In another world where the BBC actually cared about European culture, Tom would have his own show. That said, I’ll happily take a CZcams version! Great content!
Agree. Last night I watched a program purporting to be about Western Australia , so potentially a very interesting topic , however most of it was given over to Bill Bailey gabbling a load of trivia , and interviewing a few local nonentities . Dread to think what it all cost
Whilst getting 'doomed out' left right and centre by everything going on these days; what a relief you upload this excellent video and save the day. Can't thank you enough, brother. 🍻
My wife and I recently wandered down Avebury's avenue of standing stones trying to hear the echoes of our ancestors in their deep and mysterious silence. How we longed for a guide to reveal their spiritual meaning. Such is this fabulous series. What an Incalculable service you are doing our people. Bravo!
I absolutely love how precise you get into the details of what there is to know and that you speak not just from an analytical viewpoint but also from a point of practical experience having been to many of these ancient sites. Please keep up the amazing work helping to inspire a more accurate and rich understanding of the ancient past.
Truly educational and delightful! Thank you! I am looking forward to more of your son's contributions, observations, and deductions regarding future explorations. He is adorable! I assume he was in charge of the camera work when he was examining the stone work, and sensing the presence of ghosts? Excellent job! What an enchantingly beautiful family you have!
Wow, I was aware of Cornwall's significance in the Bronze Age for bronze, but I hadn't realized that its historical importance in shaping humanity goes beyond that era. Thank you for shedding light on it; I've gained new insights into Cornwall today.
Excellent just back from a run looking to wind down and relax. And no better way to do this than watch a brand new video from Survive the Jive video. Thanks for posting.
I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*.
Love it. Boots on the ground. Concise using current data available. Non-woke. Just a logical and enjoyable documentary about a subject we are all curious about.
Already seen this documentary but more than happy to watch it again, fascinating history! Makes you wonder how much (or how little) we today will be understood in thousands of years.
Fascinating stuff, and it’s your channel’s unique style and attention to detail, and obvious passion for your subject, that makes me return to your videos because it’s content you won’t find anywhere else. Cheers.
Gavrinis Barrow is striking. So similar to Newgrange and that it was built a thousand years before is very fascinating. I assume you meant that it faces the sunrise on winter solstice as opposed to the sunset? And baffling how this hasn't been tested yet. Great video Tom.
ah yes perhaps it is the sun rise - hard to get concrete info on this as weirdly no one has tested it under scientific conditions but many report that as at Newgrange, a beam of sunlight reaches the back wall at the winter solstice
Excellent talks. I love your channel. Now the BBC have no interest in producing intelligent programs about ancient Europe I have great pleasure in listening to you. Thank you.
I love it when you do these documentary style videos. It reminds me of when I was younger back in the 80's and the historians actually still cared about tradition and also seemed to care about the history itself. But these days it's all infected and infested with politics and subversive lies.
Just started watching and the first monument is the nine Maidens! Right on my doorstep! So glad you’re focusing on megaliths! Keep up the good work, Thomas. Looking forward to watching the rest of this!
I can’t help but imagine the things that were unearthed by common soldiers digging the trenches of WW1. One would think out of all that excavation a few “finds” of curiosity would have been noted. Perhaps I haven’t read enough yet.
Nice. An idea for a follow up video would be top talk about how Germanic heathens used these ancient stone circles, barrowss etc. Specifically, when the anglos came to England, when the norse came to England, how we renamed them etc. I noticed some geeks who hate their own people have renamed a lot of these ancient sites with fake celtic names even though the original celtic names were lost to time and even they were not the first names for these places, hell, we dont even know the neolithic names. Perhaps you (tom) could start a campaign to start using the Anglo saxon names again for these sacred places.
Top stuff. I had only heard about some of these places briefly, and others not at all. I think many Irish people grow up, through sheer innocent ignorance, thinking dolmens and such only exist in Ireland...
Fascinating documentary, Thank you! I hope you do a piece on Wandlebury (Cambridgeshire) some day. It's a fascinating place, and maybe there was a chalk figure there. You can see the hill from the church door in Sawston, looking across the churchyard where generations of my ancestors were buried.
My DNA has the G2 haplogroup marker associated with LBK culture. Imagine my delight to watch your video to discover the connection between Long Houses, Long Barrows and Megalithic culture. Absolutely wonderful, and thank you.
Wonderful to see how your little apprentice appears to share your curiosity and exuberance. Great show once again you dont disappoint. Love from Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤
Amazing video as always and I think an ancient alien fan dislikes your video haha. Seriously, lovely work, keep making fantastic videos, and I and wondering where you are in the Stone Circles Series are heading next!
Well researched fascinating subject I can see you’ve done your homework yet again with prehistory the more you read the less we know thank you for uploading fascinating subject
Love your documentaries, Tom! I would love you to do one about the prisoners sent from England, Ireland and Scotland to Australia. Sending prisoners to the other side of the planet is fascinating, and exactly how I ended up being born in New Zealand.
Great work Thomas. I do however have to bring to your attention what Gimbutas did, as her work was pinned to Cucuteni Culture. I spent time with Nicolae Ursulescu who was the head of Cucuteni studies at Iasi University. Cucuteni was a huge culture with more than 3000 sites and cities that could have reached 20000 inhabitants at a time when the first tumuluses were built in Britany. And yet there were no signs of hierarchical social structure and yes, they were egalitarian and most likely matriarchal, as 80% of the human representation were of women. Nor were there burials as they burned the bodies and did not have reasons to build mounds. Ursulescu kept saying that there must be a burial with a chieftain somewhere but one that was yet to be found. What came after the domestication of the horse changed the equation and that was the basis on which Gimbutas built her arguments for the Kurgan Hypothesis. I am quite upset that after thousands of years of Indo-European history of building tumuluses the Turks now pound their chests and consider the thousands of these Indo-European burial mounds spread al the way to Altai as belonging to the Turkic cultures on account that 'kurgan' is a Turkish word....Such is history; steps forward, steps back...
Thank goodness I've got over the title of survive the Jive, because your work is brilliant. Thanks for the super entertainment, also, thought provoking insights. Peace be unto you. Great addition, your Son enjoying himself, lovely.
I came to this because I was researching whether Brittany's stone culture would have preceded the South West and British stone culture. It makes sense, although there are theories on Orkney as being earlier than Stonehenge, for example, according to carbon dating. The other question I had was regarding barrows being like the pyramids. Easy to miss this, if we focus on size and shape, but many pyramids were quite small too. Many theories debunked in this fascinating documentary. Thanks.
Tom, if you are looking for content ideas, I would very much love to see a video connecting anthropology with linguistics. I wish you could get a historical linguist on board and try to match all the cultures at different time periods you speak about to possible proto-languages that those people spoke. I know a lot of it would be guesswork, but nonetheless, it would be fascinating.
thank you was gr8 video , loved the part where you almost want to alert your son to goin in , felt like he was representative our a consciousness that whats to jump in to unknown knowledge bless
I wonder if the ancient inspiration for megalithic stone rows was a memory of stone hunting traps like the desert kites you see in the middle east. They even raised some lone megaliths in the desert that apparently acted as maps/blueprints for kites somewhere around 8000 years ago. It would make sense for a hunter gatherer culture to chinese whisper that tradition into the megalithic monuments we later see.
I personally like the idea that based on cultural, genetic, and toponymic evidence, these people may have been culturally and linguistically related to the modern Basque culture.
It’s a crime against humanity that this doesn’t garner more views. This docu is insanely good
YT suddenly recommended this channel. I’m a Time Team follower, so perhaps the magic algorithm got it right this once!
@@clogs4956 wonderful
In another world where the BBC actually cared about European culture, Tom would have his own show. That said, I’ll happily take a CZcams version! Great content!
I agree entirely. The BBC no longer produce anything I want to watch. I rewatch all Neil Oliver's series before he was" cancelled"!!
The BBC would have you believe our ancestors crossed the channel on the good ship Windrush.
Agree. Last night I watched a program purporting to be about Western Australia , so potentially a very interesting topic , however most of it was given over to Bill Bailey gabbling a load of trivia , and interviewing a few local nonentities . Dread to think what it all cost
Thats sad to think about. Lol maybe even as close as 20 years ago this show could have been on bbc. What the absolute fuck happened England
@@PLATINUM12x5 Yes, they're called European cultures.
European must preserve their ancient culture and relics
I sure do agree
Europeans* though yo 🏤🏰
Will soon be a housing estate for immigrants 😢😂
You wish
@@cosettapessa6417 I don't.
Whilst getting 'doomed out' left right and centre by everything going on these days; what a relief you upload this excellent video and save the day.
Can't thank you enough, brother. 🍻
Well said
Back to doom scrolling.
Having watched this all, I have to say what a superb documentary. Far superior to anything you will find on BBC4.
Of course. BBC hate native English.
My wife and I recently wandered down Avebury's avenue of standing stones trying to hear the echoes of our ancestors in their deep and mysterious silence. How we longed for a guide to reveal their spiritual meaning. Such is this fabulous series. What an Incalculable service you are doing our people. Bravo!
You continue to deliver time and time again - even in such strange and confusing times as these. A blessing from the gods, indeed.
These documentaries are some of my favorite and are just as good as all the documentaries I used to watch growing up. Excellent work Tom!
I absolutely love how precise you get into the details of what there is to know and that you speak not just from an analytical viewpoint but also from a point of practical experience having been to many of these ancient sites. Please keep up the amazing work helping to inspire a more accurate and rich understanding of the ancient past.
Truly educational and delightful! Thank you! I am looking forward to more of your son's contributions, observations, and deductions regarding future explorations. He is adorable! I assume he was in charge of the camera work when he was examining the stone work, and sensing the presence of ghosts? Excellent job! What an enchantingly beautiful family you have!
Wow, I was aware of Cornwall's significance in the Bronze Age for bronze, but I hadn't realized that its historical importance in shaping humanity goes beyond that era. Thank you for shedding light on it; I've gained new insights into Cornwall today.
Actually Cornwall doesn't have special Neolithic significance, really. Brittany does.
@@Survivethejive "You talk a good game, but where's my turnips?" - Your Norman masters
@@SurvivethejiveThe Siberian megaliths are even bigger. It makes me wonder since R1b came from that area, if thats really where it started. 🤔🤔🤔
Cornwall is significant as it's one of the few places on earth with all the raw materials needed to make Bronze
With the Denisovans @@Thekoryosmenstribepodcast
We must secure the existence of European architecture and art, and a future for our cultural expressions.
I see what you done there 😊
Excellent just back from a run looking to wind down and relax. And no better way to do this than watch a brand new video from Survive the Jive video. Thanks for posting.
Mate you've been smashing it with the content recently
No one knows who they were or what they were doing
But their legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock, of Stonehenge
I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*.
contra Spinal Tap, we DO know who they were and a lot about what they were doing, as you will learn from this film
Well said indeed.
Poor Nigel…he never meant for them to be so small ! 😣
Amazing documentary, Tom. Better than anything you find on the history channel or bbc.
Great and very welcome viewing for such a beastly weather day, thanks Tom
Love it. Boots on the ground. Concise using current data available. Non-woke. Just a logical and enjoyable documentary about a subject we are all curious about.
Tom stepping up his thumbnail game for all the zoomers
Already seen this documentary but more than happy to watch it again, fascinating history!
Makes you wonder how much (or how little) we today will be understood in thousands of years.
the audio has been redone in parts
you deserve so much more attention. your videos are extremely high quality and always interesting. keep up the good fight brother.
Fascinating stuff, and it’s your channel’s unique style and attention to detail, and obvious passion for your subject, that makes me return to your videos because it’s content you won’t find anywhere else.
Cheers.
Gavrinis Barrow is striking. So similar to Newgrange and that it was built a thousand years before is very fascinating. I assume you meant that it faces the sunrise on winter solstice as opposed to the sunset? And baffling how this hasn't been tested yet. Great video Tom.
ah yes perhaps it is the sun rise - hard to get concrete info on this as weirdly no one has tested it under scientific conditions but many report that as at Newgrange, a beam of sunlight reaches the back wall at the winter solstice
43 seconds and the thumbnail already looks amazing. Looking forward to this now lmao
Well done Tom, phenomenal quality on this one.
You have a brave little boy there Tom. Well done and thank you for the vid :D
Absolutely amazing thank you for your hard work in this documentary, enjoyed every minute.. and the little boy was extra cute bless him. 🤍
Hi violet moon of the north 💜🌙🇳🇴
*SURVIVE THE JIVE I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL AND CONTENT!*
Best description I have seen. Love the time line overlays. Brilliant!
Excellent talks. I love your channel. Now the BBC have no interest in producing intelligent programs about ancient Europe I have great pleasure in listening to you. Thank you.
I love it when you do these documentary style videos. It reminds me of when I was younger back in the 80's and the historians actually still cared about tradition and also seemed to care about the history itself. But these days it's all infected and infested with politics and subversive lies.
Clicked on this thinking it would be a short video. Happy to see nearly an hours worth of valuable information.
High quality documentary. It has both educatinal depth and a personality to it that the bland and shallow stuff on netflix sorely lacks
Thank you so much for saying so
Thank you Tom, that was an engrossing and illuminating tour.
Just started watching and the first monument is the nine Maidens! Right on my doorstep! So glad you’re focusing on megaliths! Keep up the good work, Thomas. Looking forward to watching the rest of this!
I can’t help but imagine the things that were unearthed by common soldiers digging the trenches of WW1. One would think out of all that excavation a few “finds” of curiosity would have been noted. Perhaps I haven’t read enough yet.
Nice. An idea for a follow up video would be top talk about how Germanic heathens used these ancient stone circles, barrowss etc. Specifically, when the anglos came to England, when the norse came to England, how we renamed them etc. I noticed some geeks who hate their own people have renamed a lot of these ancient sites with fake celtic names even though the original celtic names were lost to time and even they were not the first names for these places, hell, we dont even know the neolithic names. Perhaps you (tom) could start a campaign to start using the Anglo saxon names again for these sacred places.
Top stuff. I had only heard about some of these places briefly, and others not at all. I think many Irish people grow up, through sheer innocent ignorance, thinking dolmens and such only exist in Ireland...
People naturally develop a personal connection to the ancient features of the landscape
Damn this was a surprise. Looking forward to watching
Fascinating documentary, Thank you! I hope you do a piece on Wandlebury (Cambridgeshire) some day. It's a fascinating place, and maybe there was a chalk figure there. You can see the hill from the church door in Sawston, looking across the churchyard where generations of my ancestors were buried.
I have to take you to the megalithic route we have in northern Portugal the next time you come over, Tom!
Spoiler... they didn't come from Africa
Thanks for this wonderful segment on black megalithic history.
The megaliths are more grey coloured actually
@@Survivethejive WE WUZ MEGA KANGS
Brilliant as always , thank you Tom.
My DNA has the G2 haplogroup marker associated with LBK culture. Imagine my delight to watch your video to discover the connection between Long Houses, Long Barrows and Megalithic culture. Absolutely wonderful, and thank you.
Wonderful to see how your little apprentice appears to share your curiosity and exuberance. Great show once again you dont disappoint. Love from Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤
Amazing video as always and I think an ancient alien fan dislikes your video haha. Seriously, lovely work, keep making fantastic videos, and I and wondering where you are in the Stone Circles Series are heading next!
Another excellent video. I like how you use maps so an ignorant American such as myself can really get a clearer picture of what was going on. ⚔️
Glad it was helpful!
This is brilliant, really well put together video, encaptivaing and really educational. Keep up the good work!
"Nearly every Englishman of working-class origin considers it effeminate to pronounce a foreign word correctly." - George Orwell
Awesome documentary, will have to watch again. Can't believe how much time has already passed when you're taking your lad on adventures with you! 🤠
Glad you enjoyed it
Well researched fascinating subject I can see you’ve done your homework yet again with prehistory the more you read the less we know thank you for uploading fascinating subject
Cheers thanks again we appreciate this thanks for waking us and our ancestors Cheers
very well produced and enjoyable
The axes exported from the Italian Alps, are somewhat similar to the broad battle axes of the Corded Ware culture.
That's right. The Corded ware battle axes were influenced by stone axe traditions of German Neolithic people
Wonderful documentary Tom. Thank you very much.
This documentary is just as good as the BBC documentaries.
Brilliant, Tom. Thank you
Very welcome
This channel needs more subs. great video!
Excellent content, thank you. Passionately objective scholarship is a joy to watch.
very kind Kieran
Fantastic documentary. very well done.
Many thanks!
Love your documentaries, Tom! I would love you to do one about the prisoners sent from England, Ireland and Scotland to Australia. Sending prisoners to the other side of the planet is fascinating, and exactly how I ended up being born in New Zealand.
.Wonderful documentary Tom! You never fail to enlighted and entertain us with your love of the distant past. I am a big fan of your enthusiasm.
Great work Thomas. I do however have to bring to your attention what Gimbutas did, as her work was pinned to Cucuteni Culture. I spent time with Nicolae Ursulescu who was the head of Cucuteni studies at Iasi University. Cucuteni was a huge culture with more than 3000 sites and cities that could have reached 20000 inhabitants at a time when the first tumuluses were built in Britany. And yet there were no signs of hierarchical social structure and yes, they were egalitarian and most likely matriarchal, as 80% of the human representation were of women. Nor were there burials as they burned the bodies and did not have reasons to build mounds. Ursulescu kept saying that there must be a burial with a chieftain somewhere but one that was yet to be found. What came after the domestication of the horse changed the equation and that was the basis on which Gimbutas built her arguments for the Kurgan Hypothesis. I am quite upset that after thousands of years of Indo-European history of building tumuluses the Turks now pound their chests and consider the thousands of these Indo-European burial mounds spread al the way to Altai as belonging to the Turkic cultures on account that 'kurgan' is a Turkish word....Such is history; steps forward, steps back...
Your work is an oasis for the heart and mind. Thank you, sir.
Smashing content as ever
Absolutely fantastic video as always. Thank you for sharing the beauty of our ancient peoples🎉
very nicely done . your son was a charming addition .
Wonderful video, Tom. I see these and am so happy that this is part of my heritage!
Brittany is wonderful
Thank goodness I've got over the title of survive the Jive, because your work is brilliant. Thanks for the super entertainment, also, thought provoking insights. Peace be unto you. Great addition, your Son enjoying himself, lovely.
such a great documentary! thanks Tom
Such a well-research information covering genetics and so much more. Always well-done.
Refreshing to see non institutional Videos
Great Content keep it coming
great work!
I came to this because I was researching whether Brittany's stone culture would have preceded the South West and British stone culture. It makes sense, although there are theories on Orkney as being earlier than Stonehenge, for example, according to carbon dating. The other question I had was regarding barrows being like the pyramids. Easy to miss this, if we focus on size and shape, but many pyramids were quite small too. Many theories debunked in this fascinating documentary. Thanks.
Hell yea brother. Great content per usual. Thanks
That was OPTIMUM! Thank you.
Utterly spellbound by your video thank you ✌️
Tom, if you are looking for content ideas, I would very much love to see a video connecting anthropology with linguistics. I wish you could get a historical linguist on board and try to match all the cultures at different time periods you speak about to possible proto-languages that those people spoke. I know a lot of it would be guesswork, but nonetheless, it would be fascinating.
Looking forward to this one.
Tom, in your poll I voted for Megalithic Origins, but Quinipily was a close runner up and touchingly sentimental.
Channels like this: Lets explore the past!
Channels like wolf the red: The Past is racist! Destroy it!
I have been waiting for more content like this. Thank you Tom!
Thank you so much!! Commenting for boost
thank you was gr8 video , loved the part where you almost want to alert your son to goin in , felt like he was representative our a consciousness that whats to jump in to unknown knowledge bless
Great video, they just keep getting better, many thanks.
This is great…very well presented
The conclusion reminds me of the book The Ancient City. A must read.
Thank you for covering France!
This was a fascinating episode Tom.
Very good documentary! Hats off!
A lot of information and footage while bias is kept to a minimum.
I wonder if the ancient inspiration for megalithic stone rows was a memory of stone hunting traps like the desert kites you see in the middle east. They even raised some lone megaliths in the desert that apparently acted as maps/blueprints for kites somewhere around 8000 years ago. It would make sense for a hunter gatherer culture to chinese whisper that tradition into the megalithic monuments we later see.
Great documentary, nice job. Mind, I learned most of what you presented here from Asterix the Gaul back in the 70s :D
I love that you take your kid with you 😄
Nice, I'm wondering if I shouldn't gather all your episodes on these amd related topics to teach my daughter. She's been asking questions!
Please do!
Outstanding. Thank you!
You're very welcome!
Excellent work STJ
Thomas is cool
Glacial
Arctic hyperborean
Challenge varg to an in person debate while in France
I personally like the idea that based on cultural, genetic, and toponymic evidence, these people may have been culturally and linguistically related to the modern Basque culture.