As someone with a history degree who should have pursued a double major in archaeology-this is fascinating. I live in the American Midwest and have been an avid “field-walker” for decades. I’ve had a couple articles published in our quarterly archaeological journal and have been lucky enough to find some great artifacts-a banner stone (or atlatl weight) of banded slate, slate pendants, and quite a number of beautiful flint knives and some true arrowheads. I have taken many items in to the local historical society and museum to let the curator of the archaeological department look at them and so far the oldest piece I have is, according to Dr. Lepper, about 10k years old. I honestly had no idea there were sites this old in Great Britain. That’s “Olduvai Gorge old!” Brilliant stuff! 🤯❤️👍🏼
Now you need to start digging to get to the older stuff. Good luck. It's a pity that the American Indians are not a recognised people in your country. Pity.
I remember trying to catch Time team on TV so have followed it for many years, now so easy on my laptop, lol, loved this episode, really grabbed me how far back you can decipher, good to see the younguns working hard, i know my aging bones hurt, more lol. greetings from Australia
I looked and looked and one day was lucky to find 27 stone tools in a cache while on a fishing trip north of my province. Showed them to a local dig afterwards, they left for a university and are now part of a public collection.
We lived in Winslow AZ for awhile. We learned a lot just by observing. Flint-working sites tended to be a distance from the living sites, often elevated. We guessed they doubled as look-out sites. We never found anything there but mounds of shards. It was a great hobby that started by observing the terrain. You logic it out by finding where the water was. You'd also look for caliche (clay). There were lots of curved pieces in piles that we guessed had covered pit houses. You could also guess where farming happened. Stone hoes were obvious. They look a little like golf clubs. That area can be really cold and windy. I would be building an igloo out of clay if I were there. It's also breathtakingly beautiful there. It was a migration path, so it's a rich site. Group after group left artifacts behind. I matched one tip to a 10k yr old one in a book. It wasn't impressive. Mostly I found stone knives and scrapers, used for working hides. That wasn't a hand ax they found...it didn't have a groove for a handle. That was a scraper meant to be used without a handle, for scraping hides. You can't go there now because it's too close to a prison.
The oldest tool used by our indigenous people here in Australia is estimated to be between 46,000 and 49,000 years old, the basalt axe fragment is significant as it shows axes were in use when or very soon after humans arrived in Australia - between 50,000 and 55,000 years ago.. our First Nation people are amazing to live the way that did and some still today up hold their customs am loving that many of the languages are been taught though many have been lost..
Oh yes. And seems like a beautiful society and culture❤ The San People have tools and rituals, going back 70,000-100,000 years, and they are still an active culture. They also have the oldest ceremony’s in the world. Love learning about ancient history from around the world.
A few years ago, in the West country, a cave man was found and DNA was taken from him and a descendant was found at the local school. I think it was in Wiltshire. the person who matched the DNA was a teacher at the school !.
@@Auggies1956 everyone is of African descent if you go back far enough. The cheddar man was shown to have black skin but with blue eyes. A great example of evolution to adapt to lower levels of UV
@@destructorzz7197Not only are we descendants of Africans, but we are actually all related to a group of roughly 4000 individuals that migrated North out of Africa through the Sahara 80,000 years ago. Every human on earth is almost inbred and all are African. Not to mention the cheddar man is only like 10,000 years old.
I was amazed that the curved flint is an axe. I have found a couple of them walking in the Arizona desert. It's not hard to find arrowheads here and pottery shards. I took some yellow shards to the university because a face was painted on one. I found out that it was fired between 1425 and 1465 made by Hopi native American Indians. It was probably a burial ground.
To the Time team. What a great show and great people in it! You have to love the different ways of speech. I was born in Britain, London. I wonder have the Time team ever been to St Albans Abbey? Which was built over ? The ground shows visually old buildings covered over. I wonder if the Cock Pit Pub is still there. ( Yes was an old Cock fighting pit ! I now live in Australia and have done since I was young more than 50 years now. I love to see the land scape and places I remember. One other place I would love to hear about is The Golden Ball at West Wickham / High Wickham. Home of the Hell Fire Club! That has a very dark past !!! I had to work to get to see this Video. It came up as Blocked in your Country? I see no reason or capability for this to be blocked in Australia.. So very odd indeed ?
It's happy days for Phil Harding in amongst the knapped flint and refreshing to not hear Tony Robinson moaning about the lack of villas, coins pottery etc.
From the drawing of the ancient people the great toes would be splayed outward. This is found from studies of indigenous people that still live in remote areas. I wonder if they ever found out that heat would make the flint more knappable? Very interesting.
looking at the title and concluding that yes, 5000 year old stone tools would be pretty amazing find considering that it was bronze age 5000 years ago.
I live in California and you can find stone tools all over the place, but the thing is they might be 200 years old or 2,000 years ago. The local natives were still using stone technology when the Spanish first arrived. Nobody really cares to study or preserve pre-Spanish artifacts in California. Even the archaeologists here go elsewhere to dig. Very few actual sites are dug here, but there are many places you can pick up artifacts right off the ground.
@@johnkeller6063 A lot fo the problem is that the natives of North America never progressed beyond the Stone Age migratory population, and even then; most of their tools were wood and bone, not even stone. You are more likely to find an obsidian arrowhead than any stone since Flint and Chert aren't common West of the Rockies, and in fact are only really found along the Ohio River.
I went looking for somewhere to source chert or flint to learn knapping.. yah, you really have to TRAVEL to find anything.. it’s actually easier to pay to ship yourself rocks that you’re going to smash than trying to get some yourself if you don’t live nearby in the first place 🤦♀️.. I’m in MA, there’s supposed to be some type of chert in NY somewhere, but there’s no guarantee it’s actually good for making anything.. ..as a kid I was absolutely obsessed with the pre settlement history and the native Americans.. I was so disappointed when I found out there’s nothing TO dig up.. it’s why arrowheads were SO special, they’re rare as hens teeth as Phil would say, 😬 especially places like New England that have been so heavily settled and farmed.. It’s just fantasy fulfillment to watch Time Team 😅 between the flint and pottery it’s unreal.. the time they came to the US pretty much summed it up.. there’s nothing here, except the occasional pottery scrap from the 1800’s and later 😂 … it’d be neat to explore in the west where things are occasionally kicking around because it’s arid.. but .. I’d have to go where it’s hot so… not rushing there… lol
In Florida, people literally build on top of African-American cemeteries. No respect whatsoever for the people who were buried there, or for the descendants of those people who still would like to honor their dead loved ones. All over Clearwater Florida, African-American cemeteries are buried under parking lots. Americans have absolutely no respect for what's gone before them.
@thelostone6981 - Making assessments, not judgements. That is for pseudoscientists like Hancock, who thinks no ancient human being has more than 2 brain cells unless they were born in 'Atlantis'.
They base these times from radio carbon dating which has shown to be very inaccurate. What they say was 100 thousand years ago was probably only 5 or 6 thousand years ago.
Lot of blood spots on John's hand at 20:00 - the hazards of knapping flints. My grand-father-in-law gave me knapped arrow heads and a scraper from one of his digs. Still wicked sharp.
Oh man ..did I catch that right? This was aired in 1999-2000??? He said they stopped working that site 5 years ago, in 94?? Edit: knowing these people aren’t actively doing what they love anymore, perhaps some not even alive anymore, is making my heart incredibly sad. Second edit: I’m American. I don’t watch much tv. So I had to look it up - Tony looks the same, but is 76 years old now, with a way younger wife lol ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ wow. Time team showed us all one thing without even realizing it, time truly flies like the wind
Time Team has an official youtube channel, and have recently started making new shows! They even brought Tony back in from the pasture! I too am american, came across Time Team a few years ago and have been hooked since.
With man active in this area for such a long period I was hoping to find a skull or two. Where would bodies been placed? That would be such a thrill to do DNA on some old skulls.
Very proud of my British heritage and love this show! What I mainly think when watching Carenza walk to the clay pits is, if she were in my part of the southern US is, how many snakes, mosquitoes, ticks, chiggers, and poisonous spiders she would have had to endure to get there! In a big picture idea, it’s obvious why many Brits and Scots-Irish settled in the South! It’s very much like England, but very much wilder!
YOU GUYS HAVE A LOT OF ARCHAEOLOGY ALSO IN US AND NOT TO MENTION THE DIRECT DECEDENT OF THE STONE AGE PEOPLE THAT LIVE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS YEARS AGO ARE STILL ALIVE AND STILL SOMEWHAT PRACTICE SOME WHAT THE SAME CULTURE AS THEIR ANCESTOR....WHICH ARE THE NATIVE AMERICAN! UP TO THE YEAR 1500 AD BEFORE YOU GUYS CAME FROM ENGLAND MUCH OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN STILL LIVE IN THE NEOLITHIC AGE AND STILL USED FLINT TOOLS, STONE AXES AND LIVE IN STONE AGE DWELLINGS AND THEY CAN STILL MAKE IT TODAY. IN OTHER WORDS YOU GUYS DINT EVEN HAVE TO DIG ANYTHING UP BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS STILL ON THE SURFACE. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW ANCIENT BRITISH PEOPLE LIVE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS YEARS AGO JUST GO TO THE NEAREST INDIAN RESERVATION OR MUSEUM AND WALLAH..ITS ACTUALLY THE SAME AS HOW THE ANCIENT STONE AGE PEOPLE IN BRITAIN LIVE. THEY USED STONE TOOLS AND WEAR ANIMAL HIDES JUST LIKE THE POWHATAN AND CHEROKEE TRIBES WHEN THE ENGLISH FIRST SET FOOT ON JAMESTOWN.
At 400,000 years we are looking at either Homo erectus or the first archaic sapiens. This would be when Britain was not an island but joined with the west coast of the continent. The lithics must be Acheulean? I'm intrigued. Need to hit the journals.
TH-cam's ads are insane. I just got one saying that such and such product was a "musical slueth" and it made me think of a person that looked like a one man band playing instruments while breaking into my house and sifting through my stuff.
As soon as I saw John and Tony mention his full name, I KNEW it had to be Will's dad. And yep, sure enough! I absolutely adore Will's channel, fascinating.
My big take-away is man, I would kill to have soil like that at my place! ⛏⛏🔎🔎 I keep waiting for them to find Fred Flintstones' car keys. 15:55 Another breath-taking Time Team screen grab here !!! 30:14 Nick is doing his best Neanderthal impersonation in the background. 40:54 Caveman-approved brand matches!
Finding complete tools I think would be an oddity as the maker would probably leave only those pieces that failed or broke in the making. Complete tools would have been taken to the encampment for daily use. It would be interesting to look for a possible encampment nearby on higher ground where possible skeletons still exist.
So they are proposing human habitation from roughly 400,000 years ago to 4,000 years ago? Also that for nearly four hundred thousand years the flint hand-axe was the pinnacle of human toolmaking? Or at least the generally accepted best option? Kind of puts me and my pocketknife in my place. 🤯🤔
No there is human habitation 400000 years ago and 4000 years ago, with two glacials in between. There was however also human habitation between those two glacials from 130000 bp to 117000 bp. In fact we should be heading to a new glacial, but because of human interference it could be delayed for a couple of thousands years. Imagine the whining when that happens.
Stones have been the main resource of Human tools since we started walking on two feet. For hundreds of thousands of years, possibly a million years, humans have used, shaped, refined stone tools. Until the Bronze Age, which was only roughly 5,000 years ago.
9:46 I don't get why you would need to link the two sites by a river to think they were connected. The two sites are about a mile apart from each other. I would imagine prehistoric man had to walk a mile to get water in the morning. They probably walked tens of miles every single day. Two sites being a mile apart don't need a river connecting them, their distance would have been nothing back then.
Have you ever had to walk a mile through thick jungle habitation? Not to mention the threats to your life back then human or animal. I would imagine they didn't put their lives at risk anymore then they had to lol
it was to prove a trend to plot further areas of possible habitation. The river proves that prehistoric man lived on rivers flowing in opposite directions to current man and so we can determine where they lived from that.
So true! The river was a road to the people of the region, but it was also the road that was used by enemies.so in the states I find that long term encampments were about one mile away from the river-road.
People who knapped flint along that riverbank 100,000s year ago did not have the good sense to use skins as clothing? I do not believe it. As much a fan I am of Mr Ambrus' talent, why didn't he give his illustrated people some protective coverings?
42:20 scientists are unable to detect the hierarchical customs with this journalist. They talk to him in bowed position, afraid to move their body while gives questions standing upright
The Stone Age is the stage a particular people are in their technological development, not necessarily a period of time, although it can be referred to as a time period.. Stone Age people were still using stones for tools and weapons because they hadn't discovered how to make those things from metal (copper, bronze, or iron). For example, when the Europeans first reached America, the indigenous natives were still in their Stone Age and many tribes still were over 300 years later.
It could be a matter of dialect. According to Online Etymology the word comes to English from French, from Latin, and originally ancient Greek. In modern Greek it is pronounced "pie-righties". As with many things with english. Maybe both are right.
@@mutualbeard Makes sense. I remember as a child that the word 'epitome' baffled me. I saw what the dictionary told me it sounded like, but I couldn't believe it -- cause that's not how we say things in English : )
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Victor’s drawings and watercolors are amazing
as a flintknapper myself this is very exciting, I love how phil explains the process of lithic reduction
I hope Phil’s shorts and hat make it into a museum one day. Truly iconic! 😁🖤
And Micks sweaters
And what's left of his trowel! (it'll probably be nothing but the handle)
Phil repeating "look at that" really was making me excited!
Love Phil!!
As someone with a history degree who should have pursued a double major in archaeology-this is fascinating. I live in the American Midwest and have been an avid “field-walker” for decades. I’ve had a couple articles published in our quarterly archaeological journal and have been lucky enough to find some great artifacts-a banner stone (or atlatl weight) of banded slate, slate pendants, and quite a number of beautiful flint knives and some true arrowheads. I have taken many items in to the local historical society and museum to let the curator of the archaeological department look at them and so far the oldest piece I have is, according to Dr. Lepper, about 10k years old. I honestly had no idea there were sites this old in Great Britain. That’s “Olduvai Gorge old!” Brilliant stuff! 🤯❤️👍🏼
Which state?
Now you need to start digging to get to the older stuff. Good luck. It's a pity that the American Indians are not a recognised people in your country. Pity.
@@mariehillard1742not recognised? They have TREATIES with the US gov.
Olduvai is alot older than 400kya
@@mariehillard1742 -The Bri'ish aren't a recognized people here. The Indigenous Peoples are.
even if it is an -old - episode, always great to watch a rerun...
I remember trying to catch Time team on TV so have followed it for many years, now so easy on my laptop, lol, loved this episode, really grabbed me how far back you can decipher, good to see the younguns working hard, i know my aging bones hurt, more lol. greetings from Australia
I looked and looked and one day was lucky to find 27 stone tools in a cache while on a fishing trip north of my province. Showed them to a local dig afterwards, they left for a university and are now part of a public collection.
How exciting!
My go to comfort program.
Larkrise to Candleford is mine
We lived in Winslow AZ for awhile. We learned a lot just by observing. Flint-working sites tended to be a distance from the living sites, often elevated. We guessed they doubled as look-out sites. We never found anything there but mounds of shards. It was a great hobby that started by observing the terrain. You logic it out by finding where the water was. You'd also look for caliche (clay). There were lots of curved pieces in piles that we guessed had covered pit houses. You could also guess where farming happened. Stone hoes were obvious. They look a little like golf clubs. That area can be really cold and windy. I would be building an igloo out of clay if I were there. It's also breathtakingly beautiful there. It was a migration path, so it's a rich site. Group after group left artifacts behind. I matched one tip to a 10k yr old one in a book. It wasn't impressive. Mostly I found stone knives and scrapers, used for working hides. That wasn't a hand ax they found...it didn't have a groove for a handle. That was a scraper meant to be used without a handle, for scraping hides. You can't go there now because it's too close to a prison.
Prehistoric hand axes weren’t attached to sticks.
So fascinating
I rock hound all over Arizona and have found a couple of the curved flint. I had no idea what it was and tossed it
The oldest tool used by our indigenous people here in Australia is estimated to be between 46,000 and 49,000 years old, the basalt axe fragment is significant as it shows axes were in use when or very soon after humans arrived in Australia - between 50,000 and 55,000 years ago.. our First Nation people are amazing to live the way that did and some still today up hold their customs am loving that many of the languages are been taught though many have been lost..
I heard that recently more aboriginal finds are off the west coast of Australia
The aborigines here in Australia are recent blow-ins in comparison to the people that were making these stone tools.
The oldest and longest continual culture on the planet are "blow ins" , really? Well I won't be telling that to our Elders!
@@Mimzie-Arizonaactually they are way inland not off the coast.
Oh yes. And seems like a beautiful society and culture❤ The San People have tools and rituals, going back 70,000-100,000 years, and they are still an active culture. They also have the oldest ceremony’s in the world. Love learning about ancient history from around the world.
A few years ago, in the West country, a cave man was found and DNA was taken from him and a descendant was found at the local school. I think it was in Wiltshire. the person who matched the DNA was a teacher at the school !.
Wasn't that Cheddar man? Alleged to be African decent? I'm highly suspicious of this story.
@@Auggies1956 everyone is of African descent if you go back far enough. The cheddar man was shown to have black skin but with blue eyes. A great example of evolution to adapt to lower levels of UV
@@destructorzz7197humans came from the Middle East
@@destructorzz7197Not only are we descendants of Africans, but we are actually all related to a group of roughly 4000 individuals that migrated North out of Africa through the Sahara 80,000 years ago. Every human on earth is almost inbred and all are African. Not to mention the cheddar man is only like 10,000 years old.
There has been a lot of genetic change and mutation in 80,000 yrs. I doubt you could call humans generally inbred. That’s a huge misinterpretation.
Phil is in his element!
So true. He has been doing it since he was very young
So delighted, his accent left him. Well the exaggerated panto version isn't much in evidence. Can't help but love him.
I was amazed that the curved flint is an axe. I have found a couple of them walking in the Arizona desert. It's not hard to find arrowheads here and pottery shards. I took some yellow shards to the university because a face was painted on one. I found out that it was fired between 1425 and 1465 made by Hopi native American Indians. It was probably a burial ground.
To the Time team. What a great show and great people in it! You have to love the different ways of speech. I was born in Britain, London. I wonder have the Time team ever been to St Albans Abbey? Which was built over ? The ground shows visually old buildings covered over. I wonder if the Cock Pit Pub is still there. ( Yes was an old Cock fighting pit ! I now live in Australia and have done since I was young more than 50 years now.
I love to see the land scape and places I remember. One other place I would love to hear about is The Golden Ball at West Wickham / High Wickham. Home of the Hell Fire Club! That has a very dark past !!!
I had to work to get to see this Video. It came up as Blocked in your Country? I see no reason or capability for this to be blocked in Australia.. So very odd indeed ?
I'm so lucky,: in one week - even with all the binging I've done over the years - two episodes I've never seen before!!♥️
Me too!
It's happy days for Phil Harding in amongst the knapped flint and refreshing to not hear Tony Robinson moaning about the lack of villas, coins pottery etc.
Using Mick to model the people from prehistoric time was pretty funny.
From the drawing of the ancient people the great toes would be splayed outward. This is found from studies of indigenous people that still live in remote areas. I wonder if they ever found out that heat would make the flint more knappable? Very interesting.
10:52 Ooooo, the voles aren't going to like those electrical currents! 😂
looking at the title and concluding that yes, 5000 year old stone tools would be pretty amazing find considering that it was bronze age 5000 years ago.
I live in California and you can find stone tools all over the place, but the thing is they might be 200 years old or 2,000 years ago. The local natives were still using stone technology when the Spanish first arrived. Nobody really cares to study or preserve pre-Spanish artifacts in California. Even the archaeologists here go elsewhere to dig. Very few actual sites are dug here, but there are many places you can pick up artifacts right off the ground.
Wow that's sad
@@johnkeller6063 A lot fo the problem is that the natives of North America never progressed beyond the Stone Age migratory population, and even then; most of their tools were wood and bone, not even stone. You are more likely to find an obsidian arrowhead than any stone since Flint and Chert aren't common West of the Rockies, and in fact are only really found along the Ohio River.
I went looking for somewhere to source chert or flint to learn knapping.. yah, you really have to TRAVEL to find anything.. it’s actually easier to pay to ship yourself rocks that you’re going to smash than trying to get some yourself if you don’t live nearby in the first place 🤦♀️.. I’m in MA, there’s supposed to be some type of chert in NY somewhere, but there’s no guarantee it’s actually good for making anything..
..as a kid I was absolutely obsessed with the pre settlement history and the native Americans.. I was so disappointed when I found out there’s nothing TO dig up.. it’s why arrowheads were SO special, they’re rare as hens teeth as Phil would say, 😬 especially places like New England that have been so heavily settled and farmed..
It’s just fantasy fulfillment to watch Time Team 😅 between the flint and pottery it’s unreal.. the time they came to the US pretty much summed it up.. there’s nothing here, except the occasional pottery scrap from the 1800’s and later 😂 … it’d be neat to explore in the west where things are occasionally kicking around because it’s arid.. but .. I’d have to go where it’s hot so… not rushing there… lol
@@tjs114Both flint and chert are found in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming...
In Florida, people literally build on top of African-American cemeteries. No respect whatsoever for the people who were buried there, or for the descendants of those people who still would like to honor their dead loved ones. All over Clearwater Florida, African-American cemeteries are buried under parking lots. Americans have absolutely no respect for what's gone before them.
Imagine being a metalsmith alive today and a bunch of archaeologists dig up your hammer 40,000 years from now making judgments about your way of life!
Would be a incredible find since there are so few.
In 40000 year the steel hammer would have been dissolved and only a brown stain would be visible.
What's your point?
@thelostone6981 - Making assessments, not judgements. That is for pseudoscientists like Hancock, who thinks no ancient human being has more than 2 brain cells unless they were born in 'Atlantis'.
They base these times from radio carbon dating which has shown to be very inaccurate. What they say was 100 thousand years ago was probably only 5 or 6 thousand years ago.
Lot of blood spots on John's hand at 20:00 - the hazards of knapping flints.
My grand-father-in-law gave me knapped arrow heads and a scraper from one of his digs. Still wicked sharp.
Oh man ..did I catch that right? This was aired in 1999-2000???
He said they stopped working that site 5 years ago, in 94??
Edit: knowing these people aren’t actively doing what they love anymore, perhaps some not even alive anymore, is making my heart incredibly sad.
Second edit: I’m American. I don’t watch much tv. So I had to look it up - Tony looks the same, but is 76 years old now, with a way younger wife lol
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wow.
Time team showed us all one thing without even realizing it, time truly flies like the wind
Time Team has an official youtube channel, and have recently started making new shows! They even brought Tony back in from the pasture! I too am american, came across Time Team a few years ago and have been hooked since.
@@hatendiscontent I wish the new TT was as easy to love as the original. Sadly, it doesn’t seem right anymore.
@@hatendiscontent thank you!
@@therockwitch Just not for your type
Mick Aston died in 2013. I believe the guy who did the sketches also passed, but I'm not entirely sure.
The title of this video says "5000-year-old stone age tools", but it seems it should say 500,000-year-old!
The world lost a great mind when Mick passed away.
A Very Good Video 👌🏻👍🏻
Video is named wrongly: 500,000 year old stone tools, not 5000 year old.
Poor Phil sounded so pitiful when he missed the target with the spear. "I did try!". Poor guy. Lousy shot but we love him anyway.
"In Search of the Earliest Traces of Mankind"
Time Team S07E06 (February 6, 2000) Channel 4
With man active in this area for such a long period I was hoping to find a skull or two. Where would bodies been placed? That would be such a thrill to do DNA on some old skulls.
Very proud of my British heritage and love this show! What I mainly think when watching Carenza walk to the clay pits is, if she were in my part of the southern US is, how many snakes, mosquitoes, ticks, chiggers, and poisonous spiders she would have had to endure to get there! In a big picture idea, it’s obvious why many Brits and Scots-Irish settled in the South! It’s very much like England, but very much wilder!
YOU GUYS HAVE A LOT OF ARCHAEOLOGY ALSO IN US AND NOT TO MENTION THE DIRECT DECEDENT OF THE STONE AGE PEOPLE THAT LIVE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS YEARS AGO ARE STILL ALIVE AND STILL SOMEWHAT PRACTICE SOME WHAT THE SAME CULTURE AS THEIR ANCESTOR....WHICH ARE THE NATIVE AMERICAN! UP TO THE YEAR 1500 AD BEFORE YOU GUYS CAME FROM ENGLAND MUCH OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN STILL LIVE IN THE NEOLITHIC AGE AND STILL USED FLINT TOOLS, STONE AXES AND LIVE IN STONE AGE DWELLINGS AND THEY CAN STILL MAKE IT TODAY. IN OTHER WORDS YOU GUYS DINT EVEN HAVE TO DIG ANYTHING UP BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS STILL ON THE SURFACE. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW ANCIENT BRITISH PEOPLE LIVE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS YEARS AGO JUST GO TO THE NEAREST INDIAN RESERVATION OR MUSEUM AND WALLAH..ITS ACTUALLY THE SAME AS HOW THE ANCIENT STONE AGE PEOPLE IN BRITAIN LIVE. THEY USED STONE TOOLS AND WEAR ANIMAL HIDES JUST LIKE THE POWHATAN AND CHEROKEE TRIBES WHEN THE ENGLISH FIRST SET FOOT ON JAMESTOWN.
It's currently being claimed by Africans. Imagine that!
I wish there was an easier way to keep track of episodes. I've watched the majority. I keep finding episodes I haven't seen.
Not just London but in the North Sea too. Look up doggerland.
They did shows on Doggerland.
Amazing history there indeed
At 400,000 years we are looking at either Homo erectus or the first archaic sapiens. This would be when Britain was not an island but joined with the west coast of the continent. The lithics must be Acheulean? I'm intrigued. Need to hit the journals.
Mick's comment about the tea: right after I glimpsed Stewart's and thought: blimey! : )
Fab story! Thanks
TH-cam's ads are insane. I just got one saying that such and such product was a "musical slueth" and it made me think of a person that looked like a one man band playing instruments while breaking into my house and sifting through my stuff.
Fascinating!
Look at that! John Lord, the father of Will Lord, who has his own prehistoric channel, following in his dads flint chips!
As soon as I saw John and Tony mention his full name, I KNEW it had to be Will's dad. And yep, sure enough! I absolutely adore Will's channel, fascinating.
Phil lookin confident in those shorts 😂 lol
Historia est magistra vitae
Love the unpicking @ 17:46 lol
To me, knapping flint sounds more like a guy named Flint sleeping on the couch on a warm Sunday afternoon than chipping off bits of stone.
My big take-away is man, I would kill to have soil like that at my place! ⛏⛏🔎🔎 I keep waiting for them to find Fred Flintstones' car keys. 15:55 Another breath-taking Time Team screen grab here !!! 30:14 Nick is doing his best Neanderthal impersonation in the background. 40:54 Caveman-approved brand matches!
Finding complete tools I think would be an oddity as the maker would probably leave only those pieces that failed or broke in the making. Complete tools would have been taken to the encampment for daily use. It would be interesting to look for a possible encampment nearby on higher ground where possible skeletons still exist.
Brilliant!
Wow I never realised elephants were in prehistoric Britain
@chromosundrift - There was an episode where they searched for Mammoth fossils.
There was a lot of animals on all the continents. North America had camels and sloths. It was way back when but they was there.
The one where Mick Aston meets Nick Ashton 02:38
IKR! I have some friends whose given names rhymes with mine. It can be confusing when we are together😁😉
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Every time I close my eyes and listen to Mick I think I'm listening to Sean Connery.lol
i.laick your this program thank you for your help ❤️❤️❤️
17:45 what is that guy doing with that tool?!!?
Its not good when Phil's shorts are shorter than the girls working on the dig 🤣
Yeah, friends don't let friends wear shorts with those legs.
@@perniciouspete4986 🤣
Always cracks me up when Phil trots out in his denim hot pants.
@@obscurazone IKR. 🤣
He is gay
So they are proposing human habitation from roughly 400,000 years ago to 4,000 years ago? Also that for nearly four hundred thousand years the flint hand-axe was the pinnacle of human toolmaking? Or at least the generally accepted best option? Kind of puts me and my pocketknife in my place. 🤯🤔
No there is human habitation 400000 years ago and 4000 years ago, with two glacials in between. There was however also human habitation between those two glacials from 130000 bp to 117000 bp. In fact we should be heading to a new glacial, but because of human interference it could be delayed for a couple of thousands years.
Imagine the whining when that happens.
Stones have been the main resource of Human tools since we started walking on two feet. For hundreds of thousands of years, possibly a million years, humans have used, shaped, refined stone tools. Until the Bronze Age, which was only roughly 5,000 years ago.
And the Pole Shifts every 6000 years there abouts!
Impressive jaw found there!
Wait so we’ve got Mick Aston and Nick Ashton?
Who else had to do a double take when Mick Aston was talking about some guy named Nick Ashton?! 😊
6:37 Tony ... We are short of man power where is Carenza???
Since lions, Rhinos and Elephants lived in Britain, has any of their bones been found???
Is Tony back on hosting the new shows?
No; his new project will be narrating some new Specials.
He shows up occasionally. Fans insisted on it and they are trying to boost viewers and patreon membership.
@@deborahparham3783 - Nobody asked me.
Why don't they wear binoculars like surgeons use, when they are "field walking" ?
9:46 I don't get why you would need to link the two sites by a river to think they were connected. The two sites are about a mile apart from each other. I would imagine prehistoric man had to walk a mile to get water in the morning. They probably walked tens of miles every single day. Two sites being a mile apart don't need a river connecting them, their distance would have been nothing back then.
Have you ever had to walk a mile through thick jungle habitation? Not to mention the threats to your life back then human or animal. I would imagine they didn't put their lives at risk anymore then they had to lol
it was to prove a trend to plot further areas of possible habitation. The river proves that prehistoric man lived on rivers flowing in opposite directions to current man and so we can determine where they lived from that.
You realize you’re using 21st century thinking to disprove prehistoric thinking?
So true! The river was a road to the people of the region, but it was also the road that was used by enemies.so in the states I find that long term encampments were about one mile away from the river-road.
Well you saw the incorrect way to use the same blade on a weed eater
The title is way way off. Not 5,000 years, 400,000 years.
The title needs two more zeros.
People who knapped flint along that riverbank 100,000s year ago did not have the good sense to use skins as clothing? I do not believe it. As much a fan I am of Mr Ambrus' talent, why didn't he give his illustrated people some protective coverings?
42:20 scientists are unable to detect the hierarchical customs with this journalist. They talk to him in bowed position, afraid to move their body while gives questions standing upright
Where is that neolithitic village?
How is 5000 year old tools classed as stone age?
The Stone Age is the stage a particular people are in their technological development, not necessarily a period of time, although it can be referred to as a time period.. Stone Age people were still using stones for tools and weapons because they hadn't discovered how to make those things from metal (copper, bronze, or iron). For example, when the Europeans first reached America, the indigenous natives were still in their Stone Age and many tribes still were over 300 years later.
Because they weren’t using metals yet.
That must be Will Lords father
Can we take a moment to appreciate those short shorts
Yes! I appreciate them all day and every day.
@loosieclocker - Do as you will. I would rather not look at them.
Do you watch your own shows? These sites are not 5,000 years old, but 400,000 or more years old. Change your program title.
It's OTHER side not UDER side phil.
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Surely Tony means 'pyrite' (pie-rite) rather than 'pie-righties'.
It could be a matter of dialect. According to Online Etymology the word comes to English from French, from Latin, and originally ancient Greek. In modern Greek it is pronounced
"pie-righties". As with many things with english. Maybe both are right.
@@mutualbeard Makes sense. I remember as a child that the word 'epitome' baffled me. I saw what the dictionary told me it sounded like, but I couldn't believe it -- cause that's not how we say things in English : )
Honestly I cannot take this guy seriously 😮😮😮
I think of the loss when they find coins, someone worked to earn them ,a little sad.
5000 ya they were in the copper age.
bronze age even.
but title is wrong.
at start of the video archeologists says the site is dated to around 400 000 years old
@@spatrk6634not in the UK
Certainly, no dinosaurs. But what about Hobbits?
@georges3799 - Wrong continent. Homo floresiensis was discovered on the Island of Flores, Indonesia.
What wokenes?
Our DNA all comes from one male and one female ancestor, both from Africa.
@brucewindsor5257 - I thought it was RNA. Anyhow, the two individuals were separated by many 1,000s of years.
Turksh language please
Let me guess.Dopey and Grumpy 😂😂
400,000 years ago puts our current calendar in its place 2023 only another 397,980 years to go till its equal in the time line
Are they genetically human if they're 400,000 years old?
Not sapians.
@DCMutE27 - If Neanderthals successfully merged with Sapiens and begat so many of us, you tell me.
I like these old shows. They're a simple, sleepy alternative to wokeness.
Nice to meet you Mr troll
Can we just get away from people like you??
What is wokeness? I have yet to have someone explain it to me.
Obvious troll is obvious. Everyone on this team would consider you a headache at best...
@@thelostone6981Usually when people say "Woke" and such like this its a derogatory misrepresentation of "Hey maybe we should care about other people"
Anything can be wokeness, its a new boogeyman. When in reality its what its always been, basic human rights for marginialized groups
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I grew up in the mid 70s! We all wore tiny sweaters, and shorts. I think you guys know what I’m talking about.
People stone 10 to 20 thousandyears
Finally someone has found the origin of the English people. Yup they sure are different dna
5000 years ago was already the Bronze Age, not the Stone Age.
Takes one to know one 😂
What the heck are you saying? 400,000 years ago ?
This is what it looked like 5000 years ago? Where's the Flower Show Lady and the Policeman ticking everybody off?
Aren't you hilarious? 😊 And let me guess, Flintman made you do it.
I don't understand what is so funny, am i missing something???
Neadertowal lol