2:06 I'd really like to know what the greatest feat performed with a rabbit stick was. Like if God could go back in time and show me that one time a caveman, thousands of years ago, hit an impossible three running rabbit at different points with one throw, but no one was there to witness him perform, "history's greatest rabbit stick throw." That'd be cool too see.
you keep throwing around words like "technology" and "sophistication" but just keep showing the exact same tool that can be made with a rock and a tree branch, every single fucking time. sorry fam, but it being mildly useful against certain animals in certain conditions, does not mean its not primitive. this is a cavemans weapon.
Amazing! Ancient men where no less inventive or intelligent than men of the 20th century. The problem is when we compare our 21st century geniuses to those ancient ones. Today, intelligence is viewed by how well you shoot your shotgun at the bottom of your canoe.
You say that the throwing stick is *_not_* a boomerang, but unless I missed it you don't say what the difference is. If it comes down to a boomerang being designed to return to the thrower then most traditional Australian Aboriginal boomerangs didn't do that. So I don't see what the difference would be.
Thanks! I made my own rabbit sticks having heard of them but never seen one, and was surprised at how easily I could peg the base of a sapling at thirty to forty paces. Had NO idea, though, how far engineered these things were or what kind of range they actually had. Big eye-opener!
Amazing stuff. I started to "do" catapulting. And I find that I need to throw a few EVERY day. Then, bit by bit, I see real improvements. The men here must have thrown a thousand times. Beautiful!
Crazy that 2,000 years ago, North American natives were making throwing sticks, while European natives were forging chain mail, building onagers, and making stained glass windows. Steel tools were already thousands of years old.
progress is usually dependent of geographic factors , access to resources , ie.ores , trade routes to diseminate information and excess time and resources to give time to experiment and develop ideas. Aboriginal Australians never developed the wheel , there was no need or purpose yet many become fabulous egineers , mechanics, doctors, etc with modern education. I really think we should not damn certain populations due to their historical position when it came to industrial complexity , its a bit of a rascist myth.
@@farnarkleboy Regarding natural resources: "Currently, Australia has the world’s largest resources of gold, iron ore, lead, nickel, rutile, uranium, zinc and zircon and the second largest resources of brown coal, cobalt, copper, ilmenite, lithium, silver, tungsten and vanadium." Did many of them really become doctors and engineers, though? "There are less than 400 Indigenous doctors in Australia, which is less than 0.5% of the more than 100,000 doctors registered to practice in Australia. However, Indigenous Australians make up three per cent of the population" -and that's with laws that mandate preferential admission to post secondary and preferential hiring, and massive grant funding to back them. "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people represent 3% of the Australian population, but just 0.5% of total engineering students. We need to work together to improve these statistics to address reconciliation, increase the diversity of inputs in the engineering profession and open our eyes to different knowledge systems and perspectives." -Good luck with the 'different knowledge systems' building your bridges. Look at how that's going in South Africa, where universities were torched because they couldn't explain how the shamans called down the lightning! #ScienceMustFall Australia is known for it's diversity of animals, but none of them were domesticated!? Even the Greenland Inuit had dog sleds 4,000-5,000 years ago, which also hearkens back to the access to trade routes. For as remote as Australia is, it pales compared to Greenland. And while the Inuit have a good excuse to have not developed agriculture, 55% of Australia is now used as agricultural land, speaking to the suitability of the climate which was just never used.
I just received my first Shepards sling. When thrown correctly, the graceful motion seen with the Rabbitstick is evident with the projectile from a sling. Everything was elegant and kinetic back then.
