My favourite archaeology story is how medieval Polish peasants had a popular belief that pieces of pottery were growing in the ground due to them finding archaeological relics and not realizing that they were just incredibly old.
There is a great emphasis on this idea that "European archaeologists stole or took objects from Africa and Asia by force". It would be helpful if you would also clarify that in the vast majority of cases local people sold objects to European archaeologists, in addition to the fact that local authorities used to authorize European archeological expeditions because in the region nobody cared about these objects and these places all throughout the 19th century. That said, great class. Congratulations.
And a lot of times regardless of how it got there, Europeans can’t/won’t return artifacts because the places of origin are hopelessly corrupt and unstable. (But will still use it as a grievance to distract from their own issues)
I was just at Heraclea Sintica , where they are restarting archeological excavations, and looking at the older city that's 10+ feet undergrounds now. The city was thought to be in a different place, with both Greece and FYROM claiming sites, but it was in the end accepted to be in south Bulgaria after a coffin top and altar table were discovered as a smuggler was trying to sell them, and the site was dated by them, got funds, excavated more, confirmed it. The sewer is still a whole complete arch beneath the town square, despite the place being flooded, volcano erupted, and raided a bunch of times. And if you visited in 2016 and then now, they basically have doubled the amount of the city being seen, and have uncovered an entirely new level, the oldest part. Pretty cool stuff.
I like to think that when Schleimann found a room or cavern from the city of Troy during his mission, he personally lights a batch of dynamite and throws the "fire cracker" right into the site to "open it up"
The buried city of Pompeii was rediscovered in 1758. People started to dig tunnels and descend into the ruins. Many valuable artifacts were removed and, ended up in private collections.
Remember to mention slavey as a means of production in ALL of your videos, please. You only touch on this this when addressing Sicily. Thank you. You do good work.
Wow I like your content. Editing and narrating make your channel my favorite. Your work should be appreciated. You are deserve more subscriber I hope you must gain 1 Million subscriber by the end of this year. Please keep continue this type of amazing work. Your admirable hard work and deep research make you the best channel on RUclips. But brother I am waiting for an promised video on Skanderbeg when it will come?
It’s probably the designation of some college class. Usually they’re labeled in that format (Three to four letters labeling the subject followed by a three or four digit number labeling the specific course).
At the very end you talked about bringing together teams of people, hyperspecialization, and how there's only so much one person can know/learn. This all made me wonder about how machine learning and current computer tech such as machine learning (but not limited to just that) is being applied to the field to help with things? And if you see where the fields of tech (in all the broad meanings of that) and archaeology could come together in the future?
From what I understand, technology has been key to pretty much all of the latest advances in archaeology. As far as the specific contributions of A.I., I don't know but I imagine that someone is working on that somewhere.
Really hard to maintain charity with people who bring up the Galileo affair and give the secularist / protestant reduction of it, which completely deletes the part about how his reasoning was flawed, and the church argued that he didn't have the evidence to make his claim. Sort of how if ten thoasand years ago I said the stars were far away when my tribe believed they were close, and I said I knew this bc I saw it in a vision, and was then punished, I would be right, but not some suffering scientist under rabid theological orthodoxy. The conflation of the tradition of fides et ratio with 18th century American fundamentalist protestantism when Catholicism is a tradition which as early as St. Augustine responded to questions like "how can genesis be true if there was light before the stars" with "genesis is about covenants," as in, the recognition of literary type, or which baptized Aristotelian ethics, or which literally evangelized the Greeks with the literal Logos, says more about the bias of the person making the conflation than anything else.
My favourite archaeology story is how medieval Polish peasants had a popular belief that pieces of pottery were growing in the ground due to them finding archaeological relics and not realizing that they were just incredibly old.
I love this channel.
Nothing like a great history instructor.
There is a great emphasis on this idea that "European archaeologists stole or took objects from Africa and Asia by force". It would be helpful if you would also clarify that in the vast majority of cases local people sold objects to European archaeologists, in addition to the fact that local authorities used to authorize European archeological expeditions because in the region nobody cared about these objects and these places all throughout the 19th century.
That said, great class. Congratulations.
And a lot of times regardless of how it got there, Europeans can’t/won’t return artifacts because the places of origin are hopelessly corrupt and unstable. (But will still use it as a grievance to distract from their own issues)
I was just at Heraclea Sintica
, where they are restarting archeological excavations, and looking at the older city that's 10+ feet undergrounds now.
The city was thought to be in a different place, with both Greece and FYROM claiming sites, but it was in the end accepted to be in south Bulgaria after a coffin top and altar table were discovered as a smuggler was trying to sell them, and the site was dated by them, got funds, excavated more, confirmed it. The sewer is still a whole complete arch beneath the town square, despite the place being flooded, volcano erupted, and raided a bunch of times. And if you visited in 2016 and then now, they basically have doubled the amount of the city being seen, and have uncovered an entirely new level, the oldest part. Pretty cool stuff.
I like to think that when Schleimann found a room or cavern from the city of Troy during his mission, he personally lights a batch of dynamite and throws the "fire cracker" right into the site to "open it up"
"I guess even if you force back what was lost... It won't be the same as the way it was"
Thanks so much for putting out all these videos. I listen to them at work and am able to gain a ton of history knowledge because of you.
Archaeology was a part of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the Middle East. He brought back the Rossetta stone from Egypt to France.
Great lecture
The buried city of Pompeii was rediscovered in 1758. People started to dig tunnels and descend into the ruins. Many valuable artifacts were removed and, ended up in private collections.
Just out of interest, have you finished your PhD, and these are lectures you also provide your students? if so, really cool stuff.
Yes and yes.
I agree. Thanks for the high level education
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Remember to mention slavey as a means of production in ALL of your videos, please. You only touch on this this when addressing Sicily. Thank you. You do good work.
thank u for this good video, as a foreigner, I want to learn more things while learning English.
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Wow I like your content. Editing and narrating make your channel my favorite. Your work should be appreciated. You are deserve more subscriber I hope you must gain 1 Million subscriber by the end of this year. Please keep continue this type of amazing work. Your admirable hard work and deep research make you the best channel on RUclips. But brother I am waiting for an promised video on Skanderbeg when it will come?
Could you do a Chinese Generals tier-list? like for one dynasty or time period/era?
What does 'HIS 2210' mean? Is it a specific year in some calendar?
It’s probably the designation of some college class. Usually they’re labeled in that format (Three to four letters labeling the subject followed by a three or four digit number labeling the specific course).
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At the very end you talked about bringing together teams of people, hyperspecialization, and how there's only so much one person can know/learn. This all made me wonder about how machine learning and current computer tech such as machine learning (but not limited to just that) is being applied to the field to help with things? And if you see where the fields of tech (in all the broad meanings of that) and archaeology could come together in the future?
From what I understand, technology has been key to pretty much all of the latest advances in archaeology. As far as the specific contributions of A.I., I don't know but I imagine that someone is working on that somewhere.
Really hard to maintain charity with people who bring up the Galileo affair and give the secularist / protestant reduction of it, which completely deletes the part about how his reasoning was flawed, and the church argued that he didn't have the evidence to make his claim. Sort of how if ten thoasand years ago I said the stars were far away when my tribe believed they were close, and I said I knew this bc I saw it in a vision, and was then punished, I would be right, but not some suffering scientist under rabid theological orthodoxy. The conflation of the tradition of fides et ratio with 18th century American fundamentalist protestantism when Catholicism is a tradition which as early as St. Augustine responded to questions like "how can genesis be true if there was light before the stars" with "genesis is about covenants," as in, the recognition of literary type, or which baptized Aristotelian ethics, or which literally evangelized the Greeks with the literal Logos, says more about the bias of the person making the conflation than anything else.
Serious question, how can I take one of your courses for credit?
Dulles hall
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Think of all the priceless artifacts in Afghanistan that the Taliban will soon destroy.