Comments by "Abraham Dozer" (@abrahamdozer6273) on "Dan Davis History" channel.

  1. Have they been able to extract Y-Chromosomal or Mitochondrial DNA from the Terramare burials? They were clearly Europeans but it might be useful to compare them to the locations of their descendants in Eurasia to fill in some of the story.
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  2. 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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  3.  @fredriks5090  The North Sea became flooded thousands of years before this Bronze Age battle.
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  4.  @therealunclevanya  ... and here, I thought that Slartibartfast made those crinkly edges around Norway ...
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  5. It wouldn't have been called West Saxony, that's for sure. "Proto-Brythonic Beaker Boys"?
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  6.  @sallyreno6296  Are any of the weapons found of Mycenaean origin? I suppose that they could be given the widespread trade then. It's a long way from Homer's recollection of the events, anyway. Maybe, there were Troys going on all over the place. Suffice to say that our modern world with it's neverending warfare and hierarchical leadership likely come form this period.
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  7.  ewale21  Did Slavonic people even exist yet in the early Bronze Age? Don't bet on it and people were so mobile then that their ancestors may have been a very long way, awy. Modern ethnicities really don't apply that far back. You may make ethnic pride out of it because of the location but with a few exceptions around the fringes and mountainous regions of Europe, old ethnicities have come and gone before there were Slavic people on Earth.
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  8.  @yoshijb9428  ... who are European people ... except in come of North Africa.
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  9.  @tygrkhat4087  I would say so. The Yamnaya appear to have spread their seed and culture over all of the peoples that you listed a millennium or two before this battle occurred.
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  10. The entrances to a lot of barrows look distinctly like female genitalia. Maybe, our Neolithic ancestors thought of the Earth as a "mother" and they were returning the dead to the womb (for rebirth? Who can ever know?)
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  11.  @dinos9607  The evidence is that Neolithic peoples were highly organized (How else would they have been able to construct great henges, barrows, tracks, etc. without the ability to coordinate thousands of people). Does this level of organization require top-down, hierarchical leadership? Probably. People are people and rather than voluntarily moving menhirs about, they'd rather be fermenting something and making little Neolithic offspring. That implies some sort of violent treatment and I would imagine violent treatment of the next tribe over if access to resources are an issue. There never were any noble savages, anywhere just vicious and opportunistic Homo Sapiens. Not much evidence of violence, yet? Keep digging ... in different places.
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  12. 3500 year old Health and Safety ... No helms found in the British Isles? Non-compliance, probably ...
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  13.  @DanDavisHistory  Yes, yes like the Nuragic culture is named after ... ummm.
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  14.  @theobastiaan5943  Doesn't seem to work with slime moulds and they are a major and ancient species of beings.
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  15. The Celts were not far behind this time period. Perhaps, some of the combattants were "Proto Celtic".
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  16. Us R1bs often wondered what had become of the R1a part of the family.
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  17. That sudden 300 year population decline circa 3600 BC could have been caused by some sort of plague (perhaps Bubonic? Smallpox? something new?) and that may be why the isolated islands off the North coast of Scotland were booming at that time ... splendid isolation.
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  18. I wonder if what we are looking at is a prototype or early version of a cast sword. It lacks the pointy end that we think of as "sword' but having a weighty end does have some design value. You would build up more momentum as you swing it and hit your target with more kinetic energy than you would with a blade that has a lighter tapered end. There is nothing to say that the sword evolved from the spear and started out with a stabbing end. It isn't a stretch to think that the sword evolved from the club, instead. I think that this is the great Bronze Sword Mark I.
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  19. Stone projectile tips were obviously deadly against animals being hunted and likely against humans being ambushed. They are very brittle, though and if the human targets fight back, I could see a flint or obsidian spear point shattering like glass. Something more like the Native American tomahawk, which is a sort of bludgeon might be deadlier than a flaked stone point.
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  20.  @stevenrickett4333  No more so than the rest of us Europeans, anyway.
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  21.  @edwardealdseaxe5253  Yes, 23&Me is a good one.
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