Good morning, I am going to wrap up the Secrets of the Stone Age Series from the DW Documentary YouTube Channel. The run time for this episode is 42:25.
In this episode, the viewer is taken to sites where there are gigantic stone circles. How did the Stone Age people make these structures? Why did they make the effort? There is a team of archeologists who are going to experiment with transportation techniques when it comes to transporting stones. Now I wish I could dig up the documentary about Stonehenge and a team using carved stone balls to move stones for Stonehenge. Additionally, earlier in this time period, there were relatively few conflicts. Raids that wiped out whole villages happened later in the period. The first trading systems were also developed during this period. The Neolithic people appreciated the finer things in life, like their modern counterparts. This is proven by archeological discoveries. A lot of the evidence has been buried. This episode begins in the Middle East with the discoveries of the first permanent settlements. A few miles away from Petra in Jordan, a team is going to reach a site. However, reaching this site is going to be a challenge for a small team. The evidence that has been recovered so far demonstrates that the people who lived here grew crops and farmed. However, why make the effort to move to such a remote area? Perhaps there was overpopulation in one area? Perhaps they were curious as to what was up in the plateaus. Anyway, the houses were built tightly together and were equal on the site. People would have spent time on the roofs of the houses getting from one house to another. The site was carefully planned. One of the archeologists points out the masonry on the site, which reminds me of Peter Ginn’s discussion about masonry on the Secrets of the Castle site. This site also revealed how the people buried their dead as well. So why did this settlement go into decline? You will have to watch this episode to find out. Then there is a discussion on how the climate changed which would have impacted Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. There was an ice shelf that collapsed in North America that caused water to flow into the Atlantic and shifting the jet stream for decades. The Atlantic would have risen over time and would have covered settlements. Many archeologists believe that Neolithic finds could be discovered underwater. The viewer goes to Brittany and one historian talks about the impact of rising sea levels on Britany. Food gathering points would have been wiped from the map as a result of rising sea levels. The viewer is then taken on a tour of sites in Brittany. On one tomb there are carvings. Additionally, there is a discussion on how the people traveled throughout the islands of Brittany. They would have had to have boats and these boats would have been tightly built. Images were found carved in stone, could these images hint at a maritime culture? These people would have also built stone structures. One of the stones has since fallen down and broken into four pieces. Why did it fall? Was it knocked over? The reason why it fell down could be a potential mystery. What else do findings tell us about the Stone Age? What about the movements of people? What about the experiment transporting large stones? Why were these stone structures built? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out more about the Stone Age. Yeah, I still wish this documentary would have been broken up into sections, sections for each of the sites that were visited. It would make tracking the documentary easier to track and make it easier to pull clips for lectures. At times I also found the narration humorous and it got me thinking that the Stone Age people did things just because they could like in the modern age. This is a well-done documentary two-part series about the Stone Age. The documentary pace and the narration were very good. It is a definite update from older documentaries on the Stone Age. If I were a teacher, it would be something that I would be using in the classroom.
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