The First Kings of Iberia: The Argaric Culture

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In Bronze Age Iberia there was a powerful society that dominated the region for over six hundred years. This was a strictly hierarchical society ruled by powerful chieftains, or perhaps kings and queens, supported by a wealthy aristocracy, a labouring class, and slaves. They interred their dead with standardised grave goods that marked their age, sex, and social rank. The elite men were given copper and bronze weapons while the elite women wore gold or silver jewellery and sometimes beautiful silver diadems. They had trade links that extended across the Mediterranean to North Africa, the Aegean, and the Near East, and all the way across Europe to the Baltic. This is the amazing story of the bronze age rulers of Spain - what some have called the first state society in Western Europe - the El Argar culture.
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Political collapse and social change at the end of El Argar -Lull, Micó, Herrada and Risch
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Video Chapters
00:00 The Argaric culture
02:12 Sponsorship
04:02 Where did they come from?
06:01 What is the El Argar culture?
11:03 El Argar burial customs
13:42 El Argar kinship practices
15:05 Women and leadership in Argaric society
18:08 Decline and fall of El Argar

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@DanDavisHistory 2 ай бұрын

@YamiKisara 2 ай бұрын

Excellent video, Dan, I had no idea this culture existed! I've noticed you read "Únětice" with a "k". Únětice are a village near Prague and it's read with a "c" like in "cycling" or "cider" - Czech is an extremely hard language, so I don't blame you for mixing it up, and you've got the rest of the word quite right ;)

@andrzejklein7846 2 ай бұрын

remember that they are forced to cooperate with police, so your DNA may help the police bring you or your family to justice if you ever commit a crime (or your child or uncle) :)

@soulmask2781 2 ай бұрын

Did you see the Reuters article about King Tut having european DNA haplogroup in his Y chromosome?

@dreddykrugernew 2 ай бұрын

You should read a book called Yorkshire Folk Talk, the vicar tells of the people of the east coast north of the Humber before the modern age and how they spoke and also his journey across to Denmark in the late 1800s to sample their language and compare it to what the locals spoke.

@EuroWarsOrg 2 ай бұрын

The closely built buildings in Spain is to keep out heat...

@thefattymcgee5801 2 ай бұрын

Dan, creators like yourself are why nobody misses The History Channel.

@starrmont4981 2 ай бұрын

The History Channel is why nobody misses the History Channel

@petion2013 2 ай бұрын

The History Channel no longer gives a damn about history

@Andy_Babb 2 ай бұрын

Well said

@Metta33 2 ай бұрын

They should probably change the name of their channel.

@kimberlyperrotis8962 2 ай бұрын

The History Channel did everything but history! 🙂

@eh1702 2 ай бұрын

It’s so good to get something for the general public that treats us as intelligent people, a presentation that is informed and well sourced, that gives us an overview without superficiality or sensationalism. I like that you give us sources in the information so that we can go further into something.

@jezusbloodie 2 ай бұрын

Dan is the best at this I've encountered on my long and wide journeys on KZfaq

@notbobrosss3670 2 ай бұрын

Yes, and with professional self-restraint of bias or agendas.

@AlbertaGeek 2 ай бұрын

@@notbobrosss3670 ???

@hoperules8874 2 ай бұрын

Well said!!

@user-io6pj8bz8h 2 ай бұрын

As long as you like cultural marxism and loads of left wing propaganda!

@TheHortoman 2 ай бұрын

As a spaniard i only ever learned this last year at the madrid museum of archeology, since then i wholeheartedly believe chalcolythic spain must have literally been the world of conan the barbarian

@MickeyMouse-el5bk Ай бұрын

Y yo

@c.a.s.anphorachiclana7434 Ай бұрын

Bueno, no hay que caer en lo absurdo.

@TheHortoman Ай бұрын

@@c.a.s.anphorachiclana7434 ñiñiñi

@TheJosep70 26 күн бұрын

Bueno, Conan se rodó en parte en Cuenca, jajaja

@freshhands9461 23 күн бұрын

The movie was shot in the ancient kingdom of Almeria, I feel this proves your point :D

@juancarlosparrasanchez4913 2 ай бұрын

Hello everyone, I live a around 10k away from the main El Argar archeological site. It is great to see people bring light to how important and advanced the culture was and how important a piece of history this little and mostly forgotten area of Andalucia has, also having the first settlement from a foreign power a measly 15km or so to the east of El Argar in Villaricos, being first settled by the phoenicians, then conquered by the greek and lastly by the romans. I'd like to use the opportunity to bring your attention to the state of consevation of these incredible sites. The El Argar site is nowadays little more than a few holes in the ground marked with construction tape and used for the dumping of plastics from the greenhouses around it, the phoenician and roman ruins have mostly been built over for tourist apartments while the Los Millares site is actually pretty well kept. It is nice then to see these sites be talked about in the community, seeing how forgotten they are and how little love their remains are kept with even by the people that live here.

@BrandanLee 2 ай бұрын

I mean, at least the good news with the plastic, is we'll be able to date the trash layers and sort out what belongs with what... But yeah, disrespect for the past begins where disrespect for the present starts.

@Mark_GL 2 ай бұрын

Aqui en Mallorca se construyo el aeropuerto encima de lo que entonces era la capital de la cultura talayotica en la isla, sin hablar de la cantidad de talayots en propiedad privada sin excavar o en estados lamentables que existen hoy dia.

@pattheplanter 2 ай бұрын

Don't forget the oldest basketry, espadrilles and use of opium poppy, found in the Cueva de Murcielagos de Albuñol.

@itsnotatoober 2 ай бұрын

The true cultural inheritors are those people that appreciate the history, not those that live nearby or are related physically.

@brumella 2 ай бұрын

I feel you. I'm originally from the Canary Islands although I currently live in northern Spain. Pre-hispanic archaeological sites in Canary Islands are forgotten or have been destroyed to build touristic complexes 🙃 The tourist industry is more important than preserving our history and natural spaces, I guess. When there won't be any interesting and natural spaces in the islands, tourists will stop coming and the islands will become a graveyard for derelict ugly hotels and shopping centers 🙃✌🏻

@danielgadomski5129 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this! Prehistoric and ancient Iberia is one of the most underrated historical topics of all. Original people of the Iberian peninsula and their wonderful art, their relations with Celts and Carthaginians, "the boring province" of the Roman Empire, the conquest by German tribes. I don't get why these subjects don't get more attention, but your video is that much more valuable because of that.

@briseboy 2 ай бұрын

Did youREALLY bring the tired and dimwit "underrated" Trope here?

@danielgadomski5129 2 ай бұрын

@@briseboy Well, I think calling this topic underrated and underused is completely justified. Compare the amount of popscience content (books, videos on YT, TV shows) about ancient Greece, Rome, Britain, Mesopotamia or even China and India, to content about ancient Iberia. There's hardly anything.

@AlexPReal 2 ай бұрын

I guess this is probably related to both the Spanish dark legend and that Spaniards are usually not very fluent in English. But in terms of archeology archeology and archeologists it's a treasure trove.

@Benito-lr8mz 2 ай бұрын

Yes of course the unknown for foreigners of Pre-foreigners cultures of Spain is impresive normally the civilizations for foreigner KZfaq videos in English begining in Román Era or another foreign culture is incredible no known autentic roots of Iberian Peninsula with Iberians ; Tartessians or Celts very advanced cultures demonstred in a large Archeological objects with Lady of Elche and many others objects or historical very important historical facts with Viriatus Hero Lusitanian or brave Iberian Numancia City agaisnt Rome in few exemples

@captainfury497 2 ай бұрын

There were hardly any "original Iberians" by the time of Celts. There were only Celt-Iberians and non-CeltIberians at that time. One being descended from the Celts and the others from an ancestral population similar to the Celts. The original Iberian population was kind of wiped out by the Bell beaker invasions long ago.

@Replicaate 2 ай бұрын

I've never even heard of the El Argar culture and I probably never would were it not for you, Dan my man. Thank you as ever for the fantastic video about an underrated Bronze Age culture!

@richardcook5919 2 ай бұрын

Publications about El Argar are almost exclusively in Spanish. The register used in them is certainly not easy to follow either.

@Replicaate 2 ай бұрын

@@richardcook5919 Times like this I regret only knowing English.

@juanibuscaglia3239 2 ай бұрын

"Extinguishing the existing male lineages while taking wives from the existing Iberian population" is quite the euphemism

@Winterascent 2 ай бұрын

Indo european!

@grantschiff7544 2 ай бұрын

And people wonder what our ancestors did to the Neanderthals.

@mapache-ehcapam 2 ай бұрын

It seems the strategy hasn't changed

@TheBigdaddy64 2 ай бұрын

Ironically, over 1,000+ years later, the Spaniards did the same thing to the native men in the Americas.

@deathsheadknight2137 2 ай бұрын

@@TheBigdaddy64 their diseases did at least.

@CodeCasanova 2 ай бұрын

It's amazing how similar their architecture and art was to the ancestral people's where I live in the southwest US. Like the Anasazi, Sinagua, and others separated by 1,000s of years and an ocean. It shows how similar the ingenuity of our ancestors was when they had to deal with similar resources and climate. Really cool!

@TruthMatters9674 2 ай бұрын

Exactly, because parts of Spain (and Portugal, where I'm from) have similar weather and geological characteristics to some US states like Arizona or parts of California and Texas. The wildlife differs, but thats about it.

@santoriniblue8413 2 ай бұрын

@@TruthMatters9674Like in biological evolution there is a term called "convergent evolution" ... we can make an analogy that regardless of the time frame in a similar environment, culture ends adopting or reaching similar solutions.

@angyliv8040 4 күн бұрын

Maybe they came here to Europe before. I’m saying this because of the name of mexico which can come from metxico (Meri and Txico) deities from all iberia. Meri and txico they are know nowadays as basque deities.

@skellagyook 3 күн бұрын

True. Kind of similar to that of some West African groups like the Dogon and Tellem (and the ancient towns of Djenne Jeno and Dia) too (and somewhat the Lobi, Gurunsi, Banana, and Soninke - also West African), who also lived/live in a semi-dry rocky environment). It's also like that of some ancient Middle Eastern towns like Jericho in Neolithic Anatolia.

@HistoryTime 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video Dan. Fascinating stuff on a subject that barely gets any attention. I've been meaning to visit Los Millares for years, I'll have to add the sites of the Agaric Culture to my list. There was so much going on in Iberia during the Bronze Age

@DanDavisHistory 2 ай бұрын

Cheers Pete, glad you enjoyed it. Yeah I was holding off making this until I could go to the sites but I couldn't wait any more. La Bastida should be a good visitor experience when it's all done.

@patriciaalonsoparamo6698 17 күн бұрын

You could add a visit to Cancho Roano and to La Motilla de Azuer

@M.M.83-U 2 ай бұрын

A video like this is pure gold. The first proper summary of the El Algar culture. Thank you.

@SkyFly19853 2 ай бұрын

I must say that's so cool. When the people talk about Bronze Age, Mesopotamia and places close to this part of the World. Nobody really talks about other places having Bronze Age.

@Firentis 2 ай бұрын

Both visits (to La bastida, the main city; and La Almoloya, the ruling place) are highly enjoyable. I strongly recommend to do both of them if one is travelling to Murcia region and is into archaeology/ancient history. Cheers from Spain! Un saludo, Mr. Davis. :)

@Benito-lr8mz 2 ай бұрын

No eres Español?

@Firentis 2 ай бұрын

Sí, ¿por?@@Benito-lr8mz

@Firentis 2 ай бұрын

Sí, ¿por? @@Benito-lr8mz

@joelkurowski7129 2 ай бұрын

We are very lucky to have someone who covers cultures most other history youtubers don't mention. And to have such high quality videos that are very entertaining to listen to is wonderful. I'm happy every time I see one of these

@alvarotiradomoreno9605 2 ай бұрын

Excellent video as always, Dan. You offer your audience very precious insight into so many interesting topics.

@riverAmazonNZ 2 ай бұрын

That diadem style, silver with a disc shape makes me think it might depict the moon (in a stylised way).

@eh1702 2 ай бұрын

Yes, me too. I keep trying to figure out which way up it should go, as the photo of the skull showed it moon “down” while illustrations showed it moon “up”. But maybe it varied according to whether someone was of childbearing age, or married or not - or maybe alive or not.

@CBOANDALUCIA 2 ай бұрын

No, it was an artistic licence, it was used in the down position.@@eh1702

@jessegettingcolorfuldelven8954 2 ай бұрын

Dan Davis is in the top 3 of my favorite creators. I am always excited when a new one comes out. When I discovered him about a year ago I binged everything made already. Thank you so much Dan & everyone who contributes 💚

@jezusbloodie 2 ай бұрын

I couldn't agree more. Firmly in the top. The way he is able to transport me with his storytelling, honest accuracy, visuals and narration to the worlds and lives of peoples and cultures long past to a degree unequalled on KZfaq. Can't wait untill I can afford his books and be transposed accross time by this storyteller

@shantiescovedo4361 2 ай бұрын

Dan Davis, Cool Worlds, and Anton Petrov for me.

@jezusbloodie 2 ай бұрын

@@shantiescovedo4361 damn that's close to my top 3: Dan Davis, Cool Worlds and Isaac Arthur. If I am even able to honestly condense it to only 3 😅

@shantiescovedo4361 2 ай бұрын

@@jezusbloodie I think I have listened to almost every Isaac Arthur talk for the last three years, but I typically listen to him as a podcast, while I watch the others as KZfaq videos. Cool Worlds has a good podcast now as well. Dan has such a positive feeling to his videos and it makes me wish I could I could spy on these ancient cultures somehow.

@shantiescovedo4361 2 ай бұрын

@@jezusbloodie did you see there odd also a new Cool Worlds video today as well?

@felixdm7724 2 ай бұрын

Hi Dan - I am an archaeology student at Oxford and I love your videos - the topics are so well researched, narrated, and visually represented that you often surpass the quality of a good lecture here. Keep up the great work!

@eh1702 2 ай бұрын

The big bowl with the huge, almost-flat shoulder is technically very challenging for professional potters today, not just to construct, but to fire it without it collapsing. They perfected some impressive technique in that long timespan! Change comes at a cost, and an unpredictable cost. If you produce the same 8 items over and over, you know exactly how much clay, what type and mix, and how much fuel is needed. Your broken old pots and firing breakage will also crush down to an exactly consistent grog! You can send a specific number of people to quarry, carry back and process a known amount of clay, and a specific amount of fuel, and time and plan your firing economically. Even your average breakage rate during firing will be known for each item, so you can predict your end quantity quite well. Pottery uses a LOT of fuel. If they did this for hundreds of years, they had to have kept it sustainable. Being conservative with forms would enable them to create a virtuous cycle (and recycle) with very, very little wasteage of resources. Did they have a few “insitutional” potteries (hence lack of decoration?) or did they regulate the forms people were allowed to make, as a way of promoting frugal use of common resources?

@jamesleonard2870 2 ай бұрын

Great input!

@robertolang9684 2 ай бұрын

just cut the crap , olalde , published his studies twice meaning he does not have a clue to Iberian gene pool , iberians today are not the iberians of 4000 years ago

@JustGrowingUp84 2 ай бұрын

@@robertolang9684 I think you replied to the wrong comment, mate.

@eh1702 2 ай бұрын

@@robertolang9684 i am at a loss as to why this is a reply to what I said.

@robertolang9684 2 ай бұрын

@@JustGrowingUp84 na all that crap is based in olalde studies that is just rubbish, he dna tested samples of 1400 in andaluzia calling them berbers , and most of that samples were male r1b , only females were mtdna berber, the guy was a joke , there is a sample j1 in ampurias that he even did not published the results , they distort the findings of the tests to suits they narrative like saying basques 100% iberian and then saying the iberians are different from basques carrying the same amount of iberian , ha ha ha

@utvara1 2 ай бұрын

Excellent video. Keep this quality content coming.

@yensid4294 25 күн бұрын

I really appreciate these videos on Bronze Age central & western European cultures. So much of ancient history content focuses on Egypt/North Africa, The Levant & the Aegean. The UK & Europe are often left out until it involves Rome.

@LassiM-wx5cv 2 ай бұрын

I visited Los Millares recently. Its insane how old it is. I have never felt something like that before.

@Bogey1022 2 ай бұрын

So exciting! New Davis video!

@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 2 ай бұрын

Great content as always.

@jarco5000 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for making this video. I love your relaxing style of explaining everything.

@Widsith83 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! Great as always💫

@matheusburger6322 2 ай бұрын

Always looking forward to your book and videos, keep them coming!

@nnnn3808 2 ай бұрын

Fascinating topic. I thank you for bringing it up

@Matt-ni8jh 2 ай бұрын

Nice to have these videos back again, interesting as always!

@basilbrushbooshieboosh5302 2 ай бұрын

Will definitely watch every one of your upcoming vids Dan. Seen them all so far. Magnificent expose.

@EdajjGnilhteen1980 2 ай бұрын

Once again you bring the best info on old Europe! I'm so glad I subscribed to your channel! Keep up the great work! You rock!

@thehistoryfiles 2 ай бұрын

That's another 'early cultures' page needed on the History Files site then... Fortunately this one was already in preparation so it's timely enough that you publish such a superb, detailed video about now.

@pedrobaeck1541 2 ай бұрын

thank you dan, your videos always make me happy

@vladimirvucetic6933 2 ай бұрын

Informative and to the point. Great video!

@hp.a. 26 күн бұрын

Excelent and unique video. Thanks for sharing.

@pepelopez8912 2 ай бұрын

Love the content!

@pendragon6207 2 ай бұрын

Excellent stuff, as always. Hands down my favourite history channel on youtube. Keep it up!

@feildpres 2 ай бұрын

Another Great video dude!!!!

@jaxellis3008 2 ай бұрын

Bravo, Mr. Davis. Bravo. Your channel is a treasure as always and i can't wait for your next installment. Will definitely be annoying all my friends again by sharing this video as i share all your others in hopes that the enthusiasm i feel for your subject matter may be transferred to another eager for knowledge and of course entertainment. Thank you again, sir. Greetings from northern Florida!

@CaucAsianSasquatch 2 ай бұрын

Another excellent production, thank you

@hammer1134 Ай бұрын

Your videos are so awesome man I don’t watch them as often as I would like but when I do I am amazed

@sjoerdjuxta 2 ай бұрын

yay dan Davis uploaded

@anthonyblack8039 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful video, thanks

@nikbear 2 ай бұрын

As always Dan, another glorious video, and with what is going on in the world, your videos are like a breath of fresh air for the mind and soul! 👏👏👏 wonderful ⚔️👌

@Grimthot 2 ай бұрын

Great ! I was so pumped the first time i hear about this culture

@helenamcginty4920 2 ай бұрын

I read about this culture in the UK Guardian 2 years ago. Fascinating. So good to get an update.

@lordalexandermalcolmguy6971 2 ай бұрын

Another fantastic episode

@pasquinomarforio 2 ай бұрын

Thank Dan. Another great one. More, more, more ...

@anam.9256 2 ай бұрын

As someone from the zone whos trying to set a story in this time, this video is absolutely wonderful and useful. Thank you so much for your work

@musashidanmcgrath 2 ай бұрын

I live about 50 mins from these sites in Murcia. I haven't visited yet, but I'm definitely going to go this summer. Thanks for the vid and inspiration to finally explore these sites. There are so many Roman sites to visit here in Spain that these pre-Roman sites get almost no attention.

@taybak8446 2 ай бұрын

This was quality! Looking forward to your Unetice video. I visited the Halle museum, last September and saw the Nebra sky disc and other artefacts including halberds.

@maciejtedeque8096 2 ай бұрын

Interesting as always :) Thank you Dan!

@TheVicenteSilva 2 ай бұрын

These videos are absolutely killer. Amazing work

@atunaco 29 күн бұрын

I studied the settlements of the Argar culture in Spanish Art History at the University. As it was an artistic subject, it consisted of describing the places, their timing, the reasons for their geographical position and their establishment on hills.I remember we also talked about the particular burial system inside the houses. The recent genetic discoveries that have allowed us to know about the extinction of male genetic lines throughout Europe had not yet taken place. Anyway the hypotheses of conquest by a nomadic people with a pastoral culture contrasts with the idea of a people focused on the defense of their territory halberd in hand and the cultivation of barley. A most interesting enigma this of the ancient Spanish "alabarderos".

@MFJ12697 2 ай бұрын

It's gonna be a good Sunday;] Thanks!

@jamescaldwell2357 2 ай бұрын

Good stuff, Dan, good stuff!

@user-gd3xy2vl1s 2 ай бұрын

Excellent thank you for your hard work!

@BenSHammonds 2 ай бұрын

very good program, a fascinating study of an early culture

@mikef.1000 2 ай бұрын

What a great account of a culture I'd never heard of! Many thanks from Australia.

@kimberlyperrotis8962 2 ай бұрын

Fascinating, thank you, I had never heard of this culture.

@dylanjones7485 2 ай бұрын

Frikin good vid man keep goin

@jelkel25 2 ай бұрын

Hadn't heard of the El Argar Culture before, very much enjoyed this. The Etruscans were big on their walled hill cities, i wonder if there was a connection? Beyond the obvious hard work that goes into your videos your enthusiasm for the topics is in your voice. Very well done!!!!

@Josecannoli1209 20 күн бұрын

Dan Davis out hear spitting hott hott fire 🔥

@custardthepipecat6584 2 ай бұрын

I truly appreciate your content 😺🍻🖖

@brookwilliams3740 Ай бұрын

Thank u- ❤️ur videos!!

@steildaniel4577 Ай бұрын

Been there twice. The view is fantastic and the hike not too bad.

@bc7138 2 ай бұрын

Excellent video! I was aware of the El Algar but knew very little about them, so this video is a fascinating and informative guide. It's interesting to speculate about how much influence the Minoans may have had on the El Algar culture considering the similarity between their buldings. Reminds me of the obviously Greek influence on the Hallstatt culture at Heuneberg. I'm looking forward to seeing more on the Ùnetice Culture in the future too.

@RicCdelP 2 ай бұрын

I can’t believe you’re covering my local area. So proud 🥺🥺🥺

@AlexPReal 2 ай бұрын

Excellent video! Many thanks! Could you please address Tartessos?

@reddixiecrat 2 ай бұрын

That would be awesome

@c.a.s.anphorachiclana7434 Ай бұрын

Muy buen documental. Gracias por activar los subtitulos.

@davide8982 13 күн бұрын

Great video

@YamiKisara 2 ай бұрын

@pendragonU 2 ай бұрын

The German town name, _AUJENTITZ_ it used to be much more common to read, in the earlier decades of that culture discovery and studies.

@YamiKisara 2 ай бұрын

@@pendragonU that's because we were forced to use German as the official language during that period, the land, however, has always been Czech, and so were the archeologists, so what's your point?

@arturowagner4728 2 ай бұрын

Wow! I had never heard of the Argar Culture.... Learned something new today...

@Shintenpu Ай бұрын

I'm glad you also made the link with Minoans. This centralization of power is very similar.

@darkhorse112 2 ай бұрын

I'm looking forward to how you bring this stuff to life in a future book!

@user-jp9js9th8o 2 ай бұрын

very good description and analysis... grains=control

@underscore3842 2 ай бұрын

I can’t get enough of your videos, keep it up!! Also would like to look into your novels, how could I go about finding them?

@NickJones-vf4pj 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

@louiscervantez1639 2 ай бұрын

Excellent! Even more interesting since I live in Spain .

@gundree 2 ай бұрын

I watch a lot of your stuff on TV, so I can never leav a comment. But, this is great stuff. Keep up the good work.

@icescrew1 2 ай бұрын

Thank so much.

@RGRGJKK 2 ай бұрын

Pura vida Don Dan great part of history of my madre patria .pura vida great content

@PaulEcosse 2 ай бұрын

Love exploring this area. The obvious tourist traps like Fuentes Del Algar and Cuevas Del Canelobre are great, but there is so much more sitting out there on the hills waiting to be discovered.

@alfredmoreno2895 10 күн бұрын

Lo mejor que he visto de la cultura Argarica, muchas gracias.

@brixcosmo6849 2 ай бұрын

Great! Best Regards from Portugal!

@altair2256 2 ай бұрын

Never heard of them. This is so awesome!

@shzarmai 2 ай бұрын

cool video sire, please consider making a video about the fort-building hunter-gatherers of Prehistoric siberia

@ericwafer1947 2 ай бұрын

Just top tier!

@KnightsWithoutATable 2 ай бұрын

The DNA giving us the genetic heritage told us so much about the culture and its history that we would have had to guess at. It is so useful and amazing that we can get that out of people's remains from so long ago and they can tell us about their ancestors and children.

@user-ri1ti6go7s 2 ай бұрын

Fascinating to learn about these people

@4luka824 2 ай бұрын

Love your videos Dan!since you are a history euthusiast like many of us here,i have question/recommendation do you know fortress of lugh?he does wonderful and very researched videos about ancient history and cultures that are relevant and fascinating.

@paul6925 2 ай бұрын

I always think of Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian whenever those R1b replacement guys come up in your videos. They seem pretty brutal.

@eh1702 2 ай бұрын

There is also something else about R1B1. Rhesus disease. Populations where it is common have a relatively high incidence of rhesus-negative blood groups. If rh- women have a rh+ partner, (especially if he has a double inheritance of the relevant antigen) then these women they have a fair chance of an immune reaction - usually after the first pregnancy - which can severely affect subsequent pregnancies. Without modern medicine, that is. Her immune cells cross the placenta and start attacking the baby’s red blood cells. So what if there were plenty of women that came along with R1B1 males, but took local partners (similar to how the Normans got their feet under the “peace” table after the Conquest). Over just a few generations, their lineages could well die out. No doubt about it, they were…acquisitive and, er, forceful guys. But anyway, it’s a thought.

@TheBigdaddy64 2 ай бұрын

Excellent documentary, Dan. It is interesting that the Tartessian culture ended abruptly as well many centuries later.

@DR_1_1 2 ай бұрын

Bronze age is the period when all the forests that stood around the Mediterranean sea were cut to provide fire to the forges, build houses and ships, make place for agriculture, etc.. Before that a continuous belt of trees was covering all these shores, a lot of cedar trees (Cedar of Lebanon type), nothing is left now! After this period a civilization crash happened, for hundreds of years the sea people reigned by looting and devastating what was left. Climate is also becoming more and more arid, but this might be coincidental, as it started at the end of the Holocene climatic optimum +6000 years ago (check the "exact" dates!) with the desertification of the Sahara, and it's still going on today.

@98Zai 2 ай бұрын

That's actually a really interesting observation. Perhaps the sea peoples would not have been as successful as they were, had there been massive forests blocking their way. And for that matter, maybe the disease and strife that unleashed them would not have been as easily spread.

@NCCorruption 2 ай бұрын

Hmmm ,Bronze Age halberds are an interesting item. If you have ever spared with one and explored the Bronze Age halberds properties you soon lean that hacking away with it like an axe is a rookie mistake and that they have a lot more going for them. Just the thing for for bypassing shields.

@Mr.Skeleton. 2 ай бұрын

*I’ve never heard of these people or this culture. Shows how much our history is being suppressed. Thank you for bringing this to light, this kind of stuff is why I’m becoming an anthropologist. I love our peoples history. I’m a Spanish and German mixture and I love both sides of my family bc they are so completely different yet both equally beautiful.*

@xanv8051 2 ай бұрын

Nah your uneducated even feeding some evil force in your brain some phantom trying to keep you misinformed yeah you don't study enough

@AlbertaGeek 2 ай бұрын

How was any of this being suppressed?

@EresirThe1st 2 ай бұрын

You've confused not being popular with suppression

@Benito-lr8mz 2 ай бұрын

Y vives en Islandia?🤔

@macrosense 2 ай бұрын

It is not suppressed, it is merely something most people have very little interest in.

@raimondsudovenko8611 2 ай бұрын

Did anyone think that the silver diadem looked very much like sunrise? It would explain why it was upside down on a dead person. Representation of a sunrise in life and sunset in death.

@veronicalogotheti1162 2 ай бұрын

Thank you

@andreiadetavora8471 Күн бұрын

I'm portuguese, this was awesome!! Thank you

@beerst0ne 2 ай бұрын

Hi Dan, awesome video as always! As for Unetice culture, I recomend to pronounce it as [oonyetitse] to emulate proper name of the original archaeological site in the Czech republic north of Prague the culture is named after. Love your videos, bought and read your books. All the best from Bohemia.