NEW PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY DISCOVERIES May 15TH 2025 - Live Show

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I think Carl Sagan says it best in his book, The Demon Haunted World that "valid criticism does you a favor." Many times researchers who "think alike ", isolate themselves from other collegues who might challenge their beloved beliefs.

I was also going to ask about the use of the 'leftovers' as it were from the animals used in the event's...
I can only imagine a pop-up food kiosk right outside the arena with a sign reading the Roman equivalent Joe's exotic bits and bites dinner after the show....

Thank you as ever for a hugely enjoyable evening! Great stuff - am catching up now, as my connection couldn't hold up… it cut out shortly after the picture of the Egyptian bracelets came up.

Apropos the Neanderthals, etc.: It would be good to do a bit of a dive on what is considered "progress" in the development of humanity and its cultures - I think a lot of the notions we have of what signifies a "higher" development, "progress" or any other form of the onward & upward kind of thinking from the sixties need to be put under the magnifying glass!

Just how much beer or whiskey do you guys drink before these shows, because they turn into an old guy comedy hour? Snickering and carrying on like two teenage girls over every little thing.

Remember prehistory in America is before the Spanish conquest

I love the obsidian blade James made for you. What would you use such an extremely fragile tool for? It can suerly only be a scalpel? I'd really like to hear what he said about it.

Do you think the frisson and the thrill people experienced during the gladiator fights is now transferred to things like bungee jumping, never mind boxing and suchlike?

Another thought talking tin why would Mediterranean civilization go to a wet cold rainy place like Britannia, tin trade?

Thanks Guys.thoroughly enjoyable as usual ;)

And one for the Al-Gore-Rhythm

Thank you very much for a very interesting episode! The 9 Schöningen wooden spears, aged 338'000 and 300'000 years ago are associated with Homo heidelbergensis or early Neanderthals and are exquisitely crafted, a marvel of technology. Finding them in 1994 helped to erase the image we had of Middle Pleistocene hominins being simple brutes without language and technology.

The matter of being surprised by discoveries may be to do with that sort of title generates more traffic / exposure for their paper much like you tube video titles often have similar language to get people to click

I was interested to hear you say that bone tools were an advance on stone tools. I never thought of that before. If I take a rib and use it to dig the earth, its seems no more advanced. If I break a bone to get at the marrow and notice it now has a sharp and useful point, is that more advanced than breaking a stone? Now if I use a stone to make a bone tool then I guess that has to be an advance.

did he know Blue-T

I think many archaeologists somehow forget that underwater ruins that are relatively intact were usually submerged suddenly. Gradual sea level rise destroys structures by wave action and undermining. There are archaeological sites actively being destroyed by wave action right now. For any structure to survive inundation by trying areas it must either be buried quickly, or protected from large waves, storms and scouring.

New video about shipwrecks? Could be educational even for mr. rogan :) Are you in contact with flint dibble about that?
When I see you two forgetting names... welcome to the club 😂 really enjoying you two!

Kist=chest, it entered West Germanic from Greek kiste via Latin cista. English ci/ce became chi/che, hence chest. When imported later from French it retains French phonology as /se/. Cist in the archaeological sense comes to English from Welsh (from Greek via Latin), or in reference to Greek kiste "boxes", directly from Latin/Greek.
(Hence thence whence etc. are modern spellings of words that did not have a c grapheme of any quality)

Congratulations on 100k!

A 30kg ox hide ingot is just the right weight and shape to be carried by two men.

Hi guys… love the show. Our early ancestors were GARDENERS. Taking advantage of seasonal opportunities and harvests… that’s why OLD folks were valued. They KNEW when and where the blackberries ripened… the seed grasses matured and the tubers and fruits were the ripest.. Time passed and we learned where plants thrived and where they failed.. we observed.. we learned.. we passed on our info. We were GARDENERS….

Such a shame that the live comments disappear and cannot be accessed after the stream finishes. Much of the context of hilarity is therefore lost for those, like me, viewing at a later time.

Great example of Clickbait.

Numerous trips to Turkey and that hair ain’t growing.

Jason of archix will help you with your misunderstanding of history

Very fascinating. Brilliant

I think the Egyptian mummy had traces of cocaine and nicotine because the German owner had party's where they used these substances, not because of intercontinental trade

Hello, Guys! This is Esther from Kent. Kent, Washington State USA. 😊❤😊

Please keep in mind that the area now called Crete was NOT an island before 10,000 years ago. There was NO MEDITERRANEAN SEA before the sinking of Doggerland. The Atlantic Ocean was much smaller and Africa was connected to Europe. No canoes needed to travel. People were able to walk. 😊

It must have been better to live in peace on the ice than to live in a garden where people are trying to kill you or take your stuff

Congrats for 100k🎉

St Michaels Mount has got tin stronghold written all over it. I would be thankful if you put your archeological intellects to the Brochs of the North of Scotland. The artefacts that were stone balls , intricatley carved, that turned up as grave goods could use your knowledge,I know what I think they were ,your guesses are considerably better informed than mine .😁 I love this .

Thanks!

Over half a century ago whilst prospecting in Central Australia I found a remarkable fragment of an Aboriginal spear with an animal tooth fixed to the end with spinifex (Triodia) gum. It was unusual as it was from an area where spears were usually made with a hardwood Mulga (Acacia aneura) splinter attached to a shaft of straightened Sandhill wattle (Acacia ligulata) root .I presume it was made from the front tooth of a kangaroo or wombat, as it was slightly curved. Unfortunately I no longer know of its whereabouts; the wood was rotten and the gum turning granulated and falling apart, but I did keep the tooth. I wonder whether there has ever been such an item as a spear with a tooth spearpoint found in Europe, as it seems a logical enough idea ?

The whole tin from pre-Roman Cornwall story is highly suspect and reeks of bias.

I won't tell you guys how to run your show and I'm sure you're having lots of fun but I find you very hard to follow with all the silliness. Perhaps with less of that you would have more followers. Depends on what's important to you I suppose

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Ideas or theories are taught as “facts” and required memorization. Also people tend to defend what they taught as fact and demand overwhelming data and social pressure to change their position, if ever.

Prehistoric (I take as pre indigenous writing,) societies in the Americas are often evidenced by post AD buildings. Eg. The Mississipi cultures that flourished between 800 and 1600 ce are a case in point. Their huge city of Cahokia (890 hectares) was larger than anything in medieval England. But there are the White Sands footsteps dating to about 18.000 BC (I think).

Can you please stop trying to be funny and just give us the details without giggaling. As were not finding it funny bless ;)

Darn, missed the live.

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Looking forward to shipwrecks.