I'm glad that the pain of accidentally breaking something fragile and old is universal. it's something that exposes the softer emotions in us, and is something to show that we care for the environment and relics around us, whether it be 20 years or 2000 years
Man the moment I rewind the video have a look at what he broke, my heart dropped knowing that it's the gravel with the artifact inside Luckily, thanks to his professional explanation, I feel better now lol
The ocean ruins and desert temples also contain suspicious sand, although not as much as the trail ruins. What's interesting is that all 3 share sherds of pottery would you include part of that in this series? I'm curious about how an archeologist would investigate if two structures belong from the same civilization/time period and how that effects the overall interpretation of the artifacts (or perhaps these were two civilizations that shared technology through trade?). Might be interesting to look specifically at the sherds and armor trims as they're artwork, for instance the warden and creepers are depicted as well as the sniffer so it's safe to assume that all 3 of those existed around the same time. Creepers are also depicted in the chiseled sandstone of the desert temples, makes me wonder if creepers used to have some religious significance or perhaps a short hand for "do not enter" them being present at the temple could support both as they are booby trapped with tnt and are implied by the bones to be some sort of burial chamber. Hope this comment wasn't too long, I just find this fascinating. Can't wait for the next episode!
I might tackle some more ruins in the future. Interpretation is definitely going to be part of this series, so if i do go after those other ones, I'll be sure to include interpretation both of individual sites and the civilization(s) as a whole.
@@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2 Heinrich Schliemann be like. Haha I’m funny and make relatable archaeology jokes 👍🏻 (I know close to nothing about archaeology)
Yay! I’ve been bamboozled so many time by other people’s “real archaeologist plays minecraft” videos but you’re finally doing it right. I used wood shovels for my ruin, it’s still surprisingly easy to break a sus gravel, but it’s a little safer
The discussion around the over-digging and the accidental destruction of artifacts is fair. While obviously, having as much material to work with when trying to puzzle out a site is best, random chance and the natural decay of life has already claimed the majority of the things archaeologists are looking for. A single potsherd is likely not going to radically alter the conclusion we are going to draw from this place. Also, hello! Keep up the good work!
3:53 “Organics don’t usually survive [the test of time]” That’s why it makes absolutely no sense that you can get things like dye and wheat from suspicious gravel in the trail ruins. It kinda makes sense if you’re excavating ocean ruins because they’ve been submerged for heaven knows how long, but on land? In the middle of a forest? Huh.
I love the 'teaching moment' of breaking artifacts, I imagine that happens a bit in the real world. Great episode! Wait.. what did I see at the end there?😉
this is such a fun educational way to teach about archeology! im in college studying STEM but i still find these incredibly interesting and enjoyable :) thank you for this cute series
Using that enchanted netherite pickaxe was like taking a steamshovel to dig up a dinosaur skeleton. XD Very good example on why going slow is sometimes better.
This is a great series! The bit on trenching made me wonder if anyone has accidentally trenched into a site before. Like in the Civil War, or World War I did they just run into an archaeological site by mistake? It’s doubtful but it seems like a fun little story.
Im so late to this that it makes me a bit sad, idk if youll see my comments as i watch your series here but on the off chance you do i just wanted to say i am finding this absolutely fascinating in a way i didnt expect, i came for the odd minecraft content the titles implied and stayed for the interesting lessons on irl archeology, i think a lot of ppl kinda just looked past how much manual excavation this took and i really appreciate you going to such lengths to teach us about the profession you have spent (years in guessing) learning and practicing. I LOVE learning about professions ive never been interested in, but in a way that connects with a core part of who i am thru the game that has become a deeply loved and cherished part of my life, genuinely thank you from the bottom of my heart
I do check my comments fairly regularly (thought some fall through the cracks). Thank you for your kind words! I hope you continue to find this series and the following ones fun! If youd like a series with some more story telling id recommend the Ancient Greek Skyblock series, and if you want a little more archaeology check out my Bronze Age series too!
Yay! Been waiting for it :) I really like how the item frames look with the things in them, that was a great choice. And what you said about losing artifacts was interesting, I wouldn’t have thought about it that way myself, but it makes a lot of sense. Great video, as always!
I love the use of the item frames to display what was found. I think for mapping and interpretation, you should use the maps on Minecraft. Throughout the dig, you can excavate and make a map, which can be locked (to prevent updates) via the cartography table and a glass pane. I highly recommend this. Minecraft also has book and quills you can use to write findings like a journal.
3:42 If you think that’s odd, last trail ruins I excavated had three campfires. The kicker was that they were all lit. That had me confused for a while.
That discussion of broken artifacts reminds me of when my town leader and I were, as you've so eloquently put it, "grave robbing" a trail ruin I found a few days after the update came out and I heard that unmistakable crack. My face immediately went 😬 as I looked over at my town leader and he did a brief walk of shame. We laughed it off and carried on, but I couldn't help but rib him about how he could have had a Relic disc without buying from Ubizon (long story behind that) if he hadn't accidentally broken two or three suspicious gravel. ;D
The item frames looks great! Will be so interesting to look at when its all done! You've inspired me to do a trail ruin like this in my world and keep it up as a lil exhibit near my zoo. Artifacts in place and all! So fun! I love this series!
In theory you could use NBT tags to "blacklist" certain blocks with your unbreakable tool, in essence making over digging impossible. But idk if thats really in the spirit of things
@@daskalosBCEIt would be interesting to see you do ocean archaeology with the ocean ruins. Maybe even find a sniffer egg and get a paleontologist friend in on the fun. :)
@daskalosBCE There's not much to excavate since it's more well preserved than a trail ruin is, and even had the chests in tact and possibly a secret room near the unactive portal that is made of Reenforced Deepslate blocks. So, in Minecraft, an Ancient City is a historically relevant site.
This series is somewhere amongst the most educational Minecraft RUclips series I've watched (not counting series that are educational about the game itself)
Keep it up, Daskalos! It is so intriguing to watch the excavation unfold and I can hardly wait for the interpretation. But I will, patiently, because every stage is so much fun to watch!!
This is a treat to watch. Science communication is difficult and not that common in archeology. But you show wounderfully all the steps that go into excavating an archeological site. Also i am very curios for the interpretation step.
When I helped with a dig up in North Carolina a few years back, the lead archaeologists told me that you have to be extremely careful when you think you might be about to dig into a hearth, because indigenous tradition says that once a hearth is disturbed, that site is considered "dead," and that the site is still living as long as the hearth is undisturbed. Is this true in general, or does it differ from tribe to tribe?
Each culture is different in many respects. It's a good rule in general to be careful when getting close to a feature as they can't be moved from the site.
I am loving this so much! I have really enjoyed the trail ruins, I put on an audiobook and chill out, pottering around (see what I did there?), - I do actually want the sherds for my main build. But it's been such satisfying fun. Learning about the real archaeology from you has made it even more fun. And I don't ever have to go and kneel in a muddy hole to learn about it! I have 2 friends who studied archaeology, here in the UK, it's a very damp profession :D
Watching this has been a bit cathartic for me. I had a really bad experience in a mortuary arch field school and it was traumatic (not the digging itself-other than the dangerous environment but even that could have been fixed with better care by the lead archaeologists). Anyway, your comment about breaking an artifact helped me feel a bit better. I remember cracking a pot and it made me feel so bad. It was perfectly preserved and I just punched it with my hand as I tried to stand in the sand. The archaeologist with me labelled the bag with the pieces somehow so I could be the one to glue it back together later which was also a bit cathartic. Someone also stepped on a skull (the fault of the lead arch’s for not properly educating and marking the site) and I’ve always been terrified it could’ve been me or my friend. Then again, many of the bones blew away in the dust anyway and I’ve never really gotten over how destructive the whole process felt.
yesterday I just finished clearing out one of these structures in my world, one thing I ran in to besides over dig is the gravity block mechanics of minecraft losing a short row of sus gravel from it falling when the block next to it was disturbed.
I was waiting for the next episode. I am greatly enjoying your content, and thanks for all the lessons. :) I have also lost artifacts, and though it makes me sad, I realize it is only a small part of what I uncover. I am digging out my third Trail Ruins. There is a part that is quite far from the tower and not like my other two sites, being mostly brick and seeming much bigger. I discovered a fourth Trail Ruins in my world, but part of it, not sure how much, is underwater, so I am thinking about how to go about uncovering that one when I get to it.
Thanks. :) I can try that. It is in the ocean. I thought to maybe build a wall around the portion that I can see when I go underwater then work from inside and deal with things as they happen. @@daskalosBCE
@@zeldaautumnIf you'd like to be realistic, to uncover submerged sites you would first drive wood or concrete piles around the site, then place horizontal walls or more concrete between them, displace the water with pumps or sand and finally dig it out as usual. Happy digging.
Love that you switched it up to use the glass/item frame technique :) Great episode as usual! Glad you went into that sometimes artifacts get ruined or broken on site. I remember our faces when my Greek pottery prof once took a piece of pottery from one of his excavations and snapped it in front of the class to show us what the inside of the sherd looked like under the glazing. He was like, what...happens all the time, we will just glue it back together anyway...
i don't think a backup would help, since Im pretty sure they updated loot generating, so that the first gravel you brush on a world seed will be the same no matter where it is, as with the second, third, etc. So what you broke may just've become what you uncovered from the next gravel
this is so awesome! i was planning on putting on this series in the background while i collect resources in my own minecraft world. but i kept coming back to see your approach! I especially appreciated the part about breaking some suspicious gravel... I was wondering if changes in the types of rock mean anything ! Such as seeing a big deposit of copper, coal, or other ore around the structure? Would that factor into your interpretation?
Good question! We don't have to hack through stone to get to our archaeological site in the real world. However, seeing changes in the soil (density, color, composition, etc) is usually an indicator of something significant. If we were to find a deposit of coal, copper, or other such material it would indicate different things dependent upon the context. It would absolutely factor into our interpretation.
Underwater archaeology is totally a thing. Unfortunately it's not my specialty so I'll have to do some research and talk to some experts if I decide to take that on
I diddnt know there were ocean ruins Once I found a shipwreck floating mid-air in Minecraft, like 70 blocks in the air… it was obviously a chunk glitch because half of it was underwater, and the other in the air. but I wonder if that would happen with the ruins too?
Really enjoying this series- your passion for the field and the game both shine through in a very pleasant way. I'll definitely be following closely, especially excited for the interpretation!
I kept accidentally breaking the suspicious gravel myself so I added a texture pack that makes it more obvious, though I understand why you probably wouldn't be interested in something like that for this series.
Been busy and hadn't been able to watch this for a bit. So glad I was able to now! Always love your insights and explanations on how to deal with certain situations on a dig. Very cool! Also excited to see someone new and am looking forward to the next part!
Breaking suspicious gravel always makes me think of that gif where an archaeologist is dusting a skull and someone smashes it right through the face with a hammer
please make a series about the excavation of fossil remains. In the overworld, in a swamp or desert at a height of 40. and in the nether in the soul sand valley biome Спасибо за вашу работу)
Though archaeologists do, on occasion, dig up fossils, those fossils are early humans and other hominids. The fields in this game definitely fall into the non-hominid category and would be in the realm of paleontology. Any paleontologists in the comment section wanna tackle the fossils in game? Glad to have you on board my friend!
I could easily watch 2 hours straight of a person with a calm voice slowly excavating a fictitious cubic archeological site using actual guidelines. Why? Why? Why can't I do something productive for once hahahah 😂 Amazing work.
Just a tip: Brushes can break sand and gravel without losing durability. Probably not accurate to real life, so you can keep the shovel if you want to stick to realism, but I'm just putting it out there. :)
11:07 Who is that handsome fellow? I recognize him!! - Hey Oda, good to see you around here mate!! I was introduced to this series by one of my friends, what a fascinating way to explore Minecraft, I'm blown away. Great content Daskalos!!
im sure others have said, but on the bit of the destroyed suspicious gravel, and actual relics get destroyed in real digs commonly, a big difference is in real life you can still salvage the damaged/broken artifact and reconstruct with other fuller samples as bases. as opposed to in the game where whatever item was in the block being destroyed with no remainder.
This particular ruin feels a lot different from all the others. It is buried, unlike other structures, and it feels as if the people that built it used a L O T more ceramics than the others. There are so many bricks, terracota and pottery shards!
If I might make a suggestion... I recommend adding small QOL mods to these vids, such as TheOneProbe and Journeymap, to be specific, if they're available for 1.20 at the moment. TheOneProbe is a little thing for your HUD/game UI that tells you a bit of information about whatever you happen to be looking at, wether it be a block or a mob, but only if it's within a specific range of you. Journeymap is, of course, a minimap, with multiple useful features. I do understand that you're aiming to have as much of a normal vanilla experience as possible, but these two specific mods would definitely augment the process you're going through, in a positive way.
man this is so good i still remember the first video on this series, now i wont say its bad but you improved so much you can watch this video without skipping the boring parts because there are no boring parts, good job Dasalos
I sometimes repair these structures sometimes to make small bases or outposts in my survival worlds. Very fun, and an easy way to get around the world.
Great series! I would love to see real life images onscreen with examples of what you’re currently doing or showing too. But it requires time and effort to source and properly attribute the images so I get why you might not.
You mention all the people saying you should have gotten faster tools... meanwhile I was sitting there worried about the fact you were using something as high as an iron shovel. I probably would have ended up using, like, an iron pick and a wooden shovel lol
I am so glad that youtube keeps recommending me theese. I was afraid that the first would be a "one time wonder" and this would be the only suggested video.
Great video, am now waiting for another part! You could perhaps use an unbreakable stone shovel if breaking the artifacts in the suspicious gravel is an issue, however I think you can use a faster pickaxe (so use efficiency 2 or whatever) since you cannot really destroy much made out of stone and whipe it of the face of the earth like the suspicious gravel.
You are digging down what looks like 20-30 metres. That's quite dangerous and tricky in real life. Is this a realistic depth an archo might encounter, and if so how would that be managed? Loving this and the bronze age series. Hurry up and quit your dayjob so you can do the minecraft series' full time 😄
It's not really realistic in that aspect. Though there have been areas that have been pretty deep (Troy, Gobekli Tepe) in American archaeology at a certain depth I would assume that shoring would have to take place due to OSHA. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I haven't been on an excavation that has gone that deep.
3 things: First, good work keep it up, I love both the format and the delivery, pretty unique. Second, for armor trims, there is a legit way to duplicate them in survival, so wuold you consider making a copy and putting it into a piece of armor to reproduce how they used to look? Third, as others have said there are sea ruins and desert temples with suspicious stuff, I'd love to see this series or a new one dedicated (keeping the same format): I'd love to see what are the differences and similarities from an archaeological standpoint in those different environments, within Minecraft boundaries of course.
Thanks! Its looking more and more like I'll be exploring the other ruins in this world. As for the armor and stuff like that, you'll have to wait and see :)
A series straight from the olden days of RUclips. Your channel is an archeological find itself. Take my sub, you earned it. Looking forward to see how this and your other series develop. P.S. just in case, please make sure not to rush these, because in my opinion, the way you present your videos is already perfect. I know my opinions as a commenter are not valuable, but if it helps, it helps.
do you also document what kinds of soil or aggregate stone was found within structures, what kinds of natural materials that replaced decayed or shifted structure and voids? how do you remember what natural materials were left in which parts of the ruins? how do you differentiate what materials are part of the site and what was deposited over a long period of time?
When excavating, documentation is king! We document everything we possibly can as it wont be around after the fact. So what type of soil is found within the excavation is definitely something we note. The grids are used in order to keep track of where things are. we measure from the edges of the grid square to whatever it is we want to document and note it. We also draw up maps of the units as the excavation progresses. As for what was part of the site and what was deposited, its a hard one to describe. Cultural soil is usually filled with artifacts or is very different from "sterile" soil. Sometimes its a different color or texture. Hence the "natural" levels i described earlier in the series.
I remember in my field school, we were excavating a grave in really acidic soil, so the bones were really REALLY fragile. I kept freaking out because i was breaking them, but my professors kept reassuring me that it was okay. Still didnt feel right Also, once again, i refuse to use "sherd."
i may not be good at the game, but i do pride myself in knowing useful tricks, albeit the stone tools to avoid over digging is uber old school like classic skyblock old school
If you would found a structure like that in real life would it be like a huge special thing or would it be kinda normal? Like what reaction would you have walking randomly over such thing? Sorry for my english if there are many mistakes :) Greetings from Germany! Love this Video Concept! ♥️
If, in the course of a survey, we stumbled across the top of a tower like this and recognized what it was, it would be a fairly big deal. Massive structures like this are rare now a days. About as rare as getting funding to excavate it, haha!
@@daskalosBCE So without a doubt you would be extremely happy to spot something like this? And it's sad that places like this get rarer and rarer... Nothing better to explore something with it's own mystic story :D
Gets a smithing template: pops it in a frame and moves on
Finds a fire pit: “Whoa! Organics!”
The accidental break of the suspicious gravel reminds one of how being more slow and patient with an excavation process is best
indeed!
It reminds me of the arrested development clip where a character at a dig smashes a pickaxe directly into a skull being brushed off
I'm glad that the pain of accidentally breaking something fragile and old is universal.
it's something that exposes the softer emotions in us, and is something to show that we care for the environment and relics around us, whether it be 20 years or 2000 years
Man the moment I rewind the video have a look at what he broke, my heart dropped knowing that it's the gravel with the artifact inside
Luckily, thanks to his professional explanation, I feel better now lol
Daskalos: ...and it probably won't change the interpretation of the site.
Narrator: He had dug through the Holy Grail.
haha! probably!
Or the recipe for Damascus Steel
@@KingsBardOr the Rosetta Stone
Or any document from Carthage D:
"lets talk about profiling, and i dont mean what the police shouldnt be doing" got me spitting out my water lmao
Love his sense of humour.
I mean...he's not wrong. Lol
it shattered my heart when i heard that suspicious gravel break
The ocean ruins and desert temples also contain suspicious sand, although not as much as the trail ruins. What's interesting is that all 3 share sherds of pottery would you include part of that in this series? I'm curious about how an archeologist would investigate if two structures belong from the same civilization/time period and how that effects the overall interpretation of the artifacts (or perhaps these were two civilizations that shared technology through trade?). Might be interesting to look specifically at the sherds and armor trims as they're artwork, for instance the warden and creepers are depicted as well as the sniffer so it's safe to assume that all 3 of those existed around the same time. Creepers are also depicted in the chiseled sandstone of the desert temples, makes me wonder if creepers used to have some religious significance or perhaps a short hand for "do not enter" them being present at the temple could support both as they are booby trapped with tnt and are implied by the bones to be some sort of burial chamber.
Hope this comment wasn't too long, I just find this fascinating. Can't wait for the next episode!
I might tackle some more ruins in the future. Interpretation is definitely going to be part of this series, so if i do go after those other ones, I'll be sure to include interpretation both of individual sites and the civilization(s) as a whole.
@@daskalosBCE Awesome. I'm looking forwards to it.
I would absolutely love that!
Maybe you'll find one in your bronze age world!
@@daskalosBCEhow would you go about ruins that are potentially booby trapped?
Sweet, it's nice to see someone do this so thoroughly because I'm not very good at Minecraft lmao
If it makes you feel any better, neither am I. I just do a couple things well.
It's extremely boring to mine out the trail ruins without tnt
@@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2bruh
@@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2 Heinrich Schliemann be like.
Haha I’m funny and make relatable archaeology jokes 👍🏻
(I know close to nothing about archaeology)
@@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2
Found the Victorian archaeologist.
Yay! I’ve been bamboozled so many time by other people’s “real archaeologist plays minecraft” videos but you’re finally doing it right. I used wood shovels for my ruin, it’s still surprisingly easy to break a sus gravel, but it’s a little safer
Glad you're aboard! yeah that over digging thing is a little crazy
The discussion around the over-digging and the accidental destruction of artifacts is fair.
While obviously, having as much material to work with when trying to puzzle out a site is best, random chance and the natural decay of life has already claimed the majority of the things archaeologists are looking for. A single potsherd is likely not going to radically alter the conclusion we are going to draw from this place.
Also, hello! Keep up the good work!
correct
But it hurts my soul and makes me sad.
3:53 “Organics don’t usually survive [the test of time]”
That’s why it makes absolutely no sense that you can get things like dye and wheat from suspicious gravel in the trail ruins. It kinda makes sense if you’re excavating ocean ruins because they’ve been submerged for heaven knows how long, but on land? In the middle of a forest? Huh.
haha yeah that was ... really bothering me!
I love the 'teaching moment' of breaking artifacts, I imagine that happens a bit in the real world. Great episode! Wait.. what did I see at the end there?😉
Im glad you liked it! that ending tho...
Collab moment. Can't wait to see this duo.
its going to be interesting for sure, and we are super excited!
This is going to be awesome.
It's Always nice to know/see that even professionals mess up from time-to-time. Everybody's human.
Indeed! At least last time I checked, haha!
this is such a fun educational way to teach about archeology! im in college studying STEM but i still find these incredibly interesting and enjoyable :) thank you for this cute series
Glad you enjoy it!
Using that enchanted netherite pickaxe was like taking a steamshovel to dig up a dinosaur skeleton. XD
Very good example on why going slow is sometimes better.
Or a Bagger 88 on a remarkably preserved anklyosaur.
This is a great series! The bit on trenching made me wonder if anyone has accidentally trenched into a site before. Like in the Civil War, or World War I did they just run into an archaeological site by mistake? It’s doubtful but it seems like a fun little story.
Im so late to this that it makes me a bit sad, idk if youll see my comments as i watch your series here but on the off chance you do i just wanted to say i am finding this absolutely fascinating in a way i didnt expect, i came for the odd minecraft content the titles implied and stayed for the interesting lessons on irl archeology, i think a lot of ppl kinda just looked past how much manual excavation this took and i really appreciate you going to such lengths to teach us about the profession you have spent (years in guessing) learning and practicing. I LOVE learning about professions ive never been interested in, but in a way that connects with a core part of who i am thru the game that has become a deeply loved and cherished part of my life, genuinely thank you from the bottom of my heart
I do check my comments fairly regularly (thought some fall through the cracks). Thank you for your kind words! I hope you continue to find this series and the following ones fun! If youd like a series with some more story telling id recommend the Ancient Greek Skyblock series, and if you want a little more archaeology check out my Bronze Age series too!
Yay! Been waiting for it :)
I really like how the item frames look with the things in them, that was a great choice.
And what you said about losing artifacts was interesting, I wouldn’t have thought about it that way myself, but it makes a lot of sense.
Great video, as always!
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!
I love the use of the item frames to display what was found. I think for mapping and interpretation, you should use the maps on Minecraft. Throughout the dig, you can excavate and make a map, which can be locked (to prevent updates) via the cartography table and a glass pane. I highly recommend this. Minecraft also has book and quills you can use to write findings like a journal.
Maps will be implemented a little later.
@@daskalosBCE Ooh that's super exciting!
Oh, just wait. The true excitement is yet to come!
3:42 If you think that’s odd, last trail ruins I excavated had three campfires. The kicker was that they were all lit. That had me confused for a while.
That discussion of broken artifacts reminds me of when my town leader and I were, as you've so eloquently put it, "grave robbing" a trail ruin I found a few days after the update came out and I heard that unmistakable crack. My face immediately went 😬 as I looked over at my town leader and he did a brief walk of shame. We laughed it off and carried on, but I couldn't help but rib him about how he could have had a Relic disc without buying from Ubizon (long story behind that) if he hadn't accidentally broken two or three suspicious gravel. ;D
The item frames looks great! Will be so interesting to look at when its all done! You've inspired me to do a trail ruin like this in my world and keep it up as a lil exhibit near my zoo. Artifacts in place and all! So fun! I love this series!
Awesome! Im glad to hear that!
In theory you could use NBT tags to "blacklist" certain blocks with your unbreakable tool, in essence making over digging impossible. But idk if thats really in the spirit of things
Wow, you're the first person I know of that unironically switches to a stone shovel. Great series, I really enjoy it :)
I want to see you explore the deep dark at some point after this.
Thats a possibility, though there's not much to excavate.
@@daskalosBCE By the way, do archaeologists explore ruins thar are not covered by soil?
Of course! We have rock shelters, dry caves, and a lot of historical stuff is above ground. Great question!
@@daskalosBCEIt would be interesting to see you do ocean archaeology with the ocean ruins. Maybe even find a sniffer egg and get a paleontologist friend in on the fun. :)
@daskalosBCE There's not much to excavate since it's more well preserved than a trail ruin is, and even had the chests in tact and possibly a secret room near the unactive portal that is made of Reenforced Deepslate blocks. So, in Minecraft, an Ancient City is a historically relevant site.
This series is somewhere amongst the most educational Minecraft RUclips series I've watched (not counting series that are educational about the game itself)
That's pretty high praise! Thank you!
Keep it up, Daskalos! It is so intriguing to watch the excavation unfold and I can hardly wait for the interpretation. But I will, patiently, because every stage is so much fun to watch!!
Thank you very much!
This is a treat to watch. Science communication is difficult and not that common in archeology.
But you show wounderfully all the steps that go into excavating an archeological site.
Also i am very curios for the interpretation step.
I'm glad you are enjoying it! The interpretation part is gonna be pretty wild!
When I helped with a dig up in North Carolina a few years back, the lead archaeologists told me that you have to be extremely careful when you think you might be about to dig into a hearth, because indigenous tradition says that once a hearth is disturbed, that site is considered "dead," and that the site is still living as long as the hearth is undisturbed. Is this true in general, or does it differ from tribe to tribe?
Each culture is different in many respects. It's a good rule in general to be careful when getting close to a feature as they can't be moved from the site.
@@daskalosBCE Interesting, thanks for the reply!
I am loving this so much! I have really enjoyed the trail ruins, I put on an audiobook and chill out, pottering around (see what I did there?), - I do actually want the sherds for my main build. But it's been such satisfying fun. Learning about the real archaeology from you has made it even more fun. And I don't ever have to go and kneel in a muddy hole to learn about it! I have 2 friends who studied archaeology, here in the UK, it's a very damp profession :D
more of a g.o.a.t than an actual goat
Watching this has been a bit cathartic for me. I had a really bad experience in a mortuary arch field school and it was traumatic (not the digging itself-other than the dangerous environment but even that could have been fixed with better care by the lead archaeologists). Anyway, your comment about breaking an artifact helped me feel a bit better. I remember cracking a pot and it made me feel so bad. It was perfectly preserved and I just punched it with my hand as I tried to stand in the sand. The archaeologist with me labelled the bag with the pieces somehow so I could be the one to glue it back together later which was also a bit cathartic. Someone also stepped on a skull (the fault of the lead arch’s for not properly educating and marking the site) and I’ve always been terrified it could’ve been me or my friend. Then again, many of the bones blew away in the dust anyway and I’ve never really gotten over how destructive the whole process felt.
yesterday I just finished clearing out one of these structures in my world, one thing I ran in to besides over dig is the gravity block mechanics of minecraft losing a short row of sus gravel from it falling when the block next to it was disturbed.
Oh, I didn't think of that!
Great series! I'd love to see you excavate all of the archaeology structures like an archaeologist
its a possibility
I was waiting for the next episode. I am greatly enjoying your content, and thanks for all the lessons. :)
I have also lost artifacts, and though it makes me sad, I realize it is only a small part of what I uncover. I am digging out my third Trail Ruins. There is a part that is quite far from the tower and not like my other two sites, being mostly brick and seeming much bigger. I discovered a fourth Trail Ruins in my world, but part of it, not sure how much, is underwater, so I am thinking about how to go about uncovering that one when I get to it.
I'm glad you're enjoying it! as for your underwater portions, wight as well drain it via sand or sponges :)
Thanks. :) I can try that. It is in the ocean. I thought to maybe build a wall around the portion that I can see when I go underwater then work from inside and deal with things as they happen. @@daskalosBCE
@@zeldaautumnIf you'd like to be realistic, to uncover submerged sites you would first drive wood or concrete piles around the site, then place horizontal walls or more concrete between them, displace the water with pumps or sand and finally dig it out as usual. Happy digging.
@@Soken50 Thanks. :) I did place a wall around the exposed part and I got a lot of sand. So we will see how this turns out.
@@Soken50Wait. You're telling me the classic pre-1.8 sand/gravel method is actually true to real life methods‽ Huh.
This series is fascinating to watch, and it makes me feel a LOT better about the suspicious gravel I've mistakenly destroyed!
This is a very unique series, i love it! And it's getting a plot too haha
Indeed!
Love that you switched it up to use the glass/item frame technique :) Great episode as usual! Glad you went into that sometimes artifacts get ruined or broken on site. I remember our faces when my Greek pottery prof once took a piece of pottery from one of his excavations and snapped it in front of the class to show us what the inside of the sherd looked like under the glazing. He was like, what...happens all the time, we will just glue it back together anyway...
Right?!?! I've broken a sherd to see the inside before in front of archaeology students and they always cringe
i don't think a backup would help, since Im pretty sure they updated loot generating, so that the first gravel you brush on a world seed will be the same no matter where it is, as with the second, third, etc. So what you broke may just've become what you uncovered from the next gravel
interesting
Actually, I think it's per gravel, not the order. Still.
this is so awesome! i was planning on putting on this series in the background while i collect resources in my own minecraft world. but i kept coming back to see your approach! I especially appreciated the part about breaking some suspicious gravel... I was wondering if changes in the types of rock mean anything ! Such as seeing a big deposit of copper, coal, or other ore around the structure? Would that factor into your interpretation?
Good question! We don't have to hack through stone to get to our archaeological site in the real world. However, seeing changes in the soil (density, color, composition, etc) is usually an indicator of something significant. If we were to find a deposit of coal, copper, or other such material it would indicate different things dependent upon the context. It would absolutely factor into our interpretation.
Your videos on this have been getting better with each installment. Good job!
Thanks! I'm glad you think so!
Minecraft also has desert and ocean ruins, so how would an archaeologist work on a site that is partly or fully underwater?
Underwater archaeology is totally a thing. Unfortunately it's not my specialty so I'll have to do some research and talk to some experts if I decide to take that on
I diddnt know there were ocean ruins
Once I found a shipwreck floating mid-air in Minecraft, like 70 blocks in the air… it was obviously a chunk glitch because half of it was underwater, and the other in the air. but I wonder if that would happen with the ruins too?
@@daskalosBCE That is really cool. I hope you will be able to try it.
Hmmm, I gotta wonder if that's happened already. Surely it has,right?
this is super cool and an awesome way to introduce archeology to the layman
Super glad you used the item frames! It makes them easy to see and gives a bit of history to the whole ruin. As always, it's an amazing video :D!
Thanks! I'm glad I used them too
Really enjoying this series- your passion for the field and the game both shine through in a very pleasant way.
I'll definitely be following closely, especially excited for the interpretation!
Welcome aboard!
I kept accidentally breaking the suspicious gravel myself so I added a texture pack that makes it more obvious, though I understand why you probably wouldn't be interested in something like that for this series.
That’s a great idea!
It would be an interesting idea for some archaeologists to get together to improve the archaeology feature, but I suspect it would be a lot of mods
I got a texture pack that puts among us imposters on them both for the meme and to make it super obvious which blocks are sus
Been busy and hadn't been able to watch this for a bit. So glad I was able to now! Always love your insights and explanations on how to deal with certain situations on a dig. Very cool! Also excited to see someone new and am looking forward to the next part!
I think everyone's going to be in for a wild ride soon!
Breaking suspicious gravel always makes me think of that gif where an archaeologist is dusting a skull and someone smashes it right through the face with a hammer
please make a series about the excavation of fossil remains. In the overworld, in a swamp or desert at a height of 40. and in the nether in the soul sand valley biome
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That's palaeontology, not archaeology 🤣
@@headlessnotahorseman but all this is digging with a shovel)
@@thekost88 Do they all look the same to you? You are a spadist 🤣
Though archaeologists do, on occasion, dig up fossils, those fossils are early humans and other hominids. The fields in this game definitely fall into the non-hominid category and would be in the realm of paleontology. Any paleontologists in the comment section wanna tackle the fossils in game? Glad to have you on board my friend!
You'll probably want a paleontologist for when you do the Sniffer stuff.
Awesome! Keep making these please!
I've done some over-digging in my own Trail Ruins. It always hurts a little when I hear the shattering sound!
I love this series, keep it up
Ayeeeee. Another upload from the archeologist wanax daskalos. I'm liking your style. Keep it up my friend!
Thanks! Will do!
great video as always! eagerly awaiting the next instalment.
I never knew trail ruins went this far bro
that profiling joke just hit me, your voice being that calm saying that i really didnt expect it
I could easily watch 2 hours straight of a person with a calm voice slowly excavating a fictitious cubic archeological site using actual guidelines.
Why? Why? Why can't I do something productive for once hahahah 😂
Amazing work.
thanks! When its finished ill be popping out a long form video of the whole thing.
@@daskalosBCEI'll definitely be adding that to my office file room work playlist...if I had one. Not a bad idea, actually...
lol that’s why I use my hands for gravel but even then I’ve broken a fair amount of suspicious gravel it’s pretty much an instant break
You could use string at the top make the units since it does not need a block under it.
This has "Mars Rover engineer plays KSP" vibes
As an archeology student, this has helped me a lot to get to know the methods of excavation!! Thank you for making these series, greetings fom Mexico!
You're very welcome!
I’m looking forward to the interpretation episodes
bro the sass in this episode was top tier, came for the archeology stayed for the bars
Just a tip: Brushes can break sand and gravel without losing durability. Probably not accurate to real life, so you can keep the shovel if you want to stick to realism, but I'm just putting it out there. :)
11:07 Who is that handsome fellow? I recognize him!! - Hey Oda, good to see you around here mate!!
I was introduced to this series by one of my friends, what a fascinating way to explore Minecraft, I'm blown away. Great content Daskalos!!
Thanks! I'm glad you like it! Wait till you see what we got cooking!
im sure others have said, but on the bit of the destroyed suspicious gravel, and actual relics get destroyed in real digs commonly, a big difference is in real life you can still salvage the damaged/broken artifact and reconstruct with other fuller samples as bases. as opposed to in the game where whatever item was in the block being destroyed with no remainder.
This particular ruin feels a lot different from all the others. It is buried, unlike other structures, and it feels as if the people that built it used a L O T more ceramics than the others. There are so many bricks, terracota and pottery shards!
If I might make a suggestion... I recommend adding small QOL mods to these vids, such as TheOneProbe and Journeymap, to be specific, if they're available for 1.20 at the moment. TheOneProbe is a little thing for your HUD/game UI that tells you a bit of information about whatever you happen to be looking at, wether it be a block or a mob, but only if it's within a specific range of you. Journeymap is, of course, a minimap, with multiple useful features. I do understand that you're aiming to have as much of a normal vanilla experience as possible, but these two specific mods would definitely augment the process you're going through, in a positive way.
This is super good! You should continue the series with the other ruins as well as the trail
4:16 may i have some elaboration on ‘the bog people’??
Absolutely!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_body
man this is so good i still remember the first video on this series, now i wont say its bad but you improved so much you can watch this video without skipping the boring parts because there are no boring parts, good job Dasalos
I sometimes repair these structures sometimes to make small bases or outposts in my survival worlds. Very fun, and an easy way to get around the world.
Great series! I would love to see real life images onscreen with examples of what you’re currently doing or showing too. But it requires time and effort to source and properly attribute the images so I get why you might not.
He could always use photos from his own dig sites, but it's understandable.
I’m so glad you turned up in my recommended videos. This is hella my jam.
You mention all the people saying you should have gotten faster tools... meanwhile I was sitting there worried about the fact you were using something as high as an iron shovel. I probably would have ended up using, like, an iron pick and a wooden shovel lol
It definitely crossed my mind
Reject shovel
Embrace fist
I am so glad that youtube keeps recommending me theese. I was afraid that the first would be a "one time wonder" and this would be the only suggested video.
So excited for part three of this! I love this series
Great video, am now waiting for another part!
You could perhaps use an unbreakable stone shovel if breaking the artifacts in the suspicious gravel is an issue, however I think you can use a faster pickaxe (so use efficiency 2 or whatever) since you cannot really destroy much made out of stone and whipe it of the face of the earth like the suspicious gravel.
That's actually what I switch to is an unbreakable stone shovel, haha!
You are digging down what looks like 20-30 metres. That's quite dangerous and tricky in real life. Is this a realistic depth an archo might encounter, and if so how would that be managed?
Loving this and the bronze age series. Hurry up and quit your dayjob so you can do the minecraft series' full time 😄
It's not really realistic in that aspect. Though there have been areas that have been pretty deep (Troy, Gobekli Tepe) in American archaeology at a certain depth I would assume that shoring would have to take place due to OSHA. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I haven't been on an excavation that has gone that deep.
Why did the ending feel like you were forming the Avengers?
Keep up the awesome work, king!
that would be an interesting one. Get a bunch of the professionals in one world. Hmmmmm...
been waiting for this one!
One of the things I do to help stop the over digging of the suspicious sand/gravel is to only use the brush to break sand and gravel in these sites
I am so invested in this series
3 things:
First, good work keep it up, I love both the format and the delivery, pretty unique.
Second, for armor trims, there is a legit way to duplicate them in survival, so wuold you consider making a copy and putting it into a piece of armor to reproduce how they used to look?
Third, as others have said there are sea ruins and desert temples with suspicious stuff, I'd love to see this series or a new one dedicated (keeping the same format): I'd love to see what are the differences and similarities from an archaeological standpoint in those different environments, within Minecraft boundaries of course.
Thanks! Its looking more and more like I'll be exploring the other ruins in this world. As for the armor and stuff like that, you'll have to wait and see :)
love the new episode, mr. daskalos! you're awesome 😎
Thanks! I'm glad you're loving it!
A series straight from the olden days of RUclips. Your channel is an archeological find itself. Take my sub, you earned it. Looking forward to see how this and your other series develop.
P.S. just in case, please make sure not to rush these, because in my opinion, the way you present your videos is already perfect. I know my opinions as a commenter are not valuable, but if it helps, it helps.
No need to worry about rushing. I do this for fun, if I'm rushing against a deadline it isn't fun :)
@@daskalosBCE Brilliant. See you in the next video!
I look forward to it
do you also document what kinds of soil or aggregate stone was found within structures, what kinds of natural materials that replaced decayed or shifted structure and voids? how do you remember what natural materials were left in which parts of the ruins?
how do you differentiate what materials are part of the site and what was deposited over a long period of time?
When excavating, documentation is king! We document everything we possibly can as it wont be around after the fact. So what type of soil is found within the excavation is definitely something we note. The grids are used in order to keep track of where things are. we measure from the edges of the grid square to whatever it is we want to document and note it. We also draw up maps of the units as the excavation progresses.
As for what was part of the site and what was deposited, its a hard one to describe. Cultural soil is usually filled with artifacts or is very different from "sterile" soil. Sometimes its a different color or texture. Hence the "natural" levels i described earlier in the series.
Fascinating and hilarious commentary 😁 Love the timelapse shots
i love this series thank you so much for the great videos
Glad you like them!
this is so cool would look sick as a build as well
I remember in my field school, we were excavating a grave in really acidic soil, so the bones were really REALLY fragile. I kept freaking out because i was breaking them, but my professors kept reassuring me that it was okay. Still didnt feel right
Also, once again, i refuse to use "sherd."
small tip, unbreaking enchanted stone shovels are your best friend for precise work in minecraft
i may not be good at the game, but i do pride myself in knowing useful tricks, albeit the stone tools to avoid over digging is uber old school like classic skyblock old school
If you would found a structure like that in real life would it be like a huge special thing or would it be kinda normal? Like what reaction would you have walking randomly over such thing?
Sorry for my english if there are many mistakes :)
Greetings from Germany! Love this Video Concept! ♥️
If, in the course of a survey, we stumbled across the top of a tower like this and recognized what it was, it would be a fairly big deal. Massive structures like this are rare now a days. About as rare as getting funding to excavate it, haha!
@@daskalosBCE So without a doubt you would be extremely happy to spot something like this?
And it's sad that places like this get rarer and rarer... Nothing better to explore something with it's own mystic story :D
Id be super stoked to find a place like this, especially if it hadn't been looted!
You have Interesting videos
i wa waiting for 3rd paart. its entertaining and informatinal
Amazing video, as always
Thanks!
you can use parts where the gravel is more prevalent to see where you should dig more
4:55 Nice armor trim find
YESS!!! I WAS WAITING FOR A PART 2!!!
1:52 bunny shaped cloud!
Naww
I just seen it when you said it
love this series
Im glad you enjoy it!
god this feels like i am watching something from 2010-2012 😥😥😥 The notalgia is flooding back.