11 episodes
Living in the Stone Age Oxford University
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In this series of 11 short films Experimental Archaeologists, Oxford University Lecturers and Bushcraft specialists demonstrate a range of Stone Age crafts, skills and technologies as well as art and music. Each 5 minute film can be used in the classroom to focus on a particular technology. For further information and more Prehistory resources for teachers visit: www.ashmolean.org/education/learningresources
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Stone tools
William Mills shows the range of stone tools early humans created for different purposes
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Environments of the past
William Mills shows how all the technologies interact and how early humans used their environment and their ingenuity in their everyday liv Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
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Art
The Living in the Stone Age team create a piece of artwork on deerskin using natural pigments made from charcoal, chalk and ochre.
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Music
Iain Morley talks about evidence of music making in the Stone Age and makes a bull roarer.
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Fire starting using flint, Iron pyrites and fungus
Manse Ahmad uses King Alfred Cake and Horse hoof fungus, flint and Iron pyrites to raise a flame.