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Solutrean culture heavily valued there tools by evidence of “sacrificial blade caches”. Some of the most beautifully thin lengthy points were found that were over 12 inches long! Producing blades that were thin, long, and masterfully pressure flaked is extremely difficult and arduous. I’ve tried many times and broke many but the challenge is master level for bifacial point reproduction.

Awesome historical documentary well done!

Awesome, good job man the arrowhead and the information. Collector from Missouri.

great info.

your content deserves 100k views first week, but of course that's not the world we live in

Fascinating! You've inspired me to try making one myself!

Great job as always!

It’s amazing how effective that really is! Id love to see a comparison to a knapped guilford axe.

I got to see the prehistoric adze quarry on main island of American Samoa. It's in the headwaters of Vaipuna stream near village of Leone (leo-ngee). Also the bedrock grinding polishing bowls called "foaga" (foh-ahn-ah). The ones I saw were on the banks of stream beds of the villages of Amaluia, Asili and Afao at west end of Tutuiuila. Slippery Rock just south of Leone.. Also on the beach at Faga' (fah-ngah) on the north shore island of Ta'u (tah-ooo). The basalt rock at said quarry has been found in far away parts of Polynesia and is of very fine grain. If you visit AmSam go to the National Park Service visitors center in Pago Fagatogo (fah-ngah-koe-ngo) and a ranger can give you directions. I did a home stay for two months in village of Amaluia. Look up on Google Satellite maps or Google Earth of American Samoa islands to view these spots I mentioned (street view is also of these spots).

Very nicely done. How many hours do you think it took to grind the adze?

love it! finally some different styles of tools!

Very cool!! I’ve wanted to try my hand at ground stone tools. I haven’t knapped in well over a year after I lost my touch. Might be time to get back into it. The only complaint I have about your videos is that I wish you could make more.

Outstanding!

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very similar to the square axes from neolithic europe , nice work !

I am guessing that there were some kind of rotary systems that turned large flat stones, and I believe these stones were made with a slightly more sophisticated technology... but I can't prove it. I could only assume that someone clever enough to Knap stones, would also realize the basic physics of a makeshift flywheel. There have been large stone wheels found at some sites and some claim that they were animal driven grain grinding stones. I would just like to think that there is a more timely method! Great show man!

Great video. Little tip from experience here, but if you go to your local creek and get sand to use as a grit while grinding it makes the whole process go twice as fast even if your grinding on sandstone. I found that out and will always do it that way from now on. When ready to polish you can just wash the sand off your sanding block or get a smooth stone and polish the edge without sand which i have found to work the best.👍🏻

Excellent video and great information

Nice!!!

can you do a couple videos/series on eastern woodlands style toolkits?

Thank you for explaining and showing the techniques. I always enjoy your videos.

Beautiful adze. The stone blade you made is just like the ones I used to find along the Scioto River in Ohio. Thank for showing start to finish!

Good video,... now where will we find you in the ice? Did you also make his Knife sheath, Bow and Arrows, Quiver, Shoes, Clothes, Back Pack?

I find solutrean style points in pa made from aluminum oxide aka corundum any chance you have ever worked with this material and tried to make a point? I have a lot of rough corundum if you would ever like to try let me know id sacrifice a piece lol.. I know it's controversial but I believe I have found evidence that the solutrean made it to the east coast of North America.. the corundum is so hard they were using a lot of abrasion and heating techniques to shape it ...many saws and drills..my theory is this material is to difficult to flake but they made great points and they seemed to have used abrasion to creat the shape or preform then went in heated the edges and pressure flaked..?? They were also making effigy stones and beads and pendants I've located several quarry sites in s.e PA check my channel out for more info ...Awesome Work!!👍

I can appreciate the work with the primitive tools. .

Great explanation!

I love your explanations! I have read so much about the topic but I am always hungry for more.

You are ignoring the theory outlawed by mainstream archaeology that South American peoples first colonised the eastern Pacific, then Polynesian arrived and usurped them, wiping out most but not all of the people with South American genetics. However more evidence is coming out to support this theory. Because Thor Heyerdahl advanced this theory, who was a citizen anthropologist, academics hate on it due to jealousy of a non-academic interfering in their sphere.

I live in Denmark and are fasinated by those points. Make a lot of them myself.

I doubt you have ever been there

very interesting

People on Nuku Hiva, French Polynesia told me that there was another Civilization on the island Before They Settled There . European Historians Hate This Local Knowledge , and are Teaching the Young Islanders , The European Version of History !

I enjoyed this content and you have a nice narrative voice.

Thank you for an informative video. One basic theme to history is: people got around!

I wish I had about 500 lbs of that obsidian that you’re knapping! I have no such quality stone available to me!

Isn’t it possible that the south-American plants’ seeds travelled by sea, on their own? Or who knows, by air, through marine birds?

Multiple return voyages. Where to and from do you think? Thanks for the video 🥝🇳🇿

Great information we'll presented. You sir are a scholar

wery good! interesting!

The plot thickens. People want the story to be simple, but we are complicated. Maybe some went direct to Sth. Am. Some called in at Rapa Nui. Some came back West bypassing Rapa Nui. Some returned via there. Four different possibilities and any or all of them could have happened.

Polynesian are not the first people the oral tradition states that clearly

This is really interesting. I heard cassava/yuca/manioc came from Africa with the slave trade to the Americas. It seems like that can't be correct.

highly appreciated......history of the technique while watching it in practice!

I've ALWAYS wanted to learn flint working. I even named my daughter Ayla after the main character in the The Clan of the Cave Bear novels. What a beautiful, relaxing location to work the flint. I'm sure the type of location for this type of work goes back 10s of millennia for drinking, cleaning the tools or maybe finding material that has washed down stream from other deposits. I'm glad I found you on Instagram to come here for videos.

Nice, putting it on after the coffee brews. Just gonna slap that like button before I forget later lol

Yes. They left their giant, stone faces in Southern Mexico. They also left the Polynesian rat, the Polynesian chicken, various tools, and concepts.

I was hoping you'd drop some dialogue onto a class. I think it would be great to see you on a Rogan or Rinella podcast. Keep up the timeless work.

obsidian trade in southwest is one of the most interesting archaeological studies, and it provides way more information about migration routes,... I wonder if there is any rapa nui obsidian in the united states... Love this stuff! thanks for the info and the lessons!

Really interesting thank you. I had to look up manioc which is Cassava in my neck of the woods, if you have a sweet tooth like me, try and find a Filipino restaurant and order some cassava cake(it’s a pudding not a cake) it’s beautiful. I think a lot of lay people underestimate what great seafarers the Polynesian people were, and the same with different cultures and peoples around the world. Great example of Napping too, I remember seeing a doco I think on experimental archeology and a surgeon in the UK I think and they found that the surgeon felt more control and having to use less pressure using flint or obsidian I can’t remember, but I think it was a flint blade and they used a pigs carcass to stand in for the human, it was really interesting, because ancient people’s have been shown using trepanation to relieve a head injury.

so happy to see a new pathways video!