess.
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  2201. Another very interesting …and informative video! I have years of experience with horses and it’s amazing to think what these ancients could do using them. I’ve had a horse run off while I was driving a two wheel cart, very scary, I can imagine how easy it would be for a charioteer to be injured or killed For these people ride like that with out the use of stirrups is amazing I think
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  2202. I can trace my ancestry to him, via his daughter Sibyl. The greatest knight England has ever known!
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  2203. Maybe Europe's first recorded battle, unlikely to be Europe's first battle
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  2204. Karas-war, kardas- -sword, karyba, kariauna, kariai, etc
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  2205. Well, that was kind of dark and creepy. Not that I was horribly surprised, having read some of your fiction. Definitely not a happy fluffy feminist paradise.
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  2206. Thank you Dan very interesting I have read about the bowmen that came to King John's defence to which he thanked them, yet another thing that has been brushed over with the rubbish spouted about John. The Robin Hood stories will always feed this lie about history, thanks for telling how things were for real.
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  2207. Thank you brother. The imagery of the olde ships interior were beautiful. Blessings from Bavaria
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  2208. It's amazing in a sick way, really. They go out, and do their dirt, about the same that any ruler would demand of them anyway, but yeah, do their deed, and get back home to do home stuff for most of the year. Kind of a good life, if you're into that sort of thing.
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  2209. Thank you for this. This has been your most interesting video yet for me, which is saying a lot considering this is my favorite channel. Thank you for giving us a glimpse into the lives of those in the past in all of your videos
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  2210. I feel an euphoric hit each time another of your videos gets uploaded - thanks for your first class content, Dan!
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  2211. I don't live in any of the mentioned countries yet Saint George (Sveti Jurij) is a popular motiff where I come from. One possible reason might be that my home town was founded from a fief that was granted to Knights of Malta in the 13th Century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komenda
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  2212. Thanks for this. There is so much junk science and history on YouTube. I nearly clicked on this thinking it was one such video until I saw your/creators name.
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  2213. Wow, What a Story Utzi's Life must have been. My Biggest Question is why did his Killer remove the Arrow Shaft yet not Pillage the Body of such Valuable Clothing, Medicines and Weapons? Could his Killer have been Identified by the Feathers on his Arrows? To me it seems like this was a "Personal" Murder!! A Blood Feud or Vendetta in our Terms.
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  2214. I believe it was the Botai Culture that gets credit for domesticating horses.
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  2215. Makarska was also a hotbed of piracy in the age of the Roman republic when the piracy of the local Illyrians (Ardiei) was one of the reasons why the Romans invaded. In the middle ages it turned to piracy again. One venetian doge even died there in 887 trying to fight the local Slavs (at that time recently settled) who attacked venetian shipping and refused to convert to Christianity. Now a days it's a lovely resort town that I recommend visiting outside of the main tourist season as it can get quite crowded in July and August.
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  2216. Finally! The Story of the Dracula!
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  2217. "Well into the last glacial period when it was, pretty cold." 🤣 Sorry, but the understatement here did make me grin! 😁 😉
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  2218. I need to say that this is far the best presentation of Giovanni Carpini journey. Nowhere else I cannot find it in such a details. Historically Giovanni Carpini is totally overlooked person and almost no one knows him. He deserves more credit for achievement that he done.
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  2219. I’ve thought of opening Trepination clinics in California. Expand the size of your brain Give you brain a breath of fresh air and sunshine. There would be a goldmine of takers.
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  2220. Brilliant Dan , I thought your intro was the start of a movie. Thanks so much for the exciting history lesson , till next time Slán 🇮🇪 ,peace all
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  2221. You ask for comments on the Nebra disk. This comment is about the social nature of ritual of the period, practices that actually had Neolithic origins, but carried over to the Bronze Age due to the nature of the transition, with Neolithic holy sites remaining holy for some centuries in many cases. Ritual sites seem to have been places where people gathered from vast distances, for events taking place at the solstices, and the winter solstice in particular, in spite of the difficulty of winter travel. Travel was by water when possible. A gathering was not always the assemblage of some existing entity such as the land of a high king; rather it was the gathering of many clans or regions (perhaps each clan had a region: Scottish clans did, Scythian clans did not). They participated in the gathering by region, with each region (or clan) having a designated segment of the site. There may have been a high king in some cases, but the clans (or regions) remained important. A holy gathering place was not primarily a residential site, although a few people lived there year round. It was not the high king's great hall. It was not primarily a cemetery. Participants built boothies for the winter gathering. The main ritual activity was a procession. An important person, priest or king or priest-king, arrived (often by water) and went up a processional avenue to a circular site, and then went around it. So outside the outermost ring of posts was the processional circle, and outside that, a barrier between the ritual space and the ordinary space beyond. The ordinary space was divided like the segments of an orange, with each segment belonging to one clan or region. Work to build or improve the site was organized by clan, with each clan being responsible for a section; the splendor of the work was the clan's honor. The processional way came to the circle from the direction of a solstice sunrise or sunset, and the king or priest arrived just as the setting or rising solstice sun shone on his face. On the cart he rode, was a disk, bright on one side and dull on the other, and at the climax the disk was turned around, or they used two disks, for day and night. The Nebra disk is the night disk. The point of all this calendar sky-watching was to determine, or set, on which day of the lunar month did the winter solstice occur. This number was carried back home by the participants, and was necessary for the practical functions of a calendar, that is to make appointments and have people show up on the right day. Without a calendar you can't have scheduled markets or religious festivals, and you don't even know whether the coming year will have 12 lunar months, or 13. Determining the date of the solstice is difficult, and if two places both try, they will often set different dates. A single central site must set the date of the solstice, but only a single number, the day of the lunar month that it fell on, needs to be carried back home by each party, for the whole region to enjoy the benefit of everyone using the same calendar.
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  2222. Very interesting
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  2223. This is a great subject about a remarkable transitional period in the civilized history of humanity. We need more study on this period. It certainly adds more to the narrative of Indo european and central asian migration/invasion. Its a fascinating study to see how, time and again, sedentary farming civilizations get entirely overrun by these horse- nomads. Luckily, they only kill all the men, so we have the genetic story intact. Id wager theres was no 'peaceful assimilation' in any case. Great video! Thanks
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  2224. Bulgarian here, thanks for the video. Glad i found your channel
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  2225. Yikes 😳 this one gave me the heebie jeebies. Another great production.
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  2226. Great video, thank you for the work you put into top quality history content. History is the most important and most overlooked knowledge.
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  2227. Subbed. Great content. You may be a writer, but you def have a voice for YouTube. Thanks.
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  2228. Impressive video! The only thing that you might have missed out is that some people suggested in the last couple of years that these were not permanent settlements but some kind of seasonal assembly places, or something between the two. I am not a big fan of this idea but they have some valid points about environmental studies showing little human impact on the area, and we also cannot see the signs of intensive agriculture that we would assume with such a large permanent population.
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  2229. Not watched it yet but I know it'll be good stuff. Always is. Cheers Dan. You should do a live q and a!
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  2230. I like the fact others are becoming aware of proto-Indo-European mythologies and religions that I believe are well-researched as new data keeps pouring in from archaeogenetics, linguistics, etc. Our mythologies and systems of belief are more complex, more interconnected than previously imagined going back to Upper Paleolithic. This does not happen in isolation, as elements of languages can be borrowed from other cultures speaking non-IE languages (e.g., proto-Uralic languages). I am hoping we can find more and realize that proto-IE had its origins too, a sort of pre-Proto-IE language possibly going further back to the Upper Paleolithic of Mal'ta-Buret culture. Given that we have the oldest known Q* haplogroup findings are on the southeast side of Lake Baikal and the basal R* haplogroup on the southwest side, I'm not surprised that such myths of the dog as guardians of the underworld, as well of our hearth are shared.
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  2231. I love your content. Amazing work. Your voice is perfect for the recital, amazing diction and word choice. Would love to see more content after finishing all of them (-;
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  2232. Native American cultures have quite a history of similar warrior fighting in an altered state.
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  2233. That was ... hmm ... unexpected. I did expect +1 "Richard was a really bad king" video. Even bigger surprise is that You have managed to change my views - pretty much 180° - I founded on dozens other documentaries made before Your´s. Very well made, 10/10. Thank You.
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  2234. Do one on bell beaker next (they also spread to Scandinavia).
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  2235. If you are doing great medieval expeditions, could you do the Travels of Ibn Battuta please?
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  2236. Fascinating topic. I thank you for bringing it up
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  2237. Spellbinding. Throughout my whole life, I've wondered about the experiences and realities and scope of these truly ancient cultures. I'd like to think that this particular myth made the transcontinental journey. It really fires the imagination to try to imagine the exploration over time of these hard-bitten people, and perhaps in the out-runner dog warbands the stories were particularly reinforced and remembered...
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  2238. Excellent!!!!
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  2239. Another knockout video. Had that song from the late 60's in my head about "long beautiful hair. The different hair styles shows the ancients were just as concerned with hair as us moderns. A number of the photos and locations were unknown to me so that was fun to see the items and find the geographic locations. Those tree trunk coffins are quite fascinating. Its really interesting to see how objects and clothing changed from B.C.E to the Viking Age. Those horns look like something from a bad LSD trip. 😵‍💫 You do good work!! 👍
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  2240. Just found your channel. About to launch a game based around a permanent bronze age. As in... iron is very rare and only the dwarves know how to forge it. It's a step above mithril. Humans only cast metals because that's all that can be found. Looking forward to your content.
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  2241. I’m sitting here in the modern age fascinated with the more primitive lifestyle of people…our ancient ancestors, but I wonder why many of us in this technological age are so fascinated with those time periods ? It is not only human history but also ancient extinct animals that once lives alongside man ….I’m fascinated with mastodons, wooly mammoths,saber toothed tigers and our tough ancestral Neanderthal that once hunted them….what is the cause of this deep fascination we have ? Also the copper,bronze and iron ages are my favorite time periods of study….all branches of the fascinating Stone Age. Thank you for this excellent video on Otzi….so interesting as all of your content is ! 👍
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  2242. I guess people could have tainted a foal, far easier than a mature stallion, just like some people tainted cubs to get dancing bears. The "naked joyride" thing, could that jave been a ritual? A rite of passage before manhood? Crazier rituals have been seen :) Great videos! Thanks!
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  2243. Thanks for this gem, have already listened to it like 5 times while I'm at work.
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  2244. Would be cool if you covered the Vendel era, my most beloved part of Swedish history. It’s just before the Viking age and if you covered it I would suggest adding legends and everything else from this era.
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  2245. Lovely video, Dan. I love videos that focus on social norms.
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  2246. I feel, and this is complete speculation. But maybe there was a tradition, when you got old, you could choose how you want to die, going up the mountain was a passage of sorts, and he got a last meal, and then told them to kill him because of all his pain and age. So he chose the top of the mountain to die on, because it was close to the God's. There are some cultures who choose different ways to die. It's just a thought. And maybe they didn't take what he had because it would have been disrespect.
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  2247. are we sure they're all boats? Some look more like sleds.
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  2248. I find that period 12.000-3000 BC so fascinating. It explains so much about what and who we are. And yet there is so little we know. We can but guess and interpret the rare finds. And this period is far longer than the period since. It's two thirds of "modern" human history. The divide classical-industrial. And calling everything inbetween "middle-ages" as if these times did not matter. And everything before as pre-classical as if people didn't have cities and empires long before the rapid conquest of Alexander. it's a flawed and incomplete representation of history. But here is more and more. All these cultures with cities, traditions, innovations and stories. Fascinating!
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  2249. You don’t go from raising food animals and then all of a sudden jump on their backs and start fighting like Scythians. It takes a lot of innovation and honing the art of fighting on horseback. Also even if you could effectively raise horses for food and move them as nomads do without riding some of them, focusing on them to the extent that they did over more productive breeders like cattle, sheep and goats makes very little sense. As hoofed animals go, horses and asses do not breed as quickly as animals with cloven hooves and the ability to ruminate (more efficient digestive system that gives more nutrition from food). This is the very reason why there are far fewer species of equines in the wild as there are artiodactyls (hoofed animals with an even number of toes on each foot). Focusing on horse breeding had to give a benefit other than just food. You can do more with a mount than any ox strapped to a cart, like intensive herding and mounted hunting/fighting/escaping the folks that you’re raiding.
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  2250. I was at work when I got the notification...and was like hell yea ...who needs to watch my daily podcast when I get home ..I put your playlists on every night as I wind down and drift into sleep with this knowledge
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  2251. King Minos didnt find prisoners for the labyrinth peacefully, lol. Dan, you said something at the end there that made me think of something. Reading the sources instead of you... Well, there is something to that, but dont sell yourself short either. I'm certain the value of a good, controlled imagination has just as much validity as the hard science, and those scientists MUST use that imagination to fill in the blanks. You do a spectacular job of bringing both of these aspects to your videos, and still has an entertainment value to boot. What you bring to the table is every bit as valid as alphabeted parchment types. When you do go out on a limb, you don't go too far, its all still quite plausible. Thanks Dan!
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  2252. The same kind of carvings stretch up the coast into Norway too. Along side the ships theres also alot of sun symbols there. Lone circles with a dot in the middle. Strange that they don't appear on the swedish stones. All the other carvings seem identical, but the representation of the sun seems distinct. Though come to think of it there seems to be one, a big circle with a plus sign in it. Right above the red circle you have on the map there for Bohuslan is the Halden and Fredrikstad regions in Norway which was also known for forging bronze swords near a collection of stone circles, and a stone pile with a fort behind it up the hill in a place called the Hunnfeltene. The stone circles are younger, but the stone pile and fort are from the bronze age. Around that region alot of these kind of carvings including the sun exists.
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  2253. Yeah their mobility would still convey and advantage even if the warriors dismounted before battle.
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  2254. I don’t write comments but here is an exception. I paused the video to write that this is the best channel I’ve ever seen
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  2255. I'd really enjoy a piece on sailing technology's early history. This video's information is a revelation to me. Thanks again for all the work you do to inform while entertaining us!
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  2256. Im addicted to your content. Please made episode on early Slavs.
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  2257. Because no matter what stage of human history you're in, people have always sought to make the most impressive hat they can think of
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  2258. Appreciate your hard labor constantly. Would love you to cover culture in subcontinent after Alexander conquest of Asia. :)
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  2259. Hey man, just finished your first book of the series and got myself the second one. You are really hard on your characters, it is good drama. Tnx for the stories.
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  2260. Great video on a very fascinating topic. So, around 1000 BC horse riding became common on the steppe. I wonder what the driving force for this was? Was it horse breeding, or the invention of some critical riding tech, or maybe some herder just got tired of walking? Anyway, good job!!
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  2261. Fascinating. Was there any effort to analyze the 'downstream' variants among the yDNA results? R-P312? R-U106?
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  2262. Another outstanding presentation. Thank you sir. Have you read any of Joseph Campbells work re: heroes journey or mythos themes? 2nd question; Are you familiar with astrotheology? The twins representing Gemini, and the bull horns representing Taurus, might this indicate the transitional period of precession between the 2 astral ages?
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  2263. i like how vlad's pic was always serious, then get got married in hungry, had kids and then his pic was all smiles lol.
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  2264. I've just found this channel, I am absolutely enthralled! Thank you so much! Top notch content!
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  2265. Saint George is celebrated in Bulgaria on May 6, combining a traditional agricultural fest, marking the beginning of summer, a Christian holiday and the Day of the Army. Since Saint George is, for obvious reasons, the patron saint of the army, there is a military parade on this day.
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  2266. Would Tollense warriors speak proto-germanic or an older variation of it? In fact, what if this battle is the origin of the Aesir-Vanir war in norse myth? XD
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  2267. Truly awesome Dan! I knew drake was an extraordinary character but I didn’t know half of this.
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  2268. I just learned so much from this one little video. I have believed that making education also entertaining is the essence of teaching. Excellent job.
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  2269. Excellent as ever. It's always interesting when another documentary drops.
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  2270. I can’t think of a single ancient god depicted riding a horse. (Odin got Sleipner, but Odin is a rather late deity) Helios and Eos rides in chariots. Since man creates gods in his image why wouldn’t you give the gods horses?
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  2271.  @DanDavisHistory  I always heard that Cyprus was a hub of the copper trade and also one of the places that may have been the region where tin was first added and voila bronze. If any copper age sailors were setting foot on the North American continent I would bet they harvested timber and furs not a mineral that they already had back home. It would make for some fantastic fiction, near ancient Europeans meeting their North American equivalents, but those kinds of tall tales lend themselves better to the iron age and things like the Heavener and Kensington rune stones. Cheers.
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  2272. Erm actually Dan it's only a city if it has a cathedral OR a university. So.
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  2273. New video from Dan Davis--I'm in!
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  2274. This was a really interesting video to me mate. Thanks for clarifying feral v wild horses. It's amazing how bent out of shape people get over those two words if they are used incorrectly. On the war wagons I was imagining that 50/50 scenario: they might catch up to me as I'm fleeing. Bugger it, i'll take off on foot and hopefully they'll be distracted by or consider my war wagon as a fair trade. Women warriors 💃😎♥️
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  2275. I am loving this freakin channel! I watched it twice already stopping many times to study the maps and geographic movements of these people based on artifacts found. You never disappoint , Dan. I've learned more watching your series than my entire time spent/wasted in school. Great work!
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  2276. I'm a bit late to this video but it was worth the wait! Excellent video and very informative. It's amazing how genome research has opened up new vistas in prehistory, but there's still so much we don't know and evidence is still open to interpretation.
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  2277. Great video as always Dan! Thanks for bringing the starting and ending music theme back… I missed it, it’s an instant signature for you.
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  2278. This is very well made and engaging, with Hobekinus being a compelling subject. Mind you I would listen to Dan Davis read out the phone book. He makes some of the most absorbing content I’ve seen on here.
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  2279. So copper age chartio driving badasses? Nice, Its quite curious how long the Stone prokectiles were used too.
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  2280. 41 mins about pre historic wizard hats made of solid gold sign me up.
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  2281. 54:52 oh God that image cracked me up. Did you read 'Prince of many faces' doing research for this? Such a great book.
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  2282. Excellent video & thank you for sharing 🙏 .. videos like this on British history should be shown in every school so that our history & heritage isn’t erased from the education system for good !!
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  2283. Blummin' great video, matey. Proper quality... Thank you.
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  2284. This was fantastic Dan! Great work
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  2285. Absolutely mirrors the Irish fairy spirit in the form of a giant black dog called the Cú Sidhé. A common tale found in the West Of Ireland especially. It is encountered on bridges, Usually to your death.
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  2286.  @ted_splitter  Another parallel with CuChulainn is his geasa to not eat the flesh of dogs, but trapped and bound by the rules of hospitality he is forced to eat dog meat which seals his fate.
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  2287. I've only been watching several videos on this channel for a couple of weeks. Great and informative videos. Can you post a link to the THUNDER series you've mentioned a few times? I can't seem to find it in the search section.
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  2288. The Nordic Bronze age is immensely fascinating. Very thankful I found this channel!
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  2289.  @DanDavisHistory  well may the wolf god of the Koryos bless you for your work, and build your house of stone, so that it may never fall
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  2290. There are many great subjects available for these kinds of stories. Perhaps one such topic could be Maykop people hiring Steppe Maykop mercenaries to fight the incoming Repin/Yamnaya people. The Maykop people likely fought the earlier, native Steppe Eneolithic folk (Vonyuchka, Progress, and Khvalynsk), and some centuries later, their descendants—the Yamnaya—returned.
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  2291. Wonderful story of a man with limitless ambition. Really inspiring! Dan, I was wondering if you could tell me about the audio series for Immortal Knight Chronicles. Will it be continued?
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  2292. 2:00 "for their significant other"? women watch your videos too!! :(
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  2293. As a foot note, although unrelated, at its height, the Iroquois Confederacy had used a tactic of sending out bands of 100 young warriors to drive out any other tribe from the East Coast of N America from what is now Ottawa, Canada to Georgia, USA; and from the Chesapeake Bay to the Mississippi River. In one generation they depopulated the whole area of most tribes. It was very affective.
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  2294. Вы делаете поразительную работу! Должен признать. О Синташте и Аркаиме в англоязычных материалах мало рассказывают так..👍 Вот ролик от Дмитрия Пучкова "Иван Семьян о реконструкции синташтинской колесницы" .... Там все на русском, но можно включить английские субтитры.
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  2295. Great video: those images are amazing! That they so emphasized a certain part of the male anatomy, especially with their leaders, must point to them being out to dominate, i.e. raiding.
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  2296. finally finished this video after watching it bit by bit. Tomorrow is a long trip, probably will listen to one of your videos. Great inspiration for drawing/writing. Keep it up man, always leaving a like :D
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  2297. Wow, love the presentation of different hypotheses!
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  2298. Wonderful presentation, thorough and lucid. William is my 24th great-grandfather! He has set the standard quite high, and inspires thousands to this day.
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  2299. I went to Bozen a month ago, a visit to the national archaeological museum of Bozen is mandatory. But honestly I couldn't enjoy it, there were really too many tourists, it was so chaotic
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  2300. We are Steppe Peoples. We are the best are warfare.
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  2301. I get confused about the Scythian Story. The Scythian gold and artefacts clearly depict ancient Slavic symbolism, while scientists name them "ancient Iranian tribes". Are Slavic people Iranian or are Iranian people a Hindu mix with Slavic roots??? The Udmurt people from Russia, still have the highest concentration of red-haired citizens next to Ireland.
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  2302. Really enjoyed this. Listening to this stories about werewolves and other shapeshifters take on a new significance.
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  2303. Looking at the body and with how long ago he lived it's crazy to think he was at one point just as alive as we are today and that for us of European descent we share a great deal with him
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  2304. There’s not enough coverage for this subject.
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  2305. Thanks!
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  2306. I had no idea that ancient stone axes and hammers had mold flashing on them. Amazing.
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  2307. Traces of the hunter-gatherers and farmers can still be seen today in the modern grocery store. The hunter-gatherers stay on the periphery in the meat and produce areas, whereas the farmers gravitate toward the processed food in the middle aisles. 🤪 Seriously though, thank you very much for your excellent video. Liked and subscribed.
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  2308. I read your prequel to gods of bronze. It definitely has some eaters of the dead vibes, lovin it! Come pay-day I'll have to get started reading on the main book!
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  2309. Great video, always stunned by the beauty of artwork created so long ago. Cheers
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  2310. Ayo Dan! I don't particularly expect you to have an answer to this question or necessarily even see it but I figured it was worth asking regardless: Where can I, a citizen of the EU and specifically Sweden, purchase physical copies of your novels? I've been wanting to give them a go for a while but the places I can think to look don't seem to have them, or even know who you are. Ordering from the UK might be an option I suppose but the question then is where to turn for that. Love your videos, and am always excited to see more! It is understandable why the stone and bronze ages don't get as much coverage as they do, given how comparably little we know, but It is great to see someone go so in depth about them regardless. Your ability to weave enchanting tales of long lost peoples from the facts and theories you present never ceases to amaze me.
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  2311. Would love to see a video like this on West African women
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  2312. Excellent video! Otzi is an amazing window into ages past. I do have to say I increasingly lean towards the thought he was a hunter. His clothing is particularly built for alpine weather and potentially as a form of camoflauge. Considering that many Neolithic peoples wore woven cloth his more rugged, leather and fur based outfit definitely suggests some sort of specialized lifestyle. That said, we will never know for sure.
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  2313. What a fascinating story;an ancient crime scene and a boatload of mysteries
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  2314. Excellent video. On a side note, momento mori like locks of hair, death masks, and death photos were common in the west until the last century.
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  2315. Vlad with a smile had me creasing up!!! Great in depth documentary 👏
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  2316. Wonderful! Cheers!
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  2317. I saw the thumbnail in my recommendation page and I instantly recognized it. This is located in my town of birth, Tanum. A smallish town well known for its amazing rock paintings. There’s a lot of these paintings around the area of Tanum.
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  2318. In front of my eyes I always saw the movie "El Cid" and the corresponding scenes while watching your video.
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  2319. this is series is amazing! I am hyped for the future travels. May i request an additional side step to non-Egyptian northern Africa of that time as we travel south before traveling east?
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  2320. Great video. I really think this was your best one. Who knows but it seemed well thought out and I like the Polynesian reference as well. I appreciate your hard work.
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  2321. Dude your channel is the best in ancient history... the most detailed and well put together. You just need to release more content.
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  2322. It's controllable but difficult to do. Once in a frenzy all thoughts take a back seat
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  2323. I like your choice of fillies in the clips. The horses look cool too.
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  2324. Brilliant - I really enjoyed this! Many ancient statues/images of Zeus and Jupiter show 'short' thunderbolts.
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  2325. This opening was amazing! Your content is top notch
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  2326. Yamnaya gets too much credit, the most common haplogroup among Yamnaya samples so far belong to a subclade that is most common in Turkey and Armenia and to a lesser extent in Romania, Albania and Greece (R1b-Z2103), not the one most common in Western Europe (R1b-L11). Recent evidence shows that R1b-L11 was present among the Corded Ware culture, which means that Corded Ware was the most likely means by which this subclade reached Western and Northern Europe. It would seem rather that Corded Ware and Yamnaya shared a common origin, not that one got their WSH genes from the other.
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  2327. What a cool topic! I had never heard about this. When I think of bronze age sea raiders I immediately think of the Mediterranean. I love this video, and would appreciate more on the Nordic bronze age.
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  2328. Good as always Dan, you have a talent for narration!
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  2329. A story worth telling for sure. Thank you
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  2330. Great content as always, it's a breat of fresh air in the historical content landscape oversaturated with other historical periods and pop cultures. I find the content in this video in particular to be very fascinating from slew of different points of view and this brings me to several reflections on humanity, the role of man throughout the millennia, and modern society. One phrase in particular stood out to me: "the boy would have to die so that the man could be born".
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  2331. Clicked watch the moment I saw this. This video shows why White male teenagers are withering and dying in modernity - the Koryos is an absolutely necessary route to manhood even amongst us Moderns
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  2332. Dan Davis History video dropped, today is a good day!
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  2333. still excellent. do you have anything on doggerland lined up? cheers
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  2334. Thank you for an interesting film, greetings from Ukraine🌞
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  2335. We do not even know what really was the name of this river as Tollensee is a pronunciation of a Slavic tribe Tolężanie living by the river and lake about the same name by Germans in early Middle Ages . West Slavic tribes lived between river Oder and Elbe or Łaba in other words in entire what is modern east Germany but used to be Połabie till year 1157 when Germans took it over after a series of crusades like the famous one of 1147. There used to be about 40 known at this moment Western Slavic tribes living there.
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  2336. Interesting; I live in coastal British Columbia. This sounds a heck of a lot like the coastal nations here historically.
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  2337. This is a wonderful analysis of the story of this man.
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  2338. Love St. George. George is my middle name. It comes from "Georgos," farmer in Ancient Greek.
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  2339. Hey, I love your work. Do you have any videos on the Hittites, or early Indo-Europeans in Anatolia generally?
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  2340. Buried in the fetal position....... something to do with reincarnation possibly?!?!
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  2341. The Ancient Hunnic tribes,the ancestors of the Hungarian people,were said to be the greatest horsemen,and it is said the Greek myth of the Centaur,derives from the ancient Greeks witnessing the Hunnic warriors skill as riders,and that the warrior and horse moved as one,it could mean Chiron the Centaur,that taught Achilles the ways of war,might of been real person,perhaps a Hunnic warrior???...In myth there always lies a scintilla of Truth...Excellent channel,makes you think..👍👍👍
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  2342. The whale warriors also started up around the same time, but unfortunatelt their remains were taken by the sea thus being lost to history.
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  2343. Thank you for saying "bacterium" when it's singular, and not "bacteria", which is plural. I want you to know it didn't go unnoticed and is much appreciated : )
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  2344. I read a book about 20 years ago about an ancient Achilles type warrior who be cause of a head wound suffered from amnesia. He is fighting with a foreign army as a mercenary, but when he wakes up every morning he can't remember anything of the previous day. Names, places, what happened to him are all relearned, only to be forgotten again the next morning. It was a great book, I wish I could remember the title of it.
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  2345. Incredible story and a good moment to remember such a man.
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  2346. Bloody great vid, bro... Love it. Thank you.
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  2347. I would love to hear the story of the seize of Lincoln by Louis.
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  2348. I'm a relatively new subscriber but have watched a lot of your videos this weekend. Very fun that you also highlight in such detail the Bronze Age, which I too have had as a recent interest in history. You feel honest and speak in a way that is very open to speculation and you are convinced that you are genuinely interested in that way. Your channel is one of many but one of the few that is so addictive. Many thanks!
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  2349. "spacing births" should probably read, "not keeping unwanted children", as there was no other form of birth control.
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  2350. ...ancient peoples of the bronze age had methods for birth control, who is to say when these methods were developed, maybe earlier civilizations had them as well. Also, being so finely tuned to nature as they were, maybe they understood the rhythm method.
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  2351. Wait! Did I miss the outcome of our hero’s battle with his sworn enemy from the beginning of the video? Did our hero prevail???
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  2352. This video is like a window into the past. Learning about Ötzi's lifestyle, health, and the circumstances of his death gives us a unique glimpse into the Copper Age. The narration and visuals are top-notch. Thank you!
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  2353. Thanks for your great Vinča video. How interisting.
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  2354. What do you think of the 'sea people' in the late bronze age collapse ? Are they pivotal or is it a combination of things 🤔
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  2355. I once learnt in an agricultural course that oxen plow is much more ineffective than horse plow. Since then I have much more respect towards the history of the human - horse relationship. It is so interesting and vital, old knowledge.
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  2356. my man made more magnificent mini movies.
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  2357. Fascinating - and well-presented. Not a culture I've heard of before.....
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  2358. Hey Dan. Love your vids. Keep up the good work!
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  2359. I've already learnt something new a couple of minutes in, I always had it in my head that Richard only spent 6 months of his life in England. What do I know lol
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  2360. What a great video! I really should come to terms with "we may never know" smh
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  2361. Hello. Congratulations for your awesome channel. Are there any sources you could recommend on the topic of Indo-European clothing? Maybe books on the clothing found at Sintashta / Andronovo / Yamnaya / Afanasievo, etc archaeological sites?
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  2362.  @DanDavisHistory  mate it's people in the past eating each other, I'm a happy chappy whether it's farmers or hunter gatherers 👍
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  2363. I can't wait for you to do a Bell-beakers video it's gonna be awesome. I hope you cover the Bell-beakers both continentally and in Britain. This video is awesome btw
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  2364. Great Documentary, I see Drake in a whole new way. Thank you I enjoyed this !!!
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  2365. Great video. Always enjoy learning about ancient peoples. Thanks for your research and hard work!
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  2366. Great video. Do you have another channel called "Attractive ladies riding horses"? - or is that just a hobby?
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  2367.  @DanDavisHistory  Awesome! I look forward to it
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  2368. Fantastic work as always! Thank you so much for your efforts
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  2369. Yes! Back to the bronze age! Thank you.👏👍
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  2370. What if drawing pictures was some sort of charm to have success in battle and such. Before or after a journey. You would end up with thousands of similar works live already is the case.
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  2371. Great video as always! Seeing you uploaded makes my day, thanks Dan!
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  2372.  @DanDavisHistory  My own Y-DNA is downstream of I2a, fascinating to think some of my own distant ancestors participating here.
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  2373. So he was hit by an arrow in the knee and no one is mentioning it?
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  2374. A forebear of Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, in a way.
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  2375. Otzi is never not fascinating. You have to wonder what this man would have thought if he’d known how important his corpse would be to archaeologists and historians 5000 years after he perished.
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  2376. This is a great video, thank you 😀
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  2377. Maybe they depict practice, and then them going away on raids/war with the boats? A way to honor or remember daily life and important events taking place.
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  2378. Wow I was always fascinated with the Bronze Age and how little we know about the sea people. Had no idea they were called Sherden.
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  2379. Thank you. As a Mining Engineer you have now given me another destination for my bucket list!
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  2380. My good man Dan Jones is an excellent source for all Plantagenet facts and history! Very very good choice!
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  2381. As always fantastic Dan. So much to think about in scenarios with this much heaped evidence. The truth of the matter can never be ascertained but only snippets glimpsed.
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  2382. I'm guessing that Trepanning was probably used when people had brain tumours/headaches, chronic migraine and epilepsy, to stop pain and pressure. Perhaps they thought that Trepanning was releasing evil spirits that were causing pain and horrible symptoms. Whatever it was used for they were brave to undergo such a painful procedure, they probably were desperate for some sort of relief.
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  2383. Certain tribal cultures intentionally fatten their marriage age women during the year in which they will be given away in marriage. Could this in a way be related to these fat female figures?
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  2384. If I could give u a million likes I would, these quality videos are unreal
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  2385. Well put.
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  2386. Great video! I enjoyed the novella as well (and will order your novels). More content about the Indo-Europeans would be amazing.
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  2387. Great video as always Dan, thank you for bringing into light the exploits of this absolute chad, and making spaniards seethe.
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  2388. Excellent narration! I suppose I can wonder how the permanently injured warriors were treated after the battle. Where they shut out of society as the society saw them as too burdensome, or were they supported as best the society could afford?
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  2389.  @DanDavisHistory  O good, there can always be drift. The connection of light hair color to Ancient Northeurasians is new to me. Thanks.
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  2390. I've recently started being curious and getting into this historical figure and now you upload this cool video. There is a God and you are His gift to us, online nerds
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  2391. I would like to thank you for your time consuming effort to bring us a wealth of information and knowledge. All of videos are very entertaining and well delivered. So glad to found your channel. 👍👍💯❤
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  2392. Really cool to hear Michigan mentioned in one of your videos, I live there! Obviously copper is spread all throughout Michigan but a lot of it is in the Upper Peninsula. The Native Americans in the area called the Upper Peninsula something like, "Land of Trees" because all that was there to them was forests. It wasn't until the 1800's that a geologist from the US was sent up north to survey the land and he found so much copper and iron that some was open to the air when he saw it.
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  2393. Thank you Mr. Davis! I've always been fascinated by this era in history and the characters who inhabited it.
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  2394. Whenever I see you have a new video I watch, immediately. Great job. Always fascinating and you do a great job keeping my attention through the whole video. Usually sad when they end.
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  2395. A fascinating glimpse into a mysterious age. I liked how you used some pictures of monuments in the fog. It must have seemed like a mythic age of gods and heroes to the ordinary people in the harsh colder ages that followed. I was disappointed to learn that these great people was almost entirely eradicated by the Bell Beakers. In many other places, it seems that Bell Beaker was mainly a cultural phenomenon with little or no population replacement. I actually feel kind of saddened that this was not the case for the British Isles.
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  2396. I'm working on book project about this fully in English, but im glad that a professional like you comments on a lesser known archeologically rich island
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  2397. 7:20 "everyone wants their own special civilization to be first but evidence is lacking everywhere" one of the greatest plagues of archaeology, anthropology, human history is this mindset.
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  2398. Thank you for this interesting video. I've been once to Sardinia but never knew about their past and it's way more interesting than I thought. I'm happy to contain this new knowledge.
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  2399. Thank you for articulating the origin of the Indo-European culture of which we, who are their decedents, owe our lives to.
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  2400. Yes please to the video on the limestone mound
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  2401. Yet another fascinating video Keep them coming man, great job as always
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  2402. Love this! So interesting ❤
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  2403. For the survival of the tribe emotions must be put aside.
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  2404. Holy cow. Ytube safe* Dan. That was magnificent. Well done Sir. I really appreciate your work and enjoyed this immensely. Thank you.
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  2405. This NEEDS to be a Hollywood movie.
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  2406.  @DanDavisHistory  👊🏻😉
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  2407. The early hammer pendant looks an awful lot like a the handle of a sword, doesn’t it?
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  2408. Dan I love your videos, are you planning on focusing only on European history? I was thinking you could make a very good video about the Paleo-Indians and the waves of migration through the Americas
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  2409. Well executed, the story, the timeline... all, spot on.
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  2410. I guess chores can wait 43 minutes. (Ötzi's messing with my productivity 5000 years later)
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  2411. Long live William of Cassingham!
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  2412. Amazing…. His story and your way of producing it! This must’ve taken a long time to create! So many details and pathways to explore!
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  2413. Regarding the skull caps - as you mentioned - there are documented cases of people using skull caps to drink from - so they may have been processed into tableware - but I can't help thinking that this would have been done more neatly if this were the case. I had a slightly grimmer idea... They reminded me of the top of a boiled egg that I have sliced off so I can poke my soldiers into the yoke ... :-)
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  2414. Reading Godborn currently..great work sir..
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  2415. I think his haircut was the first clue, should've been a dead giveaway.. Seriously though, another excellent video Mr Davis.
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  2416. Excellent video I hope you get many more viewers
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  2417. Some of the female figurines remind me of early sword hilts. If they would have the appropriate size, that would be an invitation to grip them in the same way if used in rituals. Strange thought.
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  2418. Walk around the steppes for a few weeks and you'll figure out how soon people started riding horses after domestication...
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  2419. To be honest, I don't read your books for the violence. But yeah, it was a violent time. I suspect the "peaceful matriarchal era" will get pushed further and further back until it disappears entirely, unfortunately.
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  2420. Fantastic. Really liked how you noted (however briefly) the successive waves of Eurasian horsemen. Also nice you did a compare/contrast on various bridles/bits. Thanks
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  2421. @9:57 “only the mullet has remained” Now a that’s about the worst fate anyone can have really!
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  2422. Trypillia was bait, but this was the hook that got me. I might even buy one of your books now. More long form vids FTW. A few things you don't mention, that might provide ideas for your current work: Almendres Cromlech in Portugal I understand to be the oldest standing stone circle. So, while Brittany was certainly a center of the culture, it might have spread from south to north, due to changes in growing patterns & solar cycles. Perhaps that pattern is recreated in one of the expansions you describe, & why Orkney held such pre-eminence. One could suppose this culture emanated from the stargazing, seafarers of the Mediterranean - they were clearly connected spiritually & culturally to star movements, necessarily. There's a lot of research & speculation about solar & star alignments (that doesn't involve aliens, giants, or ley lines) but your video here made me realize something I hadn't before: What if the stone circle/clocks were a technological innovation enabling the culture to "control time", i.e., know when to plant, move cattle, etc. >as a solution to the boom/bust cycle<? Mallory has some things about this in relation to the earliest Irish myths, but I am reflecting about our modern movement toward regenerative animal agriculture. Not just crops, but when & how to move cattle, a la Alan Savory & mob grazing techniques. Transhumance, but in a more planned, sophisticated, centralized way. This could explain why the elite emerged, why they had so much power, and why they became insular & incestuous. They were needed, but few could transmit the knowledge in a pre-literate society.
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  2423. Great video. I recommend the historical fiction book "Salt Bronze and Iron" as it seems right up your alley and the author is a contemporary of yours.
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  2424. Actually going to Stonehenge today for the first time :)
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  2425. It's always a good day when Dan turns up, armed with another video.
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  2426. Very interesting video. I've been fascinated by the Bronze Age collapse for years, ever since I began reading the work of Eric Cline. It does make sense that the Sea Peoples were a multi-ethnic and multi-tribal groups, gathered to fight for a short term before their confederacies dispersed into oblivion at the end of the Bronze Age. If that were the case then they remind me of groups such as the Alemanni during the Late Roman Period.
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  2427. Imagine the SOUND made when trees or wood for the fire was cut, like thunder cracking. The men cutting wood with a stone hammer, thunder cracking sound. Not a huge leap to associate them with lighting :)
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  2428. All the edits of ötzi's face made me laugh, quite an underappreciated detail.
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  2429. I actually live in bohuslän and very close to rock carvings as well as an old grave from the bronze age. Interesting video!
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  2430. Your video editing really is top quality.
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  2431. Hope you had a great Christmas/new years Dan. Another great video! I've collected only a very small amount info on the Terramare despite reading much about the Po Valley. Thank you for compiling it all into such an easily digestible format ❤✌
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  2432. Omg that opening slide, definitely got my attention! Looking forward to watching ☀️🌸☀️🌸!! I know it will be exceptionally good as always, thanks!!!
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  2433. I am so stunned that you only have 18k subs man. You keep it up and I know your gonna keep getting a bunch. Your a really good history dude!
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  2434. Thank you Dan . A truly brilliant video . Well researched and well presented . Just one question . I have visited several long barrows and some of them seem in remarkably good condition . I seem to recall the West Kennet one even had a glass ceiling . So how much of what we see has been restored in very recent times ?
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  2435. “Where wolf!” “There wolf” Great episode, enjoyed it immensely.
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  2436. Awesome subject, in my opinion, the finding of Otzi was one of the greatest events ever for the advancement of our understanding of copper age life, and the miraculous, pristine survival of his body and equipment are invaluable to historians.
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  2437. Must be cool to have the heads of your enemies hanging in your bedroom
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  2438. Have to say I love history but your books Dan are really what I want history to be and I see the history in your books , you really put us reader's in the time, I know you fabricate you don't deny that but it's fantastic and the reader wants to know more, thanks very much for this channel and keep writing mate because you're work is brilliant. You make history enjoyable and exciting. Congratulations . Superb
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  2439. Amazing video Dan, I had never heard of the Sintashta culture before watching this
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  2440. From one Dan Davis to another… great job on the video. I just stumbled on it and. Loved it!!!
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  2441. Thank you for your documentary, it is enlightening, inspiring and entertaining at the same time, excellent quality.
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  2442. Thanks for the excellent content.
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  2443. I never knew about the Nuragi, thanks for sharing! Put visiting Sardinia on my bucket list.
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  2444. It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage video about Vinca culture ,an ancient (54×100 BC) farming civilization in Balkan regions . Thank you 🙏 (Dan Davis history) channel for sharing
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  2445. From a Romanian lad, I offer thee thanks. :) I loved watching this. This man was prolly the first sigma male. Jokes aside, I believe we all appreciate when our history is brought out in such a thought provoking and comprehensive fashion. Again, thanks a bunch. You're awesome <3
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  2446. Awsome
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  2447. I just got Irving finkel's "the first ghosts" book and now Dan uploads about Mesopotamian warfare. I think shamash is trying tell me something....
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  2448. Well Dan, you've increased my knowledge. They said it can't be done.
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  2449. Dan your videos are great! Thanks you for creating such informative and interesting content.
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  2450. Thank you again for putting in so much work to give us an entertaining and educational experience. I listened to a Neil Oliver podcast on this subject a couple of days ago so I was very excited to see video of the artifacts.
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  2451. I agree. It was a long time ago when I read Caesar. If I remember correctly nearly as soon as they arrived there was enemy contact and the charioteers got involved straight off.
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  2452. It is quite fascinating to learn Hunter gathered and farming cultures coexisted at all let alone for so long. I didn't even know they did so at all.
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  2453. Thanks for another brilliant video. They really help to clarify the monumentally complex movements and developments of prehistory.
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  2454.  @hashkangaroo  : While Troy is virtually guaranteed not to have been sieged continuously for the whole ~10 years of the Trojan War, I would default to assuming that at least the individuals given a major depiction did live for around the span that they are ascribed. The generational variety would instead be found within the ages of the combatants, where Achilles was apparently believed to be 15 when the Trojan War began; whereas Nestor was around 70 or more and Priam died around the age of 80, both having been contemporaries of the famous Heracles.
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  2455. Imagine all the conflicts during the Bronze Age in America and other parts of the world we don’t even know about
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  2456. You don’t understand how excited and happy I get when you post a new video!!!! Thank you I am so grateful and appreciative. Thank you so much
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  2457. I really enjoy your videos bud, excellent always.
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  2458. Dan Davis Author That must explain why despite the consumption of dairy products in Mongolia being extraordinarily high, over 95 percent of Mongolians are lactose intolerant.
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  2459. El Cid is the greatest for me
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  2460. I don't much read fiction but honestly I'm thinking about picking up your work. You've really stoked my interest
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  2461. Imagine getting clocked with that 😅😅 Mate that would put you out of commission 🤣
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  2462. I just discovered your channel yesterday, and it's hard to stop watching your content. The script, the amount of information and illustration in every video is really outstanding. And I really like, that you can keep these highly informative and we'll researched topics relatively short. Really well done videos!
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  2463. Just wrote a paper about this!
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  2464. Inanna be praised
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  2465. Excellent presentation as always, the more videos the better!
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  2466. This is terrific, thank you. Your interpretation of that period ties up so many loose ends and makes perfect sense, to me at least. I'm grateful for a wide view that isn't shackled by the scientific method of the archaeologist, while, at the same time, utilising all, including the newest, information from a broad range of disciplines, and building an informed account of how things were at a particular time. This is exactly what I want. Huge thank you for a great video.
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  2467. The original Oregon trail players
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  2468. 21:12 This was the first known case of a toasted Sandwich.
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  2469.  @DanDavisHistory  Archeologist Kristian Kristiansen thinks the Minoans came to Sweden/Norway to trade for Amber . Thats what the rock carvings are about according to him. Not all historians agree, but I think he has a point. Baltic amber was found in Egypt probably traded through ancient Greece. Imagine the stories and adventures lost in time. The Tollense Battle might have a relation with that trade too.
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  2470. Another great video One question…what do you think it is hanging off the spears in the image of all soldiers in a line?
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  2471. Great video as always. You should do one on the bell beakers next.
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  2472. Spanish women are so pretty and nice. I wish someday I can meet one. Greetings from (S)pain.
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  2473. One could find the re-establishing of the order by the wild horde in Bavaria where people used to perform the so called "Haberfeldtreiben". "Haberfeld" can be seen as a synonym for a certain field with exact boundaries and "treiben" means that something or someone is haunted. At night men covered themselves with animal skins such as from goats or capricorns, covered their faces and wore the goat or capricorn horns on top of their heads and assembled in a field. From there the marched to the houses of men who had done wrong in the eyes of the community, i.e. a merchant who performed usury. They used to make loud noise with rattles and similar instruments. When the victim left his house men of this wild bunch accused him in front of the public and menaced him to return back next year if he will not behave in a better way. Afterwards they retreated to their assembly point and vanished in the dark. Before starting this whole event they swore to stay clandestine and not to sqeal anyone who took part in this action. The government disliked this kind of people's court and members of such a bunch caught in action found themselves in prison. During the last 20 years members of the farmers association in Bavaria performed such a "Haberfeldtreiben" in order to protest against low prices for milk. They assembled in front of the house of their own president because they accused him not to defend the members of the association against the big discounters.
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  2474. I enjoyed your video. To me it seems likely that riding for transport came earlier (helps explain the vast geographical expansion of the Indo Europeans) but the riding for warfare came later with chariot riding coming first. What interests me is the analogous role of donkey domestication which occurred in Africa and I believe explains the spread of the Northern Afroasiatic languages in North Africa and the Fertile Crescent. Donkey domestication facilitated long distance trade and allowed for the development of pastoralism in semi arid areas. Equids have played an amazing role in human history.
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  2475. Love your work man. Informative and concise. Thanks 🙏
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  2476. So you're saying that if I give you money on Patreon then I get to go cattle raiding with you?
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  2477. I've long suspected that the so-called bronze age Mediterranean collapse was brought on by combination of poverty , corruption , and last but not least a terrible anger that could not be satisfied with anything less than the destruction of who they saw as responsible for their misery. In other words a Mediterranean spring. Sort of like what we saw in Libya . In short the poor got sick and tired of the rich living like gods and decided to burn the whole thing down as opposed to continuing to live like slaves
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  2478. Finally... The Greatest Documentary of Vlad Tepes ! Well Done amigo...Well done! Cheers
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  2479. And you have a steady, calm voice which supports the content, rather than distracting from it. Very well done.
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  2480. Excellent as always.
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  2481. I didn't know about that Yamnaya bronze club. Fascinating!
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  2482. 👌 excellent
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  2483. Remarkably well made video, I'd like to see you make a video about the Scythians as well. Greetings from Iran.
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  2484. I love videos that tackle fringe theories like this one. Great job!
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  2485. With you.
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  2486. Yes very interest yes very interested
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  2487. Great video. The ending made me emotional somehow hahaha 10/10. I've been reading your Godborn book too, am at around page 100 when Holkis first escapes his uncle's clan and the story shifts to his mother. I'm greatly hooked the progress of the story is neither too fast nor slow it's perfect
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  2488. Thanks for your super work, you did a wonderful job bring the Barron's story to life. Blessings to all.
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  2489. I love your beautiful videos. You bring history to life. Wonderful work.
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  2490. Great picture of an ancient civilization and a proud people!
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  2491. I'm from eastern zealand (Nordsjælland) and I didn't know abou these helmets, fascinaing.
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  2492. Well done, Dan. You bring a lot of life to these Bronze-Age peoples. I'm sure they would be very appreciative.
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  2493.  @DanDavisHistory  We pray the “Neolithic gods” to help break the current deadlock :)
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  2494. Whats your feelings on survive the jive man
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  2495. Thank you🙏 I absolutely loved listening to this precious story of the magnificent William Marshall. I am a Londoner born and bred and yet have never been inside the Temple Church to see William's tomb, I shall endeavour to go and pay my respects to such a magical, unique and brave Knight of us all ❤
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  2496. Eliade is a classic, an authoritative voice, even in these corrupted times.
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  2497. No way could a horse pull a plough with its tail, it would just pull the hair out. It takes a large amount of force to pull a plough through the soil.
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  2498. Yes! Definitely would like to see a video on Bronze Age weapons and armor!
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  2499. I love your bronze age stories. Videos too. Write more.
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  2500. Great work, Dan. Well done.
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  2501. Dan I never got my alert bloody youtube, I can't believe you uploaded, fantastic I just love you're work the whole package, going to get my virtual headset and lie back and enjoy. Thanks Dan for sharing. 🇮🇪
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  2502. 26:01 Achilles Bandages Patroklos is the title of the art.
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  2503. Cattle die Kinsman die The self must also die But glory never dies For the man who is able to achieve it
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  2504. Outstanding job, Mr. Davis!
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  2505. Be nice if we could get a proper movie about this guy. I know Charlie Hunnam was working on a screenplay while he filmed King Author in Romania but said he won't let Hollywood change it or vampire it up. That was years ago so I guess his project won't see the light of day, cause Hollywoke ruins everything now.
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  2506. My favorite breed is Appaloosa, which are excellent mountain horses. I understand they were bred by Nez Perce tribes? They are known for their extreme endurance. Was my first horse at 10. "Crow a Little" was his name.
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  2507. Really liked this presentation, well done and thanks for the hard work and ease at which you presented it. Chris
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  2508. Horns can have a Function as antennae as well in my perspective. Attributed to shamans... Notice that some of the figures show ritual body postures. Cultural anthropologist Professor Felicitas Goodman did research about those ritual body postures.
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  2509. Once again an amazing video. I also finished listening the two Gods of Bronze books and i can’t wait for the next book to be released one day.
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  2510. Vajra is made of bones not metal.There is another story for it.If you say the bone particles were mixed with metal even then it cannot be copper or bronze to produce light by itself.As well as Indra is pre dated to all hero's as per cultural evidences
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  2511. "well-greaved Achaeans" from Homer
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  2512. I've always wondered why Ötzi's amazing copper axe wasn't stolen my whoever killed him.
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  2513. I had never heard of this William Marshal. I'm proud to carry the name of such a virtuous man. The like of his character surely existed with my own grandfather, Bill Marshall.
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  2514. Thank you, again your video is vivid and brings long gone peoples back to life. The Vikings were arguably the last pure expression of the Indo-European tradition of sending out their young men to adventure and hopefully come back with wealth. That format continued, maybe diluted a bit, all the way into the founding of the USA dealing with the Native populations of the New World.
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  2515. Another classic! Love it.
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  2516. Two videos I think would be cool: A summary of bronze age genetic history based on current findings. A book list. Great content by the way
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  2517. Reference the Anglo Saxon alliterative poem The Wanderer which reflects the psychology of the warrior death cult. Where trauma is compartmentalised by the desensitised warrior. Where he misses his service to a Lord. Combines ptsd with homoerotic themes. Warrior gangs likely emerged as regions outgrew resources from hunting or from farming. I know if some guy told me to murder my dog would liberateme i would draw the line there....if he persisted then it would reinforce my picture of him as dysfunctional....mad...and it would result in conflict.
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  2518. Will you do one on Stephen the Great as well? As you said..far more interesting reign than his cousin.
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  2519. Yes, imagine a baseball bat made of bronce or copper and there ya' go. Terribly deadly weapon.
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  2520. Interesting stuff. I'm fascinated by how DNA and Isotopic analysis is opening up how and when our species populated this planet. As for the "why" part ... I have direct "Bell Beaker" DNA on both Y Chromosomal and Mitochondrial haplogroups, myself. When they found AVA in her cist burial up in Caithness, they published a reconstruction of her features and I immediately said that she looks just like one of my nieces and I'll bet that we're related. They got all the colouration wrong the first time and now she looks like another one of my nieces. The hair went up on the back of my neck when I found out that we both have the same Mitochondrial DNA and she is, in fact of my family.I suppose that we all are but that is a whole lot closer than the Savanna of Africa. My Y Chromosomes puts me in with the Uí Néill of the Nine Hostages happy family.
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  2521. Dan, I gave this a hard pass when it was first released. I had to put my 10.5 year old Companion to rest 3 days ago. Her hip displaysia could not be remedied and she was in constant pain. I decided to watch this as a part of my grieving process. I, of course, have not consumed her, but she has been a part of my soul since she was a puppy. This video is about my Ancestors. Dogs are a part of my DNA. Its never easy- no matter the reason. But this video helps me transition to life without her. Thank you.
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  2522. Btw, I really enjoyed watching this video! Well-made!
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  2523. Hands down the best most informative channel on YT nowadays!
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  2524. Thanks for this one! I have grown tired of “this is the way it was so ask no questions” mantra. Whether it is Europe or the Americas it is obtuse, in my opinion, to stop asking questions, to stop searching, just because certain people are more worried about their reputation than discovering there is more to the story.
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  2525. Great video and interesting hypothesis. Surely if horse back riding was invented as a method of warfare we would have seen more solid evidence of it before 1st century BC. However, I wonder how the late hypothesis can explain horse bone remains at Tollense River battle site? As far as I know there is no evidence of chariots being present there.
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  2526. Glad to see this one finally made it over the six-figure-viewcount hump! It certainly deserved it: a wonderful video, as always. Very detailed and very engaging. And hey, looks like I was lucky enough to get the five-hundredth comment, too!
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  2527. It's so cool to see quality videos on such underrated and fascinating topics. Thank you!
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  2528. One also must remember how rich this would’ve made anything involved in the industry, as is today. The charcoal needs wood, so lots of timber fellers, transporting it, and then making charcoal. That is an in-depth process in and of itself. Now needed are craftsmen to manufacture the tools for mining and forestry. Also, the people to harvest food and water to supply those efforts. Any tribe that took on such an operation would’ve been surely wealthier than surrounding tribes. This also means you need warriors to defend such an area, and subsequently more food producers to sustain a standing militia/army. Tired, broken, and battered miners don’t make for quality soldiers or night watchmen. Like the Gold Rush or Computer Age of contemporary times, much wealth was spread around, even if not entirely “equitable” in its distribution. I’m sure slave labor or “indentured people” were used for mining and physical labor which it still is arguably used to this day. But surely, to take on an endeavor would mean hard work, but more wealth as a whole, for all, even the slaves.
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  2529. Ugh!! I feel so violated by that aggressive zoom on a candy bar whilst you talk about spongy bones healing!! 😱😰
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  2530. I'm one of those that fine your videos not only informative but relaxing as well. I have used your videos for something pleasant to listen to as I drift off at night.
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  2531. Here is glorious Devon, we know this man well, hail Sir Francis Drake! The Dragon of the Waves.
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  2532. This piece of history is absolutely fascinating. Thank you for making this video!
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  2533. Awesome documentary again! Sir Drake reminds me of one of our greatest heroes ( the Netherlands) of the sea, Michiel de Ruyter! Worth looking into!
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  2534. I live quite near the Vitlycke site and Tanumshede. You become quite ”home blind” if you live nearby a fascinating place-but I highly recommend a visit if anyone should be passing by there.
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  2535. This is Awesome! I get the honor be the first comment on this Video. Dan Davis you do excellent work! Very well done sir!
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  2536. Thank you so much for this - what a splendid and stirring story!
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  2537. so glad i found your channel! havet read your books but you certainly give great YouTube videos, I might just have to read your stories 🤔
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  2538. The Third Man is wrong: Cuckoo clocks are from the Black Forest (southwestern Germany), not Switzerland.
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  2539. The GOAT drops another banger!
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  2540. William Marshall sounds like the very definition of the phrase "beware the old man in a profession where men die young."
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  2541.  @DanDavisHistory  I find your videos extremely interesting and wish you all the best in your future works ! I am happy your videos are picking up, they certainly deserve the attention. Bronze Age is criminaly underresearched and lacking its presence in attention of people who are interested in history. But I am happy that in recent few years both archeology and people like you are doing great work to bring up this very interesting age into its deserved spotlight.
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  2542. What a magnificent knight! I’d never heard of him before this video, but he is indeed an inspiration for his fine qualities and resolve! Thanks! I enjoyed this SO much!
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  2543. Thank you. Can you please make a video about Friar William of Rubruck, another friar who went to the court of the Great Khan? Thank you.
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  2544. Hi Dan, massive fan. Still waiting eagerly for your next book :)
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  2545. This is the channel, the all "alternative historians" need to watch to simply shut up.
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  2546. Nicely done
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  2547. Another fantastic video. No sensational, distracting music, good research and storytelling!
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  2548. Thank you for this well done, educational video for breakfast!
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  2549. "Koryos" (indoeuropean). "Kouroi" ("The Youngsters" - in Greek) "Kariai" ("The Warriors" - in Lithuanian).
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  2550. Congratulations on 100K! Recently found your channel and very impressed with the production.
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  2551. Your channel in my recommendations,and SO freaking excited to be a new sub and binge watch ALL your videos! I'm 62, but grew up on Crete as a child...I have been to all the museums and Knossos many times in person .The ancient Minoan civilization is incredibly advanced and amazing ! From what I understood from the museum guides,the female hairstyles in the frescoes we'reade up of handfuls of hair rolled around the hand and kept in place with winding decorative cords.Many of these "poofs we're puke on the head,with tendrils hanging at the back,sides and front,being wound,wet, around straight sticks to dry and curl into hanging curls framing the lower hairline hanging down....it is indeed beautiful and flattering!
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  2552. A new Dan video? My day is made! Perfect timing too.. THANK YOU Dan! You find the most interesting things to explore for us!
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  2553.  @DanDavisHistory  no problem, respect friend. Loving your work.
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  2554. Damn that intro gave me chills. Such beautiful storytelling
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  2555. Amazing story about an amazing man. It must have been an exciting and adventurous time to live. Becoming perhaps unknowingly a part of history commiting deeds that would shape the rest of the world for ever.
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  2556. This is such an excellent video. So incredibly informative. Dan - by far the best!
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  2557. What always amaze me about this culture is how similiar it was to other, northern European cultures of Bronze Age, not only Tumulus, but also the Urnfield culture. That's why I don't think they really 'disappeared". I agree that at least some of them had to migrate, not necessary to the south though. More than the Sea People... they look to me rather like ancestors of the Lusatian culture. Similiar settlings, animals, material culture.
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  2558. What are the chances that 7:20 is an early example of drawing in perspective?
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  2559. Thank you for this interesting video about a legendary hero. I read "El cantar del mío Çid campeador" in the original medieval Spanish more than 30 years ago in grad school. It's good to learn more about the real history of the man himself. (I was in a course on literature rather than history.)
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  2560. Very nice work, thanks. The emergence of a warrior class is a huge milestone in the growth of civilization, and these insights in to aspects that are often overlooked are great!
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  2561. i'm loving all your videos and im scared of running out of them. Please keep them coming! As a suggestion, it would be so cool if you did some video on Iberian cultures. Whether about paleolithic art, neolithic peoples, the influx of Indo-european peoples, or the old question of whether there were actual celtic peoples in the peninsula or rather just celtization. Anything really!
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  2562. This was one of best made videos about this mysterious man! Thanks 🙏 you’ve earned subscriber
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  2563. I thoroughly enjoyed this story. My dog, on the other hand, not so much...
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  2564. Hey big history buff. I've been prowling YouTube channels for decades. Your channel is some of the greatest work, and research I've ever seen please keep it up. 💯
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  2565. Love your vids. Went back and re-read Mircea Eliade's 'Rights and Symbols of Initiation' due to your work...then this vid drops! Would love a collab with you and Survive the Jive.
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  2566. Hello Dan! Awesome video as usual. After watching it, I went on searching informations on related topics, and I found a table compiling archery related data (culture, structure, related items, date estimations...) based on archeology, and I realised that the first composite bows seem to emerge from archeological founds at both the same time and in the same areas/cultures than the first horse warriors came from. I was quite amazed that the first composite (using combination of different materials) and/or laminated bows (using combination of different essence/parts of the same material) are dated from 3000 BC, some possibly even before that. One thumb ring dated 2500-2000 BC has even been found from the Catacomb culture (pontic steppe/modern Ukraine/Russia), implying not only advanced the use ofcomposite bows but also the thumb ring technology and all what it means! I personally thought that this was more of an early iron age thing! Anyways, I thought that this would be an incredibly rich idea for a future video almost directly related to the first horse warriors.
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  2567. Neo- meaning new, and -lithic...( i, t, h, i, c ) meaning stone
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  2568.  @DanDavisHistory  Yes indeed i did.
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  2569. very nice and informative video! I love learning more about the indo-european cultures!
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  2570. I hope I shall live to read your books set in these fascinating cultures. I mean, it is kind of like Conan the Barbarian, only scientifically accurate. It may be wasted on most people, but you have at least some admirers here.
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  2571. Excellent work Dan, the narration of your videos is brilliant.
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  2572. As many things as he may have had wrong with his health he was still hiking up a mountain in mid winter. Most people of his age nowadays piss their pants if the central heating packs up.
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  2573. That was fascinating! What a dude!! Amazing life…….so many movies there!
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  2574. Well done !!!
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  2575. Great video I was about to ask you about what you know about the "wolfmen" because I happen to have a pendant modeled after an iron age firestriker and it has two wolf-headed men on horseback. The original was found in Kokemäki, Finland.
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  2576. It was amazing to listhen! We need Srubnayeah of course!
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  2577. Perhaps the Standard of Ur is an actual war chest. The caped soldiers of the king looks to me to be a representation of rank as in General, Captain & Sargent of men as each has a different number or arrangement of dots on the same area . I Think of the wagons as an early armored division, the tank of the day.
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  2578. 👍👍👍
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  2579. Hammer axe seems a little arbitrary, considering they’re just stone mauls. It makes sense that you’d made a maul instead of an axe if all you had to work w/ was stone, but they’re still mauls.
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  2580. the steppe or savannah played a mythically important rule in Indo European cultures.
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  2581. I would be really interested on your take of the North American Clovis Point neolithic culture and how it is related or if it is related to Europeans? My understanding after all these years and my hypothesis is the Clovis spear points seem to be related and a direct technological progression from European stone age spear points and archaeology in some cases seems to point out that the spear point technology spread from East to West in North America, counter to the Siberian migration theory. I hypothesize that a European culture crossed during an ice age by moving along the Ice sheets and from island to island across the North Atlantic while the sea levels were lower. Then got mostly wiped out when the Comets hit the ice sheets in Canada. There was a discovery of a very old burial ground or mass grave off the coast of Florida with European DNA that dates to just after the Ice Age ended. This also coincides with the loss of the great ice age beasts across North America. Would love for you to tackle this topic. I always want to expand my knowledge or at least compare it to others so I can reassess my structure of thinking in regards to the old standard paradigms. Thanks, Chris
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  2582. What a thoroughly fascinating video. Dan you are a legend. Blown away by genetic research.
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  2583. Dear Dan Davis, To this day you remain one of my most highly valued historic youtube content creators. I love your narrative tone, the extensive research you base your wonderfully woven stories on. This, to me, is as good as it gets. After encountering this channel a couple of years back, I purchased and listened to your books, "Thunderer" and its sequel. Loved them! Keep up the good work - forever grateful for your passionate contributions!
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  2584. I can't believe I can this dude's content for free. totally excellant I love the longer videos
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  2585. Clearly an early cricket bat.
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  2586. That I can agree with. Though not as old, some of the Tarim mummies (Tocharian) wore britches. Which is a clear evidence of only being needed if riding horses for longer periods of time. (And, those britches weren't leggings, rather very complex and detailed, designed especially for riding a horse.) That could show evidence of riding being already well advanced as far back as 3800 years ago.
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  2587. Imagine all the conflicts during the Bronze Age in America and other parts of the world we don’t even know about
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  2588. My personal speculation based on your video of the koryos, and admittedly, the movie the Northman, i dont think its a stretch to say these were the men we might associate with berserkers. The men who lived for the clank of ash and iron on a shields rim. The the men who lived for the raid. The the men who lived with the goal of dying with their weopons in hand, so that they could make friends with worthy enemies in the next life.
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  2589. My understanding is that men started to wear pants when they started riding horses. Pants give move protection and padding to the rider. Maybe you should start with who started wearing pants and when. Just a thought.
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  2590. Thanks for putting this video out. I have been looking at this time period for inspiration for making a RPG setting that would involve different eras and how the monuments like Stonehenge and the complex in the Orkney Islands would tie into the religions, cultures, cosmology, and even more fantastical elements, like older peoples tied to the land and traveling between the ages and locations by use of magic.
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  2591. I sacrifice a comment for the algorithm and like before watching. I’m sure I’ll enjoy this, thank you.
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  2592. Cannibalism for any reason other than pure survival is just plain wrong, I don't care what the "cultural context" is either. The Aztecs were wrong for tearing out people's hearts etc, and stone-age cannibals are also wrong.
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  2593. I've always found the Proto indo European religion and the Norse faith as very profound. Personally I think they had something universal and amazing. Thanks for another great video x
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  2594. Dan, I wanted to acknowledge your effort to thoroughly research a topic, and deliver coherent in-depth info in my understanding level... thanks mate.👍😃
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  2595. Dammit - now I'm hungry!
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  2596. Well, if there are no dogs in the afterlife, I'm not going.
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  2597. Wow, amazing story to start the video City Building Nomadic Cultures are the transitory point between Nomadic and early City building Civilizations. Their contribution to Human History is under related or covered a lot. Just because they left behind not might cities and records that does not take anything away from them.
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  2598. Best coverage of bronze age arms I have seen in many years. Outstanding work Sir.
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  2599. When the broth begins to thicken, tell yourself " It tastes like chicken" (great video)
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  2600. great documentary as always
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  2601. A very ancient archetype. One that we should continue to perpetuate, while understanding its original source.
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  2602. Perhaps the dual kingship is reflected in the story of the Danish kings Roar (Hrodgar) and Helge who divided the kingdom between them, so that Roar became the landbased "peaceful" king whereas Helge became the seafaring warrior king.
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  2603. Very interesting video. Some of the dna samples found in places like Motala, Sweden are I2a1b-M423. Those are ancestral to 30-50% of Southern Slavs (Sclaveni group). It seems like our ancestors migrated from Scandinavia to Northwest Black sea region around 500-300 BC.
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  2604. Kings and royalty tended to be mostly ethnically foreign. Mostly because of political marriages, a ruling class established from conquers, etc. He was the King of England. And that's all that really matters.
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  2605. While reading Gods of Bronze, I’m also listening to The Horse, the Wheel and Language on my work commute. Absolutely fascinating, almost obsessive topic. Dan, have you run across any info on the wooden Sintashta chariot museum reconstruction you show here? The kurgan burial chariot remains seem more like a wooden frame, over which a hide or leather suspended platform, like later (Egyptian, Celtic, etc.) chariots had. Seems like that would explain the fact that only the frame seems to have survived in a recognizable form. On the other hand, perhaps they used a species of wood for the frames/axles that was more rot-resistant and the thinner boards of the floor and sides were of wood that didn’t last as long in the ground. I haven’t found much on the specifics of how the chariot was constructed or what informed the decisions of whoever built the reconstruction.
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  2606. You might be interested in the work of Seth Fleishman, who runs the 'World History By A Jew' channel, he looks at things from a predominately Jewish perspective, and has many interesting insights to aspects resulting from forensic linguistic similarities between cultures.
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  2607. "Chariots first" idea assumes that the wheel preceded horse riding. I'm not sure about that. Having a herd of pack animals, who can pull primitive sleds seems like a major improvement to mobility. Suddenly you don't need to carry all your belongings on your own back. 1. Taming and herding first. 2. Domestication. 3. Utilization as pack and draft animals. 4. The wheel, once it's absolutely obvious, because you do have a bunch of draft animals already. Where horse-riding comes into this picture? I don't know, really.
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  2608. Very interesting subject, still so much more to discover. Dan never disappoints.
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  2609. Wonder what it was like where I live, in Thanet, I've heard it used to be an island
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  2610. By far the best documentary about Richard out there.
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  2611. 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
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  2612. Super underrated channel. This reminds me of the American settlers canilabalism
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  2613.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks :)
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  2614. I LOVE your videos. Not a lot of historians are willing to acknowledge prehistory. Just because most of it wasn’t written. Oral histories and myths have some truths into them. They just need to be memorable in order to be past down.
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  2615. Thank you for your evidence based speculation. As a history interested Swede I've often wondered. Rituals often have a foundation in mundane life, as above, so bellow. I find it unreasonable that so many carvings depict armed men and ships if there's not a a lot of raiding going on, or at least a history of violence in the culture. I guess we got famous in the rest of Europe when we reached a level of social organisation which allowed us to take brief breaks from clan-feuds in order to travel to foreign lands to loot and murder. I'm interested to know how Scandinavian bronze age mythology relates to the diffusion of a mythological complex from the Pontic-Caspian steppes.
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  2616. Great info man! Thanks for this.
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  2617. An interesting parallel would be the confederacy of the Mandan people whose "super villages" flourished on the Upper Missouri river between c.1500-1782, after which the introduction of European diseases caused a precipitous decline. Migrants from the east (possibly Ohio), they introduced maize-agriculture to the Great Plains. They allied themselves to a local nomadic tribe, the Hidatsa, who adopted their lifestyle but maintained their independence. The Mandan-Hidatsa began to trade their crops with the many tribes of the plains. Their large villages consisted of concentric circles of family huts around a central plaza. This acted as an "agora" and its religious importance did not necessitate any structure. Government was conciliar in the manner of many confederacies and tribes in the U.S. and Canada (many of which ultimately developed highly formal democratic institutions). Farm production was in the hands of women, who owned produce as individual property. Young men ventured out to explore and establish trading routes to distant tribes. Any youth was entitled to do so, but they were bankrolled by various clan elders and private societies. Trading networks extended across much of North America, involving a host of food staples (such as pemmican, produced by buffalo-hunting tribes), copper, volcanic glass, skins, seafood, textiles, art objects and luxury goods. For example, Mandan women mass-produced fancy combs from dentallium seashells purchased from the Pacific coast, and sold them to eastern tribes as far as the Atlantic (they did not use such combs themselves). At their apogee, their trading network covered an area as large as Europe, with numerous trading posts, cyclical rendezvous, trade fairs, and complicated negotiated treaties and alliances. Practising platform "sky burial", they did not leave cemeteries or burial mounds for future archaeologists. All governance was through councils, often with strict democratic procedures. Clan houses acquired varied degrees of wealth and prestige, displayed in "medicine bundles" and other abstract signs. Sacred areas and religious ceremonies did not need special buildings. War was not unknown to these people, and the villages were surrounded by defensive palisades, but the maintenance of peace to maximize trade was always the priority. There were never Lords or Kings. During the latter half of their "golden age", the introduction of the horse began to radically transform the nomadic plains tribes into stronger and stronger military forces. The Mandan-Hidatsa confederacy was at first the beneficiary of horse trading and horse breeding, and grew even more prosperous, but when weakened by disease, they ultimately succumbed to conquest. The great villages were, one after another, diminished, depopulated, and destroyed. The Mandan and Hidatsa remain, in a few scattered corners, but are greatly overshadowed by the plains tribes such as the Lakota, who are the iconic image of plains culture today. Being closely familiar with this history, you can see why it was easy for me to imagine similar elements and processes among the Cucuteni-Tripolye peoples. Whether these are valid parallels or not, of course, is presently unknowable.
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  2618. Thank you for all these wonderful videos!
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  2619. Your work is amazing Dan. Thank you very much. This fills in so many historical gaps and their meanings that many of us modern men are lacking in feeling our connection and purpose. Gives me the shivers. You know, when then that happens, one's ancestors are speaking.
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  2620. As a horseman for 50 years, I can say, that hardware isn't needed to ride or control a horse. Saddles, reins, bits, stirrups, spurs, shoes, etc were developed over the centuries to expand and enhance the horse's use. I think, that the best theory is, because prehistoric Humans likely goofed around as much or more as us "civilized" descendants, horseback riding began as a "Hey. Watch this" exercise by some guy goofing around with his buddies and riding a horse "piggyback", as if they were a child on their father's shoulders. Then his buddies, competitive as guys are, when it comes to goofing around, tried to one up eachother, and see who could ride the longer distance without falling off, etc.
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  2621. Great breakdown! Even modern folks get emotionally attached to a favorite tool. Imagine having to form the tool with sweat, blood, failed attempts, busted knuckles and finally a seductive, useful implement to build or destroy. Easy to see the religious level attachment. The amber hammer head looks like it could have been a male specific symbol.
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  2622. The colonization speed could have something to do with inheritance . Might be the second and third born had to find their own land to own.
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  2623. I’ve been to the museum in Bolzano to see Otzi. They have an incredible exhibit.
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  2624. Are you familiar with Harpending's hypothesis that the Indo-Europeans were the first dairymen? 10x the calories that are available from pasturing and slaughter are available from the milk produced on the same pasture IF adult lactose tolerance (ALT) is widespread in the population. Most of the peoples that speak Indo-European languages today also show a high percentage of individuals with ALT.
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  2625. I absolutely loved watching this. Such an amazing and mysterious site
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  2626. They seemed culturally ahead of there time......Wonder if it was time travelers went back and decided to rule that part of the world like later Kings?🤔🤪 As always I love these videos you give us Dan, thank you.
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  2627. I'm happy I found your channel here it's so interesting. Love the way you work and tell the stories and the amount of informations in them. Thank you
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  2628. I see a new Dan Davis video. I click.
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  2629. Maybe I'm just biased because I love this outdated book series Earths Children, but I felt it gave a very realistic approach and hypothesis to at least the start of horse domestication and riding. It is pretty outdated, not inaccurate per say, more outdated as it fit what we knew at the time it was written, and adapted to fit while maintaining earlier story elements as time went on. (No book series is good when it starts off as women Neanderthals werent allowed to hunt, only to find out two books, ten to fifteen years later that oh look! Women Neanderthals DID hunt after all! And change that already key element that literally made the first book in the first place). In the series, the main girl is all by herself and has to figure out how to survive. The story focuses heavily on examples of how we could've used our brains to problem solve certain problems. For this girl, the problem was to safely a hunt horses and other big game for enough meat and other materials such as fat, sinews, fur, ect, to last through the cold winter. She comes up with the idea to dig a trap, and sure enough, a mare falls in, she's kills it, and is able to start her winter supply. But the mare had a foal she didn't notice at first, and feels bad, having just had to leave her own child behind with her old group, or clan. So she does what many female animals do when faced with a baby of another species after losing their own, and takes it in and adopts it. The foal grows into a mare that trusts the girl and they even form a sort of language, or better to say, the horse learns key words from her such a food, water, go, no, ect. Basically, whatever most pets basically learn from their owners (my cat actually understands a lot, even if she doesn't act like she does lol. Its honestly amazing how well our pets can understand our language.) Eventually, its kind of like the racing game described in this video. The girl gets curious, wondering what it would be like to fly on the back of the mare, and climbs on. The mare is trusting of her, so she lets her, and runs freely. Eventually, the girl figures out her new equine friend/child can be a lot more helpful to her, chasing down prey, but more importantly, carrying it back to her cave. So she creates a makes shift pole sled to carry carcasses back. When she finally meets people of her own kind, she was raised by Neanderthals, the people are actually terrified of her, thinking she could be an evil spirit. Eventually, they too see what's actually going on, and agree the horse is more helpful. But still like to eat them. So while her horse was special, others weren't off limits. I should note, she didn't have a saddle, or bit, or even a blanket at first. She went bare back, holding onto the mane, and letting the horse decide where to go, not exactly lead her unless danger was present. It wasn't until later she finally put a blanket on, and even that was more for the horse than her. She had a rope, but that was to guide the horse, when she wasn't on it, not a reins so to speak. She used the mane, sounds, and movements to guide the horse when she was trying to, not a rope in the nose or attached to some bit. And while the people agreed her horse was useful, not many were too eager to change their ways and go catch a horse to ride and keep as a pet. Horses were still food, and the thought of riding one still terrified many. Even being pulled by one brought fear in most. Thats to say, the adults. The children of course thought it was awesome and wanted to be just like the horse riding lady. Idk, considering we can't really have evidence for bare back riding, except for the little pottery we find, I think its very possible that while we hunted them, we also started to use them as hauling animals. We didn't need to ride them to get to places quicker, we just needed them to hold our supplies, maybe a child or two, on a sled of some sort thats being pulled. And while wheels are helpful, they're not exactly necessary with a powerful animal. Riding on the backs could've been something done by only the fewest and bravest, hence why war fare wouldn't have been going on that way. It would also make sense why the chariot would've come before widescale back riding and why we see it as more of races or games when it does show up. People are stubborn in their ways, change isn't always easy, even in a world thats constantly changing for them. Riding bareback on a powerful beast might not be something most were willing to change to, but a few would. Thats just my theory lol.
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  2630.  @ericesper348  If dogs are associated with the passage to the afterlife then there's some heavy symbolism in Cu Chullain slaying the hound.
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  2631. How is it that central Europe (Hungry, Czech, ect) is never talked about in a historic context, but over and over, they clearly had technology equal to the Greeks, at the same time. Looking at those maps you showed, in almost every case, there was a cluster centered around that area, in many cases with more finds then Greece.
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  2632. Seems like we still have so much to learn about the bronze age. Or maybe just I do 😅 keep the videos coming! 👌 💯
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  2633.  @CommonSwindler  Henry II is definitely "underrated" when it comes to the chatter around England's greatest kings. It seems a few are always listed before he is brought up. But like every long reigning monarch he definitely had his blunders as well. The "wars" with his children were at the very least partially self inflicted. Also, while he was certainly the best politician among his peers, it seems his best "move" (in terms of territory and prestige gained) was simply his marriage to Eleanor. It definitely took careful "behind the scenes" machinations to make it occur, and he deserves credit for it; but so does Eleanor. Outside of his English crown, Aquitaine was the most valuable and prestigious jewel he possessed and he had Eleanor to thank for it. I've always liked reading about Henry; and not for the drama with Becket. What I enjoy most is the plans he had to set up his children in an almost loose familial empire. The Young King in England and Normandy. Richard in Aquitaine. Geoffrey in Brittany. And John..... somewhere. Maybe in Ireland or Flanders? Anyway, just imagine if that had come to pass! It would have been crazy!
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  2634. Well done artist/historian. Animal skins are excellent protection in the wild as well as battle. Thanks for the book recommendations. Looking forward to your next novel.
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  2635. Easy subscribe. I'll tell people about your channel. I'll be binging your content now.
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  2636. Please also have a look at the Sesklo culture found in Greece dating from 7510 BC - 3200bc. It seems that the building techniques of double story houses and brown and decorated ceramics with swirl patterns are also incredibly similar to these later culture you are mentioning.
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  2637. This sounds like a different strategy to develop men who transitioned from the nurturing womb of their home to become brutal warriors and hunters than is used today. It shows the power of the surrounding community to achieve this. It is interesting to compare this to the modern method elucidated by criminologist Lonnie Athens in the book by Richard Rhodes “why they kill.” As I was reading the book “Flags of our Fathers” describing brutal Japanese war behavior the five stages leading to brutal behavior described by Lonnie Athens were clearly present to transform a well educated young man to a brutal killer. It is a remarkable observation that Lonnie Athens has made as he described how young people are transformed into effective warriors.
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  2638. I am imagining some pirates attacking a small fishing village in Cyprus, capturing people, then torturing them until they told the pirates where tombs were. That seems far more profitable to return home with ancient weapons/ valuables than just normal pirate booty.
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  2639. 7 minutes in and this is already amazing
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  2640. I watched in all in one sitting before I knew it. Great stuff! The Neolithic times must have been a rough time to live, but then again, in 3000 yrs they'll probably say the same of us. Thanks for the information and thoughts.
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  2641. Thanks! I recently read, The Horse, The Wheel and Language !
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  2642. One thing I find interesting is that as the styles of horseback warfare changed, the technology used by the horse warriors changed as well. Like take mounted archery for example. When it started out as chariot archery, the style of bow used was the Angular Bow, which had a very triangle-like shape. But by the time full-on mounted archery was on the scene, the Angular Bow is completely gone, and it's been replaced by the more iconic Recurve/Reflex Bow.
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  2643. You really made a silk purse out of a sow's ear with this excellent video. Jeepers, there are some awful weirdos on the internet. Everybody knows my auntie Edith von Däniken built the pyramids on her day off. Fact.
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  2644. Dude, i really enjoyed that. We never really learned much about bronze age Europe in school. It was always Egypt and Greece.
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  2645. I wonder if those people are the origin of the non-Indoeuropean words in Germanic languages for things related to sea
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  2646. It ain't a party unless it's the Donner Party.
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  2647. Just an excellent channel, one of my few must-watches. Thanks for your hard work and fantastic content!
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  2648. Kumis, the mildly alcoholic beverage, of those fierce horse warriors.
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  2649. Very interesting
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  2650. I'm from Bohuslän. Thanks for covering out rich history. Helsningar
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  2651. They lived in what is Russia, Ukraine , Caucauses...
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  2652. If I made my own battle axe tool I would want to be buried with it too. Even if I didn't use it in battle.
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  2653. Are you familiar with Cu Chuculainn, the Irish hero, and the work assigned to him and the geis (taboo) that was laid on him to never eat dog meat.
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  2654. You can look up dr lynne kelly for how these stories can last so long
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  2655. Great vid again! Would love to hear your thoughts on Arthurian legend and its origins, similar to your Robin Hood vid?
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  2656. Great vid, Bro. Love it. Each one is better and better quality. Please keep 'em up. :-)
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  2657. I think we often tend to underestimate the level of hardship and scale of production necessary to produce/harvest these raw materials. Simply incredible stuff.
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  2658. Young man in the oak coffin with a glorious head of curly hair... I'm thinking his hairstyle may have resembled a young Jamie Fraser. It would be interesting if they reconstructed his face.
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  2659. I've always wondered, ancient Greek pronounces the C like a K, so, wouldn't we pronounce "Mycenaean" as "Mykenaean"
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  2660. If I were an ancient mariner, I'd sell my remaining provisions at the destination port. That way I'd get fresh food and the exotic stuff likely sold well.
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  2661. Mr. Davis, I love your train of thought on the evidence and I appreciate your exploration of the possibilities of what happened and in what context this event occurred. When you say "There were no towns here." do you mean in the immediate area in the valley? Does your use of the word "town" differ from your use of the word "settlement"? The statement of "There were no towns here." as we see the map with settlements kind of confused me.
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  2662. Thanks for the reference and images of Time Team. Have watched them all several times over.
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  2663. Very interesting. What kind of catastrophe I wonder, could cause the information age collapse.
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  2664. I got this from Robert Graves in the White Goddess Before the vowel shift it would be Ros Brecht Hooden "The Red Breasted one of Odin Think of a bowman one eye open string across your chest , Its a joke or riddle
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  2665. He is one if my heroes what a leader and adventurer
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  2666. More more more! I could watch a topic like this all day! So we’ll done👍
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  2667. "We have never been successfully invaded except once" but what about X? "doesn't count" Well what about Y? "Doesn't count" Well what about Z? "Doesn't count" Well why don't all of these times count? "Cause, they just don't".
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  2668. Let out an audible "yesssss" when I saw this was out
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  2669. Wonderful video! A video discussing armor in the bronze age would be great!
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  2670. very thorough. thank yew
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  2671. Would make a great atlantis type fanfic
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  2672. The background music fits really well with the videos I hope that you keep using it. Great video to of course :)
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  2673. I’m so happy to have come across this channel
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  2674. great show. monsters where often characteristics of nature. man fights man but the biggest threats we've met are natural. like floods, comets, volcanoes, droughts etc so the myth gives a symbolic body weather man or beast. superstition creates monsters. i'm learning a lot. thank yew dan.
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  2675. It is a pity that the European Union allocates funds for nothing but sponsoring excavations and getting the truth about the history of European civilization..........nothing!!! As a European citizen and as a Bulgarian, I am deeply outraged by this..... And for the video I have no words, it was made more than fascinating, entertaining and educational.......thousands of congratulations for a job well done in creating it. With your video, you also advertise Bulgaria and these incredible finds in the Varna Museum. I am sure you have impressed many people and encouraged them to visit and get to know them up close. Unlike the museums in Western Europe, the entrance to the Bulgarian ones has a symbolic fee. And believe me, the entire territory of Bulgaria is littered with incredible finds. Even in provincial museums there are many artifacts and beauties to see. It is a pity that many artifacts were exported by illegal groups with property interests from Bulgarian lands and sold to foreign museums. To this day, in private collections, both in Bulgaria and abroad, there are incredible things made of clay, marble and all kinds of metals........jewelry, statues, statuettes, ornaments, coins and everything related to archeology , this is very unfortunate because it is a gain for a certain circle of people and a loss for entire societies!
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  2676. For what it's worth, and maybe nothing, the female deer and moon drawings remind me of a recent conversation with another person who knows wildlife. We were discussing mating season for local deer. Theoretically I know the correct calendar time but the deer do not perform on schedule. A friend said he thinks the onset of mating is dependent upon a moon cycle in October. That makes a lot of sense. What might this mean for Bronze Age people? Deer congregate in herds at mating time and they are likely to have their minds on other things than being cautious. What the heck with the stick figures that look like the have a sword stuck through the pelvic area? In some ways it looks phallic and in others it just looks fatal.
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  2677. I love these videos, especially the maps. Has anyone found animated maps of the movements of cultures, going back 5-6,000 years?
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  2678. Thank you, came here by chance and, damn, I did not expect to get the history I know to be turned upside down. What a time to study
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  2679. I've always admired Richard, and I wish I could have ridden with him into battle.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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  2680. My new favourite channel!
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  2681. Amazing channel, you help make shifts pass by so much faster.
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  2682. Greetings to the author, thank you for this material, very good informative video!
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  2683. Sometimes I have no idea what you're saying but this video is really entertaining and the axes are very pretty
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  2684. The psychedelic Mushroom was sacred in most cultures. Especially the start of Christianity.
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  2685. Note that for North Siberian people were extremely dependant on their dogs. The Samooyed people had their dogs pull sleds, provide the fiber for their clothes, and keep them from freezing at night aside fron the usual assistance in hunting and guarding. It is easy to think it hard for them to imagine life or afterlife without their dogs as quite horrifying. Even now the Samoyad breed of dog is the most social of all breeds and not able to work without human presence for jobs like junkyard dog or herder that other breeds do much better.
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  2686. Spectacularly good!! I’m only 3/4s of the way through because every second is packed! But wanted to comment & thumbs before more time goes by. Thanks so much ⭐️✨☀️⭐️✨!!!
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  2687. The Varangian Guard always intrigued me, obviously 😏 💪🏽🐻
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  2688. Can't wait to see Herxheim in the gods of bronze series
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  2689. Fabulous video, you really take your content & storytelling to the next level, really excellent 🌟🌟🌟!!’
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  2690. That was fascinating. 👏 I would think that there may have been a culture of homosexuality amongst the men who chose to remain ‘wild’ and unmarried. Perhaps it was a way of avoiding family duties and hanging out with the boys all the time. If you were a gay man of that time, it seems like the logical option.
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  2691. Hey Dan wondering if you could make a video on human sacrifice cultures like the mesoamerican Aztecs or if you have any good book recommendations on the topic?
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  2692. did you call Meck Pom a cold and stinking bogland? well some things are true even a few thousand years later no towns and the population density low exactly as it is, no need for isotop anything Tollense is still a riddle why did men in their thousands travel from maybe Czechoslovakia to this place in the middle of exactly nowhere to get killed? but still, looking at facts and new findings is interesting
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  2693. such an underrated channel, it's a shame the algorithm ignores the highest quality content and promotes the brain rot
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  2694. ❤ your work!!! Thanks for giving us this knowledge
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  2695. Thank you for sharing an absolutely great and informative video. I loved seeing all the connections and the circle formed by them. In our modern arrogance we like to think we invented global trade, but little did we know :) Chris
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  2696. Great info at the end about the native immigrations and genetic heritage. Reminds me of something I saw in a Robert sephr video showing a snake s wastika carved out of stone found in the mud banks of the Mississippi. Another cultural link to ancient Hunter gathers or arya ns or whatever you want to call them.
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  2697.  @DanDavisHistory  Gonna look for your books. I've wanted to get back into books for a long time. Tried self-improvement, long story short not for me they cringed me. A well written novel based on one of my biggest interests in this period of time sounds like a really good idea
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  2698. Regarding the house-burning every 60 years - the traditional calendars in Korea, China, and Japan follow a 60-year cycle.....in Korea, the 60th birthday was a huge celebration. It's a combination lunar and solar calendar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar)
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  2699. Very interesting analysis of an unusual subject.
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  2700. I love your content, Dan. As usual, amazing,
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  2701. Nicely done. But we all know richard saved Dover and torched the fleet.
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  2702. I think I can fill in some blank spots by fusing my native Czech and other languages I learned or had been exposed to. I have a page on facebook I call Keltymology. I always say, I don't find nor invent these associations, but they just find me and don't let go. 😁 Here is one of my posts there (it was an Aztec sword from wood and obsidian shards): Well if you remember, I have once tried to resolve a puzzle that got in front of me: a friend of mine, playing in a quasi hobby ancient history Celtic tribe had asked me if I could come up with a name for his newly made Celtic sword. It was an unusual request, but it got me interested in the ancient Gaelic name for swords. And what I found intrigued me: in ancient Welsh they called it "chlodwych". I think in Scottish it was "Caliburn". This crossed in my head with our Czech name for hammer: "kladivo". Well if you compare the consonants, it is ch (can read as k), so "k-l-d-w", or "c-l-b-n", still close enough. Before this, I always wondered, why we Czechs call hammer "kladivo", when Russians, along with many other Slavic languages, call it "molotok" or "molot", while Germanic languages have "hammer" or variants thereof? And the French have "marteau". So I suspected it might had been a remnant of Celts, who used to inhabit our land, Bohemia, prior Czechs came in. The Celts (some of them) were called "Boii", hence our country is called to this day "Boii Haeme", home of the Boii. Well, it might be a coincidence, but even now our national anthem is about "where is our home?". Obviously this spurred my interest even further: how could a long, slender sword be connected to a hammer??? Nonsense, I thought at first! But then, I realized the "Chlodwych" was soooo similar to a famous French kings names, Louis! Well, to its original shape I mean: Chlodowicus. Would it be possible for kings to be called after a sword? Well yes, why not, if their grandfather was named after a hammer?! Remember Charles Martel? And what is hammer in French? Le marteau! So, Charles Martel meant "Charles the Hammer"! We know that the French had many kings by the name of Louis - the longest serving king of any kings was Louis XIV - he had reigned 72 years! But the real Chlodowicus ruled much earlier - in the sixth century. Also named Clovis, this sounds even more Gallic. So, anyway, back to the question: why is one king named after hammer and another after sword? I was thinking about it for some time and could not imagine how could these two be related. But then the other Celtic name of sword helped me: it was the Caliburn. Obviously, I realized, it had something to do with Excalibur! Ha! It was not a slender sword from the king Arthur's legend, it was an Axe-Caliburn! Meaning, the Excalibur must had been then rather a double edged battle axe! (Btw, here we are about Thor, Zeus or Indra. 😁) And the whole story about Arthur makes suddenly more sense: Arthur wasn't pulling a slender sword from the stone - he pulled out the stone axe from the stone! Meaning, the legend might come even from the paleolitic times, when the skill was how to get a sharp edge of the flintstone! I will elaborate on this - Arthur pulled the core from the flint to make a sword that nobody could match!!! That's the true basis of the story!!! And this is how the sword had gradually developed from a club to a stone axe and got gradually more and more slender and when the technology changed from stone to metal, the name remained the same. (Here it again correlates so closely to your description of vajra!) So, on this picture (without hesitation, I didn't check it) (the Aztec picture of the ritual sword that is on my facebook Keltymology page I mean) I dare to say that the pictures on the instrument are typically Aztec, so this must be some sort of ritual sword from the stone age. Not related to Celtic Europe, and even not so old, as Aztecs lived without advanced metallurgy relatively recently, yet nevertheless, this is a proof of my theory - this instrument is a perfect cross between a battle axe and a sword before metallurgy was around. This is the way the hammer changed to an battle axe (axe-caliburn) and from there to this kind of proto-sword, which was finally replaced by a metal instrument. There are too many coincidences in my story to discount it as improbable, that's what I think.
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  2703. Thank you. These videos are great. The speed of the delivery is just right. Please could you make a video on the Bell Beaker culture? The take-over of Britain was so strange. Thank you.
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  2704. Lightning striking sand can form glass. I expect it also works to melt a bunch of other types of materials. It seems possible that lighting could form something we may well call stone...which could then be used/shaped however Yeah, I remembered correctly. It's called fulgurite and/or rock fulgurite lightning can melt damn near anything looks like. 2500 degrees
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  2705. It's the firstest civilization in the world! Very interesting. Tripil's people had own writing. Archeologisn call it as Danube script.
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  2706.  @DanDavisHistory  An in-depth comparison of Cochrane and Smith? Not sure anyone's done that yet.
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  2707. I loved the whole series! Thank you!
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  2708. Another excellent video! This vid made me think about James Burke’s “Connections” when he talked about how the “stirrup” changed horse mounted warfare drastically. As an innovation it was a turning point that made shock war on horseback even more effective.
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  2709. I have seen the Dendra panoply up close in Greece and it’s amazing. Great presentation here — thanks!
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  2710. Amazing content. Never been much of fantasy type of person but history like this I can get into
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  2711. Great story Dan. Glad to have an honest and well researched persons account, which is who I consider you are. Thanks. Michael
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  2712. AMAZING I will definitely be visiting Sardinia in the coming months [thankfully I live quite close in Bulgaria]
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  2713. My national pride rose up to 1000% when I saw the map with polish text (12:37)
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  2714. Terrific stuff as ever Dan. Keep it up.
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  2715. 36 hours before his death ötzi comes down from the mountain where he'd been hunting and finds some ones waiting for him. They are ötzi man 2 and his three sons. All the male relatives of the girl otzi spent his last night in the village with. He immediately drops his Ihorn and takes off up the mountain again. The rest is prehistory
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  2716. Your videos inspired me to try one of your novels; "Godborn". it didn't take long to see that you are an immensely impressive story teller. Thanks for writing the books!
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  2717. Do the Uruk civilisation, if possible
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  2718. Always surprised to find a Video Maker who has an IQ over 20 lately ... subbed > I would like to see more about = Rickettsia prowazekii, as the vaccine almost killed me at 5 - I had a temp of 105.6 ...F
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  2719. After watching a couple of your videos I have now read a couple of your books and really enjoyed them.
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  2720. When I was in school, world history was my favorite subject, but at the time so little of this was taught. My textbooks said the Scythians were mythic people at most, unimportant barbarians at best. Just imagining a civilization you describe sets my imagination ablaze!
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  2721. You have maybe the best history channel that I've seen. And there's lots. Keep it up please
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  2722. please do villanovan and italic cultures
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  2723. I think I take something of a middling position in terms of the Yamnaya riding horses into Europe: using horses in warfare =/= fighting your opponents from horseback. I agree with Drews that some random steppe herder on horseback wouldn't be a particularly big combat multiplier for them in a face-to-face fight. But I wouldn't discount the value of mobility when it comes to the type of warfare that would have been happening in the EBA. The Yamnaya probably used horses much as early modern dragoons, ride up to the fight before dismounting to do the fighting. And keep in mind that there would have been little in the way of 'pitched battles' during the centuries long, decentralized movement into Europe. Most 'warfare' would have consisted of endemic skirmishing and cattle rustling. Where that sort of 'dragoon' fighting style would have been a massive combat multiplier, without a single herder having to ever needing swing an axe from horseback.
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  2724. One of my favorite channels, hands down.
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  2725. This was fantastic. So well done mate.
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  2726. Dan hitting us with a bunch of videos! <3
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  2727. Another outstanding video from Dan. Yes, do please do another on the cave site. Fascinating work- thank you again.
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  2728. (Disclaimer: Unpopular opinion) I must say that I'm extremely uneasy with Vlad's status as a hero, a defender of Christendom and the admiration many people seem to have for Vlad. In the end he was personally respondible for a huge toll not only on the Ottomans, but on his own people. He literally tortured tens of thousands to death, many of which peasants and soldiers innocent and powerless, reduced to material the rulers threw at each other. All of which to defend a country that he personally made sure was devastated, to defend a faith that legalized all this and, above all, to retain his own selfish power. Only to achieve next to nothing, for Walachia soon came under Ottoman power and stayed under Ottoman power for years to come, for which, ironically, the devastation, unrest and misery his rule left proved to be the best condition imaginable. For me this doesn't add up to a great ruler, but a ruthless brute who lacked the foresight, the mercy and the wisdom a ruler should have.
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  2729. As always, precise, concise, and as compleat as can be expected is this format. Thank you for your time and effort.
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  2730. Good stuff as always. Hope you make something about the Black Prince and his father soon.
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  2731. As always, great video! Listening to this video got me thinking; in this society with clear gender-roles, what were the womens roles and sacred rituals? While we see a lot of overlap between indo-european (and beyond) warrior societies, womens status and roles have varied more. From more or less equals (but still generally wielding power different from that of the men) to someone barely different from a slave. Do you think you will make videos in the future concerning this topic?
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  2732. Love your work Sir Davis!
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  2733.  @DanDavisHistory  Deforestation is not that big of a deal, that is exaggerated a lot by some NGOs and such. And the wildlife is also ok. The loses are cultural, with the youngsters in the countryside all having smartphones, mobile internet and growing up with Netflix, Facebook, YouTube and so on like almost everywhere in the world. They all want to leave the old ways behind and move to cities. The future generations will be all the same no matter where they were born. This way cultures are disappearing before they are recorded properly or studied. BTW, I thought about the circle dances and they were and still are widespread. Probably they are way older than Cucuteni culture and known to other cultures at that time. The oldest recorded circle dances were in Greece, since they were the only ones leaving written records in these parts. From that the modern word choreography, as in ancient Greece choreia meant circle dance while chorus meant something like group singing. Circle dances in eastern Europe are all named with words related to choreia like hora in Romania and Moldova, horo in Bulgaria and so on going even to Russia, Caucasus and Anatolia. The distribution seem to correspond with the former Byzantine empire and Ortodox world.
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  2734. Thanks!
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  2735.  @DanDavisHistory  It is interesting to speculate if improved horsemanship might have played a role in the Bronze Age collapse. More effective mounted forces would have played havoc on the long trade routes that had developed up to that time. And that could be why the Iron age saw the growing use of horses as a military asset.
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  2736. Biggest take away from this video: you can drink horse milk
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  2737. Brilliant Dan, as usual 👏😊
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  2738. Mr. Dan Davis, can you do a future video on the early Magyars? Thank you - this was very interesting and in- depth.
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  2739. This is pure gold, keep up the good work. You deserve much more fame :D
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  2740. Absolutely amazing insight into a story I thought I knew something about. Your videos never disappoint.
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  2741. I could watch content about Ötzi all day. Endlessly fascinating. You did a great job with this. Thanks.
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  2742. All of my ancestors are Vikings from Denmark! My dad says my great grandfather many times removed was a viking ship captain! There are a lot of neat stories passed down from generation to generation in my family! I'm proud to be VIKING!!! 👑💜
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  2743. "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti"
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  2744. Excellent, Dan. Thanks for the introduction to sewn boar-tusk armour pieces, even though I'm gonna lie awake at night feeling bad for the poor bastards that were compelled to craft them...
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  2745. Literally was reading up about this civilisation yesterday, and now you upload a video on them. Amazing how timing works sometimes!
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  2746. Yeah the intro - wow.
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  2747. Open for suggestions ??? What about going down to the Baltic all the way thru the Karelian Peninsula, the last bastion where Finno - Ugrian/Indo - European (Arian) did somehow blend and survive. No wonder the Russ and any other did call them " Savages " !!!
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  2748. Bronze Age Pirates....aka Sea People
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  2749. So much great information! Otzi is a very interesting man
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  2750. could you clarify what the average person looked like in your gods of bronze book. like what hair color(s) and eye color(s) they had. btw great book
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  2751. Thanks!
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  2752. That *sup 😂😂😂😂
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  2753. I feel really sad for him 🥺 he looks so sweet and his fashion was 🤌🏻 ⬅️ for your Italian heritage Ötzi 😉 on a serious note the work you have done is incredible thank you for informing us about an ancient man.
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  2754. I raised a dog from the age of 7. We hunted and we herded cattle together. When I was 19, my dog slipped on ice, fell beneath a visitor’s tires and sustained a painfully crippling injury. My dad and I drove through a blizzard at night to a vet. My dog whimpering, screaming. I carried him in. I held him during the injection. I carried his limp body back to the van. We drove home. We told my mom and sister who burst into tears. I wanted to bury him that night. So, Dad and I drove to the highest point on our farm. It commanded no view in the blizzard and dark. We cleared away snow. We broke through frozen earth to the loose soil beneath and dug deeply. We placed him and covered him. My dad in broken voice saying, “He was a good dog”. Returning home I went to my room. Lay down and finally permitted myself just one tear. One. (At that time I thought this manly virtue, not repression). Those boys were well practiced at killing. Having witnessed the slaughter of steers from my toddlerhood, hunted and sometimes killed sick animals, I’m confident they were fine with killing. I believe these boys were bearing the responsibility of manhood. Hands steady, their strike sure. No hesitation. What greater shame than two strikes? What betrayal to the dog if I must strike twice. What a burden of shame and guilt to not follow through and do it right. If you can’t do right by your dog their is no man to be found in you. Your dog fears death no more than napping. But aged with muscles stiff, eyes graying and easily winded; what troubles the dog is not being able to keep up with you; For to be with you in hunting and herding and feasting is All to them. When the time comes, a man does what he must. The old men know. As I chew the roasted flesh, my faithful companion and joyful servant joins my life as a man. My dear dog, what greater honor there may be, I am not worthy to offer. You gave all. May I be worthy of thee. I shall remember you even as I do my duty. These men knew fate called on them to give their life. They would go to their fate as willingly and gracefully as their dogs. And If fate should call on them to a strike a mercy killing of father, brother or friend, they would.
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  2755. The best documentary I have seen about Otzi. Thank you so much!
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  2756. What a spectacular combination of thorough research, vivid narrative, charming accent and voice. Thanks, Dan!
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  2757. Thanks for another great story⚔️👌
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  2758. Beautiful video, such a fascinating people, let's hope we learn much more about them 👍 Many thanks.
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  2759. I immediately thought of the German Kindergartens as a modern derivative of the koryos, perhaps a diminished instance of that pattern of social organisation? A very interesting subject. Thank you.
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  2760. That was a fantastic exposition. Please do more!
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  2761. Very glad to see a historian recognize Richard for the hero of Christendom he was, despite his marital failings. He was a king that any soldier could happily follow in any charge against any foe. One point you didn't raise though, is that although Richard was unable to liberate Jerusalem, his actions in the Third Crusade bought the Kingdom of Jerusalem another 90 years of life, and utterly crushed Saladin's dream to eliminate the Christian presence in Outremer. Not even the Sainted Louis IX can claim an accomplishment that great.
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  2762. New video!
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  2763. Another masterpiece. Thank you.
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  2764. Love the videos! Excited to read your work! Keep it all coming Dan.
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  2765. Coincidentally, the native tribes of the American plains had similar traditions. They called themselves Dog Soldiers.
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  2766. I lost it when I saw Vlad with a smile on his face
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  2767.  Hoa Tattis  Romney Marsh lamb's good, but so is Pevensey Marsh lamb on the other side of Hastings! And then there's great beef to the north of me, especially the Old Sussex breed!
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  2768. Dan, this was another really great and fascinating video. Thank you !
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  2769. Very nicely done! Clan o the cave bear by Jean Auel was among my fav literarary pieces ever and your prehistory fills in a lot of missing pieces. Thanks for the great work!
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  2770.  @DanDavisHistory  It's worth waiting for the quality you bring to the table.
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  2771. You seem to be jumping all over the neolithic periods. You do this so many times in this video that it makes it difficult to keep up. I really have to concentrate more than I should be for a youtube video just to keep up. This seems to be your way of telling stories because you tend to do that in all your videos. Nevertheless, I think it would be better if you organize your story in a linear fashion. Good series dough, I enjoy it.
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  2772. Awesome in depth story of Richard the 1 I have also wondered where the disc contempt of Richard the first comes from. I think it’s the same discontent for Alexander the great William the conqueror or any other heroic war hero that ever lived. Honestly I think it’s a factor of jealousy some people at Myer a great hero and other people hate great heroes because they know deep down inside they don’t share the same qualities
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  2773. Just came across this channel. Outstanding narrative, solid evidence based approach and broad, open minded delivery. Can’t wait to see more
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  2774. Thank you Dan. Never heard of them.
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  2775. The ancient indigenous native Cymru had a real Robin in Owain Glyndwr. He fought a successful guerilla war for 10 years. He was never captured by the enemy or betrayed by his fellow countrymen. His whole family paid the price for his endeavours and were all killed, but he carried on. FIDEL Castro credited him as being the father of guerilla warfare. NONE of his followers were professional soldiers
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  2776. Fantastic!
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  2777. This was nice. I have been looking at continuity of pantheons for a minute.
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  2778. More English Heroes please Dan
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  2779. Fantastic works Dan.
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  2780.  @DanDavisHistory  the sea has much more food than land, here in iceland it was forbidden to fish for how long cos farmers ruled and controlled the workforce , the public, in times of lack of food even , or was it farmers controlling the right to fish so non farmers could not . even if the sea is huge and had plenty of fish for more to go fishing. .. so interesting to see about those earliest seal hunters on boats.
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  2781. Extremely interesting video. Shared with my contacts.
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  2782. I think the only thing sadder than losing a dog is living without one--I love what you say here. Thank you.
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  2783. Perfect for the start of the Halloween season!
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  2784. BY FAR the best Documentary on Vlad on the internet!!! I subscribed and I thank you, Sir!!!!!
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  2785. In the Nibelungenied, Hagen Stabbed Siegfried in the back, with a spear. It is possible the drawing refers to the legend, which is the root of the Nibelunenlied, and the Volsung Saga.
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  2786. Good questions. Who were the first farmers? Where did they come from? Part of the answer lies in what they were doing with the grain. Why did they want to grow grain? It was a status crop, not a staple. There's more to grain processing than just making flour and bread, porridge or gruel. Grain can be malted to make malt sugars for beer brewing, an aspect of the neolithic we've been studying for a while. You might like this article on the ancient magic of malt: https://exarc.net/issue-2021-2/at/ancient-magic-malt-making
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  2787. When did people go from round houses to square houses? It seems to have been early in Europe while in Africa it was never discontinued.
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  2788. Learning about my epic ancestors makes me start to feel soft and flabby kby comparison.Thanks for the well researched, well presented educational videos. I didnt realize so mich could be gleaned about the culture of Bronze Age Europe. I tend to think of it as a very hazy, hard to penetrate era except through archaeology, but youve really injected life into it. Im gonna download some of your books to ljsten to on audible while I work at the tire factory.
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  2789. I find your videos to be extremely interesting with lots of good, clear close ups of the artifacts.
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  2790. Have just recently found your channel, cannot stop watching! Thank you for sharing, your video topics never miss.
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  2791. DAN! You make good videos!
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  2792. holy crap your book idea is a dream come true
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  2793. I find your exposition very engaging, your content very well researched and even your tone of voice quite soothing. I wonder whether you have considered expanding your videos beyond the Neolithic age. By the way, I like your books!
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  2794. I thought the picture you used for Radu was funny, so I decided to google him. I gotta say I was not expecting all the Radu and Mehmed II fan art.
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  2795. Interesting stuff. I wonder if the balls on the tips are meant to represent the sun and moon? The disc is so apparent in most horned motifs, seems weird to be lacking. I think in later periods where melee combat is more close up and personal, horns lose practicality beyond being an identifier for commanders. When most of your combat is spear and shield with swords being sidearms, having some flair on your helmet is less a concern as something to hinder you. That being said, I've read a lot recently of peat finds that were deliberately placed as sacrifices. Some very valuable things often too... I would guess they were exaggerated and ceremonial. Probably specifically designed for sacrifice.
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  2796. Maybe the early horses still didnt like being ridden and it was easier and safer to have them pull a cart or chariot and it wasnt until a lot of generations later that they where able to be ridden.
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  2797. It looks like the sun with rays to me 🤔
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  2798. Bet they ate Lots of Sardines
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  2799. Ibn Al Battuta just came in my mind. Like the video, otherwise the great Khan's gonna enslave your village !
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  2800. Great video. I've often found similarities between the Nordic bronze age rock art/culture and some artefacts on the Humber in Yorkshire. Wooden figures which match the art style of the nordic rock art and the bronze age boats/canoes found at Ferriby. Whether that's coincidental or potentially due to trade networks like you mentioned is fascinating. Your content is covering some really good topics 👍
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  2801. There is a strange tendency to want to believe conspiratorial theories rather than actually doing the work of reading real research and the real debates that exist between scholars of a subject. Wait... Maybe not that strange, it's just laziness.
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  2802. Can’t wait to watch!! Content & quality are always spectacular 🌟!!
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  2803. You deserve a larger audience. It is nice to get some perspective on the non Mesopotamian world.
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  2804. You must have the biggest Ötzi reaction images folder ever
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  2805. So grateful youtube recommended your site to me. You always present a fascinating and informed video full of unexpected details. Thanks so much for creating these videos. Re Koryos, this week in Campania, Italy the remains of a 12 year old Etruscan boy c. 4th C bce were excavated by archaeologists. The boy was buried with his bronze warrior's belt and two ceramic cups, one for food and one for wine. Would really like to know your thoughts on this burial. Thanks.
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  2806. Wonderful fleshing out of this most enigmatic character. Of course, he couldn't have accomplished what he did without an immortal knight at his side ;)
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  2807. I love your videos. Really well researched. There seems to have been a real shift in focus in recent years. 20 years ago, most lay-people who were interested in archaeology and prehistory were usually focused on iron-age Mesopotamia. But now there seems to be a new level of interest in the neolithic and bronze age.
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  2808. Excellent vid, informative and entertaining, looking forward to stone axe vid. The weapon in the grave looked like it had the same design and profile though obviously smaller than some Polynesian,Maori war clubs the 4 sided profile and flared end or am I just imaging it.
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  2809. Fantastic presentation. I've learned facts about Drake's life I had never heard before. 👍
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  2810. You have to wonder how much of the Indo-European expansion was through trade networks rather than warfare (not that they’re mutually exclusive by any means). I’m imagining sintashta nomads who sell horses and other livestock to the settled people in good years and become raiders and nomads in bad years
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  2811. How do you only have 30k subs? As a history geek that's currently studying archeology I'm finding this channel one of the most interesting ones on the platform.
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  2812. Thank you Dan excellent narrative of a fascinating piece of our prehistory. Your opening monologue reminded me of the Crispin’s day speech in Henry V. What is the source for this or did you pen it? Once again thank you for your history videos I really enjoy your revelations.
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  2813. Same here! I was so excited!
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  2814. The cut on his hand shows he was in a fight, but it doesn't mean he wasn't the protagonist/attacker. Whoever chased him for so long over difficult terrain wanted him dead. He came down out of the hills saw a woman and decided to take her. She put up a hell of a fight which scared him off or other women scared him off. She/they got back home and raised the alarm. The men father, brothers or husband grabbed their weapons and hunted him, (hence his head start) and killed him. The story that he was somehow an unlucky innocent and the people tracking him were the bad guys doesn't sit well with me. He did something and someone got revenge.
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  2815. Great video! I love the beautiful scenes dispersed throughout the video whether it’s a beautiful coastline or a beautiful woman drinking milk. Also, I learned a lot too 👍
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  2816. Such a fascinating video sir! I would love a second part is one could be made!
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  2817. Thanks for doing what you do. I just love things like this. Keep them coming!
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  2818. It’s beautiful to see my hometown, Zamora, in this video. The famous epic poem written about his life and achievements is part of the education curriculum here, so every kid knows El Cid. Great video, Dan.
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  2819. What a treat
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  2820. Thanks for your work and time ❤
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  2821. One of the most amazing videos on history I've ever seen
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  2822. Amazing inspiring man
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  2823. Last time I was this early, the Bronze Age hadn't collapsed.
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  2824. Bravo! What an incredible account! Also, congrats on hitting 100K subs!
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  2825. When we keep dogs, some children will always try to ride it, And here we are talking about a big animal, some big men will always try to ride it
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  2826. Yes on the cassingham
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  2827.  @DanDavisHistory  Herheim death pit. For instance. Oof. And I know it's GAC rather than Funnelbeaker or LBK, but the Koszyce mass grave is likely to have been made by one GAC band against another. Although, naturally, they can't rule out GAC vs CWC violence. Of course, It's not clear the relationship between the funnelbeakers and the LBKs. One is probably a direct descendent of the other. GAC seems to have a western element and been instrusive from the west, even. Still, again, the idea of this peaceful, matriarchal Old Europe is getting chipped away at pretty good, as it says.
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  2828. I'm listening to your episode as I work (I renovate homes). This is very enjoyable, you've got a good voice and the stories are read very well. Good job, brother. Looking forward to more
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  2829. serious research. Very impressive. Big fan.
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  2830. Maybe it's because of their ancient DNA that Sardinia is a blue zone with many healthy very old people? Nowadays Sardinia is looking for new settlers and the government of Italy will even pay 15.000€. Well, I would love to see a video about the 9.000 years old famous female shaman of Bad Dürrheim /Germany.
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  2831. Just subscribed to the channel this morning after watching a video about the Nordic bronze age, followed by the video about Thor's hammer. Well thought out and articulated. Accurate and knowledgeable about the subjects. I was very impressed and find it hard to believe I'm just now stumbling across this channel. Very good work, sir.
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  2832. Thankyou for your documentary. As a West country boy, and with a great fondness of the oceans, I have always hooked on to Francis Drake. This story you have narrated has been most helpful to me, once again thankyou.
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  2833. A masterpiece
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  2834. Great. Once again. Thank you for these tremendous stories of our past.
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  2835. Fantastic video, as always! Seeing the stylized and exaggerated ideals of definitive beauty that resonate today stretched across a millenia is fascinating.
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  2836. When I saw the thumbnail I thought it had something to do with what the crazy conspiracy guy at work said about covid vaccines causing cannibals in Europe lol
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  2837. The Corded Ware is too small here (5:15). The Fatyanovo-Balanovo culture is part of the Corded Ware horizon. P.S. I always wonder how mostly R1b people of the Yamnaya culture can be ancestors of mostly R1a people of the Corded Ware/Fatyanovo (z93)/Sintashta (z93) cultures...
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  2838. Great video
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  2839. Is it a sword or a long dagger? It’s a swagger!
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  2840. Amazing.
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  2841. Consider leaving an outro on your videos so that we who use the queue-function have time to leave a like before the next video begins...
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  2842. Chapman's translation of the Iliad is amazing btw, my favourite. Are you familiar?
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  2843.  @DanDavisHistory  Language spread don't necessarily represent DNA spread.
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  2844. History repeats itself and sometimes humans make it themselves repeat
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  2845. I grew very close to where those helmets were found . Always been fascinated by them , so this video was right up my alley 👍 thank you.
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  2846. Great job for putting it on YT for us all to see for free. Thank you good sir!
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  2847. Great story, again, Dan. Thank you.
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  2848. These make pre-iron age history look more interesting, at least in my point of view of somewhat limited knowledge about prehistory.
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  2849. Brilliant. I absolutely love the amount of detail and theoretical context you provide
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  2850. England's Greatest heros are Alfred the Great and The Marshall, William, Earl of Pembroke. My opinion. Aged 83
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  2851. Very well done video! New subscriber from New Hampshire (USA).
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  2852. Another fabulous video Dan, thank you.
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  2853. Wonderful! Love it!!
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  2854. As a Ukrainian I am shocked to be finding out about this only now. I am 50 FFS!!! :o
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  2855. This is how I imagined the warrior class developed: Some steppe mom to her 17 year old c. 3500 BC: you’re insufferable and drank all the months milk reserve, go be a dead outcast and don’t come back till you’ve raided some cattle and grow up He, 1500 years later: sorry I forgot the cattle but I do have a spear, armor, and the head of that one guy who said your shawl was tacky mom Anyway, keep up the great work!! Still hoping to see a vid exploring how some PIE descendant cultures developed a tradition (or legends) of warrior women when they were otherwise patriarchal. And i’m dying for a Bronze Age armor video. Mycenaean armor is so alien looking, almost silly. Looks like a walking tower. I get a kick out of the idea that thats what Achilles or Odysseus or Agamemnon were actually wearing at Troy
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  2856. I remember reading about ancient hominids like Homo heidelbergensis and others and they were also long-suspected of conducting cannibalism. I think it might have been a very common practice. I also think, if I'm recalling correctly, that chimpanzees may engage in the behavior. Not that chimps are frozen in time from millions of years ago - they've been evolving also, but I do think it's relevant. I wonder where the taboo in modern societies comes from
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  2857. I was always fascinated by the berserker since the first time I play “For Honor”.. I understand now .. great video!
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  2858. Read the book he mentioned. It's a life changer. Kris Kershaw " the one eyed God - Odin and the indo european mannerbund"
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  2859. Interesting as always, Dan. The Copper- and Bronze ages are really mysterious in so many ways. We know quite a lot about this time but it is just the tip of the iceberg. It is extraordinary thrilling to think about the mysteries, the ancient myths that sprung from those old days. Have been fascinated by it since I was a child.
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  2860. Really good video, interesting and informative and even presented in an entertaining fashion. Asking questions and posing answers rather than giving a dry lecture. Well done.
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  2861. The Cucuteni–Trypillia people were Neolithic farmers and they genetically match mostly with modern Sardinians. They have two samples you can check on http://vahaduo.genetics.ovh/ and compare them with modern populations.
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  2862. very nice work Dan and I am preparing something similar, but with Czech history. English history is quite interesting and I have never heard of Cassingham. Thank you.:-) Tomas
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  2863. Will there be a God of bronze book 3 also could you do bronze age cultures in Southeast Asia
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  2864. The figurines look like memory aids that all oral tradition tribes use. The Maori tribe use sea shells glued to a plank, the celts use spheres with divots or lumps. There's an African tribe that use a concave peice of wood with a turtle shell pattern carved into it. If you would like to know more Google Dr Lynne Kelly's books.
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  2865. Another example is in Slavic mythology, where our thunder and sky god Perun kills the serpant
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  2866. Great storytelling. Each one is better than the last. Thank you.
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  2867. Some gods in Hinduism you notice the connection to the (proto) Indo-Europeans An example of the thunder god Balts = Perkūnas Slavs = Perun Germanic peoples = Thunraz Celts = Taranis Hittite = Tarhunna Latiner = Tonans / Jupiter Greeks = Keraunos / Zeus Illyrians = Perendi Indo-Aryan = Parjanya Indo-Iranian / today Nuristani = Pērūneî The Indo-Aryans people came from CWC, 1.Faytanovo-Abashevo - Sintashta - Andronovo - Central Asia into the Subcontinent, Very quick expansion
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  2868. I'd like to share a minor detail regarding the "Island of Thieves" because I'm currently reading a book on Magellan and he too named the island of Guam Island of Thieves (Ladrones). The natives of this part of the world didn't think of stealing as such, they just didn't have a concept of property. Kinda OG communists
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  2869. Absolutely outstanding as usual! The way you weave riveting narrative and well-researched history is really masterful. Thank you for your work!
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  2870. Twenty thousand corpses putrefying in the sun, smelly is an understatement.
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  2871. You are amazing, please never stop making theese videos.
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  2872. A fascinatin topic in a clear and accesible explanation. Great video.
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  2873. I wrote my MA thesis on battleaxes usewear, chopping wood and pigheads just like you talk about, its funny you should mention that you wouldnt do it because it was a pain in the ass. Real good stuff, keep up the good work
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  2874. Thank you for this. I had no awareness of this civilisation and I'm very impressed with their evident social structure and technological expertise.
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  2875. @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.
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  2876. I always thought that Robin Hood was based on Hereward the Wake.
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  2877. Just found you. Great content great presentation and GREAT PRONOUNCIATIONS!!! On so many of these History channels the presenters can't even pronounce proper names correctly. Love History Time, Peter Kelly and YOU now.
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  2878. Absolutely fascinating, as usual!
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  2879. Amazing you have less than 6500 subscribers! Less than 5 minutes intro this one l liked subbed for all notices. Great job! And thanks to YouTube's algorithms today!
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  2880. Horse is the most beautifull animal which humans have, they are all three: beautifull, great mean of transport, and delicious. I whish we in Poland have more horses. I watched North Korean parade after party meeting early in this year, and this is confirmed: North Noreans have the most beatifull horses in the world. I belive - after reading a lot - that human domesticated horse in early chalcolithic between Dneper and Altai, but they haven't hire horse for actual work untill some 4500BC in Western Steppe. Horses are very emotional, and for sure they were first domesticated by pasteurs' sons who grew up among horses, but it was untill invention of earliest chariot and later of a saddle when cavalry became a thing.
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  2881. Another excellent vid. Complex civilisations, buildings, fine and astonishing metal objects,, etc, yet can't draw for shit.
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  2882. Hopefully you do a documentary on the Albanian warrior king Skenderbeg!🇦🇱
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  2883. Love how this connected bits and pieces from other lives to make a great man's story.
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  2884. Thank you for such a detailed and balanced video!
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  2885. As always Dan, a truly awesome story wonderfully told. Thank you.
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  2886. So the famed Arabians are ultimately of Sintashta stock, I suppose. All those hypotheses of the Bedouin domesticating them 4K-5K years ago are wrong! The Fertile Crescent origin/Persian origin hypotheses both appear to be much stronger, since there is no other source for them other than Sintashta, and Sintashta-derived horses would have to travel through those regions on the way to Arabia. It's unlikely that the Arabs or Sintashta people were sending travelers to each other's lands; they're quite far removed with other cultures in-between. The Persian origin hypothesis places domestic horses in sparse numbers in pre-Islamic Arabia, and the birth of the entire equestrian culture in Arabia as a result of contact with Persia after the rise of Islam. That's quite a narrative shift and this evidence strengthens the positions of the scholars who had held these views
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  2887. This is one of the best history channels on the site, definitely my favorite
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  2888. I've missed your videos. This one particularly close to my heart. Did long barrows come after round barrows?
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  2889. I wonder if these old Indo-European practices have echoes in the Irish/Celtic Samhain, and the subsequent Christian traditions of All Hallows' Eve and the Latin-American Day of the Dead festivals? Seems even the practice of trick-or-treating is reminiscent of the expectation of taking a household's food and beer, behaviour tolerated for that one night only? Coincidence? Or descendant traditions half remembered by the descendant Indo-European cultures? The time of year seems to be a bit different though... Interesting to read some of the other commenters ' local European traditions around Carnevale and Yule too.
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  2890. Brilliant, thank you
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  2891. This story and production was absolutely phenomenal. Well done!
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  2892. Nice sound, images, narrative skills. Subscribed.
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  2893. 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.
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  2894. I've read and heard the telling of this many times. However your telling was the most enjoyable, thank you.
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  2895. I thoroughly enjoyed that piece of work Dan ,excellent I love the different cultures and places there from , the map's are great in the narration they bring it all together fascinating stuff I'd watch and listen for hour's really get great pleasure from all the episodes, again fantastic, truly great work. Peace all 🇮🇪
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  2896. Very interesting video, learned a lot I didn't know! This is one of the stories that I love to see made into a drama, possibly a miniseries.
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  2897. Really liking this channel, Dan Davis puts together a well thought out presentation, captivating.
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  2898. Wouldn't pest infestation make sense for burning down their own dwellings every few years?
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  2899. Bloody great vid!
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  2900. What a coincidence! I was exploring Spain this past week and came across a novel about El Cid in one of those bus stations. I did not pick it up though, but yes it was in Spanish.
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  2901. Yesss
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  2902. Great video, one of your best yet. I had no idea about the Remedello culture, another piece of evidence that goes contrary to the narrative that the early european farmers were a particularly pacifistic people.
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  2903. Your videos are the type where I drop whatever I’m doing to watch them.
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  2904. This channel needs so much more exposure. You do such an excellent job.
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  2905. Hey Dan :) lovely video. Another idea would be a sort of "deity" that is buried there. We know from Göbekli Tepe that people in those times where able to built gargantuan monuments just as a gathering point of place of worship. Could also be the case that they worshipped a fertility deity that was buried there after it "died" and was reborn later. I can also see people being buried there as a form of tribute to the deity of even a form of honor.
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  2906. I would love to see a full video about the stone tomb complex.
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  2907. Very good videos, it really sends you back in time. I can imagine these people. Please make a video about proto uralic/ugric people. There's no good quality videos on the topic.
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  2908. Dan, just a thought about wheels: to the best of my knowledge spoked wheels can only be constructed by shrinking a metal rim on to the wheel's circumference. In the bronze age, I imagine that metal must have been bronze. You'd want a rim at least 2mm thick right? Otherwise they'd wear out pretty quickly. So that's about two swords-worth of bronze for a two-wheeled chariot. Many chariots requires a prince's ransom in bronze.
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  2909. Awesome.
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  2910. Absolutely agree
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  2911. What about mythril? Can we also learn about that?
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  2912.  @emilyhofland8219  Level 34 Mining Southern Thanalan (Nearest Aetheryte, Forgotten Spings), Sagnolii Desert, (x26y40). LVL 35 Mineral Deposit(Yellow) Final Fantasy XIV hint: Not found in the real world.
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  2913. He was THE MAN. The ultimate warrior.
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  2914. Superbe - and thanks for not doubting de Rais‘ guilt. These people who make efforts to rehabilitate him are bizarre. There were numerous cases when rulers & the church snatched the lands of uncomfortable aristocrats for far more obviously petty reasons. There was no need to fabricate such a serial killer scenario, especially not of accusing someone to be a necrophile, homoerotic & sadistic pedophile.
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  2915. Really thought provoking video, which poses a very poignant hypothesis; The Sea Peoples were not ethnic groups but bands of mercenaries, which if correct throws a lot of the established theories of origins on their heads. I have a hypothesis (based only on the name) that the Peleset were from the "Mycenaean" Kingdom of Pylos. After all Agamemnon and Menelaus held Old King Nestor in high regard, which would tend to suggest that he was King of a very powerful polity within Bronze Age Greece. If your hypothesis is correct, that negates my hypothesis. Very interesting.
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  2916. What drives me nuts about Otzi's story is not knowing if he's a hero or a villain... I wish some new evidence would be discovered that would shed some new light on the story... This episode was excellent - thank you!
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  2917. Thank u for ur videos man. Ur work is endlessly fascinating.
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  2918. As always very well researched and presented. This is an important slite for british and european history.
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  2919. I loved this story! William Marshall is my new favorite historical figure.
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  2920. Edward III is #1, Easy. Henry V is #2, Longshanks is #3
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  2921. I only discovered you a couple of months ago. Great stuff! Keep it up.
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  2922. Loving the Sean Bean theme 😅
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  2923. In ancient times horses were the war Instrument number one.
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  2924.  @DanDavisHistory  Anatolian Hunter Gatherer sample is 90% native and 10% Caucasus/Iran farmer without natufian according this study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09209-7 "Interestingly, while we observe a continued presence of the AHG-related gene pool throughout the studied period, a pattern of genetic interactions with neighboring regions is evident from as early as the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene. In addition to the local genetic contribution from earlier Anatolian populations, Anatolian Aceramic farmers inherit about 10% of their genes from a gene pool related to the Neolithic Iran/Caucasus while later ACF derive about 20% of their genes from another distinct gene pool related to the Neolithic Levant. " What do you think?
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  2925. Love the Bronze Age Dan. I just found your channel........ because I had watched and read Search for the Trojan War by the fabulous Professor Michael Wood. I saw the horned helmut from Cyprus or rather Alayisha. (?) There are so many wonderful history channels amidst all the crap. I love History with Cy, History Time, Pete Kelly and now you! Thanks for a great presentation and content.
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  2926. Really looking forward to this. Your work is always amazing
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  2927. Interesting note on the side: Was there ever a sea travel on the caspian sea going north?
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  2928. Is there any known connection between the cultural practice of ritual regicide*, and fatal arsenic poisoning through early bronze age arsenic-bronze production? * As discussed in Joseph Campbell's, Masks of God: Primitive Mythology.
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  2929. Well Mr Davis I have to say "Well played." After watching your channel for a bit I finally bought godborn on Audible expecting to have a nice historical fiction story set in bronze age Europe, but that's not all it is, is it? I saw the signs in the first few chapters but when the MC got his Man's name and the reveal about who the yotunan are I must say it was all a pleasant surprise I was not expecting a reimagining of "That" story but I'm not complaining, I will gladly buy the second book, and I will follow this series with great anticipation. I must say though I'm glad this time in history is getting some love, the only other bronze age story I've been able to find has been "Empires of Bronze" By Gordon Doherty.
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  2930.  @DanDavisHistory : looking forward to it!
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  2931. Richard is with Henry V, England's greatest warrior king. There are different criteria for what makes a great king and his achievements are unique in English history.
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  2932. Your videos are brilliant. Keep reading and keep making them.
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  2933. Based on this first example I have to rate you as one of the very best presenters of history in the Youtube universe. Thank you. Keep up the good work and the very best of luck to you.
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  2934. He owned quite an expensive ax, which normally would have been taken... there may be a whole other story why the killer did not take the ax.
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  2935. 4:20 Cerberus means Spot Mind blown
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  2936. Very interesting, as usual.
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  2937. As a Romanian, using Sebastian Stan as Radu is genius and very very funny :))))
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  2938. Love this channel! Would love to see a video on the irish bell beakers and that Atlantic connection. One of my favourite channels honestly ✊️
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  2939. Thank you this was grate
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  2940. The Sarmatians retained a similar sort of raiding activity called a Bala.
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  2941. New viewer here guy and have been doing a bit of a marathon of your videos and their really great. Buts it’s absolutely hilarious to hear how much you’ve improved with your speech flow and story telling. Listening to this and then listening to something like your “Invasion of England: John vs Louis” video it’s night and day how much better you’ve got. I did like your little funny snippets and 4th wall breaks you’d jump in with in your early vids that you don’t do as much now. But you do good stuff man and I just wanted to say that
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  2942. been listening to other videos all morning and now a newbie. Sweet and thank you. Great content always.
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  2943. Seeing all the Data we learned from Otzi because he was preserved in the ice is astounding. I hope there’s a Neanderthal out there somewhere locked in ice just the same. What we could learn.
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  2944. 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.
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  2945. I highly respect your care and consideration to our ancestors and their culture. Your cautious approach to telling a story(stories) about Ötzi of what we do know and what we can’t know really is hard to find in academia. I am adding this comment not only in your praise, but to hopefully influence the algorithm so that others can learn and glean some understanding of what archeology should be about. Thank you Mr. Davis for your efforts.
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  2946. Radu the handsome 😂
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  2947. Thanks for this interesting video. Please do film a video on the timber grave culture. (Sorry, having trouble with the spelling of the other name.) PS. It's lovely to see plants showing up in the archeological records - finally.... 😊
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  2948. Richard the lion heart was so badass
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  2949. The ingenuity of prehistoric ppls is fascinating! Thanks, Dan!
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  2950. How does this man keep getting away with it???? Every video he has put out recently is better than the previous
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  2951. Hey Dan have you ever tried to see what your ratio is with your genetic makeup? It would be interesting to see how many WHG, Neolithic farmer and steppe ancestry you have if you care to share it. Great video!
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  2952. Thank you for uploading these interesting videos.
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  2953. I grew up hearing the story of St. George from my mother. Good memories there :)
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  2954. Thank you for this video presenting the life of a truly amazing man. It is his personal code of honour, as well as his prowess, that shines through.
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  2955. He-man style!
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  2956. IIRc Nergal of Sumerian Mythology also roles will three dogs or a dog with three heads. I'm starting to notice similarities between that culture and the proto-indo European speaking cultures.
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  2957. I would love to see a Gilles de Rais movie starring Vincent Cassel. It would be somewhat poetic, given that he portrayed Gilles de Rais in the movie, "The Messenger" back in 1999. Now that he is older, he would be perfect for the role I think.
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  2958. "City boys perfect farm kid games into a formalized sport" I imagine that it is possible that the city boys WERE using pack horses whereas the farm kids could have had a family member or friend make them a bit and harness for their game out of natural materials. 🤷
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  2959. Looking forward to watching
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  2960. Thanks for the video! I had never heard of this culture prior. I always enjoy learning something new. Personally, I think that some type of patrilineal hierarchy is embedded in our genes and has occurred since the first Hunter Gatherers to modern day. I don’t think egalitarian groups of people have ever occurred. There’s always going to be some personality type striving for power. Interesting to see this extreme hierarchy occurring in the Neolithic Irish societies as well with the latest DNA evidence.
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  2961. I think you make a good case for how slowly and organically domestication and riding evolved. Getting a foal used to people weight is an example of how it could have come about. A small person leans on the foal, as it grows more and more weight is used. Little kids can be put on at this point. Light weight adolescents can get on as the foal gets bigger. It is like dog domestication with children and young adults taking a needed role. What kid doesn't want to play with baby animals?
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  2962. Dropped right as I gotta go to work. Lunch time video, I suppose.
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  2963. Hey man, your videos are exceptional. Can’t believe I’m just now finding your channel. Love from Virginia, USA!
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  2964. I'd say yes to both Williams. William Marshall seems worthy of expanded treatment. Maybe you have! I'll search him. 🙂
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  2965. Nice
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  2966. When I was at the House of Seven Gables they told us about a similar thing during Halloween. I guess some young men dressed like werewolves pushed their way into the house demanding food and drink. I wish I could remember the year this incident happened, but they cover so many years during their speech I can't quite recall. Probably during the 1700s?
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  2967. This was an excellent video. Thank you Dan Davis
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  2968. Thank you so much for spending such effort researching for your own amazing books, and then sharing that information you learn with us! You are such a great teacher! You may not be an expert, but you sure can share the information you learn in a way few can! Thank you once again, and please never stop! You have a fan for life here! Please make sure to let us know whenever you release a new one of your books please! Cheers!
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  2969. Very interesting and easy to follow. Thank you ❤️
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  2970. Thanks Dan. Great videos. Big fan and ancient history nerd here.
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  2971. Outstanding 👍👍
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  2972.  @misanthropicservitorofmars2116  We had children working in mines and factories right up to the end of the 1800s. They stopped them in mines earlier. IN the US, they still had children in factories until the 1930s. Interestingly, children were still working for some decades after the abolition of the slave trade by the UK.
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  2973. I used to use a slate knife I made for myself when I was a kid before I was allowed to have a pocket knife. It was confiscated at school. I made another one & carried on my activities.
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  2974. In depth and utterly brilliant. Thank you.
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  2975. Boom. Lovely-jubbly. Watching right now. Love me some Long Barrows. Thanks Dan Davis!
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  2976. Godbless you man, love your videos
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  2977. I like this last idea you came with, as I often find some archeologists' explanation attempts to lack it, that these prehistorical times, with super low population density, extreme isolation, and harsh conditions, should in fact have been ideal for sub-cultures appearence. For the better or the worse. Even modern stories are plenty of isolated groups of people, small communities, ending to developp their own habits, customs or words from their own cultural background. I'm pretty sure that some communities would have taken ritualistic cannibalism to another level, it only takes one charismatic leader, one powerful warchief, to force his own style on the tribe if its members are cut out from other cultural exemples and boundaries for too long. I mean the most precise things we have to distinguish cultures from that times are burial methods or items like potteries. Imagine what kind of sub-cultural differenciations can lay in-between!
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  2978. believe me, in Korea , Vietnam and southern China ,people still consume dogs during winter time festivals
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  2979. No doubt, as you said, there were probably multiple reasons. Perhaps climate change led to food shortages, conflict, immune system stress, then Y. pestis decided it was party time.
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  2980. I've read a legend from Dartmoor about the wild hunt. It was presented as a sort of ghost story and seemed a little isolated and incomplete. This video makes it make sense. Fantastic video.
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  2981. Is the copper from Transcarpathia related to where the earliest transport wheel was found in Slovenia? Would correspond with the need to transport heavy ores long distances, perhaps to the Adriatic.
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  2982.  @DanDavisHistory  Amazing response, thank you for clarifying that. So smelting was usually done on site or close nearby I'm assuming, ingots being somewhat more transferable.
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  2983. Gonna open a cold beer and enjoy this masterpiece! Thank you Dan!! For all your hardwork
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  2984. Oh, a video about my spiritual ancestor ;) King Krak (Krakus, Krok, Kruk) was the real hero of Krakow. Regardless if actual, mythical dragonslayer was Krak the older or Krak the younger alongside his brother (sons of the older Krak)
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  2985. River crossings are difficult at the best of times with good rehearsals. I bet this one did not go as planned as they often do. It appears from the map that one side attempted to cross at multiple locations either simultaneously or sequentially.
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  2986. Oh Yess!! What an great day Dan Davis dropped new video and Paul Cooper new episode of Fall Of Civilizations 😍
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  2987. Dan your channel is absolute amazing. and i follow many history channels. My favourites are still your focus on the bronze age. Cant wait to the next video. keep it up!
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  2988. Got here through STJ. Very nice work, earned a sub.
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  2989. Can you do a video on the Hittites?
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  2990. Why did The Corded Ware people have the R1A1 genetic marker if they are partly from the Yamnaya, who had the R1B1 factor?
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  2991. As for the houses i think i have a idea based on older Serbian customs. Back then most people were well poor. There was one house for the entire family and a smaller house for the married couple and newlyweds. Perhaps it was something similar.
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  2992. Why would Europeans need to go to America for copper when there is plenty of copper allready in Europe? What they were short of was tin.
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  2993. Thank you for the video
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  2994. It's blowing up Dan! You deserve it.
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  2995. Excellent documentary. I remember when this first came to light & have been fascinated ever since. There's a very good (in my opinion) film called "Iceman" that gives a background story of what might have led up to his death
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  2996. Brilliant video, thoroughly enjoyed it! Wow! Why are they not making films and Netflix shows about this bloke! What a life and story!
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  2997. 4:50 minutes, the sideeye of that seal when you´re talking about him as lunch....
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  2998. Any estimates of the total tonnage of copper that was mined from here?
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  2999. Did the Irish have chariots mate or is that myth?
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  3000. great videos! do you think you'll ever do one on the paleolithic era? or maybe the mesolithic age as that seems to be the genetic origins of PIE, EHGs and CHGs
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  3001. Any chance the Roman Velites, with there wolf skins, were an echo of the adolescent war bands?
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  3002.  @DanDavisHistory  Very welcome!💪🏻🤝🙌🏻🙏🏻
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  3003. you have added so much valuable and facinating content to the internet for people to learn from . Thanks!
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  3004. Do you think Neolithic DNA remains in 'Celtic' lands? I'm Cornish and Irish, Both sides have some very med looking people. My mothers mtdna line is T1a, which is very rare in Ireland.
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  3005. Interesting, i knew from the point of the wild hunt and Wodan accompanied by Valkyrie, then morfing to vrouw Holle and the Bokkerijders, and later St.Nicolas with krampusses or moorish helpers and Santa with his elves and rain dears… but this pre germanic version is new to me and love it
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  3006. Good luck with your degrees. Good choices!
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  3007. Beautiful depiction of this man and correction on contractive ideas. So well put, that I subscribed and can’t wait to watch more!
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  3008. I think in some places the body parts of the deceased, perhaps enemies. Would also have been used in charms and divination. I read somewhere that necromancy was one of the earliest form for magic. Ie the witch of Endor. Witches in ancient times used to collect body parts and entire bodies for their potions and divinizations. It was so bad that they had to hire guards to keep an eye on the corpse of the deceased till the funerary rituals was over.
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  3009. Your comment about the photos looking like us matches my response perfectly. My haplogroup is R1b-U106.
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  3010. I recently discovered your channel and I'm very impressed with the great range of resources that you bring together. Sometimes I get interested in an artifact or ancient tool or weapon and try to discover more about it but I don't get far in my research. You bring together great photos but also many layers of additional information and - most importantly - a great depth of context that is usually missing from written articles, photos and the like. Great work, Dan!
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  3011. Vlad smiling is creepier than him not smiling.
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  3012. I suspect there is a common Indo European connection to those of Europe. There may be a seperate tradition from the Levant that met and melded with the Indo European tradition at the border lands and into one another's cultural interiors to some extant.
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  3013. Thank you, excellent as always, and sorry for giving you shit in your poll earlier. I would very much lean toward a very slight increase in the average low temperature in the region as a way to increase human movement and productivity, as well as increased survival of Y pestis. A slight shift of a single variable is like the proverbial lost horsehoe nail that felled a kingdom, wide ranging consequences can cascade from small changes applied in the right time and place.
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  3014. Fascinating! Thank you for this
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  3015. I haven't even seen it yet, and I want to say thank you. Your documentaries are so fascinating and well-researched!
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  3016. Damn John and Phillip. If they had been noble and faithful to the crusade, the united front could have sent the Muslims back into the Arabian peninsula, changing history completely.
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  3017. Got to this a bit later than usual, but it was well worth the wait. An excellent documentary. A fine balance between the data, evidence and speculation about Ötzi's life. I learned new things and it helped overturn some outdated misconceptions about him I had seen from older books. It's a strange thing to consider that Ötzi is now so famous that the number of people who have seen or heard of him probably exceeds the number of human beings alive on Earth during his lifetime. I wonder what he would think of this if he were to be brought back to life?
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  3018. Rome: Welcome to Empire school. Today we will look at how to deal with enemies when they're better at horse and chariot warfare than you. 1. Call them barbarians 2. 1 3. 2
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  3019. Perfect video to distract me. Thanks Dan 😁.
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  3020. Next video " 'Armour' of North America"
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  3021. Imagine the untold story's behind all those posseions...
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  3022. I remember watching a video before that claimed Richard was just an a-hole and not a good king, but this was far more convincing. Well done, I love your documentaries.
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  3023. Yay, my favorite Bronze Age region! I was hoping you would make a video about this. Though I have watched many videos about it, few go as deep as yours.
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  3024. Brilliant, really enjoyed it, liked & subbed
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  3025. perhaps this incorporation of young people into ancestors to represent order, laws and the tribe is a way of giving continuity, since it is the young people who continue the tribe and will pass the customs on to the next generations.
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  3026. Love your work Dan! It always gives rise to interesting reflections on the nature of humanity
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  3027.  @jarlmacintosh1063  Turkic genetic influence (except for parts of the Caucasus, Turkey and Azerbaijan) is not as widespread in Western Asia. It's more of a Central and Northern Asia thing.
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  3028. Incredible video. Also, after almost an hour of bloodshed and brutality describing the man who inspired the vampire Dracula, it was that damn image of smiling Vlad that terrified me most
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  3029. That is an epic hat. Truly a hat of all time.
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  3030. Excellent presentation. Really appreciate hearing the facts and not a lot of whitewash. Thank you for this wonderful series. I really love history, especially when it is this well done. 😊
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  3031. Great video, man. Best production yet. Amazing quality now. Truly superb.
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  3032. Dan, have you ever read any of the books by graham hancock? I would love to see a video by you going over some of the things in his books. i think you would have alot of subject matter for sites like Gobekli Tepe
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  3033. A very interesting topic!
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  3034. Every video Dan makes is a must match in my books! But his Bronze age, and Neolithic videos are especially great, and are my particular favourite time periods! Keep on crushing it Dan! Your work gets better and better, and so many of us greatly appreciate what you do! You are just such a fantastic writer, and the stories really come alive when you tell them. Keep it up, I wish you all the success in the future, and that you so clearly deserve, particularly for such fantastic writing and storytelling. I am just imagining how much better a high budget Bronze Age documentary would be if you were hired to write and do the narration for it! Just imagine how fantastic it would be if you Dan had access to the funds for a full blow documentary, with actors, re-enactments, video editors, CGI, on location filming, and even a top notch Sound Designer! If anyone in a decision making position within a production company that makes high budget documentaries has seen your work, and hasn’t immediately contacted you, need to have their brains checked 😂! If I were in their position, I would be scrambling to get you onboard to write and direct documentaries! Curious as to if Dan has been approached at all to do some freelance writing for any bigger production…
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  3035. Hi Dan, many thanks, very interesting. Imported wheat, from Mesolithic times, was found in The Solent.
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  3036. Fantastic thanks! The amadou from the horse hoof tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius) also makes a powerful medicinal tea that tastes of caramel. It's still used widely in Russia.
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  3037. Captivating from start to finish. You earned a new subscriber my man. What a concise and comprehensible video to explain sth so potentially complicated. Love it
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  3038. Wow... Thank you for a great video, this is a dark subject that you handled with respect. SUBBED!!! What we all forget is that we are all animals or mammals, and most things on this earth will eat each other when the opportunity takes, I think what makes us different is that we are no different, is that humans are picky at what they want to eat due to the amount of food on the planet. You can just about eat everything if cooked right. Because we think it does not mean we are separate from others, as they will eat us also if they had the chance.. What a game we live in.
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  3039. Great episode Dan. I've often thought about going to Scandinavia to check out these glyphs. They are terribly intriguing aren't they? Also I can't help but think that if I went there I would be able to see a lot more or this art/pictography than has so far been recognised and recorded. For example with Australian rock carvings I have seen so many that document only the obvious and disregard the partials, because of who knows what requirements were in place when the original documentation and recording was happening. Same with the glyphs in the Ukraine. the glyphs at Gobekli Tepe, and even seeing much more in the geophys from the old Time-Team series. One day when my crypto has made enough money for me to go travelling maybe eh?
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  3040. My daughter in law has a necklace with a tiny bit of her dad's ashes. I'd never known of that before, but it's definitely meant to honor him
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  3041. Love the way you show just how mixed up are “history “ is!
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  3042. Another very interesting video Dan. I hope this channel becomes an even greater success than it already is. You really get me daydreaming , respite from the world ...
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  3043.  @DanDavisHistory  I think those books will come in five to ten years, you are a bit ahead of your time. I don't want to lament academia aby more than I usually do, but history education now is an autodidactic process more than a systemic one, for most people. In the early and mid 20th century, history was taught in schools so once a real higher learning consensus was formed in regards to any breakthroughs, the information was disseminated as part of the curriculum. The teaching of history now is generally designed around the student coming to certain political conclusions, so it is a far less effective (if not altogether counterproductive) process. And I don't think we are going to be able to teach much about the bronze age on any level without involving Indo-European studies, and Indo-European studies is unfortunately perceived as anathema to current teaching goals. So it just going to take longer, but it will happen. As CG Jung said, " An archetype is like an old watercourse along which the water of life has flowed for centuries, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it has flowed in this channel the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return to its old bed.” Your videos are extremely well crafted, especially as you seamlessly weave together multiple components (which can be difficult on their own) into a narrative that is engaging and accurate. Your Koyros video is a really great example of that as you essentially described the migration process of the proto Indo-Europeans westward eventually into neolithic europe itself. The event is one of the most important things that has ever happened. Like top 5 important. But you broke it down into tasty, concise and informative bites. The concise bit I personally struggle with obviously ;-) So you are doing what you can do. Lots to say on how the process can be accelerated but I am likely nearing or already past the tldr threshold. I'll look you up on FB. Thanks again for making these videos. Your work overall does a service.
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  3044. Loved the video. Thanks for pointing out that reality is complex and causes tend to be multiple. Like maybe it was not even a single plague, maybe the steppe herders had also zoonotic illnesses gotten from horses that EEF had no defense against. May I interest you in the Iberian Neolithic-Chalcolithic? Los Millares, probably the first western european civilization, demands your love! Or the amazing Neolithic boats of Laja Alta. Or the burning question that Archeogenetics has gifted spanish scholars: In 2019 it was discovered that the iberians, speakers of a non indoeuropean language, had in fact steppe ancestry. Most of their male lineages had that origin. Their culture was also pretty horse-centric. So... How did that happen?.
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  3045. It's the ultimate condemnation of a Mediaeval English king, really: "we hate you soooo much we'd rather have a FRENCH king!" :D I only heard of "King" Louis recently, & went "HOW did I not know this??" (probably cos I have a total blank on Henry III, lol), so it was brilliant to learn more, & much love for the use of contemporary sources :)
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  3046. I would realy like to hear about"heroic warrior" ideal appearing in culture!
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  3047. Your video gives much meaning to this amazing music video that incorporates the very rock art you’re interpreting. Love it: https://youtu.be/K7ZqZVunCb4
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  3048. Thank you. The lack of written records highlight the considerable unknown. It is appreciated that you note what is known and reasonable implications. Would love to see their artwork, but they didn't have much time for that; their art is that speartip/axe/horse husbandry. Hadn't heard of that mass grave. Samhain, thank you and much appreciated.
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  3049. Very good observations. I have to agree with you and maybe add the migration of the Tocharians across the entire Khazak steppe as possible further evidence. Such a journey would require enormous mobility and the ability to scout ahead of the group to asses dangers and to find routes of travel. It's interesting to note that the Botia culture began domestication around the time of the Tocharian migration to the Altai.
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  3050. Through both the front and the back…. DAMN. What a monster.
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  3051. Fantastic video. Would love to hear your telling of the full William Marshal story.
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  3052. Potentially depicts a dong sheath of somesort? Like that of the Papua New Guinea? Lots of examples of them waging war wearing their “Koteka”
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  3053. Wonderful video about a fascinating historical figure whose popular profile doesn't reflect his true effect on History. thanks for shining light on his worth and his value to the whole of England.
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  3054. I adore Your work, Dan! Keep going, keeping my thumbs up for You!
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  3055. The best ancient hisotry / prehistory channel, which we all wanted.Even I - a well educated in this topic person, can still learn a lot. PS. Great picture at 5:25 showing that hybridization of races may lead to unsuspected results. PS.2. Consider including male's haplogroup and its path of spreading since 55k BC into your lessons / videos; and also language/ethnicity evolution's theory and religions' evoultion and how they fit into studies of genetics and of archeological cultures.
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  3056. Great video! And yes, I'd love to watch a Bronze Age weights video!
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  3057. Although not really historic, the Iliad shows that the pre-classical Greeks were at least familiar with plagues.
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  3058. Im interested in the significance of La Normandie and the start of the Norman invasion of Wales. Thank you for Sharing.
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  3059. An unexpected gem, this is brilliant. Would you mind perhaps making a video on William Marshall? Thought it seemed a good idea judging by the also excellent Richard I video
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  3060. I'm from Puerto Rico and Yemaya is known as the Goddess of water.
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  3061. I wish I had a dozen more videos to watch on men like this. Very inspiring story. Just what I have come to expect from your channel.❤❤❤
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  3062. I would be interested to hear about the history of the wild hunt. Please keep up the good work. Regards.
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  3063. Lovely episode! Your mention of the sun godess myth with the hero twin gods really made me think about the Kivik tomb immediately. One of the best interpretations of the pictures on the stones is that it tells the story of the moon and sun being stolen by some kind of monster and taken to the bottom of the ocean, then being retrieved by the hero twins. It's basically the only one that makes sense with everything on the carvings. The glorious heroism of the twins are to be reflected on the ones buried in the tomb. I've been inside the tomb many times (it's a small summer tourist destination in the area), I'm very fascinated by it still . The tomb is most probably not a King's grave even if that is a common name for it, but it served as a burial for a bunch teenagers that has been placed inside with some time inbetween. The monument even contains traces of burials from the stone age so the Bronze age people continued an older burial tradition in the area. Another Bronze age cemetary exists just south of it "Ängakåsen" which is a fascinating field of tombs marked by different stone formations - most likely this is the real "royal tombs" of the local area.
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  3064. I had been pushing this a bit forward because of the length and my available time. It's an exquisite documentary that got me completely immersed in it. I love how you present the different theories going around and the description of the periode in a wider sense. I just know what I'm going to dream about tonight. Thank you very much.
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  3065. Thanks Dan, i really like your reading so far, as even though is fantasy it's based in great legendary stories and mythologies, that are obviously based on historical sources
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  3066. Great video!
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  3067. captivating......... thank you. I wanted to find info on the maps and the language connections..... Thank you for finally showing me Indra as someone who was awesome. Subscribed
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  3068. What an amazing story. Thanks for the great video!
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  3069. You mention the kurgans, corded ware people, or battle axe people... Are they related? As for whether they came as raiders is more than the absence of artifacts of locals after their arrival, it is the sudden construction of hill forts across europe at the same time that their artifacts become present. That would indicate to me that they were much more war like than the local europeans at that time.
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  3070. Dan, I hope more of your books are available on audio. I loved Godborn. In you videos it seems like the recreators are dressed as kroyos but they are played by adults. The re-enactors you show videos of are too old for me to believe they were teen age children..
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  3071. "Richard the Lionheart: The Greatest King of England?" Yes
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  3072. Great video. I have one of these, alongside an assortment of flint tools, my dad found digging potatoes in Denmark in his youth. It’s fun learning and speculating.
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  3073. Wow great job, I liked the time. You were able to get across much more information and detail. Thank you for another great Video.
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  3074. The Funnelbeaker culture is Neolithic.
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  3075. i highly suggest people watch as much as they can about indo european stuff before checking out Dans GODBORN...really really cool to pick up on all his little references to actual history in every part of the book. id suggest survivethejive if you want religious indo european content before starting thebook.
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  3076. Given the lack of any recovered works of art during the Yamnaya culture period showing a person riding a horse, I am inclined to believe Robert Drews that horse riding as a means of mobility and use in warfare was developed after the in invention and spread of the chariot. Why? Because if riding a horse gave someone so much power of others, it would be highly likely that people would craft totems resembling a person riding a horse as a symbol of a powerful protector, perhaps to pray to or aspire to emulate, or for children to play with before they are old enough to ride.
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  3077. 👏
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  3078. Excellent as allways. Great job with the visuals.
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  3079. Insta subbed, haven't even watched the vid yet but I can tell that you make quality content. I hope pete Kelley throws you a shout-out for this good content
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  3080. Thank you. Your way of telling history is great, almost holistic, as to say. I love to listen to you while you cover scientific findings with great narrative skills. This video makes me think how Blackwater and Wagner take over one day. Collapse.
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  3081. People talk about Hjortspring boat a lot but I wasn't aware that it actually was found along with a ton of war gear until I visited the Museum where it is kept. There was set of swords (11), shields (at least 60-80 of them), spears (169), tools and the remains of mail armour (some of the oldest recorded in Europe). Somebody wiped out a large war band of seaborne raiders and sacrificed at least one of their boats and a large portion of their entire kit to the bog. I know this happened during the early Iron Age but this was probably a continuation of what you are describing. The Hjortspring boat and the finds that came with it are worth a whole video of their own, if you haven't done that already, maybe even discuss how it relates to these carvings (I just subscribed to your channel so I haven't had the time to binge all the stuff you have done previously).
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  3082. Very interesting video as always. I keep watching these to relax and learn something new. Great stuff :D
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  3083. This is fascinating!! Great stuff!!
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  3084. Its like you're reading my dna......
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  3085. Awww yeah, love me some Dan Davis videos. Mercs this time? Nice. Mediterranean Mercs made me interest in history since I read some Valerio Massimo Manfredi decades ago.
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  3086. 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.
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  3087. Yes but all the male genetics of the conquired males vanish, no mass burials, no sites of massacre,no bodies .They come to an apparent abrupt end.Also did the early bronze age corded ware who arrived in Britain have horses ?
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  3088. Videos just keep getting better Dan. Do you think early European farmers used armor or was it introduced by IE? Keep up the great work
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  3089. Do we know whether any IE-adjacent non-IE group ever adopted this practice? (Prime candidates: some Uralic groups seem to have been in such close contact with IE tribes that it really would surprise me if they didn't. The Basque were basically surrounded by Celts for a while, which should be a pretty solid source for this kind of custom. Semitic-IE interaction has gone on for ages. NE and NW Caucasian tribes have had a bunch of warbandy practices, and I bet the Kartvelians were into that as well. Turkic and Mongolic tribes?) I live in the Swedish-speaking parts of Finland, and in my home village, there's still two traditions that probably go back to the koryos. "Rivannatten" - the night of tearing, which occurs during easter. The youth commit mild vandalism. "Feittisdagen" - shrove tuesday, during which the youth dress up as monsters, and walk through the village causing quite a ruckus, in a symbolically violent event. I am not aware of any similar things in the Finnish-speaking parts of Finland, yet we know that southwest Finland was IE before becoming Finnic at some point - and genetically, this does not seem to have been the result of a population change, but a language change.
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  3090. Do Vinca Culture
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  3091. No it's super interesting, most people love horses, I love them and anything steppe related, from strodny-stog to Cossacks
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  3092.  @tamasvarga6673  they were talking about 9th century BC, not AD.
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  3093. Numidian horsemen in the punic wars rode without a saddle and did pretty well so Drews arguments do not seem convincing to me.
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  3094. Dan Davis Author Very well done. I have ridden and drafted Percheron horses and lived out of my horse drawn wagon as my exclusive home for several years. I am old now and my kids and friends have kind of roped me down. My horse and dogs are all gone now. The mistake I see in all these arguments is that they ignore the Hackmore. Tie a shoe string around the nose and 1 string on each side back to the riders hands. I have seen amazing things in my time and there are very few Travelers left. Feel free to ask anything you would like to know and I will try my best to answer and if I don't know I'm not shy to admit it.
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  3095. One can only guess how many fine pieces of bronze armor were recycled into other goods as fashion and technology changed. It's surprising how much survived, considering.
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  3096. On the trappanned skull with the fractures... could it not be that the trepanation was dont in an attempt to save him from brain swelling?
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  3097.  @DanDavisHistory  yeah, there's references in one of the pseudo-historical books from the 11th century (Leabhar na hUidhre) and the 14th Yellow Book of Lecan, to father/daughter incest involving New grange in one case, which tallies with the genetic evidence of the mound builders attempting to keep the darker Mesolithic phenotype going.
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  3098. This doesn’t scare me. I would still like to drink from the skull of my enemies
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  3099. Great video Dan you've got to do one about William Marshal the greatest knight ever
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  3100. I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's Tudor naval strategy video as a further background/integration
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  3101. Cool video 😎 The videos get me by until another book comes out 💪🏻
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  3102. Thank you, as always, for your lovely content ♡ it's a calming and educational way to keep background sound on while I work. You're starting to become a self comfort haha. You've helped me be a lot less anxious about starting tasks because I can learn while I do them and your voice is even enough to match breathing exercises to!
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  3103. The Isle of Man has a dog that haunts and protects ancient Peel Castle (an old Viking fortress likely established on a more ancient Celtic settlement).
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  3104. Your narration, as always, is robust, clear, and relaxing...a voice made for storytelling.
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  3105. A masterwork with rich and unique analysis, as always. Good job Dan.
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  3106. Ah the gods have heard my prayers another fascinating video, well done lad
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  3107. I'm speechless 😶 no.1 omg this guy was vile to the very core, no.2 I actually forgot I was on YouTube until the end, In my head I was watching a documentary on Netflix, you are TV quality material, this was a TV quality documentary, only one other Youtuber has managed to keep my adhd attention, I'm 51 so it is extremely hard to do, I normally scroll constantly except when someone is doing a reaction where every video is different. I didn't notice if the video was long or not and was disappointed when it ended, if it wasn't 2am right now I would watch another, thank you for such incredible quality work. What a diamond in the rough, wow 🤯🙂🏆⭐️🇦🇺👍.
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  3108. I appreciate this - Don Cossacks on my father's side here.
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  3109. Svetovid is depicted in "pilgrim hat" tall wide brim hat, he was associated with protection of crops and harvest, cardinal directions and travel. I think svetovid is Slavic counterpart to Lugh.
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  3110. Wow. And there I thought I was the only madlad to wrote a story that was happening in 1000 bc. And here you tell me that you actually wrote a story that is taking place even 2000 to 3000 years earlier? Thats some big mighty flex there, I will certainly read it, as soon as I get my hands on it.
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  3111. How am I just now finding your channel?! ...and then, at the end you tell me that there are BOOKS?!?!?! Historical fiction about this era, these battles, the FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE?!!! A SERIES OF BOOKS?!? This is amazing. Going to find your books now!
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  3112. The mini stone ax wear on the haft hole? Cracking nuts to eat?
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  3113. Dan my friend I just got my alert from youtube for your channel and I'm just home from work, so now for the science bit I'm going to get my grub, ear plugs ,sit back and be enthralled by my favourite history channel this is the feel good factor , thanks so much for all the hard work. Pirate's it just keeps getting better. Peace 🇮🇪
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  3114. Very interesting. Love the way you added detail about the amount bronze tools on farmsteads in Northern Europe. Subscribed!
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  3115. Brilliant. Thoroughly enjoyed this one Dan. I really dig how you wove the narrative and journey. There's a strong sense of awe and connection for me in seeing elements of such an ancient rite descending through generations and surviving to literate cultures. Great production. Thank you.
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  3116. Dan I’m reading your free book and I like it. Appreciate your videos and haven’t yet read your other works but what’s missing is an almanac or glossary of the first cultures…the yamnaya, cucuteni, terremare. The world to our consciousness begins with the crescent cultures, Akkadians, Babylonians etc. and rest seem to have very little on them.
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  3117. You may want to fix the typo in the title (Cucuteni, not Cucutani). Also, in most cases, a final "i" in Romanian is just a palatalization, not an actual sound.
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  3118. 6:27 As a dagger is can tell you that it is both, as it does not have a tang and can thus be used as a knife, but probably at some point also had a point and is double edged as is part of the definition of a dagger. After-all daggers are only a type of knife, so it certainly is the latter. In the end with weapons and tools it most often are only semi-arbitrary categorizations.
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  3119. Is the Sintashta culture an early ancestor of Indo-Europeans? That would mean that Europeans started out in Europe with the Corded Ware culture, traveled all the way through Eurasia across the centuries, then ended up in South Asia--spread their influence to Asian cultures--only to circle back to Europe through the Middle East and become the later European cultures. Simply amazing!
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  3120. This is absolutely phenomenal content!
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  3121. Fascinating as always! Thanks!
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  3122. I have English and Irish genealogy, love your content.
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  3123. You explained this so well. Like your other documentaries. Thank you. I love learning about all the neolithic and bronze age cultures.
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  3124. Looking at that axe reminded me of an old superstition, one my late mother learned from her mother and Victorian grandmother that you never gave a sharp blade, scissors or a knife to anyone. If you gifted such an item the recipient had to pay a nominal sum like a penny or the relationship will be cut. Maybe blades always had superstitions attached to them.
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  3125. Horses are sacred for them?
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  3126. ALL HAIL THE GOLDEN PHALLUS HAT
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  3127. Ancient Chad at 21:50
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  3128. K R I G S G A L D R
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  3129. You are really do make the best videos of the Indo european and pre-IE cultures. Just prefect dude. I've learned so much.
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  3130. A French Prince invaded England, overran it and took control of the entire south and east? How come I never heard of this until now?
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  3131. One of the funniest lines I have read in any academic text has to come from "The Horse, The Wheel, and Language", to paraphrase, 'what did the Maikop chieftains want from the steppe, could it have been drugs?'.
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  3132. Outstanding work as always! I really enjoy how you convey information; your phrasing and context-rich economy of words is really engrossing.
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  3133. Quite a tie-in for Henson.
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  3134. Imagine having to kill one's own dog...
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  3135. I love being early to these. Tell me more Dan!
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  3136. The FBC are non indo-european.
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  3137. Interesting video. I especially appreciate the discussion at the end about all the different possibilities these finds could mean. All too often we only hear one or a few interpretations, making findings seem more simple and clear cut than they probably are.
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  3138. A great video for introducing the Yamnaya to 'newbies'. :) Nicely done.
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  3139. I know I've mentioned it before when I subscribed with notifications. But I really dig your channel my friend. Great content, research, and narration. I always look forward to your notification. Also, Have a very happy holiday and new year, Dan ! Salute from Pittsburgh
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  3140. Just imagine what the planet would be like today if we didn't have all these plagues throughout history to slow down population growth.
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  3141. Very Spartan initiation
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  3142. In this vedio you have given us an inclusive idea about the daily life of bronze age peoples of Europe with archeological evidence. It is very interesting to know the rituals food habits dance patern of those days. In India mud houses are very common in Malda district of West Bengal. Danceing paterns of Sautali community are more or less same as that of Europe. Wow so interesting.
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  3143. You're slowley becoming one of my favorite youtubers, mind if i dm you and pick ur brain? ima hit you up on insta
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  3144. I was touched by this video. Sublimating these feral warrior instincts into a modern technological milieu is a trick in itself. It's always a fine balance between the individual and the collective. But it is not a static balance, and must be measured against the background of real time events demanding constant updating of effort and modeled outcomes. Point being you need to keep the potential of ripping your enemy's guts out in your kit bag. Trouble is that the pacifist's repudiation of violence sets society up to take the role of the "Eloi" of H. G. Welles' "The time Machine" and become nothing but meat to obsolete predatory mud dwellers.
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  3145. Using the same blade shaver for many years. Flip the blade and you get 4 fresh cutting edges out of one blade. Some blade makers are better than others. Wilkinson and Gilette branded blades are crap. Patent razors work well and blades cost is ca 5$ p. A.
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  3146. Thanks for this. I had never heard of him. I had heard of the Weald but wasn't sure where it was so that was interesting. Also thanks for including images of Robin of Sherwood, my favourite version of the Robin Hood legend. 😁
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  3147. Definitely a Notgrove Barrow kind of guy
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  3148. Thank you! Beautifully told, without any of the modern tendency to belittle and see hidden selfishness in every beautiful, altruistic action of a famous person. Also, without denigrating the Christian faith.
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  3149. I enjoyed this. I also read David Anthony's Horse Wheel and language, and noticed that comment about the Maikop sword being the oldest sword in the world. What is the date of that burial? Presumably it is pre 3300 BC as there are swords in Arslanteppe Turkey from this time. Regarding whether its a dagger or a sword I thought generally the length of a sword as 45-80 cm so if 61 cm and also not really as pointed as a dagger might make it more a sword than a dagger.
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  3150. Wonderful story! Thanks. BTW the Yamnaya's genetic boot-print was very interestingly detailed but hanged if I remember where...will seek & return.
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  3151.  @DanDavisHistory  yes, please don’t burn yourself out, I enjoy your content too much
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  3152. In Serbia very common name is Vuk -Wolf or variations of it, lots of last names with it as well, there were some ancient pre Christian customs regarding wolves that are now almost but forgotten
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  3153.  @archenema6792  Okay many stories are created whole cloth at later dates, and you claim without sources yourself that the rumors were originated with Philip of Cognac. Your arrogant derisive tone earns you no favors as that is the way idiots talk when they want to appear smart. Again as Dan said in the video the way people acted back then is not the same as now, and on another note in some sections of society today especially the military as I personally can attest to as a former Marine, we have very close friendships and often sleep side by side, not out of sexual desire but for practical reasons and closeness. Finally coming to the conclusion that all historians must share your view solidifies my original thought that you must truly be an idiot.
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  3154.  @DanDavisHistory  I wouldn’t listen to the guy, I have found many attempt to find a taboo in the histories of famous people to fit their own contemporary political agenda. It’s frustrating, but ultimately I find them sad people with nothing interesting to add to the conversation. Keep up the good work.
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  3155. My guess of what happened to Otzi: He stole that fine axe, was hunted down and shot, but he managed to hide the axe in foliage or snow shortly before being confronted. If he was indeed from a place where metal working was common, he would have had more tools made of copper.
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  3156.  @DanDavisHistory  That’s exactly the response I was hoping for! Cheers 🍻
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  3157.  @DanDavisHistory  You deliver!
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  3158. "I used to do mountaineering, but then I took an arrow to the knee." The Amesbury Archer probably.
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  3159. A really interesting, and also vital subject in the study of our history, top quality as always!
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  3160. Another great video Dan! Good work!
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  3161. Fascinating! Thank you for this informational video. I have to say I find it much more plausible that disease rather than invasion/warfare etc led to the indo european takeover. Even with a much more advanced culture and technology, such as the Spanish in their conquests of Mexico and South America, the role of disease is well known and perhaps instrumental in the takeover of the continent. Perhaps the takeover was inevitable anyway, but depopulation from disease definitely made the process easier and smoother.
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  3162. Some of these 'battle axes" look very much like my iron splitting maul I use on fire wood. As for a weapon I would prefer a well made spear.
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  3163. You’re officially my favorite YouTuber now
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  3164. Wonderful! Makes me want to travel to the areas mentioned and see the museums and archeolgical sites.
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  3165. "Stuck between two dogs for all eternity" ....I don't see an issue
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  3166. The Black Death resulted in the Renaissance and advances in medicine and science
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  3167. This was so cool ty for making it 😊. It does remind me not only of the similar practices still go on in tribal parts of Africa but a little of vision quests of the 1st people of the Americas. However, one huge difference is it was usually one boy (and some tribes/nations girls as well) being expected to survive anywhere from 1 week to 1 month or more w/no food or water (altho girls were usually given a small amount of each) on their own to find their spirit guide and/or animal.
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  3168. I've read the greatest knight, so I'm going to enjoy this , cheers Dan .
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  3169. Yes please!, video on Bronze-Age sailing vessels in the Med.
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  3170. Rich and dense, well-considered, widely knowledgeable, perceptive, credible
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  3171. You always do such great documentaries.
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  3172.  @DanDavisHistory  I do like how science is revealing details of their lives and communities. We may not know the stories they told about themselves, but we can understand, remember and honour what they went through. Just like this!
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  3173. “It is in the young warrior that the life force manifests itself most abundantly. Everyone knows that.” Lol
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  3174. Great stuff
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  3175. My surname is also Davis so I will heretofore refer to thee as cousin. Cousin, I very deeply appreciate your work. The story of US, told in such compelling fashion is much needed in a world gone mad. Please keep it up! You're doing more good than you know. Cheers cousin! May we meet sometime and raise a pint together.
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  3176. Simply beautiful video, this among a stunning back catalogue of creative masterpieces, is one of your very best! Well done Dan 🫡 👏👏👏🍻
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  3177. Dan, I always love hearing your insight into the European Bronze Age. Fantastic 💯
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  3178.  @DanDavisHistory  I've been fascinated by characters like Drake ever since playing Sid Meier's Pirates as a young kid. That age was full of complicated characters with a mix of motives and interests, with strong ethical codes despite being killers and thieves.. ahh, love it.
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  3179. Very well done
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  3180. This is the best report I have seen on Ötzi. I appreciate that some of the wilder theories were mentioned but dismissed, and in the end, just the facts were left to speak for themselves. I really laughed at the Vegan and human sacrifice references. Ötzi and his clan lived on the edge, and couldn't risk their health by not eating meat and dairy. I'm pretty sure human sacrifice was very rare in cold climates. Ötzi was the age when he would be a chieftain or leader in his clan. There are no wars or battles in the alpines, so it was probably 1, 2, or 3 that chased or crept up and murdered him on orders of a chieftain, or as said, it could have been a hunting accident. The hunting mate may have been ashamed of shooting his partner, and simply told the clan he disappeared. Brilliant video, great job!
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  3181. One of the best documentaries you've done yet. I have no theory of my own on the burial of the Nebra Sky Disk but the theory put forward here sounds very plausible. It's tantalising when you have evidence for ancient life but knowing you'll never have definitive proof (unless a time machine is built).
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  3182. You're the man, Dan
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  3183. Very well done My Friend he was definitely a very interesting person in history and a lot of people don't know the truth and why he was the way he was but nonetheless he was human before he became the monster that they made him 💯🙏🏽🖤
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  3184. Not levantine. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09209-7 ""Interestingly, while we observe a continued presence of the AHG-related gene pool throughout the studied period, a pattern of genetic interactions with neighboring regions is evident from as early as the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene. In addition to the local genetic contribution from earlier Anatolian populations, Anatolian Aceramic farmers inherit about 10% of their genes from a gene pool related to the Neolithic Iran/Caucasus while later ACF derive about 20% of their genes from another distinct gene pool related to the Neolithic Levant. " "WHILE LATER ACF..." They don't said anything about levantine admixture in the first anatolian hunter gatherer...
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  3185. Thank you for your video and for your efforts to write such a book. It is a much needed step towards making the world aware of the existence of important archaic cultures that predate what official history tells us. Every official historical source I've been handed since grade school told me civilization in this part of the worlds started in the middle east and the primitive people that inhabited these lands were destroyed by the Indo-European migrants. Many of the studies that show the Indo-Europeans were in fact assimilated by the native population were either discarded or overlooked. Then authoritarian regimes of the past century made things worse through a sustained effort to underline the greatness of these forgotten civilizations that made the western world brand it as nationalist propaganda. When several studies concluded that a form of writing that predates the Sumerian script was found on these lands there were many foreigners who arduously branded the find a fraud and dismissed the studies altogether. And yes, the archaic people who lived on these lands were part of a matriarchal society.
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  3186. " We have plenty of time to finish this game of bowls,and beat the Spanish too"I like that,infact,he said it,i just know he did 😊
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  3187. No, no, no. This is the same BS as the Mormon Jaredite Barge story, where bronze age boat builders were able to not only build ocean-going ships with stone and perhaps bronze tools, but also to be able to navigate and carry relatively large cargoes of copper ore. Nuh-uh. PLUS, then you have to figure out how they got copper past the First Nations people without their noticing or learning of the benefits of copper (not just beaten, but smelted copper), and then the logistics of moving it from the Great Lakes region to shipping ports on the East Coast (stone age East Coast!!!) and then ensuring that what arrives in Stone Age St. Lawrence River (ugh!!!) is able to be packaged, loaded and shipped back to Europe. What kind of fools come up with hypotheses like this? I'd sooner give credence to the Solutrean Theory where a manufacturing process DID arrive somehow, but then rapidly was spread from First Nation person to First Nation person in North America. Ore ships 5000 to 3000 ya. Mmmm no.
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  3188. Excellent analysis & formed - reassured my opinion of early horsemen. Thank you
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  3189. We aren’t learning in our educational institutions, so please do that weight video!!!
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  3190. Excellent work. Thank you very much. Sir Francis Drake = England's greatest hero.
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  3191. As Churchill said. History will treat me kindly. "Because i will write it!". As soon as you add torture to the mix... Medieval Vatican! And the reality that although we say Medieval. It's still the dark ages or at least nearly dark 🤷‍♀️ Many thanks. Great work :))
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  3192. Your channel is the best recommendation YouTube gave me ever. I never even thought much about this ancient history and now I'm determined to learn everything about it
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  3193. Get hyped when I see you have a new one out. Saved it for after work.
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  3194. That’s a fascination of mine as well, the late bronze age really was extraordinairy interconnected
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  3195. Thanks Dan, another great one.
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  3196. Always find this channel/man worth giving a listen. He's not someone like Dan Carlin (footnotes!) yet his interest & command nevertheless easily shine through. I've foune this to be one of a (very) few unique channels.
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  3197. Late stone age and early bronze age is my favourite period if history
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  3198. Thanks for the Quality content. Love stuff like this.
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  3199. Glad I found your videos. I’ve always had a strong interest in history of all types, and these videos fill in some of the gaps from books I’ve read over the past 50 years. Thank you!
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  3200.  @DanDavisHistory  ooooooh! Is that book out already? Thanks for the work you do by the way, love your content!
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  3201. My peeps! Thanks, Dan!
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  3202. Thank you Dan for another amazing video
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  3203. Good tilled earth. Hobbit
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  3204. an excellent video made all the better with drake's shit eating grin
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  3205. Excellent video. I suspect those "phalanxs" were spearmen, two handed spearmen while standing behind shieldmen, two handed large shields, similar to later Perian infantry - Sparabara. Later on the Greeks improved this with the single phalanx hoplite man - one armed shield, one handed spear but still fighting in the tight phalanx formation. ?
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  3206. Great documentary! I love the history during that time period and didn’t realize how legendary William Marshall must have been. Thanks for enlightening me and paying homage to this man!
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  3207. Really good, very fascinating - as always.
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  3208. What is surprising is how late the stirrup came into use. One would think that at some point early in the mastery of riding horses that somebody would have said, I sure wish I had something to put my feet in...
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  3209. Awesome!
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  3210. This is sick, Dan, thanks! Sincerely, Your Ugly American cousin. PS: LOL, at Sebastian Stan.
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  3211. Hahaaa!! I've been waiting for this one since the fierce comment debate I got into over this very topic on your last horse video!! Woohoo!!!
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  3212. A video dedicated to the Andronovo cultures would be a great watch, absolutely loving these videos
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  3213. Great video. Thanks very much I hope this gradually gets around to 1000's of views. I'm having St Georges week this yr so I think I'll watch your video everyday 😄👍🏼
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  3214.  @DanDavisHistory  Our hero's javelin inadvertantly missed his father's killer, striking the lead horse which threw the opponent's chariot off and rolled it over. The battle was fininshed on foot as the rest of the warriors fought on until the battle stopped to watch the single combat between chieftans.
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  3215. Great Sunday evening just took an upturn. Think I shall enjoy this.
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  3216. I had a realisation in the video you posted about the Eurasian nomads from the Eurasian Steppe, that most of the destruction of civilisations were done by people from the north in different moments of history. This video adds up more evidence to it.
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  3217. Great video! Learnt something new today!
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  3218. I suspect that the timber houses located at the mouths of these barrows, (as depicted here), were probably porches or halls, the "Funeral Parlors" of the time, where much of the funeral ritual was held, before the body was moved into the stone house beneath the Earth, to begin the long journey.
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  3219. Thumbs up for the Corded Ware People's more focused cousins, the Battle Axe People.
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  3220. Thank you Mr. Davis!
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  3221. You're back. Most excellent.✌️🇺🇲
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  3222. One of the lectures of a conference on Indoeuropeans in Copenhagen 2012 was Åsa Fredell, Swedish academic. She stipulated that one of the petroglyphs in Bohuslän depict the legend of Cruniuc and Macha as recorded in the Ulster Cycle (language is from 8th century+). She dates these petroglyphs to 200bc-0bc or some such. Anyway, not the same time frame that you discuss. However, since it might be a tangible connection between Ireland and Bohuslän I thought it worth mentioning :) I set the time to her rather rambling lecture to where she starts talking of the legend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bE4uX2gTvk&t=922s Fredell also features in the Swedish 2005 documentary Stenristarna. It goes through the Nordic Bronze Age some. Obviously you are working from more up to date information, with genetics and what not and the narrative is in Swedish. But it uses fascinating animations of petroglyphs and has some filmed reenactment of Bronze age, such as the boats. Think its online now, on Vimeo or some such (personally I bought it years ago, but then I speak Swedish). Thank you for another great video! Your videos are the first ones to put these things into order for me, even though I have been somewhat interested in it many years.
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  3223. Is there any proof of our european ancestors wearing feathers in their hair? It would be cool if you did a video on animism and hair through our history starting at yamnaya. I would like to put feathers in my hair and my kids, and hair doos our ancestors did would be an awesome video documentary. Just a thought.
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  3224. 7:07 when James Earl Jones was in the Army, he was tasked with caring for and then later eating a snake. 🐍
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  3225. Hi Dan interesting hypothesis, have you tried to have a meta look on the Indo-Europeans early pratices in their migrations? Do you find similar pratices in say northern Indian, Caucasus, or Scandinavia? The subject of social structure And early gods transcending to germanic Pantheon has always been Alluring to me, trying to trace that spark from a possible urheimat. Thank you for your great content👍
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  3226. You're a great storyteller Mr Davis! Definitely time to buy one of your books.
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  3227. Excellent video as usual! Anyone else see the irony of the unnamed Chariot Lord in the story going into battle “for the everlasting glory of his name”? All glory is fleeting….
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  3228. I was pretty skeptical about these actually being hats until i saw those delightful little figurines. Bronze age wizard drip was real!!
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  3229. Well done, great video. Starting to read your book as well. I really enjoy it.
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  3230. you seem to have the mind of someone who has been studying history for quite some time and are able to capture those very unique topics that most other history channels havent talked to death!
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  3231. Cannibalism of any kind is often inaccurately described as a universal taboo, much like incest. Growing up Catholic the idea of human sacrifice and cannibalism (ie. The crucifixion, transubstantiation) had me concerned at an early age that with one power religious or social upheaval we could be marrying our siblings or eating or neighbors. Terrifying thought. Great vid Dan ❤✌
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  3232. I have been away from the internet for a couple of days and saw that a new video has been uploaded to this channel which made my day. I have been waiting for a channel that covered topics of this nature (aside from Survive the Jive) and here it is. This stuff is right in my wheelhouse. Recently picked up the novella prequel and Gods of Bronze part 1. I completed the prequel a couple days ago and currently on Chapter 2 of Bronze 1. Highly addictive by the way. Would like to make some suggestions if I may. Explore the early days of the Ancient Anatolians, maybe even explore the prehistoric structures and settlements there, (i.e. Gobekli Tepe, Nevali Cori, Catolhoyuk etc.). You could expand to the Mediterranean structures as I think they are all connected, even though the timeframes are quite expansive, such as the Temples of Malta, Giants Tombs of Sardinia. I believe all these structures are related even to the Western European structures such as New Grange and Stonehenge. I believe they were all built by the descendants of the Ancient Anatolians that expanded across Europe between 7500 and 5500 BP. Also I would like to see some exploration into the lives of the various hunter gatherer people that inhabited Europe prior to the arrive of the Anatolians and the Yamnaya. Much Speculation would be required but so what. Just more freedom for the author right? The fiction stuff is great but you might put out some nonfiction stuff as well. I would certainly be a buyer. I could go on and on but that's enough I suppose. We also need to get many more subs for this cannel. I'll do what I can to promote thats for sure.
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  3233. Love these vids. Thank you for all the hard work you've done on them.
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  3234. Comment for algorithm
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  3235. After watching--and very thoroughly enjoying--quite a few of your videos... you may have got me to read fiction. I never read fiction. If I can at all avoid it. I often say a variation of: "Oh yeah, I'm SUPER curious about things that didn't happen, told through some person's imaginings of how non-real persons might act... No, thank you. I'm gonna go read about something that actually happened, to which real humans, used their independent minds, to react." But after watching your videos and seeing the labor you put into an accuracy of the ancient world, may well just get me to read one (or more) of your novels.... I feel like I could trust a few things in the novel to be, well... real. Idk, why I comment. No one is gonna read this.
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  3236. I like how the thumbnail just says "no." 😆
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  3237. The plague. The second greatest enemy of mankind
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  3238. Your readings from the Iliad are thr best I've heard, Yjank You.
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  3239. This brought tears to my eyes
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  3240. My first exposure to the Funnelbeaker culture was in an Andre Norton SF novel.
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  3241. Ötzi must have been at least lvl 80 hunter, since he wore so epic gear.
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  3242. Will be sharing this on my blog pages "Hammer and Vajra" "Will of Gaut" and "Temple of the Immovable". Thank you very much for this video it is a summary of many of the things I have been writing for years now.
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  3243. This video ties in well to your video on the Koryos.
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  3244. Where is the rite of passage now for our young men? I joined the US Army when I was 17 1/2. That was mine. What was yours? Did you have a transition from child to man?
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  3245. Get ready for the angry tinfoil hat crowd! and thanks for the shout out!
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  3246. I remember from Kershaws book that the Koryos had sometimes girls as companions, which were called bitch or she-wolf. And Romulus and Remus were nursed by a she-wolf, Lupa which can also mean whore. Then it is said that Romulus invited "displaced persons, refugees and exiles ", that is mainly men, into his founded settlement. And that they, therefore, had to rob the women of the Sabines. This sounds to me as if Rome was founded by a Koryos of the Latins, and it was originally their compound.
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  3247. Outstanding Dan! Another beautiful and thought provoking video ❤ 👏👏👏
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  3248. My thought is that the Nordic Bronze Age just carried on thru to the Roman Iron Age, Migration period, Vendel period and was just a refining of technology and societal trends already present in the region. Also, having big phalluses was apparently a la mode...
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  3249. "the age of heroes" sometimes history is more interesting than fiction
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  3250. I continue to love your work, and the LBA is among the most fascinating periods for me. Thanks for another installment!
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  3251. A similar age is coming
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  3252. The circular disk may have removed an injured section also.
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  3253. Intriguing as where I live there are a number of graves still in situe and some the where plundered by local farmers. People most likely lived in the valley 3000 years (and long before) ago
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  3254. i think both. there is a common ancestor mythology, BUT it would also be... so self evident, so easily reinforced! of course dogs guard the entrance to things... if the afterlife is "like this world" then... naturally there would be a dog, or a dog and a person, guarding the way. likewise, if you had a dog to escort you? well perhaps DOG- the ineffible spirit guardian- would recognize that you came with one of his own... and let you by. perhaps your own dogs would wait to speak for you, to attest that you were a fair owner who shared the food, and took care of the pups, and let him sleep by the fire.
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  3255. looked it up becuase 23 and me told me i share dna with them.... staying and subbing because youre channel is fire sir!
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  3256. Ukraine or the Sredny Stog cultural area in ancient times was probably swampy in addition to being steppe-like. Unlike the central and eastern steppes, the western steppes had many rivers traversing it, and the remnants of a major swamp region still exists along the Ukraine-Belarus border; likely this swamp was much bigger in ancient times. Is it possible that a swampy environment triggered horse domestication somehow? You might be a bit more willing to climb onto a horse for the first time if it was wading in the water, so falling off happens with a splash rather than a thud. And for certain river corridors, fording with horses would be the ideal way of getting across, more so than with boats.
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  3257. One of the most important “steps” for human progress was the “taming” of the horse ! The horse then became the biggest helper of men, for everything !
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  3258. Great, it’s 11 o’clock at night and now I want mussels, scallops and hazel nuts.
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  3259. my bet is a bunch of kids playing around jumping on the backs for kicks. just as we did on pigs cows sheep and eventually horses
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  3260. Just got my alert 📢 Dan Davis dropping a half hour of Magical history, hit the pause, now for the science bit , hit the kettle for the cup of LYONS tea then cut a nice piece of Oxford lunch 👍 grab my ear phones and sit back and drift away through time. Thanks Dan I love the channel. Peace 🇮🇪
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  3261. I’m nude watching this, thanks 🙏
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  3262. Now this will be interesting
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  3263. Fascinating history and well presented. Thank you!
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  3264. Awesome video! One about the Ancient North Eurasians would be dope!
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  3265. Thank you, Dan, for another wonderful insight into our ancient past. I find the recent developments in genetic analysis fascinating and wonder whether when remains are found that do not correspond with the genetic lineages of family groups in a long barrow - as the eight sets of remains in the example you highlighted - whether these might be the remains of individuals from a shamanic or priestly caste who were involved in ritual practice but were also mobile and didn't stay in one place long enough to establish genetic roots. Perhaps the place where they died would be responsible for their funereal rites and this would be considered an honour for that particular familial group?
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  3266. Fascinating stuff! Always wonder what it means “Go berserk!”
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  3267. As a fellow YouTuber, I just wanted to say.. WELL DONE ON FITTING IN SO MANY CTAs 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽
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  3268. I much prefer skeptical reality based channels like this one to the alternatives. The factual world we exist in is quite fascinating enough!
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  3269. Love the quality history content you put out.
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  3270. What an awesome example of a fascinating niche of history that has been overlooked by general knowledge! Thank you for this video!
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  3271. Algorithm boosting comment
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  3272. The same kind of carvings are also near Norrkoping on the east coast. To me it points to the same people all around the Scandinavian coastlines.
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  3273. And only the mullet remained….. even the Bronze Age warriors were wise to keep business in the front and the party in the back. ❤️
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  3274. Dude I was unsubbed from your channel!!!! I thought that was just a meme that people said, your the 1st channel I've ever noticed this with. Please tell your fans to share this, there's bound to be others out there as well
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  3275. This is amazing I can't believe the history that I am Im just running into you, Mr Davis. I am completely immersed in the bronze age right now and though I'm not the biggest fiction reader I'm looking forward to reading your work. Also your narration is amazing if there's an audiobook I may purchase that next.
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  3276. A pirate, what a hero!!! XD Long live Maria Pita!!!
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  3277. Cool, about the word “Orm” it is still the word for snake here in Sweden, interesting.
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  3278. Maybe the shared burials were more like the medieval "vampire" burials as a means of protection. Instead of the holes letting evil spirits out they were viewed as openings for one to come in, especially after death to possess the body and it was buried with the ancient ancestors to keep the spirits away.
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  3279. Your documentaries are wonderful and so well made and so interesting, your voice is very soothing too
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  3280. Wow that was a fantastic video! Great stuff.
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  3281. Great underrated channel. Keep it up!
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  3282. I really appreciate these videos on Bronze Age central & western European cultures. So much of ancient history content focuses on Egypt/North Africa, The Levant & the Aegean. The UK & Europe are often left out until it involves Rome.
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  3283.  @CaucAsianSasquatch  if only I had access to a 3D printer, I do a lot of my blacksmithing old school because I haven't been doing it all that long but I'm building up my tools. I still use coal
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  3284. Im fascinated by the Yamnaya. Thank you, I feel like I learned a great secret
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  3285.  @DanDavisHistory  It's lovely country to live in, and fantastic to ramble through!
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  3286. Bruh, you are always that channel with that "I had no idea I would be interested in this" content within a subject (pre ancient history) I am immensely interested in
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  3287. What an amazing story, gotta say these videos are absolutely excellent. I especially like your vids covering the Bronze Age and Neolithic Europe. I've been so impressed I bought Gods of Bronze Book 1 (great name by the way). I'm about half way through and love it so far, I'll be sure to leave an Amazon review when I'm finished. Seems like you're pretty much killing it on all fronts man, great work! :)
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  3288. Another amazing video Dan. We appreciate all the work that you put into these lessons.
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  3289. Ever since I first read a little snippet about this site, I've been fascinated by all the possible interpretations.
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  3290. Dan Davis is the hero historian of English heroes!
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  3291. Great video Dan. I will be going through the rest.
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  3292. Very level-headed video, as always, which is so necessary with this subject-matter that is so easily filled with fantasies of all sorts. It is, nonetheless, very disappointing to not be able to know the place of cannibalism in our ancestors' lives, as we are so close to them!
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  3293. Absolutely fascinating
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  3294. My personal "headcannon" is that he was a shepherd-hunter, if he was a shepherd, you might ask, why wouldn't he eat sheep or goats he herded? Same reason cowboys didn't eat a lot of cows on the cattle drives.
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  3295. I love to see that they had this circle of figurines of clay (?) holding arms which is also known in terra cota in Mexico as the circle of friends
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  3296. Wow, I had never heard of the theory that the Maykop culture was the origin of Indo-European, nor had I heard that they had Sumerian goods! I always thought they where a Yamnaya influenced peripheral culture that may have adopted indo european from the Yamnaya and then brought it to Anatolia as Proto Anatolian...
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  3297. Dan, great video! Your name Dan might have been from the Trypillya sights. The rivers of Danube, Danaster, Boh/Dana, Danapris, Donetś, Don/Tanais have been stil preserving the name of the epic people Dasyas (Danu and Vritra/Dag-da/Daž-ď-boh).
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  3298. Thank you for this successful introduction into the beginnings of the millennia-old relationship between humans and horses. Into a relationship that has literally changed the course of things. As difficult as this may be for the descendants of Western European farmers to understand. A real rider does not need any tools to ride a horse. A real rider rides from his center, out of his own balance and is able to lead a properly ridden horse just by the action of his body. Riding is a symbiosis between horse and rider. Riding is not the subjugate of an intelligent, social creature, as is still the order of the day in Western Europe and elsewhere. From both sides – mother and father – I come from ancient equestrian families. We are descendants of the Sarmats. Already the "Imperium Romanum" used my ancestors as elite riders at all its focal points. As "Croatian military borderers" (Habsburg) we paid no taxes, did not pay any levies. Our only obligation to the "Holy Roman Empire" was to be fully equipped for military service from the age of 16 at all times, until our death, and to be available for military service with two spare horses. From the rank of lieutenant, we had the privilege of an audience with the emperor at any time. My great-grandfather was the last in our family to lead the lance (Ulan) for the emperor during World War I. The privileges we enjoyed for centuries resulted from our special suitability for warfare on horseback. When my mother was 12 years old, there was no horse between the cities of Zagreb, Karlovac and Sisak on which she could not – without any aids – sit up and down at full gallop, including riding the horse. By – without aids – I mean a naked horse, without a saddle, without bridles. Some of the theories/explanations/justifications, of the "bookworms" who feel called to ponder the topic of "riding", I can therefore not take seriously in view of my own history. As plausible as these explanations may seem to "pedestrians". Recent archaeological excavations show relatively clearly where riding – the symbiosis between horse and man – has developed. Anyone who has ever seen the symbiosis, the connection between rider and horse, for whom the bookworm theories mentioned in this – otherwise wonderful contribution – are irrelevant, because meaningless. Danke für diese so gelungene Eiführung in die Anfänge der Jahrtausende alte Beziehung zwischen Menschen und Pferden. In eine Beziehung, die buchstäblich den Lauf der Dinge verändert hat. So schwierig das auch – für die Nachfahren westeuropäischer Bauern – zu begreifen sein mag. Ein echter Reiter braucht keine Hilfsmittel um ein Pferd zu reiten. Ein echter Reiter reitet aus seiner Mitte, aus seinem eigenen Gleichgewicht heraus und ist in der Lage allein durch das Einwirken seines Körpers ein richtig eingerittenes Pferd zu führen. Reiten ist eine Symbiose zwischen Pferd und Reitern. Reiten ist nicht das Unterwerfen einer intelligenten, sozialen Kreatur, so wie es in Westeuropa und anderswo noch immer an der Tagesordnung ist. Von beiden Seiten – Mutter wie Vater – entstamme ich uralten Reiterfamilien. Wir sind Nachfahren der Sarmaten. Schon das „Imperium Romanum“ setzte meine Vorfahren als Elitereiter an allen seinen Brennpunkten ein. Als „Kroatische Militärgrenzer“ (Habsburg) zahlten wir keine Steuern, leisteten keine Abgaben. Unsere einzige Verpflichtung dem „Heiligen Römischen Reich“ gegenüber war es, ab unserem vollendetem 16ten Lebensjahr jeder Zeit, bis zu unserem Tode, voll gerüstet und mit zwei Ersatzpferden für den Kriegsdienst zur Verfügung zu stehen. Ab dem Dienstgrad eines Leutnants hatten wir das Privileg einer jederzeitigen Audienz beim Kaiser. Als letzter in unserer Familie führte mein Urgroßvater im I. Weltkrieg die Lanze (Ulan) für den Kaiser. Die Privilegien, die wir über Jahrhunderte hinweg genossen, resultierten aus unserer besonderen Eignung für die Kriegsführung zu Pferd. Als meine Mutter 12 Jahre alt gewesen ist, gab es zwischen den Städten Zagreb, Karlovac und Sisak kein Pferd, auf das sie nicht – ohne jedes Hilfsmittel – im vollen Galopp hätte auf- und absitzen können, reiten des Pferdes inbegriffen. Unter – ohne Hilfsmittel – verstehe ich ein nacktes Pferd, ohne Sattel, ohne Zaumzeug. Manche der Theorien/Erklärungen/Begründungen, der „Bücherwürmer“, die sich da berufen fühlen, über das Thema „Reiten“ zu sinnieren, kann ich angesichts meiner eigenen Geschichte, deshalb nicht ernst nehmen. So plausibel diese Erklärungen für „Fußgänger“ auch erscheinen mögen. Neuere archäologische Ausgrabungen zeigen relativ deutlich auf, wo sich das Reiten – die Symbiose zwischen Pferd und Mensch – entwickelt hat. Wer jemals die Symbiose, die Verbindung zwischen Reiter und Pferd gesehen hat, für den sind die in diesem – sonst wunderbarem Beitrag – erwähnten Bücherwurmtheorien irrelevant, weil bedeutungslos.
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  3299. It's a miracle mankind survived as long as we have. This was so interesting! Thank you!
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  3300. The “You know what this is” in the bottom left during the Stonehenge snippet made me chuckle. 😅
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  3301. Thank you for not only leaving a link to the sources for your video, but especially SAYING your primary sources IN the video. Many people (myself included😅) often don't go through the trouble of actually checking the listed sources, and a lot of youtubers get away with having bad sources. No one calls them out because people hear "sources are listed" and assume that proves legitimacy by itself. So, thank you for the transparency.
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  3302. Great work on all your videos but I like this one most. The Middle ages is my favourite period.
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  3303. Brilliant video, well researched and very informative. Tombraiders? I guess they were the forefathers of Lara Croft
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  3304. What about the 'Earth Diver' myth?
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  3305. Thanks for another great video on Bronze age warfare. I really enjoy these. I was wondering when you'd do a video on the Tollense battle, it really is such an amazing site.
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  3306. The Varangian Guard always intrigued me, obviously 😏 💪🏽🐻
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  3307. Also the hording of wealth is interesting, from mining culture to mining business. The more people mine, the cheaper the material gets, which hurts the miners. So hoarding wealth to produce artificial scarcity would be useful, and a surplus would also occur as a matter of inter-tribe price collusion on the materials being mined.
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  3308. I am simple girl... I sees new video I clicks
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  3309. Simply fantastic.
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  3310.  @DanDavisHistory  I'm trying to find more books/sources on this period specifically and it's hard because most just have Magna Carta and end right there. Any good sources?
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  3311.  @bonseraphin1119  Sardinians certainly have the most, close to 90% of their ancestry is derived from the Neolithic farmers. Truly amazing the level of continuity from such an ancient population! I wouldn't say that 50-60% is insignificant though, which is what many Southern Europeans are. That is about the same level of closeness that Northern Europeans have to their Indo-european ancestry, which clearly impacted their culture and appearance significantly.
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  3312. This explains So much So soo much
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  3313. But Penelope Cruz is Spain's greatest ever hero.
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  3314. Everyone that has owned and lost a dog should read Rudyard Kiplings The Power of a Dog
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  3315. Amazing! Superb work 👍👍
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  3316. 23:44 How number 1 can be a sword without proper handle?
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  3317. Hey Dan, the parallels between what you discussed are immensely synchrotistic with regards to the religious practices of the spectrum of metaphysical identities...i.e. Humans appeasing spirit beings whom they are tied to in one way or another. Interesting. Thanks.
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  3318. So it can be ascertained that many of these innovations have their earliest origins in the Caucasus and adjacent regions before later on reaching the Steppes. With people we know today as Caucasian Hunter-Gatherers. Truly fascinating stuff.
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  3319. Dan I started your book series and cannot put it down. Read the first hundred pages of Vampire Crusader in a few hours. Loving it.
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  3320. I would gladly give away one of my kidneys, just to know what really happened there, who this people were, where did they came from, why did they fight, who did win and what happened to the survivors after the battle.......... Hope that there is more evidence soon, and historians and archeologists can build up a sustainable theory........
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  3321. Yes! Langdale Axe Factory! The one time in British history that Cumbria got a bit in front.
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  3322. One of the more interesting aspects was your thought experiment on what might have been. I’ve never thought about them reaching the heights of the Minoans if left to their own devices, very thought provoking take.
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  3323.  @DanDavisHistory  - I think you covered that well in your video.
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  3324. Isn't this where the Greek word "kyrios" came from? Or the other way around?
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  3325. as ever, cracking stuff mate!
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  3326. Love your videos, been listening to them while doing my morning work outs for the past few days. Keep up the good work brother!
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  3327. Another well researched and fascinating glimpse into our ancient past, narrated with immersion and authority. These videos belong to the very highest level of quality and value in my opinion. Thank you!!
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  3328. So glad I found this channel, thank you so much for all your work!
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  3329. One other example that comes to mind is the tradition of unburring the dead in Madagascar after a period of time. Actual Yucatec Mayas in Mexico also dig-up the bone of their dead, not to eat them, but to perform secondary burial, a common tradition around the world. I love your videos. Great work!!
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  3330. "Is it a weapon?" Anything is a weapon if you hit someone with it hard enough ;)
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  3331. I'm surprised that the "king's" grave had no bows and arrows. Wasn't archery common back then?
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  3332. A fascinating documentary with incredible attention to detail as always. As I watched I was thinking that this would make for a great film, and wasn't too surprised when I saw that one already exists! Thank you for the amazing work you put into these videos, you remain one of the best channels for prehistory on this site.
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  3333. As ever a great video looking at really macabre subject in an objective fashion and with as little bias as possible. corking stuff. Though i did find the final one to be quietly chilling!
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  3334. Another excellent video, very informative and entreating.
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  3335. I think a great book for after would be Bactria especially period during the hord between the Achaemenid Empire and the Hunic push especially the last remnants of the Xiongnu
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  3336. For the most part this seems to be an overlooked topic. Great choice and well done as usual.
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  3337. this as a tv series would be better then got
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  3338. Bro Marshall's story moved me to tears as well
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  3339. I have to put my two bits in. As a kid on the prairies, maybe nine to ten years old, I rode and loved a horse that I rode everywhere with nothing but touch, love, and a halter. My girl would lower her head so I could put my foot in the loop of the halter rope, then raise her head and let me slide down her neck to her back. Don't discount those kind of bonds in prehistory. Notice that modern humans make pets of some of the animals that they raise for slaughter...that is not a thing of civilization but profoundly old.
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  3340. Just finished Thunderer, I really really loved the story, but the ending was extremely rushed, like jarringly so. Will there be a companion novels from another characters prospective to fill in the gaps? I still gave it a 5 star rating, but between you and I, it was a solid 3.5, still hopeful for the next one though.
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  3341. Just checked your channel 10 minutes ago with no new video and now a few mins later you drop this! Perfect timing, perfect topic, superb storytelling! Thank you!
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  3342. Do a video of the Proto Semites?
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  3343. Love your videos!
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  3344. Another great upload Dan , great work mate. I listen to everything you do so .🇮🇪
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  3345. Lovely video. I've always found transitional periods (and transitional periods in general) deeply fascinating. I also really appreciate your including your sources in the description!
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  3346. Good stuff man. Consider me subbed cuz I just did B) I love a good history channel
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  3347. I love you for posting underrated copper and bronze age cultures in Europe.
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  3348. Very informative, thanks! Also Bronze Age armor would be a great topic.
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  3349. I had not heard of the new blood/dna evidence
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  3350.  @seaxofbeleg8082  yeah but those tests are not always accurate either
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  3351. Imagine the hands that carved those figures, and the minds behind it... Bloody amazing. Thank you for this video.
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  3352. The level of detail and craftsmanship of the tools and clothes we found on Otzi Is astonishing. Like your Channel ♥️
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  3353. Your videos never disappoint. I've learned so much about the distant past. Thanks for your efforts!!
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  3354. My local long barrow belas knapp shown here ❤️ such a beautiful structure
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  3355. The pledge to young Henry... 🥲
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  3356. Dan, I've never heard any response regarding the "reconstruction" accuracy validation I would expect as these mock-ups of images are shown more frequently as factual. Do you know if any tests were made to see if the persons who create these images can take the remains of someone that we actually have a photo of, that they can replicate that image without having seen it based on limited evidence? I have a hard time believing that with only a skull an artist can do this realistically to any degree of accuracy. If you have some flesh and hair, that may be possible, but I'd be far more impressed to have any regard for these recreated images as nothing more than fantastical art than forensics. If I'm clear....?
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  3357. We'd like to believe Otzi was a good guy, but equally he might have been a thief, rustler, or murderer. That may explain the pursuit and murder.
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  3358. Found this channel a few days ago and I’ve already picked up Godborn on audible. Love it I’m about an eighth of the way through listening to it.
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  3359. Absolutely brilliant video. Its made my day. Iv been fascinated about the story of Otzi for years. This really was very informative! Thanks. 👍
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  3360. I really love time team. What I like most about it is when Phil finds something from the Neolithic or Mesolithic . I've never seen a man look so happy while hip deep in dirt and muck ....
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  3361. Someone should recreate and test these. Same with the bronze cudgel
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  3362. I can recommend the Saturday market in manningtree...biggest potatoes I've ever seen...although picturesque mistley and manningtree are quite weird places.
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  3363. What a fantastic docu you made here about "our" Ötzi! Thank you very much, appreciate it a lot. Greets from the Netherlands 🌷, T.
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  3364. That was extremely well presented.
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  3365. Excellent video!
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  3366. Excellent Work!! Thank you!
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  3367. Fabulously crafted video!!! Fantastically well done thank you so much. This channel deserves a million subscribers, truly.
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  3368. Great vid, as always. Superb content. Absolutely love it!
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  3369. I believe in the late riders hypothesis. Once cavalry was developed it was such a military advantage that it would have been acquired by the urban world of Anatolia and/or Mesopotamia. And they kept records. So once cavalry shows up in the records of the urban states you can estimate that horse-riding was developed on the steppe a few generations earlier.
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  3370. I love your channel, my friend. Your approach to other peoples scientific research is admirable :) Keep it up :)
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  3371. Dang. I wish time team would go excavate some of these sites. I’d love to see what they found. Very interesting topic. I had no idea Cyprus was a mining site. I only ever thought of their trees
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  3372. a fascinating video. well researched, i can see a lot of work went in to this. p.s. i think that the old slavonic word you mention (kamy) simply means just stone (like any random stone or a rock). its missing another word to describe its purpose, be it weapon, tool or whatever else.
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  3373. Brilliant, thank you for uploading this for us. Greetings from South Africa!
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  3374. This is amazing Dan, thank you for your work!
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  3375. Really enjoy your content, mate. Keep it up! 👍
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  3376. You know a videos gonna be good when it's got Hulk Hogan driving a chariot in the thumbnail.
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  3377. Big massive warrior bois with big massive... Clubs, big massive clubs.
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  3378. The "Sea Peoples" is one of ancient history's confounding question!
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  3379. Thank you. This is helpful and highly researched and told in a straight forward fashion. It is also highly important to me personally. Since about 2005 I have been involved with my own genetic genealogy trail. Just last year I was informed that my ydna had its origins along the eastern Scottish coast. Seems as though my distant ancestors were the Picts. Further been investigating "where" the Picts came from ...Bellbeaker Folk ... Cordedware People ... What a great mystery! More detailed ydna test to be completed in about 10 weeks. In the meantime, again, thanks for your well studied and presented vids. They never fail to fire the old imagination!
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  3380.  @DanDavisHistory  this may be the greatest YouTube channel ever! 👍
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  3381. It is amazing to find artifacts and to hold them in your hand. All while thinking, who was the last human to hold this same artifact some 5-10 thousand years ago!
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  3382. I find it interesting that other Cultures have the Serpent is the symbol of Knowledge, Wisdom, and for the Chinese, protection and Natural Forces.
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  3383. Kinda unrelated but just wondering where you get the footage from, its gorgeous. And as always amazing video bro
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  3384. Sooooo cool! I appreciate your contribution very much. My son is interested both in history and writing, so I forwarded him your channel. Great content, thank you.
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  3385. Thank you for another incredible documentary, Dan! I'm curious why certain cultures didn't develop their own copper mines, but chose to import. You'd think it would accord a tribe a lot of power in controlling access to a militarily important mineral.
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  3386. Hi from Kyiv, Dan !😊
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  3387. Man! You write fiction, research like a fiend--and your voice!! You could read the whole encyclopedia to me and make it sound like music to my ears!
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  3388. Dan, i would love to see one on the Maritime Archaic culture along the northeast American coast and possible connections to the maritime cultures of the Mediterranean, and western Europe. Also, have you considered the work of Robert Sepher?
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  3389. Fun to toboggan down and visit for archaeology. Nice lil town Llandudno. Used to visit most Christmases as a kid.
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  3390. Absolutely amazing history
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  3391. wonderful combination of story and packed full of information. Thank You for all your wisdom and talent. I really enjoy your videos
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  3392. Came across your channel in the last few months and am enjoying it immensely. Very watchable and well put together, good blending of formats and alot of enthusiasm. I recon a 60 cm blade probably constitutes a shot sword, claim of oldest sword maybe right.
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  3393. When the old gods fail the new gods take over.
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  3394. Not even kidding, this is what I was going to respond to your "favorite battle" poll yesterday, but I thought 'nah there's definitely not enough info on tollense to justify a video'.
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  3395. I love how you gave examples of other cultures and developments in history at or around the same time period...I really do appreciate that... It really helps put things in perspective... For me, it adds so much more depth and context... Great work Dan..!!!
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  3396.  @DanDavisHistory  So the Indo-Aryans can be associated with Faytanovo-Abashevo, some R1a Z93 branches have already been found and the Yamnaya culture would have an influence on the Afanisevo culture that were there before Indo-Iranians and Aryans and the Afanisevo culture is also in Connection with early Tocharians. The direct influence of Yamnaya was in the direction of the Caucasus and in the direction of the Tisza / Danube area and the Volga-Ural region, where a high concentration of R1b-L23 still exists under Udmurts and on the R1b Z2103 which in turn came from cultures derived from Yamnaya (Cernavoda , Ezero culture ..). Only one has to thank that some Z93 like Z93-Z94-Z2124-Z2125-S23592 do not have to do with Indoarians but with Scythians / Saks, but Z93-Z94-Z2124-Z2125-Z2123-Y934-YP520 are typical for Aryans but even more typical Z93-Z94-L657. These Z93 separated from around 2000 BC. Chr in the Faytanovo area and in Sintashta not everything has been perfectly investigated, but the Proto-Indo-Iranians and Proto-Indo-Aryans - Proto-Nuristani - quickly separated or split up
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  3397. As a writer myself, this video has been so very useful to me. I really, deeply appreciate this!
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  3398. One of the most fascinating story I have ever heard, beautiful filming, narration I was enthralled from beginning to end, RIP Otzi, thank you to him we will learn so much from our ancestors. Bless you Dan, you are one cool guy! XXX : )
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  3399. Woohoo another belter of a video thank you
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  3400. Awesome video as always!
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  3401. Excellent documentary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  3402. Excellent Video! Great Intro! The school boys who accidentally discovered ARKAIM, were given a reward by the SOVIET UNION! They were Rewarded with a TIN of CONDENSED MILK ! I'll take CAPITALISM any day ! :>)
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  3403. What are some good Books you recommend on early Neolithic cultures and civilizations? Ive already read David Anthony’s book but that seems to focus more on proto indo European linguistics.
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  3404. Horses, galloping in the country side. I wish that I had one to ride. - Blippi
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  3405. The fairy's live in the hollow hills, everyone knows that.
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  3406. excellent = thank you
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  3407. You should narrate your books from now on. Listening to the audiobook knowing what cadence you intended it to be and not hearing it is a bit jarring.
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  3408. If you are talking about Western Hunter Gatherers, they were not exterminated. They are ancestral to all modern Europeans, with WHG ancestry being most common in the Baltic regions. I'm pretty sure Dan made a video about that.
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  3409. I listened and waited for the word Tavistock, then I listened more. Good job enjoyed :washhands:
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  3410. Cheers Dan for making so many interesting videos about things I'm always wondering about!
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  3411.  @DanDavisHistory  once you get into this stuff you see it everywhere. I was listening to the ballad Tam Lyn (recommend Anne Briggs' version if you care to repeat the experiment, one of thee best olde ballads), and it is stuffed to the gunwales with very old motifs of which some could have been tricksy 18th and 19th century folklorists going a bit far with restoring fragmentary text, but even if you were a super cynic, that couldn't account for everything
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  3412. Churning out the quality content. Awesome stuff!
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  3413. Never been so happy to find a video. I wish I had been notified when the video was posted. I mean I clicked the bell that YouTube says will give me notifications, so where was it? In any case I am happy to see another video from you.
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  3414. Dan, i gotta tell you, man. Your work is absolutely great.👍
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  3415. Love the history of the Mongols and this video was great thanks bud
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  3416. What strikes me is how extremely similar, almost identical, their bronze weapons were to some of those in Scandinavia. That grip-toungue sword at 4:58 especially.
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  3417. I never knew I wanted to learn about this. Thank you for bringing this to light.
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  3418. They got it from Ea-Nasir, duh. It was incredibly shitty copper.
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  3419. Ok Dan, you made a believer out of me - Richard I was a badass king of England, and deserves to number among the greats.
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  3420. This was awesome. You made my Saturday super enjoyable. Thanks buddy. Your analysis is considered and well researched.
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  3421. God you do good content. Definitely one of my favorite channels. Much love Dan <3.
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  3422. You deserve the best as a historical channel. I love your works. Especially these longer ones whilst I do my work. I love it so much. Thank you.
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  3423.  @DanDavisHistory  Fair enough!
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  3424. Absolutely love your descriptions. You remind me of a few of my history teachers who had a real passion for it. Its amazing. Ive long held the theory that humans in general have always been a sort of warrior people. We see examples of multi ethnic vagrant mercenary groups all through history and all over the world, and to a much larger scale in the modern world (if you really think about it) so i find it fascinating to learn more about ancient mercenary groups.
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  3425. Cheers thanks
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  3426. This is one of the best on a channel of great videos. Fantastic work!
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  3427. Plot twist: Ancient aliens actually transported the cattle in their spaceships ..........🤨
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  3428.  @DanDavisHistory  I’ve found a few videos covering specific battles but nothing about the personalities involved.
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  3429.  @DanDavisHistory  yeah the story is Attila was not a nice guy I suppose. I'm quite interested in their nomadic wanderings and religion. But I know little about Attila himself.
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  3430. As a matter of interest North Weald is actually in Essex and unrelated to the Weald of Kent
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  3431. An english man loving the Fench? You just broke my whole world view ;) :) :D By the way, if Guille de Rais was just half the man he was in the anime Fate/Zero he would be a nightmare.
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  3432. French and English medieval kingdoms are so close and intricated, their wars are civil wars in a lot of aspects. It wasn't a long shot away that the two nations would be merged within one kingdom.
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  3433. you keep the loot - I only want the women ...
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  3434. I really enjoyed this fact packed well produced video. I'd love to see a video about the Nordic Bronze Age grave mounds from Thy and older megalithic passage graves and dolmens from the island of Mon.
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  3435. Some things never change: The training of Guatemalan Counterinsurgency forces known as Kaibiles involve raising a puppy and eventually killing it.
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  3436.  @DanDavisHistory  I have read somewhere (sorry don't remember the source) that the myth of Anubis maybe originated from the observation of the jackals biting the limbs of the bodies emerging from the sand of the desert, the bodies of people who were badly buried or who died in sandstorms. So the hunter gatherer people of the Egyptian pre-dinastic era associated the image of the jackal to the idea of the guardian of the dead, preventing the dead from returning to the land of the living, thus violating the cosmic balance.
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  3437. The stories you tell, the videos you make .. fantastic 👍
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  3438. Another great video!
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  3439. I just had to subscribe. 2 video's in a row on my way to work. I usually watch 1 & then go for some quiet time. Bloody great historical imagination, well researched & at the same time humble. No academic elitism here. Love your work friend
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  3440. As always, wonderfully informative and entertaining video. Thanks, Dan
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  3441. Awesome video in such an underrated topic!!! Keep up this awesome work!!!
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  3442. Love it, Dan. Fascinating.
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  3443.  @DanDavisHistory  hmm , never thought of that, sort of like hobos carrying their gear in a bag on a stick
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  3444. I like this. Thank you.
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  3445. I'm just in love with all these three, The Weald and the marsh and the down countrie!
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  3446. Excellent! Exceptionally well done - thanks!
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  3447. I see the Irish really take stick fighting serious lol.
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  3448. Good job…. I absolutely love these type of channels .. stuff you’ll never see on tv…but absolutely should …
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  3449. Truly great. I didn't think you would talk about mesopotamia. I am glad you did.
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  3450. In Choas magick the ecstatic dancing alters consciousness and is the same as demon possession or voodoo possession. Ive seen people stab themselves, eat glass and have super human strength. Watch the clip of ivar the boneless facing the saxon army by himself with some shamanic drums and see if you dont het possessed
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  3451. O I can't believe I got a notification from you Dan going to get my lyons tea and my buds and sit back for some quality time with one of my favourite channels and listen to a history lesson with superb narration and research just fantastic, really really appreciate your efforts for this platform just very enjoyable can't thank you enough for this great work. Peace 🇮🇪
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  3452. Weird that I discover this based channel only now... subscribed.
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  3453. … to ask help from his dad … we’ve all been there. 🤣🤣 Funny. I had NO IDEA the French ravaged England that bad. No wonder there is no love lost between the French and English. Thank you.
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  3454. Wow! Only two minutes in. What a frightening sight that must have been to see all those impaled bodies. Either frightening or infuriating or both. You have to lend credence to the tactic however evil it is, it is effective
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  3455. Keep it up man love it
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  3456. Where I went along the western Swedish coast most of the rock art consisted of cups - shallow round depressions. There must be thousands of them, and I have no idea what they represented.
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  3457. Thank you Dan, outstanding as always!
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  3458. I would love to hear your take on the Tollense battle site.
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  3459. wow this channel is a treasure!
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  3460. dear Dan, thank you for the concise informative documentary delivered in a pleasant voice.. I am coming across the Yamnaya in a lot of historical docs, in different videos, one featuring ancestors of indo europeans and one searching for basque ancestors, which is confusing to me as the basque were not supposed to be indo european, maybe different off shoots of yamnaya ancestors ? at any rate, since, there not a lot of seafarers quite that early, it makes sense that european ancestors moved quickly by horseback. at any rate, i will look out for more of your vids, that was great.
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  3461. I think there was a skirmish with another group and he was just unlucky victim, it was probably bad weather and dangerous being chased by others so his body wasn't looted, then lost in the snow, definitely he was quite good standing in his home community, maybe some of us Europeans are descended from him.
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  3462. gilgamesh killed the bull of heaven. wearing the bull horns meant they were great warriors like gilgamesh. the horns would grow as one's prowess and importance grew.
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  3463. It's honestly mental how good your videos are. Literally a full length documentary given out for free.
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  3464. Awesome videos dude I will definitely be checking out your work on Amazon and the resources you mention.
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  3465. Dude, I'm fucking addicted to your videos. Binged thrm all in a week!
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  3466. Great to see YouTube content givers 🙏🏻 quality kiaszen continuous improvement x keep it up. I miss my Neolithic fix being a child of time team
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  3467. Grug think hole in head make more open minded. Grug think more clan need hole in head. Grug have axe that do job well.
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  3468. This was an amazing documentary. Thank you!
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  3469. Your "cause & effect" insight is brilliant
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  3470. Otzi: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'. ALL: Nope, nope...
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  3471. Thanks, very informative. Did not know about early use of iron by the Yamnaya @ 2500 BC--or use of river side deposits rather than mountain sites. Also, the Balkans have not received sufficient attention in early bronze metalurgy.
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  3472. This was a fascinating video. Your content is amazing, thanks for making it!
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  3473. I was told a few tales of the wild hunt when I was a kid, apparently there are a lot of them
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  3474. Can you please quote your sources for this video?
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  3475. I can finally watch (after a quesadilla :-D) after a long trying day. So happy to have found a new video.
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  3476. Ahoy matey, I be an arrrrgonaut!
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  3477. A great story, of a great man, told exquisitely. Thank you.
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  3478. Fascinating video. Take this like and comment for your channel. Would you ever do a video on Dolní Vestonice and/or the nearby Predmosti and Pavlov sites dating to the Upper Gravettian? These are amazing sites that don't get enough credit
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  3479. Wow... love the narrative side, the info you have gathered. This might be one of the best I have ever heard on youtube. Well made m8!
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  3480. Your maps of all the known sites is very helpful when showing the expansive areas that it encompasses. That really must have taken a lot of work, we thank you Dan!
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  3481. Ok, ok, I'll buy your book! ...But nah seriously great video, hehe, very informative and concise coverage of this culture. This history needs to be more widely taught and learned about to link us all to our deeper past, historical education is far too post-history-centric, heh.
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  3482. 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.
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  3483. The second oldest profession.
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  3484. I add an extra like for the clear answer to the ridiculous question in the title. Now I’ll watch your takedown of the question. Cheers.
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  3485. i'm looking forward to the release in portuguese of your books here in brazil. cheers!
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  3486. I'm 16. I go camping in the wild on my own every weekend. My hair is long and wild. I have an extreme attraction to the old faith. Last camping trip I dreamt I was dragged away by two wolves, and then attacked by two eagles. Two days ago I saw ravens for the first time. Wōden is calling. Ever since I honoured him under the Yule moon. Some ancient ancestor/s are guiding my unconscious in a certain direction.
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  3487. Regarding twin chiefs, I wonder if Spartan two kings might have been a relic of that or if they were an unrelated development.
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  3488. Kinda reminds me of how going door to door on Halloween comes from the practice of showing hospitality to the dead.
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  3489. Your videos are absolutely exceptional.
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  3490. Amazing stuff as ever
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  3491. A pleasure to watch. Great video 👏
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  3492. What a badass!! Great video.
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  3493. A great, informative video on an amazing subject. Been looking forward to it and wasn’t disappointed
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  3494. A British national, living now in Panama, I found this both educative and completely fascinating! Never learnt this at school!!! Thank you.
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  3495. Based. Love your work my man , great stuff as always
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  3496. stunning film brightened my rainy day
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  3497. Did the neolithic farmers and yamnaya share an ancient common ancestor population?.. I ask because of the close geographic proximity between the Caucasian yamnaya steppe tribes and the anatolian neolithic farmers.. also agriculture appears to be a learned aryan behaviour the neolithic farmers kept from an earlier time...?
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  3498. Fascinating
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  3499. I enjoy your stuff a lot. This one just broke my heart because of the dog sacrifices, but I beg you, keep up the good work, your stuff is amazing
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  3500. Great, thought-provoking video. I think it's possible to reconcile the two theories. Maybe bareback horse riding (that doesn't leave a lot of evidence) developed in the earlier period but was only useful to relatively small numbers of steppe people traveling long distances with herds. Beyond the steppes, owning a horse was a sign of nobility among urban populations that didn't grow up alongside horses on vast plains and didn't have the same level of comfort and intuitive understanding of handling horses. So chariot warfare was both easier to learn and a more recognizable sign of wealth and prestige in more urban populations of antiquity, and also more of an overwhelming combat advantage that only nobility could afford. The later developments of the saddle, and then the stirrup, made horse-riding more practical than charioteering, and thus mounted warriors replaced replaced chariots. Bigger, stronger warhorses were bred and sold in larger numbers further afield.
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  3501. Thank you for this. Really well made, I appreciate it. Super quality viewing and so damn interesting.
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  3502. Another great video. 🫵🥷🕶️ 🕶️PMA
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  3503. Fantastic. Wow! Excellent video.
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  3504. Thank you for saying that they were coloured in red paint. I've watched many videos on the vikings and this rock art and none of them explained the story behind the colour and they all left me confused.
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  3505. Does Terramare refer to "land / sea"?
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  3506. I am glad I had an opportunity to watch your document, it's ilustrated with beautiful images. I have a special attitiude for horses, my family was breeding them for generations (it's even included in my real surname, as a proof of centuries od contact with horses) until The World War II - now, I am on my way to restore this tradition. Thank you for your movie!
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  3507. Great video. Very informative. I am amazed at the stone working skills of people, particularly those perfectly wonderful holes in the axe-hammers/battleaxes.
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  3508. That is one lucky horse at 18:50
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  3509.  @DanDavisHistory  Ha! Thought that might be why. Also why we'll never get a period accurate Trojan War movie.
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  3510. interesting how we (some) can watch at a movie or video w gore and whatnot but when it comes to surgery and hospitals it’s sometimes never pleasant andi think it’s bc of how primitive medical treatments were backk then lmao
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  3511. This was absolutely fascinating. i also really enjoyed the narrative structure of the presentation.
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  3512. Good work my man, honestly one of the best takes on this on youtube wow
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  3513. What an amazing video. Thank you
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  3514. you been hyping up this guy in all your other videos, it was about time jaja
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  3515. I wonder if this meeting of the Cucuteni Trypillian female centered culture and the Steppe herders was the seed of Herodotus’s story of the origin of the ‘Scythian’ people?
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  3516. Great video ) I live not far from Dereivka where first domesticated horse's bones were excavated.
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  3517. 56:04 bahahahahhahahahaha what a plot twist
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  3518. Perfect video for sitting under the trees and watching 🌞
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  3519. Fascinating topic. Thank you.👌🚣
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  3520. Thank you for this video. I must say, video is simple, easy to understand with best commentary and images also with reasonable background music. Please keep it up.
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  3521. It seems that there was some interesting shamanism going on as well as a bit of ancestor worship. Nice lecture, the change came when anthropomorphic dirtied started showing up.
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  3522. I'm sure opium was known, cannabis was, and is for pregnant women.
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  3523.  @DanDavisHistory  are you an R1b guy? Thought I was gonna be seeinga s how steppe linages nearly replaced the Neolithic lineages in Spain but i turned out to carry I2a which was common among WHG men.
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  3524. Many thanks for a brilliant documentary
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  3525. Never heard of this, nice to learn something new everyday. :)
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  3526. The fact Marshall held the King's Guard to his dying breath when he could have left his service sooner shows how much his word meant. Then willing to be killed over his duty and honor. The man was the stuff of legends
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  3527. I did not know Horses used their canines as weapons or that they were training to bite and stomp. That's amazing! I'm working on world building and I've been developing a "knight" class which mixes the idea of armored cavalry and trick riding, specifically the detailed and nuanced choreography between rider and horse(s). I've been building scene where 5 "knights" lead an entire heard of rider-less but heavily armored horses (who I'll probably convert to a stallion heard after watching this) into a controlled stampede which wipes out an entire infantry formation, before diving into the rest of the enemy army where they fight with heavy two handed polearms and greatswords as their mount spins, leaps, kicks stomps, bites and smashes people with it's armored body mass.
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  3528. Dude, you did it again. Amazing storytelling!!!
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  3529. Really cool to find this video, I'm related to sir Francis drake, my grandmother was a drake. She came from England and came across the Oregon trail. She ultimately ended up in San Francisco but then went to Montana and lived the rest of her life there.
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  3530.  @DanDavisHistory  True. I know at least that an old grave in what is today Sweden contained a plague victim that is around 5 000 years old. But still, episodes of plague remained a sporadic feature in Europe up until, like, the 1800's. Anyways, maybe it may have been some other disease. It just baffles me that large cities, the largest one in the world at the time, turn desolate 'over-night' with no, as far as I know, new cities of any real size being built in order to house all the former people. Or perheaps there were? You probably know more than I do regarding this.
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  3531. Was there a very sophisticated mammoth hunting society in the far north before the ice age? Were these ancestors of Indo-Europeans the origin of the language family and religions we call Indo-European?
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  3532. Real cool boss, thanks for sharing with us
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  3533. As an interesting, and perhaps amusing anecdote, I recall a number of years ago when Angela Merkel appeared in public and seemed sick and was shaking, that some people I knew actually wondered whether or not she had kuru. It's possible that these practices aren't COMPLETELY gone in Europe!
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  3534. It was wherever they would run into fleas. Settled people were more likely to have domesticated animals which carried fleas. Or infestation of rats and mice which carried fleas. Probably why they burnt down the homes. Because they were infested.
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  3535. It's always a good day when Dan Davis History uploads new content 🤘😍🤘
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  3536. Nice one. You have done it again Dani boy
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  3537. Wow - a topic I am fascinated with, done by my favourite channel. Keep it up. Going to get your book for Christmas (how indo european pagan is that?).
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  3538. Amazing work! Brilliant research! Wonderful delivery! 👍👍
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  3539. I can't help but wonder about any truth in the occult videos that talk about the slaying of the dragon as a reference to overcoming an ancient snake cult, or maybe a reference to kundalini energy
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  3540. My inner nerd is howling with joy
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  3541. He was the best ritual drinker
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  3542. Bronze Age gets all the attention, but the Copper age is just as important, if not more so. It helped build the foundation for the heights of the Bronze Age and its spectacular collapse. Whoever the iceman was, I like looking into his history and trying to understand him. I like the image of him as lithe but wiry and athletic. The mystery of his copper ax and why it was left is something else. Why kill Otzi if not for his most valuable possession? The notion that it was seen as dangerous is really cool.
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  3543. The first horsemen ? The Riders of Rohan .
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  3544. I'm a Proud Norse-Gael 78.8% Irish and 21.2% Danish Skål/Sláinte 🇮🇪🇩🇰💪
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  3545. This is an excelent video! Sailors are real heroes! Thx!
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  3546. Fantastic documentary and presentation ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
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  3547. The best docu about Vlad IIO for so far. Really, really well made. Were do I find, besides the Night Attack, more battlefield information were Vlad was participating in?
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  3548. You're the man Dan!
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  3549. Sir Francis Drake, what an absolute Chad
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  3550. A most absorbing video. The text is lucid and the arguments convincing. Though I am not a rider, I tend to think that horse riding (an animal about shoulder height) would not be a limiting activity for the adventurous human of prehistoric times. So..cart before the horse or vicersa seems a meaningless exercise. My thought is that a rope along would do and no need for a bit or equivalent. I really appreciated your research. Ultimately...what a magnificent animal! Such a huge resource to humans. Its a pity we are so thoughtless of their future...
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  3551. This is a really educational and intriguing video. I love your voice too, very calm and keeps my attention.
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  3552. I think Richard the Lion-heart was a spectacular leader and King. An example to all English monarchs on how to become a beloved leader as well as a beloved King. The only Kings I think are from the same bold mold would be William 1st and Edward the 1st. Henry of Monmouth close behind as well as Edward III. Judy my perspective and debatable indeed. Thank you for your program.
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  3553. Excellent video. Thank you for your analysis.
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  3554. Fascinating stuff. You really excel at what you do. Thank you.
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  3555. I realize that you were making a special effort to be historically professional, but I like this idea better. What if the displaced hunter gatherers were the cannibals? The farmers had domestic animals and did not normally need to eat each other, like say, the New Guinea natives or the Aztec and Mayans, who lacked domestic food animals. Desperate displaced hunter bands could have resorted to cannibalism. In the case of the large deposits at the village, that could have been a place they took over and used as a base to raid the local farmers.
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  3556. Absolutely wonderful as always. Many thanks for your insight and eloquence.
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  3557. Opening scenes of Rammstein's "GERMANIA".
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  3558.  @BandAid350z  Pottery, clothes, medicinal herbs, dwellings, alcohol, sexwork, etc. Quite a complex economy, I would think.
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  3559. am bohuslänning, can confirm we make these to this day when we leave our homes to keep our true selves separate from our warrior selves
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  3560. What a wonderful video. I live in Turre and the ancient site of Gatas is up in the hills behind me. I don't know what remains but I'd love to go and see it but the Siret brothers didn't leave, as far as I know, a clear location. Once again, thank you for your wonderful video.
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  3561. Love to see more on Bronze Age armour. Thanks for citing your sources in these videos. :)
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  3562. Your videos we always amazing history lessons.
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  3563. I am from northern Italy, I found this video very interesting and well made.Thank you
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  3564. YESSSSS NEW DAN DAVIS HISTORY DROP EVERYTHING AND WATCH
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  3565.  @DanDavisHistory  A culture that used oryx fordraft or riding would be something to behold.
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  3566. That was a very well-done documentary! Sir Francis Drake was something else!
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  3567. I am very interested in Bronze Age armor and Swords! Please make more such videos. I am extremely impressed with all of your content.
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  3568. You do really good voice overs.
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  3569. Happy to see Fijian history represented in videos like this. Locally it is believed that he meant to eat 1000 people to gain immortality
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  3570. over population would have been a much greater issue if plagues never happened.
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  3571. The author actually has an understanding of the High One.
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  3572. Good one!
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  3573. Love you're stuff, Dan!! I've been to most of these places, they inspire awe indeed. However, I cannot subscribe to this idea that any site of which we have no complete understanding, and took possibly hundreds or thousands of man hours to build, to be merely "ritual" or "symbolic", acadamically labelled as such, because our ancestors, although massively succesful, were superstitious fools.
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  3574. Gross
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  3575. 7:58 despite a 1000 years gap , we could compare the fates of the Amesbury archer (2300 bc ) with the Egtved girl (1370 bc). And considere that trade must have been a reason why people travel along river systems... it said that she did the travel from the Alps to Denmark 3 times before her death and her prestigious burial ( because of her trader status , a wedding in a rich local family?). The Archer was ready to fight for sure but how to distinguish from the burial's evidences between his possible : -warrior status ( conqueror or mercenary) -craftman and / or trader status -"druid" /pilgrim status ( a Stonehenge's prestige on the continent ?) -a combination of those ? the Archer has one of the most wealthy burial discovered yet but may be not the most at all of the period , i mean nothing says that he was the most important ruler there.
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  3576. Yes, very interested in a video about Bronze Age armor. Thanks - I really like this video too.
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  3577. It's always a great day when Dan Davis drops a new video. Love it!
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  3578. I could listen to your voice all day long. I love that you've chosen to pair it with engaging historical content. Beautifully done.
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  3579. My like and comment, thank you very much for videos i love to watch. You passion is evident in your voice.
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  3580.  @DanDavisHistory  I see.. I think the Pit Comb Ware people and Sredny Stog expansion both contributed the R1A1 factor, along with some Yamnaya who also had R1A1, and became the Corded Ware. What did the Corded Ware people look like, ditto with the Sredny Stog and Pit Comb people? Also, did the Corded Ware people return to the Steppes and mix with locals to become the Andronovo peoples who later became the Aryans, who went to South Asia?
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  3581. My man!
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  3582. Regarding the fast spread of farmers - could it be not actually spread of people, but spread of technologies and culture due to trading? Hunter-gatherers may see farmers are richer, better-fed etc, and so adopt their way of life, buy things and so on? Or it's proven that these are the same people by DNA tests or anthropology or something? Also, it's fantastic how people start building great ritual constructions during crysis. As pyramids in Egypt had began been built during some catastrophe (it even has written evidence), so are these hendges. It seems absurd from "materialistic" point of view - why do you spend great masses of people for moving giant rocks while they could do some "practical" work, but no - they really believed some mystical forces in the world and that building of these constructions is really important. We need some more examples.
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  3583. Very detailed. Good video, and good explanation, (From barbagia)
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  3584. Thank you for your work! Come to Ukraine 🇺🇦 when the war is over. We have a number of museums dedicated yo this culture.
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  3585. Finally some good notification arrived. Amazing as always
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  3586. The Amesbury archer was a warrior. Then he took an arrow to the knee.
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  3587. Some 18 years ago I moved to SW France & I thought I'd be a long way from Neolithic structures. However, some 5km from home & 350m from place of work is the extensive Tumulus complex in Bougon, Deux-Sevres and 2 dolmen I guess to signify the route. The site is believed to date from 4800 BC, long before Stonehenge circa 3000 BC.
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  3588. Can’t have enough of your videos. Great work dude!
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  3589. What we really need to witness is a man going berserker, im thinking maybe because of the berserker physical aspects a side effect maybe a stonking hard on...
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  3590. Excellent video. I enjoyed it from the beginning to the end
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  3591. Yay 😍 love these topics So fascinated with prehistoric UK!!
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  3592. Nice documentary on a fascinating people I knew nothing about!
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  3593. Damn I waited so much for you to post that i rewatched your chanel...twice
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  3594. Good narration
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  3595. How do we overcome the hell hound, we must feed it part of our soul. He is like the judge and gatekeeper.
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  3596. 16:53 I thought you were about to hit us with the smoothest transition to a dollar shave club ad
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  3597. I really enjoyed the details and different historical nuances. Great work! 👍 Thanks!
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  3598. The best explanation on the concept of the berserker i have heard. I think you might be into something here.
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  3599. Not gonna lie that picture of a leather vest over a Saxon hauberk hurt my soul a little xD
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  3600.  @DanDavisHistory  This kind of explanaition of evolution of religion and religious characters are the best weapon against all the Ancient Aliens' believers and other crazy mysticists,
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  3601. One of the oldest settlements is found in Bulgaria - “solnitsa” near by Provadia - they had access to salt and use to trade it. Oldest gold treasure is found near by, and the oldest still usable city in Europe is Plovdiv
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  3602. Don't mind me, just sacrificing a comment to the algorithm gods. Best pre-historic videos on YT imho.
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  3603. This channel is starting to become one of my favorite channels
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  3604. i watched this like an anime. it was truly epic.
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  3605. The earliest known connections can be traced back to Hesat, an ancient African goddess in the form of a cow. She was said to provide humanity with milk. Later, she was especially connected with Mnevis, the living bull god worshipped at Heliopolis, Ancient Greece. The Hesat influence was also related to the sacred cow in Hinduism.
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  3606. Very interesting subject. I have ridden horses all my life and earned my living on horseback. Based on my experience I'm inclined to think horses were used mainly for transportation and mobility rather than the actual battle. Beyond creating chaos during a cavalry charge shooting firearms or arrows from horseback on a very excited galloping horse can not be very accurate or effective as a whole. I know because as a young hotheaded male I have shot at wild game from the saddle with both pistol and rifle. I was successful at times but it was not very effective and there are better ways to use a firearm than from horseback. Just the horse's breathing alone is enough to throw off your marksmanship. I believe it was more customary to use horses for speed and mobility to quickly gain advantageous positions with the use of horses or to get down off their mounts for both setting up defensive or assault positions. About the only weaponry, I see useful in a cavalry charge would be lances and sabers and so I believe the predominant military use of horses was for the transport of equipment supplies and mobility rather than battle. Custer dismounted his troops during his last stand battle in an effort to enhance their effectiveness. They even destroyed their mounts and used them for defensive breastworks...
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  3607. It is difficult to name an animal. a bird, a fish or a plant or even a rock, a lake, a river or any phenomena around to which those prehistoric humans did not attribute supernational powers.
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  3608. Nice one matey
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  3609. Great documentary! Alot of research and time has clearly gone into this video. Well done!!
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  3610. Algorithm Comment Cuz!
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  3611. Thank you for using some footage with Ukrainian girls❤
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  3612. North of Corsica / the orrean Culture lies the area where the Etruscan people lived. Their helmets were somewhat similar.
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  3613. Great video as always, mate! At 12:07 you mention Amphidemus who, if I heard right, is Scandia bound? What does that mean? My initial reaction is Scandinavia and Skåne but could the names really be so old? As far as I remember the far north is called Ultima Thule by Pythea and that would be the earliest written mentioning of the region that we know of. Or is it something completely different and I heard very wrong?
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  3614. First guy looks like Richard Harris
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  3615. Excellent video. I would posit a definite connection to the Icelandic Yule Lads. These seem to be observances that teach the people to have thier house in order. In nature it can observed that it is the predator that keeps the prey healthy.
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  3616. Pre-liking to watch this in bed.
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  3617. Control the lead mare, control the herd. I think the herders would have enough horse knowledge to do this and what better way to do it than to ride it.
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  3618. Another wonderful video! Thanks again for something lovely to watch with my morning coffee.
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  3619. The Wild Hunt is also present in Table Top Role Playing Games, such as Dungeons & Dragons. "The Wild Hunt was a haunting phenomenon, what some described as being a physical manifestation of good life force, of wild frenzied hunting in which a being known as Cerunnos or the Master of the Hunt swept through the land with his hounds and numerous other creatures".
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  3620. Has there ever once in history been anyone named "Leopold" that hasn't been trouble?
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  3621. I've been a fan of yours for quite some time. I own many of your books. However, only in this narration have I heard your unapologetic admiration of a historical character, as is evident in this video. You really --- REALLY --- like William. 👍 And, I couldn't agree more.
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  3622. Fascinating some of the earliest Propaganda in those carvings from the battle of Uma & Lagash.
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  3623. Adriatic coast can be land of sea people.
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  3624. Thank you for this excellent video, I love to imagine how our palaeolithic relatives lived and I admire their abilities to survive such difficult conditions. It is amazing that the wonderful Earth’s Children book series closely mirrors these findings even though they were written 40 years ago.
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  3625. Sometimes I don't think we deserve the love and protection dogs give us so freely x
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  3626. 👍👍👍
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  3627. "Varna" in Sanskrit stands for "caste". Just saying, loved the video!
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  3628. This is my new favourite channel
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  3629. How did I miss this video. Really fascinating, love the way you tell the story, and ooh such beautiful visual content.
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  3630. I have my own Koryos, we will be having just such a Great Feast in Middle Germany this winter Dec 17-21. Many are coming. We would be honored if you would join. I went and slept with the dead in Kleine Kneten. Brought the Birch Leaf from the Field of the Bronze Kings, nearby, to the Barrow of Kleinekneten. These dead are 2500 years older. The ancient ancestors of the Bronze Kings. So I brought a Birch Leaf from the Field of the Bronze Kings, and took it into the barrow and lay as dead with their ancestors all night. A long time since those Bronze age Kings were able to make a real offering to their ancestors here on earth. When I arose, I proclaimed a great Thyng for midwinter and started a baritus on bullroarer. It has begun to swell as we draw near to the time. We include Vikings, and every kind of ecstatic warrior. We are calling our brothers and sisters to us. We can be a maximum of 80 on site. I would hereby offer you privilege to bring whom you choose. Your band will have right of place among us.
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  3631. Thank you for these incredible videos sir! As a hunter it would be such an adventure to hunt back then
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  3632. If you are intrested in ancient indo-european history, learning some Finnish can be enjoyable. Finnish language has preserved not only many of the proto-indo-european words, but also hints of their original meaning. If we look at the English word hammer, it is clearly the same word as Finnish hamara. Hamara means the dull side of an axe, sword or knife. So in your stone battle-axe there would be the sharp end, the axe, and the dull end, the hamara. Word for hammer in Finnish then again is vasara. Which is clearly the same word as vasra, the weapon of Indra in sanskrit. There is also word vasama in Finnish. If you look at the endings of the words in Finnish, vasara is something that you use to create vasama. Vasama means lightning bolt. I would be pretty confident that myth of Thor and Indra have the same root. Same legendary person or group of people. If you think of what is a hammer that strucks lightning for mainly stone age people, to me pretty obvious answer would be metal hammer. Flashing in the sun and striking sparkles. Vasra of Indra is always depicted as a metal weapon. Although a club, but so much later the original thing has been forgotten. Taking in consideration the status of metal axe-hammer that we know there had to be, when stone axes were intentionally made to mimic metal. I would bet Thor's hammer and Indra's club were not stone axes, but copper or bronze axe-hammers.
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  3633. as once a wise man said: when the man with flint weapon meets the man with bronze weapon, the man with flint will be a dead man
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  3634.  @DanDavisHistory  It's a fascinating puzzle, involving fascinating people, all around. ;) It's kept me engaged for a number of years, now.
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  3635. Thank you so much for this video...these ''Old European'' cultures are something that I know very little of... Subscribed and hit the bell for All...Greetings from Scotland😁:chillwdog:
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  3636. This is great! Would be great to see an episode covering Henry III and Simon de Montfort.
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  3637. Was just watching an old video and up pops a new one! ❤😊❤
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  3638. Dan , simply fantastic, I absolutely thoroughly enjoy your content, visuals, narration, and most of all, the history. Just thanks so much for your channel, I watch your videos 2, sometimes 3 times. Extremely happy subscriber. 🤝🇮🇪
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  3639. Imagine two armies facing off. At the head of one this man holds his club aloft. Rotating the sun glints into the enemies eyes mind soul.
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  3640. Another fine presentation,Dan as usual you dig deeply into the mysterious Sea Peoples,very informative.
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  3641. I'm pretty sure that berserker DNA still runs though the veins of my ex wife .
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  3642.  @jarlmacintosh1063  I just figured the great ascend of the mongols through time , must still apply in that age
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  3643. The perception of the Minoans in the early to mid 20th century reminds me of how people viewed the Mayans in the same way during the same period. They were considered a group of peace loving astronomers. Then the decipherment of the Maya Code showed that this view was totally wrong and that warfare between Mayan city-states was endemic. If the Minoans had left us a huge cache of texts in Linear A (similar to the ones discovered in Hattusa in Hittite) that could be deciphered and understood today then we would probably have numerous accounts of war. I really enjoyed the video. I hope to see the Minoans covered again.
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  3644. Thank you for these wonderful videos on the Bronze Age and ancient history. I am a Minoan enthusiast and would love to see a video on Mediterranean seafaring.
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  3645. So happy to have found your channel! Though the Sumerians are a fascinating topic, I already know a fair amount about the bronze age in the ancient near east and Mediterranean, but little concerning the same era, and prior, in Europe and the Steppes. I now have a veritable treasure trove of videos to immerse myself in. Keep up the great work!!!
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  3646. As a Sardinian, thanks for your video! I welcome everyone to visit our beautiful island and discover our culture, you will not regret it
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  3647. Cheers from Teti, Sardinia. Great to see our history on YouTube 💚
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  3648. Another great video. I am really interested in the Bronze Age Collapse so found this particularly interesting.
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  3649. Thank you for making such wonderful videos!
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  3650. Bring back gold penis sheaths, I say!
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  3651. Amazing as always
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  3652. HELL YEAAAAA I love fashion history
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  3653. I am from the Tyrol and went to the Hauslabjoch where Ötzi was found. Great documentry.
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  3654. Thank you for your well researched and highly informative videos. It truly made this year so much better.
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  3655. Once again, well done and thanks for all the hard work. I am watching these out of sequence as they pique my interest. Chris
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  3656. This answers video answers some of the questions I had. It brings on so many others as well. Thank you for another outstanding video.
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  3657.  @DanDavisHistory  have added them both to my to-read pile cheers
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  3658. What a wonderful documentary. It's really inspiring and makes me realize how complex cultures and artifacts we have created from the very beginning.
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  3659. bronze age trick or treating "Trick or Treat! Oh, no treats? TRICK, WE BURNT YOUR HOUSE DOWN AND SALTED YOUR WELL"
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  3660. It's kind of like rock-paper-scissors. Battle-axe smashes pottery.
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  3661. Thoroughly enjoyed your video. Subscribed 👍
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  3662. This was my first video of yours that I've seen. I cant believe I'm just now finding this channel. I love learning about such things. I'm no professor or academic scholar of any kind. I'm just a fella thats always been intrigued by our prehistoric ancestors. Learning how people lived in a time before time. I like to think it's possible that one of those sets of bones was a great X (however many generations) grandfather or mother. We all had to come from some survivor of these time periods. Well survive long enough to give birth at least. Anyway I really enjoyed this one and I'll be hitting that subscription button.
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  3663. I think what we have now comes more from the bronze age than any other age. That is when the die was literally cast. I can't wait to read your Gods of Bronze series. I think Bronze age fiction is an emerging genre and will become very very popular. Think of how the popular translation of the Eddas, the discovery of Sutton Hoo and the work of Jacob Grimm (all 19th and early 20th century) all coalesced to give rise to the entire genre of high fantasy primarily through Tolkien. The level of breakthroughs in the late 20th and early 21st century in regards to what we know about the bronze age is similar to the level of prior break throughs in regards to the iron age, as above. Exciting to see what this all becomes.
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  3664. Amazing video
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  3665. Perfect start to the day! I needed this today 😋 Thanks Dan!! As always, you make awesome content on topics that I don’t typically see mentioned elsewhere.. it’s fascinating.. and greatly appreciated!! Another one for the rewatch list!
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  3666. Soylent green is people
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  3667. As always good job. Bronze Age subjects? Just about any cutting edge topic on the steppe cultures or the "Hittites" & the related Luwians. Where the bleep did they come from? PIE speakers suddenly appear in the historical record ca 19 c BCE amongst speakers of nonPUE languages or so & a few centuries later they are sacking cities & carrying off the others' gods (idols).
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  3668. Well done and thanks for doing all this hard work. Chris
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  3669. Excellent channel in this often dumbed-down modern world .... well done sir
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  3670. Thank you! Your videos are amazing! These periods and these topics are so difficult to line out and at the same time extremely interesting!
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  3671. Finally, more content! You make great videos, my man!
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  3672. Almost an hour long! Will have to wait until tonight.
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  3673. First! Also, very interesting.
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  3674. The Kuryos Celts, teenagers transition into manhood and the way it's done reminds me of the boys of Sparta taken from their homes to live in the wild and carry out tasks to become a made man a Spartan elite worrior class. The British modern day elite send their kids off to become British elites. The classics are a bedrock from where British elite kids are conceived.
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  3675. Another excellent video from an excellent author
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  3676. Fantastic 👌
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  3677. Super interesting!
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  3678.  @DanDavisHistory  Definitely and keep up the good work. Can wait for the eventual film adaptation of Gods of Bronze ;)
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  3679. Absolutely first class, as always.
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  3680.  @DanDavisHistory  I will mate cheers
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  3681. Men of culture, we meet again.
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  3682. Awesome as aways.
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  3683. Noooo... poor doggo :( Great video :)
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  3684. Why doesn’t this have one million views already?
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  3685. I really like your stuff man.. I don’t have much of a presence on social media as I was looking to message you with a few questions one of which includes a possible collab in one or a couple ways.. Also your book is it on audible? And if so do you do the narration?
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  3686. Man this channel is top notch 👌
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  3687. THANK YOU! 🙏🏻 LOVE FROM BELGRADE, SERBIA!
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  3688. Hi mate I stumbled across one of your videos and recognised your voice from the drake podcast you did with history bro. My eyes literally lit up when I saw your play list you've got loads of videos to keep my on my toes at work. Love history. your awesome!
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  3689. No joke, when Oetzi was popular in the media he was the most requested sperm donor according to the german medical paper 'Ärztezeitung'. Of course no frozen sperms from Oetzi were foud but women felt desire to bear a child from a tough ancient man. Testicles were not found.
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  3690. Bronze Age art from Galicia is so similiar with the Hittite God Runtiya and, symbol is literally the same as Hittite Sun and Deer disk. At this point it cannot be a simple concidence, there must be a semiotic meaning behind it.
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  3691.  @DanDavisHistory  I just started reading Wolf God, I will be ordering the rest of the series for sure!
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  3692. When things changed from tribal chiefs, doing raids or defending the tribe, to conquering kings taking power over all the tribes around them.
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  3693. Great presentation.
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  3694. ✌️👊
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  3695. Convergent evolution of the same myth need not be coincidence. It could very well be that the myth is the natural emergent product of the human experience, especially in relation to canines-that is, not a coincidence, but an archetype inherent to humanity itself. I think that would actually be yet deeper than convergent evolution, as that would imply some level of objective, factual reality to the myth, rather than the vestiges of a perhaps arbitrary tradition.
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  3696. Awesome video, my wife was even hooked when I had this on the tv other day. A video on armor would be incredibly popular, I’m sure! I hope you are still writing, brother! I’ve finished all the Gods of Bronze and half of the Immortal Knight, so I’m gonna be craving some new material! Thank you for all the content!
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  3697. Fantastic , looking forward to this !
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  3698. Hi Dan , love the statement " I don't know what I am talking about " , Used that one myself , lol.
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  3699. You and @History Time are REALLY changing the game with historical content
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  3700. those from southern part certanly didnt speak proto germanic as proto germanic was from today's scandinavia
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  3701. Well done
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  3702. Getting so good at crafting videos now, music and images were on-point. Thanks.
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  3703. Great content, thanks for making it.
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  3704. You tell this story very well, I've always known of Richard the Lionheart but have never known much about him, brilliant, thanks. Also, I've heard the backing music on a YouTube vid before and recognised it instantly but I forget what it was, could you remind me please?
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  3705. You do make some extremely thought provoking stuff. Thank you.
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  3706. I know youve covered it a lot before, but could you make a video specifically about the importance of Ukraine to world history, maybe starting with the cucuteni/yamna cultural interaction?
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  3707. Love all your videos, got onto you from a recommendation from the prehistory guys 👍😊
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  3708. Was fully expecting a slick ad for the Dollar Shave Club there!
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  3709. just subscribed on your web page so i can read your free book! I did medieval recreation for over 20 years and I keep going back to the basics. Started liking classic knights in shining armor 1300s, moved to landsknecht but then started going back to the essence. Went to being a soldier with Baldwin of Edessa. Then a Frank in a warband serving Attila. I keep getting more and more interested in when a man fought as a warrior for his people, when it was more of a pure thing than a job and now i find myself interest wise just going back and back in time.
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  3710. A very provocative takeaway was the distribution of Wylye Valley barrows. Interesting, as the even distribution as mapped in Wylye showed the barrows were to be viewed by a nearby community. This reinforced my longtime view the barrows were used for shared burial tombs for the vip from the larger community's leading tribal/clans or the local vip of early chiefdoms. As these local allegiances grew, the barrows fell out of favor or lost their meaning which lead into te next generations uses later. I'm sure if stones could talk, those stones would tell tales revealing all of early Britons history!
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  3711. Great work Dan. I have often wondered what was the armour of that period, and along comes your commentary. Thanks.
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  3712. I really like the amount of nuance in this video and others of yours, its really points to your ethics as a researcher.
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  3713. Stone tomb video 👍
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  3714. War chariots have to be my favorite ancient "weapon" or a style of combat better to say
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  3715. I have many of the works of JP Mallory. I would love a historical fiction novel or novel series on the subject.
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  3716. The wolf culture is facinating. More on this please. Great job on these uploads. Thank you !
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  3717. These people could have been raiding for others to eat, as mentioned near the end of the video. It would make sense. I mean that's still how it's done today. It's just not announced to all those pesky priests and nuns spreading the word of their God of Abraham. In 1980 we were taught about the European head hunters in Maine, and about the acre sized lots that were found with severed heads on poles approx. 3 feet above ground and 3 feet apart. Their jaws were found 3 feet below the skulls, ergo 3 foot poles. Haven't ever heard about this again, in all the decades of classes I've taken. It's as if it never happened. Had teachers in the early '90s who never heard of this discovery. Same clear up to 2009. Yeah, I would go take college classes on my own time just to catch up on the latest discoveries clear up to 2010. Now I just surf the net for them. It's a lot cheaper. EDIT: In 1980, it was estimated that the site was 5,000 years old.
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  3718. I love your videos. I don't know about your NOVELS, but your videos are extremely clear.
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  3719. Been thinking about doing a zombie story in prehistoric times. This might be a good premise to start from.
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  3720. These dudes were really into butts. Those decorative swirls are very aesthetically pleasing.
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  3721. Loved this episode and the pic of the TV show The Detectorist! Loved that show
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  3722. Great video! Thank you!
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  3723. Excellent presentation on the life of the great Sir Francis Drake !
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  3724. If it was a dog guarding the path for afterlife I would have no problem. I like dogs more then people, and they percieve it. Never have I be harmed by one, and I haven´t yet met one I can not be friend with, even "difficult" or agresive dogs (althoug with some of them it took me some time).....perhaps something in my voice or my behaviour (or smell) that indicates them that there is nothing to fear......IDK
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  3725. Horse archers were the strongest pretty much until 18th and 19th centuries. Long range of an archer and a mobility of a horse. Deadly combination pre modern gun era🤔🤔🤔
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  3726. Sir James the good, the black Douglas edges it for greatest knight imo !
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  3727. Psyllisybin mushrooms, you see those pin wheels for much of the peak experience, pin wheels in the hillsides, anywhere you look, you see the dynamism of stationary objects
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  3728. Always Brilliant. Honor and Respect.
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  3729. Curious what the linguistic evidence is. Are there cognates regarding horse culture in indo european languages that diverged prior to 2000 bc? Are there no descriptions of riding or centaurs in the earliest texts? are there horses or centaurs represented in Indus valley iconography? Interesting subject. I always imagined early domestication but the lack of horse of horse and rider imagery suggest a later domestication, surprised genetic information is not more definitive regarding dates of domestication since there is now so much horse diversity. Thanks for the video
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  3730. Centaurs are a good point, our sources about Greek Mythology are from the 7th and 8th century BC. There we have stories like about taming and riding the Pegasus with the help of a divine bridle. Also the mention of centaurs of course. Usually the sources for mythology are far older than when they were written down, and it is commonly believed that the Greeks are describing how they are imagining the time of the Mycenaean, so that really puts Robert Drews timeline into question, if myths about horse riding were already that popular during that time.
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  3731. What is the subclade to your paternal haplogroup? You mentioned before you are R1B (like mine). Also what is your mtDNA haplogroup? Completely admire all of your videos, BTW.
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  3732. Could you name/link the music used? Would love to know! Thank you for making these videos.
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  3733. So in all yay for the Black Death ?
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  3734.  @DanDavisHistory  I’ve got a comment on down that’s probably buried by now but just to mention, I believe these rituals would help w/ emergence of PTSD also during battle w/ what was once called “shell shock”. Thanks for the video, they are always thought provoking. Keep it up please!
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  3735. 👍👍👍
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  3736. Two things I've thought listening: the proto indo European link between the words "guest", "ghost" & the young men/ancestors raiding homes. Also, sounds a bit like Halloween's pranks (Devil's Night, I think, in the US) by young men, too.
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  3737. Has kinda changed my look on fellow men :-) Bon appetit ! Greets from the Netherlands, T.
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  3738. Gotta say, there's a logic to this sort of thing that isn't found in polite company (christian and/or enlightenment liberal). But it strikes me as archetypal in its resonance, more so than christianity (as we know it today) or enlightenment liberalism.
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  3739.  @DanDavisHistory  I'll check out your novels. I was a big fan of alternate-history novels (starting with L. Sprague de Camp's "Lest Darkness Fall") until the flood tide of them became too much for me to deal with. Yours sound delish.
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  3740. Incredible job Danny boy! Just putting this out there... What about a bronze age video on Ireland?? I love your work brother
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  3741. How do we know all this? Did it come down through oral tradition before being recorded? It’s fascinating.
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  3742. I love how you tell Prime example (so far): building up to the castle of Dover (and the few others)
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  3743. Richard is so extraordinary can’t say whom I admire most, The Marshall or Richard. Wonderful honourable men. They needed to have fear. Curs. Richard was extremely brave, it means a lot to have been written about the way he was by the Muslims. So courageous, to march the way he did on his way of that area. To keep going, to keep his men moving, commitment , courage. Wish he could have had a longer life. Nice touch that, silver custom made chains.😂😂
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  3744. i enjoyed that thank you
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  3745. Brilliantly interesting and thought provoking. Great pictures. . Thank you.
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  3746. Great insights on this one. Thank you for making great content
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  3747. Outdid yourself with this one, Dan. A ripping story well told.
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  3748. your stuff is just fantastic - needs more exposure!
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  3749. I'd heard of this but in no great detail, thanks. I have also read of the research done at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. An amazing amount of work went into that and that was in historical times.
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  3750. Well, hearing about this, it definitely sounds like it has some similarities with Fastelavn, (a kind of Carnival tradition celebrated in Northern Europe)
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  3751.  @philipgeyer926  Resting on a horse is not something you would do unless you were 'born in the saddle'. I'd think it's more likely for people to be harnessing horses to drag a sleigh and then someone thought about putting wheels on that sleigh and now you've got a chariot.
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  3752. Excellent video. I'm impressed with how you are able to give so much information and still be entertaining. It makes it easier to digest and retain. I especially liked the comparison with the Comanche and early steppe riders. I hadn"t considered the counter arguments.
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  3753. Love it, and love the channel. Thanks for putting in the work to make what you make
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  3754.  @hiqhduke  Disputed, not discredited. I would be interested in hearing David Anthony's response to Drews' objections.
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  3755. It's a very important topic. I tend to credit the late riding hypothesis, primarily because of a logic that you hint at about 17 minutes in but don't really explore. You do mention how much smaller the early horses were. The early pictorial evidence of martial horses invariably shows very small horses pulling chariots in teams. These horses, tame as they were, simply weren't suitable to carry fully armed and armored adults on their backs. When you start to have real mounted soldiers is when the horses have become significantly larger by selective breeding. Perhaps I can save the early-riding hypothesis in part; children often provided a significant portion of the labor in traditional lifestyles; and it's quite possible that older children or small adolescents initially started riding horses in order to move around more quickly to assist in controlling herds.
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  3756. Respect from Hyderabad, India
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  3757. The face of the illustration of William Marshall - looks like Sean Pertwee
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  3758. Fascinating video. Loved the exploration of a metaphysical change in being to permit the profession of war. I believe such a practice is traced to the Proto-Indo-European koryos. I applaud you for not out of hand dismissing ritualistic practice, which so many so-called scholars and educated men abuse to describe things they do not understand, and who effectively seek to delegitimise the ancient practises of these peoples by burying them under a mask of some primitive superstition not worth exploring, effectively to assert their own sense of reason and understanding. The more I, a non-scholar with an interest in ancient history, learn about such peoples, the more I am convinced of the incredible sophistication and even genius of such folk, who lived lives in full connection with spiritual elements that in no way reveal a primitive or unintelligent nature.
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  3759. In Chinese history, there is details of when they learn riding horses from there northern neighbor the Xiong. But thousands of years before that, there were already horses pulling carriage and Chariots.
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  3760. I have concluded that if someone is doing something excellent there is a common ingredient. Love. Mister D loves ancient history and telling stories and loves science and learng new things and inspiring people.
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  3761. Can U do one on sintashta city. It's like steppe people living in an urban city lol
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  3762. Happy St George’s day everyone
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  3763. Spectacularly good, so well made & fabulous narration, thank you 😊 !!
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  3764. I wonder what the Maykop looked like.
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  3765. Dan is the best channel to watch while smoking a joint. Feed me informations and knowledge, my master. Lol
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  3766. Let me make two comments, why build war chariots if they would ride horses? Also, you can ride animals like buffalos, they are actually faster than horses.
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  3767. Bloody great video Bro! Thank you
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  3768.  @DanDavisHistory  Yeah, i have heard of theories of Canaanite and Mesopotamian versions of the myth being introduced to the area after the hittite migration. But i'm very excited to see that upcoming video you mentioned. Either though, it fascinating to think about these things
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  3769. A remarkable story. Thank you for keeping it alive.
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  3770. Caballus Nos Omnes Per Res Portavit-The horse carried us through history.
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  3771. Always super excited to see your new video.. just perfect
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  3772. The fact that all his tools were left and the killing arrow was removed really makes you think it was a murder. If he was a criminal its certain his tools would have been confiscated without worry who would see them.
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  3773. Really is I've been trying to piece it together, like at which point we may have moved north? I felt a little like an outsider at first lol! Realising now yeah my forefathers have probably been northern European for a couple o thousand years now so it counts! 👌
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  3774. Very interesting indeed - re Romulus & Remus - it's really not much of a step from - 'initiated into manhood in a band of metaphorical [domestic] wolves' to 'suckled by a she-wolf' - easy to see, in a game of generational chinese whispers, where the original context has been long forgotten, how the one morphed into the other...
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  3775. I like your videos, you do a good job. This one felt a bit on the speculative side, but still enjoyable.
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  3776. wow, not your usual YT video barely digging into a subject and lacking a methodological approach, this one contains real and exploitable systematic information !
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  3777. This is/was something that was incredibly taboo. Probably one of the most interesting but off-putting topics, because how do you deal with it? In modern day society, it's the stuff of nightmares, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", or the "Hills Have Eyes"..
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  3778. "17 new heads and 14 new handles" reminds me of Trigger with his "orginal" brush he had his whole career.
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  3779. Fascinating. Apparently, the origin of the name of the ancient English town ''Wroxeter'' comes from the Latinised Brythonic ''Viroconium'' which has been reconstructed in the common Brythonic as ''Wiroko'' -*man-wolf. So, Viroconium was the 'city of the werewolves' or city of the Koryos. There is also the name of a Celtic tribe from Scotland called the Corionototae, which had been translated as meaning *people of the Koryos.
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  3780. I wasn't expecting to actually become uneasy about this topic... Maybe I shouldn't have watched it just before bed time.😐
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  3781. Radio Zelaza - please rely more on scholars like David Anthony, David Reich, Nick Patterson, Johannes Krause, Wolfgang Haak, Svante Paboo, I read Carlos Quilles but he has a clear bias vis-a-vis Balto-Slavonic language group and possibly Eastern Europeans in general. There is now abundant evidence that Corded Ware were indeed indoeuropean speakers and genetically very similar to Yamnaya and even more similar to Sredny Stog. If Corded Ware or R1A were Uralic speakers, as most Corded Ware samples were indeed R1A, then most of Europe today would be Uralic-speaking as well as India and Iran, but this is not the case.
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  3782. This channel & Crecanford are amazingly good. You have really opened my 👀 to the 🤯 complexity of the Neolithic and Bronze ages.
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  3783. Thank you so much.. The Dragon. So important.. Sigurd Snake in the Eye. Thor and Jorgamonder..
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  3784. Hey Dan , subscriber here your channel is amazing I just went to the British museum this is wonderful thank you for your time and dedication to history..if you don't know history of different races, places , races and cultures you have wasted your time on earth 🌍..thank you .
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  3785. Awesome
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  3786.  @DanDavisHistory  That's awesome. Nobody else is doing this era quite this well, and I look forward to reading your books. Patreoned. Cheers, Ben.
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  3787. Brilliant video, so detailed, really good narration that's not rushed and no shouting. Thank you I've learnt so much from this.
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  3788. I, who am a history buff (amateur, not professional in any way) have never heard of prince Louis and this invasion from the continent, thanks for this info!
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  3789. Just found your channel, I’m definitely gonna try your books. I don’t really like typical Tolkien style fantasy but I LOVE mysterious occult shit from the dark depths of human history 😜
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  3790. Amazing amount of detail & so well delivered! Thank you 🌟!!! I need to explore historical fantasy!! I love history & historical fiction.
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  3791. Very well presented. So many things to ponder and wonder about. Maybe someday the ice will give up further evidence.
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  3792. Loved the shot of the crunchie bar
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  3793. Thanks!
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  3794. Rather fascinating and on a subject that is not generally discussed. I hope that it survives YouTube's constantly shifting "community standards".
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  3795. I'm so glad that Survive The Jive and The Chad Pastoralist made me discover this channel. Very well done and interesting! And happy to see stuff about my Italy too.
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  3796. Wonder what horse milk tastes like??? Many thanks!
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  3797. Fastest click I’ve ever made on a notification
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  3798. Love your videos Are your books available as audiobooks?
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  3799. Found Godborn on Audible, pretty applicable to this episode too, with the Koryos.
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  3800.  @DanDavisHistory  Just got to chapter 6, voice actor sounds like he was there and there is described in enthralling detail - without being gruesome. I almost know the characters, or at least think I do and care about what happens them. Kudos sir. It's my shame that I wouldn't have discovered the books without the videos but finding videos on a subject of interest and then discovering you've written books on the matter - I'm in.
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  3801. I really wish you would write about the women warriors that fought beside their men on the steppe. The Greek called them Amazon's. Scythian warriors are my fav.
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  3802. THITHER CAME CONAN
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  3803. Great content...subed
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  3804. Brilliant video, Dan. I'd like to ask a few questions which may require more speculation than you're comfortable with, as there may be insufficient archaeological evidence for grounded answers. 1. If very large numbers (possibly hundreds) of slain people fell into the river or were thrown into it, then for how long afterwards would the river be contaminated to the point that it could not be used for drinking-water? 2. Is it possible that such a river might even be unfit for agricultural irrigation for a few years after such a battle? 3. How long would it take the river to become healthy again after a few metric tons of human cadaverous matter has been dumped into it? 4. Is there any evidence of population-decline in the area AFTER the battle, possibly indicating disease or a collapse in agricultural output in the area? I mean, EVERYTHING in these people's economy would depend on a clean river, right? Without the river, everybody dies. Has any archaeological evidence from either the bronze age or iron age ANYWHERE ever established any possible link between battles, rivers being contaminated with rotting human cadaverous material, disease or subsequent agricultural collapse?
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  3805. I love videos like these. This knowledge is nothing but illuminating to our awesome ancient past!! Excellent video.
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  3806. Do you think a plague that damaged agricultural societies but would have left hunter gathers less impacted, could have been the cause for a Western Hunter gatherer resurgence? I have read that early EEFs show relatively little local WHG admixture, but latter on in some cases it increased by quite a bit. For example, according to Stephan Shennan, Ballynahatty woman had around 40% WHG ancestry, and I read a paper that some individuals from the globular amphora culture had around 30%. I wonder if there was a merging of societies after the farmers were decimated by plague, or even if the hunter gatherers took advantage of their sedentary neighbors weakness to take them over in some way.
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  3807. One minuet you're treking through the alps, the next minuet space-men are rooting around in your colon hunting for pollen.
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  3808. I have a beautiful book about this, everyone should know about their history. From school on. Especially Marija Gimbuta should be studied by all! Great video.
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  3809. Love the content, the bronze age is my favorite history subject. I wish they teached about this more in school!
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  3810. Excellent video, Dan. There are lots of history channels on YT, but this is the only one I have seen that actually makes me understand their thinking. I feel like I could understand and empathise with them, even if I would not agree with the practice.
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  3811. Thank you Dan Davis. In so many ways, your work is deeply meaningful and enjoyable. Best of the Tube 🤘
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  3812. Thanks for this needed to relax today
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  3813. Nice video. I never heard of the Gravettians until now. Thank you.
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  3814. Buon giorno , ottimo video ...La cultura dei terramare ..Frattesina ecc.a dato le basi della successiva cultura Atesina .. E il popolo si chiamava Veneti ; i wedesh sono i veneti terramaricoli della pianura padana veneta e emiliana . Similitudini dei villaggi si trovano nella vultura di Lusazia ..E dei Veneti della vistola e del mar baltico .complimenti bel video .dacia un video sui popolo dei Veneti .Grazie
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  3815. Another awesome video! I really enjoy these, and I can’t wait for another book !
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  3816. Really awesome, thanks for sharing with us Dan.
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  3817. Dude. Just wow. You at had me at “descended from demons”
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  3818. Do Bronze Age Asia next
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  3819. Thanks again friend
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  3820. Brilliant video. Entertaining, educational and well worth the time to watch it to the end. I read somewhere that some of the English sailors that were captured by the Spanish were burnt at the stake as Protestant Heretics.
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  3821. Dang, your a boss. Keep up the great work. I'd love to see you Collab with some people like Stephen Milo, or others who cover this era of history. You bring such a unique perspective, it would be great to see you and someone like Stephen discuss a topic or just work together on a topic.
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  3822. "...I'm just a novelist with an overactive imagination...." I'll quibble with the JUST, but other than that, please accept my thanks for the rest.
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  3823. This is fascinating, great content thanks, and good to see the detectorists get a well deserved mention, still looking for a mayoral chain
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  3824. So exciting! New Davis video!
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  3825. Fascinating tales from the past well-told. Thanks Dan.
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  3826. I love it
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  3827. So do you think the similarity between the Koryos' journey and Campbell's conception of the hero's journey? Edit: About the hair thing - the Merovingian kings never cut their hair nor their beard. I wonder if that has anything to do with this - some warrior status that they never renounce?
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  3828. A truly excellent film, scholarly & entertaining too. Thank you!
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  3829. Just dropping a comment of appreciation for the algorithm. As usual, a great video. I'm always impressed by the quality of the information presented and the well reasoned approach you take.
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  3830. So, we Georgians who aren't Indo-European, worship Indo-European Saint? Anyway Happy St. Georges day! 🇬🇪
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  3831. wonderful production -
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  3832. Algorithm Comment Cuz!
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  3833. My guess would be that it's a coincidence, but that in itself is fascinating for what it might tell us about the deep relationship between human and dog. Also raises questions about how the role of the dog varied from guardian to hunting companion.
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  3834. Dan, I've waited 50 years for this video. Thank you.
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  3835. Where is my Civilization V 5 stars mod for this nation?
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  3836. Just so I understand the ethnography, the FBC are non Indo-European, right?
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  3837. The Corded Ware culture moved into Britain and Ireland very rapidly and probably gave rise to Germanic languages. How did the Celtic languages come to replace this culture in Britain and Ireland whilst maintaining DNA affinity with northern Europeans? You have a book on that Dan?
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  3838. cheers dan i think that you shoulsd get literture awards maybe a noble awards im have to share this if you dont mind ? you look at studys like i do i we are so gratefull we love your works it is very important my favoret a lithanian grand woman is marja gimbutus kurgan theroys i hope that you can read my spellings we owe you a lot so im going to share if you dont mind never before this its all data you breng life to the all ancestors i care i hope all decendents read this lifes !
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  3839. I can't remember if I heard this somewhere, made this connection on my own, or if someone I personally know made the connection, but right the image/idea I have in mind about how the Botai culture got on with horses is basically like the modern Sami people with reindeer. Or rather, a more primitive (for lack of a better term) version thereof. Reindeer are still semi domesticated today (unless I'm mistaken) but they do exist in managed herds, and are sometimes ridden or harnessed to pull sleds/carts. So I think that at least later on, the Botai culture probably managed herds of semi domesticated horses (perhaps somewhere between tame and "in the process of domestication") and maybe rode the more docile members of their managed herds, perhaps even to aid in the hunting of the truly wild population. I'm not sure there's a reliable way to prove something like this tho. But I am glad that new techniques and technologies are actively being developed to try to answer questions like this! Thanks for covering this interesting topic
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  3840.  @DanDavisHistory  fair enough, and let's be honest, one rolls off the tongue easier lol. At least for us English speakers
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  3841. Oh, hell yeah.
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  3842. Love these videos on Germanic/Indo-European mythology
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  3843. That sounds like such a wonderful civilization with all their laws and customs, a child in ancient times was probably wiser than an adult in modern society.
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  3844. HORNS: an early form of intimidation. Great video; I love the clues on the bronze age collapse !
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  3845. This is fascinating! Thank you for sharing it! Looking forward to your audiobook.. it's queued 🙂
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  3846. Glad to see this civilization getting more publicity. Great job with this video!
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  3847. Best channel on YouTube by far Dan. Thank you for making all these videos. Much appreciated. I was so excited when I saw this right when I opened up YouTube when I got into bed tonight. Nice little treat.
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  3848. Drugs...it's drugs.
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  3849. You clearly have a thing for Sean Bean. He must be the very model of indo-european heroism
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  3850. How do you make such high quality, well researched videos so quickly?
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  3851. I'm kind of surprised there isn't any mythological warrior that harnesses the power of like badgers or wolverinea XD those things are nasty, a crazed warrior just hustling and never stopping fighting is horrifying.
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  3852. Thank you! 🥰
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  3853. Awesome vid! I especially love these long form vids. good vibes!
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  3854. This is an amazingly detailed, researched, and well presented video.
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  3855. Could you recommend a book which would depict all the boats from oldest design to brozne age? Excellent vid btw.
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  3856. This is vital. There are physical aspects to myth and mythical resonances in the human imagination that by turn also enhance and embellish the everyday, until even banality shines with a truth that is greater even than the stars and more essential than the fecund earth beneath our feet. Robert Holdstock is good at this in his "Mythago" tales, in which the urgency of mere survival becomes a driving force that enables the eternal return of ever re-embodied values making for our higher primate art, original acuteness of mental vision, and hence the practical pathways to those liminal states here mentioned which indeed make mere survival - which is all we have when reality bites - in the end not only bearable but a source also of potential ecstasy. We will overcome all trials, and death shall die.
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  3857. OH YES thanks for this , absolutely unknown until now, (by myself) what a lovely piece of research.
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  3858. What I really appreciate about each of your videos, sir, is the ability to put you into the 'character' and the drama of the historical events. Fortune favor you and God bless.
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  3859. This is very interesting. We can see a glimpse of that time period with the puzzle pieces that we have.
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  3860. Enjoyable and informative as ever.
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  3861.  @DanDavisHistory  I'm kidding :p I want to read it anyway, and don't care much about minor spoilers. Makes me more interested so far tbh
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  3862. Fascinating subject matter that is presented brilliantly. Very, very well done. Thank you!
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  3863. I was completely engrossed in this documentary. The research behind Vlad III Dracula's life and his conflicts with the Ottoman Empire is thorough and compelling. It's a vivid portrayal of a complex historical figure. Thank you!
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  3864. I just randomly had this show up in my recommendations from YT and I'm so happy it did! 😁 Amazing video. Can't wait to binge
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  3865. Excellent video!
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  3866. Thank you for another very interesting video. I discovered your channel a few months ago and I have been very happily binging on your back catalogue.
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  3867. I recognized Alex Wyndham's voice right away. One of the best.
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  3868. That was just amazing! I'll watch again and hopefully visit the museum soon enough. Thanks for the great work on the film.
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  3869. Hey, this was great!
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  3870. I wonder if these rituals could also be tied into the myth of werewolves? Men becoming blood thirsty wolves, only deterred (or bribed) by silver.
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  3871. Your explanation at the end has me imagining a great epic movie.. Its a shame film makers are so focused on such dull subjects. Great video
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  3872. I really enjoyed this video, Dan. The way you described this version of the Wild Hunt was great, you made it very easy for me to paint a picture in my mind as you described it. Great video and subject. I do hope you make a video about the wild hunt!
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  3873. Been waiting for this for ages! Thanks Dan, keep it up!
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  3874. Maybe a video on the Botai since you refernced them in this video? Who were culturally and genetically?
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  3875. I would have loved to have been there in person all over the Mediterranean back then even if only a little while.
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  3876. Most people don't know how to deal with death... In modern day Africa, there are gangs who are forcing prisoners to eat dead people in order to submit and demoralize others with such grim practice. The "idea of survival" will do such things, and archeologists might have a problem even imagining such practices.
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  3877. Very interesting ! 👌
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  3878. This kind of reminds me of the "Krampusumzüge" (krampus parade) back home. Nice to know that this is rooted in such deep history.
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  3879. Love your channel, I'll have to check out your books.
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  3880. in old Serbia we had same ritual...
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  3881. Interesting video! Will you talk about the Vinca culture btw?
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  3882.  @DanDavisHistory  Good academic sources is MUST for these subjects. There is soooo much pseudoscience insanity out there.
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  3883. This was absolutely fascinating. Thanks for sharing
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  3884. What I wonder about.....if noses narrow to adapt to cold, why do Yup'ik, Mongolian, and Inuit people have wide noses?
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  3885. Fascinating video - many thanks 👍
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  3886. Algorithm boosting comment
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  3887. Ulfhednir!
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  3888. Great work! Even shouted out the metal detectorists! I'm very impressed with what u did there.
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  3889. This is what we know... imagine how much has been lost forever 😔
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  3890. I like your maps. Where can I find them?
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  3891. I really enjoyed this, thank you! Very well done.
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  3892. Yeah horses, donkeys, mules, jackasses, and zebras great for riding and traveling
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  3893. I wish more media was set in this time period. Instead of everything being Classical at best.
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  3894. So nice to have this given to us by the voice of the man in the street and not tainted by the self important silver spoons that abound. Subscribed 😎
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  3895. I think defleshing does not necessarily mean consumption by humans. I recall reading something about a ritual in Tibet, the monks defleshing the dead and feading the pieces to vultures. Could be an ancient and at some point widespread custom?
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  3896. This is worth subscribing to. Well done.
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  3897. Uploads from Dan are some of my favorite! been watching since your episode on the corded ware culture and I can't think of a single tv show that ever had me this excited for the next episode!
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  3898. I was lucky enough to go to Bolzano and see Otzi and his artefacts. Absolutely amazing, almost spiritual experience.
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  3899. The land of the golden fleece .
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  3900. beautiful narration and concept. as a student of history (as a hobby) i knew quite a bit of this but your in depth look into this great man was a joy to listen to even as backround while i was doing other thing. i am on to listen to your other videos and hope you continue. i shall be subscribing so i dont miss out. well done and keep up the great work.
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  3901. Finally new upload best thing for a foggy afternoon.
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  3902. Another channel that's gonna blow up, all you have to do is just get the algorithm to feed people one time and they will sub. That's how I'm here, one suggestion, now subbed and will be watching your back catalog.
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  3903. I loved this presentation on such an interesting, but under studied topic. As I was watching the first half I thought “surely he’s read “The One-eyed God” then at 14:30 there it was, and happily two more books on the topic for me to find. Thank you.
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  3904. Can you make a video about the battle axe culture or Sami culture?
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  3905. Horses are absolutely magnificent creatures that should be respected and protected.
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  3906. After a quick perusal of the comments, I'm looking forward to watching this even more. Love your work. Thanks Mr. Davis.
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  3907. Is it possible that the boom then bust cycle of the population be due to the development of diseases that sprang up and like the Black Death decimated the population? Could the dominance of the Orkneys be due to their relative distance from people exposed to diseases associated with certain domestic animals? Personally, I think that the Neolithic farmers, like the Aztecs and Incas, developed a society with a level of prosperity that attracted raiders analogous to the Spanish who conquered South America.
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  3908. My ancestors.
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  3909. very interesting ! I hope there will be more research in future in this culture !
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  3910. Well you obviously haven't heard about Zawisza Czarny.
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  3911. I love how clearly you explain things. So glad to have found your channel. Fellow Brit here
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  3912. Awesome
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  3913. I have visited the rock carvings of Vitlycke, Tanum, Sweden several times and other similar sites around Oslo Fjord. Fascinating stuff indeed. Thanks for the interesting video and I will continue to follow your channel.
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  3914. Daz says , can't believe this man not a national hero
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  3915. Fantastic documentary; I've seen many about Otzi; but this is one of the best. Great details and great visuals of the environments. Will watch more of your channel now. Thanks!
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  3916. Excellent, thank you
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  3917. Very interesting - an impressive culture I knew nothing about! Thank you.
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  3918. For once I caught it just in time. ☠
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  3919. There are more stories or myths that are present throughout world's cultures. If this is the oldest, who knows.
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  3920. I would highly recommend the survive the jive video on the neolithic god kings who could have been pharaoh like kings of dark skin and haired and blue eyes who where descended from the hunter gathers preserving their line though inbreeding much like the Egyptians pharohs, these god kings ruling over these stone sites with their ancient blood for sure gives me some conan vibes
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  3921. I'm northern European, and this story sounds extremely similar to my pre-christian culture. Three souls, river of death..
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  3922. Hell yeah, been waiting for you to put out another video! Thanks for sharing this with us boss! We appreciate what you do.
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  3923. Interesting, as they leave western Mediterranean civilizations or societies out of western history, which I took in HS and College 20+ years ago.
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  3924. Thanks
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  3925. Same here!...:-)
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  3926. First
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  3927. Ha ha ha ha! The people of the Eastern European forest regularly hunted bear, wolf and deer. They traded far and wide in their boats and even came back to their riparian homeland with monkeys as pets. They knew horses intimately enough to draw them on cave walls, but horses were of limited use in the dense forest, they used them primarily for milking... these were the real Indo-Europeans. A band of steppe teenagers with acne still on their faces were no match for them.
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  3928. Great vid, earned a sub from Canada !
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  3929. Nordic inuits!
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  3930. swear to god, this is as good as it gets for content. outstanding stuff.
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  3931. Sweet, fascinating videos. Your story telling is captivating and so, I'm binge watching . Thank you
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  3932. Please do a couple of videos about Dacians , the Western world knows very little about them
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  3933. I'm guessing that Otzi was shot and then managed to elude his killer and his body wasn't found by his murderer. Otherwise the murderer would have surely stolen most of his property, especially the copper axe and bow. I can't see those items being left behind unless the body wasn't found.
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  3934. It's the SOUND that causes them to be associated with lightning, the thunder cracking sound.
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  3935. I am very impressed by all that you Share! Thank you for the knowledge!
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  3936. Another great video, well researched and wonderful storytelling. I really love your sincere love and respect for the various peoples and and cultures that are the subjects of your educational videos. As a modern, blonde and blue eyed scandinavian, I feel humbled and proud, adding bits of insights insights into what may well be part of my genetoc ancestry. I just finished listening to "Godborn", and I really loved it. Knowing how well researched you are and the level of committment you have for the subject really brought a lot of depth and sincerity to the story. Now I am very much looking forward to "Thunderer", and beyond!
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  3937. Great video.
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  3938. my family grandparents were three Scandinavians: two pure Norwegians and one Swede. Blondes and twins predominate in our gene pool, and we have had twins in every generation as far back as we remember. Yes, I know twins follow the female line, while the sex is male determined. Buddy went to Sweden and commented on how beautiful the people were.
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  3939. Brilliant!
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  3940. Yaaay
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  3941. I reckon being bigger plays a role in many ways apart from the obvious warfare hunter etc but communally in diverse ways such as natural heavier labourers and resilience etc
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  3942. Dan Davis did the Celts come from the Bell Beaker culture?
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  3943. I have read a novel that moved Robin Hood back to 1066. He was resisting William the Conquerer.
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  3944. Have you considered a video covering the invention of bronze? Its kinda mindboggling how they managed to invent it since copper and tin arent found in the same areas. One can imagine how bronze could be made by accident. But why would such an ”accident” happen? Might it be that they actively experimented with metallurgy?
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  3945. Perhaps the beaker people carried disease the natives had no tolerance to as happened with other movements of people
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  3946. Awesome Dan!!!!!!!
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  3947. Why do African countries such as the Congo still have cannibalism?
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  3948. Thanks Dan. Great story telling and easy-listening commentary. Always on point and moving forward and the editing always relevant and illustrative. Hats off to you man. Wonderfully educational. I had no idea of his sterling character. (A child of the manse.) Many thanks. Australia
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  3949. The pitted ware people are my ancestors, according to Ancestry.com. Very cool!
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  3950. Great work. A Video on Bronze age weights would be of great interest.
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  3951. Can you make a Video about the Medes? Or about the Urartians. Your work is appreciated! Greetings from Switzerland ✌️
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  3952. Bless you, Dan.
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  3953. Algorithm Comment Cuz!
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  3954.  @DanDavisHistory  Very cool, I wish you all the best with your work, this is the stuff books, movies, and video games should be made about. This is how strong societies raise their young people, with the adventurous tales of their ancestors. We need more 21st century Byrons, Kiplings, and Robert E. Howards, authors such as yourself.
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  3955. Great show. Always look forward to your new offerings!
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  3956. Trying to figure out ancient cultures is equally faszinating and frustrating, isn't it? I always marvel at how successfully they adapted to their environment and managed to so much more then just 'survive' without modern technology or knowledge.
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  3957. Hey man this is fascinating stuff. Just discovered your channel and really appreciate it. Its like all the stuff I would love to know but didn't know I didn't know.
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  3958.  @DanDavisHistory  great please do one in the punjabi jatts
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  3959. The best channel on Youtube for this type of content!
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  3960. Two adults and four children? Not exactly a happy meal.
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  3961. Is it my imagination, or there are a lot of…um…er…penuses on those drawings as well.
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  3962. What an amazing story teller, bravo!!
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  3963. I wish I had friends that watched videos like this
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  3964. Thank you for sharing your knowledge about women's history. I don't know if I have ever seen a history documentary just about women. It's a nice change. Women's history is so sorely misunderstood and totally missing.
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  3965. this video was amazing idk how i stumbled on your channel (god bless the algorithm i guess lol) the presentation and visuals and storytelling—all fantastic! tiny bit of nitpicking but im pretty sure it is definitely not settled and still highly debated (among western anthropologists anyway) that the Ancient North Eurasians were first to people the Americas—especially in light of evidence like the white sands footprints which are contemporaneous if not predate the date you cited (~20ka) in any case, super glad i found your stuff, just subbed now gonna check out your other videos!
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  3966. I'm pretty sure Greek ships had sails. None of these carvings show any resemblance of a sailboat.
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  3967. Funny you should mention Conan the Barbarian, just read a daft thing about Cimmeria being the same as Cymru, Cumbria and Crimea
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  3968. Genetic makeup of the defenders is VeRy interesting.
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  3969. Thanks!
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  3970. Another excellent video. Thank you!
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  3971. Excellent, Drake has been one of my heros since l was in nappies......thank you.
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  3972. Welp, after several top notch video presentations on the channel, it's time to buy some novels!
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  3973. Dan I love when you drop a lesson , I love your channel, thanks for letting us be part of how you wrote your books, but me personally I love your YouTube channel, history how it should be, fantastic and I just want to tell you thanks because some people don't buy books but they have you on YouTube so they are told the historical truth , Dan I love your work brilliant. Great stuff
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  3974. The background music reminds me of the quiet periods in old zombie movies.
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  3975. Your narration together with the maps brings this subject to life - you should get your agent to get you on the telly with that Alice Roberts - you'd be great
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  3976. Thank you for another great upload!
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  3977. You have just described Gilgamesh 😎
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  3978. It's about time. I love these videos
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  3979. Were the early horses’ backbones fused yet? You wouldn’t ride where we ride today if the back bone wasn’t fused yet.
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  3980. This is a fascinating story about an amazing man. It would make a great 🎥 film full of drama and awesome cinematography.
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  3981. Super glad to see you posted - thanks ❤
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  3982. This was amazing, thank you.
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  3983. Hallo from Denmark… Great video . Yes here in scandinavia . We have a long tradition of boat building… Its was most easy Way to get around . And Denmark is kingdom of Islands … So travelling by ship was the only Way for moving from A to B … But it was A natrual evolution of shipbuilding that ended in the viking longship… The longship would actully stay in use for long time after the end of viking age here in Denmark after the end of the viking age . It was only around the year 1300 that better ship types would make the longship obsolete and they disapprared from use . But for me as dane . The viking age is not just something that exsist in the history booke . Its part of cultural herritage . The kingdom of Denmark was created by vikings . As the country was first unified under one in the late viking age in 965 under the Harald Bluetooth (Harald is the danish name) . The first King to rule s unified nation and also the Christian King . So the viking age is part of our national identity…
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  3984. Superb quality content. Could you possible make a video about the Sámi? It would be interesting since they are thought to be really peaceful for thousands of years, they seemed not to inherit the violence culture from the Indo-Europeans.
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  3985. I think aryans have most interesting history..lots of warfare..a lot more philosophy..even a lot more drinking soma...and a swastika..
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  3986. Thanks for this very informative and well presented video. You obviously are a sincere and hard working person. I really do enjoy your well informed fact based videos.
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  3987. Blood feud, rogue hunters, famine... it really sparks the imagination.
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  3988. Otzi continues to fascinate after all these years, thanks for the update on the current state of research. The bow and arrow situation is interesting. The arrows might have either been under construction, or had been fired and retrieved. Hence the lack of heads apart from two with damaged shafts, the heads had come off but he'd been able to get the shafts to reuse them. Had he, and possibly companions, been in a small skirmish while raiding enemy territory? They won that fight, retrieved arrows and other items from the battlefield but then had to make the trek back to their own territory with a bigger group in pursuit after revenge. Otzi had grabbed the decent arrows and planned to fix them, and make a bow as they retreated.
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  3989. Once again, great content! Please keep them coming. Definitely interested in your stories
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  3990. Omg, got this randomly recommended and immediately subbed as soon as i heard your voice. You have a great voice for history docs!
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  3991. Awesome effort and love the video, this is exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for! In the colonization graph around 12:00, is there any sense as to the population density? Such an aggressive settlement pattern over the whole of the isles would seem to indicate denser source populations, but surely they couldn't have been at this stage? Were they in the 10s or 100s of thousands?
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  3992.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks so much for such an in depth answer! Crazy to think there was barely a quarter million people in the British Isles, pushing so aggressively towards the extremities of the known world. Fearless folk to be sure!
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  3993. It's fictional, but it's hard now to not imagine those chieftains, that had fought each-other their entire life, reunited in a large hall, with a central fire, the day they decided to leave the lands they inhabitated since time immemorial, and go south, to unknowingly destroy the known world.
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  3994. Excellent! ✨ Thank you for your research and sharing this video. ❤
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  3995. So men of courage turned into legends and then further into mythology. Very interesting
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  3996. another great video. many thanks!
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  3997. Extraordinarily good channel.
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  3998. Great video!
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  3999. Winter 1846 must have sucked, No shortage of Cannibalism in Ireland then as it was in middle of the Great Famine
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  4000. Thanks for the great video! Finally something i can listen to without an overly dramatic cadence driving me insane.
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  4001. Spoiled by the English nationalist comments. By the way, King John was also French, aka "Norman". Also, how was John, known as a tyrant, not Louis, the true king? Wasn't he only standing in for his brother, Richard, while he was on his crusade?
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  4002.  @DanDavisHistory  That's interesting. Could almost be another video there. But yeah I really appreciate the way you and History Bro format your videos. Very informative. Very engaging.
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  4003. Seen this vid before, but keep coming back to your content due to the quality of narrating. Very interesting topics not covered much by other channels as well. I'm not much into fiction, but may just purchase a few of your stories. Keep doing what your doing, its working
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  4004. William Marshal was truly one of the greatest knights after Salahuddin.
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  4005. Plague definitely adds an interesting spin to an already tumultuous time period. I found your blog not too long ago Desdichado, I appreciate your insights. Very intrigued by the paper you referenced back in March about the 80% or so replacement of the Romano-Celts by the Germanic element. Previous estimates were so much lower. Those high numbers are very reminiscent of the Bell Beakers and their ~90% replacement of the Neolithic peoples that built stonehenge. Talk about a rough island. You don't see those kind of replacement numbers as much on other parts of Europe.
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  4006. That was fascinating, thank you.
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  4007. Dude I was literally just thinking about how I want to listen to a story about someone somewhere cold and out in the wilderness, I was going to look up some episodes from the tv show I shouldn’t be alive but this popped up on my feed and it’s 👌
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  4008. This is an incredibly well presented history of the period. Waw! Cheers from a French-speaking Swiss listener.
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  4009. William of Cassingham was awesome!
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  4010. Thank you very much. I have been looking for fiction for prehistory for awhile. I am devouring your Channel right now and if you have any favorite prehistory anything please let me know odds are I haven't found it yet.
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  4011. Love the deep exploration of such niche topic, or I assumed to be niche. History doesn't have to be Rome or China or Japan to be interesting.
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  4012. Easily my new favorite channel. Can’t believe content of this quality isn’t at millions and millions of views.
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  4013. I enjoyed this very much. And yes do the weights show.
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  4014. There is a tale of Thor/Donar using his stepfather(Vingmar)s stone hammer.The Iron one given by Loki was eventually destroyed by Voland(Wayland)s sword.The Mjolnir used at Ragnarok is the Stone hammer.This will also be the hammer picked up by Modi and Magni after Ragnarok.
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  4015. Everybody says the Bronze Age collapsed, but everybody know it was a inside job. The Phoeds placed controlled demolition slabs. It wasn't the Chariots that took down the Hanging Gardens like the official story wants you to believe!
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  4016. Fantastic video again! Beautifully designed and very informative. And you are a great storyteller! Greets from the Netherlands 🌷, T.
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  4017. This is a fascinating subject that shows only our circumnstances have changed. Once you see enough of it, it's funny how we undersell our ancients so we can oversell our modern times.
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  4018. Reminds me of the Iroquois confederation
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  4019. Amazing video!
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  4020. Teenage Indo European Warriors Teenage Indo European Warriors Splinter taught them to be warrior teens Leonardo leads, Donatello does machines Raphael  is cool but Michelangelo is a party dude Teenage Indo European Warriors Teenage Indo European Warriors Heroes in the bear skin Warrior Power!
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  4021. Can’t wait to dig into this one!
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  4022. Who's the portrait for Radu The Handsome?
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  4023. Well done once again my friend. I will become a patron shortly my friend. I'm very familiar with Anthony and Mallory, but thank you for the tip on Drews. Much respect from America
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  4024. the idea of a yule time procession of the dead in the form of warriors and other people masking and parading around their towns as the wild hunt reminds me of a very dark and spookier version of the Dutch Sinterklass traditions. On a national scale, places close down, people rally to the streets to watch as he comes in on his steamboat with a host of black faced servants and parades in a procession from town to town, city to city and it's like a nationwide thing. When I try to imagine a Wild Hunt procession, I can picture it being like a mixture between the modern Sinterklaas procession's and the scene from Vikings of Ragnar's (fake) funeral lol People really overlook how modern Christmastime is very pagan still. Sure the idea's that Santa and Odin are the same are maybe a bit far fetched from a historical perspective, but from a more animistic and heathen worldview that our ancestors would've held, there is very clearly connections. People dressing up as a character to then in many ways literally become that character, big processions and myths of supernatural events and spirits. I think one of the least pagan things to do would be to dismiss the connections just because it was no direct historical lineage.
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  4025. Figures look much like ancient Cycladic Island art at least some of which were painted. Never saw work from this culture before
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  4026. Amazing story. Never knew! Thank you.
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  4027. This video is fantastic, and it's a fun bonus to see you debunk people in the comments lol
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  4028. had this playing while i was making lunch, Drake is such a fantastic individual that if we didn't have verified records he existed. we'd just believe he was english propganda and myth.
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  4029. In 1200 BCE, the Eastern Mediterranean underwent the Bronze Age Collapse. We know that they traded with the Baltic and Scandinavian region, and the collapse must have disrupted that trade. So if violence was more common in the Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia, perhaps this was a result of these trade networks being disrupted. No more inflow of wealth, no way to retain status as a chief without that wealth, leaving taking wealth from your neighbors as the only option?
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  4030. All things die, just started reading Godborn very good thanks
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  4031. Long silver tubes were also used as ceremonial beer-drinking straws in Mesopotamia. See British Museum youtube.
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  4032. OK, this donars clubs only in womens graves makes me think of a totally different thing...
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  4033. I know someone who made a glass pendant with the ashes of her partner incorporated into the glass. It's not a person, but I had one of my cats skeletons articulated. I wasn't ready to say goodbye to him.
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  4034. thank you Dan your books will loved and in a way it's scacred I have been waiting for this all my life I do salute you thanks again
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  4035. When at Knossos last, my friend Peter and I would pretend to be the minotaur and Moo at the tourists, it made us laugh that's for sure. It's always reassuring you find fellows such as you two that have that common silly gene so inherit to these islands. Fabulous video btw Dan, thank you for the education and entertainment 👍
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  4036. 1st time to come across this channel. Looks like excellent and well presented historical content. Subbed!
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  4037. Almost but not quite as important as the tin mines. Seriously though Great video! Very interesting and informative.
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  4038. Fantastic! Very interesting story. Well researched!
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  4039. Dan? In the beginning there was a photo of a bead and tooth necklace, and some tools? Are they needles and a hole punch for leather work?
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  4040. Top of my first to click list. Always interesting and covering a fascinating and up covered period of time.
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  4041. Brilliant as usual particularly the Bronze age trade network description. Imagine one of the dudes that has to transport that raw metal or goods AND the strange ancient people/lands you would come upon transporting goods through this network WHOA HOW about a visit to the Black Sea culture and its empires.
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  4042. This channel needs more subs. Great stuff. 100 k subs this year
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  4043. I'm Sardinian thanks for this video
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  4044. Dan strikes me as a Blood Angels collector.
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  4045. Hi Dan!
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  4046. Any chance for a bronze age weapons video? I blacksmith a little bit and my favorite things to make are historical weapons but the bronze age is my favorite. I'm setting up for smelting bronze in the future but can't figure out my first project for something like a dagger. Maybe you can help if you make that video.
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  4047.  @HalfmoonForge  I'd like to see that done. Maybe get a 3D printed replica and make one in bronze with the lost wax method hand finished.
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  4048. This video is so well done! Bravo
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  4049. Thank you for this video. I'm looking forward to reading your book. Beg your pardon, you seem to be very sure about what to me appears assumptions. What are the proves that the Yamnaya left their woman behind? Do we not find swearing fealty to a lord all around the world? Is it really limited to Indo-European cultures? If you have more insight information, I'll be very thankful.
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  4050. Absolutely brilliant.
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  4051. Excellent work! Your channel is really helping me understand this wonderful but less examined time better. I hope we get more archeological evidence in the future!
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  4052. Great stuff. Thank you so much for all your hard work. I'm curious about the beliefs I believe they're in France where the ancestors Born To The Next Generation and becomes the ancestor.
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  4053. New Dan Davis video let's gooooooo
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  4054. Good job!
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  4055. Could the flight from the east be the result of disease, IE Yersinia coming from the Yamnaya people?
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  4056. I was wondering when you were going to touch on this subject 👍👍
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  4057. Thoroughly enjoyed this content. One of my favorite subjects, from one of favorite Orators and historians.
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  4058. Maybe the fight is the twins in Proto Indo European mythology🤔
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  4059. It's good being on the community tab. I knew this was coming, i have been looking forward to this. And now that i have watched it, i can say with certainty that i thoroughly enjoyed this.
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  4060. I would think that it is more likely that it is a mixture of several culures, in the steppe/caucasus area, that led to the PIE language origin. A lot of theories points to this theory, or that theory....Yet, life is never so easy to put in a certain category....life, or evolution is always mixing..
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  4061.  @MrJarl66  maybe this explains indo european having some terms and grammar similar to both Caucasian languages and Uralic languages...
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  4062. Wow that's spooky I'm Matthew McIntosh, I'm a roofer though, not much call for chimney sweeps😂
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  4063. This was truly wonderful.
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  4064. the Wild Hunt rides. Samhain is coming the celebration of the dead.
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  4065. Been waiting for this!!!
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  4066. You should qualify that even though their razors are not made of bronze, they'll last a life time.
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  4067. Oh, I already subscribed! Otherwise, after this video, I would have subscribed. Your videos are so, so, so interesting! Thank you so very much! I am working on Mohenjo-daro and a video like this one is totally in connection with my work. I also come from a linguistic point of view, especially Indo-European languages. And that too comes right on spot with my work.
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  4068. The Siberian tribes have myths of wholly mammoth and rhino
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  4069. That is amazing!
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  4070. Dan I have to disagree with you on this one.....He's the most overrated human being since Judas Iscariot won the CE33 best disciple competition, Edward III & Henry V are the greatest because they took care of business both foreign and domestic.
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  4071. Always learning! Thank you 🙏!
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  4072. Thanks for posting!
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  4073. This is fascinating. 23andme told me my maternal ancestry is corded ware. Happy to find this video. Haplogroup U4a3…..can you explain in simple terms what that means? It’s so deep and mind blowing.
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  4074. Apparently he is my 23x Great Grandfather, I'm coming for my throne lol! An American, as king of England...... They should make a movie about that! 😅😆😂🤪😝😄
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  4075. Its always fascinating to learn about these ancient cultures and how they must have behaved and conducted war with each other.
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  4076. Very interesting theory on origin of Sea Peoples 👍 However one piece of the puzzle doesn't fit - Egyptians mention migration of whole tribes, not pure military raids. There were multi-ethnic tribes however never heard of tribe of mercenaries - with women, children, cattle and ox-carts. It would mean war bands with their own supplies. War bands usually come for plunder. An army needs supplies for long organized siege. Nah, seems unlikely.
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  4077. north indian brahmn here a proud descendent of sintashta
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  4078. Phenomenal documentary.
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  4079. In Romanian the final ‘i’ is almost inaudible.
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  4080. Amazing presentation of history. Not going to lie, your edits of the Otzi image caught me off guard and made me laugh out loud!
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  4081. Absolutely outstanding.
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  4082. Wonderfull video , many thanks .
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  4083. I'm kinda most impressed with them apparently managing to sharpen bronze blades enough to shave with them. I would have guessed that knapped stone would have been used for that before steel.
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  4084. Again, I wish Ilearned more about these cultures in college I'm learning more from you than I did in Dr. Charles Lasher's History 101 at Notre Dame College in Manchester, New Hampshire between September and December 1980, Thank you.
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  4085. That dog lives down the street from me… he stands on the route between my school and I.
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  4086. Godborn is excellent
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  4087.  @jackholloway1  speedy response! downloaded now, I'll see how it is.
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  4088.  @dawnrazornephilim  I'd literally just opened the video up and saw your comment so thought I'd drop you the recommendation, I hope you enjoy it mate
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  4089.  @jackholloway1  thanks, started already.
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  4090. What the dog doin
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  4091. This is so fascinating. I'm in the Late rider camp. We just talked about evolution of the horse in our Mongols series. Thank the Gods that you mentioned the riding on the wrong area of the horse. I said the same in our video but couldn't find the pictures to back it so folks probably thought I was justified being goofy. I am really enjoying your content, I just wish I had found it earlier.
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  4092. It comes to my mind that the easiest way to keep and honor ancestors in memory is to keep their physical bodies around.
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  4093. Amazing video. I had no idea that all domesticated horses were from sintashta. That's one of the coolest facts I've ever heard.
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  4094. Grabbed the audiobook of your first book. Enjoying it so far!
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  4095. Dan true. I can see things like this. No one dies at an opportune time etc. So a winter death is a terrible time to die. Grounds frozen, bodies stink. Get rid of the stink. How? break everything then boil. For those stubborn pieces of flesh, teeth are best almost everyone has a set. Lol. Toss em under foot until spring thaw summer thaw?
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  4096. Thanks! It was my first time, to visit your channel... Very interesting! Maybe next video, about domestication and warfare on camels?
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  4097. I'm R1a1
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  4098. Top-class work, Mr. Davis. It's a fascinating topic, and I was pleased to hear you openly speculating about what might have been. Liked. Subscribed.
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  4099. Amazing. Thanks for sharing.
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  4100. This is truly fascinating.
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  4101. I’ll probably never get around to finishing it (or even getting it into a cohesive form) but for some years I’ve been toying with writing a story/stories around Neolithic Britain and Ireland.
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  4102.  @DanDavisHistory  I have heard all the terms before, Funnelbeaker, Corded Ware, SHG, EHG, WHG, Yamnaya, Battle Axe Culture. But never coherently like this, it has been impossible for me to put it together. Really love your videos and gonna buy books from you, great work! (Maybe Bell Beaker and Pitted Ware have not been so clear terms to me)
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  4103. Stone grave video sound amazing
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  4104.  @DanDavisHistory  quality, looking forward to that. Will keep my word, if I haven't by Christmas will definitely buy Godborn on the day
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  4105. Mediterranean copper coming from the Great Lakes? I feel brain cells committing suicide just hearing that string of words is it possible? Welll yes about as possible as me becoming a multiple millionaire simply by buying one lottery ticket each week .
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  4106. The battle axe was the gun of its time
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  4107. Дуже цікаво! Щіро дякую за ролік!🎉
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  4108. Excellent!
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  4109. Excellent work Danny boy!!! Like always!!! Grandma is still waiting on the new book! 😂 We're both huge fans brother!
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  4110. In history horses were war instrument number one. There is a documentary about #PolishUlans on horseback with their swords attacking and destroying german tanks in WW. So much bravery did they show, those last horse warriors putting dynamite into the tanks. One of my grandpas was a professional cavallerist, severly wounded in WW1.
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  4111. Absolutely excellent channel, content and production is fantastic, I watch your videos multiple times because there's so much in them, great stuff and thanks for sharing Dan.🇮🇪
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  4112. Awesome job on this story !!!
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  4113. Thanks for your work, I have really enjoyed the series, the early Steppe riders make sense to me, the length of time spent with horses and I reckon curiosity would do the rest
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  4114. I really look forward to these videos. I am currently reading Thunderer, and love the series. Keep up the good work.
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  4115. Yup, it's Sintashta, the Proto Indo Iranians.
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  4116. Great video. Subbed.
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  4117. Fantastic video as always and a really fascinating topic!
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  4118. Fantastic, thank you so much for posting! Never knew about this culture 😄💕
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  4119. Can we get a Bell Beaker video
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  4120. Just found this channel. Great content.
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  4121. Very interesting. I would not like to be brained by one of those maces.
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  4122. Great video Dan thank you. Glad to share a G haplogroup with this man.
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  4123. Mythological Trojan war? Thought the battle of Troy really took place.
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  4124. I was interested in this culture since I was little and I saw drawings of them and their style of helmets in ( book of knowledge )
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  4125. i hope this channel keeps growing! love the narrative history!
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  4126. I can see using this type of weapon from horseback, or from some sort of carriage as one of your images depicts.
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  4127. So, who was Otzi ?
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  4128.  @DanDavisHistory  Looking forward to it, thanks.
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  4129. Grea video. Interesting to think of a herding culture having such centralized power. I always think of that as something associated with agricultural society.
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  4130. Really good
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  4131. I hope you do more of these short documentary I have a short attention span👍💓🇺🇸
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  4132. And now for some educational bliss. Thank you, as always.
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  4133. Absolutely wonderful video, thank you!
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  4134. I really appreciate this informative, high quality video. Thank you. It should also be noted that they might have spoken an ancestral language to modern Northwest Caucasian languages.
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  4135. It’s amazing how clean and round, some look like perfect rods cut out, the holes in the axe heads are. Hard to imagine the sharp right angles survived the use and abuse of root cutting.
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  4136. Lovely! And I am waiting for something more about the Balto-Slavic branch of the IE
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  4137. Very interesting and great video. It is astonishing when experts are surprised at our ancestors knowledge. Sure the modern world has vast amounts of computer tech, but our ancestors survived on what most see as nothing. A large percentage of the world now couldnt survive without facebook 🤔 and who are the primitive ones?
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  4138. Wonderful episode as always! Keep up the good work!
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  4139. Hell yeah! You are my new favorite human.Thanks again for making the content I've been looking for.
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  4140. I have 4 questions for you. Firstly, Did the craftsmen and workers of the Sintashta settlements live inside the settlement or outside? Secondly, why didn't they use swords when that weapon was commonplace in Corded Ware Europe, West Asia, India, Greece and Europe? Thirdly, did the Aryan and Iranian offshoots of the Sintashta culture leave a genetic imprint in India and Iran? Lastly, has there been a genetic study of the Sintashta people which reveals their skin tone, eye and hair colour? Thank you.
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  4141. grabs hot cocoa and blanket
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  4142. Have anymore similar weapons like the possible Vajra you described been found in the Yamnaya cultural horizon since its discovery?
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  4143. Could you please do some videos about Bronze-age Iberia? Thank you.
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  4144. Why tho? These are all just stories bro, the evidence doesn’t give away any secrets of what the motivations behind his killing were…
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  4145. I would love to know how the were able to drill those round holes into the stone without steel tools.
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  4146. Yeay a new Dan Davis video! My run tomorrow is gonna be cool 🤙
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  4147. Now THAT is an epic journey.
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  4148. Are your books available as audio books?
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  4149. Good stuff Dan. Always figured the spear was the earlier bronze age weapon type, but then maybe it became so due to numbers of soldiers needed.
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  4150. This is an interesting example of how a warrior culture can also grow out of the descendants of the Early European Farmers.
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  4151. These are fantastic videos. Can’t wait to see the channel grow
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  4152. Great editing. This must have taken alot of time to produce. Very well done!
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  4153. Do tin mines next!
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  4154. Love this series! Can't wait to start my book collection this next pay check!
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  4155. Excellent work as always!
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  4156. You owe me a new phone Mr Davis. Mine got covered in coffee when I spat it out as that shot of Romford Market appeared.
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  4157. I wonder what his real name was, and I find it a bit sad we'll never know
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  4158. Judging by the stock footage in this video, I think Dan has a bit of a thing for "horsey" girls.
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  4159.  @DanDavisHistory  don’t worry fella Big Suze does it for me too
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  4160. Big thumbs up for all the effort Dan!
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  4161. Watching this late in the game, but it's another amazing and very necessary video on an extremely interesting European Neolithic culture
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  4162. Once again you've managed to unite great storytelling with deep historical research into topics which aren't as commonly explored. This is why you're the best history channel in YouTube in my opinion.
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  4163. I thought that Vlad had only accomplished that whole impaling in the forest with the enemy soldiers, or the guys that were opposed against him. I didn't realize he was impaling their wives too, God damn that's so f'ed 😔😔😔....
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  4164. I am sharing this with my best friend today, Thor's day.
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  4165. 8:28 this is exactly what it was like drinking with my friends for the first time in high school
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  4166. TAKING ANOTHER Dan Davis Deep Dive
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  4167. This is fantastic video and it also helped me feel kind of smart today! I always liked this subject matter very much, but never had enough time and organizational skills to move from my own work to anthropology and the related fields. Even with my average intelligence though, I heard the questions "why did the warrior culture start?" and within about three seconds thought... "population". There hasn't time for someone to focus on just being a warrior when your challenges were simply finding food and not becoming food for something else. Then after humans cluttered things up with agriculture and some of them started to use manipulative skills on other people instead of competing animals, we had things like stockpiling and plans for excess, surplus, and invented greed. Time for specialists.
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  4168. Thanks for this most informative video, i live close to Llandudno & have visited the site often. The views out to the Isle of Man, Ireland & the Lake District are amazing enough but when the history is taken into account the site is brilliant. From the copper mine the even earlier stone age areas behind Penmaenmawr are visible a handful of miles away which connects our local North Wales history through the ages. So much early industrial heritage it's mind-blowing! The Parys Mnt copper area on Anglesey is also visible from the Orme, again worked by early miners & then Romans.
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  4169. Very interesting indeed, subscribed
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  4170. Seeing that it can be hypothesized that Terramare represents a proto-italic speaking culture (although no conclusive evidence will ever likely be found) I find it interesting nonetheless to think about how the decline of Terramare just before the Iron Age could partially explain the survival and subsequent flourishing of Etruscan.
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  4171. Your omission of the gory, highly unpleasant tidbits are very commendable. I like that you focused on the history and the politics of his story and didn't just try to capitalize on shock
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  4172. Excellent work man. I have learned so much from your channel.
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  4173. Keep it up man. You're killin' it!
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  4174. so brilliant, just what I needed after this day (what a week this day was eh?), thank you.
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  4175. YEESSSS!! bronze age armor is a yes!
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  4176. I. Am. Blown. Away. Engaging in battle, while leading from the front, at age *70* .... I admit, I'm gobsmacked. Great story - thanks for telling it.
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  4177. Thanks for these videos Dan!!
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  4178. We have an old myth about the devil dogs in wales
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  4179. The. cluster of arrows at the end of the enclosures could be a sign of a communal justice system in a similar way to the native Americans “running the arrow”.
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  4180. pronounciation of Bodrogkeresztúr wasnt half bad actually
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  4181. Excellent. Thanks.
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  4182. Outstanding!! Those are all great topics, I’ll happily watch any video from you, thank you 🌟!!!
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  4183. Once again you've proposed well educated speculations about Bronze Age Europe that I have not heard of from established academics. You'd be a great archaeologist or historian! You have the gift.
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  4184. This is the 1st video of yours I've seen and I subbed immediately. You talk about people I've never heard of. Cool. Do you have videos about the pre Incas and other ancient people and their connections?
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  4185. Thanks for the birthday gift, Mr. Davis!
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  4186. Thanks!
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  4187. Thank you, it's fascinating
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  4188. 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.
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  4189. Cheers 🍺
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  4190. Just discovered you.......outstanding, thank you!!
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  4191. Love this video and your channel! Thanks for the work you do.
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  4192. Great
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  4193. aight good sir, just got yourself a new reader. something in the bronzeage-setting is exactly what i needed.
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  4194. I'm in the same boat as a lot of other people here bringing up the fact that you don't need bits to ride. When mustangs are rounded up in the US they have what's called a Judas horse, which is a horse trained to run back to the corrals. They release them near the mustangs who want to naturally herd up, and follow the Judas Horse back to the corrals. It wouldn't surprise me if our ancestors figured that out while herding them, and it just made sense to get on the back of a horse which moves as fast as the animal you want to herd. Humans have also ridden various other ungulates historically, so why not try riding horses early on?
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  4195. The mounted warrior is not as important as the mobility. Bring a large mount of men over a few miles to a fight that are not tired from walking and carrying there supplies and weapons is a massive advantage in a conquest.
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  4196. Leaving for the pub at 6, this is perfectly timed for me to watch before I head off
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  4197. Thank you for this video (among the best I've seen on the subject) and for your channel. Top quality content.
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  4198. Dan, your content has taken this 20th Century history geek and made him into an ancient history addict. Keep up the great work!
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  4199. Just out of curiosity, that photo of the villagers with the goats, where is that? Some sort of archaeology or ancient reconstructionist park in Denmark?
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  4200. I know it's hard work but you make so many people happy and that's nearly Impossible , so it's hard for you but how hard without you for us Dan, your channel is growing very nicely. Tell the subscribers about your books , they don't know, i got them unbelievable. I'm more intrigued now about European history than ever. Now probably outside your scope but I love Native American history , just a seed, there history not what we say is there history, maybe your history of them 🤣🤣.
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  4201. Oh, That's where Sapkowsky got the idea!
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  4202. Thank God for William of Cassingham! Without his heroics, that of William Marshal and Hubert de Burgh saved England and the rest of the British Isles from becoming part of France. French would have been reinforced as the language of choice and all traces of Saxon, Celtic and Norse identity would have become French. Great series of videos on this forgotten history that was vital to the saving of England. I also really like your novels! Keep up the brilliant work! Cheers from the USA!
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  4203. Excellent video. Cannot get enough bronze age content. Thank you for all your hard work.
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  4204. This kind of reminds me of the Night Marchers of Hawaii.
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  4205. Absolutely, hands down great material!!!
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  4206. Very cool connection. For a bronze or copper weapon, this may be a very useful shape as well though. That none other have been found also doesn't say all that much, much has been looted or just lost in the landscape erosion. Maybe not found yet, the area is after all sparsely populated. But the similarity with the description certainly is striking. He may not seem tall to us these days, but may have been a head size taller than most of his contemporaries. He also managed to grow quite old for a warrior and clearly an important person.
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  4207. Very interesting and immersive. Thanks
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  4208. Opened my mind to this period. Just tabbed over to Amazon to buy Gods of Bronze 1.
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  4209. Anyone know where the artwork like the stuff at 16:50 is from?
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  4210. The weapon is similar to a Khanda
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  4211. Its interesting in Sweden there used to be " hundreds" as a namn for an area in a region
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  4212. Well hello history! I've been looking for you. I am so glad you are doing this! Thank yoy
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  4213. Great vid!
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  4214. This is top quality content. I enjoyed every second of it!
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  4215. Point about geography of culture - recent findings (fragments of ceramic amphoras) near Lviv (mount Zhupan, Vynnyky town, west of Ukraine) indicates, that there was small settelment or at least trading post. That location is situated about 200 km from previously known western parts of Cucuteni-Trypillia areal.
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  4216. LOVE this stuff, SO a young person from these herders probably jumped on the back of one and rode __ just like when i was young (YES long ago) we were jumping motorcycle much more higher and longer than the past AND that culture spawned scrambles to motocross to supercross to even freestyle (though freestyle is dying)- BUT the group who rode were NOW able to spread their culture. WHOA also new tech comes into play Mesopotamia had sold wheels latched THEN spokes emerged making the cart more maneuverable. Wonder how the solid wheel manufactures felt when they saw the new spoked wheels.
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  4217. Dan I LOVE to listen to your YouTube clips read so brilliantly! And that it’s derived from what is known about that period of ancient history ….well, I’m hooked! This seems like a very unique way to engage new fans. I took an audible membership to get your Godborn. Thanks for all the ways you have touched us!
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  4218. As always Dan, a truly wonderful and thought provoking video ❤ 👏👏👏 🐴
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  4219. Bronze or copper? Either way, thank you for the education. On your next video regarding the stone hammer- will you mention the origin of the word “Thorsteinn”?
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  4220.  @DanDavisHistory  Ah, the much more nuanced take. Thanks for taking the time to get into detail though
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  4221. Can't get enough of these videos on early civilizations! I'd love to see some sort of annotated map of these early societies or something similar.
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  4222. Reminds me a bit about the iroquois or haudenosaunee in north america. Organized in families as smallest unit then clans and tribes. 5 (later 6) tribes in a union with a central politic chamber, where delegates of the families disputed and decided things following a special procedure. The possessions like acres f.e. were organized matriarchal and also the war chiefs of the local clan and the delegates to the central chamber were chosen by the oldest or most respected woman of the clan. This cucuteni culture did not seem to have frequent wars, though. Their settlements were bigger, too.
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  4223. I need more of this but in the 3 hour length
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  4224.  @DanDavisHistory  Yes this is not an correction. I wanted to share this information. Its a good video and i did not know about this culture before this. Very interesting.
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  4225.  @DanDavisHistory  the point about farming on the hilltops made me stop and think, but perhaps defense was more important than ease of agricultural access.
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  4226. Some context: 60 yrs old, male, educated, Australian and a very early (and consistent) consumer of internet content and YouTube. However you could count my total number of comments with the digits of an old, clumsy butcher. Absolutely compelled to crap on in a laudatory manner on your behalf. So... Well played Dan! Brilliant storytelling structure, graphics and excellent narration. This is the first of your videos I've encountered but will not be the last. Like, comment and I will subscribe. Thank you.
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  4227. Simply superb! Many thanks for uploading this video.
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  4228. I don't know why but I didn't get a notification the other day but maybe it was meant to be because I got to get off work and relax and learn..thank you Dan so much...I'm gonna go grab a book here in a minute
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  4229. In Baltic we had something similar, but in the spring. I do not know if it is any connection at all, but children on the second day of Easter went through village singing songs and asking for candy/cookies. Maybe this tradition was Baltic Koryos cult offshoot? As in making this in spring rather than in autumn/winter? Nevertheless, Interesting video! Also could be there connection with Ash Wednesday and in masking? By watching this video I thought to myself, "dust to dust" part (putting dust aka ancestors and making one with them), and by putting a little bit of Ash on forehead it was the way Church minimized and subverted the meaning of masking?
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  4230. I have a urn necklace that has my brothers ashes. I just didn't want him to sit on some shelf and that's it this why his always with me, what I see and do small part of him is there too.
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  4231. You’re the man. These are fantastic dude
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  4232. I just finished Godborn on Audible Now will move on to Thunderer. The narrator is good but I kind of wish that you were narrating your voice seems a better fit for the subject.
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  4233. Excellent video. Very informative and visually appealing. Where did they get the Tin from? Afghanistan?
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  4234. just had a thought, perhaps not original, but has anyone speculated that the cursus might have been boundaries for a game of football?
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  4235. I believe It was also the age of Taurus Durning the bronze age.
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  4236. so eerie seeing the place where i live in a yt video (and also v funny to see the cinematics you used to represent this place) but "cold and stinking bogland" is a very succinct description
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  4237. 7:40 skyrim memes flash backs.
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  4238.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks for your reaction. I realise it could have begun for other reasons. It just struck me that some local folk ritual that I had never thought about though I witnessed with my own eyes now got a possible explanation. It also gave me a new appreciation for the fading folklore. So yes, thank you for the video.
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  4239. Lovely as always! Your Documantaries are a treat. ;D
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  4240. Comment for the algorithm gods!
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  4241. Thanks a bunch for sharing this with us Big Dog!
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  4242. I'm so glad that we are discovering these lost civilizations and are able to share the information
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  4243. Great content. I had forgotten about Wiliken of the Weald. But i think the tale of Robin Hood was more based on Roger Godberd.
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  4244. No wonder wolfs, even when in packs, run away from fat blokes barley able to jog And I don't think there is a coincidence that wolfs on the European continent are smaller and more skiddish than in North America either Of course they brought down the largest one if they had the choice. It would make less sense if they didn't, minding the symbolism involved.
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  4245. Love this stuff, 😊 another subscription 💖😊🥰
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  4246. thought the thumbnail was the bee gees !
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  4247. Europeans and American Indians and Siberians are genetically related. That is amazing.
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  4248. Fantastic video. I'm not sure if you would still be reading these comments, but a question about the practicality of horns: since bronze is much less tough than iron, is it possible that horns helped redirect some of the energy from a blunt attack? Let's say a club was swinging down on you and hit you on the head, I imagine a horn would provide destructive protection, where it would break first
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  4249. Your production, and the research it must have involved, amazes me. Fascinating and well done. Love it
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  4250. I am loving this channel.
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  4251. I only found this channel recently. Very glad I did! Great content. I'll have to get a copy of your book soon.
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  4252. Fascinating video and most informative. Thank you. IMO, someone mistaking Otzi for an animal is not very likely. His assassin may very well have been someone with a grudge.
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  4253. thanks again perkonos is a favoret god in mythology mine cheers
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  4254. This was an amazingly terrific video. Thank you very much.
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  4255. The loose ends of the grass cape were to speed up the drying of the cape when wet, just as the fringes of Western leather jackets are today.
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  4256. Nicely done, very informative and enjoyable, many thanks.
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  4257.  @DanDavisHistory  Thank you very much!
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  4258. This is a great f*****g documentary. I am Hungarian (my father was 1st generation - his family left Hungary to get away from hitler's brown coats killing Catholics and gypsies) and was fascinated with my heritage. I grew up reading all I could about world or foreign history. This interest has stayed with me . I also love creepy stuff and, of course, all things Dracula. Lol. Out of all the documentaries, books and stuff, this is the first to really go into what was up and who he was, the brave crazy ass stuff he pulled off to keep the muslims out, yeah, getting revenge. I'm rambling. Sorry. I don't comment very often. Ugh. 🤭 Awesome brilliant video. 😁🙌
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  4259.  @DanDavisHistory  How about stories of the first horseback riders as a root of centaur myths? Also stone age peoples being fairies and dwarfs and giants of myth. Possibly due to inbreeding giving unusual body morphology. Dryads being a pre-bronze age people also. The Fomorians in Ireland were said to practise inbreeding and been a race of monsters. Maybe these names and mythical qualities grew up around real people, maybe the dryads and naiads were, in part, pre bronze age tribes who lived in forests and around rivers respectively. It would be handy to time travel please, got quite a few bits to check up on really.
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  4260. You are on my list of “books to read”. Do you have a personal favorite? One that while penning, was so soul soothing it objectively changed your outlook on life?
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  4261. 👍
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  4262. Very interesting and informative. Subscribing.
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  4263. Favorite vid yet! Super cool man
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  4264. In some parts of England locals say if you see a big black dog you'll die soon. Could be Woden/Odin's dog...
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  4265.  @DanDavisHistory  Are you in East Anglia? I'm not far from Bungay and Blythburgh where on the fourth of August 1577 a great black dog burst through the doors of Bungay church with a clap of thunder and killed a man and a boy. The church tower fell down at the same time. The dog then lolloped off to Blythburgh and was apparently rather unpleasant to some people there too. There are scorch marks on the door of Blythburgh church that are still called the devil's fingerprints today. In Bungay the town football team is nicknamed the Black Dogs, the dog is on a weathervane in the town and I think there is a Black Dog running club if I remember correctly. Incidentally I found your channel early this morning and I've been watching it all day! Excellent stuff! I will be purchasing your books!
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  4266. You should do a video on flint and stone swords that were being made as bronze and copper tools a weapons tech spread. There are amazing stone weapons that look like their metal counterparts.
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  4267.  @DanDavisHistory  Interesting. Could there already have been a mercenary tradition, like in Iron Age Rome?
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  4268. Great video
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  4269. absolutely enjoyed this documentary on vlad the impaler, thank you for sharing this great documentary.
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  4270. Great series of videos regarding the various cultures of Northern Continental Europe / Scandinavia during the late Neolithic. What’s your opinion regarding the emergence of Y Haplogroup I1 in Scandinavia during the Late Neolithic? Do you think it was brought into Scandinavia during the Late Neolithic by a Continental European culture or could it have been hiding in small numbers in a Scandinavian Hunter Gatherer group only later to be absorbed into the Battle Axe Culture where it would go on to later thrive during the Nordic Bronze Age?
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  4271. Wish your channel existed when I studied archaeology. Thank you 4 your efforts
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  4272. So interesting. I've been to Great Orme but had never heard about Kargaly. I also visited Grime's Graves, a flint mine, in the summer. It is worth a visit if you're in the area as they have a shaft you descend.
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  4273. Thanks! What an incredible story.
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  4274. It’s like a holiday when DD uploads something new 🎉
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  4275. As a botanist, I really appreciate your view on the impact of indigenous people on the landscape. It's often assumed that native populations (such as those of the Americas and Australia) were inept at manipulating their environment. It's pretty well established that the idea of an "untouched wilderness" is unheard of. For most parts of the world, humans have manipulated the environment for the better part for 50,000 years
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  4276. Fascinating and thought provoking.
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  4277. Loved the reference to Kenneth Clark at 9:14
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  4278. Thank you for this great video.
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  4279. Excellent work and brilliantly explained content, good job, I've really appreciated this remarkable dedication on research and attention to details, gràtzias a Su Mannu ddu at cancunu ki scidi fai su traballu suu.
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  4280. Cheers
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  4281. Good video as always, the Tollense Valley battle is a very interesting topic.
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  4282. God, imagine the energy and innate knowledge of metal it took to hammer out one of those beautiful bronze shields. Was going to leave a comment for the algorithm but that is truly incredible, I would have thought they were just made from a mold like that considering how ornate they are, even the shields used in battle.
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  4283. Bell Beaker when?
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  4284. Thanks for reminding me to buy more of your books. I love your work man, it's truly inspiring.
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  4285. Same in wild population. There is less males reproducing . Thus the male specific genes are less diverse
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  4286. This was amazing. I look forward to one day sitting down with my kids and sharing your videos with them.
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  4287. Excellent as always.
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  4288. Thank you for your hard Work! You are a master of history and a expert story writer!
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  4289. Great stuff!
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  4290.  @DanDavisHistory  badum tsss
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  4291.  @DanDavisHistory  I don’t know much about the gruesome details of his life but it would be interesting to find out.
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  4292. Love your work, sir!
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  4293. Thsnks for this amazing video
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  4294. Just discovered this channel. 20 minutes in am subbed and I have two tabs open just waiting for me. Pity its a work night. I can't wait for Friday. Great channel and heart felt thanks
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  4295. Berserk means Bear shirt it's said they took a decoction of Death Cap before a battle.
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  4296. Excellent video.
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  4297. As always, well documented and with a broader view to help us understand things so distant to modern perspective. Thanks!
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  4298. Yes to the wild hunt video!
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  4299. Mold. One of Old Testament mentions as reason to burn down a house.
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  4300. Fascinating theory!
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  4301. Couldn’t have thought of anything better to turn on while making breakfast.
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  4302. Thank you so much for your time! This video is great!
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  4303. Great presentation and thanks for sharing. Chris
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  4304. Dan, I cant thank you enough
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  4305. This channel just gets better and better.
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  4306. I would love to see that video, and I am really glad you took the time to mention the Old Copper Culture here in North America. The things they did with native copper were really something, and people forget that pre-columbian cultures were often sophisticated metalworkers who just chose not to use iron because obsidian was abundant. They made many things in gold that were then stolen, but the stuff that remains is amazing.
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  4307. 19:15 still relevant...
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  4308. Wonderful video, have re-watched it so many times like all the others. Will Herkuhlos partake in a similar one at some point or was the final battle in Thunderer inspired by it?
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  4309. This is just brilliant! One of the most fascinating periods of English history.
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  4310. These videos are amazing, you should write a book!
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  4311. #BellBeakerGang 👌
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  4312. I grew up near the Chiltern hills, at the end of the Ridgeway - to be specific near Ivinghoe Beacon (an iron age hill fort) and there was a nearby causewayed enclosure (or possibly 2). I never really knew what it meant though because all I could find regarding the local history tended to be focused on the Romans or Anglo Saxons, and maybe a few snippets of the Beaker People. Thanks for this video because it's opened my eyes to a time of history o have never really even considered and I can imagine the area has so many stories lost to history.
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  4313. Looking at the teeth,, their diet was better than most folk today.
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  4314. So fascinating to think about those ages. Would be so cool to be able to explore them.
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  4315. good yarn. thank yew.
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  4316. Could you make a video about mycenean architecture/shipcraft?
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  4317. Wow, Insta~sub. Great story telling. With real facts. AND ! AND! Extremely high, best of the best production. I could go on. Why is this not 28.4M subs?
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  4318. Great video! Cannabis seeds were probably being burned, but probably only because they were contained within the flowers(bud) that contain the psychoactive cannabinoids that they actually wanted to burn.
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  4319. Very interesting.. I (as a rider) can imagine sitting on a horse once you meet them. But then again I’m living a couple millennia later and my brain is wired differently. Still there is a huuuuhe difference between riding a horse into war and sitting on a horse moving with a herd persuading them to go into a certain direction. The latter I feel as highly likely as we see people moving with a herd and following them. Modern humans are very much about controlling things, being in control. Where I feel (not a historian) in times people were very much moving with animals, weather, landscape, seasons instead of trying to shape them to their needs. They simply shaped their needs to fit the flow of nature. Also I am curious about riding horses not being visible.. apart from bit marks on teeth.. it should show on bones. There are studies now that show what riding does to a horse and how not leaves significant signs on bones. Now there might not be enough material left of ancient horses… but there could be signs on vertebrae , elbow and shoulder bones. I’m expanding my reading list for sure. Thank you very much for this video
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  4320. How in the world does this video only have 27k views? Share it.
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  4321.  @DanDavisHistory  So generally speaking, were the EEF of Italy more warlike than their neighbours? I'm not knowledgeable about this particular topic, but I'm getting that impression, considering the possible links to the sea peoples as well that you discussed in your video on them.
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  4322. Mother Nature is a force incomprehensible to man. We are less than a flea on the back of a charging bull elephant to Mother Earth. Man has no power to challenge Nature. Not nukes, bioweapons, or green-house gas emissions, or anything we can produce, can change the Earth's natural state of evolution.
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  4323. Well-made !
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  4324. Sometimes it's hard to believe that you're not doing this as a professional. Great information! Great graphics! Great stories! Great presentation! I just ran across you on YouTube a couple of days ago, and I'm hooked. I have to catch up on a lot of your videos, but if they're like the ones I've watched so far, it will be my pleasure to do so. Oh, and I'm not being bias because of your name, as great as that is too. 😆 Thank you for all of the hard work that you put in to these videos!
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  4325. I'm truly in love with your channel. An excellence trough the tube.
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  4326. Thanks Dan! My must read list grows with every video you release!
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  4327. I remember writing a story about a Minoan Sea Empire that traded with the Americas. But I had no idea there was actually a theory about this...
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  4328. Why hasn’t the film companies making any films of him! Jeeeez they done Robin Hood, Wallace, Rob Roy etc
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  4329. If an early (Neolithic or Bronze Age) culture had a viable cavalry tradition, it begs the question of why chariots were developed. We see chariots falling out of use when cavalry becomes viable. It’s hard to imagine chariots coming into use after an earlier pre-existing cavalry tradition. So, while horses might have been ridden with various techniques before the development of the chariot, it seems unlikely that those early riding techniques (if they existed) had any substantial military value.
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  4330. Wow, this is a great video! You've done great research and your voice is pleasant to listen to. I'm very happy I came across it!
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  4331. Always enjoy and learn from your vids, definitely enjoy this sort of topic as well!
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  4332. ps. Yes, I think riding with weapons would have come about likely much earlier than when a bit was used. What are those three weights held by twine/thonging that are tossed at legs to trip or heads to donk? I could imagine easily that type of thing hanging from my saddle/blanket/strap or my person, and then tossing it while riding. Or simply speed and mobility enabling more efficient raiding. It's a doddle, as my mum would say.
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  4333. You have to give respect to the isle of wight Dan
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  4334. Awesome job. Great video!
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  4335. I so much am enjoying your channel! Appreciate the creative work that you put into these videos...very educational and fascinating looks into our past....or shall I say the life,times and culture of our great ancestors ! Subscribed! 🐦
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  4336. I enjoy your videos so much that I started reading Godborn.
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  4337. Thank you for doing this
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  4338. Absolutely fantastic. Again. Thanks.
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  4339. Dan, commenting on your own stuff is a bit uncouth.
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  4340. I am most certainly interested in the cult of the body in bronze age warrior culture. Did they look like gladiators? Or like our welter MMA fighters? Or like our modern MCU actors?
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  4341. “Militarism and the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe” was written before David Reich's "Who we are and how we got here" DNA study that strongly supports David W Antony’s ‘The Horse, the Wheel, and Language” hypothesis
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  4342. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚒️
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  4343. This channel rocks give us more!!!
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  4344. Climate Change theory as reason for their disappearence is the most probable because there are evidences of TCT being quite capable in warfare at least against neighboring hunter-gatheres and amongst themselves in later periods. Fireburning of settlements and absence of cemeteries can be explained as measures against pandemics and soil fatigue. Yamna culture has spread into their teritory shortly after their collapse - for same reason of climate change. Such things always hit Steppe harder than forested areas.
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  4345. The way these armour pieces and helmets are put together… it reminds me of the sea people descriptions from ancient Egypt
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  4346.  @DanDavisHistory  You write fiction similar to Jean M. Auel's "Clan of the Cave Bear", Valley of the Horses" etc? Fiction that is heavily based on archaeological and palaeontological evidence? {:-:-:}
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  4347. Dan I went looking for a video yesterday thinking I had to of missed one but seen I didn't you hadn't done anything surprisingly so I was a bit down in myself but what a difference a day makes 🎁 happy Christmas from you thanks so much for the gift of knowledge, now for the science bit Mr Davies, 1 cup of lyons Irish tea green blend a couple of jacobs polo biscuits and of course a smoke then sit back and travel back in time for a history session, happy Christmas to you and all Dan and thank you again. Peace 🇮🇪
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  4348. Any recommended follow-up reading beyond The Horse, The Wheel, and Language?
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  4349. Cricket bat, I reckon.
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  4350. Could the meat he ate have beensomething like pemmican? That would have had a very high fat content, preserved well, and beenwithin their abilityto make for sure.
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  4351. Idk if I just smoked to much or what but right before you were talking about it being queasy I had to stand up cause it was bugging me out🤣🤣🤣🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  4352. Again amazing
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  4353. ❤ Thank you!! Always look forward to your vids!! In the meantime I rewatch your existing videos over and again!
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  4354. Excellent commercial spot! Just as you tell us you haven’t been honest with us , LOL ! Seriously though, excellent video, well researched and presented as well as entertaining. I wish videos like yours were part of college level studies on ancient peoples, you’ve piqued my interest in going back and reading more on the subject as last I was in class was 1989 and so much more has been discovered since and we have a better understanding of those times than we did when I was at university. Thank you for a great video, you earned the likes and subscribe 👍🏻 one thing though I need to ask is how was the hole for the wooden handle bored through ? I’m not insinuating any conspiracy theories, there had to have been a technique using readily available materials, I’d just like to know the how, TY again.
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  4355. Sheep and goats can outrun humans. Don't believe it? Try to catch one. Humans in concert can overcome every animal from wolves to elephants.
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  4356. I studied archaeology in the 90's and I too didn't know about this culture! So wtf was that about? Thank you so much for the upload! 👍😊
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  4357. and flamethrower staffs
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  4358. Absolutely fascinating. Thrilled to have discovered this channel. Thank you!
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  4359. Man I wanna get me summathat horse milk
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  4360. Masterful non invasive Marketing strategy. Only been subbed a few month and started looking for your books when shopping now!
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  4361. Great video! I think you should have just shown the hedgehog with mushrooms the whole time
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  4362. I do love your videos.
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  4363. absolutely agree.. i think he was a hard, tough man, too.. amazing story, thankyou for telling it so well, with real interest and care.. 🙂
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  4364. now I'm stuck trying to figure out an oxhide/oxide pun
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  4365. Very interesting! One thing I'm wondering about is that you don't mention the "landscape" in the images. I mean, the background of the rock art you show from 9:39 to 9:44 looks very much like some kind of geography -- rivers, shores, inland territory, islands... I actually can't imagine that this interpretation was missed by the researchers, but as you don't mention it, I wanted to bring it up. And on top of that, it seems to me that some of the boats are either in the process of construction or damaged in conflict. Probably the latter, which could mean that a specific event is shown. Or maybe rather various specific events, merged into one picture. Anyways, great channel! Love your work. Really inspiring and informative content. Thanks!
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  4366. Is there an explanation as to why his eyes look blue now, but were brown when he was alive? Is it because the melanin in his iris decayed over time that they now look blue? Or is there some other explanation?
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  4367. humans as well as human cultures are totally capable of surviving in such cold dry places but that climate is far from perfect for human development.
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  4368. Awesome. Thank you
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  4369. Pretty dense, no fluff, just details. Good visual examples. Awesome video (like most of yours). I like it👍
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  4370. Thank you Dan Davis for this fantastic video on such an excellent historic topic and personage, really entertaining and helped pass a good chunk of a long shift. While I obviously can't prove that Sir Francis Drake said that famous line about having time to finish their game of bowls and beat the Spanish, I don't think it's outside of the realm of possibility that he would've been familiar enough with the tides, winds and weathers of the area to have a strong grasp of what sort of time the larger, heavier and slower ships of the Armada would likely make, given the prevailing conditions. Beyond that, it's highly impressive that he treated natives so well in the places that he went, and hia mercy towards defeated or captured enemies is commendable, especially given how common massacres, mutilations and various reprisals were at that time. Keep up the amazing work good sir.
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  4371. Richard Cœur de Lion is no Edward iii and certainly no Henry V (I'm drunk writing this)
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  4372. Minute 6:38, well, also, herding a highly mobile cuadruped would require from humans improved or enhanced mobility, riding horses would be a logical step in order to follow the herds on open grasslands. Designed by need.
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  4373. Well done!
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  4374. Great video. You put so much time, effort, and consideration into these and it shows.
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  4375. My friend, of course we want to see a video on bronze age vessels in the Mediterranean. But I guess you've got another comment of out me
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  4376. though i keep hunting for material on various bronze age cultures and the steppe people in general, i have come across this important culture for the first time. It showed me how the important innovations of the steppes, like wagons (and warfare?) were encouraged by the demand for metal ores in the south (mesopotamia). so, once the metallurgy was solved by the settled people in the cities, it could have travelled to the steppes, where they came up with ideas like wagons and chariots, which were inspired by their local conditions....
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  4377. Dan Davis History wow!! How much time and effort must have gone into this documentary, outstanding and very very informative... thank you so much for this!
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  4378. Underated channel. Found it today. You got a sub.
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  4379. I wonder if their elite being buried with war implements and not gold and wealth ties in with the Starkad mythos, where he disdained kings for eating too well or displaying wealth and not been being more warrior-like. Starkad is postulated to be a variant of Herkules I think I read
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  4380. Hey man, thanks so much. Great videos. I sit with my young boys and watch your videos of an evening. Better than history at school sadly which often substitutes ideaology for evidence.
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  4381. oh, finally someone from abroad noticed it! Thanks for the video!
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  4382. Beautiful video Dan. It's so satisfying to see our deep ancestry come alive, thank you. Please take a look at the Zarzian culture, that could be a great adventure for everyone!
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  4383. This is youtube history videos at their apex. Your work is amazing.
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  4384. Seconding this
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  4385. Thirding this lol
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  4386. Yup
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  4387. Fascinating video, ty Dan.
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  4388. Thank you Dan I really appreciated this show. I have read and re-read John E Pfeifers's 'The emergence of Man' his description of hunter gather groups is the reference for me in this subject. I believe what he finds can and should be applied to Mesolithic hunter gatherers to give clan sizes and their range. The use by Mesolithic hunter gatherers of hazel nuts as a transportable staple food is really interesting. It maybe shows that they were 'encouraging' hazel trees to spread and grow, a half way house to agriculture, a bit like herding reindeer further north in Europe.
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  4389. Great work dude. God bless you. 🙏
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  4390. I'm a "Horse Warrior", (a Dragoon), - or rather, I used to be, I'm too old and too messed up to be it anymore. Only, we replaced our horses with vehicles.... Today, at least where I live, the only real "Horse Warriors" we have left is the Guard Hussars.... But today the horses is only for parades - no more charging the enemy with bows and arrows, lance, sabers/swords, or guns...
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  4391. Really awesome video, I found the part about their warrior's unit composition really interesting. Was wondering though, is there any evidence of archers or other ranged infantry among the warrior males? The Bell Beaker Culture heavily valued archery, and I find the shift to a more melee focused method of combat quite interesting.
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  4392. It seems as if the chariot predates horse riding. Not a horseman myself, I have always been taught that horses did not become "tactical" until the invention of stirrups.
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  4393. Very interesting video Dan! Thank you!
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  4394. Would their house burning every 60ish years, and their lack of bodies be connected? Maybe that used to be their “burial” process?
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  4395. I live in bury St Edmunds, kinda filled with roadmen now
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  4396. Well researched and presented from an objective pov. Well done. imo, the Botai probably didn't ride horses. ;) Drews position may be going too far the other way. We simply lack the proofs and evidence to make declarative statements on the matter.
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  4397. Ive been hooked on Godborn. I was afraid it wouldnt be as good as your youtube channel but I was wrong. I kept imagining the songs from the Disney Hercules in my head as I read.
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  4398. Great video! Liked and subbed :)
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  4399. The shape of the town with one central plaza and concentric circles of houses resembles the small scale organization of Arkaim[19:45]. From a Romanian documentary: the Cucuteni dwellers incinerated the dead in their homes. " What is burnt goes straight to the Fire God or Agni..." so, the deceased went to Agni and his house too...[ Rig Veda...].
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  4400. Dan Davis Author - You are a good man to meet. You've made all of us all better time travellers. Thank you for allowing us to watch you.
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  4401. Imagine dying and then 5000 years later you get an entire museum built for you.
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  4402. I love that you used the picture of Peter O’Toole for Henry. ;)
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  4403. Where should I start with your fiction? I’m into Neolithic stories as well as the early copper age.
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  4404. Fantastic stuff here. I think you pick great topics. I especially liked the Vlad piece you did and have watched it a few times. I find both Vlad and that geographic area just fascinating. Hello from the US.
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  4405. Великие предки Иранского народа.!
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  4406. A very well made video, congratulations
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  4407. This is fantastic content as usual Dan. It's like proper telly before it went woefully shit & cringe.
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  4408. Thank you Dan!
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  4409. I would think the bigger house represents the patriarch or matriarch of the family and they would represents the family in the counsel.
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  4410. The German single horned helmet of WW1 !! Instantly recognisable. The two side bolts on the Stahlheim provided ventilation. Two known scenarios. Unfortunately horns are not the done thing with military these days. Shame really. Great video.
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  4411. The old evil twin motif come's to mind.
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  4412. Wondering if the burning of houses was about non-microbial pests such as rodents and insects?
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  4413. Fascinating review in europes ancient peoples hairstyles and societies rites of passage in some groups. I'd love one on clothing, and tattooing. A pure pleasure, thank you.
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  4414. This is most interesting and educational. I am currently doing research for my first attempt at writing a novel, and your video helped me so much. Thanks!
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  4415. Thank you. I love their ceramics. These long winding patterns, similar to zen gardens, seem to hint that they had plenty of time to reflect. The patterns also remind me a bit of the patterns found in Ireland.
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  4416. Great work and a nice voice to listen to. Thank you!
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  4417. I am genuinely so pleased I came across your channel mate. Not only is there a distinct lack of content about these time periods on Youtube but it is presented in a non-childish manner (not that there's anything wrong with that but its a breath of fresh air) with a focus on evidence and linking lots of things together. As a bonus you also write books which I cannot wait to check out as they sound like they are right up my street. Thanks for what you do mate all the best.
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  4418. WHGs love nutella and escargot!
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  4419. Great video Very interesting
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  4420. Love the content but that thumbnail is not Bronze Age
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  4421. Great work bro!
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  4422. Food for thought
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  4423. 👍👍👍
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  4424. brilliant vid mate
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  4425. starts at the beginning and finishes at the end. you make the in between understandable. thank yew
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  4426. Brilliant! Completely, absolutely brilliant. Thank you. Great artifacts, excellently written and executed & a surprisingly engaging subject. Well done 💗🍀😊
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  4427. Excellent as always.
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  4428. Just found your videos quality content thanks for shining light on this interesting culture.
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  4429. Furries will be furries .
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  4430. Thanks
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  4431. you should search about the settlements called Sesklo and Dimini in Thessaly greece...in my city's museum there are tools and weapons from that era plus there are various weapons dating from 3000 bc....dont forget that the first "kingdoms" in greece (thessalian/magnesian/boivian etc date back to that era...congratz on the content of the video man!!!greetings and keep going strong
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  4432. The parallels to the change in settlement patterns and land use in late Roman Iron Age Anglia and Jutland are massive - concentration from smaller settlements to larger ones, then a mass exodus of 80%+ of the population. (In case of the Angles to Lower Saxony between Elbe and Ems before arriving in East Anglia and Northumberland.)
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  4433. Thank you for this! I have tried to understand St. George and the dragon but I find mythology to be exceedingly tedious and boring. Simplicity always led to the thought, "A dragon in Britain? REALLY???? What's the basis for that?!?" And yet St. George is still a revered figure.....etc.... (Forgive me, but Harry Potter slew the basilisk..... I understand that one.) ;-)
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  4434. What if the common thread across cultures was Aurochs, which were great powerful bulls! The wearer saying, "See, I am a great powerful bull too!"
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  4435. Nice to see Graman's wonderful artwork featuring in your vids, a crossover made in Valhalla ✊🏻
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  4436. I thought I knew a lot about this disease and its history. This genetic research is amazing.
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  4437. Wonderful Videos
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  4438. Mr. Davis, this is the absolute best video I've seen on Otzi. It greatly surpasses big budget shows in informative content. Tha k you so very much.
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  4439. Thank you.
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  4440. This channel should be the history class. Man, your videos are shaping both my TTRPG and my novel.
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  4441. Great video! Merry Christmas!
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  4442. I find so little information on theses early cultures and suddenly I have found your videos. In 7th Heaven.
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  4443.  @DanDavisHistory  please do! And hemp oil!
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  4444.  @nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115  im no geneticist but my understanding is Sardinians were mostly of Neolithic farmer type ancestry
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  4445.  @nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115  Sardinians still have minor Steppe ancestry, around 10%, and R1b-L51/M269 is still not uncommon among Sardinian males, it’s roughly the second most common male haplogroup there, so Sardinians have Indo-European ancestry too.
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  4446. A very knowledgeable Author, thanks for sharing this well-researched video.
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  4447. I found your channel a few days ago. Bravo! I love the detail, presentation and the humility of narration you demonstrate. As my avatar suggests, my channel is about car history yet that history begins with the technologies of mankind- from the paleolithic and beyond- and I've gone there a few times myself on the specials I do monthly. I suspect that perhaps we could have fun in a collaboration some day... Peace!
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  4448. Another great documentary. I liked the imaginative description at the start. It's also interesting to see how Bronze Age Peoples of the Mediterranean would plunder the ancient tombs of enemy peoples. I am familiar with the topic concerning ancient Egypt, but not so much about the rest of the Bronze Age near east & Aegean.
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  4449. You just can’t keep those Italians and their elaborately decorated ridiculously crested helmets apart from each other huh…
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  4450. I can’t wait to hear a video of yours on the bell beakers
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  4451. Mr. Davis, enjoyed your story of the transition from Mesolithic to Neolithic. you mention the strange speed of spread all across the British Isles of the "farmers": consider that their use of timber from land clearing for their vertical timber "longhouses", It would be lucky to last for fifty years from the decay of the wood, which would force them to move on to a new source of timber for their buildings.
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  4452. Outstanding! I thoroughy enjoyed this presentation. Fantastic job, Mr. Davis, and thank you!
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  4453. this is the best kind of shameless plug :) ...........i gonna buy one of your books
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  4454. Remains of several persons from the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture were DNA tested recently and they turned out to be mostly the same Y DNA haplogroup as most other Neolithic Europe cultures - G2a2b. Nowadays this is a major haplogroup among Western Caucasian ethnicity of Circassians. Besides being mostly G2a2b Circassians, as well as Cucuteni–Trypillia people, speak a non-Indo-Europen language.
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  4455. These are the ancestors of my ancestors the Thracians and the Bulgars!!The horse was everything for them!!Sadly they did not have writing to leave us some stories!!
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  4456. 1st.... thanks for another interesting video
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  4457. Any idea when the sails first popped up on Scandinavian boats? I think I read somewhere that they might have taken the idea from the roman river patrol boats.
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  4458. Spartans did the same and became warriors .
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  4459. I've never really had much interest in this period of human history until watching you. Great video.
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  4460. in the new world, especially southern north america and the west indies, pre-colombian polished stone axes (both large and small are called "celts") were often called thunder stones or lightning stones when found in farmers' fields ... yes, thought to be from lightening strikes ...
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  4461. I love to see this ... People Need too understand the Sardinia Is not Italy ... We have totaly different heritage and different leguage
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  4462. You forgot about Perun, Slavic thunder god.
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  4463.  @DanDavisHistory  cool. Us Slavs need some love to :)
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  4464. That was a great video! Thank You!
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  4465. Would these people have been the source of the substratum in Germanic languages? I wish there was any way we could’ve seen pre-IE languages besides Basque
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  4466. Not "Trypilla" but "Tripolie" (phonetically "treepolye" - means "three fields" in russian/ukrainian)
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  4467. Very interesting! Thank you for this great story!
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  4468. Did a double take when you referred to the 'Maykop Culture' haha
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  4469. 2nd time listening. Powerful
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  4470. I gotta say your videos are the only videos I’ve found on YouTube that are worth rewatching. Simply great videos of history
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  4471. I used to spend a lot of time just to the left of the frame of the thumbnail. When I was a child, the water level of the lake had been lowered a decade earlier, and the wooden posts left by the stone age huts became visible, some of them on the shore. The archeological site had not been fenced off yet, and we sometime played between the ancient remains.
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  4472. This is exactly what I've been looking for. I'm fascinated by the mysterious peoples of prehistory, ancient migrations and the like so I think I'm in the right place.
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  4473. Well done again mate. I have a shillelagh and that really looked like one
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  4474. Your videos keep getting better guy. The scenes really put the point across. some pretty funny and clever visuals
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  4475. All around Incredible production- Captivating, moving, educational...remarkable
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  4476. Hopefully next year I'll be able to visit one of these sites. I'm a 'lithic' type but love the copper/bronze age as well. Have you done any research into the bronze age in China and SE Asia? Amazing works there.
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  4477. I'll bet that some amazing weed. What? Cannibals? Nevermind
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  4478. This kind of content is what the world needs.
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  4479. If an ambitious exploration is to be done in the future, I'd be honored to be a part of it.
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  4480. Honestly, when scientists finish experimenting on his body, and they think they've learned all they can, I genuinely hope they bury him in the same way people at that time period would have been
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  4481. Awesome video! I need to learn more about the bronze age in Europe, its been a big gap in my interest between the Neolithic and Classical/Iron age. I'm drafting a speculative script about the great WHG resurgence in Europe, but probably won't be able to animate it till this winter.
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  4482. yes rather good it was .. .. ..
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  4483. Every time I seen the smile ya put on Vlads face I cackled like a madman 🤣
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  4484. So, is it possible that the male lineages of Europe were reduced more by the plague than the female lineages? Are we certain that the plague wasn't used as a weapon?
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  4485. I'm an amateur student of history and this video was very enlightening. Thank you. Great content. The beaker people really caught my attention as not much is known of them.
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  4486. I just finished God born. I feel compelled to tell you that it is very powerfully written and it is exactly the sort of thing we need in this day and age.
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  4487. I think the soldier in the picture is, at the time, LT Dick Winters from the US 101 parachute division.
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  4488. Yessssss. 👏👏👏 Thanks for the video!
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  4489. most enjoyable video. thank you for posting
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  4490. Great story!
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  4491. This is all very interesting, but the fact you haven't yet connected this battle to aliens is utterly baffling.
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  4492. Anyway You should check out world's oldest pants vid. Pants were made for riding horses. It is from Eastern Steppe. around 3000 years ago. Some how comment got censor with vid link. So second time posting without vid link.
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  4493. Great video for a great man!
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  4494. Thank you again.
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  4495. I already listened to this the moment it came out, not literally, but close. I also think I found your book on audible (godborn?) and I’m gonna have to check it out as soon as I finish the skull throne which I’m not at all sure Im enjoying yet but the narrator is so good. I Love your content! Thank you very much for all this knowledge in an easily digestible format.
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  4496. I have already written this elsewhere. There is an archaeological culture in southern Russia which is dated around the year 5000 BC and is called Samara culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samara_culture And then there is the Samarra culture dated around the same time in Iraq. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samarra_culture I just refuse to believe this similarity in name and time is a coincidence. Cimmerians, Sumerians - there has to be a connection.
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  4497. Who is actually producing your videos? The very subtle drums coming in after 1:44 were very powerful. If you're doing all this editing and sound stuff yourself, good job, but if it's someone else, also good job, hope they're getting paid good!
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  4498. Thoughtful and challenging on the previously perceived.
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  4499. Post- otzi culture
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  4500.  @DanDavisHistory  It would be interesting comparing a map of sites and sizes of Villanovan places and the earlier Terramare. A number of scenarios are possible. The Terramare fled southeast and joined the Sea Peoples, leaving their lands open for the Villanovans to move into. Or, a gradual mingling of Terramarre and proto-Villanovan leading to a Terramare substrate to the eventual developed Etruscan (Rasna) culture.
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  4501. This is fascinating!
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  4502. Kuru was a disease passed to tribal people in New Guinea by eating human brains, it caused tremors because excess proteins ingested accumulated in the brains of those eating them. It stands to reason this happened to any population practicing cannibalism so that's the biggest reason such an aversion developed.
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  4503. Thanks!
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  4504. Love this history😁🇳🇴
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  4505. Thank you for Sharing.You also have a nice voice and delivery. Im intetested in learning about this sort of History,so its great to listen to you. Thank you.
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  4506. what about the site of kamnaya mogila in ukraine, which has a large kurgan, and pits dug in the shape of what could be indra's club?
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  4507. 2d time I watched this. Bravo
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  4508. I dig what you said about the image of the laboring farmer, clearing lands, turning the sod, sewing and reaping, the scent of the good soil, these are things special to me.
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  4509. If the boys were made to kill a beloved dog before they could become effective warriors, this isn’t just ceremonial. Most humans have an aversion to killing other humans and pets—this is a desensitization ritual.
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  4510. I just stumbled across your channel, and I want you to know this is very much my jam. And I am very interested in picking up some of your books now
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  4511. Awsome!!cheers from Paraguay my friend!! It is great to see your videos
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  4512. I want to see some bronze age armor!
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  4513. Love this channel
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  4514. My Like and Comment, Thanbk you for such a great and informative videos. Love it.
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  4515. You are such a good teacher and your voice is pure gold. 👏👏👏
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  4516. Another amazing video!
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  4517. I don't know, but Khvalynsk doesn't sound a great deal different to Chevalier or Chavrale'. Apple's don't fall far from the tree.
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  4518. This was a fascinating video.
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  4519. I don't like where we came from. But I appreciate how important it is and how influential it is today.
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  4520. this culture is SO amazing and undervalued it makes my head explode !!!
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  4521. 16:43 On the cities and their populations: You need a lot of agriculture to feed that many people. One hektar feeds approx. 4 people.
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  4522. 28:20 good god that's savage 😳
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  4523. This deserves a tv series
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  4524. You can't stop me listening to you!
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  4525. I go to this channel every night to help me sleep. Your voice is amazingly calming and I feel like I'm getting smarter listening to you haha
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  4526. Don't worry Dan, I can keep it a secret for now.👍
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  4527. The original coomers Great video, as always! Love your work.
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  4528. Thumbs up & saved! Can’t wait to watch 🍁🌟!!
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  4529. This was an interesting video for me. Since I believe in reincarnation, it is an example, of how people behaved, that didn't. It seems they were crazy, but justified that. And ramifications of that, have survived to present day. Now tho, most people have lost all moral compass. They believe, in only the present time, and life. This makes people extremely greedy, and so, causing havoc in societies, and the environment.
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  4530. I am reading this book Poland by James Michener.. although it does not address the domestication of horses, it tells about the invasion of Polish villages and towns by Tatar people from Asia (Mongolia) who were considered very good horse riders, in fact, that was the key for their success. The dates for such events occurred in the 8th century.. interesting to come across your documentary, which I enjoyed it much and made me think about the matter of domestication of animals and the skills developed by people at early ages of human moves, thanks. I see things from the veterinary perspective as it is important to take into account historical events to understand present times..
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  4531. I am surprised that Arbor Low, atop that Derbyshire high plain has not been included in this excellent video. Thank you again for another thought provoking, educational highlight of my week.
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  4532. I've often wondered if the Archer were not an important emissary from the Alps or maybe he came with a group and died unexpectedly was buried with all his accoutrements because of his status. Could he have been a mercenary ? The Alps is a really long way on land plus a channel of the sea or is it ? It might be less daunting a journey if one goes down the Rhine and across the English Channel by a decent sized vessel.
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  4533. I just adore this.
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  4534. Thankyou for yet another great video about a lesser known ancient culture. You're doing a great job not letting this information and their history get forgotten. 👏 🤩
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  4535. Absolutely fascinating!! Thank you so much. Stoked to learn about the topics at the end of the video
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  4536. Such interesting content!
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  4537. Damn, that's from my country Kazakhstan. Very nice
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  4538. How about the celtic invation in balkans :)
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  4539. Your videos and books (gods of bronze series) are amazing. I look forward to your future works. Thank you for your works
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  4540. Congratulations on your fantastic channel.
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  4541. i never miss your uploads Dan, much love
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  4542. My first impression reminds me of Scottish Brochs off the Iron Age. Great video, love the mix of video and maps.
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  4543. Couldn't help but notice a Polish map around 12:40 ("Ludy Morza" means Sea Peoples and "Dorowie" are just Dorians) ;)
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  4544. 32:10 And so I shall ... Yep, that would quench anyone's thirst!
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  4545. Damn that some hardcore research into Vlad 👌
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  4546. i vote yes on the armor vid.
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  4547. This is an Excellent documentary! Fascinating content, and really well done!
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  4548.  @DanDavisHistory  soon they’ll be fighting each other to see who can get the most holes drilled into their heads. 😂💉😂💉😂💉😉
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  4549. Hi Dan, just a quick note. Have you looked into the relationship between these “kor” “kur” “kl” groups and whiteness (lepus, lupus and alb, alf, ulf) connected to both the dead and the stars? You may have likely read it but an interesting book with some discussion of the werewolf cults is Homonecans by Walter Burkertt. Thanks Dan. Great video.
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  4550. It's absolutely breathtaking!!
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  4551. What an incredible story thank you for bringing it to us
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  4552. Particularly nice narration Dan. Reminiscent of David Wenham in 300.
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  4553.  @DanDavisHistory  I gave you a sub looking forward for more videos Dan :)) Really amazing job
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  4554. I can’t be the only one pretending I’m listening to Trevor Belmont lecturing me on the reign of his lifelong enemy and wondering when Alucard is going to make an appearance?
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  4555. I got an ad about solving world hunger while watching this video
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  4556. Are you implying they were hobbits?
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  4557. Samurai had CRAZY helmet decorations with everything from sunbursts to crescents crazy lion mane 80's hair styles to whole-ass dragons to, yes, horns. Sometimes people just gotta show off lol
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  4558. Regarding Fontbregoua Cave - It sounds to me as if what is being dug up is evidence of ownership changes over time. A new group decides they would like to live in the cave, they storm in and massacre the current inhabitants. When the dust settles there are plenty of available calories lying around on the ground, so why waste time and energy going hunting ? Years pass, the owners' group weakens to the point of becoming easy pickings for another larger group - rinse and repeat... It would be interesting to know whether such caves were in short supply and therefore we are seeing competition for a scarce accomodation resource, or whether when you went hunting you just went looking for the easiest calories you could find without drawing much distinction between the different sources...
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  4559. PERKUNOS is Slavic God PERUN , also called ILIYA ( Ilija) hence name for tribe Ilyrians in Balkan and ILYADA of Homer.
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  4560. at long last, finally a channel with real world historical accounts. thank you
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  4561.  @DanDavisHistory  A cereal diet do not provide enough vitamin D to survive long term ( immune defense , child birth, bone formation ) in NW Europe: pale skin is a necessary adaptation. If your diet is based off marine fish and mammals you will get in from there and be OK, like Inuits
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  4562. 5,400 is a lot of Royal Guards. Excellent video. Thanks!
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  4563. Unbelievable content!! ❤️ I came across your videos today & i have been binge watching the great content you offer. Much appreciated mate keep up the awesome work 😊👍
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  4564. I love you dan, youre videos are so well made. I would read transcripts of your vides to my girlfriend when she couldnt sleep, it was so wholesome.
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  4565. Cucuteni trypillia sounds like something your Doctor would gently break the news of to you...
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  4566. greqt video as always, thank you very much!
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  4567. When I listen to your videos really makes me live it up , keep it up , love it.
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  4568. Do horses always come with stunning young women stroking their manes? You must have had some fun sourcing that footage.
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  4569. Love your videos! Watching them feels like a mental timetravel into the ancient world!
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  4570. Zeus fighting Typhon. Thor fighting Jörmungandr. Marduk and Tiamat Even Yahweh slew a great serpent in order to create the world. What could be the origin of all of these similarities.
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  4571.  @DanDavisHistory  understand... still, your work is excellent. I am in the biz myself (writing and DNA work), and I tip my hat to you.
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  4572. Based on my quick, not particularly thorough or careful reading of The Horse, the Wheel, and Language, isn't the fraction of graves tiny compared to the populace? Maybe if you didn't survive the trepanation you were not judged to be worthy of burial? This seems like it could add a lot of uncertainty in survival rates.
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  4573. 19:40 bare back riding of a horse isn't good for the horse, it's okay for short periods especially if you mostly walk the animal rather than using it for speed, that dip in their back where we place the saddle doesn't have much padding for protection against repeated pounding of a rider's weight. A full sized man's weight can cause damage to the horse's spine over prolonged periods which is why saddles are designed to displace weight and take it off of the spine itself. I can easily understand why early riders would try to avoid riding where their weight could do damage, so they slid forward or slid back off of the vulnerable areas. Not to mention~ the rider's butt bouncing off bone gets a bit ouchy after a short while; quite jarring to butt and spine.
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  4574. Gods I love your videos lol
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  4575. Can’t wait to watch 🌟🌼😊!!!
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  4576. I so want to believe giants built these tombs. But the reality is, all the human remains found here averaged about 5'4" or 162 cm.
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  4577. 🅱🆁🅸🅻🅻🅸🅰🅽🆃 🆅🅸🅳🅴🅾 👌
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  4578. This got to be the best history video ever made! Thank you for your work!
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  4579. Who isnt interested in bronze age armour?
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  4580. I would love a video on the wild hunt it seems very fascinating.
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  4581. so what happened to them was that they became the Iranians, Brahmins and the Schytians
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  4582. Perkwunos= Perun 😉
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  4583. I love it when I discover a good new history channel, especially when it’s well researched and intelligently written! Great stuff.
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  4584. Thanks for your time and work you put in your video’s.
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  4585. YES CAVEMAN CONQUEST I mean stone age
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  4586. I had heard the name, but I thought El Cid was a Mexican hero. I don't know why, probably he was mentioned in some Western cowboy movie I watched as a kid. Thanks for this amazing story!
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  4587. Algorithm comment cuz!
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  4588. Big fan of Bernard Cornwell, I haven't been this excited to jump into a series since I read an Archers Tale almost 20 years ago. Payday can't get here soon enough!
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  4589. Amazing video. Knowing these were probably some of my ancestors just fascinates me.
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  4590. Best channel
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  4591. Thanks for the ❤ mate, I really appreciate it.
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  4592. I like how the two males are fighting and all the other horses are just ignoring them to graze lol.
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  4593. Considering how rare, precious, and needed for everything bronze generally was, I'm surprised this much armor has been found
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  4594. Amazing how everyone had the same problem: "there is/are dog(s) blocking the way to the land of the dead" and different tribes came to different solutions like fight the dog(s) or bribe the dog(s) or bring along your own dog(s) to fight the dog(s).
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  4595. "If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a Jøtun's skull!"-Thor
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  4596. Major Rick winters brah. My role model for leadership.
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  4597. That intro.
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  4598. Anything can be used to kill ... multi used tool..my guess ... I would bet they were used to kill game and human a like and to be then used as a regular mallet for a mundane task ...
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  4599. 55:33 Dracula saying cheeeeeesee. Lol! Thanks for the wonderful video, I knew he was slightly crazy but there was a whole basement of crazy I didn't know about.
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  4600. Have you read Arthur Cotterell's book "Chariot: The astounding rise and fall of the world's first war machine"? There is a lot in there that few people know about, such as the ancient Chinese also using chariots for hundreds of years during and after their Spring and Autumn period of wars (770-481 BC). Chariots had not dominated Middle-Eastern battlefields for hundreds of years at that point. Mostly due to foot-archers and infantry 'runners'.
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  4601. Do you have your book on audible?
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  4602. It's great to listen to your uploads Dan. I'd never really recognized how immersive your images were. Thank you.
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  4603. Hi Dan, if I heard you write you mention a fore boy, 1910. I would be interested in the source. First contact in Okapa is generally taken as 1953. I was adopted into a Fore Clan. Hence my interest.
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  4604. That was a perfect advertiser 😅
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  4605. This is a case for Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer to solve!
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  4606. Just came upon your channel this morning and, im definitely impressed! Fantastic content
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  4607. I do wonder about some of this. The coincidence of the shape, wrapping, and character of the metal of the Yamnaya copper object with the vajra is intriguing. (And I had to check the bit in Anthony about it. Pity he only devotes 1 or 2 paragraphs to it.) But was it an actual weapon? The trouble is that, as you know, copper is quite soft. Early copper objects were sometimes simply cold-hammered into shape from copper nuggets. It doesn't really stand up to pounding at all or any kind of bending stress at all. (This is, I think, one reason why we have a Chalcolithic/Eneolithic rather than a Copper Age. Its utility was limited until it was discovered how to harden it, making it into bronze.) The club from the Kutuluk kurgan seems to have been properly smelted and forged, but still: How could a copper club of that weight see any sort of use as a weapon and still retain its shape? Granted that it's probably still harder than a human skull, I'd expect even the momentum of swinging it around to deform it between the handle and the head. A person of ordinary strength could probably bend it right in half without much effort. But as a ceremonial symbol of authority derived from a club? That's another story. There are numerous parallels throughout all history, from the Scorpion macehead of Protodynastic Egypt to the maces of the UK Parliament. Still, very suggestive. I meant to remark on the difficulty of distinguishing the sky-god and the thunderer, focusing on the crossover in attributes and the lack of some attributes we might expect in some, but it was turning into a novel.
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  4608. i did not know about this thank you my surname is malenab austronesian ancestors they still live on with the peoples this is so interesting i almost worship my ancestors all saints day etc thank you again and cheers with mead
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  4609. this doc is refreshing after watching a bit of national geographics appalling one. good work thanks
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  4610. Looking forward to this
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  4611. It was like 'The Many Faces of Wim Hoff'...the reconstruction looks like the other Iceman.
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  4612. Arya Akasha recommended you, and I'm glad he did. Great channel!
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  4613. Lautaro of the Mapuche was the greatest guerrilla leader. But this William of Cressingham rocks.
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  4614.  @Anna-tj7mp  Viriathus the leader of the Lusitanians of Preportugal was one of the best at guerilla warfare taking on the Romans many times.. look him up.
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  4615. Great video! I loved the picture you used for Radu 😂
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  4616. "sorry, i gotta talk about how it kills people... anyway buboes the size of apples" *woman bites into apple* LOL sorry my ass
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  4617. Great content
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  4618. What could one add except, BRILLIANT!
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  4619. Wow, you guys with your facts and science. 🤞
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  4620. Hello sir, In Latvia they found a guy who died from proto black blague 5000 years ago, they say he is oldest know person who have died from this type of ilness https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57658859
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  4621. The Venus of Willendorf and others like that seem to represent the bodies of women who have already born children and have now entered their post bearing era of life. Perhaps the different shapes of the statues represent the maiden, mother, crone aspects of woman
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  4622. It could be the long horns were originally from bull aurochs.
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  4623. I could listen to you read the Illiad all day
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  4624. Smiling Ötzi is cursed Ötzi
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  4625. bro u are spoiling us god damn
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  4626. In histical Judaism and Christianity the person is also a soul first and has a body subordinate to the soul. In fact, everything spiritual has primacy.
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  4627. What a great story of a great man. Beautifully read and beautifully put together with music and graphics. Well done. It is a credit to you. Australia
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  4628. Excellent video! Will you be doing a video on the bell beaker culture?
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  4629. I don't think the argument that horns make helmets impractical holds as much water as people make it out to. Some affluent samurai in Japan wore helmets with horns or antlers attached. It's not just about physical practicality in battle; weapons and armor are signs of status and wealth as well, and can reference cultural and religious imagery.
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  4630. He married his second wife in the All Saints Church in Monksilver, Somerset. ~England. Perhaps this could be inserted in your video too? Great video though. I've now subscribed. Thanks !
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  4631. Mr Snowflake and the Del Rey Misfits music!! Seriously though, nice video and THANK YOU for saying BC and not BCE!!
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  4632. I'd like to consider some mythological and semi historical sources for this as well. The Greeks with their blessed written sources have the mythological creature the Centaur, which are likely a mythologised version of a mounted warrior, or at least a mounted herder or hunter. Given the Centaur's appear in several well known and recorded myths they should be a well established and thus old concept for even for these early written sources. The early Greek world's proximity to Anatolia rather than the eurasian steppes would also suggest that horseback riding was practiced even earlier than it was first seen or heard of by the early Greeks. If I'm not mistaken, the Scythians are known to have been a nomadic and very much mounted people which were present in the western steppe region as early as 1400 BC. There also seem to be some certainty that the later Schythian tribes in fact had mounted warriors and widely practiced mounted warfare at least in the eighth or ninth century BC. Given all of the above, I think it is fairly certain that horseback riding was first practiced very early, if only first as a mode of transport. Tangentially, though I have little to no basis in saying this, I like to think that horses were used as pack-animals very earl on, almost as soon as herding/domestication began. Then it is not too far fetched that a person leading a horse along while it carries the family's belongings on its back, would also put their younger child there so they needn't travel to new pasture on foot. When a son would grow up to a man, perhaps he would not like to stop riding the horse around, learning to control the animal with his knees and heels as we know I possible, if difficult. When the time came for the adolescent to go through his rituals for manhood, perhaps something very similar to the Koryos you have described yourself in earlier videos, he might have carried out raids or even battles from the back of his long time companion...
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  4633. Lithuanian: Perkūnas, Latvian: Pērkons, Old Prussian: Perkūns, Perkunos, Yotvingian: Parkuns, Latgalian: Pārkiuņs - all the names of thunder gods. In Estonian it is also Pikker and thunder is pikne.
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  4634. Fair, sir. When returning from the ‘Ghan, we were subjected to”decompression “ outside the homeland before we could be safely reintegrated , so as not to be at full war mode when we returned
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  4635. You have a wonderful channel, with superb content; I salute you, Sir !
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  4636. "Strands of evidence?" Ha!
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  4637. Awesome! Watched it twice 😊!!
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  4638. Lunch time!
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  4639. I support this scientific proposal to reclassify Otzi as a complete Chad. Fantastic research and composition as always.
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  4640. I see it much more like car racing today. Simple adrenaline based pleasures born out of the boredom of an organized and "safe" society. Their ancestors hunted and or gathered for every meal and that thrill seeking gene STILL survives today.
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  4641. One thing than bothers me, was it possible to ride horses in 3000 bc? They were quite small animals back then, I would imagine that a big warrior would just crush such a horse under his weight
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  4642. Thanks for the timeline emphasis. It really helped to keep it all in perspective. Outstanding work. Thanks.
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  4643. Wouldn't they be asian looking if they came from the Asian steppes?
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  4644. What a fantastic vid. Thanks!
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  4645. I would like to see a video on the Vinča culture.
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  4646. Greit story my last name is also Draksas 😊
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  4647. Offerings would also be left for these group ceremonies (there's always a mom somewhere). Usually treats. There are still echoes of this ancient tradition.
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  4648. Beautiful narration!
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  4649. Beautiful History! Thank you for your contributions of knowledge to us All!
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  4650. There was a light cavalry from Africa (can't remember their name) that was used by the Romans who used no tack other than a circle of rope around their horses' neck. This shows that it is possible to be a very effective military force without using any bridle or saddle.
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  4651. The similar practices of wearing horned headdresses among Native Americans and those found at Star Carr also shows a connection.
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  4652. I guess the simplest way to look at Otsi's death is., why would someone pursue and kill a man? One of the very strong possibilities is a punishment/revenge for a crime/terrible act. He could have murdered, or harmed a family member or something similar. Essentially, we are the same people now as we were then emotionally speaking.
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  4653. “Few strands of evidence”- caught that! 😁
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  4654. Good shit. I'll be checking out your novel thanks to your wonderful historical documentary. Keep up the good work, mate.
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  4655. Simply fascinating! This was an amazing upload thank you! Going to go watch Bram Stokers Dracula now to compliment it!
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  4656. Lovely!!
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  4657. love your videos so much
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  4658. What a brilliant video Sir. Do not much like horses, but now I see the picture of their impact on humans. Thank you.
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  4659. Another fantastic video! One of my favorite YouTube channels.
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  4660. What an astoundingly well done documentary.
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  4661. I’m confused about something. So blond hair was not found in WHG or EHG but when they mixed in SHG it emerged? Same question applies to Funnel Beaker Culture regarding WHG and Anatolian Farmer? Wouldn’t recessive genes be even less prevalent after mixing instead of more prevalent unless certain genes were purposefully selected for? Does Red hair follow the same pattern?
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  4662.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks for clearing that up because in the graphic in the video it looks like the EHG gentleman had light brown hair.
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  4663.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks! Did ANE have blue eyes at all or did that only come from WHG?
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  4664. His eyes might've been brown, but I don't think he was very much different than me, judging by his general description. My family tree is in Wales, but I'm in America now.
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  4665. Full video about the stone tomb complex please.
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  4666. It made me cry this is beautiful thanks for opening my eyes
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  4667. your channel is great. love your each presentation. :)
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  4668. Bro you did a fantastic job with this story.
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  4669. So glad i found this channel, I wish I did sooner though. Keep the videos coming man! ✌️
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  4670. Thank you interesting and informative
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  4671. Finally 👏🏼 very good!
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  4672. I found David Anthony’s (and his wife’s) work quite compelling and convincing.
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  4673. Really enjoyed this. You have a great delivery and this is an amazing topic.
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  4674. Subscribed. It's a deep, objective and well illustrated analysis. Great work.
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  4675. Very familiar with Mediterranean Bronze age, I'm hearing this for the 1st time very fascinating. Ty
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  4676. excellent stuff
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  4677. If you”re not an historian, you seam to be! I am am amateur and it”s the first time I saw such an cronologie well done for what is called “celtic “ world. Thank you !
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  4678. Does anyone know the background music used in this video? Particularly the flute song! Another great video Dan Davis! The Medieval era is my favorite in all of history, and I hope to be able to teach medieval history one day. I hope to see more medieval content!! *love your other content too though
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  4679. Watched again, and couldn't leave another thumbs up. Figured this'll do just as well. Thanks for another interesting and insightful video.
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  4680. Nice one, cobber.👍
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  4681. So when Otzi was killed and his body was left were he fell. His body then froze and was covered over by snow and ice. But instead of his body being revealed once again during the next season of warmth and snow melt that would have thawed him out and left his lifeless body exposed once again to the elements, animals and decay, the next season of warmth never came and didn't come for thousands of years causing his remains to stay frozen and covered with even more snow and ice, preserving his body for thousands and thousands of years until Earth's recent warming cycle caused enough ice melt to reveal his body which hikers found in 1991. What are the odds? That is amazing!
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  4682. Yes, very interested in the Bronze Age warrior armor & if there was a quilted type of fabric worn beneath their armor. What kinds of stitches, threads, fabric & tools were used?. Have recently learned about the Japanese Sashiko method of stitching their fabrics together (special stitches/threads used) to be worn underneath the warrior's armor... Wondering if quilted underclothing was designed, made & worn beneath these warriors' armor... my interests are in quiltmaking, & learning about historical clothing made using different kinds of fabrics & stitches used. Also, wondering about the what the needles were made of & when the "steel" ones used now were made. Thanks.
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  4683. As an iranian I'm very interested in how my ancestors came to dominate the platou with them almost erasing the natives from the land.
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  4684. Hi! Just found you! New subscriber over here!
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  4685. This is probably my favourite of your videos. They're all dope though.
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  4686. Finally! ❤
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  4687. Cracking video 👏👏
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  4688. You could do a video on otzi and about the culture he belongs.
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  4689. Great presented. Love it very much, also since I too are using many of what you explained here in my own books. Thanks for sharing your exellent knowledge about this topic.
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  4690. Trojus the boar. The eternal Belum Garos, man's war against the bear. A near run thing.
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  4691. The grass cape was frayed at the bottom so he could sit down without it pushing up on it
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  4692. Fantastic content as always
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  4693. Elizabeth l ... our greatest Queen.
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  4694. GIVE THIS MAN MORE LIKES OR ELSE MY STEPPE RIDER HORDE WILL RAID YOU
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  4695. beautiful maps
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  4696. Some of the best content available today
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  4697. Man ever damn video is bad ass! Your getting very good at this and Ive liked your channel for a while now and you keep surprising me with good material. I literally was look on YT for this same topic and there your channel is again. So anyways man keep kickin ass! I cant wait for you to do a deep dive on our ancestors Breton Celts! Like id love to see something on the Welsh way before rome or the Cymry. Or the North East Breton wink wink. not really subtle but it would be cool. Keep up the good work my man
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  4698. Greetings from a Nuragic lady deep in the mountains of Sardinia
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  4699. Your videos are events for me now.
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  4700. Beautifully presented and really enjoyable.
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  4701. A tour de force of academic rigor... among the best on YouTube by far, and entertaining narration. Tks so much. It’s really an amazing talent you have for story telling
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  4702. Adding a great orthodoxchurch to represant medieval britain
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  4703. I really love your skepticism here, really one of the reasons why I love your channel. I'm not entirely convinced by the rock carvings cited are really that great evidence for sail, even though this topic is really interesting and it is a really good inquiry to explore! However, I think the shapes on the boats of the rock carvings, cited in this paper do not necessarily have to represent sails, at least not all of them. The carvings in the study are taken out of their contexts. I think many of these lines that are thought to be a sail could refer to events happening on a boat, either mythical or real. Like something being carried on a boat. Many scholars here in Sweden agree that many Bronze age rock carvings in our country, often are narrative, sort like a comic book. One myth often depicted on Swedish Bronze age carvings (and in other European countries) is the story of the moon (and/or the sun) being stolen by someone (a god or evil being) and put on a ship, then often being hidden in the sea. This myth is probably depicted on many of these carvings but interpreted as "a sail". The stealing of the moon is very probably featured on the Kivik grave carvings. In Finnish mythology the stealing of the "Sampo" - a mystical machine, is a similar myth (where the Sampo ends up on the bottom of the sea and spews out gold and salt). I think this study "cherry picks" several carvings out of their narrative, but I understand it's a very hard thing to study as we do not have the "correct" interpretations of the carvings. They are most likely lost in time forever. However: people who know this stuff should really go ahead and study it further!
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  4704. Our ancestors
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  4705. I wonder what the battle was about
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  4706. Wow. Thank you. Fascinating. Any genetic footprint left behind by the Terramare people?
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  4707. As a horseman for 50 years, I can say, that hardware isn't needed to ride or control a horse. Saddles, reins, bits, stirrups, spurs, shoes, etc were developed over the centuries to expand and enhance the horse's use. I think, that the best theory is, because prehistoric Humans likely goofed around as much or more as us "civilized" descendants, horseback riding began as a "Hey. Watch this" exercise by some guy goofing around with his buddies and riding a horse "piggyback", as if they were a child on their father's shoulders. Then his buddies, competitive as guys are, when it comes to goofing around, tried to one up eachother, and see who could ride the longer distance without falling off, etc.
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  4708. Great Job, again. Love your work. Thank you.
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  4709. I often think the war God for these farmers could be derived from the hunter gatherers and they have a farmer Goddess from the farmer side in a fertility cult.
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  4710. In my country was a more complex situation. First of all, Yamnaia people met probably the most advanced eneolithic and chalcolithic civilization in Europe ever. They mixed with the locals, nevertheless, but, curiously enough, they seemed to prefere the high tops of the plains and hills where they practice, till the present days, transhumance...
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  4711. It was a wonderful historical coverage video about English pirates ☠️ ( Fransce Drake) who harassed Spanish fleets in the Caribbean sea bravery through competition and clashed between English protestations and Catholic doctrine ...
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  4712.  @DanDavisHistory  Iceland is a good place to start looking.
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  4713. I love your videos ❤️❤️ Thank you for being skeptical and wary with regards to evidence. It really sets your work apart!
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  4714. Commenting to boost algorithm engagement
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  4715. I have G2a2b haplogroup, the same as Otzi- Iceman DNA.
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  4716. ahhhhhmazing!! so elucidating in regards to the present state of affairs called modern living.
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  4717. This is so set up for a 3 series book.
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  4718. Another great video! I do think early horse riding existed but for transport, it seems to me that the chariot was the development that first made horses feasible for battle, but who is to say you couldn't ride in and dismount to fight. Sort of like a bronze age dragoon. Again love these videos, can hardly wait to see the next one.
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  4719. Thank you for this.
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  4720. Avoiding the "dip" on the back makes a lot of sense. Other researchers have pointed out that these early horses are quire small and fragile compared to modern breeds. You could easily break their backs riding atop them. I can't recall where I heard this from, but other commentators stated that the chariot was favored early on for this reason, pulling a rider would be safer for the animal than carrying them on their backs. The transition from chariot to mounted riding was more of a function of more powerful breeds arising that were capable of supporting a rider, and not of saddle technology.
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  4721. Great video and info. Thanks so much.
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  4722. Happy atheist here
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  4723. Amazing as always. Could you do a video on late Bronze Age Galicia? The Castro Culture had some magnificent metalwork and their hillforts are scattered everywhere in Galicia and North Portugal.
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  4724. Been waiting for this one. Amazing work! Cheers
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  4725. Love to hear Dan's take on Prince Rupert of the Rhine another overachiever.
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  4726. Brilliant!
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  4727. Perfect document. 👏
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  4728. 🐴🏇👍👍🦬🧎‍♂️🐎
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  4729. Another brilliant video Dan.
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  4730. Burial practices - possibility of cremation? Exposure of bodies in manner posited in Gobekle Tepe?
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  4731. Ooh a longer vid! I've been wondering/dreaming/fantasying about the first to ride the horse, so very happy with it
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  4732. This video is amazing. Both well produced and informative, and also in that it sheds light on what was a very mysterious collapse. It wouldn't take much to start a wave of migration of peoples who had enjoyed stability in their homelands. Very powerful. Thank you very much Dan.
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  4733. Our ancestors... From Europe. PEACE.
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  4734. simple explanation..the dog was domesticated for at least 40 000 years.it was the humanity first companion,that was why he was guarding the afterlife
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  4735. Yes to Bronze Age weights. This was fascinating and as always well presented. Thank you!
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  4736. One of my favorite channels. Thanks, Dan!
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  4737. When I saw this notification thought it said "Neolithic Cannabis". Good vid nonetheless...love history before written history
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  4738. This is great stuff! Great plugs for the books too lol "f you like violence buy my books."
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  4739. Sounds like the velites
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  4740. thank you for your research and the flawless presentation!
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  4741. In my opinion, the phallus is there to depict who can breed, warriors and others are allowed probably through daring deeds and skill in battle, and so that is denoted in the carvings. Another awesome video Dan 👏👏👏
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  4742. Horse archers go brrr!!!
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  4743. Ha! Just blew through the Wolf God earlier today when my order of all the GoB stuff came. Thought the Mesopotamian connection teased at the start sounded familiar. Get out of my brain. :P
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  4744. Interesting that it seems highly likely that there WERE women warriors among the hordes, but that riding and raiding was generally seen as a young unmarried woman/girl's place rather than that of a wife or mother; yet it was still a way to seem more desirable as a marriage prospect by showing off your skill at riding and perhaps your family's or your personal wealth in the form of fancy gear and the horses themselves. I almost see echoes thousands of years later in the 19th century of young English aristocratic ladies at the hunt, showing off in a socially respectable manner to potential husbands. Some things never really do change, do they?
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  4745. @DanDavisHostory: SO appreciate your wide perspective, comprehensive look at prehistoric culture and the evidence we have for forming opinion. It so clearly demonstrate the dilemma of certitude when we have only limited knowledge. Thank you for publishing such excellent content.
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  4746. As a Mongolian, I want to thank you for the video, also as a descendant of the great nation, I want to tell you that this country is barely existing nowadays and sunken deep in corruption, crime etc.
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  4747. Amazing presentation, thank you ;-)
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  4748. WOW! Great video. You've raised Richard in my opinion. What's their ranking as best/most important English monarch? (are they all worthy of top 10 status?) Alfred Aethelstan William T.C. Henry ll P. John (so bad he's good?) Richard Edward l Edward lll Henry V Elizabeth l
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  4749.  @DanDavisHistory  Yeah, I just had them in chronological order. John was definitely one of the worst, but boy what a catalyst for change. I could be talked into any order, but Elizabeth would top my list. Love what your doing.👍
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  4750. What was Scandinavia during the Bronze Age?
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  4751. I know that there were speculations in the 60s by Swedish archaeologists about the large amount of small hammers/axes. They realized that they were no good as a tool since the shaft would have been too small and would have broken if used as such. They assumed they were throwing weapons. Heck, maybe some of them were but since many of them are too tiny for that it makes sense that they were either used as jewelry a religious symbol or used to ground up herbs for shamans. One would also think that a bow is generally more practical unless they wanted to preserve the skin of a squirrel or something similar. I expect they just wanted the idea that Thor threw is hammer to be based in some reality.
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  4752. Excellent content, fantastic possibilities. I've seen speculation about tsunami as a contributing factor along with momentary, dramatic, climate shifts.
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  4753. Do you do your own audiobooks you have the voice for it
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  4754. Amazingly sober and yet exiting video. Level as Mark Felton or beyond. This should be a standard of youtube videos. Great work.
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  4755. The early and late adoption proponents can argue. The earliest Indo-European expansions were not dependent upon individual horseback riders. They could have done it with four-wheeled carts.
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  4756.  @DanDavisHistory  I had to come back to add, I really like Renaissance by Audionautix too.
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  4757. Best documentary on Vlad ever !
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  4758. I do wonder if the middens and latrine pits that must surely have existed at Herxheim could reveal definitive evidence, for example through protein remains or something similar…?
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  4759. You've probably heard the song "Horse Soldier" If you haven't I definitely recommend looking it up. It goes through and mentions most of the famous Cavalry throughout history.
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  4760. I could pull one of these off
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  4761. I saw a horned helmet in that rock art. Just saying.....
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  4762. I very much think this is one of the best videos and explanations of what may or man not have occurred, I would like to ask some questions if I may. Assuming he was shot with an arrow and someone pulled the shaft out. Has anyone done a replication on something like a pig to see what happens when you try that with a flint arrow? Surely the flint heads are firmly attached to the arrow shaft. Why then did the head get left behind? and was there any remains of attachment left behind? Also if it was pulled the point would be dragged back away from the final penetration point and that would be noticeable. Could the arrow wound be on old wound?
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  4763. I was shown a full body x-ray, it had a - skull fracture, a cheek fracture, multiple breaks to the nose, a fractured jaw, 4 missing teeth & one severely chipped a broken vertebrae in it neck (C7), a broken collarbone, seven broken ribs, a fractured sternum, every digit (except the right little finger) had been broken. Fractures to both wrists, a piece of bone the size of a baked bean had broken off the right elbow and healed in the wrong location - making it painful to lean on the right elbow. A broken vertebrae in his lumbar area , a injury to his pelvis. various fractures to both of his tibia and his fibula, a fracture to his left heel and a couple of broken toes. What was surprizing was the X-Ray was of me, and I've never spent a night in hospital. I've never led a particularly action packed life (I'm not a MMA fighter or the worlds unluckiest stuntman) But I picked up and 'walked off' injuries as a kid. I'm in reasonably good health
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  4764. Hi Dan Great to see a video on the Orme Copper mine. especially as i live in Llandudno. Really enjoyed this video as your others very well put to together and well researched. i would love to talk to you and others about some of these points. Do you have a discord channel? On the point of who controlled the Great Orme mine i have a few thoughts. As you know coasts and rivers were the motorways of their day it would of been easier to travel large distances this way so trade would of moved this way but also the Irish sea was a sort of British Mediterranean sea so i think the populations would of been around the coasts of Wales, Ireland, England and Scotland. In regards to who lived and worked there, there is a hill fort on the Orme a little lower down next to "happy Valley" or if you are looking on google maps just SE of the ski slope. there are also a large number of close by hill forts (some of which are dated later/Iron age) down the Conwy valley where the Conwy river would of been used as a road North to south. Always good to see one of your videos but i was delighted to see one based on my home town, thanks for doing these.
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  4765. I like the moose figurines that they made
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  4766. Most excellent work as always Dan! I always elated to see a new post notification! Truly a miracle, not only that we found this man so miraculously preserved, but precisely when we had finally achieved the knowledge to fully unlock the secrets he carried with him from the ancient past.
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  4767. Dan Davis videos are up there with the best. Love the material.
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  4768. Great intro so immersive I really appreciate your presentation style and level of content. Very amazing in the true sense to imagine those mens experiences to be a part of this so unprecedented event.
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  4769. The Merrie Monarch remains my favourite King!
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  4770. really love your books, and the research you put into these People of the Bronze Age videos. I've always been interested in pre-history and the lives of people who lived so far back. Thank you!
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  4771. Another great video. Any plans covering ancient maritime history in Europe?
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  4772. Dan, you did it again. Amazing. Thank you.
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  4773. Interestingly I first read a version of Drews's hypothesis in the late John Keegan's book A History of Warfare, which predates Robert Drews's book by quite a few years, however John Keegan of course was not a specialist and must have been referencing the mainstream view at the time. I imagine it's true at least as far as combat goes, we just don't see men fighting from horseback before the 8th century as Dr. Drews points out. I don't think it's impossible people fought on horses during skirmishes but in pitched combat I don't see any problem assuming chariotry came first.
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  4774. Do we know long have reindeer herders have been riding reindeer?
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  4775.  @DanDavisHistory  thanks for responding. that was my general guess after 20 min of searching.
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  4776. Outstanding vid, Dan!
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  4777. Algorithm Comment Cuz!
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  4778. Please consider making a video on the Vinca culture
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  4779.  @DanDavisHistory  thank you and have a great day or a great night
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  4780. Wow fascinating New to me European history...great vid..cheers
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  4781. Brilliantly done. Again. Thank you.
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  4782. Believe it or not, his mtDNA is of Hunter gatherer origin. The specific subclade his line belonged to, K1+16362, is only found in Mesolithic European hunter gatherers. It was particularly common in hunter gatherers in Southeastern Europe. K1a, K1b1, K2, K3 are of West Asian origin K1+16362, K1c, K1b2 are of European origin. I think K1+16362 should be renamed to K1d. It would be less confusing. In that case Otzi's mHg should be called K1d3. It is true his specific subclade of "K1d" has not been found in any other person. But, his subclade of K1 is found in European hunter gatherers & modern Europeans. The safest bet is he got it from hunter gatherers in Southeastern Europe. 10% of Mesolithic samples from Serbia, Romania carry K1d.
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  4783. In all likelihood, mHG K, originated in Europe and migrated to West Asia during the Paleolithic. An extinct cousin of mHG K, named U8c, was common in the Gravettian culture. But despite this the vast majority of mHG K in Europe today returned from Anatolia (West Asian) during the Neolithic.
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  4784. Haven't finished watching the video yet, but Oakeshott mentions bronze age weapons and such found in archeological sites, but the weapons were of designs not native to Scandinavia, Mediterranean origin was his theory
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  4785. I would in fact love to see a video on Bronze Age weights and weight systems. But that shouldn’t matter. Make the videos that interest you and the people who like those subjects will watch. Feed the soul dude, keep up the hard work.
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  4786. Very interesting.
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  4787. Great vid, Bro!
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  4788. Fantastic. A DD video of Musashi would be great.
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  4789. Another well done video. Thank you for the content. Never knew about the Terramare until now.
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  4790. Really well done. Thank you! I'm hooked!
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  4791. this guy is becoming my second favorite YouTuber only behind robert sepehr
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  4792. Weird that In my childhood I took part in 4000 year old ritual Koledari. These thigs are really persistent
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  4793. Rhoddry: there are dozens of depictions of Greek Gods riding horses - mostly females riding aside (which is impossible without a saddle but the concept is obviously there), also I have seen several pix of Greek mounted warriors and even more depicting Amazons on horseback. These would be all from the classical period, starting around 700bc
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  4794. Great vid Bro. Love it. Keep 'em coming!
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  4795.  @DanDavisHistory  Cheers 🍻
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  4796. The early Russian village style was imitated to the West? Does their pottery contain their bones ash? Did they live for a thousand years? What is the anthropogenic answer?
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  4797. It seems kind of natural for ancient peoples to think of dogs guarding the land of the dead, since in even more ancient times (like in the times of proto-dogs) dogs guarded our little camps and homes while we traveled, so if we're sending our souls "home" when we die, of course there would be a dog guarding it. Makes sense to me, anyway.
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  4798. Freaking love your videos. The story idea you shared was my favorite . Like hey you guys try and make it work
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  4799. Oh, interesting. I thought the oldest findings of yersinia pestis were from the steppe north of the caucasus. Then they moved with herds and wagons between ukraine and altai mountains. With an outbreak in europe later, including filling the empty space with people from the steppes. But the bacteria might have been mutated to be more contagious. Also the bigger settlements would provide the best conditions for the plague. Then also the black house rat might have been the zoonotic reservoir until modern times. Now the black house rat is nearly extinct in europe and replaced by rattus norwegicus that lives more outside of houses.
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  4800. 33:50 Awesome. Learned something new from your video. Would Illyrian,Thracian,and Dacian have emerged from the Catacomb Culture as well? I suppose that it could be hard to answer,given the sparseness of those languages. Hails and cheers from Florida,the Dumbshine State.
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  4801. The bone and wood ages are also of wonder
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  4802. Excellent video about my ancestors! Can a video about Stephen the Great or Mihai Viteazu?
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  4803. Imagine a combat between the Black Douglas and William Marshall? Obviously we'll have to use our imaginations, but it would have been epic.
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  4804. You really brought it to life!
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  4805. Very cool. And what a strike of fortune, that his remnants were found when they were - not that much earlier and this knowledge we can now gather from the body would have been lost forever. I thought, that his reconstruction looked likely enough, for an outdoor man his age, btw You get as tan when out and about in winter in the Alps, as when sunbathing on the beach. He would basically have had high levels of UV exposure year round, because of the way, the snow reflects the sun. The medical tattoos are a faszinating detail as well. And heart desease! Like, what? In a man his age? That was a shocker for sure. But mostly it just makes my head spin to consider, that different cultures have lived here for many thousands of years, before modern civilization even started. How the heck, they managed to survive out there without modern conveniences or knowledge is beyond me. Especially during the small ice age. Can you imagine? Grass isolation. Out on a mountain in a snowstorm. What a life!
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  4806. I wonder if that could be the origin of the story about Penelope's suitors.
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  4807. There seem to be some similarities with roman festival of Lupercalia. Which as far as I know was the oldest of italic festivals celebrated in classical era.
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  4808. Babe wake up, Dan Davis posted
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  4809. How did people prepare for war and train for it
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  4810. Very interesting! Do you have sources for this? The sorts of things like "they dedicated themselves to the god of the kóryos" and the general claims about their behaviour, being cast out into the wilderness etc. I would like to read around it and gather a better understanding. Part of me wonders if this was some way of curbing (or at least utilising) the worst excesses of adolescent testosterone and also sparing them from later guilt as adults? If a man looks back at some terrible thing he did as a youth, it was fine because he wasn't a human back then, for example.
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  4811.  @DanDavisHistory  You can read my mind? Ive become more civilised by the sikh gurus, or maybe i was pacified? Heres what ive found since the last 2 years Hititte Mittani Arayan Persian Parthian Saka , scythian Greek Parthian Xiongnu Yuezhi Kushans Hun Kidarites Hephalites Uiyghur Jatt #PopulationPercent Baloch   40 s-Indian  27 NE-Euro   14 Caucasian  13 Siberian    2 Mediterranean  2 American    2
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  4812. Спасибо большое за ваше видео.Thank you very much for your content, You tube is filled with so much content,most of which good and entertaining,.and not many Brain Food and Every video I learn something new and giving my brain a jolt of good energy .Thank You and God bless you
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  4813. I learned so much from this channel! It puts so many things in perspective. A gem on youtube! I wish you good luck with further work on these subjects!
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  4814. Think I’d like living with the sarmatians. Badass women warriors who can ride and fight on horseback is pretty sexy.
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  4815.  @DanDavisHistory  😂😂😂😂
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  4816. The Chincoteague ponies are another example of feral horses. The true American Wild Horse went extinct at the end of the last Ice Age.
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  4817. Great documentary! Thank you!
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  4818. I really enjoyed this! Thanks for your hard work.
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  4819. 18:42 yeah, um Mongols conquered most of the world from these horses
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  4820. And I love your unrelenting yet tasteful plugging of your books
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  4821. Beautiful ending 🥲 Clickbaity title forgiven
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  4822. This is so cool, thank you!
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  4823. Great narration!
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  4824. Bronze age weights would be cool
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  4825. Gorgeous voice!!!
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  4826. Certainly was a game changer, along with making fire, space flight, atom bomb, and gene sequencing. (Horse domestication)
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  4827. Here is an idea about your next book: write a book on the Indo-European invasion on the Balkans. The Balkans like rest of Europe were originally inhabited by hunter-gatherer populations. The haplo-group I is considered to originate from there. Gradually the first farmers started settling on the Balkans. This gave rise to some of the very first cultures and settlements in Europe and the World. Some appear to have been fairly advanced for their time: for reference - Vinca culture, Solnitsata, Starchevo culture, Varna culture, etc. It is said that the oldest gold treasure in the world was found in a grave in Varna, which was more than all gold found from the same time period in all the rest of the world. There are also hints that a great flood happened in the area of Black Sea which may have been the roots of the Noah's story. Then the Indo-European invasion happened. The Indo-Europeans conquered, killed the native prehistoric European populations and mixed with them and thus gave the rise of one of the first modern Europeans populations. I guess the story repeated in other parts of Europe but the Balkans is where written antiquity happened and is the cross-road of continents and civilizations. Of course all of this happened over a period of several millennia but in a fantasy story that doesn't matter I guess.
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  4828.  @DanDavisHistory  Cheers for how nicely you pronounce surname "Przewalski". It sounds like you are skipping the "P" in the beginning, but nontheless, it is still 1000x better pronounciation than expected from a non-Slav.
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  4829. Yes mounted archery appeared in the 9 th century IN EUROPE when my fofathers come to Europe from the steps but this guy is really think that this form of warfare developed in Europe, it's less likely. Specially because the Huns arrived when the Western roman empire was still exist and they were hors archer too....
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  4830. More folks should have their kids get involved with riding.
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  4831.  @DanDavisHistory  Yeah, I guess. I don't understand anything about horses. Just read about this horse. The peculiarity is that it comes from autochthonous, from local breeds of steppe and forest types, was formed in conditions of a sharply continental climate with year-round pasture content. She is not some kind of "special," selectable. That is, it is possible that this is the same horse from the region that you showed on the maps. It's unique today. There are few of them. The place of origin of the Volga basin is Samara, Ufa, Kazan. And also the Chelyabinsk region. There is a constant dispute, as registered - the Bashkir, or Tatar breed of horses. In ancient times was named Mashtak, literally - a small, strong horse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIxL4iKLLiw&t=5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcUAX-mMdFQ
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  4832. There's an old Afghan game called buz khashi, a kind of wargame like horseback soccer. I'm not sure how long back it dates, but might go back to early horse riding. Something to look into anyway.
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  4833. Also there were times in history when some sort of knowledge may be acquired by a group of people, then lost and the rediscovered later (such as early calculus-like math by Archimedes that was lost and rediscovered by Leibnitz and Newton). That could have happened with horse riding as well, especially if the early type was riding Numidian style, which leaves almost no evidence.
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  4834. Could the disappearance of Indus Valley Civilization also be linked to plague caused by Aryan migration to northern India?
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  4835. A missing element of your suggestions is the corral. Also an interesting phenomenon in our current time is that the children of some cattle herding cultures of our time will manage to mount a cow & simply ride it along with the herd when charged with the task of moving the herd from one place to the other.
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  4836. Well written, narrated and produced.
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  4837. I really appreciate your work! Thank you!
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  4838. Very fine and much appreciated body of work, sir.
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  4839. I’d like to address your sponsor. I’ve used them several times now and I have to say the recipes have been really good for the most part. I think I can only recall one that I wasn’t happy with and that was because I kind of messed it. The stuff gets sent to me and I’m happy with my delivery it’s not a perfect service because the shipping is kind of expensive if you don’t catch specials but if you do you can get a lot of food for really cheap. It’s good and fresh mostly ( had two rotten veggies but that’s to be expected nothing a perfect and I’ve had rotten veggies straight from the supermarket too. If someone is having trouble affording food try it out with a discount code from a guy like Dan and then cancel immediately. Sit back and review what was good and bad then make tweaks to the next order.
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  4840. Very well made video. Appreciated the images alongside the nice story telling. I took an interest after watching Castlevania
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  4841. This was utterly fantastic. Thank you.
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  4842. I think they replaced the people in the west because they brougth with them copper bacteria. I think that kind of bacteria comes from cows. It was that which exterminated the native people in Amercica.
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  4843. I find Dan Davis videos wildly informative.
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  4844. I wonder if people in this society noticed that someone who got a blow to the head changed? Head injuries can cause unseen brain damage that causes an individual to have a change in personality. A mild mannered person can afterwards become short tempered and violent. Just speculating but I wonder if trepanation wasn’t an attempt to prevent a change in behavior which from their perspective could be caused by a spirit possession that occurred when the victim suffered a head injury. That might explain why they were buried apart from the rest of the group.
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  4845. terrific video one of the first historic figures I ever learned about
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  4846. As an initiation rite into adulthood, it seems to achieve two main purposes. Life-proven self sufficient individuals and tribal cohesion.
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  4847. Great video, yes to the stone tomb complex too!
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  4848. Thank you! You've got me hooked.
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  4849. Wow this is interesting.
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  4850. There's also one version of the birth of Sétanta (Cúchulainn), where his father is his mother's brother or father.
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  4851.  @DanDavisHistory  Ellis is excellent I have 5 or 6 of his books, I also often reference Early translations such as by Lady Augusta Gregory. I've been studying this material as a scholar and to be honest much later, as a devotee In the religious sense for 30 + years. Lately, And this is how I found your fiction, I've been working backward Into the Indo-European roots of The northern European pantheons and mythos structures.
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  4852.  @seamusoblainn  Cuchullains parentage is confusing to some. In one way it can be looked at and it's the way I look at it, he had a triple conception. One of which was the relationship you refer to. His father was also Lugh. Celtic Divine mythos Irish especially is full of that kind of thing. At a certain point you just embrace the contradictions. They can't be helped. Each tribal group Had different versions usually incorporating their own leadership family into the divine structure. We're left with multiple versions that hadn't been cleaned up completely by the classical scholars. And by that I really mean butchered and watered down.
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  4853. Alfred was our greatest king
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  4854. Nicely done. Id like to see as long of an episode about what we know of the wheel. Wheels are one thing. I think your guys really invented the axle & pinned hub. Wheels will roll until you put something on them. Unless they have a centered axle. Ive also wondered about the split wheel design the Assyrians had. Pretty sure its a material saving design. At that point you also open up travel, right? I try to experience what early explorers did in my broke modern context. Without a means of conveyance, you are pretty hooped. A famous general or explorer also said similar. Just to say that shooting behind you is a more natural movement than in front of you. Skills needed to not fall off maybe but not on the archery part once you figure out your ranges.
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  4855. Thanks Dan, for your most excellent video. I don't know if anyone mentioned this in the comments yet, but regarding the burials, most of the year it must have very difficult to dig a hole in the frozen earth. This might explain the low number of burials if not why so few women were buried.
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  4856.  @DanDavisHistory  If you make that video I will donate 10,00 Euros to your Patreon :D
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  4857. This was wonderful and fascinating. This channel always delivers.
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  4858. Spectacular documentary!
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  4859. I've watched about him since the documentary on when they took him out of the ice. Thank you soo much for sharing more. I'm completely fascinated about him.
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  4860. Missed your voice Dan, your channel is among my favourites.
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  4861. I love your vids. they really bring these people to life.
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  4862. ＬＵＰΣＲＣΛＬＩΛ
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  4863. very good program, enjoyed it
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  4864. I just love history and so does my son, so I enjoy watching your video's and told him about them. I also am a reader, he is not, so this is it for him ❤ His father was a Viking re-enacter and he went with him several times with his siter. His father had Thor's Hammer tatoed on his wrist.
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  4865. My club is bigger than your club 😆👍 enjoyed your video.
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  4866. This is excellent content Dan. I really hope your channel takes off because you deserve it. Keep up the good work and you'll be at 100k in no time!
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  4867. Superb documentary, thank you!
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  4868. To me William Marshall it is an outstanding figure. England's golden knight. I don't think he was the greatest knight ever, I would place that title to El Cid Campeador, Rodrigo Días de Vivar, a man of two worlds: muslim and Christian, and became a legend that has endured for nearly 1000 years. Such legacy that William Marshall does not have. Even then, William is the 2nd iconic knight of medieval Europe. But the 1st place belongs to El Campeador. This is an amazing video, I adore your narrative.
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  4869. Interesting. It is a very useful video, the most complete and summarized that I've found. So, Yamnaya people probably assimilated the pre Indo European people but I'm trying to answer a question. Were the pre Indo European people assimilated into some lower class? Because some researchers claims that they formed the elite power in Europe during many centuries, but as I know most of them were male that migrated into Europe and intermingled, so they didn't exclude the ancient farmers, it was completely the opposite.
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  4870. What a high quality channel - thanks for making such great content. Instant Sub.
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  4871. The Hunt will not take MY beer, I swear this here :-D
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  4872. Our homes are yours, El Cid!
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  4873. It really does seem like a quiet life I am envious I would live like that,
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  4874. Wow! If only some history-informed fiction writer could make a realistic story out of his life!
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  4875. As a Swedish archeologist, I can only say that you are spot on. Also, it is true that when we archaeologists find stuff we can't explain it will be called religious/cultic. We humans have done some weird shit in name of religion so it's not that far from the truth.
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  4876. Wow! Nice two floor clay floor and walled houses with strong structure in the rafters and roofs. I would stay in one of those places. I bet Moldovan winter got pretty cold.
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  4877. No King John was a better monarch. History ( child’s) has been unfair to both of them
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  4878. Very well done
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  4879. Time team was always something Roman... bloody obsessed they were!
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  4880. Can you possibly cover a video on the subject of the norse and their interest with the lightning hitting the ground .. when it did they would often find weapons and tools dug up around the strick zone (possibly from past conflict and its been covered over time) the norse would often take the weapons and tools then offer them as special tokens or they kept them in the family passing down the tools and swords with the belief due to the weapons and such just appearing after the lighting strike had hit the people would often assume this was thor giving them gifts
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  4881. Today Is A Good Day😄
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  4882. Comment for the algorithm. But thank you Dan. Yr bronze age videos are the best
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  4883. What an excellent video. I like to think that madmen used to try and ride them as soon as they were prey. But when this became viable, who knows.
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  4884. I know little about this era but now I’m really curious.Thank you!
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  4885. So interesting and the editing is beautiful, great images and background music. Very relaxing and stimulating intellectually at the same time. My favourite blend. Thank you so much, it helps my anxiety a lot.
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  4886. Damn. This gets me hyped!
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  4887. Superb documentary mate
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  4888. Mfw having some kebab when I see this notification 😳
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  4889. I think I've rewatched the Alternative analysis chapter 10 times by now Very thought inspiring!
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  4890. Phenomenal video, and fascinating subject!
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  4891. you're an entertaining historians mate that video was well done, i might have to read your book now
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  4892. These videos are amazing. But I am almost afraid to praise you now for fear that you will work yourself to death, between this and your books. Please take care of your health as well, so we can have you around for a long time!
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  4893. Dan, you are and excellent story teller I always look forward to new episodes!
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  4894. I enjoyed every bit of this documentary and smashed the "like" button.👍
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  4895. Since watching your videos i've established 1. I dont want to be beat to death by a Shillelagh 2. I would definitely have had the finest greaves on the market to protect my tibias. I'm always banging them and it hurts like hell!
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  4896. Sick weapon. The beggining of sword an the last war club of its design. Are there more in other places? Interesting design.
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  4897. Sounds alot like what Graham Hancock talks about lately, but he makes the comparison too Egypt which is pretty analogous to this as well.
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  4898. Excellent job !
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  4899. Congrats on realising Thunderer looking forward to it after listing to Godborn
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  4900. What an unreal man from a today's perspective. Unbelievable his daring. I enjoyed your story telling very much.
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  4901. Jeez my somewhat vague view on the lionheart was way off ya learn something new everyday
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  4902. 9:10 - I’ve been searching for this understanding of history for so long. Thank you so much.
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  4903. Ironically, I wrote a novel about precisely this topic: ancient Egyptians sailing to Central America to mine copper. :D
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  4904. Hands down the best video on Ötzi to date (Y)
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  4905. Great channel
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  4906. ur voice is very calming! and i love the videos
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  4907. So, Russians you say ... I knew it.
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  4908. My 23 and me DNA results show that ,I am distantly related to Otsi. And if my body would be discovered thousands of years ,researchers would find a shattered left thumb from a hammer blow ,a broken rib from a fall 2 rotatorcuff injuries one in each shoulder . Burn ,laceration and deep abrasion scars on my arms . The wear on my hip and knee joints would show a lifetime of climbing ladders . What would they find with your body?
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  4909. Brilliant video!
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  4910. Dan Davis is just great. Sound research and a natural story teller.
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  4911. They don’t look like axes or hammers to me. They look like mauls. Meant to be struck with a hammer to split logs enough to them slip in wooden wedges to finish splitting the log into planks.
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  4912. Perhaps horses were first used a pack animals, perhaps on moving day or to support military campaigns. Perhaps people were riding or laying on horse back, along with other horses carrying supplies to their summer homes. Or perhaps I've had a little too much bourbon. My gut tells me that perhaps any of these things could be true.
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  4913. How am I just finding aboit this channel?
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  4914. This video of the Bronze Age soldiers look like characters out of the 2004 movie Troy with Brad Pitt, Rose Byrne, Peter O'Toole, Orlando Bloom, etc.
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  4915. Great documentary- thanks!
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  4916. Very interesting! The blue eyes are a sensitive area because the more national romantic political right wing wants to use them to prove our sovereignty as blonde and blue-eyed Vikings. I do not know any statistics but a guess scars that the blue resp. brown eyes are 50/50 among us Swedes. Thanks for another great video Carsten
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  4917. Fantastic documentaries! Viewing your pieces is downright addicting!
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  4918. Thank you . The most Complete Story of Lionheart.. Kudo's.. I would have followed Richard into battle. .. We need a good movie about all this.. I didn't know about the Battles after the Crusades.. Lionheart was the most badass King 👑.
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  4919. Thank you!!
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  4920. Thanks Dan!
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  4921.  @DanDavisHistory  The copper ores used at that time and place indeed were mostly copper sulfides because the alpine glaciers had eroded away all (oxidized) copper sulfates so the miners had to develop the roasting process. But this is about 30 years ago and I have forgotten most of the results so be patient with me if I'm wrong.
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  4922. I love your content about the neolitich to the bronze age. Very informative and presented entertainly.
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  4923. Origins of the Scythians maybe, the 'royal Scythians' of Herodotus.
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  4924. I love your content, mate.
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  4925. Ngl had to look twice to realise it was your video, you usually have thumbnails that represents the content, here its just some yellow bloke? Definetly looking forward to watching this tho, always enjoyed the "early" sailors!
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  4926. This was so informative, Dan! Thank you for your hard work. I’m a big fan.
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  4927. Not a bad start to day one of self isolation having this to watch
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  4928.  @DanDavisHistory  I did cheers
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  4929. I would like to see a video survey on mesolithic to Bronze age settlements. What was the average village size, or what was the range of sizes? How were they typicaly laid out and what proportion had defenses of which type.
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  4930.  @DanDavisHistory  Yeah, I thought the dates did'nt quite match. I still wonder if the farmer societies declined for another reason. The idea that Western Hunter Gatherer people, or people with larger proportions of their ancestry may have occupied an elite in some agricultural societies is fascinating, but I'm not sure if we can ever know what was truly happening.
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  4931. excellent video
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  4932. Makes me think about the Hippocratic Oath. You can't be a Killer and a Healer at the same time. "First do no Harm"
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  4933. Fascinating
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  4934. The youtube didn't show me this video
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  4935. Rlly appreciate how u made such a clear explanation of how each culture leads to the next
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  4936. A few generations, i think... :)
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  4937. Awesome story
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  4938. Fantastic video!
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  4939. Magnificent video, thank you :)
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  4940.  @DanDavisHistory  Im working on something similar but in the Belgium/Holland region. Although little is known about the inhabitants of that region before the time of the Roman Empire. Their are a few places where they found remains of hunter gatherers in the south part which is now known as Wallonië. So a video as indicated by @Brandon would be awesome.
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  4941. Don't remember when or how I found your channel. Glad I did though. Thanks and appreciations!
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  4942. Did you makop this video?
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  4943. What if the ancient Mesopotamian sport/game was more like bull riding?
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  4944. Someone introduce this man to Denis Villeneuve.
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  4945. Fantastic and well researched videos Dan. Thank you. Also, at 18:34 I noticed something interesting… that’s where I live:)
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  4946.  @DanDavisHistory  i never claimed to be normal haha
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  4947. Very interesting vid again 👍 Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, T.
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  4948. Love this thank u 🙏
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  4949. I'd been thinking and wondering about Sirius/Canis Major and Minor etc for a long time. This video is so enlightening, thank u!
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  4950. Only now stumbled onto your excellent channel. Well done, mate; great content — just subscribed. Greetings from Greece!
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  4951. Dan Davis Author — Thanks, glad to be here! 🙂
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  4952. Interesting. I've never heard these people referenced before.
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  4953. Maybe you can make video about Vinča culture - their writings Tărtăria tablets = Vinča symbols.
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  4954. Did anyone else think it looked like Otzi holding up his phallus in a very aggressive way as they were scrolling their feed? Just me?
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  4955. OK apparently YouTube unsubscribed me from your channel which irritates me immensely. But I have resubscribed. And firmly in the camp of early domestication. I will however state that I don't believe the expansion of the steppes people specifically yamnaya or their derivatives were not fighting from horseback. However the tactical mobility provided by domesticated horses Was key. While long distance sustained travel is actually faster on foot, Staging on horseback and raiding a settlement and then escaping on horseback afterward was a tremendous advantage. Once you have eliminated the majority of the fighting men in a series of raids such as this then you move in and take slaves and concubines. I believe this is, The model of what actually happened and I believe the genetics that are currently unfolding and have been unfolding in the last 10 years support it and come close to proving it. This tactical mobility or some other advantage but this is the only one that seems readily in evidence is necessary for the sweeping genetic changes we see across Europe. Wherein the Middle Eastern and anatolian derived farmers are pretty much sequentially eliminated or absorbed in a very rapid fashion. And while no one but me will give this credence my ancestors have also told me so.
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  4956. YOOOO NEW DAN DAVIS LETS GO
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  4957. Knowing of a dog musher who would kill his older dogs at 7 rather than let them freeze to death the next winter because he knew they where then to old to keep themselves warm outside, the combo of using older dogs for this and eating them makes sense.
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  4958. The smiling portrait of Vlad at 00:54:45 had me dying. I think this was my 3rd or 4th time watching this. Thank you for such a great chronicle.
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  4959. This should be made into a series!
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  4960. Since I'm from Germany and have always wondered about the site, I like this video a lot! Thanks for presenting different viewpoints instead of pushing a fishy narrative in the absence of evidence, as it's usual.
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  4961. "Peace and quiet...and good tilled earth" I see what you did there 😁
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  4962. First video I’ve seen from this channel. Loved it. I Smashed the subscribe button!
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  4963. Great video
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  4964. I just noticed this, but maybe dogs judge those of the underworld since dogs have a great sense of moral judgment in humans
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  4965. I appreciate your scholarship based on open-mindedness.
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  4966. Great video! Thank you for the research.
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  4967. You are definitely top Of your niche Dan !!!
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  4968. Please do the terramare or the appenninic, or even the the thapsos one. I m very curious about these "barbaric" bronze age minor cultures very different than the eastern Mediterranean civilizations
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  4969. You've become my new favorite youtuber
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  4970. Great job and an excellent documentary! Down with the Papal dogs!
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  4971. Very cool videos.
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  4972. Cucuteni-Trypillia apparently invented the PAWG
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  4973. Thank you 👏🐴🐎
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  4974. well done; all vids
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  4975. Great video as allways. Interesting subject paired very good with wonderful visuals.
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  4976. Why has the Great Algorithm waiting this long to recommend this channel? Insta-suscribe.
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  4977. This will be a great source of inspiration for my d&d campaign, hope you don't mind!
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  4978. 17:26 that bow is strung backwards...
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  4979. it's amazing how there was an international trade route back in the bronze ages and even before. especially tin from the UK
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  4980. Has experimental archeology determined how deadly this weapon would be?
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  4981. Man this was wonderful. Really enjoyed it.
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  4982. Hi, could you one day make a video listing all the book recommendations you have referenced throughout your bronze age series? Such as the resources you used yourself and anything generally relevant to your channel's content. Thank you so much!
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  4983. These are outstanding. There's doctorate's worth research here. Very useful for what I'm doing.
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  4984. I like the voice. You should narrate introes in movies.. subscribing.
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  4985. I come from the Circassian people in the Northwest Caucasus region and horse motifs are very prevalent in our culture. It's almost religious how much the horse is revered. We have sayings and stories of how our people rode horseback and even dances that mimic horse trotting movements. So many dances dedicated just to horses. We even have an instrument that mimics the shuffling of horse hooves. Even into the most latest conflict of our Warfare against Russia in the Russian Caucasian hundred year war, it was said that our people would kill our own horse if we fell during battle because they could not imagine the thought of anyone else riding them. As barbaric as that sounds, there is a strong connection between the rider and the horse where they are nearly inseparable from the iconic highlander that men aspire to be.
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  4986. Dan? Can I put a thought in your head for a second or so... let’s pretend for a moment the Stelae of Montoro is a map of the area north of Córdoba down to the Mediterranean. Who would have been in the area long enough to map all those features.... features from the landscape onto the Stelae. I ask this as the area is so vast and the angles of view needed to manufacture each Stelae are mind boggling. Further.... what are the chances of finding the only one in Spain... if there is one there should be many around the area the Stelae denotes as boundary. The Irish peat bog idols were the clincher for that thought. I’ve seen a couple of the peat bog idols. They are highly readable... and they denote peat bogs, as the Shigir Idol does.... a peat bog. The Shigir Idol was found in a peat bog. So perhaps a wooden Idol was required for the area. I’m just going to keep my eyes peeled for more wooden idols to be found. If they are around peat bogs it may not be mental.
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  4987. Drake quickly finished the main quest against Spain and then completed every optional side quest on the way home.
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  4988. The fact that he has all a lot of injuries and still going at his age says he was a tough dude. And that his assailants probably knew that and the reason they shot him in the back was because they didnt want a straight up confrontation with this guy.
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  4989. Fantastic episode!
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  4990. Interesting
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  4991. Finally, THE video! thank you so much, been looking forward to this video for a long time. Thank you very much Dan!!
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  4992. Are your books getting translated in German?
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  4993.  @DanDavisHistory  ok sad but thanks for the fast reply
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  4994.  @DanDavisHistory  even in more modern times, special forces units have been given a dog to train on their first day, and required to kill as the final test before graduating.
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  4995. 1 banger after another
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  4996. Great video, Dan. Thank you for that!
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  4997. very interesting! I would be interested in Bronze Age systems of weights and meaurements
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  4998. Apparently they bought white skin and features to europe?
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  4999. Im Danish my name is Kenny Hedenskog Bersærker gang, is when viking took their trælle(slaves) and made Them eat poison mushrooms on Danish fluesvamp, then the slaves(trællene) ate the mushrooms and the viking drink their urin, who had filtered the dangerous stof away, then the viking drink a lot of Mjød(strong beer of that time!!) and then in Battle they goes Bersærk or bersærkergang, like crazys with no fear and stronger, like two men.and i myself is 1,90cm 92kg and wery blond hair and beard, but for 1000years ago we where taller about 2meters funny how a country tiny with now only 5,8mill people(5mill Danes rest migrants or trælle😂) togethers with Norway a bit of svea(sweden) we ruled, and struck fear in every nations!! Hail Odin and hes son Thor! Se my friends and brothers in ValHalla.
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  5000. This channel is a fucking gem. Wow
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  5001. I kept waiting on a linking to Halloween, thinking that was the next logical step.
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  5002. Can you make a video just dealing with the migrations sometime? I know your think is largely narrative focused, but you handle the migrations really well when you touch on them in your videos, I think you would do an excellent job with presenting the movement patterns that created the modern Europeans.
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  5003. Great stuff!
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  5004. Great job about a very great man/warrior/lord/and regent. William set the bar very high for all knights of Europe
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  5005. Fascinating, thank you for bringing this culture to my attention. Looks like I've got some reading to do.
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  5006. up the algo
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  5007. 1:01 LMAO the zoom in on that facial expression
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  5008.  @DanDavisHistory  As hobbies I like to write and read up on history, The bronze age is such a hard subject to find solid info on and is a totally untapped area for fiction and fantasy. I bet something on the bronze age collapse could be a really killer story. It seems kinda like the sea peoples exterminated most major civilizations and we know virtually nothing about them!
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  5009. I would love to see a video covering Bronze Age Armor. Thank you for another awesome video!
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  5010. Not the dogos! Great video though!
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  5011. Yesss!! You tube algorithm is a legend. Great video
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  5012.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks for the detailed reply. The wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Rezepkin states that is it is 3400 BC but as you say given the uncertainty of the dating and this being only a century before the Arslanteppe swords it is hard to say. I don't know enough about daggers and swords but I do find the evolution of various technologies quite interesting so presumably metalsmiths would be experimenting and trying out different things and while making a longer dagger might give you a reach advantage finding that the point is soft and likely to bend might result in making a rounder edge and now instead of thrusting the style of fighting is more slashing and cutting. Though I believe cutting may result in nasty looking injuries thrusting is probably more deadly (as the Romans used to teach soldiers that a 2 inch stab can kill) and we saw this when the style of sword fighting changed to rapiers and thrusting. I did read Drews on his theory that the change in style of fighting especially with swords may have been a factor in the Bronze age collapse. That seems to have fallen out of favour now. Are there any other books by him or other authors you recommend? Finally I find the whole wheel invention fascinating, as Anthony states once the technology of carpentry thanks to early bronze gets advanced enough to work with wood then it becomes possible. And interesting that when it appears it spreads very rapidly everywhere in just a hundred years. I'll check out your books too.
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  5013.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks for that, I will have a look at the recent Drews and the other books. I'm fascinated by all this stuff.
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  5014. It is not just proto indoeuropean but also contemporary cultures like the ugro finnics living in the Danube basin as the "weapon/tool" was very handy in dense forest areas like those of the fourth millennium BC an axe is an archetipi al weapons coming from the necessity to add leverage to a dense and hard head, like spears and arrows, so should have been pretty common.
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  5015. Another great vid.
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  5016. He does have the best name and his statue is JACKED.
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  5017. Love your videos, so glad I found your channel!
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  5018. Just found this on suggested, glad I did subbed and liked 👍
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  5019. Bronze-Age warriors' "Cult of the Body" sounds interesting. I vote yes.
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  5020. Thank you again you are so good not only a story Teller but a student of anthropology study of humanity you bring back the ancestors my our ancestors cheers and we are obligated to you keep up making progress thanks again
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  5021. Bell Beaker?
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  5022. Amazing content, facinating and educational.
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  5023. Thanks mate.Giddy up.
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  5024. This bloke is my favourite pre historical character. What a man!
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  5025. Wonder if a rope tied to a small handled axe would make a good weapon? You could throw it and pull it back or swing it in a circle.
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  5026. Awesome video Dan! 🌊🏄‍♂️🪷
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  5027. Most of these carving sites were on flat rock surfaces with running water on or nearby on the rock
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  5028. Yours is some of my favourite content on YouTube. I mentioned before that I was seriously ill through December and into February with pneumonia and I really thought this is it. When awake I watched all your videos plus Mr Ballen, What Lurks Beneath and The Lore Lodge. I am now an expert on the bronze age but I am also convinced I could not only track and catch Bigfoot but wrestle he/him to the floor. Thank you again Mr Davis.
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  5029. Yay, my forefathers
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  5030. Cant wait to watch this tonight when all else are settled in...of course being careful to let my dogs watch;)
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  5031. 6:36 🤔😂
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  5032. I loved this. Thanks so much for this wonderful video.
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  5033. Excellent video!
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  5034. The Pylos Combat Agate is a exquisitely wrought scene of bronze age combat
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  5035. Just found your vid, it’s great, new sub , thanks 🙏
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  5036. We`ve Been Eating Good Lately😀
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  5037. Great video
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  5038. Judges 1:19 - The LORD was with Judah, and they took possession of the hill country; but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the plains because they had chariots of iron.
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  5039. Another excellent video, Dan. As I'm watching these I always experience a peculiar feeling of past recognition--- I have no idea what it is. Like during the video you may say, "well, it could be this or it could be that for the reason why this was done"... and I always have an idea in my head that firmly sides with one of the theories.
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  5040. They put down You Tube, but this is way better than the "History" Channel. Truth is stranger than fiction and the content of reality speaks for itself better than "epic announcer voice guy."
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  5041. This is a wonderful video thank you so much for taking the time to do this
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  5042.  @DanDavisHistory  damn... spoilers. But i Guess I did ask for it :p I mainly meant the yt series, btw...
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  5043.  @DanDavisHistory  Just finished the video. You did a wonderful job on this. Much more interesting than I expected!
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  5044. A similar cut out bone was found on top of a viking era grave mound (from young woman). I also come to think of monks who shaved the top of their heads. Is this really from the bible or from ME tradition? Or could this have been some surviving European tradition?
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  5045. Fighting would be hampered with heavy horns. The horns may have identified a war band leader directing the warriors. Antlers are lighter and may have been a more prevalent adornment.
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  5046.  @DanDavisHistory  I’ve loved all your videos! This is by far my favorite historical period and you do such a good job at explaining everything!
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  5047. Happy Xmas Dan!🎉
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  5048. As it must have been a constant point for pleistocene humans to continually be aware of how best to avoid predation by megafauna predators, think about how much these conditions of particular practical fears would have been much relieved whenever humans could have began to domesticate canids, to become added eyes, ears, noses, and defenders of shared territories! No wonder the oral histories of this were so emphasized, and persisted through the millennia. IMHO
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  5049. Long boring repetitive testing? That's what grad students are for! 😎
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  5050. I think it is also very interesting that we do not find Imported armor in Central Europe. But who knows what we will find in the future.
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  5051. I'm actually quite surprised how similar the Mycenaen helmet design starting at 6:30 is with the Trojan armor helmets from the movie Troy, which all internet and YouTube comment history buffs scorn so badly. After this type of video, with so extensive, clear and detailed explenation with tons of expertice, it's extremely hard to realise that why the debate would still rage on. How would anyone have conflicting questions after this type of unpassionate and clinically correct tranquil explenation. Very informative and educational.
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  5052. I came for the big booty statue carvings, and stayed for the wholesome history lesson
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  5053. What a wonderful place to live. Horses are extremely important.
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  5054. 17:00 actually there were some incidents for many centuries later on, I mean I only know of one but there must've been some other isolated cases. My example is the Kabardian (known as circcassians today) ruler Idar in 1525 AD, he used chariots in his assault of the Crimean Tatar capital, Bakhchisaray. He won the battle and his loot spanned 100 chariots packed with cloth, so it is safe to assume he had more than 100.
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  5055. He looks like Tom Hardy. Coincidence? Not likely.
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  5056. If I imagine a Koryos, I hear the music of Heilung in my head
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  5057. I love learning about the people’s & cultures during the transition from hunter gathers to farmers absolutely love history! One of my favorite ones & that im so interesting in are I think there calll led meoslthic hunters(probably spelt that wrong) but there the hunter gathers that every single one of them had blue eyes 👀 I think it’s because I had very blue eyes myself too lol🦋 Lovee your videos just recently came across your channel glad I did! 💙
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  5058. Great video, Dan! I was wondering how we know the combs were used by men and not women? Are their names inscribed onto the material itself, or maybe they were found in male graves?
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  5059. So happy to see you’re still making excellent videos!
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  5060. you are such a good story teller!
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  5061. Dan, thanks for another wonderful video. I have been a subscriber for... Well long enough that i know you are an author of some of the best stories of mans conquest of the the step lands and each other😮 Thanks Dan.
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  5062. Thank you for your work, Mr. Davis.
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  5063. of course the mullet had meaning to them. chieftain in the front, koryos in the back
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  5064. Fascinating!
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  5065. Long time no see. It would be neat to see your take on the european bison or wisent. Also the viking exploration of north amerika.
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  5066. THe collapse coensist with the arival of R1B haplogroup people.They figured out,they can force the host settlers,farmers to work for them,so living from others work.With that the fortified cities appeared.
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  5067. Thanks! Viking 1.0: Bronze Age.
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  5068. The ancient Sumer is so fascinating! I hope you do more videos about them. Your format is amazing!
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  5069. Great video. I learned plenty of new info and facts for Ötzi and the neo-lithic Alp lifestyle. Thank you!
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  5070. Thanks
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  5071. You are doing a great job
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  5072. Carleton Elk This is a bit earlier but in NW England in what is called the Fylde (from the same root as Veldt meaning flat) is an area of peat bog and boulder clay stretching from the Pennines near Garstang to the sea some 15 miles away. There is evidence of mesolithic camp sites on these foothills and maybe it is from there that a party of hunters tracked a young male elk that had been injured either by them or another group some 3 weeks previously. Maybe they were on the slightly raised drumlin now called High Furlong ( where my family home was) but their quarry escaped them down the slope taking refuge in a dew pond. In 1970 his skeleton came to light. One of the barbs still where it had entered his body was a barbed spear head similar to that dredged from the Dogger Bank...i forget the date. He is now in the Harris Museum in Preston. A study of the associated pollen suggested an area of scrub with hazel and willow. Just thought i would share the sad story of this poor young elk. And the equally poor, as now hungry, hunters.
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  5073. They got cattle to Shetland somehow.  50 miles of open Atlantic from Orkney / 100+ miles north of mainland Scotland. Some of the most formidable winds & waters on the planet.
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  5074. Man Dan, just 3 weeks ago ww were celebrating your channel reaching 20k subscribers. Now you’re almost at 40k! There are few channels that deserve it more! Another fantastic video. Can’t wait to see what comes next
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  5075. Thank you sir; that was most enjoyable. I have to now recalibrate my notions of Neolithic metal development. It seems the Balkans were an interesting place in the day. Thanks from Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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  5076. Fascinating stuff.
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  5077. Brilliant stuff. Very interesting. Editing is excellent too. Thank you Dan Davis.
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  5078. 25:33 those divisions were very much still there unofficially till VERY recently. I am a direct descendant of one and let me tell you, a couple boys had to avoid me because their grandpas were afraid of my family
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  5079. If the 14th c CE plague spread via trade routes, doesn't the spread of plague in the neolithic (further) support the notion of long distance trade or contact? No one element need not go further than the next village or ceremonial center. Could there have been super-spreaders - nearly asymptomatic coughing up bacteria? Or given a latency period of 3-7 days for pneumonic plague there's plenty of time to get to the next settlement in turn.
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  5080. Don't suppose your novels have audio versions yet? (I'm not lazy, I'm just an old cyclops who's eye can't read pages of text anymore)
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  5081. Awesome video 👍👍
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  5082.  @DanDavisHistory  Ah nice, that is why I brought them up, the proto writing stuff is just interesting. The Cucuteni–Trypillia culture also had some proto writing going on. But with both: Information about that proto writing stuff is somewhat lacking.
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  5083. Lovely, thanks for sharing with us big G.
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  5084. I feel greatly educated thanks to this presentation. You have my sincere gratitude!
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  5085. Brilliant 👏 👏 👏 I've been researching for decades, and the information is all right here, it's coming so fast now, it's incomprehensible. BRAVO Sir. You have a new 4ever follower. Lol
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  5086. Great stuff! You are such a great resource! In content, and in presentation! I have come to anticipate your next video as soon as I finish the latest one. Thank you! How good are the genetic tests at separating these people from each other? Is there any particular group, that you would recommend, that can test my DNA? I have one set of tests done that go back 38 generations, but can't separate the Germanic parts from my English or Irish parts. I want to narrow the groups down as much as possible. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks again!
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  5087. Excellent video! Your trip really paid off
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  5088. very nice!!
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  5089. This was incredibly interesting. Thank you.
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  5090. I would guess most are rewards for deeds adventure loot and conquest memorialize for alltime as a tribute
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  5091. WE WATCHED IT AT SCHOOL TODAY AND WE TRIED TO WATCH THE WHOLE OF IT AND THE VIDEO CRASHED LOL DUE TO THE SCHOOL'S COMPUTER'S CPU LOL
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  5092. Thanks Dan. It was super interesting.
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  5093. Happy Days are here again.......................a Dan Davis video.
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  5094. VERY good work! Thank you for putting it all into context.
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  5095. This was a very good introduction/overview to something I only had a very vague idea of. Thank you for highlighting your sources. I wish more people understood the value of doing this, that it adds to the value and credibility of what you do.
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  5096. Awesome video
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  5097. Excellent! Even more interesting since I live in Spain .
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  5098. Great video. I guess you have plans to do this video but do you know what internet lacks? It lacks videos about the Bell beakers. It would be cool if you did that in the future, i match alot with Bell beakers on DNA tests.
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  5099. I especially appreciated the clear definition of a warrior from 2:05-2:35. "Status in life bound up in warfare." Yup. Been there. Keep up the good work. Why no discussion of clubs, maces, and axes? And yes, can you do one on bronze age armor?
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  5100.  @dirksharp9876  about two days marching from the Baltic sea
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  5101. Fantastic!
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  5102. And great deeds were done.
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  5103. Excellent video! You mentioned making one about bronze age armor, I would love to see that!
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  5104. This was amazing! Thanks
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  5105. I think the gold and silver tubes where for drinking beer , the way beer was consumed in Mesopotamia at that time .
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  5106.  @DanDavisHistory  I did wonder this but then had the thought that if that was the case why not just leave it in his hand? Then on the other hand perhaps they wouldn't want him to come across as looking for a fight if he's entering the next life with a weapon in hand. Drives me berserk that we can't just go and ask them, I have so many questions
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  5107. Fabulous video! Very informative even to a 21st century Goldsmith 🙏
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  5108. I have viewed this video more than a dozen times. Your intro is amazing, but it seems that it has been removed from the video. Which makes me feel something is amiss when rewatching this video again.
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  5109. Superb. Thanks, I enjoyed that immensely. The Otzi story really Is incredible
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  5110. 54:50 I was not ready this
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  5111. Two points from an actual modern horseperson. Early riding was likely tackless. Or done with just halters. It’s easy and actually easier to get a horse to accept. Horse do not move like sheep and cattle and do not respond well to such methods. They bolt when scared and will run themselves through anything and to their death. That’s why we have cattle dogs and sheep dog but no horse dogs.
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  5112. I can't believe the differences between Radu and Vlad
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  5113. what a chad 🤩
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  5114. Sounds like Halloween.
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  5115. Thanks very much for making this Dan, asked and hoped for it a long time.
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  5116. The history channel has nothing on this channel.
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  5117. Thank you so much.
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  5118. Im watching this again theres so much to learn.
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  5119. Yes I need bronze armor please!
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  5120. It was very rare for a nobleman to be put to the question and having read a couple of the books with the court translation I find it impossible to believe that de rai was tortured if you get a chance to look at the records of the inquisition they weren't shy in taking credit for putting someone to the question. There is only mention of the possibility of getting answers by putting any of the three to the question and it would definitely be in the court records, you have to remember that it was an a very very violent time in history and there would have been no embarrassment or guilt felt by anyone who would have taken part in this action on the contrary they would have been proud to have done gods work. The time de rai was living in and the power of the church at that time means there is absolutely no way being put to the question wouldn't have been recorded for posterity.
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  5121. Love how in depth you get. Very interesting period of history.
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  5122. As always big thank you Dan! Your work is the best and love it! Especially bronze age videos
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  5123. Oo! New one! Yay! 🎉
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  5124. Love this stuff! Love this channel! 4,000 BC was such an amazing time historically. Horses, metal, protowriting. Thanks for bringing it to life!
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  5125. Ahh, happy Sunday indeed!
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  5126. This is an outstanding documentary the work put into this is intense and thorough
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  5127. Excellent And the Weald is gorgeous, I could stand to hide out there Wonder what the modern analog to tyrannical invaders is….
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  5128. That reconstruction, he's bicep and tricep insertions are nuts. 😆
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  5129. Very interesting
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  5130. Everything about these videos is top notch. I hope you get picked up by a larger producer that can compensate you properly for your effort and talent
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  5131. I love this channel. Already subscribed and have watched every video. Thanks
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  5132. Some of your videos are better than University Lectures that I've attended !!!
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  5133. There are ceramics dating back 30k years along the Amur river in East Siberia where people were storing fish. I would assume these people share a common history with the Eastern Hunter Gathers through the Ancient North Eurasians.
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  5134. ❤ I wait eagerly for your videos! Thanks!
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  5135. Extremely well made video. Thank you.
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  5136. by all means do talk about weapons and armour if you have any information. on the types available in this time period.
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  5137. Excellent Video Dan 👍 I'm a HUGE History Buff and really enjoyed this video 🔝👍👏👏👏
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  5138. Hey What does Herculos' sword look like? Shouldn't it be a bronze hammer? great book btw.
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  5139. The middle east is so ancient and fascinating!
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  5140. Just subscribed! What a pleasant voice to listen to on my walks!
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  5141. My sleep deprived brain read the title as "The Rise and Fall of Neolithic Batman" and yet somehow the video was just as interesting as I'd originally hoped.
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  5142. Finally I found a channel, where academic, archaeological evidence is presented 😁 you just found yourself subscriber 👏
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  5143. maybe the copper axe is not as valuable as we assume, or he was killed by someone who didnt know its value.
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  5144. Imagine being so rich you can afford a gold penis sheath. Now THAT is luxury!
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  5145. it seems cruel to us but I am sure the boys knew that was the purpose of raising the dogs- hunters still rub blood of a kids first deer kill on their foreheads
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  5146. Brilliant. Lovely stuff... And yeah, all the Lionheart haters out there can go suck an egg.
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  5147. Excellent intro, very evocative
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  5148. Great video ✴️🐉
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  5149. There are certainly exceptions, but for the most part "independent researcher" = nut-job The copper in the northwestern Great Lakes area (the deposits of which were related to a NA rifting event 1 billion-something years ago) that the indigenous folks used was native copper -- not copper sulfides. The Americans in that area didn't have to smelt ore. They just broke the native copper out of the basalt, and hammered the copper into shape. In earlier times, they made various tools out of copper, but later the copper was primarily used for ornamental or ritual purposes, and for trade.
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  5150.  @DanDavisHistory  what a fantastic piece of work , very talented man congrats 🇮🇪
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  5151. Greetings from Russia! 👍👍👍 Great channel! Can't stop watching!
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  5152. Chad Pastoralist vs virgin agriculturalist :D
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  5153. this video is the best analysis of this medieval paedophile serial killer on YouTube.
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  5154. fascinating. thank you.
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  5155. From Alcala de Henares, Spain, thank you.
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  5156. 3:37 Well I myself, live in the caribbean and have found and own a beautiful petal shaped polished stone axehead, from a (I believe) 10th to 13th century of our era Taino burial site), and yet it is the exact same shape as neolithic bttleaxes. And to this day in Dominixan Republix, peasants refer to suxh finds as thunder stones and lightning stones.
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  5157. I remember seeing something before which maintained that, while the Yamnaya bred and ate horses, and definitely used wagons, they didn't fully domesticate large numbers of horses, as in the Yamnaya culture, horses were used more for food than for transport, and that the use of horses in warfare was only in its embryonic stage. Is this correct? Apparently, all the words related to wagons and wheels in other neighbouring Eurasian languages are cognates after the Yamnaya period, which is the strongest evidence that the Yamnaya are the originators of the PIE language.
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  5158.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks for the link, Dan. Will watch....
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  5159. Well done!
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  5160. Totally turned on to you’re videos. I’m soaking them up like a sponge. Following Haplogroups would be appreciated.
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  5161.  @DanDavisHistory  thanks for the detailed reply. According to a DNA test I have 2% Norwegian DNA so close enough. The Indo-european spirit is strong within me💪🏻💪🏻
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  5162. Hey Dan, loving your channel! I was curious, is there a reason you didn’t include the horned figures on the Harappan seals, which date to at least 2500 BCE, or the horned Cernunnos like figure on the Gundestrup cauldron? The Indus Valley folk traded with Mesopotamia so perhaps there’s a link there. Cheers
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  5163. I have one if his tattoos tattooed on me 😊
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  5164. Great documentary! I was enthralled the whole video! 👍
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  5165. I learned so much in a short time. Thank you for the excellent research & presentation.
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  5166. Been to Llandudno countless times, even using the ski slope there and never knew this was here 😂 Definitely going visiting next time I go, thank you for you fantastic and fascinating video 👍
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  5167. I really enjoyed this...I have a bit of ancestor worship in my soul.
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  5168. Charms often have multiple purposes. It’s a fool’s errand to assign one meaning to something so widely used.
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  5169. Brilliant 👏
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  5170. Love this!! Very well presented. Will try your other programmes, Thank you.
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  5171. a fantastic video, once again!
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  5172. There is 5500 year old horse bone in Finland. Finnic tribes had the first relationship to horse, finnic tribes took care horses over the winter so Finnic culture is one of the first horse cultures.
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  5173. This dude deserves way more subs then he has.
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  5174.  @DanDavisHistory  Like the wheel. Obvious after the fact. And...I am in book six of your Vampire Knight series and dude, it is freaking wonderful. I hope you have more in the mix.
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  5175. may be they lived simulaneously? There obviously was a people's war against the French power, and brave people organized guerilla troops against the French: in Nottingham - Robin Hood, in Kent - William of Cassingham?
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  5176. Quite the lead-in! A BIG step up from leading a squad of mounted infantry!
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  5177. Great video
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  5178. This has got to be one of the greatest documentaries ever made. What a man, what a story, what great narration, and amazing videography. My second time watching. Well done!
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  5179. I'm interested in seeing a video about bronze age armour. Thanks.
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  5180. Thanks for the great content, have been pondering this historic battle for some time. Nice to see all these great perspectives
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  5181. An excellent and highly informative video. Speaking about plague and death; Is there any evidence that the decline and extinction of the Neanderthals maybe in part due to disease? Perhaps something like Yersinia pestis, introduced by those pesky Homo sapiens?
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  5182. I've long thought that Robert the Earl of Huntingdon was a play on words in the ballads. The 'dun' dear is mentioned as what he hunted so the 'earl' of hunting 'dun' could be a nod and a wink to his poaching prowess?
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  5183. Great production, thoroughly enjoyed
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  5184. As the story goes, Cyrus didn't kill Tomyris's son, but took him captive. He committed suicide in captivity after talking Cyrus into unbinding him.
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  5185. I find Vlad the Impaler interesting.
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  5186. Keep the Nordic Broze Age maritime warriors, Koryos and the Vikings, in mind. Then read up on the Heruls/Heruli without seeing them as a coherent tribe but rather as a social cast out seeking "divine" glory in battle. Herul as a name is lingusticaly quite close to (h)erliaz, Earl, Jarl (martial nobels), Herse (war chief), hær/her/here (army) etc etc. They pop up all over europe at the same time, assulting it's coasts with their boats (they even tried to sack Byzatium), and they served as mercinary on both sides in every major conflict at the time - acting like some proto-vikings. If one do it creates a interesting cultural pattern that contiues over a very long time. But it is pure speculation 🙂
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  5187.  @DanDavisHistory  Maybe the decline was caused by being cut off from the big trade networks?
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  5188. Great
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  5189. Incredible vid
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  5190. It's amazing to think that the Minoans were getting some of their copper from the Urals rather than Cyprus. Obviously it came through other traders first, but the fact that it came from there rather than a much closer island is thought provoking. Maybe it held higher value because it came from a distant almost mythical land. Maybe they thought it just looked better or was better quality than the ones from Cyprus - who knows?
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  5191. Yes. Make a video on bronze age armor please.
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  5192. Amazing video Dan. Proud to be partly descended from Sintashta and Andronovo horse warriors.
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  5193. Very interesting documentary. Incredible story and brilliant video
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  5194. Man is a wolf to man. The more easy living civilized peoples become weak and are prayed upon by the harder living nomads.
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  5195. No way would I want to wear a helmet with very long bronze horns in battle. The extra weight, the imbalance, the risk of getting it tangled is not worth it. But with smaller horns, that makes sense. I'm reminded of Japanese helmets: there are ceremonial kabuto worn by wealthy nobles at festivities or at court, and they can get extremely fancy - and sometimes fairly impractical. For anyone interested, search for kawari kabuto. Of course, in battle they would wear different helmets - still decorated, sometimes lavishly so, but more practical.
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  5196. Beautifully done, as usual!
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  5197. I used to be an adventure like you until I took an arrow to the knee. Sorry, that’s all I could think about in the last part of the video lol Great job, glad the almighty algorithm sent me here
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  5198. Someone please make me immortal and send me back to the dawn of humanity Soni can see everything that was going down!!
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  5199. A hearty hell yes to bronze age sailing
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  5200. Superb
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  5201. ooga booga new video grug happy
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  5202. "Look upon my haircut, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside the mullet remains."
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  5203. Your work and transition of it are appreciated. What You do is so much more vital than You might know - or do ;) Thank You, Dan
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  5204. I love your videos man. Really paints a picture of what the world was like back then.
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  5205. Another great video, Dan! Love this channel.
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  5206. Well done
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  5207. Great video once again!
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  5208. Love the music by the way, great for a slow start of the day as I slowly but surely wake up
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  5209. Horses are, as you say, social animals used to following leaders. So are sheep and cattle and, even more so, dogs. I've always been fascinated by how well today's dogs get along with today's horses, whilst it's an other kettle of fish (or tea if you prefer...) altogether between dogs and donkeys. I've taken daily care of a donkey and my late dog Kate and she very quickly became great chums, but when I got a 6 weeks old pup I had to start the socialising process with the donkey from scratch again. As a biologist, I think thata very important difference between horses and dogs is that the former follow the lead to get to the right places to eat but are, once there, in competition for the best places ("best" both in food availability and in safety from predators), wild canids depend on team work to get their pails filled. WIth dogs you don't need material stimuli (tidbits) to train them, social compensations suffice. With horses, you need material rewards first and can then shift to social ones, which I called "from carrot to cuddle". I'd like to get other people's opinion on this. Be all this how it may, both our latter-day dogs and our latter-day horses are, of course, light years away in behaviour from their wild ancestors.
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  5210. A masterful account of early English history that we know so little about. Well done. Peter
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  5211.  @DanDavisHistory  Awesome!!!! I am subbed so I will definitely tune in. Good stuff brother. I'm a truck driver so I put your stuff on and let it play while I work. I enjoy every minute of it. Thank you.
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  5212. Interesting stuff. Cheers.
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  5213. Good to hear from you again. 👍
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  5214. Love your work man! Can't wait for Thunderer and will probably start the vamp series soon too.
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  5215. 22:49 that's the first time that I heard meme being used unironically
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  5216. the hole on the cows head was likely to be an experiment.
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  5217. Love your videos. You've done more to stoke my curiosity than the vast majority of youtubers out there.
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  5218. Really enjoyed this one 💪
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  5219. So, did they know how to sail the oceans?... 😏
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  5220. Another lunch break well spent with your video! I just got Thunderer, wonder if I should read it before or after your upcoming video on the Battle Axe.
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  5221.  @DanDavisHistory  d'you reckon it's a symptom of the post war insistence on epically debunking any kind of English heroic figure/event or does it predate that?
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  5222. I like to imagine these are narrated by Captain Jack Sparrow.
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  5223. Wonderful stuff brother.
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  5224. It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage video about pioneer unetic culture civilization in the Central Europe area ,early settlement of corded ware & bell beaker culture...,shared by an amazing ( Dan Davis history) channel ...thanks for sharing
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  5225. Another good one mate. I'm more impressed that you found a viable sentence to use cacophony. I had an epiphany while watching the last few minutes. I think that the custom of the Khusra (transvestite) in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India might be related to these "outcast" individuals. They go around to weddings and different rites of passage ceremonies in these countries and people give them money and gifts in fear of bad fortune, or with hope of good fortune. I think the Corybantes and the Dionysian priests had something to do with castration or Trans related? Did they perform the rituals to the ancestors (Apollo? or someone) and/or sacrifice themselves to the "worship of the ancestors"? Just thinking outload. Cheers!
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  5226. Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Special thanks to veteran ship commanders. Sharing personal information/exploration experiences. Thru diaries/memoirs making this documentary more authentic and possible.
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  5227. Great research, great explanation, great respect for the evidence. (And a great antidote to the likes of G. Hancock et. al. :-)
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  5228. Everything in this video is what I've thought for years...but you put it together so perfectly! Awesome stuff!
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  5229. This was absolutely incredible - this will be formative for my sons
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  5230. This is good, a follow up video
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  5231. The highest peak on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, is called The Golden Hinde, as he may have reached as far north as the island. It's a week-long hike and a goal of mine to hike it one day.
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  5232. Really great vid, good job 👍 Going to watch the rest of ur vids now
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  5233. Thank you very much for your expedite and thorough response. It is extremely valuable information for my line of research. I'll stay tuned!
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  5234. This channel is criminally under subscribed.
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  5235.  @DanDavisHistory  please do one on indo european India on punjab
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  5236. The backround music is so mesmerizing. It feels like I'm in The Never Ending Story or Conan.
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  5237. I'm a new subscriber and, up to now, considered myself something of a history buff. 😒 I have never heard of a lot of these cultures! I'm curious now about what criteria is used to define a separate culture. I think I've had a rather simplistic, vague notion that it had something to do with how they shaped their pottery or sharpened their tools/weapons (e.g. Clovis points, etc.) It's evident that I need to do more background reading. As a biologist, I'm also very interested in their DNA relationships. Thank you for opening up a whole new area of history to me! I'll be combing through your archived videos to get caught up.
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  5238. Plagues and farming/animal husbandry go hand in hand...
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  5239. When i read your book, the godborn first book in the series, I simply cannot stop picturing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TTuePHsN-c The story of the movie is different, but I like historical environment. Bordering between the chalcolithic, bronze and perhaps Neolithic. A primitive world, made of gods, animal skin covered warrior bands, power hungry kings, warlords and lots insane violence.
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  5240. Had to put down one of mine a couple days ago.
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  5241. A video on Tin mining, would nicely explain the rise n fall of the bronze Age. But you got a new sub for this video. Great history presentation.
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  5242. A masterpiece, good stuff!
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  5243. I am envisioning a sort of Nordic equivalent of the Sea Peoples being related in these images.
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  5244.  @DanDavisHistory  Αγωγή.agoge.from the verb ,αγω, it means I drive,I lead and agoge also means education.a very common word now and three thousands years ago.
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  5245. Two thoughts 1. Those claiming there was a transatlantic trade at the time are doing so because for their alternative history views, they need one to have existed. I was one as what's left of my videos (the ones I don't now completely disagree with) would show. 2. Is it possible that sails were relatively common, but only as removable structures? The first sails wouldn't have been very good, so they probably only worked in perfect conditions. So, the mass/frame would have been something that could be stored away Great videos. I often rewatch them, just to remind me of everything stated. That's something I only do with about 3 or 4 other channels
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  5246. What is the explanation for the discrepency between R1b and R2b among Corded Ware and Yamnaya people?
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  5247. Amazing.
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  5248. Stonehenge! Where the demons dwell Where the banshees live and they do live well Stonehenge! Where a man's a man And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan
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  5249. Vey interesting.
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  5250. I confess I’m barely into this one yet, but I’ll forget otherwise 😬 The houses up on piles or stilts, if they were a culture of animal husbandry.. they could have housed their animals at night or in bad weather beneath them 🤔 It would solve needing an outbuilding and keep them close at hand in difficult times.. I’m just speculating as a hobby farm experienced person.. if I had to go live in the wilds somewhere and keep a small flock of goats or whatever, that particular design would be a good idea 🤔 Just wool gathering 😬
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  5251. Outstanding work, as always.
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  5252.  @DanDavisHistory  I can't say it was fun but it had its moments, I got to visit a ziggarot that was made around 2500 bc while I was there which was cool I think it was called agur kuf or something like that
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  5253. Nice
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  5254. New to the channel. What a fantastic video, great work.
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  5255. Man I'm so glad you dropped this on a lazy Sunday afternoon, after everybody in EST - like me - has had plenty of time to mow the lawn already.
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  5256. You have done a great man justice.
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  5257. The lack of mixing is not a question. Many people in Papua New Guinea are too superstitious of ghosts to risk contacting neighbors. Whole communities adjacent may never mix.
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  5258. Brilliant. I loved your telling. Thank you.
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  5259. You've earned yourself a Subscriber. Keep it up
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  5260. I love your videos, i would really love a collaberation between you and Stefan Milo 😊
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  5261. Finally found the time and got around to listening. Amazing video, what a story, what a man. Some funny moments for me were when you first mentioned that men weren't speared by bed to which I said out loud "hmmm sounds kinda gay... Ohw 😓" I wonder what kind of bed talk has been had by some legendary people throughout history, but especially these two... With the setting shifting from ancient to mediaeval times and the longer episode I noticed an interesting trend by my two absolute favourite (history) content creators, you and the History of the Netherlands Podcast (not on YT, but among other places Spotify), the way little jokes are done, the way historical perspectives are shifted (specifically with truly sketching an situation, the "now imagine if you were there" followed with a vivid yet grounded description), even intonation, sentence flow, pauses and to a degree sentence structuring.. I probably should investigate why it pulls me..
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  5262. Can anyone recommend a more or less "exhaustive" book on the subject, apart from the one suggested in the video? Can even be in Romanian or Ukrainian, as it's expected local archeologists have put more effort into researching this culture. Thanks!
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  5263. This is a Mahbharata-style battle, at the other end of the IE area
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  5264. Thank you for the video and information on Richard. He has always been my favorite and you only increased that love.
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  5265. I scrolled through the comments before posting it, figuring that someone had to have pointed it out before now. Guess I lost the "geek check". haha.
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  5266. Excellent job dan. STJ and you form a juggernaut of ancient European history.
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  5267. There's plenty of data about it, probably the best preserved early bronze age archaeological site.
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  5268. Fascinating
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  5269. Love this
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  5270. If you have been in situations where you know you may die, where firearms are involved, or weapons, or you going up against many people at once......There is something that happens inside of you, its like the brain shuts down, and you act like a primal animal, as a protection response. Once upon a time, I was a gang member, who got in to many bad situations. And when I got into these fights, or shootings í would "lose my mind", didn't care if I was shot át, while everyone else ran, I ran towards it, if I was outnumbered í screamed at them and picked the biggest one to fight first, and even had people run from me. Same with jail too. I would act crazy, and they would cower. Not all, bút most. When I was in the military, I had no fear. I was always quick to react and ask questions later. Later after I was out of the gangs, I found out my ancestors are Icelandic, norwegian, and Scottish, they were also warriors who were very well known in Iceland. It all made sense after that. Now I am Óðins warrior, protect the innocent and never fear death. The gods are always watching us. SKÁL ⚔🪓
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  5271. This is a Great video! Thank you for sharing!😊
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  5272. Perfect voice for history 😊
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  5273. Im super curious how flexible proto and early PIE speakers were when it came to female warriors and women general roles in society? It of course varied across cultures and time, but I’m thinking of Scythians, Sarmatians, Celtic speakers, Vikings— all descendant PIE speaking cultures that were relatively patriarchal but sometimes were matrilineal (Picts), or had legendary or archaeological evidence of horse riders and shield maidens, or the women enjoyed greater social autonomy compared to stricter patriarchal cultures (Scythians/Sarmatians are likely the origins of the Amazon bc their female warriors were so bizarre to the Greeks). That all came from somewhere, and I wonder if it was original to Yamnaya PIEs or from a substrate contact or developed on its own, etc Also, i read that the PIE Yamnaya likely had a triple caste of sorts — warrior, priest, and farmer. I wonder what the priest and farmer roles were in this ritual dance (besides avoid the warriors while they proceeded in the wild hunt)
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  5274. Descendant of this lot 🙂
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  5275. The way you explain things makes it easier for me to understand...thank you for the information !!
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  5276. Frikin good vid man keep goin
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  5277. This chap is a good narrator… makes all the difference
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  5278. I thoroughly enjoyed your video. Thank you!
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  5279. Your videos are an excellent resource for me - I've been writing for five years now and am gearing up to write my first serious novel, which I hope to sell. Very historically inflected fantasy. I'm finding my love of how people lived in distant times meeting my habit of writing about unusual members of society. Your videos are helping me get a groundwork before I start reading books like the ones you've cited. Thanks for your work here! I'm going to be ordering one of your novels from my local bookstore soon for sure
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  5280. For the Algorithm!
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  5281. This is an amazing video, I cannot praise it enough. I love history but often find it difficult to pay attention to videos and documentaries, but the way you contextualized these people and wove a narrative out of it made it enthralling.
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  5282. Fantastic content
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  5283. I think all your videos are great. This one is primus inter pares. I immensely enjoyed it and learnt much.
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  5284. Awesome Brother! Thank You Kindly
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  5285. @10:00 the chief died in battle and his body couldn’t be brought back?
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  5286.  @DanDavisHistory  much appreciated. I'm hoping to have time to get back to that once this damn thesis gets submitted.
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  5287. Can't wait for the weights! :-)
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  5288. I always listen to your stuff while working, love the content mate.
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  5289. I applaud your impressive display of euphemistic oratory! Great video and very fascinating suggestions.
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  5290. Did this geezer William of Mamsbury wear green tights, if not he surely can not be Robin Hood.
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  5291. Just relaxing in the Sun enjoying some home brewed alcohol, listening to a lecture on Bronze Age Europe, I'm not sure how life could get better right now maybe if I had a Kate Upton look alike in my lap but that would bring it's own droma so I'm not 100% sure I want that right now
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  5292. this is the perfect video to answer my question of what people used in battle througout the bronze age, I'm going to subscribe now.
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  5293. Hmmmm Essex hasn't really changed, has it? 😂
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  5294. First time watching. I absolutely loved the video man, you’ve definitely earned the subscribe
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  5295. Amazing video as always. I would love to know more about the stone tomb complex.
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  5296. Very well made and informative video. Amazing ancient culture. Do you plan to make any videos about Vucedol culture or any other ancient cultures from Balkan area like Lepenski vir, Starcevo, Vinca, Sopot...?
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  5297. Fun Fact, there is still a saying in Icelandic "Að bíta í skjaldarendurnar". Which is biting ones sheild or hunkering down or getting things done, timecode 14:55
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  5298. Love the videos about bronze age commerce, can't get enough.
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  5299. Very interesting story
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  5300. It does seem that horned helmets have some kind of connection to the "Divine bull" whatever the reasons why it's clear bulls are an old cult symbol in Europe and the Middle East. If I had to guess I would say horned helmets on the battlefield might have been a kind of talisman of whatever God was associated with the divine bull that could have also doubled as a statis identifier among kings and their warriors
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  5301. Thoroughly enjoyed this, I do love knowing how our ancestors lived, and this is very informative, really interesting, thanks
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  5302. I just finished the audio-book version of Vampire Khan. It was awesome and I can't wait for the 4th audio-book of the series to come out.
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  5303. This was very good. Well done.
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  5304. I give this a 5 star on its history and very interesting content
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  5305. Hadn't heard of the El Argar Culture before, very much enjoyed this. The Etruscans were big on their walled hill cities, i wonder if there was a connection? Beyond the obvious hard work that goes into your videos your enthusiasm for the topics is in your voice. Very well done!!!!
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  5306. Great! Best Regards from Portugal!
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  5307. I see lot of Icelandic horses and landscape...they are very good to ride, have 5 walking steps called: fet, brokk, stökk, tölt og skeið. They came to Iceland with my Vikings forefather. Icelandic horse is very and in 1100 years, he developed technic to walk on lava area. You have to walk on lava area to understand how difficult it is to walk on lava.
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  5308. Wow. What a brilliant documentary. Well done
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  5309. I think "Robin Hood" comes from robbing with a hood on. For example: "We were held up by a robbing hood." Then the lazy tongue turned it into "a robin hood". Much like "a while ago" has become "walligo". Example: "I saw Mary walligo." Look, just think about the thousands of times travelers were held up by a robbing hood and relieved of any wealth or possessions they might have been carrying. Then three ... five ... seven "robbing hoods" over long periods of time do it for good reasons and nobody knows who they really are, so they are all called robbing hood ... or Robin Hood. I believe the character of Robin Hood is a fictional character made up of attributes of all the good robbing hoods over several hundred years, not just one man.
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  5310. Ancient stonemasons always leave me in awe. Hopefully I'll get there one day ( and Corsica).
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  5311. I'm from Sardinia. Great video.
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  5312. There's a fascinating paper, which follows up on some other related papers too, by Rascovan et all from 2018 that proves that Yersinia pestis lineages spread through late Neolithic Europe, and was especially prominent at the time of the Cucuteni decline. Rather than the WSH peoples causing the decline, they most likely spread into an area that was a Mad Max like post-apocalyptic scenario as the Old Europe civilizations were crashing due to climate change and black plague. A much more opportunistic rather than causative spread by the early ancestors of the Corded Ware would be the conclusion of this theory.
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  5313. Great Doc! Best Regards from Portugal ❤🇵🇹
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  5314. Quality documentary, only just got round to watching it. The man had a pair of balls
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  5315. Very interesting. Wondering how this culture and the mainland Etruscan (Proto-Etruscan, Proto-Villanovan) culture were interrelated. ?
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  5316. Odd- I see a lot of people arguing in these comments, but then proceed to do the literary equivalent of petulantly stamping their feet and screaming “No! No! No!” by just repeating a majority of the things you address in your video and seemingly debunk or render irrelevant. And either way- how can they claim to know the truth anymore than you? Seems they just want him to be this cartoonish villain, perhaps it alleviates some personal insecurities or frustrations?
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  5317.  @DanDavisHistory  I actually created another channel and am planning on creating a specifically on the Irish megalith culture when I have time.
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  5318. Fascinating. I cannot help making connections with Viking Age silver. Metal is so versatile.
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  5319. Interesting that the mining activity seems to conincide with the arrival of the Beaker Folk from Continental Europe. Do you imagine that is because they had the knowledge and the technology? as rudimentary as it was for the period. Fantastic work as always Dan.
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  5320. Been watching your series. Introducing me to a history I was completely unfamiliar with. It may not have been your intention but this is the best advertisement for your novels. Your vids show a great interest and deep research into the subject matter of your historical fiction settings. I don’t fall for advertising at all but just wanted to let you know these vids made me buy your books Looking forward to reading them.
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  5321. The REAL #RobinHood is #DavidMacHenry, the grandson of #KingDavid of #Scotland [or possibly David mac Henry's son, Robert, where there is conflicting reports as to whether he died in childhood or not] - the man who wrote "Robin Hood" also wrote the #Talisman - a book about the adventures of #DavidMacHenry - the two books are virtually identical with many stories having similar themes ..
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  5322. Elite tier historical content on YouTube. Bravo.
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  5323. I love this channel. 👍🏻
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  5324. Awesome factual production
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  5325. 100 percent. I imagine they did it as a joke or dare
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  5326. I'm gonna make a reproduction of polished stone battle axe as soon as I can find a suitable stone maybe I can make a identical copper version
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  5327. Chariot before riding would make more sense to me, especially when there is far more evidence of chariots in ancient warfare, but would also agree that horse riding could easily been a sport of sorts that leading into a utility of travel around the same time of chariots
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  5328. Of course I’m interested why do you think I’m here “starts chanting”wild hunt wild hunt wild hunt
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  5329. Holy shit 10/10 would listen again. This is basically the midevil equivalent of red dawn.
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  5330. Damn imagine getting bashed in the head by someone before the industrial revolution, them mfs built different back then, they're functional strong not gym strong
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  5331. Found this very interesting even at my age Thank you I missed the name you said if you want to listen too the next one but yes please
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  5332. I'm going to Sardinia soon and wanted to visit at least one historical site. I was scared to land on yet another "alternative archeology" channel but this was so instructive and documented thanks! Plus your voice is very soothing. You have a new subscriber 😊
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  5333. Hey it’s those little fellows from Heilung’s Krigsgaldr music video
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  5334. What is the y and mt haplogroupings of the Pitted Ware culture?
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  5335. Brilliant video Dan.. This was a fascinating discovery, I wonder what else we will learn about this site and this battle......? Your a VERY creative individual, an admirable trait.. Love your storytelling... Helps put me in the proper space and time... Context is crucial..!✌ thanks again Dan...
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  5336. I have a tattoo with a loved ones ashes in it.
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  5337. interesting.
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  5338. Great video! Please @DanDavisHistory, bring to us more videos like this talking about these national medieval european figures (for example: Jan Zizka, Skanderbeg, Alfonso Henriques, Brian Boru, Willliam Wallace, The Black Prince, etc. And thanks a lot for the attention!
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  5339. Great storytelling. Each one is better than the last.
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  5340. Fantastic work. Really appreciate this. Bless up 👊
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  5341. The Orcadian Horsemen
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  5342. EPIC book trailer
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  5343. Source: Sydney Sweeney
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  5344.  @DanDavisHistory  you are welcome, and I'll keep listening either way!
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  5345. Some "pleasant" sound effects there for the impaling 🙃
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  5346.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanet was still an island #makethanetanislandagain
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  5347. Behind every beautiful man is a beautiful toiletry kit 😂 Bronze age razors, for the warriors against unruly beards 😂
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  5348. It's interesting they were that tall and slim. Usually cold adaptation among subsistence populations favors short, stocky builds such as the Eskimos. Is it known whether the Gravettians were phenotypically distinct from H. Sapiens who stayed in Africa during this time? I'm wondering whether these folks were physically adapted to the warm African savannah ecosystem just like the ones who stayed in Africa and just wandered up north and managed to survive there for thousands of years in their original "African form" without facing severe adaptation pressures that would force a change in their morphology. The fact they managed to get that tall means they were very successful procuring food and handling environmental stressors, meaning there was probably little selection pressure to filter for shot and squat phenotypes.
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  5349. Binging your channel has given me a very interesting perspective of how much more advanced prehistoric societies were than we tend to imagine.
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  5350. Thanks for the excelent job. Your almost always introduce history subjets that are not very known but really interesting!!!
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  5351. I love your vids bud keep it up
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  5352. Great vid as usual👍 You have a pleasant talkingvoice and a good way of describing things that makes it easy to follow you to a different time and place, exellent!
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  5353. I'm looking forward to it
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  5354. Did you get a new microphone you sound different
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  5355. Great video and great story, thanks
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  5356. I've never heard of this guy. Subbed 👍
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  5357. Could this indo-european idea of the divine twins and this hypothesis of the two chieftans (4:30) explain the origin of the spartan diarchy?
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  5358. Awesome. I look forward to a video on the Nordic Bronze Age!
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  5359. Fantastic video. Thank you!
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  5360. Please never stop making them
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  5361. This reminds me of the migration of the Dorians into Greece about the same time period. Any relation?
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  5362. I just finished "Godborn: Gods of Bronze" audiobook and cant wait for the next one. Im really enjoying the story and the settings. Well done! :)
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  5363. If there's examples of these mask cults in the Americas, Africa, and pacific Asia is it possible that the practice predates even the Indo-Europeans? Or is that connection so far in the past it's not even really possible to study?
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  5364. 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'.
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  5365. getting told the cerberus means spotted made me want to subsribe.
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  5366. Wonderful!
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  5367. My Grandfather is in an Urn on the mantlepiece, wouldn't have that any other way.
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  5368. Well done, Thank You.
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  5369. This practice of a military initiation for young men reminds me of a general practice of the Southeastern Woodlands cultures in the modern day American South. Young men had to take on a servile role to older men until they'd taken their first scalp. Only then were they welcomed into the wider masculine sphere of their villages as an equal.
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  5370. Always interesting to watch Dan’s excellently researched and presented content.
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  5371. bronze age/ early iron age is the best time in scandinavia
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  5372. Excellent I write bad fantasy and near future fiction. Not nearly as well. Can't edit my own work without call completely rewriting it... But it's cool to hear of someone who has studied this past like myself but much more extensively. I wonder if you read going bs germs and steel and what you took away from it.
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  5373. There is something very calming about your voice. Listening to you keeps me from going into beserker mode.
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  5374. Google Belfast actor Ciarán Hinds as Julius Caesar in Roman Triumph :-)
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  5375. 5:43 OK WHAT HAPPENED IN THE SAHEL
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  5376. Fucking brilliant presentation it isn't just info but it feels like I'm getting told a story your book sound very interesting im going to read it 100 percent
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  5377. Comments for Algorithm, I'll be back after video
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  5378. One of your best! Keep up the fantastic work!
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  5379. Those are obviously the Hyxos! (just kidding) Challenging the atlantic and the mediterranean in a Hjortspring style boat so far from home would be suicide
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  5380. Hang on! I've got Asterix in Corsica and Obelix didn't take any menhirs on that trip, just Dogmatix.
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  5381. Steal my beer!! Grrrrrr
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  5382. Wow. Cool story and person. This is why I love history so much. Get to hear about awesome events and people like this. BTW, your up another sub.
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  5383. content to the core! yeeeees
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  5384. This was far better than watching woke Nutflix. I learned a lot. I've a question tho. What archaeological sites are associated with the rich and powerful lords from Jutland and SW Germany? I'd love to visit any digs, monuments etc. in those areas. Thanks.
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  5385. Well done! Drake would have been proud of this biography.
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  5386. This culture had true family values!
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  5387. awesome
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  5388. Mate you make the best history documentaries out there hands down. It’s simply brilliant.
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  5389. Lugal-zagezi conquering everything and making an inscription about it: haha ** yeah!! This rules! Lugal-zagezi losing to one random usurper from a Northern backwater: Well this ***** sucks, wtf
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  5390. Great videos. I just wish we really knew what all happened. Including who the sea people really were.
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  5391.  @DanDavisHistory  I am surprised that they would have the necessary production capacity for that. Wasn't Bronze a bit harder to come by because you would have to import tin from thousands of miles away? If they were so common how can it be that we only found a single example?
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  5392.  @DanDavisHistory  Well apologies, it seems my mind was still in Late Copper Age mode. Bronze Age is of course an entirely different matter.
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  5393. I don't see how someone watching your videos can find bronze age weight systems boring!
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  5394. Man.... your content is always amazing. Thank you for all the hard work.
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  5395. In Honduras we dress ourselves in burnt engine oil and mask up to chase children and take their money. It's supposed to be something we've done before the Spanish came
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  5396. Exelant work Danny-boy, keep em coming.
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  5397. fascinating
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  5398. I like this long videos very much. Thank you very much for all the information you have beem sharing about those incredible times!!!
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  5399. I have really enjoyed this and your other videos- a favorite historical period. Just read your novel Godborn and loved that too. Great attention to historical detail. Disagree only about bread. you don't need to practice agriculture to have lots of bread seasonally on grasslands, when the local grasses seed.
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  5400. Excellent video dan! Thanks for making it!
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  5401. I very much enjoyed this video, and I would likely enjoy one about weights, too. Hell, I'll watch almost anything pre-history.
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  5402. This is amazing... thank you !!
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  5403. Im Portuguese this guy stole from me!! 🤣🤣
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  5404. I bet they cremated at the bodies that's why there aren't as many
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  5405. Its always a delight to watch new video of Dan talking about theese fascinating ancient peoples.
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  5406. Very interesting. Good use of the word "meme" :)
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  5407. Thank you.
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  5408.  @HalfmoonForge  fantastic. I've cast a few things. you can literally carve what you want from wax, pack it in Moist sand. I made rough bits in brass and use a dremel to finish. Made a handle for a knife
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  5409. Fascinating and thrilling, what a wonderful documentary. Thank you
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  5410. Thanks!
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  5411. Looking forward to your item on drinking beer from skulls. Germans have some books about bronze-age warfare published in cooperation with the Landesmuseum Halle. They have indications for armies in Bronze Age Germany, full sets of axes were found, perhaps belonging to warriors of a particular männerbund chief. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/abs/armies-in-the-early-bronze-age-an-alternative-interpretation-of-unetice-culture-axe-hoards/B513FF389674EA20F20A91795CD99232#.
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  5412. Dan Davis giving me something great to listen to, watch, and think about while I make breakfast. Never a bad video, nothibg I won't click on immediately.
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  5413. The similarities are striking to me: the reversal of regular norms (the 'trick' part of trick or treat), the connection with the dead, the wearing of the masks by young people-it seems unlikely to be a coincidence, but what do I know!
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  5414. This was really good, I used to watch every video and documentary about Vlad when I was a kid and this was by far the most comprehensive and sensible Also I just noticed I still have the order sigil as my profile pic😅
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  5415. Good video this. I've read bits about the Sintashta before, but never seen any videos on this people and their culture.
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  5416. Nice work!
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  5417. Guardian of the Realm sounds way more badass than any sort of royal title
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  5418.  @DanDavisHistory , thank you very much!
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  5419. You've been busy. Great work!
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  5420. That would be absolutely fantastic, I vote for that.
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  5421. Again thank you for your videos! Could you please do a similar video on the different types of bronze swords and daggers? Thanks again!
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  5422. Other common culture expressions are the swastika (probably yin-yang too, since this is a Tripolye symbol), bear-cult and shamanism. All pre-dating PIE with the same geographical distribution, I doubt it is coincidence. Native American numerology should share similar mythological significance for numbers 9 and 7 for example, I don't know if they do.
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  5423.  @DanDavisHistory  Most of what we perceive as Chinese culture has roots in northern steppe people such as the Buddha, he was a Scythian (Daoism is a early form of Buddhism, see "Greek Buddha" by C.I.Beckwith). You can search for "Cucuteni -Trypillian, Romania,Ukraine yin yang" you will find the pottery that has the symbol. Some interpret this as coincidental swirling patterns, but I suspect it is intentional and the philosophical ideas behind the symbol are very old. The I Ching hexagrams for example look very similar to Ötzi's (ice-man) tattoos. Harald Haarmann has written about the Donau-civilisation/Old-Europe he mentions some symbolism and its origins too, I believe some of his work is translated in English now.
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  5424. The weapons and armor in Beowulf are often gifted with stories of the deeds done with them. Seems like the purpose is to remember the deeds and inspire new ones.
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  5425. Gotta wonder if any trace of this could be found in later mythology of any people we know about.
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  5426. That antelope face though 😳
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  5427. Interesting and probablly correct, but i wonder about the farmers hammer whats is used in the farm works and Thor was a farmers god, so, may could be this explanation to?
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  5428. Thank you for the wonderful video. This theory seems the most likely to me. Multi ethic large groups of mercenaries kitted out by regional smiths where they served, band together to attack Africa. The similar but slightly different athestic of the armor and weapons of different companies helps Egyptian historians differentiate the groups, making them seem a specific "people." We don't know, but it seems logical.
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  5429. Boataxe and battleaxe culture! both local variants of corded ware! Proto-germanic people!
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  5430. Well, "Yamna" is far more correct term for this culture
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  5431. Excellent work and presentation Dan.
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  5432. Thank you. You do excellent work
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  5433. Aaaannnndd subscribed, brilliant and inspiring.
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  5434.  @DanDavisHistory  I look forward to uploads from this channel more than from any other
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  5435.  @DanDavisHistory  I'm going to become a patron soon as well. Need to pay some bills first and then I'll definitely join up. This type of works deserves funding!
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  5436. It’s the same argument for the Indus Valley civilisation being peaceful. It’s a dumb argument. Great video as always Dan!
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  5437. now wheres that chariot video lol
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  5438. Good job.
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  5439. Awesome video Dan Davis! Really enjoying it so far, 13 minutes in!
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  5440. Amazing content man.
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  5441. Now I wonder if the black-masked antifa and BLM rioters are part of the ritual...
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  5442. Very interesting video...I really enjoyed it.
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  5443. Great video Dan! Interesting topic 👍
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  5444. Watched a video about Richardson the lionheart by Simon whistler. It was a lazy misinformed attempt. You're video is superb
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  5445. Great, as always! ❤🇵🇹
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  5446. Enjoyed this video, as well as your other ones. I know David Anthony mentions evidence of warfare on the Cucuteni-Tripolye (fires, arrowheads etc) but is there any evidence of pestilence or plague adding to their end. I think the NOVA episode on the first horse riders gets into this a little bit although it is more of a later period of the Yamnaya in Europe (ie they find y. pestis in some of the teeth dna).
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  5447. Thank you, I recently discovered your channel and am not only enjoying it very much but I am learning so much about history. Again, Thank you.
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  5448. Isn't this also the era of Sea People which raided ancient Egypt?
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  5449. Definitely want to hear about bronze age weights
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  5450. Great stuff thanks for sharing
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  5451. why is Chaos sometimes a serpent and sometimes a dragon?
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  5452. Asiatic Wild Ass was my nickname in college
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  5453. Hi Dan I like your videos and the Bronze Age. I have a question I'am German and want to read your books is there a German translation?
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  5454.  @DanDavisHistory  okay sad, but thank you for the answer👍🏻
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  5455. YASSSSS Thank you for another great piece!
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  5456. Yay, new video! Been interested in them since the OSP video on it Edit: Sounds like the kronos knew how to rave Edit again: what a wonderful video, one of my favourites so far!
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  5457. So that's what Halloween is, basically?
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  5458. For the algorithms!
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  5459. I like how you acknowledge complexity and the breadth of interpretation that allows.
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  5460. Amazing human history of metal production.
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  5461. Your channel got me into your books. I'm half way through Godborn and love it!
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  5462. Very well done documentary. Really a "docudrama" as Sir Francis Drake lived a dramatic life of so many amazing accomplishments, most done through sheer force of will.
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  5463. Great Video!... will def start your books
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  5464. Very good documentary. Thanks.
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  5465. Illuminating work, team ! Nicely presented. Thx.
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  5466. The far most common weapon was the penis
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  5467. They confuse your enemies. You run towards them shouting MOO!! and by the time they realise you're not cows rushing to provide free beef you're in the middle of 'em hacking 'em down. What could possibly go wrong?
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  5468. "sacred substances" cuts to cow tits
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  5469. Marvellous, cheers!
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  5470. A video on Bronze Age weights would be quite interesting.
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  5471. Anthony also argues that fighting from horseback was unlikely, lacking the bow technology of the reflex composite bow. The argument was that they rode to the surroundings of the target, dismount, raid, and then retreat to the horses, remount and ride away...
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  5472. This was really interesting and informative. Thanks Dan.
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  5473. I saw the display of Varna gold at Canbridge and the skills used in making. Designing these amazing objects was totally wow! These were an amazing people and culture thank you for the video presentation about them and helping people be aware of history
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  5474. As a Sardinian, I've always had hard times finding detailed and well explained informations about the ancient history of my Island in English. Thank you so much for the amazing video, finally I can link something for my foreign friends curious to know this land❤️
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  5475. Dan Davis, your name would suggest you have a wee of Welsh in your background. Is that so? My name Finch goes back to Wales in some of its earliest mentions, but in Pembrokshire, so not likely of the native Welsh people.
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  5476. Interesting♥️
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  5477. I though mesopotamian were the ones who invented the wheel.
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  5478. Loved it
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  5479. At first glance I thought the thumbnail was Tim Curry
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  5480. How can you know so much about so many cultures? It seems like many a lifetimes worth of study. I believe it was called the Hallstatt culture? I know that there’s probably a lot out there about them but I’m still curious as to what you may have to say about them. If I’m not wrong they’re one of the the Celtic cultures that had some of the most intricate gold jewelry.
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  5481. Any mitochondrial DNA info from those people?
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  5482. Thank you for a great presentation.
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  5483. Just read your book Vampire Outlaw so it's fun to see the real story from you!
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  5484. 18:03 what if some communities manufactured and traded cool skull cups and this was their factory?
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  5485. Great film, if you need any images drop me a line
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  5486. I normally hate clickbait thumbnail and videos and will sometimes not even give likes to a video if it was good but wasn't super good because of that. However, this one I love. A question and for those who wanted to skip to the answer without watching "no"
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  5487. I also had a shit day, but your vids really make it better Dan
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  5488. Great video. Please don’t be sorry about speaking the truth. Humans have suffered massively throughout history. Certainly motivates us for better science and medicine. Thanks
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  5489. Fantastic series. Just discovered. One of the few I listen to every word. I have a couple of questions. One, Kurgan from Highlander, if memory serves was a Scythian raised by wolves or something. Another reference I have u mention you’re an author are you aware of The Horse Goddess by Morgan Llewelyn it was the first book I read I’m 40s now it too set in prehistory in the times of Druids. Love ur stuff. Subscribed!!!
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  5490. Great thanx
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  5491.  @DanDavisHistory  I don't know whether either of you have heard of the anthropologist Robert Sepehr but he makes excellent videos here on YT, a recent one referenced the spiral dancing tradition of which you speak. He definitely holds some professional opinions defiant of mainstream academia but If you have an open mind you should definitely check out his content!
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  5492. You have convinced me to read your books, anything you recommend or your readers?
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  5493. Another slam dunk right here! Great job!
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  5494. Super happy I ran into your channel Dan. You do an amazing job!
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  5495. WHOA!!! This was utterly fascinating!!! I never heard of them either. Those ceramic urns and the statues are flat out gorgeous. What do we get? Tupperware wannabe's. Ugg. One thing I do find curious in many ancient civilizations that breeds a question is why they make urn like storage vessels wider in the middle and tapered smaller on the tops and bottoms? Seems like they'd be prone to get knocked over easy. Maybe they just weren't as much of a klutz as I am. Very nice video....great work. Thanks for sharing and the links to the books. 👍😃👍😃👍 Very cool stuff!!!!
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  5496. This makes me think of a crazy tradition from Sweden, a part of it anyway, where the young people on the night before the day of St Lucia would take a calf, put a bundle of straw to its horns and set it alight. As the calf ran in panic the young people would run after it through the village. They would later slaughter the calf and eat it with bread
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  5497. Are these people the same as "the beaker culture"? This era confuses me lol
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  5498. Algorithm comment cuz!
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  5499. Or big Woman...a Matriarchal society. Perhaps they didnt need a "temple" if Mother Earth was worshipped.
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  5500. Fantastic content. Thank you,
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  5501. Awesome, as always!
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  5502. This is great..I love all your content bud.. it's really good !!
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  5503.  @DanDavisHistory  do you read your audiobooks?
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  5504. Archaeology is interesting. I do feel like people could have ridden horses in battle with no bridle or saddle because it was done and done well.
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  5505. I really enjoyed your presentation, just a question. Why the censorship of historic art?
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  5506. Good job
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  5507. This video was well done thank you. Maybe one day I'll try to recreate this weapon. I don't have any bludgeoning weapons yet.
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  5508. I can't help but wonder if the shorter horns are a practicality thing. Not just in the way that those much larger horns = very good lever to attack and excess weight, but also for ease of production. If you're gonna have your entire war band equipped with horns, I imagine the larger horned helmets would be harder to produce, especially if those smaller helmets are some kind of organic cap. Which of course, would itself be a status symbol, the guy with big horns is the guy with the means and cultural need to distinguish himself.
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  5509. Early bronze Corinthian Helmets with the piercing eye-slits, clearly are something special
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  5510. Prehistory is so much more fascinating than history.
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  5511. wow i didnt even know about these people, amazing culture! Wish I could live with them seems like a more peaceful time. great vid!
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  5512. Thank you so, so much for covering this. I live in Trøndelag in Norway so this covers some of our ancestors and a part of our history that's otherwise hard to pin down...
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  5513. So excited about being so early, I have nothing witty to post
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  5514. Sounds like it is time to bring back the mullet
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  5515. 'Bronze Age weights' video, yes please. I find trade related issues very interesting. Weight system is certainly part of the category. [Edit] ...and measure systems, too.
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  5516. Bonding with the idea of cynicism kills the idealist you once used to be and forces you to mature. Cynicism is to be like the dog, and is attributed to Diogenese, the Dog. We may not consume them physically anymore, but I do not think the idea is entirely gone.
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  5517. This is very well done. Yes to a weights study.
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  5518. initiation from childhood into manhood reminded me a very important turkish legand: "Dede Korkut".
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  5519. All their teeth are so nice!
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  5520. Could Sherdans be the point where people understood that horned helmets are impractical (they didn’t conquer Egypt after all)? xD
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  5521. Unbelievably brave. Tactically astute. Ruthless. Wicked sense of black humour. And a total bloody psychopath.
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  5522. Thanks!
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  5523. I'll watch every one a your vids Dan, whatever the topic. Love them
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  5524. Great video. Good insight & logic applied.
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  5525. I would say Smallpox in the Americas post Columbus might be comparable to the Black Death.
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  5526. I found that really haunting. At first I thought you were putting your spin on the well known European death and afterlife myths, and ancestor worship, and extremely resonant of Tolkien's undying lands in the far west. When you then said this mythical outline narrative part of the beliefs of indigenous people of the America's it sent is shiver up my spine. I find it utterly convincing that these myths have a common ancestor. The elements of the myths are so specific and clear that I find it hard to believe they do not have a common origin. I am not a religeous person but these myths feel instinctively 'right' for some reason.
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  5527. Amazing documentary. I think Gilles de Raie is guilty of what he was convicted of. I just don’t think he was honest about his reason of why he did what he did. He squandered the family fortune. He was desperate to get his money back. And in his desperation he went crazy & some how got it in his head that by sacrificing the lives of children to a demon, he’d get riches. And he had an unfair trial because he ruined his own reputation with his antics.
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  5528. ' Kuş Kanatlı Türk Atli= Bird with wings Turk with horse'... Whether Eastern, Western or Eurasian part of our human ancesstors' had domesticated it, horses are our beloved animal...It is good to trace the roots, but it is even better seeing alll humanity loves this wonderfull animal...
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  5529. Merci pour cette vidéo. Malheureusement je comprends mal l'anglais... Serait-il possible d'avoir un sous-titrage en français ? 🙏
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  5530. Why I plan on being buried with the bones of My favorite dog.
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  5531. Thanks I just want to say first time I listened truly nicely presented history and culture of Caucasus people respect you and your work
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  5532. very enjoyable, I enjoy the genetic testing and science, my own Y haplogroup descends from the early Neolithic Farmer peoples of the G2a type, I would enjoy a program on the LBK culture as well, the one on the Vinca Culture was quite good.
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  5533. Brilliant, thanks :)
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  5534. I never knew this much about Richard the Lionheart . He is a very interesting person in history thanks for making a Documentary about this man
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  5535. Extraordinary
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  5536. Thank you so much for this hight level document , so precise : never seen before
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  5537. The sophistication and magnitude of manpower necessary to mine the copper ore at Kargaly, refine it, and transport it thousands of miles was an impressive feat of human ingenuity, even by today's standards.
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  5538. Vlad did all the work and Radu came in like an ex wife and took it all. Edit: smiling Vlad is awesome!
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  5539. Wow! I lived here all my life and did't know about this. Very interesting.
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  5540. Thanks!
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  5541. I also enjoy the thought of naked french men taking a walk on the beach.
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  5542. Yes please on the full video on the stone tomb complex!
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  5543.  @DanDavisHistory  Thank you, I appreciate that
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  5544. 18:15 "And archaeologists can tell that tombs of the Middle Bronze Age in Cyprus were opened in around 1200 BC" ..and apparently excavated later by some cute girls
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  5545. Great
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  5546. I recommend the immortal knight chronicles to anybody who hasn't read it. The part of the series that includes these crusades is exciting to read.
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  5547. Just discovered your channel a few days ago. Latest few months is top notch content.
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  5548. ❤❤❤❤ Anita Ekberg. The Perfect Woman. Valkyrie.
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  5549.  @DanDavisHistory  cool no rush but I did love the last 2 books and the wolf god
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  5550. Interesting!
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  5551. Outstanding, truly!! Thank you 🌟🌟🌟!
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  5552. Would most certainly enjoy more videos on this topic. amazing job
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  5553. I was looking for something interestimg to listen to while cooking... but this was so interesting & well written I paused it to watch properly later. Instant subscribe!
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  5554. Get home, check my phone, there's a new Dan Davis video - rounding the weekend off nicely
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  5555. Thanks for this, have been wanting to know the differences in these 3 periods and there isnt a lot of stuff on ancient Europe on you tube... fasanating!
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  5556. Bronze Age Danegeld essentially
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  5557. The names Pelasti and Philistines do resemble each other. And, of course, Palestine (Philistine). Also comes to mind Pela and Pelagonia (that is ancient Macedonia). It is interesting to note that Vinca culture spread right there, to Macedonia, and plenty of ceramic with inscriptions was found there. This Vinca proto-alphabet is likely the source of Phoenician alphabet, not Egyptian signs.
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  5558. Babe, wake up, dan davis uploaded a bronze age video
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  5559. Lovely Dan just sitting down to my tea and enjoy one of my favourite channels. Thanks for the work. 🇮🇪
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  5560. I really like the detail and specific subject matter. I enjoyed this video a lot. I always imagine Minoan women as being very beautiful. My ex was Greek and her side profile looked similar to those Minoan painting of the women.
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  5561. Yes, please do a video on Bronze Age weights!
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  5562. Just discovered your channel, now intend to find your books 🙂
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  5563. I love your voice !
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  5564. This is Great Content!
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  5565. What a treat. Thanks!
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  5566. Wake up, build awesome boat, carve dic pic in wall, pillage, sleep, repeat!
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  5567. Fascinating.
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  5568. love your videos cant wait for more!
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  5569.  @DanDavisHistory  Thank you for that information. There is so much of the old school ways that has been lost to history.
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  5570. Informative video. I also like that you incorporate footage of landscape from the Swedish west coast and also specifically indicate that footage of the Lofoten is not Sweden, but of Northern Norway. In your previous video you mentioned that powerful chiefs from Jutland and SW Germany interacted. Could you point out some Bronze Age archaeological sites associated with the rich and powerful lords from Jutland and SW Germany? I'd love to visit any digs, monuments etc. in those areas. Thanks.
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  5571. Fantastic time piece filled with great information on the man and legend of Dracula. Well Done!!
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  5572. Thank you. *Proceeds to Google "Bronze vajra, for sale Amazon" 🤔😂
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  5573. Me and my friends visited Long Meg and Castlerigg in Cumbria in July last year. I loved both sites. it was a really cool experience
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  5574. Great video. Thank you!
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  5575. R1b L51 seems to have migrated North of the Carpathians while R1b Z2103 mostly went along the Danube. Maybe a split somewhere within Usatovo Culture...
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  5576. We'll probably never know for sure, but I wonder if they are Indo-European speakers, or some non Indo-European group like the Etruscans.
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  5577. Oooh .. new video! Yay! Happy Saturday 😁 And it’s a long one too! Thanks Dan!
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  5578. Udre Udre seems like the kind of bloke you don't want to invite for dinner...
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  5579. Great stuff love your videos! Thanks for posting again.
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  5580. R1a
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  5581. Very interesting story I love this.
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  5582. That summary at the end is the cherry on the cake. It reinforces understanding of the presentation as a whole, what with it containing so much information.
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  5583. Another brilliant biography
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  5584. They clearly had some form of power projection across the Aegean, so it’s doubtful they were peaceful. I find it’s a similar pattern, ancient ‘lost’ civilization like the Minoans, Maya, Harappa, generate interest, people conclude they were peaceful based on lack of evidence, which is latter proven wrong.
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  5585. Concise and well done
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  5586. Ooohhh baby. This was exactly what I needed for my after work chores. Can't wait to dive in.
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  5587. ¡El Cid que en buena hora ciñó espada! Great video to re-read Cid's poem again.
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  5588. Here in Austria the Wild Hunt comes in the Rauhnaächte/Smokenights(between Chrissmass and three kindgs day) the Percht and Krampus comes at that time of the year and they wear animal masks and are seen as fertility bringers and they punish bad people. on tthe 28th of decembers boys under 18 go from house to house wishing "fresh and well" by hitting the adults with twiggs. they recive gifts and money for doing so. The hunt itself does so in the mountains called the beautifull and the ugly Perchten. Nobody is allouwed to deny them drink, food and gifts if you leave and they might come during that time you leave whats theirs in front of the house. There is also a story of a poor childless woman that met the wild hunt one night. As it is custom she burried her face and didnt look at them. But the hunt made fun of her because she didnt have any children and was sooo poor. She got angry and directly looked at them not caring any more what would happen to her. She called the first hunter she saw Zodawascherl and was about to scold him for theating her so badly, but the hunters looked so poor and wild that she just said "Zodawascherl oh you poor boy". The leader of the hunt the Percht, thanked her for having a good heart and promised her a fine life. That year the woman much too old to give birth got a son, the boy she "called out" of the hunt. She didnt have a husband but nobody ever dared to mention that, she was folled by luck and the boy she gave birth to became a great healer. There are other storys of young girls "calling out/naming out" boys(lovers and brothers) of the hunt- or taking over part of their time in the hunt by joinging themselves or giving them a special gift like a healing remedy(a girl serving the hunt for a season because she was pregnant, the hunter following her out of the hunt becouse he was the father of her child)
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  5589. Good to know money has been ruining our lives for at least a couple hundred generations 😆
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  5590. Very good.
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  5591. This was an excellent listen.
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  5592. So enjoy your videos. THank you.
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  5593. I'm impressed enough with your thinking and narrative to have just purchased 10 of your books. I seldom do so without sampling one or two... Gotta love Kindle. Being old, disabled, and on a fixed income, I wouldn't be able to afford traditionally published books. Since all of yours received many excellent reviews, I'm sure that I will be more than satisfied... I am curious, though. Kindle deals on e-books suggest that authors are not well paid for their work. If it's not too personal, I'm interested in getting an idea of the general percentage that authors get. Thanks.
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  5594. THANK YOU for mentioning "a special combination of these", all too many stare them selves blind at just one at the time...
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  5595. This is my new favorite channel... interesting stuff, told by a pleasant voice. I've always been really into the bronze age but there isn't a lot of good information about these times out there
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  5596. A combination of events. VEI-7 and even -8 volcanos ('year without a summer'), Grand Solar Minimums, meteor impact events, tsunamis, pandemics, etc. At times, leading to a 'super-storm' of famines, epidemics and catastrophic events.
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  5597.  @DanDavisHistory  👍😄
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  5598. By far the best documentary about Richard out there.
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  5599. Awesome video
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  5600. Thanks Dan, this topic was a great choice and you did a good job with it 💪💪
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  5601. Good Job whats nexr
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  5602. More complicated than popular history suggests? Probably (excellent presentation btw). 'Greatest King of England'? Oh no no no no 🤣
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  5603. Wow just amazing!!
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  5604. Always love your work and this was obviously no exception. If you're ever visiting Drake's Bay, Costa Rica, look me up. As a fellow historian, I think that we could both learn a lot from one another. Just google ''Gringo Curt''. Between our thousands of years worth of history chats, maybe we should go snorkeling with some whales and dolphins. Cheers mate!
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  5605. Great stuff. Looking forward to your battle axe culture video.
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  5606. As many videos I’ve seen of the man found in the Alps I never knew about the blood on his arrow tips.
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  5607. This video was incredible. Best I’ve come across on Vlad. Well narrated. Simply excellent. I will be buying your book and you earned a like and a subscribe for sure.
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  5608. Great, well-researched video as always. I'm not very well versed in the military stuff, so it's alwsys good to learn something new. I didn’t realise that the peaceful Minoans myth was still considered reality by some. Btw, what’s the song playing in the background? Sounds great.
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  5609. Fabulously informative Dan, thank you for sharing!
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  5610. Nice to see a decent summary that doesn't impose speculation and modern ideological retrojection back onto the limited (but growing) body of knowledge we currently have about this neolithic culture. The Soviets tried to frame it as some kind of proro-Marxist classless society, and modern ideologues want to show it as an egalitarian, matriarchal society. Both approaches are wrong; engaging it on its own terms is much more productive. I'm also happy to see the "Kurgan hypothesis" revisited, not as a military destruction or conquest, but as a supplantation as the climate became much drier. This gradually favored pastorial husbandry over grain agriculture, resulting in a period of coexistence and assimilation rather than conquest and domination.
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  5611. @Dan Davis Author. I really enjoy your Audi books I have bought everyone you have and I plan to get all your books. I have had an idea about a bronze age sea fairing group of warriors sent abroad to destroy an enemy priest king. If you like it do with it what you like. Setting some jungle with stone or mound pyramids.
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  5612. Fascinating, thank you, I had never heard of this culture.
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  5613. The combination of massive eruptions and anarchy brought down civilization. How safe is our civilization? They thought it would last forever...
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  5614. Amazing work, as a Sardinian I loved it!
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  5615. Dude, I am loving this channel!
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  5616. Those roads would have been great aids to navigation.
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  5617. My father side of the family comes from the area in the centre of the Únětice culture according to this map and a good chunk of my mothers side actually comes from the eastern edges according to the map shown in the video. It’s pretty cool that for once I’m feeling a real connection to a historical topic.
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  5618. Fascinating as always.
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  5619. I was just thinking and wondering when your next upload would be and lo and behold, Crom heard my brain's mutterings.
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  5620. Yay more widyeh
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  5621. So Treasure Island was completely correct, it's just set in the wrong time period.
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  5622. Thanks so much - what a luck to find such a good content!
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  5623. Excellent👍🏻 this has really opened my eyes to Richard, my knowledge was very lacking he's definitely gone up in my estimations. Have you thought of doing some early anglo saxon content?
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  5624.  @DanDavisHistory  for me it's the most interesting time in British history, but it's like looking through the mist, so little is know. Always thought a novel centred around Hengist, Horsa & Vortigern would be good if done well 👍🏻
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  5625. Great narration and content. Really enjoyed this. Rare subject wonderfully done.
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  5626. That is absolutely fascinating
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  5627. I’d get all the Bronze Age Europe women
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  5628. Thank you for the post - truly appreciated it - love that period from afar but it was a brutal time.
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  5629. Great video! Do you think the úlfheðinn would be related in any way?
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  5630. He looks a lot older than 45
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  5631. So many religions claim to be the only way to God and the afterlife. I have spent a lot of time trying to find a basic religious belief because surely if a certain belief or action is necessary, very ancient people would have understood it. What I think I have found is a basic belief in life after death and the ancestors. Sometimes we see this basic knowledge now. My husband, who was much older than me, had had a number of strokes. One morning he told me he got a message from his dad who had died many years earlier. (My husband had been "seeing" his dad in our home and yard off and on for about a year.) We were to go to a certain unnamed person who had a certain item. I had no idea what this meant nor could my husband tell me. Toward the end of the day I suggested he had had a vivid dream from which he did not fully awake. He said that his dad had said we would "never get there." The next day my husband had another stroke, refused medical intervention and became comatose. I called my best friend who lived out of town, to come help. The first thing she said when she arrived was that she had rescued a certain unusual animal. That is what my husband had insisted in the message from his dad, "go to the girl with" that certain animal. Neither of us had any way of knowing any of this. Because of that and other experiences, I do not doubt life on the Other Side. I think very ancient people had these experiences. I think animals may also, from time to time, see the Other Side. Ancient people were able to try to codify their experiences into cults and behaviours which eventually became religions. I think a lot of religions tend to lead to a block against having such experiences. Or the experiences are natural and they do come but people reject them.
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  5632. Another fascinating video, cant wait to get stuck into it, keep up the great work.
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  5633. Can’t watch this all right now, but I’m looking forward to taking it all in with my partner later. Thanks for the vid!
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  5634.  @DanDavisHistory  Very interesting. I missed that video, but definitely gonna go watch it now 👍
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  5635. What's the music in this video? Is it some Kevin MacLeod track?
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  5636. It is possible that pneumonic plague was spread when people went to "spreader" events at ceremonies at places like Stonehenge? Plague probably caused the boom and bust population pattern of the Neolithic period. The plaque probably mutated, and natural selection of immunity might have caused the pattern. Hunter gatherers probably were less susceptible to the plague because they did not have contact with domesticated animals and/or rats that served as vectors. There were also ancient diseases that we do not even know about because they wiped out whole populations that we have yet to discover. Such diseases, possibly hantaviruses, may have died out because they ran out of hosts. It is possible that the disease killed people and animals so quickly that there were no hosts to keep it going.
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  5637. very interesting, thank you
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  5638. Great video as always. Thanks for the work you do. These are a real treat.
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  5639. Bro your channel is put together really well and it's good information you're giving out how do you only have 26,000 subscribers people hit that f**** subscribe button
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  5640. Good video thank you👍
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  5641. Amazing video
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  5642. They made a movie about this,excellent too.
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  5643. Great work!
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  5644. Amazing, thx a lot
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  5645. That thumbnail 😂🤔😂
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  5646. Was sure the ending was going to be a plug for a manscaped ad for a second
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  5647. Your work continues to be amazing! I'm starting Vampire Khan soon BTW 😁
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  5648. Thank you for this amazing documentary.
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  5649. Thanks!
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  5650. lol the average Scandinavian 🤣
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  5651. Haven't been getting notifications for you and no idea why. Tried unbelling and the rebelling so hopefully that works. Keep up the amazing work mate!
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  5652. Very good. I know this story, but only in fragments. This puts it together. I expect we'll learn more in the years to come...
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  5653. Does *heryos have etymological descendants?
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  5654. Wow" really gives a good idea to how much is still out there to be found.
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  5655. Fascinating! And so well done!
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  5656. Or did women take hunter gatherer husbands. Early farming societies were often female dominated.
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  5657. Maybe he was the aggressor and the person who killed him was just defending himself from the bad guy we call Otzi.
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  5658. I like the channel
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  5659. Very informative documentary under clickbait title 👍
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  5660. Fascinating stuff again! Merry Christmas everybody, from the Netherlands 🌷, T.
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  5661. Três países com mar. Os sardos eram bons marinheiros.
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  5662. Thank you for the excelent content
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  5663. excellent
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  5664. Fasinating
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  5665. Recently came across a trailer to a movie called "Cast in Bronze". Looks based on this civilization. They even had the horned helmets.
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  5666. Wow 🤩
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  5667. very interesting and beautifull,relative unknown but glorieus period of neolithic europe.
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  5668. Awesome stuff!! It would be cool to see the genetics of these people. I'll have to check it out!
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  5669.  @DanDavisHistory  Thank you!
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  5670. I'm Napper Tandy, and I support this message..... wholeheartedly!
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  5671. Thanks!
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  5672. @DanDavisHistory  I love your videos! So well made and full of accurate information! Dan DavisHistory is one of my favourite History channels that I prefer to watch either to gain more information on our ancestors or to relax. I also love the music bits, the visual, picture representatios of daily life, etc. Thank you for your work on your channel!❤️
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  5673. Interesting I did not get notification.
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  5674. Reading Godborn now... hope this intro isn't a spoiler 😆
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  5675.  @DanDavisHistory  ok good hahaha
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  5676. In some cultures, like Mauritanian and Pacific Islanders, fat is a sign of prosperity and status in women. Mauritanian girls are force fed, because thinness is a shameful sign of poverty. I could see that in a harsh climate where there were periods of near starvation, that fat, in women, might be revered. Obviously, since the men hunted, fat would be a detriment. Perhaps women were purposely overfed as a status sign that the man was a good provider.
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  5677. Some are born great......without a doubt an equal to The Cid!
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  5678. Why can't Ötzi be buried with (copies) of his possessions and suitable offerings. With a ritual that one could imagine that his people had performed. So his soul may rest and his spirit be reunited with his family. I feel really bad for what his body has become, a pieces of meat for scrupless scientists. Show some respect for the dead!
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  5679. I like it, seem to make sense. I wonder what Joseph Campbell would say.
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  5680. To become a man you have to KNOW the FLOW, of the WOLF first, how did wolves change the Grand Canyon
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  5681. Viva España 🇪🇸 El Cid ⚔️
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  5682. The sea people! Bringers of the bronze age collapse!
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  5683. Bravo!
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  5684. I enjoy your subject matter a lot !
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  5685. i love this channel
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  5686. Well, this was unexpected but rather welcome. I rather liked hearing more about the life and times of El Cid.
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  5687. Fascinating , thanks for digging into this obscure time period.
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  5688. Excellent video! Thanks!
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  5689. I can't help looking down on these people who'd never even heard of Findus Crispy Pancakes
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  5690. Just watched Richard the Lionheart. Thought I'd scroll through and see what else you have. This looks like a gem. Can't wait to watch.
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  5691. Very interesting concept especially relevant during these times.
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  5692. Look at most men today........smh
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  5693. +
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  5694. These people in the comments crying about the statues being censured must like staring at cocks.
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  5695. thank you
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  5696. Absolutely fascinating!
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  5697. Excellent video dan.
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  5698. Another excellent history video.
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  5699. Your video has fantastic quality of production and historical knowledge!!!
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  5700. That was awesome
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  5701. I think they would have beat the Spartans
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  5702. Very much enjoyed
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  5703. @25:00 Haha the caption "You know what this is" when showing Stonehenge make me laugh
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  5704. Fascinating and eerily foretelling. Urbanization leads to dispersion, a repeating cycle. Wonder where we are headed today.
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  5705. Your videos got me interested in your books. Thanks for the dedication to detail
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  5706. great video
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  5707. Herkuhlos and his small band are finally facing off against Leuhons. Who will win? Several more pages and I'll know.
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  5708. Every time I see the German Shepard @ 6:51 I feel a strong urge to get one! Look at those brown soulful eyes!
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  5709.  @DanDavisHistory  Please Dan, continue to reuse that clip in future episodes when you bring up dogs I'm not author like you so I can't really put it into words how good it is. It's like an amazing piece of art.
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  5710. Give us something about early chariots/chariot warfare!
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  5711. Fictional movie about domestication of wolves Alpha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIxnTi4GmCo Its pretty good
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  5712. a fascinating reflection on what's happening today with a certain mercenary group awesome film
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  5713. You put boys and horses together and you will get riding. The skills performed by Sioux warriors are legendary, bareback and using leg signals and mains to communicate. They quickly developed members of the Tribe by Family, which were then solely responsible for caring and training their horses. They developed these skills in an incredibly short time after they saw the Spanish riding around. The notions that whipping the animal into compliance is being found as not just cruel, but counter-productive to gaining the creature's trust. They love dancing with us- it is that simple. You only get the opposite from terrified animals. The Neolithic cave paintings show a man on a horse, BTW...
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  5714. My source is that I made it up.
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  5715. Another goodun
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  5716.  @DanDavisHistory  merry Christmas to you too mate, hope it's a goodun
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  5717. Yet another excellent video. Thank you!
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  5718. Edward III was probably the greatest King, probably.
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  5719. Wonderful again. Just love listening to your chilled and interesting narration.
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  5720. Wow... After this, the visuals to the Heilung song "Krigsgaldr" make a lot more sense! https://youtu.be/K7ZqZVunCb4
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  5721. As always, great job.
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  5722. Nice attention to detail and research. Thank you.
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  5723. So interesting great job
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  5724. Halloween in North America.
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  5725. I just wanted to comment that there could very well be an applicable use for the miniature axes that are in the graves. Especially since children did a lot of work. I do cabinet making and we often have miniature or smaller tools in order to handle specific tasks. maybe the miniature axes were used to delimb fallen trees or for basic furniture making? There are lots of reasons, and simply putting it down as "magical items" or relics is the same thing you've lambasted many researchers for lazily doing. Just saying and throwing in my 2 bits. I love your series.
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  5726. Keep it up Danny boy , good content
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  5727. Special forces used to refer to it as long pig!
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  5728. Very well done.
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  5729.  @DanDavisHistory  he wrote some of the best slavic mythology inspired fantasy and also some magical realism set in the 15th century( Hussite trilogy), you should check it out
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  5730. My. This is all completely new to me. Very interesting.
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  5731. Thanks!
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  5732. 54:45 Creepiest damn thing I've seen all day :/
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  5733. Yes dan another great watch mate!!
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  5734. Hyperborean music starts to play
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  5735. I wonder what it must have felt like to be vlad
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  5736. Great content! This is wonderful.
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  5737. Thanks again mate
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  5738. TOP NOTCH VIDEO! Thank you! Okay, yes, I very much want a coffin carved from a whole trunk of an oak tree. Yes indeed. Love that. ( I just would want it to be a fallen tree already and not someone to cut one down, no no no.) Lol I don't ask for much 😅 I've always wanted to be buried in a peat bog or packed in peat in a wood casket 👍 But the peat bog burials were only for criminals or the highly disgraced, to be left out of "proper" burial & therefore, so they believed, kept out of heaven (I already know I'm going to heaven as a born-again Christ follower.) This video is fascinating.
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  5739. Wow! Epic production
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  5740. The best channel that puts the pieces together
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  5741. Latest scientific findings from European studies show the "lead mare" and a single stallion protecting his herd is a complete fallacy. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-79790-1 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24220794/ Often one herd has more than one stallion. Any member of the herd can initiate directional movement, not just a "lead mare". Please, if you are going to produce an in depth docco. such as this, it may be wise to ensure any preconceived ideas you have are correct, before airing them. In this case, they are out of date and not in line with current thinking.
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  5742. Another excellent video! Thank you! Great job!
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  5743. Fantastic video! I learned so much!
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  5744. What a handsome Catahoula cowdog.
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  5745. The Firsterkers
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  5746. man, awesome as always.
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  5747. Burning a timber house, especially with a thatched roof, seems a terribly dangerous ritual in a village verging on city size. If it was intentional, I expect they only did this in deep winter with at least several inches of snow on the neighboring houses.
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  5748. This is a great video, very well done!
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  5749. Thankyou that was interesting
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  5750. Great stuff
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  5751. Cucuteni-Trypillia culture developed along side Yamnaya and many other cultures and fought with each others, gradually the Turkish variants emerged, like Scythians, Khazars etc. They inter acted with Indo-Europeans, Indo-aryans, imperial Yadavas and destroyed the Yadavas in the Kurukshetra war 1500-1200 bc.
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  5752. Well done
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  5753. Excellent, and yes, I agree, you have a prefect voice & presentation. Many thanks. ❤
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  5754. I agreed to help my friend move some firewood the other day and did not expect to meet an equine. VERY intimidating when you aren't ready, and I've been clubbed in the head with a tire iron while breaking up a fight between two Pennsylvanian coal miners. Most people these days don't realize how lucky they are to not have to get into a fight with their horse at 4 AM just to get to work. If an electro magnetic pulse ever did take down what I know as a mechanic/electrician? Oh, golly. I'd need a Dalmatian or a Shepherd that aren't afraid of horses just to survive a lengthy travel. Great video. Much respect.
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  5755. Fantastic video Dan. Your videos just keep getting better. I wonder where most of these types of men are today. Are they our professional soldiers? The ones who make up the permanent prison population ?
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  5756. I need to read your series now.
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  5757. Wow.
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  5758. Shiver me timbers! A Pirate vid! I'll get the rum :-) Cheers to yet another great vid sir! Intresting subject. Greets from the Netherlands 🌷, T.
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  5759. You've changed my opinion of him.
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  5760. I've never understood why movie makers never made a full movie about his last days.
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  5761. Hell yeah
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  5762. Awesome video
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  5763. Awesome video! I'm a good mix of Scottish and English ancestry with some Irish, Welsh and Scandinavian. My surname is an old English surname Plumley that was taken as a land title name in Cheshire Anciently. I just found out my English male haplogroup is R1b L21 DF13.. very interesting.
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  5764.  @DanDavisHistory  That's right I didn't even think of Egyptian chariots of course.
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  5765. Sea Gypsies of the neolithic, encountering the City/State Navies of the Bronze age Mediterranean, that period just before the Failure of every Bronze age culture retreating to Hill forts for several centuries. Interesting times indeed.
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  5766. Excellent Presentation…………
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  5767. Is it true his catch phrase was "ITS ICE MAN TIME" or is that still debated
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  5768. Thank you,great Video.Motifs and Symbolism youve thoroughly researched. I was interested in 7.13 where the man you Day is smaller ( Perhaps by Symbolism ) to stab and cut the body of a more noble person. I thought myself after looking a flew times it could actually be the first example of perspective dräwing where the smaller person is further away and not a 2 dimensional representation. I live in New Zealand and know these are my ancestoral roots. The sea and passages thus confirm the life from pře BC. One cannot deny it to thé peril of ones life. Like your story is telling the ancient ways of the past it reaffirms who a person is as in contemporary life many generations are lost souls disconnected from their past. Like corperations plasticising pills and meat and dumb down the connections we had to our own powers. Thank you for Sharing.
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  5769. Great video, as always.
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  5770. Native plain peoples of North America had 2 chiefs one of War and one of Peace
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  5771. 10 out of 10 documentary
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  5772. It's uncanny how certain traits echo throughout humankind unhindered by geography and culture. Precolonial Africans too believed in youth training and a rite of passage. Most people know of the Maasai lion hunt and the mandinka leopard hunt but many variations exist. Then we look to the Levant, where the Hebrew Nazirite custom (with Samson and John the Baptist as poster kids) show a dedication to YHWH that turned them into wild unshorn creatures existing on the fringes of society.
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  5773.  @DanDavisHistory  Fascinating! Now you seem like just the chap for a question I've been harboring, being neck deep in the Bronze Age and all (just ordered Godborn btw)! So some unearthed Mycenaean Greek text - linear B - makes logistic note of a noble, A-ki-re-u who was recorded to possess two full sets of bronze armor and a war chariot. Now given that the written A-ki-re-u in linear B is pronounced as Ahkileos, and that we know of another character who stars in an Epic, has two sets of armor and dragged his foe on his war chariot... are you thinking what I'm thinking??
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  5774.  @DanDavisHistory  makes for a a helluva story though. To the right writer...
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  5775. Damn, even back in the Bronze age nobody wanted Andorra.
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  5776.  @baileywebb1  £72.65 on Amazon eeek!
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  5777. Great documentary, great narration, thank you for sharing this knowledge 🐎🐎🐎
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  5778. I can’t like it twice ?
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  5779. Very good , thanks.
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  5780. I loved this video so much!!
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  5781. I absolutely love this channel!
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  5782. God I ❤ history william Marshall great man greater knight
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  5783. Thoroughly enjoyed this. Excellent work Dan!
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  5784. The earliest religion appears to be of Neanderthal origin. It is the Mother Sun/World Tree/concentric circle based religion. The female statues appear similar to the Venus of Willendorf—although they are also very different. It would suggest a culture that ‘worships’ Mother Sun. The Neanderthal religion can be dated to 177,000 years ago in Western Europe. Excellent videos 👍
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  5785. Idk how I didn’t see this for 3 days!! Great stuff Danny boy, thanks for sharing!
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  5786. The guy who was already dead but had a hole drilled in his skull is prolly some guy practicing those procedures in my opinion
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  5787. I've liked this Channel. This gentleman's english is so clear that I have no problems to understand.
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  5788. One of the Best history channels
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  5789. Brilliant
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  5790. excellent
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  5791. By the great ancient Sky Daddy, do I love you, where you take me, what you make me wonder and dream about, and how you do it ♥
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  5792. we should change it from the viking age to the viagra age as everyone has a willy. have fun
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  5793. Hey Dan, I dont know if there is info about it but the Minoan civilization is really intresting to me, maybe because of how mysterious their history is. I do believe there has been some progres made deciphering their language and writing so maybe there is new info about them now. Anyways, thats what Id love to see next. Awsome video by the way, thanks.
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  5794. I always say it when hearing Sintashta. It is Mad Max on chariots.
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  5795. Excellent! You got a new subscriber!
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  5796. I cut out the newspaper article about this a few years ago . Fascinating! And it has been proven that he was murdered !
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  5797. If you want see this still celebrated today, look out your window on October 31, this is the origin of Halloween.
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  5798. This channel is gold!! Newer sub, have been enjoying these the last couple days. I'll have to check the catalouge, I'd love to listen to one of these on Atilla.
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  5799. 8:00 he used to be a warrior, but then he took an arrow to the knee. I think part of my psyche died of cringe from typing that
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  5800. Excellent in all respects, especially the commentary, so well paced. Thank you.
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  5801. Who needs armor when.you can eat shrooms, trip balls and go nekked?
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  5802. If the earliest ridden horses were too small to fight from and the riding style didn't allow for it either, that doesn't preclude horses from being an advantage in warfare. Mounted infantry for raiding sounds perfectly reasonable. A steppe herder riding his horse to the victim village, maybe with a pack animal or two extra, then dismounting to fight, then loading up the horses with booty and riding swiftly away, that seems like a thing that could have been done for a long time before anyone saw a need to or advantage from fighting from horseback.
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  5803. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👍
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  5804. Wicked as usual
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  5805. I was under the impression that the people were the Norse, and a "Viking" is like the activity, a raid.
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  5806. Great video! I've been down an early Bronze Age rabbit hole lately and this is just the sort of presentation I'm always looking for.
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  5807. Excellent!
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  5808. I believe it. He had a pedophile hair do. EDIT: thanks for the shout out on Telegram!!
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  5809. Looking good- dressed to kill- still VERY important in today's armies!
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  5810. This video is amazing
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  5811. Wow! .. what a well told rollicking yarn :) Thoroughly enjoyed it Thank you for posting Liked and subscribed
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  5812. Yet another excellent video Dan 👍
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  5813. Trance like! Exactly! or BLACK OUT💥
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  5814. One of the best videos I’ve ever seen from this channel!
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  5815.  @DanDavisHistory  Yeah pretty much, and the footage was very accurate too. Its just funny how epic you make it look when I go outside and its just,, grey,, Its still kinda dangerous to walk through nature reservers if you go off the path, (but not really deadly except for the boars).
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  5816. Dan I just finished the Thunderer. What a ride.
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  5817. What evidence is there for the representation of rowers- as- households? It's an interesting idea, but I cannot imagine what evidence would support it.
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  5818. Nice informative video. Keep going!
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  5819. Even though the date gape was 200 years, i wonder if it was a band of Indo-European Bandits who killed Otzi, its not impossible, 200 years gap may be large but there were still Indo-Europeans around, so it's not impossible for a band to kill Otzi, just unlikely. But do you think Otzi was a victim of a proto Indo-European early raid?
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  5820. Fascinating story Dan.
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  5821.  @DanDavisHistory  It's humbling . We are living in fortunate times , for now...
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  5822.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks :) I haven't started on the "hard" writing yet, I'm still deep in the "notebooks full of trivia & ideas stage" with a rough outline to eventually flesh out.
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  5823. I almost spit out my coffee when Stan popped up as Radu 😂
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  5824. 👍
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  5825. Just wanna say that i really appreciate the humor in this one
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  5826. An old cowboy went ridin' out one dark and windy day Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way When all at once a mighty herd of red eyed cows, he saw Plowed through the ragged skies and up a cloudy draw Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel Their horns were black and shiny and their hot breath you could feel A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered through the sky For he saw the riders coming hard and he heard their mournful cry
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  5827. Woow, what a fantastic story, fantastic video. Congrats. This was amazing.
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  5828. Awesome video, +1 subscribe
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  5829. Outstanding video!
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  5830. Amazing. Well told, lovely video.
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  5831. For the Algorithm!
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  5832. Billy needs to watch this later
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  5833.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks for the response!
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  5834. Dan, these are amazing as always, thank you. I'm looking forward to your next book bringing more and more of these details to life in even more detail than the first two!
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  5835. The Varna goldsmithing culture buried their men with a small ceremonial axe-hammers too.
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  5836. Was so excited for this, so thrilled that it dropped!
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  5837. Dziękujemy.
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  5838. This video basically is a historical Conan the Barbarian.
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  5839. I hope your doing very very well monetarily. Your work deserves it. I'll be donating, in the purchase of your books. You get to the Four Corners ring me up. Interesting area, tour guide at you service sir.
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  5840. I’m so happy I found your channel
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  5841. Hooray! Nightmares! 😅
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  5842. Thank you, thank you, thank you- I'd say that's pretty comprehensive.
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  5843. Another superb offering, Dan.
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  5844. Can you make one about Benin in west Africa love the content
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  5845. For the algorithms
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  5846. Dan, just found the channel yesterday. Great work and thank you for these videos 👍
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  5847. Great breakdown. Thank you.
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  5848. Fascinating. Excellent voice and articulation (retired professor of both). Thank you.
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  5849. Great video dude. Love William Marshall
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  5850. He was probably killed in a blood feud, by members of his own community. Probably between 3 and 6 men, were directly involved. That is why the axe was not taken. It would have made the possessor of the axe, a principle suspect in the eyes of the elders, and a primary target for Otzi's kin. If Otzi was himself a primary target for revenge, there is a high probability that he would flee the community. But if his axe turned up, murder would be suspected.
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  5851. What a story
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  5852. amazing video!
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  5853. Yet another piece of evidence pointing to the superiority of A Whole Foods Paleo Diet.
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  5854. Amazing story so interesting needs to be a movie. Thank you for sharing.
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  5855. Nice!
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  5856. 8:35 Wooden cups (or bowls) decorated with pins made of tin? Well well, I never knew they enjoyed tin pin bowling in the Bronze Age! (I'll see myself out now)
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  5857. these videos trigger me into a Rome Total War binge
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  5858. viewing the past through contemporary eyes is allways a mistake
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  5859. Fascinating bit of the past.. somehow I have an urge to go book shopping now..
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  5860.  @DanDavisHistory  "During her formative years, Tallis encounters the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (not a mythago, but real flesh and blood). Tallis sings him a song that she thinks she has made up herself, but the composer identifies its tune as that of a folk song he has collected personally in Norfolk." OK, sold 😁
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  5861. Really enjoy these history videos. 🤓
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  5862. The good old days!
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  5863. Excellent presentation of an incredibly fascinating time period in an interesting part of the world. Thank you for your research.
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  5864. Let's goooooooo
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  5865. * Make that all 8 of the series.
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  5866. Thank you.Safrica
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  5867. There is no one in history I find more fascinating than William Marshal. Such an underrated story; most Americans certainly have not heard of him. To rise from such comparably humble positions to become regent is truly breathtaking. Look forward to more discoveries about this exceptional, extraordinary man. 🙏
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  5868. Could it be that the human flesh was given to the wild animals to eat rather than for human consumption? The myths, religious beliefs and legends of these Neolithic people are largely, if not entirely, absent. Hence, it will be difficult to ascertain if human flesh was consumed by other humans.
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  5869. Riding may not leave any evidence on horses' skeletons, but it certainly leaves evidence on the skeletons of ancient and medieval humans. Scientists have been able to determine which medieval skeletons had been horseback riders and knights due to the wear and tear on certain areas of bone, such as the spinal cord.
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  5870. Wonderful and enigmatic culture! Thank you Dan Davis! Nice job as usual. 💚
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  5871. This video is amazing!
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  5872. Best Historical channel hands down.
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  5873. No evidence of burial or urns means they were leaving remains out in field or forest to be reclaimed by nature?.
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  5874.  @DanDavisHistory  I used a framework of ethnic violence to examine prehistoric warfare.
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  5875.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks! My plan is to post it on a blog this spring.
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  5876. Would love to see Neolithic-Bronze Age armor video
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  5877. Do you think some of these depictions may be related to the Battle of Tollense?
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  5878. Another great video! Thanks!
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  5879. I think that, by what you are saying you seem to know what you are talking about, and I like your channel a lot. However, I was wondering what education you have on this subject, are you self-taught, do you have a college degree, is this just a hobby. I just want to know you are credible, but as I said I love your content nonetheless, keep it up.
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  5880. Very good easy to understand info
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  5881. tbh I always thought he was a decent warrior king. Better to have a king away fighting bad actors rather than having a king sat at home waiting to be invaded. Thats my tuppence worth, anyway.
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  5882. Came back to listen to this all over again because why not 😁 great content
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  5883. The way this guy narrates these videos has me suspicious he is a time traveller.
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  5884. Love it Dan back to TERRAMAR just fascinating the gradual revelations...thanks!
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  5885. Jewelry makers use small hammers.
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  5886. damn 159k views this is your most viewed video and has only been released 2 weeks ago.
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  5887. Great, thanks Big Dog.
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  5888. New sub. Great work man!
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  5889. As a Michigander I thoroughly enjoyed hearing about this strange theory.
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  5890. How to politely avoid all the ethnic issues regarding researchers: not Russian/Ukrainian/any other, but simply: "Soviet" :D If you want to reffer to pre-soviet times, everyone east of river Elbe would be perfectly cool with name "Eastern" (in contrast to "middle eastern" and "far eastern") or name "Slavic" (if you checked that this researcher wasn't Hungarian, Romanian, Jew, core Lithuanian or Latvian) :D
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  5891. Very educational and enjoyable content! I am happy I stumbled across your channel! Thanks for the content!
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  5892.  @DanDavisHistory  Indeed, sir. You cover information that is notoriously difficult to find. You may have become one of my favorite channels!
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  5893. Well done sir. I wonder what I like more in your vids. The amazing historical information or the stunning images of women on horses 🐎
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  5894. Wonderful work - just discovered your channel
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  5895. Hey look, it´s my home-state. The beauty of miles and miles of green nothing still holds some secrets. As the video shows. ^^
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  5896. I don't see how the earlier Steppe dwellers could have made horses their top food resource without riding horses as horses would have simply fled or alternatively attacked after horses started to recognize humans as threats. The gains are too great for someone to have not tried riding.
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  5897. Chase them into a box canyon. Close the mouth of the canyon. Done. You might not even have to run.
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  5898. 19:37 LOL cheeky, I laughed out louder way more than I expected and scared the neighborhood dogs 🤣
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  5899. Very interesting fakts. Thx
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  5900. Awesome video! Great research as usual. Thank you!
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  5901. Very i formative. Just an aside, your calculation of hectares to acres, early in the video, is considerably off. 3 hectares is about 7.5 acres, not 5.
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  5902. I stumbled across your channel and found it to be very informative and well made so much so I have subscribed to it
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  5903. Brilliant, thank you
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  5904. Comprehensive interesting compilation! Very well done and insightful.
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  5905. Ha.. I was just on the island of Skaftö off the west coast of Sweden near the border with Norway in a region called Bohuslän. Saw the same rock art depictions. Give us a shout if you want me to send you over some of the pictures I took. Edit: comment made before watching the video.
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  5906. Thank you for all the facts you have presented here. For my 2 cents worth, I have trouble believing he is hunting -- at least not in the traditional sense. I don't know of any hunter who would go out with unfinished tools. May be he had good arrows, and anothe bow, but they were used up in the hunt. It still seems odd. It also seems like a camp was made, and not a camp for a single person. I've done a lot of camping, and that was not a single person camp. Maybe they did things differently.
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  5907. Thank you for sharing these videos. Im learning so much.
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  5908.  @DanDavisHistory  makes sense.
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  5909. i finished listening to godborn audio book. im excited for the next one. i like how its likes a bronze age indo european hercules myth. i consider the books a modern epic.
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  5910. Facinating!
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  5911. This was great
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  5912. Were any stone axes used in the Tollense Valley battle in Germany?
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  5913.  @DanDavisHistory  of course and it would enjoyable. These are great for introducing people to this area of history aswell. If you made longer, in-depth videos I’m sure they’d be good too.
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  5914. Dan, are those your very own Gecko toes inching along the log?
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  5915. Thank you for this video. I have encountered all these examples in uni within the last two semesters and really like the focus and in depth look on only one aspect. Will you make a similar video on iron age europe?
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  5916. How things should be today
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  5917. Would love to see that fish-eating taboo video.
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  5918. Good video
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  5919. New subscriber here. Love your content. Keep it up.✌️🇺🇸
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  5920. There an occult idea of a 'helmet' to boost the power of intention. Wonder if that tracks here 🤠
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  5921. Thank you. Very enjoyable and informative
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  5922. Good point. Had not known that the American indians had these myths about the dog guardian of the land of the dead.
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  5923. Good video
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  5924. Skanderbeg wore a horned helmet
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  5925. Great video. Interesting learning a new side of Francis Drake. Good job.
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  5926. I always have to ask but what is the ambiance music playing In every video
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  5927. Also great video! You are up there with Asha Logos and Robert Sepehr
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  5928. Really top notch content. Thanks again.
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  5929. Please make a video about the Bell Beaker people.
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  5930. I picture that guy standing on the rock In the forest just as Thulsa Doom's men kill off Conan's village in Conan the Barbarian (1982 version). Blazing red hair halfway stooped with stalky build and blue paint. Damn near growling with anticipation lol
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  5931.  @DanDavisHistory  ohhh yeah. I forgot about that. Sigh, I loved it. So fun
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  5932. Really enjoyed the content in this history piece. Great job!
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  5933. Your videos are inspiring.
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  5934. brother. just found your chanel. 💪🏼 hail 2 u 🔥🐉💧.... strong content
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  5935. Oooh yes, love these long videos mate!
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  5936. Love this channel
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  5937. I'm going with early riding. Even now with horses being tall there are plenty of daring and athletic men who will jump on any horses back. How much more so when horses were shorter. It is almost human nature to at least start leaning on ponies and eventually leaning across them. Go stand next to a Fluffy pony or small horse and tell me that you do not desire to lean on it. As far as managing horse herds on foot --- try to herd Shetland ponies that way today and see how that goes. You will certainly get plenty of exercise trying to keep them in a herd and walking with you for miles. You had better be in better shape than the ponies. Lol. In the end, the question is not why would humans start riding horses, but why wouldn't they? Of course humans would begin riding horses almost as soon as they were able to domesticate them. Drewse acts as if horses were ridden only for warfare and to scare other tribes, but what about riding one because your feet hurt??? Horses do not need a bit to be controlled, a leather halter would have done pretty well.
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  5938. What Order should I read the gods of bronze series in?
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  5939. Thank you so much, what great knowledge you have passed to us!!
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  5940. do you see a connection between the dagger axes in Europe and East Asia (just as the chariot most likely came from Middle East to East Asia)?
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  5941. Really enjoyed this. Its 3am an I'm drunk. I usually I pass out to history videos but this cause they are great but also super chill, I watched . Hahaha on the real I love history channels and they do help me sleep but this one was special and i watched the whole thing then subbed/ commented. Keep up the great work 😎👍
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  5942. Just as kings and priests have ceremonial hats used in very specific occasions, perhaps these were also set aside for unique, perhaps rare events. Given the cost and skill required to produce them, it makes sense that they were not buried with resident users, but passed on for the next person in that seat (throne or sacred office).
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  5943. By God's legs I enjoyed that.
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  5944. Amazing video. Just found your channel through my recommended have to binge the other vids
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  5945. Maryannu!
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  5946. So many things we don’t know . So many civilizations disappeared. I still find Myself amazed at history . I wish I could go back in a time machines to see all the majestic civilizations.
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  5947. Great video. 👍
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  5948. 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
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  5949. Man I love to see the views on some of these videos just exploding! So glad many others are finding your channel. This was one of your most fascinating videos yet.
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  5950. Thank you!!
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  5951. Hey, y’all know me. Maybe? Excellent video man. This is well put together
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  5952. Love your channel and books. Reading vampire crusader now
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  5953. The significant other I don’t have, the stranger that produces all those neat videos I like to watch dropped.
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  5954. It is now believed that plague brought about the collapse of this culture. DNA from plague is all over the skeletons of that time. Bubonic plague did not yet exist, pneumonic plague was extremely contagious and extremely deadly. Either plague emerged in those huge overcrowded towns, or the steppe people brought it from the steppe, and they either had immunity or knew how to deal with plague while the Europeans wouldn't have seen it before.
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  5955. Earned a sub. Just found this channel and this looks like an amazing playlist with some more-obscure topics
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  5956. So warfare began with cattle herding and cattle raiding: bashing yer neighbor and taking his cattle. Sometimes this was necessary for survival, when droughts hit specific areas of the Eurasian steppes. Interestingly and accordingly, the term for warfare in Sanskrit is go(v)ishta, literally 'desire for cattle.'
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  5957. How does Anubis fit into this theory?
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  5958. Another very interesting video, Dan. I haven't done DNA testing, but like you, I have English and Irish ancestors. Interestingly, my late father told me that we also had German and Spanish ancestors. Perhaps there was a lot of contact between Britain, Ireland and the Iberian and Central European cultures going right back to the time of the culture discussed here.
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  5959. Ask and you shall recieve, good work as always fascinating stuff.
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  5960. Good videos on youtube exist here is the proof
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  5961. Enjoyable and informative, nicely done. A bit of a disappointment that you referred to northern Indigenous cultures as Eskimo instead of Inuit. Otherwise, very much caught my interest enough to check out your books in the near future.
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  5962. You have my deepest respect for calling Scania Scania, and not some silly rewording like "Southern Sweden".
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  5963. Fantastic video.
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  5964. Thank you
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  5965. Fascinating. Great video thanks for making it.
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  5966. Howd i miss this dont be me hit the bell
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  5967. To drop off the next dead body across the river in there own cemetery you would have to feed the wild dogs!
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  5968. Are these the same civilizations and time periods of skull worshipping?
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  5969. Yeah, I didn't get a notification either. Great video. Thanks for letting us know about it. I am really bothered by those weird sticks with holes in them. I was perfectly happy thinking of them as "spear straighteners," but why would anyone need more than one? Now it is driving me nuts not knowing what the heck those things are.
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  5970. I was a great biographical video. I never heard of William Marshall
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  5971. Isle Royale copper sent me.
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  5972. I enjoy this fun, educational, and click bait free, channel...thank you for sharing this information
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  5973.  @DanDavisHistory  Good lord, a man of exquisite taste!
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  5974. Thanks for your great videos. Got me thinking of this old video, quite interesting. https://youtu.be/C9zD3SwhF64
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  5975. This is one of the most amazing channels I have found.
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  5976. Beautifully done video. Thank you.
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  5977. Thanks!
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  5978. I love the Sumerians!! Awesome video!!!
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  5979. Amazing video ❤️
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  5980. Psylobin. They ate psylobin before battle.
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  5981. It really encapsulates an entire age into a single object. It was worshipped religiously, was a cultural object, a weapon to wage war with and a tool used to build. Amazing.
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  5982. Yeah, my scholar history books were very obsolete around 7years ago.
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  5983. Fascinating
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  5984. What amazes me is how long it tool to develop stirrups. Horses were rode for thousands of years before this invention, truly astounding if you have ever ridden a horse.
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  5985. Excellent! Thank you.
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  5986. Good video
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  5987. Very, very interesting. Thank you very much. I would like to read your books, what's the best one to start with?
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  5988. Excellent video
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  5989. Fascinating.
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  5990. "Hmm, these einkorn pancakes and ibex are bussin'! Can't wait to eat it again tomorrow!"
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  5991. REALLY fascinating so well done these people are so self reliant and skilled
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  5992. Another chapter in my study of humankind! Thank you. And for your humbleness.
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  5993. Great documentary, and very plausible theories while still aknowledging how limited our knowledge of him is. Thank you for doing this.
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  5994. I can see the Axhammers being used in house building to cut wood as well as pounding a post in to the ground and as a weapon.
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  5995. Well Done one of the best.
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  5996.  @DanDavisHistory a strange recipe garnish perhaps. By the way thank you for making this superb video .
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  5997.  @DanDavisHistory  : You may search the Internet for the word "Percht". This will lead you to fotos and descriptions of this traditional garments and also decriptions of actions performed during the days between Christmas and Epiphany, in Bavaria and Austria the call this nights "Rauhnächte" (rought nights), a traditional period where the border between the real world and the afterworld becomes penetrable.
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  5998. How did they polish the stone?
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  5999. Great my Sunday was boring
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  6000. Is this the same guy as Wilikin of the weald?
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  6001. Love the badger pot!
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  6002. There’s a good book, called “Myths of the Dog-Man” by David Gordon White. It’s about the early important Eurasian myths about dogs and men, relating to the “Outer” and “inner” society.
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  6003. Dan Davis 40K battle report when 😛?
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  6004. ævi frændi GARE, heil og sæl 🏹
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  6005.  @DanDavisHistory  thoroughly enjoyable presentation Dan, and may I recommend Gary's videos on archery to you, the man is quite the character and a fine archer to boot.
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  6006.  @DanDavisHistory  oh he's great I love em and I've been an archer for 56 years now so I can judge with confidence, that been said I love my bearded axe more than anything I ever owned ... As they say.... I'll give you my axe when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. It's a wheel, you are honoured by Gare watching your story telling but us old guys are honoured by you young men carrying the torch, truly.
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  6007. Is that the origin of Mardi Gras?
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  6008.  @DanDavisHistory  That would be amazing, especially since mycenean/minoan architecture is gorgeous, especially their frescos. Its a shame that most movies/tv shows just copy the later classical and archaic style and youse it 400-600 years to early.
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  6009. Well would you look at that . The Egved girl and and Skrydstrup woman from Denmark. Mister Davies that warms my danish heart and makes me a happy man to see items from my countrys past be used in this way . I have been standing in the danish national museum in copenhagen and seen her for myself.
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  6010. About the Tollense ancient DNA. I did a video on this btw, but I think you already saw it. You did a good job summarizing it. If you included more details than you did, it would be too confusing. For example, no one cares they had high levels of WHG ancestry, lol. This would not be relevant for your video. But there is something cool I can tell you here which helps puts the Tollense warrior's DNA in context. So as you know all the Tollense warriors, except a small minority of true foreigners (travelling aristocrat warriors?), had WHG-rich ancestry. Well, this same WHG rich ancestry spread into Serbia & Croatia in the Bronze age. I made a video about this for Serbia. But also, a few weeks ago a study on Croatia, showed some of the Bronze age people there had very high levels of WHG. This means there was a "race" (genos) of WHG rich people, with lots of I2a, moving around in Central Europe. Both tribes involved in the Tollense battle were apart of this phenomena. These were related Bronze age people, who migrated to the Meditereaen and Baltic sea.
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  6011. One more thing. The I2a in the Tollense warriors, Unetice are the same exact clade. Around 50% of both therefore have the same Y DNA. I2a2a1a2a1a1. The SNP hierarchy is L596>Y14158>S6635>S6724>Z26435>PF3923>pre-BY431. This is according to Pribislav at Anthrogenica. This clade is also present in one sample from Bronze age Serbia, one in Bronze age Hungary. Unetice & Tollense warriors have basically the same Y DNA overall, because Unetice Y DNA which isn't I2a2 is mostly R1b P312 like with Tollense warriors. Unetice can be modelled as 20% Tollense warrior, Bronze age Serbia as 38%. So yeah, the Tollense warriors came from a family of WHG rich people who were successful in Bronze age Europe. We'll learn more when we get more ancient DNA. It is possible the Lustinian culture and Urnfield culture in large part derived from this family.
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  6012. One could make the argument that the horns were the bronze age representation of crests. To represent commanders, champions, and elites.
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  6013. My man thank you for sharing the history of my island
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  6014. As a history geek, this is first class dining - love the video sir.
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  6015. Missed the chance to say whack your wood.
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  6016. Thank you for your work, Dan. I was thinking of starting a similar channel some time ago, but there's no need. You do an amazing job.
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  6017. good show
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  6018. Glad i discovered this channel! Learn a LOT from it! Greets, T.
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  6019.  @DanDavisHistory  i did more on war please
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  6020. You're channell is my favorite of the last few years. I just got done reading your Godborn books, master pieces my friend. Thank you for the content and history lessons.
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  6021. I also had a fleeting thought about the possibility of the "runners" associated with chariot fighting being the first to really realize that the chariot was optional. During these chariot fights there would be runners who's task it would be to drag charioteers off their chariots once they were wounded and finish the job. I wonder if some of these runners figured that jumping directly on the back of the horses and controlling the chariot from ahead was more effective.
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  6022.  @DanDavisHistory  I have to agree, sounds like a great topic for a future video. Total speculation from my part here of course, but I'm wondering if the EEF of Italy and the Italian islands having a more martial society isn't one of the reasons for the survival of the Etruscan and Nuragic civilisations well into the iron age. Perhaps they were able to resist for longer or adapt more quickly.
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  6023. I think the disruptive element that destroyed the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture was the Milk Cow. The addition of milk, yogurt, cheese & occasionally beef to the diet would offer some advantages -- but not everyone is lactose tolerant or compatible with the virus carried by domestic cattle & horses (cow & horse pox). The conflict between hunter-gatherer-gardeners & herder-ranchers has been documented all over the world. Folks who have been exposed to cow & horse pox (and survived) fared far better when the more deadly small pox came around.
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  6024. Good.
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  6025. Loved this. So interesting
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  6026. Mister Davis, I am loving these videos! Just picked up your novel as well. Where can one find out more about these cultures? I have a history degree so I'm keeping up just fine. Is there a neolithic/bronze age culture 101 video or book or source you recommend an eager new comer? Thanks again sir !!
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  6027. The seas where alive with travellers for many thousands of years… pretty cool really
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  6028. Thanks, Dan.
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  6029. I read recently that the actual riding of horses is in fact unlikely at that time, as there is no material evidence of it (and there should be as it was very important). I wonder what you make of that...
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  6030.  @DanDavisHistory  will do!
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  6031. Great vid. nice narration.very easy to listen too subscribed
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  6032. Wonderful! Thank you
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  6033. Great stuff!
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  6034. Have you considered there isnt allot of human bones and burials found because they cremated their dead?
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  6035. Great video! You just got yourself a new subscriber! 👍
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  6036. Wonderful documentary thank you
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  6037. Well made video !
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  6038. just a beautiful narration :)
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  6039. Excellent information, delivery, and relevant and synchronized visuals of captivating interest.
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  6040. I appreciate your work!
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  6041. Great Video. When did the Horse and Chariot start showing up in graves? Cheers!
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  6042. I found your videos recently and I gotta say they are amazing inspiration for illustrations
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  6043. more! ,,...
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  6044. I enjoy your hard work. You do terrific work. Thank you for this and your generosity.
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  6045. another first rate video! thank you for your hard work.
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  6046. thank you.
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  6047. Hi Dan! Didnt know the best place to reach out to you…I just started reading Godborn - I cannot put it down! Fantastic story! Thank you!
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  6048. This video is some serious quality stuff. Congrats!
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  6049. Yes , please do one on Bronze Age armor that would be great 👍
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  6050. i cant believe that you dont have much more subscribers when your content is so awesome
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  6051. its sad that they have to disturb his body for all their tests may his soul rest in peace and be forever restful where ever his beliefs thought they go in their afterlife
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  6052. They are delicious.
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  6053. Well done sir. I subbed
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  6054. We wouldn't have the things we have today had it not been for our "savage" ancestors. People these days cry if they can't get a signal on their cell phone.
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  6055. cool stuff
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  6056. I would love a video on bronze armor.
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  6057. Skinwalkers
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  6058. Thanks!
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  6059. Oh yeah Mitterberg :)) Here in Austria you stumble over prehistoric mines all the time. Not only copper but also gold, iron and silver. Some of them are just more or less tiny holes and some are hughe. Its crazy how to us this is normal and we don't think much about it.
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  6060. Neat
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  6061. With his rough look and worn down joints he was definitely 100% a Scaffolder 😂
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  6062. Fascinating video, thank you.
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  6063. More content, its always a good day cheers Dan.
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  6064. The fishing people, there are some theories suggesting that Myceaenans traded with them as some artifacts has been discovered buried for thousands of years of jewelry made of minerals non exictant anywhere around the Baltic sea and native to Greece in Northen Denmark and in Northen Sweden. It is thought that not until Novgorod served as a trading route between the Baltic sea and Greece this wasnt possible. Sadly we Germanics never recorded history like the Greeks and Romans did, and most likely the Greeks had this documented but lost to history when the Turks and Ottomans burned Western History for centuries and marched into Constantiniople as the Byzantines moved everything to there capital. It makes sensce because some ancient Greek maps depicts some parts of Scandinavia wich means they must have ventured there at some point in time and most likely established relations.
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  6065. 11:35 that one is quite sexy!
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  6066. I guess that this myth could be much younger, like many other parts of religio common on both banks of the Atlantic, I guess there was some event between c.a.2900 and 2400BC when religious influences crossed Ocean, spreading from Eurasia and Egypt to America.
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  6067. I'd say you a dam close to being an expert you probably know more... Boss man you see your books do you have like an audio book version so i can listen to them at work 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿 keep up the good work
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  6068. ​ @DanDavisHistory  I recently listened to Godborn and loved it. Will Book #2 Thunderer be on audio any time soon?
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  6069.  @DanDavisHistory  Awesome!
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  6070. Well done! Sometimes the facts are as cool as a fiction. Throw in an immortal warrior and badass babes? Brilliant! Thank you!
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  6071. I thought you said that God Born was fiction. I'm halfway through it and I haven't found a single word that isn't true.
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  6072. * EXCELLENT! * 😍
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  6073. This is a fascinating subject. As a horse lover. It makes sense that they were first used as a pack animal, from there carrying humans seems the next step. Domesticated horses are difficult to control without some sort of control of their heads. Just sayin
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  6074.  @DanDavisHistory  I think your film on The Koryos is just about bang on the money. Its been a real pleasure to talk to you BTW - thank you.
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  6075. Wonderful. Thank you
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  6076. Great video, Dan. Love it!
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  6077. Well done.
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  6078. Yay! Cant wait to watch this after work
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  6079. Fantastic! Good stuff! Thanks
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  6080. This raises thoughts of grey haired Perkunas in his two wheeled chariot pulled by giant billy goats. Armed with bow, spear and mace. Chasing Menulis every night across the sky.
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  6081. Nice way to start a video
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  6082. Fantastic video.
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  6083.  @DanDavisHistory  ahh cheers think my dyslexics kicked I'm.
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  6084. I find it amazing what medical science can do for mummies.
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  6085. great video once again, can't wait to see how all this research plays part of the gods of bronze series
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  6086. Mead,amanita muscaria,,live hard,,fight hard
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  6087. Every one of your videos is such high quality! I look forward to every new release
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  6088. Awsome
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  6089. Assuming that culture didn't just started when these clusters of settlements started forming but sort of in a gradual migration (like a glacier towards more hospitable areas) from all the way back in Africa to their region, I'm guessing that this awareness of animalistic worship, foundation of early communication (one guess I have is that the proto-Sinaitic "A" was symbolic for "food", ie. a key sustainable resource), awareness of medicinal properties, etc, and even perhaps the burning of old homes, whatever the reason, were ways that certain colonies handled different situations over generations. A whole family died from unnatural causes? Burn the home down, because there were previous cases of unchecked spread of that death from that early spot. It may have been forgotten after several hundred years, but why stop a tradition rooted in culture then?
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  6090. Ah hell yeah, another Dan Davis video dropped!
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  6091.  @DanDavisHistory  thank you!
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  6092. Excellent video. Fascinating stuff. Never really read up or researched the bronze age.
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  6093. The Pathisn shot is the forerunnerbof the term partingcshot..a euphemism for a comment tossed overvthe shoulder to discomfit their victim
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  6094. I love your videos. Every one is such an experience
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  6095. This is incredibly well researched and interesting to listen to
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  6096. Love the Mother Godess Figurines. ❤
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  6097.  @DanDavisHistory  This culture wikipedia: Sanxingdui might be relevant. Some Chinese Youtuber claimed the authorites are sitting on the haplogroups found, unwilling to publish them.
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  6098. Phenomenal video, as always
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  6099. Thanks Dan, another belter.
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  6100. And if you have no descendants?
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  6101. Dan???? Do you want a leg up on my recent discovery? I ordered a 3yard of stone 2- four years back. I’ve come across some interesting artifacts.... these ones science has not described. One is a map of my area.... the area I live in is the overflow from Georgian Bay.... to lake minesing and lake Simcoe. The area is the Toronto pathway. The city I live in is Barrie Ontario. If you would like to do an episode on the items I have found in only three yards of river rock is (it is a rediculous amount of fossils). Anyhow this stone map, with solar and star navigation looks legit and for real. It’s three dimensional..... it’s nuts the detail still left. Let me know. As soon as I can get my hands on a topographical map. I’m on every line and spot to figure out distances etc.
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  6102. Edward III always the greatest english king
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  6103. Why did the bronze age spark widespread warfare? The bronze age was at the first flowering of civilization. Civilization creates surpluses of food and wealth on a large scale. It also allows for the specialization of professions, including warriors. The king in the next city over wants what you have, and your king wants what those people in the next city over have. Voilá! Large scale war.
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  6104. Love it man. Another great dive into Historical Knowledge. 👏
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  6105. The Davis family Hammer is a Ship of Thesus paradox. Great video as well! I guess I understand now why my European grandpa doesn’t believe the beautiful obsidian knife and prismatic core blades my cousin, who found them in Mexico plowing the fields, gave me are naturally made. I got to ask him if he is aware of the story of thunderstones.
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  6106. Its someone they knew well likely...... I hope that I'm never in any position like that giving or receiving, legit horrifying
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  6107. Omg
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  6108. Very well put together, thankya
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  6109. I did that with your sponsor, quite funny. It´s just strange that I now recieve lots of massages from girls from over the world and need to remember: this ain´t tinder, but instead the opposite with girls I should NOT go for 🤣. Btw I´m 50 % Irish, though all my family is Bavarian. Maybe due to celtic traces? Anyway interesting.
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  6110. https://youtu.be/cdjBUxPQwaU?t=68 A man might have breakfast with his family... ...and dinner with his ancestors. Death could be that rapid.
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  6111. How bout the fur pelts though? .. 🤔😏 Skål friend, love your content 🤝🏼🐻
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  6112. "...stink of the holy city" - Lol.
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  6113. 3200 BC - The Piora Oscillation...also known as the 2nd Phase of Indo-Europeanization - was a global climatic event responsible for the "Kurgan Migration" and The Bronze Age. 5500 BC- Black Sea Flood...also known as the 1st Phase of Indo-Euro...(well, actually Eurasianization) - was the local, regional Carpato-Danubian-Pontic event, responsible for the "Gods Migration" and the true Neolithic Revolution.
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  6114. Absolutely brilliant video !! This is really , really good channel. Thank you.
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  6115. Well presented
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  6116. 👍🏻
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  6117. If only they were smart enough to make Bows illegal back then he'd still be alive. iF It SaVeS jUsT OnE LiFe.
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  6118. Legend has it Wim Hof is a direct descendant.
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  6119. This reminds me. I need to finish your book. I am almost done.
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  6120. Dan Thank You. Great information
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  6121. Tough is a understatement for this guy. Could you imagine
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  6122. The Tyson Fury pic cracked me up! That was Major Dick Winters from Band Of Brothers.
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  6123. First time viewer... first line, "Mercenaries are professional soldiers" with the music and images. Sold.
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  6124. Very good.
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  6125. Great work 👍🏻
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  6126. I got a Christian ad during this video. They’re trying to take me away from the ancestors.
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  6127. This is fascinating. This culture now has a new fan.
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  6128. Personally, I think England's greatest was Richard the Lion hearted.
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  6129. Wouldn't early riders use weaved rope bridles, most likely bit less?
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  6130. This was one of the best explications of the life & times of Vlad Tepis. You tied in major struggles of surrounding nations, the fall of Constantinople and the impossibility of being caught in medias res the way these border marches inevitably are. Vlad is still revealed as monstrous, but only a monster could have repelled Sultan Mehmet.
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  6131. Log rafts are an obvious candidate for early water crossings.
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  6132. being a mercenary is one of the oldest professions, up there with prostitution and journalism
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  6133. Danke!
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  6134. A fascinating subject. I think I will have some of your books when I have some extra cash. Subscribed!
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  6135. 7:19 I'm pleased you mentioned the sails and rigging. To many people believe they didn't have the wherewithal. Due to modern books and teachers.
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  6136. I like your sense of humor... Great job man
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  6137. Thanks!
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  6138. Really enjoyed this. Thanks!
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  6139. Fascinating video! I have been thinking about what grave goods I want to be buried with 😃
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  6140. A comment to appease our algorithmic overlords
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  6141. Will your books be available in french some day?
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  6142. I really like your visual storytelling and your use of maps. I like the focus on artifacts and studies you show. I keep drawing parallels between the ideas you present and studies of warfare from Paupa New Guinea and Post post structuralist frameworks, eg claestres and archaeology of violence.
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  6143. Thanks for another great one, Dan!
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  6144. Fascinating. I'm surprised mythology isn't used more although it's unproveable, etc. Centaurs, for example, may have origins in men on horseback. Or the Amazon women who rode horses & were warrior women, Amazon meaning without breasts, as shooting arrows from horseback was easier without breasts in the way. And indicates the role women played. After all, it's the girls on the steppes who ride ... And the patience required for domesticating these wild animals, like gathering food & herbs, may very well have been a feminine domain, once achieved, turned to warfare by the male of the species, lol. There's also the myth of Athena, the Greek mythology that she gave humaniry the bridle, not necessarily a bit. As the comments note, control the head, control the body. The whole myth of Pegasus, the winged horse, surely speaks of the speed of such an animal, and those few who rode him. Just as the discoverer of Knossosos on Crete lent veracity to the myth of Theseus, the Minotaur (those bull-leaping mural frescoes) , & the Maze (extensive buildings and underground storage rooms), it's also possible myths about horses have some credence.
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  6145. Cracking vid 👏👏
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  6146. Excellent work. Hope for a future video on the nuragic civilization.
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  6147. I dig the passive advertisement
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  6148. Awesome video as usual. Would love to see more on the bronze age in western continental Europe, france for example.
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  6149. Thanks for making these videos!!
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  6150. Wonderful voiceover. Am I right in thinking you might be interested in yachts too?
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  6151. excellent
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  6152. I remember my mother reading the Clan of the Cave Bear novels by Jean Auel, in which the main character learns to ride a horse circa 28,000 B.C.(!). Fun books but a little fanciful.
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  6153. I like ancient theology "I have my God, but your God exists too and I respect that (for the most part) so your God doesn't smite me" Now we're stuck with "my religion is easily invalidated by modern observations and science, but it's the only god. Anyone else who claims their God is the only one is just an uneducated savage"
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  6154. Oh yeah, went with the Golden Drake thumbnail.
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  6155. Your left handed glove might have been a attempt to make a small shield, like a buckler, but it's 2d and small can't tell if it raps around or is flatish, maybe caramonial. But all speculation
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  6156. Ďakujeme.
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  6157. This was awesome!
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  6158. This was quite a jump. I more accustomed to videos from the Neolithic or Bronze age period from you but this was still a great video.
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  6159. Great video. You may remember me. I love your channel. Great videos.
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  6160. 🤔👍
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  6161. Fantastic channel.
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  6162. Very good video new sub here 👍
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  6163. Thank you Dan great video
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  6164. After 5, 6 decades of wondering, technological and scientific advancements allow me to scratch that itch. So thrilled to have Facts. Accept no substitute. Being able to read ripping yarns based on fact? Priceless! I'm about to look into it.
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  6165. Thank you so much for your work!
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  6166. Thanks!
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  6167. Could long barrows with passages and chambers be used to mummify bodies? I believe there is evidence that bodies were used to 'decorate' some dwellings? Perhaps the long entrance to the chamber prevented decay or maybe bodies of some were smoked to preserve them and then placed in the chambers to be visited at certain times of the year?
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  6168. Very nice. Imagine being a Catacomb elder watching your way of life fade.
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  6169. Could you make a Video about the Nebra Sky Disk and its peoples ? Thank you in advance :D
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  6170. Nice make Thor video
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  6171. Good video. Hope you sell some books....
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  6172. A lot of Soviet apologists in the comments on this one. This is a form of propaganda, please be careful what you believe. Dan's video is accurate.
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  6173. Brilliant
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  6174. I found your channel through Dan's. Great minds and all that.
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  6175.  @DanDavisHistory  Yes takes too much time either way haha. Thank you! and good luck to our channels so we may grow and be able to pay editors to save us time someday
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  6176. King John 8s trying to raise money for the Lionheart's endless Crusades
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  6177. Fascinating civilization
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  6178. This is the first video of youres I've watched and I like your story telling.
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  6179.  @DanDavisHistory  I look forward to exploring it
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  6180. I think that dogs would've been instrumental in herding horses whether or not the people were mounted. Given the small size of early horses, use as draft & pack animals came first. Seems there would be a vast difference between putting an inanimate load on a horse than another living creature. IMO the chariot would've conferred a great tactical advantage over footbound forces on the steppe; charioteers could maneuver to a position of tactical advantage & not be fatigued before the actual fighting began. In ancient times the slaughter began in earnest once one side broke & ran.
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  6181. A video on Bronze Age weights would be a fantastic subject!
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  6182. Those giant penises are probably the only way you can demonstrate the masculinity of those warriors using such simplistic depictions.
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  6183. Not discredit the the historical reality and awesomeness of this, but this is the most Nord thing I have ever heard.
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  6184. Is a dedicated video on the scythians on the cards Dan?
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  6185. What a great detailed documentary might want to go to these Sardinian sites one day.
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  6186. Do one on dogs please . 🐕
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  6187. Cheers Dan brilliant
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  6188. Fascinating thank you
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  6189.  @DanDavisHistory  information about it does seem to be very sparse, but if anyone could find out I think that you probably could. You seem extremely well researched.
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  6190. Did the dog myth spread to East Asia like China, Korea ect?
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  6191. Interesting stuff. Ta
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  6192. Any evidence of myths describing the equivalent of a vampire or dragon, in this culture?
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  6193. Thanks!
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  6194. Awesome video, we appreciate the heck outta you!
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  6195. you have a very soothing voice. very pleasant to watch your videos…❤
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  6196. Fascinating!
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  6197. Great work! Thanks!
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  6198. Many vidoe shots of Kyiv Rus Historical Park near Kyiv. Have visited the park many times. I do enjoy your videos.
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  6199. its interesting to see that torcs predate celts
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  6200. Perhaps the number of people depicted in the boats does not represent real boats of people but the number of households the leader had call on. So the 60 person boat is saying this is a big powerful leader with many followers.
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  6201. What a great video! I learned so much. Thank you.
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  6202. Thank you Inspirational
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  6203.  @DanDavisHistory  Oh nice! this clarifies a lot for me! Thanks heaps! I look forward to that video!
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  6204. Love the visuals in your pieces.
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  6205. Time warp me back to The Bronze Age. If you never find a stone statue of me with my tools, weapons and gold buried underneath then consider me a failure.
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  6206.  @DanDavisHistory  Great Series, Am up to Impaler, Very amused that Duffield Castle is so prominently featured as that is my Mums Maiden name lol
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  6207.  @DanDavisHistory  East Yorks as far as I know, Mostly around Market Weighton, But that only goes back to 1840s. Assuming the Prequels are on Kindle Unlimited will certainly read them. I suck up Books like a Pint of O- lol
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  6208.  @DanDavisHistory  Excellent, Keep me occupied for a while :)
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  6209. Amazing as always Dan. Your channel is criminally under-subbed if you ask me
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  6210. Whats the difference between Western and West Corded Ware peoples
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  6211. Interesting thanks
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  6212. Extremely interesting!
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  6213. The Caspian Sea has always had an air of mystery to me.
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  6214. Is that really Radu ||| "The Handsome"? 🤔😅😅 @ 6:34
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  6215. I just subscribed to your channel, this video was very well done. Thx for sharing this with us. 👍🇺🇲🗽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍
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  6216. Very interesting, but are you worthy?
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  6217. Thor's hammer have another feature, at lest in Sweden. It's a fertility item. A hammer could be placed in the wedding bed of the bridal couple to enhance fertility. It even have the power to prevent lightning strike.
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  6218. This is fucking awesome to learn about
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  6219. I just started reading God-Born and this shows up in my recommendations. Hmm, Internet!
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  6220. Woohoo!! Nothing makes a day like a Dan History day! woot woot new video!
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  6221. I think the late riding hypothesis is the best we have right now. I think the realm of speculation is interesting but without firm archaeological evidence that’s all it can ever be. We can only track a phenomenon as far as the evidence will allow. Of course it’s possible the late Neolithic or Chalcolithic people could have used horses for more than meat. But if they did do so and it was responsible for the widespread migration of entire peoples across a whole continent we would surely have some better evidence of that than we currently do. That’s not to say that this evidence isn’t out there waiting to be dug up some day, and were it to be dug up we’d all have to start building new ideas from that evidence. But until then asserting early dates prior to the Mesopotamian Bronze Age is in danger of veering off into Atlantis and Ancient Aliens territory.
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  6222. Sorry Dan, but I feel obliged to correct an embarrassing historical mistake in your video. "King John had the loyal support of the greatest night who had ever lived, William of..." That would be Richard of Ashbury, please. Done.
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  6223. Bring on the Srubnaya.
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  6224. Awesome! Love you man! Can't wait to watch this.
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  6225. I love the way you speculate about this man’s life using the items in their grave, such a great video and such a wonderful way to bring Bronze Age Britain to life.
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  6226. Thors Hammer prequel. All hail the stone hammer and axe.
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  6227. I just found you today, YouTube suggested you ! So Happy I subscribed, Thanks So Much Sir
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  6228. Godborn is an amazing book maybe the best i ever read. What book comes after book 1. ? Herkulos and bel are fukn heroes
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  6229. Great video, and I hate to comment on something unrelated to what it was actually about, but I feel kind of obligated to do so since you mentioned getting into bitcoins and NFTs and not really knowing what the deal with them was before the sponsor. The problem is that I am sure all of the information you got, both from friends and the Blinkist stuff, was purely in favor of that stuff and completely ignored all the negatives. There are quite a few problems with that technology, but the big thing boils down to that it's extremely harmful to the environment, even by the already destructive standards of modern society. Because they need to be permanently maintained on computers, they need tons of machines constantly running full bore to upkeep the system, which means there are god knows how many computers draining energy and pumping ridiculous amounts of heat out into an already overheating planet, and for what is in 99% of cases actually a scam. People who want to profit off of them love to make NFTs sound practical and valuable, but they're not, they are useless and morally reprehensible.
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  6230. Omg wish I could going back and see all these cultures
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  6231. Awesome video!
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  6232. Love your work man, thank you!
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  6233. This video is the first I have seen from your channel...instant subscribe; I love this period, and it was very thorough on your end. Good stuff.
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  6234.  @DanDavisHistory  I also want thank you because this video came out in a really good time, almost uncanny actually. So recently for the past two weeks I've been really into Vlad Dracula and I've thought of writing some historical-fiction about him but I just didn't know what sources I could use, and then this video just comes out.
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  6235. Nice video again. Commenting for the algorithm
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  6236. Great video, u just won another subscriber.
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  6237. Thanks for the movie! i look after the information on the iceman for a couple of yaears! Hope that this cold case to be solved!
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  6238. Bye Jove, Mr Davis, you've done it again!
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  6239. I see where the Yotonun with the Deer Skull over his head comes from in your story now. Will you be associating him with Herne the Hunter and Cernunnos of the Celts?
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  6240. ​ @DanDavisHistory ​ I hope Proto-Armenia makes an appearance later on. We had our own version of the Koryos, the Norati, and a dragon strangling, storm born god, Vahagn.
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  6241. Amazing video, great quality and incredibly clear and easy to understand 👍👍👍
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  6242. What a legend!
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  6243. this is what I needed today, thank you
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  6244. I cannot get over the marvelous teeth these mummies have! They're straight and look in remarkable condition.
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  6245. I love these videos
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  6246. I only just discovered your channel a few days ago. Your videos are fascinating! I love history. I can't say there is any one, particular era or particular people or culture that draws me more than another. It is all wonderful. I particularly like your style of presentation. Greetings from New Hampshire, USA.
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  6247. Excellent video. I visited the mines as a caver in the early days of their rediscovery. Hammer stones and green stained bone picks were lying where they had been left all that time ago.
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  6248. I do like a bit of corded ware.
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  6249. So well done! Thanks for making this!
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  6250. Cerberus ? Anubis ?
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  6251. What makes you think that ancient horses were bit trained ? I have ridden many horses that were neck rained . I believed neck rained was the 1st way horses were ridden . Bitt trained is a late style of training. So wearing down of horse teeth was probably due to feeding the hotses cultivated grains . DML
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  6252. Was the home settlement found or excavated?
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  6253. The Wild Hunt sounds like Halloween.
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  6254. This is becoming the best popular history channel ever. Thank you thank you!
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  6255. the shape reminds me of the axe i use for splitting wood for firewood.
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  6256. They are not my haplogroup.
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  6257.  @DanDavisHistory  Yeah that was my point of confusion as I was under the previous impression that the first farmers were in fact the original hunter gatherers who just suddenly and rapidly adopted the farming way of life. That's a pretty good and concise breakdown of things there though, so I could be wrong or going off of outdated information as it's not a time I know particularly well compared to the Solensfolk in the Bronze Age and Viking times. We are talking on this on Facebook as well actually so thank you for your patience with me spamming you about this question lol. It's just such an interesting and mysterious period so far removed yet familiar to our own that I got really drawn in to this potential contradiction.
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  6258. wow, first time in a very long time, i've stayed hooked for the entire hour! Fantastic documentary!
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  6259. Use the flat on your friends, and the edge on your enemies. Perfect.
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  6260. Mr. Davis outdoes himself again! Please sir, finish more books so I can buy them 😜
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  6261. Im so hyped, I havent even watched the vid yet but everything about Tollense is just fascinating. Thx 4 the vid in advance, Im gonna enjoy it nonetheless.
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  6262.  @DanDavisHistory  Ah, makes sense, thanks!
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  6263. 09.47 LOL. Was looking for a comment about it but could not find it. The goat that gets run over by its own lol!
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  6264. Thanks for this.
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  6265. Fantastic work Dan.
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  6266. Nice video A video on fish related tabù will be very appreciated.
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  6267. I love ancient history and myth, this channel is just what I needed. Subscribed. Now going to check out some other videos.
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  6268. so happy. needed a video today. much love
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  6269. Get's a like and a subscribe for also being a huge Time Team fan.
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  6270. Awesome video. Definitely one of the most intriguing finds ever.
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  6271. I have read that they would drink the urine of someone who had tripped on mushrooms to bring the psychedelic properties down some instead of drinking straight mushroom tea. A theory I believe
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  6272. Great work Dan, truly. I've enjoyed every upload
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  6273. Excellent work, top notch.
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  6274. Good video. I've studied the history of money for about 15 years. As you mention, the ingots and rings DO fit the characteristics of money. But they would typically fall under the category of an exchangeable commodity or proto-money. The first form of proto-money likely predates written history. But items like Cowrie Shells have been found in archaeological sites in Africa and Asia dating back as far as 120,000 years ago. The key difference between money and proto-money is (generally) the presence of standardized systems and centralized institutions, particularly a government or similar authority.
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  6275. Werry good Learning for me Thx alot for this Fantastisk telling and also finale a voice that a nice and calm to lisent to
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  6276. This is so interesting. Just wonderful.
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  6277. BURGOS MENCIONADO AAAA
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  6278. Just when I think i've consumed every bit of content on the late bronze age collapse, Thanks so much for your work!
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  6279. He could have found those arrows with blood on them so....
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  6280. My grandparents named me after him ❤️
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  6281. Very interesting and informative. Thank you.
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  6282. 👏👏
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  6283. Yes to bronze age armor video!
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  6284. great video. just hit subscribe , now I'm going to binge your videos 👌💪
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  6285. Dude, I freaking love your videos. Keep 'em coming, I eat this stuff up for real
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  6286. Thank you for the information. The video is very well done.
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  6287. Maybe he was a claim jumper? People who trespass on others precious metal deposits are often killed for doing so
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  6288. The dreaded Vincent Price of my childhood has brought me to this excellent channel, thank you, Dan.
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  6289. These videos keep on improving! Riveting! I wonder about the continuity of the epigravetian and solutrian into western and eastern hunter gatherers 10k later.
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  6290. You can certainly control a horse without using a bit. Horse riding seems like a rather obvious realization. They seem made to be ridden. I would expect that horse riding has been practiced for many thousands of years. You hardly need to break a wild horse. Simply catch a few mares and one stallion. Now you'll have many colts to train and ride. There would be very little archaeological evidence but it stands to reason that their domestication would not have been difficult and the benefit to a hunter gather group would be enormous.
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  6291. Great video
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  6292. Long live Mother Europe 🇪🇺 and long live the big asses of the clay figurines. I have even made one by myself!
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  6293. I'm in a thunderstorm right now which gives a great ambiance to this video
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  6294. this is so fucking interesting
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  6295. Thanks 🌸!!!
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  6296. That video is wonderful for video game development ( RTS, Civ, etc.. )
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  6297.  @DanDavisHistory  Yes, indeed. I plan to make Civ-like games ( Sid Meier's Civilization, for example ) and these videos and Including your videos on YouTube give me wonderful ideas for that.
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  6298.  @DanDavisHistory  Indeed, it will. All thanks to your and other channels who makes those wonderful videos. I really thank you.
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  6299. imagine life was pretty awesome back them!!-
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  6300. I love your videos keep up the good work!
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  6301. This is fascinating, it takes real skill to make a documentary like this. Brilliant narration. Thanks.
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  6302. Very educational. I enjoyed the video.
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  6303. A fantastic video
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  6304. And again my mind wonders. Great video.
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  6305. I've just discovered your channel and subbed.
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  6306. Fantastic video once again
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  6307. I looked again. This is amazing!
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  6308.  @DanDavisHistory  I will. Gotta say that I am not really read up on all of this!
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  6309. Excellent very interesting and informative
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  6310. There's a big corollary between climatic cooling events and yersinia pestis - apparently it gets stuck in fleas guts at low temperatures and then they behave more aggressively. Hence the worst plague event in the middle of the fourteenth century following the beginning of the little ice age.
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  6311. Those ships also look like snow sleds.
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  6312. For the Algorithm!
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  6313. This is clickbait I was expecting Dan Davis to be yoked out of his goddamn mind wearing nothing but Greek battle armor
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  6314. Fantastic video
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  6315. Really good video my friend God Bless
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  6316. Great Video Dan!! Are those reconstructions of that farmer and Western steppe herder based on genetic evidence?
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  6317. Very interesting!
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  6318. Thank you for these high quality videos. I love love love them. 🎉
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  6319. I'd love to have the knowledge and skill to live as they did
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  6320. Amazing!
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  6321. Excellent video - concise, entertaining accurate and unbiased.
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  6322. Idiotic meme. Thx for the debunk.
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  6323. Once again thankyou
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  6324. Brilliant stuff, as usual!
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  6325. Hi Dan, great video again. At 37:36 in this video you show a map of the bell beaker culture but it doesn't include the west of Ireland. Is there any reason for this?
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  6326. Ahh, so nice to hear an interesting story from a clear voice.
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  6327. Love the Chalcolithic Period, especially the Uruk Period in Mesopotamia. Excellent video.
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  6328. Thank you!
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  6329. I've been looking for more YouTubers that speak about ancient societies also when you said BC instead of whatever the hell scientists are saying now it made me smile 😊
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  6330. Corded west spread like wild fire is this why?
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  6331. The bronze cape is incredibly intricate and beautiful❗
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  6332. Great content, as usual!
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  6333. Enjoyed this video. Just bought the first of your Gods of Bronze books
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  6334. Thank you, great job.
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  6335. In the fantasy author's book "Mythago wood " by Robert Holdstock he uses masks and the symbolism of them into a very interesting way . A super series too lol
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  6336.  @jay5467  The Eurogenes ANE K7 calculator on GED Match is the popular tool for Europeans testing Hunter Gatherer, Neolithic Farmer, and Ancient North Eurasian ancestry markers. The modern English average for the calculator is below. WHG-UHG (Western or Unknown Hunter Gatherer) 56.7% ENF (Early Neolithic Farmer) 26.7% ANE (Ancient North Eurasian) 16.6% Most Northwestern, Northern, Central, and Northeastern Europeans get a high Hunter Gatherer percentage--usually at least 50%. A lot of these Hunter Gather ancestry markers came with the Bell Beakers and Corded Ware people. The German Bell Beaker average for the calculator is similar to modern Germans albeit a little lower in ENF and an little higher in ANE. WHG-UHG (Western or Unknown Hunter Gatherer) 57.4 ENF (Early Neolithic Farmer) 22.7 ANE (Ancient North Eurasian) 18.9 The German Corded Ware average shows a relatively high ANE percentage. WHG-UHG (Western or Unknown Hunter Gatherer) 48.7 ENF (Early Neolithic Farmer) 19.8 ANE (Ancient North Eurasian) 31.0 I would love to see genetics (e.g., haplogroups) and physical anthropology of these populations covered as well!
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  6337. I'm mostly Sardinian thus WHG and some of Gothic.
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  6338. ​ @jay5467  @Nosotros Los Lobos Estamos Regesando According to the table below, average Sardinians are 55% Hunter Gatherer and 44.75% Neolithic Farmer. Seems they were untouched by the waves of Bronze Age steppe migration. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tFAa7oxWpcNN-OdMMjBdb4NeWKG7EkpKMzZJVW2_MME/edit
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  6339. yes please make that bronze age armor video
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  6340. Dan, I don't know why it took so long to discover your channel....watching back to back. So polished!
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  6341. Another amazing video ❤️
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  6342. Dan googled "hot women with horses" when he put this video together ;-)
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  6343.  @DanDavisHistory  cool!
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  6344. Love your work
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  6345. Very interesting. Fascinating topic!
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  6346. Cool channel man. Very good production. Very insightful. My channel isn't near as good and Matt never be. Keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing
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  6347. Really enjoy learning history, anthropology and archaeology. Just stumbled across your channel today and was intrigued enough to start reading the Immortal Knight chronicles. This is just a little kudos and thanks for sharing.
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  6348. Time to make some dinner and learn about yet another civilization I've never heard of! Bless you for this early Xmas present.
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  6349. What makes me think it could indeed be from the Ice age is the fact the Guanches, aboriginals of the Canary islands, have their genetic origin in Ukraine (haplogroup U5 or U6 i dont remember which) and they believed in a demonic dog they called Hirguan in La Gomera and Iruene in La Palma, could be loosely related
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  6350. Thanks for this vid Dan 👍
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  6351. Excellent...
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  6352. Thank you sir,Makes a good sunday.
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  6353. Thank you
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  6354. One thing I can share with others is a the posdible reason for the dog burial being common on the western side of the settlement. I lived on a farm in the mountains and I burned an old loyal working dog a sheepdog birder collie in his faveroute evening vantage point which just happenes to looking west from my family home, he had a big rock there to look out from and he used to dig a hole nearby to lie out in winter even though he has a house he chose that spot so I buried him there. Oerhaps this might just be coincidence ir it nay be common for Digs to choose weetern sude vantage points for evening vigilance who knows.
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  6355. see Primitive Warfare by Turney-High
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  6356. I’ve seen them in Norway, north of Steinkjer as far as I can remember.
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  6357.  @DanDavisHistory  these were from different periods and contained everything you mentioned like the boats, the warriors with spears, strange things.
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  6358. Nice vid brotha
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  6359. Not going to be able to watch until Sunday but have liked and commented anyway for the algorithm boost 👍 plus I know it will be a good vid anyway
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  6360. Cool.
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  6361. well done
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  6362.  @DanDavisHistory  all good the examples are really cool that you showed , it's a bit if a different stile to things in NZ ,the small maori hand clubs get really thin and sharp it's pretty amazing ,and they did alot of adzes , my family has found the odd one of different sizes ,and on one island I grew up on there were large boulders that had been used to grind the stones ,Large Maori canos would travel from the south island up the coast of the north island traiding greenstone as they went .it's all really cool and yeah some took generations to finish ,or like you said if they got damaged they would get ree ground getting smaller , and they were passed down and giving names ,I don't know if your interested it might be something to look at the distribution of stone from different reagons of the pacific apparently there's been greenstone from NZ found in Hawaii and in a ancient Chinese tome ,it's funny you can see some similarities between adzes found in europe and the ones found in sertain pacific regions .....any way have a good one 👍,and thanks I'm really enjoying your videos
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  6363. Great channel, just subscribe. High quality content and you have also radio voice.
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  6364. I'd argue that plague - brought by the Yamnaya - had something to do with the abrupt downfall. Diseases usually do.
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  6365. Were they able to extract DNA from this find? Wonder how many of us are descended from this man.
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  6366. Great video, thanks!
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  6367. I get the feeling Mr. Otzi was driven from his community after a number outrages he had perpetrated over the years. And a relative of one of his victims tracked him down for a first light ambush. His apparent trip first down and then back up the hills being a failed test to see if the heat was down after his most recent transgression. The community was finally, irretrievably done with Otzi. It looks, from the site photos, like the axe might have been inside the backpack, and not immediately in view. Whoever launched the arrow may have had no idea that Otzi had such a valuable ill gotten gain.
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  6368. Armor and trade routes, please.
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  6369. In Finnish, the blunt end of an axe-head is called "hamara". You can see the connection to the word "hammer" there. The Finnish word for "hammer" however is "vasara", which is actually related to the Sanskrit word "vajra". You can see how, even though it's not an Indo-European language itself, Finnish has very intricate connections to diverse Indo-European languages. The linguistic, Uralic ancestors of the Finns lived in a very different place than where modern Finns themselves live today.
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  6370. Ohhh. THANK YOU SO MUCH. You don't know how much I appreciate this. In Spain Iberian history has been so invisible. We always study about Romans, or Muslims, about invators. But we never learn about the natives and indigenous from these lands. So thank you so much for this video and for let in us to learn about our indigenous history. I appreciate it!
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  6371. I wonder what gods these people worshipped.
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  6372. I just liked and shared, and subscribed, around the 4 minute mark, what is ment by "Weltzin 20 & 32??
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  6373. why didn't whoever killed him take the copper axe?
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  6374. Two questions: Where did you find all the maps used in your videos? And is there any good book which gives good overview of the Eurasian bronze age?
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  6375. hot chicks on horses. Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.
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  6376. Wow They are so similar with Cucuteni-Trypillia culture!
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  6377. Good video ones again my friend. Where did you get those cartoon images of the steppe people? Have to check them out.
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  6378.  @DanDavisHistory  Thank you Dan.
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  6379. Beautifully done! Thank you!
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  6380. Just subscribed--great video!
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  6381. For the Algorithm!
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  6382. What about Robin Fitz Odo?
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  6383. Fuck this is so good.
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  6384. Õtzi was a one man band. Living hard, hand to mouth from valley to valley. Always looking for a real score.The thing is, at 40 years of age and an excellent record for not being caught;this time his "luck " ran out. What really did him in was the time it took to cross the several peaks and valleys of which he had remembered were more plentiful. No such luck this time. These were lean times and he had thought different. Desperate direct action was required. Those Mountain "goats" were difficult people to play with. So there he stood, looking at his last chance of an comfortable winter or a starving one! From previous visits he knew the medicine man had a beautiful copper "axe" his strongest medicine. And from here on out/in its your story!...
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  6385. Thank you for making this interesting documentary. I am subscribing.
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  6386. The early narage layouts in the video are reminiscent of Scotland’s brochs
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  6387. That fool riding through the wheat field should stop yanking on the horse mouth, and using the reins for balance.
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  6388. 👍 great content
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  6389. The straw cape loose ends had probably the purpose of avoiding being constantly punched on the thighs by clear-cut straw ends, which would be very annoying and somewhat painful.
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  6390. Excellent coverage, thank you. 👏🏻
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  6391. oh so is the sheriff of Nottingham and re instating king Richard and prince Jhon stealing all the money from the poor all myth ? or is it bast on fact?
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  6392.  @DanDavisHistory  Sure you do! Quality takes time, I know that. It meant to be a compliment, but I'm not a native speaker, it would sound better in my native language, I guess.
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  6393. Fantastic video.
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  6394. Thank you, that was fantastic!
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  6395. Thank you Dan for all your hard hard work !!
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  6396. In the swiss alps where my grandparents are from on my mothers side their version of carnival is called “ubersitz” and people walk through the village all day and night for a week (in shifts) with drums and cowbells some wearing wooden masks with animal furs and teeth attached, called “boozi”. They are made to look scary as to scare evil spirits and the spirits of the past year away. Some people also hang them in their houses.
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  6397. Love your work! Great video! New subscriber here, from small town southern Alberta 🤗❤
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  6398. Very interesting. I want to think the shorter horns would be for the young man. I also wonder if maybe the horns may have somehow given an advantage for hearing......
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  6399. Excellent!
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  6400. Dan, I absolutely love your videos!
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  6401. Wow what a channel..thank you. Liked and subscribed 👍
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  6402. This was great
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  6403. Great stuff
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  6404. Reminds me of the aghori in India
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  6405. Great big "dice" indeed 🤣
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  6406. Great video!
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  6407. 👍👍👍
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  6408. Sounds suspiciously like Centaurs. Scions of Dionysos, the god intoxication and ecstacy, and also a great teacher. He introduced grapes and agriculture to India, where the first centaurs were half-men half-leopards, symbolizing men who assumed beastial aspects. Later, as the tribes migrated across the plains, the leopard element was replaced by horses, reminding us of the legendary Chiron, centaur mentor of both Achilles and Asclepius.
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  6409. Did we discuss the Horse the Wheel and Language on the emails, back in the day?
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  6410.  @DanDavisHistory  Indus Valley and Sumerians weren't it
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  6411. Thank you for exploring such a magnificent period. I always appreciate your dedication to accuracy and deep research.
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  6412. I had no idea that we knew so much about Europe during the Late Bronze Age!
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  6413. Thank you
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  6414. these were my ancestors, very interesting to see stuff they saw and possibly owned
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  6415. Good stuff, Dan, good stuff!
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  6416. Thanks. Well narrated.
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  6417. I was surprised to hear about the canine teeth. 😎👍
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  6418. Good work, Dan Davis. Paul Davis of Troy Michigan, United States of America
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  6419. 1:46 😂
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  6420. Did anyone took a look at the morphology of the possible riders? Should be different from someone just walking his whole life....
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  6421. Reminds me of Silbury Hill in England, another giant mound built at the same time by early indo-europeans, for reasons unknown.
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  6422. A Kamyana Mohyla video would also be great. Thanks so much for everything you do, including the novels!
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  6423. Im from there. Thank you for your work
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  6424. In the Dutch language, people have ‘benen’ (legs), and a ‘hoofd’ (head), and animals have poten (legs) and a kop (head), except for the horse. Horses also have ‘benen’ and a ‘hoofd’ in the Dutch language, like people. This is a good example of the horse as a 'noble' animal.
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  6425.  @DanDavisHistory  They are good gear
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  6426. thanks for this vid, id never heard of the Maykop
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  6427. Strangely enough, I had friend who was a chopper pilot in one of the first waves that went in at the beginning of the 1st Gulf War. I asked him what it was like going in, he said he had the biggest "woody" he'd ever had in his life. It was his first combat experience.
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  6428. thank you very much, very interesting video.
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  6429. 11:46 Bragging. Yes, the Chad Nordic Bronze Age chieftain showing off how he never skipped legday and had an erect penis.
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  6430. 🤠👍🏿
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  6431. Bronze Age is THE age of adventures, myths and Conan the Barbarian.
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  6432. This period could make a good Predator movie. Saber tooth Tigers and polar bears with Mammoth hunters.
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  6433. @Dan Davis History  listening to the berserker one now, equally informative. Where should I buy your books that most benefits you? And which book would you suggest I start with?
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  6434. We are so silly yet fantastic. Thanks again for showing a few more ways.
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  6435. this sounds a bit like Ray Winston or Bob Hoskins doing some prehistory....top stuff ! Woaderful.
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  6436. looking like an ambush on a migration horde with warriors trying to save time for the women and children to run.they fought for days and a wooden camp near river was raided 3 times. they left at night but were pursued.
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  6437. This is awesome, I just watched a history of Georgia which has some overlap with this ancient civilization.
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  6438. Beautiful video, thanks so much!
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  6439. CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED CHANNEL. Possibly even better than STJ
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  6440. Thanks Dan!
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  6441. This gonna be a substitute teacher projector classic
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  6442. For the Algorithm 😘
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  6443. did anyone consider that instead of terrible horsemen, mesopotamians - or the specific one person - was just terrible artist ? seems to me pretty desperate that they build their arguments on one (or few) pretty bad depictions... there are mesopotamian (and other civilisations) depictions of animals that never existed, is it valid source to build theories that they maybe did ? don't think so.
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  6444. Halfway Through Godborn on Audible, Loving it, thanks for making it available in Audio.
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  6445. although I know the story well you presented the story in a new way, it made me want to hear what was already known, very well done sir, you held my attention thru the whole video, salute
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  6446. He may have been caught in a snowstorm and got lost, wandered into enemy territory on the wrong side of a valley.
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  6447. Excellent topic, a very significant historical event.
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  6448. Are your books available in the US?
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  6449. I really enjoyed your story. This is truly a gift for history lovers like me. thank you!
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  6450. is this a reupload? where is the story of waiting for revenge for 12 years?
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  6451.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks a lot
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  6452. great video
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  6453. It would seem to me, it's a bit of both. I highly doubt cavalry being effective in the way people imagine early on. Drews' argument about the development of cavalry is hard to argue on that, as true mounted warfare was demonstrably developed after chariot warfare. And it seems unlikely it would have been forgotten and needed re-discovering. But it also seems unlikely there was no riding. Or non-war carts tied to horses. I suspect horses, even early on, enhanced mobility a lot. And that that affected warfare, but maybe not the way us modern people think of it after the several waves of step sourced horse culture invasions of just about everywhere. But if your military force can get to key points, dismount, and fight, that's still a military advantage. And it's an even bigger cultural/trade advantage.
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  6454. 16:28 doesn’t the rock seem to really not like getting photos taken?
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  6455. A whole new world happened outside our knowledge.
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  6456. That was one of the best doccos and theories I've seen for an argument for perhaps the first domino to fall in the bronze age collapse. Nice one!
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  6457. Yes please. Would really like a video on Cassingham. :-)
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  6458.  @DanDavisHistory  Thank you! :)
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  6459. Great topic I’ve never even considered this
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  6460. Thank you Dan for another interesting video!
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  6461. I would guess that the far-forward or far-back riding positions assumed by those early mesopotamian riders, was for the horse's sake if anything. Those earlier breeds probably weren't as strong and so they sat more directly over their legs to help distribute the riders weight more directly into the ground.
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  6462. Pure lead, Oh sorry I to say meant to say Gold! Thnxx!
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  6463.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks! Your channel has been a big inspiration.
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  6464. Thank you, excellent presentation and detailed information. Fascinating.
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  6465. Absolutely amazing as always! Also at 23:02, what's up with the hand holding the bread over the wheat, it's missing skin XD
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  6466. I have a more malevolent view of Otzi being a criminal who was hunted by bounty hunters.
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  6467. I wonder what the Neanderthal percentage was in these guys! And it's weird when I saw the drawing of that guy it shook me for a moment because it was like looking in a mirror but I'm 5'7 and of Irish and German descent!
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  6468. Thanks. All's fair in Inanna, I guess. tavi.
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  6469. Yet another banger!
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  6470. "this was well into the last glacial period. when it was…… pretty cold" lmao
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  6471. Really excellent. Amazing story, well told.
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  6472. Liked, subscribed and commented. Great video on a subject that I had not heard of before.
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  6473. Purely opinion, not claiming it as fact - The convenience of transportable wealth in the form of cattle and sheep at a time before coinage, is something that I think will have played a part in the transition/appeal too. Looking at how later "Danish" farmers supplied meat and dairy to the Romans - access to "the greater market" and "the wealth of empires" being as crucial as it is, I can imagine that many would travel to this new frontier (The Isles) from mainland Europe for the same reasons as later migrations - taking every spare man and woman with them to establish themselves in this new place and protect themselves, in a similar vein to how the Americas were. Once settled and the productivity evaluated and the area "made safe" - the 'outpost' is left on the necessary numbers, or abandoned - the rest going off to start the next or go home home. This wouldn't have been their first rodeo, they'll have heard the stories of their ancestors doing the same things.. The way early Icelanders made do and preserved foods, makes me think that an unstable/changing climate would push people towards animal husbandry/seafood - meat, milk, skins and fertiliser Vs almost a monocrop of Emmer wheat. Ergot and similar will have decimated populations until we started ploughing deep enough (with the necessary help of animals..) - animals will have messed with people too but we built immunities there, we didn't to a fungus. We died. Rye not being widespread, I fully accept - but a few thousand years ago, I'm willing to bet that we had at least a couple of similar dangers across most of our then used crops.
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  6474. Thank you ❤️🤗!
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  6475. Instant like my guy
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  6476. Great episode 👍
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  6477. love it
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  6478. Dear Dan Davis, if you ever make it to Southern Germany - in case you haven't - visit Blaubeuren. Their pre historic museum houses the mammoth and the lion man you showed in your vid. But what fascinates me most is the sound of the flute made of swan bones you can listen to there. We have quite a few caves besides the Hohle Fels where arefacts were found and even a replica of a tent/house to demonstrate what life might have looked like about 30 000 years ago. Greetings from a history teacher who lives in that area.
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  6479. Great video. Can anyone direct me to the reason why they had this height sexual dimorphism? It doesn't make sense given that we know that genes for height tend to run in families and not be exclusive for males.
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  6480. Sea Peoples sighted!
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  6481. Coincidentally, I have been rewatching videos from this channel over the past few days. A very pleasant surprise to find a new video here today.
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  6482. Woohoo! I’ve been hoping for a Dan Davis history video!!
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  6483. Thank you. Nice video
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  6484. Got to wonder how much was traded in and scrapped when the new style came in.
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  6485.  @DanDavisHistory  so has anybody done purity studies on the bits we have? Can they geo trace the elements of the alloys?
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  6486. Thanks!
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  6487. Very good documentary. I enjoy it very much.
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  6488. Great video. Keep up the good work!
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  6489. i really enjoyed this, well presented and produced. subed
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  6490. Sneaking a pic in from Maid Marian and her Merry Men 😂👍🏻
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  6491. ah lord of the rings quote 😊
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  6492. Thank you Dan. We'll balanced, as aye :)
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  6493. Such a good chanel
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  6494. Omg this is so well done.
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  6495. I literally JUST finished your latest then got bummed because it was over and I'd have to wait for another. And....voila
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  6496. Dude I love your work Holy crap
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  6497. 👏🏽
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  6498. I am fascinated by the ancient Egyptians' adoption of the chariot and composite bow from the Hyksos about 1700 BC. The New Kingdom, spanning from the late 17th through the 20th Dynasties, gained its power from these weapons, to the end of the Bronze Age. There are many Egyptian chariots preserved, several from Tutankhamun's tomb, and the barracks and stables from the Ramesside priod have been excavated. All of the New Kingdom kings are shown in reliefs riding chariots in stylized battle, and in the case of Akhenaten, he is shown with Nefertiti beside him in a chariot. Of course, the driver is usually omitted from these Pharaonic reliefs, but it's likely that the kings themselves drove chariots for sport and ceremony, and it has been suggested that Tutankhamun died after a chariot accident. I think (but don't recall) that Nefertiti was portrayed driving a chariot herself. The Egyptian chariot was a lightweight and beautiful vehicle, unlike the three-man heavier Hittite chariot, giving the Egyptians a tactical advantage. But nowhere, as far as I know, is a Middle Kingdom Egyptian shown riding a horse.
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  6499. I have to say, I find your videos very informative and interesting. I'm from Ireland and I love reading and finding out about the history of the people who lived here and in England many thousands of years ago, particularlythe crossing at and hunting in Doggerland. Great stuff.
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  6500. wow. second best video I've ever watched on YouTube. and I watch a lot
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  6501. 12:02 "but the Corded Ware were definitely number 1" lol
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  6502. thank you for your very creative and informative videos regarding our European forefathers Dan
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  6503. Very well made documentary. Feel's like I almost new the man. Thanks.
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  6504. I love those little bronzes.
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  6505. Loved this one, very well researched and different
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  6506. Excellent presentation 🤓
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  6507. Clearly I'm not getting notifications
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  6508. I have really enjoyed this video and all your videos, top research and content!
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  6509. What an incredible transition into how grooming developed
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  6510. Excellent as always, thank you
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  6511. Wait... is that Toby Jones & MacKenzie Crook at 10:20, from TV show the Detectorists?
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  6512. I always use these as inspiration for comics or stuff i draw. History always fascinated me, its part of my studies too.
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  6513. Thank you for your sharing with us
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  6514. great video Dan,just subbed ,interesting stuff
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  6515. Excellent explanation of historiography with the interpretation of Bronze Age collapse
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  6516. I’ve been to wayland smithery. I even left a offering there 😊
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  6517. These guys got me into Bronze age
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  6518. New Dan Davis video? Yessss! It's about one of my favorite topics in history? Yessss !!!
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  6519. My beautiful island. So proud of it. Thanks well done👏🏼👍🏼
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  6520. Excellent Dan, really interesting
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  6521. I'm so glad I found your videos! Very informative and a pleasure to watch! I look forward to more!!☮
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  6522. Fantastic as usual.. Have had my eyes peeled ever since you teased the video a few days ago and am definitely not disappointed. Missed you, man. Thanks again, Mr. Davis!
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  6523. 24:32 could you imagine. And here we are having dug it up all these years later, and admiring his mighty blow. Wouldn't he be stoked to know that. Awesome!
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  6524. Interesting. The story I read that he was wounded in battle and managed to get away , then eventually died. Not that he had the arrow pulled out of him .
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  6525. Great work
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  6526. Very interesting and informative
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  6527. +1 for the Hobbits reference
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  6528. What an amazing fighter the man was a physical marvel.
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  6529. This is a very good video. I'm fascinated by this type of thing and I'm a new subscriber! Keep up the great videos
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  6530. I see your books are on kindle unlimited, I will have a look at them.
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  6531. wow!! I love this and ill defiantly be checking out you books
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  6532. 9 mins 50. The first mullet.
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  6533. Nice vid really enjoyed it
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  6534. Every time I see the word trepanning, I think of widow makers falling out of trees impaling skulls and gold panning. Not sure why. Maybe past life memories?
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  6535. Yes follow on videos would be great
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  6536. Very excellent video! Quite extensive when exploring the many possibilities of his every existence and death. Enjoyed it very much! I have family genealogy from Austria and I am interested in further and further back as far as human habitation in the basic region could be can be ascertained! How fascinating!
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  6537. Happy Halloween 🎃
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  6538. How fearsome would it be to have some sort of battle-shaman, decked out in full symbolic regalia (perhaps including such helms?), blowing a wartrump or some standard or banner, maybe away enough from battle that they wouldn't be engaged in combat but close enough to be seen.... incredible
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  6539. Thanks for a remarkable and fascinating video! ⛏🔥⚒
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  6540. Orkneys probably had rich fishing grounds and used unused fish parts as fertilizer.
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  6541. I dunno about him out-fighting, bare handed, most more than average men today, at 160 Cms and 50 Kgs dripping wet. Not saying I would want to axe fight him.
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  6542.  @DanDavisHistory  It is such an amazing thing that we have so much information about him, but he is still an enthralling blank slate. Shy, contemplative hunter?. Taciturn herder?. Trader, guide, scout?. Did he make all the stuff he owned, himself? Or was his own skill something that lead others to support him?.
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  6543. Where did steppe herders even acquire their animals from? The domesticates save for the horse clearly weren’t independent so who introduced it to them and when and how?
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  6544. Could be sculptures of mothers/grandmothers for children? Maybe women were seen as nurturing and their partners carried this on hunting trips for good luck?
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  6545. I feel like I'm getting in early on an amazing channel
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  6546. Thanks, Dan!
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  6547. Just found your channel and subbed. Great video thanks.
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  6548. Man, I love this channel and haven't gotten any notifications in months. At least I have a backlog of content to enjoy, but I need to be more vigilant about checking up you from now on.
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  6549. best video on youtube
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  6550. Loved this video, thanks for posting it.
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  6551. Fantastic job with this event in our history
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  6552. Boed i'r Cymry ffynnu. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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  6553. A new Dan Davis Video! Woohoo!❤
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  6554. great video
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  6555. Must read your books 📚
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  6556. Very well narrated and so intriguing
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  6557. now i know where the pictures in Heilungs Krigsgaldr song are from...
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  6558. Great information. Amazing craftsmanship in these objects.
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  6559. Christmas in May!
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  6560. Thanks Danny boy, excellent video!
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  6561. Love your channel keep it going 👍
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  6562. Absolutely fascinating. Thanks.
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  6563. Amazing
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  6564. Just basing this on observation, what if the symbol of a boat is a "symbol" to describe a clan or tribal unit. So the boat isn't literally varying lengths to accommodate a larger crew, rather each ship represents a war chief and his retinue. A large depicted boat with many warriors is saying one war chief leads a large band of warriors, and the way to define a contiguous unit, is that they all fit on the same boat...
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  6565. What is the Skeleton GEDmatch #
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  6566. How did I miss this specific video I was hoping you'd make??? Fantastik, thank you for your awesome content, it makes my day always!!!
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  6567. I think the tracing of potential connections and how such routes match with known trade routes suggests that these were indeed contemporary ideas that were influenced by one-another, at least to the extent of when they appeared in the record. I think another interesting overlap is that these seem only a slight step away from later christian-era depictions of saints and angels and such with the familiar halo imagery. Perhaps that image evolved out of this early horned helmet iconography. Another factor to be considered is that sea travel would have been by far the fastest way to transfer people, goods, and ideas at the time, so whether the motif arose separately in multiple places or was from interaction between regions, it seems that it almost certainly saw ubiquitous use in the era.
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  6568.  @DanDavisHistory  i prefer your other videos... 😉
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  6569. Well Dan my man, I've watched all your videos and have thoroughly enjoyed every one. I want to thank you for the effort and congrats on a job well done. Now, I shall start over and watch again. Thank you. The Dude
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  6570. Wonderful!
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  6571. ...this is amazing history. Love it.
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  6572. Always so interesting and compelling, perfect for a drive or just a moment of stillness. Definitely good to listen to on a Sunday, though I caught this one late today. Cheers, great work, as usual!
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  6573. There is also Pierun, in upper silesia we still use his name as a mild swear word
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  6574. Well done.
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  6575. @4:11 Castor & Pollux have pointed, unfinished heads possibly what a helmet was supposed to cover.
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  6576. All this stuff you do is freakin BRILLIANT ! Don't know how I missed this one for so long. NICE to have some great entertainment again ~ Aloha
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  6577. profound documentation very instructive visual material a feast for the eyes! Greetings from Germany
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  6578. Do a chariot one too if you can mate
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  6579. Wow. Your video s'been enlightening.
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  6580. Thank you for this
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  6581. Thank you for that well thought out riveting historical account.
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  6582. Thanks!
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  6583. Wow - what a stunningly good analysis! Makes me want to read your books ;-)
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  6584. Great place, highly recommend going to check it out
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  6585. Perhaps he was a fugitive?
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  6586. DAN YOU NEVER DISSAPOINT BROTHER❤🤍💙🤙🤙🤙ML&R ALWAYS!!!!!!
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  6587. Where can I find your books Dan?!?! My sisters always buying me books might as well be ones ill read
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  6588. Good man, im not very computer savvy, dont usually purchase off the interweb but she'll work it out have a good day brotha
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  6589. This was wonderful. Thanks; I had been clamoring for something like this in the comments for a few months.
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  6590. thanks for an interesting video.its the first time I've heard this story.everyone knows the tale of robin hood but this video is something totally new to me and I'm 77 years old
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  6591. Im gonna enjoy this
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  6592. I was watching this and thinking 'damn i have to check out more of your stuff', went to your profile page and realized i have seen many of your videos already lol
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  6593. If horse riding was learned earlier than later then I suspect the first uses of horse warfare would have been in raiding. Get your men into the target village as quick as possible dismount on the move and start slashing and bashing. If you’ve ever seen teen boys learning to ride the first games are often something similar, can you mount in the run dismount on the move, “feats of skill and bravery” if you take my meaning. Meanwhile the horse is still running round the village sewing confusion and fear. Kill the locals and then gather up your horses after and load them with loot.
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  6594. The reason i suspect this is of course dogs. It became nigh impossible to get close enough to a camp or village to perform a sneak attack or raid. With horses to get you from the furthest alarm zone, provided by dogs or scouts, into the soft target of the camp or village, you are now controlling the engagement much more effectively and the enemy doesn’t have time to organize resistance.
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  6595. I could see the hunting theory considering accidents have happened for as long as humans have been around, but I'd like to think he was a jack of all trades type, he did a little of this and a little of that in order to survive, one day he goes hunting and takes another guy with him, they go into the mountains and he gets shot in an accident like you described.
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  6596. Your vidéos are so good! Please keep them coming sir !
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  6597.  @DanDavisHistory  of course mate 👌🏻
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  6598. I am distracted by all those beautiful women.
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  6599. Good video.
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  6600. Wow, Thank you algorithm! Delighted new subscriber here.🌠
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  6601. Fascinating.
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  6602. thanks Dan , reaLLY ENJOYED THAT . LIKED & SUBBED
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  6603. very good
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  6604. Thank you for your work.
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  6605. Just came across your channel - great job on your videos! 👍🏻
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  6606.  @DanDavisHistory  i would love to go to this mound if its possible.
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  6607.  @DanDavisHistory  Excellent I think thats what I'll do . Thank you for the info !
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  6608. Yes
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  6609. Excellent and brilliantly entertaining as always..couldn't help but notice how attractive all these Spaniards were 😜
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  6610. My DNA was traced back to Anatolia 😶super cool upload ❤ subscribed
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  6611. Great work!
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  6612. I can not discount the myth. I think that Joseph Campbell would have agreed. But dogs do interact with humans like no other animal, it could be in THEIR nature. It makes me wonder though about the Egyptians and their cats. And even today there remains a dichotomy between dog and cat owners. Cerberus means Spot? My elementary school reader featured Dick, Jane, and a dog named Spot, coincidence?
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  6613. Such an interesting topic also I really appreciate the little chides you add in like about Romford market (i used to live just round the corner from there) and even though I am English it's always great to hear the patented English humour on an American-dominated platform. Also I remember hearing someone once say "When archaeologists have no idea what something was used for, that item becomes strictly ceremonial." I would love to hear your opinion on this.
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  6614. Hearing the accounts of the Muslim chroniclers about Richard makes him sound like a true Herculean figure, a Gigachad of History, Well done video, thanks and God bless.
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  6615. Going to have to look for your books now, thank you, enjoyed this
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  6616.  @DanDavisHistory  I believe I will Loved the Grears books on prehistoric fiction of native American tribes. Yours sound similar just about people on the other side of the "Big Water" 😉
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  6617. We know why the Amesbury Archer went where he went. Same reason I went where I went. Chasing (wang dang sweet) poon tang! Ask the Steppe dudes. Follow the phallus
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  6618. Brilliant: lots of maps!
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  6619. Excellent
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  6620. Dan, just wondering if your interests in the ancients has peeked your interest n your own genetic origins ?
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  6621. To have the will, resources, and support necessary to toss your old house & raise a new one when required. It takes little time to envision many ways that could be deeply satisfying (and useful). Like the satisfaction of finally making the time commitment to make your years-long filthy, disorganized garage or basement ship-shape. But you know, a tad more so.
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  6622. Great video
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  6623. To be able to talk this this man would be really fascinating
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  6624. 5:35 it doesnt get much more beautiful than that
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  6625. Nice work.
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  6626.  @DanDavisHistory  a couple of areas that you may find interesting also have the aspect of cannibalism, mead and honey, and culture bringers or artist/blacksmiths, and relationships of dogs, lepers, and prostitutes (which can be found from the early Biblical myths to the Grail myths and Norse myths). Anyway, I won't nerd babble at you. Again, great work.
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  6627. Great work. Absolutely excellent.
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  6628. I think that the critical element in the wide spread adoption of riding was the breeding of a horse strong enough to carry a full grown adult for a useful distance. This apparently did not occur until after 1000 BC. Horses first appear in the historical record pulling chariots full of Indo European archers sometime from the year 2000 to 1700 BC. If they were able to mount an effective attack on horse back, they would not have needed those chariots. Just my opinion.
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  6629. Love your channel Greetings from Finland
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  6630. More like this please !!!
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  6631. Spanish conquistadors would be really cool to hear about.
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  6632. I'd like to hear about the Shrubnaya culture -- I love this period of time, and it doesn't get nearly enough attention.
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  6633. I like this channel. Dude really does his homework 😃
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  6634. Fantastic thank you. It is clear you have done extensive research, but distill this to the main conclusions. Thereby creating a great in-depth account of the events in an acessable formate. Impressed that you underplay the research you must have spent days doing. Thank you.
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  6635. Fascinating vid all round. I'm Irish, but my ancestral migration path literally passes right through the region in question, according to a genome test I did a few years back.
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  6636. horse riding and miltary riding are two different things.
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  6637. Another great video Dan.
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  6638. Your videos are so awesome man I don’t watch them as often as I would like but when I do I am amazed
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  6639. Where has this channel been? I hope you continue to do more about early bronze age, copper age, and neolithic populations. Thank you!
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  6640. Just bought your audiobook Godborn. Sincere thanks for these excellent videos!
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  6641. Wow ,what a great video , very informative !
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  6642. A new Dan Davis as well as a new Stefan Milo. Good week! :D Is it perhaps that the hats were aerodynamic, much in the way that golf balls are dimpled! Clearly that's how the Solutrean hypothesis has "legs". ;)
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  6643. Thank youu
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  6644. Bautiful video as always Davis ! Could I please know the awesome calm music you use in many of your videos ? In this one, the music plays around 2 minute. Thank you !
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  6645. Thank you 🙏 ( Dan Davis history) channel for sharing this informative and wonderful historical coverage video about ancient Crete peoples known as ( Minoans ) during bronze age in Mesolethic periods..
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  6646. Thanks
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  6647. Sublime !!
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  6648. Wow so that’s where cowboys come from
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  6649. Such interesting material! What a wild time to be alive!🐴
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  6650. Allot thanks (Curiosity Stream ) for sharing this most informative & interesting Episode .I Hope for more Excellent videos thanks
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  6651. 33:11 Maj. Richard Winters, 101st Airborne!
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  6652. Great video man!
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  6653. Thanks! Probably the iceman was just a nomad crossing over the alps and died.
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  6654. Another excellent video! Thank you! Great job!
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  6655. Fascinating study,thankyou
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  6656. Very interesting 🤔
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  6657. Ill be back later tonight. Looking forward to it.
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  6658.  @DanDavisHistory  ❤️
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  6659. Interesting
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  6660. Couldn't horse herds have been managed by domesticated dogs?
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  6661. This is great informative video, glad i found your channel :)
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  6662. I mainly live in UR III, but it's fascinating hearing about those beer drinking forest people with their big cups even further west than the Lebanon. I hear you can go as far west as the tin mine islands, and then the world ends.
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  6663. I'm always transfixed by the Mardi Gras costumes with horned helmets and headdresses. That's what I want. I have some horns; now I just have to make it.
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  6664. Excellent work, well argued. As you point out archaelogists tend to interpret sites from their own times/expereince. This does not make older interpretations "wrong" just different. After all in times to come there will be other interpretations.
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  6665. I grew up with axes 🪓 I have hatchet and an Axe right by my bed with knife under the pillow and My Mjorlin six feet away but Katana is too far…
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  6666. Hey where do you draw the blood drinking aspect from? I was just watching a piece on the Scythians and it's apparently said that they drank the blood of their enemies and I instantly thought of the Jotunnun.
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  6667.  @DanDavisHistory  I really enjoyed how you modeled the prototype sacrifice, as well. Something done in the literal presence of one of their deities, for all to see. It changes the dynamic completely. You can even see the basis for how sacrifice becomes something placative to the gods in later generations when the act has become mythologized.
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  6668. this is a REALLY high quality video! What a shame that it only has around 19 thousand views.
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  6669. Amazing video loved every second. Thank you.
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  6670. Minus seven, a hot bath,an Ardbeg and a beer. I only listened but I’ll watch it later for the maps.
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  6671. It never occurred to me that qarhammer 40k was forty thousand lol😂
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  6672. "But the way is guarded..." *cuts to a Doberman* "...by a ferocious dog." Me, a Doberman owner: Aww, he just needs to be booped.
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  6673. Amazing channel, thank you so much Sir!
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  6674. ¡Just a wonderful video! Thank you so much
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  6675. I hope that expliantion of the afterlife is true
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  6676. Excelent job. I read recently an awesome book about him (in Spanish), and I'd say this an explendid summary. Thank you!
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  6677. I'm sorry to nitpick on this very good video, but I think I stared at the family tree for too long, so here's my question: Could it be that at 20:07, you encircled the red "17-25 NC4m" individual as one of the children of another father, when it should have been the green individual to his right, "33-60 NE1m (2)"?
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  6678. Have you possibly got your books on audible ??
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  6679. Looks like I have a new read this up and coming payday 😁❤ cannot wait
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  6680. Is the double axe perhaps corresponding to the double helmets?
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  6681. The best Day ? A Dan Davis history drop day.
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  6682. Well documented, thank you. If I may, in Romanian we stress the first syllable of 'Dracu', as in the Latin 'Draco'.
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  6683. thanks, this was inspiring
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  6684. They must have canoed their cattle as calves and lambs
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  6685. Another great video, I can only hope for a future video on the Atlantic Iberian Bronze age, since that is a very obscure subject.
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  6686. Author of several sources for this video, Ukrainian archeologist Sergiy Pustovalov taught us archeology courses during my graduate studies.
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  6687. brilliant video/information
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  6688.  @DanDavisHistory  Cool.They just never found much evidence.We can live in hope
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  6689. Great stuff
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  6690. Hey Dan, what do you think about Dan Carlin's hardcore history??
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  6691.  @DanDavisHistory  I love all his work. I like the drama he brings to the history, much like the intros to your videos. The Celtic Holocaust podcast he did was incredible. I've listened to that one most of all.
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  6692. Amazing video, as usual.
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  6693. Brilliantly done, again. Your storytelling skills are unsurpassed, anywhere. Thanks.
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  6694. Or maybe he was a bandit and got caught trying to flee.
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  6695. They should make a film on his life, what a true legend. Thank to create, this was fascinating
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  6696. How did you became so interested in ancient cultures?
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  6697. Awesome thanks Dan!!
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  6698. Very interesting. Subscribed.
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  6699. Another excellent video!
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  6700. Gonna learn a lot from you, knew some of the figurines. Finally got some context 👍👍
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  6701. Good video. But why is it that the ancient people usualy talk about being watched by their ancestors, when in reality it is us, their descendants of sorts, who is watching and trying to piece it together, some 3000 years later?
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  6702. great video!
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  6703. Best video yet honestly
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  6704. Dan, I know I'm late to the party, but I just discovered your channel and I've been binge-watching your Bronze-Age playlist, and I have an observation for you: In First Warriors of Europe you showcase a book by Anthony Harding and I want to draw your attention to the cave art depicted on it's cover. Compare that image to the various images you show in this video at 4:56. In the images in this video, we see many of the people depicted specifically show a penis, obviously male. Given that many others are not depicted thus, then the ones that are specifically male are likely men of power. Now look back at the book cover. The image on the cover of that book depicts a woman. Of power. Apparently wielding a stone or bronze hammer and a shield, no less.
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  6705. Excellent work here. Subscribed.
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  6706. This channel is amazing. Really glad to be learning about the Bronze Age properly.
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  6707. excellent video. 5 stars.
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  6708. Great f*** video, dude! A++. Keep up the great work my friend. Cheers from Las Vegas
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  6709. He was a real beadass
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  6710. Very interesting, thanks.
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  6711. Damn. I don't normally get this level of detail in a short dock.. In particular I was surprised to hear this much detail about the sea people. Thanks..
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  6712. Same with Thomas Cochrane, nobody knows the dude, but he could have own continents.
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  6713. Kinda sounds a lot like Halloween when the kids go from house to asking for treats or teepeeing yards and egging houses.
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  6714. Honey!! Dan davis droped a vid, bronze age wana watch!!?!??!
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  6715. Perhaps a fortunate 3+ centuries of ideal climate lead to a population boom in northern Europe and the rapid colonization.
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  6716. Optimum!.
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  6717. Is there evidence among prehistoric horse remains they carried a rider or wore nose rings, such as slightly thickened bones?
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  6718. The landscape at 0:7:18 is very impressive !
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  6719. Love it
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  6720. The cowboy at 22:29 ate a lot of dirt!
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  6721. fantastic documentary,thank you.
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  6722. Excelent and unique video. Thanks for sharing.
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  6723. that was amazing. truly inspiring.
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  6724. Fascinating
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  6725. Thank you so mhch i really enjoyed this
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  6726. Make a video of the wild hunt if you like, I'm very intressted
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  6727. One of my Favorite Historical Characters… Great Video! Liked and Subbed…
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  6728. They represent birds. Like the soul that flies away...
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  6729. Love this stuff.
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  6730. Cheers mate i like your stuff
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  6731. instant like
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  6732. I always learn something new. Thank you for the video.
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  6733. The Minoans are an extraordinary civilization. I often wonder if their cultural and religious beliefs are more closely related to their neolithic ancestors than that of the Indo-European peoples since tbey were isolated from the mainland
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  6734. Great video thanks for doing these
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  6735. This was seriously awesome. Great video!
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  6736. I've started to read a couple of your books and they are pretty good. It's makes watching these youtube video's more interesting because it explains the world in which you write, it gives greater insight and enhances the books.
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  6737. recreate Otzi as a Twenty one year old so we can see his beauty, not just the old shriveled monstrous look of his present facial reconstruction, it would be a kind of Otzi in his prime of life look, especially because the young people who see him will be able to feel a closer connection to the line, and also can someone please create a contest to see whose DNA is the most genetically similar to his on his mother and fathers side. My grandfather was born walking distance to Otzi and i am sure I have a dna connection to his line.
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  6738. it is not a "schivalsky" horse, it better sounds like "prevalsky". Not perfect, but much better this way. (it is almost imposible to say Převalsky without years of training Ř , one has to get born Czech to say it correctly) ;-D
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  6739. Hell yeah
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  6740. Please correct me if I'm wrong. But the soil in the region isn't good for preserving bones. Higher acid content?
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  6741. Excellent! Thank you
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  6742. very informative and well spoken.
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  6743. Helping with algorithms! Thank you.
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  6744. Great video
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  6745. It is fun to speculate.
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  6746.  @DanDavisHistory  just keep making the content you enjoy your enthusiasm is seen through your thoroughness, personally I enjoy all of your content and formating especially the bit about St. George and the warband videos
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  6747. Incredible video. I was aware of El Cid but you brought the man and his glory to life like never before
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  6748. Seeing how viral material can be pulled from thousand year old dead people , I’m getting cremated. I heard of a disease pulled out of ice from thousands of years ago,, burn em out. Looks like it’s about density… so off grid living with mild contact would be most suited for humans … but will humans listen
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  6749. Great video, Dan!
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  6750. Thanks
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  6751. Thank you. I have heard the other claims and actually thought they at least read real laboratory findings themselves. Obviously not. In comments about a better than usual documentary about indigenous of the US a guy said they should be explaining about the red haired giants and the American copper found on a Phoenician shipwreck in the Mediterranean. A responder put up a link to this presentation. He wasn’t quite right either because he said the North American indigenous never smelted anything. I guess he forgot that part of this documentary.
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  6752.  @DanDavisHistory  he he ok, so something completely different. Thanks! 🙏🏻
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  6753.  @DanDavisHistory  Very much. Have you explored the relationship between this culture and the ancient Egyptian pharoahs genetically?
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  6754. Makes you wonder when people saw Elephants or Camels and bravely decided to sit on them ? Using the convergent evolution theory, could riding horses have sporadically occurred in several places independently.?
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  6755. Is it possible to connect the people of the Po River (Terramare culture) and the Pelasgians and the Pelest (Philistines)?
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  6756. Great channel
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  6757. Too bad we can never know the true dialect of a language they spoke….. or can we?
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  6758. So much great information! A dissertation! I will watch and rewatch. Thank you.
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  6759. And I thought it was Sir Galahad or Lancelot LOL. Seriously, thanks very much for such informative videos, appreciated.
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  6760. What a good video!
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  6761. Awesome stuff! One question, where can one find that gene chart at 15:55?
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  6762. I also have an Anatolian anomaly that settled on Sardinia in a different test. So unless I have a recent med ancestor, which is a possibility, I could also be one of the few retainers of a larger amount of Neolithic DNA in NW Europeans.
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  6763.  @DanDavisHistory  It most certainly isn't from Spanish Shipwrecks 😅 That terrible myth is in most Celtic lands. Yeah my cousin has jet black hair, pale skin, and blue eyes. Blue eyes are recessive so the originator would have had to keep it within the family. Hence inbreeding being so popular amongst ME and Egyptian elites, and no doubt ancient Eurasians and Europeans. Thank you for your time, Dan.
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  6764.  @DanDavisHistory  thanks. That was a very prompt response.
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  6765.  @DanDavisHistory  is there a prehistoric culture genetically associated with the introduction of red hair to Europe.
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  6766.  @DanDavisHistory  Is green eyes in Europe similar to red hair's origin or blond hair?
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  6767.  @DanDavisHistory  what do you think about "cheddar man" being given darker skin?
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  6768. Great man for sure 😁
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  6769. Veramente interessante ‼
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  6770. Hi Dan, are any of your works available in audiobook format? Thanks for the great content :)
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  6771. I really would love to learn more about Srubnaya Culture. And thanks for explaining the relationship between the different sub-branches of the IE/II languages.
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  6772. Go bell beaker buggers
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  6773. I noticed several similarities between these folks and pueblo dwellers in the American southwest. Separated by thousand of miles and years, they obviously saw some things in the same ways. Their pottery and pottery decoration, wattle and daub homes, farming and life styles are similar.
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  6774. could the isolation and reduced birth rate all be related to warfare rather than intentional? the men would be away fighting instead of making babies and it would hinder trade and would drop. it seems to correlate with the rest of the finds
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  6775. Me I think Beserker lol
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  6776. Thank you.
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  6777. Well done!.
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  6778. So fascinating. Love this channel
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  6779. Where do you find all these awesome maps depicting culture spreads? And also pics of artefacts?
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  6780.  @DanDavisHistory  Awesome work my dude. Thanks for all the stuff you talk about. Learned so much. I'll try to buy your books :)
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  6781. Thank you Dan for another wonderful journey into the mysteries of the ages.
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  6782. Love hearing about William Marshall, heard more about him, from your channel. There is so much here, I keep watching it more and more. Shame you are allowed to touch the”like” only once🥲 Am always surprised when the “ views” are not matching the”likes” . How can this be? If only this type of loyalty still existed.
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  6783. Nice! More informative videos! ✅✅✅✅✅✅
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  6784.  @DanDavisHistory  You are always welcome.
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  6785. Congratulations, Keep up the good work. Your narrative is poetic and the tone is relaxing but not leading to drowsiness but leading to reflection instead.
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  6786. Thanks for this! So those were the invaders from the North.
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  6787. Didn't even take breathing in Arsenic fumes, breathing in fumes from copper smelting can cause deleterious effects.
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  6788. Not all who wander are lost.
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  6789. Well done.
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  6790. Samurai equiv ; kanabo
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  6791. in the eighties we would go up to the treeline in logging zones and cut yew out of the slash pile for free. We'd then cut them with a mill into four inch "cants" and ship them to Herter's Olympia, Wash. facility for crossbow const. Now, of course, even the bark is valuable. But back then it wasn't worth it to truck out: all was burned. You needed a magnifying glass to count the growth rings My guess? Some of these yew were around during the Battle of Hastings and that French fight the English won.........with a lot of longbows.
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  6792. My names Dan Davies, nice to meet you
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  6793. Wim? Wim Hoff? Is that you?
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  6794. Subscribed… I saw this on the train, got home and was wondering what to watch. I then thought - anything on that channel I saw that drake thing on! I would have subscribed then but was hanging after a super long journey and forgot. Thank you, Dan, for liking my comment earlier it made me smile!
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  6795. Very interesting fakts. Thx
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  6796. O lovely but I have to get organised for work tomorrow but then I'm going to enjoy this, relax and listen to the best researched piece of history just so enjoyable and informative, Thanks Dan from all your Subscribers. Peace 🇮🇪
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  6797. Don't forget the Adriatic- a veritable pirate's punchbowl!
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  6798. This was an amazing documentary. Thank you very much.
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  6799. Nice video, and it sounds plausible. Huge migrations have always toppled great civilizations.
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  6800. Uhhhh, this has been the best book promo I have ever heard. You have a sale sir
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  6801. Even though small they could still be used for pack animals. The riding probably started after that . Some old guy sitting on a horse being led . Then riding was a natural progression after that. Like people that ride raindeer in northern Russia.
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  6802. Thank you
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  6803. Wonderful!
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  6804. Excellent video
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  6805. Just found your channel tonight and am instantly hooked.
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  6806. What is best in life? The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and wind in your hair! What else, of course?
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  6807. Awesome content
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  6808. Perhaps his people had a ritual where when someone got too sick/weak they would do a ceremonial execution, sorta like putting down a dog
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  6809. Excellent Well reasoned Great work
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  6810. Thanks!
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  6811. What a great video! Subscribed and liked!
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  6812. As always I like your videos
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  6813. Liked AND subscribed!
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  6814. Letting soldiers drink or eat mind altering stuff before going to war is not from the past . In WWII German soldiers were provided with amphetamine pills. Also the allied bombers were given amphetamines to stay awake during long flights. In the Vietnam war there was enough drugs going around to provide the whole American army. Even during the war between Iran and Irak the soldiers who fought in the front line were given a concoction of some kind to dring so they would have no fear attacking. Nobody right of mind is running willingly towards his death. Some kind of stimulant is welcome.
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  6815. I am a direct decendant of these people. The Romans have busts of the Sarmatian faces and my family look like twins of these guys still today and my last name means the eyebrow bridge of the Sarmatians.
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  6816. what's the song that starts at 10:53?
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  6817.  @DanDavisHistory  thank you very much! I've asked two other history channels when they have used the song but never got a response.
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  6818. That transition from 55:55 - 55:59 made me laugh.
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  6819. A great book on the origins of horses is by Lawrence Scanlan's Wild About Horses.
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  6820. Ancient history completely fascinating
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  6821. Were all these cultures really so androcentric?
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  6822. I think you made a good assessment. Drew's use of images as evidence is a little disengenious. It's well known that the Mesopotamian cultures used Onagers and Donkeys to pull wagons and as mounts. They often used a nose ring and rope to control Donkeys, Onagers and Oxen. People in the middle-east still use a riding position that involves sitting over the donkey's haunches to this day. Those images could easily display a Donkey, Onager or horse. It would seem logical that when Mesopotamian cultures acquired horses around c.2000 BCE via trade that they may have attempted to ride them like the Donkeys and Onagers they already used. Literary sources indicate that horse riding was likely occuring before c.2000 BCE certainly on the steppe at least. A certain Mesopotamian tablet has a entry where a courtier is asking his ruler not to ride a horse and should ride a donkey or Onager instead as horses were unpredictable and horse riding was something only "barbarians" did. As has been pointed out horses of this period were small and not suited to carrying a heavily armed man. Hence the invention of the war chariot where two or more small horses could pull a lightweight wheeled platform and two armoured warriors, since the majority of the weight was borne on the spoked wheels rather than the horses. This does not mean that horses were not utilised in warfare or did not provide mobility. I cannot believe that any culture that domesticated the horse would not ride it. However these small horses likely only carried a lightly armed man wearing no armour and carrying little more than a hand weapon and spear or bow. The same kind of gear that a man hunting other horses and game would use. Those riding from childhood could easily manage a familiar horse with little more than a belly band, saddle blanket and a halter, leaving no evidence for an archaeologist to find. I do not believe that horse were ridden "in" battle as a war horse before c.1200 BCE however I think that small warbands, raiders and mounted scouts could ride them "to" battle, providing speedy transport over short distances and the ability to out manoeuvre an enemy on foot. The native American plains tribes used the horse as a missile platform to hunt or harass their enemies, but any serious fighting was done on foot. This tradition continued to the early medieval period. The Anglo-Saxons for example rode horses to the battlefield, but always dismounted to fight on foot when they got there. Only commanders remained mounted using the horse to move around the battlefield and as a viewing platform. They called it a hildsett or "Battle seat". I don't known why Drew's thinks that the plains tribes are a bad example. Yes they did get the idea of riding horses from the Spanish, but logic would suggest if one tribesmen on the Pontic steppe figured out how to stay on a horse and it made him a better hunter, then soon his neighbours would copy him, and once a bunch of horse riding raiders stole the adjacent tribes cattle, they would soon figure out to how do it too. It's called an "arms race". People do not tend to ignore good ideas right in front of them!
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  6823.  @DanDavisHistory  hi Dan. Thanks for the reply. I share the same fascination with histroy as you. Particularly the Bronze Age. Their are a couple of interesting papers around on horse domestication and genetics. According to the current concensus, strictly speaking their is no such thing as a modern "wild" horse. The conclusions are:- A) Przewalski's horse is not wild. It is a feral remnant population of the horse domesticated by the Botai hunter-gathers with small amounts of western late domestication DNA. B) All other modern horse populations are descendants horses bred as part of the second Western domestication event in the Pontic-Caspian region. C) PIE speakers introduced their domesticated horse bloodlines into Eurasia, the Middle-East and Western Europe where it absorbed and replaced all local horse bloodlines. So you are right. Horses have changed a lot over time, but that human management started a long time ago. So much so that that no horses exist that have not been engineered or changed for human needs, even those we think of as wild.
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  6824. Yes please to the ancient weights and measures video! Metrology is always interesting, and to know how our ancient ancestors approached the problem would be fascinating.
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  6825. Great video. It's this first I've watched from this channel. I love the topic. I love that you research it so thoroughly. One of my favorite genres to read is historical fiction, but it has to be accurate. I will be buying your books! Thank you!
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  6826. interesting. thank yew
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  6827. Another great video. Very comprehensive.
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  6828. great content!
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  6829. This is awesome to go alongside Dan Carlin's Wrath of the Khans, because he talks about this very event
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  6830. Do unetice please
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  6831. Quite facinating information
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  6832. What a fascinating video thank you Dan Davis
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  6833. What's interesting is the Iroquois indians in new york also had a midwinter ceremony that involved killing a white dog by hanging it. I believe it was the Cree indians who believed they were born from. Wolves.
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  6834. Cheers thanks again for the data you are great I'm indebted to you and your videos cheers have a wonderful day
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  6835. Yesssss nothing like a little Sunday morning procrast-ucation
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  6836. Incredible
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  6837.  @DanDavisHistory  i was stationed at Tikrit during the war. Zecharia Sitchin created a grave disservice to the ancient history of this beautiful country!
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  6838. Love your work as always! Thank you
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  6839. Having a picture of Sebastian Stan aka the winter soldier instead of radu the handsome is pure gold 😂😂😂
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  6840. Awesome. You've done it again. You should write books about our ancient history. Oh wait ... :)
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  6841. great video!
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  6842. Many of these characters appear to have an erection. Any idea if this has any significance?
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  6843. So hyped to listen to this, I was getting worried that you might have given up the ghost. This is such an amazing channel, tha KS for all the hard work!
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  6844. Yes please make a video on bronze age armour!
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  6845. The Donner party were fools who brought their fate on them selves by trying to cross the mountains to late in the year.
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  6846. Good job
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  6847. Wow, that was really more interesting than i had anticipated. Gotta go watch some more vids from this channel, if I find more stuff that is interesting and educational at the same time I have a new channel to sub to.
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  6848. 😯
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  6849. I am now finding out that you are a novelist. How fascinating! I will be checking out your work as soon as I can. I thoroughly enjoy your videos in particular, the one about the rite of passage of The Indo Europeans.
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  6850. Excellently!!! Tom
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  6851.  @DanDavisHistory  I really did. Love the depth and thorough research you undertake, as well as the way you describe the characters involved. Much appreciated 🌟
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  6852. This was a good video
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  6853. Great narration and background music.
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  6854. Fantastic!
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  6855. That outro describing the different things going on was great
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  6856. iberian bell beakers also likely brought the steppe related ancestry in modern north africans which coincides with the beaker pottery found in north africa. i wonder if the interactions and exchanges were friendly.
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  6857. Terrific video. Are you visiting my mind while I'm sleeping and plucking topics from my dreams? You're a dream-walking shaman, I know it. Haha great video my friend. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
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  6858. Impressive presentation.
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  6859. Nobody killing a somebody? The larger figure has an ax and the small figure with a sword as well as spear. Perhaps a hero?
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  6860. enjoyed this much
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  6861. Superbly researched.Well done fella.
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  6862. Very detailed descriptions and analyses.
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  6863. good stuff
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  6864. I found your channel a few weeks back and binged watched all your content instantly. Where would be the best place to buy your books?
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  6865. YEAH YEA YEAH ! More great content delivered to my door. Thank you very much, I have had a great deal of intelligent pleasure, watching all of your videos.
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  6866. He's literally me! Oh he just like me fr!
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  6867. Absolutely enjoyed this.
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  6868. Very well done biography of a great man. We need the like today.
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  6869. Astonishing!
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  6870. What a brilliant piece of history , thank you.
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  6871. Everything has been said already in comments. Just my line added for the algorithm. Great work.
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  6872. Thank you so much for this. I didn’t know that there was a strong connection to Chateauroux. My mother was born in Chateauroux and my grandmother is from Bouesse which is s nearby small town. I know know more about the history or the region my family is from. Again thank you.
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  6873. This is superb. Thanks so much.
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  6874. Great storytelling, easy to follow. Good calm voice and a good, and for me, unknown story. Amazing knight amazingly tought. Thank you for this.
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  6875. I love your work. Now if you excuse me, I must return to an academic paper on the invention of the stout stick. ;p
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  6876. Awesome video! Great stuff!
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  6877. this was an interesting "tidbit". +1 and subbed
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  6878. hi in the usa where can I get your books ?
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  6879. I'm a new subscriber. Love your videos 😊
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  6880. Great content!
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  6881. Should do a video on bog bodies
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  6882. Epic man, story and documentary. Well done! Gripping.
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  6883. Great video enjoyed iti like the movie I know it wasn't true but great to see Vincent price portray Hopkins
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  6884. I would like to see a video on the Srubnaya.
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  6885. Amazing❤
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  6886. interesting video
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  6887. Just stumbled upon your channel, Great stuff. Looking forward to more and going through your older videos now. Keep up the great work.
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  6888. Business in the front and party in the back. The mullet is in the DNA.
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  6889. What a fantastic channel and topics. So glad I found it. I've been binge watching. Going to get some of your books.
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  6890.  @DanDavisHistory  no, thank you. Keep up the good work. I'm an aspiring author myself and your video are extremely helpful with information and ideas.
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  6891. Well done. Subbed.
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  6892. Never heard of this culture. Really fascinating and intriguing at the same time.
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  6893. Wow....I just discovered yr channel...just fantastic story telling and riveting Stories....ENCORE!! [just hit subscribe and Bell]
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  6894. no its because when you die thats actually what happens so obviously different people would come to the same conclusion
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  6895. Fantastic! Thank you so much . I absolutely love history and this is wonderful ☺️
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  6896. Absolutely brilliant! ( As I write that I'm saying it with your accent my bloody American accent is drab)😊
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  6897. Very well done.
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  6898.  @DanDavisHistory  Hi Dan, No problem. It's just good to feel I'm up there being all cutting edge and everything!!! :D
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  6899. Invite for Götz von Berlischingen
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  6900. excellent
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  6901. Nice. Enjoying your content. Can you do one about Ottakar II?
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  6902. Dan, these vids of yours are just great. Thanks :)
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  6903. i like your story telling it intrigues me. very good.
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  6904. Also, any early riding need not be purely military and soft evidence of limited use for mobility and pasturing will be harder to find but still confir significant advantages over time. Military use of horse riding may have taken centuries or even a few thousand years to develop and then BOOM! we say that's when they started riding
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  6905. Funny I'm from the central mountains of Puerto Rico and my DNA test said I'm 12 percent Norway switzerland north scotland North West england 42 percent ireland 31 percent the rest north portugal North West spain French Basque and Puerto Rico native nothing else it seems I'm the ancient pitbull and the spaniard alano bulldog 😄 war machine looking at the history of the homeland of my ancestors of my blood line and we still hold the titles on the blood arenas most be the Iberian peninsula celts blood and iron is a place call Numantia pride and honor inbraceing death ☠️ like life inself in self defense for freedom from the outsiders love life 🧬🧬🧬
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  6906. Wow. Thank you!
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  6907. ⭐️
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  6908. Best presentation of Otzi I have seen. Good job Dan.
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  6909. I just found this. Very interesting, I've just subscribed.
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  6910. Outstanding documentary!!!!!!!
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  6911. Absolutely fabulous.
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  6912. Wonderful.
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  6913. Thank you for this fascinating information about archaeology in Ukraine (my ancestral homeland).
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  6914. Ah yes, I’ve been patiently waiting for you next video, I can’t wait to watch!
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  6915. 3:57 excellent Tolkien reference
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  6916. Great Video. Love your work.
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  6917. This was amazing! Thank you so much for making this🥇
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  6918. Here is what I think happened to Otzi, he was caught having relationship with some one sheep they chased him up and down the mountain before killing him
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  6919. Bludgeon weapons suggest armor or sorts? Unless of course it is ceremonial
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  6920. Your channel is amazingly valuable. I became fascinated in the Bronze Age through my reading of the Bronze Age Collapse and your channel is so exciting for me. Now all you need to do is make connections between Minoa and the Byzantine Empire and my Youtube journey is complete
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  6921.  @DanDavisHistory  so if someone is blue eyed and blond haired, does that mean he has ANE and WHG ancestry?
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  6922. Everyone can’t resist a rebel on your side… we … are rebels by nature.
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  6923. Do one on Elizabeth I. She saved England as far as I'm concerned...well her and the English Channel
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  6924. 4:03 - proto -Nutella!
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  6925. Fascinating. Thank you.
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  6926. Thank you. Now I know the origin of the term wolfshead referring to outlaws
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  6927. That was a fascinating documentary.
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  6928. The goat returns soon than expected, I am not complaining.
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  6929.  @DanDavisHistory  you can’t make a video I can’t enjoy
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  6930. Thank you for this episode!
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  6931. Could we get more information about the archaeological site speculated and referred to as "home settlement?" at 40:00 ?
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  6932. Utterly fascinating. Thank you friend.
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  6933. A positive and uplifting comment for the algorithm
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  6934. The best the best the best! I love this video! It's so cool to see the direct comparisons across cultures.
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  6935. Excellent 👍👍
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  6936. Might the pits have been packed with a dyed earthen material then smoothed flush to the surface?
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  6937. AMAZING!
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  6938. I'm really interested in a video of bronze age armor
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  6939. Awesome work. Very Interesting.
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  6940. It was a huge effort to make such a great content like that .. your channel was like a diamond cave to me .. From Cairo with love 😍l
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  6941. Never really knew about this culture. Outstanding documentary.
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  6942. Yeah, we have the earliest wheel, pretty cool...
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  6943. this is awesome. by any chance, are you the voice of Henry of Skalatz? Kingdom come deliverence . u sound just like him \m/ love the video \m/
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  6944. From my own research, I think you are on the right track and asking all of the right questions.
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  6945. Thanks!
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  6946. I've already watched this one but, I've decided to watch your videos in chronological order
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  6947. Only after two videos i've fallen in-love with this channel ❤
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  6948. Are we giving the use of the bit too much credence? Is it not possible that a loop around the snout of the horse was the first method of control and been in use for quite some time before the idea of a bit was developed? Just wondering.
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  6949.  @DanDavisHistory  it is difficult to pin down. Part of it I think comes from the misplaced attitude of modern man that more ancient cultures would only be able to achieve results using modern standards. They bypass the reality that when it comes to survival man will find a way be they modern or ancient.
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  6950. Bronze Age ist by far my most favourite part in my archaeology studies.
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  6951. It could also be that Amesbury man was a trader, which would explain why he was so far from his birthplace. Just a thought.
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  6952. checkout this last bit of the Beowulf trailer. Young man wearing wolfskin opposing an elder that has already gone through his rites of passage. 3:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AKCe0xyZi8 Interesting that he even remarks that he cant kill him because he already died when he was young.
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  6953. Isn't the Sintashta culture too late to explain the common Indo-European chariot vocabulary? While the chariot-first/cart-first theory makes sense, it has to be Yamna/Yamnaya culture or earlier.
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  6954. I dunno but green bikini chick bareback gets my vote. If you're a horse whisperer , then you know you develop a relationship with a horse. It can know where you want to go by esp.
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  6955. loved the video! I learn so much! i found the segment at 19:02 particularly interesting, have revisited that part a few times now to really grasp the content.
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  6956. Great information and knowledge, underrated channel for sure!
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  6957. A lot of pretty girls (with horses).
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  6958. Clearly the Mullet Man liked to party 😆 Love these videos, thanks for making them.
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  6959. Well done Dan .
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  6960. Fascinating! Fantastic vid again 👍 ✌from the Netherlands, T.
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  6961. I'm going to look up some of the books you write. Vampire caught my eye
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  6962. These people were not Indo-Europeans either linguistically or genetically? But modern Britons are by and large the descendants of these people who built Stonehenge?
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  6963.  @DanDavisHistory  How much do Roman, Anglo, Saxon, Jute, Norman, and Angevin contribute to modern British DNA?
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  6964.  @JBroughton2  thank you
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  6965. Just found your channel, it’s kick ass man!
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  6966. Kind of something we need now. No?
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  6967. This was brilliant! I even forgot to drink my tea because I was so focused on this. Thank you very much, kind sir.
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  6968. Great story 👏
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  6969. Fascinating!
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  6970. Excellent
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  6971. 50+ minutes! Definitely skipping church. Sunday Morning Coming Down, but I won't be.
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  6972. Smiling was just not a thing before the modern era, so depictions of ancient humans smiling is anachronistic and revisionist.
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  6973. Great docu, enjoyed it alot!
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  6974. Very well done❤Thank you.
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  6975. Hey the music you used for this was very beautiful, but I cant find it in any of the credits. I would love to get the song you used for the Neolithic Copper mine section, her voice is very nice.
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  6976.  @DanDavisHistory  Hey thanks! I would try to repay you but all I have are these thousands of tons of Neolithic Michigan copper ore in my garage I forgot to ship to Germany way back in the day.
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  6977. Love the story and the commentary. I will read your book.
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  6978. Excellent stuff, as always. Hands down my favourite history channel on youtube. Keep it up!
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  6979. Dude!! Just found my CHANNEL DUDE! All decent historical stuff or documentarys seem to be dated, and old. Unappealing. But this channel, I really really appreciate. Thanks
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  6980. Great video, Dan! Always looking forward to new releases.
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  6981. Nice channel Dan👍 I am looking forward to watching some videos.
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  6982. Great stuff
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  6983. Fascinating!
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  6984. Love this channel!
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  6985. Fair play, it must have took a long time to do this , I never expected to be like that . Really enjoyable Number 1 for me . I'm not specifically horse minded, more of a cattle man , myself. I'm afraid of them. But I can see with out of them we would have done so well. Thank you.
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  6986. Nice to see you quote Mircea Eliade!
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  6987. On our farm several axes, both flint and polished have been plowed up. We had three of them saved in the farm library. I used to play with them as a child and a large boat axe was my favourite. It is so beautiful and powerfull. Anyone thinking it could not be a warriors weapon is crazy. I used to sit there as a kid and think about who it might belong to and how he used it. Did it save his life from a hungry bear one time while logging? Did he ever take it into battle defending his homestead? The feeling that people had been living here at my ancestral home for so many thousand years was very exciting and humbling.
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  6988. Love your vids man
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  6989. Another amazing video
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  6990. There are feathers on the helmets of the warriors on the krater…
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  6991. As always amazing work.
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  6992. Can’t wait for the chariot video!
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  6993. Orm is the current Swedish word for snake , though in Norwegian is is slang. Is orm used in any current English dialects?
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  6994. Excellent video. Subscribed.
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  6995. nicely made video, you’ve earned my sub :)
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  6996. Amazing video, thanks!
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  6997. Just bought some grapes at a good price ! Hey! Look the guy who talks about prehistoric Europe put out another video!.... Let's see what he will talk about this time! Oooo! Cannibalism.... Bonne appetit??? I guess...
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  6998. Can those boats be dugout canoes with outriggers? it fit's better at the back, there are Roman reports that they made them in Holland and hold up to 30 man whits must have made them from oak.
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  6999. - chapeu - for a really well spoken und good episode!
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  7000. Thank you for a great and engaging video. I couldn't atop watching it.
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  7001. Looooool! Why the photo of Sebastian Stan when you mentioned Radu cel Frumos🤣 killer ! I'm still giggling! Good docu though, love the level of detail and historical accuracy, as close as we can get to the truth some 500 years on. Vlad is still a national hero and his deeds live on and inspire good people. Thanks for covering him. Glorie Valahiei și trăiască România Mare!
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  7002. 20:24 Having experimented with Millet as a health food, I can agree with this sentence.
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  7003. I have come across similar myths that are common to European mythology and native American mythology such as the Swan Maiden myth which shows up not only in Slavic mythology but also Kwakwakwa'wakw stories. The dog myth though finally makes some Archaeological sites in the Yorkshire dales make sense. Time team did a special on excavating one of them, but they are caves with human remains and a high proportion of dog remains in them as well, suggestive of perhaps a dog cult. One such site had a votive bronze dog statuette at the bottom. Dogs as supernatural guardians in the other worlds show up in Irish mythology in the form of Cuchulain who while a man was a warrior that slew a great hound and took it's place as a guardian which reminds me of the young male warrior bands you spoke of. My own research on PALEOLITHIC symbols and art and the radiation of tropes into modern world myth has lead me down a similar line of thinking, particularly in regards to rights of passage myths though I have been researching the Pasiphae and Bull mythology and the Minotaur. I'd like to talk with you about some of the stuff you have come across that maybe doesn't make it into your videos. Possibly we could share some research?
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  7004. Fantastic, Dan
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  7005. This was awesome!
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  7006. 👍👍👍
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  7007. Another outstanding video!
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  7008. Pfälzer Leberwurst nach Herxheimer art, mit echten Pfälzern
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  7009. I'm going to start buying your books. I'm a sucker for world-building and grounding fiction in proper research.
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  7010. I gotta ask:are those Bronze Age boners or just sword hilts? ... perhaps both!?
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  7011.  @DanDavisHistory  ah sorry thanks! I always watch on my tv first but the TV app doesn’t show the description! Then I forget to click the show description button when I go to comment on my phone 😫
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  7012. Very professionally produced
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  7013. Saw this in my suggested, and what a documentary this is! I've been researching hair styles of Nordic peoples for a while now, and this is the most complete and authoritative one I've seen thus far!
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  7014. good video! interesting that iron was used during the bronze age
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  7015. What about the total replacement of the male population of Europe about 4500 years ago? …often said to be Yamnaya moving in, maybe with disease? (Anthrax), … you never mentioned this!?!?!?!
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  7016.  @DanDavisHistory  …I realized that shortly after I posted the above, and have watched several, already. …GREAT JOB! …I have been focused on upper Paleolithic through the Bronze Age, and you’ve aligned many of the pieces of the puzzle much clearer.
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  7017. These are incredible!!
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  7018. You just had to make this soooooo interesting dude I’m late for work now godamnit🙃
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  7019. I am sure those huge horned helmets are not to scale but exaggerated as a status symbol. It would be absolutely impractical to go to battle with those.
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  7020. Great video as always Dan! greets @woedans
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  7021. Dan its nice that you like your viewers comments. Also awesome vid. This was the first vid of yours Ive seen.
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  7022. That was excellent. Glad I clicked this video.
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  7023. very interesting
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  7024. Wonderful essay. Thank you.
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  7025. Is there any parallel with Halloween?
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  7026. cool
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  7027. I note the Hobbit reference.
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  7028. For the Algoritm!
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  7029. Boar tusk armour … I’m finally a pro
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  7030.  @hengest9060  Will need to find a darker skin tone and brown-eyed Icelander as in Bronze Age Yamnaya this was a prominent feature, granted blond hair is possible as this allele mutated into existence around the Afontova-Gora culture timeframe c.15K years ago. Blue eyes, dark hair, dark skin would have likely been from WHG before any IE-speaking culture ANE type and its descendants arrived in Western Europe.
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  7031. I've just asked this question on Reddit 😂 Why is Richard I so romanticized and idealized? Great video. Thank you
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  7032. You have awesome content
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  7033. Probably put their children on horses first
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  7034. I like the delivery very much. You Talk to your viewer instead of a machine gun delivery of facts that quickly becomes just an irritating noise
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  7035. By God is this great documentary
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  7036. Brilliant, thank you!
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  7037. Wow. Excellent video.
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  7038. It's interesting that the Catacomb culture would have head binding and tattooing, makes me think perhaps there is a shared ANE descent of such practices considering how common they tend to be amongst Native Americans
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  7039. Very well put together video, great narrating you have another subscription from me great job.
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  7040. Years ago I wrote Timeline for the Development of the Horse published by Dr. victor Mair on his Sino Platonic papers website. It does my heart good to see so many people actually making this information famous.
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  7041. Every single video this guy puts out is amazing. Most of the time I watch history videos on here, something tends to distract me or irritate me for the usual reasons--bad presentation or information I could find anywhere else or whatever--but Dan Davis has none of these issues. The moment I hit play he's got my full attention, and I always learn something new. Keep it up, man!
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  7042. Well Wm of Orange was invited, wasnt he?
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  7043. Once again another excellent video!
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  7044. Brilliant video. Now one of my favourites
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  7045. 👍thanks so much for these great videos 😊
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  7046. Outstanding
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  7047. Thanks Dan
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  7048. Huge fan of Dan Carlin Hardcore History, got a feeling I'm going to be a fan of Dan Davis too! 🤤
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  7049. Thumbnail is epic.
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  7050. What about the injury’s of people falling from horses , are there any signs of this
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  7051. This is probably not pc but I’d love to try horse meat( knowingly lol don’t know what my snags are honestly)( snag=sausage)
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  7052. Dude I'm here because about 100 pages into vampire heretic. After learning about the 100-year war and Joan of arc and Gillie de rallies. I went back to vampire crusader, I knew that characters like Saladin and Richard the lionheart was real I was wondering about William de ferres then I realize on last page he was a hooded thief near Nottingham. BOOM MIND BLOWN It's crazy how you use these real people and events in these stories. I personally never read anything like it I can still use the prequel too God born I had trouble downloading it
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  7053. Wow this is right where I live!!! :O
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  7054. So glad this came up on my recommendation. Subbed and liked! Wishing this channel exponential growth and success from Malaysia!👍
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  7055.  @DanDavisHistory  loved it. Tnx mate.
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  7056. Great video. Thank you!
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  7057. Fascinating, both for understanding the deep history, and the process of research for wriitng. Thank you!
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  7058. There 1000 year early iron knife makes you wonder how many nerds throughout history have been messing with stuff that looked interesting. Like some random figured out copper, and then tin somehow even though it is kinda rare, like people are just tinkering.
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  7059. Love your videos so much Dan! Please do a Video like this on Pierre Terrail de Bayard at some point in the future!
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  7060. I must say I love your style of narration. Have a sub :-)
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  7061. Really interesting video, cheers.
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  7062. Just downloaded wolf god 🙏
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  7063. Great informative video! Thank you so much
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  7064. i love the chart of the Gods and their descendants it would make a great wall chart 28.00 great film to rub bronze to
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  7065. They look similar to the Giants' Graves in Sardinia, which clearly look like cow heads.
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  7066. Brilliant video! Thank you again for making the ancient world a little clearer, bit by bit.
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  7067. 🤠👍🏿
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  7068. This video was made by big copper to suppress the truth!
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  7069. I've got a request: could you put in the approximate years overplayed on the maps you use?
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  7070. Lol "Don't listen to me, I just make up stories" Yeah, and put a respectable amount of research in it, reasonably cited even, in these videos
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  7071. 21:00 in every society even the more primitive there's some people that is more important.. For that we say that socialism is an utopia no? 😀 Even these Neolithic village cultures had a chief, a priest, clans, family chiefs, and so on. And even warriors to defend themselves against hostile newcomers.. Maybe they could be more egalitarian than our society, but at the bottom often these societies are more similar to us than we thought...
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  7072. Another Dan Davis classic
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  7073. Brilliant analysis, brilliant deductions.
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  7074.  @DanDavisHistory  I just missed it then, my thanks for clearing it up.
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  7075.  @DanDavisHistory  Also, thank you for this series, I am really enjoying it and looking forward to reading some of your other work!
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  7076. Are people that are ethnically of the British isles the closest to the yamnaya in modern times?
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  7077. Who remembers the krigsgaldr music video from Heilung?
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  7078. 👍⛏️🇦🇺😊🙋
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  7079. magnificas imagenes,
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  7080. Haven't read the study, but "Malice in Wonderland" is a great title.
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  7081. 3:52 As someone who rode in my first rodeo at 5 - I know she will only do that o n c e ! Horsesweat will burn her tender goodies very badly !
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  7082. Amazing work as usual
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  7083. Wow that's not something the anti-Hungarian Romanians shout into winds of internet: the coat of arms of the Draculesti is the sekler sun and moon and a version of the 7-cut Árpád-bands shield.
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  7084. When I took the Koryos I was an Apache Attack Helicopter and a A-10 Thunderbolt.
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  7085. Weren't they able to find ancestors through DNA or maybe that was a different case?
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  7086. Wait a second, is the red man lifting the ship in 5:10 naked or what does he have on the front of his hips?
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  7087. Thanks for the fast answer! Makes sense, as being physically fit and having lots of children was very important back in these days.
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  7088. Those fibulae, were they only worn by women? I wouldn't mind wearing a coat with that piece of art.
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  7089. Superb. Thank you
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  7090. I got a message that this was a Patreon-only video. I hope that was a misunderstanding on Patreon's part, as this deserves a much broader audience, surely?
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  7091. So basically if you never wanted to get on with the whole civilized 'adulting' thing, you could just live outside of civilization in the woods and be lifelong warriors who own nothing.. do I have that just about right? Interesting that they're associated with wolves. There is a kinda famous song called Norupo (Norwegian Rune Poem) by Heilung. The first two lines are "Fé vældr frænda róge" "føðesk ulfr í skóge" which translates roughly to "Wealth cause dispute among friends;" "the wolf lives in the forest". I can now see the relationship between these two statements in this tradition.
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  7092. great job man so good
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  7093. I enjoyed the back and forth between you too. Great chemistry. Obviously both engrossed in the story. You both sound pretty working class as well compared to most history enthusiasts. ( I'm from the black country so far from posh lol)
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  7094. Thanks! The Most awesome content on YouTube :cat-orange-whistling:
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  7095. Awesome, another Dan Davis upload. Been waiting for one of these.
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  7096. I think you should take a look at the Nuragic civilization
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  7097.  @DanDavisHistory  nice! Btw i really like your videos, good job!
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  7098. Great video
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  7099. Awesome video!!!
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  7100. Great music and shows
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  7101. Fascinating.
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  7102. Wonderfully told and demonstrated. Thank you. Lisa Rae Rousseau
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  7103. Looks like I stumbled upon a goldmine of divine history subscribed instantly
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  7104. Why assume that the patchwork construction of his leggings was a fashion statement? Hunting, skinning, and processing skin into leather requires a lot of investment in terms of risk, time and skill, so my first guess would be that using scraps left over from other projects in this way would be done more as an economy measure, very much like quilters using fabric scraps to make a warm quilt rather than throwing them out. I thoroughly enjoy these videos. The Copper Age in particular interests me, and I'm glad to see a nice long video on the topic by someone who really does his research.
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  7105. Díky!
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  7106. Oh to go back in time and to teach a tribe modern tactics and a warrior culture.
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  7107. great video man
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  7108. Thank you, another great video
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  7109. What a storyteller! Go Dan!
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  7110. the most common weapon is clearly their penis.
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  7111. Fantastic as always!!!! I really cant get enough of your stuff I got to get the books!!!
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  7112. Thanks again for a great video. I subscribe to many good history channels but yours is on top. as a Scandinavian, I am also surprised myself by the finds of the Bronze Age that are up here you mention. Then you have a humble soothing way to present your films which will be perfect to watch as the end of the day.
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  7113. That this channel doesn't have 8 million subscribers is a mystery to me
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  7114. Superb video.
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  7115. oh ohhh. might this have something to do with the proverbial sea peoples?? this epoch pretty much marked the end of the bronze age and the dark ages that resulted
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  7116. Thanks for the thought-provoking exposé. I did cringe at the steaming mug atop the book pages, but I'm finicky about books.
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  7117. Well done, Thank you.
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  7118. The iroquois had a white dog ceremony in late winter where theyd hang it and eat it.
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  7119. Whoaaaa
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  7120. Thank you
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  7121. Thanks!
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  7122. Great video, enjoyed watching, tnx!
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  7123. Perhaps each vessel is the record of a journey, with the depiction giving a hope of a homecoming; showing a symbolic place of return ?
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  7124. Wow great video Dan the man I salute you!
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  7125. Very good compiled, thanks for sharing, I honestly like your videos I hope i wasn't so poor because I'm dying to read the thunderer but it will take some time for me to be able to get it..koryos (was it...?)well you know what I mean, I've been reading about the hunt, that's great,got me understanding the berserker
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  7126. Cannibalism doesn’t sit right with the stomach… 😉
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  7127. Your my new favourite channel
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  7128. An excellent piece of work, thank you.
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  7129. Dan ffs cannibalism is one thing but 3 days in that weather ooou fu.k me na don't think so, Mr. Dahmer was partial to a bit of Human, now without been to offensive I've never seen a person that I thought I would want to eat. 🤣🤣🤣🇮🇪 not yet anyway. Jesus's
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  7130. great thx!
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  7131. that's it! you forced my hand and now i'm sub'ing!
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  7132. Who were the first horse riders? Most likely, children. They were light enough not to injure or frighten the much smaller horses of the time. It's not unusual for children to be placed on other domesticated animals too for fun -- think buffalo, cows, sheep, pigs.
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  7133. So damn interesting
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  7134. Archaeologist here! This was interesting! :)
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  7135. Thank you!
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  7136. Excellent video!!! I only have one criticism, it wasn't long enough (lol). Seriously, it was really done so well. Thanks for making it.
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  7137. Love it all. Thank you Dan
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  7138. Just found your site... some of the better content I've heard on berserking... And you mentioned a personal hero of mine Julius Civilis !!! "by his Roman name" His battle against Rome is dramatic/epic and is over shadowed by the battle of teutoburg forest just not much content... I'm subscribing great video !!!
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  7139. This video is great!
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  7140. So many cultures for approach in this serie. Will be there video about Battle Axe Culture?
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  7141. How much you want to bet the first rides were on a bet/hold my fermented milk.
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  7142. The first “beer balls”!🤣
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  7143. Great video. I like how you managed to get a lot of pretty women, into a video of battle axes. :)
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  7144. Fascinating! Thank you for these great videos.
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  7145. very interesting, +1 sub
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  7146. I could see that the horse being used as a beast of burden like an Ox was used. First dragging poles or sledges around maybe by people who had seen cattle herders do the same with cattle. In any case I am glad you suggested some books however I suspect Drews has an uphill battle convincing me mounted humans weren't a thing until the 8th century BC...it just seems way way too late. It actually hurts the brain to think this It's got to be much earlier. YES I can see that actual mounted combat didn't take place until much later because as you say no proper means to stay mounted while fighting was known; though I still think you could shoot a bow from a horse with some skillful horsemanship and archery necessary.
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  7147. love time team.
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  7148. Cheers Dan.
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  7149. Great video as allways
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  7150. wasn't the horses back originally to weak to carry human normally, that is why the chariot/cart dominated for so long and as the selectively breed bigger stronger horses they moved to horse riding, including maybe due to resources
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  7151. Can't believe that for a second. A large goat is strong enough to lift an adult human and run at pace. I don't think it's terribly likely that these people who were slaughtering the animals for meat or doing all sorts of nasty things to procure their milk knew or cared a great deal about the potential for chronic back pain or joint problems that may have resulted from riding less robust animals.
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  7152. Thanks mate.More people i`ve never heard of before
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  7153.  @DanDavisHistory  All good man your stuff is great
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  7154. Excellent bit of history 👍⛏️🇦🇺😊🙋
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  7155. I’m new to this channel. I have to say, you do an amazing job not only presenting the factual content but also creating narratives out of the material that really brings the content to life. I imagine that is related to your literary skills. It is something that many other history channels lack. They’re either all dry content or embarrassingly vague and non-factual commentary. You’ve hit the sweet spot.
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  7156. My guy, you might be the first YouTuber to have ever sold me on his sponsor product. I love my safety razor, but it's old and was a cheapo box mart model, and these look like a quality upgrade. Loving the video so far, like always, masculine beauty is an underappreciated topic 😏
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  7157. Amazing!
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  7158. It could take 1k years for crops to change to new climates. Still no coconuts in Scotland
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  7159. Dan, i take it that's you narrating. I'm a fairly new subscriber. I almost mistook you for Kevin Mckidd aka Lucius Vorenus from ROME, HBO. You have a commanding forthright voice as he does.
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  7160. I am reminded that in Inca culture wheels were not in use -- except as children's toys. Very likely the first riders were herding-boys playing around with their friendliest horses.
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  7161. great video it was well narrated and I could easily picture himself among the Koryos.
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  7162. Great presentation. Thank you so much.
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  7163. You're a great historian bro!
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  7164.  @DanDavisHistory  My apologies. I've really learned a lot from your videos. Thank you!
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  7165. Athens plague 430 b.c. The plague killed an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 people, around one quarter of the population, and is believed to have entered Athens through Piraeus, the city's port and sole source of food and supplies.
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  7166. Thanks for that buddy . I loved your film .
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  7167. Thank you for the great item about these people
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  7168. The music at the siege of Acre section I mean.
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  7169.  @DanDavisHistory  Thankyou Mr Davis, much appreciated.
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  7170. Great video, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and research! can't wait for the fish eating taboo video :)
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  7171. Quickly becoming a top YouTube history channel for me
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  7172. such a good video and info. they have applied similar analysis to ancient silver coins and the copper and lead traces in them. They try to figure out what mines the metal for the coins came from. Some stuff about 2nd punic war era coins.
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  7173. axe-hammer is obviously better---cracked me up thanx for the laugh!
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  7174. Very nice
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  7175. I wonder if these armies of swords-for-hire with time behaved like Prussia and created their own states.
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  7176. Fascinating stuff ser! 👏👏👏
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  7177. Glad you mentioned Greaves - think they deserve more consideration and technological advantage and introduction that changed warfare
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  7178.  @DanDavisHistory  Completely agree. When you think if the use of Long Spears, Pikes to stop the advance and protection against advance troops think heavily over looked. Then when you get notation such as ”strong greaved” references throughout ancient text further reinforces how important they were. The change in weaponry afterwards crusial.
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  7179.  @DanDavisHistory  really like your stuff, keep going
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  7180. 😬😬😬😬
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  7181. Excellent!Thank you!
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  7182. I've seen some of my ex's go berserk. They must be Berserkers 😂
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  7183. great video man! exciting stuff, and presented so well, too
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  7184. this was very interesting. I am glad I found your channel.
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  7185. How is the next book in the Bronze Age series coming along? You said something about December this year or early next year?
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  7186. I’m guessing that the lack of weapons and shields and such in Northern Europe is because of the value…why bury someone with all that bronze when you needed it yourself…probably helped usher in the era of funeral pyres Totally makes sense that the rich and mobile Greeks would bury their elite with their stuff..they could afford too
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  7187. Fascinating. Beautiful photography and excellent research. Thank you..
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  7188. If I find wealth we're making a LOTR style grandiose film series of this shit
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  7189. Curses! I was just going to mention Cyprus when you brought it up! ;)
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  7190. Informative and entertaining video. So much so, I will be purchasing your novels...
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  7191. Excellent. Well-researched and very appropriately illustrated with a clear, unambiguous narrative. Ne of the best summaries I’ve seen on the subject. Before retirement I worked in and for various maritime museums and recently visited the Nat. Mus. of Denmark to see the Hjortspring boat. Regarding the use of sails, this may have been a fairly early development as simply standing or sitting up in a small boat will give the game away. After that it’s all just tweaking. One of the limitations of ship length is the method of securing elements together and the invention of the hogging truss to alleviate sagging in a seaway. I wonder what proportion of the the petroglyphs illustrate masts, yards and sails. Thank you for a very satisfying video.
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  7192. I find it funny to imagine that this guy simply worked his whole life to get a grand weapon and then just died
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  7193. Its kind like in THE ritual you make like a child beeing raised countryside. Then the papa learn the boys seriusnes by letting the child doing the dreadfull act as a saviar then one of your bird or sometimes the horse is put out. But in a much more idiotic and poinless hammertimeritual objektiv😥😡 the dog had and is a more powerfull tole so just rituals going limitness again. dont let your boys seek jobb in the city, how should hunt with the dog now...
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  7194. I can't wait for gods of bronze part 3, I did really enjoy the first two books, though I still need to read the prequel
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  7195. So Sintashta was a Bronze Age Tankograd? ;)
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  7196. [ BERZERKERSIDDHA ]
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  7197. He said to like and subscribe. So i liked and then went to hit the subscrib button and almost UNSUBSCRIBED
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  7198. Oh! And btw another GREAT video! Thank you for all your hard research and editing skill!
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  7199. Very interesting an well recounted ! Thanks !
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  7200.  @DanDavisHistory  Ok, so I did used to do battle re-enactment and broke most of my fingers doing that (it probably accounts for the skull fracture too) - I also played rugby at school and along with the usual childhood bangs and scrapes - I can account for pretty much all the injuries. The 2 broken vertebrae are both the spinous processes - the lumps you see down someone's back - I took one blow from the left, the other from the right. I've also dislocated both my thumbs (rugby) and my right shoulder (rugby again) The fractured wrists & shins are injuries most people suffer - but don't notice, usually wrists happen when someone extends their hand to arrest a fall.
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  7201.  @DanDavisHistory  Yeah, but the thing is I only found this out while being treated for a 30 foot fall - which it turns out I got away with, without a scratch! lol
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  7202. I once read about human feces/coprolithen which contendet traces of human flesh. But i dont know to wich epoch they belong?
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  7203. What a wonderful video. Thank you so much for making it and sharing it. Well done. 👏👏👏👏👏🇬🇧
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  7204. I love all your videos, Dan.
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  7205. Well that was not very cheery at all. IMHO.
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  7206. If some thug gonna rob your farmstead you will quickly learn to use your farm tools as weapons.
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  7207. For a minute, I thought that was going to be a super smooth segue into a manscaping kit sponsorship 16:53
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  7208. as a scotsman i also came to this conclusion ,perfect not a chance,but one helluva warrior and king
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  7209. The horses could have been just used as food and pack animals ?
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  7210. Very interesting and well presented video. The topic is completely new to me, I certainly learned something new here.
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  7211. Wonderful. Insightful. Delightful. As usual....
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  7212. You make some nice videos with summaries of much of the modern research going into these not so generally well known subjects. Must say I thoroughly enjoy. Edit: Also, I see in the comments that u got quite alot of internet warriors and downright weirdos commenting on everything from Hungary to Atlantis and Giants. I just wanna confirm you on the fact that what u do here on a broad basis seems very solid. Have a nice day :)
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  7213. 🤠👍🏿
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  7214. So happy to have found this channel
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  7215. Oh sweet bro. I'll check Amazon right now.
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  7216. Watching this now, excellently researched as usual. With regards to the comb thing, I don't think its massively likely given his age but theres all the possiblity that he'd taken some sort of oath similar to that of Harald Fairhair, which Kris Kershaw connects to Kóryos rituals
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  7217. Thank you for another great video!
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  7218. Great video! Can't get enough!
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  7219. Truly fascinating, thanks for making this video!
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  7220. Incredible video as always
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  7221. Stumbled on this channel, subscribe instantly. Good channel
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  7222. Impressive Presentation!
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  7223. The intro was nice, very atmospheric.
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  7224. You tell such fascinating stories, I really should start reading your books.
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  7225. Incredible. Thanks very much mate
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  7226. Back when metal ore was just laying around in rivers and infills.
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  7227. Such a good doco.
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  7228. Asked one more Subscriber .. great video
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  7229. Another great video, Dan. Very interesting topic!
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  7230. A fantastic adventure is always narrated by you!
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  7231. Nothing quite like that feeling of finding a great new channel.
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  7232.  @DanDavisHistory  No worries man. My pleasure.
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  7233. Fantastic work buddy!
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  7234. This is amazing I am very thankful I found your channel. I had long held an interest in the bronze age all the way back to the paleolithic period of Europe--it being the the period historians know least about. This channel provides me with the information I had long been craving, as well as leading me to further questions about the unknown.
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  7235. WERE ALL PART OF THE PACK BROTHER AROOOOOOOO
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  7236. I'm currently reading Godborn (Gods of Bronze Book 1) Kindle Edition and researched the author with a "google womble" and stumbled upon a superbly researched and presented video.
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  7237. Right On
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  7238. I liked your video
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  7239. Maybe the 1st. But not the last 😎
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  7240. This is a fantastic video documentary. I enjoyed every minute
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  7241. BRONZE AGE ARMOR SOUNDS SWELL
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  7242. Okay, I bought the audiobook of Horse/Wheel/Language barely five minutes into this
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  7243. 2:03 lmao
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  7244. Bronze age is so underated I'm glad to find this channel.
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  7245. Just stumbled onto this after viewing, um, other stuff unrelated to reality! A good find, indeed; what I know about early cultures could be inscribed on the head of a Bronze Age pin. Well-done, indeed . . . AND I really appreciate the way you close a quote - "end quote;" "unquote" drives me to distraction!
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  7246. I didn't realise the red paint had been recently applied. Man that sucks
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  7247. Fascinating video.
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  7248. Another amazing vid from the amazing mr.Davis...what a treat:D
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  7249. Yes to the armor video
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  7250. I love your content sir. As well as your story telling style. Good content is hard to find. You definitely have a new subcriber in me. Thank you
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  7251. Great video!
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  7252. Thank you!
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  7253. I would also suggest that anyone who enjoys Mr. Davis's work on the Indo- Europeans will enjoy Godborn. It is a compelling story set in a realistic world (with some fantasy elements). The writing is good and the narration on Audible is excellent.
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  7254.  @DanDavisHistory  Really interested in the book, but alas! The paperback version is not available in India!
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  7255.  @DanDavisHistory  at least on Amazon, would be great if you could nudge the publishers to this end!
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  7256. Dan delivers yet again!
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  7257. Poor doggies 😭
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  7258. Excellent ; Thank-you 💖🙏🕯️
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  7259. Very interesting. I wonder how much of their DNA I have left in me...
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  7260. İnteresting well done
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  7261. Imagine how it must of sounded for the first human to propose riding such animals.
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  7262. Return to tradition...eat your family
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  7263. Great stuff Dan, as always. I like to eat hair myself, for sexual reasons.
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  7264. How great to learn something new every day.
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  7265. Awesome as always
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  7266. Greetings from Sweden. You, Sir, just got yourself a new subscriber!
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  7267. Yes
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  7268.  @DanDavisHistory  Pete Kelley is the guy behind history time, another really awesome channel like your own :) I've seen him shout out a bunch of other channels, like Stefan Milo for example, and I have a hunch that he would like your content as well. Keep up the good work dude:) I'll be here watching
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  7269. Stunning
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  7270. And These nordic helmets could not have been crowns of a king and a queen?
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  7271. Once again a fabulous and informative vid 👏👏👏👍
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  7272. @Dan Davis Author Where did you find the footage of the (presumably Cossack) women going through the sword exercises? The different sword-fighting/fencing styles of the world is a topic I have much interest in.
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  7273. Fabulous video!
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  7274. Wonderful research and absolutely fascinating.
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  7275. As always, fabulous historical detail, story telling, loved it!!! Thanks 🌟🌟
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  7276. Saw this video and though nah not interested in Robin hood. But oh wait it's dan davis.........OK we'll give it a go. Love his stuff
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  7277. Great stuff!
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  7278. I know that's a bit chutzpah question of "If I knew dude" class, but anyway. Are there any versions on what language they spoke? Didn't they leave any other tracks in Greece than pots - well, shouldn't be the invasion remembered at least at some level (well, I understand that the "history" of cities that weren't destroyed is preserved better than of these are destroyed, but)? Or perhaps judging from languages people later spoke in Sicily?
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  7279. I started reading Godborn today. That genre of historical fiction and some of the more fantasy based quasi-historical fiction are really hit or miss with me. I find a lot of them to be either like the literary version of B-films, or they read like a modern adventure story set in the past, but could have been just as easily be dropped into any era or setting and it wouldn't make a difference. I've certainly started a lot more of them than i ever finish, which is pretty unique to that genre. That said I'm about 40% though it, which is rapidly l equally rare. It's paced well and i liked how it handles the the setting. To be honest, I'm not all that familiar with the Hercules story, beyond the broad strokes of the story. Once i got a handle on the antagonists, i immediately thought of the the prologue for Roma by Steven Saylor with Heracles fighting Cacus.
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  7280. After watching this great video, I'm actually inclined to support the late riding hypothesis. If there would have existed a better way of riding than sitting on the rear of the horse and goading it with a nose-ring, then this method would - assumedly - have been copied by the other cultures (based on the assumption that the riding method depicted in Mesopotamia is "appaling" and rahter difficult as mentioned in the video). If such complex innovations like metallurgy found their way to other cultures rahter quickly, then why would a technique (and advantage) like "proper" riding be restricted to the western steppes while the neighbouring cultures would have been bound to use tricks like sitting far to the back of the horse and trying to steer it with a nose-ring?
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  7281. Excellent documentary
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  7282. Brilliant piece of forensics and analysis…all possibilities studied and presented!
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  7283. Amazing,thank you for Sharing.
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  7284. Cheers again.I have ancestors from Ireland and Britain
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  7285. Buon giorno , complimenti bel video ....Le chiedo se puo fare un video sul popolo dei Veneti ...Grazie
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  7286. In the later parts of your excellent lecture you talk of how metal workers would have been classed more as shamens and magicians, which I agree with totally. In NW Wales there were two massive copper mines The Great Orme is the best preserved and was one of the biggest Copper Mines in Europe during its productive years around 2,000 BC. That gave rise to many shamens and the centre of a huge trading network. IMO the development of the true hierarchy of the Druids, their headquarters were on Anglesey. I'm not interested in any form of modern day Druidism but just wish to illustrate the sophistication of these copper/bronze age civilisations. We were taught at school that any prehistoric artefacts or sites or remains were all Roman 😂 Like many others I've been following Otzi's story from the early days of his discovery. A real positive consequence of climate change that leads to our education, let's hope that it's not too late. Thank you so much.
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  7287.  @DanDavisHistory  I was pretty sure you'd be aware of it!! Thank you I'll check it out definitely..
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  7288.  @DanDavisHistory  awesome, thank you!
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  7289. Excellent documentary. Without hesitation I’ve liked and subbed. Thanks for taking the time to create this documentary.
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  7290. I like your "Hammer of Theseus"
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  7291.  @DanDavisHistory  It was funny but maybe people are mostly listening instead of watching? I just discovered your channel last week. I'm already 2 books in on your Vampire Knight series because the quality of your videos made me check them out. They've been great so far too.
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  7292. Excellent, loved it, thank you so much 🍃🌾!!
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  7293. Please do one other bronze era for other european countries
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  7294.  @DanDavisHistory  Sorry, I really should pay attention before asking those kinds of questions! :)
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  7295. I need something to watch with dinner, cheers
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  7296. Fantastic! I watched it and learned a lot and I just know I have to watch it again, so many interesting facts in here. One thing stuck out to me, the high number of Carpathian and Hungarian armour finds! What was going on there? Maybe a significant trade route for tin or some such? Rich chiefs making lots of armour? As so often before, there is so little we know of European activity. Anything north of Greece is so devoid of literary sources, but must have been some epic things going on, with the high concentrations of wealth and weaponry/armour. I'm trying to visualise it, but it's a struggle. I keep picturing Vercingetorix era Gauls clad in bronze instead of iron, maybe not that far off, in terms of social structure, etc. They really gotta invent that time machine soon, as Dan Carlin often says, how many questions could be answered by hovering over an ancient battle in a time machine! :) Thanks Dan, your content is as always world class!
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  7297. Thanks Dan Davis, big fan of your channel and looking forward to your novels. I enjoy your narration too.
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  7298. love the film and it put the bones on the bronze age in the Ukrane thank you if you ever wanyt to do some bronze stuff check my channel
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  7299. That smile at 1:14:33 made me do a double take, thinking I was going crazy! 😂
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  7300. Thanks for your work.
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  7301. great 👍
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  7302. I would love to see a video by you on the magyar transition from a steppe culture to a feudal society
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  7303. The sacred moo cow of course!
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  7304. I think he was left with his possessions as a form of respect
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  7305. U got yourself a sub
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  7306. Very meaty and interesting. A lot to absorb in one session. I’ll probably watch this again. Thanks!
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  7307. Broken bones because he was clumsy, aggressive or ... dangerous sports enthusiast? 14:30
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  7308. Thanks interesting wise info our ancestors are amazing thank you for bringing them back to life cheers I think you deserve a award for your story telling cheers
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  7309. Brutal!
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  7310. Just purchased the book
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  7311. I remember TV shows like this, classic. Are you on Nebula?
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  7312. Wow the quality of your videos is amazing! I’ll have to check out your book. I hope your channel grows in the future, keep it up
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  7313. Amazing videos, watching everything in the chanel. English is not my language, but it's really easy to understand your explanations
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  7314. Another excellent video
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  7315. Well done dude
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  7316. If you give a small boy a puppy then by the time he is an adult the dog has few good years left. Today its always a hard decision when “quality of life” has declined enough, and our lives are very cushioned now. Formalizing this into a rite of passage seems pragmatic
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  7317. Excellent! I've been looking for a comprehensive documentary about sir William and this is the best 👌
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  7318. I'd love a video of the wild hunt!
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  7319. Thanks Dan! Really enjoyable video!
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  7320. Great video, glad I stumbled on your channel, you have a new subscriber sir!
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  7321. Thanks again Dan.
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  7322. The narrator's voice sounds a great deal like that of Adrian Paul, Star of the Highlander Television series and Movie Actor...Coool!!!
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  7323. Absolutely. This is what meditation has shown to me.
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  7324. i love bronze age stuff
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  7325. Amazing documentary my friend. thank you deeply for sharing.
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  7326. You remind me a lot of Dan Carlin. Love this stuff thank you
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  7327. Fantastic! Well presented and does explain the origin of Lupercalia! Thanks so much!
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  7328. Another banger! Thanks for this, Dan!
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  7329. Will their be a God of bronze book 3 and will you cover bronze age cultures outside Europe
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  7330. Another wonderful video. Will be rewatching for sure.
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  7331. Dan Davis History - Magnificent. Super high narrative skills (yours) level-headed, calm reasoning - where so much is speculative and finally, outstanding production values. Regarding Ötzi's eye color why do they appear blue in the "the mummy," but a "scientific analysis" has determined otherwise? Has no one thought to call in a renowned eye expert? Do eyes change color in mummies that have been well preserved? I'm not being flippant - and of course it's not you that arrived at his 'correct' eye color. Tremendous job.
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  7332. Liking the Trigger reference
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  7333. How tf did I miss an hour long video from Mr Davis?!? Love your novels, looking forward to the video!
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  7334. Informative!.
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  7335.  @DanDavisHistory  Didn't Anthony cite other evidence from horse bones, such as vertebrae that showed deformity consistent with being ridden?
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  7336. Wonderful information, thanks! Never heard before about this mining field.
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  7337. New subscribe here . Thanks
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  7338. We also have evidence of ritual fights between coded wear fighters. Many warriors had healed and even operated head wounds.
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  7339.  @DanDavisHistory  I will check it out. Just discovered your awesome channel👍
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  7340. Thank you so much for not following the example of TV documentary presenters like Neil Oliver, Alice Roberts et al and making a program all about yourself
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  7341. Fascinating topic. Will be watching more of your vids. Looking now at the authors mentioned.
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  7342. Black shuck
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  7343. Hey, if you're ever interested in doing more disease content and want a hand, I'd love to help. I'm a surveillance Epidemiologist and a big fan of bronze age history.
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  7344. John Michelle wrote about this in the 80's, I think the book is called strange ideas, peculiar notions, there was a Dutch woman had herself treppaned in the 80s, worth investigating?
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  7345. Terrific story and terrific video! Thanks!
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  7346. Absolutely fantastic video, thank you for this, will share as much as I can.
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  7347. If you think about it. Making a giant settlement in the plains/steppes on a river makes perfect sense, it is the safest place to put a large city back in the day.
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  7348. 4:30 A Stone Age Salt Bae kicked the whole thing off. The next tribe over saw his bacon and decided to bring it home at all costs.
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  7349. I wonder how far they sailed
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  7350. Loved the still shot of Maid Marian And Her Merry Men. Such a great kid's show.
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  7351. Thank you for sharing the research ☝️☝️☝️
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  7352. This guy knows why I come. Hot chicks on horses
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  7353. Another amazing work Dan. Thank you for helping bring our past to life.
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  7354. This was awesome. I listened with pure intent to learn as much as possible. Excellent video excellent presentation. Loved it !!
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  7355.  @DanDavisHistory  i was more interested in steppe people living in a walled city in the middle of russia. its hard to imagine such a thing.
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  7356. If i may,i've rode a horse bareback cross country on multiple ocassions, including several miles. You can steer a horse quite reliably bit hitting it over the ear you want to turn to. P.S. you can ride quite conforbably a little slumped to one side on the animals back.
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  7357.  @DanDavisHistory  As fortune would have it i trained as an archeologist (specialised in the Chernyakhov culture) although i don't work in that field and i've seen a number of horse skeletons from around 2060 years ago in a dig, and they were rather small, tiny compared to most modern horses
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  7358. Naval koryos?
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  7359.  @DanDavisHistory  it's funny how that never goes away, hell I'm going to bootcamp in a week and that feels like a transition the way you described too
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  7360. Great stuff Dan, really interesting. Thanks for posting!
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  7361. What if his killer was someone that didn't know the value of the copper axe? Like a younger person totally ignorant of how to use it,etc.
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  7362. incredible video. Subbed
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  7363. I hadn't realised that arsenide bronze preceded tin/copper bronze, I assumed it was used where tin was unavailable. It certainly explains why the Smith god's are lame.
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  7364. Can you do more about Kings!
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  7365. Sexy thumbnail ….
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  7366. Here's my opinion. I'm a novelist. I know how careful novelists' research is. I'm also a scientist. I go with the evidence. I go for the Late Riding hypothesis. Thanks for making this video for us. Don't forget to watch the movie The Legend of Tomiris if you want to see some Iron Age horse-riding action. It's on YouTube. It's actually a good movie.
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  7367. Very very cool, thanks for posting this big dog!
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  7368. Thanks that was great
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  7369. Another amazing video man please keep them coming the bronze age and Europe and Eurasia is such an under-researched and documented. But it is one of if not the most interesting to me and apparently everyone else here
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  7370. i don't know how stringent my standard of evidence is ... I've read Anthony but not Drews, and now I'm curious what he has to say. I was attracted to Anthony by the linguistics & archaeology, but found the bit-wear study innovative & interesting in its implications. without having yet read Drews, I'm not sure why both hypotheses couldn't be true. Drews's focus is military, so that's what he's likely to see in the available evidence (confirmation bias), while Anthony's is more interdisciplinary, using comparative linguistics alongside the archae to develop the larger cultural/historical picture. He includes horse chariot evidence as part of the spread of horse technology into certain cultures. i think it might be useful to think of different cultures observing each other's technologies, including horse technology, as they came into contact and interacted and traded, and each adapting these new concepts & technologies to its own inherent values - i would guess mainly economic and religious. a militaristic culture in which prestige is increased via warfare would adopt horse tech for military purposes and arrive at backriding through chariot use. an agricultural society would focus on the draft and herding benefits. as you say and genetic evidence shows, there were multiple domestication events of mare herds, so why not multiple approaches to riding? horse tech would travel as fast as a horse itself - making it nearly impossible ultimately to nail down the "first."
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  7371. Interesting parallel. Couldn't think of of one myself. Irish myth can be hard to parse, and I do wonder why (at a surface level) it's so divergent from other IE lands.
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  7372. It's weird when I find a twitter artist and then find his art used in a youtube video
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  7373. I thought Errol Flynn was the real Robin hood.. another great video, excellent work. Brilliant channel.
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  7374. It's difficult for me to believe that Horses weren't being ridden as soon as they were domesticated. It's difficult to imagine that it never would have occurred to ancient people that figuring out a way to ride a Horse is much easier than travelling long distances on foot. Even Children seem to have an instinct about riding animals. One of the first thing a small Child will do with a Dog is to try to climb on it's back. My opinion, since I'm not qualified to have a theory is that the Horse was being ridden as soon as they were being used for food. The alternative is to believe that the first people to domesticate the Horse were really stupid.
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  7375. That was incredible sir
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  7376. Thank you for showing our deep ancestors as real normal and intelligent people. As we now know, it is just such people who built Stonehenge.
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  7377. top notch video
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  7378. Another excellent and well balanced presentation. Nice one again Dan.
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  7379. I found this channel and really enjoy the content and will check out your novels. This made something clear to me about early Halloween in the USA. The children, especially young boys, would go to houses and demand a "treat" and if they didn't get it they were allowed to "trick" the household. This often involved property damage, stealing animals and so forth. In the early 1900s, this practice started to be seen as unacceptable and thus was changed into the supervised "Trick or Treating" of modern times. Those boys were still basically enacting the Koryos until society changed the nature of their day of the dead ritual to meet modern standards.
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  7380. I never owned a horse till I was 51 yrs old and with no training I worked it out myself with NO bit, no spurs, whip or blinkers and rode with ONLY 1 rein, and drove in harness with a hackamore I used word command. I am rocknhorsetopaz on youtube
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  7381. Brilliant 👍☘
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  7382. Excellent
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  7383. It's a mind state. I been able to do it since i was young.
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  7384. Just started this. It's been too long since you posted but this looks to be worth the wait! :D
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  7385. I discovered you yestarday and im on the watching spree right now. Amazing channel. Please can u make something about early Slavs.
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  7386. Thank you for your content! :)
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  7387. WAKE UP SHEEPLE!! The plague was a plandemic made by the government to depopulate the cities. The bacterium was synthesised in a lab, err, I mean a witch made it and cast spells on the town to spread the plague. I had a relative who worked with the witch and he told the story, which passed down through the generations.
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  7388. the visuals are insane man. thank you
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  7389. Hell yeah 🤘
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  7390. Next one for the Million Club
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  7391. Best part: 11:06
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  7392. Been anticipating something soon(!).... Great timing! Love seeing new vids of yours in my notifications. Cheers! And thank you, Dan!
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  7393. I've been waiting for this
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  7394. I'm glad I found this channel. Fascinating stuff 👍
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  7395. Chuck Liddel is the real Iceman
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  7396. Normal video most used word: "the". This video's most used word: "impaled".
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  7397. Thanks for sharing!
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  7398. It is strange to hear that some people thinking of the Minoans as a peaceful people. When I hear that word I think of people with horned helmets, a lot of double bitted axes, and a people who were definitely a major part of the sea people who helped bring about the collapse of the Bronze Age.
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  7399. I had a horse that I trained so well without bridal or saddle and Road bareback and the horse took my cues it is very possible that they were able to communicate to the horse the horse being extremely social and very quick Learners and with big heart and wanting to please it is very possible that Rider and horse we're able to communicate without tools and without artificial AIDS
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  7400. Fantastic stuff
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  7401. One of the most interesting videos i have watched on Bronze Age world, i am still thinking and asking myself, who were all these peoples, were they come from, yes the accept theory is that spread from south, but maybe they came from North, i think we will never know.
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  7402. Good video, thanks!
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  7403. How things would have been different if Louis was made king? In a way I'd say a lot, but then again, those were the feudal ages and king John was not really different to prince Louis
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  7404. I've seen bone/antler mouth pieces in functional positions in bronze age (middle probably, not my field of expertise) paired horse burials in my part of Eastern Europe. Also the archaeozoologist on that site told us that, after consulting with veterinarians, there is a bone in the horse's foot that over-develops when it is ridden. So all our horses were not ridden but they were used due to their mouth pieces. So I tend to believe that they were using them on chariots.
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  7405. OMG! Steal my BEER! UNACCEPTABLE!
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  7406. Love these bronze age vids, and the perennial sea peoples mystery. Now that I caught up on your Gods of Bronze audiobooks (yes, audiobooks, I'm not ashamed) I can't wait to see how you fold this attention to real historical detail into more of Herkuhlos' adventures. Get to work! ;-)
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  7407. The BEST Otzi presentation I've seen-- and I've watched/read many. Great job!
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  7408. Excellent!
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  7409. Incredible work.
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  7410. Another great video👍 the late bronze age is very interesting. European mercenary in the bronze age empires of the Eastern Mediterranean would be a good basis for a book 👍
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  7411. I never stop being amazed on how our human anatomy adapts to there surrounding if they survive through the changes.
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  7412. Good facts, thanks! 👌👊
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  7413. Great presentation!
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  7414. Cool, cool video
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  7415.  @DanDavisHistory  Worst case, I join the hunt in Death lol, either way I have beer :-p
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  7416. https://youtu.be/dpXnIs57678
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  7417. Well done. Great narration and tone.
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  7418. Fantastic video 😎
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  7419.  @DanDavisHistory  My bad. I was trying to "multi-tasking" while watching/listening.
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  7420. Always quality. Can you do some on the Harappan civilization and other Indus River groups?
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  7421. On further pondering I can go a step further - If Romulus was a dog/wolf during his initiation and he sacrificed his own pet dog/wolf as part of this, then is it too much of a stretch to think of his pet as his 'brother' - them both being dog/wolves from the same pack - and therefore his killing of Remus as a further echo of the midwinter dog-sacrifice ?
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  7422. Maybe I am stretching too far here, but I think that this gives us insight into the relationship between the young men and their dogs - I think it would have been much closer and more important to them - literally a matter of life and death - than the relationship that we have with our dogs. I think that 'brother' might actually have been much closer to that sense than 'pet'. Once again, this has lead to confusion as the myth crystallised around the original kernel of truth....
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  7423. also Remus being a 'brother' ties in with the preponderence of male dog/wolves and the initiation being a male ceremony.
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  7424. Bronze age armor video please. I dont have a great skill with words but this video gave my brain an intellectual boner so I'd like more. Thank you
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  7425. Another great one, Dan.
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  7426. @17:00(ish) "Cassingham.. never gave up and never --- wavered.." Thank you so much for not saying, "... never surrendered.." Galaxy Quest has ruined that phrase's chances of ever being taken seriously... again!
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  7427. Subscribed and Liked! Just one notable mention…shouldn’t Doggerland be a part of this geographic area?
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  7428. new subscriber here - glad i found this chan
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  7429. A wonderful Historical Coverage about Hair styles in Bronze ages thanks for sharing
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  7430. Excellent work Dan.
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  7431. I agree with your hypothesis that the first horses ridden would not have a bridle and bit. A halter at most would be the most likely, in my opinion. The nose ring also is intriguing similar to what are used on Oxen. I have no idea how long that piece of equipment has been in use or what the first ring was made of.
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  7432. Fascinating as always.
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  7433. Great stuff thanks
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  7434. these are the good old days !
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  7435. Well now ... someone who actually knows their history and isn't just spitting out nonsense for once Big respect dude 🙏 keep up the great content
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  7436. lol... this is also the reply of the museum guide showing us the very ax george washington used to chop down the cherry tree!
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  7437.  @DanDavisHistory  Ah okay, good to know I am not losing my mind! Also, I love your work, it has inspired me to do research on my own. I have David Anthony's The Wheel, the Horse, and Language that I've been reading and it wouldn't have happened if not for your videos on this fascinating group of people.
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  7438. Amazing video Mate.
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  7439. interesting points. thank yew.
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  7440. Great vid!!!!
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  7441. Like I said going to watch them all.
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  7442. How do you know that the megaliths were built by these peoples? Where's your proof? How do you know they weren't here long before and they just came upon them?
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  7443. If you don't do audio books, you should.
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  7444. Great video as usual Dan. I suspect the Minoans engaged in warfare as needed, though perhaps a powerful navy gave them an excellent first layer of defence. Maybe land warfare became just stagnant and ritualistic enough that when the Mycenaeans (or Sea People) came knocking, they weren’t up to the task of defending their island. Who knows.
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  7445. 👍❤️
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  7446. I cant help but wonder, what would happen if your a year away from your manhood ritual and then your dog dies in an accident... What do you do then? Are you now stuck as a child or is that where the wolves come in? Fascinating subject :D
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  7447. Fantastic video. Congrats. Greetings from a Belgian Historian.
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  7448. Thank you , fantastic cometary. and great history lesson
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  7449. Thank you! Wow!
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  7450. 4 men can run a horse to death
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  7451. Thanks!
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  7452. Can someone help me? I can't understand what he said between 21:55 - 22:05 and subtitles are not available =(
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  7453.  @DanDavisHistory  Thank you very much!
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  7454. Edward III was our greatest king.
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  7455. Commenting in support.
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  7456. Another great video! And I'm enjoying your book. I usually only read/listen to non-fiction. And was expecting non-fiction because of your videos. Boy was I in for a surprise! :) It's very entertaining and exciting with great battle scenes and loveable characters. Though, I wish you describe the material culture a little more. I'm going to recommend your books to my friends and family!
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  7457. One of the most underrated channel on YT!
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  7458. plains dwellers scared of lightning and thunder invent thunder gods wielding lightning agricultural society say...lightning and thunder bring the rain to the earth goddess both can not exist
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  7459. I would love a video covering Bronze Age metal working, including armor 😊
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  7460. Dan, you’ve brought more insight into the Bronze Age than the History Channel, bring on the weights! Absolutely enjoy your research.
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  7461. Just found your channel. Brilliant stuff
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  7462. Did east Asia go through a Bronze Age? Is there anything known about it?
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  7463. Excellent Video. Sounds like the basic concept for a computer game ? Starving mercenaries go invade the weak Lords.
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  7464. Glad to see that photo of King Henry. =D
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  7465. YES... interested in a video about bronze age armor!
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  7466. I consider the hunter gatherer and their use of dogs as pack animals in times gone by. Herders come and bring cattle goats and sheep herding later. Over time hobbled horses would be used I think initially as pack animals as well. The lead around the neck being improved upon by the halter to give more authority and control. The halter leading into the bridle... Think of a loaded horse and perhaps children the old the lame or infirm perhaps pregnant women being added to their burden as well... Eventually someone usual a brash young man is going to try riding a dare perhaps but you can see a progression here rather naturally leading from hobbled food on the hoof to riding. All this would have predated trousers and as near as I can tell the oldest trousers are 1,000 years old or so. Although not requisite trousers are rather nice for riding especially on the cold steppe of Asia. The first tack would have been cordage and leather and not preserved easily. But I’d be inclined to believe bone and antler pieces found if carbon dated would be made after the earliest riders. That tack came into being to make better more durable and more easily repairable tack over time. All this is just logic and of course has no basis as fact, it’s just simply my point of view.
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  7467. How have I not found this channel earlier? Great stuff,
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  7468. I wonder if people were already distinguishing in public discourse one's own groomed warriors here vs alien unkempt barbarians over there. I mean, you wouldn't see your side covered in dirt, with no time to spare bathing or washing clothes on the raid. It's only foreigners and bandits you'd see in such poor shape.
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  7469. PLEASE Make video on William Marshall. I would love to see a documentary made by you on such a subject.
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  7470. vlad tepesch, dracul, other crazy vampire names from a horror movie and then there's a couple guys named Dan and Steve..... seriously lol wtf
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  7471. This was great, thanks.
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  7472. Sooo is Thunderer set in Scandinavia and is the Stag the target?
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  7473. Dan I just finished listening to God born and Thunderer on Audible. Funking nice writing Violent, poetic, Morality, Sexy It truly made me feel like a day in the life of a bronze age Warrior.oh did I mention Violent. I would recommend it to anyone and am sure it would be more thrilling In the physicalbook you could hold inyour hand. Please keep doing what your doing and making these YouTube videos You make me nerd out hard hostrbrother.
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  7474. Lol all the haircuts. Ötzi was murdered by his multiverse counterparts. “There can only be one.”
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  7475. I think that his friends interred him there on top of that mountain.
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  7476.  @DanDavisHistory  Damn. That’s something seriously impressive. reason why I visited this channel was to get some more info about northern europe in the bc so I will certainly read the book when I am done, maybe even the whole series in my free time afterwards.
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  7477.  @DanDavisHistory  God damn I'm certainly gonna pick up the books once theyre out. Best of luck bro, keep up the amazing work
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  7478.  @DanDavisHistory  Will pick up as soon as I get the chance
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  7479. Very interesting
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  7480. thks so much!!!! i was expecting long barrows!!!!! thks for the guiding books as well. they are going to help me a lot in my college studies.
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  7481. Very interesting talk. Thanks...history never gets old.
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  7482. If we think of chariots first, we do think of horses in actual combat. What about mounted infantry first? Simply being able to move quicker is a massive advantage on it's own.
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  7483. Thank you Dan for such an interesting and in depth study of the past @3:24 - - I wonder if the gold pieces were decoration tips on the ends of the bow? They say the wood of the bow did not survive the ages and rotted away ... Were these gold pieces found close to that location??
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  7484. SPECTACULAR RESEARCH!!!🙌🙌🙌
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  7485. There's even evidence in form of fossil DNA of virus outbreak from 65 MYA
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  7486. Fab storys
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  7487. Always love your uploads!
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  7488. Prominent usage of Sean Bean, nice...
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  7489. great video
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  7490. Great work!!!
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  7491. Horseback riding began with the invention of riding breeches. Prior to that mounting a horse was possible but riding would have resulted in serious injury of a persons private parts both male or female. It should be noted that many Native American nations had breeches prior to first contact with Europeans. Indeed they had breeches probably well before Europeans did and that includes the blonde Turkmen of Turned tan who are generally credited with the invention of the riding breeches. That is a fascinating enigma.
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  7492. Such an informative video, thank you.
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  7493. Cousin Olaf from Russia should see this
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  7494. Thank you for the gift of your knowledge and narrative skill! Excellent.
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  7495. Favors Kriss Kristofferson with that grin.
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  7496. Great topic choice! Maybe a book set in sumeria for your next project?
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  7497. Awesome topic
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  7498. You did a good job on this ,I'll subscribe to your channel
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  7499.  @DanDavisHistory  Not gonna lie, I went out and bought a crunchie bar. Yum.
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  7500. Please mr davis can you do videos just as good with other animals? You mention your book has a ceremony involving oxen and you have several videos about dogs. I cant find such good videos for anything other than horses or dogs
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  7501. Very relaxing voice. Glad I found this channel.❤
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  7502. Great stuff thanks for posting
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  7503. Fascinating and phenomenally well-done! I really enjoyed listening to this.
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  7504. Great channel.Love you narration.
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  7505. Amazing work, just that to say. Keep it upp!!
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  7506. Farm kids around the world ride sheep & goats, also cows. Hard to think the time between the first domestication of horses & the first riding of them took very long. Also, even small horses would be very useful as pack animals--not just pulling wagons but tying things on their backs. Any idea what the first evidence of pack horses is? Perhaps that could have been a transition to fulltime riding: it carries your stuff, maybe it carries your little kids, then adults?
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  7507. Allways those blody northeners 🤣
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  7508. Okay now I need a new time-elapse map to get a full up-to-date picture of all these cultures coming and going, over-lapping blobs, blending, and dividing like a bunch of frikkin' amobae!
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  7509. Why don’t you find the Yamnya people ever mentioned by their Assyrian,Babylonian,and Eblaites who were contemporary with them?When one reads about the Yamuna,you get the impression that they were the only people on the area.There are histories of others that are either neglected or dismissed when reading about the Yamnya even though others were contemporary.
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  7510. Wasn't Robin Hood killed by or turned into a vampire i some versions of the story?
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  7511. Perfect voice for this
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  7512. Maaaate this is a great History Channel!!! My kids are home school and this is perfect 🙌 I appreciate what you have done so much...cheers bro 💪 The one on William Marshall was a Rippa👌
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  7513. Repeated freezing and thawing is, in general, one of the most destructive possible of processes that can happen to organic matter.
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  7514.  @DanDavisHistory  I have a love-hate relationship with the field of archeology, I know things seem to be moving in a somewhat positive direction, but if I was one of the human beings who took painstaking care in preparation for a person’s ritual interment, to ensure a safe journey into the afterlife and eternity, I doubt that I would have much appreciation, for the distinction between respected archeologists, and tomb raiders, greedy for wealth or glory, when it comes to who defiles the tomb, steals not only the valuables but the bod(y/ies,) and whether it was being shipped to a private collection or one belonging to a prestigious academic institution.
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  7515. Greetings, please do the Bronze Armour video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and research. pax, PL
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  7516. I thought the "KING of Stonehenge" was Phil Harding
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  7517. Great job. I guess I took for granted that I always knew there was plenty of copper. Now the tin, that was the good stuff.
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  7518. Why is YouTube only just now showing me this channel?! Right up my alley - liked and subscribed 😎
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  7519. In Serbia I always heard in falk poetry Wolf's Kuriyack,spelled Vuk Kurijak, always wondered about the origin
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  7520. Good video sir! Sub'd.
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  7521. Love your videos so bad it hurts.
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  7522. Hey Dan, I should just look this up but I'm too deep into this sentence to quit now brother. Is ur book vampire crusader or something like that an audiobook as well? If so I'm buying asap man
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  7523. Always truth
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  7524. I'm just a history fan, looking for answers to questions that I have. Without nonsense, with the latest and non-biased view,, you provide. I love your channel. Kudos that professionals love it too. I love history and have been to the sites you talk about many times and have always tried to put myself 'there', living that Human life. Thank you!
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  7525. I have absolutely no clue 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  7526. 3200 BC was an incredibly violent time it seems
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  7527. what about Doggerland? when that connected Britian to Europe?
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  7528. Harding's first quote seems to be fairly hyothetical. On what is he basing the purpose of the stelae? We dont have written sources from this place and period so it seems that any conclusions of purpose would be tenuous at best.
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  7529. Hey! Really nice documentary! I just HAD to subscribe! Looking forward to more...
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  7530. Which brings up the question of when the stirrup was introduced. This was the greatest piece technology that advanced horse riding and warfare. When did the saddle and stirrup come into play?
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  7531. That someone "could" ride horses without any real need for tack or saddle-cloth is I suppose something that could well go back for millennia; but that is not the point of your video, I assume, Dan. The "late" evolution of true horseback martial skill seems much more consistent with the evidence as we have it. Had it occurred earlier, then you might expect to find evidence of a much bigger impact of the semi-nomad Siberian cultures upon the more settled cultures on the fringes of the steppes or in the Middle East, in the mid-Bronze Age.
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  7532. I should have waited before asking those questions - you later explain that population-density in the area was low, and that there were no villages nearby, so I suppose my questions are not so crucial in that context. Still, I've always wondered if ancient or medieval battle-sites were vectors for disease (contaminated land or water).
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  7533. Excellent work! Highly informative and concisely presented. For the record, I'd be fascinated to watch athat "History of the Chariot" video you mentioned in passing. :)
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  7534. Fascinating video on the armor. Loved how you make it so easy to see the spread of different techniques of armor production.
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  7535. IF people make moats and stockades... its not peaceful... only stockade could be an animal penn, but the moat means warfare or danger there off
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  7536. Excellent video!
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  7537. That was a fantastic documentary!
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  7538. it worked! Just bought part one off Godborn on Audible- listening to it now- great stuff :-)
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  7539. its mind fuck warfare. its brutal and all about intimidation sorry , but if swear words offend. You're following the wrong threads. War is far worse.
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  7540. loved it, new sub here
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  7541. This is fast becoming my favorite channel😬
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  7542. Great channel, new sub.
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  7543. WOW!!!. Idk they found stomach contents.
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  7544.  @DanDavisHistory  Sweet as. Thanks for replying.
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  7545. Absolutely stunning Dan, the rise, flourishing and then fall of the various cultures is incredibly fascinating, I ❤ these videos, I will have to watch it a few times, to make sure I don't miss anything 👌 just beautiful 👍 Thank you 🍻
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  7546. This one just leaves me wanting to meet the happy Neolithic woman.
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  7547. I always wonder why if the person who shot and killed otzi, why did he not steal all of his equipment. I’m thinking that his equipment was very hard to come by
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  7548. super interesting and informative! thanks!
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  7549. Great video
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  7550. I do wonder if that had some sort of advantage, or even if they were viewed favorably by the farmers.
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  7551. Brilliant, thank you!
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  7552. I think they look like the body of the sphinx and the forelegs creating the courtyard 🐮 =] awesome video. I love rewatching these, so, thanks Dan. I like your books a lot too 🌊🏄‍♂️🪷
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  7553. This was REALLY excellent!!
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  7554. i was born in the Hunter Valley NSW Australia in 1964 , and i can tell you Otzi was in better shape , than i am today . I am a Foundry Jobbing Moulder , as well :)
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  7555. I saw one at the fantastic German Culture museum in Nuremberg. It really is a thing of beauty and mystery.
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  7556. Great Orme :)
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  7557. Another bottler mate ta
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  7558.  @DanDavisHistory  Keep it going man
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  7559. Beautiful opening shot of Belas Knap. I live close by & have interacted with this site for many, many years. It is a haunted & special place.
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  7560. These are just great videos. Wish I had these when I was in high school in the early 1970’s
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  7561. like your comparison of collapse of civilizations to the periods in which they were written. good wit! good point many wouldnt even consider
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  7562. This is the best documentary I've seen of Sir William Marshal. Thank you!
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  7563. There are none so blind as those who cannot see. The dragon and serpent represent the same force being that of the light, they are the good guys. The dragon is known to breathe fire symbolising the baptism of the Holy Spirit the dragon is the anointed one who's power is derived from the Holy spirit. The serpent symbolises the wisdom of enlightenment to be wise as serpents as the biblical saying goes. Anyone who seeks to destroy this dynamism is working against the good of humanity. The name George is a theophoric name being one that bears the name of a god there is only one God that fits this frame being an epithet of Zeus in his guise as Zeus Georgos meaning the husbandman. Zeus also known through antiquity as Baal, Enlil, Ammon, Set an, Jupiter, Melquart, Hercules and Yahweh to name a few is the great deceiver and certainly not a Saint as would be understood rather a scoundrel cloaked in virtue.
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  7564. 11:05 HA! Nice edit! This Otzi guy is cool, I hope up until his murder of course, that he had a good and happy life.
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  7565. Very good.😊
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  7566. Is there any chance you could make a video on how you go about writing your books, because I’m thinking of making a book about Bronze Age Scandinavia/Germany and I would like to see how you would go about making your books for inspiration
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  7567. my man Dan and his amazing mini documentaries
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  7568. Your video's are always food for thought! Thanks!
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  7569. Fascinating work Sir. Thank You indeed.
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  7570. This was fantastic. Thanks, Dan
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  7571. Love your videos. Keep it up
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  7572. Bronze is one fantastic material
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  7573. The iceman was only a little bugger like me too
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  7574. Muchos gracias jefe
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  7575. Great video! Dental implant Otzi looks like he’d help a stranger move a couch. I love that guy
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  7576. Saludos de Ucrania👋🏼🇺🇦
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  7577. Thank you Dan for this episode as it gives me perspective. Having recently completed 2 Big Y-700 tests seems to place my family line in Briton about 2000 bce.
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  7578. Fascinating video! This is amazing content
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  7579. Sure, but I still say Otzi had a warrior spirit. Seems like he put up a heck of a fight.
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  7580. Awesome video man!
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  7581. Good one man!
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  7582. Next one will be about Skanderberg! 😎
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  7583. Great film, very enlightening. Also I appreciate the rare effort to gather high quality footage/resources. Thank you. 🤝
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  7584. Just found your channel love this ancient history stuff, keep it coming bro. All other channels focus on the Romans imo (not seen rest of yours yet!) just landed on this looking for info on indo european history and already think I'm onto a winner.
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  7585. second watch through
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  7586. RIP to those whipworms that went down with their host.
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  7587. Comment for algorithm
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  7588. Also check Egyptian Anubis.
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  7589. You should organize a tour going to bronze age archaeological sites around the eurasia. Maybe have some archaeologists, paleographers etc give talks at each site. I'd sign up for that
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  7590. would the first official warrior Coincide with the first weapon that wasn’t also used as a tool? that would include hunting weapons as tools ?
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  7591. I like every video dedicated to Bronze age people. We don`t learn anything about them at school.
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  7592. Still watching, where can I get your books?
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  7593. Cool!
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  7594. You truly are a treasure, thank you and I'm so happy to see you succeed. Been here since the very first video you did. And of course we would like to see an episode about the Srubnaya :) - your videos are unmatched in explaining and narrating this complicated and fascinating ancient world.
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  7595. maybe i the traditional oral histories of the natives that live in the steppe are some hints of that,... i know they have a very long horse traditions :)
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  7596. Can there be two different developments that both led to the mounted warrior of history. I would adhere to the step rider “hypothesis” and I could definitely write a book on it. But then I’m not an academic. I do have a really hard time having an academic telling me not to make assumptions that he will instead make them for me. Lol ridicules.
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  7597. Good creaic.
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  7598. well ill be god damned.. this was way more interesting then i was expecting!... Subbed!
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  7599. I vote yes for a bronze age armor episode
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  7600. Fascinating
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  7601. Dan, your presentations on these issues is more concise and honest than lectures by many credentialed experts. I sincerely appreciate your work. Thank you for sharing your research with us.
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  7602. Wonderful presentation.
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  7603. Yes, please! A weights and measures video. The ability to measure is a lens into a people's sence of true value and excellence.
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  7604. What an incredible life ! Well told
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  7605. I have a MA in cultural Anthro and I love your channel.
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  7606. A lot of the art depicted is "rock hard". Joke aside, why do a lot of warriors have an erection? Maybe to depict the warrior as strong. Remember, the hard rock is difficult to work and it is difficult to add details ...
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  7607. WHOA yea this is incredible SO certainly there was world wide trade and communication and I love how you follow a pathway with information and artifacts. These videos make it easier to conjure up these bronze age traders traversing early Italy into the deep German forest AND even the sea traders making their way to bronze age Scandia. Very interesting
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  7608. Narration voice top notch.Research quality right ttop level with Cooper and his "Fall of civilizations" You are truly epic
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  7609. Wow, i love the idea of these stone age tools being found by bronze and iron age people and reveared. I have my own hammer amulet given to me by an eastern european soldier.
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  7610. U live near bury so do I in the parish of wickhambrook
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  7611. Sooner than later, we will see nearly perfectly preserved human remains again coming to light from melting permafrost!
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  7612. Damn Dan, awesome video probably one of the cooler ones.
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  7613. Trade across seas and continents. An army could have just as easily been a trading expedition. A wealthy individual at that time, in order to travel from Alpine Europe to Britain, likely had a large enough retinue to carry and guard lots of stuff, bargain from a position of strength, or simply take what they wanted. Some they met on the way would welcome them, appreciate the opportunity to trade surplus food, goods, cattle and people for bronze, salt, and other shiny stuff. Others would resist, might even succeed in being left alone, or be killed or left destitute, maybe enslaved. At least that's a picture I'm forming. Wealth, political and military power, extensive trade connections. Civilization.
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  7614. forgot to mention Garm from norse mythology
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  7615. I think that the early domestication of the horse is more likely, considering that it spread so far across the Central Asian Plains to the the Far East of Asia. and that Hunnic Horsemen were already interacting and fighting with Ancient Chinese Cultures at the end of the 1st Millenium BC. I have a hard time believing that the ancient Mongols and Turks had 'Mastered' the Horse in only a couple hundred years.
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  7616. Enjoyed this one also! Thank you for sharing!...:-)
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  7617. Retvrn to hyperborea
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  7618. Pretty sure they’ve returned, now they’re hulled up at Skinwalker Ranch.
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  7619. Very interested in the non hierarchical nature of those very large settlements. Reminds me of the Indus Valley Civilization which was also egalitarian and succumbed to climate change and Steppe Herders around 2500 BCE.
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  7620. Well done! Thank you
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  7621. Same injury that killed Selena..bled out in minutes.
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  7622. I enjoyed this.
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  7623. So basically they are young guys who get drunk, steal and destroy villages as a "blessing". Who ever came up with that.....well done!
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  7624. Your presentation is superb!
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  7625. Brilliant documentary! Thanks!
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  7626. Perhaps the discovery of the advantages of cod liver oil allowed the newer peoples to utilize more northern habitats.
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  7627. I just love your presentation and the way you were serve it to us very educational thank you.
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  7628. Nice well done. All new to me. Thanks
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  7629. This channel is gold. Subscribed and clicked on the bell icon. ;)
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  7630. Just wonderful. I love those videos. Very useful for video game development.
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  7631.  @DanDavisHistory  You are welcome and I thank you for making those wonderful videos. ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
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  7632. Really enjoyed this and will be watching more. A great story well told.
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  7633. 0:44 "Nice Marmot."
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  7634. Excellent ! Thank you.
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  7635. Super interesting. But earliest riders probably used a bitless "war bridle" that wouldn't mark teeth ... at least based on the known North American experience ...
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  7636. Another wonderful historical coverage video about (Botai culture is that it lived in the central area of Asia ... their relationship to demostic and wild horses 🐎 ...this magnificent work shared by an excellent (Dan Davis history) channel
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  7637. Very nice video. Well done
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  7638. Really cool info, thanks! need one about tin
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  7639. I’m actually working on a really massive cross medium project of history fiction and myth building, I’ve been working on it since before I found your channel, but your work has been very inspirational to me, and has helped keep me motivated and focused. I’m sure you know how it can be when you’re in the middle of a seemingly never ending project and you still have lots of work to do, but you’ve helped me ground myself and rediscover the joy and love in my work that motivated me to start it in the first place.
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  7640. Great video as always. But must admit, hearing afanasievo being mentioned makes me hope an episode about this culture/people is on your to do list. Might be one of the furthest eastward migrations made (not counting contiguous empires), and one of the last of significance of this kind maybe. Later waves would almost always go the other way.
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  7641.  @DanDavisHistory  I came back.. and now it's playing. Very odd. Thanks for your comment. As I live near Sherwood I was looking forward to this. Everybody here grows up with Robin Hood, so who was he?
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  7642.  @DanDavisHistory  I did. It's not a story I had ever heard before! A real hero
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  7643.  @DanDavisHistory  Yeah, I remember the late 80's.
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  7644. Wonderful the way you bring these cultures to life... the illustration and narrative... thank you also the ref to books... alread read the wheels etc book... studied the subject your video here a great addition and way for more data...
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  7645. @Dan Davis Author I came across your videos whilst researching to write my own novel(s). Firstly, your ability to deliver mostly accurate information, given the currently accepted models, in a manner that is both entertaining and educational is quite nice. Also, I would like to thank you for such information, I shall be going through all your videos to see anything I may have missed or simply haven't been exposed to.
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  7646. I still feel the Botai as the first riders is the most logical and reasonable. As I understand it the Botai were decimated and supplanted by the Yamnaya through plague. It would only make sense that the Yamnaya would take full advantage of the horse domestication provided by the Botai if this were true. Genetic studies show the Botai aren't as closely related to the Yamnaya as previously thought, but are closer to the original Northern Steppe inhabitants & no admixture to speak of. By the time of the Tarim burials the Botai were long gone and horses were an integral part of Yamnaya culture, as shown by the horsehair suture closing an abdominal surgery on one of the mummies.
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  7647. My wager is that chariots came first. We have a lot of evidence even in the Iron Age of chariot riding as a somewhat archaic technology. The prime of the chariot is in the Bronze Age, and it survived in isolated pockets here and there as horses became larger and more viable as a battle vehicle. The Ancient Britons used chariots likely because they didn’t have the horses for cavalry - look at the dark ages also; the Anglo Saxons revered the horse greatly like all IE cultures, but Rohirrim they were not. The Northern European ponies of the British isles were good transport animals but dogshit for battle. To my knowledge the Normans introduced the warhorse to Britain in a certain sense. This, as well as the early IE chariot cults etc all leads me to believe that the chariot boys are correct. I see chariots as equally badass to horse riding myself, if not more.
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  7648. Absolutely Brilliant
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  7649. Fascinating.
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  7650. Makes you wonder how many other mummies are out there in the extreme cold or even Sahara desert
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  7651. I saw a picture of this awhile back and keep meaning to cast my own.
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  7652. Oooo I couldn't wait for this
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  7653. ..."And the beer probably helped..." I'm loving this series.
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  7654. terrific story
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  7655. Amazing video
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  7656. Excellent thank you for sharing
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  7657. The cave art at 1:09 seems surprisingly realistic to me, especially the to on the right. Maybe its just coincidental shading, but the area around the eye on the second one from the right, and the nose & mouth on the far right one are both really good.
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  7658. Thanks!
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  7659. Thanks for another exciting synopsis Dan! So much data responding to multi disciplinary and comparative analysis now...
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  7660. Lovely video, as always! Great topic!
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  7661. Didn't they keep the forest more safe for the village, so they would not always be hunted by animals too?
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  7662. Great video as always!
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  7663. I'm a fictional writer and wrote a story about a vampire that had lived during this era. It's extremely fascinating
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  7664. I seriously love your work.
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  7665. We have wren's day in Ireland. Where youths hunt a wren to paraded it around the town to collect money.
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  7666. His forrays into the jungles of central america make my mind come alive with story ideas. Maybe one about a Band of Mestizo Rebels, Escaped Slaves and marooned English Pirates taking revenge on a particular Spanish Governor.
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  7667. An ancient archer? With an injury on his knee?.... You got to be kiddin' me...
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  7668. 👍👍👍
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  7669. wagons warfare was first developed in the bronze age, but later reinvented in the late medieval era during the Hussite war.
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  7670. Aunjetitzer-Kultur?
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  7671. Great stuff Dan
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  7672.  @DanDavisHistory  good luck 👍🏻
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  7673. Is there any working theories on why WSH intermarried with EEF in the Cordedware in Central Europe but later Bell Beaker men seemed to do "ethnic cleansing" in Western Europe?
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  7674. Great video. TY.
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  7675. I would like to make a commentary regarding minute 19:28 , the person depicted there probably was sitting back on the horse because the horse wasnt tamed yet or it was very difficult to be controled thus, the rider would avoid being thrown by the horse while kicking. I saw techniques like this here in Romania in country-side. The same thing applies to donkeys. I loved this video so much! I tend to agree with Drews because it sounds more anchorated in reality, for me, although I dont agree horses werent riden until the collapse of Bronze Age. It's very difficult to work with very little proofs.
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  7676. 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄😉
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  7677. book-em danno Hawaii 50 , my lame attempt at humor ..you behind a Author and all
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  7678. Wild hunt please
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  7679. Is this related to Vikings?
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  7680. Marvellous! Great story!
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  7681.  @DanDavisHistory  Ahh, thank you!!
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  7682. Whenever someone claims you need to live like our ancestors to be healthy, show them Ötzi's health report.
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  7683. Are you History Time??? Yall sound so similar
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  7684. This video is awesome
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  7685. Another great video, Dan. I have 2 questions: 1. How did they know that the Amersbury archer was from the Alps? 2. You said that Europe's population doubled between 2000 BC and 1500 BC. Had agriculture already become established in most of Europe beforehand? What I'm asking is, did this doubling of population happen as a result of the introduction of agriculture, or because of some subsequent agricultural revolution? During the 17th century, there was an agricultural revolution in Europe, and most historians agree that the industrial revolution wouldn't have been possible without this agricultural revolution as a precursor. Did the doubling of Europe's population occur merely because of the introduction of agriculture, or because of improvements in agriculture?
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  7686.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks, Dan. I was thinking that it might have been a few things like that. I remembered one of your videos on the rapid colonization of Britain by neolithic farmers, starting about 4300 BC, so I was scratching my head wondering "So if agriculture had already been introduced in most of the European mainland, then why did the population-explosion happen a millennium later?" But I suppose that it stands to reason, the more I think about it - because during the initial few centuries after the introduction of agriculture, trial and error would have killed a fair few people. I'm sure that it took a fair few centuries for peoples who were relatively new to farming to iron out the kinks in their new economy, so I suppose that the real population-explosion would begin only several centuries after that initial agricultural trial and error phase.... Of course, that's in addition to all of the technological improvements and innovations which you kindly itemized for my benefit. Thanks :)
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  7687.  @torfinnzempel6123  I heard they do that in Israel (or used to .. I hope). It's horrific.
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  7688. GIVE US THE BALLS WE WANT THE BALLS
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  7689. Hey , you said on your Telegram channel the you're hesitant to ask people to subscribe, i think just thanking people for subscribing at the end will have almost the same effect. Also this video needs more views!
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  7690. Thanks Dan, took up the Curiosity Stream deal too, nice1
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  7691. Mmmm:) I can live on milk and cheese :)
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  7692. Read the godborn trilogy and now up to the vampire impaler
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  7693. very interesting, and the idea of these men brings Howards Conan, tho fantasy, into an amusing place, there may have been many such huge professional warriors roaming the world selling their skill. It seems by this that it has probably always been that way, and will continue. and again thanks for the vids and your work
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  7694. Fascinating.... Thank you. Happy Christmas
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  7695. Perhaps a beginning for "...hair of the dog." Literally eating the dog, that may or may not have bit you, to confer health and power.
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  7696. we're is the evidence that protoindoeuropean warbands wore wolfskins?
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  7697. Thats Kris Kristofferson.
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  7698. 💖❣Yay! A new Dan Davis drop!
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  7699. Great production, even the background music is well chosen!
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  7700. Just found your site, excellent! Enjoyed the Trypillan video. You might like to read about Shu Nun, Aratta, Ukraine. They came thousnds of years before Trypillian society and worshipped Anunnaki, Vishnu and Indra first!
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  7701. IIRC the Danish pitted ware people also ate lots of oysters, but the Swedish pitted ware people did not.
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  7702. Excellent vid, thank you for making it
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  7703. 👍👍👍
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  7704. Great material and rendering of a very difficult topic, sub gained
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  7705. Fascinating. Many thanks.
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  7706.  @DanDavisHistory  Quality work. You could make a pretty good living on YouTube from these types of vids. :) (I know! Writing is a monkey on your back and you can't let it go. :D BTDT.)
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  7707. Fascinating- great video 👍
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  7708. BRONZE AGE BOHEMIA STRONK 🙌😎💪
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  7709.  @DanDavisHistory  yes only a few scraps of opinion on Reddit etc, be great to get some solid data. Great vids BTW 👌
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  7710. Taming of horses must surely have been dependent on having suitable feed for them. If you're going to use them for work, you need to compensate for the grazing time you are depriving them of. Also, a hungry mare isn't a cooperative beast!
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  7711. No way was Otzi murdered! They would have taken the copper axe head for absolute certainty. That item alone would be worth a sack full of gold laying by your dead victim then walking away from it. His other gear was worth taking just by itself let alone leaving a copper axe worth a Rolls Royce today! is out of the question. As simple as it sounds I think he was killed by a friend/companion in a hunting accident. Otzi had just eaten a nice meal. He had coals in maple leaf for fire making later on. This tells us he is on a regular journey from A to B. If, he was in a hurry then no time for snacks/hot coals. The missing arrow shaft tells us even more because if nature removed it, it would leave a very large tear instead of nothing. The scientists didn't even see the entry point until they had scanning instruments! A human must have removed it and then fled to get help which never came. That would explain why Otzi's valuable axe head remained. That would explain why his valuable bow, quiver, arrows, knife and gear were all left intact. Hunting accidents happen all the time. My uncle almost killed his brother (other uncle) pheasant hunting! It happens a lot. Ask VP Dick Cheney. The fact that the copper axe head was left cannot be ignored and has to be part of any credible explanation of what happed to Otzi...
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  7712. Love how you take dry dusty science and make a story out of it.
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  7713. I love your work, man. Thank you for all that you do. You seem like a real down to earth fellow, as well. A breath of fresh air in a society that seems increasingly obsessed with the veneration of one’s own self, all that is novel and the destruction of cultural heritage and tradition. Keep on keeping on, we need you!
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  7714. Thank you for the faantastic video. I just discovered your channel and can't wait to watch more of your content.
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  7715. Excellent video 👍
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  7716. YES!!!! Finally, the topic has been done justice. Thank you!
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  7717. I don't know very much about these people the berserkers. Only saw a movie. Know I'm Going to get educated .
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  7718. Well this channel was hiding from me. I'll be marathoning it. Hope your videos keep coming
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  7719. It makes sense that if horses were riden early, then they were perhaps used in the same way as the Iron Age Britons used chariots, as a type of 'battle taxi'. Warriors would have riden the horses to a battle, jumped off to engage the enemy in melee, before getting back on the horse if they needed to flee. They could have also have been used to transport the warrior to hotspots on the battlefield, like dragoons in the 17th-19th centuries. Then again perhaps 'battles' during the prehistoric era were nothing but small scale 'brawls' involving tens of men that lasted minutes and so there might not have been a need for a prehistoric dragoon. The evidence is very scarce and open to interpretation either way.
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  7720. Astounding as usual
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  7721. You just know it was a neolithic Johnny Knoxville who turned to his buddies and said "hey, watch this!" before accidentally changing forever the way humanity interacted with a very important domesticated species. And presumably shortly after getting launched a good 10 feet via bucking horse.
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  7722. Grate.
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  7723. Grate video thanks.
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  7724. I love your videos! I'm going to look up your novels after work.
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  7725. I assume murder since his body wasnt looted. The killers if they were people known to him wouldnt take his things to not have evidence on them, they wanted him to dissapear
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  7726. Well damn! This is so good!
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  7727. Yea! Made my day!
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  7728. Excellent presentation!! The quality I've been searching for, where others fall short! Earned my sub!!!
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  7729. Thank you
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  7730. New subscriber 🍿
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  7731. Hi dan Nice videos as always. But I would like to ask you do you have a date for the 3rd season of the Herculos series?
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  7732. His so called scraper looks more like something known as a fabricator - strike a light for fire starting.
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  7733. A representation of a Fig leaf would have been more appropriate 🙂
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  7734. Thank you for the good info and presentation
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  7735. just really really well done thanks
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  7736. this should be made into film!!
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  7737. Riding to a battle and then dismounting to fight offers some advantages.
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  7738. Love this video, it is one of the best yet, very interesting, keep it up 😊
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  7739. this is the very best you can listen to concerning prehistoric humans.
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  7740. Thanks! Enjoyed this one,and the other docs from Dan Davis History too.
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  7741. Amazing narration. I’ve just subscribed.
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  7742. Why haven't they looked for any evidence of spinal damage? Early horse riders would not have known to teach horses to tilt their pelvis and lift their backs to carry a rider more efficiently. They would have been riding the horses pretty hollow. Surely there would have been evidence of kissing spine? EDIT: I'm assuming they found spines, they probably didn't
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  7743. When you said combs razors and tweezers I was expecting a manscape add transition 😂😂
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  7744. Loved this info man. Nice job. Good clear explaining.
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  7745. Great video. Learned a lot. If possible I would love to see some kind of timeline layout for the cultures and horse use as well.
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  7746. I cant agree with everything he did his part in elisbeths irish campaign and his part in the crimes against my countrymen but even i can respect what he did he might have been a protestant but he achieved alot and may he reat in peace
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  7747. The irony of the Keeps sponsor is magnificent
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  7748. You just opened a set of answers to questions I’ve had for a long time. Of course now there are new questions, but totally great channel!!!
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  7749. Very interesting
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  7750.  @DanDavisHistory  Oh, I know. I'm passingly familiar with this field, but I stumbled across this youtube channel by accident. Because I've long thought that the PIE story was ripe for semi-historical fiction, like the People of the Wolf books, except European, I was naturally intrigued by what you're doing. Just watched your three videos on this just now. Good work!
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  7751. This is super fucking interesting however your videos give me an inexplicable lovecraftian sense of dread
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  7752. Its Hammer Time!
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  7753. I love all stone age documentaries, but with recreations(acting and so on). Wish they made more videos like that
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  7754. An excellent intro to the subject, very informative, subscribed.
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  7755.  @DanDavisHistory  meant to say hammer not axe. The wielder would be open to projectile attack, but to break a shield formation at close range ten guys could do considerable damage.
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  7756. I guess it can be hard to say if they were really cannibals, but if they were, I'm sure they were Fine Young Cannibals.
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  7757. Thank you so much for making this I really enjoyed it. Will def read the first crusade book
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  7758. Excellent video Dan. Thank you!
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  7759. Were the bodies defleshed and the ochre added to the bones? This is sort of confusing.
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  7760. It's been a long, long time... .my man!
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  7761. dan you did it again you amaze me and yes i how about manu yemo tristo and cattle myths dyeuis pater cheers and thank you for bringing our true ancestors to life again cheers
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  7762. You mean JM Aule did not get in right in Clan of the Cave Bear series?
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  7763. Quality stuff and insights as always Dan Davis.
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  7764. Love your channel mate, thanks !
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  7765. Kudo's to you! This is another EXCELLENT video I can't believe you are on YouTube
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  7766. Great job 👍
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  7767. I know how to beat the dog. All dogs are the same, I will befriend him. He's not scary at all he's a good boi
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  7768. I need your books
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  7769. Absolutely beautiful video!
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  7770. Made within first 270 views, YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gettin' a fresh cuppa coffee, be right back!
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  7771. I sugest you a video about Tartesos.
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  7772. Koryos = Kouros?
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  7773. The horns could have been made to break of easily in battle or if not made that way probably came off easily anyway when contacted by a weapon.
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  7774. A key conclusion from one of the articles: "Our results reject the commonly held association between horseback riding and the massive expansion of Yamnaya steppe pastoralists into Europe around 3000 BC, driving the spread of Indo-European languages." In other words, horse warriors had nothing to do with the spread of early IE speakers into Europe.
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  7775. Francia Drake fue un magnífico marino y un gran Almirante de la Reina Isabel | se le tiene como pirata pero es una difamación del imperio español y sus cómplices ,el tenia una estratégica de golpes marinos por sospresa al enemigo ,pero el enemigo lo calificaba de pirata eso decían los del imperio español ,todo mentira ,un buen y excelente marino que dio la vuelta al mundo antes que los españoles ,tenemos que dejar de una vez las leyendas de sus rivales que le consideraban pirata el imperio británico se hizo grande por que tenía buenos marinos buenos soldados y buenos galeones Gloria a Drake !!!!!!
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  7776. Been waiting for this. Thank you sir
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  7777. This is excellent!
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  7778. 👍👍👍
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  7779. @DanDavisHistory  thanks for the clarification. I appreciate the work you put into your videos and I've really enjoyed your books!
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  7780. Seems like youthful horse-play 😉 has a similarity to the sport of gymnastics with bulls, known in Crete back then, and I suspect continues through to bullfighting and the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona ... Sooooo last millennium guys! 🙄
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  7781. Excellent!
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  7782. Liked and subbed!!! Great content!!
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  7783. Mindblowing!!!😎👍👍🙏🙏
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  7784.  @DanDavisHistory  would be great to see a crossover with you and ancient architect ?
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  7785.  @DanDavisHistory  you two would be perfect together, I watch most of his great vids, he looks into on part of a culture and his ideas and you seem more into fact and the people of the culture , so you and AA could do great web chats and dive into the same thing but in different ways
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  7786.  @DanDavisHistory  if we both message him it might happen
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  7787. What a great video. Specially the end, where you comment how this system was stopped being used simultaneously in various locations and its connection with old weight systems. Also, how the weight systems could be linked to the current universal system.
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  7788. Excellent, very good work. Sardinian pre-history is not much discussed and I know nothing about it.
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  7789. Spiral designs, circular towns, a female-centered religion, relative egalitarianism, an emphasis on animal husbandry, and hill forts...🤔 that sounds familiar doesn’t it? The culture didn’t collapse. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of history can see that. Obviously it changed as the bronze age advanced and warfare became more common. Obviously it changed as the bronze age became the iron age and other cultures rose up around it. But it didn’t collapse. Change is a sign of a healthy and successful culture. Only dead cultures are unchanging. Stop saying collapse when you mean change. Those towns were abandoned, but the people built new ones. It’s pretty obvious what happened to these people. As you mentioned, you share a haplogroup with some of them. This is not rocket science.
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  7790. Just plain old good work Brother. Thanks from Philadelphia
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  7791. Loved this, subscribed. Great content.
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  7792. Yes, please bronze age weights! I think i speak for every subscriber when I say your meticulous attention to detail is why we are all here. Thank you for all your hard work
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  7793. Your content and delivery are superbe. Many thanks for your sharing.
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  7794. On occasion when I got frustrated arguing with someone I would tell them to "go milk a horse". They never would reply to this, just get a strange look on their face probably trying to figure out if this was possible. :)
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  7795. These are awesome. Thank you!!
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  7796. Tony Robinson also did a video on this: https://youtu.be/xPRBQadLNIM
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  7797. "perhaps it was a copper trade gone wrong..." Ea-Nasir did it and I will accept no other explanation.
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  7798. Very good video indeed, thank you very much for your inspiring work.
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  7799. A video on Bronze Age armor? YES!
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  7800. Ok “skin boat” just made my top list of words
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  7801. A great tactician. I now better understand why he is revered in Romania, although it seems strange that northern Romania is included in that, seeing as he massacred and brutalised the population... But he was still an abhorrent monster – even by Medieval standards.
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  7802.  @DanDavisHistory  it was well worth it! Amazing!!!
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  7803. I'm gonna have to go and give these mines a gander
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  7804. As always so interesting and beautiful. Thank you.
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  7805. Thank you, great video!
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  7806. In 1138 the Battle of the standard the Galloway Picts who fought in the front of the Scots fought naked.The actions of the Scots army are described exactly as you related accross the North of England.
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  7807. It seems as if the early and late camps both reach for the extreme position. It would seem likely that wild young men would have tried horsemanship long ago. It also seems that wholesale warfare of the kind done by the Mongols was unlikely as well, in places as vast and unpeopled as most of the areas in question might have been. What would the motive have been?
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  7808. How did you take a look in my head, identify my deepest fantasy, and put it on screen?
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  7809. Horns and helmet accoutrements are found all over the workd--from samurai to the teutonic knights. They obviously weren't that difficult to deal with. Besides, horns are hollow--antlers much less so. I think they fell out of favor simply due to the cost of fashioning them in steel.
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  7810. Do you think there is a connection to the large scale migration of people in France to Britain around 1000BC? Maybe a domino effect?
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  7811. Great video.
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  7812. I’m always excited to see another video from you, your channel is one of my core favorites for history content.. as a pre-history junkie it’s awesome when new content shows up 🥰 there isn’t nearly as much GOOD prehistoric stuff as there is for anything AD.. Seems like finding anything new that’s ‘BCE’ and doesn’t reference aliens, Atlantis or ‘mainstream academics controlling the (imaginary) narrative’ is a real crap shoot 🤷‍♀️😬 Anyway.. small whine is over now 😛 So, I don’t know if you have said this recently and I missed it somehow, but I was wondering if you had set up your books as audio versions yet?? I haven’t had time to actually sit and physically read in too long, but I’ve been making my way thru audiobooks while I’m doing stuff.. so I’d love to be able to listen to your books instead.. if they are out I’ll go look again, if they aren’t yet, do you have plans in the works? thanks!!
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  7813. Drake's drum🥁,
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  7814. A comment to appease our algorithmic overlords
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  7815. Always a pleasure to see a video from you in my subs.
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  7816. I really like this channel.
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  7817. Interesting!
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  7818. Beautiful pictures.... and good data told in a lovely way... this moving to the sea in summer... that we still love today... I spent 3 month my first 20 years in our summer house and made me love the sea... never new till recentle that this likely is bevause its in our DNA and in our soul.... just like always wanted to be a potter for profession... but dad said NO, you wont be able to support your self... so I choose Textiles... not knowing they both are 2 og women's oldest trades 🙂
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  7819. Outstanding production, thank you. I'd love to know more about the navigation equipment such as compasses and astrolabes they had in Drake's time, as well as the charts the English had.
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  7820. Great work here
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  7821. Amazing!
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  7822. LOve your work. it's fantastic.... need a theologian as an assistant? 😀
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  7823. Mercenaries and their ilk still do the same things today
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  7824. Thank you doc DD and team..what an incredible archaeology film..with your deep knowledge and hardworks you created this. What a treasure I found
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  7825. aight dandavis?
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  7826. Wow, I can say, without any miniscule shred of a doubt, the awesome introduction... I'm buying some of your books tonight. Best wishes man and thank you for tonights and for any future amount of entertainment/study.
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  7827. A great video! This history nerd salutes you! ~JR Handley
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  7828. Fantastic documentary. Absolutely first class.! Bless 👊
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  7829. Wow, great video. And probably your best one until now. I really enjoyed it.
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  7830. Statues thiccc tho
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  7831. Sacrificial Comment for the algorithm-gods.
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  7832. Great video Dan. I remember hearing some podcast by a smart guy, who said he had evidence based on DNA that basically all those steppe headers who came in from beyond the Caucasus basically killed all the men, based on how little DNA there is left. This seems like such a huge topic, and I'd really like to know if it really happened. In general I'm sure there was a tendency to kill males in a new place and take the females for mating or whatever, but I'd love to know what evidence there is.
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  7833. Yes! I love every video you make! So educational.
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  7834. Interesting and well narrated
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  7835. Great film. I hadn’t heard of the Ferriby boat before. Really interesting thanks.
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  7836. great video as always
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  7837. You say their horses are the ancestors of existing domesticated horses, but would that include the horses of the Mongolian steppes? Are Mongolians horses also descended from the Sintashta horses?
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  7838. Great video, as they always are!
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  7839. I like how you laid this out. I'd guess that once a horse was semi-domesticated some knucklehead jump on the back and rode it, that is just human nature, as for anything more sophisticated than that we'd need some evidence.
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  7840. I enjoyed your video (the first one I see) very much. Good content, good voice, a nice logic and scientific story, keep up the good work!
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  7841. Thanks for producing this video. fascinating watch.
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  7842. Wonderful production! Thank you
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  7843. thanks for this, fascinating .
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  7844. Great video! I love exploring the past beyond written history. Curious, though, what is the video source or the actress at 19:06 ?
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  7845. Gemstones are always appealing to almost everyone. Only the cool people prefer the natural ones, though.
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  7846. Brilliant video. Where can I find the religion family tree image at 0.50 seconds
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  7847. Warriors don't need to fight from horseback for the horse to be a great aid/force multiplier to a warring culture. The simple mobility by increasing the communications, reconnaissance and power to engage and disengage at will would make the first horse riding group the military power in any area.
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  7848. The lord of misrule.
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  7849. Awesome!!!
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  7850. my favorite channel
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  7851. Great video. Thank you for your work sir.
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  7852. 17:17 So basically these are ancient dildos imbued with the vitality of Hercules.
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  7853. I would love if you would do a documentary on Boudica/ Boudicca, and or the Roman invasion of Britain.
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  7854.  @DanDavisHistory  fair enough.
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  7855. Another brilliant lecture. Thank you. MJF, PhD.
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  7856. What a gem of a channel! I'll check out your books, Sir
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  7857. Thanks!
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  7858. That was a good one. Thx
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  7859. It looks an awful lot like a wood wedge . You know the manual method of splitting logs. *Well at least the big diamond shaped ones do . And the ones with one hammer shaped head on the end would definitely be good for that sort of thing. Even shaping wood or stone
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  7860. amazing... as usual
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  7861. Another excellent post, thank you for sharing.
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  7862. Informative, intresting, another great vid, sir! Thanks, enjoyed it very much. Greetings, T.
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  7863. Excellent presentation.
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  7864. Great documentary.
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  7865. I like the image depiction of sweet Radu.
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  7866. Keeps is a good sponsor for this content
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  7867. I think you changed the thumbnail. 🏴‍☠
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  7868. This old chap keeps on talking to us.
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  7869. Hey, where are the Neolithic hotties? You spoilt us with the horse video.
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  7870.  @DanDavisHistory  Haha, funnily enough I saw her supping the milk just after I'd written this! Good man!
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  7871. Fabulous! Thank you for this account! Much obliged! Nurse Jane, Deale, Maryland 20751, devoted Greek Orthodox Christian, Kali Anesthasi!
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  7872. Suggested drinking game: take a shot every time Dan disparages the Magellan Voyage 😅 You’ll probably be tipsy by the end
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  7873. Well done, very interesting.
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  7874. Excellent job on this video. Absolutely fascinating. Thank you.... Subbed and liked.
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  7875.  @DanDavisHistory  You're welcome. I'm sure I will.
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  7876. Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for the presentation. I'm a touch smarter having watched it.
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  7877. Burning the house down is tadicion from Starcevo 6 300BC-Vinca culture 5 500BC mather culture of Trypillia culture 5 300BC.
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  7878. ♪♫♥Very Interesting - Thank you Dan for sharing this !
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  7879. I would watch a video on mitanni, hittite, Babylonian, or Indian PIE culture
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  7880. Still happens to this day in some parts of Africa and India.
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  7881. I have inherited a Gene from my Ancestors called C32, that makes me Immune to the Plague (Black Death) and apparently AIDS.
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  7882. What do Berserkers, Werewolves, Knights, Hercules wearing a lion's skin, and Beauty and the Beast have in common? They all have the same common ancestor: the Koryos.
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  7883. Works over and I can finally watch this! Thanks Dan, I really appreciate all your work
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  7884. 25:20 A drunk brittish person make a fuzz abroad. Since that day it was never repeated. 😊
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  7885. any idea about the type(s) of religion of late neolitic people
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  7886. Sounds like a Total war intro
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  7887. Arriba España siempre! 🇪🇸✝️🙏🏻💪🏻🛡️⚔️✋🏻
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  7888. This was so GOOD!!!
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  7889. Well done.
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  7890. A comment to appease our algorithmic overlords
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  7891. So hard core scouts??
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  7892. It's about time! 😊
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  7893. Love these videos, thanks. Do you have one for Henry the 5th?
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  7894.  @DanDavisHistory  - Ah! Thank you sir. All the best. 🍻
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  7895. He really did it
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  7896. You've done a great documentary which displays in an eloquent and entartaining manner how much uncertainties history is about - and still how much information can be gathered with scientific method, as long as we are sincere about what the facts are, what are the guesses and what is mere speculation, as well as what research needs to be done, to know more.
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  7897. First
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  7898. He's only gone and dropped yet another banger
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  7899.  @DanDavisHistory  doesn't look like it going off the viewcount/like ratio
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  7900. Our society is too organized to tolerate such a thing, the first isolated house they attacked would greet them with a hail of lead were that practice to be a ''thing''.
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  7901. Excellent!!
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  7902. I have rewatched this a few times, and can't believe that I haven't hit like until 5 months later!
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  7903. I never understood the topics Dan Davis covers until I watched his videos.
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  7904. Love the history. The Investigation continues. Hope you can get the funding to advance the questions.
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  7905. The Globular Amphora people were considerably darker, not carriers of blondism. https://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-execution.html. The Funnelbeakers were almost certainly a similar phenotype to that of the Sardinians, given that those are their closest genetic relatives today. Early reports of blond hair and blue eyes in Anatolia and elsewhere from the Neolithic are usually based on poor science, and many of those early phenotype declarations have been walked back are dismissed... although often quietly enough that the false reports still linger in popular literature or on the internet. For example, this one was quietly issued behind a paywall, and if someone hadn't copied it here, it would be almost impossible to find otherwise. https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/7zi904/ancient_darkskinned_briton_cheddar_man_find_may/duohm8i/. The earliest historical accounts of the Indo-European peoples consistently make reference to their blue or green eyes and often red or blond hair; such references are common to the patrician Roman class, the early Greek kings and nobility, the Thracians, the Scythians—and this historical data comes to us from as diverse written sources as the Greeks, the Romans, and the Chinese. The origin and timing of the blond/blue-eyed phenotype is unclear based on our data today, but it seems very unlikely to have come from the EEF, and seems closely tied to the spread of the WSH population—even though some early reports of Yamnaya DNA analysis suggest that they weren't carriers of it (although Corded Ware was supposed to have been highly blond/blue-eyed in many early reports, in spite of being ~75%+ Yamnaya by automsomal genetics. This is often based on the faulty earlier assumption that the GAC were carriers of it and that the GAC contributed significantly to Corded Ware DNA, both of which now seem to be false.) Then again, today the phenotype is especially concentrated in Fennoscandia and the Baltic Coast; exactly the territory where the SHG lived. It's certainly possible that the phenotype developed and spread quite suddenly through a rapid selection due to a breeding bias effect. Maybe that's the best scenario. But none of the models presented today seem to really fit the spread of the phenotype, it's current distribution, or its apparent historical distribution very well. It's a fascinating and yet confusing subject.
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  7906.  @DanDavisHistory  I think the mystery and unresolveableness of the question is part of what makes it interesting.
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  7907. Excellent video, many thanks!
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  7908. So Drake was a kind of Surfshark? Got it!.
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  7909. Reindeer and llama husbandry could give also ideas about the use of the animal as a source of meat and hide and later used to carry loads.
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  7910. My guess is travios first ,before the wheel . A load to slow and control the horse while children rode and clung to the poles. Chariots because the horses were still to small for a armed warrior to ride . Even up to Muslim times camel were rode to the battle then switch for the battle to conserve the horses strenth
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  7911. Bronze age armor? Yes please!
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  7912. I know i come from Horse people - .short legs long upper body like a mongol ! Peoples bodys changed with being on the Horse 24 - sleep on the Horse ! My Parrents ancestors Horses - Trakener and Hanoveraner . ! HUSSARRRRRRRRR !
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  7913.  @DanDavisHistory  This is fair, lowkey thought about herxhiem listening to the first book- prequel fodder perhaps
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  7914. Really meaty stuff. Thanks for a great presentation. 😃⚔️
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  7915. dan have you written a book dealing with the KORYOS . if so could you leave the title for me.
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  7916. So how recent is this research/theory? Thank you for sharing, this is very interesting! Love your channel
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  7917.  @DanDavisHistory  awesome, thank you!!
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  7918. I hit subscribe like two minutes in bro ✨👌🏽🔥 the quality of your source imagery and your data vasialization, ahhh!!! Where has your channel been all my life?! I’m off to go binge and like your entire content library😍✨
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  7919. I’m so glad that you made this video. I’m sick of this myth that Richard was a bad king.
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  7920. YOUR BEST VIDEO SO FAR as an author myself I loved the bit of writing at the beginning.
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  7921.  @DanDavisHistory  - Was the writing from a book of yours, or did you write it for the video??
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  7922. Sooo..... Pretty much some bad ass PTSD😑
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  7923. Another belter, thanks Dan.
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  7924. Excellent work
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  7925. Great video. I lol'ed at the Happy Vlad. He looks very pleasant
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  7926. Amazing
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  7927. Makes me think of the Ancient North Eurasians (ANE). The more i learn about the yamnaya and their descendant cultures the more i feel pushed towards the ANE.
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  7928. Excellent video Mr. Dan. Thank you for your work!!!!
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  7929. I love the vids my man! Keep it up. Longer ones are the BEST! You keep kicking ass brother and thanks from Oregon US
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  7930. Very interesting and presented with a Clear and precise Narrative.
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  7931. Awesome stuff man! Love it.
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  7932. great film enjoyied it, shame you get so few likes for your efforts
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  7933. Ash is still the wood that all Hurling sticks are made from in the present day and that's a sport that supposedly goes back 1000s of years. They say they use Ash because it's the strongest and lightest wood around which apparently makes it more aerodynamic. The national final each year is even billed as the "Clash of the Ash" in honour of this noble tree. Somewhat fittingly in the context video, it was once described by an American journalist as "a cross between field hockey and warfare". Incredible to think that the cullitivation, or exploitation at least, of this tree goes all the way back to the bronze age.
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  7934. I forgot to say, hurling is a sport that comes from Ireland
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  7935. It is great to learn our history. The bronze and calcolithic age is so interesting, it makes me think of Conan the Barbarian
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  7936. 2022. best Otzi video I have seen. PEACE
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  7937. Hey Dan, I really love your series. I was hoping you could do a video on the advent of boat "Sail" and it's possible origin in the middle east being used to transport logs down river and it's eventual adaption to canoes/boats and then spread to the rest of the world and how this may have influenced various cultures from the Polynesians to the Vikings. It makes one wonder if the sail originated in the middle east or possibly in multiple different cultures throughout time. A fascinating piece of ancient technology.
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  7938. Hi Dan, just found your channel and 12 minutes in I've already subscribed. I love the detailed analysis. I wonder if it is possible to trace metal ore sources via isotopes like they do to find out where granite, etc. was quarried. If anyone has any insight I would love to hear about it. Cheers from Chicago!
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  7939. Excellent history as ever ! I really want to go read some of your books but my eyes are a mess right now maybe when I can fix those I can read again.
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  7940. What my theory is no doubt there was a cooling event and no doubt a lot of people went rampaging like in the great migration period. But maybe because the supply of tin from the east was no longer a viable source due to the climatic events and these people still had access to tin so it would make perfect sense to strike your enemy when their supply of bronze weaponry can no longer be made. Lets face it it was a success until Egypt fought them off and i bet they thought lets call it a day with the spoils we have already taken after the 2nd defeat. It also makes sense that Greece was the fastest to bounce back as they where closest to the places where these rampaging people came from so when things settled down again their trade with mainland Europe could start again putting them in a much better position to take advantage of the weaker nations around the Med.
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  7941. Hi Sir firstly I just wanted to thank you for this channel and all the hard work you put into it to entertain and educate us 👍 I am very interested in the history of the human journey and must tell you that your videos give me so much knowledge and understanding of the whole picture of the subject in a easy digestible way in such a short time is truly a gift and hope you keep producing us these amazing educational treasures for a long time....
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  7942. Carnac? In Brittany, on the continent?
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  7943. Yes to the bronze age armor video.
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  7944. Outstanding
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  7945. 21:50 is that the horse warrior Chad?
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  7946.  @DanDavisHistory  Amazing man.
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  7947. Wouldn't this valley have been part of or near the Amber Road? This event likely had at least something to do with borders and trade.
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  7948. Really excellent, thank you!!’
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  7949. Your videos seem like they are the result of an amazing amount of research as well as looking at the work of archaeologists like the "time team" guys and girls.... There are many people who comment on old episodes of time team that they wish they could find out what happens aftee the dig is filmed... Now I know where to point people to see what can come from digs.. The stories you tell, the possibilities you detail are really fascinating. As an author you can speculate or interpret so much more than the archaeology community. I guess because they have to be very careful about what they say or it becomes a game of speculation. I don't mean to be offensive but rather they do their jobs of gathering and recording the evidence and information while you do your job of helping the everyday person see what history may have looked like, personalising it so we can see people, community and their environment through their eyes as they lived. Thankyou for your faithful gathering of all the information and the way you present it. I wish we could have this sort of information available to explain the history, culture, environment and interactions of the Aboriginal people of my country. There does seem to exist pockets of cultural information but it's not as connected or explored as the UK. Blessings from South Eastern Australia, Dot
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  7950. Very interesting and informative videos. Perhaps that is also why 3 different cultures with no obvious ties or communication built Pyramids with similar but also slight differences.
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  7951. The "early" guys are always right. The dates of everything keep getting pushed back further and further with more evidence.
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  7952. One of the best places on YT to get a big picture of professionals research
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  7953. Thank you very much for sharing this interesting piece of History with us.
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  7954. Bronze age armor please good sir
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  7955. Another great video...
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  7956. Another excellent video. I really do enjoy your story telling. The Marshall , so Loyal, Wise Truly a Great Man.
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  7957. I wonder if there was a specific reason they placed the club on his left or if he was just left handed
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  7958. phenominal review of a childhood hero of mine, love your stuff!
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  7959. Another of the few channels I get excited to watch new shows.
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  7960. Phil was always my favourite on Time Team.
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  7961. I think the important invention is not horse riding. It is domestication and the cart or wagon. Because it allowed to carry enough water and supplies to become nomadic and it opened up the vast grazing of the steppe. As for horse riding, I always thought Anthony's chronology was a bit strange. Horseriding, herding but still tied to river valleys. Then the cart/wagon and nomadization. And then we meet chariots in war but not riders. And then after 1000 years of chariots we meet cavalry armies. Its strange chronology. I have only listened to the lectures of Anthony that were on Youtube.
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  7962. Clearification: In Anthony's narrative, horse riding is a side kick. That is said to have increased the herding capacity by a factor of x. However, at least as I could understand, they are still tied to the water sources, the rivervalleys and such. So how much more grazing could it have offered? And then, in his narrative, the real revolution is also the wagon, that allows for getting all the grazing of the steppe instead of just nibbling at the edges. So, even with this narrative, horse riding can be done away with because it does not have changed very much. It fills no function in explaining the spectacular indoeuropean explosion. The cart/wagon however does.
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  7963. Fascinating! What a shame we don't have written records.
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  7964. Great vid . This helped me creating a mental map going back into deep history very informative looking forward to more.
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  7965. Really nicely produced. Great cont
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  7966. random sebastian stan in a serious documentary? subscribed.
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  7967. I wonder how the Scythians fit into this?
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  7968. The many faces of Ötzi.   What a hoot.
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  7969. This sounds like a great story for a major motion picture! Starring Russell Crowe, probably.
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  7970.  @DanDavisHistory  But Russell could play his grandfather, the Earl of Nothingham. 😁
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  7971. Thanks!
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  7972. ~17:36 - it is kinda description of the Witcher by Sapkowski 👍 Those people certainly believed in dragons, too
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  7973. need a copy of the pic @ 54.46 fab)
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  7974. This is so well produced. This channel’s vids are bonkers. Meaning how can something this good exist for everyone.
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  7975. This is great. Thank you.
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  7976. There a good movie about this guy.
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  7977. Beautiful video. Wink wink.
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  7978. Dan Davis, Can you please do a video on the Indo European tribe called the Kamboja's? Aryans dated to the Mahabharata.
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  7979. congrats, love Youre show 👍
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  7980. Loved this!
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  7981. I think Drews' assumptions are silly. At least, I think it's dumb to essentially say "we have no visual or written evidence of Neolithic horse riders/warriors, therefore it is wrong". To me, it's similar to saying humans walked around with crap in their butt cheeks for millenia until the first artistic depiction of a wiping mechanism came around in 1000BC. It's a very limiting mind set, especially considering the millenia of time that has between now and 6000 years ago. Something I think about often as well (in terms of the Mesopotamians seemingly ALWAYS being credited as the progenitors of civilization) is that the Mesopotamian environment and climate, I think, lends itself to be naturally more preservative of ancient artifacts. In a semi-arid place such as Mesopotamia, it's natural that the people of the time would use clay tablets to record their histories; it was something easily accessible to them. However, we do see with the Birch Bark writings that people (regular people, not just nobles) were mechanically recording notes, messages, and records for others to read at a later date. Though, sadly, wood is organic and has a tendency to rot unless kept in very specific conditions. So, I don't think it's particularly wise to assume that a lack of physical evidence points to something never existing when human intuition can fill in the gaps. Humans are as capable today as we were 6000 years ago. Think about all the great stone age philosophers that existed whose thoughts we'll never come to know.
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  7982. Have to say that really gripped my inner history nerd 😮 absolutely fascinating stuff Dan, a video on bronze age weights would be most welcome 🙏 😉
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  7983. Wonderful video Dan. Thanks for your work. Keep up the good work.
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  7984.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks I was wondering about that. However an alcoholic beverage could be made with other ingredients. Kumis is made from fermented mare's milk. Wonderful video.
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  7985.  @DanDavisHistory  Thank you for that information! I can see the how introduction of mind altering substances is hard to pin down. Love your videos.
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  7986. the distribution of ethnicity and culture is similar but not entirely the same.
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  7987. I couldn't help but laugh at the disemobied human breast amulets. A few years ago at work, some customer's keychain had broken and fallen off and I picked it up and it was just a pair of giant anime boobs, with a little loop on the top for the chain. Humans never change.
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  7988. This was a damn good show.
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  7989. Thanks, Dan. I've recently bought your books on Amazon because I've loved these videos. Looking forward to reading them 🙂
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  7990. Man this is good Thanks for the video Do you do relgion of our ancestors
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  7991.  @DanDavisHistory  thanks
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  7992. Interesting, great in - depth study...my uncle had this as a future project...included the famous riders of future rulers..
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  7993. Love your work Mr. Davis! Keep it up!
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  7994. Great video, very informative.
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  7995. Wonderful photo of Radu. 😂
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  7996. Thanks!
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  7997. Nothing, not even time can take on a mullet. Truly a powerful mark of the warrior.
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  7998. Another great video Dan.
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  7999. Great work! After some videos I had to subscribe.
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  8000. Thank you for the wonderful history lesson 43:51
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  8001. Fossilized belemnites in Germany were called "Donnerkeile" - thunderbolts. They were supposedly found where lightning had struck. They also look like polished stones.
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  8002. Ginger Mickey Rourke built Stonehenge, obvs.
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  8003. Your content is always so excellent! Thank you so much for all of your hard work!!! :)
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  8004. Wow
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  8005. A very reasonable and nuanced overview of the subject. Bravo!
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  8006. Always impressed with these productions. Thank you Dan Davis!
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  8007. We in Serbia have similar tradition today at christmas eve. Children dress in ugly costumes and sing songs, and people give them candy, money and such... But kids need to sing to bring blessing to the owners house or there is no candy.
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  8008. Incredible video, brother Thank you so much for your work
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  8009. Interesting,Williken is also the low german version of William
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  8010. Perhaps he was up in the mountains hunting or something and he noticed that his village was under attack and came down to try and help but was quickly attacked and injured so he took off back up the mountain to escape the attackers but was eventually tracked down and killed. It might explain why he was killed then just left there with all his belongings. And possibly he put up a real good fight injuring or killing a couple of the invading clan and that's why they hunted him down. It's just a quick theory I had. Anything is possible. But he definitely is a very interesting subject and an extraordinary discovery.
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  8011. So if the Iliad is being proven true how long before the Odyssey is too and Atalntis is finally found.
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  8012. Thanks!
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  8013. I work with trees. Tree rings are very unreliable.
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  8014. fantastic topics, I adore your channel.
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  8015. Maybe they knew the Sea Peoples.
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  8016. Fascinating thank you.
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  8017. Excellent presentation. Thank you so much.
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  8018. Excellent video.
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  8019. Thank you, very cool, I already knew that there used to be some ritual, but this explains it in great details!
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  8020. Ruminants are all fairly closely related, so their proteins and lipids may not be that dissimilar.
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  8021. I'm going to have to ruminate on that for a while.
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  8022. Fascinating review. Thank you.
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  8023. Love your content and I hope you do a series on ancient native american tribes one day
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  8024. Fun facts: apparently Guillaume de Rubrouck travelled barefoot (which shocked the Mongols) and when he was in Karakorum he met a French girl (forgot from which place, Metz maybe?) called Pâquette :)
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  8025. Mythologised.
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  8026. Just saying, but is that biden in the thumbnail?
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  8027. Why wasn't the axe taken?
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  8028. Nice work!
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  8029. I have read and heard that Great Lakes copper was found in Copper and Bronze age European artifacts and identified by their isotopic ratios. I have also heard that this is bunk. So what have you heard on the subject?
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  8030. Love your content. Thank you
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  8031. Commenting in support.
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  8032. Fantastic video. Rewatched it many times. Thank you!
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  8033. Fabulous and awesome 👌👍👏
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  8034. Great video. Subbed. And I’ll head over to Amazon and bookmark some of your books too.
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  8035. Definitely up for some Bronze Age weights, Dan, bring em on
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  8036. Great video, very informative :) thank you Dan!
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  8037. I love your videos about early European people. Especially the Yamnaya, they're my favorite.
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  8038. In Switzerland we still have this ritual in some form. Once a year children below the age of 18 go from house to house late during night. There the houseowners leave presents for the children. If they are not greeted by a present, they will throw egges at the house, steal a wooden bench or wrap a car in toilpet paper, blow up the mailbox etc
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  8039. It's interesting in retrospect that the Australian series BeastMaster seemed to nod to this culture when the writers introduced "The Nords" in season 2, with their long war canoes and the appearance of Bronze Age weapons in the previously Chalcolithic world of BeastMaster.
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  8040. Just had a listen to Godborn. I love it.
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  8041. Imo the centaur legends are based on the first horsemen. An explanation if you will for what people were seeing when being attacked by mounted horsemen, who themselves had no experience with horse domestication. Native Americans for instance first thought the horse and rider were some new strange beast or gods. The enemies of who ever invented the centaur legends were likely the first mounted horsemen.
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  8042. Outstanding presentation! Quickly becoming my favorite channel. Kudos!
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  8043. We didn't develop horses as much as they developed us.
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  8044. "Thunder stones" as Stone age axes were often placed under a roof or threshold of a house here in Czechia.
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  8045. Fascinating!
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  8046. "Ötzi was vegan". Man was dripped out in almost entirely animal skin, lol.
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  8047. I wonder how much of that copper was recycled it into modern times...to become part of electric wires, coins, etc.
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  8048. My husband is in like the 80th percentile for being related to this guy.
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  8049. Us R1bs often wondered what had become of the R1a part of the family.
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  8050. Yeeeesss! Wildhunt Video!! :D loving this stuff
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  8051. Yes!
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  8052. Excellent video on a culture I knew very little about, thanks!! The curved tomb entrance and communal burial reminiscent of the "court tombs" of neolithic Ireland and Scotland, with the ritual area at the front and shared burial inside. It has been suggested that the curved "horns" at the front might reflect a cattle/bull worship culture. Did Sardinia have a strong cattle-based culture at the time? Doesn't look like good grazing.....
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  8053. Hahaha the picture from one of the best comedies in a longtime "The detectorists" 👍😂 excellent! 🏺
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  8054.  @DanDavisHistory  Its one of my favourites, just brilliant, and knowing some detectorists, its spot on as well, just excellent 👍😂
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  8055. Absolutely great, thx for that!
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  8056. Wow! I really enjoyed this documentary. Thanks 🌊🏄‍♂️🌵☀️
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  8057. Sorry I'm late lads my notifications didn't show this one and it's my favorite video so far of yours Dan.
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  8058. Excellent video
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  8059. Very good video Dan !!! I also believe that the horned helmets may have separeted origins, related to old "shamanistic" rituals.
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  8060. I'm excited, care you excited?
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  8061. Amazing video, and good refresher if your obsessed with Vlad Tepes like I am
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  8062. Wonderful conent as usual, Dan!!
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  8063. Excellent! Also I can't believe I've already missed another video from you in the recent past - I have a lot of catching up to do. Amazing content as always.
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  8064. People who know more about chariots in warfare - what would be the point of developing, constructing and training with chariots when you've already been mounted warriors for many generations? Considering every(?) culture eventually moved away from chariots to cavalry, it seems to make sense that the chariot actually was the first use of horses in warfare. I also feel that if mounted warfare was the cornerstone of a warrior culture's military doctrine... there'd be plentiful depictions of it.
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  8065. Shut up! 5'8" is tall! Taller than me.
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  8066. My oppinion:the Yamnaya is the Prescythians. What your oppinion Dan?
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  8067. Hjortspring means Deer Leap , so as name say can be memories of old hunting areas in name.
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  8068. Thanks
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  8069. Arrr, a jolly roistin tale there matey, arr
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  8070. i saw some of the content that was on curiosity streams it looked really good. amazon wanted too much and i couldn't afford most of the ones i saw trailers and couldn't watch so, then i found this documentary and since i was already watching stuff similar to this lots of great docs really and lots of great information anyway i hope some enjoys these documentaries.
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  8071. Hell yeah
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  8072. Always carry some pocket bacon, just in case you die.
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  8073. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jonay3mVc68
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  8074. Does this mean people from the British isles are genetically the closest to the yamnaya?
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  8075. That was very well done
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  8076. Came across this channel by accident but loving the historiography!
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  8077. This was a brilliant video. Thank you very much. I thoroughly enjoyed it 🙂
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  8078. This was an amazing video.
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  8079. I think ~200g was a standard weight for silver in at least northern and eastern Europe around 1000 A.D. Also, don't the rib bars look kinda like unstringed bows?
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  8080. Liked and sub
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  8081. Great video, thank you! A minor suggestion though. I'm by no means an expert on audio, but in contrary to any other documentaries, series or music I consume, your video seems to come with very powerfull low tones that literally shake up my house when coming through my subwoofer. Never happens, so made me think it's something on your side. The narration and sound of your voice is a pleasure regardless though!
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  8082. could you do one about bronze age finland?
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  8083.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks , looking forward to it, keep it up, love your channel!
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  8084. Thanks for this one. I love it. Also, thanks for turning me on to the Ancient Americas channel. I can already tell I’m going to enjoy it, just by looking through the titles.
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  8085. 48:00 There's an editing error here. You repeat the same thing twice.
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  8086. little orme has some nice cafes. the grate orme has some goats that will eat jacket pockets if you have food in them. :)
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  8087. Very cool
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  8088. The big protection racket has started
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  8089. Great video! You nailed it again! Fascinating! Now you have me wondering when and where trade with our other domesticated animals started. Thank you!
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  8090. you're in the recommendations! so glad to have stumbled upon ya
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  8091. Did they have dogs they could have feed them to the dogs
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  8092. Still enjoying all your vids.
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  8093. I find the river connection just as interesting.
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  8094. At 54:46, I had to chuckle at Vlad's big smile showing off his straight teeth. 😁
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  8095. Sebastian Stan as Radu?
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  8096. Excellent. Very enjoyable and informative. Thank you.
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  8097. Alien time traveler: “You can go back in time only once and can never come back.” Me: “ancient mycenae”
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  8098.  @DanDavisHistory  Yeah my thoughts as well. I'm from Denmark and we have a site here in Illerup Ådal where it seems all the chieftains of Jutland band together to fight off and defeated a large roman legion maybe in the same luring/baiting technique you mentioned. They then took all the weapenry, lootings and armour crushed it to pieces and dumped it in the lake not long after the battle. The same thing is could be possible for many battlesights around these parts as if was a coindence it got discovered beneith meters of dirt and debree from exposed lakebed. Even the holy roman empire seemed to draw their border around here as the tribes up north might have had quarrels among themselves but always seem to unite to fight off southern and eastern armies
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  8099. Henry the 5th was the greatest king
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  8100. It may be connected to ancestor worship; the golden cone-shaped hats from the Bronze Age may be one such example. After the beheading of Mimir in battle, Óðinn sought him out for knowledge and exchanged one of his eyes to foresee the future. Graeco-Roman authors on the other hand referred to Gallic tribes as head hunters. Varg made a point about all this in a video of his.
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  8101. Just had this recommended to me by YouTube, they got it right and now you have a Subscription. Great content man keep it going I'm looking forward to enjoying more of your content.
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  8102. Thank you sir for such great content
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  8103. I have known that Ferriter's cove is an important site for archeology, but it is best understood in the context like in this video!!! Thank you so much! And come back to Dingle any time! 😁
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  8104. What's the track that starts playing at the 16:40 mark? Anyone know?
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  8105. can't wait for the audiobook to come to audible. I've just finished Vampire Herectic, but the 6th book still isn't avaiable on Audible
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  8106. I saw this film with interest and I would like to express my opinion from the point of view of a man who has been dealing with horses for several decades. 8 years ago I trained a young mare. My assumption was to refute the thesis that exists among horse riders that a horse must be ridden on a bit and then can be ridden without a bit. A mare named Etiuda never had a bit, but only a string circle around its mouth, a kind of bosal vaqueros used. My mare never had a bit and a thread of understanding appeared between her and me, of reading my intentions to change the pace or direction of this mare's movement. I think the bit appeared when a human realized that he needed more control over the horse in order to achieve precision in steering or hunting. I think that this precision saved man's time and energy. I also believe that inserting the bit into the horse's mouth could have taken place on a random basis. At this point, the human could notice that a horse with a bit could react faster, more violently due to the sensitivity of the horse's mouth (nociceptors and mechanoreceptors). Man influenced the horse through pain, which was very effective, and not necessarily the man was aware that this pain caused the horse. An important issue is the movement of the horse, the combat horse must be more agile and set on the rump. A more collected horse is more maneuverable, which was used in the modern art of war of the time. This is an inexhaustible topic ... :)
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  8107. You can still upgrade mobilty a lot by equippping those small horses with sleds, like reindeer. Native americans also did that I believe. Add some oxwagons and you can move whole tribes with their belongings.
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  8108. fantastic video im english and was never taught about any of this in school its so interesting !!!
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  8109. Awesome video can you make a video on bronze age collapse
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  8110. Started watching your videos yesterday, I’m already hooked. Just bought your book on Audible.
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  8111. Cheers Dan, another great video
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  8112. Taoist Chinese (and Japanese Buddhists) had (shaggy?) dog stories, Foo dogs, and statues for decoration, symbolic of hell dogs. Every living room should have a pair of Foo dogs. I used to sell them. I have a pair, right front paw on a ball (within a ball, with in a ball). Oh yeah, theyre barking as I write!!! Must have little covid brewing in my sinuses.
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  8113. What is the background song you use?
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  8114.  @DanDavisHistory  you’re right, how dumb of me I was typing this in the car. The song you had going while doing the Blinkist ad?
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  8115. Ship wards maybe? Contracts of ship building in stone?
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  8116. EXELLENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  8117. Yes, Bronze Age armor!
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  8118. How interesting that this would pop up in my recommended list right after seeing The Northman. IYKYK 😉
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  8119. Thank you, I enjoy all your material. I intend to treat myself to the Gods of Bronze series for the holidays.
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  8120. subscribed, respect sir
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  8121. excellent , Drake is now my new GBish hero thanks so much for this.
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  8122. Únetice culture gave rise to the Urnfield, and the Hallstatt gave rise to the La Téne culture... Makes sense the Únetice culture would be Celtic.
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  8123. thankyou for this video. as a horse woman (dedicated) this was very welcome information
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  8124. Fascinating.thank you 👍
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  8125. Congratulations, Dan. When listening to your videos about Bronze Age Europe, I usually think of the Tartessian culture in Iberia. Nowadays, this culture is completely misunderstood (Spanish historians are reluctant to see its connection with Nordic bronze). It would be a good thing if these historians paid more attention to your contribution.
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  8126. proto indo european belives like dyeus pitar sky father cattle tristo manu yemo we would love a video about mythology that would great thanks again cheers
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  8127. Love your videos ❤️❤️❤️
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  8128. Now later tomorrow yesterday I'm interested in breasts
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  8129.  @DanDavisHistory  thank you for your work Your films are great and your scholarship is excellent
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  8130. Just got Godborn, am absolutely loving it! Thank you so much Mr. Davis!!!! Or Dan. Thank you!!!
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  8131. WOW that was bloody good...!
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  8132. This sounds like the origins of the Wulfingas and Hundingas. Nordic totemic 'clans' of warriors.
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  8133. Very interesting, thank you.
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  8134. Absolutely awesome I've never heard of this dude but it was extremely interesting good work
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  8135. nice storytelling!
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  8136. Excellent documentary!!!!
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  8137. Great video!
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  8138. An awesome history channel Dan!
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  8139. Your channel is becoming a new favorite of mine.
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  8140.  @DanDavisHistory  I was hoping to avoid head cannon, but… the enemy’s javelin scores our hero’s left zygomatic bone (as a chisel does to stone) and continues on to wrench our hero’s left ear clean off (this wound will lend itself to a badass nickname within the tribe). The head of our hero’s javelin cleanly pierces the enemy chieftain’s sternum, heart and spine, dropping him from his chariot. All joking aside, your intro gripped me which is why I had hoped that at the end of the video there would have been a resolution to the action. Many thanks for your videos and I look forward to listening to more of your audio books.
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  8141.  @robertcrusader5019  I like yours better than mine.
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  8142. It would not be too out of line to say that maybe the neolithic plague killed more men than women. There have been other diseases that have affected one gender more than the other, or young people more than old people, or the opposite, and it's still happening in this day and age. I believe that it was not just one major cause that precipitated the changes between neolithic and bronze, but more likely a combination of things. In this age so far removed from the past, all we can find is clues about what was probably a series of events that are all intertwined with each other, but depending on the clues uncovered, has led scientists and archeologists to say that this single event or that single disease, or something was the source of this change or that collapse. We modern people with our cosmopolitan society and global movement, tend to think of the far far distant past as stuck in place and lacking fluidity, with each community and tribes and peoples not having contact with anyone else but it's nearest neighbors. I have never believed in that, there have always been those who are never satisfied until they have seen what is on the other side of the hill, or the mountain, or the large body of water...
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  8143. History is pretty hazy back then, especially in Northern Europe. Really fascinating findings, and a lot left to the imagination!
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  8144. Dogs hmmmmmm? I know ... I ask a lot ... 😕
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  8145.  @DanDavisHistory  I look forward to catching up on all your material. 🙂
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  8146. Love your videos, Dan Davis ❤. You bring your skill set to a video format of storytelling and the visuals you put together are no joke! I love to watch how a typical situation might occur in a day in the life of ancient peoples. Your voice, too, is perfection for the narration. You get better every month lol! I’m addicted to this channel! (Ditto for The Fall of Civilizations YouTube channel!)
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  8147. You never make a bad video. Every one is truly A+ content.
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  8148. Yes please make a video on the wild hunt. I am overly intrigued
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  8149. Great piece. Reading Godborn now. Fun stuff.
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  8150. This was fantastic. Thank you! Subscribed for sure
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  8151. Great video. I like how you present different beliefs, include references, and state your opinion, but leave it open for the viewer to form their own opinion if they want to. Too many scientists get stuck on owning hypotheses to glorify themselves, rather than using hypotheses dispassionately as points to confirm or refute in an objective logical pursuit of the truth. Very nice.
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  8152. Greetings from Sweden! Thank you for yet another great upload.
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  8153. My grandparents name was Blind and they were 100% Germanic as was my mom. So I'm about half Germanic with the rest being all "northern European" which could include Denmark, Finland and Scandinavia. But they confirmed 18.1% British Isles, 8.7% France, 6.8% Spain, 9.3% Italian. So it looks like my ancestors might have come from somewhere north and west of Iraq and followed along this plain until it becomes Germanic land. On my mother's side the DNA type was said to be rare and showed direct descent from Etruscan aristocracy. So I guess we mingled all the way into Germany and then came to America eventually. So I'm very interested in how my Germanic ancestors dealt with war. I know some estimates are that there were as many as 200 different tribes that lived there then and they were all fighting each other. But they could come together if need be, like they did to the Romans in the Hurtgen Forest, I think it was.
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  8154. Sweet mate , i live beside loughcrew cairns in co meath in ireland
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  8155. That was awesome!!
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  8156. 👌🏻
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  8157. Amazing amazing video mate - I’m looking to pick up one of your books soon 😊
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  8158.  @DanDavisHistory  just picked up godborn and am really looking forward to reading it (it comes tomorrow) and I’m sure I will enjoy it given the reviews - very impressive that you can juggle writing and YouTube and do both of them excellently
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  8159. Just found your channel. Love it. Could you do a video on HUMAN AN THE DOMESTICATION OF THE DOG. An the journey that weve had with them.
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  8160. since no one recovered his belongings, his was probably a man of low moral character - commenting adultery throughout his marriage and maybe killed by his wife probably -, the topic of gossip in his village, and a real devil of a man !
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  8161. Great documentary!. Well done!
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  8162. 5:47 I see what you did there.. the horror 😜
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  8163. Just found your channel, and I am hooked! Got yourself a new subscriber after just two minutes. 😁
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  8164. I'm enjoying this documentary , in fact its the best one I've seen so far , good old uncle Otzi 😎👌
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  8165. Very informative. Glad I decided to check the video.
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  8166. That decides it, I'm getting horns on my next helmet.
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  8167. Wow I don't know but very interesting, thanks. The comments are good too. I'm subscribed.
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  8168. Nice one again. This reminds me of a video by Arith Harger I saw. You ever wonder if there is a entomological connection between Koryos and the Corybantes? Cheers.
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  8169.  @DanDavisHistory  Search; " Indo-European Wolf Rites " by Arith Harger. I think the Phoenicians and their bronze age interactions with "Celts" might explain the Kory's issue. And it might be related to an older notion of sacrifice. But this is my own personal Theory. Cheers.
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  8170. lol thx for videos!
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  8171. Training a horse to pull a chariot or carry a burden is one thing. Turning it into a usable mount is almost totally different. For one, you don’t have to get on it’s back. I bet even a perfectly trained chariot horse would go nuts if someone jumped on its back. But this isn’t evidence. We obviously did it sometime and the benefit of a well trained mount are above and beyond that of a chariot. Better evidence then supposition is that we have no good evidence of common horse riding until the Iron Age. If the Bronze Age civilizations of, say, the ancient near east had knowledge of how to train a horse to be a mount they would have adopted it. It’s a clear advantage. But they didn’t. I, then, will have to side with the late theory. I know multiple people who have had concussions from horse accidents. Yes, most of them were teenagers when it happened but they also had some experience. The point is even a well trained horse is dangerous to its rider at a full gallop. Which leads to a question you didn’t answer. If the late theory is true why did this change? I’d like to hear your theory.
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  8172. Love your vids and I have your books in my queue!
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  8173. I absolutely love you videos Dan!
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  8174. Ok I wish I could know you. I'm from an ancient Irish race. Maybe you don't like us and we are from Thor.
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  8175. So basically, youth today have some of the same traits as the Koryos. From 16 and onwards until their 20s, they have an urge to go out, get drunk out of their minds, and get into fights with other youth, chasing the birds on the dance floor. The modern style transformation from pimples to manhood.
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  8176. Amazing thanks
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  8177. Just came across your channel today. Excellent content! Looking forward to checking out some of your fiction as well.
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  8178. i liked it how you recherched it. and such wonderful pictures you added. I visited West Kenneth long barrow and had some special vision in it. I liked it a lot.
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  8179. Or the Big Mother
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  8180. Nice job, Dan Davis! Just discovered your channel. Impressive presentation. Keep up the good work. Have to read your books.
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  8181. Yeeess!!
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  8182. This video is thoroughly captivating.
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  8183. 7:30 he took an arrow to his knee.
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  8184. I just subbed 🤙
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  8185. I argue that the small pox plagues brought to the Americas had a higher mortality rate as it was thought to be up to 90% in places.
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  8186.  @DanDavisHistory  Absolutely. Thank you for the content.
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  8187. This is such a good channel! Good work on yet another amazing video!
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  8188. Great job 👏
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  8189. phenomenal
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  8190. This was brilliant and look forward to watching more, thank you
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  8191. Excellent video
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  8192. Maybe that sneaky little metal worker snuck in the back door of a farmers hut to visit the wife... then got caught and ran uo the mountains to get away. You can't trust those shifty metal workers one bit 😉
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  8193. It’s the hero’s journey
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  8194. Great video!
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  8195. Great information
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  8196. Excellent work sir! Shared.
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  8197. Great video thank you. I'll be checking out your books!
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  8198. Thanks Dan the Terramare are fascinating
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  8199. Dan I love your content. Thank you.
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  8200. Nice video, i would like to add the notion of the Scamozzina culture, contemporary of the terramare but more westward, as you point out the terramare migrated from the Po valley to the center of trade in the east, i believe that this migration was started by the scamozzina culture
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  8201. Thanks!
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  8202. thanks a ton dan. effing love this stuff. gives me porpoise.
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  8203. Oh, the world is rewarding me, Dan has made another video to ease my distress at the dumbing down of society.
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  8204. Creedence so muck like todays Bikers. Proto Indo European traditions have not changed much at all.
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  8205. Great video as always
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  8206.  @DanDavisHistory  as a Saudi I'm very much interested in the Indo-European archeological studies and wish that their are channels that cover ancient samitic and pre samitic people with such high quality but unfortunately the research is not quite there yet.
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  8207. I get sick at the thought of an obvious mercy kill of any of my dogs. You’d be ready to take on the horrors of the world back then after an experience like that.
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  8208. The Neolithic ancestry at Orkney looks interesting bc it seems to b e surviving male Neolithic lineages instead of the usual female. I'd like to read more about that one.
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  8209. Thanks again for the video cheers to you and my Bell beaker folks
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  8210. So what I'm getting from this is, *Hulk voice*: "PERKWUNOS SMASH!"
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  8211. Cannot stop wayching this fantastic channel! I have been a fan of anchient human cultures and the early use of metals and this channel satisfies a hard to reach itch. Thank you Dan Davis!
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  8212. Step hearders riding out of the steppe. Chasing down the terrified farmers. Striking down on them with their battle axes.....At 4000 BC. Those battle axes not horseback riders weapons. And people were not cowards and stupid in those times... I think we must up to 1200 BC, to the tracians and cimmerians and timber-grave peoples, until that happened.
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  8213.  @DanDavisHistory  Check. I will check the whole video. Yes, I'm old know-it-all.
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  8214. Awesome 👍🏻
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  8215. *Insert obligatory “I used to be an adventurer like you, until…” quote here
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  8216. A big shout out to you from the Prehistory Guys. https://youtu.be/EVQD3v_tDco
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  8217. Interesting subject, one never to be resolved probably, I would guess herd animals in ancient times may have had some sort of head collar, so why use a bit only on a horse? I have been riding 60 years and don't use a bit, my horses respond to touching the neck, A rope around the base of the neck is ideal to hold onto. I would not put any faith in looking for bit wear on teath. The first rider was probably teenager dared by his brother to have a go.
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  8218. Great video! im working on one with the exact same connection now
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  8219. Brill!
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  8220. Thanks👍🏼
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  8221.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks. That would be interesting if that is the origins. I remember some of the early indo european burials found inverted items and one shoe and things like that and said it was part of the inverted ritual. Keep up the good work. Btw I bought the "Indo-european myths" book you showed at the beginning. I'm not sure if you read Georges Dumezil - Mitra-Varuna, but it is one of the books I keep revisiting. Cheers!
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  8222. I would love a video on William Marshall , Europe’s greatest knight and the only knight to ever put Richard the lion heart on his ass .
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  8223. For the algorithm and the best content available!
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  8224. That was fascinating 👍
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  8225. Apart from the joking , I to believe as you on the said subject !
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  8226. That bronze cudgel could obliterate copper age swords...
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  8227. Magnificent story, thank you for this
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  8228. Thank you for another fascinating look at warriors of the Bronze Age. Your videos are incredibly well-researched and well-structured, not to mention entertaining without getting too carried away by conjecture. Always interesting to hear insights into the Bronze Age Collapse. (Note: There's a couple of typos on the map graphic used at 17:25, where Mediterranean is written as "Meditteranean", and Mycenaean as "Myceanean" in the legend)
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  8229. Amazing
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  8230. It's so refreshing to see a youtube video marking the shortcomings of the information gathered and what is needed to have a better picture. Suscribed.
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  8231. Wonderful as usual, you are educating us for free !
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  8232. jip plz more of this stuff.
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  8233. Where it originated is hard topic and can never be proven with evidence. Because, there were few people and they travelled a lot around. They could ride their horse to new location although they were not that much adapt to it as first riders. They were, probably, shorter stock people who managed the horse-riding, as being athletic and smaller bodied guarantees its succes of riding horse in initial stage. Also it is very important those who adapted horses to ride, should be somewhat robust natured as northen people tend to have with their legs. Probably ropes were the main managing device with horses to catch and utilize them. Bottom half physiology of person is an important impetus to start to riding horse and size also.
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  8234. Lasr horse I had I rode only with a hackamore. No bit required. Riding without a saddle can be done as can just a saddle or blanket with no stirrups. Stirrups made it easier to fight from horseback.
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  8235. Who was the god of the war band I feel like it was perkwunos but I'm not sure.
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  8236. Sure we want armor. And weapons.
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  8237. Thanks for the documentary 🙏 excellent 👏
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  8238. Another great video and was awesome to see my name at the end haha
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  8239.  @DanDavisHistory  no worries mate
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  8240. Thank you for this detailed story! 👍❤ Would love to hear more about the stone mound burial site.
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  8241. Oh boi!
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  8242. Very Nice!
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  8243. Great video and thanks for sharing all your hard work. Merry Christmas, Chris
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  8244. Hey from Finland. Wow your work is important and highly appreciated, definetely my favorite channel. Keep up the good work :)
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  8245. Look like splitting axes to me.
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  8246. You talked about ancient greece, are you referring to bronze age greece, of so what were the names of the berserkers during that period?
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  8247.  @DanDavisHistory  i guess that part about young people going overseas to found colonies away from their tribes never trully die down then haha. Really interesting seeing how the romans and greek lost touch with their IE forefathers while nordic civilisations mantained till much later
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  8248. I like the use of all the beautiful women in the video. Adds something more to an already fascinating narrative.
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  8249. very attractive Redhead shots ...
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  8250. Excellent documentary!!! Very well done!!!!
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  8251. thank yew. enjoyed. sacred substances? hey i'm into that. harharhar
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  8252. Over 5k views but only 500 likes if we want this content we have to hit the like button or we will never learn about our ancestors , yeah so please if you love your ancestors hit the like button because I do I love hearing how great they where.
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  8253. Sir thank you again you are a professional cheers can you do a video more about beaker folk thanks
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  8254. Good stuff
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  8255. Oooh! I L❤VE Time Team!
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  8256. Fascinating.
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  8257. *R1b / R1a
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  8258. Your videos are incredibly well-made! . Keep up the amazing work!
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  8259. Greetz from Sardinia, cheers!
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  8260. Very interesting. Thanks.
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  8261. What a really good analysis and open discussion. Brilliant
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  8262. Great video, Dan. Fascinating stuff
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  8263. subscribed!
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  8264. 😄👍
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  8265. Civilization requires humans to be trained and even with training our base and selfish instincts are hard to impossible to suppress
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  8266. Psilocybin makes superhumans
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  8267. Bravo, Mr. Davis. Bravo. Your channel is a treasure as always and i can't wait for your next installment. Will definitely be annoying all my friends again by sharing this video as i share all your others in hopes that the enthusiasm i feel for your subject matter may be transferred to another eager for knowledge and of course entertainment. Thank you again, sir. Greetings from northern Florida!
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  8268. Neat!
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  8269. Was this club intended to be used with a shield or was it two-handed like a great sword?
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  8270. That's a loooong sunrise.
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  8271. I always suspected that Neanderthals were severely weakened by various human diseases brought in by modern humans. Similar to the results of Cortez encounter with the natives. Not a single plague but a whole medley of maladies.
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  8272. Very well done, thank you.
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  8273. Really interesting, so very vividly portrayed lives of the people and great explanations... Discussions of possibilities of discoveries and what might have been. Thank you
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  8274. Some people believe that bits are cruel. These people some my relatives, use something that just wraps around the nose, that's called a Hackamore. A Hackamore gives you complete control of the horses head. With a horse if you have control of the head, the body follows.
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  8275. Informative!.
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  8276. The Chippewa Indians of Minnesota made medicinal ink. The medicine was extracted from plants and made into an ink from charcoal. They would use a bundle of thorns and a striker to transdermally inject the time release dose. The prescribed drugs would be administered to the affected area. As for being a criminal in that area of Italy if he had been, his knife would have been a flint switchblade which was technically feasible even with a Neolithic bone spring. As for his profession he was probably a traveling comedian and because of language variations he offended some proto-Italian drunk on Meade in a mud hut club with a joke about his wife and a compromising position with a Billy goat. This led to a hasty exit and finally a fatal arrow in the back.
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  8277. I see the Isle of wight didn't fall I live there
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  8278. Great video! It combined one of my favorite historical subjects and music genres. I had to listen to Lombus immediately after watching.
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  8279. Amazing story.
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  8280. Hi Dan I've only quite recently found your channel. And, not two weeks ago after watching one of your vids, I asked the question "Who were the first horse riders". Now, I know this vid can't be a response to my question, as the production couldn't be as short as that amount of time. None-the-less, however, I was well chuffed to see my inquiry so serendipitously and fortuitously answered. Much obliged Michael Barrett
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  8281.  @DanDavisHistory  Wow. That's dang fast. And with great production quality. Respect for listening man! By the way, do you have any theories about who the people and culture were that created the mega-lithic site (if it can be called mega-lithic) of Gobekli-Tepe? It's age at (what, 11, 000 years before present?) throw's a spanner into the workings of my brain. And is it true that there is a quite large settlement ie. for hundreds to thousands of people, possibly only inhabited temporarily, that surrounds the entire site? I couldn't hit it sideways, just like sister Ray said
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  8282. The rivaling Minoan nobles were basically a bronze age 'Game Of Thrones'.
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  8283. I am from India and I am glad to know where I am came from. Thanks for making this video. I like the Egyptian Chariots pic. Would you please let me know from where you have got this.
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  8284. 7:40 climate change, forcing migration. maybe
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  8285. I subscribed. Wish there was a magnus opus to read about or watch the first cultures from stone to bronze to iron ages….connecting the link from the first cultures to ancient. So much literature has been dedicated to medieval fiction (Game of Thrones) when there’s a largely ignored rich human cultural past.
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  8286.  @DanDavisHistory  Nice! I enjoyed Wolf God, so I will definitely pick up Godborn and Thunderer in the future.
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  8287.  @DanDavisHistory  Thank you again for such a good response! These three characters sound amazing and I look forward to read about them. Very nice that you have tackled how women would manage in a society were getting kidnapped and forced to join another group was not uncommon at all. The former raider seems very interesting. Sounds a bit like a personal favourite of mine, the shieldmaiden Hervor from Hervarar Saga!
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  8288. I do get a Conan the Barbarian vibe from the style of your hero in Gods of Bronze. The action writing is really fun to read!
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  8289. Thanks
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  8290. Thanks be to Richard Ashbury XD
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  8291.  @DanDavisHistory  It's true, I do love a reave.
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  8292. Psilocybin mushrooms
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  8293. New to me, but I'm loving this. I have no idea how I ended up here beyond having an interest, all be it not acidemic any further than I can throw my phone, and that's far, and last time I broke it... Well, not this one because it's new but, I find myself interested in the Bronze age because of how complete their societies seem, and also because of how long ago it all was, plus your video is awesome. It's seem so rich, but no one has actively missed the Bronze age in forever, yet there was so much! And what ties it all together? The Sea People, how the heck did that work? A general decline, yeah? Still, it's flipping bonkers to think about.
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  8294. Quite well done. Cheers!
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  8295. Thanks for drawing attention to this old video, I don't think I would have noticed it otherwise
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  8296. Yes, need info on armor
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  8297. I loved this. The narrator was great. Good information. thank you.
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  8298. Hello Dan, just bought Godborn and The Horse, the Wheel, and Language. I can't wait to start reading 🙂
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  8299. OMG!!! 😱😱.. I WANTED this one SOOO bad!!! I cannot wait to see it 😄😄😄😄
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  8300. I would bet it's all connected.
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  8301. great documentary
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  8302.  @DanDavisHistory  much obliged (tips hat)
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  8303. Please make videos about the other fascinating individuals like skanderbeg that you mentioned in the video!
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  8304. Great content and presentation mate. Subscribed
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  8305. Am I the onlyone who tried laying head towards west and facing south? In case I'm the only weirdo, lemme tell you it's a rather awkward position.. but I've been thinking that's probably a similar position of how you come out of the womb, with your head bent in a certain way to be able to move through and out.
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  8306. fascinating
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  8307. Thanks you.
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  8308. Nice work Dan.
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  8309. A sacrifice for the Algorithms!
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  8310. To my surprise I see another Dan Davis in the world. I salute you brother and may you have a good year
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  8311. Another great, high quality upload. Thank you very much! 🌸
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  8312. Your channel is one of the best on YT, I would argue probably better than STJ as well.
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  8313.  @DanDavisHistory  I love your work and your books fantastic. I love the history.
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  8314. Excellent content. Thank you sir.
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  8315. Second greatest, after sir orech van Lichtenstein of Gelderland.
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  8316. He probably got murdered because he kept telling people he was a vegan.
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  8317. Very happy YouTube algorithm brought me here finally
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  8318. Nice bit of history thank you
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  8319. Besides whatever good or bad may have come of his murder at the time, at least something good came out of his death. In ways he never could have imagined! I doo feel like he'd probably be pretty pissed that everybody now knows what he looks like naked
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  8320. Wow Nice video.
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  8321. You had me at "Bronze Age". Subscribed.
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  8322. 11:44 that's a whale, right? Must have seemed like a true monster to the early shipbuilders lol
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  8323. Interesting analysis of could be the explanation of the bronze age collapse. I never heard it said I've this before. I've listened to many lectures about the bronze age collapse but never like this. Great job 👏
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  8324. "peace and quiet and good tilled Earth." Bless.
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  8325. You have to wonder if there was some early proto-Indo-European influence on the Sumerians that allowed for the story elements or if such a thing is simply more widespread than the Indo-Europeans. Btw I’m not implying the Sumerians were Indo European, they were clearly indigenous to Mesopotamia and spoke a language isolate
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  8326. That’s interesting. I would have figured that it would have been through Transcaucasian trade of copper or something
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  8327. My Algo lord and savior has provided me with another divine scripture on the Tube
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  8328. Excellent history! Well done and very gripping... watched it end to end without pause- which says a lot to me...
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  8329. To play (alleged) devil-summoner's advocate, I think there's room for de Rais' newfound cooperation and piety to be genuine, even if it was still only done in response to excommunication. Losing all of his money, facing execution and having lost any chance at salvation may have may have been rock-bottom for de Rais and inspired a true desire for change. The fact that he was self-pitying may have only been him misplacing the blame by mistake (and a little bias towards himself) rather than performative preaching. Just because he had a moment of clarity doesn't mean he saw all the way down the well...Provided he was truthful (and also provided he really was a serial killer).
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  8330. How were those other 5 lost? 3:45
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  8331. Superb production, thank you 🙏
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  8332. I know nothing about this subject but find horses and info about them fascinating. I tend to agree with the comment about using what would be essentially a bitless halter on early horses. Just seems like a natural place to start and the bit came much later.
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  8333. Fantastic video!
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  8334. I like this content! Great job! Thank you 😌
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  8335. Thank you, I enjoyed.
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  8336. Always fascinating.
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  8337. As far as riding goes; it stands to reason it was children who first rode. Kids love horses, kids have the time to play with the horses which adults do not. Parents will often place a toddler on a quiet cow or pony. It could easily lead from this to older kids playing around. Kids are less threatening to horses than adults as well. As we know, yhe North American Indian did not use wheels. Additional to riding, they used horses for pack purposes, with a Travois (2 wooden shafts dragging) It could easily have been this way in Europe or Asia, then someone placed some from of wheel on the end of each stick (shaft) prior to even an axle. I have used short lengths of poles with a hole drilled through them and a metal bar as an axle through the holes. A pin in the axle bar stopped the wheels from falling off. Worked a treat for shifting heavy objects around the farmyard. Very Fred Flinstone, but effective. It does not take much of a stretch of the imagination to see a wheel developing this way, even with a wood axle to begin with. A simple sled is bound to have come next, either with shafts, or just rope or leather attached to the horse to pull it. Combine the sled with low wheels, and you have the beginnings of the chariot. Sophistication would then have come with time and perhaps war.
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  8338. Nz Maori practiced both endo and ecto cannibalism
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  8339. Very fascinating video sir. I look forward to seeing more from you!
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  8340. Was waiting for the Star Carr reference. Glad to see that pop up. It’s all about the horns - all connected. I just took your likes off of 666 too - spooky.
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  8341. Wonderful video!
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  8342. Another great video. You deserve a sub for this awesome content.
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  8343. Maybe Otzi was Screwing around with other dudes wives as he traveled from village to village plying his trade ( 🍆) and he messed with UgNugs wife? Then old UgNug chased Otzis Ass down,Way up in those Alps and Whizzed an Arrow in old Otzis Back??? Point of the story is, EVEN IN CAVEMAN'S TIMES, YOU DONT MESS WITH ANOTHER MANS WOMAN!!! 🤷
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  8344. I haven't read the latest Drews book although I found his earlier book quite interesting on the change in warfare as being one of the reasons for the bronze age collapse. That view seems to have gone out of favour among archaelogists like Eric Cline with more emphasis on climate change, and possibly with other events like volcanic eruptions. So he seems to be a bit of a contrarian. I did read David Anthony's Horse Wheel and Language and found it quite fascinating and convincing. He also states that the we shouldn't expect early riders to be something like the mounted Scythian cavalry (that would have been much later) rather that it was more like small hit and run raids and there is an ability to make a quick getaway. And so much of early warfare seems to be just that - raiding, often a group of young men going out on a raid. The fact is that the Yamnaya and the PIE speakers seem to have spread out and replaced many existing cultures both in the west and the east. And the question is how. If I'm not mistaken the DNA evidence shows that yamnaya men mixed with non-yamnaya women which indicates some kind of subjugation and raiding. Although at the same time there does not to be much evidence for Yamnaya warfare in Europe however they may have brought germs such as the plague. (as there is evidence of the plague in Yamnaya burials - from a PBS Nova episode on early horse riders). Also I think there is an argument for lactose tolerance from drinking milk giving the Yamnaya extra advantage when it comes to diet. Finally there is an added economic advantage of mobility with wheeled carts or wagons being able to follow a herd around. According to Anthony, a man can herd probably twice as many sheep on horseback vs on foot. One point on images of men riding on the butt end of a horse, that is actually how you ride a donkey (something Archaelogists keep in mind when looking at early images of riders) although the image in the video looks more like a horse. Anyway, I look forward to reading Drews book. Otherwise a good video. If it is a niche topic, it is one that is quite fascinating to me. The domestication of horses was a major innovation in history and had even more influence than the domestication of the dog.
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  8345. Dan Davis history video drops. I watch it 💪🏻
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  8346. What is that beautiful song that starts at 2:17? I can't tell.
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  8347. Whatever happened, it was a helluva fight.......
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  8348. My third and fourth closest historical matched are Maykop (OSS001 and I1720)
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  8349. very well researched
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  8350. Great stuff thanks
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  8351. Cant wait to watch this!! Thanks so much 🍂🍁😊!!!
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  8352. Impressive presentation! Thank you, @DanDavisHistory! I've wondered about the 'Venus' figurines since I first learned of them years ago. Considering the harsh environment and challenging hunting, I can well imagine males and females of all ages keeping one as an object of hope for a life of abundance for all living creatures, as well as themselves. We don't know their spiritual/religious beliefs, but theses figurines certainly suggest to me a strong reverence for a generous feminine archetype.
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  8353. Awesome video
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  8354. Lot's of love from Kerala.
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  8355. I'm so obsessed with the music behind the metalworking section, the video is also fantastic but please please PLEASE drop the audio of that song playing in the back
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  8356. A good video. Another one that's enjoyable.
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  8357. It is excellent. More thanks. Tom CZ
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  8358. It seems to me that if you can find the earliest depiction of men on horseback, they will be contemporary with the first horsemen. If you see something that astonishing, you write down for posterity - in your own way.
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  8359. Yasss!
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  8360. Fascinating!
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  8361. What’s with you and Sean Bean.He was great in the Sharpe series by the way.👍
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  8362. Fascinating video, thanks!
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  8363. From my youth I always felt bad for him, shot in the back by a coward. I do wonder, from time to time if perhaps he was not a good man, lest I waste my compassion on the unworthy. But I’ll never know, unless we can learn better to revisit the past.
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  8364. Another great coverage of a civilization I'd never heard of🙌🙌🙌
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  8365. Great video, makes you ponder if these were the sea peoples...
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  8366. 🤠👍🏿
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  8367. Ötzi's story is so sad.
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  8368. Nice
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  8369. awesome film nice to see my bronze in it
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  8370. I’d give it 2 👍if I could.thank you!
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  8371. Very good documentary of an amazing man.
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  8372. Our world is rich on natural resources. Thanks
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  8373. I feel the teeth issues. It's a wonder what those cursed with wisdom teeth did thousands of years ago to ease the pain and infection.
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  8374. Very well done video. Awesome job thank you
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  8375. Killing and eating your best mate!! No wonder the canine guardian was looking to take a chunk out of the miserable sinners.
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  8376. Top drawer yet again.
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  8377. Masterfully done.
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  8378. I enjoyed hearing about this. It was all new to me . Thanks
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  8379. Thanks for making this.
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  8380. Thank you! Excellent. If you narrate this, your voice is also excellent, very engaging with authority.
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  8381. Thanks!
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  8382. 700 pounds is not a very big riding animal for a grown man.
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  8383. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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  8384. It almost seems like the Allfather shot this guy in order to setup his discovery in our era, but thats ridiculous right?
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  8385. Betteridge’s law of headlines strikes again
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  8386. So what did 'the good guys' helmets look like?
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  8387. What happened to Loxley?
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  8388. Resubbed. Thank you
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  8389. Que signifie Yamnaya en leur langue ?.. Quels sont leurs rapports avec les Scythes Sarmates , massagétes ? transmissions .. de nombreuses questions
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  8390. Great documentary. The Iranian tribes are super interesting
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  8391. Do you know of crecganford's channel,he posted a video about the cosmic hunt a few weeks ago.
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  8392.  @DanDavisHistory  some of his stuff is similar to yours like the bronze age,he talks alot about indo-european,eurasian/native american shamanism and myths and legends and languages and how they're all connected to stone age prehistoric times and how all western and eastern religions can find their origins in them.
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  8393. Fantastic video, well done! Ive been curious about whether or not the Nordics suffered a similar collapse at the end of the bronze age, like the Mediterranean peoples did. Have heard the theory that climate change may have resulted in crop failures that caused mass migrations and wars.
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  8394. The best channel period.
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  8395. I've seen other podcasts but this one has been the most informative! Another podcast claimed that he was from Sicily.
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  8396. Pretty amazing! Thank you for sharing!
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  8397. Great channel, can't wait to delve into the novels. Love the narration too.
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  8398. Fabulous!!
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  8399. Awesome loved the video thanks!
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  8400. The video on William of Cassingham is now out. I highly recommend watching that after this.
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  8401. Dan? Can I send u a document to take a look at and try to poke as many holes in it as you can please? It’s about Greek myths etc. could u do a solid and kick the shit out it?
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  8402. cool vid i sub
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  8403. If you like to chat about Robin Hood why not join Robin Hood's Merry Men Facebook group? Admit it, we all want to be an outlaw really.
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  8404. Wel they were first but sudently not last
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  8405. banger - 0 bias, just presented facts!
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  8406. Ty .. you are a good history source..😊
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  8407. Great to meet a fellow writer. I also dabble in fantasy, taking inspiration from history. I'll check out your books.
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  8408. The most underrated history channel on Youtube.
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  8409. @14:50 "ceremonial or ritual combat" . . . yeah if the ceremony or ritual is war
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  8410. Awesome. I could literally listen/watch this stuff all day.
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  8411. Love the presentation. First time I've seen your channel and subscribing after this video. Have you read "Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World" by Philip Matyszak? I've just finished it and am longing for more books in this vein.
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  8412. Brilliant.
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  8413. Nooo I'm so tired..but u posted a new video.
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  8414. where's the hot chicks on horses? good video too.
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  8415. 21:44 That violin bow pin reminds me of a safety pin.
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  8416. Thank you for the great story!
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  8417. Why couldn’t he have pulled the arrow shaft out himself? That would be my first instinct if something was stuck in me. Probably not the smartest thing to do, but I would want it out of me.
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  8418. Great work! Thank you.
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  8419. Dan, is there a way to get your books so that you get all the money? I want to support your work but I have a problem with other people getting paid for it.
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  8420. Great video, earned a sub
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  8421. If only I had it, the skull-cap of my father would take pride of place amongst my cups or on my mantle piece. As with my mother's. I would mark this as a sign of respect. They passed their moral judgement guidelines down to me and taught me the basics and the basis of the man that I am. As is the case with my own kids. I can relate easily with these Neolithic peoples. On the other hand, I would not flinch from eating other humans if my life and progeny depended upon it.
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  8422. more... please more!!! Liked and subbed
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  8423. Another great video Dan, good stuff! Can I be a total pedant and add two German pronunciations - Ötzi has an umlaut on the O so is pronounced 'err-tsi' not 'ot-si' and Tollense is pronounced 'Tol-en-sa'. Looking forward to more content.
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  8424. been waiting for your next vid!! liked even before watching
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  8425. Thank you for this masterpiece. Love to listen to your work. I am a German who studied history and archaeology. Never worked in this field because there are lyers and academic whores everywhere. They tell whatever lies fitting whatever bring them a professors calling. A Great Greeting to a Brother, searching for historical facts. Does not matter, if you have an academic degree. You are a better historian than most who studied it.
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  8426. Great video. I'm looking forward to reading your books!
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  8427. "By Gods legs " this is a great channel. ;)
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  8428. I like the way you present information
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  8429. Great descriptive intro. Sounds like something from the Iliad 🙂
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  8430. As always Dan, a sumptuous feast for the eyes and ears, your videos are just superb! 👏👏👏 appreciate all the hard work you put into them, they really are wonderful 👌
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  8431. Perfect.. thank you!!!
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  8432. I have a nagging thought that he and Elenore may have had something going on, considering she was behind most of his choices and movements at the beginning.
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  8433. Endocannibalism is cringe, but exocannibalism is based.
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  8434. I wonder if the artistic depictions of people riding horses, sitting at odd ends of horses with rings in their noses, are imaginary? Might someone have been told about people riding horses or might they have glimpsed a rider and then made up the rest? I am not sure a ring could be put in a horse's nose as their noses are very sensitive. We know rings can be put into the noses of pigs, oxen or water buffaloes but I have never heard of this with any horse species. I wonder too, since the riders are depicted at the far ends of the horses, if the artists were more familiar with horses or other beasts of burden having loads on the middles of their backs? So if a person was reported riding a horse, where would they sit? In front or behind the loads? While I can see some sense in a rider sitting very close to the neck and holding on, I cannot see reason why a rider would sit near the rump. I would think skeletal remains would give some indication of people who did a lot of riding. I thought thigh muscles pulled on bones and left marks on people who rode horses? I think if children were in proximity of tame horses, especially the smaller varieties, they might have ridden them. Children are carried by parents and they like the idea of riding pets, even large dogs. I would think if horses were in any way tame, riding would have developed quickly to some degree.
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  8435. It would make sense to do this, in a hard time. Psychologically speaking, its quiet smart. You learn that you might have to kill your best friend and eat him. Would weed out anyone not strong enough to take such drastic measures
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  8436. England's Bugs Bunny to Spain's Elmer Fudd.
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  8437. Very cool idea for a video!
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  8438. Excellent presentation!!! Thank you Dan ❤
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  8439. Well done sir!
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  8440. Another great video. I learn new information that might end up in a RPG campaign later.
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  8441. Yes yes armor, age bronze!
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  8442. fantastic Dan, thanks
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  8443. Killer combo of thorough scientific research and engaging storytelling
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  8444. Very interesting
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  8445. Amazing 👏. Great video
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  8446. Well done!
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  8447. Maybe they rode at the front and back of the horses because these early horses had weak backs?
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  8448. Yes, warboners have been a thing-and yes, still are a thing. I was in the military, and the ppl around me who'd seen combat did make jokes about warboners-it's a reaction some guys have when pumped full of adrenaline in the middle of combat. Not everyone gets one, but it does happen. Stress does weird shit to people.
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  8449. WOW 1800 BC
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  8450. I can't wait to see my dog's again.
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  8451.  @DanDavisHistory  brilliant, I'm going to watch it again for the different tribes I really enjoy when you talk about and describe the different people's, I find it just fascinating can't get enough. Truly great content, great work. Loved it.
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  8452. This was absolutely brilliant. I thoroughly enjoyed it and am a new subscriber. Thanks
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  8453. A video on weights would be a very heavy subject.
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  8454. 👍👍👍
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  8455. Amazing documentary, thanks again Dan
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  8456. In every culture I've ever read or seen a documentary about, animal sacrifices are always there. That's interesting. What is just as interesting is almost everywhere these sacrifices are gone.
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  8457. Great content 👌
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  8458. Dan, have you seen the Standing With Stones piece done by The Prehistory Guys? Great video.
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  8459. Great video. Referring to the battle theory, I noticed that his flint knife appears broken at the tip; common damage for knives even today when used in combat. An amazing find about Otzi's arrows is that the flights were canted along the base of the shaft in a way that perfectly mimicks rifle barreling today. This means that his arrows spiralled in flight, and were likely more accurate over longer distances. We wouldn't see that technology again until the 18th century.
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  8460. Quality as usual ;)
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  8461. Why do you assume murder, it could’ve been self defence or manslaughter
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  8462. Thanks!
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  8463. You've relit my interest in history thank you
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  8464. This Iceman is the beginning of inspiration for my daughter to study archaeology and anthropology in college.
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  8465. Holmes, this is like Christmas. I’m going to hit pause and grab some slippers... my man. lol 😂
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  8466. When I was in High School. Middle Ages were an History of Europe. Bronze Age was more about Middle East
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  8467. Another one of your fantastic videos! Thank you so much, they are always a pleasure to watch.
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  8468. I'd love it if you would make a video about the Rus. Thier migrations up and down the rivers of eastern europe. Were they also employed by the Bizantine Empire? What did they do there? Did they return?
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  8469. I wish you read your own books on Audible!! Enjoying Godborn
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  8470. Thanks
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  8471. Shape reminds me of a 15th century war hammer / pole axe
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  8472. You did a very good job with this !
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  8473. Most excellent video, thank you.
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  8474. The answer is no unfortunately but great upload thank-you
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  8475. Chaoskampf
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  8476. you do a good job Dan, I enjoy your programs much
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  8477. Well done and congratulations on a great summary of his career and massive accomplishments!!
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  8478. Great work! Sub'd
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  8479. "percuotere" means "to beat up" in italian
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  8480. Some puzzles do have keys Well done
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  8481. My ancestors
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  8482. l approve smiling Ötzi.
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  8483. No.
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  8484. Maybe he was a part of a gang of thieves.
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  8485. Thanks 👏👏👏
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  8486. Thanks!
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  8487. Cool thanks mate
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  8488. Very good. Respect.
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  8489. This isn't directed towards you, but I always find it funny how history books describe migrations. Like it was just some peaceful bros walking around and getting busy with the females in the region lol.
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  8490. Yes! Can’t wait to watch this!
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  8491. Even on a wild, uncontrollable horse, sitting midway between front and hind legs would make sense. The only reason I can think of for not doing this is that the horse didn't tolerate it, physically, mentally, or both. Evolution won't have equipped horses with a spine suited for carrying weight at the middle. It will, however, have equipped them to carry weight above the legs; that's where all the weight of the horse is focused, even during the strain of gallop. The skeleton there is also directly supported by the legs, unlike the middle of the spine. It's reasonable to assume that a horse will panic more when it's at real and immediate risk of serious injury, than when this isn't the case. In other words, the images of Persians riding just above the legs of the horse is evidence that useful riding was impossible at the time; the horses couldn't tolerate it. One can imagine, though, that literal joyriding might have resulted in selecting for animals that could carry the most weight, resulting in a gradual increase of strength. With regard to war, there's another problem. Dominant stallions aren't the rule among wild horses, but an exception. Most horses will run away from danger, even today, even after we've bred them to be calm and obedient; war hoses were selected for special traits at a young age, and then rigorously trained. Horses are prey animals by nature; running away is what they do. Mares always have an incentive to flee, rather than fight; to them, it doesn't matter if other mares are killed, and there are plenty of stallions. Non-dominant stallions also have nothing to fight for; risking death for other stallions, or for mares that won't mate with you, is pointless; much better to wait until you have a herd to protect. Dominant males, however, do have an incentive. They need to keep their mares and foals alive, and also have them feel protected, as an incentive for them to stay close. While evolution doesn't think, it still tends to end up with the rational result. Early horses will have been very skittish. Riding an early horse at high speed towards people that are howling, screaming, making rapid movements, hurling things at you (you and the horse), and perhaps even charging towards you, would be suicide. If you harmed an enemy, it would be by landing on them, after being spectacularly thrown from your horse. Horse archery would be more realistic, as it would involve riding parallel to the enemy, rather than towards them, and the horse would need to be kept calm only for a few seconds, while the arrow is launched, and then could be allowed to run away. However, this leaves us without an explanation for later chariot archers; if one man on one horse can fire arrows, why would you use two horses for one chariot with two men (driver and archer) that can fire no more arrows, and certainly not enough to justify two horses, two men, and the cost of a chariot? Clearly, that wouldn't be a recipe for success. Clearly, mobile archers required a chariot and a dedicated rider for a reason. That indicates that horses, even at that stage, couldn't carry a man at a sufficiently high speed and for a sufficiently long duration to match the usefulness of a war chariot. In short, horses weren't used in war, until some tribe in the Indo-European speaking region developed the chariot, some 4,000 years ago, and, even then, they weren't ridden. Judging by the spread of Indo-European languages, they were very effective, though.
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  8492. The first example of "Blitz Krieg"
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  8493. Very interesting and informative, lots of it new to me. Thank you. I particularly enjoyed the bit where you bottled out of trying to pronounce "Achnacreebeag"
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  8494. A copper dagger is about as much good as a chocolate teapot.
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  8495. Great work 🙏🙏🙏
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  8496. These films of yours really are exceptionally good.
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  8497. Really well constructed documentary. Good job.
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  8498. Awesome documentary on the first skilled Horse warriors of 5he Ancient world.. Great content.. Good job.. haven't seen ,read or heard anything like it . Il watch your other videos.. More v8ds like this please.!!
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  8499. oh, the grave goods in the caucases showed us how the mesopotamian royalty may have decked up....... all those carnellian beads, could they have arrived from IVC?
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  8500. Well, the day i discovered this channel, i struck Gold 👍 Greets from the Netherlands 🌷🇳🇱, T.
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  8501. Dan use a ledge m8
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  8502. Excellent.
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  8503. FCK&%$#@G ! BRILLIANT
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  8504. Awesome video
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  8505. Thank you for an interesting and enjoyable ride back to a fascinating time
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  8506. Awesome!
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  8507. So interesting and extremely well done, as always thank you!!
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  8508. Another great history video!
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  8509. good video! thank you
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  8510. your videos give me a good chill podcast vibe. love it
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  8511. The Bronze and stone Age Eurasian steppe Nomads are are amongst the Most Fascinating People in history I learned a few things and enjoy this video immensely. As a side note I'm doing the November Challenge and you're not exactly making it easier for me 29:55 (haha)
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  8512. Mjölnir sonds like slavic for thunder. Perkūnas, the Baltic God also is synonymous to thunder in Lithuanian.
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  8513. Glad I found this channel
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  8514. thank you living out here in the middle east it is great to see these well researched and presented vidoes of the homeland
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  8515. Great video!❤ Just subbed.
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  8516. Weren't dogs domesticated in a similar place and time or am I mistaken?
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  8517. please make a video about the wild hunt. that would be very interesting.
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  8518.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks. Great work.
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  8519. Alfred was the greatest king of england
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  8520. Interesting ancient history Thank you 👍
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  8521.  @DanDavisHistory  proper getting into the commentary now 🤣🤣
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  8522. Fascinating video!
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  8523. Hi Dan, did you study archeology or history at college?
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  8524.  @DanDavisHistory  Your content is great, I love it.
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  8525. The figurines certainly do look like the pictures of the Sea People as depicted by the Egyptians .... Massive change was happening at that time in the Mediterranean area, whether climate change and the resulting bad harvest and starvation or perhaps a kind of Alexander the Great who wanted to conquer the world
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  8526.  @DanDavisHistory  it is! What a man. Dan, you would also like Lautaro, Eagle Eye of the Mapuche. Fascinated with the Berserkers too. Remembered that Lewes chess set, where they bite their shields.
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  8527.  @DanDavisHistory  And that Lautaro was 23 when he died, leading not guerrilla war but a pitched battle. He and William have in common not just immense courage but also tactical skills. And the love and loyalty of their people. William has been forgotten. Lautaro is revered in Chile. Both are men for the ages.
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  8528. Fantastic! Thank you!
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  8529. for a several time I lifed near the battlefield. Nowadays it is a beautiful valley and nothing remembers of that battle.
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  8530. 🤠👍🏿
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  8531. Absolutely Mad Lad.
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  8532. Great culture. Would diseases from the steppe cultures, such as Yersinia pestis, not have contributed significantly to their decline?
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  8533. William was the embodiment of chivalry.
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  8534. Dan you are a pleasure to listen to. Your interest and passion for history shines through in all your videos. If you ask yourself if you should talk about a subject, as long is you are fascinated by it, you'll always have a listener
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  8535. Nice. Very nice... Scrolling text now!.... Lovely stuff.
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  8536. The Scythians were super interesting. Its possible (although not confirmed) that they were the first culture to engage in hormone replacement therapy by using mare urine to feminize members of the Enaree priest caste. They also used cannabis for divination.
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  8537. This good video got you a subscription.
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  8538. Great channel 👏 👍
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  8539. Instant like
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  8540. Awesome as always
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  8541. I wonder if the rise of Odin over Tyr symbolized the rise of the values of the koryos over those of the villiage
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  8542. Raised and sank a small copper bowl 🥣 last year at craft college, hammer and anvil. Would make a perfectly good skull cap if in bronze. It was a blast but you would want ear protection. After watching this want to make a round bronze shield with repoussé dot decoration ❤.
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  8543. Well done as always Dan. Almost 400K! Here's to 1 mil views in time.
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  8544. Great video. You should also do the Botai.
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  8545. Wow this is an amazing video!
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  8546. Fascinating video, although the music's a bit loud in places. One aspect I think could do with more weight is the development of the horse in and of it's self. Generally, the beasts depicted drawing chariots in Assyrian and Egypten friezes are called "equines", rather than horses. They're smaller, for one thing. It took as long to breed the riding horse as it did the dairy cow or the beef steer. Again, this is one of the causes of chariots, a horse can pull much more than it can carry. A war chariot drawn by two shaggy ponies too small to ride is still a battle platform capable of some 30 kph. Additionally, not all horse cultures use a bit. Native Americans in particular were known for hackamore type bridles (lack of native metal and metal workers....).. The modern riding horse is huge, the modern draught horse a freakish giant - and they're both _modern_. . and require substantial infrastructure.. Shire horses and the like are highly developed and specialised agricultural products - the feed bill alone is enormous; and only exist post 1700
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  8547. Very good, thank you !
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  8548. amazing work
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  8549. Your information, writing and narration are great. I also love your choice of images. Fascinating stuff. My theory is the urnfield culture switched to cremation after a period of especially troublesome zombie attacks. ; )
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  8550. Firstly, I really appreciate the amount of research and detail that clearly went into this. This is definitely one of the more better Youtube summary's about this individual's life in comparison to some others that use more dubious sources and then come to the conclusion he was set up because 'Catholic church is bad!' Mostly for other commenters here that question what the consensus is in academic circles: Historians such as Noël Valois, Arthur Bourdeaut, Émile Gabory, Georges Peyronnet, Jacques Heers, Matei Cazacu, and Claude Gauvard believe there's a level of guilt here although for different reasons. E.g for Cazacu, Gilles fits almost perfectly our modern understanding of what a serial killer is before the concept was even known back in the 15th century. The usual problem I think is the academic sources are at times not accessible as they tend to be in French, I think a good idea for anyone who's interested in the academic debate is to use the French wikipedia and then run it through the translate as it details very well different sources and much more information too. I don't usually rely on wikipedia but as long as it's sourced, there's not much issue there! English wise, there's some very good sources via google scholar as well (I find Elena Odio's publication clear and easy to read in comparison to others) but these all tend to be locked behind a good old academic institution wall. The point on his innocence has been brought up by some historians in the past, mainly Salomon Reinach who questioned the inquisitorial nature of the trial. Although his work was then later criticised, and other historians disregard the 'conspiracy theory' that he was completely set up entirely. Jacques Chiffoleau (another medievalist) also makes the point to not completely rely on the trial record at face value. However, he's also a little concerned as to the extremely explicit nature of the testimonies which was unusual for this time period (a bit similar to Cazacu's argument) We'll never really know the exact truth of what happened here. But personally, I find the arguments both ways quite interesting. The argument he was at least to some level guilty is still more or less in the 'majority'.
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  8551. Very interesting. What type of dogs? Any modern type that is similar? I am more of a cat person by the way.
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  8552. You should have a Netflix series or movies over your books.
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  8553. Another great video! Thanks, Dan!
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  8554. Wonderful show!
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  8555. Love from Ireland Xx
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  8556. This is so Amazing my conclusion is the same things were going on all over the world no one was first we all did it at the Same time Amazing is what I say.
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  8557. Always loved reading about this site. Appreciate the content!
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  8558. Another great video. Thanks Mr Davis.
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  8559. I wonder why his killer didn't take the ax? The only thing I can think of is that everyone knew it was his and if his killer was walking around with it he would face some kind of justice.
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  8560. Maybe otzi was the first serial killer
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  8561. I'm mind boggled, perhaps even gobsmacked
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  8562. Excellent video. New subscriber.
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  8563. Very well done!!!!!!
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  8564. Fantastic.. lots of bronze age boat people. As if people lived on boats since the dawn of man
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  8565. Again a great video.
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  8566. Love your content bro!
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  8567. Excellent very interesting
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  8568. Another fine informative film Dan, keep up the excellent standard,
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  8569. I used to be a Warrior before I took an unidentified injury to the knee!
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  8570. Good vid broski
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  8571. Been to waiting for a new vid and this just popped on my fyp
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  8572. "The Spanish treasure fleet was powerful and unassailable" Piet Hein: Hold my beer.
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  8573. i was just thinking yesterday i wanted to knew more about this otzi guy. And there you are, poping up onto my screen. how wonderfull.
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  8574. What an awesome video. Absolutely top shelf content.
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  8575. Great thanks
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  8576. Only bigger and made of bronze
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  8577. Surely with the walls it doesn't have to be an either/or? If it keeps out animals that eat livestock as well as humans that raid livestock or torch your city it's a win-win
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  8578. Good work.
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  8579. Seems odd that knives/daggers would predate copper war clubs, seems a simpler idea.
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  8580. Wouldn't a stone club do the job just as well? And be much cheaper and easier to acquire? Blades can stab and slice (more specialized tool), but anything blunt and heavy can bash a scull in.
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  8581.  @MrStn  I don't think so, stone is brittle and breaks, copper would be denser and bend instead of breaking. Making a better, more re usable club.
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  8582. Fantastic Life After Death!!!!😇God bless
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  8583. Video showed up in my recommended. So glad. Very informative and interesting. I’ll be watching more!!! It’s almost like the plague was nature’s population control. Just like how rodent colonies will become infected when they become to large, human colonies seem to face the same thing. I known there are other issues at play but I think this is happening as well.
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  8584. Um speaking as a corpsman(like a medic but BETTER) with combat experience(like actual fire fights, aaand a bronze star for courage for bayonet use) my marines would absolutely get hard ons! I got one after the bayonet thing, if you knew there was going to be a fight soon you absolutely get hard! Please dont misunderstand me tho my combat stuff it wasn't as "rambo" as it sounds.
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  8585. Thanks for another amazing and informative video I enjoyed it very much !
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  8586. My first questions would be to find out how much personal experience with horses that these "expert historians" have? Did they grow up with horses? Did they ever personally train a horse for any kind of riding, pulling, or back pack type choire? Their personal experience would go a LONG way towards understanding the psychology of human-horse relationships. Without their personal involvement with horses it is just a lot of academic hear-say completely open to interpretation.
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  8587. This is wonderful.
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  8588. Dr. Phil Harding discovered the usefulness of the polished design and was quite impressed. If you can sell the idea to a life-long knapper, it must work well.
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  8589. Just what I want to watch with my cocoa
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  8590. Why they gotta have some kind of leader or concentration of power to have built all that stuff?
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  8591. wow! what a fantastic video. Thank you.
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  8592. Yeah, the traditional, far more civilised, caving-in-of-skulls method would definitely be my own technique of choice whenever I’m klunking people on the nut.
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  8593. Behind my dad's house is a huge rock bluff with native American drawings on it and one of the pictures is the spiral, always seems kinda weird to me that the spiral shows up everywhere
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  8594.  @DanDavisHistory  well it's my favorite place to do hallucinations to lol some scientist came and took some pics of it a few years ago and put it through a bunch of filters (I didn't get to see the pics unfortunately) they said it was a shine to the underwater panther (god of the underworld)
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  8595. As does the cross and the swastika. Strange but true. Africa Europe America and Asia. All used those pictograms.
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  8596. Voltaire wrote in the 18th century: "If you have nothing to tell us, but that on the banks of the Oxus and the Jaxartes, one barbarian has been succeeded by another barbarian, in what respect do you benefit the public?" I wonder if he'd appreciate the irony that it was somewhere on the banks of the Oxus (or reasonably close) a few thousand years ago people figured out how to ride horses -- and changed the world.
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  8597. Chad Lionheart
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  8598. All your videos are great.
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  8599. Bro cut through both sides of the armor and the user... presumably with a bronze weapon?! Wow.
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  8600. Loved it. One of the "old enemy" but a remarkable character. Can you add "Ireland's Greatest Hero" to the to-do list, le do thoil.
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  8601. Excellent.
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  8602. Fascinating. Informative. Well written and presented. Thank you, Dan!
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  8603. I've recently been watching the Rhind lectures from Antiquaries of Scotland. It might give you some info on the edge of Bronze Age Europe. These are my favorite, but each year has different topics. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLomxmmDt-nnL-vwhN9UV5-P28H5q1NQ4M Also, a good source for information on the Norse mythology and gods is Ocean Keltoi, a Norse Reconstructionist. I've learned so much from him and his YT community pages.
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  8604. Brilliant!. Thank you ❤️
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  8605. I know this comment is cliche at this point but this really is one of the most underrated channels on YouTube... How the hell is channel is 6 years old and hasn't broken 100k subscribers with this quality of content is beyond my comprehension..... There are plenty of channels similar to yours on YouTube but none quite like it and it's terrific.
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  8606. Like grilled cheese....
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  8607. Excellent!!! 👍🏼👍🏼
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  8608.  @DanDavisHistory  thank you, I'm really looking forward to it.
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  8609. Indians were skinwalkers
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  8610. Well done.
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  8611. Wow, thank you. Some amazing information here and in the comments below. I'm sure this debate will go on for a long time but, meanwhile.. I can enjoy the mystery, almost as much as I enjoy the horses themselves.
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  8612. 👍👍👍
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  8613. You did a good job Dan! I look forward to more.
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  8614. Well done! Thank you. Very informative with well crafted mental imagery. Author! Author! :)
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  8615. i really enjoyed this video. maybe it's little off topic, but after your video on maikop culture i thought that maybe you can speak a little bit about colchian culture. as a megrelian i am really interested in colchis, there's so little information about this fascinating people and i have so many question about this topic. anyways thank you for your work. it is very helpful and also interesting
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  8616. yeah i think it would be great, because this culture is so mysterious and filled with valuable and interesting information. i also blame georgian government for not researching it well, but it is what it is.
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  8617. 22 minutes is not enough time for this.
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  8618. Incredible production. Thank you!!!!
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  8619. Thanks for this. Lots of work I'm sure.
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  8620. thanks for all this great info-- no one knows about this culture! Wonderful!
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  8621.  @DanDavisHistory  I'm sure they will be interesting as well! Any chance you will talk about the "Old Europeans" or pre-Indo-European inhabitants of Europe? They are possibly even more mysterious than our ancestors from the Steppe.
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  8622. Fantastic show thanks
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  8623. I really love this video, I'm not sure about the story you read from in the middle but overall this was very very informative, thank you!
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  8624.  @DanDavisHistory , thanks for answering. I still disagree about the use of the visual matter. Many of the pictures fit well, while others IMO don't. Quite often - especially in the beginning - you show pictures and even modern footage of boats which have nothing at all to do with the boats which were in use at the time of Francis Drake. While others might enjoy the mood and maritime spirit it invokes, I find it slightly distracting. Since I am not an expert as far as the Spanish Armada is concerned, I am not inclined to get into a lengthy argument with you. But even a cursory net search reveals that the opinions of the experts cover a great range. But most of them agree that while the initial English actions set the stage, the complete dispersal of the Spanish ships and their legendary flight northwards around the Northern tip of Scotland and the Scottish Isles, and their subsequent long journey homewards along England's Western shores was caused by the inclement weather. And it should be mentioned that most Spanish ships eventually managed to return to Spain! Only six ships of the Spanish Armada were destroyed by direct actions of the English navy. Some experts say, that it was bad tactics, bad luck and bad weather which stopped the landing of the Spanish ships and the invasion of England . And at the time it was actually readily acknowledged that it was a near-run affair and that England had dodged a bullet. It was regarded as an act of God - of course a protestant God - that the Spanish Armada was blown away after the initial skirmishes! But I repeat: Overall I really enjoyed your detailed documentary about Sir Francis Drake, whom I have admired since my father, who was a passionate sailor and ship builder, has told me about the daring English buccaneer and explorer. I was very impressed by his positive attitude towards the native people whom he encountered during his voyages along the shores of the two American continents and his lenient treatment of his Spanish prisoners after he managed to capture and plunder their treasure ships. And he must've been an English patriot, since he always returned from his excursions and enriched his investors and the English crown instead of squirreling away his treasures somewhere and becoming a full-time pirate. His circumnavigation of the world with his legendary "Golden Hinde" cannot be regarded highly enough, and his leadership was great!
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  8625. Optimum!.
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  8626. Your history videos are really dope keeps them up! Also I'm an artist and if you even need some cheap illustrations feel free to hit me up
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  8627.  @DanDavisHistory  yeah, i know you were thinking of how much your material would actually be in the production. im sure you would come to the conclusion that tv is tv, books are bookis, and $8m is a lot of money, and thats really important
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  8628. For the Algorithm!
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  8629. Love your videos. After watching them for awhile I finally went and got your book Godborn. Great listen man keep up the great work!
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  8630. The Nuragi seem like castles to me.
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  8631. Brilliant video thanks. I like that you presented different theories that may explain the findings before you divulge information from other excavations. It lets the viewer think themselves and consider which theories paint the likeliest picture of what happened.
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  8632. It's just like Hermes raiding the cattle of Apollo when he was just a baby.
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  8633. I'd love to see a video on bronze age ships in the Mediterranean, I'm obsessed with naval architecture.
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  8634. If I had enough weed I think staying camped on the bank of the river for eternity sounds pretty good to me🤔😏😎
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  8635. Thanks!
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  8636. at 1:15 stop and take a look at the Picasso like abstract cave painting style that makes the two horses in the herd all the way on the right become one horse's head. really incredible early special 3-D effects.
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  8637. Dan Davis would you consider making a video on the Nordic Bronze Age aka Proto-Germanics? Or a video about the British Bronze Age.
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  8638. no bridle or bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YCgsZmjsww
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  8639. yes do the armor 1
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  8640. I'm not gonna lie dude that is probably the best video thumbnail image I've ever seen Oh right and the video was good too
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  8641. My favorite videos
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  8642. Love this one. Keep them coming.
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  8643. Holy shit that was amazing.
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  8644. @7:14 , "I was a hero once too, until I took an arrow in the knee. " 🤪
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  8645. Excellent , very well done
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  8646. Dan, that is just plain brilliant. As other have said far from a niche subject. As a social anthropologist particularly interested in the transition from hunter gatherer to social group farming - from female to male lead family role- this subject is vital. Logical sequence is Hunting / Herding / Husbanding (change in lead family role and social standing - ownership) /Transport / Warfare. One aspect I have not seen formally is the use of body fluids. Milk is an obvious but not an early diet food but probably via small stock that can tolerate it. Blood the more obvious as is still drawn in places. And glandular shamantic. Oooh - and vital fertiliser and fuel. Some incredible footage there and your graphics? Superb.
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  8647. Thank you for the video
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  8648. I need to add I'm writing a tabletop RPG, so this video has helped me a lot to make sense a lot of ideas.
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  8649. Very nice touch at 1:14:25 Thanks very enjoyable presentation, and talk about tough, I thought Nelson was good but this fella does alright on all fronts.
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  8650. You really did an amazing job at telling the story loved it great work
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  8651. Comment
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  8652. What would you give to be the one whose trowel turned over that gold piece?
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  8653. I really enjoyed that video, thanks! 😊
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  8654. Merry Xmas mate
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  8655. In modern time ... who knows, but as a teenager in 1970 the rumor was about Idi Amin having eaten an enemy's heart.
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  8656. The masculine urge to live in a hobbit hole
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  8657. LOVE FROM ISTANBUL
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  8658. Omg this is so informative and riveting - thank you Dan Davis !
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  8659. Another masterful work my friend.
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  8660. AFAIK the main argument against the idea of Vikings wearing horned helmets, is the fact that they didn't find any Viking horned helmets.
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  8661. Excellent 🤩!! Thank you, enjoyable & learned a lot!
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  8662. Love the expression of the guy in the video thumbnail
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  8663. great video bro, and bronze age trade routes sounds fascinating for a video topic
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  8664. You’ve done a great job! Thank you
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  8665. Nenets of Siberia...the reindeer people...maternal haplogroup N1a1a.
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  8666. So many theories about what happened to Ötzi.... When all along its something very human/male... a fight over a woman. :)
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  8667. Wow, another cracker from this rich era that you bring to life so well. Fascinating minutiae, and 11/10 ad read. Nice one Dan.
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  8668. Great video, and ofc I'd love a vid on the armor
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  8669. Hell yes!!! I just got Barry Cunliffes book.
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  8670. Fascinating.
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  8671. Fantastic video. I'm really skeptical of the skin and eye color estimates they genetic estimates gave. But who knows for sure?
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  8672. Wonder how long it took for the horned helmet trend to be seen as impractical in combat.
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  8673. Good stuff! ⚔🏹🛡
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  8674. Compelling narrative. Than you!
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  8675. I have come to suspect that events like disease and natural disasters provide a much greater stimulus for population and cultural changes. .... off to do more research.....
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  8676. Adore these videos man thank you so much
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  8677. Well done. The information was well organized and great narration
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  8678. Brilliant stuff 👌👍💓🇮🇪
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  8679. like, sub and comment for the Algo…this was awesome! Cant imagine how long it took to put this together. Cheers!!
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  8680. Brilliant again Dan. Very very enjoyable. Peace all 🇮🇪
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  8681. The Assyrians according to historian Odd Arne Westad were the first to establish a cavalry military regiment, I think the Assyrians and Scythians spread horse riding into the Mesopotamia.
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  8682. Fairly new subscriber, enjoying your stuff, have purchased the first godbourne on audible & have really enjoyed it 👍🏻are there any plans for the 2nd title to be available there? Again keep up the good work
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  8683. Cheers for the reply, always big respect for people who can put interesting & entertaining stories on to a page. Wish i had that skill 👍🏻
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  8684. Please accept this humble comment as a sacrifice worthy of our algorithmic Overlords.
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  8685. I especially appreciate the comment that maybe he wasnt as unkempt as the most famous image. I am always annoyed by re enactors who portray mesolithic, neolithic and even more modern societies with dirty faces and hands. Especially as most prehistoric societies appear to have lived near water. Without modern antibiotics cleanliness would have been even more important. Plus our ape cousins clean and groom each other so why do so many portrayals show our prehistoric ancestors covered on mud. .
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  8686. Is that the origin of nightmares? Horses carried the dead?
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  8687. This was fascinating. Thank you!
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  8688. Great content.
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  8689. Thank you for your the video.
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  8690. I feel blessed in this moment, for the internet and this content being disseminated.
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  8691. Another home run. Definitely want to see the follow up vid. Also whats going on in central France at the 5:20 mark? Bell Beaker just not interested??
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  8692.  @DanDavisHistory  YouTube is biiiiiiig
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  8693. Lemme spit some facts, mkay? It was the future Emperor of Mankind, fighting Void Dragon before imprisoning him on Mars.
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  8694. Superb documentary, many thanks.
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  8695. I love this... it gives me even more reason for our family milk cow. Seems it's in our blood to love cows. And I sure do love my cow.
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  8696. it makes me happy that dogs are always by our side, were the only creatures on earth that bond together this closley
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  8697. Another great video, I recently found your channel and im very glad I did. I have been running through all your videos on my day off work and im honestly shocked I haven't seen your channel untill now. I watch quite a lot of Youtube videos related to history and such and your videos cover very interesting topics. Thank you sir and keep up the good work.
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  8698. One of the best content creators here. 👏👏👏👏
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  8699. Another awesome video! Thanks for the upload.
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  8700. Great video Dan, really enjoyed it.
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  8701. Great video!!! 💪
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  8702. It's good you say all those potential reasons, so people can't assume it was a battle for a specific reason, when we can't really know.
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  8703. Does Vlad's younger brother Radu bear an uncanny resemblance to Sebastian Stan, or The Winter Soldier of MCU fame, or is it just my eyes deceiving me?
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  8704. I think the hook was for hanging the helmet on the wall.
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  8705. Our space travellers will likewise explore new horizons filled with adventures.
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  8706. Amazing!
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  8707. That's a just perfect sponsor. 😂
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  8708. Cheers again and thank you
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  8709. I still have the weapon used by my warrior great grand father. I have used it to bring home food. I cherish it.
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  8710. Looks like the Danes have the biggest horns, followed by the Sardinians. 🤣🤣🤣
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  8711. Thank you for this.
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  8712. Horse need water and food and rest. The are faster in the short run but not over greater distances. Otherwise good video.
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  8713. That feeling that their lives seem just out of reach is something that has haunted me all my adulthood.
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  8714. I can't believe YT just now placed one of your videos. Great channel, content and narration. I also imagine a heck of a lot of research. I'm happy I've subscribed and ready to peruse the already made while looking forward to the next. Thanks !
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  8715. Thank you for a really informative and educational response to these claims from outer space. 🙏👍
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  8716. Amazing work again Dan
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  8717. The sacrifice of a loved pet would be a significant personal sacrifice to their God.
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  8718. Badass documentary. Well spoken.
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  8719. You do not have to fight on horseback, a dragoon is highly mobile infantry.
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  8720. Dogs are guides.
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  8721. Damn, this is exciting stuff! Well done, great content.
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  8722. I’m thinking of the Roman Lupercalia, too!
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  8723. Heck, even Trick or Treating!
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  8724. Very cool video dude. It comes down to too many people.
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  8725. i think i ran out of dan videos, i am so sad, gonna watch all of the again i supose, needless to say i love your content dan, keep it up!
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  8726. What about slaves or captives used for practice? If they'd tutor on cattle, maybe also on captives - and if they didn't survive, eh. Could be, too - that a warrior was bashed and the surgery was a last ditch effort to save him - and if his spirit had already left, maybe they didn't want the residual spirit after them and buried them in such a way.
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  8727. One of th most interesting stories I have heard.
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  8728. I wonder if he was a jerk and deserved it? 🤔🤣 Joking it's sad in any case. Even if he was a jerk.
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  8729. This was fascinating!
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  8730. Thanks.
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  8731. Cattle Raiding 😱😱😱😱
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  8732. wheat craps... ooops .hehe! Excellent video and work sir! Thank you very much and cheers from Zagreb. Hvala i lijepi pozdrav
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  8733. Have you ever done a video on the general features and beliefs of indo european religions?
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  8734. I actually meant to ask about the European branch of indo-European religion rather than all of indo European religion. Sorry about that.
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  8735. Can't thank youu enough for making these videos.
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  8736. them some bad dudes
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  8737. This channel is great - well balanced and informative. Thank you. Wishing you many more subscribers.
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  8738. What a great channel👍👍👍👍👍
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  8739. Bravo!
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  8740. Your thumbnails are amazing
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  8741. Learned a lot of new things here today. Thank you very much, appreciate it a lot 👍 Greetings from the Netherlands 🌷, T.
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  8742. Waiting for the next novel as well!
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  8743. I love your videos and always look forward to them.
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  8744. Awesome video
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  8745. Dang was really early and then got sidetracked by fam and cats. LOL! Loving this.
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  8746. Thank you for the references, and a to read list.
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  8747. Probably abandoned due to disease. Simple towns like that are extremely susceptible to disease and, coupled with primitive superstition, it would likely only take one good plague to scatter inhabitants.
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  8748. The idea of finding such hoardes - objects from many places and from many times...so interestng. Hope they have a compiled list of all these finds, for people to get to know about them
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  8749. Great documentary
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  8750. Very interesting.
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  8751.  @robertguildford4793  small things in life Robert enjoy mate I know I Will. Peace 🇮🇪
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  8752.  @DanDavisHistory  brilliant I enjoyed the horned helmet video and this was a great follow-up, I love all this historical culture the different people, battles, day to day lives it's so exciting. Of course you do it extremely well and in great detail so it makes more enjoyable. Super channel, I'm hooked. Cheers Dan.
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  8753. That was fascinating.
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  8754.  @DanDavisHistory  Funny thing between you're response and now: one of the fascinating parts was Cerebus = Spot. Had my mind spinning with implications. Told a friend who said, "Yeah, that was in a Harry Potter movie." But really, the whole vid was good and now I have one less reason to watch Harry. Thank you.
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  8755. Thank you for your work!
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  8756. The clay soil is really hard to dig into in Denmark and Scania, The soil is one of the most fertile in the world. Maybe the tool was used to concer the soil? And the wild boars?
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  8757. Fascinating. Thank you.
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  8758. Outstanding video...
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  8759. Excellent thank you!
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  8760. Good and interesting video. I myself am enchanted by the Bronze Age and the idea of the worldview that the Engravers of the pictures have thought of.
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  8761. Fascinating and discerningly made as always. thank you.
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  8762. Danke!
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  8763. I went up there in 1986 I just missed the start of uncovering this I must go again
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  8764. Great work! Keep it up
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  8765. Absolutely superb. Great narration as well.
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  8766. 43 minutes on Ötzi? Oooh buddy I'm gonna enjoy this.
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  8767. Very Interesting
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  8768. Hi Dan. I'm enjoying your series. Its commonly thought that the centaur myth was created by the Greeks as a result of an initial encounter with horse riding warriors. If horse riding was pre-Bronze Age wouldn't they have been completely familiar with it. But if the horse riders appeared shortly before or around the Bronze Age collapse it would be more likely that it would survive into the early Iron Age as a Greek myth. Just a guess.
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  8769. Thank you, My Heritage, for sponsoring the video!!
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  8770. Horses are pack animals and that means there also siege weapons. I believe they were used heavily in trade for a long period of time leading to mass selective breeding leading to stronger horses everywhere there was horses . I also think that a wheeled cart was the main reason they were so awesome for early humans “now we can finally transported all that heavy ass bronze from the mines to the market” people then would want faster horses for faster work.
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  8771. can we also appreciate the insanity of the first person to ever try to ride a horse. Remember domestication isn't an exact science horses had some buck in them and they'd certainly not take kindly to being ridden.
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  8772. If there an eta on the audiobook for thunderer?
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  8773. Great work~
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  8774. Excellent! Thank you very much.
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  8775.  @DanDavisHistory  I didn't know he was a real figure. I thought he was one of your creations 👍 William, I mean.
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  8776. You are a wonderful narrator, Dan. I really enjoy your stories
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  8777. Awesome
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  8778. Thanks for showcasing both theories and describing them further. I have to admit that man learning to ride only in the first millenium B.C. seems rather late to me. On the other hand, when there exist early depictions of charriots, why do not exist simultanous depictions or descriptions of mounted men? So although it is hard to believe, i'd believe in late riders unless there is more convincing proof for riding in earlier times.
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  8779. Need a tv series about this guy.
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  8780. Lmao Sebastian Stan as Radu 🤣
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  8781. Really enjoyed this. Very well explained. Tremendous story 🔥 Joan🔥
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  8782. Just found my new fav channel:D
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  8783.  @DanDavisHistory  I have only read this once, and it happened in the 1700s. This seems to have led to a more civilised tradition, the Lucia procession, which is now a popular tradition with young people from preschool and up
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  8784. Dan,I have just found your site & really enjoyed your video.I do reenactments archaeology & research & to my shame have never heard of this guy.Fascinating story on the same lines as Hereward the Wake in some respects.And I really rate u tell the story too.Only problem is,I now want to go to the Wold.Hope that's spelt correctly.Do you have a fav time period?For me,the further back we go,the better.BTW I have not seen a bow quite like the ones in your video & would like to know more about them.Look forward to more your next vid & definitely May
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  8785. The Vikings fully embody this tradition. They took what they had to. Then they would take their plunder somewhere else where they were able to trade it for other goods. If not, they would likely pillage that area as well 😆
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  8786. Oooooh thank you!!! That's so interesting!
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  8787. That makes so much more sense 😂😂
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  8788. Fascinating and compelling. Thank you sir.
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  8789. Dammit, I have watched to many of your videos and now to go buy your books. If your videos are any representation of your style of delivery in your literature, they are going to kick ass. Thanx
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  8790. Beautiful intro!
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  8791. Informative interesting and well delivered as usual. Thank you for this great content
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  8792. Man, you make great videos. I want to get back to the university and study archeology and ancient history.
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  8793. Damn never been this early before and honestly its worth it
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  8794. Thanks for this. Absolutely fascinating.
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  8795. Very informative and enjoyable.
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  8796. Impressive. Thanks for the content
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  8797. Thanks👍🏼
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  8798. Oh I very much enjoyed that and hit subscribe!❤
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  8799. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 min 13:26 of the video the sheep flips over lol
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  8800. Was Samson and hurklizes a bunkers and daved the nazionzn of the Israel and judah of the juwes of Jerusalem
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  8801. Just what I needed today
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  8802. The horses, the bronze, and the women ..... not necessarily in that order
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  8803. Hope you do videos on all Bronze Age Civilizations! From the Hitites to the Myceoneans!
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  8804. Any new titles in the gods of bronze series?
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  8805. Good research
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  8806. Recently found your content and by extension your books. Really enjoying it all round. Niche of history that doesn't get near enough attention in media.
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  8807. Nicely done, I enjoyed it very much.
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  8808. great stuff. Yeah I know alot of this already but everytime someone does a video or a article about the copper/tin mining or bronze smelting in ancient times I'm hooked and learn something new.
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  8809. Excellent video, again, Dan.
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  8810. Great documentary. Thank You.
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  8811. Thanks!
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  8812. Thanks!
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  8813. In economics we see that the birth rate declines with a growing gdp per head of the population. The better life, the less children. So it’s quite possible that it wasn’t a disaster that caused the decline, but more certainties in life.
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  8814.  @DanDavisHistory  And Francis Drake was a pirate!
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  8815. Please can u make episode about early Slavs.
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  8816. Man what a time to be alive. But then when you prepped for battle you got drunk and stoned off your ass on shrooms, so a good fight would certainly be in order. And what better way in which to charge into hand-to-hand combat? Or sword to sword, regardless it's up close and personal, very dangerous. My spirit animal would be the eagle, or falcon. Not that I would wear wings and try to fly. I mean the other wolves and bears would laugh at me. Until my feathers fastened to the end of my arrow shaft guided it into his chest. I'd prefer to be an archer, a stand-off offense or defense. Excellent for ambush maneuvers.
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  8817. Beowulf slew a dragon
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  8818. Video on Philip Marc the evil sheriff of Nottingham PLEASE and on Eustace the monk, Fawlkes de Breute
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  8819. Thanks
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  8820. Very interesting - thank you. I have always loved lots of sea food and fish.
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  8821. I have a question,is it possible that this plague was similar to small pox? Indo european steppe herders living with cattle and having higher immune system coming down contacting neolithic farmers through warfare,trade and intermingling,something similar that happened in mezo americas with the arrival of the spanish?
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  8822.  @DanDavisHistory  Thank you for taking the time to reply to my irrelevant moan. I did not mean it in a negative way at all and I do understand the reasoning of course, location vs. ethnicity. Being who we are as a people, many of us have become accustomed to some of our neighbours emphasizing that we are barely more than trespassers in their eyes, so are probably ultra aware of such matters. Thanks again for the great content!
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  8823. Just found your channel very interesting
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  8824. Even nowadays some African doctors use traditional brain surgery. It's quite remarkable 👌. This seems to have been practiced by humans for millenia. https://youtu.be/w5kZ0qL_7Fo
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  8825. Now that was really interesting. The first time I've with everything brought into a larger context. I've saved the page as a bookmark and hope to rewatch it again in the future. Thank you very much.
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  8826. Awesome..loved this video..Absolutely fascinating.
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  8827. Yes please, a Bronze Age armor video would be amazing.
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  8828. All right. Another Dan Davis video. Just keep em coming.
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  8829. another fabulous vid, thank you
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  8830. Aaaa Odin leading the Wild Hunt what a sight that would be
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  8831. Interesting...
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  8832. Thanks!
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  8833. Thank you for a great presntation. It was awesome
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  8834. Wow. First Völkerwanderun(Migration Period) in Europe ??!!
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  8835. Excellent
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  8836. Wow! Great video. The band Heilung has a song called krigsgaldr that has an animated video depicting this art.
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  8837. Great video thanks interesting wise video info you are amazing story teller and I think everyone agrees and I love science cheers
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  8838. I found this channel about a year and a bit ago now and the video quality has got consistently better as with all other elements of the videos - keep it up!
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  8839. i love the mullet but the miniskirt and crop top really got me
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  8840. Can you contextualize kurgan culture and the prevalence of women in combat, was this due to pastoralism vs a more agrarian lifestyle? There are example of pit graves with women with swords. Just curious if these were mates of some koryos or a product of their chaotic steppe environment where raids were a constant threat.
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  8841. Love your content Dan. Just realized I've never subbed, too engrossed by your videos. Keep up the great work
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  8842. Fascinating as always. Thank you for making this excellent production.
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  8843. thank u for also including acre coversions haha
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  8844. Thanks, Dan! Thanks for the content! Love your writing as well.
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  8845. I think its more likely you start as mounted infantry before calvary
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  8846. hot ass chicks riding horses.
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  8847. Obviously in the time before the ''don't bother me' first cup of coffee.
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  8848. I'd certainly be interested in a video on Bronze Age arms and armour.
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  8849. Living as the crow flys apart from Tollense "valley" i found that Video often very poetic illustrated:)
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  8850. Awesomeee❗💯👍🏼
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  8851. Very good content!! Thanks
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  8852. Another fascinating video, Dan. I'm loving this channel!
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  8853. If ppl studied ways for a better future as much as we study the past we'd have a bright future.
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  8854. Nice, always waiting.
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  8855. Thank you for this 👌
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  8856. Is there a second book to Godborne?
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  8857. Well done...,☺️
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  8858. Just discovered your videos, and can I say, even apart from the great content, your voice is super calming! Very relaxing
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  8859. A nuthere great video. Thanks
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  8860. I always dream of seeing my comments replayed in a video. Just not that comment ☺
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  8861. Excellent!
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  8862. Another great video much appreciated Dan!
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  8863. Thanks for doing all this research. I'd wondered why Thor used a hammer when none of the info I found on Norse archaeology seemed to include weapon hammers.
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  8864. Most likely killed by someone he knew. Someone of equal or higher standing ...having an axe of his own. So there is no motive for looting and having the axe, would have been reason for suspicion. Also, it would indicate that it was a murder done not in cold blood, but in anger. After the murder he wanted to leave the scene asap, the arrow had to be removed as it also might contain identifying signs...if it was because arrows are rare/hard to make, one would suppose he would have looted Ötzis arrows.
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  8865. Great video
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  8866. Enjoyable and educational. Thanks.
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  8867. very good quality content thanks and cheers from Bohemia
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  8868. This vid makes me want to go play Dawn of Man
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  8869. This is a fantastic video, thank you 😀
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  8870. Yes we would love a video on Stone grave mound. Merry christmas and thank you for all the videos
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  8871. came for mesopotamian history, stayed for the sly kenneth clark references
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  8872. Currently called Korea was once a nation called Goryeo. A nation that conquered bast lands of now called China, Mongolia and all the way to Russia. Who knows, it may have some connections in this legend.
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  8873. Cheers from Brazil 🇧🇷. Good job mate. Well done. You got one more subscriber. Thanks
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  8874. Good research in a fascinating culture. I'm curious .... Godborn is next on my reading list!
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  8875. Imagine if this battle was Aesir vs Vanir and they weren't gods but they were ancestor tribes whose deeds became legend.
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  8876. Marija is right but there is a balance between Earth mother type ethos and the sky father type, both produce genius but in contrast to one another. Imo the Romans and the Greeks represent this balance and thus came their success. However balance it seems cannot last as threats are eliminated and the need for the sky father ethos decreases.. then we see Rome and Greece sacked sacked by Celtic and Germanic peoples who are the embodiment of the sky father ethos. You have to be either the fertiliser or the fertilised.. the giver or the receiver.. you cannot have it both ways
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  8877. Another video he’ll yeah
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  8878. Finally new video
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  8879. Whenever i see a new vid from this chanel, i leave anything aside, put my airpods and go gor a walk. I always press the like video before watching it. Never been disapointed. Thanks for your work
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  8880. Loved this video very good 👍🏼
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  8881. 12 I a lucky number makes sense to have 12 men crew a ship but 13 is unlucky
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  8882. I subscribed yesterday. I made a good choice.
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  8883. Uber Quality Lesson. Wow. So well done
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  8884. Just discovered your channel, great content
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  8885. Fascinating. Thanks 🙏
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  8886. shared!
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  8887. Imma be honest, I thought the end was a segway to a dollar shave club advert
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  8888. I hope you making this video is a sign the next gods of bronze is in the works
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  8889. Great video as always... keep the pace dont slow down
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  8890.  @DanDavisHistory  Even though the new interest in archeogenetics might be partially driven by certain contemporary impulses which are, shall we say, a bit unsavoury (qua contemporary ethno-politics and resurgent ethno-nationalism). I remember reading a book by an American archaeologist about 20 years ago - "Patterns in Prehistory: Humankind's First Three Million Years" by Robert Wenke. I remember him saying that the academic convention was for ancient or prehistoric peoples to be classified ONLY by language, as we simply didn't have enough useful knowledge regarding their genetics. But I realize that, since then, new techniques have been developed regarding the tracing of genetic markers and specific mutations as a way of estimating when different pre-historic populations diverged.
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  8891. Excellent video.
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  8892. These are always really interesting videos. But i am confused; all other videos and articles say the neolithic people all had dark hair and eyes but your recreations show them as " blonde" types.
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  8893. Amazing channel! Thank you so much
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  8894. The architecture reminds me of the excavations at the Bodensee in Southern Germany as well as modern day Cambodian village houses.
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  8895. Glad I found your youtube man, excellent production. Been binging them all day 👍👍👍
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  8896. Does this show only cover Eurasian history?
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  8897. So many morons in the comments who have obviously not watched the video. All they can do is spew myths they have been told.
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  8898. Superb video
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  8899. Great channel, fascinatiing.
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  8900. Great video. Thanks.
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  8901. When I was a kid a horse bit 64% of my scalp off because I gave another horse that it hated a carrot 🤠🥕🐎 🐴🦷🤯😫😭
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  8902. Return to Wolfe
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  8903. Best shit I've seen in ages. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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  8904. Horse Milk Drinkers found West of the Don River during the early Bronze Age...
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  8905. The stock reaction people are a nice new touch
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  8906.  @DanDavisHistory  I find everything you've done so far to be amusing and informing. After I get paid this week I'm buying your books.
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  8907. Fanstatically interesting stuff on your channel.
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  8908. Excellent stuff as usual. By the way, I have read the prequel, as well as Bronze 1 and 2. I'm guessing Part 3 is coming up hopefully?
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  8909. 54:45 Lol, this edit tickles me.
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  8910. I think the art work is from a child. I think kids started art. Just my two cents
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  8911. Hi just to let you know this video is going to get over 1 million views in a month
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  8912. Great video. To me it seems to me like they continued Neolithic western European burial traditions. Does this sound correct to you?
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  8913. Excellent story. Great history. Well done.
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  8914. Such a great channel 😊👍
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  8915. Its mind blowing to think of all the crazy things that've gone down on earth, that none of us will ever know about. Life is surreal.
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  8916. Very helpful and informative . Much appreciated .
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  8917. That photo at 35 minutes of the chief or goldsmith almost looks fake it's so amazing. I can't believe a burial was that ritualistic with placement and that they would bury that much wealth.
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  8918. Neat!
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  8919. I clicked because of thicc ancient booty
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  8920. When did dogs become pack and drought animals? I’m amazed it took so long to use horses similarly?
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  8921. I would suspect they built large skin boats similar to umiaks as shown in the Valle carving in Norway that was supposedly carved 10-11,000 BP to aid their travels across the Channel.
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  8922. Wow, Otzi didn't go down easily!
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  8923. This story was so engrossing...well done 👍
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  8924. Excited to watch later today!! Thanks so much, I know it will be awesome 🌟🌟🌟!!!
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  8925. I dig. Subbed. R1b-U5a1 here if my results are correct.
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  8926. I like music in this video!
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  8927. When I was at the University of Delaware we tried to and failed to replicate Loy's work as well and found thtat he had falseified his data.
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  8928. I believe the famouse Irish warrior Cu Chulainn was a berserker
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  8929. Do you have a video that would cover some of the information needed to understand the area where the nebra disk was discovered????
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  8930. Another belter.
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  8931. What a story that was !great video very well made ❤
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  8932. Ok ! Evenin Britain! Everyone Mosh Yamna! Rock out!
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  8933. time well spent in listening to your fine program, enjoyed it
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  8934. Great video. How interesting view of history.
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  8935. Another fantastic video! I wonder if there is any evidence of horse riding related injuries in the fossil record, and whether that is distinguishable from other kinds of injuries one may face at the time. Maybe wrist and forearm fractures? Is there even a noticeable increase or presence of these injuries from times and places where we KNOW for sure that people rode horses often, versus those where we know they didn't?
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  8936. Your so good this is great
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  8937. The narrator is excellent !
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  8938. To live in peace and feed their families. That's what the people of beautiful Ukraine wish for to this day.
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  8939. Awesome! Thank you 💕
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  8940.  @DanDavisHistory  thanks for that detailed reply. You really know your history. I hope to visit the burial mounds in Thy, Denmark some day. I'll have to look up some Tumulus culture museums in Germany. Also the Unetice period grave mound at Leubingen and Nebra sky disc in Halle Museum. I've seen Tollund man at the Silkeborg museum which is really fascinating. I do recall that the Egtved girl from the Danish Bronze Age had supposedly been born in Southern Germany and subsequently traveled to Jutland. However, I think that was later disproved. I've been catching up on the Bohemian Early Corded Ware discussion at the Ancient DNA section of Anthrogenica. Fascinating stuff. My forum name is Hando. Hope to see you there. Cheers.
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  8941. You mention bringing war home to the domestic, but bringing domestic attitudes to war could get one killed as well.
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  8942. Amazing! A tremendous presentation with great use of visuals. Very clear!!!  Thank You!!! I have just returned from a month's travel in Crete and Anatolia to visit the Minoan sites and also Ephesus and Troy. Phaisos in Crete is a must. Much more evocative than Knossos. In Turkey, Troy was fantastic especially with its enormous new museum. To follow up I am now reading Mark Van De Mieroop's, "A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 - 332 BC (2005) which is an outstanding summary of the area. Your video was a delightful accompaniment.   I am amazed at the amount of what seems to be continuous violence which marks the evolution of humanity. With the present war in Ukraine all of this seems to tie together! Ugh!!!
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  8943. Whoh! 🌵🌊🏄‍♂️
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  8944. 176cm is actualy more then 5'9 . 5'8 is 172.7cm to 175cm
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  8945.  @DanDavisHistory  Your videos are super interesting i just subscribed
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  8946. best guy for pre history.
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  8947. Thanks very interesting. There are a lot of questions to be answered. Somethings I had never thought about. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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  8948.  @DanDavisHistory  noice
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  8949. I had to take a minute at the start to Google horse milk, i'm back
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  8950. That was actually emotional 💗
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  8951. I am so thrilled I found your channel. Great content, great voice, interesting subjects, amazing videos you have it all. Thank you for making this channel. Where can I purchase your books?
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  8952. Absolutely beautiful
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  8953. Just discovered your channel. Subscribed, and looking forward to more videos.
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  8954. What an enjoyable video! Thank you.
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  8955. Man I am genuinely impressed by this. Fantastic job
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  8956. Dan Davis Author - Fabulous stuff, sir. As far as Mesopotamians riding back on the 'ass' part of the horse, it seems to me this could be nothing more than "bad art." Terrible depictions of horse-riding, perhaps by artists who did not witness the sport but were told by others who did. I just can't see anyone riding the rear quarter of a horse even as a 'dare,' and think it's just poor artistic depiction by bad artists - who flourished then, as now. I'm not saying that horses weren't ridden as a dare. However, I do feel that such a dare spreading west across Europe and southeast to Mesopotamia, etc., seems extremely unlikely. That's a huge geographical span. Unlike the Frisbee or hula-hoop which became a 'craze' worldwide in modern times...it seems unlikely that in a world then focused for most on mere survival, people from Ireland to Iraq - 3700 miles - would be, "Hey Baldrick -dangerous horse riding - give it a shot, everyone's doing it!" Great video, many thanks.
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  8957. 😁😁Yes, I'd never go... unless I go with a loaded shotgun... Udre can try eating that...
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  8958. Wow, what a knight. There needs to be a movie about him, or better yet a Netflix series
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  8959. Superb videos…I apsolutely enjoy them…congratulations and big thank you!!
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  8960. Drakes Drum will sound in England's time of need.
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  8961. I love how you think!! Great story.
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  8962. Thank you Dan. You have my respect, presenting the history of such a great strateg VLAD ŢEPEŞ !
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  8963. those unrelated ones were probably slaves
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  8964. Stick and a rock, the first composite tool.
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  8965. thank yew
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  8966. Just bought your book on Audible. I need to take a break from Warhammer40k anyway.
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  8967. What a brilliant documentary, subscribed!
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  8968. Great video!
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  8969. Bed bound so I’m binging on your videos, excellent work!
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  8970. In the light of this video, the bronze age collaps reminds me very much of the early medieval migrations. In both ages, masses of outsiders were used to bolster military ranks of the neighbouring civilizations - and then brought them to collapse.
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  8971. So, the warriors would dress for success?
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  8972. Wow Luar Biasa! Terima kasih telah membawa saya menjelajah ke masa lampau melalui video anda Wow Amazing! Thank you for taking me to explore the past through your videos
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  8973. Some of the finest historical output on you tube, puts the crap on the TV to shame. Thank you.
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  8974. Great informative and well presented video Dan Davis. Could you please tell me where the mountain and forest scenery are from? I cannot tell if its Scandinavia or the Alps. Thanks
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  8975.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks Dan. Looking forward to more of your videos.
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  8976. Excellent documentary of one of my personal heroes. Drake and Garibaldi.
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  8977. Cyclades dolls don't do it for ya? We'll never fight over the same girl.
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  8978. Very Good, yes make a video about armor... and have an better look on the Aegean Sea!!
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  8979. tools
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  8980. Thanks!
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  8981. Look up Bell breaker culture and things afterwards focusing on horse riding. Also, as my professor, a wonderful lovely woman, told us during our class, while the fighting on a horse in pre recorded times or even archery could be considered nearly equal to suicide, the eurasian people did not necesarry have to saw death like that as a bad thing, especially if it was in combat, but seeing as only anatolians, greeks and egyptians needed to have everything they do catalogued and archived we will never know for sure if somewhere 1000 years bc there were not groups of brave but pretty much stupid blocks who considered death in battle as the best thing to ever happen to them. The stamford bridge battle can be another example of horses used in pre antiquitoc warfare, if we assume those few horse we do know of were used fit ridings. What would make sense to me, seeing as there is no point in killing a horse tied to a wagon or chariot, people were always trying to capture the horses used in battle, at least from Proto history to pre WW1 wars.
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  8982. Great vid, Danny... Smashing stuff!
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  8983. Thanks
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  8984. This my first of your videos and I have to say it was fantastic. Subscribed
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  8985. Thanks for this one too. When you alluded so heavily to the Sintashta last week, I wondered if you were going to do a f/u.
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  8986. @Dan Davis History - Well made look at history. Thank you, very interesting //Love from a war torn Sweden 🌼💙🌼
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  8987. Great documentary!
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  8988. Fantastic doc thanks man
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  8989. Excellent channel!
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  8990. Your voice and command of content is SUBLIME! THANK YOU!
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  8991. So much information in one Show! 👏 👏 👏 👏 Many 😊
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  8992. Thank you. This was new to me.
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  8993. Very interesting video
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  8994. It's clear that you put in an enormous amount of effort and thought into your videos. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I know the subject matter, but you put in more details and nuanced it to make it come alive. Here's a link to an Ancient DNA archaeogenetics forum. The Ancient (aDNA section) is very informative and full of many well informed members, as well as amateurs. Agamemnon, Coldmountains, Generalissimo, Alan, Alain, RMS2 are the most well informed members. https://anthrogenica.com/forumdisplay.php?144-Ancient-(aDNA)
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  8995.  @DanDavisHistory  Oh that's great. What a small world. Glad you're aware of the forum.
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  8996. Nice...I'm a new fan..
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  8997. What a fantastic video. Nice work.
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  8998. "that's me the lord of oaks" I lol'd
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  8999. Wow.
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  9000. Thank you for this.
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  9001. Thank youu
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  9002. Would love to listen to your playlist in Spotify while cycling someday if you make one
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  9003. Fantastic
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  9004. The greatest mystery is why does that Hedgehog have mushrooms on it? 4:36
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  9005.  @DanDavisHistory  Probably, but a while ago. I’ll rewatch it.
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  9006. Question here is was it this war club local product or it arrived as trade good or war prize from elsewhere? If they used metal at larger degree there would bi knifes and axes around.
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  9007.  @DanDavisHistory  This is really unusual weapon. Most people of that era would use metal more economically and have an axe or spear. Or this "smasher" doubles as royal scepter?
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  9008. Very well made!
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  9009. Looking forward to this.
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  9010. That's was interesting. 👍👾
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  9011. I'd heard about the Sea Peoples in other podcasts but didn't know that they could be pirates.
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  9012. Excellent presentation. Thank you.
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  9013. Absolutely awesome
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  9014. this was well presented, well done Dan .
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  9015. I love your content and I am becoming a fan. I think that we should look at the evidence, ask whether a qn like early horse riding makes sense of what we do know for sure, and then just go with our gut! I'm sick of historians who set impossible standards of proof and predictably conclude that we really can't know anything cohesive about the ancient world.
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  9016. Do you have a link to a paper on that find in Sund, Sotra? I lived there for many years but never heard about it, would love to learn more!
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  9017. Love your stuff sir. Love paleo centric coverage.
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  9018.  @DanDavisHistory  gotcha. Thanks man! Love your vids! Especially about the cultures near the lower Don. My family are Don Cossacks.
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  9019. I dig this, but modern teenagers would fuck this up so bad. And I know because I was one.
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  9020. YES!
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  9021. Won't have time to watch this until tomorrow but I've pre emptively hit like anyway because I know it will be good
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  9022. Couldn't have said it better myself
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  9023.  @DanDavisHistory  I am no writer. If you like the idea use it. If no no worries. Thank you for the work you do.
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  9024. Krampus and Perchten have some similar characteristics.
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  9025.  @DanDavisHistory  23andMe predicts that both my mother and I test for lactose intolerance with a high degree of probability. And we are both okay with consuming dairy products.
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  9026. Clearly aliens were the ones who brought the copper to the mediterranean peoples.
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  9027. Loved it thank you
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  9028. Thanks for the insight and careful stating of evidence.
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  9029. did these traditions spread in to the Non Indo European parts of east Asia?
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  9030. absolutely brilliant video
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  9031. Your work available on audiobook?
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  9032.  @DanDavisHistory  Thanks dude, all my favorite authors are the ones like Crichton and Turtledove who put a lot of research into their work, and you obviously do too so I gotta give it a try
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  9033. Vlad strategies be like: "Ok Mans, i hope all of You took your turkish lessons, because Guess what? We are going to infiltrate dressed as Turks... Again!"
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  9034. thank yew dan. these are very interesting shows your putting out. good going.
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  9035. Hello Dan , Cant afford to sign up for anything , Just to say as usual I love your vids on History in Britain , Well spoken and put together , Have a good Week , Best wishes .🙂👍🙏
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  9036. I was taught a steady diet of lies about history... this was not in the info I was fed. Thanks!
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  9037. The horse the 1st cow... after ww3 n horses are to hard to tend to for a bit we will ride cows. Your great great grand daughter or son will ride a cow to market oneday or fly to Mars. We shall not see lol
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  9038. loved this, please make more. love from uk
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  9039. Hi Dan Davis. What marvellous narrator's voice you have. Do you do any narration for audiobooks? My friend's Bronze Age Collapse novel, The Diomedeia, is crying out for a narrator like you to make become an audiobook.
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  9040. Great video! Love your books too, just finished Vampire Impaler the other week and I'm already started on Vampire Amada.
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  9041. Well this video definitely made me want to read your book series. Just got the first book on Kindle.
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  9042. Your stuff just keeps getting better and better
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  9043. i am sorry for the language, but i fucking love this channel
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  9044. Not enough words of praise for the channel and it's professional content. Gambutas and the rest of academics researching the field got right, except those different names and divisions. They were the true source of civilization that the Greeks did learn from.
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  9045. your ability to deliver high-quality content consistently is amazing!
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  9046. Highly based
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  9047.  @DanDavisHistory  Thank you!
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  9048. Sometimes I forget you're mainly a fiction writer lol. If you ever do a lecture tour I hope you come to the US.
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  9049. Love it, thanks for sharing this with us Big Dog!
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  9050. Fantastic doco - thanks great stuff.
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  9051. there are undeservedly few likes per 1 million views! thank you very much for the information, I am very interested in this topic. everything is clear, detailed, with explanations and illustrations. this deserves more gratitude!
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  9052. I LOVE this channel. Thank you for your scholarship!
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  9053. Excellent video as always. Continue the great work. I'm always looking for material such as this. One of the oldest cemeteries and graves was just outside the Mariupol oblast unfortunately destroyed and probably now lost because of the Soviets and Russian invaders shelling the area. 15,000 years old but blasted by modern folks for an unnecessary reason. The kurgans and cromlechs have taught us so much. Including how our ancestors started farming and animal husbandry
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  9054. I recomend reading the Czech novel "Bronzový poklad" about Bronze age Europe. People in that book are fighting over a big pile of those ribbed ingots, the eponymous Bronze treasure. That book traumatised me as a kid, very violent for kid literature :D
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  9055. Good video bro
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  9056. I’m here because I revisited Buckland Abbey yesterday and I wanted to know more about Sir Francis Drake. This video was engaging and informative all the way through, thank you so much for putting this together.
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  9057. My friend u deserve millions of views. I thank you
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  9058. Any bronze age content is great content. The weight system video will be welcomed.
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  9059. Great documentary
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  9060. Swords in the bronze age would have been time consuming and expensive to make. Seems to me that you make swords for only one reason, battle.
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  9061. When you want something of quality, something interesting and understandable as well as enjoyable, Dan never fails to deliver. Thanks again Dan.
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  9062. Well worthy of my sub
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  9063. Very well done and logical I have been to mainland Greece but not Crete, looks like I will have to rectify that
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  9064. Great video. What I particularly like is the way that you have linked earlier Indo-European language, beliefs and practices with later traditions which spread widely across Europe through successive ages - and still resonate today within our culture, heritage and folk practices; cultural ripples that continue to spread, perpetuate and cross.
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  9065. very good and enjoyable program concerning peoples of much interest to me, the Neolithic Farmer folk is my top interest and any/all cultures that stemmed from their migrations, as well as any remnant cultures from their day that comes down to us now as legend etc.
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  9066. Orme is not only old English, but most likely Anglo Saxon as it is the same word in old Norse and still used in Scandinavia today.
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  9067. Love the channel and great work! Oh, man, I LOVE prehistory. I hope you make plenty more content about as many times and cultures as you can! I'll eat it up.
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  9068. I actually think that the greatest Knight to ever live 100 fold over anyone was El Sid. He virtually single-handedly fought off everyone who tried to take Valencia for around 50 years. Fought back the Muslims again and again. I think the only one to keep defeating the Moors. He was King for decades and Valencia was only taken after his death from illness in his elder age and his wife had to hand it over.
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  9069. Great channel! Love this
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  9070. 👍👍👍😊
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  9071. cracking film Dan
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  9072. Excellently prepared and presented! Well worth watching till the end.
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  9073. 1000th comment, good video
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  9074. Outstanding! Many thanks
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  9075. Great video, please make more
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  9076. Brilliant cheers
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  9077. As a foreigner living in UK this documentary has given me a much better knowledge of the place where i live and many avenues to investigate, this is the 3rd or 4th time i watched it and still i am learning.
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  9078. Well done once again.
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  9079. Beautiful Dan
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  9080.  @DanDavisHistory  Oh nice! This video was great so I definitely have high hopes for your next one.
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  9081. WONDERFUL WONDERFUL VIDEO
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  9082. Very interesting video, thanks.
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  9083. Once again Dan thank you. Your channel is great
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  9084. Thumbnail literally looks like my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandpa 🤓👍
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  9085. How Dan doesn’t have more subs is beyond me but I guess it’s mainly Youtube at work again Those are some very serious defences there’s no chance these are for animal control 😉. I’m always amazed by how naive some historians and archeologists are when they come up with theories like animal control
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  9086. I've never heard of this before. In fact, I've learned about many new topics on this channel that were completely unfamiliar to me. thanks a lot for this video
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  9087. Funny thing, I have actually been working on a book set in the same time and place XD Mine is going a little less heroic good vs. evil, and a little bit more intrigue based. My main character is a bit of a rogue :P I love the whole area and history. The unknowns are so tantalising, as is the fact that whatever happened has has so many ripple effects to the current day.
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  9088. Sponsored by a shaving company. Well played
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  9089. not gonna lie, ive been putting off going back to school due to indecision for a while now, but because of watching videos like these - and specifically yours, like the one on Ötzi - ive finally found something that makes me want to go to college. thank you for being the catalyst that showed me i want to pursue anthropology!
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  9090. I would watch a video on Bronze Age weights
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  9091. hi just joined have read your books a few years ago really enjoyed them
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  9092. 👍
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  9093. Thank you very much for your amazing content! Yes, we want to see a video about sailing in Bronze Age Aegean!
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  9094. My man! Just crushing it! Dope.
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  9095. Plymouth girl here...oh yes❤
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  9096. Brilliant, thank you.Oy, do I have a lot of reading to do -- I know nothing, absolutely nothing, about Neolithic peoples.
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  9097. These are beautiful artefacts, in their own right, Dan. Thank you very much indeed, for enlightening me about them.
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  9098. Very interesting channel and video. Thank you.
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  9099. Very interesting 👍
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  9100. I just subscribed, hoping for a Bronze Age weight video.
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  9101. "bring out yer dead"
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  9102. Great documentary. Thank you.
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  9103. Wonderful work! Such great summaries of existing work and fun speculations!
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  9104. Very Good video!
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  9105. I’m being active viewership for the good of an amazing channel. Keep it up! I can’t get enough of your work!
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  9106. I am from Sardinia, great work. Thanks!!!
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  9107. Thank you for this video! You've presented a full, exciting and factual history of Sir Francis Drake, warts and all. I very much appreciate your efforts!
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  9108. Awesome work Dan, as always. Those Sintashta gravesites are so impressive!
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  9109. I love your channel
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  9110. Amazing burial description. Thanks Dan, for the outstanding presentation.
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  9111. Outstanding 👌
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  9112. Your voice is soothing!
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  9113. Really good video, many thanks.
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  9114. You are the best
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  9115. Watched from Japan Thank you for posting!
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  9116. I really enjoyed this video thank you! So now that I’ve discovered your channel, there is a so many great videos I have to watch and absorb fascinating knowledge from :)
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  9117. Always appreciate your videos and research. Thank you, again.
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  9118. Really enjoyed it, thank you
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  9119. Your videos helped me get through recovering from surgery where I was laid up for months, Now I am going to buy your books, Thanks for doing what you do.
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  9120. More please. That was great 👍
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  9121. More examples of proto-state systems too. We often see peaks of civilization, and origins of humans, and just focus on that -- but I really like this sort of, transition period where things just start to arise. Very very cool.
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  9122. This is fascinating.
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  9123. So you listen to heilung and wardruna. Very nice 👌
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  9124. I would love to hear more about the weights they used and I’m sure that just about everyone who’s subscribed would also like to hear about them!
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  9125. ..Fingringhoe ! Interesting !
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  9126. Awesome as usual, thanks!
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  9127. Again, another well-made well presented video.
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  9128. Subscribed.👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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  9129. hey Dan, Im trying to share this with my History class but cant find it on Google Earth. What town is it near?
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  9130. Dan, this was beautiful. Such a lovely and immense culture! I love my ancestors and learning about them is seriously fascinating.
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  9131. You are a world class documentarian. I love your work. I am weighting, and weighting with my thumb on the scale, for another about Bronze Age weights and measures. OK, As soon as you say someone added molten COPPER to them, you are saying that was being done by a relatively skilled artisan* and it was being done at the place of manufacture** , and it was so crude, that it was ENTIRELY for the purpose of weight consistency*** not for esthetics or an ideal. * Most people couldn't make a fire hot enougn to melt copper, nor could they contain and apply copper that was molten, nor could they keep the copper unadulterated by impurities as they tried all of that. Whereas the makers are literally in a smithy, and already used to weighing out and dividing and melting metal. ** No one is going to accept underweight items and then add metal and labour to them in such an ugly way, for any reason. If you took under weight things in trade, you don't say "OH NO, I better spend money making this trade good up to weight". You either use it as metal, or you trade it on to some sucker. * If they did have a religious or spiritual aspect "This shape pleases the spirits" you are not going to alter the shape in an ugly way just to make it the particular weight of metal. If that shape was the purpose, no one is going to the trouble of adding metal that distorts the shape.
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  9132. Just found your channel. Easy sub thanks man Life was probably wild back then. You could just roll up and battle and no one is coming to arrest you or anything like that.
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  9133. I don't always comment on videos, but when I do... I was doing a little "light" research for writing something that my subconscience pulled whole-cloth out of the bog as it were, and I have to say that this video offered a tremendous amount of depth and context to the short, out-of-context title I was compelled to write at the top of the page. I was adrift, but no longer.
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  9134. This video is EXTREMELY well done, I’m blown away. I watched it to prepare for a podcast episode but I don’t even know what to say now. This can’t be outdone. I need a new angle. You’ve earned a sub!
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  9135. Absolutely fabulous many thanks
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  9136. Keith Richards snorted some of his fathers ashes
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  9137. I do watch these to sleep sometimes. You caught me.
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  9138. Absolutely FANTASTIC video. You are 100% getting my subscription. Big hug from Portugal.
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  9139. Awesome content Dan. Thanks!
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  9140. Great video! Many interesting and new things - thanks!
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  9141. The miniatures could have been toggles but I think that came much later tbh
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  9142. 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕨𝕒𝕤 𝕒 𝔾ℝ𝔼𝔸𝕋 𝕧𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕠. 𝕀 𝔼ℕ𝕁𝕆𝕐𝔻 𝕀𝕋 𝕍𝔼ℝ𝕐 𝕄𝕌ℂℍ! 𝕋ℍ𝔸ℕ𝕂 𝕐𝕆𝕌 𝕊𝕆 𝕄𝕌ℂℍ 𝔽𝕆ℝ 𝕊ℍ𝔸ℝ𝕀ℕ𝔾 𝕐𝕆𝕌ℝ 𝕂ℕ𝕆𝕎𝕃𝔼𝔻𝔾𝔼!
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  9143. Nice Work & Video 👍
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  9144. the ring ingots look like less pretty versions of a torc
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  9145. I hope you have a 7 digit Patreon account bro
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  9146. Thank you for giving a well informed history of my path. It's extremely enlightened and still performed and digested by this ancestral recreationalist andvpractitioners. Much thanks brother
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  9147. Thanks
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  9148. Definitely interested in a video about weights. Also more about the Unetice culture.
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  9149. Drake was a gigachad
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  9150. Amazing. Wonderful.
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  9151. Fascinating, thanks for sharing this with all of us
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  9152. Cool. Thanks for sharing.
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  9153. That was so good 😂a subject I took after leaving school in the 60s as an add on .a lot more has been found since then . Thank you
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  9154. Brilliant, happy to have found your channel.
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  9155. I love your writing Dan. Very profound stuff.
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  9156. So interesting and very well researched and told a great tale thank you
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  9157. YES!!! Thanks for showing these :D sooo cool
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  9158. Very interesting. Thanks!
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  9159. Tremosine sul Garda - my maternal grandfather's family village
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  9160. Thanks!
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  9161. I would like to see videos on Bronze Age agriculture, food (preservation, cooking, recipes, beverages), medicine/sanitation and textiles.
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  9162. Fascinating video. The information is really cutting edge considering that some of the scientific papers used was published within the last few months. I wonder what those stones with holes were used for though. I was going to go with spindles for making clothes but it's hard to know. Maces for ritual sacrifice perhaps? Either way, another fascinating and thought provoking video on a little known subject.
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  9163. They have found signs of prehistoric copper mining on and around Lake Superior by the Native American Indians. I live in Wisconsin which is south of Upper Michigan and my family has three rocks that are virtually pure copper that were carried down by the glaciers.
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  9164. What a fantastic video, wow, congrats. What a great story and adventure. Thank you.
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  9165. The Shrubnaya? Ok
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  9166. Very interesting ❤❤
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  9167. Thanks Dan
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  9168. Love History. I subscribed the other day. You should do one on Captain Matthew Flinders. Very colourful history right there. Thanks for the videos. I will have to go through them one by one.
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  9169. I tell so many people about this channel that I'm losing track and telling them twice. When they give me grief, I say, "OK, but have you SUBSCRIBED YET ?" 😅
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  9170. I’m a huge MMA fan and using the UFC fighters as examples for a representation of physical size is really cool
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  9171. Loved the film but clearly it was only loosely based on his real life and events, which is a shame as clearly the actual events are far more impressive. Also curious to know why he doesn’t typically appear in the top military commanders in history. He’s easily better than many that usually appear (won’t mention names for the fear of upsetting people).
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  9172. Nothing like binging DDH on a Friday night
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  9173. Great video. It seems likely that they were used as money. Then again, money is usually associated with coins in the ancient world (less so today) so in the popular imagination it'll always be associated with western Anatolia. On another note, I'd be interested in seeing a video on Bronze Age weights.
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  9174. @32 mins the story of Skythian horse babe killing Cyrus the Great comes from the Greeks- and while not proven by archeological evidence Is too delicious of a story to ignore
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  9175. Excellent and fascinating documentary! There are so many amateurish videos about this subject on YouTube. This one is refreshingly well constructed, takes a cautious approach to any conclusions, and just well-done all around.
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  9176. Thanks!
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  9177. Very interesting!
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  9178. A new video of Dan Davis is always a good news 😊
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  9179. Wonderful content and narration, thanks!
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  9180. Imagine being able to tell this guy that thousands of years after him people would be interested in his life.
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  9181. Nice video.
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  9182. The more I learn about the Bronze Age the more I am coming to realise what a fascinating and complex society that was. A lot of my knowledge has come from your excellent videos, always well researched and gripping to watch. I cannot imagine how much time and effort go into these beautiful and informative productions. And yes, Bronze Age weights for me too, please 🙂.
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  9183. Interesting video!
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  9184. Wow i love the picture of dick winters. Definitely a true war hero for sure
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  9185. how wonderful and beauty this reconstructions are and you found them.
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  9186. Great video!
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  9187. Fascinating! Thank you!
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  9188. I look sort of gravettian, or perhaps Aurignacian. 6'0, 165 lbs, dark skin and europoid face.
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  9189. Excellent most excellent narrative and balanced presentation.
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  9190. I studied under Dr Leroy McDermott in college. That man made me love ancient history, archaeology, and lectures
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  9191. Congratulations on 1,000,000 views on this one!
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  9192. Thanks!
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  9193. Brilliant Dan. Love your work.
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  9194. Do the Bronze Age weights! This stuff is really interesting!
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  9195. Thanks!
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  9196. one of his best vids
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  9197. i love this channel
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  9198. Great content very watchable.
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  9199. 70 unbelievable men didn't live long in those days ..AMAZING ❤️🇬🇧❤️
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  9200. Excellent video
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  9201. died dabbing on his enemies.
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  9202. Dear Mr. Dan Davis -- you are simply the BEST, and I never fall asleep enjoying your execellent WORK !!!
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  9203. Very nice 👌 Video. Educational and historical
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  9204. Thank you!
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  9205. I seen those in the Museum. They are huge
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  9206. This was awesome to watch I’m part Italian so thanks for covering ancient Italian cultures
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  9207. Great job 👍🏽
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  9208. Great to see some Paleolithic content! Hoping there will be more? The Aurignacians, Magdalenians, plus you could even go back to the Neanderthals. My theory for the ‘origin’ of WHG is extremely bottle necked Gravettian plus some near eastern ancestry.
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  9209. Amazing video. I appreciate it so much.
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  9210. Just found your channel and I can already tell it is severely underrated. Glad to be here.
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  9211. Well presented, sir!
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  9212. Great and wonderfully "illustrated" reel about our forefathers... enriched with many scientific facts
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  9213. Brilliant. Thank you
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  9214. 6:35 why did Vlad II even bring his kids to enemy territory?
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  9215. Brilliant video... huzzah!!
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  9216. It is amazing how you can make dry science so interesting and captivating. Wonderful & wonder full. Thanks.
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  9217. Just finished up at the gym. Perfect time for a Dan Davis video
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  9218. Yes yo Bronze she weights!
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  9219. Thoroughly enjoyable ❤
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  9220. Thank you, Dan. I really enjoyed the video.
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  9221. Love your work. Also you have an excellent voice.
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  9222. Superb. Thank you
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  9223. Best history channel eva ))
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  9224. Thank you for your fantastic videos. I look forward to your "late bronze age" video.
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  9225. let's gooooooooooooooo
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  9226. I laughed at the impaling sound effect. I’m a terrible person 😆
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  9227. Great Video
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  9228. I'm Simple Man. I see Dan Davis video - I click. :)
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  9229. Congratulations on the 200k subscribers
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  9230. VĚSTONICKÁ VENUŠE MENTIONED RAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿
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  9231. As a Sardinian, I must compliment you on your video, which is really accurate. If you are still interested in the Nuragic warriors, I leave you the link to this short film. You will find interesting the atmosphere, the photography and the warriors representing the Giants of Mont'e Prama, with the weapons, clothes, archers and masks they wore. One actor is a well-known singer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Z_LnPxIPs
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  9232. These videos are absolutely killer. Amazing work
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  9233. Dogs rule
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  9234. Thank you
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  9235. I'm with you on this Dan. It's an interesting theory which has merit but the evidence to support it is thin. If an argument is largely 'Well they must have had X in order to do Y therefore Z' then I'd wait before accepting any conclusion. I know conjecture is popular with sections of the general public (Graham Hancock fans stand up please 😁) but it's dangerous for academics to start walking that path to perdition.
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  9236. Great lesson to learn, thank you. I'm subscribing.
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  9237. This is a marvelously presented, video illustrated and intellectually enticing presentation. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you.
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  9238. Wonderful video. Very informative. Ty
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  9239. Yes, please! This is very interesting. More information on weights would be great.
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  9240. Just leaving a comment for the algorithm here. Great video! Didn't know about this
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  9241. Fantastic - ❤❤❤👍
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  9242. And ANOTHER one for the Million Club! 💎
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  9243. Yes please more! I’m guessing next book is set in England. Hope our hero survives and makes his way back east in his quest to see his interactions with the Steepe again so many years later.
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  9244. Yo Dan, your vids are awesome. So glad I found your channel
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  9245. I genuinely get happy when I see ur video in my thread.
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  9246. Masking features heavily in pre Christian religious celebrations in Europe. Just a heads up: I saw you post the release of this video on telegram but it didn’t show in my YouTube feed despite being subscribed. Had to search for the channel to find it.
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  9247. thank frickin gawd I descend from hot people
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  9248. Thank you, thank you for this content
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  9249. Love your work Dan, really, I’m quite jealous you have managed to make this your way to earn a living! What is the saying….. “do something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life!!!” I wish you all the best and hope the channel continues to thrive.
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  9250. Thanks
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  9251. learning about these rock paintings actually gave me a big idea for my made-up fantasy world thingy, thank you dan davis history
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  9252. Excellent video per usual.
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  9253. What a fascinating site I would love to visit one day.
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  9254. How fascinating
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  9255. Very good
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  9256. Fascinating!
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  9257. Damn, I was not even recommended your latest banger :/. Superb video as per usual though
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  9258. YouTube recommends a lot of trash through the random algorithm but gods be blessed. The algorithm blessed me with a gem
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  9259. Yes, a vid about the Srubnaya Culture would be interesting.
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  9260. The Botai remind me of the reindeer ppl of Siberia how's whole life revolves around their reindeer herds. The reindeer ppl use the reindeer select individuals from the herd to pull their sleds.
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  9261. I thoroughly enjoy this type of documentary. Thank you.
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  9262. Great explanation!
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  9263. You've just gained a new subscriber on the strength of this video alone. (Showing your sources swung it.) Hail and well met, Sir!
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  9264. Clicked immediately. 2 days after it posted did YT decide to show me
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  9265. I'd LOVE a video about weighing systems across the ancient world ! i also would love to knnw how trade worked BEFORE money! middle kingdom Egypt, the Mesopotamian cites, clearly HAD trade. how did it wokr without specie?
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  9266. Please continue! I really like these quicker videos
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  9267. Great vid & channel man, thanks.
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  9268. So calm and informative. Explains why we always have sour cream, cheese, butter and pork in our fridge, but rarely fish and beef. Like ancestors are speaking through us and whispers what to pick when going to the market ;o) Greetings from Nothern Europe.
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  9269. ❤ I love these videos. The factual information and your story telling skills allow my imagination to run back through the ages and I feel like I’m there! Same with your books! Thank you! ❤
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  9270. What a superbly made documentary. Thanks.
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  9271. Another great video Dan!! I love history and truly appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Keep it up!
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  9272. Never heard of them. This is so awesome!
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  9273. Regarding lunulae and gorgets, it's commonly assumed they were worn around the neck but that's far from certain. An art history teach of mine told me about a theory that they were worn on the head like a halo, which at the time I thought was ridiculous but I later came across similar crowns and headdresses in India and central Asia that were worn that way up into the middle ages.
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  9274. Excellent!! 🙏🏻
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  9275. Wonderfull video. 10:38 Yes, please.
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  9276. Brilliant, as always 😊
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  9277. So freaking interesting. The indigenous people of Kamchatka harnessed reindeer for sleds and maybe rode them. Domestication starts with capturing wild animal babies and raising them in captivity; then selectively breeding those animals for whatever reason. A group of hunters could go after wild horses using a fence trap to funnel the wild horses off a cliff, where you can access them at the bottom and kill them and drag them away on sleds, back to camp for butchering. Some foals would survive and could be captured alive.
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  9278. Awesome video!
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  9279. Greetings and salutations! Thank you for a well done and fascinating video on an extreemely interesting subject. All the best, Billi.
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  9280. great video thank you DanDavisHistory and William of Cassingham is a hero in his own right
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  9281. Great Video Piece!
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  9282. It makes me so happy when you make an image of a character start smiling. Always makes me smile. Especially when you made Dracula smile lol. Love your channel so much. My second book of yours arrives today and I’m so excited.
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  9283. Didn't see that one coming! Great story
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  9284. How is his life not a miniseries?! What a story!
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  9285. “Thong smother” is what I call my ass crack. Just had to make that joke. Great video. In 10th grade I did a book report on what me and my partner called the Mongolian Horse people. We got an A on the report.
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  9286. Please do the video on the bronze age weights.
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  9287.  @DanDavisHistory  this is the kind of content that your channel branches perfectly into, voices of the past but in your style, it was great. Continue as well as you're currently doing!
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  9288. Fascinating!
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  9289. Great video, the ancient world is very inspiring. Heddwch
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  9290. Dan, thanks, always great details (even the continental map with the shoreline as it would have been)
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  9291. This is a Good Day, Mr Davis has been busy !
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  9292. ​ @DanDavisHistory  So long you have done your work and say this video is accurate, I believe you. Coz I know videos like these takes hell lotta research. Great video by the way.
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  9293. Fantastic video! Well done and edited 👏 👍
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  9294. The story of currency, trade and markets isn’t as simple as using gold arbitrarily. The way bronze was traded as a liquid commodity and effectively a universal currency. I would say it’s comprable to oil today except much more fungible and not necessarily consumable. Kinda like a cross between crypto and oil of its time. Like a much more functional version of jewelry ofc. It’s easy to see why the Bronze Age collapse had to do with supply chain problems that disconnected tin and copper markets and lead to people being unable to reliably trade and grow their economies that supported the cities, cultures and lifestyles that depended on this global network.
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  9295. How do we know that they put the bodies out i the open till all the flesh was gone, mate? Why is it not likely that they put the bodies in the barrows with their flesh still on, and it decayed as it does in all our own graves? Im sure there is a reason that you think they went in as bones only, its just that I didn’t puck this up. Really curious. And gee you tell a quiet, measured, and easy to follow, tale, thank you
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  9296. Fascinating culture
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  9297. As usual you gave a lot to think about. Until your video I knew only that the first electrum coins were mint in the 7th century in Lydia, before of that they had employed, in Asia Minor as well, something concerning the metal bars of the grill ( don't remember, and I m to lazy to search for that book which told me about...) as symbolic form of payment, otherwise man knew only Barter to exchange merchandise. And now you tell us another story about ring/rib ingots of Central Europe as a usual method to pay merchandise. Of course what you say is compelling, and I m glad you are teaching me something of value (eh-eh!) but I have a question for you: is it already known if this copper stuff was used to buy and sell anything, or was it just used for specific transactions? Thank you so much for dealing your research here. I m really intrigued about what you told us and I want to learn even more about it...
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  9298. Id love to see a video on bronze age weights
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  9299. Fantastic video. Congrats.
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  9300. Excellent presentation! Thank you. I can't imagine why his valuable tools weren't taken, since his killer came close to retrieve his arrow. Also, I'm intrigued by Otzi's tattoos.
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  9301. That was the most amazing inspirational biography I've ever seen. wow
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  9302. I love how you show different sides of scientific research. Because rhat's science.
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  9303. 💀..Truly Excellent, and Brilliantly Well Done Documentary✨️!!
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  9304. Thanks! I love your work, homez. 🫡🍻
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  9305. Neat video!
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  9306. Fascinating.
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  9307. Amazing, archaeology is amazing, I love it.
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  9308. i look like these statues now.
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  9309. In Portugal there were found hoards of bronze axes, never sharpened.
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  9310. Because there isn't any. They've debunked this years ago. So far, not a single piece of copper found in Europe can be traced back to the America's. It's a Youtube myth.
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  9311. Good show man.
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  9312. Among others, my ancestors from the paternal Y-DNA I line. Rgs from Poland.
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  9313. I have some of those petroglyphs tattooed!
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  9314. Subscribed! Wonderful educational video! Thank you for providing your sources. Keep up the great work!
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  9315. I would love to see this made into a movie but feel a well written series could be even better. I have read 'the Greatest Knight' a few times and i always loved the part with the lionheart. Amazing man.
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  9316. Dan Davis documentaries fkn rock!!!!
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  9317. What a guy
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  9318. Excellent like always
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  9319. That was Awesome
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  9320. That was epic !!
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  9321. Very interesting… 🧐
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  9322. amazing!
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  9323. Just found your channel. Love it. Lots to catch up on.
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  9324. So interesting. i love this channel
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  9325. It took a week before I had the space and peace of mind to properly watch this, and damn am I glad I gave this video all my attention. Mr Davis-History, Sir, you are 😗👌
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  9326. Excellent narrative, listened to it all the way through . 👍
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  9327. Absolutely fascinating! I watched it 3 times. Please make more videos covering the paleolithic periode:)
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  9328. Thanks mate.
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  9329. ❤
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  9330. This is a great video.
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  9331. 0:17 "Hey honey, I got you a gift. I designed it and had it crafted just for your liking.. 😏😜🥵🤤" In the loooong off distant future: "oh look, smooth, phallic shaped object, let's call it art and display it proudly to our children!"
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  9332. Another vote for Bronze Age weights!
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  9333. Your video is simply amazing and so well done... Lots and lots of digestible info with plenty of witty humor. And how you snuck in those smiling paintings had me belly laughing 😂 bravo! Bravo!
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  9334. Another video from Dan Davis. Merry Christmas to you too, Dan :)
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  9335. Great documentary, thanks Dan!
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  9336. Thanks mate, great work on this sone. Happy holidays to you and yours.
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  9337. I totally loved this, I had to watch it twice and no doubt, I'll return in the future--- thank you for the educational journey.
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  9338. Right on! keep this pace please
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  9339. Cool,thanks for your job,salutes from Brazil ❤
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  9340. My Ancestor ✝️🕊💪🏽🐺🇪🇸
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  9341. Great video liked and subscribed.
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  9342. I subscribed a while ago. I LOVE your channel. Your voice is pleasant and extremely easy to listen! Sometimes I leave certain well-researched channels because they are so difficult to listen to.
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  9343. I truly appreciate your content 😺🍻🖖
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  9344. Great story thank you
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  9345. Bohuslän mentioned🗣️🗣️🗣️
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  9346. Excellent production. Thank you
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  9347. This was fantastic.
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  9348. amazing video it in depth drive into what was happening in Ancient Mesopotamia and how city states developed into empires.
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  9349. Of all your stories (and I love them all!), I deeply appreciate this one and Sir Francis Drake's! Of the shorter ones, I love the Cucuteni-Trylpolia People (sp?)!! Love the illustrations when I get to watch as well as listen! But your reseach, your scholarship, your story telling style and best of all your voice! You have a literal musical quality to your speech! Did you know, I can change the speed of playback and it still sounds good?!? So cool! Not everyone can do that!
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  9350. Thank you for a most interesting and informative video ! I loved it !.
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  9351. 2:17 we aren’t depressed ; you’re voice reminds me of my father that’s why i fall asleep
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  9352. New to your channel, so far you do really excellent narrative of the stories & great research team big time. Hi from Alaska
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  9353. Great show
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  9354. You're comparison of those frescos as I've always seen them and the very small fragments that actually survived blew my mind man
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  9355. I feel like the figures are mothers. The bodies have already given birth.
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  9356. Bloody fascinating
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  9357. Great work, many thanks!
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  9358. Never saw these circle ingots and rib ingots before😮. Is copper ax usable as a weapon?
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  9359. 🇪🇦♥️🇪🇦
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  9360. Always more!
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  9361. Very interesting video, thanks.
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  9362. once again a wonderful video. your talent for bringing across this information is inspiring!
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  9363. The fact that simply going underground for a short time was completely taboo in some cultures for religious reasons, I could believe that they had rituals to cleanse themselves after or before coming out of the mine, it makes sense that they’d be worried not just about natural dangers but supernatural ones too
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  9364. Great video. Thank you.
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  9365. Thanks!
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  9366. This is very interesting. Again, I never learned about this in college.
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  9367. Brilliant video thank you!
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  9368. Shoutout to Jai Herbet lol, I did not expect to see the Black Country Banger in a Dan Davis video
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  9369. I just watched the latest video and accidently clicked on this episode. Of course, I had already seen it, but I'm glad I did! ❤😊❤
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  9370. Amazing as usual. And as usual much more questions than answers.
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  9371. Great job Dan. 🎉
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  9372. Yes this is fascinating please do a video on the weights. This makes so much sense, that they would first use common day objects as symbols for stored value. and it would then take some time to go to the more abstract coin shape over time
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  9373. Most of those thousands of tons of copper are still in circulation today. Imagine how many times the copper coins in your pocket and circuits in your smart phone have been recycled through the millennia.
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  9374. Very good video and discussion of the origin of these artifacts and related items and cultures. Thank you
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  9375. Another precious piece of history, and yes you are calming and insightful
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  9376. I look forward to your videos, Dan, thanks so much for all of your hard work!
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  9377. This is going to be good!
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  9378. I love this video thank u
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  9379. amazing ❤ much love from Iberia
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  9380. Loved it Dan Thank you !!!!
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  9381. @5:28 The wooden Chariot shown has Hellenic Key pattern around the top edge
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  9382. Brilliant video again.... Huzzah!! 😊
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  9383. The Strange-King concept sounds familiar right after watching your video on mesopotamian warfare.
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  9384. very interesting
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  9385. He is truly loyal to the 👑
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  9386. 23:05 yes please I would love for a video on the cult of the body
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  9387. Hi from Germany and thank you for the great video. Once I visited Poemmelte when they were excavating the site.
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  9388. There's a some what of a similar belief here in modern Liberal America about my Native American ancestors that we were all peace loving tree hugging hippies in equilibrium with nature...... We were anything but.
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  9389. I must be the first person from the Middle East to purchase a Henson.
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  9390. welldoneman 🎉
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  9391. Awesome!!
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  9392. This was very interesting, thanks for the video. Would totally dig a weights and measurement video
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  9393. At Sungir they found carved ivory pendants that look like spoked wheels. The First Chariot Lords of the Palaeolithic Mammoth Steppe ...?
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  9394. The metal mullet is real!
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  9395. The first Barbie dolls? An idealized form to grow up into?
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  9396. Now trace the worship of the bull! Enjoying your storytelling!
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  9397. Good production.
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  9398. One of your best Dan, just incredible 👏👏👏
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  9399. He'd be a good bloke to have a pint with
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  9400. Your narrative is wonderful and it brings life to the period one of my favorites the Bronze Age as so much is not known but what is shine a light on a time far more bigger and complex that we would believe it to be. Also great you're useing the correct historical identity of timeline BC/AD instead of the newer faddists that has stolen the timeline identity but stripped it of meaning. Thanks nicely done.
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  9401. Great science communication and an interesting subject. I really appreciate the way you explain things by starting with the evidence and going through the reasoning behind the theories you present.
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  9402. Brillant one of my favourite youtube videos ever 🙂 thank you
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  9403. The "Spangenbarrenhort von Oberding" that is the thumbnail and that you displayed like 10 times has a whopping 796 bars (82 kg), where 71 budles had 10 bars, 2 bundles had 12 and one had 8. Only 40 could not be assigned to a bundle. Analysis of the metals show that it was mostly pure copper from the eastern alps.
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  9404. This was wonderful, thank you.
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  9405. Great work love the video...
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  9406. These documentaries are very good 👍.
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  9407. Another fantastic presentation Dan, a true feast for the imagination and soul ❤👏👏👏 🗡
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  9408. An interesting story well told.
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  9409. Maori dude broke a dawn attack with the glory of his morning boner, now that is a great legend
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  9410. I notice that golden cone shape resembles the shape of the glow of the false dawn,
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  9411. Awesome video.
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  9412. I would LOVE a video on weight systems!!!
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  9413. Great video footage of the sites, including Mycenae.
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  9414. Excellent! Thank you
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  9415. Another excellent video
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  9416. Yet another great video. Thank you 😊
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  9417. Brilliant!
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  9418. Of course I wanna see a video about the srubnaya, you don't even have to ask.
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  9419. I visited Crete in '74 to practice firing unarmed tactical nuclear missiles west into the sea. I slithered out of the whole exrcise and instrad hitchiked about 50 miles northeast into the town of Chania. If you have a chance, go there. It was a long eventful day, one of the most fondly memorable in a long adventurous life, and i could wax poetic, at length. Suffice it to say, go there, just go.
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  9420. Excellent. A period I've contentedly long known a touch about but now am ashamed of my ignorance. Will soon follow up on all interesting suspects. Thanks for the reminder about half-understood missed history.
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  9421. Excelent as always. I would like to see a video about the western hunter gatherers. Greetings from argentina
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  9422. Great work, thank you 😊
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  9423. Always a good day when you gift us with a new video!
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  9424. The bit at the end about the Mediterranean bias got me thinking about something I'd heard elsewhere... 'people use the building material that is most easy to find and most easy to handle'. Now I know southern Europe is/was not without its trees and forests, but Scandinavia is almost hard coded into our brains to be heavily forested when its not covered in mountains or snow... so yeah, why would they not build everything out of a material they have in abundance and isn't so hard to work that it becomes almost a mythical skill?
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  9425. Hey! John Talbot…That’s my dad’s name. Maybe he survived that French attack where he supposedly died and was a lot older than I supposed! 🤔
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  9426. Yes Bronze Age Weights!
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  9427. Knew this was gonna be good, excellent video!
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  9428. Very good thank you 😊
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  9429. The prospect of sharing booty was attractive to the English sailors. I’m a retired Navy man and this cracked me up!
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  9430. Great channel
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  9431. Tysm for this! Im so happy i found this channel . I have been searching for early humans of prehistory stories . North02 is amazing but i have watched all his videos already ! 😊😊
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  9432. This is awesome!
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  9433. Da hora!
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  9434. Cool dude 👍
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  9435. Dan Davis i love your presentations, good voice, you keep my attention captured well, will you please focus on more middle ages, i like the ancient times but the ones like El Cid and Marshal are my favs.
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  9436. I love your videos and this is no exception. But Englishmen being tried by the Inquisition?? I'm pressing X to DOUBT
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  9437. Accidentally clicked this and loved it, subscribed 👍
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  9438. Well done. I really like your work and appreciate the depth of your knowledge on these periods.
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  9439. Loved this one. LOLd ( well giggled anyway ) several times at your quips and one second book promos.
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  9440. Don't be concerned too much with whether others be interested in the stuff you find fascinating. I get it that you wanna make popular youtube videos, but the truth is, even an interesting topic can be made boring if someone is being extremely dry and/or uninvested, but if you speak with perceivable passion and fascination, then even supposedly boring topics become interesting to listeners. It's a psychological phenomenon that if you're excited about something, that's contagious, and if you're not gonna keep others' attention. This is also why so many brainrot youtubers are so over the top emotional in their delivery, (possibly unconsciously) trying to hijack that mechanism with better or worse results. Of course your target audience is not brainrot content consumers with an attention span of a goldfish, talking in the calm manner like yours instead of onboxious stereotypical over the top youtuber is actually better for the delivery for educational content, as long as the passion can be felt through your videos - and it can. ;) so yeah, just do whatever you think is interesting and it will all find its audience.
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  9441. 👍👍
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  9442. Very interesting!
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  9443. Thanks for posting.
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  9444. Cousin Dan, I'd LOVE to see one on Alfred the Great in your inimitable style.
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  9445. Good stuff....again.
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  9446. More on the Bronze Age Mediterranean sailing ships I particularly want to know just how big they got and whether there've been any legitimate studies concerning just how ocean-worthy they might have been. If you can provide that information I would be so grateful 🚢
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  9447.  @DanDavisHistory  Ah, too bad. Still want to know anything you got for that video!
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  9448. Thank you for this man's story. .... three ways from Sunday. 😅 I thought I was the only one that said this.
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  9449. Thank you for another excellent and well researched video.
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  9450. I’m wondering if these were some of the people that inspired The Earth’s Children series? I know they are fiction so please don’t come for me. I just love the books and whenever I hear about these different ancient people and cultures I always try to line them up to who might have inspired the books. Any ideas? These peoples sound pretty darn close
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  9451. They did The Gold Dance! Everyone knows that. Ask Lance.
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  9452. Fantastic video…subscription well earned
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  9453. Interesting documentary
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  9454. Dan, you make phenomenal videos
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  9455. Thankyou. That was captivating 👏👏👏🤗
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  9456. The last part about the sky and stone makes me remember when I was a little kid and spent a lot of time alone - I believed the sky could be solid, far away but solid, with cracks in it that light came through. I was pre-school age so pretty young. Much later on my brothers and I found rocks that had crystals inside that the adults called thunder eggs. My father cut some of them open so we could see the crystals. But interesting that those were associated with thunder too.
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  9457. I learned a lot. Thanks.
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  9458. Excellent as usual.
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  9459. Yes to bronze age weight systems. And anything els you atmre intrested in
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  9460. Excellent information new information thanks and cheers to you
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  9461. Thank you so much for this awesome info! I thrive on "old Europe" history! It's so hard to come by this, especially done in a way that it's exciting to watch!
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  9462. I love your channel, superb storytelling and narration
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  9463. Love the smiling Drake. I thought my eyes were tricking me at first.😊
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  9464. Thank you for presentation of another excellent video
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  9465. Once again, masterful presented Mr. Davis.
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  9466. 👍🙏
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  9467. Happy new year Dan!
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  9468. Your channel is awesome bruv
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  9469. Beautiful images and scultures. Amazing similarity of all bronze age northern south european art
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  9470. Thanks
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  9471. Awesome video. Keep up the great work. 😊
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  9472. very interesting :) love your interpretaion at the end! I live in Japan and they also have burrial mounts in the shape of keyholes called kofun, but they are much more recent (250 AD - 538 AD) Interesting how people divided by space and time come up with similar things. I suppose it could have been introduced from the mainland (Korea or China), but even then it‘s a long way from Europe.
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  9473. Thank you for well researched content!
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  9474. I watched this whole thing... Which is wild for me and my ADHD brain. You are now my favorite historian. I will listen to no one else. on anything of the past good sir! see, I'm even talking like a mideavil jabronie!
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  9475. Native americans were doing basically the same thing in the PNW.
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  9476. really excellent, one of teh best histories of this period that ive watched
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  9477. Great vid!
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  9478. Thank you and yes, please make a video on the Srubnaya culture.
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  9479. Thanks for this great film. I wish you all the best in the new year.
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  9480. 16:17 Dan, your idea that there was (may have been?) a fish taboo amongst early farmers to distinguish themselves from hunter gatherers is a fascinating idea that I'd never considered. I'd always assumed that all humans at all times would have consumed fish. Please count me in as someone who will really appreciate watching this video when you make it!
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  9481. Facinating and informative
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  9482. Love your channel
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  9483. Brilliant, thank You.
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  9484. Excellent video.
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  9485. Fascinating video and information.... Please supply more..
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  9486. Reminds me of the North American native cultures of the great plains relying on the bison and then the horse to hunt them .
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  9487. Comment.
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  9488. Great presentation 👍🏻
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  9489. Fascinating film. Thanks.
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  9490. Did someone say Mammoth Steppe?!
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  9491. Fabulous account of this truly remarkable Seaman. I am reminded and have read extensively of James Cook, another commoner, like Drake, that arose some 200 years, to circumnavigate Earth 3 times, the Seamans Seaman. That disease, perhaps Scurvy, and it was Cook that insisted on Fruit and Port, to beat and it did. Drake introduced the 8 hour hour working day, when sailing was fair. And DAILY controlled Fires Below to Sanitize the Ship. Drake has always fascinated this New Zealander, with its own stunning Seaman achieving World firsts and records. Sir Peter Blake a fine example, and I believe he resides to this day, at rest, in England.
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  9492. Great man and great video, thank you
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  9493. Thanks
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  9494. Amazing video, as always! Thanks!
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  9495. I can understand the fish taboo. I don't like fish either!
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  9496. Just watched while substitute teaching a history class. I have notes & questions to research.... Back later
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  9497. I really love this channel ❤❤
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  9498. Thank you Dan
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  9499. A Timber grave video would be cool
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  9500. Very good!
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  9501. best bios out there
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  9502. ❤❤❤ FASCINATING,THANK YOU.❤❤❤
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  9503. I always love learning about an ancient culture I've never heard of before, great video!
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  9504. Give us the Bronze Age weights video!
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  9505. Really nice video - very well done!!
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  9506. Only Youtuber I need to put on 0.75 speed. So info packed
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  9507. Thanks for gathering so much information about Ötzi. It is fascinating to hear all the conjectures scientists have put forth. Makes me appreciate what an easy life I've had, considering I'm in much better shape and twenty years older.🤷
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  9508. Excellent content, production and delivery, and a rigorous adherence to the science. Very glad I found your channel.
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  9509. I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. I learned a lot from it. Thank you.
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  9510. You have a soothing voice ,great delivery and educated pronunciation.
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  9511. Great stuff, as usual sir. I read your books too =] I would be interested to see a video of your current Birds Eye view of how you generally understand the overall narrative of all these cultures. Like a working roadmap you might have developed over the years =] 🌊🏄‍♀️🏄‍♂️
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  9512. Watched this, your videos are really good, I learn a lot, and I like how you dont shy away from explaining the complexities, and that not everything is known and definitely established, but what we DO know, we can begin the process of putting the jigsaw pieces together. And how you expand the topic to include other related issues and connections. I share you vids with friends. Well done to you sir.
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  9513. This was so interesting, thank you Dan
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  9514. Yes. More sail would be interesting
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  9515. Huge Appreciation for your Passionate Sharing😊😊😊
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  9516. Wow, insane and so fascinating!
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  9517. This guy was like the Wayne Gretzky of the middle ages
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  9518. Dan I recently discovered your Vampire series and finished Vampire Crusaders over a weekend. It was tantalizing to say the least and felt a lot like a series that needs a Cinemax series! Absolutely guilty pleasure!
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  9519. Another excellent video. Thank you. Dan.
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  9520. Exceptional
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  9521. brilliant. thank you very much.
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  9522. I am reminded of a scene in the Iliad where Odysseus in a boar tusk helm and Ajax in a leopard skin hunt and kill a Trojan scout in a wolf pelt and wonder if this is a call back to earlier animal cults.
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  9523. Again an awesome video. These must have somehow been the inspiration of that stereotypical image of the witch's pointy hat. I assumed that source would have been medieval, but it seems it was far, far older. Making these hats is a extremely impressive feat of metalwork. They must have been supported from the inside while they were hammered, but only along part of the circle -- otherwise you wouldn't be able to get the template out again. Presumably the repeating patterns were engraved in the template, and the gold hammered over them. Or perhaps there would have been a sequence of patterns, to progressively shape the gold. Whatever the way it was done, extremely impressive work.
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  9524. I’d watch a Bronze Age weights and measures vid!
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  9525. Thanks!
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  9526. what a chill cockney
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  9527. Got married at 43; had 10 children; led armies out to battle at age 70: there’s still hope for me yet!
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  9528. Fascinating! Mahalo for sharing.
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  9529. First time checking you out - was suggested while on a pbs Eons video. Wonderful stuff! I’m subscribed!
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  9530. Great synopsis of early Akkadian history. Too bad we still haven't yet officially found the city of Akkad, though that one mound Tell Mohammed is one likely second of the city that I think scholars say was on both sides of the intersection of the Tigris and Euphrates.
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  9531. Thanks
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  9532. I love your vids man, you put a ton of work into them, and I really enjoy just listening to them while I am driving for work.
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  9533. Well researched work cheers.
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  9534. Amazing documentary about a subject I knew very little about, other than a little I had read here and there over the years about the famous Venus figurines.
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  9535. I appreciate your staying with the data, and avoiding making things up to fill gaps.
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  9536. Drake’s Golden Hind is featured on the reverse of the predecimal British half penny. Beautiful coin.
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  9537. That “you know what this is” really got me 😂
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  9538. The hazelnut harvest reminds me a lot of the Bunya festival/harvest on the eastern coast of Australia. Indigenous people from various clans and tribes would come to feast on the huge seeds that are produced by the Bunya. Bunya trees are huge pines that make cones so big that they can kill you if they fall. 5x bigger than a coconut!
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  9539. THANK YOU FOR ALL THIS DATA... VERY VERY INTERESTING... have studied some but this is so detailed and some of it new ... to me... the illustrations are fantastic... and your maps and explaining the sea level up and donw and lifting of the land etc.... very complete... Free spirits they were... then... very long ago :-)... not like today... !!!!
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  9540. Great video. Thank you.
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  9541. Thank you ✌️❤️
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  9542. I agree with you on so many of your topics. Good job and well explained
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  9543. I love your closing statement!👍 Thanks for the honest content and clean narration!
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  9544. This is a great series !.
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  9545. Dan Davis; good shit. Thanks.
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  9546. Amazing! Fascinating video!
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  9547. Fantastic video and topic.
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  9548. amazing stuff.
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  9549. Thank you for your excellent presentation ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
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  9550. Another very interesting and informative video, thank you
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  9551. You certainly weren't joking when you wrote "Stick with me ,it's complicated "!❤
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  9552. Thanks!
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  9553. Very good research and production. 😀
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  9554. Bronze Age weights yes please!
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  9555. Thanks for this video Dan.Great research,excellent narration. I agree with you about,how surplus food supply leads to greater material culture.Not just stone tools,but irony and clay figurines,and beads for jewelry ,and clothing decoration.
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  9556. Best channel on YouTube. Still waiting for video about Lusatian culture. I can help 😀
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  9557. Everything you produce about the bronze age is on the money.
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  9558. God bless a true adventurer
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  9559. Bronze age weights 👍
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  9560. This story reminds me of the Albanian Gjerjg Kastrioti Skanderbeg story. Edit: Skanderbeg gets a mention!
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  9561. Great stuff. Subscribed!
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  9562. Europe's first battle? I don't think so. In 1250 BC Mycenaean Greece had already a lot of wars between the local powers. In fact, the Trojan war is dated at 1260 BC. Cool and interesting video anyway :)
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  9563. That was pretty neat, and very well presented. Thanks+subbed
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  9564. Just amazing.
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  9565. Fantastic video, thanks.
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  9566. That's so interesting! And not even that long ago ... if you think how old the earth is ...
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  9567. Thanks
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  9568. Very much enjoyed this well done presentation. Thank you.
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  9569. Love your content.
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  9570. Excellent documentary!
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  9571. I just found out about these hats a few days ago and now you post this video... 😶 thank you for another amazing video (and reading my mind!)
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  9572. God Yule!
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  9573. Another excellent video! I had never even heard of this guy before now, but the video was fascinating. Thanks!
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  9574. Very interesting. Thank you.
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  9575. Cool video, hoping the algorithm keeps recommending you!
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  9576. Oh yeah! bringm on the bronce age weights!!! Dude i love your videos; and have for years. I am here for all the nerdy stuff
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  9577. Nice to know more about someone I only really know from civ vi
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  9578. most excellent. thank you very much ❤
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  9579. Very amazing, many cool
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  9580. Awesome! Thank you for this!
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  9581. In David Gemmell's Troy novels, characters use copper and silver rings as money.
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  9582. I recon the farmer builders had time ie piece to think and understand the stars which gave them a calendar to enscribe in stone and maybe worship. Then they were famous and easy targets for young human men and women
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  9583. You've got it wrong. Your voice is melodic, & soothing, your stories are delivered at just the right pace to put another human at peace, w the brain being entertained w just enough colorful new information. You & your stories ARE mental health support to those of us who are now forging our way through a stressful world & need some interesting intellectual material to play w as an escape from the tedious real world & real world pace. As you well know, we are NOT designed to live in crowds. Your singular voice comforts & entertains us.
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  9584. Fantastic! Thank you so much for your entertaining and very informative video!
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  9585. Absolutely stellar shit, as usual! You're really smashing it out of the park lately, loving it. My only complaint is I'd like MORE! :D But I understand the amount of research that goes into every episode, so I can hardly complain.
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  9586. Thanks for this!
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  9587. astunning story, well told. Thanks.
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  9588. A tour de force! Thank you!
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  9589. Great video, as always. I will say, at 11:30 - the press' idea that Stonehenge is a rare example of a solstice aligned enclosure is always silly to me. Henges, in general, have their openings facing the southeast / northwest, or flipped. The many big stone circles of Cumbria, Oxfordshire, Wales, and Ireland, often have openings facing that direction. Essentially, it's the predominant alignment of mid-to-late Neolithic ritual enclosures, observable far more obviously outside the Stonehenge landscape. Not unusual.
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  9590. Love all Your content
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  9591. I love intelligent historicsl presentations lije this
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  9592. It's good to know I have something in common with my mesolithic ancestor in loving hazelnuts.
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  9593. Remarkable. I watch a lot of history content on YT and yours, sir, is among the best of the best. Truly commendable. Your account of William Marshall was also top notch. Ive shared them with every history buff i know. Thank you.
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  9594. Yes please to weights and measures
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  9595. In full earnestness, I have probably never been so pleased with coming across a YouTube channel
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  9596. Awesome, thanks, and yes please to more!
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  9597. Without a military arm no civilizations survived. We forget this at our cost
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  9598. Thanks
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  9599. I use your videos to get to sleep. but not because thay are boring. On the contrary I find tham very interesting and well presented, I like them so much I brought your books.(thunder series) It'd because you have a smoothing voice and a good cadence. Helps me sleep.
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  9600. I'm a senior who is madly interested in this subject. I can't afford to join but I really do appreciate your work.
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  9601. It would be so fascinating to use a time machine to go back and study these people. Their cultures are so alien to us, yet so very human. Excellent video as always!
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  9602. I'm really glad I found your channel. I've been irritated recently watching so many "documentaries" about some historical time, place, people or event that just ends up being a circlejerk about some tedious archaeological investigation. I just want to hear the story of these people as best as we can guess it at this point. I don't need to hear all of the technical minutiae associated with trying to figure it all out. Certainly not in every single video.
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  9603. Thank you, Mr Davis. You have given me many hours of history pleasure. 😊
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  9604. Very interesting thank you
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  9605. It's a great temptation to read the buried weapon caches as acts that marked the disbanding of a beaten army
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  9606. As the quality of your videos has improved over the years the quality of your commenters has declined inversely lol. Some real clowns in here, folks!
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  9607. New to your channel and really enjoyed this video!
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  9608. Great content.
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  9609. Outstanding.
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  9610. Thanks
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  9611. One of the best videos yet, well done 👏
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  9612. That was stupendous! One to relisten to and recommend to all. Excellent research and delivery. Wonderful work and a fabulously informative, entertaining channel. Well done Sir.
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  9613. Thanks for the interesting video! I have a book describing paintings in different caves of the Stone Tomb. The importance of this ritual site is very underrated.
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  9614. Forget vikings.. Drake series
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  9615. Luv your channel ! Keep up the excellent work.
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  9616. Excellent film. Please do another one on Bronze Age sailing in the Mediterranean!
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  9617. Nice hearing another Dan. Good show.
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  9618. Thanks! That was great!!
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  9619. Great documentary! Being born and raised in Plymouth, I was familiar with Sir Francis Drake but have learnt so much through your video. It was surprising to learn of his views and humility towards slaves and indigenous people
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  9620. incredible
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  9621. Thanks
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  9622. I love your channel. It is a treasure trove of knowledge on the many many ways humans have lived and died. So appreciated at this time, to know humans over throw power and establish new ways all the time throughout history, makes me feel connected to our ancestors, a deep knowing that we can make something new
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  9623. The most underrated history channel on YouTube!
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  9624. Yet another informative, well-researched and even-handed documentary. I really like the way you engage with the research, but acknowledge the limits of your scientific expertise. But maybe you're being a bit hard on yourself. At times I think people outside a narrow field of research can make balanced assessments of the data -- which can then yield fruitful ways forward, e.g. your question about whether the dogs could have been used in the hunting/ herding process.
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  9625. Great work Dan! And thank you for little history lesson for all the people here, that claim something different.
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  9626. Thank you for talking about this topic in such a smart manner. You are very educated person which thinks and talks about past with such a respect. Prehistoric people weren't mostly barbarians.
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  9627. I'd never heard of this! Thank you for sharing.
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  9628. Thanks
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  9629. Very cool video. Not an expert on the topic but the evidence for this being a kind of money is very convincing. Oh and I think the production of smaller items is no sign of decline. Quite from it, it evidences that the use of money spread to more parts of society. The average farmer or craftsman unlike rules and merchants would need smaller units of measurement for their transactions.
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  9630. As a Minoan man I love ❤️ taking strolls around town always good twin peaks to look at 😮, women fashion 😮
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  9631. The value of Your work is, one can (and should) watch it again, for so much good information, so much good knowledge and research is there. Also, the visual production is absolutely sterling and captivating.
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  9632. Cheers again thank you
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  9633. Please more ice age/stone age content, very facinating👍
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  9634. Thanks, this was amazing.
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  9635. thanks :) as always really well made!!! i truly enjoy your documentaries
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  9636. Always interesting
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  9637. excellent,
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  9638. I've come back to this video many times. One of the best and most comprehensive videos on Drake. I hope you can make more in a similar vain ❤
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  9639. Excellent presentation
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  9640.  @DanDavisHistory  I wondered if with some of the new environmental DNA sampling techniques if anyone had started looking for plants and especially dietary plants yet. Thanks for another fascinating video.
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  9641. Well done, thank you
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  9642. vlad did a red wedding? didn't see that coming
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  9643. Was walking through Romford Market as you made that reference I'm dying 💀
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  9644. Fascinating, my father found a broken beaker in a lake in Switzerland ( 1930) and I still have it , I shall brush off the cobwebs and dust and wonder at the story it could tell me 👍🦘
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  9645. Big Copper
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  9646. Maybe another clue for the horse domestication theory: Samoyed dogs were bred to herd and guard, not to hunt. If they had similar/ ancestral dogs to Samoyeds they may have used them to herd their horses as well.
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  9647. Weights vid yes 👍🏻
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  9648. Great video. Thank you.
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  9649. This is tremendous. Thank you.
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  9650. Excellent
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  9651. Thank you!!
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  9652.  @DanDavisHistory  thanks for the reply and for enlightening me. Appreciate it. And a very good video. Only just heard of the LBC and am absolutely facinated by it.
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  9653. You da man.
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  9654. Your speculations are well-considered and very interesting.
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  9655. Yep Really well done...AGAIN!
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  9656. I wait for your next vídeo. Excellent work, really apprexcated
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  9657. Love your content’s ❤ keep up the great job keep doing a great job god keep blessing you and all your love ones love ❤️ 💕 💕 💕 💕 ❤️
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  9658. brilliant thanks
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  9659. Great content. Sub’d!
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  9660. Fascinating history.
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  9661. Another very interesting video about a culture I didn't really know despite being so fascinating.
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  9662. This is such an excellent film. I do hope you get more views on it.
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  9663. Premium history content, thanks brother for your work! Is there any chance you could have a look on Pál Kinizsi of Hungary or any Middle or Eastern European knights?
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  9664. Exceptional! Great job! Thank you very much.
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  9665. Absolutely wonderful information. Thank You,Sir.
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  9666. Always a great notification to get on my phone, thank you for your great work!
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  9667. Impressive!! Thanks, Dan.
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  9668. Very, very good made documentary video😮. These old civilizations are very facsinating😊
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  9669. Good episode. Was trying to image these being used in ceremonies & why while you were talking. The shape makes me thing of the setting sun reflected as a narrowing band in the water, or even crepuscular rays (still sometimes called "God rays") bursting through gaps in the clouds. But I know we'll never know for sure.
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  9670. Dan it is hard to express how much I love your content but I wish you would speak slower because I believe you would pick up at least 50% more subscribers. People listen to these videos as they're falling asleep . Paul Cooper speaks very slowly . Your voice and your accent would be perfect for a quasi ASMR presentation. I promise you you'll pick up a ton more subscribers. I know you're going to say well you could just slow down the video but it doesn't sound the same. Anyway just keep up the good work I just thought if you could get a lot more subscribers then you'd get a lot more money one way or the other and be able to produce great content forever. Long live Dan Davis
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  9671. I love the clarity and simplicity with which you deliver this information. I found this video fascinating. It makes me want to look more into how the Neolithic age transformed into the bronze age. Thank you so much for your research.
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  9672. Thanks
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  9673. That was Awesome Thanks so much for bringing us along Felt like I was kid in school reading about these captains of the seas
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  9674. You do great videos. I would love to see some more about historical figure
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  9675. Just started, great topic, please! do a video on tin mining and trade in the bronze age. Tin, an incredibly scarce ore and a vital component for the creation of bronze and therefore the Bronze age
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  9676. Great vid👌
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  9677. Great video
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  9678. This is fascinating
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  9679. As a history teacher I can say this video was not only well written but very well illustrated. Thank you Dan, for a job very well done.
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  9680. Great show Dan!
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  9681. Ironically i am maybe enjoying cannabis while watching this 😮😅
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  9682. What a great video! Well researched and even with all sources! Will definitively read some of them. Thank you very much! This is a real good addendum to my archaeoligical studies!
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  9683. Love it; subscribed, thanks.
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  9684. Great video, I can absolutely see someone going to sleep with your voice, it's very calming, no mater how gruesom the topics are.
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  9685. Well done sir
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  9686. Well at least one minor takeaway of the fantastic video, I am I guess above average in only one way. I'm 6 feet two inches tall. or just over 187 centimeters. Of course that's the only thing I'm above average. Thank you for that. I was riveted by this short documentary. I mean that, this was so interesting I shared it with a few family members and friends. 10 out of 10 would recommend this video.
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  9687. Tanum hällristningar is such a beautiful cool place and im swedish and sami.:D
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  9688. Thanks
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  9689. Good to see Vlad so happy at the end
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  9690. Why have I never heard of this until now????
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  9691. Weights video please!
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  9692. What a treat! 👏
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  9693. Fascinating! Still enjoy your videos a LOT 👍 Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, TW.
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  9694. Brilliant stuff as usual! I always get excited when I see a new video from this channel, and you definitely didn't disappoint! It's rather remarkable finding almost identical objects 1000 km apart, that long ago.
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  9695. Yesss, Please!!... let's have a video about the Stone-Island/Tomb complex
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  9696. Do you know more about ancient Greeco Roman Buddhism in this lands?
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  9697. The books you wrote look very interesting. Thank you for the educational programs you have developed
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  9698. I see you listen to cool music
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  9699. Nice one¡¡
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  9700. Im surprised they managed to sail anywhere under the gigantic weight of this man's testicles.
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  9701. I am curious about the lactose intolerance. Fascinating. Your wonderful work has opened new doors and I am chasing that question. That is why an Educator entices we students to journey beyond. I am 70 years old. A student.
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  9702. Thank you Dan! I just love these videos!
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  9703. A fascinating video, which I have shared.
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  9704. Gotdamn! This is fantastic stuff, yo! Thank you!
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  9705. Great video. Thank you
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  9706. That was an incredible story. I've never heard of a monk being sent by the Pope to query the new Mongolian Khan, and he did this in is 60s. I'm stuck at home with COVID, but it hasn't been so bad with these videos. The first minute, I thought, "but Marco Polo wasn't a monk..." 🤔
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  9707. I enjoy your longer videos for sure
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  9708. The design looks similar to one's in sardinia, with the forecourt out front?
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  9709. another Dan Davis classic
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  9710. Wonderful presentation and review of the information available.
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  9711. Excellent work
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  9712. Nicely done
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  9713. Thanks!
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  9714. Sitting here fing stunned.. watta gangster.
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  9715. Awesome, let's go.
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  9716. Very detailed
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  9717. This was fascinating, and I thank you! I’m looking forward to seeing your other videos. I really enjoyed the history lesson.
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  9718. I just flashed on Cesaré Borgia's disordered attempts at glory, warring in Italy. I would bet in his mind he was emulating El Cid! The Borgias not only hailed from Valencia, but the Naughty Pope's first name was Rodrigo. The very idea cracks me up, the fit is just too good. Bet.
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  9719. In Iron age Ireland it was forbidden to eat dog meat. As a boy the hero Setanta had to slay a hound when it attacked him. He then took the place of the hound for its owner, his foster father Chulainn. So he became known as Cú Chulainn the hound of Chulainn. But later in life when he was tricked by a witch into eating a stew that unbeknownst to him contained dog meat, he was immediately paralysed down one side of his body.
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  9720. Another great explanation and treatment of an important culture of the ancient world. Thanks Dan!
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  9721. I love this channel.
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  9722. This is better than a university lecture - fascinating.
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  9723. Very obscure, this is what real history fans want, not the same rehashed stuff.
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  9724. 👍👌👏 Oh WOW, simply fantastic!
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  9725. Really loving your channel so far. Just found it today and every sigle title sounds interesting to me, gonna be a great marathon :)
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  9726. I suspect they might have been like dolls or images of beloved grandmothers rather than goddesses. Grandmothers would have contributed in many ways… 1. Wisdom 2. Social Cohesion 3. Caregiving of children to free up younger mothers for other activities 4. Eating and storing fat when food was plentiful and fasting when food was scarce so that the hunters, mothers, and children could eat.
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  9727. Absolutely fascinating and very beautiful.
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  9728. Ou thanks this is the episode i asked time ago!
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  9729. The grimace from Clint Eastwood was hysterical!
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  9730. Great video
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  9731. Great video and exploration of history and events. Helps to make it clearer. Thank you.
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  9732. Nice video
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  9733. Thanks for including the sources, the book of the trial transcript and all that along with the admonition not to look it up. I will take your advice. I imagine that the final hours/day so fthose children were terrible. I don't need to know the details.
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  9734. Cool vid bud 👍 best wishes Perth Scotland 🇬🇧
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  9735. So interesting!
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  9736. Awesome AA shout out! That channel is amazing!
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  9737. Your work speaks for itself . Bravo
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  9738. First class content, more please 🙂! I learned a lot more on this channel. Gathering the latest science on a subject must be a lot of work. Thank you!
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  9739. Wow! Wonderful and gripping presentation and truly informative! A great historian like Mark Felton.
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  9740. This was excellent!
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  9741. Another great presentation. Interesting and valuable information. Thank You indeed.
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  9742. Awesome! 🌊🌊🏄‍♀️🏄‍♂️
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  9743.  @DanDavisHistory  There's so much we don't know or understand about these times. Do you think it would be possible to interpret the Irish legends to see if this can shed light on their beliefs and culture?
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  9744. Informative and to the point. Great video!
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  9745. SUCH AN EXCELLENT CHANNEL!!!!
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  9746. Another sensational vid Dan 👍
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  9747. Great interesting video!!! Yes, I would like to see a video of the Srubnaya culture!!
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  9748. Wow, this is amazing content! Great information and video. Great job you are doing! Thank you for this!
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  9749. Wow, thank you ❤
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  9750. Dan Davis, always a pleasure
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  9751. Been there twice. The view is fantastic and the hike not too bad.
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  9752. Great video.
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  9753. Love this video! So interesting!
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  9754. This reminded me of Beowulf and the mention of gifts given by kings and people of authority in it. The gifts were mostly left unnamed except for rings. Wonder if this is actually about these rings and would then be an old form of paying your (warriors) employees
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  9755. This video was educational, revealing and absolutely beautifully presented. By the the end, I had tears in in my eyes thinking of this person that Dan has shown us in such a vivid manner. I am so delighted that I have discovered his channel.
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  9756. Oof that knee problem would have been excruciating. Likely caused total degradation of the cruciate ligaments and essentially crippled him.
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  9757. Dan Davis you really did your work for this video man. I didnt expect you to have so much information on these golden hats. You are awesome dude and i appreciate all the work you do the bring us these videos. Thanks so much from Waxhaw, North Carolina ❤ USA
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  9758. Fortunately for those of us who are less interested in goofy giggling (I do aknowledge it's humorous connotations) and are genuinely interested in learning the proposed reasons behind these "practices" the narrator's voice and mannerism are very conservative and aporopriate to convey the information with a refined attitude. 😊
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  9759. 🙏👍
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  9760. Another great video! I just noticed it and I'm listening to it on my 35 minute drive to work. I love all your videos.
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  9761. Love all the clips of the gorgeous horses ❤
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  9762. Good job
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  9763. Very interesting
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  9764. What a superb piece of history you have made here. Thanks so much for sharing this with us.
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  9765. Great work!
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  9766. I could listen to you read processed food ingredients your voice is so soothing
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  9767. so good! I enjoy your narration so much more than those droning AI voices....
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  9768.  @DanDavisHistory  lol.. that’d be great! .. one of those days that you plan on being unavailable elsewhere 😁.. ‘it’s History Sunday ! Of course I’m not attending your function.. the cool history guys on YT are way more interesting by FAR!’ 😜
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  9769. What if they were ads for weapons makers and recruitment ads
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  9770. Very well done and presented. I learned from your presentation. Thank you.
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  9771. THIS narrator so much better. whew...just had to get away from that guy on the other video about Otzi....his voice on too many videos about too many different things and it annoys me to death. This man's voice is European also which is a nice change.
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  9772. DD upload, I press like. Will have to postpone viewing until later thought.
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  9773. Thank you for this. I also like that you do go into wild theories.
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  9774. Vinca ladies must've looked NICE
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  9775. Brilliant. Thank you for the work you put into this.
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  9776. I’ve seen one of these in a Berlin Museum. Certainly eye catching!
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  9777. Really interesting. Thank you!!!
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  9778. Thank you so much for this video! What a true legend that man was.
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  9779. I was reading about the Egtved Girl when the pictures of her came up. My brain did not like it!
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  9780. Thanks! When you get the chance, it would be interesting to hear on how glacial refugia were populated and how they repopulated Europe.
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  9781. I would love to see a video on Bronze Age weights!
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  9782. Excellent video!
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  9783. Awesome Dan. Can't wait for the Srubnaya video!
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  9784. Just scrolling and I see this "jackpot!"
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  9785. I find all your videos fascinating. I especially like the maps.I like your commentary too 👍
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  9786. Great video! - thank you.
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  9787. That was epic
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  9788. I've watched almost all of your videos, and this is your best work.
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  9789. Thanks
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  9790. 👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐EXCELLENT WORK!! THANK YOU FOR EXPLANATION. I LOOK FORWARD TO NEW VIDEOS!
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  9791. Thanks for these great insight on EEF. The Indo-Europeans get most of the attention but these people were incredible.
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  9792. Excellent video!
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  9793. Thanks!
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  9794. Your gift of relating history is wonderful. I'm glad I found your channel. Liked and subscribed.
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  9795. They're either money units or commodity units and the difference is not especially different and either way they're both quite interesting.
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  9796. Stop what you’re doing, Dan Davis just posted a new video about little talked about Ancient European cultures!
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  9797. Damn, title actually wasn't clickbait! Pleasantly surprised :) great video!
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  9798. Yes!! Thanks Dan, great content as always!!
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  9799. Thank you 🦘
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  9800. Awesome show sir. Thank you for sharing.
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  9801. Gracias por este video, narrado en un inglés muy claro y pausado.
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  9802. I missed this last week, but it was worth the wait. Fantastic content about little explored topics about prehistory.
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  9803. ​ @DanDavisHistory looking forward to it, as well as any future videos on the Srubnaya culture.
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  9804. Mon: Horse goulash on boiled grass Tue: Horse ribs marinated with horse milk We: Horse sausages Thu: The dog who grew too old Wouldn't be surprised if they had decided to commit mass suicide at some point.
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  9805. LeRoy McDermott was my Art History professor in College. Whenever i see Venus figures i think of him telling the class his theory.
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  9806. Great show, as always.
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  9807. Excellent video
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  9808. Thanks
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  9809. How did I miss this one from you!!!!!!!! Thank you! ❤❤❤
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  9810. Thanks!
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  9811. Just top tier!
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  9812. Thanks
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  9813. And yes I would love a video about the Bronze Age 'Cult of the Body'!
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  9814. great❤
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  9815. Excellent video, as always! You reminded me of the prehistoric documentaries I used to watch as a child, especially with the images of the huts made of mammoth bones and hides. I have a question, though: Are the Gravettians the ancestors of the Western Hunter Gatherers? They must be, no? During the Last Glacial Maximum they took refuge in the south, so I would think that as the temperatures rose again they returned northwards, no? If so, I would be interested to hear about the development of the famous blue eyes of the Western Hunter-Gatherers. @DanDavisHistory Also, have you heard of the Solutrean Hypothesis? What do you think of it? My take is that it may be possible, but it is practically impossible to prove.
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  9816. ​ @DanDavisHistory  Thank you for your informative reply! Keep up the good work!
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  9817. Another well done documentary! Thank you Mr. Davis . I have seldom watched a channel that never fails to keep me interested.
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  9818. A 40 minute video? Hell yeah!
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  9819. Just excellent. As always
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  9820. Absolutely fascinating stuff. I live in hope of a Nordic Bronze Age shipwreck discovery from say a thousand years earlier than the Hjortspring. Must be out there somewhere...
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  9821. Dan - your channel is a WONDER!!!!
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  9822. Absolutely amazing. Thank you for this informative video!
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  9823. We buried my mother with her wedding and engagement rings. We didn’t think she would use them in the afterlife, but that they were hers and keeping them would be theft.
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  9824. Thanks for doing this video. Ironically, I recently read The Horse, The Wheel, and Language because I was looking into the The Indo European Question when I was confronted by the excessive detail in this book, realizing right away I had to read, reread and read again various chapters in this book. Additionally,I just discovered the book from Robert Drew's about Indo European Militarism and saw his book Early Riders in my additional research into this topic. So, I really appreciate your videos helping to guide me on what books I should read. I look forward to watching everything you've posted so far to compare your reading suggestions and the information you've discussed in your videos to what I've covered on my own, thus far. I'm happy I've been on the right track!
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  9825. Nice !!!!
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  9826. Excellent....
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  9827. Thanks
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  9828. Loved it
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  9829. So good. You're one of the best!
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  9830. I really appreciate that your sponsorship is related to the video
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  9831. Yes to the stone tomb complex video!
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  9832. Love your work! Looking forward to Gods of Bronze Book 3!
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  9833. Lovely representation, I must confess to being ignorant of these golden hats prior this video. About the Bronze Age solar cult and dawn goddess with her associated water fowls - I'd like to point out the beginning of Kalevala, Finland's national epic, where a myth of World's creation according to folk poetry is retold: In the beginning, there was only water and sky. Goddess Ilmatar ("She-air") descends from heavens to water, where she becomes pregnant by sea and wind. She however doesn't go in labor and drifts many years, carrying the babe in her womb, in heavy pain. She prays help from Ukko, sky-father of sorts - in response a goldeneye duck appears, searching a place to land without finding any. Ilmatar raises her knee for the goldeneye, which lands and lays its eggs, six golden and one of iron & starts nesting. The heat rises and Ilmatar, feeling her knee burning, twitches her knee, tumbling the eggs and thy break. The lower parts of shells become Earth, upper part the sky; upper parts of egg yellow become the Sun, the lower becomes the Moon. (After World is thus created, the baby is born as an grown man, who turns out to be Väinämöinen,the first man and hero of much of Kalevala) I had never considered solar cult implications of that beginning section before seeing this video, but they seem to implicate some connection now!
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  9834. I've never subscribed to the "peaceful Minoans" narrative simply because it wouldn't have been possible to attain that level of wealth and civilization without the capability to hold onto what they had. Without a significant military capability, as soon as they amassed some wealth, someone would have taken it from them. Yes, they could have hired mercenaries to defend them, but that almost inevitably ends with the army robbing the paymasters. Given what we know of human history, it's just silly to think of the Minoans as incapable of violence.
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  9835. Top tier content as always! 🎉
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  9836. This was astoundingly well-researched and incredibly entertaining to watch. Thank you!
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  9837. Exceptional video very informative and very good production. Thank you
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  9838. Churros?
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  9839. Great video
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  9840. Oh man this video is so much more than it says in the title, great job Dan 👍
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  9841. Thanks for the video, you present the information in a way where it is very understandable.
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  9842. Yes to the weights video.
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  9843. Fascinating history. Mind blowing how he navigated all those distances. The bravery of those sailors. A Devon man too. Well done. Great video thanks.
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  9844. two videos in one week? we are eating rich
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  9845. Thank You.
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  9846. Thank you for the great video. One of these fabulous looking "hats" was accidently found in a field near Nuremberg belonging to a distant relative of mine with the same surname 🤓
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  9847. This video deserves my like, thank you!
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  9848. Very good video!
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  9849. Thank you very much for this excellent documentary. I am astonished and a little embarrassed by my own ignorance of Drake’s life and career. This was a fascinating and rewarding film.
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  9850. Outstanding presentation 😊😊😊
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  9851. Thank you for a excellent biography of William Marshal a figure who has been sadly overlooked by many historians.
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  9852. As always exceptional content. Thank you!
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  9853. Great video. Fascinating to hear the history of the various cultures and capabilities of early civilizations.
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  9854. Fantastic video ! Glad I subscribed . Are your books available on Kindle Dan?
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  9855. This is the coolest story ever
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  9856. Thank you so much. It is brilliant.
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  9857. I’m only sad bc this wasn’t an hour long lol
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  9858. Boy you hit a sweet spot for me with this video. I am especially interested in neolithic Crete. I visited Crete and Knossos in the 1980s and have spent decades watching Archeological Journals and digs for current discovery. Prehistoric fauna especially fascinate me.
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  9859. Great video!
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  9860. I checked and I was no longer subscribed, so i have re-subscribed.
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  9861. Yes please, i need a video of neolithic measurements! Nerds need details!
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  9862. Just discover your youtube site. Many thanks for all the subjects that you already treated. . I shall spend more time exploring it. My interests ? History, neolithic period and botany. Ub this time of confusion this is highly appreciable to find videos based on knowledge (sources for further readings) and presentations. I aready have a list of must see videos. Catherine from France
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  9863. Awesome video, hopefully a Total War game is made one day for the Copper Age (Chalcolithic).
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  9864. 12:27 Woah, I was literally right there yesterday!
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  9865. El Cid, and William Marshall. The two best knights in history.
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  9866. I'm not a novelist, nor an historian but I am an anthropologist and I can say that the Bom Santo Cave Necropolis supports the notion that individuals and small groups from far off were accepted into local groups. This is judged by grave goods and DNA sampling as opposed to say written testimony. Now the FBC peoples had extensive trade networks based, if I recall correctly, upon riverine navigation. The CW civilization you referenced would have inherited a portion of this knowledge and if the behavior of viking Northmen is any guidance, one might argue that the BB culture had a kind of leg up. I'll stand back from speculation about say the Ring of Brodgar, Stonehenge or any of large number of megalithic sites and the involvement of these peoples. An interesting topic for video production, writing and daydreaming, thanks.
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  9867. 5th
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  9868. omg i watch dozens of history channels l know all about vlad tepesch and from you sir i now know 100 new hiatorical facts the otgers hardly mentioned.You are fantastic.I hope you make 50000 more of all rulers wars and ki doms.The best ive seen in 25 years.l wishi could dhake your hand and buy you dinner every week forever.Mesmerzing,engrossing video Good God.fantastic work
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  9869. Thank you for the list of references!
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  9870. What a nice smile❤❤👍 Fantastic presentation btw - great work
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  9871. Incredible video
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  9872. This was interesting. I love your channel.
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  9873. Fantastic documentary, thank you!
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  9874. Great Vid...I'm loving learning historic stuff that I should have learned 50 + years ago when at school. Thank You So Much !
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  9875. 13:46 Bronze Age weights please
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  9876. May be the erection was to demostrate they weren't afraid. (As in the physiological reactions to fear you mentioned).
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  9877. Great stuff
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  9878. Well presented
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  9879. There are some highly significant Copper Age and Bronze Age finds in my country as well, right next door to the main area of the Únětice culture / cultural complex. Also, look up the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age fortified towns at Myšia Hôrka and Nižná Myšľa, or the later Púchov culture. There were several wealthy and advanced cultures around.
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  9880. Excellent video. Enjoyed it a lot, a lot of info I never found while visiting many of the big accessible ones while visiting them. Thank you.
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  9881. I-M284>I-L1195>I-L126>I-FGC20063>I-Y4733>I-Y4171>I-Y4142>I-Y4751>I-Y4752>I-Y19693>I-Y45000>I-Y46292>I-Y57253. I am patrilinealy related to 22 individuals inhumed in Hazelton North.
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  9882. Excellent documentary! Thanks a lot for making it. Also very well narrated. :)
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  9883. Damn, that was a good one
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  9884. Absolutely fascinating... Huzzah!! 😊
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  9885. SWEET ! Thank you. Merry Christmas !
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  9886. Fantastic work. Well done and thank you so much for your effort.
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  9887. Fascinating video, Dan. I've added this to a playlist, subbed, and Liked. I will use this to restructure my own diet so I can try to eat more healthy and simply. Thanks for making this!
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  9888. What a life these guys had !!
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  9889. Cheers thanks again for a interesting video
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  9890. Nice 👍
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  9891. The Bronze age, my favourite period of human evolution and development. Dan my favourite interpreter. 😊 A bit of a shout out for Welsh mythology.. We have a series of mythological tales embedded in a series called Y Mabinogi. The underworld has a huge part in most of these tales and id called Annwn that was governed by a king by the name of Arawn. The tales were committed to print in the early middle ages but ofcourse were handed down over the centuries certainly from as early as around 500AD..Annwn was a place of mystery, dark spirits and weird serpsnts and animals.. A pretty scary dark place. No evidence of burials to my knowledge. But obviously very alive in the culture of those days. The hats are a mystery to me like others, but there's an interesting linguistic Welsh connection.. Someone who is classed as being very wise and/or intelligent are described as "hirben". Literally translated as "Long-headed". No idea where that expression emnanates from.. Keep up the great work. So so interesting and educational.
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  9892. Thanks again cheers
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  9893. I would love a video about different weight measuring systems in the bronze age
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  9894. It would be very interesting to see a video about the Stone tomb complex, thank you 😊 Great video, and Greetings from Denmark 😊
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  9895. I’m fairly sure I’m part Spanish, so I’ll take this ancestral W
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  9896. Fascinating subject well related.
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  9897. Great video; I had never heard of this culture. and I watch a lot of videos about civilizations in antiquity. Climate change has sometimes been due to volcanic activity (anywhere on the globe) blocking out sunlight. In a video I watched recently, someone was showing how they found dates of eruption of Krakatoa, and one of those dates was very near the "bronze age collapse" yet they never came back to that since that's not what the program focused on. It blocked much of the sunlight for several years. I hope someone investigates that possible explanation for the bronze age collapse, and other civilizations ending; compare notes on dates.
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  9898. Very enjoyable video thank you. It is sad the life of such a knight has not been immortalised in film and even sadder this history is not compulsorily taught in British and French schools.
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  9899. Hi Dan, interesting as always, but the map got me. Why is Voorhout on the map? The village, it was tiny when I grew up there.
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  9900. I’m a simple man, I see that dan uploaded a new video, I obsess over it
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  9901. Thank you, very interesting.
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  9902. Thank You by an Sardinyan
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  9903. When placing the first horse warriors in history, I think it's at least worth considering the centaur figurine from Lefkandi. It's dated to about 1000 BC. The figure is sometimes identified as Chiron, from the Hercules myth, because he has 6 fingers on his surviving hand and has an injured leg which lines up with some tellings of the myth. The legend of centaurs has sometimes been interpreted as arising from the Greek-speaking world's first encounter with mounted warriors, or at least their interpretation of tales they heard from people they were trading with. Mythological centaurs had a fearsome reputation for raping and pillaging during raids on settlements. They were also depicted as being closer to nature and having knowledge of healing plants,. Chiron is reputed to have passed this knowledge on to Achilles, Jason and other figures with associations with Mt. Pelion and Thessaly. The fact that by 1000 BC they were depicting a centaur, and possibly a very particular one that would have been widely recognizable from his attributes, probably points to their knowledge of mounted warriors being much older still.
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  9904. My thoughts are that the “Venus” figures are the female ancestors, women of high esteem.
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  9905. Interesting 👍🏼
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  9906. Thank you for this video. It is a very interesting story.
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  9907. Shrubnaya!!
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  9908. Nice Vid. Best wishes from Germany
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  9909. Great content
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  9910. Congratulations and muchas gracias for an excellent documentary. Saludos desde España
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  9911. Really excellent documentary - both very Interesting & highly informative & a superb history lesson as always. Very many thanks.
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  9912. Love the channel you have a new subscriber thank you for the upload .
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  9913. Perfect timing! Was just watching some Troy clips
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  9914. Aren't these Venus figurines still a physical ideal that men find erotic, beautiful and desirable? Is it just me?
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  9915. Thank you
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  9916.  @DanDavisHistory  wow that’s wild! I think he might be around N London. I know he’s a Spurs fan and he’s done some stuff around where the old Decca studio used to be. Any time I’m over there I head straight to Camdentown! Take care man I love your content!
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  9917. This is a really enjoyable and informative video about one of England’s greatest knights. Thank you.
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  9918. thank you for another fantastic video 😊😊
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  9919. Love these. Certainly historic
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  9920. Fascinating. Thank you for such an interesting history lesson !
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  9921. very good program, a fascinating study of an early culture
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  9922. Outstanding, new nothing of this culture . Quite fascinating!! What a tough and hardy people they must have been!!
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  9923. Very interesting fakts. Thx
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  9924. Thanks again Dan.
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  9925. Incredible . Thankyou
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  9926. @DanDavisHistory  Thanks, I wonder why it looks backwards in the rock art. I forgot to say GREAT VIDEO, I was engaged the whole time, I like the music and your voice too, both sound kind of mysterious/curious.
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  9927. Always enjoy your videos, Dan.
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  9928. Bronze Age weights? Yes, please.
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  9929. What a fascinating overview
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  9930. You continue to astound me. Great work!
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  9931. I’m a maritime studies student, and I’ve taken multiple classes on ancient seafaring and ship building. My Viking archaeology class was one of my favorite! Your video brought me back to those classrooms and made my week. Thanks for uploading.
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