Crazy Basque pagan tradition: Azeri Dantza

 

Basque people have unique ancient traditions that they still preserve such as the fox dance "Azeri Dantza" in Hernani where a man wears the skin of a fox and whips people with the inflated bladder of a pig! This derives from ancient Roman pagan traditions of Lupercalia and Bacchanalia.

The Rise and Fall of Archaeology with Stone Age Herbalist

 

 Stone Age Herbalist is 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 and others and finally end with a chat about anthropology in general.

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Neolithic Iberia - 5000 year old Idols and Megaliths!

Who built the Neolithic stone circles, cromlechs and tombs of Portugal and Spain? Why did these people make strange plaque shaped idols? Where did they come from and who are the Bell Beaker people who invaded Iberia and replaced the megalith culture? All such questions are answered in this documentary about Neolithic Iberia.

Sources:

-Cassidy et al (2020). -Fitzpatrick et al ‘Bell Beaker connections along the Atlantic façade: the gold ornaments from Tablada del Rudrón, Burgos, Spain’ in ‘Analysis of the Economic Foundations Supporting the Social Supremacy of the Beaker Groups’ (2016). -Olalde et al (2019). -Ramirez et al (2005). -Rivolatt et al (2020). -Shennan, S. “The First Farmers of Europe” (2018) -Valera et al (2014).