I'm really sad to learn Gordon has passed, he was always one of my favourites of Ray's companions, such a knowledgable and lovely man. God rest his soul x
These shows never get old!! Just brilliant. Rest in peace Gordon, a true gentleman! Your knowledge and wisdom, that you passed on, humbly will never die!
Gordon is like a cross between David Bellamy and Peter Cushing the way he is so softly spoken, Great series from Ray as always and elevated more with the presence of Gordon.
Brilliant, let's hope the people of Australia never lose their skills and that they are always documented like this. When the skills are gone they are lost forever.
I shall show this to my midschool pupils so that they could at least notice the fact that they are intellectually and culturally hugely inferior to the hunter-gatherer peoples of the past and present. I thank you very much for uploading this tv series to internet.
The respectful and fascinated way in which they learn from the knowledge of the native Australian cultures is something we need to emulate more in the West. A culture that has survived for tens of thousands of years without demolishing everything in their environment is priceless as a repository of wisdom, knowledge and models of resilience.
I once had the fortune of meeting Ray Mears and I wasn't disappointed he was a real gentleman and a very polite man. Its a shame the BBC would rather pump our money to idiots like Jeremy Clarkson instead of making some new shows with Ray.
beautiful country with beautiful people, so glad they're passing their knowledge down to the younger generations. makes me wish our country's knowledge had been passed down through the generations. people like these and other cultures all over the world who still have the skills of the old ways will survive better than we modern folk will if the world goes to pot and we have to go back to living with nature again.
The world ain’t “going to pot”...thanks to Neanderthal man we have abundance of food, leisure, and pleasure these desert losers could only dream of. Statistically by nearly every metric the world is getting cleaner, richer, and healthier across the board. Hard headed, ethics-free, leftists cretins are so ungrateful and hate their fathers so much that they’re blind to the achievements right in front of them. It’s typical: white man receives zero credit and POCs here and everywhere in modern society have literally no faults and can do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG EVER. these aboriginals with their mild hopping and tired shuffling are lauded by Ray and Gordon as breathtakingly stunning. Typical, to the left everyone is an infant to be praised while real heroes and achievers are shamed for being born the wrong sex or color.
@@RozarSmaccoThese people aren't desert losers, they are beautiful people who choose to still be in touch with traditional ways and what's wrong with that. It's good to still have knowledge of the basic skills in life.
we don't have to give up modern conveniences but it's so interesting to learn how our human ancestors survived. most modern people would be lost and wouldn't know how to survive if they lost all the modern conveniences like supermarkets. but people who still use the old ways will live on.
Love Ray Mears' shows, and like to look for wild food when camping - but can't help but think Ray would be disappointed knowing that I'm watching this whilst wolfing down a large McChicken sandwich meal.....
I really would love to go and see northern Australia it just looks so beautiful, some say beauty is in the eye of the beholder but mother nature can stop you in your tracks to realize the beauty of living off the land. Love this series, thanks for uploading.
Ray: so I have this new idea about the wild food in Britain BBC: finally something cheap Ray: for the first episode I'll go to Australia. BBC: Ray: BBC: what was I expecting anyway
To look at how these people lived, and to look at how we live now is like comparing a calm river to a raging fire. the respect and understanding of nature that these people have is profound. I don't know where humanity went wrong, but imagine if, somehow, we had been able to keep the knowledge and ability to live WITH nature instead of simple seeing it as a resource to exploit.
Ahh two more ignorant liberals are taken in by the indefatigable MYTH of the noble savage. Are you kidding? Western civilization is vastly superior. Aboriginal infant mortality rate is sky high and if your society can’t protect the weakest and most needy then one can only conclude that it’s objectively a poor culture. Those people have zero scientific, medicinal, engineering, resources and if there’s the slightest famine their elderly/babies likely suffer. You need to be more grateful; those poor people have to wander the outback with scorching temperatures drinking tepid animal feces laden water If they’re lucky. The fact that you can type into a thin metal pad and send messages instantly around the world, in cool conditioned air, with a full belly, then watch nearly any all entertainment from the past 100 years proves instantly how unbelievably lucky you are to have been born in an epoch in which MAN has mastered Science, Engineering, and Technology. Ungrateful imbeciles. You say they are peaceful though? Read S. Pinkers “Angels of Our Better Half” he carefully proves how jingoistic these people are and how the men who killed the most usually had the most offspring and the choice of mating with amenable females. They didn’t build weapons just for show; they war with neighboring tribes constantly. Rape and murder were ubiquitous but Ray Mears could only give half the story lest he appear the big R WORD.
Everything they do is just pure perfect natural perfection right Ray? Hope nobody gets seriously ill or has a terrible accident. Aboriginal medicine man or modern research hospital? I know which one I’d rather take my son.
Marshall Harrison - Guitarist we are certainly more technologically advanced than these ancient civilisations, however to say we have mastered science etc is incorrect. We will never master the natural world, and if we had done that then we would not be destroying the planet and it’s organisms as we are, with our so called mastery. If we had mastered science and technology then we could live in complete harmony with the world around us. It’s quite insulting to say they had poor culture too. As we are all human beings we are prone to violence and cruelty, it’s as true now as it may have been then. Our bodies have become weak as a result of our sedentary life style as well. There are great things we have achieved as human beings, however our greatest failure will be to not protect the world around us, which ultimately we depend on.....this is the mindset these lost cultures possessed.
@@RozarSmacco But wouldn't a critique of aboriginal culture be out of place in a documentary trying to learn about paleoloithic survival in the British Isles? Incidentally, Ray Mears has made comments on brutal treatment of women in aboriginal culture, but this documentary isn't really the place for that, as it is mostly about surviving on the resources aound you, which Australian aboriginals did pretty well.
The question that arises everytime for me is how many people died trying to find ways to make toxic food edible through our history. Was it all trial and errors or did we truly have gods that bestowed knowledge upon us. It's a shame that we practically erased this knowledge from modern existence.
Proto-humans would have pretty much determined this for a given area before the first humans did. Lives risked and lives lost? Yeah, for sure, but at the same time they would have noticed that their dogs didn't eat something or their prisoners got sick. While it's not advice to give to the uninformed, a forager today would only try a tiny bit after thinking it probably was edible. As my ex used to say, "I always let her eat a bit the day before, just to be sure it's safe for me." Continue to add to your knowledge base and extrapolate and synthesize with observations and critical thinking. A lot of field mycologists will actually taste an odd unidentified mushroom to classify it. They already know the characteristics of the poisonous ones. Too dangerous for me to do with much more limited knowledge.
ok ray you can make it anywhere anytime. wow you are a survival expert. You have a wealth of info in all your shows. I most of all like your humble willingness to learn.
ray you show important stuff about survival in every show but this stuff will save your life. thanks for your accurate info. These shows are dual purposed.
i instantly had to think about my garden which i got this year. i plan to make a permaculture with less work and more beautyful, healthy self grown food :D animals like earthworms, toads and hedgehogs keep the snails cornered, they just need a drywall and some little caves.
I fear Gordan is playing host to a tapeworm. Not only is he always milling about when they're scavenging he also tells the aboriginal ladies that ,it's very filling and after a few more you would be full. Oh the Irony Gordan. 😂👊
love the diversity of hair not seen everywhere. The very thought of "good" hair is seen on people here who don't fit the so-called norm skin color for such hair. Beautiful. I wonder how long some actual return to the desert to stay. Seems rather a harsh existance given they've moved to the cities and return often to the ancestral lands. Very enlightening show. Raw Beauty .
The local edibel yam (D. alata) has a square stem, pairs of pointy leaves, they rarely blossoms. When the vine dies back for winter, the top of the root feels like a tent state in the ground.
No need to be rude sir. He's a big lad and he likes his food. Regardless he wear's his belly with pride, much like Captain Kirk did and how we all should...
Look just how comfortable they are in their daily activities. It shows that ancient civilisations such as Rome really wasn't bringing much to the 'barbarian' tribes at all except a trade off between hard living/high reward and easy living/completely unrewarding way of life. Most, if not forced upon them, chose easy living and that lack of reward has come back to haunt us with despondent children. I told my nephew that if he wants to feel truly gratified and satisfied to create something, to build something with his own bare hands. He went and got Minecraft for his tablet O_o
Minecraft plays on the same reward systems that drives hunter gatherers, and still exercises creativity. Just a shame it doesn't exercise/shape the body or gain real knowledge about the real world as well.
5:47 Waving a knife around in a crowded car while driving on a bumpy road while not wearing seat belts while the driver looks backwards while Gordon has no idea what the f*** is going on :-/ while discussing stuff about wallabies and shit.
Yep...and that "Fake" laugh he does is so annoying .. ...Clearly he hates feeling left out!! ..and willing to risk everyones life, just to keep himself in the conversation while trying to drive in a straight line
actually it is fine to use aboriginal since the meaning of it is "Having existed in a region from the beginning", "original or earliest known; native; indigenous"
Native is different to indigenous. Native comes from the Latin "natio" which means "natal" or "common birth". This is also where the word "nation" is derived from.
if u haven't found it. the video should be call aboriginal Britian. I would one day try and cook that deer leg he did in that show. It looked hella good and tender as hell. A game meat + tenderness= good food
20:00 when times were tuff humans always killed each other to survive. People need to stop lying to themselves about living in harmony with nature. People are people.
At 51:32 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅he said to her, I am watching you what are you looking for and she looked at him for a moment and said "YAM"....obviously 😅😅😅😅😅 watch the clip it's m funny
