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

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! Don't forget to like, subscribe and let me know what you'd like to see covered next in the comments!  People based in the UK- What are your favourite stone circles/ancient monuments? I'm putting a list together for my upcoming 'Age of the Stone Circles' Doc. It'll be my most ambitious yet. Thanks for watching! Oh and here is my new channel where I visit historical sites:- It's sort of a behind the scenes of History Time as well. www.youtube.com/channel/UCMq-bTjlaTZhaohEracnN6w Watch my latest full length history documentary:- https://youtu.be/c3Hq6UaFQqk

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

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

They became the Basques

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.

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

"This is an hour long, deep dive, into ancient, pre-historic, Europe" This is why I come here.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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...'

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

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

Real Uncorrupted European History : Haplogroup R1b,R1a (Indigenous Europeans)(Basques, Gaels, Poles) Haplogroup I (Neolithic Indo European wave from Anatolia.Stone monuments, Polytheism, Pottery,Longhouses, Axes,Sailing ships)(Bosnians,Scandinavians,Sardinians) Haplogroup J2b (Bronze Age Indo European wave. Ancient Greece, Rome. Writing, Metallurgy) (Modern Cretans) And some lesser sporadic influxes of Haplogroup E (North Africa) and Haplogroup G (Western Caucasus) Every single word associated with agriculture in Europe is of Indo-European origin.. There are also many maritime words as well such as "sail". Suggesting the Indo-Europeans were avid seafarers.. "Scythe" "Plough" "Wheat" "Bread" "Milk" "Cattle" "Goat" "Sheep" "Swine" "Wine" "Beer" "Mead" "Wool" "Hull" "Rudder" "Sail" "Axe" Every one of these words came from and with the Indo-Europeans....Suggesting the Indo-Europeans wrere synonymous with the advent of agriculture in the fertile crescent...It also suggests they journeyed by sea..

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My gods, what an amazing video! You've outdone yourself! This is far and away better than ANYTHING available on cable tv. Simply fantastic.

Outstanding presentation. I had never considered this clash of cultures; you have taken me on a fascinating and visually stunning journey of discovery. Bravo.

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