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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. This is solid. I am not getting a twitch of nerd rage or anything. Pretty good so far.
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  4. If only two thumbs up were possible for this fantastic installment. You served the king well, bravo.
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  5. A video like this is pure gold. The first proper summary of the El Algar culture. Thank you.
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  6. 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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  7. Excellent episode as always! What a fascinating culture!
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  8. The perfect thing to listen to while firing up a new Dawn of Man playthrough!
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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. What an amazing adventure! Walking a knife's blade between the greed and the generosity of strangers...
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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18.  @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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  19. His reconstruction confirms that he was an ancestor of Kris Kristoferson.
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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. Love these cultural videos! Keep em coming!
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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. Very well done! Loved all the details you packed in.
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  31. ​ @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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. Fascinating as usual. The reality of these variations of the bubonic plague makes our current situation seem pale in comparison.
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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. An hour and a half of awesomeness! I can't wait 😊. Thank you for your top notch content Dan 🎉
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  43. 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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  44. Donder and blitzen mean Thunder and lightning. Two of Santa's reindeer.
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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. Say what you want but I still enjoy Coppola's Dracula...
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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50. 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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