Ancient Britain with Ray Mears (2021 - 2021)

Name: Ancient Britain with Ray Mears
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-07-21

Documentary

Britain is an island where history is well and truly part of the landscape and an island where human feet have walked for a million years.. Join bushcraft and survival expert Ray Mears explore Britain's distant past, from the earliest evidence of people in Britain, right up to the moment that everything would change.

Status: Ended
First Aired: 2021-07-21
Seasons: 1 seasons

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Season 1Episode 226 min

Forest to Farms

Britain exits the Palaeolithic era and enters the Mesolithic and Neolithic era in Britain. On his journey, Ray will explore the evolution of hunting methods and equipment, and the eventual transformation of the hunter-gatherer culture and the adoption of agriculture and sedentary living.

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Flint and Footprints

Ray speaks to Dr David Waterhouse about the discovery made at Happisburgh beach in Norfolk of footprints dating back 900,000 years, before demonstrating how our distant ancestors would have made and used flint tools for hunting and skinning game.