Experience a Week in the Stone Age | Day 1: A 17 Year Old's First Solo Hunt

A 17-year-old steps into a birch forest at dawn. He carries a bow made from yew wood, arrows tipped with flint blades no bigger than a thumbnail, and a dog at his heel. It's 10,000 BC. This is his first solo hunt. One shot. One chance. Welcome to Day 1 of A Week in the Stone Age — a 7-part series following ordinary people through daily life 12,000 years ago, on the shores of a lake in what is now Yorkshire, England. Forget the cavemen of the movies. No caves. No grunting. No clubs. These were extraordinarily skilled people who made precision microliths, bone needles, and waterproof shelters — who tracked deer through forests they knew by heart, shared every kill equally, played bone flutes by firelight, and domesticated the first animal the human species ever befriended: the dog. In this episode: → How a Mesolithic hunter tracked and killed a red deer with a handmade bow → The extraordinary story of how wolves became dogs — the oldest friendship on earth → Why these people were NOT primitive — and what they knew that we've forgotten → The uncle's stories of mammoth hunts, bone houses, and the giants of the ice age → The shaman's red deer skull headdress — where hunting meets the sacred → Why everything was about to change — and why they couldn't see it coming 📍 Based on real archaeological evidence from Star Carr, Yorkshire — the most important Mesolithic site in Britain (c. 9,300–8,480 BC) ⏱️ Chapters: 0:00 — The Deer 1:00 — Setting the Scene 2:00 — Before Dawn — The Camp 4:00 — Dawn — The Dogs 6:00 — Morning — The Hunt 8:00 — Midday — The Kill 10:00 — Afternoon — The Giants 12:00 — Evening — The Fire 13:30 — Night — The Stars 📚 Sources: Star Carr archaeological site (University of York), British Museum Mesolithic collection, Nicky Milner et al. "Star Carr: Life in Britain After the Ice Age" (2018) 🔔 This is Day 1 of 7. Subscribe so you don't miss Day 2 — The Healer. #ExperienceAWeekInTheStoneAge #StoneAge #AncientHistory #Prehistoric #Mesolithic #HunterGatherer #StarCarr #Documentary