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Ancient Americas
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Welcome to the Ancient Americas CZcams channel. I’m your host, Pete and together, we will explore the rich and beautiful pre-columbian history of North and South America from the initial migration of humans into the Americas, to the great empires of Mesoamerica and the Andes and everything in between. This is a history that I find endlessly fascinating but is often neglected in classrooms and misunderstood in popular media. This channel is my effort to educate you, one member of a curious public, on this period’s history and its people. If you’re tired of seeing this obscure history boiled down to aliens and giants and just want an honest approach, please subscribe to the channel. There’s a lot to learn out there!
Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/ancientamericas
About the creator: Pete is an average guy in the midwestern United States. He's not an professional archaeologist nor historian but he's always been fascinated by history and loves sharing what he learns.
Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/ancientamericas
About the creator: Pete is an average guy in the midwestern United States. He's not an professional archaeologist nor historian but he's always been fascinated by history and loves sharing what he learns.
Ancient Life on the Great Plains
The Great Plains are well-known for their indigenous traditions but also have a rich history that spans over ten thousand years. Contrary to what some people think, the plains were not a backwater but a rich and flourishing area with a diverse array of cultures that drew in outside influence and people and interacted with their neighbors. Join us as we explore the pre-columbian history of the Great Plains. A big thanks to my patrons for
Chapters:
Introduction: 0:00
Paleoindians on the Plains: 5:42
Archaic Plains Period: 14:43
Plains Woodland: 24:14
Plains Village Period: 32:58
Conclusion: 50:22
Patreon: www.patreon.com/ancientamericas
Facebook: AncientAmericas
Sources and Bibliography: docs.google.com/document/d/1oqJ7TMCOuGtk-NTIq9WnqS0oumZ76LTbsEoD4jsnhIA/edit?usp=sharing
Mentioned Videos:
Food That Time Forgot: Pemmican, The Ultimate Survival Food: czcams.com/video/AYDuOKI8maQ/video.htmlsi=2ACN83gb64F-xvME
The Crow Creek Massacre Archaeological Site: czcams.com/video/W1wMos2Pu_w/video.htmlsi=zW5YkGnoq6pQvP0u
The Terrifying Collapse of the Plains American Indians: czcams.com/video/2qxvePKBjP4/video.htmlsi=-1D4AABT3aJ2u97n
They Were Just in the Way | Indian Removal: czcams.com/video/A5P6vJs1jmY/video.htmlsi=EEvPP3xv5f0UHxSd
Chapters:
Introduction: 0:00
Paleoindians on the Plains: 5:42
Archaic Plains Period: 14:43
Plains Woodland: 24:14
Plains Village Period: 32:58
Conclusion: 50:22
Patreon: www.patreon.com/ancientamericas
Facebook: AncientAmericas
Sources and Bibliography: docs.google.com/document/d/1oqJ7TMCOuGtk-NTIq9WnqS0oumZ76LTbsEoD4jsnhIA/edit?usp=sharing
Mentioned Videos:
Food That Time Forgot: Pemmican, The Ultimate Survival Food: czcams.com/video/AYDuOKI8maQ/video.htmlsi=2ACN83gb64F-xvME
The Crow Creek Massacre Archaeological Site: czcams.com/video/W1wMos2Pu_w/video.htmlsi=zW5YkGnoq6pQvP0u
The Terrifying Collapse of the Plains American Indians: czcams.com/video/2qxvePKBjP4/video.htmlsi=-1D4AABT3aJ2u97n
They Were Just in the Way | Indian Removal: czcams.com/video/A5P6vJs1jmY/video.htmlsi=EEvPP3xv5f0UHxSd
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Bison, People, and Plains
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Bison are icons of North American wildlife and have always played an important role to the survival of people on the Great Plains. Indigenous people in North America hunted and exploited bison in many incredible ways but also revered and respected these animals. They knew that when the bison thrived, so did they. In this episode, we will discuss the pre-colonial relationship between bison and h...
The Muisca: Legends of Gold
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The Muisca are one of Colombia's most famous cultures because of their connection to gold and the legend of El Dorado. But the Muisca were far more complex than goldsmiths and created a flourishing culture. Discover this culture and it's conquest in this video. Patreon: www.patreon.com/ancientamericas Facebook: AncientAmericas Sources and Bibliography: docs.google.com/document/d/...
The Settlement of the Americas: New Discoveries
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The arrival of humans into North and South America is an incredible event that scientists have been trying to illuminate for centuries. Recent discoveries have completely changed our understanding of this topic but have raised more questions. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:08 Disclaimers 02:17 Siberian Origins 10:54 Migration into America 13:43 Possible Means of Arrival 20:27 Problems with Mig...
The Ancient History of Chocolate
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Chocolate has an incredible story from the cacao tree to the chocolate that we love today. Discover chocolate’s long lost Mesoamerican history from its South American origins to its cultivation and rise in Mesoamerica. Thumbnail image by kamazotz, www.deviantart.com/kamazotz/art/7th-century-chocolate-pourer-763520267 Watch Atlas Altera's video here: czcams.com/video/EQMcp-BwbBU/video.html Chapt...
The History of Maya Cities: Part II
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The late classic is widely considered the epitome of Maya culture and the history of this period is no less exciting. It was a time full of rises and falls, great kings and kings and conquests and betrayals. Patreon: www.patreon.com/ancientamericas Facebook: AncientAmericas Sources and Bibliography: docs.google.com/document/d/1ZsKq318unOt8yLJGClarTDy0AQd4wDbrBMBBIfqXkZw/edit?usp=...
The Khipu (knot what you think...)
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The khipu (quipu) was an indigenous recording device made from knotted cords that were used for many different purposes for centuries. The history of khipus is a fascinating journey through thousands of years of sophistication and refinement. Join us to find out how khipus were used by the Wari and Inca to manage their empires. Patreon: www.patreon.com/ancientamericas Facebook: Anc...
Peru Bound!
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It's official, we are traveling to Peru in 2024. Join me and fellow viewers for an incredible week of travel and see some incredible ancient sites! Registration opens on August 18 for patrons and channel members and on August 21 for regular viewers. Trip details: trovatrip.com/trip/south-america/peru/peru-with-ancient-americas-may-2024-1 Patreon: www.patreon.com/ancientamericas
Chaco Canyon and the Chaco Phenomenon
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Chaco Canyon has excited and baffled archaeologists for over a century. What makes one of the most famous and studied archaeological sites so enigmatic? Find out what made the Chaco Phenomenon such a unique moment in ancient history. AA Trip survey link: my.trovatrip.com/public/l/survey/theancientamericaschannel Geography: 1:45 Early History: 3:10 Great Houses: 6:03 Economy: 18:39 Outliers: 24:...
The History of Maya Cities: Part 1
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The lowland Maya left us hundreds of written inscriptions that recount the history of their cities, their kings and their wars. Let's explore this history in the first of three episodes. Patreon: www.patreon.com/ancientamericas Facebook: AncientAmericas Sources and Bibliography: docs.google.com/document/d/17_B1ZsOs2gv9AlaWvsCcrTNYJrim_ecuhivTT2e-sM8/edit?usp=sharing Chapters: Int...
Life in the Classic Maya Period: Majesty and Beauty
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The Maya Classic period is widely considered the golden age of the ancient Maya and saw incredible achievements in art, architecture and science. Let’s explore what made this time period so brilliant and why the classic period continues to fascinate the scholars and public today. Intro: 0:01 Disclaimers: 1:22 Political Introduction: 3:28 City Organization: 5:03 Maya Kings and Queens: 8:12 Maya ...
100K Q&A: Better Late Than Never
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I recently took questions over on my Patreon and answered them all (to varying degrees of success) for your viewing pleasure! Thank you to all my subscribers for helping me reach this mark! Chapters: Intro - 00:00 Question 1: Settlement of the Americas - 1:11 Question 2: Polynesian-American contact - 5:00 Question 3: Old Man Yells at Kids These Days - 7:02 Question 4: Pre-Columbian agriculture ...
The Evolution of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Abundance, Prosperity & Complexity
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Nazca Culture: Reading Between the Lines
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This will be my third listen through. What an incredible journey. Speaks to the power of human curiosity!
they got affluent & and power, then turned socialists & decomposed. Sound familiar?
Imagine where they would have been by the time Europeans arrived if the horse never went extinct in the new world and was domesticated.
Aside from the plains and wooded Buffalo, you also have the Buffalo of Vancouver Island. They were bigger than the other two species.
everything seems to be depicted as white race in every part of the world .
This was a great video on the history of the giant Olmec stone heads! I enjoyed this from Orange County, NY and am a new subscriber. Thanks for sharing this well done video!
Why are you making apologies just because they’re Indians? It WAS excessively wasteful, because that’s what mankind does, Indian or not.
tlazocamati temachtiani huicpa motlahtolli 🌬️
Thank you for making such awesome and digestable content!
The first cell phones. Hahahaha
Bull shit!
Great channel
The first sentence is questionable
thanks for the lessons. One wonders why the Native Americans didn't use the relatively navigable river systems more to seasonally [esp.] move. Rafting large amounts of goods might have been easier than land travel.
Still weren’t that many Indians out here comparatively speaking.
🌺🌺🌺🌺
Brilliant documentary - thank you - but WAY too many ads during the show, Others less gifted have figured out the money better. Want to watch more, but please not tis way.
Thank you! Unfortunately, CZcams has made mid-roll ads and all or nothing deal to my dismay and I can't control how many there are.
@@AncientAmericas No worries. Your outstanding work is worth it.
Marinated and grilled to a medium rare. DELICIOUS.
The Mayans did not construct the Civilization at all... Its not true. The pyramids and Civilization was constructed with the same Mathematical and Astrological ComputTions found in Egypt/ kemet. 99% of the ststues are ststues of Black people. MAYANS DID NOT HAVE BEARDS, BRAIDS ETC
Which mathematics? Is there a formula? I'd love to read up on it.
I love how if an outside group destroys something of historical significance even in the distant past, they're idiots, but internal war, slavery, murder, rape, erasure of all evidence of some group of people and whatever amazing artifacts or structures they would have put up, the response is to never mention it. Seems like the worst kind of mindless idiocy I can imagine. And then if it's destroyed by archaeology and recorded (somewhere) and the artifacts all stored in boxes never to be seen again, that's the epitome of morality!! You've just got it all figured out don't you? Disgusting and insane.
My dude, the older I get, the less I have it all figured out. I am always learning. Wanting to preserve monuments of the ancient past is not an endorsement of everything that happened in the ancient past. You are 100% correct that there was a lot of violence but that doesn't mean that these structures and artifacts should be destroyed. (If future generations took that approach, I imagine they could find many reasons to bulldoze the monuments of the present day, and I really hope they don't.) For the local people, this is their heritage and their past and it has enormous cultural value to them and it's a loss to their communities when those areas are looted or destroyed and artifacts smuggled out to be sold on the black market. I imagine if the Chinese came to the US and bulldozed the US capitol, looted it and put it all in a museum back in China, we'd be rightfully pissed. Those criticisms of archaeology are valid but not the norm of the field. Archaeology has unfortunately been very destructive in the past. (Google Heinrich Schliemann for some depressing reading.) It's also resulted in a lot of artifacts being taken out of their countries of origins and shipped to museums abroad or being completely lost and that's terrible. That said, archaeologists these days do their best not to damage sites but some do, unintentionally or otherise but that usually brings a lot of criticism and in some cases, criminal charges. Also, artifacts that are recovered now almost always stay in their nation of origin. It's not perfect, but its getting better. When done properly, archaeology teaches us about our past, the good, the bad and the ugly and helps us to understand and celebrate that past. It gives ancient people a voice that we can heed in our own time.
Michoacános are hard I always knew that
Mayans did not construct the Civilizations in South America. The Olmecs did Thousands of years before Mayans.
The Maya didn't do much in South America. They were in North America.
Tolteca are Giants
A new ken burns, read Comanche Moon for a less candy coated telling.
The greedy settlers didn't want people to know that there were already people in North america. It was easier to steal land that way.
Pretty much.
I think the llano estacado region is super interesting and deserves its own video especially the theory’s of how the plains people Coronado wrote about might have bin the southern athabaskans migrating to the south west
Wanted to say thank you for saying Kiowa right
I used to live in a Nebraska and I miss it sometimes. The plains are so beautiful and lovely. I am an Appalachian mountain man in my soul, but I understand the call of the wide blue skies of the plains.
Cahokia jazz
And now they're in Utah, where there is no jazz...
@@AncientAmericas have you read Cahokia Jazz, it's an interesting alternate history novel.
@@berniekatzroy I have not. When is it set?
@@AncientAmericas some what modern times, I'd give it a read and maybe do a video on it for the fans.
Fascinating watch, and well researched. It surprises me how interconnected people were in the Americas.
Thank you! There are other really interesting instances of continent-spanning trade and communication.
@@AncientAmericas I honestly look forward to everything you put out :) Keep up the great work!
Aveni is liar! He lies trouthout his academic? life!
Nazca lines are clearly depicting the transfer time from 4th Age of the Sun to pur current 5th Age of Sun, cca 3113 BCE started our 5th Age of Sun! Nazca lines confirms it on the Monkey carving with 4 and 5 fingers and plus 6 toes, and the 8 coils of the tail!!!
Clovis people first findings Re in the Delaware region, Clovis spear point technology are found in 2 regions Europe and the Americas,, not found in Asia.
Yup! There's no known examples of clovis in Asia and the earliest Clovis dates are in the Eastern US.
I’ve never heard of this place before in my life
It's an incredible place! Highly recommend visiting it if you ever pass through St. Louis.
Very good content
Thank you!
This channel is awesome, its on the same level of L.A. Beast for me. Learning about history is great!
Thank you!
Would you consider doing a culture from East Coast Canada / Northeast US. and or Tlaxaca
I would definitely like to get to those areas sometime.
Buffalo, buffalo buffalo. There, I said it and I'm not sorry.
I, too, like to live dangerously.
It’s amazing/sad that people of North America were able to kill massive amounts of bison in a single event, yet the populations remained numerous and healthy. But as soon as white people arrived they nearly vanished. At a surface level, jumps sound like they would quickly destroy a population, yet they didn’t. Just goes to show how in tune with nature these hunters were.
Your geographic points are a bit off…
Hmmm… . 🤔 wonder what the ancient native Americans thought or did about tornadoes , was there a word for tornadoes in their language? 🌪️
Very good question and I have no clue. That's probably a better question for a plains indian descedant.
Idiot, how got tobacco into egyptiam mummies? So, how can you discover molten chocolate???
4 Ahau 8 Cumku and number 48 and in reverse, 84, tied to ASTRONOMY!!!!
Jaguar Sun full of Sunspots marking the Sun Ages, so does the Jabuar " Olmec" people...
The giants, the so called " Ulmeca/ Olmecs" were Jaguar people with FIERY EYEBROWS ( Fiery eyes) , therefore as Yama people of the God of the Death and Black hole...They ruled the 3rd Age of Sun...The Black hole was clearly depicted by these Jaguar people, the false nicked " Olmecs" due kauchuk rubber balls for tchachtli ball game where the Sun= ball went trough the " ring"= black hole! 4th sun age run the Chanes= Serpent people, known as " Maya", as the red race after black " Ulmeca"..Now, white colonists from Europe are there in 5th Age of Sun! And after them, the yellow race will be the new colonists there in " golden age" or 1st sun age, see Codex Zouche-Nuttall,page 36- nonfirming it!!!
My geography professor taught that the ancient plains Indians used fire to expand the grasslands to increase bison herds.
That is correct! If you watched the previous bison episode, we discuss how fire regimes were used to increasing grazing area for bison.
@@AncientAmericas I haven't seen it but I'll watch it.
The Rapper Hoe tribe were always a problem. Lots of noise complaints.
Almost as bad as the Fugawe tribe
So there are not UFO related sites in Roswell.