Here is a Stone Age Primitive House inspired by the 4,000 BC Horton Neolithic House excavated in Berkshire, England. Built with a Scots Pine roundwood timber frame, and 12 tons of reed thatch for the roof. With wattle and daub walls, a solid oak timber frame entrance with deer skin doors and complete with fire pit and deer skin beds inside. This replica Primitive House built at Butser Ancient Farm was inspired by the finds of Wessex Archeology. Only post holes and faint outlines of the foundations were discovered in Berkshire, England. We can only guess that the structure would have used a basic timber frame structure, likely an A-frame roof to shed water, and being near the river Thames, likely covered in water reed for the thatched roof.
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Go to Eastern EU if you want to learn from natives what, how and they still lie in related tipe of homes today ! Romania in particular ! …. i remember in my early childhood my grandma spoilled the floor with fresh clay ,mix with sand !!!
I have a late to early bronze age site on my landlords field. I have permission to hunt for flint artifacts. I really appreciate thar it was likley a farm all the way back then also. Sadly it will all be sold to developers in the near future. If i could affor to buy the field and preserve it i would in a heart beat!
Nice video
It is interesting to see how far we have come as a species. Back then they had revolutionary technology that we now consider primitive. And it is relieving that I was born in an age where we have the luxuries we have now. Albeit I do have to wonder if humans would actually be happier in a more survivalist setting. After all we are animals and animals are content just by surviving.
If there were permanent structures like houses, they were definitely farming ppl and not migratory following herds like North America Natives. Interesting how our indigenous ppl were still hunter/gatherers by the time Europeans got here so much more advanced.
I remember Phil Harding flint knapping on Time Team and it never took him long to fashion a tool he could use from a piece of flint, normally used without a handle or anything either. Just the very sharp piece of flint.
with those axes, was it possible to hew even thin wooden planks lik that easily, i wonder…
Thats an IRON AGE house, not a stone age one.
Nice Work & Video 👍
Cool.
I had a thought watching this video..
Imagine you are suddenly transported back to the neolithic. You come across a farmer, well dressed in leather, working his field with wooden handled tools. He greets you before packing his belongings into a basket. You accompany him back to his house, a sturdy and neat thatched building, where he hangs his things on shelves and offers you a meal of bread and meat.
How long would it take you to realise you were in the stone age? I think it would take me an embarrassingly long time.
6:30 inside the house.
How interesting !!! 😊
so is it safe to say that the original Neolithic people of Britannia didn't live in a round houses like in the bronze and iron age? or does this kind of rectangular house only found in certain area of UK? Because if i'm not mistaken the Neolithic people were actually different group of people than the bronze and the iron age people who came later during the migration of the beaker people who wiped out most of the native Neolithic people of Britain. Am i right?
Join us in the Bronze Age for the next episode of the series: https://youtu.be/kwM5hwjkOoE?si=xJva2qLUzIAjs52p
I personally loved the ASMR no talking videos. Will those resume or..? Has other people said no and I’m too late..?
I love videos like this!!!! Please do more history type content, you really fit the character. I love your content :))
Interesting but this doesn't explain why the Britons were so far behind the technology of other cultures like around Mediterranean.
What is the word or phrase used when they are talking about tying back / lashing the door deer skins? Line blast? Line bester? It is at 5:21.
Outstanding ! So interesting and informative! Love this stuff !
Thank you for taking the time to share , this AMAZINE , snapshot of the distant past ! XXX
This is an admirable attempt at reconstructing history, but it is still very speculative…..we don’t know how it was during that time…..guess work is our only option…..nice try though….
Europeans are amazing.
Butser is well worth a visit.
I love this video. I have been wondering about how the homes in the past may have been like for a while, but there are very few examples.
Wheres the next episode?
Build then war then build then war then build then war then build then war and see what left behind? Grass, dying forests, deserts. 😂 and concrete cities.
THIS A R.I.P BEAR 1:24
Those are some pretty well cut square wood beams at the entrance. Wonder how they did that?
Stained glass window????
face, Stone Age House, face, face, Stone Age House, face, face, face, Stone Age House, face, face, Stone Age House, face, face, face, face, Stone Age House…..seems mostly about a guy's face and he's pretending to be an actor; which always sucks
10:58 So perhaps they might have called it….a Skindow?
Im American but, my ancestors came from the UK, this has always interest me.
should get people to live in stuff like this to be able to really show exactly how it couldve been done… id do it : D
Looks like a modern African village.
Drop that word "primitive" that technology saved you from ice age, cave bear, sabre toothed cats, mammoths and ancient brigands
This is the kind of history I like. Learning about how people lived is more interesting than wargame stories imo
Technically it's the copper age, a time when people were using copper before they discovered bronze.
But still a great video man.
I have a friend "Paul Ullson" that has been here as a re enactor
This could be Sub-Saharan Africa TODAY. Amazingly they are STILL in the stone age but the marxist world govt system says it's because they're poor. I'll stay with the bell curve and its factual scientific relevance. We are NOT "all the same".
Dog for real why did we ever decide we needed more than this smdh
Surely that's not a home? It's so big it looks more like a village hall!
Our ancestors lived to be us because they did a lot of things >right<.
They shouldn't make fences with twigs…
How do you know that the building wasn't partially submerged? I ask because this reminds me so much of native American builds — and they would dig down to partially submerge large buildings like this.
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