I seem to remember him saying that he started knapping when he was 7, or was it 10. Anyhow, he started young and has dedicated himself to becoming an expert on the subject.
Brilliant as always, mate! I am suggesting your channel to all my friends, and the response has been great. Here's to hoping to healthy, sustained growth. Even if there is some selfishness about it, given that I truly do love your content and its quality.
suffering for your science! I've watched loads of knapping videos and I still can't figure it out it's like magic to me! Booked on the antler session at Creswell in August and hope I don't make an absolute hash of it! ( and that it's a little warmer!)
Really need to try making a blade core when i get flint .. Any chance we can have some Neolithic leaf points and varients or some other styles ? nice simple looking point this one ,but the blade making is more difficult than you make it seem ! Thanks for posting
Blade flakes are easy enough with a good lump of flint but making an arrowhead or hand axe etc is a whole other thing. Although the arrowhead from the blade flake he makes here even I reckon I could accomplish lol. It's a very simple method which is great
Not from a purely manufacturing point of view. But the original artefacts have clearly been flaked with percussion rather than pressure. It’s most likely that bipolar percussion was used as unipolar just doesn’t put enough focused shock through the blade without very high risk of snapping
hey James, if flint was so valuable, why did you break off so much of it before using that flake? Would paleolithic people break it up the same way or knock off a slice or two as they were needed?
Good question! To get to the point of turning a lump of rock into a blade core typically involves removing some outer material. The exterior face of a blade core has to have just the right curve, so times you have to work from a number of different angles. These first flakes could still be used for a variety of tools, they’re just less uniform than the blades
They may have been. They began using bows at least at the beginning of the Mesolithic and potentially as far back as 60 thousand years ago. Though this is desputed.
Yeah, I mean the earliest existing ‘bow’ is thought to be the example from Star Carr. Though as it’s made of willow, this is contested. The earliest definite bow is from Denmark, dating to around 8500 years ago. Arrows dating to 12,600-11,500 have been found at Stellmoor with what has been argued to be limbs of a bow. Sadly much of the Stellmoor assemblage was lost during WW2.
@@ancientcraftUK nice one mate , i am sick of bottle bottoms and tried quartz with no joy , aint got the skills, i like that you are showing us lesser known uk styles of points , this one is new to me so looking forward to it
I admire your tenacity at going ahead and shooting this video even with the weather conditions.
Pfff.
A REAL experimental archeologist would have gone without function longjohns or winter boots and documented his frostbite patterns.
😂
Great video and good questions in the comments. I'm going to put this one in my favorites.
Great video, it's good to see the Creswellian culture finally getting a bit of love
Very informative video. I am always amazed at how you make such a difficult process as flint napping look so easy.
I seem to remember him saying that he started knapping when he was 7, or was it 10. Anyhow, he started young and has dedicated himself to becoming an expert on the subject.
Would you consider doing a demonstration of how to prepare Mesolithic microliths?
I’m sure we could knock something together
Brilliant as always, mate! I am suggesting your channel to all my friends, and the response has been great. Here's to hoping to healthy, sustained growth. Even if there is some selfishness about it, given that I truly do love your content and its quality.
Thanks Juliano, that’s really nice of you to say!
Please keep this content coming, in the absence of “history” channels we need channels like yours to share and inspire us all. Thank you
I appreciate that you had a tarp under your work area so as to avoid contaminating the site with modern fragments.
Amazing video. I would love to see more on how you made the entire spear. amazing creation!!!
Ice Age? We have had 4 feet of snow so far this year and it was -31 degs F last week. I'm in Nebraska, USA.
Sure do enjoy your videos and teaching.
That's a great video, thanks
suffering for your science!
I've watched loads of knapping videos and I still can't figure it out it's like magic to me!
Booked on the antler session at Creswell in August and hope I don't make an absolute hash of it! ( and that it's a little warmer!)
Really need to try making a blade core when i get flint .. Any chance we can have some Neolithic leaf points and varients or some other styles ? nice simple looking point this one ,but the blade making is more difficult than you make it seem ! Thanks for posting
Blade flakes are easy enough with a good lump of flint but making an arrowhead or hand axe etc is a whole other thing. Although the arrowhead from the blade flake he makes here even I reckon I could accomplish lol. It's a very simple method which is great
Why do you want the dart to flex and bend through the air ?
Awesome video!
Is there a reason for shaping the point with bipolar percussion as opposed to pressure flaking?
Not from a purely manufacturing point of view. But the original artefacts have clearly been flaked with percussion rather than pressure. It’s most likely that bipolar percussion was used as unipolar just doesn’t put enough focused shock through the blade without very high risk of snapping
@@ancientcraftUK Thanks for the explanation.
hey James, if flint was so valuable, why did you break off so much of it before using that flake? Would paleolithic people break it up the same way or knock off a slice or two as they were needed?
Good question! To get to the point of turning a lump of rock into a blade core typically involves removing some outer material. The exterior face of a blade core has to have just the right curve, so times you have to work from a number of different angles. These first flakes could still be used for a variety of tools, they’re just less uniform than the blades
At what point did people in this are switch from spears to spear throwers to bows? I would have assumed they would be using bows by this point.
They may have been. They began using bows at least at the beginning of the Mesolithic and potentially as far back as 60 thousand years ago. Though this is desputed.
Yeah, I mean the earliest existing ‘bow’ is thought to be the example from Star Carr. Though as it’s made of willow, this is contested. The earliest definite bow is from Denmark, dating to around 8500 years ago. Arrows dating to 12,600-11,500 have been found at Stellmoor with what has been argued to be limbs of a bow. Sadly much of the Stellmoor assemblage was lost during WW2.
Struggling to find knapping flint for sale in uk, can anyone help ?
Blimey the video hasn't even broadcast yet!
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@@ancientcraftUK nice one mate , i am sick of bottle bottoms and tried quartz with no joy , aint got the skills, i like that you are showing us lesser known uk styles of points , this one is new to me so looking forward to it
@@ancientcraftUK How on earth have I not heard of them before, I live a mile down the road! Sometimes my spacial awareness worries me
10000 years ago it was warmer than it is today...so they wouldnt have been frezzing their asses off like you do today.
In their defence James they probably didn't do it out in the open like that without a fire :) well done for braving it out though its a great place :)
Man, Dorothy Garrett was pretty hot.
You mean B.C.