I live about 10 minutes away from Butser Ancient Farm but I've never been. It's funny how we'll travel miles and miles to visit far off tourist attractions, but don't go to things that are right on our doorstep.
The Japanese have an expression for that: "it's always darkest at the foot of the lighthouse". We often look far afield but ignore what's close by / at our feet.
Very interesting time period, the neolithic. Here we have the Hunebedcentrum in Borger (Drenthe, the eastern part of the Netherlands). I'm now one of the volunteer 'prehistoric people' there to demonstrate ancient techniques (I do textiles, how they used plant fibers)
This reminds me of a park/open air museum here in The Netherlands called "Archeon". They cover history from prehistoric times all the way into medieval times, you can walk around and enter everything, there are all sorts of buildings, temple's, farms, forges, bakers from all those different era's, activities(mostly for children), shows, people with the right clothing and armor from their era that will tell and demonstrate things. Really worth visiting.
@@TAOutdoors it might be nice to do flashbacks to your own historic inspired builds, I found your channel because of, but at the end of, your historic building shennanigans so it could be nice to go back to those videos, have an update and see what you would do differently.... just a thought... maybe at least give links to previous related videos?
I'd love to see you both learning new fabric techniques together with "Sally Pointer". She's an archeologist and runs a 36K RU-vid Channel showing her historical techniques to make clothes out of plants.
There is no reason to think that our ancestors were less inventive than we are today. Their tool kit was obviously limited when compared to our modern equivalent. But I 'm sure they were very skilled in it's use. We call the Neolithic a stone age because of the tools we have found. However, the material stone tools fashion best is wood! Perhaps we should remind ourselves of that and rename it the woodworking age.
As someone who loves history and archeology, I enjoyed this content, Mike, looking forward to more! I've been a subscriber for a couple years now and I know this type of stuff is something that interests you, so I'm glad you've found another way to bring it into the channel, and I appreciate your willingness to seek out third parties to provide more information about it. Great work!
There's a moment of trepidation when he confesses that they didn't use flint to chop and shape all the wood from the house, because it would only take a pro flintsman a year full time, so fast change subject to water reeds and... yes reed buntings are birds that live in water reeds.
I love people who have the passion and knowledge to recreate these kinds of historical buildings, and to keep methods and techniques alive. Brilliant work 👍
I am delighted to see this - I visited Butser Farm in 1982, when the place held a few beautiful thatched round houses and some ancestral breeds of livestock, not to mention enthusiastic staff. It's gratifying to know the Farm is still going, and providing valuable data on living life long ago.
What breeds/species of critters? I'm a hard-core believer in keeping the ancient breeds alive and well. Too little genetic diversity in modern livestock. To the point that a few disease outbreaks might cripple food production, if it were bad enough!
@@melhawk6284 There is (or was) a farm down in Cornwall/Devon that resorted to using oxen instead of tractors in the fields (high price of diesel) and found they were much better than a modern tractor was, don't know if he still does, this was probably about 6-8 years ago now.
I live in a medieval timber-framed long-house in Normandy, France. Wattle and daub between the timbers. I can testify to the maintenance issue. Every autumn we have to prepare thoroughly and every spring, about now, we have to inspect the damage and plan a scheme of work. This year we have some woodpecker damage to some of the timbers at the back of the house. lol. Always something wanting to eat it! Funnily enough, walking in the next field I found a perfect polished neolithic axe. So interesting to note that people were living in a timber house nearby. (I wonder if they have the long ago ancestor of our woodpecker (greater spotted) pecking at theirs? And i wonder if they swore at it.
i guess when something `wants to be eaten` or rots away fast it is very environmental-friendly...lets keep that in mind whenever we think of maintenance of traditional/organic buildings/materials as a pain...!
I often wonder how my British/European ancestors dealt with those long dark winters. Probably making clothes, tools, kitchen implements, and maybe entertainment stuff like musical instruments. Even gatherning fuel must have been a major chore as development progressed and the forests were cut. I am so proud of those many nameless long forgotten individuals. I am sure their stories would be tremendously entertaining.
The ones that interest me and I would like to see/know more about are the houses at Scarpa Brae up in Scotland. They truly are fascinating, complete with built in furniture and everything.
I wanna see a Dr Who ep where an Iron Age family get stuck aboard the TARDIS, & end up in this village, mistaking it for home, & they become squatters, which risks the timeline.
be aware that the structure in the video is not Historical fact . its archeology and trying to discover how people built buildings and what materials they used back then as the lady kept saying its all experimental . i thought she was marvelous and i hope she is appreciated
Excellent school trip offering. The thing I love about history is that once found, we can have it forever. Amazing to know this is such a recent find, 2018, and how the development of this one building was effected by our modern history of the pandemic and costs. This is wonderfully inspirational. It makes me appreciate your continuing homage to these building techniques in your bush craft builds. Great video, thanks!
I remember seeing information about a small remote island off the west coast of Scotland, completely exposed to the winter storms sweeping in off the North Atlantic. The storms destroy modern houses, but the old homes (or perhaps better "shelters"), made of large stones tipped together with small entrances on the lee sides remain standing to this day. People sheltered inside together with their animals; warmth came from the body heat of the animals, as well as from the "maturation" of their manure-- it wasn't much, but it could make the difference between freezing and not. The wind and weather were too extreme to be able to gather much wood aside from driftwood.
@@musicandbooklover-p2o Yes Skara Brea is a fascinating place, the only other thing I can think of would be old crofts or blackhouses but they were more than just shelters. Which is why I thought the OP was referring to Skara Brea, but it is way more sophisticated than just large stones tipped together.
@@Sofasurfa unless they are being insulting that is. they're far more up-to-date than the iron/stone age houses or even the Saxon houses were. Really well designed and built and - with a few additions like loo, kitchen, bedroom - would make great 'tiny houses'' for people to live in today.
@@musicandbooklover-p2o I find the Brochs quite intriguing too and although the archaeologists don’t seem to have a definitive answer for their use I like to think of them as perhaps a multiple storey Celtic warriors home. But then I’m a romantic.
Watching this make me think back on your "village" of buildings and how nice they turned out. Thanks for the tour and well done on your own structures.
That's a wonderful learning site🤙 I fell in love with a few areas in California that have 1800's Pilgrims villages people can walk thru and see how the towns people lived and survived! Another cool video- thanks🤙
I thought it was interesting that they talked about the handles on stone tools not really mattering, because they split at random during use. Also the variety of materials used to construct the different features of the building is pretty neat.
That building is huge...how many people lived in there I wonder. Sometimes buildings were the leaders house and/or meeting houses for the village. The ancients mostly were immediate family units, parents, children, sometimes grand parents. The immediate surrounds would have had to provide for the number of people you had in your group.
Always blows my mind when i see videos on places in my neighbourhood! I live the otherside of the A3, and my mates mum actually works at the farm! You should have gone up to the Windmill for a lovely view out to sea. Are you local?
Great opening. We stand on the shoulders of our ancestors who did a whole lot to not only survive the wilderness, but to build our consciousness. I’m glad so many people are interested in human history on your channel.
Great video! Thank you for taking me into this fantastic replication/experimental archaeology site!! I loved seeing the inside construction and their idea of how it might be set up and decorated! Can't wait for the next one! You always have fabulous content!
Incredible. It is funny to think some 3,000 years ago there was a guy having to take care of his honey-do list and work on the house. That still has not changed. :-)
It's sort of amazing that your versions of the Saxon/Viking builds mirror these historically accurate recreations. I know you did moderate research on what to do, but more or less built practically and within your means. So the things you did proved that ancient people did the same as your builds actually is functional by using similar principles hundred of years later.
Yes, the past was colourful. Look at the traditional and cultural clothes of cultures around the world, where they can, they colour, embroider almost everything.
Love the concept of experimental archeology. And I really appreciate you stepping back and allowing those two experts to lead the discussion and explain what is going on. Amazing video!
I was a really lucky kid growing up. I lived in a suburb on the edge of hills and acres of nothingness. We built forts and shelters and stayed overnight in them all the time... it's crazy what humans can accomplish and build out of sticks.
How about posting more accurate comments. BLAME. You should say "people who are unable or only partially able to use a body part and especially a limb"
Not everyone likes history so they probably think the video is boring. Maybe they were expecting to see warriors fighting with stone axes or something.
I doubt they used hardware store woven rope to tie off their beams. More likely strips of rawhide. ( I understand the political correctness problem about using animal materials now.)
Not even an hour yet and your past 3.5k views already! Much love and wanted to let you know I started this bushcrafting youtube because you inspired me fella! Much love and keep up the good content!!
@@brain8484 how is this scamming? Love what this guy does and he inspired me to make my own channel...??? I know it's not about views, for me it's about teaching others and having fun in the woods, I might only have 1 video atm but that's because I enjoy my time when I bushcraft fella
Pacific Island cultures were stone age before Europeans arrived. Check out traditional Maori carving sometime including the houses they built. They could also make straight posts with stone tools.
I cannot claim to have any expertise with American Native "primitive" technology, but some of the building techniques that I've seen demonstrated have amazing correspondence with the techniques here. So fascinating!
@@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat Alginquin is a spelling used by French colonizers; Algonkian is the spelling used by British colonizers abd their post-colonial culture (the US of A). Of course, the people of this Origal Nation call themselves either Omàmiwinini (plural: Omàmiwininiwak) or the more generalized name of Anicinàpe, which is now most comminly rendered Anishinaabe.
Funny how housing nowadays hardly last 50 years. I'd like to know how much really was standing. It really put into perspective how amazing the Roman buildings were and the pyramids.
Ahhh this is such a special video for me as I live very close by to buster and have been many times since I was kid and my gran used to work there too❤️❤️very cool place :))thanks for the cracking video !
Just some feedback, but i assume you got that already. Theres a high pitched noise in the sound of the Video. like at 9:00. Its not a big deal, but without it, would be nicer.
Reminds me of Assassins Creed Vahalla, which is set in Britain at the end of the viking age. The designs of houses, villages etc. in the game seem extremely accurate!
I love this stuff of my scots and Norwegian ancestors and how they lived. Here in the states i got to study up close my native blood. As my father was scos and creek injun and my mother pure viking lol. Thanx for taking us along on your journey.
face, Stone Age House, face, face, Stone Age House, face, face, face, Stone Age House, face, face, Stone Age House, face, face, face, face, Stone Age House.....seems mostly about a guy's face and he's pretending to be an actor; which always sucks
I would love to see what staying over night in this structure would be like. Probably too cold and hard for a modern person but one could make simple meals and talk around the fire.
*OH MY GOD* you guys had like 13,000 subs the last time I looked - you were building a Viking triangle house in a wood in Ireland CONGRATULATIONS on blowing up.
Archaeology today is a bit crude (historically), "it's political", always has been...for the newbie, science has always been fussy.....they have their friends. Don't get me wrong "true empirical science is awesome (just the facts mame type stuff)".....one fact (known in all modern "ancient cultures) ..there was a flood, it answers (crudely) why 200 ton stones could be quarried 300 miles away and moved intact, and they found a old old nuclear reactor.that functioned for 100's of years, spark plugs in 100 million year old granite (even a frog that was alive).....they say "hunter gatherer"
Go to Eastern EU if you want to learn from natives what, how and they still lie in related tipe of homes today ! Romania in particular ! .... i remember in my early childhood my grandma spoilled the floor with fresh clay ,mix with sand !!!
Ill be damned you guys FINALLY did sumthin cool for once! I watched it on MUTE 🤠 i study archaeology & sedimentary geology in US so...i just hit mute 🤪😉
This is an admirable attempt at reconstructing history, but it is still very speculative…..we don’t know how it was during that time…..guess work is our only option…..nice try though….
If there were permanent structures like houses, they were definitely farming ppl and not migratory following herds like North America Natives. Interesting how our indigenous ppl were still hunter/gatherers by the time Europeans got here so much more advanced.
primitive technology = techniques Building technique, clay modelling techniques. All are techniques not technology. Technologies demand logical mechanism like electrical circuit and circuit board what is independent from product what it produces, self-governance. Too philosophic for archeologist?
How do you know that the building wasn't partially submerged? I ask because this reminds me so much of native American builds -- and they would dig down to partially submerge large buildings like this.
Imagine all the hours put into just maintaining that house every year. The mud walls, the thatch, compressing the dirt floors. Hey, would those walls be considered "wattle and daub"? Sorry if this was mentioned already, I am working on spreadsheets while listening to this.
Experimental archeology can't "prove" models or ideas, but it can exclude them by demonstrating that they don't work. In doing so, the range of possible answers to a question can be narrowed down!
