One rather sure use, is as harpoons. Note that the blade she held had a different form. We tend to underestimate our ancestors, but my very first thought was a scalpell....
0:58 that guy Kyle Brown, you can tell he’s super introverted, but then the presenter talks with that sexy voice, and he just MELTS. That look on his face at 0:59!!!
Considering that he referenced other larger “blades and points,” the only way I can see that they functioned as such is if they served a more specialized purpose; specifically, the tiny blades configured as a hunting tool seem to be more striking as a harpoon-type implement rather than a general purpose spear. Similarly, the tiny blades configured as a cutting tool seem to be more striking as a scraper or general purpose “ razor blade” than a greater general purpose knife. Both would make sense given the location, as it would seem that this site was home to a fishing culture. You make the tiny blades to fashion harpoons to catch the fish, then make more to fashion scrapers to de-scale the fish and possibly to fillet them.
I have a feeling some of these were almost multitools, used for a variety of situations. It would be interesting to examine the food prep areas to determine diet. Fish are fine, but even now the Inuit People also vary their diet when they can. These barbed heads would be effective on spears or shafts, or even thrown. Bigger prey might run off, but the wiggling of the spear would just speed up blood loss and collapse. Trailing the bleeding animal would be easy as well. Just an idea.
@@tinkerstrade3553 I would agree, as I had seen a demonstration video this past week of that very concept using the “broken bladelet/flake” pieces into a spear for larger terrestrial game (courtesy of Donny Dust, primitive survivalist, who has a channel on RUclips as well). Also, after I had made my initial comment, I also began to consider that the same bladelets/flakes which would serve well as barbs on a harpoon might also serve as “spikes” on a club, which might be used to “finish” an animal (terrestrial or otherwise) that had just been speared and was hobbled or otherwise wounded in some way and easy to catch up to.
The way they showed it at the end, a fish spear. The problem is they would be kind of brittle. More likely they are the cutting component of small hand tools. I don't get the 'Lethal Weapons' in the title, considering the time period of about 160,000 years ago, anything other than a lethal weapon would not likely be worth having, there were lots of critters around that would thoroughly enjoy you for dinner...
Embedded micro blade technology shows up in Siberia over 10,000 years ago. It makes sense the same tech would migrate into the New World. The same is true in the development and spread of the bow and arrow. South Africa was first with the bow weapon. Ironically MesoAmericans were surprised by bow wielding invaders from the north. The bow stayed in Siberia longer, came to the Americas later than the macuahuitl.
@@lazygardens The Clovis spear points also came from Siberia by compass direction, not Europe by Greenland as people once thought. The Clovis tech is the pinnacle of paleo-stone work. Stone knapping. I think the absolute top piece ever created was made by the Maya priesthood. There is an elaborate Maya obsidian glass stone knapping with multiple warrior faces incorporated into it. The piece is intricate and large. Every edge cuts. The glass item was undamaged all the time since it was originally knapped.
The explicit caveat in the videowas a dwelling of "our species". The caves you are referencing were inhabited by _Homo habilis,_ a forerunner of ourselves, so it comes down to classification. Cheers.🍻
Those tiny blades look like teeth. So maybe a chopping tool or weapon like an axe. If you chop down and then pull that would be a nasty wound. Not sure about the aerodynamics of a throwing weapon or an arrow not balanced it might make the spear or arrow tumble or just nose dive after a few feet but a thrusting weapon.
But what about the theory that claims Homo sapiens evolved from Homo erectus in Africa, and then migrated out of Africa between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago? Yep, I never believed it either.
Like Gen. ch.8: the GODS from the heavens came down and mated with humans from Earth. Their offspring were the famous heros from the ancient myths. That makes it very very unlikely that they were ET. Or an earlier chapter? Kain was forced to leave and live in the wildernis; where he found other humans. And he became a mighty tribe. How can different human species interbreed? But exactly that happened, while several types of humans coexisted for a very long time. Another point: strange longviety, before the flood. Tribes were named after their founder. I read it like: Tribe A existed for over 1200 years. After 800 years, B was born, and he raised his own tribe/kingdom or whatever. Nation B birthed C after 500 years and continued to live another 400 years. Does it suddenly make sense? Pre-flood history. How do you conserve history, when you know that all written script will be destroyed? Bedtime stories for the little ones can survive over millenia. Not all that simple; ask how native Americans track their history.
Please explain the bones, encampments and dinosaurs found around the world. Cave paintings? Nazca lines in Peru. There are so many unexplainable geographic locations that are dated without a doubt more than 6000 years.
What do you think those tiny blades were used for 160,000 years ago?
The same thing theyre used for in the UK today innit: terrorism
They are stunning and another tiny piece of the puzzle of what our ancient ancestors were doing.
One rather sure use, is as harpoons. Note that the blade she held had a different form. We tend to underestimate our ancestors, but my very first thought was a scalpell....
Anlong Pyramids made by Unknown Ancient Aliens, no primitive human able to built it 160 K years ago, nor denisovan neither homosapiens.
Shaving.
Finding the battery powered turkey carver was a real shocker.
0:58 that guy Kyle Brown, you can tell he’s super introverted, but then the presenter talks with that sexy voice, and he just MELTS. That look on his face at 0:59!!!
False Premise:
He's obviously enthusiastic about the subject matter, his expertise, which is the age of the site.
The tiny blades could have been made to make a leather awl or some thing similar for leather working.
Considering that he referenced other larger “blades and points,” the only way I can see that they functioned as such is if they served a more specialized purpose; specifically, the tiny blades configured as a hunting tool seem to be more striking as a harpoon-type implement rather than a general purpose spear. Similarly, the tiny blades configured as a cutting tool seem to be more striking as a scraper or general purpose “ razor blade” than a greater general purpose knife. Both would make sense given the location, as it would seem that this site was home to a fishing culture. You make the tiny blades to fashion harpoons to catch the fish, then make more to fashion scrapers to de-scale the fish and possibly to fillet them.
Thanks for your thoughts Andy, sounds like you would have survived 160,000-years-ago!
Sounds like a reasonable inference.
I have a feeling some of these were almost multitools, used for a variety of situations.
It would be interesting to examine the food prep areas to determine diet. Fish are fine, but even now the Inuit People also vary their diet when they can. These barbed heads would be effective on spears or shafts, or even thrown. Bigger prey might run off, but the wiggling of the spear would just speed up blood loss and collapse. Trailing the bleeding animal would be easy as well.
Just an idea.
@@tinkerstrade3553 I would agree, as I had seen a demonstration video this past week of that very concept using the “broken bladelet/flake” pieces into a spear for larger terrestrial game (courtesy of Donny Dust, primitive survivalist, who has a channel on RUclips as well). Also, after I had made my initial comment, I also began to consider that the same bladelets/flakes which would serve well as barbs on a harpoon might also serve as “spikes” on a club, which might be used to “finish” an animal (terrestrial or otherwise) that had just been speared and was hobbled or otherwise wounded in some way and easy to catch up to.
Maybe a toothbrush?
The way they showed it at the end, a fish spear. The problem is they would be kind of brittle. More likely they are the cutting component of small hand tools. I don't get the 'Lethal Weapons' in the title, considering the time period of about 160,000 years ago, anything other than a lethal weapon would not likely be worth having, there were lots of critters around that would thoroughly enjoy you for dinner...
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Like the Aztec macuahuitl, a wooden "sword" edged with small obsidian blades. For slicing and dicing your enemies
Embedded micro blade technology shows up in Siberia over 10,000 years ago. It makes sense the same tech would migrate into the New World.
The same is true in the development and spread of the bow and arrow. South Africa was first with the bow weapon. Ironically MesoAmericans were surprised by bow wielding invaders from the north. The bow stayed in Siberia longer, came to the Americas later than the macuahuitl.
@@georgehunter2813 They had the atlatl, blowguns and other devices.
@@lazygardens The Clovis spear points also came from Siberia by compass direction, not Europe by Greenland as people once thought. The Clovis tech is the pinnacle of paleo-stone work. Stone knapping.
I think the absolute top piece ever created was made by the Maya priesthood. There is an elaborate Maya obsidian glass stone knapping with multiple warrior faces incorporated into it. The piece is intricate and large. Every edge cuts. The glass item was undamaged all the time since it was originally knapped.
Seems reasonable as they would have seen similar teeth on marine and other wildlife.
Look up "Arctic small tool tradition", an almost identical technology, only much newer on the timescale.
He said interpretation and might ?
Chipper Bailey.
Oldest dwelling? Not as such. Wonderwerk cave in the Northern Cape region of South Africa has been inhabited for well over a million years.
Was looking for this comment.
2 to 4 million year old human evidence have been found, in caves, as far as I remember.
The explicit caveat in the videowas a dwelling of "our species". The caves you are referencing were inhabited by _Homo habilis,_ a forerunner of ourselves, so it comes down to classification. Cheers.🍻
But not by homo sapiens.
Scraping fish
Those tiny blades look like teeth. So maybe a chopping tool or weapon like an axe. If you chop down and then pull that would be a nasty wound. Not sure about the aerodynamics of a throwing weapon or an arrow not balanced it might make the spear or arrow tumble or just nose dive after a few feet but a thrusting weapon.
She has nice teeth, especially those canines.
Is it solar powered?
Tiny blades were toothpicks or fingernail cleaners.
Be careful lady! You’re driving on the wrong side of the street!
And put that steering back where it belongs!
Neanderthal are our Ancestors i know its not popular but that's it
Wow, a cave with singers.
A pointed stick?
Not a banana.
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coastal people means they would have become boaters. unless they arrived their by boat from the Americas
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But what about the theory that claims Homo sapiens evolved from Homo erectus in Africa, and then migrated out of Africa between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago? Yep, I never believed it either.
GODS of the Bible: A New Interpretation of the Bible Reveals the Oldest Secret in History.
Like Gen. ch.8: the GODS from the heavens came down and mated with humans from Earth. Their offspring were the famous heros from the ancient myths.
That makes it very very unlikely that they were ET.
Or an earlier chapter? Kain was forced to leave and live in the wildernis; where he found other humans. And he became a mighty tribe.
How can different human species interbreed? But exactly that happened, while several types of humans coexisted for a very long time.
Another point: strange longviety, before the flood. Tribes were named after their founder. I read it like: Tribe A existed for over 1200 years. After 800 years, B was born, and he raised his own tribe/kingdom or whatever. Nation B birthed C after 500 years and continued to live another 400 years.
Does it suddenly make sense? Pre-flood history. How do you conserve history, when you know that all written script will be destroyed? Bedtime stories for the little ones can survive over millenia. Not all that simple; ask how native Americans track their history.
How is that relevant? Humanity’s fascination with bullshit is limitless.
Humanity is 6 thousand years old, created by God the Creator. He knows better than we tiny humans with all our ignorance and shortcomings. Clearly.
Please explain the bones, encampments and dinosaurs found around the world. Cave paintings? Nazca lines in Peru. There are so many unexplainable geographic locations that are dated without a doubt more than 6000 years.
@@bjbrown ...I was speaking about humanity.
leave it to a theist to jump in with both feet to a conversation they no NOTHING about. Stay in your lane.
willful, gleeful revelry in ignorance. grow up.
They love the attention when citing nonsense.