I have collected several hundreds if not thousands of hide scrapers all from one location and every time I go back I find more an more thanks for the video
You’re welcome! Sounds like a really cool site, maybe one that your local university’s archaeology program might want to check out? I’d recommend reading articles on Google Scholar on the Nobles Pond site. It is a Paleo site in Ohio also with thousands of endscrapers, sites like that can tell us a lot about prehistoric people.
Great video man, really informative and really well filmed too, it's great to see this done. Interestingly I found a scraper almost exactly the same as what you made there here in England so it's cool to see how it may have been made and used!!
@@pathwaysofthepast I recently picked up a scraper here in South Africa in the Karoo region near a place called Willowmore, a friend at Rhodes University had a look at it and dated it to anything from 15000 to 35000 bc when there was an ice age in that area. Pity we can't post pictures on TH-cam. Really enjoy your videos and workmanship.
Thank you! Nobles Pond is an awesome site and I’ll definitely feature it in its own video soon! I thought about discussing it in this one but I think it deserves a bit more attention.
@@pathwaysofthepast I spent many summers there in the field and lab. If you'd like to hear more about refitting, end scraper resharpening flakes, or just about the site let me know.
Great video! Always enjoy watching your videos as a fellow knapper. Unrelated question for you. I was wondering if you knew of any indirect percussion techniques that have evidence in the archaeological record besides small bone punches?
Thanks! Besides small bone and antler punches, I’m not aware of indirect tools that have been found. I’ve seen plenty of authors, especially discussing blade and blade core technologies, cite use of indirect percussion techniques based on the morphology of the blades and flakes they find.
Well done, you're wonderfully skilled at these recreations :) I've seen video of Native American hide scrapers hafted like an adze. I'm guessing an adze arrangement would result in less fatigue and greater control, though I'd rather carry a bunch of the smaller ones a long distance. :) Is there any evidence of either in the archeological record, or does the wood and binding just rot away?
Yeah a lot of Plains nations used the adze style. Older handles rarely preserve in the archaeological record, the handle of my replica is loosely based off a ~1,500 year old handle from the Canadian arctic/subarctic
Occasionally endscrapers like this have woodworking use-wear on them, so it isn’t unheard of. Though the perpendicular orientation of the scraper to the handle wouldn’t be the best for woodworking, I’d think.
I have collected several hundreds if not thousands of hide scrapers all from one location and every time I go back I find more an more thanks for the video
You’re welcome! Sounds like a really cool site, maybe one that your local university’s archaeology program might want to check out? I’d recommend reading articles on Google Scholar on the Nobles Pond site. It is a Paleo site in Ohio also with thousands of endscrapers, sites like that can tell us a lot about prehistoric people.
Cool video, well made! And sick demonstration. Love how you keep it 100% primitive
Thank you 🙏🏼
Would love to watch you make a big pickwick
Just met at the no coin. You’re awesome man, thanks for giving me the knapping stones.
Could you tell me what they were again? I know the obsidian but the other two I can’t remember
I’m happy you found me! You’re welcome dude! The white one is Arkansas novaculite and the other is Sonora chert from here in KY!
@@pathwaysofthepast dope thanks brother
Really enjoy your videos. Cheers from Australia.
Thank you!
Great video man, really informative and really well filmed too, it's great to see this done. Interestingly I found a scraper almost exactly the same as what you made there here in England so it's cool to see how it may have been made and used!!
Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦
Greetings!
@@pathwaysofthepast I recently picked up a scraper here in South Africa in the Karoo region near a place called Willowmore, a friend at Rhodes University had a look at it and dated it to anything from 15000 to 35000 bc when there was an ice age in that area. Pity we can't post pictures on TH-cam. Really enjoy your videos and workmanship.
Great job Silas! 👍👍
Thanks!
Love the video I hope you can explore more different kinds of tools in the future, so interesting thank you
You’re welcome! I really enjoy doing these hafted tool videos so expect more in the future!
Thank you!!!
Great job.
Thank you! 😄
Good stuff! Takes me back to when I worked at Nobles Pond and Kent State!
Thank you! Nobles Pond is an awesome site and I’ll definitely feature it in its own video soon! I thought about discussing it in this one but I think it deserves a bit more attention.
@@pathwaysofthepast I spent many summers there in the field and lab. If you'd like to hear more about refitting, end scraper resharpening flakes, or just about the site let me know.
I absolutely would like to hear more about that! Thanks Michael!
It’s feels crazy that I know some of the people who write your sources
Great video! Always enjoy watching your videos as a fellow knapper. Unrelated question for you. I was wondering if you knew of any indirect percussion techniques that have evidence in the archaeological record besides small bone punches?
Thanks! Besides small bone and antler punches, I’m not aware of indirect tools that have been found. I’ve seen plenty of authors, especially discussing blade and blade core technologies, cite use of indirect percussion techniques based on the morphology of the blades and flakes they find.
Well done, you're wonderfully skilled at these recreations :)
I've seen video of Native American hide scrapers hafted like an adze. I'm guessing an adze arrangement would result in less fatigue and greater control, though I'd rather carry a bunch of the smaller ones a long distance. :) Is there any evidence of either in the archeological record, or does the wood and binding just rot away?
Yeah a lot of Plains nations used the adze style. Older handles rarely preserve in the archaeological record, the handle of my replica is loosely based off a ~1,500 year old handle from the Canadian arctic/subarctic
would these be used for scraping and shaping wood as well?
Occasionally endscrapers like this have woodworking use-wear on them, so it isn’t unheard of. Though the perpendicular orientation of the scraper to the handle wouldn’t be the best for woodworking, I’d think.
Hidescraper? I hardly know her
😂
Hahaha 🤣🤣
thats a gunflint
Haha nope! That’s a hidescraper. I might make a gunflint on this channel one day though.