Lost DNA - The Truth About Ancient Europeans | Part 1: Origins | FD Ancient History

Finally, a documentary not made by Chat GPT and Mr. Roboto. Bravo!

I love that it is a persons voice, not one of those impersonal computer voices ❤️

I am not sure what they ment by saying that the genetical combination of blue eyes and dark hair doesn't exist anymore. I have seen people like these including my mother. It is relatively common in Eastern Europe, Turkey and some areas of Asia. The guy they show as an example of the first people crossing to Ireland has blue lenses put. No need for that. We are still alive.

I am black american, and took my dna test. It shows 34%Nigeria and surprising 6%Norway

Dr. Lara Cassidy is one of the best presenters of an informative documentary I've seen yet. Great episode all around.

Age 40-60 and 5ft 11 inches. So people did live past 35 and could be tall. Why would anyone think that people groups didn't move around or migrate? IMO people are people no matter the time period. Same requirements, same desires, same feelings. Just different environments and customs but still people.

Music is not needed and is extremely irritating.

DNA is less an instruction manual and more a simple ingredient list. The great wonder is how those ingredients interact; differently in different locations

Strikes me that a fetal position might allow for the deepest hole with the least effort.

genetic studies are a favorite subject of mine, I do enjoy all of the research on-going as well as the information gained in regards to the study of our ancient human past. I have been tested twice, once 20 years or so ago and another a few short years ago, am quite proud of the fact my Y Haplogroup, being of the G2a type, is from the early farmer folk of Neolithic age. The migrations of these peoples went two routes, one along the sea etc. and the other into Europe via the Danube to Rhine etc.

And just how did these ancient peoples lift up the Huge upper rock slabs to lay them on top of the others to make these burial dolmens? Especially if they lived in small family groups. Thanks

"they looked like modern Sardinians" and proceeds to show video footage re-enactment of not Sardinians lol. Looked like Arabs or Egyptian people. I wonder if anyone knows who those actors were? And why would they do that? accidentally/ incidentally/ coincidentally no doubt.

For anyone who wants to go into the detail of the information presented in this program, I highly recommend the channel "survive the jive". He is a historian who visits all kinds of sites with megaliths and dives deeply into the DNA details to explain the origins, movements and culture of the people of this period and is a great filmmaker.

When the ancients in northern Europe built their solar observatories, what was the climate like? How often in today's time period is the sky at the winter solstice clear enough to see sunrise and sunset? Should we expect observability to be any better thousands of years ago?

I’ll never understand the need to make Europeans not White, she literally says they were basically Sardinians who are basically White, yet who do they show in the video? Non Whites. It’s so exhausting.

Fascinatuing. Very informative.

There are different types of "white" skin. The type typical in continental Europe will tan in the sun, whereas the type in North West Europe does not tan (even when they live in Australia, such as myself). Those populations with the highest proportion of Western Hunter gatherer today (Ireland, Scotland, parts of Scandinavia and Estonia) have the highest proportion of non tanning white skin. The repeated assertion that Western hunter gatherers were dark (some assert black) is a myth. The evidence of their living decedents is that they may very well have been the origin of the non tanning white skin type. There is a paper: "Global skin colour prediction from DNA, Hum Genet (2017) 136:847–863" shows how complex the issue is, and, given how fragmentary the ancient DNA is, the assertion of their skin complexion from DNA is political hogwash.

Extensive dendrochronology could build a year-by-year history going back hundreds of years. Then any local archeological site with wood could be dated to a specific year rather than just a period. It would need to be done at multiple sites but when done at one point, it could be useful for a wide range where the weather conditions were roughly the same.

Roughly 10:00 they're confusing migration and trade...

Awesome, Thanks