For what my opinion is worth The “Dronehenge” discovery is the detail that gets me. A monument can sit beneath farmland for thousands of years, completely invisible, then one unusually dry summer suddenly draws its outline into the crops. That’s exactly the sort of thing that changes how I look at landscapes when I’m out filming for my YT channel. Brú na Bóinne clearly isn’t just three famous tombs sitting in isolation. It’s an entire prehistoric landscape that we’re still only partially able to see. Sometimes archaeology isn’t about digging deeper. It’s about the ground briefly deciding to show you what was there.

Wow! How great it is to follow and watch this excellent series about Ancient Ireland in its earliest times. It reminded me of many other series I've watched about Gobekli Tepe, Jericho, Karahan Tepe and even civilizations like the Al-Ubaid, writings and information  about Ebla, Urartu, and several others. Thank you so much for this incredible History Hit documentary.

Really loved Dr. Becker's segment on Rathgall Hillfort! Also thoroughly enjoyed the rest of your video as well! Thank you.

Great presentation. You did forget to mention however, that one of the oldest temples in the world in Malta, had similar spiral carvings.
That fact is a very significant thing to leave out of your story line.

The DNA from Newgrange might be even stranger than the monument itself. Researchers found that a man buried in its most elaborate inner recess was the son of a first-degree incestuous union, suggesting he belonged to an extraordinary dynastic elite. Suddenly this isn’t just a communal tomb built by an egalitarian farming society. The architecture may also be evidence of who held power. Five thousand years later the stones tell us how they built Newgrange, but the bones are starting to tell us who was important enough to be buried at its heart.

It's quite impressive!

Thank you for this incredible video❤️🇨🇦

Unusual for me to get to a video even remotely as early as this!  Here goes then. Love a bit of pre-history/archaeology..!

Just worth saying about Newgrange, we see today is not universally accepted as how it originally looked. The 1960s/70s restoration by Michael J. O’Kelly put the white quartz into that dramatic near-vertical façade, but many later archaeologists have questioned whether the quartz was ever arranged that way. One strong modern interpretation is that the quartz and granite formed more of a low apron, platform or forecourt around the entrance, especially in front of the passage, rather than a clean white wall.  
That doesn’t mean O’Kelly was “wrong” in a simple sense, but the present appearance is a reconstruction, not a photograph of the Neolithic original. The roof-box and solstice alignment are central, but the famous white façade is still debated. So when documentaries show Newgrange as if that look is settled fact, it’s worth remembering there is a lot more archaeological caution behind it.






   

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Thank you Tristan - great presentation and wonderful photography! Hope we can visit there someday. 😊

They're the shapes you see when you eat liberty caps in the countryside

Really interesting

The blue circular patterns look like the ones Picts left in Scotland

Of course my heart flew to Anthony Delaney. 🥰

Newgrange was an overgrown hill when it was discovered. In myths and in history, the rightful rulers of the Irish clans were annointed on hilltops where the stones 'sang out' to confirm their ascendancy. I believe the astronomical/priestly caste kept the entrance hidden and sang during those rituals, from within the cave. The intense audio effect would have been epic. Their solar worship may have included a path to the afterlife on a solstice sunrise, their souls traveling back to source on a beam of light. The quartz cobbles belong on the ground, in a stylized pathway around the monument, arranged in a spiral that leads to the top, imo.

Sharing a comment I recently share on another History Subject, for it offers the greater emerging values that are helping us gain the room and opportunities to reach the greater truths.

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"The direction they're trying to direct the narrative".  
That opening statement is a fact. ... and I'm a Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian.

The keys that give us hope in greater knowing and understanding the Authentic History reside in:

1)  The DNA Studies revealing values that prove there was mobility, Seafaring, actual Basque DNA found in at least 4 Native American Tribes, 3 in the USA, 1 in Canada, and I expect at least 2 more, 1 in Canada and 1 USA.
The Iroquois (NE &SA), Navajo (SW USA), another Southeastern Tribe I'm spacing and an Easter Canadian tribe I also don't recall.

This DNA is AdMix and additionally, there are a few Basque words that Linguists identify as of Basque Origin.

if we look at the Basque, they are the larger part of the Origin of the:
"Irish, Welsh, the original Britons/English, Indigenous White Berbers, and Peoples of the Canary Islands".

The Britons were highly influenced by all the various Germanics that invaded: "Romans, Vikings, Anglos, Saxons, Jutes, and Normans" (original Indigenous Italians were the Etruscans).

Today, less than 2% of the original Male Briton DNA remains, (that's an ethnic cleansing), the female continued+ AdMix.

Further, the Basque were actually the original Seafarers, and they continued to be Master Seafarers.  I have heard, but yet to validate that the Phoenicians and Canaanites, were of Basque Origin.  It is logical, I suspect it's accurate.

Basque are the Indigenous Iberians.  Iberia comprised all of modern day France, Spain, and Portugal.

These may seem remote from the subject discussed here, but it iffers Powerful  values towards releasing the limited ideas around the movement of peoples in the pre and post AD/CE era.

The Knights Templars History, that's finally being shared now, also further endorses this.

2)  The Native People's own Oral Histories have been ignored by late 19th Century and all of 20th Century Academics.

In my experience, the Oral Histories far exceed written History in its Accuracy.

Much of their History has never been shared, there's great optimism for discoveries yet to be realized.

Their History Keepers follow a strict practice to maintain accuracy.

For more information on this, see the New Zealand Documentary "Skeletons in the Cupboard", there's 2 in that group as I recall.

They adhere to the "Standards of Science and Research", a most "Authentic Academic Model" practice.  "Mainstream Academics" do not consistently do this.

Expect to experience far greater ease in pursuing what some call "Alternative Theories".  Far more cooperative works, involving multi disciplines:  Geologists, Historical Sociologists, Linguists, Geneticists, Architectural Historians, etc, in addition to Anthropologists, Archaeologists, and Historians.  

This has been long overdue.
There's so much to gain from these collective efforts.

"Higher Mind aka Mature Mind" is a Thought Management requirement by Academics and Researchers, there's no room for the "Lower Mind aka Ego Mind" in the Academic and Research arena.

Truths Matter ...

B Bartlett
Sociologist/Behavioralist
and Historia

Regarding Ireland and Newgrange:  I'm not surprised.  In my History studies and research, I read that *reland was the seat of Higher Education, that European Elites sent their sons there for Education.

I recall seeing and hearing this several time and it became clear to me, like several other topics of History that were rewritten, Ireland's History certainly was, as well.

The British rewrote Ireland's History to further convenience the Irish that they were unworthy, heathens.  Blunt, but that was the effort.

For a Country to have achieved a Premium Level of Education Institutions, they first had to have Secured their Borders, established stable food resources, and established a functional Political and  Consistent Economic System.

My Hypothesis  is that *reland was the "Seat of Power" in that part of the World.

Thus, there's a gap in the remaining History.

Not to mention the "pre-flood" world.  Ireland and Scotland both hold relics that very well could reach back to the 10,000 BC era.

The Giza Pyramid Complex including the Sphinx date back that far, (Robert Schoch, Phd, Geophysicst, "dated the Sphinx to a conservative 11,000 BCE, this is Peer Reviewed and Journal Published.

He, of course was attacked by the Mainstream Academics, but the Facts remain.  Authentic Academic Finds using the  Standards of Science and Research.

We have so much to discover from the finds we have, that have been mistranslated and misinterpreted.

When the Mature Minded Academics and Researchers can review without fear of being judged and losing their funding, we have a far more authentic History to Discover.

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The work of Martin Brennan examined the Boyne Valley enigma and the purpose of the whole complex of Dowth, Nowth and the Bru' - I highly recommend his work to those seeking deeper meanings to the reading of the stones. His work has been obscured but as he was the first to document the solstice connection back in the 1960s, he's worth looking into. Furthermore, new research is giving rise to theories that Ireland may have been the starting point for the Bronze Age. These theories correlate to the portrayal and discovery of great wealth, trading and feasting throughout that period in Ireland. Check out the myth of the choice of Nial of the Nine Hostages and the Blacksmith/Druid who created the trial.

As a young man, we hung out at these places at night 😂… never abused them but always enjoyed them ,,,

Always wonderful to watch these episodes. What always amazes me about these sites is the worldwide use of some of the petroglyph elements. For example, both the spiral (clockwise and anti-clockwise) and serpentine elements are very common in the US southwest. Unless you want to try and postulate that peoples from Ireland migrated to the US southwest (or vice versa) in the neolithic, then these symbols seem to depict a universal concept. A couple of questions I have about the information presented here is the supposition of how the builders of these sites moved the stone from Clogherhead to the area of the monuments. Is there any evidence that neolithic peoples had boats that could carry multi-ton stones? That shoreline at Clogherhead seems rather rough, so how did they transfer the stones to these hypothesized boats? Where was the shoreline during that period? Questions for the future to answer. :)