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  1. Bronze age weights !!!!! Yeah !!!!!
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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Has Dracula's spirit come back to us!? Great video as always!
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  5. Almost swept away to those ancient times. Goosebumps and excitement running through me. Very nice storytelling.
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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Your videos helped me develop some prehistoric fantasy settings my players are absolutely fascinated by. Thank you for your work!
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  10. 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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  11. Hell yeah! New Dan Davis just dropped
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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. A salute to our Yamnaya forefathers.
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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. Dan Davis, Pete Kelly, and Paul Cooper are doing what The History Channel constantly fails to do.
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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. Dan, this is the most in depth and fascinating look at Vald Dracula I’ve ever seen!
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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. When my faithful hound passes away she is getting a proper pagan burial.
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  28. 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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  29. I was shocked when I saw 6000+ years old artefacts in Piatra Neamt museum.. they looked amazing
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  30. 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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  31. Stirring speech: "What we do this day shall never be forgotten!" Actual future: named after your crockery
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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. Ancient Americas is an excellent channel and applaud your shout out!
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  40. 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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  41. imo, this is the origin of the werewolf mythos. Great work, as always, Dan. Thank you.
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  42. Yes, a video please on the stone grave mound.
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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49.  @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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  50. 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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