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Stone Age Hunter Gatherers

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Here historical expert Martin Patterson shares his vast knowledge of the Stone Age Hunter Gatherer period. His passion and skill is obvious as he shows us a range of replica tools and equipment he has fashioned from natural materials including a flint-headed axe, a scythe from deer antler, a fire-hardened digging stick and a range of spears for hunting - explaining how these would have been used and maintained in the Stone Age. Martin shows us needles from bone; how pine resin, soot and bees wax can make a sort of glue and how stinging nettle fibre would have been used like string to make trapping nets. He stresses the importance of looking after the natural environment - then and now - to encourage new growth and to ensure a regular harvest. http://www.handsonhistory.co.uk/. An Adliberate film http://www.adliberate.co.uk for WoodlandsTV http://www.woodlands.co.uk/tv


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i have read that hunters and gatherers, societies such as that, thought rare still exist, and they do not normally work over about three hours a day, that is about 21 hours a week, the rest of the time they sit around doing what ever they want, the men do that is, The women are pretty busy cooking and getting water and doing ALL the stuff that has to be done, of course, women's work is never done, but hunders, the women actually do the gathering, or forageing, along with everything else. Sounds like a pretty good plan.

Charles Carter

February 27, 2019

Sorry, I speak in Spanish, I’m trying to understand only what are the names of the tools, can somebody tell me please?

Victoria Contessotto

March 24, 2019

work was pretty evenly distributed among the tribe but due to the lack of a large collection of possetions per individual there where far less chores and far far more time for social interaction. also what we refer to as "work" in these hunter gatherer societies is not the same type of alienating work found in the factory and the farm its literally just ensuring survival and wellbeing. the hunter gatherer age was not a utopia but it was far better than what we have today

finn

March 30, 2019

You'll need to google the terms or stick this in "Google translate" – in rough order: flint, axe, pine resin, stinging nettle fiber, animal sinew, adze, beeswax, red deer antler, scythe, knapping, trapping net, plait, needles, bone or deer antler, Ice Age, 5:16 reindeer, red deer, roe deer, fallow deer, horses, European bison, wild boar, duck, geese, fish, insects; 6:55 digging stick, deer antler with barbs; spears, reindeer antler; stone-headed spear, throwing spear

Tam McD

March 30, 2019

Tam McD Thank you very much!!

Victoria Contessotto

April 11, 2019

The European peoples are descended from the Neanderthal species with slight admixture from the homo sapien – largely the Indo-European folk.

Malakai Wheeler

April 24, 2019

new genetic evidence has shown that the wester hunter and gatherers was actually darkskinned with blue eyes. Search for the newest research and the newest facerecontruction of the cheddar man.

Marcus Fridh

April 25, 2019

I doubt they did much cooking. Most meals were raw, speaking of meat/whole animal

Bryan M

April 27, 2019

That is politically correct pseudoscience. First of all, the whole theory that humans came from Africa is in question, second of all, after a couple of thousand years in a dark, cold climate, the people would have white skin. Even the Ancient Egyptians were light-skinned with red hair.

Frida

June 17, 2019

Frida the ancient egyptians weren’t light skinned. We don’t exactly know what they looked like but a large part of their population looked african (nubians) and the rest middle esstern (native egyptians). Secondly, you need two specific genomes to have white skin. Until about 15000 years ago we didn’t have these genes.

As for your point on humans coming from africa, we have only found homo sapien bones dating back 100000 years or less outside of africa.

Whalewil

July 30, 2019