Ray Mears is amazing teacher with great productive nature. Its an amazing video, but made me Sad though. The bird singing continuously in background and loudly reminded me my days in Britain. I used to wake up everyday as she was singing in my backyard. Britain is beautiful, blissful, well maintained and for me it is special place, as I have special memories attached with. I miss Britain dearly.

The bluebell glue is interesting: i wonder if it is necessary to chew it, or whether you could just pestle & mortar it.

@MrPicStuff You bet! Glad you enjoyed it. Ray Mears teaches many great skills, and there is something neat about using all natural materials. Take care!

I can't stop watching these. Extremely interesting

That is the coolest thing I have ever seen, I wish I knew these survival skills

so this is the gameplay of "outside". the graphics are so cool using the real engine 2.0. and its so realistic

wow ray your knowledge is beyond anything i have ever seen.

The pine resin and ground charcoal glue recipe was interesting. My paleo-pals who make their own Stone Age bows and arrows often used petroleum-derived pitch (also called bitumen or asphalt), but plant resin makes good pitch to glue stone arrowheads to shafts. One of their masterpieces was making a large stone ax with a big and magnificent piece of knapped obsidian (volcanic glass) set in a thick limb, bound with sinew and natural twine.

Favourite video!

What can I say. Amazing video! Really!

Very neat, could watch this for hours!

True, when you consider the skills and material knowledge that had to come together all at once to make it happen, add to that the fact that it happened multiple times all over the globe in isolated societies too and the jaw drops even lower !!

Hi, And many thanks. This if anything was necessary to prove stone age technology was not dumb is to look around where you are and you will see there is definite links to the tools then and now. The way they were made then as now to be used, or as best we can recognise the probable usage, compared to very similar jobs now, the way the tools were used and moved are the same, so there is no new invention there as it was designed and used 6,000 years and goodness knows how long before that. Look at anything which is close to perfection, which with any new design cannot be bettered, such as the post box, salt seller and pepper pot with holes in the top, window sills and bricks, flashlights, scissors and knives and needle buttons and woven cloth, anything we do now is so similar to what was done in many cases thousands and hundreds of thousands of years ago. this is for sure the way it was and is with stones and its use for tools. Brilliant video, and I like the way Ray has hiven the Short Straw to the other chap which needs to take more effort! Take care mrbluenun

Amazing arrows and bow

I missed what was used for the bow string? Very informative video, thanks.

I learn a lot of new things from Ray :D

Amazing and all with stone tools

Great video, but it should be titled, "Making an Arrow and Fire with Stone Age Tools," as not much of the bow-making process is shown.

Thanks for this, i'm looking forward to making the bow, arrow and fire with my dad at the weekend.

This guy is some piece of work.😀

Genuine video, uploaded from the stone age.

wow impressive. that is awesome

this helped me a lot thanks

Thank you very very much Sir. Well done.

The newest, outermost rings of wood tend to be relatively springy, which is why thin limbs can bend in the wind. The inner, older rings tend to be tough and stiff so the branch doesn't bend much under its own weight. A combination of both wood types lets the bow bend and snap back. Yew was always a popular wood but I've seen good bows made from oak and hickory. As for finding the stuff, trees used to grow everywhere. Anyone who hunts can get sinew. Flint often comes from river gravel.

nice program, Raymond !

U guys are awsome

it is amazing to think that people using these methods and tools were the foundations of all humans around the world today and look where we are today

Chewing some deer sinew at the moment, to finish my own primitive arrow. Hazel shaft, bone point, turkey fletchings.

thankyou you have finally put an end to my 4 hour long search.

Great skills, real "survival masters"

You can also start a fire via the drill method, i.e. place a stick over a piece of wood where one end of the stick touches the wood and then, with the top part of the stick between your hands, move your hands back and forth where the stick moves clockwise-counter clockwise in a drilling motion. The friction from this generates a tremendous amount of heat, and once you get a coal, you then place it with the tinder. You can then hold the tinder and coal and swing your arm side-to-side to oxygenate the tinder and remove moisture, and then all it should take is a light blow to start the flame.

very interesting

These tools probably evolved over several generations from very simple beginnings to the complex tools we see in this video. Even so, they must have still have been very clever people.

Great video >D

good job fellas

As an Englishman, I can recommend Welsh yew. Ash wood is good too, as is elm. You ideally want a bow stave that has both dark heartwood, that compresses; and light light sapwood, that stretches. Sapwood faces the target, heartwood faces you.Be warned that it takes a long time and many attempts to make a true, English bow and they are VERY heavy to draw, if made correctly. We're talking about 110-160lbs!

i had to make a stone age tool for a project and this really helped

i have found that alcohol seems to get pine sap off things. dried a bunch of pine on the top of a wood heater when i was running out of kindling and sap got all over the top. cleaned it off with metho.

10:00 I've heard the Apache and Navajo did the exact same thing with hyacinth bulbs mixed with deer fat and get the same effect for "spit glue", usually for not just fletching but also sinew-backing bows with weak wood.

Excelente mui bom

This is so fascinating! It's interesting that one is making the bow and one the arrows. I have to believe that in a larger group there would inevitably be a person that was the best arrow guy and someone else that was best at making bows. That would inevitably lead to specialization. With Ray's tracking skills I have no doubt they could bag a deer with these items (I'd bet money on it!) but they would never show that on TV because it might not be the most quick / humane kill ever and could involve tracking a wounded animal for a little ways. I think it would be an interesting case study of experimental archaeology. When did people get so wishy washy? Oh well. I'm from Texas, USA and I'm off work today, just finished my coffee. Now I going to go out and find something to kill.

Impressive

Ray Mears a well of knowledge, he truly dedicated his life to learn and own these techniques..Amazing ! I though he would not succeed with the fire making, but his perseverance Always does...!! Thanks RM, love you ( not in a gay way ..!)

helpful a lot but how much time i took me to do that

Cool

awesome!!!! hey how do u make these arrow tips?? and what bow string u used??? plzz respond :)

He was probably inspired by watching branches bend in the wind and the way they spring back when you tug on them. Ancient people weren't dumb; they just didn't know as much because no-one had ever learned it yet! Still, yeah! Respect for ancient geniuses!

As a "young generation" person, I couldn't agree more.

I have a question what can you use as a substitute if you don't have sandpaper or files around to sand an arrow stem or the bow itself?

Two fletch arrows no glue needed simple and effective.

I would have liked to see an in depth making of the bow. From choosing the wood to completion ?

@zb2247 NO it smells really good, like pine wood and pine forest.

Where could I get some of the flint tools and the things you've used here?

What did they use for the bow string

sinew, like the bindings, they likely didn't go that detailed because of how blasted long it takes to make bowstring from sinew. intestine works as well, if I recall correctly.

I had a good laugh with this sentence. There are two very different ways of interpreting it :D That is where the beauty lies for me.

but iv been wondering where did u get the small stones

well im sure as hell impressed

how did they make the string?

Is it difficult to find a branch the right size and shape to make a good bow?

this is a great video, but how did they make a string for the bow that was firm enough so it doesn't brake under a pressure

Great video, this helped alot as i was having some trouble making arrows that were completely natural. thanks!

The English countryside looks really magical.

Awesome, but arrowheads will be hard to find, other than buying them and where did he get the bow wood from??

What was the bowstring made out of?

Bow and arrow is actually pretty logic. You take and bend a stick, and tie a string on both ends. This could have been discovered in so many ways Fire bow drill, fishing rod, some spring snare traps use the same mechanics. This of cause evolved over the next 10.000 years. To using bigger pieces of wood to carve the bow out of, to using small tree and split them like shown here.

I envy your abilities..

What wood was the bow made out of?

Wow... I actually hadn't noticed that.

Flint blades are sharper than steel. How did he make the bowstring?

The first guy ever to create a bow and arrow must have been pretty clever.

You can find the wood he was using out in the wilderness. I believe that was osage orange wood...It is very well known for its amazingness with bows

Anyone know how long it took these two to make this start to finish?

You so need to make a video on how to make those sweet tools. Adze, mainly.

thats awesome, i love it , hope i could make my next bow similar to this :) what kind of wood did you use ?

Can you tell me how it is recognized or send me a video or link?

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What types of wood make good bows? I was thinking how nothing I can think of is solid enough that i'm going to stumble across in Alberta.

what series is this from?

@zb2247 there are a number of ways. One of the most common is to rub butter or peanut butter on it and then after it is gone wash your hands with soap and water.

So, what enables the bow to bend? By that I mean, did you need a type of wood or something? I know Australians used steam to bend wood into a boomerang, but what actually lets the bow bend. Also, how did you make the sting for the bow. I assume you used the fibers, but how did you extend the string for the whole thing? and finally. In what part of the world would you find all of these things just lying around to allow you to make these things? What comes from where I mean?

Can you use sap from a tree as glue

In ancient egypt, it took craftsman a whole day to make one very high quality arrow. That arrow was used by the pharoah, and now i see why.

what did he take at 6:41?

Mayonaise is the best for getting pine sap or oil paint off you or your face and hands i've lived in the pine forests for many years and i've found it to be the best plus it comes in small portable packets

what did you make the string from don't leave that part out

you could also use aceton (nail cleaner ) it just desolves every sap wax or all that sticy stuff you can't get off your hands. you can also clean your knife wit aceton to remove sap off of it but make shure you clean it with wather of saliva after, becuase aceton can be kerosive over time. but don't use it on plastic or rubber handels.

Maybe I missed it, but someone remind me. How did they make the string. I heard sinew, but didn't see where they got it.

it looked like yew with the white sapwood removed much like otzi's bow found in the european alps estimated to be 4000 years old

If u have a bendable material it will not break but not bedable or it will snap in half if u have a hollow material It will break

you know the fealing you can get when you scratch a black board? its sorta similar. i dont like the sound of stuf like that either. its kinda hard to explain but yea.

can you imagine how long this would really take

Very informative video, but one thing is incorrect: Stinging nettles were introduced to Britain by the Romans, so he should have used something else to tie the arrow-head onto the shaft with. This might still be accurate with what people in stone age Continental Europe did however, i'm not too sure. Other than that, great stuff!

Hi

I find it funny they that used a bansawed out stave whick would be one of the longer parts in making a primitive bow

Can anyone tell me maybe the technical reasons why for something as small as an adze and smaller less forceful tools why the knife sharp edge of a flint is not used? Maybe it is because it is too brittle, but just because and this is inevitable, the ways of use and exact use might be envisaged as such and such doesn’t mean a say replaceable super sharp slicer like a flint should not be used for axes and adze’. I have not seen the flint used for the heavier work and wonder why, as I have not chopped large trees with it, I have though cut 5/10 cm branches and found for that the obviously sharper edge the flint gives made cutting was only maybe half as quick as a modern knife or small axe. please help.

booyakasha987 Ray Meres shows in another video, how to make string from nettles. Worth checking out. Ray Mears - How to make natural cordage from nettles, Bushcraft Survival

And the bow string was made out of?

If I'm going to the woods I'm going with y'all