Also, the arrowhead is re-usable if the stick gets damaged (by, for example, getting broken off when the animal runs away). Once the animal is dead, you can dig out the arrowhead and use it again on a new stick. That would cut the work-time to nearly none. And, if you were traveling to a different location, you wouldn't necessarily have to carry all your arrows. You could, though, carry a lot of arrowheads in a small pouch.

The arrow head would also help keep the arrow inside of the animal, while the wooden one would be much more likely to fall out

Let's not forget that if you make a lot of arrows, you're gonna be good at it, and it's gonna be faster to make them lol

internet was shit at the time and they were playing dumb most of the time

"It's a gimmick sonny"

And they had plenty of time to make arrowheads while watching the Flintstones😂

The flint arrow heads are reusable, how many shots will it take to blunt the wooden tip?

yeah but then you just sharpen it. *shop shop* and you're done. But if the stone break! 😱

Arrow heads cause ripping and tearing on the way in. A simple point just makes a whole that can clot around the arrow. That is why bow hunters use broad heads

​@@thrillerdillAlso imagine pulling out arrow with an arrowhead, that would've been hurt if not fatal while on pointy stick, while it still hurt, probably won't do further damage

@@tomthomas3499 I had a stroke trying to read your comment

Also the tip can be continually reused

@@johnowens8992 Assuming you're able to recover it, which is not a guarantee.

@@reaganharder1480 Yes, but many times you will be able to recover it. If not, then that hunting method wouldn't have been useful in the first place. Besides, I assume there are some animals whose hides are too hard for wooden-tipped arrows to begin with, that stone-tipped arrows may be able to penetrate. Though I don't think those are animals humans would want to hunt in the first place, I'd imagine it's better to have arrows that can hurt them in case you need to protect yourself from said animals.

Stereo*

But how much flint could a flint knapper knap if a flint knapper could knap flint?

Yeah, they tested the time with a guy who's never worked with Flint before. They'd have spent a lot of time and gotten good at making them well, and quick. Plus, its not like they had super limited time. You couldn't really go wandering around after night fall. So you could spend several hours after the sun goes down in the cave by a fire, just making arrowheads for tomorrow's Hunting.

@@kharnthebetrayer8251 And that's how we lived before Netflix. Sheesh.

Having the arrow become lodged so that the target either can't pull it out or has to enlarge the wound to do so is also a great advantage.

Why am I so reminded about Rosie Jones?

You'd be surprised how hard it can be to cut through a tree depending on what type of wood it is - hardwoods do take longer to cut through, and you don't want to force it in case it disrupts the course of the chain. Also, pro tip - never use a chainsaw on a palm tree. Not unless you like cleaning out the chain and the guide for an hour or so afterwards...

Grant stopped aging.

They don't say they made them for decorations. They say that having the (Technology) in this case the arrowhead would have been seen as 'bling' and impressed the cave ladies. Because you were more advanced. 😢🎉

I bet you had issues with it considering you didn't understand what they were talking about

With that caliber - a few or even a couple of bullets and fraction of a second

Just read channel description and it turns out this channel is owned by Banijay, and I read a comment on an episode on Banijay Science where someone said that Banijay now owns the rights to season 5.. Makes sense.

@@daemonburns-waight2421 You arent alone in being confused... They have been buying up the rights to a lot of things but I cant really get a grasp on what they are doing* with them? Also why put mythbusters on two separate channels? One of which is completely absent of their branding? What even is there branding? Somebody make Banijay make sense to me.

Falling into the rabbit hole of Mergers and Acquisitions, this _is_ an official channel operated by current rightsholders; Banijay bought Beyond Productions (the producing company of the show, other than Discovery) in 2022

Adam said too many bad things about Jamie.

​@@Okurka.They had beef?

The tendrils of Jamie's moustache reaching out to embrace his former colleague

I would say they actually retract from the show. Thank god you can skip it on youtube.

It's the same as Rosie Jones in a quiz panel.

Historian here with an answer. There's a reason he is an archeologist professor. Archeologists actually wonder why ancient people did things the way they did them, instead of taking preconceptions at face value. You should try.

This could be just him tricking them to do "field experiment" it is. I know professors who would waste no time if they were to be asked a question to myth busters. Such material can be presented to students to show them some actual life results

​@@notfeedynotlazyI want to ask you as a professor. Isn't it wrong to assume usage of stone arrows by nowadays findings of stone arrows. Even if they've used wooden arrows we wouldn't know because they would have decayed

@@notfeedynotlazy Asking modern hunters or medieval historians would have been a good idea. Archery hunting is a living craft that far better represents, and it's not hard to understand that the difference between a needle bodkin and a hunting broadhead is the same as between a stick and a flint head.

@@skilletborne Amusingly, I happen to be a medieval historian _and_ into medieval-style archery, and trust me, in my experience, half of my medieval archery colleagues (including a couple who also happen to be hunters) have no bloody idea of that difference.😀 There are too many memes in the world of medieval archery aout the relative performance of those types of arrow heads. From people having weird ideas (in _both_ directions of error) about a broadhead's capability or lack thereof to penetrate armor (not just metal armor, irrelevant here, but also including heavy leather, including that of thick-skinned animals), to people thinking a bodkin would be "useless" to fire at an unarmored animal (spoiler: if it can kill a man-sized mammal behind armor, it can also do so even better when there is NO armor). And yes, all those are things I've heard other archers say. So maybe it was a better thing that he asked _them_ instead. They, at least, actually put the theory to test.

U do realize that it’s a family friendly show (including children). Pretty sure the mythbusters knew the likely result. The point was to show science in action. Also they literally said all ur points.

@@tonkey2005 where? They don't explain physics and do experiments without following the scientific method... What kind of teaching is this? That's why the American kids prefer to be popular than learn: "more fun and show and less science and learning"

@@jleal666 well they do follow the scientific method, at least in a rough sense and made for tv, they hypothesise there is an advantage to the arrow tips (the "myth"), they then research the proper way to make these arrows, then they make experiments (shoot arrows with and without and measure penetration depth and accuracy, btw they rarely show all data points), they analyze the data (stating minimal better penetration and no clear accuracy advantage with tips) at the end they report the results and conclusion, saying its unclear wether stone arrow tops were common since wood arrows dont survive as long, as well as stating stone arrows likely better at wounding animals leading to a quicker death and higher chance of successful hunt The show never had the purpose to go in depth about the physics behind the results. Btw the weight of the arrow tip is likely negligable compared to the force applied by the bow as well as penetration due to sharper edges of the stone. So there wasnt really a need to explain specific physics as the results depend on many factors. And on many occasions they quickly mention and explain in a kid friendly way laws of physics, especially if they can be used to explain surprising results or seemingly dont apply to specific things, in which case they also explain why that law isnt applicable in that scenario, like for example newtons laws during the can u blow wind into sails from ur own boat. Real science is pretty boring for the most part and not great for tv and the show did a great job at getting kids to question the world around them and gave a glimpse at how to do scientific experiments. but it never acted as if they were a physics/ science show that goes in depth.

And in some cases you can tell how much Adam an Jaime didn't like each other... Never noticed when I was younger

That's most TV shows back in that age. Dragging out episodes to cramp in more ads. Just like some youtubers do now. Maybe nothing changed in the end.

​@@MaRiORuIz1984 yes thats just sad

You still havent moved on from your ex lol

​@@marjohnbuncio2782projecting mate?

It’s fun

they reached the conclusion that the arrowhead made a bigger, deeper wound. in the black paint myth they did a proper control by preventing the bias and doing a blind test with the light paint, the fact that Adam wears glasses shouldn't be a fact because there are players that use glasses, finally they reached the conclusion that it helps significantly in reducing the reflected light, i don't know what to tell you, its as cientific as it gets.

That fact that an actual archaeology professor supposedly asked this question actually blows my mind. Dude has _no_ business teaching anyone how to do anything but flip burgers...

@@ao1778 dude, you are missing the point harder than Grant was missing the tree with most of his bullets. If you think that "asking Mythbusters to 'test' wether stone arrows are better than sharpened sticks" is NOT the same as "teaching a LOT of people why stone arrows were made", then you have a lot of burgers to flip in your future.

a) because blowing things up is fun? b) because what you believe to be unnatural behaviours often are not so unnatural. I don't quite remember them testing torture methods but in one episode, and after that they decided not to do it anymore.

people like you in fact can live only in suburbia...wow

"Unnatural behaviours" You've gotta be one of the most clueless and sheltered humans 😂

IKR; they're not even muslim.