Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "The Historian's Craft" channel.

  1. There was at least one fossil found before the official discovery of dinosaurs. It was the broken off chunk of an upper thigh and its owner called it the latin term for testicles and used it as a paperweight
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  2. There was a stone Mesoamerican town at the corner where Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico meet. When the Spaniards found it the town was mostly abandoned as the locals mostly hunted the buffalo who drifted farther north over the decades.
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  3. Halloween was All Hallows Eve, the day before All Saints Day which was a completely unrelated holiday.
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  4. My mother introduced me to the idea Christmas got its date from Saturnalia because there simply is no scriptural basis for having the holiday during the winter solstice. I'm honestly unsure, there are so many holidays tied to the equinox/solstices that the overlap may be coincidences and/or random stuff mixed together simply because both holidays existed in the same place at the same time (like Hanukah and Christmas).
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  5. It became the gift giving holiday in the industrial revolution when people had more discretionary money. Christmas trees were just something weird in select parts of Germany until a German princess became the English queen.
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  6. The theory is a Corinthian saw a fossil and assumed it was the same type of monster from the myth
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  7. Hardly. A lot of holdiays are on the winter solstice to the point it is likely coincident
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  8.  @GenghisVern  It's exactly as tendious as it sounds. American pioneers spoke of Indians carving out the inside of a tree trunk to make a canoe using sea shells from the river and/or fire embers to carefully burn away the inside and were impressed what could be done without metal tools. However, that process took days and the Indians very quickly took to trading furs for metal tools as soon as they met Americans.
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  9. @LiterallyWho1917  no, it gave discretionary money to common people
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  10. The passage by pseudo-Aristotle also implies Hercules was a Dorian
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  11.  @diebesgrab  Not invented in the victorian era, and it's not a claim that has no evidence
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  12. Doesn't explicitly say, the dates come from how to line up with Jewish holidays in order to give the holiday prophet aspects, not the other way around
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  13. @Rynewulf  all of that could be explained by how both holidays occur around the same time and both were celebrated in the same towns
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  14. Minor correction: Akkad was likely abandoned during the Gutian Wars along with all other cities and due to the shifting rivers Babylon was built and Akkadians started calling themselves Assyrians.
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  15. I wouldn't call these bloody wars as most of the battles show signs of being fiat wars including soldiers working for whoever was paying, extended standoffs, and cities switching hands without a fight.
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  16. How?
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  17. @Rynewulf  with easter the date is simply the date used in Rome because if anyone knew the Pope would. Of course, the problem was they were using the Julian calendar and Passover goes off the Hebrew calendar
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  18. In Cyrenica, then part of Egypt, some of the sea peoples were from islands named in sources that we simply do not know.
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  19. I was introduced to the idea by my mother but it was just given as a factor in the fall of Rome
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  20. Use of stone in Siberia is noteworthy, as this implies this fort predate the iconic taiga forests seen today. No one uses stone in a place where wood is so cheap even in bulk, although in this case there was probably some wood to use along the river.
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  21. Hanukah is 8 days long
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  22. "Siberia before aggriculture" is an oxymoron since even today most oblasts grow very little.
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  23. Simply not so. Easter is from Passover, they just got the date wrong. Although it is thought so random pagan spring holidays got mixed in.
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  24. @craigkdillon  how did the pine tree become a Christian thing? Because a German princess became an English queen and make weird German things popular. IDK about the word Easter, but there's more than a little true randomness involved
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  25. You will never find those bones. It was ancient history when Noah's Flood swept away the whole land mass.
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  26. You would be surprised how many academics don't just think the monsters of early antiquity were not based on fossils of animals, but the actual living thing.
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  27. @wanderingfool6312  that is also protestant propaganda. I haven't seen any source before the Reformation saying pagan statues were repurposed as saintly icons
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  28. @Rynewulf  yes, but the idea the holidays are paganism in disguise is the myth. It's just a bunch of random practices that have nothing to do with religion.
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  29. @dayofthejackyl  that didn't happen in this case. In this case it's the dark ages and no record exists
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  30.  @delphinazizumbo8674  this isn't Moby Dick
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  31. @MichaEl-rh1kv  no, it comes from Germany. A German princess became the English queeen. No one knows how the pine tree got associated with Christmas
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  32. With paleotology it's rare because we know very little and there's no gap between amateurs and professionals
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  33. 4:40 Why would they work with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities if it could be helped? All they do is extort artifacts for their for-profit museums. Those idiots are known for preferring shiny artifacts.
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  34. @wanderingfool6312  the celtic crosses post date the church. The elaborate artwork didn't go away even after the Saxons took over
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  35. @111ram1  did not know that
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  36. Don't try to identify the world's first murder because Semitic accounts of Cain and Able are, if nothing else, an extremely ancient murder.
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  37. He's not theologically accurate to any religion whatsoever. What is the issue?
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  38. Mid Bronze Age Spain was the site of some kind of war where men who were not local killed most of the local men and married their women. This was not a large war, as DNA and archeology are talking in terms of dozens of murders, but most of Spain's DNA comes from these guys
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