Fabulous show. Time Team America carrying on the tradition of Time Team Classic series. Whew, I thought TT lost it’s way! Keep up the great work & Keep the Real Time Team storytelling alive.
I lived with a dirt floor for 10 years and everything was covered with dirt and it was even in our noses. Just slightly better than outside. America isn’t wealthy for everyone. Even had an outhouse. Taking off your clothes in snow isn’t fun.
As an American, the Americans did Time Team all wrong. I don’t want dramatic punk music playing in the background with unnecessary camera cuts to build tension. This isn’t an episode of HGTV.
I got so excited when they reached the kitchen floor level that Josiah Henson walked! The people that belittle the main character of the novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" - Uncle Tom - have never read it. Tom may have been an enslaved servant, but he was a hero who endured in spite of Simon Legree's vicious beatings and attempts to get him to deny his faith. Tom was murdered when he refused to tell Legree to where Cassy and Emmeline had fled. The book was widely read in 1852 and injected the abolitionist movement with renewed vigor. It was second only to the Bible in copies sold around the world in the 19th Century. It was the shear popularity of the book that led to the stereotyping of many of the characters, including the negative transformation of Tom and his endurance against suffering, into a slavery apologist. Copywrite laws were very lax back then so racist minstrel shows made mocking plays from the book and smeared Uncle Tom into a pathetic caricature. Tom is based on real-life Josiah Henson, a slave who fled to Canada in 1830 taking his wife and children with him, a very rare feat. His childhood was one of suffering at the hands of slave owners. He began his plan by carrying weights in the woods so that he could become fit enough to carry his 2 youngest children on his back in their flight to freedom. In Canada, he became a highly respected land owner, farmer, mill owner, minister, writer, who helped found the British American Institute (a settlement program for other runaway slaves), and traveled to England to meet Queen Victoria. Henson personally traveled back to the south dozens of times to guide a total of 118 other slaves to freedom in Canada. Henson himself said of the book, “From that time to the present, I have been called ‘Uncle Tom,’ and I feel proud of the title. If my humble words in any way inspired that gifted lady to write, I have not lived in vain; for I believe that her book was the beginning of the glorious end.” So, know what you are talking about when you smear someone as an "Uncle Tom" and SHOW RESPECT to Harriet Beecher Stowe's character and to the man the character was based upon, Joshiah Henson. * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Henson * www.kcet.org/shows/redeeming-uncle-tom-the-josiah-henson-story/episodes/redeeming-uncle-tom-the-josiah-henson * www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-josiah-henson-real-inspiration-uncle-toms-cabin-180969094/
Joy FortyTwo It’s the presentation very low energy voiceover typical for a US doc. It’s like they’ve copied time team by watching it muted with subtitles. Got to be tone death to not understand time team is high energy with all the shouting and music.
.....no not really its not as good and didn't last as long as Secrets of the dead and was not good at all as a archaeology/history show...,but, other than that was a uhhhh show...on tv and was not really good
When comparing different series,you should also see the effort put in & the difficulties involved.Otherwise,you should not compare.Agreed on your assessment,though.
Pretty lame... even without a comparison to the original TT. Too much "feeling", "hoping", and "wishing" rather than facts and finds. They need a Mick Aston to keep them focused.
they dig 3 very small holes in the neighbors yard and go down about 6 inches and say, "nothing here". I find 1930s coins at 10 inches with my detector. Dig a real freakin hole and instead of these little holes. I understand they only have 3 days. i bet i could have found a ton of stuff detecting that would have told a lot more than what they found out.
Some of the comments concerning the appearance of the experts is laughable. Their choices in their jewelry/tattoos and such have absolutely nothing to do with their intelligence and expertise. They are respected in their fields of work, and that’s all that counts. Whatever happened to not being judgmental about other people?? 🤦🏻♀️
This is a big improvement over season 1! Just having the host walk and talk to the camera made a big difference. Do any TT fans recognize Mick the Dig at 35:38? He was teaching at U of Md!
This had me in tears. My family were white and dirt poor. I hated slavery, and how some current white people think that it was ok, because it was mentioned in the Bible. Pretty lame imo.
I'm trying very hard to get into this version of Time Team, but so far I'm not onboard. Although, the cast itself is a study in anthropology. Body mutilation, scarification, piercings, etc. are going to be datable evidence in future classes.
Rhonda Horne because in the original version Time Team UK the diggers have day jobs and this is a three day weekend thing besides their ordinary life. It’s also very expensive to pay a big staff accommodation and all technically equipment etc.
It would have been a lot better had they not treated "work" like something invented to keep slaves humiliated. My ancestors carried water and plowed too. Life in 1830 was hard.
Did you see that metal wagon wheel put around the neck of one of the Time Team members? Please, show me where your ancestors dealt with something like that?
Why is it that when slavery in America is talked about they NEVER mention that there were 3,777 African American slave OWNERS in America? Bet you never learned that in school now did you?
The answer to why is this is so lame compared with the original TT, is because it's produced by OPB. Hence the 'Oh poor me - My experience of historical injustice is more profound than the people who actually lived it'. That sickeningly conceited attitude of entitled, self important, egotists, so common in Portland, is hard at work here. But, no actual hard work on the 'dig'-- they didn't even bother to properly remove the turf for replacement? Not very nice. Long Live Time Team UK!
@Luce - To be fair, the UK version frequently did NOT carefully remove the grass and soil for neat replacement. Watch more episodes when you get the chance.
+Marc Bedard I've watched almost all of the original Time Team and loads more of British docs as well. To me the announcer sounds like she should be in a library reading the 3 little pigs or Hansel and Gretel to a bunch of 5 years olds. Very monotone, very patronizing, very blah compared to Tony Robinson.
What a horrible host! She has zero energy... makes me feel like I'm watching an episode of unsolved mysteries! What a shame. .. for such a fantastic show.
Why does American TV have to screw up every British TV show they try to copy? I guess because they have to dumb it down for US audiences. Leave Time Team to the REAL pros, folks.
I have watched TT Britain over and over again. I have tried to watch these US versions and it is interesting history, but, having to look at the jewelry and tats is just too much. Could they have not chosen more professional looking people for the show. Sorry but thumbs down.
@@Tmanaz480 Better to be old than to be a young moron who is disrespectful to people they know nothing about except that they dont like that person's opinion. Sheesh
These folks were chosen for reasons of political correctness.. as many of the news media faces, and entertainment personalities were. It's all fakeness based on virtue signalling. The level of cringe makes it insufferable.
@@dhy2kb393😂😂😂😂😂 their jewelry and appearance has nothing to do with their expertise and knowledge. This was also filmed way before your imaginary “virtue signaling” was even a thing. 😂😂😂 how ridiculous.
wow....leave it to the americans to make a show cheesy...compared to the original show in Great Britain where there is real history, United States was born yesterday.
i love history, but i think this is just poorly presented. The issue of slavery is so large that they seem to be swallowed by it. The professionals seem so amateurish. they act like they are being punished. The local folks seem more into it.
A very poor representation of the series set in the U.K. I'm a big fan of the series in the U.K., but the americanized version is just not watchable to me, and I'm a yank from Maine
i think you are talking without looking at history. check out the mound builders and try reading barry fell's three books, Saga America, etc. also gloria farley. also '1421' tells the story of a late voyage of the chinese down the west coast of america, or if you want 1000 years, go to the earlier voyages documented by a number of people such as Hendon Harris, 'the asiatic fathers of america'. i learned much about the background of my hairless dogs, who got the genes of the chinese wool dogs that all western tribes have, and which crossed with the hairless in peru. most likely on the about 499 ad trip by 5 Buddhist monks, or the earlier voyage 2000 or so BC. the last two trips are documented by Henriette Meyer, original title 'pale ink' she describes a journey from China that landed at Port Huaneme near Santa Barbara, California, and the route taken across California (perhaps after going down the coast to peru and doubling back) along about the present border between the USA and Mexico, where in my lifetime i found several gene lines of hairless dog considered indigenous for as long as anyone knows. some people in Arizona go horseback riding in the deserrt near tucson or Dragoon, and have a large hairless dog come out of the desert and follow them home. also 26 miles across the sea, santa catalina is waiting for me, where thousands of miniature mastodon bones were eaten by the natives a lot longer than 1000 years ago.
The subject wasn't bad, but the presentation was. Do you really think this crew could do justice to the Chinese treasure fleet? (I love Gavin Menzies work btw) Try reading 1491 about America before Columbus
wow....leave it to the americans to make a show cheesy...compared to the original show in Great Britain where there is real history, United States was born yesterday.
you do have a lot of dinosaurs and a lot of mines, but digging up dinosaurs takes forever, but lets face it you dont have much european history, so you take a long time digging it up, so that you wont run out of work, when the british time team visited jamestown they found more in three day than the americans had found in three months, no wonder they wernt invited back, "your digging it to quick, this has got to last, otherwise were out of work "
@@WOLFROY47 Well, I don't know how to keep the amazement off my face at your statement that America doesnt have much European history. Do tell. And as for the British team finding more at Jamestown in 3 days, etc,,,how any times has TT found more in 3 days in the UK than the UK archealogist found in a lifetime. Many times. I love your assesment that American archeologists dig slow so that they don't run out of work, LOL. You have no idea what archaologists actually do besides dig, do you?
Please. The American archaeologists are the one who brought archaeology out of the drawing rooms of egotistical landed gentry. There's far more history there because it's a hell of a lot bigger than the UK. Your Euro-centricism shines brightly. But would expect that from you.
Fabulous show. Time Team America carrying on the tradition of Time Team Classic series. Whew, I thought TT lost it’s way! Keep up the great work & Keep the Real Time Team storytelling alive.
I didn't know that Time Team came to the USA! And Josiah Henson - ! He grew into a truly great human being. Excited to begin watching.
I lived with a dirt floor for 10 years and everything was covered with dirt and it was even in our noses. Just slightly better than outside. America isn’t wealthy for everyone. Even had an outhouse. Taking off your clothes in snow isn’t fun.
Ah America....good weather without Britain rain.
As an American, the Americans did Time Team all wrong. I don’t want dramatic punk music playing in the background with unnecessary camera cuts to build tension. This isn’t an episode of HGTV.
Thank you for loading this video ... even if others find it childish, I found it enlightening
Linda Casey I agree, more info learned than what I had before watching. Thank you.
I agree I am enjoying it very much...
Worrying about history has always been deemed god like for kings (as they never do it) or stooge's entertainment (because we actually do)
I got so excited when they reached the kitchen floor level that Josiah Henson walked!
The people that belittle the main character of the novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" - Uncle Tom - have never read it. Tom may have been an enslaved servant, but he was a hero who endured in spite of Simon Legree's vicious beatings and attempts to get him to deny his faith. Tom was murdered when he refused to tell Legree to where Cassy and Emmeline had fled. The book was widely read in 1852 and injected the abolitionist movement with renewed vigor. It was second only to the Bible in copies sold around the world in the 19th Century.
It was the shear popularity of the book that led to the stereotyping of many of the characters, including the negative transformation of Tom and his endurance against suffering, into a slavery apologist. Copywrite laws were very lax back then so racist minstrel shows made mocking plays from the book and smeared Uncle Tom into a pathetic caricature.
Tom is based on real-life Josiah Henson, a slave who fled to Canada in 1830 taking his wife and children with him, a very rare feat. His childhood was one of suffering at the hands of slave owners. He began his plan by carrying weights in the woods so that he could become fit enough to carry his 2 youngest children on his back in their flight to freedom. In Canada, he became a highly respected land owner, farmer, mill owner, minister, writer, who helped found the British American Institute (a settlement program for other runaway slaves), and traveled to England to meet Queen Victoria. Henson personally traveled back to the south dozens of times to guide a total of 118 other slaves to freedom in Canada.
Henson himself said of the book, “From that time to the present, I have been called ‘Uncle Tom,’ and I feel proud of the title. If my humble words in any way inspired that gifted lady to write, I have not lived in vain; for I believe that her book was the beginning of the glorious end.”
So, know what you are talking about when you smear someone as an "Uncle Tom" and SHOW RESPECT to Harriet Beecher Stowe's character and to the man the character was based upon, Joshiah Henson.
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Henson
* www.kcet.org/shows/redeeming-uncle-tom-the-josiah-henson-story/episodes/redeeming-uncle-tom-the-josiah-henson
* www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-josiah-henson-real-inspiration-uncle-toms-cabin-180969094/
found this show through a class on pseudoarcheology. great series so far!
Josiah Henson home /property is located 30 min south of me @Dresden Ontario Canada.
Though this show doesn't come close to the original and the narration is pretty horrible it is still worth watching!
Time Team original had over 20 years to perfect their show. Go back and watch early episodes and see if you still have the same opinion.
Joy FortyTwo It’s the presentation very low energy voiceover typical for a US doc. It’s like they’ve copied time team by watching it muted with subtitles. Got to be tone death to not understand time team is high energy with all the shouting and music.
.....no not really its not as good and didn't last as long as Secrets of the dead and was not good at all as a archaeology/history show...,but, other than that was a uhhhh show...on tv and was not really good
Its pointless to compare both series.
I have a coffee cup with him on it. I always wondered who he was.
i think this is very close to the English version in spirit and enthusiasm, and i am very happy with it.
When comparing different series,you should also see the effort put in & the difficulties involved.Otherwise,you should not compare.Agreed on your assessment,though.
Thanks for the upload Reijer.
Pretty lame... even without a comparison to the original TT.
Too much "feeling", "hoping", and "wishing" rather than facts and finds. They need a Mick Aston to keep them focused.
You should bring back the series & do a follow up on this show.
they dig 3 very small holes in the neighbors yard and go down about 6 inches and say, "nothing here". I find 1930s coins at 10 inches with my detector. Dig a real freakin hole and instead of these little holes. I understand they only have 3 days. i bet i could have found a ton of stuff detecting that would have told a lot more than what they found out.
Yep they seemed afraid to hurt the dirt, your finding little pieces, may as well go full on backhoe
@Darren Bianco - According to the video, the owner placed some restrictions on them.
Some of the comments concerning the appearance of the experts is laughable. Their choices in their jewelry/tattoos and such have absolutely nothing to do with their intelligence and expertise. They are respected in their fields of work, and that’s all that counts. Whatever happened to not being judgmental about other people?? 🤦🏻♀️
This is a big improvement over season 1! Just having the host walk and talk to the camera made a big difference. Do any TT fans recognize Mick the Dig at 35:38? He was teaching at U of Md!
This had me in tears. My family were white and dirt poor. I hated slavery, and how some current white people think that it was ok, because it was mentioned in the Bible. Pretty lame imo.
I'm trying very hard to get into this version of Time Team, but so far I'm not onboard. Although, the cast itself is a study in anthropology. Body mutilation, scarification, piercings, etc. are going to be datable evidence in future classes.
No doubt. Debate for ritual or religion for future archeologists.
Why is that an issue?If its datable,its good for future archaeology.As Time Team America ain’t Time Team,comparing both is pointless.
I hope the time team gets to do more!
Why do y’all only do 3 days! I want more. Do it has long has it takes!!!!
Rhonda Horne because in the original version Time Team UK the diggers have day jobs and this is a three day weekend thing besides their ordinary life. It’s also very expensive to pay a big staff accommodation and all technically equipment etc.
B O R I N G
33:55 great moments in reparations.
video on stare rok 1883-2017= 134years
The cook is quite misinformed on protein values in vegetables!
Meat is recycled protein. Gorillas don't eat steaks.
Oh yeah, people drag nails around in paper envelopes ….
roger zager
Joke - juk in Dutch
It would have been a lot better had they not treated "work" like something invented to keep slaves humiliated. My ancestors carried water and plowed too. Life in 1830 was hard.
Did you see that metal wagon wheel put around the neck of one of the Time Team members? Please, show me where your ancestors dealt with something like that?
Imagine comparing the experience of your non-slave ancestors to those who were actually enslaved.
@Mom Noll no
I have been enjoying American Time Team but they just don't have the chemistry YET that the colleges across the pond have...
Comparing different series is pointless.
@@Russia-bullies In your opinion... It was just a observation...
I'd rather see more of the digging and archeology. They spent way too much time on the story, interesting though it may be.
Jm
Why is it that when slavery in America is talked about they NEVER mention that there were 3,777 African American slave OWNERS in America? Bet you never learned that in school now did you?
The answer to why is this is so lame compared with the original TT, is because it's produced by OPB. Hence the 'Oh poor me - My experience of historical injustice is more profound than the people who actually lived it'. That sickeningly conceited attitude of entitled, self important, egotists, so common in Portland, is hard at work here. But, no actual hard work on the 'dig'-- they didn't even bother to properly remove the turf for replacement? Not very nice. Long Live Time Team UK!
Piss off.
Amen
@Luce - To be fair, the UK version frequently did NOT carefully remove the grass and soil for neat replacement. Watch more episodes when you get the chance.
So they believe by changing logo they can improve the quality of season 2. How fascinating!
sounds and looks like a kids show
Marc Bedard Regretfully,most Americans are so ignorant when it comes to history and archaeology that shows like this have to be dumbed down.
+Greg B as an american i agree. sadly. I stick to the British version, and watch almost exclusively british docs.
+susan webb Me too. I can't afford cable, but I have broadband so I can stream the good stuff.
+Marc Bedard I've watched almost all of the original Time Team and loads more of British docs as well. To me the announcer sounds like she should be in a library reading the 3 little pigs or Hansel and Gretel to a bunch of 5 years olds. Very monotone, very patronizing, very blah compared to Tony Robinson.
stop hating
Just set the speed up to 1.25- makes it much more energetic- you’re welcome-
I like the format but I just could not look at her seriously with the heavy hardware hanging from her stretched ear lobes
This show doesnt hold candle to Time Team UK.
ponderously preachy without much architecture.
Ooh just dig, stop sifting and get on with it! I have no patients for the US TT. They look for something that happened yesterday!
@Beetje Obsessief - It was always a very sore point that the UK Time Team crew did NOT sift the soil! That was unprofessional and clumsy.
They should combine Time Team with the movie Team America, Time Team America! Fuck Yeah!
What a horrible host! She has zero energy... makes me feel like I'm watching an episode of unsolved mysteries! What a shame. .. for such a fantastic show.
The content is interesting, but Season 2 has removed the personable host/artist and replaced him with a fairly dry, read-a-script host...
Why does American TV have to screw up every British TV show they try to copy? I guess because they have to dumb it down for US audiences. Leave Time Team to the REAL pros, folks.
How lazy! Talk talk talk for three days and they dig how many holes? Seemed like one long book recommendation and a Reading Rainbow narrator...
I have watched TT Britain over and over again. I have tried to watch these US versions and it is interesting history, but, having to look at the jewelry and tats is just too much. Could they have not chosen more professional looking people for the show. Sorry but thumbs down.
K Clark ... Congratulations! Many old folks have trouble using the internet. It's nice you're able to get online in your 80s.
@@Tmanaz480 Better to be old than to be a young moron who is disrespectful to people they know nothing about except that they dont like that person's opinion. Sheesh
@K Clark Don't judge a book by it's cover. What has how they look in your eyes to do with anything?
These folks were chosen for reasons of political correctness.. as many of the news media faces, and entertainment personalities were. It's all fakeness based on virtue signalling.
The level of cringe makes it insufferable.
@@dhy2kb393😂😂😂😂😂 their jewelry and appearance has nothing to do with their expertise and knowledge. This was also filmed way before your imaginary “virtue signaling” was even a thing. 😂😂😂 how ridiculous.
Leave it to PBS to take a subject that could be interesting and informative and turn it into a chiding lecture about social justice!
I can’t watch. Seeing that woman’s earlobes with the weight of the earrings pulling them down it too distressing.
Nope, wrong characters used for the whole team.
wow....leave it to the americans to make a show cheesy...compared to the original show in Great Britain where there is real history, United States was born yesterday.
Shut up stupid
If I have to hear one more thing about the history of slavery, I will scream.
yeah, maybe you should just be watching the history of puppy dogs and rainbows
?
goldtgreentwirler If you throw in a slavery element, you get more funding!
goldtgreentwirler You take obnoxious to the next level.
How shallow, inhumane, selfish and ignorant of you.
+goldtgreentwirler I"m sure by your ignorant comments, your family owned slaves.
i love history, but i think this is just poorly presented. The issue of slavery is so large that they seem to be swallowed by it. The professionals seem so amateurish. they act like they are being punished. The local folks seem more into it.
A very poor representation of the series set in the U.K. I'm a big fan of the series in the U.K., but the americanized version is just not watchable to me, and I'm a yank from Maine
This episode feels like a group of african americans peddaling the slavery card rather than actually persuing archeaology.
..."slavery card".....? Really?
Dinglebruh M'lord - Oh, good grief! The history of slavery and it's follow-on cousin, racism, is the history of the USA.
Time Team America is lame. I'm only interested in 1000+ year old excavations of the type of buildings, that just do not exist in the USA.
i think you are talking without looking at history. check out the mound builders and try reading barry fell's three books, Saga America, etc. also gloria farley. also '1421' tells the story of a late voyage of the chinese down the west coast of america, or if you want 1000 years, go to the earlier voyages documented by a number of people such as Hendon Harris, 'the asiatic fathers of america'. i learned much about the background of my hairless dogs, who got the genes of the chinese wool dogs that all western tribes have, and which crossed with the hairless in peru. most likely on the about 499 ad trip by 5 Buddhist monks, or the earlier voyage 2000 or so BC. the last two trips are documented by Henriette Meyer, original title 'pale ink' she describes a journey from China that landed at Port Huaneme near Santa Barbara, California, and the route taken across California (perhaps after going down the coast to peru and doubling back) along about the present border between the USA and Mexico, where in my lifetime i found several gene lines of hairless dog considered indigenous for as long as anyone knows. some people in Arizona go horseback riding in the deserrt near tucson or Dragoon, and have a large hairless dog come out of the desert and follow them home.
also 26 miles across the sea, santa catalina is waiting for me, where thousands of miniature mastodon bones were eaten by the natives a lot longer than 1000 years ago.
no, it just isn't time team without the British blokes drinking a pint at the end of it.
The subject wasn't bad, but the presentation was. Do you really think this crew could do justice to the Chinese treasure fleet? (I love Gavin Menzies work btw) Try reading 1491 about America before Columbus
shit fuckers, we have things up to 20,000 years old here, fucking morons
Time team America sucks compared to the UK version way to much talking and very little excavation footage
@ 5 minutes mark : actually the book meant nothing at the time because until 1970 blacks couldn't read it
This programme is very boring, nothing like the UK original.
wow....leave it to the americans to make a show cheesy...compared to the original show in Great Britain where there is real history, United States was born yesterday.
I could hardly agree more.
you do have a lot of dinosaurs and a lot of mines, but digging up dinosaurs takes forever, but lets face it you dont have much european history, so you take a long time digging it up, so that you wont run out of work, when the british time team visited jamestown they found more in three day than the americans had found in three months, no wonder they wernt invited back, "your digging it to quick, this has got to last, otherwise were out of work "
@@WOLFROY47 Well, I don't know how to keep the amazement off my face at your statement that America doesnt have much European history. Do tell. And as for the British team finding more at Jamestown in 3 days, etc,,,how any times has TT found more in 3 days in the UK than the UK archealogist found in a lifetime. Many times. I love your assesment that American archeologists dig slow so that they don't run out of work, LOL. You have no idea what archaologists actually do besides dig, do you?
Please. The American archaeologists are the one who brought archaeology out of the drawing rooms of egotistical landed gentry. There's far more history there because it's a hell of a lot bigger than the UK. Your Euro-centricism shines brightly. But would expect that from you.