Stone Age Fireside

Stone Age Fireside

Twenty thousand years ago there was no metal, no house and no fire for sale. These films ask how people lived anyway.

  • FoodWhat went into the hearth, and how we know from bones, seeds and residue.
  • ShelterRock shelters, caves and hide tents, and where people actually slept.
  • DangerCold, injury, animals and illness: what the skeletons say ended lives.

Every film picks a single site or a single question and rebuilds ordinary days from the evidence. Our facts are drawn from peer-reviewed research. Photos of artifacts and sites come from Smithsonian Open Access, the National Park Service and Wikimedia Commons. Any scene made with AI carries a label on screen.

Your guide, Wade Hollis, is an AI character standing in as an experimental archaeologist at a rock shelter entrance. His face and voice are generated. He is not a real person or a real archaeologist, and he does not represent any real organization. A human team writes and checks every script.

A new long documentary arrives every few days, with Shorts in the gaps.

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