Red ceramic animal pottery vessel, Dawenkou culture, Neolithic China, c. 4300 - 2600 BC

(I thought it was a pig but it might be a dog, idk)

Look. I know it's a nice day and you're busy but you're just gonna have to set aside 30 mins to watch this banger instead.

The kids'll be alright playing with matches for half hour. Your old nan won't mind being alone a while longer.

Come on, get your priorities straight.

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The first pottery in the world was NOT made by Neolithic farmers.

In fact, it was made during the Ice Age.

So, who made this pottery? Why was it invented and how was it used?

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Mfw I'm a Neolithic rock cut tomb in Sardinia and the Bell Beaker invaders start digging their graves into the earth.

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In the Bronze Age Mediterranean, the Nuragic Civilization built thousands of stone structures that look like medieval castles. Some of these towers were 100ft tall!

But what were they really?

This is the story of the mysterious nuraghe of ancient Sardinia.

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Leading British prehistorian Francis Pryor writing in 2011.

Well known for his excavation of the Bronze Age Flag Fen site, he has written many books and appeared on many TV shows, especially in the 90s and 2000s.

I have enjoyed many of his books, for example his 2003 book "Britain BC" where he argues against the concept of prehistoric "invasions" generally, and specifically by the Iron Age Celts and by Neolithic farmers. He says the old demographic "wave of advance" model has been disproven. He ignores the Bell Beaker migration to such an extent that as far as I can see he only mentions beaker pots once, in passing. The British Neolithic passes into the Bronze Age seamlessly.

We now know, thanks to aDNA, that Britain saw an almost complete turnover in population at the Mesolithic / Neolithic boundary and at the Neolithic / Bronze Age boundary too.

It's almost impossible to overstate the extent to which the "genetic revolution" - from say 2015 onwards - has transformed mainstream archeology.

Burial of a Yamnaya child (6-7 years) with four sheep knuckle bones as a grave good. This is yet another example of how some children were also given careful burials in the Yamnaya culture. I wonder if these were used as a toy or for religious reasons (or both). His burial chamber inside the kurgan may have been supported by wooden posts. There is evidence based on how his head was position that a pillow may have been used to support his head showing that maybe Yamnaya used them for sleeping. The burial name is Peschany-4, kurgan 13 and the source of the information and image is from the supplementary file of the recent paper "The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans". Lazaridis, I., Patterson, N., Anthony, D. et al. The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans. Nature 639, 132–142 (2025).

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Set your alarm clock! You're gonna have to set aside 20 mins to watch the story about these strange little chaps.

What on earth are they?!

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These strange carved stone objects were buried in a child's grave, thousands of years ago.

But no one knows what they are.

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This video is like a high budget TV history / travelogue documentary, with a fabulous script and narration, and extraordinary footage, it's amazing that people can fund and produce something like this independently and put it on YouTube. This could go on any TV channel as is.

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I'm leaving instructions to be buried like this.