Hello guys! New video discussing the anthropological/archaeological debacle called "the Kennewick Man" a mysterious 9,000 year old Native American skeleton that caused a great debate over many concepts like "kinship" and "family relations", ethnicity in prehistoric remains, human migrations, and the conflict between science and spirituality. This is the first one of a video series discussing various famous and infamous human remains throughout human history that give us great insight into our past and even our present.
Hope you enjoy!
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As someone from kennewick. The discovery local legend is even more bonkers. Every year the entire town goes to Columbia Park to watch the hydroplane races and mainly get drunk. The kids who found the skull were really drunk. There's even a song about the discovery that some locals know.
that's so cool
That's a great tradition.
Thats definitely not true I know a bunch of people who live in Kennewick and they never even heard of the Kennewick man I also don’t know anybody who knows a song about this that lives locally not even in the whole tri cities
I live in Kennewick, and even though it is taught in school about the Kennewick man discovery and it is a watermark for our town. I hAve never once heard a song about the discovery haha sorry Mate
As someone from Pasco can confirm, though never heard the song.
"I think it's always cool to look at human remains." -Trey the Explainer 2018
"KZheadrs out of context" that would make a nice KZhead channel (which would totally get demonetized all the time)
"Let's make some new human remains now..."
@@NabPunk "Its not an Alien, its just a penis."
@@NabPunk "Its not an alien, its just a penis."
@@NabPunk "Its not an alien, its just a penis."
*Patrick Stewart claims the Kennewick Man as his distant ancestor*
More like his granddad.
if Patrick Stewart was a Brown man he could do that because the Kennewick man was a Copper/Brown man that look like these people specially the guy with the hat (bottom right) 9:03 or 16:12
@@DeadAlcoholZombie Or he didn’t get any children u never know
No no, this was Cpt. Picard sent back in time.
@@dylanbrune7723 the truth unveiled
That dude never would have imagined how infamous he would be.
I thinl he is already a infamous guy back when he's still alive. Due to how much injury he had and his supposed travelling habit we can assume he often got to a lot of troubles
@@ervandrafadhlil403 would make a fantastic movie, therorising how he got the scars and wounds and what his travels were like and at the end they could show news reports of him being found
Imagine if my skeleton 10,000 years later would case a global debate that would last for centuries
"Well ive hit rock bottom, some asshole stuck an arrow in my head, it can only go up from here!"
*imagined
Hey Trey, yesterday a tragedy happen in paleontology, the Nacional brasilian museum Was Burned entirelly to ashes. The greatest pterosaur collection in the entire world is forever lost... A lot of dinosaur fossils are forever gone, sauropods,therapods... all lost forever. A lot of archeologich stuff is foverer lost, the Whole memories of all colonial memories of our country,all our country history is lost.... it's almost like losing our Whole Family. I am so Sad, and the Worst of all is the goverment here dirty as HELL did nothing to prevent this... there were a Lot of Red flags that showed this outcome. Trey , can you do a video About that? The Whole world needs to know this tragedy and how this is direct Associated With the dirty brasilian governament.... I am a little rusted in my english, sorry About that.
trey should spread awareness, also your english is fine most native english speakers type horribly you are pretty good compared to the rest of us.
The destroyed fossils are currently watching over us from the fossil heaven along with the holotype of Spinosaurus. RIP😫
great losse such a collection lost...it's almost unbeleivable.
That is terrible. 😱😱 Why isn't this all over the news??? I am so very sorry, and so sad. 😳😳
Serves you right
Ah, nothing says "modern Swedes" as a guy with sandals, metallic face mask and a submachine gun
I just noticed his whole body is in the picture it looks so fucking weird
That's a Carl Gustav M/45, a Swedish model. I have no idea about everything else that was happening in that picture.
@@walangchahangyelingden8252 Isn't the Norrmalmstorg robbery? Pretty sure it's a police officer at least.
@@kored8688 Ah, I know that from a Stockholm syndrome video.
@@kored8688 It's a police officer testing experimental armor from 1970 but not connected to the robbery I think.
Haha. I can just picture it, now. "Dude, I just found a human skull!" "Yeah, probably a recent murder. Chuck it In That bush, and we'll check it out after the race." "Cool,man. Let's go!"
But to be fair... if you REALLY want to go and you know that if you would do the right thing you would have to talk to the police for hours.... what would you do? I mean the skull has been there a while... what does it matter to wait 2-3 more hours
Well a lot of us have been there when wandering about in forests. Not gonna let some bone ruin the rest of my day.
Apparently they were super drunk
I was in an archaeology class when he was buried. My professor was both happy that Kennewick man was buried but sad that we couldn't get more information from him.
i dont know what was so hard about letting the scientists study the bones for a year or so and then giving them back to the native people to be buried.
Typical SJW teacher. He should have put science over bull crap identity politics.
@@reviewgodusa9613 Stop saying "giving them back". The bones never belonged to that tribe (or any other modern tribe).
@@peterfireflylund sure I agree but it would've made things a whole lot easier
@@reviewgodusa9613 because so much was taken from us without consent, including bodies...some still living, that a precedent of macabre events have to be thwarted somehow.
No need to apologize, any upload is a great upload
Thank you :D
What if he uploaded a slide of whale penises through history? Still good?
@@OMGitsTerasu heck yeet
TREY the Explainer no problem, keep up the good work
Aaron Turner 🤔
Dude the 200 Year old National Museum here in brasil was just turned into ashes, it caught on fire out of nowhere, with all the fossils and everything!!! ;-;
Yeah I heard about that, bad timing with this video. It's always a shame when knowledge is destroyed
@@TREYtheExplainer True :(
Yeah it actually contained some of the oldest human fossils ever discovered.
@@Biyn_acc2 Yep :,/
I heard about it too is there anything left?
Plot twist: he's actually a version of captain Picard from a time travel episode of TNG
was there a flute next to him??
@@IRex-wm9pd the government doesn't want you to know about that.
I've always had the same thoughts about Human remains myself. Every person has a story to tell regardless of their social status.
I personally find the stories of those amongst the slaves and commoners to be the most precious and insightful. For one, they are more representative of how the majority of people would have lived. But also, for obvious reasons, both written accounts and archeological evidence that tell their stories tend to be much much rarer than those of apparently high status people. I get excited for the rare glimpse into the lifestyle of the peasant or slave.
Rivers meander. Kennewick man was probably buried on dry land and only so much later was his grave uncovered by the river.
I live near there and you're probably right. There's also dams that have changed the rivers here.
Yes, and then he was re-buried by people that, although shared his DNA. Were practically aliens to him that claimed to be related to him.
@@MissShembre I used to live near there, I walked the whole length of Columbia park along the water edge race day 1980, 1981, 1982. I must have walked within 10 feet or over him
@@wyvernquill2796 if only you'd have been more clumsy
We're quite lucky he wasn't scattered
It's such a shame Luzia's remnants were lost to a terrible fire, wich destroyed the brazilian National Museum this Sunday. F.
realy? A saw that on the news
And the same fucking day that japan gets the worst typhoon in 25 years. Its insane such horrible things can happen so close to eachother
Our government did let that happen, the Museum needed repair for the last decades, the Budget was cut many times and no president ever visited it since 1950. They neglected our History and our Science to the point se lost our patrimany, part of our past and much of what we could do in our Future. I'd prefer it to be an accident.
Sad
Oh fucking hell, are you serious??? That's horrific in terms of potential knowledge lost
Your existential ramble about the lives of our ancestors reminded me of a story my dad told me. To sum it up, I have a great grandfather that died in a housefire with his wife because they boarded up their house because they thought that people were breaking into their house at night and replacing their furniture with the furniture that looked exactly like theirs. On a side note, its 3 am and thank you for getting me through this english project with your soothing voice.
Your grandparents were schizophrenic as fuck
Bro what the fuck 😂 that’s hilarious sorry
@@LegalpiracyAAARRRRGG oh it 100% is hilarious. Especially combined with the fact that I have ancestors with the last names moody and looney 🤣 I’m doomed
Idk why I just found this years old video and your comment but damn. At least treatment is better now? 😂 😅
As a Native American who also appreciates science I’m genuinely torn on this one, I’m glad he was given a ceremonial burial but also wish we could’ve learned more than we did about him.
I feel it's an easy compromise: If it has direct ancestry (which from what I understood I don't believe it did, it had closer ancestry to another tribe) they get it, if it doesn't science gets it, and never let the government touch anything related to it when they have no business fucking with shit.
@@nine1690 two problems with that line of thinking. 1. Scientists have a pretty strong tendency to classify anything without an extremely good provenance as not having clear enough ancestry for the tribe in question to have access to it. Like a suspiciously ridiculously high tendency. I'm coming more from history/archeology than biology but in the 90s, there was a program passed called NAGPRA with the goal of giving native people a formal method to reclaim artifacts that are theirs in museums, private collections, and educational institutions. Of the 130,000 artifacts that are known, 118,000 were classified by museums as insufficiently traceable back to any specific living tribe and, just to be clear, some of these artifacts can be as recent as the 17 or 1800s and clearly match known artifact styles with clear provenance. It's clear many scientists are skewing the results to keep their collections. I'm all for science but it doesn't need to come at the cost of disrespecting native people's wishes. 2. The government getting involved is basically inevitable. They fund pretty much all of the humanities (including more scientific fields like archeology) and almost all native tribes have to go through them to reclaim any artifacts (including body parts for burials). It's not a great system and NAGPRA has a ton of problems but without it there is borderline no real recourse. Again, it seems like there should be an easy compromise and NAGPRA should have solved it but classifying less than a tenth of known collections (remember, museums tend to have large backrooms with stuff that may not even be categorized at all) as belonging to any known tribe seems like a deliberate massive miscategorization and NAGPRA court cases can take nearly a full decade for fairly simple cases, decades where native American historians (often singular people combing through decades of research alone with almost no funding) need incredibly clear proof to get access and are fought tooth and nail. Seriously, I understand how frustrating it is wanting to know the science but this just isn't a clear cut issue.
If you (or anyone that feels similarly) is still around, in these comments, I have to ask why do you feel torn? I ask because I want to at least try understand what could be of equal or more value than the possible scientific findings, and so far I've found answers unsatisfactory. I guess I'm just looking for anything that has a bit more weight to it.
@@clev7989 I'm probably from a different tribe to the og commenter but what I can say from my traditional teaches is that disturbing the dead is seen as highly disrespectful and dangerous, there isn't a way to describe it other than what would be blasphemy to Christianity. you don't want all the engery attaching itself to you and causing harm to you, your life and loved ones. my major is anthropology so I love learning about this but it's a very fine line to walk on.
@@starrylitsky thank you for being understanding, patient, and informative, I get what you say. I suppose the sticking point for me is my general disregard for what I consider fantastical (which most definitely includes Christianity as well as supernatural native belief). That being said, it now makes more sense from a cultural perspective, if not, in my opinion, an entirely logical one.
its just a barn owl.
Redwind i thought it was a basking shark
Nahh you trippin its a seagul
No dude it’s a dragonfly
You mean bearowl
Hoo?
Luzia's skull burned down to ashes yesterday. Really sad day for Brazil.
Woah are you serious? I heard about the fire but I didn't hear that Luzia's skull was destroyed
@@TREYtheExplainer unfortunaly It was
OH FFS
They haven't found everything yet. Maybe it survived.👏
@@TREYtheExplainer They should make a statue of her.
This was actually extremely interesting! I just finished up this semester's biological anthropology class (which I'm majoring in) and we just finished up the chapter on ethics in anthropology- specifically in regards to human remains, kinship, and the concept of race. It's interesting to have this information presented in a way that makes it more human, rather than the cut and dry textbook passages or statements from the AAPA
"He looked like... OmI GAWD!" Lol, priceless.
Don't apologize for being perceived as "political". The history of science is as important as the science itself and it's not easily separable from it.
sina chiniforoush no kidding.
Science is not political - _but all usage of science is!_
Science in its purest form isn't political, but because scientific study is conducted by humans, almost all of it is inherently so. There's no possible way for humans to completely separate their internal, unconscious biases and assumptions. Even when we take data at face value, any science that is applied to human life and society is going to end going through a political wringer before it comes out the other end. There's also the question of what we decide to fund or not fund, study or not study, and so on. What, for example, are the motivations behind the scientific search for the basis of homosexuality? Is it to ask questions and find results that frame it as "unnatural" or "natural"? Why do we study the causes of being gay so much, but not the causes of heterosexuality? When we fund such studies, are we implicitly saying that funding research on other subjects is less important? Before the study of science even begins, there are already human biases built into it.
@Lor Miller Science is not a European invention. It's dumb luck that Europeans had gotten their society together first, and therefore were some of the first to invent the organized systems we have to help eliminate bias. Every group of people could have done that given enough time. It's just societal evolution, once one tribe does it, the rest are forced to adapt to keep up, and it just keeps going from there. This happened in europe, asia, and the middle east all independently.
@Lor Miller You missed the entire point because you dismissed "dumb luck" as an opinion. It's not, because like I said, two tribes had an interaction that influnced the growth of technology, and it just so happened that the first two where in Europe. The reason why this probally happened in Europe is because it had less land to give people. They had to take it from each other, and war leads to innovation. Although here I'm talking about the tribes that where in northen europe the greeks and romans predated that. Nethier of them where white, and they had a society that reflected alot of the democratic values we have today. Really, your entire argument boils down to "Whites invented democracy, therefore whites #1" Race is entirely irrelevant, you just want to rush to conclusions that support your rhetoric.
It’s very much possible descendants of Kennewick man divided into many tribes that considered each other different people and even warred with each other.
No. That’s not possible. Kennewick man was Gallic/Iberian, not Siberian.
@Herbal Shaman the native Americans are Siberian
So your point is what? "How dare the Injuns claim their founding father"?
himssendol That is definitely true like how every European is descended from Charlemagne.
@ThoughtCrime the descendants of the kennewick man would be people that share his DNA.... these ancestry companies use ancient DNA to match people if they are from the Americas, Europe, Africa or Asia. www.nbcrightnow.com/check-it-out/unexpected-dna-link-a-kennewick-man-shares-paternal-lineage-with/article_0d1dd9d8-192e-11e9-a8d2-fb6538151077.html looking at skull shapes was the guessing game from the past.. now they have DNA which clears things.
Somehow you managed to get Captain John-Luke Picard and Grand Moff Tarkin into a video about a 9,000 year old skeleton. Well done!!
I seriously think the first three minutes of this video is one of, if not THE greatest intro sequence of any KZhead video. Thought provoking and feelings of sonder, knowing that we don’t know 99% of our ancestors, or their lives. Every single person that made the parents of our parents and so on. Knowing that every single one of these people lived their lives, loved, hated, fought, cried and died. Ace video.
"-almost everybody is related to somebody else." - TREY the Explainer 2018
Thats why I'm scared to do an ancestry test with my boyfriend...i mean yeah it'll be far back but EVERYONES related omg
well yeah, that"s how a species works
or anything living, really:) @@kenetickups6146
@@shanam.7342 Ancestry tests are wildly vague and also rather inaccurate as every other company that does these things has their own algorithm. Results can even change over time as the technology changes or advances. According to actual genetic scientists, the only accurate info these DNA tests can give you is what continent you are from and that's about it. If we're talking actual ancestry, then you can look up family records, death and birth certificates etc but it is unlikely you'll find any far enough back that might show some relation to your boyfriend. Unless you are Icelandic lol they have a registry and an app now because the population is so recent (1000 years) and was originally so small that everyone is, in fact, related to someone else.
@@rubeniscool The other thing that proves inaccuracy is that every company you send your DNA to will give you different results! That is because 1. they have different databases sampled from different humans; 2. their collected DNA is labeled according geographic locations, which means if they have a sample from an Italian guy, they will label it as Italian, even if the guys ancestors lived in Syria a century ago.
Trey shows us his new fursona
ancient borb
A very nice one, isnt it?
He is doing anthro as well... HMmMMMmmmM
I am truly blown away by your videos, so so glad I’ve stumbled across you’re channel. Please don’t stop what you’re doing!
Loved it!!! I studied anthropology and archaeology a million years ago in college, and do my best to read and watch everything I can get my hands on. It's hard to find smart, in-depth presentations of anthro/archaeo topics. Your series is informative, interesting and well presented. Great to watch with morning tea before I head out into the world. I'm a bit addicted to learning and your variety of topics is so much better than the morning news!! Thank you
That intro to the video was actually incredible. It really puts things into perspective.
Thanks! I worried that it was too long or abstracted, but I'm happy you enjoyed it! :)
@@TREYtheExplainer Today I learned the word SONDER: the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. The KZhead algorithm works in mysterious ways.
So Sir Patrick Stewart was America's first inhabitant... Nice.
Yes
I suspect the artist who did the facial reconstruction was a startrek fan....
That makes him the rightful ruler over this country.
Aw my gawd
I wonder if he was the captain of the first boat to land there. Boldly going where no one had gone before?
This was a really interesting video! It's incredible how rich the history of just a single facet of humanity's past can be. It's clear you take the time to research and approach these topics in a respectful manner. Kudos!
When you first showed the reconstructed skull I thought it looked Native American, possibly with some lingering Siberian traits, not like it was Picard. Ha.
That reconstruction that looks exactly like Patrick Stewart is really unsettling. Like, borderline terrifying.
Maybe that's what happened to Captain Picard after Star Trek Nemesis
Mystery solved!
Look at him in life force and then look at him in star trek and finally in X-Men. He's immortal.
Sssssooooooo.... A race of Patrick Stewarts were the original inhabitants of the Americas. That's the correct takeaway here, eh?
I laughed my ass off when his picture popped out....
Whether or not it's the correct takeaway, I choose for it to be the one I get.
Patrick Stewarts master race
why do people take issue with that? it really shows their white guilt
Compare Ramses II reconstruction to a Rockefeller. Compare figures of Babylonian Art to the Romans who followed. And who does Britain/America emulate today? Rothschilds. Windsors. Rockefellers. Hearsts. Rogers. Gates. Too name a few. Who actually runs the world? People see the ultimate bad guys looking like Mr. Burns and The Emperor for a reason ;) They're the Serpent, while their 'good' counter parts are the Eagle. Jacob Rothschild - Serpent Patrick Stewart - Eagle.
found this channel yesterday and OMG! thank you for all of yours videos! can't stop watching it because of amount of research, and details, and other information, i've never know before ❤️
I like this format very much. I share your sentiment about looking at ancient remains and seeing an individual with their own lives and thoughts. I am glad this man was returned to his closest family in the end. Thanks for posting.
*Don't you worry Mr. Kennewick Man, me and my battalion of Naruto runners will free you from whatever vault they got you stored in at Area 51. Just wait*
Well, this aged badly
@@itskevonejonesyo1088 most memes do
Unless... They actually did...
@@hanzchristiancastillo8887 the mummies curse.....
No one can catch Tom He is the master The FBI are fast But his feet are faster!
If you need an idea for a video, I think it would be worthwhile to cover what was lost in the National Museum of Brazil’s fire. I know a lot of incredibly important fossils were lost, and the damage was both irreversible and devastating to the paleontology field.
Jill Cipher This. I was very sad to hear about that.
What would he say about it? That its sad?
Trey I ❤ your brain! Thank you for your well-researched, thoughtful, and empathetic videos
I am still amazed regarding this information . I watched this when it first was uploaded, and have watched it twice today. AMAZING!
I really appreciate the JoJo references
XD thanks!
@@TREYtheExplainer was one guy doing a polnareff pose in the lineup of silhouettes?
Juan Rossell who’s jojo
Spaghetti Yeti jojomama
@Danny Chesney and WE really appreciate you letting people enjoy things
Humans are all connected in some ways and yes we are related to a basking shark.
tom possessed My very distant cousin is a Humpback Whale, we don’t talk much anymore after he ate thousands of our sardine cousins in one gulp.
And barn owls! Don't forget the barn owls!
wut?
"YOU ARE A FISH, DON´T YOU DENY IT!!"
If there was a 2% in my DNA I'd be a dolphin.
Only a year or more late. Love anthropology and the disagreements. I remember when this happened-and the controversy. I still remain torn both ways as to what was done and why. Thanks for this, well done!
That’s something I’ve always thought about whenever I hear a historical event....I always think about how those people where just like me and you, it very bizarre but amazing to think about....and also sometimes heartbreaking depending on the event brought to my attention
20:49 "although he was found hundreds of miles inland, studies show he consumed.... suggesting he was very well traveled." Or, closer to the global maximum in the ice age, the continent was lower in the ocean due to there still being a mile of permafrost on the continent. Kenne probably lived in his grandmother's cave basement and drew cave art all day long.
Yeah Trey let that one happen, "very well traveled" during a freaking ice age.
Wait, but wasn’t the sea level lower, since much of the water was frozen as glaciers, therefore meaning he would’ve been even more well traveled? I know the coastlines were different but they definitely weren’t higher.
@@brianpogue3943 The coastlines were about 120 meters lower globally during the height of the ice age, and this was not during the height of the ice age. In most parts of the country this doesn't translate to much. In this case, it would only move his burial site from 240 to ...250 miles inland. Glacial burdening is certainly a thing, but it's worth noting that this person lived their life after the glaciers had mostly melted away from north america. The ground would be a couple meters lower at most, not dozens or hundreds.
Early on in this story the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), took it upon themselves to bring in a monstrous and heavy slab of concrete and bury it directly on top of the site of Kennewick Man, crushing and destroying whatever accompanying evidence might have been left undiscovered. This was done as a political move on the part of USACE since they felt they had to maintain good relations with local Native American groups to do much of their work and the Native Americans had already expressed their displeasure over the handling of the "Ancient One."
Motherfuckers
That... did they ask the Native Americans if they wanted that done? I don't recall hearing about concrete and body destruction as part of any Native rituals...
Why did they do it? Out of fear that anthropologists will sneak there and dig the remains out? 🤣
@USA#1 !! Because 1: Kennewick Man does not predate them, and 2: he is one of them genetically.
@USA#1 !! Uh... Yea they are.
I absolutely love how you kicked off this video, SOOOOOOO many people forget this
I love your illustrations, they’re so unique and alluring
I'm brazilian and sad because of the museum on fire ;-;
I heard saddened as well
That sad to lose Luzia and all the other rare fossils and artifacts in the museum.
@@FoxMikage Luzia , Angaturama limai and the biggest carnivore of Brazil , the Oxalaia quilombensis , for me are the biggest losts ;-;
Illuminati bro
We all are saddened
You’re related to diavolo? That doesn’t bode well for you mate
@Raccoon Boi to become a gangstar
King Crimson!
Im gonna need a time stamp
Diavolo best "villan" >:] #DiavoloDidNothingWrong
@@QueenJosu *Yoshikage Kira
Loved the new series!! thanks for the video
What an excellent video I like your format possibly shortened by 2 and 1/2 minutes, but everything about how you did this was excellent! I wish you and your channel well young man
A TREY UPLOAD? Well I guess the planets are aligned again. xD
Honestly, I believe there is a way for both the scientific community and the Native American people to work together on cases such as this. My sister recently passed away and she was half native and half white, so in many ways our cultures clashed. Normally Native Americans bury the body intact and do various ceremonies afterward, however her wish was to be cremated, so we both came to the agreement that she would be cremated with special traditional medicine (cedar, tobacco, ect.) and that her father would be able to do a ceremony while we spread the ashes. This worked out great for all of us and we even participated in the feasts and ceremonies that they had arranged. Maybe the same could be done with modern Anthropologists and the Natives? Perhaps there could be ceremonies and copies made of the bones and returning the originals to rest? I'm sure if each could put both respect and understanding towards each other that this event could have been avoided in the first place.
As a Native American, sure and thank you for being considerate. Yes, most Native Americans today understand that scientific studies can help reconstruct their ancestral origins and prove all ancient remains are Native American. Just a few decades ago, the Establishment had this colonial attitude towards Native America, which is why Natives decades ago didn't trust any establishment media, scientist, etc. However, just like how your family and half sister's family worked out a compromise, both Native American leaders and Scientist are now working together in preparing the ancient remains for studies and later give a proper burial.
I'm a Native American and anthropologist(specifically an archaeologist) and yes. Most of these controversies could have honestly been avoided if proper communication between the native communities and the scientific researchers, sadly though because of the past mistreatment of native artifacts and remains by early archaeologists and the lack of Native Americans in the sciences there is still too much miscommunication which causes all this trouble.
Well said B99b12! Respect and understanding by both parties!
I'm sorry for your loss That's a really good point! People should try to get over differences and work together for mutual benefits more often than what they do
Or the Natives could just get over it. Could you imagine if modern Catholics got this anally devastated because some historians were examining the bones of knights that died in the 900's? It'd be ridiculous. Just like this is. Stop treating the Indians like children.
When I think about my ancestors, I think back to fish and sponges. But mostly fish.
I literally just liked this video right as I started it for the adorable fanart, you better not disappoint me.
I already liked you, and then you made an Avatar: The Last Airbender reference, and now I'm in love 😂😍
Me- Mega- Megal- Megalania Paleo Profile?! ?! Trey you cant say this.
Inventing Eagle No pls pls just bring it
Yes I guess
It‘ll come one day... Surely Hopefully
Getting Hyped
Inventing Eagle I hope he destroys it’s representation in the “Documentary” “Monsters Resurrected”...
Always wondered what was happening with Kennewick Man. Thanks for the update. Appreciated!
This is an excellent first episode for the new series. Being Australian I have believed for almost 20 years that South America was somehow first settled by around 40 000 years ago by Australoid peoples from SE Asia/ Australasia (that was the general opinion based on the skull structure analysis done some years ago). So your breakdown of that subject was something of a paradigm shift for me. You also raise questions I've never even considered regarding culture and kinship. Bloody Hell Trey you're not just explaining stuff here, you're blowing my mind. Keep this series going. It has so much potential. 👍
back in the sixties I read books written by Thor Heyerdahl who built a boat modeled after a model found in an Egyptian grave. it was made of papyrus reeds and traveled from safi on the western coast of Africa to the Canary Islands(?) in spite of being crewed by sailors so inept ancient mariners would have thrown them overboard. I see no real surprise that ancient man might have traveled farther and faster than we thought.
Ra I was not a failure of the crew, but rather some mistakes were made in the construction. Those mistakes were corrected in Ra II and successfully sailed to the Caribbean. Note though, whilst he did prove it was possible, he did not prove that it was done by the ancients.
kleinjahr 😳 Thor Heyerdahl also built a boat he named ‘Kon Tiki’ from balsa wood in Peru and sailed it across the Pacific Ocean, suggesting that early Andean people could have done the same. The book he wrote about his project is well worth reading.
Sir Meow The Library Cat Actuully, Kon Tiki was a raft, based on the Spanish reports of aboriginal craft.
kleinjahr 😳 Thank you for your correction. However, both boats and rafts travel on water. Kon Tiki had a sail and a steering oar, as well as a small cabin for the crew. Have you read the book about this vessel and the voyage across the Pacific Ocean?
Sir Meow The Library Cat yes I have them. As well as his book of essays on ancient seafaring. As for steering Kon Tiki, they did start with a steering oar but found it better to use the dagger boards to steer with.
Trey, have you heard of Tier zoo? It's a really cool you tube channel that explains zoology and natural history as if life were a video game. It would be really cool if you guys did a collab video. By the way, I'm a huge fan of your work.
Trey and TierZoo? WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS BEFORE??
Me and Tier Zoo have already collaborated! He unfortunately (and disappointingly) didn't credit me within the video that I helped out with and only added me to the description after the video had already been uploaded...so, we've already collabed but most people have no idea thanks man, I'm happy you enjoyed it!
Daniel Alvarez he actually worked with Tier Zoo on his "Should dinosaurs be unbanned?" video. You can find Trey in the comments and description
TREY the Explainer Which one?
Yeah I don't know if he forgot or something, but I had to kind of ask Tier Zoo if he could credit me for my contributions :( so that was weird. He's a good and nice guy, but it was a little disappointing and maybe a little insulting and I think was a missed opportunity for me to get more exposure. I'm still a little salty about it. I'm sure it was probably just a mistake, but still it hurt a little to watch a video and hear some of the talking points I gave him without me being acknowledged.
Thank you very much. Nice report. Keep up the great work, & personal insight. 🙏🏽💙
Oh my gawd, the Avatar scene gave me chills as a kid and stuck with me since then, the first 3mins of this video got me screaming "I KNOOOOOW RIIIGHT?!" I love and always wonder who/where I came from and I'm effing lucky to be alive, your not rambling I'm rambling now! Love this channel, keep doing what you do man, I'm here for this with my coffee.
Wow we just found a 9 thousand year old skeleton! Eh, stick him back in the ground.
I know, right... There's a reason they lost.. Ok, maybe that was a bit spicy... though true.
they didn't want to follow the logical path that maybe JUST MAYBE they are not the original owners of the land, in turn violating their literal origin myth as well as their eternal grievance pacts
what a shame, the man was 9000 years removed from any of the modern indigenous tribes, yet he still belongs to them. It's not rational at all
Nah they just did it to piss off yall and the other skinheads looking for justification of genocide lol
@@workemail6283 Genocide? Sir that is part of socialist/communist ideology, not ours.
this is the best idea for a series. I can't believe some larger group like the history channel hasn't already done something like this. Yeah, there was one special about Otzi and what his day-to-day life would have been like, but there are HUNDREDS of ancient skeletons. Potentially HUNDREDS of specials! I hope you keep the series up. I can guarantee that I'll watch every single one.
I was expecting to learn about a remarkable new set of human remains the same way I did about Cheddar Man, 3 months before you posted this video. I didn't expect to hear of such a saddening tale. This entire series of events was just sad to listen to. At the very least, SOME scientific knowledge was gathered from Kennewick Man's body and the Native Americans at least managed to gain some dignity in being allowed to rebury him, strengthening and/or repairing relations a little further. Thank you for the informative video all the same, Trey.
I love how you talk about evolution with Karl Pilkington on screen
Missing link between human and orange
I will admit that I am not much for anthropology and though I had heard of the Kennewick Man before I never tried to learn any more. However, after watching this video I feel, well I don't know what I feel. A deep sadness and disappointment that I will never know more about the Kennewick Man maybe? Fucking politics, I am crushed. :(
It's rural eastern Washington, where very bad blood has been in the water since the early 1800s. Brits tried to "civilize" the place, native tribes and Metis allies killed them back, later ex-confederates and miners came with the railroad, then east coast settlers turned on Chinese settlers for "stealing" jobs...... I've been to Kennewick and surrounding areas, it's a place where people remember old blood even if they don't know it. If the do know it... I remember some past Halloween there was a guy posting flyers everywhere saying "the Umatilla killed all our settlers".
Not to be a "that guy", but to the best of my knowledge the local tribes didn't much care for us Metis. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugets_Sound_Agricultural_Company See also: anything on James Sinclair.
Sorry for phrasing it a bit off, the general picture indeed sucks for your Metis folks from Canada to pretty much everywhere else even before the Louis Riel war. I was referring to Kennewick, as there was a sort of infamous case where locals and a Metis man ganged up to murder their British neighbors (Marcus Whitman massacre). Peace and mutual help seems to be too much to ask for most of history, so take care of yourself out there and try to do something better than the past.
@@teslashark Marcus Whitman there's a name I hadn't heard in about 20years in WA stare history class. Coincidentally my younger brothers went to Marcus Whitman Elementary.
I know about him because i saw paintings drawn about his life when I was studying Canadian/Oregon territory history: It's still the matter of very fucked up historical tragedy drama looking at his story, he's like the designated loser of something - moves into place he doesn't understand, fails to cure any patients, his kid drowns, then his neighbors murder the fuck out of his entire family. Not even Cormac Maccarthy can come up with a ride this depressing. To make things even absurd, even worse, couple of years ago the college named after Marcus Whitman got sued by Princeton because they're naming a college after Meg Whitman.
Trey, could you talk about the fire on the National Museum in Rio De Janeiro in your next video?
Could u imagine that guy as a ghost seeing the big argument that happened over your bones
Trey your exposure of the political atmosphere regarding ancient finds is heartbreaking to me. I only was able to begin my formal education after my military service in 1979. Of course then there were children to raise. I am in my 70s now and I have time. I watch everything I can find of your fine work. Thank you for your attention to detail.
Always excited for a new upload
You too?
Disappointing that Kennewick Man was buried without further scientific study. Progress in DNA and other analysis techniques might have told us a great deal about humans in the Americas. I think a major mistake to re-bury him, secretly.
Bill Keck Who says he wont be rediscovered at some point where we have even better tech? It probably makes more sense to think of this as a time capsule rather than a loss.
The way in which Kennewick Man was originally buried 8,000 years ago is what kept his bones from decaying. Due to his recent reburial, it is almost a certainty that he will soon decay as did 99.9% of other paleo natives. Whatever future scientific and technological advances await us, Kennewick Man is forever lost
Jon T Sure they did, for 2015 standards. Who's to say that technology won't advance and better methods become available in the future to study ancient skeletons? Not saying it was right or wrong to rebury the remains, just looking at it from a scientific point of view
Actually, it depends on the acidity of the water, or what enzymes are present. Windover bog is a good example of wet preservation
Honestly bud, why though? If his descendents don't want or need the findings, then why is it so important? These are real living people that are just trying to respect their ancestor. Some vague idea of general scientific knowledge about the past should never trump the rights and concerns of people living today. That's besides the fact that we have since found remains very similar to Kennewick man related to a tribe that are ok with scientific study.
Can't get enough of your videos man
You make incredible videos! Thank you.
Thank you for this video. I'm an anthropology and paleontology student. I am so on the fence with respecting the wishes of the modern Native American community and also furthering scientific research. I wonder if there might be a way to work together to study more while honoring Kennewick man's life and ancestry. Perhaps having a tribal member present for the examinations? Just a thought.... It would be wonderful if scientists could think about living customs while also learning more about ancient people. Great video.
@Herbal Shaman meaning he is more similar to people/tribes of South America?
It's sad that we're having to say "have a tribal leader present during the examinations" instead of having anthropologists and other scientists that come from a Native American culture conduct the study of the case and focus on the scientific inquiries they have because Native Americans are so unrepresented in science and it's still mostly white people.
@Herbal Shaman He's not sub Saharan African you silly self-hating wishful thinking Sub Saharan African
@@ACDBunnie maybe they would prefer to believe in magic and spirituality than to do real science? It's sad that these rubes needed to be there at all, I guess we needed to placate the idiots.
@Crowolfe there’s so many more skeletal remains found throughout Mesoamerica. From Yucatan, Baja California all the way into the tip of South America also labelled ‘paleo-American’. Why does no one ever talk about these lol?
Has a college assignment to do...sees that Trey just uploaded a new video...the assignment can wait...
You son of a bitch stole my name.
This was so fascinating, thank you for sharing.
1:20 And the fact that I'm the only virgin among them.
When I was in the natural history museum in London I saw someone say to there daughter as they were looking at all the different skulls and the mother said to the daughter about how they were not important and they should move on so I said to them that this people lived lives once and they should be given respect rather than being slurred about and so I appreciate what you were saying.
Dego Raven exactly! I always visit the museum! The human exhibit is the best preserved of the fossils there and probably the most important to the origin of humanity
@@MagentaDystopia yeah but personally as an aspiring palentologist I spend most of my time talking to the staff at the Dinosaur exhibit and occasionally argue about the innacuracies however it's always important to remember about life before my own if it's 100 years ago or 10,000 it's always important.
What the fuck were they doing in a museum?
Monday's insanity My guess is that the children are tasked to go to the museum and to write an essay about their experience there so the kids asked their brain dead parents to take them there.
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Is your name a JoJo reference?
Kennewick Man = Jesus confirmed The scientists just want the stands for themselves :O
I was gonna comment that too lmao
JOJO?!??! THIS MUST BE THE WORK OF AN ENEMY STAND
came looking for this
So interesting!! Your channel is a jewel.
Just found your channel. And this was an excellent video. I learned quite a bit about how paleontology regarding the Americas has changed since I was learning about it many years ago. I'm going to explore more of what you have now. Good luck reaching 300K I've done My single part ;-)
Every single video you apologise for something... stop apologising! You're creating cool, interesting content for us, free of charge, and have no obligation to any of us. There's nothing to apologise for.
For me it is really fun: "I'm sorry for that you have to wait, cryptid profile will be filmed soon"
A relative of mine from way back in the 1700’s was excommunicated from his church for ripping a huge fart during service and honestly that’s all I need to know
LMAO omg I would feel so proud of my relative.
I only know of one guy (who may not have even been related and just had the same surname) who fought in the battle of the boing. I'm pretty sure he's not related but it's nice to think about.
This should be an anthro profile
No they weren't
carry his legacy, shart in a church.
I love your channel it t rtuly connects to my deepest values science, kinship, logic and wonder its weird how we can feel connected to this man who died a thousand years ago who we barely know anything about love your stuff keep it up
I'm kind of mad that they reburied him. That precious knowledge lost forever now. I understand where they come from but this was a very rare occasion. Oh well...
they did his dna.
@@moonravenstone5368 Still its disappointing to have not gotten to see more, even a year of research would have been beneficial
@@moonravenstone5368 i mean if thousands of year after now and my bones were found after a catastrophe that lead us back into the dark ages but with guns, my ghost will let every major scientist examine it since it's what our anscestors did, pass on knowledge and the history of our species so the next can benefit from it.
Its not lost they took tooth and bone samples, they just don't want share, because its bloodline proof to my ancestral line, and no one disputes that.
@@magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479 after our near extermination hearts hardened and we had a huge number of looters digging up our ancestor's and science hides most truth back, most left the ground open left garbage and trashed equipment, professional are called in, big difference.
I constantly ask people where the line is between archaeology and grave robbing. I enjoyed the video, please make more in the series.
Someone will rob your grave some day.
sioframay the line is whether reverence exists or not
One is for science and knowledge, the other is thievery for the sake of it.
The Anal Atheist Was it really for science when when Europeans were busy running around in Egypt digging up graves to fill up their museums in the 19th century? It's not like they actually did much science on their findings since all of their theories about Egypt were completely wrong and mostly it was just for the prestiege of having those things in your museum, it's not even like they were given permission to do this and Egypt is trying to get a lot of these things back. Like I'm not saying that you're wrong I'm just saying that science sometimes gets used as a justification to steal, just like how the credibility and reputation of science has been used to justify other things like eugenics.
There is no difference is just a corpse
Fascinating! I would like to see more of these. Though, personally, I find all of your vids to be amazing.
I just happen to be a resident of kennewick so i learned a bit about this in school seeing as its a local thing. I think its really saddening to see how we couldn’t study the remains more.
I was born there and used to live there but unfortunately I was like, 9 when we moved out and I don't remember much of my past so I didn't really hear much about this guy
Maaaan, I discovered your channel 2 days ago & I just can't stop watching, great work man keep it up. I'm very interested in knowing about your take on an "Adam & Eve" human origin is.
Hey man I'm 3 years late but check it out, if Adam and Eve is the canon origin of humans, it means we're all inbred and our species family tree is more of a stump
Awesome. I am from that area (Wenatchee, just up river) and the story gripped the whole area. Unhappy that more research wasn’t allowed. Such a loss! Fortunately when a cache of Clovis implements was discovered in East Wenatchee in 1987 (found while an orchardist was digging irrigation lines) some research was allowed, castes taken and whatever else the archeologists could manage in the time allowed. My memory of the incident and articles concerning this incident are different, but it seems so similar to the Kennewick man. The area is rich with artifacts and as a child in the 60’s playing in the vast orchards that once covered the valley floor it was not uncommon for one of my school mates to wander in with a point or two as a “show and tell”exhibit. I do wonder what else was lost in that terrible grip of ignorance that we all lived under. I often struggle with issues like these. Respect for others cultures and scientific inquiry. Considering the rise of Creationism and the Flat Earthers I wonder if we will ever outgrow our species predilection for superstition.
Bristleconejones This really isn't about superstition and painting it as that is strawmanning the Native American side. The issue is one of ownership, no one was claiming that the scientific theory of the immigration into the Americas was wrong, they just claimed ownership of the remains, something entirely within their right to do. And it should be mentioned that when the scientific community agreed to compromise the Native Americans allowed study to be conducted, that's how we got the DNA study.
Superstition was not what I was commenting on. Read the whole post, not just the word you find unacceptable. As for “superstition”, my own Baptist upbringing was rife. I find that toxin in every religion. I call superstition just that, “superstition” when “spiritual” beliefs interfere and flatly contradict scientific data.
What a beautifully narrated intro, so poetic and at the same time also very true.
Stav Shmueli thank you :)
Do more! I enjoyed it very much! I think it should have been studied as he’d would have told us so much about the past!
Just fantastic - more, please! Can you do one on Piltdown Man...? Very interesting story! I think you'd tell it well!
Finally my fav youtuber is back
I like this video, and i find it always very difficult to decide who is right. In this case, it is basically the choice between people that want something for a spiritual choice, and the other side wanting it for scientific reasons. And once i break it down like this, it becomes very easy; science goes first.
Yet, it ended up getting buried... It was a miracle that it was preserved so well after his first burial, I don't think it would go as well after the second... It need to be preserved, damn it!
Lord of the belts: The return of the KING What are you even talking aobut? who said anything about Kennewick man not being native American and is Aryan HERE?
Lord of the belts: The return of the KING Ad hominem, strawman, virtue signaling AND throwing around buzz words. Man, you really have to man up if you want to convince ANYONE.
Excellent presentation, and not at all too long. (For me, anyway). I am also scientifically minded and found myself agreeing with you on just about every point - especially the local politicians giving this priceless anthropological find to native American people to simply be re-buried.
Just rewatching this video and I just want to say I really appreciate the effort you make to be objective in your arguments here. You said you just want your videos to provoke interesting thoughts and discussion and I think you succeed. I for one find myself completely torn between siding with the scientists and siding with the American Indians. On a scientific level I know we are all very closely related. Trying to make kinship claims (or ancestral claims) to a piece of land/ artifact/ etc on the basis that these were "your people" thousands of years ago is problematic. Culture and language are a constantly flowing river and were the man to speak to us his day to day world and culture would likely be unrecognizable to anyone alive today. HOWEVER I think that disturbing any remains (be they from thousands of years ago or last week) must be done with consent. Ideally, the person who's living in the body could tell us if they're alright with it, the next best being their closest living kin. Of course ancient people would probably have no idea how important their bones could be to future researchers - to them they were living at the end of history - which complicates things. Our bodies hold strong cultural, religious, and emotional value and in my opinion it is our duty to respect each other's beliefs about these things. Not a topic with an easy answer. Really interesting and thought provoking stuff.