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Vote of Thanks | Rhind Lectures 2024
Vote of thanks given by Dr Mairi Davies FSAScot, Society Fellow and Climate Change Policy Manager at Historic Environment Scotland.
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The Rhind Lectures 2024, “Two ‘little’ ice ages and an anomaly: climate, environment and cultural change in medieval and early modern Scotland” are presented by Professor Richard Oram MA(Hons) PhD FSA FRSA FSAScot. Livestreamed and recorded by the Society at Augustine United Church. Sponsored by GUARD Archaeology Ltd. 
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The Rhind Lectures 2024: 
Our current climate emergency and its ecological and wider environmental consequences are concepts with which we are all familiar, but the impacts of historic climate change on the environment of Scotland and its people are little recognised or understood. Between the dawn of the ‘Late Antique little ice age’ in the 6th century CE to the waning of the ‘little ice age’ in the 19th century CE, climate change and how Scotland’s people responded to it was one of the most dynamic agents affecting environmental conditions and resources and a key stimulus of social and cultural transformation. From epidemic and epizootic disease to energy crises and transitions, ‘Golden Ages’ to ‘Ill Years’, this was an era where dearth, abundance, sustainability and resilience shaped Scotland.
The Lecturer: 
Richard Oram graduated MA (Hons) in Mediæval History with Archaeology and PhD in Mediæval History from the University of St Andrews. Appointed Lecturer in Scottish and Environmental History at the University of Stirling in 2002, Director of the Centre for Environmental History from 2005 and in 2007 becoming the first Chair in Environmental History in the UK, he has published extensively on the environmental histories of Scotland and the wider North Atlantic region, specialising in historic climate change, energy transitions and the impacts of epidemic disease.
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Відео

Session 1 - ‘Slow’ and ‘fast’ violence in changeable times |  Rhind Lectures 2024
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How has past climate change and its environmental effects been perceived and presented in respect of medieval and early modern Scotland? In this opening lecture we explore past and contemporary awareness of historic climate change and how understanding of its impacts has evolved over time. We look at sources of evidence and consider how different forms of written record and climate proxy data r...
Session 2 - Agricultural sustainability, resilience and failure | Rhind Lectures 2024
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Whiggish narratives of ‘Improvement’ and emphasis on the inefficiencies and ingrained conservatism of pre-Improvement agricultural practices have skewed discussion of cultivation and agricultural techniques in medieval Scotland. Expansion and contraction of the area under cultivation has long been explained in Malthusian terms, with the check on growth being delivered by recurrent epidemics fro...
Session 3 - Managing and imagining forest and woodland | Rhind Lectures 2024
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Woodland health is one of our greatest proxies for wider environmental health and features centrally in current debates. While the continued decline in woodland extent across this period is unquestionable, management practices and protections were far more sophisticated and successful than the myth of the destruction of the ‘Great Wood of Caledon’ in a free-for-all orgy of unregulated felling i...
Session 4 - Conflicted histories of the peat-coal transition | Rhind Lectures 2024
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Denigrated since the 18th century as the fuel of the ignorant and culturally inferior, chiefly in the Highlands and Islands, peat was the primary source of thermal energy for most Scots in Lowland as much as Highland regions into the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Although coal has been presented as prevalent since the 16th century, it remained beyond the physical and financial reach...
Session 5 - Soil erosion/soil enrichment and ecological change | Rhind Lectures 2024
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Building on our earlier exploration of agricultural expansion and practice, here we consider the investment in soil enrichment and protection that intensified through the extremes of the ‘little ice age’. ‘Gooding the earth’ of cultivated land, however, could involve practices that exposed other areas to catastrophic loss in times of climatic instability, as did the maintenance of strategies th...
Session 6 - Reconceptualizing Scotland’s ‘dark and drublie’ days | Rhind Lectures 2024
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Revision of the meta-narratives of Scotland’s social and cultural development across these three major episodes of environmental transformation is opening new perspectives on the interplay of human and natural processes that shaped our national history. Climatic and environmental changes are not the determinants of human destiny; what mattered was how our ancestors chose to respond in the face ...
Welcome to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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Welcome to a Society that has been around for 240 years, actively supporting the study and enjoyment of Scotland’s past. Find out more about our story here: www.socantscot.org/about-us/ The Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland are an essential part of the organisation and today we have over 2,500 Fellows. Our Fellows are a group of people with one common passion - the past. The maj...
April Lectures 2024 | Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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This event features two short 20 minute presentations given by Early Career Researchers/recent PhD graduates: - The Chornobyl Exclusion Zone is a palimpsest of early medieval sites: the impact of the war in Ukraine on scientific and rescue excavations by Dr Alla Kurzenkova FSAScot, University of Glasgow About the talk: The Chornobyl settlement has been written into the landscape, intertwined wi...
Grants Surgery - Guidance on Society Research Grants
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Each year, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland awards around £25,000 of grants to support high-quality research and publication relating to Scotland’s past. This online Fellow’s meeting will provide a summary of the different grants that are available and will highlight some of the exciting projects the Society has funded over the past few years. The second part of the meeting is a ‘Grants S...
The development of women’s football in Scotland, 1880-1939
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The lecture: The 5th of December 2021 marked the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the Football Association’s ‘ban’ on women’s football in England. Yet, 100 years on we have little understanding of the impact of that ‘ban’ or how, why and where women’s football developed within the nations which make up the United Kingdom. Scotland has in the last 100 years at least, had a problematic re...
Digging Into Darkness Visible | The History of the Covesea Caves, Moray
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In an enigmatic sea cave in north-east Scotland, the remains of mummified bodies and rare artefacts reveal Moray’s ancient burial practices. Momoko Eliot digs into the story of the Covesea Caves with expert Dr Lindsey Büster, co-author of the award-winning publication 'Darkness Visible: The Sculptor's Cave, Covesea, from the Bronze Age to the Picts'. 00:00 Intro 00:56 Sylvia Benton 1:57 Getting...
The impact of the Storegga Slide tsunami on the Mesolithic population of Britain
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The lecture: Around 6,175 cal BC Britain was irrevocably impacted upon by what is probably the largest marine megaslide tsunami so far recovered on the planet. This event, combined with the climatic cold period or ‘neoglacial’ within which it occurred known as the ‘8.2 kyr event’, had significant effects on both the landscape, seascape as well as the human population of much of Britain. This pa...
The ethnological foundation of the Scottish Enlightenment
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The lecture: The philosophical debates during the Enlightenment concerning the origin and purpose of racial difference provided the rationale for formalizing the study of racial groups in the United Kingdom in the early 1800s. Influenced by the burgeoning field of physiognomy, white thinkers throughout Scotland and England embraced the idea that skin color was evidence of deeper physiological a...
On their terms: black women subverting the plantation economy in the Caribbean
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The lecture: This paper draws on a Black feminist lens to read against the silencing violence of the slavery archives and reveal a dynamic (if sometimes controversial) and creolizing process of identity formation of free and enslaved Black women who, through resistance and/or accommodation, subverted the socio-political structures of colonial power and negotiated their place in the plantation e...
Anniversary Meeting and AGM 2023
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Anniversary Meeting and AGM 2023
Changing his tune: Robert Bruce, Ireland, and the papacy
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Changing his tune: Robert Bruce, Ireland, and the papacy
The life and death of Atlantic Rock Art
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The life and death of Atlantic Rock Art
Session 6 - Past & future earth: clues from the Maya about sustainable soils |  Rhind Lectures 2023
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Session 6 - Past & future earth: clues from the Maya about sustainable soils |  Rhind Lectures 2023
Session 5 - What’s wrong with ‘human sacrifice’? |  Rhind Lectures 2023
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Session 5 - What’s wrong with ‘human sacrifice’? |  Rhind Lectures 2023
Session 4 - Spanish & Maya Christians in the land that became Belize |  Rhind Lectures 2023
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Session 4 - Spanish & Maya Christians in the land that became Belize |  Rhind Lectures 2023
Session 3 - The British East India Company and the Maya collapse |  Rhind Lectures 2023
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Session 3 - The British East India Company and the Maya collapse |  Rhind Lectures 2023
Session 2 - Stone cities, green cities: what we can learn from Maya urbanism |  Rhind Lectures 2023
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Session 2 - Stone cities, green cities: what we can learn from Maya urbanism |  Rhind Lectures 2023
Session 1 - The masters of time: the Maya of Mesoamerica |  Rhind Lectures 2023
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Session 1 - The masters of time: the Maya of Mesoamerica |  Rhind Lectures 2023
The Bare Bones: Exploring the Early Neolithic Chambered Cairns of the North Channel | ARP 2023
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The Bare Bones: Exploring the Early Neolithic Chambered Cairns of the North Channel | ARP 2023
Bog Standard: a Wetland Settlement at Hyndford Quarry | ARP 2023
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Bog Standard: a Wetland Settlement at Hyndford Quarry | ARP 2023
Beyond Walls: New Narratives for Settlement & Land Use on Roman Empire's British Frontier | ARP 2023
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Beyond Walls: New Narratives for Settlement & Land Use on Roman Empire's British Frontier | ARP 2023
St Moluag's Monastery on Lismore - a Rival to St Columba's Monastery on Iona | ARP 2023
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St Moluag's Monastery on Lismore - a Rival to St Columba's Monastery on Iona | ARP 2023
The Norse and the Sea: the Maritime Cultural Landscape of Scandinavian Scotland | ARP 2023
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The Norse and the Sea: the Maritime Cultural Landscape of Scandinavian Scotland | ARP 2023
How to Build Inclusive Audiences for Scottish Archaeology | ARP 2023
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How to Build Inclusive Audiences for Scottish Archaeology | ARP 2023

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @syncrosimon
    @syncrosimon 2 дні тому

    I think that the preservation of Mesolithic sites is dependant on the subsequent land use. A distribution map might lead to incorrect assumptions. I think that Mesolithic dwellings will have been nearly everywhere.

  • @MSeanMcManus
    @MSeanMcManus 2 дні тому

    Lovely lecture. I look forward to hearing the rest in this series.

  • @amandawells7945
    @amandawells7945 4 дні тому

    Brilliant and engaging presentation!

  • @somerledislay9987
    @somerledislay9987 6 днів тому

    Heat waves rolling across the country and its only the middle of June , AYE RIGHT ! the ghouls think everyone believes their broadcasting brothels just like Genocidal Zion there will be no forgiveness for their collusion in these crimes and others

  • @hArtyTruffle
    @hArtyTruffle 7 днів тому

    Seems to me there are lots of shamanic elements in these rituals.

  • @hArtyTruffle
    @hArtyTruffle 7 днів тому

    I think I have a new respect for my washing machine which unfailingly loses only one sock 🤭 But seriously… what a very interesting series this is. Already enjoyed the previous two parts and looking forward to the rest ✨🙏✨

  • @RuralSpanishRetirement
    @RuralSpanishRetirement 8 днів тому

    I lived in Forres and Elgin for many years and have ancestors who came from Covesea and I never even knew the caves were there 💁😳 How interesting to discover such a rich archaeological history for my home territory 😁

  • @franc9111
    @franc9111 16 днів тому

    The transcription is absolute rubbish.

  • @aBRUSHforCONFUCIUS
    @aBRUSHforCONFUCIUS 18 днів тому

    DEI is just anti-White racism. Can we go to Nigeria, China, Peru and demand these things? Basing things on people's skin color, genitilia or who they sleep with, has nothing to do with science. Why do you gave to build an inclusive audience? Lastly, these people are marginalized, it is just empty rhetoric. Why do you gave to build an inclusive audience? It is like that anti-White racist berating Parliament, because Scotland a White country, is run by White people. Disgusting! Can we just get back to treating people with respect, allowing them to succeed on their merit, and having them take interest in something, because it interests them?

  • @helenhunter4540
    @helenhunter4540 24 дні тому

    It occurs to me this and some other precious metal hordes may have been buried by metalworkers to protect their materials in a time of limited access to unworked metal.

  • @helenhunter4540
    @helenhunter4540 25 днів тому

    Refreshing view of previously negated facts.

  • @timeenoughforart
    @timeenoughforart Місяць тому

    Art travels freely. Ideas are like that.

  • @kariannecrysler640
    @kariannecrysler640 Місяць тому

    Very well done.

  • @icantseethis
    @icantseethis Місяць тому

    It's crazy to think of all the change that Queen Elizabeth saw in her lifetime, having lived trough all of this.

  • @davidwilkie9551
    @davidwilkie9551 Місяць тому

    So the moral of this typical tale of history is to invest in a backup plan in what is feasible, like higher tech Nuclear Batteries.

  • @ellen4956
    @ellen4956 Місяць тому

    I think they could be compared to structures even further away. The Tas Tepeler sites in what is now Turkey were also built on bedrock, and in circular shape with a wall within a wall. Also, if the brochs were built by the Picts, who some believe to have been of Scythian descent, they could have brought the idea with them and passed it down. I know this is something that probably seems far-fetched but it's always good to keep an open mind when we don't know who built them or why they were made this way.

  • @user-qq8it5if6y
    @user-qq8it5if6y Місяць тому

    Ευχαριστώ πολύ. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @athollmoray
    @athollmoray Місяць тому

    My DNA test results showed that I am related to several people found in the covesea caves… so this greatly interests me.

  • @helenhunter4540
    @helenhunter4540 Місяць тому

    I wonder if these comparative experiments (human child--chimp--orangutan) really show us what you think they show us. We would need results of experiments designed by chimps and orangutans to know what? Probably that chimps are better at some things than humans and orangutangs, and orangutangs are better at some things than chimps and humans. I'm not being flippant. These "experiments" showing foregone conclusions are not scientific. And are dangerous in that they encourage the experimenters and audience to preen themselves on imagined human superiority. Particularly the male half of our species. By the way, were the human child(ren), chimp(s), and orangutang(s) studied all male?

  • @somerledislay9987
    @somerledislay9987 Місяць тому

    What was the maximum size of Ukraine prior to the Soviet era

  • @Peter-lm3ic
    @Peter-lm3ic Місяць тому

    Pictish raiders and pirate's was the main reason the Romans invaded Caledonia. Pictish and later Scottish raider incursions into England jealous of their wealth was an on going problem that went on well on to the 17th Century.

  • @brianodwyer4198
    @brianodwyer4198 Місяць тому

    If indo aryans built the passage graves several thousand years ago why focus on 600 bc in hallstatt as the origin point. I just find this lecture to be incredibly flawed in scope of the timeline of relevant information. There's a mountain of evidence to suggest the origin point is much older and halstatt theory is now very old and I would say debunked, it's a pretty ridiculous theory based on a very old 19th century observation on very little material evidence.

    • @shishkabobby
      @shishkabobby 28 днів тому

      This was a talk about the Iron Age. If you want a lecture about the Neolithic or Bronze Age, feel free to prepare and present one.

  • @brianodwyer4198
    @brianodwyer4198 Місяць тому

    `Saying celtic languages begin forming at 600 bc I think is wrong. Cuncliffe puts it at 4000bc.

  • @helenhunter4540
    @helenhunter4540 Місяць тому

    Could it be that we of present time don't know enough to make judgements about the SOPHISTICATION of long-ago gatherers?

  • @glendamears3618
    @glendamears3618 Місяць тому

    Wish I could go there😢 I'm in Australia

  • @glendamears3618
    @glendamears3618 Місяць тому

    Just amazing. My Ancestors 😊❤

  • @macman6107
    @macman6107 Місяць тому

    Absolutely amazing. What will happen to this site long-term?

  • @annegoodwin4620
    @annegoodwin4620 2 місяці тому

    Thanks for posting this very informative video!!

  • @jodymaley3674
    @jodymaley3674 2 місяці тому

    Comet, meteorite fragments impact to ice sheet better explanation than "climate change"? Look at Carolina bays created by ice sheet fragments blasted out from object impact all over USA. Love real science, always more questions

  • @spotthedraco2353
    @spotthedraco2353 2 місяці тому

    👍👍SUBSCRIBE 😉

  • @gabecunha2411
    @gabecunha2411 2 місяці тому

    tried to watch, but sound quality made me quit it

    • @SocietyofAntiquariesofScotland
      @SocietyofAntiquariesofScotland Місяць тому

      Sorry about that. We've significantly improved the sound quality of our recordings in recent years, so do give one of our latest videos a try!

  • @boyscott7193
    @boyscott7193 2 місяці тому

    Excellent presentation - thank you for posting.

  • @nibiruresearch
    @nibiruresearch 2 місяці тому

    Its about time that geologists finally discover that their entire theory is built on quicksand. It was conceived in the same way that a writer might write an idea for a book or a film. There is no scientific evidence whatsoever for the geological theory that layers are formed in hundreds of thousands of years. In reality, an earth layer forms in seven days! This is caused by a regularly recurring natural disaster, mainly characterized by a flood, which is caused by a celestial body that revolves in an eccentric orbit around our sun. Therefore, its speed is very high when it comes close to the sun and because the angle of its orbit is almost perpendicular to the ecliptic plane, its speed and gravitational force compared to the other planets are also very high. All this has been recorded by previous civilizations in texts and images that we can find all over the world. The Aztec sunstone is the most beautiful and solid example of such a warning. We explain much more about planet 9, the recurring flood cycle and its timeline, the rebirth of civilizations and ancient advanced technology in the e-book: "Planet 9 = Nibiru". It shows abundant and convincing evidence both in text and many depictions. It can be read on any computer, tablet or smartphone. Search: planet 9 roest

  • @moped975
    @moped975 2 місяці тому

    Dieser Tsunami hatte eine andere Ursache. ES GAB KEINE EISZEITEN. Nicht eine einzige: physikalisch unmöglich.

  • @ClimateScepticSceptic-ub2rg
    @ClimateScepticSceptic-ub2rg 2 місяці тому

    Good summary and analysis of a complex topic.

  • @iainmcneil969
    @iainmcneil969 2 місяці тому

    Absolutely fascinating archaeological findings. Thanks for making this available. Quite why UA-cam wants to claim this was caused by man made climate change is beyond me though.... I get a big blue box under the video saying "Context Climate change United Nations Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas." Not helpful UA-cam.

  • @sasazamami
    @sasazamami 2 місяці тому

    Where is the q and a???

  • @sasazamami
    @sasazamami 2 місяці тому

    Their noses were thin because they were the Product of Great by the dominant society

  • @LukaRejec
    @LukaRejec 2 місяці тому

    Deeply enjoyed this erudite yet concise and informative lecture. A fascinating dive into deep (pre)history.

  • @kirkwoodpaterson9510
    @kirkwoodpaterson9510 2 місяці тому

    Who's paying you for articulating this E. O. T. World Is NIGH poppycock, the Nuclear lobby?

  • @user-oo8xp2rf1k
    @user-oo8xp2rf1k 2 місяці тому

    The identity of the human bone found off Holland carbon dated 75 years ago is quite likely an allied airman? . The north sea off Holland years ago 85-88 years ago would have had many dead US and other Allied airmens bodies in it leaving skeletal remains. Around 55,000 were killed in raids on Germany , and a high proportion would have come down in the north sea somewhere, rather than crashing or disintegrating immediately. Say 10%? So that's about human remains of about 5,000 allied aircrew ( perhaps 200 axis aircrew also) in three or four years on the bottom of the north sea between Holland and east Anglia . Trawlers have pulled up many bomber engines from the sea bed. I've seen one from a B17 flying fortress . The aircraft body is thin aluminium struts and sheet, so a large aircraft is lost to decay in the ocean easily. But engine blocks are more resilient.

  • @susanb4816
    @susanb4816 2 місяці тому

    Agga-see not agga-siss, french name. As someone from the area bit of a pet peeve

    • @SPierre-dm4wo
      @SPierre-dm4wo Місяць тому

      Glad I'm not the only Agassiz local who caught that :)

  • @stephencameron2541
    @stephencameron2541 2 місяці тому

    The "unassuming" piece of bone may be a tuning peg of a harp.

    • @SocietyofAntiquariesofScotland
      @SocietyofAntiquariesofScotland Місяць тому

      Great suggestion, Stephen. Is there anything in particular that makes you think that?

    • @stephencameron2541
      @stephencameron2541 Місяць тому

      @@SocietyofAntiquariesofScotland Just I have seen a few harp tuning pegs made of bone with decorative end! Just a thought

  • @matthewgartell6380
    @matthewgartell6380 2 місяці тому

    This terrifies me. Imagine something like this happening again.

  • @misssherrie-may1041
    @misssherrie-may1041 2 місяці тому

    I've just discovered your channel!! It's amazing!!

  • @ianandjohnandmaniandreni9323
    @ianandjohnandmaniandreni9323 2 місяці тому

    This has fascinated me since I found out about it a few years ago. I worked out of sand and gravel quarries around Lanark, seen the Montrose basin, and all the flat lands around the River Clyde and especially the River Forth and along towards Stirling. The tsunami would have been devastating to all coastal and Riverside settlements all around Scotland and a lot of the evidence now lies under mud, silt, rubble and the 100-odd metre sea-level increase from Ice Age levels (the Northern Icecaps were up to 2 miles deep in places, comparable with Antarctica).

  • @ianandjohnandmaniandreni9323
    @ianandjohnandmaniandreni9323 2 місяці тому

    It's pronounced Haw-ick, like paw, not like how or now.

  • @johnhopkins4012
    @johnhopkins4012 2 місяці тому

    Strange all these comments fail to identify that the over riding names of rivers various mountains and place names in Pictland are all in the Brythonic language of the Cumbrogi/Welsh. The fort Dunnicaer is named quite plainly in the Welsh, 'city of the fort'. But of course no one has mentioned or spotted this fact. The Picts were a northern British tribe of Brythonic origin, of course with ancient Indo-European links.

  • @Bob.Jenkins
    @Bob.Jenkins 2 місяці тому

    Awesome presentation of Data, Logic and Deductive Reasoning... spoiled only by the Presenters overuse of 'erm' and 'hmm'.

  • @robg3545
    @robg3545 2 місяці тому

    Spent some time drilling on the Ormen Lange gas field shown in the graphic at 13:00 The sea bed (about 450m deep I think) is still so badly disrupted by the slide that there are building-sized blocks of rotated sediment lying chaotically across the field. The drillship had to have very detailed sea bed plans to avoid striking high points in case of moving away from the drill sites in emergency if the riser was hanging below it.

    • @amystubby
      @amystubby 2 місяці тому

      I would watch a whole ass documentary on this process. The mapping. The having to avoid the rocks. All of it.