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It's a great Sunday morning when Stefan Milo and Dan Davis History synchronize their video drop at the exact same time to the minute.

it's a nice day in 1605 BC and the first thing you hear is that BROPEC will cut down production to keep bronze prices up

that moment when a history youtuber starts talking about a village you lived close to for decades

Bronze Age Europe is so fascinating. I really like the stylistic expression of the period. Really wish I could go back and see what it was like, without dying or being enslaved..

Thank you from Únětice, Czech republic 🇨🇿

Thank you! I live in Germany and visited the places you mentioned. Also Landesmuseum Halle/ Saale, which i can highly recommend. Very interesting and suitable for the whole Family.

Thanks from Poland👍🇵🇱

Videos like this are why I enjoy Dan’s channel. Not many people cover ancient Europe since they don’t have the well known empires like the Bronze Age Middle East but have such fascinating and advanced cultures. Happy Dan is showing these cultures love.

God bless everyone! Thanks Dan for your hard work! It's really nice to be able to learn about historical eras that are often left out by mainstream history creators.

Greetings from Únětice, Dan :-) great work as always. Keep it coming.

Thanks Dan, I was looking forward to this video. The Bohemian massif has always been a strategically important fortress. Even in the last war it was called "the arms factory of Europe".

You always narrate an incredible journey! Thank you, Dan!

You made my Sunday! Like always, brilliant, thank you.

Thank you for your efforts, really enjoy the vids. Much love from Amsterdam ✌️

Fascinating! Thank you for these great videos.

Really looking forward to this when I have the time later today! Thank you for covering a topic from my homeland. And kudos for a better pronunciation today, I watched the intro and you did a good job! ;)

Love your work Mr. Davis! Keep it up!

Thanks a bunch for sharing this with us Big Dog!

Excellent! ✨ Thank you for your research and sharing this video. ❤

i never miss your uploads Dan, much love

Another great video! Thanks, Dan!

Your vidéos are so good! Please keep them coming sir !

Love it man. Another great dive into Historical Knowledge. 👏

As always Dan, a sumptuous feast for the eyes and ears, your videos are just superb! 👏👏👏 appreciate all the hard work you put into them, they really are wonderful 👌

Amazing work as usual

Absolutely stunning document. I'm history lover from Czech republic and i appreciate that. Thank you! 👏

A fantastic adventure is always narrated by you!

Cheers Dan, another great video

Hi Dan, thank you very much and kudos to your next fragment of restoration of the early European archaeological history! Please please please keep them coming! I'm only a common man interested in archaeology. I'm working at the intersection of linguistics, brain science, and computer wicca. I naturally took up historical linguistics but used to be sort of dismissive of the link between languages and cultures (Latin all over Europe or Normann French in England as a societal stratum are counterexamples showing that language ≠ culture). There is a correlation on the whole, but what language which culture spoke is more often is a conundrum than not. I was surprised to learn that Anthony's “The Horse, the Wheel and the Language” has received so much critique, entirely undeservedly if you ask me, from both the linguistics and archeology communities. This at times rose to a grotty level: the burials at Sintasha/Arkhanar(sp?) and smaller surrounding settlement so precisely match the funeral ritual in Rig Veda that it at the least should have been at the least interesting to the archeologists... IMO, the studies combining historic linguistics and archaeology are sorely wanting. 1) A question: were the Únětice culture PIE-speaking? The kurgan burials seem to suggest so, if what you're describing are in fact classified as kurgans. 2) A note: It's been known that the trade around the Mediterranean has not developed money at all, all the way until the 12c. collapse. It's so surprising that a culture of a smaller scale had possibly invented _fiat(!)_ money (there's no intrinsic value in these globular clay tokens) centuries earlier, if it's reasonably confirmed. If so, that attests to the great power of the chiefs, as fiat money are trusted only as much as their guarantor.

Great video! I've been down an early Bronze Age rabbit hole lately and this is just the sort of presentation I'm always looking for.

Today is AWESOME! Dan AND Stefan? It’s like a mini intellectual Xmas 😂 Woo!

Another great explanation and treatment of an important culture of the ancient world. Thanks Dan!

Another great video! I actually got a tattoo of the Nebra Sky Disc on my back a couple of years ago to represent my love all all things history and archaeology!

Just found your channel, very fascinating. Great to watch on a cold Saturday here in New Zealand 🙂

I love all your videos, Dan.

Thank you!!

Thank you Dan! I just love these videos!

Well done once again.

Fantastic! Thank you so much for your entertaining and very informative video!

my man Dan and his amazing mini documentaries

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage video about pioneer unetic culture civilization in the Central Europe area ,early settlement of corded ware & bell beaker culture...,shared by an amazing ( Dan Davis history) channel ...thanks for sharing

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Absolutely adore your content and your novels! Any idea when we might get more audio books?

I really like this video. The use of period documents and lots of maps and photos was great. The artwork was amazing and i prefer all of this relevant material to random stock footage. What a fascinating culture!

Great job 👍🏽

Fascinating! Still enjoy your videos a LOT 👍 Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, TW.

As soon as I heard your description of the men's houses, I immediately thought of Beowulf.

great video

Just finished up at the gym. Perfect time for a Dan Davis video

Awesome.

Amazing video

Just giving you a heads up, I have bell notifications on, and was not made aware of this video by KZfaq.

My father side of the family comes from the area in the centre of the Únětice culture according to this map and a good chunk of my mothers side actually comes from the eastern edges according to the map shown in the video. It’s pretty cool that for once I’m feeling a real connection to a historical topic.

Good video

This channel deserves an Oscar!

One of the best documentaries you've done yet. I have no theory of my own on the burial of the Nebra Sky Disk but the theory put forward here sounds very plausible. It's tantalising when you have evidence for ancient life but knowing you'll never have definitive proof (unless a time machine is built).

Dear Dan Thank you to exist😊

Can imagine, the destruction , visited upon ancient sites by weapons of war in , more recent times. We will never know ,what was lost to us forever,whether by that or all the other ways that time takes its toll. Thank you for your clear and well informed presentation of these ,otherwise unknown people of the past . Keep enlightening us , and bringing all of those who came before back to life ,not to be forgotten.❤as always fascinating !

It would be so fascinating to use a time machine to go back and study these people. Their cultures are so alien to us, yet so very human. Excellent video as always!

Great video thanks interesting wise video info you are amazing story teller and I think everyone agrees and I love science cheers

Thank you

Excellent

Awesome as aways.

Great presentation of my favourite prehistoric epoch. I was born and raised in the area where this culture thrived (east saxony near the czech border) and I recognised almost all landscape shots. If you're in the area, don't miss out on visiting the Museum of Prehistory in Halle a. d. Saale where the Nebra Skydisk and many of the mentioned hoard finds are displayed. What the author missed to mention was that a major pillar of wealth for the regional powers came from trading with salt. In Halle were natural salt springs where the brine was processed on a early industrial level. It's even in the name of the city Halle where 'Hal' is a indo-germanic word stem meaning salt and also the river Saale is associated with salt with the 'Sal' stem. You find this word roots in other place names like Hallein or Hallstadt all over central Europe where salt was also sourced since the bronze age.

This is a quality video.

You ask for comments on the Nebra disk. This comment is about the social nature of ritual of the period, practices that actually had Neolithic origins, but carried over to the Bronze Age due to the nature of the transition, with Neolithic holy sites remaining holy for some centuries in many cases. Ritual sites seem to have been places where people gathered from vast distances, for events taking place at the solstices, and the winter solstice in particular, in spite of the difficulty of winter travel. Travel was by water when possible. A gathering was not always the assemblage of some existing entity such as the land of a high king; rather it was the gathering of many clans or regions (perhaps each clan had a region: Scottish clans did, Scythian clans did not). They participated in the gathering by region, with each region (or clan) having a designated segment of the site. There may have been a high king in some cases, but the clans (or regions) remained important. A holy gathering place was not primarily a residential site, although a few people lived there year round. It was not the high king's great hall. It was not primarily a cemetery. Participants built boothies for the winter gathering. The main ritual activity was a procession. An important person, priest or king or priest-king, arrived (often by water) and went up a processional avenue to a circular site, and then went around it. So outside the outermost ring of posts was the processional circle, and outside that, a barrier between the ritual space and the ordinary space beyond. The ordinary space was divided like the segments of an orange, with each segment belonging to one clan or region. Work to build or improve the site was organized by clan, with each clan being responsible for a section; the splendor of the work was the clan's honor. The processional way came to the circle from the direction of a solstice sunrise or sunset, and the king or priest arrived just as the setting or rising solstice sun shone on his face. On the cart he rode, was a disk, bright on one side and dull on the other, and at the climax the disk was turned around, or they used two disks, for day and night. The Nebra disk is the night disk. The point of all this calendar sky-watching was to determine, or set, on which day of the lunar month did the winter solstice occur. This number was carried back home by the participants, and was necessary for the practical functions of a calendar, that is to make appointments and have people show up on the right day. Without a calendar you can't have scheduled markets or religious festivals, and you don't even know whether the coming year will have 12 lunar months, or 13. Determining the date of the solstice is difficult, and if two places both try, they will often set different dates. A single central site must set the date of the solstice, but only a single number, the day of the lunar month that it fell on, needs to be carried back home by each party, for the whole region to enjoy the benefit of everyone using the same calendar.

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Hi from Germany and thank you for the great video. Once I visited Poemmelte when they were excavating the site.

Another excellent video, Dan. As I'm watching these I always experience a peculiar feeling of past recognition--- I have no idea what it is. Like during the video you may say, "well, it could be this or it could be that for the reason why this was done"... and I always have an idea in my head that firmly sides with one of the theories.

I love you dan, youre videos are so well made. I would read transcripts of your vides to my girlfriend when she couldnt sleep, it was so wholesome.

19:00 - Nicely braided wall texture by the artist.

Brilliant: lots of maps!

Love your videos. Thank you for continuing to use “BC” and “AD”.

Regarding the longhouse with the axeheads buried infront of them: I imagine in times of peace the men were living with their families, in their own houses and farmsteads. Then when war came they met and slept in the longhouse together, to form a bond among the warband and then they'd collectively dig up their weapons, go to fight whichever enemy and then when war was over they'd bury the axes, daggers and their "military insignia" again, thereby ritualistically and also psychologically laying the trauma and violence to rest. When there was a decision to go to war again, they'd repeat the process etc. And when these cultures slowly transformed or people left their settlements to start a new life elsewhere, this practice was forgotten and so we still can find their war stashes today in some cases.

I'm noting a pattern with these bronze age cultures. They start nomadic with men freely moving to new regions, then by late bronze age they unify into permanent states with immensely wealthy landlord-kings, then it all terminates with cold and dry conditions

Damn, I was not even recommended your latest banger :/. Superb video as per usual though

I have been to Helmsdeep virtually.

very enjoyable, I enjoy the genetic testing and science, my own Y haplogroup descends from the early Neolithic Farmer peoples of the G2a type, I would enjoy a program on the LBK culture as well, the one on the Vinca Culture was quite good.

Can you do a video on the Natufians?

Couldn’t have thought of anything better to turn on while making breakfast.

I just seen my last name on the part where you showed the various surnames. Pearson. Trippy how that shit works.

Thank you for using BC

I want that guys tunic 😍

I'm not very into astronomy, but the aesthetic of the disk has always interested me

Really awesome video, I found the part about their warrior's unit composition really interesting. Was wondering though, is there any evidence of archers or other ranged infantry among the warrior males? The Bell Beaker Culture heavily valued archery, and I find the shift to a more melee focused method of combat quite interesting.

I appreciate your attempt at pronouncing Únětice.

Could you do a companion documentaries to this talking about the Tumulus, Urnfield, and Hallstatt cultures?

I'm just starting Godborn 2 from my amazon account. I'm excited.

Hi Dan. After the Peninsula Campaing in 1814, a lot of british soldiers opted to stay in Portugal. Thats one of my familly origens due to a Brandon surname of one branch. Maybe that also explains those 21% of your Iberian heritage.

Only just seen this

Interesting to show that the advent of bronze and Unetice go hand in hand, it explains why it is around Bohemia that the culture developed, where copper was easily mined.

Always enjoy this channel"s fine content. Highly appreciated. I'm not sure that I would choose the adjective "glorious" to describe being violently stabbed to death. I suspect those who witnessed the death had a wide range of perspectives of the event.

24:32 dunno why but my first thought was some sort of delivery document, or proof of delivery

I’m so grateful to Dan Davis for teaching us about these great ancient European civilizations. I hope some day the history books will start teaching about Bronze Age Europeans the way that Dan does, rather than just treating them as decentralized barbarians who only existed for the purpose of getting the Eastern Mediterranean “real civilizations” their amber and tin

Had a DNA test done recently and, despite my family being in America for around 500 years, I'm still 60% English, 20% Scottish, with the rest split between Germanic, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia. Highly recommend getting this done by a reputable organization, as mentioned by Mr. Davis...and no, I had mine done by a different site, so I'm not trolling. 😊

Great video, probably one of the best summary of Unietice culture. for me it looks like as this culture was one of the roots of Celtic cultures. Maybe southern part of Unietice culture was conquered by Proto-Roman tribes from Panonia (Hungary) who arrived here from north coast of Black Sea, and then this mix od Unietyce people and nomadic conquerors of Prot-Roman origin gave us the Early-Celts. However is hard to guess how Unietyce culture was born. Before this video I thought that presence of Bell-Baker culture in Central Europe was marginal anf Unietyce culture 1) was born from local corded ware cultures / 2) or was some migration of Baden culture / 3) or some migration of early copper metalurgy tribes from North-East Hungary and North Romania (Tisza River region). But maybe the origin is the mix of Bell Baker culture and Corded Ware cultures - as described here.

What innovation in ceramics do you allude to at the end?

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Was this the culture that also produced the beautiful flint dagger that are made specifically to resemble those bronze daggers ?