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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. The BBC could never make a documentary this good, thank you
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Refreshed memories of playing El Cid Compeadur campaign in AoE as a kid on the family 🖥️
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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. Richard The Lionheart has always been my favourite King of England, thank you very much for such an amazing work
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  15. 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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  16. Yes, I want to learn about Bronze Age weights, scales, and standards.
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  17. 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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  18. This such a powerful dive into our ancient diets
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  19. Awesome! Finally you made a documentary about this strange but impressive culture!!! Love it!
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  20. Charisma Stat is not to be underestimated
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  21. Love horses and how they played a role in our history. RIP to all the horses that died in battle
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  22. Interesting. Reminds me of how Sikhs keep long hair and combs as articles of faith and have a martial history.
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  23. The big problem with these videos is that they always leave you wanting to learn even more!
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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. As a Romanian all I can say is congrats on presenting the real Vlad behind the legend, thank you.
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  28. 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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  29. Fascinating stuff as always
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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. Thanks Dan for yet another absolutely fascinating video. You brilliantly capture the humanity within the history.
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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. I loved the movie Master and Commander. Now I need a movie based on Sir Francis Drake. What an adventurer.
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  38. 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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  39. GREAT Video !!!
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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. I'd imagine that Europe is full of these cultures, yet still buried under the earth
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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 7:37 Obviously took an arrow to the knee. Possibly not a "warrior" as such, but certainly an adventurer.
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  49. My opinion is if they were raising them, someone would try riding them.
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  50. Every time you drink a mojito, you must toast this bad lad
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