Acheulean technology and how to make a handaxe. 

Doing masters in Archaeology. Really found it helpful for understanding Acheulean tools.

Amazing documentary. I am very proud of you. thank you, for your time.

pretty sweet breakdown and nice innovative knapping ! that sure is tough rock , well done

The " mother" of all stone tools!

Interesting the technique with immobile hammer. Just have a problem, you don't go to the centrer of the piece with your flakes (you have a big surface of the initial surface of your block) Is it not only a question of cosmetic it is a question you produce an angle to open to be really efficient. If they have removed flakes as far as they can it is because first it flattened the piece and second and it is the most important it close the angle on the edge. Some biface to much resharpened had been abandoned because they were not efficient any more. You may pay more attention to the convexity of your surface of débitage and pay more attention to your platform. Of course quartzite do not work as fine as flint but with a little attention it is possible to do really beautiful pieces. Some of acheulean bifaces are really well realised. Sometimes an edge was with a open angle to facilitate the prehension. Frequently the direction of blows go from the point to the base drawing a sort of chevron pattern (but not always of course) sometimes it is simply centripetal.

Had been waiting for this since finding your first 2 :)

Thanks for a fabulous video, no need to apologize for the hair - it's more spontaneous!

16/07/1996 On a trip from NZ I stopped at Yport on the Northern coast of France. A small beach of rounded flints. Inspected the cliff for fossils, "none there or on beach, but we had a good look at all the flints. I tried knapping, and was well-pleased to get a good sharp flake first hit. Cave-man me, ready to butcher a kill!". But I had seen documentaries and encyclopedia entries beforehand, so-to-speak.

This is what i been finding this last 9 months

GREAT VIDEO

Great educational video. I have a few achulean handaxes ihave found from a old river channel. One in my picture is one of them. Can’t get ya head around how old they are and still in prestige condition.

I have found similar pieces here in North Carolina made of flint with a little quartzite I believe. I saw a similar piece specific to my find that said it was for canoe making

excellent....Thanks

Time stamp for part 2 the knapping part, 5:32 and the transforming of a handaxe to a cleaver 11:33

Over a million years and this is all the tech we could develop

Very cool 😎

I love this video! I’ve moved on from oldowan tools to trying create acheulian tools. I live in Tennessee and I’ve been trying to locate chert in the area but, I’m not entirely sure what to look for. Would you be interested in providing a video on the types of rocks sought for creating stone tools as well as the different kinds of fractures and how they are caused?

Great video! If you don't get step fractures ones in a while, then you are not trying to make stone tools :)

NICE information & Video...Great work!!! with sweet voice!! I saw near your thumb in palm cut by the stone during the demo...he he he....where is your protective gear in your hand???

Must say, looking at some of these stone hand axes sizes and lots of them lying around on our farm near Cape Town, is that these humans must have been massive creatures.

I have found another small one insitu from the river Channel the other day. It supprised me how one can be so big and one so small. I have one 20 cms from top to bottom and I have one that is 6cm from top to bottom small but symmetrical with a concave base.

Great video. Can you provide me just some info for piece you shown at 1:48 ? Is this found maybe by river or is this source rock some type of alluvial gravel type which was processed to tool ? And also this first pieces in first part of video, where you take footage of this ?? in some museum or ? thanks

I was given a bunch of artifacts (hand axes from the middle east) from a friend who inherited them from her father. Could you help me figure out around how old they are and who might have made them?

Pls mention the name of the raw materials used in experimental knapping.

I found your post extremely helpful. I am giving a lithics workshop to students at the University of Crete and would like to use your video for instructional purposes. Is that OK?

I have about a fifty gallon barrel of stone tools different things i have been finding.

I respect you for your passion. It is rare to find such people. You are a rare person on this earth. While the chipping was going on....tears appeared in my eyes shiny 💧(literally) You are so so dash haman being I am using dash because I have no word for it. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭After seeing this video i feel like.......I want to become like you. You are my role model now.

Some of those tools r so similar to some that came from my time in Arizona, I can't help but feel that people were here long before traditionally accepted by" experts"!For instance I have a projectile point,red and black obsidian, bout 3 inches long, roughly round at the end, with a crudely knapped business end.obsidian.Obsidian is always in super cool liquid state; Given enough time, that glass will reabsorb minerals, and develop a thick rock varnish.this point I have is covered!! How long does that take to occur? I have a Maya blood letter blade that came from a site dated bout three thousand years.there is no sign of remineralization

Acheulean are prepared cores for producing flakes. The whole technology is based on the flake. Everything you find in Africa and Europe you find in North America even the triangular core but they are rare.

The technology of Homo erectus

they are good but not as good as my makita 18v sds drill

I blame Saturn for the blueprint.

But not that big

Note: no examples of anything resembling a hand axe repurposed as a ball peen hammer.