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What is the footage you used of the old tribes hunting? particularly the one where the animal was splashing around in the muddy water with arrows and spears in it?

Venom does not work well as poison.

Won't believe the truth? Why...seems pretty easy to believe.

"We all originate from Africa" is a theory.

Hoe agriculture 😂

Your genetics argument, out of Africa, is outdated and erroneous. We know populations outside of Africa have varying degrees of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA.

Samurai bushi carried small, heavy, throwing spikes called shuri ken and threw them as distraction , diversionary tactic, before lunging with the sword during a duel. . .but not during melee battlefield combat.

I dunno man my town used to be cold as heck in winter. It used to snow so much we'd come from school wading through the stuff. It's really warm now. Yesterday I saw a big fly on my window. Not only the fly was still alive when winter should have killed it, it wasn't in torpor, it had the energy to fly to the 8th floor where I live. About ten days ago I saw a flock of parrots. Parrots! Migrating green parrots sometimes visit my town but it's a rare occurance and it should happen in the spring.

The video part with the guy trying to chop down a young tree was laughable. You have to chop at a downward angle. Duh...

9:18 serbian miners do that job and I think as serb its backstab of our orthodox borthers....

1960s ? Ha Ha ..an Old Hindi movie has it depicted (call Utsav, the story if of vatsaayan who wrote Kaamasutra). What I am trying to say is, the Blade was definitely much older than 1960s. ..westerners may not like to hear this ..but .." urumi sword is mentioned in history as a weapon used in battle during the Sangam period, which is believed to have taken place between the fourth and second century BCE". ..guess what ? ...India was not a land of snake charmers and Elephant dwellers or living like hunter gatherers

😮Thank you very much for your time!

Fantastic description dude. I enjoy your rational arguments of history. It's refreshing to have such open discussions. The alternative new age bullshit news is everywhere.. contaminates hard scientific investigation.. most folks i see perfer the quick, superstitious answer to all their problems. 😅

BCE? You must be Jewish!

23,000 years ago, my ass! Incidentally, fill a glass with water and put ice cubes in it and notice the level of the water. When the ice cubes melt, what is the level of the water? The answer is, it is the same. Ice floats in water because there is air in the cubes. When the ice melts, the water from the cube replaces the volume in the water that the cube displaced, and the air returns to the atmosphere.

Judging by the added in clips, you have a great sense of humor, and we are about the same age.

Urmi s last ditch weapon as the last resort to keep multiple opponents at bay

Urumi means wave

There are a whole lot of lies in history, mostly from politicians

At least from the late medieval period many swords were spring tempered and even before there were flexible swords. Before the 12th/13th century though many swords were not through hardened and more akin to traditional japanese swords that don't have a spring temper but are differentially hardened and will stay bent.

Love my native peeps but they were definitely lacking in technology. Also they wiped out entire tribes such as the Eriee.

Urumi is already lost to Kalaripayat. It was flexible but not as flexible as this. They renamed the spring sword as urumi. But the present one is not the real one and not even deadly.

In my experience, a good pick mattock (similar to a hoe) is way better at digging than a shovel. Even more so if there are lots of rocks in the ground. I did a short stint in trail building. Those mattocks would bite deep into the ground. We mostly just used the shovels to move the loose dirt around. Granted, we were digging more sideways than down.

I think if a time traveler was able to go back and gift the advancements of the modern compound crossbow, a bow like that would have little issue going through plate armor at range. I've seen modern crossbows put a bolt through two or three pieces of windshield glass without issue, which is a big deal considering how hard glass is, and how much energy is lost after each pass through. Medieval crossbows failed to make good use of their design, for one the draw length was very short, and for another a lot of the energy was wasted trying to launch heavier bolts, which limited the effective range of crossbows against armor due to the laws of physics. A lighter bolt with more force behind it would have done a much better job.

Ya man ! thanks for a bit demystification.

we are not from homo sapiens...

This is really cool and informative. Great video 👍 you got a subscription from me .

Well the non portable type had enough power to do that but that's basically a small siege engine for it to have to be mounted on some type of supporting base is my hot take.

..my ancestors are not a monkey like yours..

as always: when where, who? it depends on so many factors. No definitive answer is possible

I've always wondered what would happen if one discharged them from above a hill or atop a charging horse and camel. Some crossbow bolts were quite heavy, gravity would give them some extra oomph if you fired them an elevated position. And a running animal's speed would add to the speed given by the prod, increasing the bolt's kinetic energy. Fun fact: Back in the Middle Ages people in Central Asia had large crossbows mounted on camels. They were called _zamburak_ after the Persian word for "wasp." That's where the Turkish word for spring, as in the spring of a clock, comes from (zemberek)

The trade was in iron heads, it was hafted by the buyer usually

I love the Dadao being my favourite Chinese sword next to the oxtail qing army type sabre. but I truly doubt it had any chance against a type98 or type94 gunto. especially those with polished mantetsu steel.

Some American special operations soldiers carry tomahawks into battle. Far better a tomahawk than a knife in hand-to-hand combat!

Noncense

First, not all battles take place in battlefields, where opponents are protected by armor. Secondly, if you use throwing knives, they are to be thrown, it does not mean that you are left without a weapon in your hand, you have a main weapon that you do not throw away. Thirdly, throwing knives are special knives, having special shapes and center of gravity for this. There are techniques for throwing without spinning, which guarantee accurate shots every time, if you are trained. Fourthly, the knives can be easily hidden, you can wear them under a coat for example and nobody will know. A spear, a bow with arrows and even a throwing axe are hard to hide. On the other hand, there are no medieval treatises on throwing knives because they were not for gentlemans. It is a dirty, unchivalrous attack. Let's say you are a thief in the Middle Ages and you want to rob a gentleman who goes to brothels. That gentleman has a noble education, he practiced fencing for years and the sword he has on his waist is not just for the facade. If you approach him to stab him with the knife, he sees you from a distance and is ready. So, you walk quietly 5 meters from him and suddenly you throw 2 knives at him. They don't have to kill him, just debilitating him. Now you can approach him and kill him with the knife in your hand or just pickpocket him. This is how throwing knives are used, not on the battlefield.

A good book to get a handle on recent archaelogical discoveries and anthropological thought is 1491, it provides specific data and facts that are used to re-evaluate the 'New World'.

a third lyv in poverty? how about lihv? yeah that sounds better. their axeez? whudduhpeess of shiite

3:30 Not sure I would class Spanish Conquistadors as settlers but ok .

American Indians were given citizenship as a whole in 1924. Until then, they were considered sovereign communities. They were the last people group to receive citizenship. Many tribes resisted citizenship because they didn’t want that to interfere with their customs, so the late date for citizenship was due to multiple reasons.

Looks like someone never read the european fencing manuscripts I see

It’s not the biggest lie but cool video

Which warriors? Lol Plenty warriors threw knives. Native americans did. People in africa notably the Zande.

John Styers' 1952 _Cold Steel: Technique of Close Combat_ fifth and final chapter was on knife throwing. Unlike the preceding four chapters, Styers didn't provide his readers (originally published in the USMC's _Leatherneck_ magazine) any combat application for knife throwing. other than one sentence mentioning the underhand pitch method was favored by USA frontiersman. The knife throwing chapter was arguably "candy", with the idea that if bored Marines and Soldiers are going to throw knives and bayonets at targets in competition, they might as well know how to do it correctly.

In the time it takes to throw the knife, you could close the distance and use it "properly".

Id argue most knife throws were a last resort of a mortality wounded man than as a first offense option and id say as a last resort it probably happened more than you'd think.

as an old marine corps gunny H2'H unarmed combat instructor once told me ( Santana ) never throw away a good work tool

No surprise in the fact, that a possible weapon is not utilized, because it is ineffective...👍 I have dabbled with throwing knives, and at 4 metres distance, I got good. At 3,5 m or 4,3 m I sucked.......... that is WAY too specific to be useful, even though a trown knife (full throttle overhand trow) penetrates twice as deep as a hard stab. Only having 1 chance, and then being unarmed is just plain dumb in most circumstances.

vikings would use throwing axes as a precursor to charging with main ax or sword