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@Ur2ez4me81 11 сағат бұрын
What if you dropped it at the end? Lol
@kerriefearby9542 Күн бұрын
A young Phil Harding 😂😊😅
@amiramirtha2491 2 күн бұрын
What is this
@aonghusmor333 4 күн бұрын
Good to see videos back from you!
@user-ug5sb6qg1u 4 күн бұрын
I just wish I could find a good video of someone making a mold and casting a bronze spearhead, the old way. There are like five videos, at best, of anyone casting one at all and none that follow history.
@imperatorcaesardivifiliusa3805 6 күн бұрын
It's good you kept a log of the events.
@pcoristi 6 күн бұрын
Great idea to bring back this kind of hands on knowledge -- never know when we might need it
@metaldiver 6 күн бұрын
Nice experiment😊
@estherlwhittle7568 17 күн бұрын
Why is the sound volume so low? I have turn the volume up really high to hear the sound. 😮😮😮
@6Alpha-yankie_novemberdy2n 19 күн бұрын
Nice
@trulsdirio 20 күн бұрын
I always imagined them being useful for letting a big animal bleed out and that seemingly works pretty well. With some of those large animals they might have encountered that seems like a pretty clever tactic.
@kg30004 20 күн бұрын
Living history
@rayfairall4126 Ай бұрын
Interesting! Thanks I've learnt something then :-)
@rayfairall4126 Ай бұрын
G'day James, love the video. I was directed to it by a FB post. The posters I think claimed that you were using an actual Bronze Age mould. You suggest that you've made a replica. I studied Metallurgy in the 1970's and also did a bit of metal mixing and casting with Copper/Tin alloys. I was surprised that you are using a Bronze mould to cast a Bronze product. To me this is counter intuitive if both are made of the same composition Bronze eg 86% Copper, 14% Tin. They would have the same melting temperature. Can you help me out here?
@ancientcraftUK Ай бұрын
It’s a replica mould based on an original, (would be very risky otherwise!) and it is the same alloy composition as the axes cast from it. Original examples seem to be made of an alloy consistent with tools cast from them too. The key is managing the temperature of the mould and liquid metal neither can be too hot!
@MrSludov Ай бұрын
I want to be your boyfriend... exquisite delicious man.
@DaneStolthed Ай бұрын
The spearheads are much smaller than I would have guessed.
@trulsdirio Ай бұрын
They might also work well as a draw knife, which would be really useful for debarking and shaping bigger logs.
@BoandDottyaviation Ай бұрын
that place was terrible😥all my classmates were talking in the night and i had like no sleep at all.. bruh
@alangknowles Ай бұрын
Perhaps the folk were wearing their jewelry and escaped the fire.
@flaviendaguise7120 Ай бұрын
This is amazing!
@Joetech-tb7wd Ай бұрын
Good work Doc
@twodogshawkeye9968 Ай бұрын
The only reason I would move to the uk is to have access to all that flint
@larrypratt3076 28 күн бұрын
I use to get mine in South West Texas in the 70s
@seanarthur2001 Ай бұрын
The technique the solutrean’s used is similar to Clovis “over shot” however it’s a French term “outre pase” (hopefully I spelled it right) that the goal was to send extreme thinning spalls and flakes at the beginning of the knapping process to preserve the width and length. They proceed to do this to get flakes diving into the middle which result in bifaces with 1 cm thickness. It’s extremely dangerous technique because the chance of breaking it is high but omg does it produce such elegant and effective tools.
@joker0206 Ай бұрын
Thoroughly enjoyed this. Amazing video quality both in resolution and content.
@armandbourque2468 2 ай бұрын
Only a,theoretician with time to wastewould build an axe haft in that way, when forked limbs are available everywhere. Why do europeans never look to other neolithic cultures?
@HighWealder 2 ай бұрын
The blade cores look similar to the obsidian cores developed by the Maya and Aztecs, from common technological ancestry.
@bigoldgrizzly 2 ай бұрын
Just a random thought.... would mesolothic, or neolithic, folks who happened across tools from an earlier age, have been tempted to rework them with their more 'modern' methods ..... up-cycling, so to speak ?? I wonder what their thoughts might have been 'critiquing' what they perhaps considered to be 'crude' work
@ancientcraftUK 2 ай бұрын
There are a few examples of this happening, though it’s quite rare and the reworking is usually quite basic. Interestingly there’s an Iron Age burial from near London that contained two Mesolithic axes. The burial was closer to today in time than it was to the axes by three fold!
@bigoldgrizzly 2 ай бұрын
@@ancientcraftUK I found a polished flint axe head in the mid '60's that had been retouched very nicely at the business end, most likely in the same 'era'. I lent my entire collection to a small local museum when I left for college but never got a receipt for it and the curator popped his clogs. Some years on I tried to get it back but could not prove ownership so there it stays :<(( They still have a few of the items on display, mostly mislabeled. Re. the iron age burial...superstitions and beliefs regarding long passed ancestors or tribes might well have been prevalent at the time, and might have lent some mystic mystic value to their artifacts.
@aonghusmor333 2 ай бұрын
Cool stuff!
@sjinfinity 2 ай бұрын
The flakes coming out elegantly is very satisfying to watch
@senkuu_ishigamii Ай бұрын
They look so nice to cut with
@dwightupton4520 2 ай бұрын
Those few carbon chips would have been created in a forest fire possibly.
@angelaracovita4526 2 ай бұрын
Really ? Thouse ppl built the piramides and ...this is all we know so far?
@user-ug5sb6qg1u 4 күн бұрын
Those things happened thousands of years apart.
@steveclark5357 2 ай бұрын
I too let the stone tell me what it wants to be, it just seems the way
@steveclark5357 2 ай бұрын
you explain the process of lithic reduction very well sir, very well done
@steveclark5357 2 ай бұрын
that is one damn fine spear you made, now I must make one, great work mate
@steveclark5357 2 ай бұрын
very well informed video, thank you
@JanStokholm-ms5wq 2 ай бұрын
Fantastik wow👍👍🦌🦌🦌
@rekharao699 2 ай бұрын
Excellent video to learn about metal smelting.
@DaveTalksDogs 2 ай бұрын
Maybe a stretch, but couldn't the sickles have first been made for harvesting grass for grass goods? Sleeping mats, clothing, structures, all commonly made from grass or grass-like plants. It seems plausible to me the tools could pre-date or even have precipitated the use of the cereal grains- maybe even accidentally replanting the seeds at the site of work and starting the cycle that way
@jacobsimanek 3 ай бұрын
Damn the depth of research required to get a dialogue that nuanced and punchy is so impressive. Even more incredible that so much wasnt explicitly recorded; this makes period accurate recreations essential capstones to this research. Aside from testing hypotheses, demos like this bring the information to life, fostering public awareness and appreciation of the topic. Dirty hands and clean editing, big ups to you and your team.
@ancientcraftUK 3 ай бұрын
Thanks Jacob! It’s just my partner and I who make the videos, but we very much put quality over quantity. It’s not the way YT wants channels to work, but it’s our way.
@gileswilliams3014 3 ай бұрын
Comment for the algo
@tao.of.history8366 3 ай бұрын
Haha, I see a frog on that wooly rhino bone (@ 6:25mins), with a lighter etching of an alligator or pelican (something) to its left. As a human figure though, those bell bottoms remind me of the chalked human figures where the huge deer outline is carved into the wall.
@OscarFranklin-uu7hg 3 ай бұрын
Can you imagine the controversy when that forward-looking Bronze Age woodworker said "Blow this, I'm not spending any more time looking for an elbow piece, I'm going to MAKE one!" :)
@jn1083 3 ай бұрын
I did not know heat treatment of gold was a thing.
@gustavderkits8433 3 ай бұрын
The bias toward male use in meat preparation damages the archeological method. Handaxes were so useful that they must have been used in preparation of plant material, as steel knives are today. Recent studies show that the majority of calories in ancient times was probably from root vegetables.
@AntonChigurification 3 ай бұрын
Can't overstate how useful and informative all your videos are. Hope to seem more lithic content!
@davidevans3227 3 ай бұрын
thankyou for sharing this.. so interesting.. how about when showing the art in the caves some clever computer person could give an outline of the shape? the red dot is helpful, but i still struggle to make much of it.. thankyou again for these videos.
@JesseP.Watson 3 ай бұрын
That's made me chuckle... I visited Tievbulia (?) a couple of years ago and wandered all over that outcrop looking for the "axe factory" pin pointed on Google maps, I actually made a video with that making part of it... I scoured all the pits and found nought but sandstone and so decided it was a misplaced marker... Now I see it wasn't a pit I was searching for, it was the whole ridge. 😂 Well, you live and learn!
@sstvost9 3 ай бұрын
Really enjoyed this! Very informative and engaging.
@davidevans3227 3 ай бұрын
lovely looking wooden bucket
@davidevans3227 3 ай бұрын
oh my god.. this is wonderful! thankyou 🙂