Misconceptions: No metal in the Americas (Pt.1) (Sub. Español)
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- Long held is the belief that the indigenous cultures of the Americas didn't develop metal working techniques before the Columbian contact in the late 15th century.
But the truth is that the Americas also saw the development of metal working and metallurgy, and native cultures actually reached pretty notable advances on this technology before the European colonization.
Please join me in this video to explore more about these fascinating New World developments!
To learn more:
On native platinum work:
www.technology.matthey.com/ar...
On the origin of South American metallurgy
www.cambridge.org/core/servic...
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Great Video! I find it fascinating that the civilizations in mesoamerica still used obsidian more than metals despite trade routes. Why do you think this was the case?
Well, I think there were two major reasons:
First. Outside of Western Mesoamerica there's virtually no copper or tin to work, and gold and silver aren't good for mechanical work. So there wouldn't be good materials to use over there. Mesoamerica is actually quite poor in metallic minerals.
Second. Obsidian is quite good for most tools that require sharpness and other stones were quite effective to make all sorts of tools, so the use of metals wasn't that necessary in the first place. You just could do whatever tools you needed with stones and local wood.
The Americas did great work with out help of the old world. Get the Eurocentrists and Afrocentrists to show some respect to the western hemeisphere
All Eurocentrics and Afrocentrics care about is racial propaganda.
@@grandmastercrusader8724 That's completely true
Really interesting video! Always wanted to know more about Pre-columbian American metallurgy, knew about copper working and gold working but I had no idea about platinum production!
The Americas are often portrayed as a land in which all native technological developments were behind those of Eurasia, and which there wasn't any technology that didn't exist already in the Old World, but as we can see, that's completely false.
Platinum work was invented in the Americas, and Europe learned about the existence and usefulness of this metal from the natives of present-day Ecuador; although soon after knowing of this metal, Europeans would scientifically develop new methods to work with it.
This channel is underrated
It's worth it you only do vids every 4 weeks because there's a lot of depth in them.
Love the videos. I’ve been trying to do research on use of metals in weapons and tools in Mesoamerica and your videos gave me quite a bit of info. Thank you and keep it up.
Thanks for the compliment!
Wow, the part about platinum production was really interesting. I like how you debunked myths in pop culture. Keep up the great work.
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Ah yes the whole no metal myth as if the timucua or any body else eadt of the missipi didn't hove copper plates fir rituals ( let alone the Inca, Aztec and other examples given in this video) thanks for the video keep up the good work.
Thanks for the support man! Hope you keep enjoying my work :)
Thank you for these amazing videos. Love learning about history, especially pre-colonial civilizations, and these are so eye opening. Those gold pieces look sick as hell
Hope you keep enjoying my work. Greetings
You are great since I don’t see pre-Columbian history in the Americas you should have more subs
Glad you enjoy my work. Greetings!
Just subbed to Aztlan Historian today.
Good work
Glad you liked it
Love your videos!!!
Quality >>>>>>>>>>>> Quantity
Things People Like I wish the TH-cam algorithm really was that way
Is episode two of Misconceptions going to be about debunking the ancient Aliens myths about Ancient Americas.
That's in my plans, but that amount of bullshit gives for an entire channel worth of videos! :)
I thought you was an youtuber. took me long enough. I subscribed.
Welcome to my channel :)
So ppl are saying "gold isn't metal" now. Weird. Thx for rebutting Aztlan :D
Neat video, very informative.
Thanks for the compliment! :)
Certain Amerindian tribes did have bronze and iron tools but it was mostly with valuable materials and not much with armor and weapons with few exceptions have to give credit to great Amerindian civilizations like Anasasis/Pueblos, Cahokians, Olmecs, Toltecs, Mixtecs, Aztecs, Mayans, Incas, And more
Maybe you should watch Part 2. There I talk about weapons, tools, money and many other uses of metal in the pre-Columbian Americas. :)
Also, the branding of indigenous American peoples and nations under the generic term of "tribe" is just wrong, terribly wrong; as it ignores the complexity of the native politics and philosophies under which the ancient Americans organized themselves
Iron? I mean, for bronze ok, but iron is a new for me.
@@Daniel-um6vy Indeed. Cold-forged iron, but iron nonetheless
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@@Daniel-um6vy Thanks for your support!
Awesome video. I plan on making a video debunking myths and misconceptions about Medieval Europe.
Glad you enjoyed it!
And I'd love to see that video. Medieval Europe has been subject of really gruesome distortions in the last 300 years, all in an effort to depict Medieval Europe as a time of absolute ignorance and misery so the regimes of modern Europe could justify their most unpopular policies and practices :(
Although mainstream scholars don’t go by these myths and there are people on TH-cam who made videos about these misconceptions about Medieval Europe there are still people who believe these misconceptions. I will do a video on this topic in the future but I have other videos planned
@@grandmastercrusader8724 The same happens with American native cultures, all the time :(
At least you don't have to fend off Alien Astronauts believers as much as we do. Good luck with those videos my friend!
It’s not just ancient astronaut theorists you have to be worried about. There’s the Afrocentrics, Eurocentrics, Old World Defusionist, and Atlantis theorist.
@@grandmastercrusader8724 Honestly I worry more about Mexicayotl and Uasikamak supporters. Van Sertima, Winters and Heyerdahl are minor nuisances compared to Castañeda, Argüelles and Osorio Olazabal. Only Sitchin is worse
Either this guy has a really impressive English vocabulary, or he writes it first in Spanish and has it translated really well... I can speak basic Spanish, but I wouldn't know the equivalent words for things like "myriad" and "plethora"; I'd probably invent something silly like "muchas tipas" or "una gran variedad"... Anyway, I'm very impressed by this guy's English; it's better than most of us gabachos!
Very informative
Very good video 🤗
Glad you enjoyed it :)
I am watching this video in 2021 so I think that the info is a bit outdated. Only a few weeks ago a new study came out showing that the copper culture in the great lakes was even older than previously thought placing them among the very first cultures to work with metal, being as old, or older, than the start of metal working with copper in the middle east
Another interesting fact about working with Platinum in the Americas is that Platinum has a very high melting point, and the Spanish also had difficulty melting the metal with their techniques. So what the native Americans did was develop the process of sintering to make platinum artifacts with powdered platinum.
Sintering and powder metallurgy was later improved and it is now an important metal working technique for industrial applications.
@Gabriel Bruno Parreira I see you know your stuff. And you're right
When I made this video I used to most recent research available at the moment, and this area of research is a pretty dynamic one, as new discoveries happen quite often; which is great, as it helps us to understand the past a lot better.
I read the study you mention, and I thought about this very video, so I hope people who watch this keep looking into this topic, as the research will keep revealing new info in the years to come.
@@AztlanHistorian Haha. I am only slightly informed on this because of some presentation I had to for a class in university.
But yes it clearly shows on your videos that they were well researched and based on the latest information. Really good job so thank you for making it.
But I did notice that the video was a little old so I figured I could leave the comment just in case someone was curious to learn more and in that way they could be directed to the latest information we have about the subject.
Probably should also have mentioned that I saw the article about this new study in Science Magazine.
@@gabrielbrunoparreira5670 And I appreciate your contribution to the community :)
Hope you keep supporting my work!
Cool thanks for making this video
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent Work! I'm Ashamed I used to believe some of these things .
Glad you enjoyed the video :)
And don't be ashamed for not knowing something before; remember that what's important it's to keep learning!
whats the music playing at the begining
Native Americans have to the coolest cultures
👍
You know it's authentic when the first thing you hear is a wooden flute.
It's a well-established cliché after all
Noice!
Wait a minute they did use metal.
Of course they did. This video is addressing a misconception about native peoples of the Americas: The idea that they didn't use metals until Europeans showed up. So I show how wrong that idea is.
Greetings