big brother in skins???

[bigpaul]

"Channel 5s "reality" show 10,000BC sends 20 contestants back to the stone age to live in caves" :www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/channel-5s-reality-show-10000-4990885

[Sunna]

back to the stone age , living in caves......


is it in devon.....

thanks bp ill tune in and tell you what I think.

[Hex]

The adverts have caught my interest, curious to see if it's gonna be anything like bear grills island

[bigpaul]

(28 January 2015, 23:59)Hex Wrote: The adverts have caught my interest, curious to see if it's gonna be anything like bear grills island

I expect it will be very similar, with usual lazy, and winers.

[Tartar Horde]

Not sure how they will handle Intestinal Worms, Lice and a life expectancy of below 35 years, but hey ho should be a laugh. They would need some intense training in Knapping and Bone point making, that's if they will allow hunting in the programme. After all the main strategy of "Stone Age" man was large game hunting supplemented by gathering. We shall see.

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12,000 BP (before present) we don't use BC (before Christ) anymore as it is meaningless would equate to the Mesolithic (middle stone age). The best site in Europe is at Starr Carr near Scarborough North Yorkshire on what used to be a large lake.

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/carin.../star-carr

[bigpaul]

there is something in our TV paper TH, one of the younger members talks about wild boars ("they were like mammoths-monstrous"), and says he managed to kill a mouse, worms and a turtle

[Tartar Horde]

Mesolithic people relied heavily on Water resources for food. Many different types of fish were harvested along with Waterfowl. The Mammoth was gone by this time, although a small population of pygmy Mammoths may have survived on remote arctic islands. If the faunal evidence at Starr Carr is anything to go by the main focus of hunting was Red Deer, roe Deer, Boar and Auroch (Wild Cattle) in heavily wooded lowlands dotted with lakes, with more open Heath/Moor at higher elevations.
The vast herds of classic Ice Age mega fauna were extinct, and the Reindeer had migrated to the Arctic tundra.

[bigpaul]

yes I have seen pictures of spoil heaps(Mizzens?) of the shells of shell fish deposited during the stone and bronze age. although as far as this programme goes they were given a deer carcass but didn't or couldn't get a fire going, by the time they awoke the next morning the carcass was rotten and crawling in maggots.

[BeardyMan]

(29 January 2015, 14:16)bigpaul Wrote: they were given a deer carcass but didn't or couldn't get a fire going, by the time they awoke the next morning the carcass was rotten and crawling in maggots.

They've been successful so far then

[bigpaul]

(29 January 2015, 14:20)BeardyMan Wrote:

(29 January 2015, 14:16)bigpaul Wrote: they were given a deer carcass but didn't or couldn't get a fire going, by the time they awoke the next morning the carcass was rotten and crawling in maggots.

They've been successful so far then

yes, it will probably turn out to be similar in nature and with the same results as Bear Grylls "The Island".