File:God-Kings of Neolithic Ireland and Britain - Megalithic Documentary

New discoveries in archaeology and ancient DNA have provided fascinating insights into the mysterious people who built Newgrange and Stonehenge. 2020 has seen the discovery of the world's largest prehistoric monument, a massive Mega-henge right next to Stonehenge at Durrington. At the same time, scientists have looked at the DNA of dozens of skeletons from Neolithic people of Britain and Ireland and realised that, far from being egalitarian, these megalith building societies had an elite caste comprised of what appear to be closely related, and in one case severely inbred, god-kings. Whilst looking through the new data, I came to realise that there was an interesting correlation among the phenotypes of this Neolithic elite - and I have a theory that the inbreeding may be related to a deliberate attempt to preserve archaic phenotypes from Mesolithic hunter gatherers, who the Neolithic invaders intermixed with when they first arrived in Britain and Ireland.

In this new documentary you will learn all about megalithic people and their monuments; from passage tombs, to long barrows, dolmens and stone circles. Never before has such revealing light been shone into the darkness of this mysterious stone age culture.

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Art: Bell beaker people by Christian Sloan Hall https://www.deathlord.co.uk/ Inbred god king by Alex Cristi WHG by Ryan Murray https://www.artofryanmurray.com/

Music in order: Theme song: Wolcensmen - Sunne Xuriosu - Steppe expansion Halindir - The Weave Halindir - Hedelandet II Bark Sound Productions - Eld Tom May - Atlantis falling Bark Sound Productions - EGD Chris Zabriskie - Candlepower

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00:00 Intro 00:40 Mesolithic to Neolithic 02:14 Neolithic Britain and Ireland 04:06 Megalithic Haplogroups 04:58 Neolithic inbreeding? 05:47 Megalith culture and spread 07:48 Types of Megalithic monuments 09:18 Passage tombs 10:09 Dolmens 11:52 Long barrows 12:23 Stone circles and Stonehenge 13:57 New megahenge found 15:30 Inbred Newgrange God king 16:40 Relatives of the God king 19:08 WHG legacy 22:46 Mystery of Callanish 24:12 Neolithic tools and homes 26:59 Outro