The world’s most hostile and unexplored island North Sentinel island The worlds most hostile and unexplored island is a reasonably small island located off the west coast of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and has never been explored by the modern world....
Wattle and Daub The number 1 Iron Age building material Wattle and daub were the main choices for lining walls right up to the mid-1800s when better building materials became available. It was used many thousands of years before the common era as far back as...
How to make leather like they did in the Bronze Age Leather is nothing new and has been used since people first learned how to skin animals, presumably tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago. But the early types of leather that would have been used by what people...
Tasty stone age animals you just can’t buy at the shops anymore Living in the Stone Age wouldn’t have exactly been fun or easy, with giant cave bears and mountain lions roaming the land and every task you do will be with wooden or stone tools. Everything about...
Medieval Mortar Recipe (A 600-year-old still-standing section of a castle wall, built using the method described below) This Medieval Mortar Recipe has been made the same way for over 1,500 years, with evidence of it first appearing in Britain as early as the...
What tools did our ancestors use to survive? The Stone Age in Britain ended with the discovery of how to melt copper around the year 3500 BCE, and a few hundred years later people worked out that adding tin to the mixture made bronze. After this stage the...