Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "This is the Oldest Family Tree in the World (From the Tombs of Neolithic Britain)" video.

  1. Firstly, we no longer use BC as this means Before Christ. Instead we use BCE, Before Common Era. The date stays the same but is now CE, Common Era. The siting of these burial mounds near the top of a hill was to make them easier to see as placing them at the very top could obscure them from anywhere but at a distance. They would do the same with the round burial mounds of the Bronze Age. The man who had four wives can easily be explained by the fact that they had a much shorter life expectancy. So when a wife died, such as during childbirth, he would take another wife. While reading about the English Civil War I came across a reference to a man who at that point in time was living with his sixth wife and as divorce was almost impossible at that time this would mean that his five previous wives had died. Interesting you mention plague as recent evidence has revealed that some 4,000 years ago most if not all of the people here at that time died out through the Black Death. The Bronze Age starts some 4,000 years ago which is when the round barrows start to appear. This find is doubly interesting as until recently they evidence for the Black Death being in Britain goes back 1,500 years. At a time when the first Anglo Saxons arrived.
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