This is the Oldest Family Tree in the World (From the Tombs of Neolithic Britain)

Dan Davis History
Dan Davis History
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Long barrows are the earliest great monuments of the British Isles. They could be over 100m/330ft long and there are hundreds of them, dating from 3800 BC.

But what were they? But who built them? Why did they put so much effort into making them?

And what can the latest studies on ancient DNA tell us, about the family relationships of the people buried inside them and the societies that they lived in?

This is the story of the mysterious Long Barrows of Neolithic Britain.

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The First Stones: https://amzn.to/3pmJikc
Earthen Long Barrows: https://amzn.to/3XoOa4G
People of the Long Barrows: https://amzn.to/3JwzjQ0

A high-resolution picture of kinship practices in an Early Neolithic tomb: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
Radiocarbon dates from the chambered tomb at Hazleton - Saville et al (1987)
Megalithic tombs in western and northern Neolithic Europe were linked to a kindred society - Sánchez-Quinto (2019)
Rites of Passage: Mortuary Practice, Population Dynamics, and Chronology at the Carrowkeel Passage Tomb Complex - Kador et al (2018)
East Anglian early Neolithic monument burial linked to contemporary Megaliths - Scheib et al (2019)
Diversity, lifestyles and rites: new biological and archaeological evidence from British Earlier Neolithic mortuary assemblages - Wysocki & Whittle (2000)
‘In this Chambered Tumulus were Found Cleft Skulls …’: an Assessment of the
Evidence for Cranial Trauma in the British Neolithic - Wysocki & Schulting (2005)
Serious Mortality: the Date of the Fussell's Lodge Long Barrow - Wysocki & Bayliss (2007)
William Cunnington and the Long Barrows of the Wylye Valley - Eagles & Field
The Fussell's Lodge Long Barrow Excavations 1957 - Ashbee (1966)

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Video Chapters

00:00 Neolithic Long Barrows
01:20 Video Sponsorship
02:43 What are long barrows?
05:07 Symbolic meanings
06:57 Houses of the dead?
11:32 Who was buried inside them?
15:14 Neolithic patriarchy
16:05 Neolithic violence
17:24 DNA analyses
21:15 The Story of the Long Barrows
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