When Time Team Found Incredibly Rare 5000-Year-Old Stone Age Tools | Time Team | Odyssey

My go to comfort program.

Victor’s drawings and watercolors are amazing

I hope Phil’s shorts and hat make it into a museum one day. Truly iconic! 😁🖤

as a flintknapper myself this is very exciting, I love how phil explains the process of lithic reduction

Phil repeating "look at that" really was making me excited!

As someone with a history degree who should have pursued a double major in archaeology—this is fascinating. I live in the American Midwest and have been an avid “field-walker” for decades. I’ve had a couple articles published in our quarterly archaeological journal and have been lucky enough to find some great artifacts—a banner stone (or atlatl weight) of banded slate, slate pendants, and quite a number of beautiful flint knives and some true arrowheads. I have taken many items in to the local historical society and museum to let the curator of the archaeological department look at them and so far the oldest piece I have is, according to Dr. Lepper, about 10k years old. I honestly had no idea there were sites this old in Great Britain. That’s “Olduvai Gorge old!” Brilliant stuff! 🤯❤️👍🏼

even if it is an -old - episode, always great to watch a rerun...

A few years ago, in the West country, a cave man was found and DNA was taken from him and a descendant was found at the local school. I think it was in Wiltshire. the person who matched the DNA was a teacher at the school !.

Phil is in his element!

I remember trying to catch Time team on TV so have followed it for many years, now so easy on my laptop, lol, loved this episode, really grabbed me how far back you can decipher, good to see the younguns working hard, i know my aging bones hurt, more lol. greetings from Australia

The oldest tool used by our indigenous people here in Australia is estimated to be between 46,000 and 49,000 years old, the basalt axe fragment is significant as it shows axes were in use when or very soon after humans arrived in Australia – between 50,000 and 55,000 years ago.. our First Nation people are amazing to live the way that did and some still today up hold their customs am loving that many of the languages are been taught though many have been lost..

I looked and looked and one day was lucky to find 27 stone tools in a cache while on a fishing trip north of my province. Showed them to a local dig afterwards, they left for a university and are now part of a public collection.

We lived in Winslow AZ for awhile. We learned a lot just by observing. Flint-working sites tended to be a distance from the living sites, often elevated. We guessed they doubled as look-out sites. We never found anything there but mounds of shards. It was a great hobby that started by observing the terrain. You logic it out by finding where the water was. You'd also look for caliche (clay). There were lots of curved pieces in piles that we guessed had covered pit houses. You could also guess where farming happened. Stone hoes were obvious. They look a little like golf clubs. That area can be really cold and windy. I would be building an igloo out of clay if I were there. It's also breathtakingly beautiful there. It was a migration path, so it's a rich site. Group after group left artifacts behind. I matched one tip to a 10k yr old one in a book. It wasn't impressive. Mostly I found stone knives and scrapers, used for working hides. That wasn't a hand ax they found...it didn't have a groove for a handle. That was a scraper meant to be used without a handle, for scraping hides. You can't go there now because it's too close to a prison.

10:52 Ooooo, the voles aren't going to like those electrical currents! 😂

The title of this video says "5000-year-old stone age tools", but it seems it should say 500,000-year-old!

I was amazed that the curved flint is an axe. I have found a couple of them walking in the Arizona desert. It's not hard to find arrowheads here and pottery shards. I took some yellow shards to the university because a face was painted on one. I found out that it was fired between 1425 and 1465 made by Hopi native American Indians. It was probably a burial ground.

I'm so lucky,: in one week - even with all the binging I've done over the years - two episodes I've never seen before!!♥️

Using Mick to model the people from prehistoric time was pretty funny.

It's happy days for Phil Harding in amongst the knapped flint and refreshing to not hear Tony Robinson moaning about the lack of villas, coins pottery etc.

Imagine being a metalsmith alive today and a bunch of archaeologists dig up your hammer 40,000 years from now making judgments about your way of life!