I get so engrossed in these videos and find them utterly fascinating. We take for granted even the most basic tools available to us since the advent of metals, forging and mass production.
Love that you bring an antler tine with you in the stone age "knife kit" with you in the back country so you can always touch up, redress and sharpen stone blades on the move. Nice work Donny! 🤙🏽💜
I really appreciate the simplicity and multi use aspect of these tools, they dont take up much space and there's no composite parts that can fail. I've used similar blades when im out and about and they're really effective. Great video and im looking forward for more!
And this ladies and gentlemen, is why we evolved these brains. Because we were born to look at trees and rocks and turn them into engineering kits and fancy weapons with minimal effort. Stone age humanity is one of my favorite examples of animal ingenuity and nature's accomplishments. Makes you feel good to be on the same species as the guys who figured out how to make these thousands of years ago!
As a retired chef, I geek out about knives. I’ve been watching to see a video like this ! Donny, I live in New England what’s the best stone to use ? Man Thank You so much for this video Donny ! Love what you do !
I love the long form videos. honestly my favorie channel on youtube. Growing up near the flint river we used to knapp blades and tools also found many native artifacts broken pieces of pottery, arrowheads etc. This brings me back.
I love his content, some of his videos are great to use in my social studies class as we learn about the Paleolithic Age and Neolithic Age to give students a more accurate idea of how ancient people used to make their tools.
Thanks Donney, inspiring to see how flint has been used thoughout our development, Living in the South Downs of England theirs lots of flint and signs of early people, wandering though the woods lots of deer , sometimes it is a glimpse into our past. Your vids enrich our knowledge of our ancestors. All best Will 🍻🍃
Experiences with history i think is best way to understand history. Ive done historical cooking and contemplating going into other making things like this. Thank you for your videos sir.
I am aware that Neanderthals passed the knowledge of how to make birch pitch, (long dead trees work for bark also) strong enough to use to attach a spear point without lashing. -By using a large empty egg stuffed with bark and a half egg underneath surrounded by mud then baked. 🇨🇦🙂
This is my second video I watched in your channel (first was the bamboo cutting meat one). I subscribe. Glad that I found your channel by accident.😁 This is what I call practical knowledge.😊
Extraordinary sir you hit on two of my favorites stone working and neanderthals this is a very informative video thank you for sharing this with us six stars brother
Donny, what are your thoughts? Did all paleo men have tool, weapon making skills, or did certain men specialize in stone tool, weapon making fir the group?
Great question and one I believe is asked often. In my personal opinion I would asses all folks had general knowledge of it. It’s pretty easy to determine that tools were used so often likely everyone had some experience. However, I do believe there were the masters that made special tools and projectiles. Weird analogy but computers…most people have a basic knowledge of them and then there are those that are far more advanced in computers than others.
Have you noticed that some looks like a shark tooth or a mastodon tooth but smaller do you think they got the idea of making them in that shape from that
I think early humans observed the tools animals had (teeth, claws, tusks) and created a version they could use. I think they Sam a giant cat with teeth catch, kill and eat it’s prey…they thought we need those sharp things!
Could you explain again why you scrape the edges briefly during the flint knapping/napping process? (Seems counter-intuitive because it blunts the edge, doesn't it?)
You are correct. I scrape or give them a rougher edge because when pressure is applied to them with a sharp edge the will just crush. I dull edge will catch the flaker and remove the flake.
I'm really curious how closely the form of your blades matches those of handaxes - I had been given to understand that handaxes were sharpened more or less uniformly all the way around (ie without a "bulb"), and that they were used by every homo species except for our own, and that the exact mode of use is still unknown. I'd be more than grateful for any insights, I'm sure I've got a lot of that wrong.
Achulean hand axe is a good example of bulbous end and sharp point. One for cutting and the other smashing. Tools are found, classified and theoretically assessed as what they do. I’ve used all different types of stone tools and overtime I build them for my needs. Some not shaped evenly, some with a bulb…case by case really.
Antlers work great. It’s my preference and widely used as a traditionalist. Many modern knappers use copper. Wood, a hard wood can also be used as well.
Through time it been portrayed that cave men were dumb but I believe that they were very intelligent to be able to figure out how to make amazing tools out of rock something I'd love to learn how to do myself
I find it really hard to understand what Oldowan, Achulean, Mousterisn etc. really IS and what seperates them. In books they show you images and put names and rough shapes. But it isn't shown how they were made and used.
Awesome display of history. I’m trying to actually go live the way of our ancestors. I’d like to find a tribe of likeminded individuals to live with. I’m sooo done with modern society. Maybe someone could point me in the right direction.
Most of that anthropological stuff has been proven bunk or fraud time and again. They never mention abnormalities and deformations from inbreeding in isolated areas or distances, or just don't think of them.
Like the video but disagree with the evolution part that not true it’s as simple as improving we are smart and have always been no evolved humans we are the same from beginning to end
