JIVE TORC - The torc or torque was a status symbol for Celts, Thracians, Persians and Scythians in the Iron Age. But where does the torc originate? The oldest torcs appear in the late European Bronze Age.

https://youtu.be/svldFjCnYoU?feature=shared

The Vinča culture of Serbia is one of the first human civilisations. Possibly the first to smelt copper, one of the earliest uses of a symbolic proto-script and a hyper industrious producer of advanced ceramics including the earliest anthropomorphic life size clay busts. Yet few know of the wonders of this ancient culture. In this episode, I spoke to the historian Ben Elliott who travelled to Serbia to make a film called Quest for Vinca which aims to increase awareness of these fascinating Neolithic people.

https://youtu.be/cdtSYnPoF-Q

NEW FILM: I travelled to the very Western edge of Albion to see an ancient Celtic village in Cornwall. In this little film you get a good idea of what Iron Age villages were like because I also show footage of a modern reconstructed Celtic village at Butser. 

https://youtu.be/lf7EtembxwI

The rock art from the tomb of Bredarör at Kivik in Sweden is a window into the forgotten world of the Nordic Bronze Age. In this film I interpret all the esoteric imagery, including; sun-wheels, solar crosses, war chariots, armed warriors and ritual axes and boats. With the latest archaeological data, 3D scans and new CGI animations of the art, this film gives a new perspective on a tomb which is 3400 years old!

featuring amazing CGI animations by Robert Molyneaux

https://youtu.be/JLbpm4McNUY

7pm GMT, 2pm EDT, 11 am PDT

Tonight on Jive Talk I speak to Stone age Herbalist, a dissident archaeologist, twitter personality and substack blogger. In this Jive Talk he describes the ancient origins of archaeology as a discipline, how it rose to a more rigorous practice in the modern era and then degenerated into modern woke archaeology. We discuss gay cavemen, transgender vikings, the migrations and invasions of Anglo-Saxons, Beaker folk, Yamnaya, Aryans and others and finally end with a chat about anthropology in general.

See you all there!

https://youtu.be/dVzfRvak1HM