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Stunning building.

Brilliant!

It’s so nice to see Hazel on TH-cam :-). She was one of my mentors when I lived in Essex a number of years ago. I’m now living back in the United States and my interest in archaeology and prehistory has not subsided. Anytime I find something remarkable or a lithic here in America I think about Hazel. She showed me how to look for things and what to look for and eventually I went on to learn how to do a bit of rudimentary flint napping after watching a couple of people do it and then very fortunately will Lord was doing a demonstration and I sat for about two hours and just watched him do his thing. So now I know what to look for and how to make things which gives me a unique perspective here in the United States which is beneficial to me now that Paleolithic artifacts are being found in North America which is causing a Stour. It turns out thanks to Hazel and my experience living in England for a number of years all that field walking has paid off and it seems that I know more about Paleo artifacts than a couple of the archaeologists I have met here. I loved her approach to stone tools which was one of artistic fascination. She helped me understand the beauty and the simplicity of stone tools and gave me an appreciation for how clever the people were that made them. They weren’t brainless caveman at all in fact just the opposite. Research has shown that people who do flint napping as a hobby have a good hand to eye coordination skills and the synapses in their brain fire more rapidly than the average person. She was kind enough to give me copies of both of the books she had written at the time which I still have to this day and I refer to them along with Bordes typology. I should love to get in touch with her again.

Really nice to come across this interview with Hazel Martingell. I worked for Essex County Council Archaeology Section in the late 1970s - late 1980s when she was Chief Illustrator there, and she was such a lovely and interesting person to work with. I dug various prehistoric sites and would often show her our latest flint finds. Her passion for flints was infectious!

Fantastic film - I love map regression and the history, both landscape and social, that goes with it. Thank you for posting

That's really cool! I never thought about the transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in terms of my own experience of the transition of a pre-internet, pre-smartphone world into a world driven by cyber-technology, but it makes sense. My grandmother used to tell me stories about when they got electricity and a car back in the 1910's, I imagine that the change was similar, she went from a society where lighting was mainly by kerosene lamp and I went from a society where computers weren't in every home, there was maybe 1 in the classroom (and we weren't allowed to touch it) to a world where I have access to almost all the combined knowledge, ideas and arts of humanity within a few clicks of my mouse from the comfort of my own home.

Interesting. My Grandad was from a family of market gardeners in Baguley, just outside Altrincham :)

cheers Graham, and John

I live just behind this beautiful house , iv often thought who what it was for i love local history MCC are a disgrace and totally unfit for purpose they plan to destroy our whole estate amd this house 4 more stupid pre fab stack n pack recycled rushed rubbish !!!!! Mega city !!! 🤢🤢🤢🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬socalists !!! One manchester ard also deliberately running our area down!!! The councillors couldn't care less either What a shambles .....LOOK what they have built around that beautiful historic house SMH 😞😞😞😞😓😓😓😓😢😢😢😢😢 I subbed to your channel 😊😊🙏🙏

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What, no eye protection!

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