Prehistoric Times

Travel back to prehistoric times as Calum Macdonald and Kerry Anne Macleod continue to bring history to life with fun facts, animations and experiments which show how inventions and discoveries from ancient times helped shape our everyday lives. Fossils are the remains of animals and plants that lived long ago - bones, teeth, shells, even footprints. And with fossils in mind, the History Hunters are on a mission to preserve a banana in a way that will stop it rotting. They also want to create a cave art masterpiece, leaving clues about their lives for friends who might stumble into their cave in the future. They'll use an old sheet as a canvas, with charcoal and red clay as paint and have a go at finger painting as lots of cave-art was created that way. In the studio, Calum and Kerry Anne make jewellery from shells and think about how pictures were painted in hard to reach places.