What Happened To Britain's Last Hunter-Gatherers? Prehistoric Europe Documentary

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[HistoryTime]

Phew this was a struggle to upload. I felt the pain of ancient farmers planting their crops only to see them fail when I saw this repeatedly fail to upload. Feels good to be finally there!
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[kupus]

Wow, please indulge me, when I was a youngling I told my teacher I wanted to be a archeologist. He told me not to be stupid as kids like me don't go to university and anyway there weren't any jobs in it. History is a dead subject. Who I think I was India Jones? That got a laugh. I never did go to university, I'm a manual worker. I shovel shit for a living.
However iv always consumed history, every aspect of it. Your self made videos have inspired me. Your clear love of the subject has produced a masterpiece of historical emersion. With your work I can study, to a level I didn't think possible and it's pure joy to put a few of your vids on whilst I'm doing my daily. Funny thing I keep seein archeologist jobs on offer. Thank you for uploading

[StefanMilo]

Thanks for the shout out! I wish my videos were as atmospheric as yours. You really paint a picture in our minds!

[Ruby-epoc]

Kudos to that lobster for discovering flint tools on the sea bed .

[sethfeldman]

Just a couple of notes: The Palaeolithic hunter/gather culture in Western France had been going on for 30, 000 years before there was any hint of a transition to an agricultural society. That is approximately five times longer than the span of years between the beginnings of Egyptian culture and today. These were people who produced elaborate and quite beautiful cave art. Moreover, in some places the caves were in clusters of a couple of dozen sites. All of this is to say, that these people were not just advanced animals hunting other animals. They had art, they had population centres and they probably had some sort of trade going on as there are approximately 350 painted caves from Portugal to the Urals. Finally, we might want to wonder if the people who built complex stone structures were in some way inspired by a very long heritage of cave living.

[dhindaravrel]

If I got to choose between shorter ones and your full, feature-length documentaries which are better than most of those with big budgets behind them, my vote is keep doing this. It's easily my most favourite youtube channel you've built here.

[connarcomstock]

"This is an hour long, deep dive, into ancient, pre-historic, Europe"

This is why I come here.

[Argrouk]

Another very well produced video, great job.
People always forget the gathering side of hunter gatherer, from which it is a very short step to farming. The nuts, berries, seeds and plants, and mushrooms etc, it's a short leap from finding them to cultivating them, much easier than selectively breeding grass into wheat over generations. Look at the wide variety of fruits and vegetables that exist, from apples to turnips, carrots to cucumber, and then rethink waiting for the wheat foreigners to come and show us how to live.
The other thing people forget is that you can't just show up and be a farmer, you have to survive for best case months, worst case years before you get a decent crop, so you are going to need something to eat in the mean time.
This completely ignores fishing and shellfish of course, which would be used by both hunters and farmers, so what you end up with is a chowder of all sorts of people doing all sorts of things at the same time in the same place, not some dramatic shift.

[MaternalUnit]

I'm so impressed that you'll created your own, full-length history documentary! You don't have all the filler scenes that BBC uses, either. Very interesting material not covered elsewhere. I look forward to watching more of your original shows.

[HS-sucf]

Most important consequence of agriculture: A steady supply of beer.

[neekBG]

what a time to be alive! This is free on the internet for all to watch, no catches. God I love humans.

[MtnTow]

Didnt realise this is an indy production until i scrolled through the comments.

Very well done!

[freeair]

I love the cave of dreams there. 34, 000 years old. Painted in 3d so the flicker of a torch made it look like animals were running

[antoninbesse]

This is great, one of YouTube’s golden nuggets. Well paced, watchable and gives the impression of being well researched and factually correct (so rare these days). Thank you! One thought that came to mind when watching this was how much trade and migration - especially the small genetically distinct coastal settlements here and there - depended on Stone Age ocean going ships. A video about Neolithic maritime technology would be fantastic.

[vintagetintrader]

When at school in Australia, ancient history was concentrated between Roman times to about 1600 mostly English based History, also 1770 to 1788 (Captain Cook to First Fleet Australian History)
Really not much else.
I now find the much earlier times as the true foundation of modern society (hunter gatherer to farming based society)much more important.

[raffaz]

Many years ago I read Stan Beckensall's Prehistoric Northumberland. He's an amateur archaeologist recognized by professionals for his work on cup and ring marked stones. He stresses meaning in the physical landscape. Physical features such as waterfalls, and rock formations acted as signposts / place markers for wandering hunters, but they also had spiritual or sacred significance. People would add to these sacred places with rock art, henge posts, and burial sites.

I'd always walked in Northumberland, but Stan's work connected me to the past. It was poetic and almost paganistic. I realized that the places where I'd sit down, and get the flask out, were the same places where Mesolithic people would have stopped.

I've just found History Time, and I feel inspired by and connected to the past again. I can't wait to watch the Old North one next. Three and a half hours and 15 million views. One man putting the dumbed down agenda driven BBC to shame. 'Men went to Catreath at the dawn...'

[DoinItforNewCommTech]

When I was in 8th grade, in 1999, my Social Studies class learned about the Paleo/Meso/Neolithic eras. Not ONCE did my teacher say, "hey kids, check out this cool Mesolithic boat-building site they just discovered at Bouldnor Cliff! 2000 years before the Neolithic Revolution!"
I feel really cheated.

[StewartSarah]

Your efforts are so appreciated. I really enjoy these videos daily. Thank you!

[munxgrosgeant]

Love your long documentaries and the quiet narration. Thank you so much for the hard work. neolithic and vikings are among my favorites!

[prepperjonpnw]

I love the longer more in-depth videos as does everyone I know.
Family and friends all agree these longer ones are terrific. For this video my friends and family gathered at my home so we could all watch it on the big screen tv together. Afterward we discussed the content at length while sitting in front of the fireplace.
We’ve decided to do this again for another of your longer videos. I believe we are creating our own style of gathering lol. Of course we also watch on our individual devices as well as on the big screen lol so we don’t mess up your view count lol. We don’t watch on our devices WHILE we are watching on the tv lol. Please do more on the U.K. I’ve been using them to teach my son about the U.K. since his father and all his ancestors are from there.
Cheers mate