Actually if you're English or western European its your history.. right?

In TX we dig of 1000 + year old native American stuff

its not their history, its your history... how ironic of a comment. everyone who used to live there now lives here. pretty much... america is a mix of german, irish and english. guess which one of the three are you. probably a mix of all three

@@andiarrohnds5163 Not me. I was born an American so I am not from there. 12 generations ago someone in my family was from there.

@@chrisrichard2526 but america is literally western europe... im not sure how you dont see this. america is rome!

haha then dn 't come to my house i collect mayan artefazct more than 4000 yars old for some of them

K. Russell, I totally agree...I could watch this kind of stuff all day long...very very interesting

@@FunkyPyramid weird flex, but ok...

I would love to visit Europe to see all it’s historic places. I feel the same way...would feel so astonished and privileged to touch things so old.

My dream was to become an Archeologist, but, due to no money for college I instead live my dream through show's like this. 😍⛏️

Teary eye because they have had their graves robbed?

@Rhonda Clark What asylum did you escape from?

Literal description of St Augustine.

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I do the same thing I mean I live in Illinois and I imagine what's buried underneath. In England especially there are still hordes of treasure buried either by the church to keep out of vikings hand or vikings sacrificing someone on top of a treasure horde to appeal to the gods. Egypt I mean imagine what's under the sand never found. There are actual cities buried then all the Pharos tombs still not found. Or even WW2 stuff like bodies or treasures still missing dumped in a lake somewhere like the chalice they found in the lake by the SS castle.

I like the Chicago streets because they built the roads literally over the existing brick streets

So true! If you're interested watch Tudor Monastery Farm on youtube with Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman etc. Ruth is a historian and in one episode she uses cheese to glue feathers to a "dove" for a play!

Same background here 48 per cent Norwegian 27 per cent English 17 per cent Irish

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It's not TONY's team!

And if the metal detector gy had done even a basic location marking, the crew would have saved a lot of time.

True to the point 👍👍👍👍

And to avoid the problem, all they had to do was give him a bundle of those little flags utility people use to mark any hits. They have to make the show interesting though

There's no reason for him to record. They are like the scouts, fast intel with just enough information to peak an interest for the specialized forces. SURE, it would've been smart, to record the position, but that's not what a metal detector does. I mean, it's extremely rare for them to even canvas an area.

Why doesn't the government subsidies the farmer????

Not eccentric but enthusiastic and scientific and professional. Tony Robinson has contributed much to history and archaeology and entertainment in his historical walks and TV programs.

simple cheese glue. other alternatives are bone glue or wheat flour. The last one is usually what is used to put wallpapers on walls, but industrialized nowadays.

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What? This crass carnival barker is giddily dancing on these people's graves. It's all about exploiting their bones for clicks, likes and ad revenue. There's no solemnity about this whatsoever. I hope this clown's bones are dug up, scattered to the wind and sold to the highest bidder some day.

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really? you think so? the person clutching th ecup was presented as "a drunk", the possibilitiy that this might have been a significant person who perhaps was a shaman or spiritually important person was not even considered...if he´s holding the cup with the psychedelic substance, my first htought would not be "a drunk". and they smashed one skull with the machine, while i get that there are liminted funds and such things happen, it didn´t feel particularly respectful to me to not even mention that critically.. :/ and then the sexist comment about the tall woman... "she wasn´t pretty"...really? that´s the first thing that comes to mind? So...while i found it interesting to watch, "respectful" was not the word that came to my mind.

Ditto. How wonderful would it be to have that much ancient history in your field? I'd be as happy as a pig in mud out field walking every day.

Very true!!! Lol

I live in the Pacific NW (in the state of Oregon) of the US and we have the same weather 9 months out of the year. Every now and then, on those days I get photographic proof.😂

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Truly remarkable. What a joy to be able to be a part of this historical moment.

Didn't someone sing that you can get a tan from standing in the English rain?

Anglo-Saxons were not really British though, back then the Celtic folks (Welsh, Cornish and Bretons) were the “real” British. As mentioned in the docu Anglo-Saxons have a Germanic background. Hence they worshipped Germanic gods. This is very apparent in the naming of the weekdays. Tuesday (Tiw’s Day), Wednesday (Woden’s Day, Woden is another name for Odin), Thursday (Thor’s Day), Friday (Freya’s Day). Paganism was sadly basically erased by Christianity. But modern English is still very similar to German, old English is sooo much closer though. Makes it really easy to tell where Anglo-Saxons originated from or were at least heavily influenced by. When French started to mix into it, around 1000 AD, which was because of a Viking ruler who lived in Brittany and took the throne English became a lot closer to how it is today. French words are the now more ‘posh’ English words while the Anglo-Saxon’s English is considered more colloquial and ‘lower class’. Just some fun facts you might enjoy ☺️

@@sesam.koernchen The Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group who inhabited England. They traced their origins to the 5th-century settlement of incomers to Britain, who migrated to the island from the North Sea coastlands of continental Europe.

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My paternal grandmother was descended from Saxons who lived in The Weald of Kent. They even kept their surnames through the centuries. To make clear , The BRITISH people who were there when the Romans invaded, were not Angles, Saxons,Danes or Franks, they were British. The people of The West Country, Cornwall were a different ethnic group and because of the tin mines people from the then known world came to trade, presumably leaving mixed race children,along with artifacts from North Africa (Phonecian glass) and the Middle East, thus proving that to divide people by skin colour, as they do in America, is absolute twaddle. The Angles were tall and blond, thus they fetched high prices in the slave markets of Rome, also giving the lie to anyone asking for reparations from merely two hundred years ago!

@@joseeallyn9950 that’s really good information. I have a question for you. My great-grandmother’s surname was Polkinhorn and it was from a line that goes all the way back to the 12th century. And they lived in Cornwall until 1850s when my 2nd great-grandfather needed to find work when the tin mines were drying up. I think that branch of my family tree (or that family bamboo - lots of kissing cousins in my family ☺️) Had rarely left Cornwall to go into Devonshire. There’s no evidence of anyone having lived in Devonshire. As far back as I can go through DNA, I’m British. I’m English, Welsh, Scottish and everything else is a trace from the Nordic region. The DNA matches up with the physical genealogy. So for my question: Apart from my Cornish ancestors, my ancestors from the Fens and from N Wales and scattered all over from London to the Lochs, does that seem like I’m truly British or what? Do I have no way of knowing whether the Saxons, Danes, Angles, Franks were any of my ancestors?

I bet there's a lot more in Indiana than you'd be willing to believe 😏

I know, right? ...and then there are the lucky kids in other states that find DINOSAURS. It’s just not fair. There aren’t a lot of fossils in New England, although there are occasionally ancient settlements found.

You do live where there are all kinds of Viking relics and other Roman artifacts. Peoples of Europe or Tartarus as it was then did travel to the Americas. The mound builders built mounds as those are sites of import. There are things buried there. Starts digging!

@@runsontrails3091 Sorry, no Roman or Viking artifacts in Indiana.

Same here in rural Illinois nothing but arrowheads cool but no ancient metal working

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@@markwilliams9649 I was going to type the same blasted spam call!!!

Rachel with cardholder services is only trying to help

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Farmers need to feed their families.

@@thehairyhominid9972 Farmers feed everyone 🙂

More work is done on these sites after time team does their work and leaves it to be completed.

You don't understand the scope of archeological wealth in some areas - in places that have been nearly continuously occupied for a few thousand years, you have no choice but to document what you find, lift the precious stuff, and let the user have the land. No one would ever build anything or grow anything in some areas if they were kept preserved because of archeological finds. And that's just archeology - there is still paleontology, which adds another layer of discovery - and complication - to these sites. It doesn't make archeology redundant though. It's still good to know people had found the location just as useful for living as we do a thousand years ago, but a land only remains alive if it's used. UK specifically is one of the best countries when it comes to combining history with modern occupation. I haven't encountered another place where viable historical buildings would be kept occupied, used and actually sought after to this day in such large numbers.

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If movies taught me anything archaeology regularly involves finding biblical artifacts and fighting Nazis.

@@matthewsmith3078 And avoiding getting your face melted off by certain artifacts? 🤣

Me too or a paleontologist.

I have land in west Tennessee hardeman county city of bolivar and found out there was a union post on my land beside the house. You can still see the rifle pits and make out exactly what their defenses had looked like, there is a grave yard as well, what I’ve read leads me to believe it’s an African American grave yard once the Union was having them fight etc I only know a little as I’ve just discovered this but there is a noticeable about of metal under the ground in a grave like layout from what my cheapish metal detector had told me! I don’t plan to dig them up or have anyone do so

Right. All we have to worry about are native burial ground ghosts.

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I guarantee ur land does , just do some research

Farmers and others when they find something usually cover it up quickly.

Yes, he has such a passion for what he’s doing and does it with a smile and in a light hearted way.

Me too. ☘🍀☘🍀☘🍀

Your Guybrush Threepwood! Mystery solved.

You are a child of God, even as we all are. You will find your purpose by contacting the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Now it's in your hands. It always was.

LDS is a cult.

This is true.. I am a Patreon subscriber to Time Team.

Thank you

Time Team dissolved because people weren't too thrilled with the new "glam" presenters. The show became more about Mary Ann's cleavage jiggling around in sports cars with billionaires than scientific exploration. Once Mick passed away, things seem to disintegrate. Bear in mind most of the cast has gone on with their various careers, and even our dear Uncle Phil is 71. And we''ve regretfully lost some of our favorites. The producers would have to find another congenial group of experts with charisma, and stop telling the females to unbutton their blouses.

imagine what the farmer must have felt now knowing for certain of all of the bodies on his property... I'd be freaked out

Why? There’s plenty of history in Britain to get to the bottom of.

@@dallasalice8906 because the world is an interesting place.

@@benjamintickner1864 This programming is “international” to me and billions of other people on this planet. Quit being so selfish.

@@dallasalice8906 i love timeteam, I really do but you're wildly overestimating TimeTeams viewers if you think theres BILLIONS of people watching. Also, i don't understand how you rationalise an international vis-a-vis nationalist focus as selfish?

@@benjamintickner1864 I come to Time Team videos because I enjoy watching British archaeology experts excavating and commenting on British archeology. A subject that interests me. If I want to delve into other cultures, which also interest me, there are plenty of other sources.

Doesn't take long to vanish history my friend. Not to mention when dealing with grave sites which are already buried. A few extra centuries and that is all she wrote, gone as gone can be. But given the age of the planet one could theoretically dig in virtually any location and eventually find something. Be it dinosaur bones, Ice Age bones, anything really. The path we walk is one that has been walked by trillions of creatures over a billion years. Give it a try one day and you will see what I mean, I tried it in my own backyard and found massive, and I do mean MASSIVE wolf bones. It is everywhere we walk and most just don't even consider it. My Father used to say that every place we walk has a story to tell and one we will never know. And he was right, every space we walk has history but alas most is forgotten and never to be known.

Except there is hardly anywhere that doesn't have history. Go look for your local area and you'll be shocked at how close the nearest battlefield is.

“The world is mostly just a big ol’ boneyard, Newt. But pretty in the sunlight!” Robert Duvall as Gus, from “Lonesome Dove”

He still has to make a living.. you know, to actually keep the land? Also like someone else said, the entire world has history, if humans stopped using land that people have died on before.. well you wouldn’t be able to walk pretty much anywhere lol

I'm the same way. We have a grossly abandoned and neglected cemetery in our city, and I've petitioned the land owner several times to fix it up to no avail, even offering to help. Statistically, we live and work in a grave. still ,I'd hate to think of my ancestors' resting place being plowed over. Especially if people KNOW it is there.

At some point, a massive nearly intact roman vila with a beautiful mosaic scored by plow lines, but still intact. It was covered back up and the owner is still using the field. UK's government doesn't care enough to pay these people out, and therefore they don't care further than allowing stuff to be found. These are working fields.

That's sooo cute! It is probable the landowner is not a farmer hobbyist. More likely he uses the field to feed his family.

thats a wonderful idea as long as the farmer gets paid lost wages by the researchers. hopefully those in close proximity to the farm dont depend on the harvest.

And one wonders why the kids are coming out of liberal universities with screwy ideas. Farmers need land to provide food.

@@williamekasala2861 this is what happens when humans dont have to hunt and gather to survive winter in primitive dwellings. too advanced too fast.

@@williamekasala2861 And one wonders how small you think that farms are nowadays when you believe that the loss of an acre would mean an existential threat to a farmer. Just to put your nagging into relation: The average farm size in the UK is 213 acres.

Real science in USA goes like this: “ using GPS we found a park and with low frequency radio waves have unearthed an identified metal shape which can only mean the Left is collaborating with Aliens. Get warnings out on social media!!”

so do I Ellen- ❤Phil is such a character

@@michaelseltz4460 It may be real science to an American like Marjorie Taylor Greene, but it certainly isn't science to an American like me.

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No evidence she (if it was a she) was a warrior, none.

Haven't watched the full video yet, there is usually a university associated with this type of finds. Check with that institution's anthropology department. They would be the ones to describe the find.

There aren't any records. That's why they are called the Dark Ages.

Like anything in these situations, it's all complete guesswork based on very vague clues. For all we know it wasn't even a woman at all. Archeology is far from being able to actually tell us any factual history aside from "well, maybe this happened, I don't know".

@@darkdiddler1439 DNA analysis can say if the skeletal remains are missing the pelvis, which is distinctly different between males and females. Also there are clues in the musculature attachments, the skull. In many mundane activities, what happened in the past are very similar to what happens today or in recorded history. A grinding stone is similar in shape and wear between the British Isles and Central America.

Victor was a great artist.

Did you just make that up?

@@buffycleaveland8116 At the time yes.

did you see the scraper. do you think that was specially made for digs. Notice , it does not have much volume

The team say’s he is an alcoholic

@@pfossful which one Ian or Ian lol.

@@trevormiles5852 in the us we call them sand buckets, to slowly expose usually pre excavated sites such as water or sewer line trenches. you can slowly expose, locate pipes with a probe rod without further damaging pipe for repairs or new hook ups.

@@niijii9735 very cool

So...we should go back to walking around with weapons and armor on and worshiping circles and living in roundhouses?

@@HiImSeanIPlayBass o_O Yeah, sure, go with that.

Mud Fossils all over the earth!

@@HiImSeanIPlayBass Yes, it'd be good for the core

It's TV, and they only have the budget for so many days that need to be used for X number of episodes.

They all had day jobs and started out only doing it over long weekends. The show was always intended on being limited to 3 days.

@@joshw9037 From Lil Giant Archeologists get paid very poorly-and sometimes they work without any pay. They’d have to find something important for anyone to finance a dig, and then the archaeologists would still get paid little or nothing. At least that is how it was explained to me when I was planning to become one. LOL

I like watching the metal detector shows from Germany and France and England and even the mud larking Because I know that they have to report their finds to the government. In the United States so much history gets lost because people don’t have to report anything to the museums or the government.

And still keeping up with the red vs blue.

Maybe he was both? Lol

@@JBond-zf4dj Hey ya I never thought about that .You could say It was quality control ?

@@loganjohnson3589 exactly! I mean, I'D certainly be taste testing my product. 🤷

but thats not nearly as fun.

Good point!

My sister, more likely

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She was only 5'7 her bones were spread out over time. She did have a knife and a shield though.

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Well that’s likely one reason they limit the timeframe for the dig. Although from the time of year & state of the field I don’t think the field would’ve been used again for some weeks or possibly a few months yet.

Here in the US there are loads of locally known about Native Indian sites which are never reported bc for decades the government could come in & forbid you from even walking on your own land. To the point they tore down a few houses to extend dig sites! Now they are more respectful of the living but many still don’t like reporting them. We have a burial mound that’s on the border of our land & the National Forest which the local college worked on for several years. Which was spookily growing up. Especially since the movie Pet Cemetery was popular during that time! We also have a plantation cemetery on the property as well as some remains of where the hone stood. So lots of history on the land I grew up on and still live on today!

No doubt

Not at all. They get the owner's approval and the field has obviously been recently harvested. A week of digging does no harm and they replace the dirt when they're done.

@@Cynnas I hope they do more then a weeks worth of digging.

My concern with the show, evidently I do not know a lot about it, is this three day deal. To me it seems like more of a marketing tool to produce the show. I wouldn’t be surprised if once the cameras stopped rolling they went back and did a proper archaeological dig.

The three day dig is the filmed part. The weeks or months in advance were spent looking at lidar, historical records, photography, and other research to prepare. You don't just go digging

🤣 but do they give them last rights?

Few Native Americans? There were millions and millions of them. They mostly died of measles and smallpox after first contact and nearly all evidence has been plowed up or built over

@UncleJoe-v2 They lived very migratory lives. They may have had a village but traveled around a lot following migratory animals, fish, and in my area certain crops. They did a lot of trading too. There are a lot of artifacts to be found. They just aren't gold hoards

It would be nice to have an equivalent show focusing on ancient Americans. I think we don't because white modern Americans feel unconnected to them. The politics surrounding respect vs grave exploitation would be more complicated. I was also looking at how the survival of archeology is effected by differences in soil Ph. In the UK, much of the soil seems to be acidic, which dissolves bones but is more likely to preserve soft items than alkaline soil. Soil in the western US tends to be highly alkaline, which preserves bones well but not soft items.

Its a geology thing i can't remember what. I only remember that the earth pushes up. Wind ans rain move a great deal of soil

Soil erosion is a big farming problem plus the earth heaves due to freezing and thawing.

Aside from erosion/wind over time and years of farming (plows) etc is my thoughts

In the UK there are areas where the soil doesn't build up or wears away (erosion from farming ) and it's not uncommon for Roman things to be right at the surface in rural areas. It's deeper in cities where refuse and rubble builds up.

These archeologists have other jobs. Many of them are professors. It is their way of limiting the time for filming that allows this team of experts to participate, and to control costs. As I am sure you know, digs can last for weeks or months.

@@motherhenn8850 That's what was baffling to me. Limiting a known site to 3 days would basically assure you wouldn't walk away with the most amount of data if any. We also have a different way of doing archaeology in the states that can be a little more time-consuming.