experimental archeology is one of the most fascinating fields of science in the entire world. watching this, as he's chipping away the rock, we are hearing the sounds of human history. it is incredible...
I’m an old war veteran, apologies for no great skill with words. It’s a bit difficult to express how wonderful, to me, these videos are. My great grandfather was the blacksmith for our family, made tools and wheels. He wasn’t great in the gardens. Plus, apparently, our ancestors are from Wales; so, I’m feeling a double whammy, considering my personal history. I haven’t had these feelings often, deep and appealing, much appreciated. Thanks again…from an OLD anesthesiologist, retired in the US.
What's also beautifully shown here, is even back in the stone age you would have had a person (teacher) showing someone else (student) how to do these things. A person teaching a person just like in the video. Truly awesome!
This is so well done. Why can't the big outfits do anything close to this quality of work? No BS, no hype, but great content, a great presentor, and experts who aren't asked dumb questions. Dr. James Dilley's channel (AncientCraftUK) is also excellent. Very understated, but great content.
You forgot no Francis Pryor making everything about worshipping the ancestors or some other ritual. He thinks bronze age people think bronze smiths are wizards and east facing roundhouses was so they could worship the ancestors each morning as they get up... or as anyone else would think bronze age people thought the bronze smiths was a craftsman making tools they need and east facing is so you have light inside your roundhouse in the morning so you can see what you are doing.
@@JETWTFI cannot make out your point because of the incoherence of your sub-standard writing. Are you saying that he should not have reported how the ancients buried their dead?
@@boxsterman77I understood the point perfectly. The point is Francis Pryor tends to romanticize the ancient societies and use a lot of flowery language for his fantastical views, whereas other archeologists tend to be more pragmatic and direct about their interpretations of ancient finds.
This whole video is soooo amazing! I love the history of the copper mine and I love how he was showing how to create the axe blanks. Thank you for uploading!
This was fascinating, seeing history told through such processes is such an endearing way to connect with our ancestors. Thank you, I really enjoyed this documentary. I'd love to see more prehistoric archaeological process especially.
The friendly rivalries and endless banter is what made that show timeless. It's the Top Gear of archaeological tv: they got it right and did it properly, so everyone else will always be measured by the standard of Time Team.
In dentistry you take a wax block and carve a tooth as part of the process of understanding tooth shapes, etc, so my thoughts would be they carved intricate pieces
@@johnstevenson1709 Hmm, the more you learn every day. I guess it can also be a cultural thing too, I'm from the US and the same term can have different definitions whether in the UK or the US. All I have ever referred to as pebbles is the smooth river rocks that are smaller than about 1 Inch and everything larger I have referred to a river rocks. All the way until about the size where you cant pick it up by yourself, then that becomes a boulder. I have had the pebble, stone, rock, boulder conversation with many people, all in the hopes of finding a worthy definition of what classifies each. I wish to keep this brief so there are terms that I have not used to define the discussion and I wont go into detail about my findings but I assure you that this study has been oober scientific and I have stubbornly resisted the simple route of looking up the definitions... its more fun that way c:
I didn't realize this was 58 minutes long. Ho-lee! They finished up the axe part and I was like "that was a neat video". NOPE. 50 more minutes left! Sweet!
I find myself spending a lot of time wondering how humans lived 10K+ years ago. Thank you for showing some of the technical details of how our ancestors made their tools.
Sat watching the wax sculpting part and going full "artist brain" like, "okay but does using tools to carve the wax work? Because if I needed to make a complex wax figure, I wouldn't just use my hands, I'd try something like an awl or a fine chisel, possibly experiment with warming the tools..." I kind of want to see a crossover video with some skilled modern wax sculptors now to see what they could make while limited to only materials and tools available in the period.
I'm not any kind of artist, but just as a human who appreciates working smarter not harder, I too was watching thinking that I know they used bones as needles for sewing at this time, so they had sharp little tools...that work much better than fingers. I mean they MADE an ax! Why would they make that tool then stop using tools?🫤
@nem447 ...I'm not expecting "a Picasso" (not least because Picasso was primarily a Fine Artist focused on oil paintings and occasionally large sculptures, and as far as I know didn't make jewellery?), I'm just saying there are tons of skilled people in the modern day who could have helped make a more effective proof of concept because the techniques haven't changed that much in this case. Get an expert in sculpting little metal creatures like Trish Carden in and the results could be fascinating (plus old school Warhammer nerds like me would love it!).
@@KateHoldenA woman who likes Warhammer? You must get multiple proposals every time you go gaming. 😊. Btw, Picasso did make jewelry, I think mostly for personal friends & family. He also did plates & ceramics.
It always amuses me when people question how humans could create the Pyramids and Machu Picchu where there is astonishing levels of stonework that only "lasers or aliens" could have possible made at that time and I'm like dude theres a whole pre historic epoch literally called The Stone Age, that lasted half a million years where humanity learnt the art of engineering stone. This was a great video. Thanks
Perhaps if you kept the beeswax in a pot of fairly warm water, it would be more malleable. Return it to the pot to soften, as needed, when it becomes too stiff and difficult to work.
Really really captivating, y'all had the inner me wound up well. Good people doing good show. The caveman was a nifty critter, if one contemplates the evidence. I should know, all of us know. Complimentary not competition..🎉
When you see things daily your art of the subject is easier to learn such as the mold or drawings, Your know it's right as you reproduce it's imagine Thanks for the learning experience
I stumbled across a piece that as far as we have found looks to be a bronze ancient 'lost wax art process', sculpture from west africa or, so im told. Its really neat looking. Reminds me of a Do-do bird with backwards knees, strangely enough. Idk thought i would share. Could possibly be hundreds to thousands of years old and im not even sure where i aquired it.
That council carpark meeting with the Engineers must have been wild. Council: "So we want a carpark, routine stuff. just check the ground is solid." ... Engineers: "So we took a look and you're standing on a Bronze age copper mine" Council: so... no carpark then :( Engineers: "No. No Carpark."
I always find it amazing that someone at some point thought I wonder what happens if I mix these two metals together, or whether it was a complete accident because someone put the metal into the wrong pot while it was on the fire
I know, right?!? What possessed them. At it had to be in the right proportion. Just a smidgen of tin. Which was usually found far away from the source of copper.
What implements were they using for taking the crucible out (or manipulating any of the pieces in the forge really) of the fire as in here they are using iron tongs 🤔 bone maybe? Doesn't burn as easily as wood perhaps?
hmmmm....well probably you could just pick it up with nicely formed stones to be honest also...plenty of ways to come to think of it given the intelligence of our ancestors....forget I said anything 😅
Pretty good actually. You had bands like " The Rolling Stones " , they had Stones Ginger Wine and occasionally got stoned on weed , summer games like 5 Stones and in winter Curling ......Downsides ? The occasional case of Kidney or Gall Stones ......
Maybe people came to the site as nomads? It could have been a seasonal thing, following deer and the people knew the site as they went there every year?
You don't think that a metal mold like this ax mold was used to make e.g. wax cores rather than casting bronze in directly? To use a mold liker this to make cores whould make it quicker to make clay molds. Do you think that they used sand casting as well?
I once saw one of those survival show where the runner up was a woman who was a professor who studied the same things as you girls. She put all her knowledge to the test and was a hair away from winning the whole thing. I think it was one of the seasons of Alone.
I could watch Miriam work with her hands all day long. Chloe and Miriam working that furnace like goddesses was pure feminine beauty. Very nice grand finale I’m sold. Never seen her before this but I can’t wait to watch more archeology with Miriam.
This was good, but the title is very misleading. It should have been "Stone age fabrication methods" or something like that. There wasn't any in depth analysis on day to day life, social structures, living conditions, etc.
Ah, so that's what it was ACTUALLY like. I'm so glad we invented a time machine to document everything plus found video footage of that period, so we can say it with 100% certainty...
All very interesting. Native American people were making these tools when this country was colonized. There’s a resurgence of the art throughout the country. It’s astonishing to see how truly advanced these tools can be. They were not crude, in skilled hands. In certain ways superior to their modern counterparts.
That’s not Anglesey (at the start)!! They’re knapping flint on the Carneddau mountains above Llanfairfechan. Anglesey has no such mountains. Anglesey is just across the Menai Strait from where they are. They do then go to Bryn Celli Du which is on Ynys Mon (Anglesey). Surprised they didn’t notice the sea separating it from the mainland when they crossed the bridge!
There were no tin cans in the bronze age neither were there metal tongs. How were the crucibles manufactured and the tubes from the bellows to the furnace? Re the axe, how was the shaft and the hollow for the blade crafted?
Or watch primitive technology this guy has done loads of similar things. But you can just use a stick to lift in and out obviously they have to use certain modern things because health and safety. Crucibles you can use clay for that
Gonna go straight to the fart jokes, but watching the degradation of her air pumping technique on that forge every time the camera showed her was hilariously beautiful
you could go and talk to the first nations of north America if you want more recent information on what life in a stone age society was like. they would be the closest people we have that can be considered experts after all
good but title is misleading. they go past stone age and stay in the iron age which is not what the episode is suppose to be about. also the people messing around with the beeswax need to talk to actually crafting people to figure out how to best handle the material.
experimental archeology is one of the most fascinating fields of science in the entire world. watching this, as he's chipping away the rock, we are hearing the sounds of human history. it is incredible...
I’m an old war veteran, apologies for no great skill with words. It’s a bit difficult to express how wonderful, to me, these videos are. My great grandfather was the blacksmith for our family, made tools and wheels. He wasn’t great in the gardens. Plus, apparently, our ancestors are from Wales; so, I’m feeling a double whammy, considering my personal history. I haven’t had these feelings often, deep and appealing, much appreciated. Thanks again…from an OLD anesthesiologist, retired in the US.
My great grandfather was a blacksmith. I get it.
love me some experimental archeology
wasn't expecting to see you here, i like your foxhole content, i started in october and now ive got about 210 hours in the game. Small world.
What's also beautifully shown here, is even back in the stone age you would have had a person (teacher) showing someone else (student) how to do these things. A person teaching a person just like in the video. Truly awesome!
This is so well done. Why can't the big outfits do anything close to this quality of work? No BS, no hype, but great content, a great presentor, and experts who aren't asked dumb questions.
Dr. James Dilley's channel (AncientCraftUK) is also excellent. Very understated, but great content.
You forgot no Francis Pryor making everything about worshipping the ancestors or some other ritual. He thinks bronze age people think bronze smiths are wizards and east facing roundhouses was so they could worship the ancestors each morning as they get up... or as anyone else would think bronze age people thought the bronze smiths was a craftsman making tools they need and east facing is so you have light inside your roundhouse in the morning so you can see what you are doing.
@@JETWTFI cannot make out your point because of the incoherence of your sub-standard writing. Are you saying that he should not have reported how the ancients buried their dead?
@@boxsterman77I understood the point perfectly. The point is Francis Pryor tends to romanticize the ancient societies and use a lot of flowery language for his fantastical views, whereas other archeologists tend to be more pragmatic and direct about their interpretations of ancient finds.
@@mattskustomkreationsaw, but without Francis you don’t get Mick being frustrated with him and giving him crap. 😂
Thank you for this outstanding presentation. The ingenuity of our ancestors confounds me beyond words.
This was most interesting I love watching experimental archaeology! Thank you!
This whole video is soooo amazing! I love the history of the copper mine and I love how he was showing how to create the axe blanks. Thank you for uploading!
This was fascinating, seeing history told through such processes is such an endearing way to connect with our ancestors. Thank you, I really enjoyed this documentary. I'd love to see more prehistoric archaeological process especially.
Misogyny in inaction
@@caroleminke6116a change from the normal misandry?
I really want to be an experimental archeologist.
This sounds like such a dream job!
Excellent. Thanks 👍🏻 that axe unmoulding brought a little tear to my eye!
furnaces like this were still in common use when In was a boy throughout northern Nigeria.
Miriam is such a lady, great presentation by her.
All I kept thinking was, “What would Phil say?”
Me too !
"aaargh, look at that beautiful flint, brings a tear to the eye that does".... or something like that 😁
And Francis would be saying "but look at the bronze stuff, that's when it all really started !"
The friendly rivalries and endless banter is what made that show timeless. It's the Top Gear of archaeological tv: they got it right and did it properly, so everyone else will always be measured by the standard of Time Team.
Really good watch .
Nice and detailed presentation 👍🏼
Not as clumsy or random as a bow. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
Which movie is that from
@@NicholasTyrrell77 Star Wars? Episode IV?
Not easy recharging your light sabre up a mountain. Handy for unexpected sabre toothed tigers though.
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good bow at your side, kid!
I see you BOW is as big as mine!!!
Let’s see how well you handle it!!!
Wow, James, incredible job on that ax! Very interesting show.
Fantastic episode. Thank you.
In dentistry you take a wax block and carve a tooth as part of the process of understanding tooth shapes, etc, so my thoughts would be they carved intricate pieces
I worked in a fine arts bronze foundry mostly using lost wax process.
All very interesting,
😊
Did you ever find the wax?
When I think of a pebble I think of something that will get into your shoe and annoy you... not a stone that you can barely wrap your hand around XD
Pebble refers to the shape, they're rounded stones from fast flowing streams or rivers
@@johnstevenson1709 Hmm, the more you learn every day. I guess it can also be a cultural thing too, I'm from the US and the same term can have different definitions whether in the UK or the US. All I have ever referred to as pebbles is the smooth river rocks that are smaller than about 1 Inch and everything larger I have referred to a river rocks. All the way until about the size where you cant pick it up by yourself, then that becomes a boulder. I have had the pebble, stone, rock, boulder conversation with many people, all in the hopes of finding a worthy definition of what classifies each. I wish to keep this brief so there are terms that I have not used to define the discussion and I wont go into detail about my findings but I assure you that this study has been oober scientific and I have stubbornly resisted the simple route of looking up the definitions... its more fun that way c:
Pebble stone rock 👀
Yeah it's really more of a cobble, I would say.
@@slappy8941 That is another word I would use to describe it. That is a very good descriptive word.
Kind of reminds me of going on a 1st date with a nerd, then realizing what they're into is really cool.
Thanks for that. Fascinating.
I didn't realize this was 58 minutes long. Ho-lee!
They finished up the axe part and I was like "that was a neat video".
NOPE. 50 more minutes left! Sweet!
I find myself spending a lot of time wondering how humans lived 10K+ years ago. Thank you for showing some of the technical details of how our ancestors made their tools.
Amazing skiĺl
Grateful to our ancestors
Wonderful👏🏼
Sat watching the wax sculpting part and going full "artist brain" like, "okay but does using tools to carve the wax work? Because if I needed to make a complex wax figure, I wouldn't just use my hands, I'd try something like an awl or a fine chisel, possibly experiment with warming the tools..." I kind of want to see a crossover video with some skilled modern wax sculptors now to see what they could make while limited to only materials and tools available in the period.
I'm not any kind of artist, but just as a human who appreciates working smarter not harder, I too was watching thinking that I know they used bones as needles for sewing at this time, so they had sharp little tools...that work much better than fingers. I mean they MADE an ax! Why would they make that tool then stop using tools?🫤
Yep, I've carved wax and clay. Fine little tools, small spoons and little knives for details and shaping.
they were not trying to make a Picasso, just a proof of concept
@nem447 ...I'm not expecting "a Picasso" (not least because Picasso was primarily a Fine Artist focused on oil paintings and occasionally large sculptures, and as far as I know didn't make jewellery?), I'm just saying there are tons of skilled people in the modern day who could have helped make a more effective proof of concept because the techniques haven't changed that much in this case. Get an expert in sculpting little metal creatures like Trish Carden in and the results could be fascinating (plus old school Warhammer nerds like me would love it!).
@@KateHoldenA woman who likes Warhammer? You must get multiple proposals every time you go gaming. 😊. Btw, Picasso did make jewelry, I think mostly for personal friends & family. He also did plates & ceramics.
It always amuses me when people question how humans could create the Pyramids and Machu Picchu where there is astonishing levels of stonework that only "lasers or aliens" could have possible made at that time and I'm like dude theres a whole pre historic epoch literally called The Stone Age, that lasted half a million years where humanity learnt the art of engineering stone. This was a great video. Thanks
Fascinating
My instinct with the wax would be to form a basic shape then carve the finer details.
good point, but they were not trying to make a Picasso, just a proof of concept
I know.
This was great! Thank you!
Perhaps if you kept the beeswax in a pot of fairly warm water, it would be more malleable. Return it to the pot to soften, as needed, when it becomes too stiff and difficult to work.
Dr. James Dilley best known for inventing the Dilly Bar
I bought two of Dr Dilley's copper axe heads. So cool.
Thank you.
Really really captivating, y'all had the inner me wound up well. Good people doing good show. The caveman was a nifty critter, if one contemplates the evidence. I should know, all of us know. Complimentary not competition..🎉
would love if you can add captions to your docs :)
I especially enjoyed the glass bead girl.
When you see things daily your art of the subject is easier to learn such as the mold or drawings, Your know it's right as you reproduce it's imagine
Thanks for the learning experience
Came for the click bait
Stayed for the educational stone Axe tutorial
Awesome
I stumbled across a piece that as far as we have found looks to be a bronze ancient 'lost wax art process', sculpture from west africa or, so im told. Its really neat looking. Reminds me of a Do-do bird with backwards knees, strangely enough. Idk thought i would share. Could possibly be hundreds to thousands of years old and im not even sure where i aquired it.
That council carpark meeting with the Engineers must have been wild.
Council: "So we want a carpark, routine stuff. just check the ground is solid."
...
Engineers: "So we took a look and you're standing on a Bronze age copper mine"
Council: so... no carpark then :(
Engineers: "No. No Carpark."
How did they make those glass sticks used for beads???
In a mould I guess.
I always find it amazing that someone at some point thought I wonder what happens if I mix these two metals together, or whether it was a complete accident because someone put the metal into the wrong pot while it was on the fire
I know, right?!? What possessed them. At it had to be in the right proportion. Just a smidgen of tin. Which was usually found far away from the source of copper.
What implements were they using for taking the crucible out (or manipulating any of the pieces in the forge really) of the fire as in here they are using iron tongs 🤔 bone maybe? Doesn't burn as easily as wood perhaps?
hmmmm....well probably you could just pick it up with nicely formed stones to be honest also...plenty of ways to come to think of it given the intelligence of our ancestors....forget I said anything 😅
The thumbnail for this video is hilarious.
And it delivered. Certainly got my attention and I am glad. Fascinating history.
47:36 boouyzzzzzz!
Very cool vid.
Those humans are ingenious little creatures
As a overly stressed tree climber, id say comfortable. Just follow the seasons and keep moving.
It was like a camping trip with survival experts for your whole life.
Pretty good actually. You had bands like " The Rolling Stones " , they had Stones Ginger Wine and occasionally got stoned on weed , summer games like 5 Stones and in winter Curling ......Downsides ? The occasional case of Kidney or Gall Stones ......
I would think that they used the bronze mold to make a wax axe head. Then use the wax head for lost wax type sand casting.
Maybe people came to the site as nomads? It could have been a seasonal thing, following deer and the people knew the site as they went there every year?
My 14 year old nephew walked in as I was watching this, saw the title and said 'They were stoned all the time'. That's it. I'm telling his dad
Thumbnail game on point
You don't think that a metal mold like this ax mold was used to make e.g. wax cores rather than casting bronze in directly?
To use a mold liker this to make cores whould make it quicker to make clay molds.
Do you think that they used sand casting as well?
The thumbnail looks like how some “Dear Penthouse,” letters started.
He’s a silver fox and an archeologist.. perfect combo and very interesting video❤
What else did he teach you 😊
Those are some mental matches at the start 😂
Weapons were "national security" for early tribes. Kept secret at high cost.
Otzi the 5,300 year old man found in the otztal alps had a bronze axe!!
I once saw one of those survival show where the runner up was a woman who was a professor who studied the same things as you girls. She put all her knowledge to the test and was a hair away from winning the whole thing. I think it was one of the seasons of Alone.
Dilly Dilly 🍻
56:24 Bead girl is a nice bird
I agree, not only cute but she has some very nice legs 😍
...I imagine it was pretty rocky
it always blows my mind how soft rocks are in other parts of the world...
Where I live they are as hard as rock.
The presenter is Gorgeous!
The thumbnail got my attention an im glad it did!
15:01 "it really feels like a mine here..". . . 🤦 What an astute observation. 🎯🏅🤣
I could watch Miriam work with her hands all day long. Chloe and Miriam working that furnace like goddesses was pure feminine beauty. Very nice grand finale I’m sold. Never seen her before this but I can’t wait to watch more archeology with Miriam.
This was good, but the title is very misleading. It should have been "Stone age fabrication methods" or something like that. There wasn't any in depth analysis on day to day life, social structures, living conditions, etc.
Ah, so that's what it was ACTUALLY like. I'm so glad we invented a time machine to document everything plus found video footage of that period, so we can say it with 100% certainty...
apparently it was pretty hot...
Nice job on the thumbnail. Little else.
Sorry, but where are the ancient forests that used to cover all those hills ?
All chopped down !
Exactly the same as all the other resource limited places Humans have lived for a long time ☹️
What’s the point with your post? That the documentary should have recreated the forests?
Why would they need wood? 😂
@@MIForrestguy
Are you seriously asking why Stone Age people needed wood ??
Bros a dr stone fan for sure
many of us grew up in the stone age
Interesting that a video entitled "What Was Life Actually Like For People In The Stone Age?" is ENTIRELY about the Bronze Age. Hmmm.....
Was thinking that myself...
How do we know that original shaped stone was actually made in the stone-age and not by someone having a go more recently 🤔
All very interesting. Native American people were making these tools when this country was colonized. There’s a resurgence of the art throughout the country. It’s astonishing to see how truly advanced these tools can be. They were not crude, in skilled hands. In certain ways superior to their modern counterparts.
Maybe the beeswax wasnt formed by hand like that but rather melted into a block and carved into shape with a warm knife?
I thought the loop was on the bottom
That’s not Anglesey (at the start)!! They’re knapping flint on the Carneddau mountains above Llanfairfechan. Anglesey has no such mountains. Anglesey is just across the Menai Strait from where they are. They do then go to Bryn Celli Du which is on Ynys Mon (Anglesey). Surprised they didn’t notice the sea separating it from the mainland when they crossed the bridge!
what a cool art form
Anyone else click specifically for the thumbnail? Yeah me too...47:36. yw
Imagine being the guy who discovered not to pour hot liquid copper into a wet mold 😂😂
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There were no tin cans in the bronze age neither were there metal tongs. How were the crucibles manufactured and the tubes from the bellows to the furnace?
Re the axe, how was the shaft and the hollow for the blade crafted?
Take a look at the @ancientcraftuk TH-cam channel, there's a video at the Gream Orme showing the original tools for the process!
Or watch primitive technology this guy has done loads of similar things. But you can just use a stick to lift in and out obviously they have to use certain modern things because health and safety. Crucibles you can use clay for that
Bronze or flint drills, and the tongs can be made from bronze
Don't ask Q's you're too lazy to spend 2 mins looking up....
They said the tubes were wood, which you CAN make by scraping a tree with stone tools and coating with clay
Crucibles are just fired clay
😮 cool manbun bro
Time Team Phil v Francis using polished axe v flaked axe. The polish axe won but it was lots of hours to polish and Phil made one.
I would suspect that the labor force in the mind may not have been entirely voluntary and very possibly forced/slavery.
I'm sure they would have melted lard into wax first to soften it.
Gonna go straight to the fart jokes, but watching the degradation of her air pumping technique on that forge every time the camera showed her was hilariously beautiful
you could go and talk to the first nations of north America if you want more recent information on what life in a stone age society was like. they would be the closest people we have that can be considered experts after all
They all live in trailers and forage for liquor and beer. 😂
good but title is misleading. they go past stone age and stay in the iron age which is not what the episode is suppose to be about. also the people messing around with the beeswax need to talk to actually crafting people to figure out how to best handle the material.
52:52