Who Invented The Spear & When?

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The spear is mankind's most widely used weapon but who invented it and when? Join me, Stefan Milo, as I discuss the stone age origins of the spear.
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Pruetz, Jill D., and Paco Bertolani. “Savanna Chimpanzees, Pan Troglodytes Verus, Hunt with Tools.” Current Biology, vol. 17, no. 5, 2007, pp. 412-417., doi:10.1016/j.cub.2006.12.042.
Roberts, Alice. Evolution: The Human Story. Dk Pub, 2018.
Scarre, Christopher. The Human Past World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies. Thames and Hudson, 2018.
Thieme, Hartmut. “Lower Palaeolithic Hunting Spears from Germany.” Nature, vol. 385, no. 6619, 1997, pp. 807-810., doi:10.1038/385807a0.
Wilkins, J., et al. “Evidence for Early Hafted Hunting Technology.” Science, vol. 338, no. 6109, 2012, pp. 942-946., doi:10.1126/science.1227608.
Image Attributions:
P. Pfarr NLD, Schöningen Speer VII im Sediment 1997 © P. Pfarr NLD, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
photo by Grant Mitchell, Hoplite fight from Athens Museum, CC BY 2.0
anonymous, Roman soldier 175 aC in northern province, CC BY-SA 3.0
Ovedc, Terracotta Army (34), CC BY-SA 3.0
Jononmac46, Gibraltar Skull (1)a, CC BY-SA 3.0
Didier Descouens, Pointe levallois Beuzeville MHNT PRE.2009.0.203.2.fond, CC BY-SA 3.0
Olga Ernst, Petrified tree trunk and Welwitschia (Namibia), CC BY-SA 4.0
José-Manuel Benito Álvarez (España) - Locutus Borg, Oldowan tradition chopper, CC BY-SA 2.5
Caelio, Adult male chimps in mahale, CC BY-SA 3.0
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@StefanMilo 5 лет назад

Ok, so squirrels are not bush babies but I couldn't find a stuffed bush baby at 8pm on a Friday so the squirrel had to get it. Consider subscribing if you're interested in history, archaeology and anthropology. Lots more videos on the way. ru-vid.com/show-UCZ9jWH_8tJ-Nmaj8dSQdEYA?

@saftsuse866 5 лет назад

Congrats on being first, Stefan, but 7 hours ago? Kinda cheating.

@StefanMilo 5 лет назад

Oh man, I didn't mean to steal anyone's glory. Sorry!

@christopherzantiotis 4 года назад

Stefan Milo Do you believe that Makedonians were different from all the other Hellenic states in terms of ethnicity, culture and language?

@carnagedogg4294 4 года назад

Hello,do you know anything about Humans ability to throw spears versus Neandertal and the inability of Neandertals shoulders to perform this movement.I can remember a doco saying this was a possible reason for humans to kill Neandertal,as well as intelligence and communication in hunting.Do you know recommended viewing in Early hominids and human expansion.All the best.

@Shovi_ 4 года назад

I liked the wood joke, really laughed out loud.

@nicholashurst780 5 лет назад

We're interested in the Stone Age origins of EVERYTHING

@StefanMilo 5 лет назад

Me too!

@nicholashurst780 5 лет назад

@@StefanMilo idea for an April Fools video: the Stone Age Origins of Photography

@kirstenwhitworth8079 5 лет назад

Yes! Yes, we are interested in the stone age origins of EVERYTHING. I recently saw something that suggests that many of our "fairy tales" have stone age origins (though I may have confused my eras). How the origins of stories were traced would be very interesting.

@kirstenwhitworth8079 5 лет назад

@@StefanMilo, Yes! Yes, we are interested in the stone age origins of EVERYTHING. I recently saw something that suggests that many of our "fairy tales" have stone age origins (though I may have confused my eras while skimming the short article). How the origins of stories were traced would be very interesting.

@garypowell4565 5 лет назад

Just go online and watch "The Flintstones", and you will learn everything you want to know about our stoneage relatives. YabaDabaDooooooooo

@brindlebriar 3 года назад

It was me. I remember inventing it when I was a kid. It was quite simple, in retrospect. In a flash of insight, I just picked up a stick and poked my sister with it. I didn't even realize what a momentous thing I had done. The significance was lost on me, at the time.

@Mr.56Goldtop 4 года назад

Our ancient ancestors were under tremendous pressure on the African Savannah, from other hominids, hyenas, wild dogs, lions, leopards, giant birds, and the IRS.

@MyNameisRevenant 3 года назад

Specially the last one, you don't mess the IRS!

@meisteremm 3 года назад

So the IRS has been around for hundreds of thousands of years and claims jurisdiction in another continent? Jesus, that is frightening.

@RadagastBrown420 3 года назад

Wild dogs 🐕 don't seem to attack humans.

@Pipsqwak 2 года назад

There's always been someone out for nothing but their pound of flesh!!

@Mr.56Goldtop 2 года назад

@@meisteremm They are.

@crmesson22k 5 лет назад

I would be interested in the archery video.

@saftsuse866 5 лет назад

Has a spear. _Kicks_ the attacking squirrel.

@Joshua_23 5 лет назад

use the more effective weapon stefan

@keedt 5 лет назад

He is the descendant of orthodox Croats, these guys are good at soccer.

@gelgamath_9903 5 лет назад

Bush Babies the adorable snack that smiles back until you snap its head off

@dhindaravrel8712 4 года назад

It's also adorable how you're surprised your spear can actually pierce a stuffed animal, like they're not a tried and true technology meant to do exactly that.

@TheBurdenOfHope Год назад

I remember seeing footage of a group of chimps who didn’t “walk on two legs” but whose behaviour was influenced by the savannah and tall grasses they lived amongst - they would stand on two legs extensively in order to see over the grasses and scan for predators or prey. It was “disturbing” in its way as you could see the pathways to hominid evolution as we came out of the trees and traversed the land more frequently. Amazing video Stefan, as ever.

@mcfrandy 4 года назад

Yes, I would definitely be interested in a video about when archery was invented! There seems to be a lot of perplexing and contradictory information I've come across, from sources saying that arrowheads have been found in South Africa from over 70,000 years ago and other sources that seem to indicate the earliest evidence of archery in Eurasia is from only about 20,000 years ago at most.

@HappyBeezerStudios 4 года назад

After hitting stuff with a stone, throwing a stone, building a sling to throw a stone and putting a pointy stone on a stick, bows are probably one of the oldest weapons. Used in prehistory all the way up to crossbows and firearms, in some cases even after that. Jack Churchill even got a confirmed kill with an english longbow in WWII, which means bows were effective enough to be used from the beginning of humanity all the way into modern times. In some regions they are still a widely used weapon today.

@taistelusammakko5088 8 месяцев назад

@@HappyBeezerStudios mad jack shooting someone with a bow didnt make it effective weapon

@archstanton5113 5 лет назад

7:21 don't mess with this guy!

@shark7n10 5 лет назад

Stone age archery please!....And please cover conflict between hman and neanderthals too!

@StefanMilo 5 лет назад

I'm researching the Neanderthals right now, just got some new books delivered. It'll take a while to do the research though. Expect it in the spring sometime!

@TomLeg 5 лет назад

I'm not an expert on anything, but I would have thought the first weapon was the rock. They are everywhere, you can pick one up and throw it.

@StefanMilo 5 лет назад

That's true. By my definition though (and this is only mine so it's probably meaningless), the spear is perhaps our first weapon, that we deliberately made, that is only a weapon. Things like axes, clubs and rocks could be put to many uses but the spear is a weapon first and foremost.

@cookeymonster83 4 года назад

@@StefanMilo You haven't seen me scratch my back with a halberd then.

@HappyBeezerStudios 4 года назад

You take a rock and hit stuff with it. Eventually it breaks. The broken rock has a sharp edge, that works great to cut stuff like meat. You take a pointy broken rock or a bone to stab stuff. You but the pointy thing on a long stick to stab stuff from a distance. The difference is between using a "tool" and making, building, creating one. Finding a sharp edged stone is one thing, making one from scratch a totally different task.

@DDeden 3 года назад

@@StefanMilo Ok, but, digging sticks (for root tubers) and Spears both go back very far. First a straw collects ground ants, then a twig collects underground termites, then a mouth-sharpened twig jabs a bushbaby in a hollow tree, then a Pygmy jabs a hare-sized forest antelope hidden in a hollow log, then a Pygmy jabs a forest elephant's belly, then thrusting becomes throwing which becomes slinging which becomes pulling-releasing bows which becomes trigger pulling guns and finally button pushing bombs and then start all over again ...

@oldschoolman1444 3 года назад

We don't give our ancestors enough credit, they did great things with what they had. After all, evolution is a slow process. =)

@555Trout 3 года назад

Erectus had to have had spears. They were so successful I can't imagine they could have done it without spears.

@phinhager6509 3 года назад

Pillbugs have been among the most dominant lifeforms almost everywhere on Earth for the last 500+ million years, and as far as I know, they don't use spears.

@555Trout 3 года назад

@@phinhager6509 Funny actually. However, it has no relevance to my comment.

@phinhager6509 3 года назад

@@555Trout It has strictly logical relevance, showing that success is not dependent on having spears.

@555Trout 3 года назад

@@phinhager6509 Wrong. Insects don't use tools and humans don't exist without tools. For all practical purposes you cannot define a human without including tool use. Erectus was a fabulously successful hunter for over a million years. If you think a rather slender small hominid did that without spears , well, have at it. Don't be surprised if you get laughed at though.

@phinhager6509 3 года назад

@@555Trout I'm not saying that your conclusion is flawed, but that your argument of successful, therefore spears is flawed. I might even venture to say that since we know _H. Erectus_ was not human in the same way we are, your second argument is weak, and that third argument, while stronger than the first two, is a little too simplistic too be convincing. Ultimately, however, I agree with your conclusion, based on a fleshed out version of your third argument, and the fact that other primates use spears.

@aylardc 4 года назад

Hey man, I’ve been getting 2-3 of your videos in per week for a few months now. You’re always a fun and informative part of the rotation that checks entertainment and learning boxes. I usually feel like I’ve spent my time well watching your videos, enjoy them, and can’t wait for all the great content to come! Also congrats on being a papa! It’s the best.

@christopherellis2663 5 лет назад

The meat 🥩 would likely have been air dried for later use. The organs would have been eaten fresh.

@StefanMilo 5 лет назад

Delicious!

@DDeden 4 года назад

guts used as bait in waterside snare?

@vasilileung2204 3 года назад

@@DDeden that’s assuming early humans have a disdain for eating internal organs as some modern humans in the west do. In a lot of cultures today internal organs are eaten as widely as the meat, and fetch similar if not higher price. Definitely not throwaways. We can’t use modern western culinary habits to assume early humans thought and behaved the same.

@DDeden 3 года назад

@@vasilileung2204 Good points, but mine was that some internals are less valued than others and those could have been used as bait for critters like turtles, raccoons, crabs/lobsters, crocs that may have been far more useful. Imagine a bloody spleen tied by a thin line and pulled along the shore by a hidden spearman. A two-for-one buffet.

@eacalvert 5 лет назад

Would love an archery video! I have a recurve myself. Not a compound but a real bow

@StefanMilo 5 лет назад

Sweet! Archery video will come at some point, don't worry!

@eacalvert 5 лет назад

@@StefanMilo OMG omg omg the op actually answered me on RU-vid! *Does fan girl squeeze*

@stevenobrien557 5 лет назад

@@StefanMilo did you ever get around to this one?

@gordonyork6638 4 года назад

Adorable snack. LOL A person once told me she wouldn't eat a lamb be cause 'They we're too cute' I asked if she liked octopus, she got a disgusted look on her face and replied 'Noooo, too ugly' I replied 'oh so you eat only mediocre looking animals'

@Rhiannonganon 2 года назад

I love the fact you use a little comedy within educational videos, makes it fun to learn and easily sticks in your mind better than if you just explained things 🥰

@aadeshchandra 5 лет назад

I like the style of your delivery, quite different from other RU-vidrs. Keep them coming.

@EdnaStudios132 5 лет назад

I love videos like this, very interesting. I have an anthropology class about human origins this semester, and I'm looking forward to learn more about how early tools shaped our fancy monkey brains.

@EdnaStudios132 5 лет назад

@@christopherellis2663 dork

@StefanMilo 5 лет назад

Thanks, lots more to come. I used to love my anthropology classes at uni.

@tinobemellow 2 года назад

Fancy, but not superior. Just an upgraded version, really.

@iammrbeat 5 лет назад

You might just be even more cringeworthy than me, and you know how cringy I am. :)

@StefanMilo 5 лет назад

Praise indeed!

@lucidd4103 4 года назад

The laugh when you succeed in stabbing that plushy tells everything about the profound hunter instinct we have :D

@rameyzamora1018 5 лет назад

Chimps observed using spears as humans do is something I hadn't heard yet - the more we observe the animal and plant kingdom, the more similarities to ourselves we see. It's jawdropping. Thanks for this good video, you two.

@amirghorvei1126 5 лет назад

Hey Stefan, just wanted to say that I discovered you from Operation Odysseus and I'm loving your content now and since you participated. I'm a classics student myself, with a huge interest in archaeology. Great mix of information humour, if you're ever in Canada let me smoke you up!!!

@StefanMilo 5 лет назад

Sounds like a plan!

@hicoteo 4 года назад

I don't condone the use of weed but I imagine it useful when required to sweep tons of dirt away from old bones with a paintbrush. 😁

@antondavis33 5 лет назад

Just discovered your channel, great video just subscribed

@dicynodon1018 10 месяцев назад

This was the first video I watched and it hooked me since, I always end up returning here haha, I love this channel so much, thanks for the awesome work!

@davidriggs538 4 года назад

I was hoping you'd also mention the atlatl. And, yes, we'd love to see a video on the origins of archery.

@AJMerrick 5 лет назад

1.46 nailed that pronunciation

@StefanMilo 5 лет назад

GCSE German finally coming in handy.

@jackshumate7874 5 лет назад

When did the Atlatl come into use ?

@littledikkins2 4 года назад

A very long time after ''pointy sticks''. To my knowledge, those are Early modern human tools as Neanderthal's spears were for stabbing and too heavy to use a spear thrower with.

@pauldefillippo8490 4 года назад

The atlatl is Neolithic tool I don't think it shows up in the record till about 8,000 years ago

@esben181 3 года назад

According to Wikipedia it existed 21,000-17,000 years ago, i.e., before the Neolithic.

@davidfoster9073 3 года назад

For your archery. The first fletchings on arrows were leaves left on arrow shafts. One led to the other...What came first; the bow & arrow or bows used to start fires?

@michaeleager4635 3 года назад

A pointy stick may have been used defensively to create distance if not to kill, prior to spear use for hunting. We'll never know, millions of years before present. But a club was probably our first weapon

@adrianrafaelmagana804 3 года назад

2 years later I am requesting that you do make the stone age origins of the bow and arrow, which I'm almost certain you have already done so. Love the videos Stefan, thanks for sharing.

@alexbowman7582 4 года назад

Can’t help remembering Blackadder Goes Fourth when Blackadder says to Baldric you know Baldric when I joined the army we were fighting fuzzy wuzzies with sharp sticks.

@CrownTown10 3 года назад

Would like to see episodes on: archery, fire-making, pottery, cooking, salt making/collecting, flint finding, and paleo climates. Really appreciate your format, tone and research on your subjects. Thank you!

@nmarbletoe8210 2 года назад

salt! yes let's hear about salt it's delicious and tradeable

@anonymousalias.5059 5 лет назад

Wish this was longer, maybe part 2?

@StefanMilo 5 лет назад

I'm really torn on whether to make longer videos. Not sure whether to do it. Moving forward I'm trying to give each month a theme so that the videos are related and provide more detail. Also coming soon I'm hoping to have interviews with other youtubers, maybe even some professors and PHD students to provide longer content. First one of those should be coming out the end of this month.

@mcanyildiz1996 5 лет назад

"adorable snack"

@IsmaelNxala 3 года назад

I lived near Kathu my entire child hood, not far from Kathu("Ka-Too") pan, is the oldest known man made housing caves named the Wonder-Werk Caves, also dated to about 2 mil years ago. And they found the oldest fire site there as well. Please do more vids about these people?? I believe they are ancestors to the Koi San, and the Griekwa culture is their modern descendents, I think.

@lesleeg9481 3 года назад

Definitely interested in the Stone Age evolution of archery!

@Miamcoline 5 лет назад

Thats incredible! Good job contextualising and everything!

@StefanMilo 5 лет назад

Thanks very much!

@Miamcoline 5 лет назад

@@StefanMilo and a-thank you!

@malkomalkavian 3 года назад

Oh, I watched this already. I had forgotten. Cheers Stefan :)

@phyllisneal8687 Год назад

Great talk. Yes, absolutely continue!

@useyourbrain5261 2 года назад

You're such a goof. Love it. Thanks for your work dude.

@marvinbecker388 3 года назад

You really are quite good at handling that shaft, Stefan

@passingwind2681 4 года назад

You are getting better,keep it up.

@Thrashdragon 5 лет назад

Archaeologists note that, much like an attendant at an erectile dysfunction convention, it’s difficult to get rock hard wood.

@downeastprimitiveskills7688 5 лет назад

I would suspect mounting a rock, (sharp) to the end of a wooden shaft would be considered rock hard wood.

@Thrashdragon 5 лет назад

If it fossilized it would be petrifying

@steveanston4906 5 лет назад

Its not that hard.

@jerrypeppler1484 4 года назад

Thrashdragon Wouldn’t it be, “attendee”?

@charles8589 5 лет назад

The side clips of you playing with the spear were hilarious. Loved your analysis on this subject. Definitly do the arrow video :)

@mitchellskene8176 5 лет назад

I'd be interested in the archery video. I always assumed that the bow and arrow technology was only invented around 20,000 years ago, likely somewhere in North Africa or the middle East. But recently I was doing some fact checking for a fan fiction story I was reading, and discovered that there's evidence that the technology is around 70,000 years old. So I'd definitely be interested in that video.

@ob5443 2 года назад

I need that video on the Stone Age origin of archery

@RobertKaucher 4 года назад

Interesting points to consider... I see what you did there.

@BenLe42 2 года назад

Great video, and great to see you in SA! That's home. And what a rich prehistory we have! Would love to meet and have a chat in you are ever in Johannesburg

@lesleeg9481 3 года назад

Totally want to see your research on Stone Age archery!

@matiasrondan 4 года назад

You're my favorite archeologist mate, better than Indiana Jones. Thank you and congratulations! I'm a fan

@danielgallagher8830 5 лет назад

hey,IK it might be might hard and there's probably nothing left (IDK I'm not that good at research but if there's anything to go on, could you do an episode on our last common ancestor with chimps.

@StefanMilo 5 лет назад

That's definitely going to happen. There's actually quite a few contenders and one of things holding us back is actually the ego of archaeologists. Everyone wants to be the guy who discovered the last common ancestor, no one wants to be the guy who discovered the first chimp.

@foxhound963 4 года назад

So can I just make the first move and wildly claim it to be a primitive chimp?

@foxhound963 4 года назад

Then they will debunk me right?

@alsaunders7805 4 года назад

That's what everyone wants to know / discover.

@mzeewatk846 5 лет назад

for the sake of accurate taxonomy, it's not a "pointy stick". it's a "pokey stick".

@nobody8328 3 года назад

Nonono. Pokey things are used to unclog bowls. Personally, I would have selected Sharp Stick, but then I like alliteration 😊

@ullavanderschaaf4911 2 года назад

You are the best, keep on your good work, and your humour is adorable by the way 👍🏽😉💕

@FurryManPeach 4 года назад

your martial prowess is most impressive!!

@BelRigh 5 лет назад

Id LOVE to see you and BillLudlow do a long series of colabs...

@a-bloke-named-chris9805 5 лет назад

You deserve more subs, great video. I also love the locations where you film the videos

@StefanMilo 5 лет назад

Thanks, I always try and make it a little more interesting.

@salchaw 3 года назад

please make another video about the arrow and bow also another about boats and sails .

@kev3289 3 года назад

Those hunter/warrior skills are on point. 👍

@laurencevanhelsuwe3052 4 года назад

Vid on archery? Yes please!

@gordonyork6638 4 года назад

Erectile Dysfunction Conference, there's no wood. Hilarious! Your viddies rock. Keep em coming.

@jeffbell2668 4 года назад

" just no wood" probably why all the frustration go stay something.

@Benjamin1c 5 лет назад

Yes! Archery video would be awesome

@larryvienneau 4 года назад

Yes please I would like to see archery!!!

@jasonhayward6965 4 года назад

i can tell you Stefan the whole story it is really interesting. originally our species actually had bark boats and they used them to get around , over time a piece of straight stick was used. the straight stick again over time development a point it was worked out that the point could be used to stab something. you have to imagine that most weapons or tools were called hitters like clubs or clubs with a heavier top or rounded piece of wood that was used. this new way to stab something was then used over time more people carried stabbing weapons/. however the actions were still only stabbing. it was one day when a group of men chased another over the rocks. the man being chased run down the small hill and the men came to the edge and in a last ditch efforts one of the men threw the stick at him. it had never been done before and everyone smiles but the stick missed ,however everyone knew that throwing a stick could happen and then over time the sticks were straightened and practised to throw , and thats how the spear came into being what is is today.

@loquat44-40 4 года назад

Yes, please present what ever you know about the origins of archery.

@socket_error1000 4 года назад

Part of this reminded me of the old "Star Wars Kid" video, lol. Great video and interesting theory.

@TheDeadlyDan 5 лет назад

One of the two things that we do and nothing else we've found does, is throw over arm - like a spear. All other hominids used a spear like a halbred or a pike - stabbing and thrusting. I"m waiting for them to come up with a full skelton of a Denisovan to see if they could or couldn't throw over arm. I suspect not.

@spatrk6634 2 года назад

just long stick alone is great weapon. without it being pointy long sticks break, and sometimes they break at the angle that you are left with sharp end.

@1020LAStep 5 лет назад

Very interesting-thanks for the new knowledge.

@deliezer 5 лет назад

Yes, very interested in Stone Age archery

@LiMaking 5 лет назад

This is my favorite history channel! xD

@apf3290 3 года назад

That first squirrel stabbing sequence was gold

@brom1857 3 года назад

Would be very interested in both an archery video, and one on the origi s of the spear thrower. Is it known whether Neanderthal could throw a spear, like sapiens, or whether he would have to use it up close when hunting, as a stabbing weapon? I have heard many Neanderthal remains show evidence of healed broken bones, which might suggest the latter, if true? If Neanderthals came into conflict with a band of Sapiens (very likely, knowing our species!), then if we had throwing spears, (especially with range-extending throwers), and they just had stabbing spears, there's an inequality of technology, and only one winner. Repeat many times, and you explain the extinction of our rivals.

@gregl1547 5 лет назад

I’m interested in the archery episode!

@lesleeg9481 3 года назад

Awesome video!

@mwosc2 4 года назад

Do the archery video!

@planzed463 4 года назад

Love your videos!! Thank you.. hilarious end scene on this 😂😂

@mpetersen6 4 года назад

Could the spear have possibly originated as a tool for spearing fish. Most likely a reasonably straight sharpened stick.

@JanetStarChild 4 года назад

That actually makes a lot of sense, considering that early human ancestors more likely adapted to life around water as oppose to the plains.

@JanetStarChild 4 года назад

@@MrEuller88 No, the Aquatic Ape hypothesis is actually quite sound. You just have to do legitimate research on it. It's the Savanna Ape hypothesis that makes no sense. There's no way that proto-human creatures could have survived in such a hostile environment. Plus, we already have a primate that evolved on the savanna; the baboon. It is nothing like a human and in fact resembles more like a wild dog.

@ManMan-ko7ll 3 года назад

@@JanetStarChild You couldn’t be anymore wrong.

@JanetStarChild 3 года назад

@@ManMan-ko7ll Alright then, book your next vacation at an arid savanna, I'll book mine at a tropical beach; we'll see which environment is more inviting.

@jzjzjzj 3 года назад

@@JanetStarChild dumbest argument ever you arent an early homonid idiot 🤣

@lokitus 5 лет назад

The humor alone is priceless...

@roncorbyn507 4 года назад

Excellent!

@lochlannach9256 5 лет назад

Do a video on bow and arrow. It is a bit mysterious how this rather complicated weapon system seems to have been invented independently by many cultures - or could it have originated in one place and been spreaded around the world?

@kimnenninger7226 5 лет назад

Great video.

@tectosagos9327 5 лет назад

Excellent, as usual. Ta very much!

@Leman.Russ.6thLegion 4 года назад

I have killed two animals with spears. Besides a rifle, they were the fastest kills I have made on hunts. I used two different spears, Samburu for a Turkey, MAA Europen spear for a wild Boar. Both from a tree, both animals died before they could run 14 yards.

@ralphbabbitt 3 года назад

How about trapping...snares, deadfalls etc.? When did we do that first?

@nmarbletoe8210 2 года назад

great question. it is far more efficient than most forms of hunting nowadays, which is why it is largely illegal... and thus often forgotten

@dominictarrsailing Год назад

Did you do a video on archery? My theory is that the first bow an arrow was a toy. It's really easy to make a toy bow and arrow. (Of course, slightly harder if you have to make your own string. (Come to think of it, my mother did actually show me how to make string from scratch, thanks mum) but actually making a bow good enough to be a vaiable weapon, and being a good enough shot to kill something takes a lot of practice! However, with a childhood spent playing with a toy bow and arrow would make you quite dangerous. Fun fact: impressed with San bushman poison arrows, I once tried to find thier origin myth. Surely there is a story about how some mythical warrior made the first one. Sadly, I couldn't find it. But I did find the Greek one. Hercules made the first poison arrows using medusa's blood after he killed her. BTW, the word toxin comes from the Greek word for arrow!

@erinmorash9334 Год назад

As someone who was a teenage girl at one time, I don't find the image of a chimpanzee teenage girl creating a stabbing weapon surprising at all. The ferocity and inventiveness of a moody female tweener knows no bounds...

@traciw71 3 года назад

Love your videos. I had to laugh while you danced with the spear LOL

@MrCmon113 4 года назад

The utility of a stick with a pointy end is so obvious that I don't think it makes sense to prefer any possible origin in the absence of concrete evidence.

@KipIngram 4 года назад

Ok, that's slightly morbid... Poor little stuffed squirrel. :-) Another great video, Stefan!

@kipmay5101 3 года назад

I enjoy the pedagogical style and salty humor of Stefan Milosavljevich.

@atrahasis3899 5 лет назад

There is little question about this. I did. I look good for my age. I also developed the ability to speak and access the internet over the last million years or so, but enough about me.

@mikevargas809 5 лет назад

excellent, thank you

@DDeden 4 года назад

Women had digging sticks which doubled as short spears/throwing sticks, and skinning flakes; men had long strong thrusting spears (later throwing spears) and daggers and hand axes & stone flakes.

@iamtheroadwanderer Год назад

Awsom!

@jayao9758 4 года назад

Yes! Archery please. Love the jokes folded in. Keep it coming.

@HappyBeezerStudios 4 года назад

Not that far off. Crows are using sticks and even makeshift hooks (by working twigs or bending wire) not only to get food out of holes, but also longer hooks that can get the food out, if the one they have is too short. They are not only using tools, but making them. Sea otters use stones to crack open clams. Vultures drop stones on eggs, pugs use bark for digging. Octopus build walls and doors for their lairs The idea that our ancestors and relatives can use pointy sticks is simple compared to that.