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Was born in Nîmes and my mother still lives & works for the local patrimoine which covers the arena, maison carrée and tower/tour magne. I'm so used to seeing the local history so much, I guess, I take the sites for granted. I'd be happy to try to answer or help anyone curious about the monuments. ^^
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The Dordogne region is beautiful. One should also visit nearby towns of Sarlat and Rocamadour. There are several other caverns with paintings, notably Chauvet in the also beautiful Ardeche region which has much older paintings than Lascaux.
Yes Dordogne is more beautiful region in France History many medieval city
To give an hint, the valley there is called the “Valley of 1,000 castles”. There is an average of 1 castle every half mile 😂
@@ericsicard910 Mais absolument rien à voir, tu compares l'incomparable la Loire c'est que des châteaux tandis que la Dordogne c'est bien plus ancien beaucoup de villages médiévaux après chacun à ses préférences perso je préfère visiter des villages médiévaux que des châteaux
@@stephanedumas8329 La vallée des 1000 chateaux c'est une portion de la vallée de la Dordogne. Tu peux vérifier. Et je préfère d'ailleurs aussi les villages médéviaux.
Aaaaand don’t forget the delightful Dordogne food , which complement the delicacies the whole South western part of France really including the fluid that goes with that, the Bordeaux wines 👍
To answer your question, anatomically modern humans have only existed for about 200k years.
human race has evolved. We are 7 millions years old
However I would say as a European going back 60k years ago we would look wired as humans back then had not reached colder areas yet and were still all black
@@javierhillier4252 I'd definitely put an asterisk to that estimate. In truth, we don't know for sure just how long it takes human skin pigmentation to change in response to the environment purely through genetic mutations. We do know for a fact that Homo Sapiens was in Europe by at least 45k years ago and we also know that Europeans mostly looked like what they do today as far back as 12k years ago, so reason would have it that it was probably a fairly rapid adaptation event. This isn't unheard of, though. Speech likely arose within only a few generations due to a sudden freak mutation and obviously proved highly advantageous for survival since no populations without the mutation survive to this day.
@@1Anime4you That is indeed logical, however there was a DNA test done on cheddar man in England and he was tanned such to that of North Africans of today, if you watch videos of people contacting tribes, you can see even just skin tone difference is shocking to them
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Hi Connor, you wondered what kind of lettering was used by the romans on the temple. Roman lettering. We still use it. Here, right now. :)
Without the K though :)
They did have K even though they mainly used C for the K-sound. Kalendarium is one of the exceptions. And of course when they borrowed words from the greek language.@@oakpope
If you're curious about what Rome built in France, there are a lot of things they did such as the city of Narbonne (Aude)was built in 118 BC, (I grew up there), and in the city center, you can find an old road they made to connect Italy with Spain by that time called via Domitia. Also more in the south, closer to Spain still located in France, there are old caves and the Tautavel Man in Tautavel (pyrénées orientales), famous for its prehistoric. Lyon is such a lovely city, it's wonderful there
The theatre at the end there is not an amphitheatre but just a regular theatre. Colosseum and the "arenas" in this video are amphitheatres. "Amphi" means both or double. They are full circles or elipses, whereas regular theatres are half-circles.
yes, it is technically a theater, but when it was discovered archelogists thought they had found the amphitheater of the three Gauls and since then everyone in Lyon calls it "l'Amphitheatre". The real amphitheater is on the other hill and was only discovered later.
In addition Dordogne is beautiful with excellent food !
Been to Lascaux 11 it's amazing and so worth visiting as you cannot go into the original cave.
France has a lot of ancient sites like these. Just recently, the localization of a battle from 52 BC has been contested. The claim was rejected, but can be opened again if sufficient archeological proof is found (or something along those lines, at least).
And here, we're only talking of things that are 2000 years old and more. If you accept more "recent" things, we have so much more. And we keep on finding some. For example, in 2012 (I believe), the city of Carcassonne did some work on some sidewalks. They found a medieval well hidden under one. Now, there's a heavy glass plate covering the well with a metal plaque to mention why there's a hole in the sidewalk (you can walk over it, and might not notice it if you're not careful)
The Coliseum is the most famous Roman arena in the world, but the Romans actually built one in nearly every one of their cities. There are plenty of those in France, there is even one in Paris actually (it’s called the Lutece arena). The colosseus is the biggest and one of the best preserved, but you can see similar looking Roman arenas in many places (:
"something is off with you, you've got an antenna coming out of your left ear but not out your right ear"
Homo sapiens has looked in a way that would not look out of place for about 180 000 years, 200 000 tops.
However, even Neanderthals and Denisovans (other human species who lasted about 300 000 years, maybe more and seem to have gone extinct about 30 000 years ago) would not look that odd dressed like we do now. Just very stocky, muscular with smaller chins and more brow ridges, but then if you look around, you will find modern humans with brow ridges and/or small chins...and that could be because we carry Denisovan and Neanderthal genes in us, modern humans.
There's Connor off time travelling again. I don't think you'd have to go back very far in time. I've got older siblings who always looked very strange to me.
I have been to Lascaux 2. It's breath taking!
I didn't believe it either and had to check: "The bridge was almost entirely built dry, that is to say without the aid of mortar, the stones - some of which weigh six tonnes - being held by oak tenons. Only the highest part, at the height of the canal, is made of rubble bound with mortar"
The RickSteves is a American tour company, This is my region of France Americans dont come here please. no drive thrus for you here, As many complain when they arrive, We have alot of Roman remains in our region. In the region we have a lot more other things museums and vine yards and old nice villages and restaurants, Lyon is now famous area in France for having a lot of restaurants per square meter, Then other places in France, In school in France we study the Roman period, So we would know about this period more, Merci Jean-Marc
I'm off to Italy on Monday but Rome can't wait to see the sights 😊
For your question about how long ago would you have looked strange, the answer is somewhat easy because you are white. And fair skinned did not evolve before agriculture made vitamin D deficiency a critical problem. So, around 8000 years.
If skin colors is not a clue, then the answer would probably be around 300 000 years. the first homo sapiens known to science appeared back then. Their brain was probably different but their skulls were much like ours. Before that, it's not homo sapiens but rather neandertals, denisova and other species of the homo genre (neanderthal probably evolved fair skin however and some were redhead). They could still be recognized as humans, and would recognized you as one as well, but you could probably tell that there is something different about them.
Go back around 600 000 years ago, and you will find homo erectus. They are the ones who domesticated fire, which probably made them evolve into the latter species, and with them the difference would be obvious. You would still probably see them as "human", but chances are that you would not be able to breed with them, even if you wanted.
Then, 2 millions years ago, you would find homo habilis. There, you would start to have doubts about them being human or ape. They probably still have fur (with a fair skin under it) and their faces are half-ape, half human from our perspective. They were smaller than us and able to climb trees better than us.
Before that, 3 millions years ago, it's the era of australopithecines. Clearly not human, and they probably lacked the brain power to have a langage and thought process complex enough to tell if you are human or not. For you, they would clearly look like apes.
Been there a couple of times. Went last to Lascaux 2 in 2018.
6:16 : from the skulls of prehistoric hominideae which have been found, scientists were able to reenact the way they looked like, and say 10 000 years ago our ancestors had much lower brows and more prominent eyebrow arches than we have.
Back in the 80's we walked across the top of the Pont du Garde, well part of it some of the top stones were missing. Can't believe I did it, or that we were allowed to. It was much less 'organised' then I suppose, the museum didn't exist either. I love that area of France, swimming in the Ardeche by the Vallon Pont D'Arc, these days I think you have to buy a ticket.
Pont du Gard, not pont du Garde. Le Gard is the river below.
@@annepoitrineau5650 apologies, it's been a while 😀
@@alisonrodger3360Don't apologize, it wasn't a critic, just setting things exactly, no shaming intended, at all. We French love giving precisions, we do it all the time between ourselves.
@@jean-pascalesparceil9008 😀
These smaller arena always had an upper timber structure to seat more people so they used to look far bigger and taller than today
Something that hit me at 11:50. Nowadays, the rich would pay to have the priority access during drought, while only providing public spaces with water when overflowing...
Nice observation
Modern genetics is most cases, is only 12,000 years old. The Neolithic made survival more probable vis-a-vis reproduction. Lascaux caves are estimated about 17,000 years old. So those humans were a bit more primitive genetically, but post-Neanderthal.
Your post is garbled. Genetically modern human beings left Africa about 80 000 years ago. They would look perfectly normal sat on the train next to us. There is no reason to call them primitive: they were just as intelligent as we are. The things we think make us so clever (and so stupid as to destroy the conditions of our existence on earth) have evolved over time.
Theere has not been a so-called "primitive language" on earth for at least 30 000 years. Pidgins are simplified languages spoken by people who have a mother language and might know other languages really well, but need to communicate basics in a different language they have not really been taught, or do not want to learn because they need this language only for certain purposes.
The replica is exactly that an exact picture of what the cave paintings were when the cave was 1st discovered. French worked on numerous documents /drawings and photographs of the original art works to make the replica
0:29 I think you're trying to remember the Lascaux's Grotto. 😉
Goooooood that makes me mad. FYI friend, most of the part about "Provence" is actually... not in Provence. That being the Pont du Gard and Nîmes (where I was born and where I live now), not sure about those mills I knew nothing about. Going eastward, Provence starts once you cross the Rhône river. Arles on the other hand is indeed in Provence. I am somewhat disappointed the video fails to mention a few other roman vestiges in Nîmes and around, especially the Tour Magne, a tower that is the only remain of the wall that encircled the city and from which you have a nice panorama above the city center. It also has an interesting history which I heartily encourage you to check out.
It's so great to see you so enthused about places that are fixtures of my everyday life, even might make me a bit proud in a chauvinist way. I can't count how many times I ended up half-drunk on the steps of the Maison Carrée in my younger partying days, nor how many times I've canoed under the Pont du Gard, and certainly not the infinite number of steps I've taken in or in view of the arena (which for a reason that eludes me to this day we call "les arènes" in a senseless plural).
A few things about the arenas you saw : there were many buildings like these, of varying sizes, across the empire. People know about the Coliseum, but really they were a fixture of all roman cities that could afford to build and maintain them. The bit about the medieval fortification of the one in Arles and the use of their stone to build houses also holds for the one in Nîmes. Lastly, a fun (yet no less impressive) anecdote about the arena in Nîmes is that on top of hosting gladiatorial fights (to this day ! Though now it's history students mock-fighting instead of slaves trying to make each other bleed, it still is a fine show), it is known to have had its pit filled with water to simulate or recreate naval battles. That I certainly would have paid to see !
Even today Lyon (Lugdunum in Latin) is nicknamed "The Capital of Gauls".
I am 45 years old and whent there when I was like 8 or 10 years old... even at this age I really liked to see it all even if I didn't understand all of it.
You must see yhe peinting with spécial light (like a flame movement) and the peinting became alive :-)
For your question "when did humans look visibly different from us", I don't think anybody has the answer as it's a subjective feeling, you'd have to ask "them". What is very possible though, is that people had more visibly different features depending on where they came from, as there was less mixing between populations. Before the Roman invasions, and later the Germanic invasions, it's rather obvious facial features of Gauls, Romans and Germans were far more distinct and identifiable than now between French, Italians and Germans. But I think the biggest difference with us would remain the mindset, the way they saw the world and how it felt to live in such a context with very different problems and values compared with now.
Arguably though, the Romans broadly still looked like us, but it's difficult to say for the Lascaux paintings 15000y ago. Humans changed rather quickly to adapt, as the mortality rate for those who failed to adapt was huge and as generations passed quickly. According to some articles I've read long ago, 5000y is enough to change significantly the average appearance of a population, if the conditions are right.
Anyway the video is cool but I'm a bit disappointed they didn't talk about that megalithic huge tomb in Britanny, far more complex than Stonehenge imho.
Regarding the painted caves, another one was found in France a few decades ago actually, and it's an even older one lol (30000yo). It's the Chauvin Cave. But Lascaux seems a bit more elaborated.
The Romans invented concrete. "PBS - Roman City - David Macaulay" is an animated story of how Romans built a city in Gaul.
13:37 Latin didn't have a K letter 😂
i just did some researchs about that, K did existed in Latin
i don't know about "modern" latin
but they did use it ( mostly in loanwords ), even tho less commonly as "c" ( both letters did the same sound ) it's borrowed from greek
@@lucgonzo interesting, it indeed looks more like a greek influence, which was big thing for the Romans.
The arch architecture is indeed very impressive and kinda counterintuitive
If you came in the EYZIES in DORDOGNE, you must see the cave "Les Combarelles", must make a reservation one year before
This documentary should be called ancient Roman sites of France.
Just as you mentioned you liked his voice.. I was thinking this French guide would get right on my tits.. but I am a brit..
sorry le pont du gard and nimes city is not in provence but in occitanie i leaving in nimes
..et Arles est en Provence 😉
when we say humanity is 3 milion years ago we talk about the fact that they walked upward and started making tools. If you'd see them you would instantly seen that they are not the same species as we are. Our species features first appeared around 300 000 years ago and even then they did not have the same cognitive features as we did, but some populations started to have faces looking like sapiens, without having our brain features. there's a pretty damn big difference between a human and a sapiens. there's been dozens and dozens of differents human species.
What s the need of this loud musical background of this documentary? Always puzzling me when such thing happens
Regarding our look, you would be surprised of how primitive we still are. Most of our changes have been because of the easier life we have now, and a better supply of food. Let your hairs grow a bit, and you would be good enough for the look, but you would have a serious work to do on the behavior. That, would be weird. Your teeth would probably be weird too. But again, more because of the care we have now. I guess the mixing we have now and had more recently in the time period had introduced more diversity in the look than what they had back in time when it was more local. That could be as strange for them (if you are too fare from their type) that what people experienced when the first Asian or Black met Europeans. Masking your knowledge would be challenging too.
The first Homo sapiens who left africa around 80 000 years ago were darker than current Europeans. The climate was cooler than now, but the rays of the sun in Africa were also very strong then due to the equatorial and tropical position. Genetics has told us that the first hunter gatherers (Cheddar man) were darker than most current Europeans too. Also, we must keep iin mind that Inuits eed a darker skin for protection agains sunrays reflected by snow/ice.
Anthropologists calculated that the homo sapiens who left Africa 80 000 years ago were a smallish group of about 200. This means thaat it was a limited gene pool, and there is a lot more genetic diversity in Africa than in the whole rest of the world. Looks can be deceiving. In fact, the Andamans negritos, have very little in common with Africans, though they look similar. Their phenotype developed due to the climate. In conclusion genetic diversity, but more to the point, the diversity of looks developed over the 80 000 years and was surely helped by interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans as well as variations due to climate, geography, founder effect and food.
When we say humanity started 3 MY ago it's not about homo sapiens but about the homo genus like homo erectus and homo habilis. Homo sapiens is probably not more older than 250 000 / 300 000 years. So art from Lascau caves is the older testimony from a homo sapiens complex society.
...sorry, I was talking about the Lascau caves
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We are "homo sapiens". Our race exist since 300.000 years, so if you go back earlier, you would look strange for previous humans (homo erectus) 😉
We are not a race, we are a subspecies of human beings (a group including Neanderthals and Denisovans, and a "ghost species" whose remains has ot been discovered yet). We have not quite existed for 300 000 years yet. Erectus and Cromagnon preceded us (Homo antecessor, a debated species though, and homo heidelbergensis were the direct ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans, both extince today, but they lasted longer than we have lasted so far: 400 000. The way we are going with war and the planet, we might never endure as long as our cousins)
the first modern human remains are 180.000 years old by that time however the human gnome had already been spread over much of the world and many diffarant human variants had evolved
there are many more things that could have been mentioned...
On the roman side, you could also cite, at least from around arles & nimes, vaison la romaine (the largest roman city found), but also non roman stuff like the celtic tribes in britanny with broceliand forest, the dolmens etc.
"Les arenes de nimes" are still used:
ruclips.net/video/1MobY_vR7-g/видео.html
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We are all Homo Sapiens but some regions in the world have mixed with other human species like Neandertal in Europe. Only Africa is not mixed with other human species. Humanity started in Africa 3 millions years ago, but Homo Sapiens appeared 300 000 years ago only (also in Africa).
I mean I would say that from a cultural, behavioural, and demeanour point of view, you would only need to go back 200 years ago... but genetically speaking I think that when the Homo Sapiens Sapiens came up 300 000 years ago, according to this article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human
Wikipedia is a bit wrong: the human beings of 300 000 years ago are our direct ancestors, but modern humans ae a little "younger". About 180 000 years old. And they were then people whose loks would absolutely not surprise us. To be fair, neither would Denisovans' or Neanderthals' looks as we can still see people with big brow ridges and/or small chins today.
Many people don't think the painting in cave are true. Some lions and rhinoceros are too very well draw for that time. If you look in the past before 1400 there were drawings that were not very beautiful (except for the Roman Empire), but 80,000 or 12,000 years ago they drew better ?! without paper to practice. And if there were lions and rhinos in France, where are the skeletons? And why are we bombarded with global warming ?
And in these caves no trace of soot (carbon dust due to fires) has been discovered on the walls. How are they lit without using fire ? So much trouble with these caves...
Sorry if bad English I'm French
Lions and Rhinoceros in " Grotte Chauvet " in France 37,000 years
@Aceactor: Time to educate yourself about your own History and culture. Cela devait être dit et c’est fait. Ne me remerciez pas.
tout a fait et dans le departement des bouches du rhone je ne parlais que de nimes et du pont du gard qui n a jamais ete historiquement en provence
When they would think "sthg is Off with him" - just 300 years.. - "He is mid-aged and STILL has All Teeth !"..😏🤷♂️
lascaux real cave are only open to scientist and now there is a fourth replica , miles away from the real one . mseum is not build on top of the cave
How do you like the French accent ?
Hace 3 millones de años eran algo mas de monos. No eran homo sapiens sapiens. Eso se inicio en África hace más o menos 70 mil años.
Yes to your post with one little precision: There was a first Homo sapiens migration into the middle east a bit earlier, but this seems to have been unsuccessful, and the really successful one was about 80 to 70 000 years ago.
Groups like Metallica have performed concerts in the city of Nimes.
it's just the ancient site of the south of France
Il faut voir les peintures rupestres avec une lampe qui immite une flamme, et la les peintures prennent vie, c'est super
Us being white is from 10k years ago so u just need to go back from 10k years back to already being noticed as weird
Does that mean that you think that no-white people ae weird??? Anyway, you are a little wrong: the first hunter gatherers who spread across eurasia were surely dark because they had left africa not very long before and had not yet adapted to the lack of sunlight. Moreover, this was the glaical age=they needed protection against sunrays, so they probably did not lose their melanin.
Human beings started losing their melanins to cope with the lack of sunlight, and this developed in parallel with lactic tolerance, which can be traced back to the humans who started breeding cattle, about 20 000 year ago (probably). Melanin decrease and lactose tolerance then occurred simultaneously in temperate to nordic areas. Funnily though, there are African ethnic groups who are lactose tolerant, but famously, American Indians were not and this caused Indians to think Europeans wanted to poison them, when said Europeans invited them to share meals. Similarly, a lot of Indian people, like Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese are also unable to metabolise alcohol.
@@annepoitrineau5650 the traces of the first trace of white humans is linked with the discovery of agriculture, the vegetables gave more vitamines than necessary and so the human race (cuz there's only one srry americans) started to evolve by reducing the melanin in the part of the world where agriculture became common
So yeah 10k years ago being white was weird or really uncommon
You don't have to travel back in time to see how people looked in ancient times, just head over to Australia and have a gander at Aboriginals, or go to Papua New Guinea and see the Pygmy people. That kinda gives you an idea.
This is absolute rubbish. First, Africa is much more genetically diverse than the rest of the world. The group who left Africa was small (latest hypothesis: about 200 people), and did not include all the possible genetic groups then to be found in Africa (e.g: not the original pygmies, or San/Khoisan). Second, the looks which various ethnic groups have developed are the result of climate, resources, geography and what is called "the founder effect". I.e: a small group of "explorers" venture somewhere. They have a very limited gene pool. Then these people will reproduce within this gene pool, and the mutations which will take place are gene pool compatible (the maori rock jaw). This is what has created the specific physical types you mention. Likewise, Island Scots have a specific type because of the isolation these communities lived in.
@Lasio……..: Bluntly express, I should say.
I’m a bit of a lurker, don’t comment much but I always watch and drop a like.
Anyway, as you always introduce yourself I thought I would too, I’m Sean, nice to meet you.
Oh and I’ve never put my real name on RUclips before, that’s gotta count for something 🤣
Also I’m not watching this one because I can’t stand French people, but not many can.
Sean, I love the French people.
@@katyroseable everybody has flaws
@@katyroseable I don’t actually dislike French people, but I’ll never stop acting like I do. It’s pretty much my duty.
@@thatguy4311 Even among us we can't stand ourselves
@@Moroes11 haha, you make great croissants though 🤣
hi conor to anser your question even not genetialy you will look weird berfore WW2 we groth in heigth enromously.
in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height
you will see:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height#/media/File:Human_heights_over_the_long-run,_OWID.svg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height#/media/File:Average_adult_height_by_year_of_birth,_OWID.svg
this is not came from genetic but by more nutritive and healty food.
You ask sometihing that can be anser precisly like the fall of Rome who was uneviatable a century ago fro the sack of rome and even after we could find remainding of teritory who claim the legacy.