5000 Year Old Dagger Brought to Life 

Hello ! I'm a french archaeologist and I recently attended a presentation by Primitiva Bueno Ramirez who is actively working on the megalithism of Southern Spain. She described those 2 tombs you mentioned. Here are some additional elements for those who are interested (and I'm sorry because my memory is a bit blurry so I can't be as specific as I should) : -The tomb with the women is 22 or 23 individuals, 18/19 are certified to be women, 1 to be a man and for others, we can't tell due to conservation. We can only assume that they were also woman. -I liked how you mentioned the man : "let's say he's a chief", to not lose viewers. We actually have no idea about the status of this guy, he could be of a higher hierarchic status indeed, he could also be a "companion death" (probably not the best translation here). -The anthropological studies tends to show that they all died at the same time, meaning they all got killed and buried there at the same time. Though it's hard to know why, this behavior could be part of a ritual (even tho we archaeologist tend to always use the "ritual" aspect too often when we can't explain something). -We know about the cinnabar from analysis on the bones (if I remember correctly). The concentration of Cinnabar is so high that we assume that the levels in their blood was tens of times higher than the level now considered dangerous. As you mentioned, we don't know how they used it or if they knew about the poisonous effect. My guess, and simply my guess it has no value, is that they used it for body painting, even tattoos, or as a coloring agent for clothing. It would explain a permanent contact with cinnabar for the most part of their lives. I precise that the levels of cinnabar in their bones can't be explain by a single exposition, even if they would drink a lot of it in one time. -The guy with the dagger in the other tomb had a piece of cinnabar aswell with him, wich at least shows that this material had an important role in those people's lives. If people are interested, I can only recommend you to read some of the Primitiva Bueno Ramirez' works, sh'es doing an amazing job regarding south spain megalithism. You should also read about the story of the "Peña de los Enamorados" in the same area where the previously mentioned tombs were discovered. It's a medieval legend, some kind of Romeo and Juliette spanish story, but keep in mind that we recently discovered a neolithic tomb nearby la Peña with 2 individuals, one guy and one girl. The fact that the medieval story could be inspired by something that happened 4000 years before is kinda mind blowing.

That crystal dagger is really cool.

I enjoyed this little trip to Spain it is fascinating I would say a trip well spent just for the experience in itself and getting to see things you wouldn’t have seen otherwise in person even tho we didn’t see the crystal dagger in person in 3 years time when it is finally open to the public you will have the Knowledge from this trip to guide your way for the next trip

If you're on my radar. You're doing great. All that were on my radar made it big! Great work.

You are the best Will ñ.ñ

Thank you for that great report ! That are your world! Well done. 🥰 kind regards from germany. 🍀🍀👍👍👋👋🐿

Cool show 😎

Your videos are interesting

Thank you Will 🙏

That dagger was outstanding.Great Video.

Thank you so much for another interesting video Will!

Good to see someone so passionately follow their hobbies/ crafts like this.... certainly will take a leaf out of your book. Keep these videos coming, Will.... great to see such tremendous skill

Thank you Will Lord, your making of that dagger was quite exceptional and a very interesting journey with it. You're inspiring my own ancient journey, a great deal.

That’s cool the serrated edged blade/saw that’s in the museum. I didn’t know they were making saws in them times

I absolutely love this. You are amazing! please never stop posting and chasing these amazing connections.

Hi Will ☺, interesting place , pitty about the closed museum, but going inside the dolmen must have been quite an experience mate, these places do give off a vibe to those of us who are receptive enough, some people say it's all mumbo jumbo, but it's down to the individual what he or she feels at these sites, and that's how it should be. Thanks for the video mate, best wishe's to you and your's, Stuart UK.

Thank you for the adventure!

Nice one Will, very interesting place and video.

Absolutely incredible

Amazing 🤩

Absolutely love your work Will. Always interesting and educational. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and thoughts. Maybe one day you will get to see the dagger in person. Best wishes to you and family. Keep up the good work.

When I was a young man, I visited Stonehenge at midnight on a clear, starlit and moonless winter night. That was before the days of fences, giftshops and carparks. Whatever I forget as I age, I hope that experience is the last to fade. Love your work, you are an inspiration.

Thank you Will ,from Freedom Indiana

wow! that's so cool !! good luck Will !!

Welcome to my city, Seville

Thanks for the educational tour! Great work Will 👍

love the journey homie. keep on keepin on!

Please show more of the processes when yoyr completing daggers. Love this channel

Gorgeous sky behind you bud! It looks like something out of Flash Gordon

Cool thanks mate

I want you to know that this is a very interesting video for me. When I was in grade school, I lived in Central Texas on a ranch. I spent a great deal of time hunting Comanche artifacts. I thought the Comanche made the arrowheads, but I have since found out that axes, knives, scrapers etc were thousands of years old. Very interesting trip you made.

What a wonderful film. My grandmother who got me into artifacts and the past world works, sends her best regards. Good show will.

Fantestical trip Will thanks for sharing

Thanks for showing us this! Would love to see the dagger too now! 😁😁😁

Amazing vid thank you for your knowledge.

What an AH-MAZING journey. To think those people made ALL the tools and beads with only their hands AND skill is mind blowing. Thanks for making this video.

Wonderful ride through history! Thank you very much for taking that trip and taking the time to investigate the things that most people don’t know anything about.

Just awesome! I so appreciate you taking me along on this! I love the vignettes of you making the crystal dagger interlaced with your trip! Class. Yes, enjoyed very much and great insights!

Man your wild very dedicated to your passion of primitive survival your knappin skills are amazing I plan to learn how

I just discovered your channel yesterday and I am in love with your videos. Blessings to you and your kin ❤️

William, this is a beautiful handle. The workmanship along with the Chrystal biface/dagger is just stunning! Very solid piece of mastodon Ivory with alot of Love carved into it. If I may, I have a Question. I have alot of large prices of Brandon flint from the cliffs of Dover England. Can it be heat treated? I have heated large spalls under 2 1/2 inches of sand in a 1800's cauldron (filled 2/3' rds high). Slowly i bring the temperature up on a low flame to about 350 degrees Fahrenheit. (Using a kilm temp gauge). I hold that temp for 45 minutes & bring it down to 250 for a half hour & let it cool. Dam,...it cracks up & pocks every time. Will, can you give me some ideas of what I am doing wrong. I hate to waste good flint. Thank you Sir. Vince James

Hello from Spain. Sorry for the state of conservation of the sites, but in Spain it is very common to excavate and leave sites abandoned and poorly explained. You talk about cinnabar and I think it could be used as a kind of mummification or preservation since it appears in many corpses in dolmented and bell beaker burials. thanks for your videos, greetings

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Wonderful video Will, thank you for taking us along on your journey. Well done mate.

I'm sorry you didn’t get to see the dagger! It's so dissapointing when stuff gets in the way. Needless to say I really enjoyed the video regardless and you've done an excellent job of the reproduction. Have you sent photos of the finished piece to the museum? I'm certain the archaeology department would be interested in seeing it and hearing about the challenges you faced while making it. It would give them valuable insight into the history of the original dagger!

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Love your work, Will. You really live and breathe this stuff, and it shows in every frame. Few people can live out their passions and fewer still can infect others with their enjoyment of them, but you do. I’ve put in a few quid into your travel fund on your go fund me. Can’t afford a lot, but I hope it helps. I’m very inspired by your work, and it helps me with my own creative endeavours more than you know. Just, next time...please bring a jacket. You looked miserable mate

Not sure if youve done it already but id love to see you make some prehistoric sunglasses. Apparently native Alaskans used them to prevent snow blindness.

Great to be able visualize this place. It’s so interesting that they’ve now discovered that the focal individual in this tomb was a woman. Priestess not chief?

This kind of dagger where found in my country, in a very bizarre tomb.

A very interesting object provoking wonder and astonishment in many who have learnt of it's existence and gazed upon it's image within the past decade or so. Now couple that with this man's skill, knowledge and passion and suddenly we're blessed with a fantastic set of videos. Thanks for the journey fella 👍

Love that I found this channel. Your work is awesome and very informative. I was wondering, where do you get the Mammoth ivory. Great job!

Will Lord i must say Prehistoric Easy Rider is such a fit.

Did I not read somewhere they polished the two faces of the dagger? Regardless fantastic work worthy of any copper age god king!

These videos are fascinating to me. I know because I feel it, there must be other areas in your circle of knowledge. I’d like to learn more.

I see that you found some rock crystal after all.

Cool

Great video Will. On the video you said that the crystal dagger never came from there. Do you mean the dagger was made somewhere else or the rock came from a different place & the dagger could have been made there. Like say thousands of years ago someone was traveling through that area & possibly traded the rock that came from a different place. Or do you think they got it as a dagger already made. Hope you had a great journey anyway & have many more.

Too bad ypu couldn't get to see the original dagger. Might I suggest that the next time you want to travel abroad and visit some museum to see a specific object like this you reach out ahead of time. You might even want to do so through some local archeological museum in the UK, which might be able to grease the wheels for you, so to speak. I'm sure that any museum worth its salt would gladly assist you, given that what you are doing is essentially a form of experimental archeology.

Cinnabar and not red ochre?

Pretty cool. I live in the Keweenaw of Michigan and the Indians here made copper arrow heads and spear points. You can find pure copper laying on the ground everywhere here. So they didn't have to smelt it. We have the purest copper on earth here. You can find copper points everywhere here too. They made all kinds of tools, weapons and jewelry out of the copper. We also find a lot of hammer stones here. I found over 300 man made copper objects in less than 1 acre of land. Thanks for sharing. Great video as always.