I admit it. I am in love with Phil. His enthusiasm for archaeology in all its forms, his attention to detail and his humility. “Learning at the hand of a master”. Phil “I don’t know about that”. In all the episodes he didn’t tell you what you wanted to hear but only what the trench and the finds told you.
Stewart is probably my Favorite, and I really love Phil and loved Mick, its sad to see those we admire and/or care about transition into NonPhysical. I apply thoughts of that subject takeing a bit of slower pace from now on. Stewart always a huge, Independent, Contribution to their efforts. (...and I feel Matt was an Older Man's Ego threat), the Younger Handsome Man that Tony seemed to try to portray as the "Young weak/naive guy", a sortta "all Braun and no Brains". He managed to take it well on film, but I can almost hear him saying, "One of these days, I should bury Tony to his neck in an Ant Hill" 😁 lol
I agree. He seems to have a preternatural ability to “see” a complete picture of what the land looked like in the past. It’s fascinating to watch his mind work..
@@Dovietail Time team was also done with a American team within the US. It however was different from it's UK counterpart and didn't have the same flair or feeling. Which is why it flopped. Also this American team decided to dig at spots that you could have guessed that you wouldn't find anything there.
@@Dovietail Pottery chards on it self doesn't mean much. But yeah there could be a decent reason for it to be there. The US doesn't really have much going on in moving earth to heighten other area's of the country. Which is a big thing in parts of Europe. So there might be some things left over from whatever or whom ever left those pottery shards behind. If it's a native American camp then it may however be a very hard task to complete.
@@SIG442 there were Native American cities. Some already in ruins by the time Europeans got there. But like in Africa they pretended that there was no civilisation before they got there. E.g. Great Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe on the continent of Africa, shown by a female archaeologist to have already been abandoned before Europeans got there but first she was a woman and what do they know? And second her findings contradicted the story they were telling themselves, and the world, about native African societies.
8 1/2 minutes in and I already have another name for this episode. Phil’s Amusement Park. He’s like a little school boy when he finds flint. A man in his element.
@@suburbanbanshee I picture Phil w/a big blunt, aged17, havin a transcendent vision!! "Guys,guys!! I just saw what i am meant to do w/my life...!! I'm meant to make stone tools, & dig holes, better 'n' anybody!!!!!" And the Guys say, "Sure,Sunshine!! We believe ya'!!"
I agree. People who don't like him are only really showing their ignorance. They don't understand the show is scripted (albeit with a lot of ad lib) and one of Tony's personas is that of the "interested but slightly sceptical layperson".
Very amused by Mick rummaging around outside the window in the background while they're using his face in the foreground to demonstrate Neanderthal skull shapes..
Honestly, when I first started watching this I thought Phil was a LOT older. That youngster's got great legs! He just dresses and carries himself like an old fuddy duddy. Phil is literally DECADES younger than I thought he was. He is just performing the Platonic ideal of the "old geezer."
I adore Andy Currant. What a character! I'll never forget his performance as "paleolithic horse" in season 6 episode 4 (which also features a memorable cameo from the late Marquess of Bath)!
The vole tooth hunters aren't trying to dissolve the clay, but rather to deflocculate it, or make sure the clay particles stay in suspension in the water
The Team Effort is the best part of Time Team. I loved Mic and Phil's conversation over a piece of flint - especially Mic's comments of being at the "foot of the Master" and Phil's "I don't know about that" (often stated in many episodes (humbly or not)). Mic's comment about the flint being the result of "frost" without prompting from Mic (therefore he had some knowledge himself - "elementary my dear Holmes" - not unsurprisingly.). Phil's normal (honest and learned) optimism is best demonstrated when Tony asks if they will find anything by the end of the day and Phil responds instantly, "if you just give me a pick I'll see if we will". PS I loved Andy's efforts - A LOT of effort (60 buckets) for for the results obtained - the skull discussion was interesting indeed..
As two Americans, we have to giggle at Andy Currants "red scarf hat". It reminds us of Monty Python show we saw years ago. No one in America would wear such a head covering - although it does the job. Living here in Michigan it frequently happens that when someone digs a new pond or roadway, they find a Mammoth or Mastodon skeleton. We also have several areas where there are Devonian Fossils close to the surface - such as at Rockport Quarry area up in Alpena, Michigan. Then there is the Copper Culture sites in Wisconsin and the Keweenaw Peninsula in northern Michigan. I wish we had a "Time Team" here in the states.
@@anneschepeler4086 Years ago, a buddy of mine was telling me about camping in a remote spot in the UP. As they were leaving a couple came hiking up, dressed, as he put it, "in the entire LL Bean catalog," and looking for a site. They told the newcomers a few general things about it- water over there, wood there, etc. Then he started talking about the important stuff: keep your food off the ground so the bears don't get it, do this and that to keep the raccoons away. The woman shrugged off the bear issue. Then he said "keep stuff sealed up, so the field mice don't get in it". And she FREAKED. When he and his buddy left, the woman was insisting they hike back to the car, and get away from the mice. Bears, no worries. Mice..... that was her breaking point. Anyway, your comment brought that to mind :)
@@BC-ui9yt I would almost bet money they were from Ann Arbor! lol. I live in a rural part of the state and you would be amazed at the A2s that come out and get put out by roosters crowing, ducks quacking, etc. We had one woman who moved out here and complained about everything from mosquitoes (spray them), farm animals, etc. Finally, one of the board members said "Ma'am, maybe living out here just isn't a good fit for you." The whole room cracked up!
I gather the flints found are flakes from bigger flints which were being worked into tools? Wonderful program, always educational, fascinating and fun!
In Murray County, Georgia, a rich man built a golf course and in the process found a treasure trove of Indian artifacts. Then he had to have built an oak and glass display case to house them in. It was really exciting to view.
I love the fact that Phil was so excited about that piece of flint he wasn't letting his fellow any in way. :)) I swear, put Phil with a bunch of flint pieces from all over and he could talk your ear off for hours. :))
I knew Stewart and Mick were vegos, I didn't know John is, too. I love that their being vegetarian was so normalised in the show. It's never mocked or criticised. Mick mentions his vegetarianism in several shows, and Stewart in a couple, and they're always accounted for in meals. It's lovely to see.
@@Cazsuane I think you're talking about the Goldcliff episode where Mick suggested Stewart try the duck eggs. Trying a duck egg doesn't make you vegetarian.
@@Libbathegreat Vegans don’t consume any type of animal products. Vegetarians do; eat animal by products but it’s all down to the type you put yourself in, as to being vegetarian if you do or don’t it’s a personal choice. ✌🏻
A fascinating look at what lies beneath our feet. As a Flint Knapper the lithic material found was fascinating. However I am more fascinated by what was not found. Starting from a rock nodules weighing several pounds, the first reduction of the large nodule could have been with a bone or antler baton, but also a pretty high likelihood initial reduction was done with another rock referred to as Hard Hammer Percussion. That would hard removed large rock flakes revealing the outer cortex of the nodule. Where are these? Every single flake picked up? Some “fist size” Hammer Stones were not found nor apparently any abrading stones. Also notably absent were many small rock chips necessary to prepare “platforms” for long flake long flake removal that was found, which was a “thinning flake” for the hand axe. A 3-day excavation could not be expected to reveal all but some surprise of what was not found is interesting as well.
From other experts on Neanderthal spears, they claim that Neanderthals did not use throwing spears but had to get up close and personal to the game they were hunting. The Neanderthal spear was stout and for stabbing only.
16:55 - 17:01 as the boys were talking the film of that fellow digging was running backwards.. Hilarious! My question is with that amount of time you didn't find river wander.. rivers wander land raises and geology changes especially in 400,000 years..
47:40 Not sure when this was named, but I'd guess in the Viking age? "Elveden" in Norwegian literally means "River den" (Den is not Norwegian), but even the name suggests there's a river there.
Amazing how much good archaeology there is in civilized England. I get sad thinking about how much fascinating history is buried in countries that either make it hard to dig there, or are too violent to be safe, but they never seem to run out of good stuff to dig for in Britain. And they've only got three days to do it!
What I could gather scientists rather think that a lot of this is people moving around rather than developing it independently. Those flint axes were made for hundreds of thousands of years with little change.
40:28 I can't believe those boys smashed pyrit at flint for minutes on end, trying to ignite freaking charcoal, all that while they had perfect dry fluffy tinder material right next to them............🤦
Every *Time Team, Time Team Special* and most *Time Team America* programmes have been posted on YT by *Fillask, Reijer Zaaijer* and this, the _official_ *Time Team* channel. Try *DigVentures* too.
@@Liquessen I don't know which channel you mean but _this_ is the official *TT* channel and that may be associated with it. There is also *Timeline,* a commercial channel which, it seems, has licensed the dig programmes - probably from *Channel4* which co-owns the copyright (I think). There are more *TT* programmes on there but _this_ channel has the best quality. Alas they appear to be uploaded by amateurs who sometimes get the descriptions wrong. The _small vids_ are basically _tasters_ cut down from the full programmes. But to see _all_ the *TT* digs the two older channels, *Fillask* and *Reijer Zaaijer,* are necessary. They have been up for many years now, long before the other channels existed.
@@philaypeephilippotter6532 - Great that you lay it out clearly. I found these channels too, and recently this Time Team channel has been posting a lot. Unfortunately there is no single startpage with an overview of all channels and episodes. But fortunately all episodes are available when searching for "Time Team". On Wikipedia there is a separate page with the titles, descriptions and original broadcast dates of all seasons and episodes. Put together, we got it all.
Andy and his search for vole teeth might well have benefited from the old cement-mixer trick that I think they tried in another episode. They could get the whole chunks of clay broken down into a slurry that way, I'd think.
i have , for a long, long time,been fascinated by the occurrence of the massive fall from the Norwegian coastline which served to force waterways to the Atlantic, including the English channel. Previous to this what we call the UK was attached to Northern Europe by large areas of wetlands and low lying land and there was regular movement of humans back and forth. in this episode the find which excited me the most was the unearthing of a small, decorated pottery, described by an expert as originating in Northern Europe !!! Then how did it get from there to Neolithic eastern England. This suggests to me that it was carried from Europe across the land bridge which disappeared when the catastrophic Norwegian land collapsed into the sea, cutting off and wiping out those that had previously been it's inhabitants. The dates of the catastrophe would be critical in seeing if these various facts coincide. THIS WRITTEN IN REFERENCE TO THE 'NEOLITHIC CATHEDRAL' EPISODE
In Phil's defense, those spears are heavier than they seem, but his aim was true!, It slid right through the middle of the stand where his target was. Granted a live animal would be more difficult to stalk, just a few feet higher and they would have had venison, no problem
I find it difficult to understand that if some of the flint tools found were so good, why did they get thrown away and in the same place as they were originally found?
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RIP Victor Ambrus feb 10 2021 You will be missed...this episode wouldn't be the same without your talents!
How did he die? Im new to this series and I’m so sorry to this.
❤
I would like to suggest a table top book with Victors art 🖼! That would be outstanding!!
Wonderful Artist, loved his work on TimeTeam.
@@paulainsc8212 he was elderly.
Phil Harding and Time Team are the reason I'm applying to do volunteer field archaeology this summer
How was it??
Phil is the best I agree.. What a fellow!
Wonderful!!!
did you enjoy your time?
I admit it. I am in love with Phil. His enthusiasm for archaeology in all its forms, his attention to detail and his humility. “Learning at the hand of a master”. Phil “I don’t know about that”. In all the episodes he didn’t tell you what you wanted to hear but only what the trench and the finds told you.
don't lie, it's those daisy dukes that's really got you smitten isn't it.
@@dasmole4804 dat booty! Honestly I giggle every time I see his shorts and flyaway hair. 🩳❤️😎👍
I too admit that I am in love with Phil. He must be a hoot to have around.
@@dasmole4804 Those shorts are Fashion you can't convince me otherwise.
But his nails are awful! I always want to take him for a manicure.
Phil's absolute delight at finding flints, makes me smile every time.
Mick futzing about outside the window when Tony is getting a lesson about ancient humanoid skulls (using Mick’s modern profile) is flippin’ fantastic.
😆😂🤣 too true!
Stewart is the most understated team member, yet his expertise stuns everyone in almost every episode!
Stewart is probably my Favorite, and I really love Phil and loved Mick, its sad to see those we admire and/or care about transition into NonPhysical.
I apply thoughts of that subject takeing a bit of slower pace from now on.
Stewart always a huge, Independent, Contribution to their efforts. (...and I feel Matt was an Older Man's Ego threat), the Younger Handsome Man that Tony seemed to try to portray as the "Young weak/naive guy", a sortta "all Braun and no Brains".
He managed to take it well on film, but I can almost hear him saying, "One of these days, I should bury Tony to his neck in an Ant Hill" 😁 lol
I agree. He seems to have a preternatural ability to “see” a complete picture of what the land looked like in the past. It’s fascinating to watch his mind work..
Definitely in my top 2 fav's. I look forward to his input each episode.
Time team really needs to return, there are so many places and things yet to be discovered. Not just in the UK but all over Europe.
I've been wondering why there is no American auxiliary of the Time Team!
@@Dovietail Time team was also done with a American team within the US. It however was different from it's UK counterpart and didn't have the same flair or feeling. Which is why it flopped. Also this American team decided to dig at spots that you could have guessed that you wouldn't find anything there.
@@SIG442 Where I live in Arizona, you can't spit without hitting pottery shards and pictographs. I wish they'd come to my neighbourhood!
@@Dovietail Pottery chards on it self doesn't mean much. But yeah there could be a decent reason for it to be there. The US doesn't really have much going on in moving earth to heighten other area's of the country. Which is a big thing in parts of Europe. So there might be some things left over from whatever or whom ever left those pottery shards behind. If it's a native American camp then it may however be a very hard task to complete.
@@SIG442 there were Native American cities. Some already in ruins by the time Europeans got there. But like in Africa they pretended that there was no civilisation before they got there. E.g. Great Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe on the continent of Africa, shown by a female archaeologist to have already been abandoned before Europeans got there but first she was a woman and what do they know? And second her findings contradicted the story they were telling themselves, and the world, about native African societies.
8 1/2 minutes in and I already have another name for this episode. Phil’s Amusement Park. He’s like a little school boy when he finds flint. A man in his element.
Spot on!!!
A lot of archeology profs have fond memories of grad school, sitting around with beers with their friends, chipping flint.
YES❣️Phil's eyes glaze over in rapture at a "well napped" hand axe❣️L❤️VE,L❤️VE,
L❤️VE me some Phil❣️
@@suburbanbanshee I picture Phil w/a big blunt, aged17, havin a transcendent vision!!
"Guys,guys!! I just saw what i am meant to do w/my life...!!
I'm meant to make stone tools, & dig holes, better 'n'
anybody!!!!!" And the Guys say, "Sure,Sunshine!! We believe ya'!!"
@Samir Nathan Awesome, Dude!! I wouldn't actually DO that, tho...
I love that they demonstrate the use of the tools. Makes it much more real.
"How do we know it's the stone age?" -> "well, it's got stones in it".
Tony - perfect host! Immense energy, obvious interest, a great sense of humor, and he just owned his role!
Great cast, most endearing.
I agree!
@@NeungView - I, too, disagree. Robinson was always so befuddled and getting in the way. He was the show's weakest aspect, in my opinion.
I agree. People who don't like him are only really showing their ignorance. They don't understand the show is scripted (albeit with a lot of ad lib) and one of Tony's personas is that of the "interested but slightly sceptical layperson".
I have learned so much watching these shows. Y’all have no idea. Thank you as a Yank from across the pond.
Patrick Builds It I know where we come from. Almost all of us come from some place else and I ... love that. ❤️
I love times like this where geology, palaentology, archaeology, and anthropology, all overlap.
that's actually quite normal at most archeological/ paleological site. esp when it comes to sites beyond past 5000 bc
It's incredibly typical, actually.
Very amused by Mick rummaging around outside the window in the background while they're using his face in the foreground to demonstrate Neanderthal skull shapes..
Jen Clark I noticed that too! I thought it funny that they didn’t do another take...”just keep rolling”
Look there in the window.....Hey Mick.........giggle.......
Phil never ceases to amaze me.
Love how Stewart is defending to trench his brown strip and Mic is all like :"this tea's not that good". lol
Victor’s paintings are wonderful!
Or at least adequate.
@Lynda Turner - I really like Arbus' archeology drawing style. He is the highlight of the UK cast, in my opinion.
This group is so freaking British...they totally run on TEA. 😄😄😄
lol, too True. They give the British a most favorable showing!
...an American very Irish girl
😁
That's a good one
And brandy if it’s 85 years ago and anything bad happens.
Of course!
damn.... that Phil guy has one HELL of a great smile!
Honestly, when I first started watching this I thought Phil was a LOT older. That youngster's got great legs! He just dresses and carries himself like an old fuddy duddy. Phil is literally DECADES younger than I thought he was. He is just performing the Platonic ideal of the "old geezer."
Lol he was 50 when this was done, in his 70s now, but he sure looks good in shorts at both ages.
Everyone knows Phil has the hottest legs on Time Team!
30.15 Mick & Stewart giggling over a skid mark "brown stripe" double entendre.
I love the Pre-historic digs. They are fascinating.
me: "prehistoric people? There's going to be so much flint . . . Phil will be so happy!"
I adore Andy Currant. What a character! I'll never forget his performance as "paleolithic horse" in season 6 episode 4 (which also features a memorable cameo from the late Marquess of Bath)!
I love how enthusiastic this Time Team was and how their enthusiasim is conveyed to the viewers.
Oh I just love the prehistoric flints and areas in this episode....I have found many different blades and hand tools.spears and this is awesome.....
The vole tooth hunters aren't trying to dissolve the clay, but rather to deflocculate it, or make sure the clay particles stay in suspension in the water
@@UncommonSense-wm5fd
Hydrogen peroxide isn't acid.
@@ruthanneseven - Depending on the concentration, its pH runs from 1 to 5, so no, NOT benign.
~11 minutes into 12 minute mark, Mick as the presenter for a change - I like it.
I love that Phil is so in his element this episode. His excitement infected all of them... and me!😊❤
Mick Aston meets Nick Ashton! Somehow the name itself must have carried a archaeological predestination in it!
Wait, did Centerparcs place their park on an archaeological site and now their guests help digging? Now that's a formula for a holiday park.
The Team Effort is the best part of Time Team. I loved Mic and Phil's conversation over a piece of flint - especially Mic's comments of being at the "foot of the Master" and Phil's "I don't know about that" (often stated in many episodes (humbly or not)). Mic's comment about the flint being the result of "frost" without prompting from Mic (therefore he had some knowledge himself - "elementary my dear Holmes" - not unsurprisingly.). Phil's normal (honest and learned) optimism is best demonstrated when Tony asks if they will find anything by the end of the day and Phil responds instantly, "if you just give me a pick I'll see if we will". PS I loved Andy's efforts - A LOT of effort (60 buckets) for for the results obtained - the skull discussion was interesting indeed..
Always enjoy these episodes. So interesting.
And farmers are the same the world over!
Thanks for posting
Phil is my archeological Steve Irwin.
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Same 😂
But Steve Irwin was an irresponsible idiot, so the likeness escapes me.
100%
Me too!
3:50 Cary Granite, Stony Curtis, and Rock Quarry
I'm truly surprised that Tony didn't make a "Boulderick" joke.
Stuart is like the "earth whisperer"
I love that Victor included a little turtle. 😊 very interesting stuff
My bed time story ... Every night ..time team..
34y/o Alex .. 😜✌️
Phil: "Not a flintknapper in Christendom…" 😂
As two Americans, we have to giggle at Andy Currants "red scarf hat". It reminds us of Monty Python show we saw years ago. No one in America would wear such a head covering - although it does the job.
Living here in Michigan it frequently happens that when someone digs a new pond or roadway, they find a Mammoth or Mastodon skeleton. We also have several areas where there are Devonian Fossils close to the surface - such as at Rockport Quarry area up in Alpena, Michigan. Then there is the Copper Culture sites in Wisconsin and the Keweenaw Peninsula in northern Michigan. I wish we had a "Time Team" here in the states.
Can you imagine having Time Team dig a site like that here in Michigan? They'd be eaten alive by mosquitoes and ticks.
@@anneschepeler4086 Years ago, a buddy of mine was telling me about camping in a remote spot in the UP. As they were leaving a couple came hiking up, dressed, as he put it, "in the entire LL Bean catalog," and looking for a site. They told the newcomers a few general things about it- water over there, wood there, etc.
Then he started talking about the important stuff: keep your food off the ground so the bears don't get it, do this and that to keep the raccoons away. The woman shrugged off the bear issue.
Then he said "keep stuff sealed up, so the field mice don't get in it". And she FREAKED. When he and his buddy left, the woman was insisting they hike back to the car, and get away from the mice.
Bears, no worries. Mice..... that was her breaking point.
Anyway, your comment brought that to mind :)
@@BC-ui9yt I would almost bet money they were from Ann Arbor! lol. I live in a rural part of the state and you would be amazed at the A2s that come out and get put out by roosters crowing, ducks quacking, etc. We had one woman who moved out here and complained about everything from mosquitoes (spray them), farm animals, etc. Finally, one of the board members said "Ma'am, maybe living out here just isn't a good fit for you." The whole room cracked up!
@@anneschepeler4086 Ironically, the guy telling the story was an employee at UM. But he lived somewhere around Stockbridge, IIRC.
Phil's spear toss was right on target! It went right between the front legs under the heart.. He just needed more power...and a bit of an arch.
Leaving in the “mistakes” makes time team so believable and relatable.
Thank you, this was terrific. I enjoyed watching this
I gather the flints found are flakes from bigger flints which were being worked into tools? Wonderful program, always educational, fascinating and fun!
Love this Team.... 😊🤗
Archaeology meets British TV. Perfect. 👌👌👌
The farmer at 46 min in had some really nice finds with a 4000 yr old scraper and a 400,000 yr old hand axe. Gratifying for him, I'd think.
In Murray County, Georgia, a rich man built a golf course and in the process found a treasure trove of Indian artifacts. Then he had to have built an oak and glass display case to house them in. It was really exciting to view.
Best episode so far guys!
I love the fact that Phil was so excited about that piece of flint he wasn't letting his fellow any in way. :)) I swear, put Phil with a bunch of flint pieces from all over and he could talk your ear off for hours. :))
Thank you.
26:20 truly amazing expertise
No matter what order I view these in, all is good....
Excellent!
I knew Stewart and Mick were vegos, I didn't know John is, too. I love that their being vegetarian was so normalised in the show. It's never mocked or criticised. Mick mentions his vegetarianism in several shows, and Stewart in a couple, and they're always accounted for in meals. It's lovely to see.
I don't think Stewart is vegetarian, Mick and John definitely were.
@@Libbathegreat there was definitely an episode when they were trying historical food that Mick said to Stewart that certain options were for them.
@@Cazsuane I think you're talking about the Goldcliff episode where Mick suggested Stewart try the duck eggs. Trying a duck egg doesn't make you vegetarian.
@@Libbathegreat Vegans don’t consume any type of animal products. Vegetarians do; eat animal by products but it’s all down to the type you put yourself in, as to being vegetarian if you do or don’t it’s a personal choice. ✌🏻
@@cynsi7604 I'm aware of the distinction. I'm saying that eating a duck egg doesn't mean you're a vegetarian, as meat eaters eat eggs as well.
"I put the foil there in 94" "Site was unused for 5 years" so those episodes are like almost 23 if not more years old :O
A fascinating look at what lies beneath our feet. As a Flint Knapper the lithic material found was fascinating. However I am more fascinated by what was not found. Starting from a rock nodules weighing several pounds, the first reduction of the large nodule could have been with a bone or antler baton, but also a pretty high likelihood initial reduction was done with another rock referred to as Hard Hammer Percussion. That would hard removed large rock flakes revealing the outer cortex of the nodule. Where are these? Every single flake picked up? Some “fist size” Hammer Stones were not found nor apparently any abrading stones. Also notably absent were many small rock chips necessary to prepare “platforms” for long flake long flake removal that was found, which was a “thinning flake” for the hand axe.
A 3-day excavation could not be expected to reveal all but some surprise of what was not found is interesting as well.
I wish they were still making episodes
blood on john's hand reminds me of my high school experience trying to learn to knapp obsidian. sooooo my slices in my hands.
29:30 - 29:40 Surprise Mick Aston! As soon as he saw the camera, he walked away.
Except not. Moron.
@@Invictus13666 Did you watch it?
The thing that lacks on these ancient swiss army knives as it does on moderen american multitools is the corkscrew.
From other experts on Neanderthal spears, they claim that Neanderthals did not use throwing spears but had to get up close and personal to the game they were hunting. The Neanderthal spear was stout and for stabbing only.
16:55 - 17:01 as the boys were talking the film of that fellow digging was running backwards.. Hilarious! My question is with that amount of time you didn't find river wander.. rivers wander land raises and geology changes especially in 400,000 years..
47:40 Not sure when this was named, but I'd guess in the Viking age?
"Elveden" in Norwegian literally means "River den" (Den is not Norwegian), but even the name suggests there's a river there.
John and Stew are such a combo lol, this is one of those special episodes where they solo spend time together
30:13 - I've got a brown stripe across a field 😂😂
Was flintknapping partially the cause of humans learning to make fire because of the sparks they seen coming off the flint when they worked it?
Amazing how much good archaeology there is in civilized England. I get sad thinking about how much fascinating history is buried in countries that either make it hard to dig there, or are too violent to be safe, but they never seem to run out of good stuff to dig for in Britain. And they've only got three days to do it!
Bravo !!
Phil, really loves his flint.
Was here October 2020
I wonder what Mick was doing at 29:32
29:31 Mick doesn't know they are making a neanderthal out of him
@Venus T. Tony's insults about the man's appearance reminds me of our own master of the "art" of face-shaming, trump. Not cool, Tony.
getting stoned was the best part of the stoned age.
i was not expecting to see you here but i am not suprised
Kinda wild how cultures on different continents were able to develop the same type of tools and methods. We’re so far apart, yet so close.
What I could gather scientists rather think that a lot of this is people moving around rather than developing it independently. Those flint axes were made for hundreds of thousands of years with little change.
Interesting observation...I wonder if knapping was a skill that came with the people who migrated across the land bridge to western north America.
One must LOVE archaeology to get a degree to dig ditches and play in the mud!
40:28 I can't believe those boys smashed pyrit at flint for minutes on end, trying to ignite freaking charcoal, all that while they had perfect dry fluffy tinder material right next to them............🤦
OMG ... is that guy really running around like Gumby? I can't look at him without thinking about Python.
When Mick Aston said they were working with a Nick Ashton, I thought he said his own name! LOL
Episode 51 (Series 7, Episode 6): In Search of the Earliest Traces of Mankind, Aired: February 6, 2000
Every *Time Team, Time Team Special* and most *Time Team America* programmes have been posted on YT by *Fillask, Reijer Zaaijer* and this, the _official_ *Time Team* channel. Try *DigVentures* too.
Is this the official time team? Cuz there's Time Team Official which posts small vids too.
@@Liquessen
I don't know which channel you mean but _this_ is the official *TT* channel and that may be associated with it. There is also *Timeline,* a commercial channel which, it seems, has licensed the dig programmes - probably from *Channel4* which co-owns the copyright (I think). There are more *TT* programmes on there but _this_ channel has the best quality. Alas they appear to be uploaded by amateurs who sometimes get the descriptions wrong.
The _small vids_ are basically _tasters_ cut down from the full programmes. But to see _all_ the *TT* digs the two older channels, *Fillask* and *Reijer Zaaijer,* are necessary. They have been up for many years now, long before the other channels existed.
@@philaypeephilippotter6532 - Great that you lay it out clearly. I found these channels too, and recently this Time Team channel has been posting a lot.
Unfortunately there is no single startpage with an overview of all channels and episodes. But fortunately all episodes are available when searching for "Time Team".
On Wikipedia there is a separate page with the titles, descriptions and original broadcast dates of all seasons and episodes. Put together, we got it all.
Fillask has been terminated.
@Brisdad53
I said that _this_ is the official *TT* channel, which it is.
Boy, It sure rains a lot over there 💦
It was a rain forest, and much warmer. The gulf stream keeps it going, somewhat.
Time Team. My happy place.
Nick Ashton...Mick Aston...oh mine...
Andy and his search for vole teeth might well have benefited from the old cement-mixer trick that I think they tried in another episode. They could get the whole chunks of clay broken down into a slurry that way, I'd think.
Phil propably should have used a sling when he tried to spear the deer. It would have made the launch more precise and a damn more powerfull.
We're talking about 400.000 years ago. That technology didn't exist in that period.
Looks like a typical English summer. And Tony seems to be freezing in his t shirt.
Just got to 3pm day 1 and...... rain.
i have , for a long, long time,been fascinated by the occurrence of the massive fall from the Norwegian coastline which served to force waterways to the Atlantic, including the English channel. Previous to this what we call the UK was attached to Northern Europe by large areas of wetlands and low lying land and there was regular movement of humans back and forth.
in this episode the find which excited me the most was the unearthing of a small, decorated pottery, described by an expert as originating in Northern Europe !!! Then how did it get from there to Neolithic eastern England. This suggests to me that it was carried from Europe across the land bridge which disappeared when the catastrophic Norwegian land collapsed into the sea, cutting off and wiping out those that had previously been it's inhabitants.
The dates of the catastrophe would be critical in seeing if these various facts coincide.
THIS WRITTEN IN REFERENCE TO THE 'NEOLITHIC CATHEDRAL' EPISODE
You mean the flooding of Doggerland, I believe it is called.
Watching everyone walking through the long grass (crop), I think, "SNAKE!!" Australian I'll bet it never crosses their mind.
In Phil's defense, those spears are heavier than they seem, but his aim was true!, It slid right through the middle of the stand where his target was. Granted a live animal would be more difficult to stalk, just a few feet higher and they would have had venison, no problem
Mick Aston...Nick Ashton...funkedelic...:D
Phil sounds like Terry Tibbs at 8:15
At first I thought Mick was talking about himself in the 3rd person until I realized the other archeologist's name was Nick Ashton.
That first flake was on edge, meaning it was not in situ. The soil matrix had moved, or possibly the soil is clayey enough to crack as it dried.
@2:44 - is that mr. Gumby?
Could be one of his brothers.
@@malinlindqvist3455 Ugh...more than ONE mr. Gumby? 'MY BRAIN HURTS'...!
Andy and Simon could easily have their own sitcom
I am absolutely in love with Phil! :)
When Mick Aston meets Nick Ashton.
each time one of them is mentioned, i have to think about which one it is lmao
That pig farmer is GIANT!!! :O
I find it difficult to understand that if some of the flint tools found were so good, why did they get thrown away and in the same place as they were originally found?