Stories from the Stone Age - 5of15

An exploration of the revolutionary period of prehistory that began when humans abandoned the nomadic hunting and gathering existence they had known for millennia to take up a completely new way of life the decisive move to farming and herding the ration of permanent settlements and the discovery of metals setting the stage for the arrival of the worlds first civilisation.

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[slovakmath]

AllHistories: thank you so much for posting these 300+ documentaries. I love this kind of television show

[lucy1lucy1]

so..they havent explained where these folks are getting their woven fabric..?..or did i miss something?

[PuppetMask]

@lucy1lucy1 Yeah thats inaccurate, just ignore it. At this point they would have been wearing animal skins, looms weren't around until like maybe 4000 BC at the earliest but even that's stretching it pretty far. They had them in Mesopotamia. The rest is accurate enough though just try not to dwell on stuff like that.

[WalksThroughLife]

Loving the series!

[Snipe4261]

The show is really awful.

[Foxley]

@fadouka123 Ok, you are making a lot of assumptions to suport your idea. But again, there's no evidence. Maybe they did used bows and arrows but...

Like there's no evidence that the australian abourigenous people have ever used bow and arrows. And thare's a difference between know what something is and use that same thing.

[fadouka123]

@Foxley Oh please the bow and arrow is at least 50,000 years old through evidence from Africa. Following migration patterns, the Natufians may have already had the the bow and arrow. By 16,000 years, people were already practicing fletching. There's no way by that time the Natufians wouldn't know what a bow and arrow was, especially since a few thousand years later the first empire would emerge from Mesopoatmia (assuming the Natufians traded with them.

[lucy1lucy1]

@lucy1lucy1 ..i'm answering myself..what i mean by explain is that the movie makers went to a great deal of trouble to set the scene for the re-enactment, but they did not include any evidence of the production of the sophisticated fabrics in their scenario

theres a prof. at columbia who has a series of WORLD history lectures on the YT...i recommend

[samusssbm85]

@lucy1lucy1 Probably flax. According to wikipedia, Died flax fibers and weaving evidence have been found dating to at least 27,000 years ago.

[Foxley]

@caveymoley There's no evidence they used bows and arrows in that area before that. not this people. Spears yes, but not bows. Maybe they did use, but you can't say that with certainty.

We can't forget that, at this time, the humans were already spread all over the globe. America included. Some of them have already invented the bow and/or the atlatl, others not. Technology advances differently for different cultures and places.

[caveymoley]

ah ok i get it...woven clothes and communal farming came before the invention of the bow? wtf are they talking about?!?

[UnitedEuropa]

I think even today we can still learn a lot from these people.