The Minds of Stone Age Toolmakers

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The Minds of Stone Age Toolmakers

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13 жыл бұрын

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How did Stone Age toolmakers make the leap from stone flakes to a sophisticated hand axe? Emory archeologist Dietrich Stout recreates prehistoric stone tool making techniques to study the evolution of the human brain and mind.

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@terp60 3 жыл бұрын

Because these videos are for educational purposes and produced by an educational institution, they should be professionally captioned. The auto-generated captions on KZfaq do not satisfy the ADA reuqirements

@eliminator7ful 2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps these videos do not satisfy ADA requirements, however, you should understand that the ADA requirements make no sense. The world wide web was conceived from it's outset as a medium only for sighted people. It was a "graphical" interface medium. KZfaq, which show videos is also obviously graphical and at is basis designed for sighted and hearing humans. Maybe a company needs to come up with alternatives for humans with disabilities? Don't blame companies for not meeting requirements that are probably inherently silly. Companies can be created to support ADA, but when the platform is the world wide web, don't blame corporations. Blame politicians for passing silly laws.

@cliffowens3629 2 жыл бұрын

I, too, am on the flintknapping journey and it can be frustrating to say the least. I have my good days and the my gravel making days. Hope to get better.

@sticknstonesbrkbones 12 жыл бұрын

That last part where it is stated that shaping a stone tool overlaps the part of the brain that is used to create a sentence is interesting. I wonder if this means that someone with aphasia and can't say what they mean to say also can't do what they mean to do.

@Chronix74 13 жыл бұрын

Very Cool! When you are sitting on the table. with the skulls lined up to your right... the "brown" skull (the second one in the line)... which "family" does that skull belong to? Thanks :)

@sparkyfromel 6 күн бұрын

Did some stone knapping , a big thing is the material , good flint is rare some early hand axes were made with very ungrateful material which is a whole new problem by itself some Australian aborigines in the 19th century discovered glass bottles and used them with relish

@GoldenPantaloons 12 жыл бұрын

Hm, interesting thought. How that pans out probably depends on the type of aphasia. Broca's aphasia can screw up people's motor functions, so they might be unable to do what they intend simply because they can't make coordinated muscle movements. Perhaps Wernicke's aphasia distorts intentional thought as much as it does language - such that a person intends to do one series of actions but it comes out all jumbled. Seems plausible considering Wernicke's patients have trouble with sign language.

@phatphanvan1669 3 жыл бұрын

I have a prehistoric human stone ax. do you buy?

@marcwhittle9810 3 жыл бұрын

The Yanomami which have been described as a 'pre-stone age culture' make no stone tools but on occasion will find and use stone axes found from ancient Amazonian cultures. The Yanomami believe these are presents from their Hekura or personal spiritual sky clan.

@maximuslawson 12 жыл бұрын

our first tool>

@Pixel_Entriment24 3 жыл бұрын

When I was young, we went to a museum and tried to make these stones. I made one and ruined it on myself, I only touched from above, but it got worse and I had a bandage on my finger, I did not know how I felt, stupid because I tried it on my interpretation or proudly because I am a very sharp rock even though I do not have experience

@AlyxAesthetics 5 жыл бұрын

2:49

@CreativeCrazyGirls 5 жыл бұрын

Good video

@Mixerdirect 12 жыл бұрын

The is very interesting. I'm always curious about what mankind has done in the past to make tools and use them to survive. The real question is what would Bear Grylls do? haha

@JosephGibson 12 жыл бұрын

...anyone willing to show me the direction where I'll find how we got from Flint to Metals.

@phatphanvan1669 3 жыл бұрын

I have a prehistoric human stone ax. do you buy?

@brentbaldwin6922 6 жыл бұрын

I would take a boom box and a tape of "Ride the Lightning" and hope someone heard it ... and yes, I would starve.

@muhammadsmith1287 12 жыл бұрын

haha its golden:) im glad no one had used it:)

@Frandy878 13 жыл бұрын

@5tonyvvvv there are plenty of (christian) scientists out there who accept evolution as fact... francis collins for instance.. you know, he was the leader of a little thing called the HUMAN GENOME PROJECT.. he also wrote a book. i think he knows a bit more about homochirality than you do.

@phatphanvan1669 3 жыл бұрын

I have a prehistoric human stone ax. do you buy?

@codyconklin6754 Жыл бұрын

Did he just talk about that ancient tool's symmetry and sophistication and then share it was one he made? Hahaha.

@ryziemac5470 4 жыл бұрын

Check up what flint is made of. #tiny”little”creters

@rynhardtvanrensburg2187 2 жыл бұрын

Early man were very clever than the anthropologist will tell you!!! I don't agree with anything the experts say about them!!!

@imaclooser 8 жыл бұрын

you can use those fingernails as a stone tool

@daniels130 6 жыл бұрын

But they're not stone. :o

@whattalks 3 жыл бұрын

Of course, the simplest, most plausible, original stone tool is a pebble on a beach being used to crack open a shellfish... the most nutritious, brain-nutrient rich food on the planet. But let's keep ignoring that so students don't start thinking about any crazy "aquatic apes", right?

@auraweiss638 3 жыл бұрын

If you have to say something say it straight and stop being sarcastic. You dont even help people here that you seem to "want to help" by stressing what you said. I just started studying archeology and I have no idea if what you say is true or relevant or not (and you could be right), but if you write like that you just sound like a Conspiracy Theorist and I don't even want to listsen to you anymore. If you know that you are right, why dont you just write the facts in the comments instead of what you just did?

@whattalks 3 жыл бұрын

@@auraweiss638 Sorry. Thank you but I have been studying the so-called "aquatic ape theory" (the wading hypothesis of bipedal origins) for 25 years to PhD level and it infuriates me how Elaine Morgan's work (and others') continues to be completely ignored.

@whattalks 3 жыл бұрын

@@auraweiss638 To be fair, the first sentence did tell it straight.

@whattalks 3 жыл бұрын

@@auraweiss638 Let me ask you... has the course mention the so-called "aquatic ape" idea? When I did my master's at UCL it was not mentioned (officially) at all. I kept bringing it up but otherwise none of my fellow students would have ever been exposed to it.

@whattalks 3 жыл бұрын

@@auraweiss638 It is not a "Conspiracy Theory" simply yet another case of academic enculturation.

@muhammadsmith1287 12 жыл бұрын

Look pretty normal lol

@simonphoenix3789 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if the need to produce stone tools affected the growth of our intelligence.

@awhitness 13 жыл бұрын

@brockunc Your waiting for evidence for creationism? LOL. OK, can you name 1 thing that you know for a fact was not created. Example: Have you ever found a (knife, can, dog, car, bobby pin, house, car, etc.) that wasn't created, that just formed by itself? that wasn't made by someone or something else with design and purpose? The Bible says were made in Gods image, hows that? Were creators and eternity has been placed in our heart. 2 Thess 2:10-12

@flatpat 8 жыл бұрын

How can you lie to people and tell them that people were here two million years when many scientist say the earth is no more than ten thousand years old and man and woman came from two individuals. They will do anything to deny the bible because they don't want to be held accountable to their sin.

@assbread5950 8 жыл бұрын

+flatpat i laughed.

@Asuna35 8 жыл бұрын

+flatpat Stop being willingly ignorant

@tavishferris9470 7 жыл бұрын

flatpat lmao Are you trolling?

@josebracamontes2754 7 жыл бұрын

flatpat no scientist ever says that. there is no scientific evidence that points to your conclusion that earth is less than ten thousand years old. The earth has been proven to be much older. You don't accept it because it is against your beliefs.

@josebracamontes2754 7 жыл бұрын

flatpat you telling me that there were thousands of years of incest that lead to the population of humans? brothers having intercourse with their sisters. I thought it was a sin according your holy book.