Why Was This Man Sacrificed at Stonehenge?

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  • Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024

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  • @WickyGames
    @WickyGames 7 лет назад +211

    I wouldve already have been dead from hypothermia

  • @KrishLius
    @KrishLius 7 лет назад +420

    yea well he shouldn't have been ramming the shaman's daughter.

  • @alex_theanonymous
    @alex_theanonymous 7 лет назад +433

    Sacrificial? The dramatization makes this look like a crazy uncle trying to gain power over the throne by murdering his nephew, the rightful heir to the kingdom

  • @RPDBY
    @RPDBY 7 лет назад +191

    its freezing outside and they dont wear almost anything

    • @CoRLex-jh5vx
      @CoRLex-jh5vx 7 лет назад +14

      well he's gonna die anyway

    • @RealiciousDe
      @RealiciousDe 6 лет назад +2

      he know the wae, he shall never freeze

  • @muhammadanees7431
    @muhammadanees7431 5 лет назад +43

    "We don't know the Exact reason of the sacrifice ''
    Here you go I saved your 4.01 minutes of your life!

  • @flashmanfred
    @flashmanfred 8 лет назад +400

    Does make me laugh how they depict southern England like Iceland or something

    • @EIfric
      @EIfric 7 лет назад +29

      flashmanfred Iceland has fine weather.

    • @ariannasilva4462
      @ariannasilva4462 7 лет назад +89

      flashmanfred Ancient Southern England was cold.

    • @kenskaterskater3070
      @kenskaterskater3070 7 лет назад +59

      flashmanfred and ppl running around half naked in the snow...

    • @RikkiTheRose
      @RikkiTheRose 7 лет назад +9

      that was probably just a temporary snow the sacrifice could have been made to get it away

    • @siy8230
      @siy8230 7 лет назад +4

      flashmanfred it was very snowy just a couple weeks ago

  • @grandmascheeks9129
    @grandmascheeks9129 7 лет назад +120

    Did they use skyrim arrow sounds?

  • @a_literal_brick
    @a_literal_brick 6 лет назад +27

    Spend 10 years of your life studying a skeleton just so you can find out how he died and say “that’s neat”

    • @colorbugoriginals4457
      @colorbugoriginals4457 9 месяцев назад +1

      You learn a lot along the way that can be applied to other further work.

  • @CoRLex-jh5vx
    @CoRLex-jh5vx 7 лет назад +46

    I love how the skull is just lookin right at the camera. if he could talk, he'd probably be saying "hi mum!!"

  • @nenabunena
    @nenabunena 7 лет назад +75

    the 29 year old who was muscly looked like a scrawny 50 year old

    • @dakota5671
      @dakota5671 7 лет назад

      He was probably imprisoned before.

    • @danlamont7133
      @danlamont7133 7 лет назад +17

      nenabunena Real muscly. Like a farmer. Not creatine, steroids and bench press muscly. He was also a couple of years off the life expectancy of his time so he wouldnt look like a modern 29 year old.

    • @nenabunena
      @nenabunena 7 лет назад +1

      I'm from the Philippines and I've seen some lean muscled type guys here who are carpenters, fishermen, etc. - they're not bulky like arnold but have a lean muscled physique. the guy on the video otoh is wiry thin & I've seen plenty of those to but we never descrive them as muscly. The life expectancy back then was short due to accidents, sickness/diseases, or war not because they were necessarily less healthy. hunter gatherers especially were usually in top physical condition & girls back then started their periods late around 18-19 unlike today where some even start at 9 years of age. so there are plenty of examples of people in todays world, not in frts world countries, who are farmers, fishermen, or who have to toil daily that you can use as examples of how life must've been for some people

    • @mudan8152
      @mudan8152 6 лет назад +2

      Yo why the fuck are you starting your paragraph with ''I'm from the Philippines'' .. Who the fuck cares if you're from the Philippines?

  • @reksub10
    @reksub10 9 лет назад +55

    Or he was the last defender,a warrior who the enemy would have respected and honoured.

  • @itsmeanthony9704
    @itsmeanthony9704 6 лет назад +7

    As an Irishman who knows of our ancestral religious methods, of over two thousand years. Our ancestors used Stonehenge, and Hill Tops for Sacrifice in order to create alignment with the ancient gods, the god of light, the god of prosperity, and the god of peace. As with all ancient religions there is a blood sacrifice that must suffice the gods.

  • @SmithsonianChannel
    @SmithsonianChannel  10 лет назад +9

    Stonehenge is a highly ritualized site - so the discovery of human remains there is seriously significant. bit.ly/1uiTrpo
    Find out what it all means tonight at 8 PM on Stonehenge Empire.

  • @meow9426
    @meow9426 6 лет назад +27

    So no ones gonna talk about the fact that this man was shirtless in a snowstorm

    • @vulkris
      @vulkris 6 лет назад +4

      A Cheeky Motherfucker That sexy nigga so hot he didnt need a shirt

    • @meow9426
      @meow9426 6 лет назад

      Vulchrys
      He looks like my fucking uncle he aint how mans

  • @violetmagic13
    @violetmagic13 7 лет назад +7

    I’ve been to Stonehenge a few times now it’s really amazing. I don’t live very far away from it so it’s easy to visit. I highly recommend it. You feel a kind of presence there

  • @SmithsonianChannel
    @SmithsonianChannel  10 лет назад +9

    Beneath the eerie ruins of #Stonehenge, a skeleton riddled with arrows hints at dark rituals. Was he a human sacrifice? Learn more on this clip from Stonehenge Empire, airing tonight 8 PM: bit.ly/1uiTrpo

  • @SmithsonianChannel
    @SmithsonianChannel  10 лет назад +4

    Why was a man sacrificed at Stonehenge?bit.ly/1uiTrpo
    Uncover the secrets of the ancient site, tonight at 8 PM on Stonehenge Empire.

  • @jen8177
    @jen8177 7 лет назад +6

    Damn that cinematography

  • @Yamswool
    @Yamswool 10 лет назад +12

    When is the full video going to be shown?

  • @Maikonix
    @Maikonix 7 лет назад +8

    guessing he betrayed his tribe or let them down some how which was why he was executed in theory?

  • @burntferidgerator6848
    @burntferidgerator6848 6 лет назад +11

    How about you prove that it wasn't battle and that he never could have been an important person who they buried there

    • @e.d.bibbins3858
      @e.d.bibbins3858 6 лет назад +3

      Burnt Feridgerator Exactly what I was thinking. Bow seems an unlikely method of execution for anything.

    • @burntferidgerator6848
      @burntferidgerator6848 6 лет назад +2

      It's England for god sakes they would use swords or axes

  • @moreston4366
    @moreston4366 6 лет назад +14

    I don't know alot about the Neolithic people of Britain but uhm, I'm pretty sure they would have had clothing more similar to the Inuits for y'know, when it was snowing, I doubt they walked about in loincloths with short tunics in the freezing snow.

  • @5ooshAshk
    @5ooshAshk 7 лет назад +33

    To create the Wights, well of course.

  • @SeaToCloudsHD
    @SeaToCloudsHD 7 лет назад +12

    Maybe he was a vicious warrior that was defending the territory and his entire tribe is wiped out and he went into the center of the stone henge because it is the most important venue of his tribe and make his final standoff against the enemy, maybe he fought for several hours of melee combat killing many of his foes and the enemy realizing they could not defeat him this way, they finally decided to kill him using bow and arrows.

  • @kimberlybellard6972
    @kimberlybellard6972 2 года назад

    I love the sound of the drumbeats in the beginning

  • @amezfires9247
    @amezfires9247 7 лет назад +19

    Could this be a sacrifice for a Druid ritual?

    • @anniesearle6181
      @anniesearle6181 6 лет назад +4

      Nope, too early, they didn't exist at this point

    • @RealiciousDe
      @RealiciousDe 6 лет назад +1

      but could it be as a payment for a pizza delivery order ?

  • @prithviganeais7844
    @prithviganeais7844 7 лет назад +3

    Reminds me of Whitewalkers. Very informative

  • @trulympr4803
    @trulympr4803 6 лет назад +4

    So realistic I feel like it happened in front of my eyes

    • @laikathunderchild5746
      @laikathunderchild5746 6 лет назад

      King Gamer23 Thanks.....I haven’t literally “laughed out loud” for a while now 😆

  • @rasiabsgamingcorner2258
    @rasiabsgamingcorner2258 7 лет назад +2

    he could've been a voluntary sacrifice so that the crops the following year would be bountiful

  • @jamesalvarez8733
    @jamesalvarez8733 3 месяца назад +1

    “Sin is sin, evil is evil, slavery is slavery, whether the United States, Rome, or England” is a quote from the Mexican American war review, and I’m not as familiar with British history, but if England had slavery, like Rome it was likely maybe this was an ancient Englishman who met his fate for invading and enslaving the neighboring tribes and was killed as an example?

  • @Spaceman42069
    @Spaceman42069 3 года назад +1

    Its Cu Chullain when he was speared then tied himself to a rock and waited to die and as it happened a crow flew to his shoulder and the man who killed him went to check the body that still had the sword came down and chopped his hand off

  • @intarc0giotto
    @intarc0giotto 6 лет назад +1

    perhaps he had secret knowladge about stonehenge that had to die with him or it was a sacrafice to make stonehenge work.

  • @Dont_tell_me_to_relax
    @Dont_tell_me_to_relax 4 года назад +2

    Why does my guy have such good teeth tho...

  • @Eškala_Iśa
    @Eškala_Iśa 6 лет назад

    British Stone Ages Family drama. Damn, poor young man.

  • @anthonyfox585
    @anthonyfox585 7 лет назад +10

    his teeth are in excellent condition

  • @funniguy3709
    @funniguy3709 7 лет назад +31

    -you guys wanna put some clothes on?-

  • @wildyoda2931
    @wildyoda2931 6 лет назад +3

    Couldn't have been the druids because the way he died signifies it had to be for a different reason besides religious reasons. The druids didn't sacrifice people by shooting them with arrows. Also if the Stonehenge was a place the druids would occasionally make sacrifices at. Most likely there would not have been more than only one persons remains found in or around the Stonehenge area. Also one would have to look at what the druids sacrifices consisted of you cannot simply say it was a sacrifice with no evidence. I never heard of sacrifices carried out with arrows i would imagine the druids would have been much more gruesome.

    • @anniesearle6181
      @anniesearle6181 6 лет назад +1

      Well, I would have to agree with you, however, your entire argument is wrong. The druids didn't actually conduct this sacrifice because they didn't exist yet; the earliest this man could have died was on the stone-age/bronze age border and the latest about 200 years after that, so it was another culture entirely. There have also been many other sets of remains found at Stonehenge. What the video said was there aren't any other bodies of this 'type', as in sacrificed like this. There are over 50 other sets of cremated remains found in the post-holes of the original stone formation, this includes men, women and children, so it is possible they were sacrificed or possibly not, we'll never know.

  • @bernadettelevine4673
    @bernadettelevine4673 10 лет назад

    Coral Castle n Key West was a man's "Devotion of Love"

  • @crazyirish209
    @crazyirish209 6 лет назад +1

    my 2 cents . He was a famous war chief and the druids who truly ran the isle at the time thought of him as a threat. They "got a vision" he needed to be sacrificed so they did. Ireland as almost always ben controled by religion .

  • @iverkjellkken6569
    @iverkjellkken6569 6 лет назад +1

    Or he was a warrior that got killed in battle, and was buried near stonehenge due to his valiant death

  • @delphinebp9433
    @delphinebp9433 6 лет назад

    Him: What would you call a music festival here?
    His buddies: Please don't...
    Him: STONEDHENGE!
    His buddies: ...
    Local druid: Well, we found our candidate for tuesday's sacrifice.

  • @yellowgreen6326
    @yellowgreen6326 3 года назад

    the animation is impeccable

  • @torinjones3221
    @torinjones3221 6 лет назад

    Seems like an unusual method of sacrifice for sure

  • @HarryInEdi
    @HarryInEdi 8 лет назад +22

    I don't know what's up with all the feathers on that chief 'priest' or whatever he is... Seems like it's based on Native Americans!

    • @ilyaakadishtungha7337
      @ilyaakadishtungha7337 7 лет назад +2

      Harry Goodwin I mean...if resources are scarce and you still haven't perfected jewel crafting well of course you'll put weird shit on your hair. Hell, it could have been ass hair for all we know but feathers certainly look prettier

    • @kkroberts90
      @kkroberts90 6 лет назад

      ^^what the dapperman said

    • @rolffstone-fist1259
      @rolffstone-fist1259 6 лет назад

      Harry Goodwin god your stupid

    • @bolinonyomama5640
      @bolinonyomama5640 6 лет назад +2

      New Zealand Māori wore feathers in their hair as well.if this is legit than that's cool to know that ancient British tribes were similar to the rest of us!.

  • @ranger3676
    @ranger3676 3 года назад

    This is a very nice skeleton very good condition.
    Skeleton: Poggers m8

  • @DoJoPetro
    @DoJoPetro 10 лет назад

    So, the answer to the (seemingly rhetorical) question in the title is "scientific speculation" and _"We may never know?!"_

  • @robothunter1035
    @robothunter1035 2 года назад

    Hey Grogg, thanks for guiding that henge into the hole! Grogg? Grogg, you there?

  • @botcheek482
    @botcheek482 7 лет назад

    THE ANIMATIONS ARE SO GUD

  • @jsmcguireIII
    @jsmcguireIII 6 лет назад +1

    In a snowstorm? And they know this how? Lol

  • @j.a.harbour5349
    @j.a.harbour5349 6 лет назад +7

    Its very disrespectful to remove bones from a burial site, ancient or modern...

    • @Foxglove963
      @Foxglove963 6 лет назад

      Why the heck did the Smithsonian obtain a plastic replica of a skeleton excavated from a ditch in Wiltshire? How many school shootings did they have in their twisted USA?

  • @LetterSignedBy51SpiesWasA-Coup
    @LetterSignedBy51SpiesWasA-Coup 7 лет назад +4

    seems much more likely to have been an execution given sacrificial rituals would have produced more than one such example. click bait

    • @Observer675
      @Observer675 6 лет назад

      I wonder if he was someone important that was executed. A bit like how st edmund (king at the time) was caught then shot to death with close range arrows in east anglia

  • @itsyourmanr202
    @itsyourmanr202 5 лет назад

    “It’s brighter here!”

  • @amyblamberg1101
    @amyblamberg1101 6 лет назад

    Also.. Did it appear to anyone else that the skull was fractured from the nose inward? Overkill.

  • @BenjiYbanez
    @BenjiYbanez 6 лет назад

    Bruh I can’t even withstand the extreme cold temperatures

  • @systemdeadlock
    @systemdeadlock 10 лет назад +1

    How is that clear proof? Nice docu anyway

  • @68wayupintheskyftw61
    @68wayupintheskyftw61 6 лет назад

    Yeah I mean it's not like they might of just buried him there after he was killed by a rival group. That would be to outlandish.

  • @thothhermestrismegistus3178
    @thothhermestrismegistus3178 3 года назад

    Stonehenge was built by Atlantians who enslaved Irish ancestors who built Stonehenge.
    The reason why they want to remove it is because of this connection.
    They used the Stone to watch the Stars for more Meteors, like the one which destroyed their Civilization 12,800 years ago.

  • @LilMissRedList
    @LilMissRedList 7 лет назад

    Wait Stonehenge is in the Arctic?!

  • @allmightlionthunder5515
    @allmightlionthunder5515 6 лет назад

    wow the first death by firing squid ? .

  • @justinyang6521
    @justinyang6521 4 года назад

    Last one alive in search a d destroy, no ammo, might as well give urself up.

  • @eileenlocke7877
    @eileenlocke7877 Год назад

    They must of been cold 🥶

  • @Cottonmouth88
    @Cottonmouth88 6 лет назад

    This was Continental's method of execution

  • @wolfenstien13
    @wolfenstien13 6 лет назад

    His teeth seems to look well for his age and era.

  • @fionaowen5164
    @fionaowen5164 2 года назад

    The arrows that killed him at the burial site ?
    If not would suggest a warrior who died in battle being buried in honour not a sacrifice just a thought

    • @willfakaroni5808
      @willfakaroni5808 Год назад

      It coming from all sides would be unlikely if it was from a battle, since just a single one would have killed him

    • @fionaowen5164
      @fionaowen5164 Год назад

      @@willfakaroni5808 last man standing perhaps like an honour

    • @willfakaroni5808
      @willfakaroni5808 Год назад

      @@fionaowen5164 at that point, it would count as a sacrifice

  • @candysubstance1633
    @candysubstance1633 6 лет назад

    Feathers?

  • @altarush
    @altarush 7 лет назад

    It could be just a tomb where he was buried and he might be a king of some sort and the arrows were result of a execution

  • @idunaasgard1183
    @idunaasgard1183 6 лет назад

    Where's the Roman in this one?

  • @sophiehare2348
    @sophiehare2348 6 лет назад

    Sacrifices are normally linked with paganism, especially if it's England, the man who touches the sacrifice was probably a druid

    • @moreston4366
      @moreston4366 6 лет назад

      sophie hare druids didn't exist yet, stonehenge wasn't used by Celts

  • @dansugardude2655
    @dansugardude2655 7 лет назад

    If only it could be known what languages these people would've spoken. Also did prehistoric people have concepts of crime?

  • @eileenlocke7877
    @eileenlocke7877 2 года назад

    Looks cold

  • @aerohk
    @aerohk 6 лет назад

    Well the exact reason for the Stonehenge is also unknown, so...

  • @sweiland75
    @sweiland75 7 лет назад

    He was an outsider?

  • @kevaran1422
    @kevaran1422 6 лет назад

    are they celts?

    • @paulbrule5897
      @paulbrule5897 6 лет назад

      Nikos Elizondo no older

    • @ollie1154
      @ollie1154 6 лет назад +1

      Celts is a massive grouping of different cultures united under a similar language effectively (really simple definition) Britons were Celts, Picts/Scots we’re Celts ect. So in short Celts aren’t one people, they just have similar cultures and languages.

  • @user-zw4wh1tm9x
    @user-zw4wh1tm9x 7 лет назад

    didn't even show impact? disappointing

  • @rand0m0mg
    @rand0m0mg 7 лет назад

    It's The Doctor!

  • @bansheeboii5814
    @bansheeboii5814 7 лет назад

    what if he was the builder of the stone henge

    • @danlamont7133
      @danlamont7133 7 лет назад

      So thats why he was muscular. He carried thousands of tons of stone from whales. Now it all make sense.

  • @REHANKHAN-en5zn
    @REHANKHAN-en5zn 4 года назад

    I'm robust, muscular and 5'10.
    OMG!😟

  • @pentirah5282
    @pentirah5282 6 лет назад

    We don't know for sure he was sacrificed. He was buried there.

  • @GameArchiver
    @GameArchiver 5 лет назад

    They were trying to create White Walkers.

  • @mrward6510
    @mrward6510 7 лет назад

    Or he was a common criminal executed in a court of sorts. 🤔

  • @omega-myrrhalphahoney2307
    @omega-myrrhalphahoney2307 6 лет назад

    That's how.. Not why.

  • @AquaMarino
    @AquaMarino 6 лет назад

    Game of Arrows

  • @plated3390
    @plated3390 6 лет назад

    I'm guessing that it was a public execution

  • @enarjey9894
    @enarjey9894 6 лет назад

    Doesn't feel like a sacrifice. I think this young man may have been doing his own ritual or ceremony at this sacred site & was ambushed by foreigners.

  • @smarty1064
    @smarty1064 6 лет назад

    why using arrow, they could just poision him...lol

  • @goobers143
    @goobers143 6 лет назад

    A lot of speculation

  • @LilrudolphAJ
    @LilrudolphAJ 7 лет назад

    he looks like a white walker

  • @antonioclemente897
    @antonioclemente897 6 лет назад

    human sacrifices are done in desperation maybe they were starving to death and demanded good crops or maybe rain

  • @eileenlocke7877
    @eileenlocke7877 2 года назад

    Poor man rip

  • @davidfleming1115
    @davidfleming1115 4 года назад

    Are you into discriminating the deaf your CLOSE CAPTION ISN'T ON

  • @thateastindieguy7330
    @thateastindieguy7330 3 года назад

    Ancient firing squad...

  • @Amooretliban
    @Amooretliban 6 лет назад +4

    She’s says we think of that time period as being brutish, and that it wasn’t. But goes on to tell us he was used for sacrifice and was shot repeatedly with arrows.

  • @FfblastBlogspot
    @FfblastBlogspot 6 лет назад +1

    Mordred

  • @Voltaire8559
    @Voltaire8559 6 лет назад

    They should have written something bout why theyr doin this :3 ya know wat im sayin?

  • @joannechisholm4501
    @joannechisholm4501 5 лет назад

    He died for his gods

  • @TiberiusRoll7
    @TiberiusRoll7 6 лет назад +1

    A L I E N S

  • @fergalfarrelly8545
    @fergalfarrelly8545 6 лет назад

    Its political cuop. They may have over thrown an heir to rule or a young ruler. As he was burried respectfully and killed with ceromony. Speculativly.

  • @WWZenaDo
    @WWZenaDo 10 лет назад +2

    How did a Native American shaman get all the way over to Britain during the late Stone Age?

    • @maririos8783
      @maririos8783 10 лет назад +1

      He was a Briton not a Native American.

    • @WWZenaDo
      @WWZenaDo 10 лет назад

      W3lsh DragonX7X Sorry - I should have said, "Joking!" I mentioned Native Americans due to a vague similarity between the shaman's headdress & a Native American headdress.

  • @mwillblade
    @mwillblade 7 лет назад

    Maybe he was just killed and robbed.

  • @tonyraffetto931
    @tonyraffetto931 6 лет назад

    Fuckin metal