Dan Davis History

Hi, did you see my latest video? https://youtu.be/5HlX-PSyUPY

This is a follow up to my Nuragic culture overview video, as many people wanted to know more about these amazing structures. Even this video is of course just an overview and the complexities of these buildings and the various phases of this era would take hours to talk about.

I intended to also include fortified sites in contemporary Iberia and Greece, as well as comparisons to Iron Age brochs in Scotland. But they'll all have to wait for their own videos.

I always prepare way more images than I end up using in a video. Rather often, after uploading a video, I realise I missed specific diagrams or photos that I intended to use. Like these cutaway diagrams showing the layouts and the parabolic shapes of the corbelled interiors.

The next videos will be on intriguing artefacts and sites from the Neolithic and the Mesolithic. I hope you'll enjoy them too.

Cheers,
Dan

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1 week ago | [YT] | 535

Dan Davis History

Hi, did you see my new video on ancient pottery? https://youtu.be/2taUjbCb3N8

I hope you enjoyed the video. I have two more videos coming this month and one in the first half of next month so keep an eye out for those. These next three videos will look at some amazing sites of the Bronze Age, the Neolithic, and the Mesolithic respectively.

It's just me reading the books and papers, then writing, and editing all my videos by myself. So it takes me a while to produce them but I hope people appreciate that every part comes from me rather than from taking shortcuts.

Thank you so much for watching my videos and enabling me to do what I do.

Cheers,
Dan

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2 weeks ago | [YT] | 496

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Have you seen my latest video on the Golden Hats yet? https://youtu.be/3e0MRlNgLw4

A few commenters seem to have missed me saying the gold is extremely thin and that they only weighed 350 grams or whatever.

All the cones are heavily reconstructed. When they came out of the ground they were very deformed or even shredded. The black and white photo here shows how thin the gold was - say half a millimetre in thickness on average, something like that, and some parts on some cones were so think they're almost foil. They needed a lining of some kind to maintain their structure when worn.

So they couldn't have been used to hold a gallon of beer or whatever as some people suggested. Also, the shape of the bottom could have been made longer in one direction than the other rather easily and so fit a head better than the circular reconstructions. The brims could have been at different angles, too.

And we do have that artwork from Bohuslän with a pair of chaps with cones on their heads, along with the sun wheel and ritual axe symbol. The same symbols also seen on the Bredarör slabs at Kivik along with the cone symbol.

All the evidence suggests these were actually hats and were actually worn, at least sometimes.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the video.

Cheers,
Dan

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1 month ago | [YT] | 624

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Very interesting video about what bone needles can tell us about ancient North America and the cosy clothing they made. Video also goes into detail about archeological excavation and scientific analyses including a new technique. Check it out!

1 month ago | [YT] | 119

Dan Davis History

Happy New Year to you.

Thank you very much indeed for your support in 2024. I am enormously grateful that so many people enjoy the historical videos that I produce.

There were quite a few published in 2024; did you watch them all?

Thanks especially to my patrons and Channel Members for helping to fund expensive academic books I need for research and the high quality footage that makes these films better for everyone.

I wish you all a healthy and prosperous 2025.

Cheers,
Dan

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3 months ago | [YT] | 1,065

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Merry Christmas, everyone!

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4 months ago | [YT] | 2,148

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Did you see my latest video on this amazing ancient site? https://youtu.be/qpLgTr5A_HA

I should have mentioned that it's 80km away from the Catacomb culture island fortress in the Dnieper outside Zaporizhzhia. This could well have been the residence for important, powerful people. Again, it reinforces the idea that this was a region of real importance during the Middle Bronze Age.

Incidentally, the fortress on Bayda Island was right next to the island known as Sredny Stog, which gave its name to the Neolithic culture that was widespread across the steppe and highly influential on later cultures. Amazing to think that to the people who built the sanctuary mound on the Molochna River, the Sredny Stog culture had been there up to two thousand years earlier.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this video. Check out the Catacomb culture video for more information, if you haven't already.

Thank you for watching my videos, I appreciate every one of you.

And I wish you all a very happy Christmas.

Cheers,
Dan

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4 months ago | [YT] | 461

Dan Davis History

Thank you very much indeed to my 300k subscribers 🙏

I am immensely grateful for all who watch my videos and for all 300k who choose to subscribe.

Check out my recent videos to make sure you haven't missed any. And let me know if you have any subjects you would like to see videos on in future.

Thanks again for your support.
Cheers,
Dan

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4 months ago | [YT] | 1,239

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Hi there, did you see my latest video on the Mines of Kargaly? https://youtu.be/hQZxgzA-Uak

It's such an incredible place, the region is so extensive. Obviously they've done lots of excavations there (mainly late 90s to early 2000s) but there's still so much left to uncover.

It takes a huge amount of labour to excavate even a small section of tunnels and there are literally thousands of vertical shafts that are unexcavated and hundreds of miles of tunnels. Who knows what more there could be to discover down there?

I made a few videos now about prehistoric copper mining. Some people have asked about a tin mining video so please let me know if that's something you'd be interested in seeing. Maybe you're bored of ancient mining already.

The next video will be about ceramic technology, something requested by a long time Patreon supporter.

Thank you all for watching, I hope you enjoyed this video.

Cheers,
Dan

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5 months ago | [YT] | 1,367

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Hi, did you see my latest video on metal money in Bronze Age Europe? https://youtu.be/EZ2PS5S6w1c

I know not all the notifications go out and not everyone can watch in the middle of the week. Some people actually have jobs and family lives, so I've heard.

Anyway, have you had enough of ancient copper mining and copper production or would you be interested in seeing more on this subject? I've got a great idea I'm working on now, I hope you'll be into it.

I hope you're doing well, thank you as always for watching my videos.

Cheers,
Dan

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