The Neolithic Artifacts No One Can Explain

Go to http://buyraycon.com/dandavis to get 20% sitewide! #ad The Folkton Drums are a mystery. These three chalk sculptures from Neolithic Britain were a unique discovery, no one had seen anything like them before, and no one knew what they were. They were buried with a child around 5,000 years ago. Recently, a new carved chalk cylinder was discovered in another child burial nearby. But what do the carvings mean? What were these chalk artefacts for? Who made them and why? And what can they tell us about the world of prehistoric Britain? This is the captivating story of the mysterious chalk sculptures of prehistoric Britain. If you enjoy my videos please consider supporting the channel Become a YouTube Channel Member:    / @dandavishistory   Support me on Patreon:   / dandavisauthor   All my books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3xngwz5 Sources The First Farmers of Europe: An Evolutionary Perspective: https://amzn.to/3wNDcqA Stonehenge - Mike Parker Pearson: https://amzn.to/3ri4Wm4 British Pottery: The First 3000 Years: https://amzn.to/44Kfm3z Revisiting Grooved Ware: https://amzn.to/42O00sp Neolithic Britain: https://amzn.to/4d9LeBb The World of Stonehenge: https://amzn.to/417pa4i Stonehenge and Middle to Late Neolithic Cremation Rites: https://amzn.to/3YQkXl7 Teather, A., Chamberlain, A., & Parker Pearson, M. (2018). The chalk drums from Folkton and Lavant: Measuring devices from the time of Stonehenge. British Journal for the History of Mathematics, 34(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2018... Copper, M., Hamilton, D., & Gibson, A. (2021). Tracing the lines: Scottish Grooved Ware trajectories beyond Orkney. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 150, 81–117. https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.150.1307 Jones AM, Cochrane A, Carter C, et al. Digital imaging and prehistoric imagery: a new analysis of the Folkton Drums. Antiquity. 2015;89(347):1083-1095. doi:10.15184/aqy.2015.127 Thomas, A. (2022). Mobiliary art. In S. Taylor (Ed.), Down the Bright Stream: The Prehistory of Woodcock Corner and the Tregurra Valley, Cornwall (pp. 127-138) Teather, Anne. (2016). Mining and Materiality: Neolithic Chalk Artefacts and their Depositional Contexts in Southern Britain. 10.2307/j.ctvxrq120. Thomas J. The Return of the Rinyo-Clacton Folk? The Cultural Significance of the Grooved Ware Complex in Later Neolithic Britain. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 2010;20(1):1-15. doi:10.1017/S0959774310000016 Jones AM, Díaz-Guardamino M. Making a Mark: Process, Pattern and Change in the British and Irish Neolithic. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 2022;32(3):389-407. doi:10.1017/S0959774321000512 https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect... http://www.stone-circles.org.uk/stone... The above includes affiliate links so we may make a small commission from your purchases at no additional cost to you which is a way to support the channel. Video Chapters 00:00 The Mystery of the Folkton Drums 02:44 Sponsorship 04:15 The Discovery 05:52 Dating the Drums 07:57 Stone Carving in Neolithic Britain 11:44 The Lavant Drum 12:27 The Burton Agnes Drum 14:18 Late Neolithic Britain 15:23 Measuring Devices? 17:54 What actually are they?