Creating the Hunting Tools Used in the Stone Age 

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

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

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

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 🤌🏻

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

Complete Genius of a Man.

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.

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).

Nothing quite a lovely as some Ray Mears.

It's fantastic rediscovering Ray Mears. I used to watch him with my brother when I was much much younger! Extremely interesting and a great story teller.

Thanks Ray and History Hit brilliant 2nd episode. All the work done with Tod Cutler and so many others it's wonderful to be able to watch these amazing historical documentaries. 😊

Been to West Kennet Long Barrow. Pretty cool. I had to go inside.

We were all the same back then... No matter what country... Fires and the stars... It feels great to back to it a fire under the stars on warm nights

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

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

Footprints from a million years ago and we can study today is amazing!

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

Thanks Ray and team! This is wonderful. ⭐👍

Love Uncle Ray, a drop of golden sun.

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

When Ray speaks, I listen

It’s hard to consider the life of a man 1’000’s of years ago. How did he look? His clothes and tools all hand made. Cooking equipment and shelters. Surely they weren’t shaving as we do, or even interested in personal hygiene as we are. They would live in groups I would think, in order to help each other in difficult times. They’re family lives, without medicines of any sort, would have been fairly short and often tragic? Dieing even of simple tooth decay, childbirth would have been fraught with danger. The ologists who study these things must be fascinated with their subject ? As always Ray Mears is able to re create an atmosphere of wonder and respect for our ancestors in the way they lived and progressed, their incredibly difficult passage through time compared to ours today. I have enjoyed this vid. Thank you Ray Mears (and team, of course!)

I am amazed to find out that there is a flint quarry on this scale, but as a knapper I know there is a market for knapping rock, very well done , we neanderthals are still relevant

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

We need more Ray Mears.

Thank you, Ray Mears.

If I had to choose someone to survive with, it would be this man. Ray Mears! Nobody comes close to his down to earth delivery. He states the facts, and he doesn't show off. He just quietly imparts his knowledge. ❤.

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

Gotta love a bit of Ray Mears!

Thank you

Enjoyed this

I really like this series with Ray Mears.

Brilliant stuff

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

Wow thank u so so interesting . How our ansestors lived

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

Thank u history group an ray

The ancient caledonian forest remnants in Scotland ARE ancient Ray...as far as I have been informed, and I have been there..a magical place..

so good Ray always delivers

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

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

If Ray is presenting, I’m watching.

This is awesome.

More please!

Love the sheeps at 20:00

hmm, the link if your description didn't work for me but pulling up Historyhit directly did! Love Ray Mears content

When ray mears doesn’t do push ups, he pushes the world down

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

Hazelnut makes fantastic arrows, one of my favorites

That burial mound is in the game Assassin Creed Valhalla which is set in 750 AD at the time of the arrival of the Danes and Norse in what is now modern England.

Wow

Who else is watching this to survive in a time travel situation? I want to be prepared. 😁

Looking forward to the episode when Ray knaps a small family car out of flint

Didn’t you already release these episodes a while ago! I have definitely watched them before. Either way it’s great to watch again, sorry if it seems like I’m complaining, I’m not, just confused.

Unreal

Mound looks like an arrow. Shot into the future.

I have a theory as to why early Farmers farmed despite getting less nutrients than hunter gatherers. Once you settle down and grow crops you can also brew Alcohol...

So where did the "resin glue" used to attach the arrowhead to the arrow come from? I assume cooked down from a plant?

Ray just casually sauntering round, eating the forest.

Got a bit of a mod look going Mr Mears.... :)

Thanks!

22:20 looks like a flint arrow head.

Maybe the farmers in clearing the fields for crops had piles of rocks handy. So they arranged them neatly to bury the ones that died the winter before.

It seems the native Americans and ancient Britains were not so far off from each other. Arrowheads and the way they were made are nearly the same here in the states. The indigenous here used sinew to wrap the arrowhead in place.

he is so cool

Whats the fence on the beach for ??

Yeah i was planning three farms in my 20s one queensland victoria and Tasmania... Different food abd move with the weather Grandad said i was right

You have to dump the corpses somewhere Ray. Nomads leave them whey they drop and carry on moving. Stay in one place for a few decades or centuries and you're going to have a massive pile of rotting carcasses to deal with...

The sound guy went wild with the sound for the arrow! I'm laughing so hard. It's not as he has never done knapping or arrow building or he has to shoot some food or he'll starve.

I think we don't find Mesolithic (or paleolithic) monuments for at least a couple reasons. Low population, fewer monuments, longer time in the past equals less chance of finding a Mesolithic monument. Also Neolithic monuments could be built on top of them. Another reason night be because we think more like Neolithic people than we do Mesolithic people. We might sometimes be looking straight at a Mesolithic monument and just not see it. I think though that the main reason is probably that Mesolithic people didn't intentionally alter their environment much; they certainly influenced their environment, but for the most part they used the environment as they found it. Neolithic people very intentionally altered their environment when they cleared land for farming. The idea of changing their surroundings was obvious to them in ways it would not have been to Mesolithic hunter-gathers.

It shows faith has been forever religions and life changing so fast everything so fast last 200 years no one who is alive is at fault...

Mr. Mears where in the time line you explained was the atlatl developed an used.

Your the most Mesolithic Man I know. Why would You all of a Sudden want to Build a Large Monument like those Mounds. I feel that They started off as a Place to Live and Learn , then Morphed into Graves . Stone Henge is just a University for Studying the Universe and Possible Future Events . Also Mapping the World . I believe Our Earliest Ancestors were Hooked on Discovering what They could find in the Whole World for at Least 3 million Years if not More.

That burial mound looks a lot like a Arrowhead

Video starts at 4:36

That burial mound from the air looked “vulvic” maybe in death returned to the womb for rebirth?

Just to add it's not an inevitable path from hunter gatherer to farmer. Several native american tribes gave up part time farming after they obtained horses and became hunter gatherers again, until they lost their lands and food animals.

This is a compilation from episodes of other shows. Where can we watch full episodes?

Hazel was Ishi's favourite.

So he went from spears to bows without mentioning the atlatl which is where spears turned into darts and then darts turned into arrows

Give Ray a knighthood.

This guy's notion that the farmer has trapped himself. Yeah, with a permanent, sturdy, comfortable home and a huge store of food. The no home guy has trapped himself out in the elements with only what he's carrying. Which one is the trap?

You mention part 1 of this where you teach about paleolithic tools, but there is no link to it in the description. I can't find the video. Can you please send me a link? Thank you.

rays just boss

15:26 cat? cat! :3

Please make more of this, I love ancient history. I am also very interested in real bible history.

There's an idea that steel is stronger than stone, etc, but it's really not true. There's a story, that might be apocryphal that's passed in the anthropology community which goes like this: An archaeologist that was specialized with making stone (flake) technology knew he had to go into surgery, so decided that he was going to try to convince the surgeon to use stone flake surgery kit. And when he did, he healed faster than usual because the stone edge held for better than the steel blades. Of course this could be completely false, but it's often repeated to make a point that one technology that comes later isn't necessarily "superior" to another, but merely different and that all technology has positives and negatives. it depends on how one uses it. One can leach out tannins by boiling the acorns, which is faster and humans would have had fire because there is evidence that homo erectus has fire. And it would have to be a fast flowing stream--he's referring to indigenous tribes that used FAST flowing streams to leach out tannin, but heat and water can also be used to do the same thing. This has a good side effect that the tannin in the water can be used to tan leather and make it soft. I think he means fast, not slow. But personally using fire and water is a better solution for longer objectives. Soften up those hides for clothes. And just because Indigenous people used one technology doesn't mean it was used in GB. Bang for buck, I'd bet on the fire theory more especially in a cold environment with slow streams. Acorns come in fall, so it makes more sense. Also, I've heard the reed theory proposed as a staple depending on the region. Bell Beaker people and Long Barrow people are two separate peoples--I suppose they didn't have time to cover that part of it. The long barrow people built the long barrows and some people contend Stone Henge, etc (though there are some debates about that.) Be a bit useful if he named the migrations. I had to memorize them when I took archaeology in College. (For an Anthro degree).

That tomb looks like a giant arrow head to me

The evolution of Black & Decker.

You'd have to walk 40 miles to go back to the extinction of the dinosaurs on this scale (and 8078 miles to go back to the Big Bang).

Ray needs to Knighted…

Yeah you got medicine and poisen berries ... Big difference

“One of Britain’s only flint quarries”

There is NO WAY that arrow flew "beautifully".... No way...

He prefers a Blaser r8

It’s so odd seeing him with grey hair and glasses

Absolutely love Ray Mears, always have. But even he is not enough to make me sit through that god awful, overly loud music for an hour.... FFS it's on EVERY documentary these days!

Humans have not been around for a million years....

Out of Africa is demonstrably untrue.