Huge Ancient Sailing Ships from Bronze Age Scandinavia #history #bronzeage #ancienthistory

Did you know that massive sailing ships from Bronze Age Scandinavia sailed to Britain and Iberia over three thousand years ago? They had masts, sails, and rigging and crews of over a hundred men. These epic ancient voyages traded amber and slaves for copper, tin, and wool.

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[lokvik]

I have personally visited Bjørnstadskipet, the biggest carved figure of a ship in Norway, and it is enormous! It sits just outside Fredrikstad, almost at the swedish border. The area is crowded in rock carvings, megaliths, stone circles, and one giant "mound" of rocks on the top of a hill. It is perhaps THE most ancient and astonishing monuments in Norway, and NO ONE is talking about it! Except for you. Thank you for your videos.

[StefenVincent]

It's absolutely staggering how much history we don't know and have forgotten.

[shulamitebeautifulbride]

American brainiacs are still wondering where all the copper went. Thank you.

[RusticFederalist]

Serious: Was this trading constant from 1550BC to the Viking Period, or did it stop with the Bronze Age Collapse and restart in the late Roman Period?

Joking: And what were they buying in Britain? Copper? North American Great Lakes Copper? Phoenician trade goods?

[Loasdrums]

For reference, Ahmose I ruled Egypt and started the New Kingdom era in the mid 1500s BC. The foundation stones of the last pyramid were laid during his reign.

One of the oldest, Pyramid of Djoser, was built 2630–2610 BC, during the Third Dynasty of the Old Kingdom.

[MagnusItland]

I blame the BBC. (Bell Beaker Culture.)

[soulfate]

Yes .. they came to New Zealand back then even 7000 years ago
The seas were highways like today back then

[m.x.]

Representations of big ships can be found in the Laja Alta Cave (Spain) dating back 6, 000 years; big enough to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

[yungpep]

More shorts please, I send then to friends n family starting conversations that's aren't sports or politics 😂👍

[Evan_Bell]

So the question is, what happened?
The scholarly consensus is that in the common era, Scandinavian ships lacked sails until around the start of the viking age. With the Oseberg ship (c. 820AD) being the earliest with good evidence of a mast, and Nydam (c.320AD) and Kvalsund (c. 790AD) and English Sutton Hoo (c. 625AD) ships assessed to be pure rowboats, as is the case with the early iron age Hjortspring boat (c. 350BC)
Tacitus in 98AD writes that the Suiones did not rig sails.
So, was the technology abandoned with the dissolution of long distance trade routes during the late bronze age collapse?

[jazdragen]

excited to see a short by Dan Davis! saw the thumbnail and at first and thought this was going to be a "there were giants on boats!" pseudoscience thing that miniminuteman would then have to debunk :D

I could listen to Dan's voice all day

[chillpillology]

which oddly lines up with the emergence of the sea peoples and destruction of the modern world.

[gar]

Clinker built ships are limited to maximum size.

[jezusbloodie]

Tamum-833, top right at 00:10, isn't a sailboat; that's obviously a giant grill spatula to flip hamburgers :p

[irtnyc]

Is there any technology in 1550 BC that wasnt also available in say 10, 000 BC?

What are the major inventions or science and technology differences separating say the Vikings or the Varangians in Kyiv or Jerusalem, from Alexander the Great or the Phonecians? Boat building is hard but if you can do it without metal fasteners (and you can) then you can do it really in any era and the operative/enabling factors are economic and cultural not engineering and mere textiles and ropewalking.

[bgc]

Ancient art was totally explicit, there is little need to look for 'hidden' symbolism.

[tommygamba]

Native Americans have the exact same pictures. And then I cried to do with anything. But we know it's going to need you never created the language arts mathematics they were all given to them by the Greeks. Eliza native Americans created their own math or science language

[RoyalViruZ]

According to my professors in archeology of bronze age scandinavia in Stockholm University, this conclution is highly suspect and is deemed most probably wrong. There are no finds of ships in scndinavia until the iron age, foundings of boats are limited to logships though the once depicted likely are based upon scraped skin hulled boats with the technology comming from neolithic northern scandinavia. "Ships" seem to be a enlargening of the hide/scraped skin boats which's "masts" found on engravings or decor seem in most cases to be of organic shapes more akin to splashes or indeterminables. Sails are industrial products requiring substantial manufacturing networks and centers like seen with bronzework, ceramics, fine flintwork etc yet none such centers are found. If sails would exist or if contact with ex. Spain existed it is a rather fringe opinion my professors strongly disagree with with the possible exception of whether it may have been visitors of iberian origin which visited scandinavia, i.e.the vice versa. Sadly.