Creating the Hunting Tools Used in the Stone Age

12,000 years ago, Britain entered a new chapter in its long history. By this point, hunting tools had evolved, from hefty spears to the slick and stealthy bow and arrow. This revolution in technology would change the way humans hunted forever.

In a period in which Britain was also thawing and exiting from an Ice Age, the warm and moist forest environments became home to the last of the hunter gatherers in Britain. They ate a diverse range of food, including wild meat, fish and fresh fruit from plants.

This would nonetheless change as the Britain entered the New Stone Age in circa 4000 BC and an agricultural revolution swathed the British Isles.

Join bushcraft and survival expert Ray Mears in Episode 2 of our Ancient Britain series, as he exits the Palaeolithic era and enters the Mesolithic and Neolithic era in Britain. On his journey, Ray will explore the evolution of hunting methods and equipment, and the eventual transformation of the hunter-gatherer culture and the adoption of agriculture and sedentary living.

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[vikingbushcraft]

When Ray Mears goes into a room, he doesn’t turn the light on, he turns the dark off….

[anorian]

Ray Mears is a true story teller, his passion always shines through.

[Jock-mjzd]

Don’t see enough of Ray these days! We need more Ray!

[neilfurby]

Ray is a truly inspirational character, modest and consistently entertaining in the very best way. Wonderful to see him back.

[KateVeeoh]

I grew up watching Ray Mears on tv and reading all the books, he taught me a thing or two about building forts and camps and shelters as a kid 😂 he's my spirit animal 🤌🏻

[anthonystevens]

As a child growing up I sort of appreciated history and found it interesting. Now I'm a lot older I have a fascination about history, what can be learned from what was good and that was not and move on. But life isn't like that now. at times we learned nothing, if anything went backwards at stages. Ultimately we should embrace the positives of our ancestors and add the positives of today without forgetting or destroying the old ones. Sometimes I think we are loosing touch of how to survive without the tech that we have today. Other times I think we already have.

[ChippyCarpenter]

Ray Mears, best by far of what he does, could watch his work all day. Should be on TV more !

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It’s an interesting observation one of my archaeology professors made during an introductory seminar on the transition from Meso- to Neolithic: for some reason the bundling of risk for a higher reward paid off (to overly simplify: if the crop succeeds you’re set for the year, if it fails you’re done for vs. if this hunt fails there’s still the next one tomorrow).

[andrewsock]

Every time I click on this channel I see content I have already seen. It’s compiled of bits of previously shown films.

[thephantomdivision]

"there's no such thing as bad weather, only poor clothing" - Ray Mears.

[alexbooyse]

Love Uncle Ray, a drop of golden sun.

[petrichor]

That was great, learnt stuff, seen those roses locally and we have flint, I feel a hobby coming on for the winter .

[TheStevenWhiting]

20:47 The sheep "What you doing in my field?" :)

[bigsmiles]

I really like this series with Ray Mears.

[mohammedsaysrashid]

It was a wonderful documentary shared by an excellent ( History Hit) channel

[jimkessler]

Great to see ya back, Ray !!
And big up to HH !!

[wilfamos]

Absolutely brilliant stuff. Thanks Ray and the HH team. 🙂 Loving the new series.

[Pyjamarama]

It's a shame so many people are heads down in their tech and out of touch with our distant past

I don't mean we have to live in caves but having an appreciation of the seasons and how important local / regional knowledge was back then

Thanks for educating us just a little bit more, Ray

[DRSHANKER]

like the great philosopher karl pilkington said, "You're dead longer than you're alive"

[rikwilliams]

Ray, brilliant as always in sharing knowledge of a subject.
With some personalities its all about them, with Ray its all about the subject.