Dan Davis History narrates: “The people of the Sintashta culture were Bronze Age chariot warriors of the Northern steppes. A people who changed the world. Highly patriarchal and warlike, they were also bronze workers who built huge fortified settlements like Arkaim east of the Ural mountains. They invented the chariot and bred the best horses […]
Category Archives: Ancient
Kingdom of Armenia – Between Rome & Parthia
“Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of Ancient civilizations and Middle East continues with a video on the Kingdom of Armenia, as we look as how this state survived between the two giants of the era – Rome and Parthia and then Byzantine and Sassanian Empires, creating a unique civilization.”
Blonde Mummies, Tocharians and Indo-Europeans of China
Survive the Jive has an interesting video on “Blond Mummies, Tocharians and Indo-Europeans of China” about the Indo-European presence in present-day Xinjiang of western China: “Archaeological discovery of mummies in the Taklamakan desert of Western China dating back 4,000 years has captivated the imaginations of researchers, who were surprised to discover that they were caucasians […]
The Ancient Copper Mine that Transformed Britain
Ancient Celtic History
This blog archive is a memorial to content originally curated on the main Ryan Setliff Online page under the Celtophile section from 2020 through December 16th, 2021; it captures the culture, life, and history of the ancient Celts of the British Isles (i.e., England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales) as well as continental Europe: The early Scots came first from […]
Viking History
This blog archive is a memorial to content originally curated on the main Ryan Setliff Online page under the Scandophile section from 2020 through December 15th, 2021; it captures the culture, life, and history of the Vikings, Danes, and Norse of medieval Scandinavia:
Origin of Horse Domestication: Botai, Yamnaya, Sintashta
Survive the Jive offers a documentary on the domestication of the horse which was likely brought to fruition by Indo-European steppe riders. “Professor Alan Outram, Head of Archaeology at University of Exeter is one of the world’s leading experts on ancient horse DNA and the domestication of the horse. In this interview he explains how […]
Bronze Age Warfare // Koryos
Dan Davis Author offers an insightful video that puts the listener in the point of view of an ancient teenage boy among the Yamnaya people on the cusp of manhood, and he explains the initiation of the warrior known as “Koryos.” “In prehistoric Europe and Western Asia the people of the steppe waged war against […]
How Doggerland Sank Beneath the Waves
Doggerland (also called Dogger Littoral) was an area of land, now submerged beneath the southern North Sea, that connected Great Britain to continental Europe. It was flooded by rising sea levels around 6500–6200 BCE, and its catastrophic flooding may have been the result of tsunami emanating from an avalanche in a Norwegian Fjord. Geological surveys […]
Where did Celts come from? Who were the Druids?
Survive the Jive asks the question “Where did Celts come from?” “Celts are known for tartan, faeries, druids, bagpipes and the British Isles – but the origins of the Celtic culture lie in the Unetice culture of Bronze age central Europe and it spread out with the Hallstatt and La Tène cultures. In this history […]