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description: As a lecturer of prehistory the British archaeologist James Armstrong felt he was born in the wrong century. He day-dreamed of spending one year in an authentic Mesolithic village 9000-8000 years ago when the North Sea was dry ground and people hunted and lived there. The Mesoilithic is a 5000 years long period that started at the end of the last Ice Age about 11 000years ago.  His idea was to prove that prehistoric people were as intelligent as people of today and strongly felt that they were underestimated. One night some strange dressed people entered his bedroom which he shared with his wife and small boy out of the house.  The Armstrongs lived close to the North Sea and to James' surprise the beach was much further out than the day before before the sea level started to raise when the ice melted.  As they started to walk along endless stretches of soft sand, James realized that his day dream was about to come through. His wife Jennifer argued that they were victims of a plot arranged by his university colleagues and that their 'guides' were actors pretending they did not understand English.  We follow the Armstrong family from their first meeting with the villagers and to Jennifer's surprise they all looked healthy and well nourished until she reminded herself that they must be English.  They learn the language, find good friends, and apart from James who is eager to return home to present the bits and pieces he has collected as archaeological evidence of his stay in an authentic Mesolithiv, Jennifer and the small boy are reluctant to leave.  During the stay she gives birth to a baby girl,and the question if the child is several thousand years older than her parents or that she biologically belongs in the 21th century AD. Before the family leave to return to their own world, the message from the Shaman is that the baby will be brought back to the village if she is not happy. 
title: A year in a Stone Age village: A time travel adventure