Check out some more footage from the Beltain Festival I visited while at Butser Ancient Farm this spring in the UK, on our secondary channel: ruclips.net/video/R8pcuWwHrJw/видео.html
I dunno, when I discovered how to make fire as a child I instinctively wanted to try burning all sorts of things to see what happened. Fire is fascinating and so are rocks.
I’m guessing it was an accident, like they just put them in a kiln for support and ended up with metal. That’s basically what happened with all inventions.
Heyy! When you get to the iron age, you can easily harden iron to high carbon steel with case hardening. It's just packing the ready tool head into an airtight clay vessel filled with charcoal and firing it. The carbon will seep into the iron. To finish off you smash the ceramic and quench it. Firing times can range from 30 min to a couple hours. Most tools only need to hold an edge so it's common to leave the core more flexible ~30/60 min firing.
this is pretty cool to see. Im glad you are exploring these lost arts from a "from scratch" perspective. To answer your question about why Bronze was developed first over things like paper and writing well you just have to understand human nature first. Even today we have to "Establish a Perimeter" before we can do more delicate tasks like writing a document. Monsters, the dark, and other humans want to take your food. No time to write when there are constant threats lurking just beyond. Once you have the tools and the bodies standing guard only then can you take the time to create something that is not going to protect you, help you gather food, or make shelter.
It always amazes me just how innovative and smart "primitive" people were when it came to making things and just how smart we sometimes think we are compared to them until we try to make the same items that they were making with ease.
They didn't do those things "with ease". It took them millennia to figure them out. They weren't especially smart, they were persistent. That's the key to all ancient technologies.
@@gayusschwulius8490 In terms of raw intellectual potential, they were pretty much what we are. You could go back 5000 years and, after navigating language barriers, be impressed by their organization or philosophy or technique. In some ways their generalist skill set might actually put the average Bronze Age person ahead of the average modern person, since we in the West tend to be hyperspecialized in one thing and marginal at most things. It's an interesting thing to think about. A real eye opener for me was reading Marcus Aurelius' _Meditations_ some years ago. Ideas like those coming from somebody 2000 years ago really forced me to eschew some biases.
We don't see it so much today, but sometimes those materials occurred naturally or very near each other. These people were very used to the idea of putting things in a fire and beating on them to make tools, even arrow tips and other tools
I help my mom with homeschooling my younger siblings, (8 and 6 years old) and I remembered this channel, so I'm going to start showing them these videos and then doing a project related to them. Thank you SO MUCH!
*9:00** Wrap the bamboo in vines, let them dry in the sun, it'll reduce the chances of splitting. Also, use the smallest dowel you can, then increase the size. A sharp pebble is better at piercing through. Drop it down and hit with the dowel.*
The thing I find most people don't realize about the wheel is that the metal banding around the wheel and the metal clamps that hold the axle in place are what give the wheel the durability and utility to actually function... Moderately advanced copper and bronzeworking had to be achieved before the wheel to create those parts.
I have a vision of you in five or ten years hosting a show where you set challenges like "make a copper ax" for teams of contestants with eliminations every week and an eventual winner
Will definitely try this myself. You inspire me to learn unwritten history. Thank you for uploading quality content on youtube. Just if there was more people like you.
My favorite thing about these episodes is scrolling through the comments and seeing people’s predictions for future episodes a few years down the line. Who the hell knows what they’ll do? I love it.
@8:55 To hollow out bamboo with less cracking, take a heated rock (like really hot) and drop it down the shoot. Then use the seperate stick to push the rock through the nodes.
@@canaan5337 Hey, slaves don't HAVE to be unpaid & poorly treated. They just have to jump before you're finished saying "jump," even if they don't want to. Which is why unpaid & poorly treated has always tended to be pretty common.
It's always fascinated me how the ancients knew how to work with metals, to be able to differentiate the various ores, how to refine them, and mix them in certain ratios to make alloys.
When you get to the iron age, are you going to be following crafting from the iron rich sources of the west (i.e. broadswords) or from eastern iron poor sources (i.e. japanese folded metal)
@@canaan5337 he isn't talking about ore, but the uses. The west had an abundance of iron and thus used it heavily. The east, not so much, so they made thin, master craftsman-only tools.
@@MsHumanOfTheDecade/videos Considering his current smelting and blacksmithing skills he should probably stick to the west methods. Produce a large bloom, pick the best bits of metal, and make something that does the job despite being unrefined.
@@sandervanduren2779 this was done to make up for their poor quality iron. Japan has really low quality iron ore. Europe had some of the highest quality iron ore. That's why traditional European swords were better than traditional Japanese swords, and why it took the Japanese months to create just one katana. It took a lot of time and skill to turn bad iron into decent steel and then into a good weapon.
Andy, y'all are nailing it with this reset. I love these episodes. I found you way back when Grant Thompson mentioned you in one of his early videos and have watched your progress. You are a hero in my eyes.
Man, I really wish I could support you! This channel, PrimitiveTechnology and a few others are my favorite channels as you are exploring primitive technology and showing everyone else, basically how to do it from scratch! Keep up the amazing work!
i love seeing otzi the ice man! i remember studying him briefly in my ancient history class in high school! he was lactose intolerant (normal at the time because humans had only just started domesticating cows and didn't drink milk past infancy) and had grains, meat and plant matter in his stomach which suggested an omnivorous diet. i forgot what the evidence was but something in combination with the arrow wound in his shoulder suggests he was shot at a distance from uphill while running away from attackers.
All raw materials used in thus series so far Basic reources: Wood-Local Stone-Local Pine Resin-Local Cattails-Local Hemp-Local Clay-Local Bamboo-California Turkey Feather Grown In His Garden: Gourd-His Garden Flax-His Garden Rocks, Minerals and Metals: Obsidian Galena-Illinois Native Copper-Michigan Malachite-California Casserite-Cornwall, England Flint-England
I kinda want to make a knife like the one he made in this video but I don’t know if I should extract copper from Malachite like he did in the video or just get copper ore because I am a bit concern about the toxicity of malachite
I do enjoy this tech reset you've done. It makes for a great combination of history/primitive survival and chemistry/technology. I look forward to seeing you work into the iron age and all the challenges that entails.
You should use thinner blowpipes. Every time you blow, you have to replace all of the air that's currently in the pipe. If you put your hand at the ends it probably feels like it's not outputting as much as your inputting. A thinner pipe helps that.
It's important to point out that the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age system is is in fact NOT a system or measurement of technological progression, it is merely a way European and Middle Eastern history is retroactively divided up. Other parts of the world and other civilizations did not necessarily follow the same pathway: Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztec and Maya for example used stone tools, yet had cities larger then anything you saw in Bronze or Iron age Eurasia (Tenochtitlan, the Aztec Captial had 200k people and covered 13.5 square kilometer,s vs Uruk, the largest Bronze age city, having 40k people and covering 4 square kilometers), with their largest cities rather being comparable to the biggest cities of Greece and Medieval Europe: Other then Tenochtitlan, El Mirador, Teotihuacan, Tikal, Calakmul, Caracol, etc were all other large metropolises matching or eclipsing large Iron and Classical European cities; Teotihuacan in particular outright being larger then Rome in expanse; while Tikal had a huge suburban sprawl covering around 100+ square kilometers. And all of these had very complex, interconnected water management systems with canals, reservoirs, drainage networks, aqueducts, etc. The region predominately operated on a city-state system, like in Greece, and stuff like political marriages, vassal states, etc were common, and there were even a few republics with senates, such as Tlaxcala. The Aztec had circles of philsophers and poets who taught at elite schools; too. In a couple of ways they were even arguably more complex then europe: Sanitation was taken to the extreme by the Aztec, for instance, with streets and buildings being washed daily and waste being collected by fleets of civil servents, while there were very high personal hygiene standards. They also had a fully formal taxonomic system for categorizing plant life, etc. In conclusion Just because a society is more or less complex in one area doesn't mean they can't be in others, and moreover, human societies don't all progress in the same way: Beyond metal tools, Wheels for transportation seems like a basic thing, but they never bothered to use it either and achieved considerable complexity regardless.
Great video. I have been a living history reenactor for 15 years and i would suggest a smaller blow pipe as it intensifies the air to make fire plume hotter. the bigger pipe allows to much room for air dispersal and you waste breath as a cause of it.
I heard of one way people made bronze things in the old days. They sculpted what they wanted to make from bronze out of wax, then put clay around it, and baked it the wax would get runny and drip out of the mold, while the clay hardened. Then that’s when they put in the molten metal, and when it was cooled, just... break the clay away.
I used to live near Butser Hll, and went there for events many times. It's great seeing it get mentioned on videos like this, they do great work there.
You should have visit Israel, where King Solomon's Mines at Timna is a highly studied archeological site -- and an active copper mine. The ore is bright green Malachite. Evidence of ancient copper smelting is all over the place, some of it Egyptian, some of it Edomite, some of it Israelite. But malachite isn't rare there. It can be found on the ground everywhere. Archeologists speculate that copper was discovered in malachite because it was used as a glaze in Egyptian ceramics. At one point, a potter found that the green glaze had turned to copper, showed his boss what happened, and the rest is history. Humans discovered the concept of metallic ore: Heat applied to naturally occurring rock could turn it into something else.
try making a bronze hammer and use it to forge the next bronze pieces into shape. casting should be used for like, a rough starting shape and smithing for the fine touches
19:16 "Bronze was discovered before more common-sense things like paper, written language and even the wheel" You see, that's easy to understand really. You don't actually need the written language until your immediate contacts are so far away (and for extended periods of time) as to make spoken communication impractical (and for weird one-off cases pictures work just fine). But for that to be the case, you need a wide-spanning civilization to begin with, which already implies thriving economy, which is not really possible until you have a lot of other things, including, but not limited to, good tools. And as for the wheel... you see, for the wheel to be practical, you _really_ need to have roads first, and for roads to make sense, you again need a wide-spanning civilization. So yeah, "common sense" stuff isn't as common or sensible when you don't have such "common sense things" like work specialization, roads, cities, economy, and other stuff we take for granted nowadays.
Super weird to think that almost every single person in the world has a knife in their kitchen that would have been the most valuable thing in the world just 3000 years ago.
The most important relic of the Bronze Age: the Nebra Sky Disk (or Himmelsscheibe von Nebra) around 3600 years old, middle Germany. Also today 09. November 2019 is 30 years Fall of the Wall (Called Mauerfall here in Germany)
Just an idea that might help; Maybe try baking your clay molds like your crucibles to drive off the moisture--or even incorporating the mold pattern into the bottom of a crucible? And, to prevent the mold from cracking when you pour hot metal into it, try to preheat it in the fire so there is less thermal shock. Lastly, for a more consistent mold pattern, make a wooden form to press into the clay. Good luck with your future metal projects. I'm looking forward to when (and if) you get to aluminum.
I would look into work hardening the edges of the tools with a hammer stone rather than just sharpening for both bronze and copper. This gave them a much more durable edge and a simple way to sharpen them.
Blacksmith, iron worker here. Should be able to cook the moisture out of the clay. With what you have i would make a 3 inch thick "pot" or "form" for your casts. Bake the clay for many hours in the fire, maybe get a moisture meter to check to save failure. Of course fine sand is best for casting, but clay SHOULD be able to work. I would really focus on perfecting your skill in creating tools now, in doing so that will directly affect the quality of future work and yes, it is more time spent now, but I promise you that you will get that time back and more in saved time later. You can do it!
Why do I feel like every airport in the world has a shared page on this guy and every time he showed up at one all the airport employees collectively think hear we go again
Loved the episode! I just can't imagine how someone went I'm gonna burn wood covered over and ended up with charcoal, let alone oh these are nice rocks. What if i layered them with the charcoal and blew at them for a while....
It all happened accidentally and gradually. Somebody accidently dropped ore in the fire and when it had cooled down they noticed it was useful. Somebody else accidentally mixed it with charcoal and noticed that worked great...
Before even thinking about entering the iron age you have to master the smelting and casting process, e.g. something obvious like a lid on the crucible ;-)
How about a collaboration with Alec Steele in Montana, In the future when it comes to the iron or steel age I reckon that would be right up his Street.😁
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I love the tech tree graphic
Will you be making a kilm? Do you have enough clay available locally? HTME ♥️
So cool that you came to the UK
Try make a crossbow
Build a phone!
That British dude was amazing, the humor was perfect 👌🏻
Delightful guy. Felt bad for him though. His asthma is holding him back
Dude looks like he bout to make a park full of dinosaurs from an insect amber
Precious bastard that
Dang, didn't expect to see you here @James Walker. I always seem to run into our subscribers on random videos I watch, somehow.
Deadwater Gaming Feels good to be semi famous 😎😂 Are you guys Minnesota Gang too?
Fr tho what caveman was like “yo guys this rock is fricken green let’s burn it lol”
I dunno, when I discovered how to make fire as a child I instinctively wanted to try burning all sorts of things to see what happened. Fire is fascinating and so are rocks.
Maybe they made a fire pit with the green rocks cause they were a cool color
I’m guessing it was an accident, like they just put them in a kiln for support and ended up with metal. That’s basically what happened with all inventions.
Now imagine inventing some food
“Yo fam this white thing just came out of a flappy boi let’s eat it!”
- egg
@@FreeRangeLemon that or they noticed that the rust on native copper was the same colour as malachite and put 2 and 2 together
I love this reboot. This is just amazing and exactly what I look forward to every week.
Exactly! It's what I wished this channel was when I first stared watching, it's perfect!
Couldn't agree more.
@@gunnaryoung what was it before?
@@nopenope6750, it was similar but he worked with modern tools so it wasn't a good portrayal of how technology progressed
I love how MEL Chemistry sponsors like, every video. It really is the perfect type of sponsor for a channel like this.
And I am convinced! In 8 years I will be buying it for my little niece or nephew!
@@Greentrees60 Roughly in that same boat. Basically biding time for my nephew to come of age.
If I had kids, I'd be all about MEL, real talk. And in the future, when i wanna teach my kids some science, bam, who am I gonna check out?
I agree
I loved the British guy, he was just so genuine and kind. I hope the best for him
Yep, plus he understood the importance of having slaves.
That was also a favorite part. Probably nice sitting and chatting with him.
Heyy! When you get to the iron age, you can easily harden iron to high carbon steel with case hardening. It's just packing the ready tool head into an airtight clay vessel filled with charcoal and firing it. The carbon will seep into the iron. To finish off you smash the ceramic and quench it. Firing times can range from 30 min to a couple hours. Most tools only need to hold an edge so it's common to leave the core more flexible ~30/60 min firing.
Yeah, i saw Clickspring's vid on case hardening
That's more the steel age than the iron age.
@@baddonkey6876 Clickspring is awesome
how do you get rid of carbon though? because most of the time you’ll get cast iron rather than wrought iron when you smelt down iron ore
this is pretty cool to see. Im glad you are exploring these lost arts from a "from scratch" perspective. To answer your question about why Bronze was developed first over things like paper and writing well you just have to understand human nature first. Even today we have to "Establish a Perimeter" before we can do more delicate tasks like writing a document. Monsters, the dark, and other humans want to take your food. No time to write when there are constant threats lurking just beyond. Once you have the tools and the bodies standing guard only then can you take the time to create something that is not going to protect you, help you gather food, or make shelter.
Its the long way of saying function over form form can be done only when you have time
5 years from now:
This episode of HTME: Space Age is sponsored by SpaceX
jokes aside, there is a crowdfunded company called Copenhagen Suborbitals aiming to send a human on a suborbital flight
Linecraftman hey you wanna know who else sends people on sub orbital flights. Virgin airlines or any other plane company
@@Vortex-zb6be oh ffs 😂
Linecraftman more like 25 years it took him 3 years to make a te shirts
SpaceX: Find your forever home, on Mars!
"Cutting edge technology"
Ah, I see where that term comes from :)
more like good good
Ye, nævr thüt œv thæt.
“They had a power tool we couldn’t afford, slaves”
HO HO HO SANTA IS HERE
MINCRAFT UNSPEKABLE ARMY
Time
@@sharonhamilton3095 Santa Claus hearing that the north won, so he has to switch to elf workers: :(
that smelter guy was cool. he sounds like he'd be really fun to sit and chat with over a pint.
It always amazes me just how innovative and smart "primitive" people were when it came to making things and just how smart we sometimes think we are compared to them until we try to make the same items that they were making with ease.
Well as technology advances old tech is phased out
They didn't do those things "with ease". It took them millennia to figure them out. They weren't especially smart, they were persistent. That's the key to all ancient technologies.
@@gayusschwulius8490 In terms of raw intellectual potential, they were pretty much what we are. You could go back 5000 years and, after navigating language barriers, be impressed by their organization or philosophy or technique. In some ways their generalist skill set might actually put the average Bronze Age person ahead of the average modern person, since we in the West tend to be hyperspecialized in one thing and marginal at most things. It's an interesting thing to think about.
A real eye opener for me was reading Marcus Aurelius' _Meditations_ some years ago. Ideas like those coming from somebody 2000 years ago really forced me to eschew some biases.
We don't see it so much today, but sometimes those materials occurred naturally or very near each other.
These people were very used to the idea of putting things in a fire and beating on them to make tools, even arrow tips and other tools
I love the progression that you show in technology. This reminds me of playing the computer game Civilization!
I denounce you
63 episodes from now, he builds an ICBM
OK BOOMER!
Good thin Ghandi already left the server or else is playthrough would end badly
After watching this channel I started getting back into the civ series, so your nottjeonly one lol
This dude is just playing Minecraft in real life. Finally we too can punch wood into submission.
Lovely
These videos are a pretty good companion to TerraFirmaCraft; a mod for Minecraft that makes you go through all these steps Andy does to craft tools.
@@-Kerstin Ethoslab actually has, I think, 3 playthroughs of that
Also quite an amazing modpack, really puts the Communist Manifesto in Craft
New episode today ^^
@@-Kerstin Literally watching it right now
@@Goldiloxz There is also a TFC+ which expands on TFC.
I help my mom with homeschooling my younger siblings, (8 and 6 years old) and I remembered this channel, so I'm going to start showing them these videos and then doing a project related to them. Thank you SO MUCH!
loved your show before the reboot, been around since about 100k followers, but now it feels more organized and easy to follow.
great work!
OMG, what a great episode! I've cast a lot of bronze, but never made it from scratch! Hats off to you--this was quite an achievement!
*9:00** Wrap the bamboo in vines, let them dry in the sun, it'll reduce the chances of splitting. Also, use the smallest dowel you can, then increase the size. A sharp pebble is better at piercing through. Drop it down and hit with the dowel.*
The thing I find most people don't realize about the wheel is that the metal banding around the wheel and the metal clamps that hold the axle in place are what give the wheel the durability and utility to actually function... Moderately advanced copper and bronzeworking had to be achieved before the wheel to create those parts.
I have a vision of you in five or ten years hosting a show where you set challenges like "make a copper ax" for teams of contestants with eliminations every week and an eventual winner
He should call it Primi-tech.
Great idea, I'd absolutely watch it.
Might I suggest the book "Primitive Technology" by John Plant, available at all reputable booksellers near you.
Will definitely try this myself. You inspire me to learn unwritten history. Thank you for uploading quality content on youtube. Just if there was more people like you.
My favorite thing about these episodes is scrolling through the comments and seeing people’s predictions for future episodes a few years down the line. Who the hell knows what they’ll do? I love it.
@8:55 To hollow out bamboo with less cracking, take a heated rock (like really hot) and drop it down the shoot. Then use the seperate stick to push the rock through the nodes.
Yeah! 7:15 A tech tree!!
My wish from the last video was granted xD
Bread? Bread? BREAD? BREEEEEEAAAAD!!!!! I LOVE BREAD
I'm into baking sourdough bread and artisan loaves so the next episode will be awesome
Yeah I look forward to the bread episode too
Could have also made wind drums for the blower. It's an old African way of folding hide on top of a special drum to create a one way valve
3:03 "But they had a power tool that we can't afford, that's time. haha... and slaves, of course." Hahaha, the delivery is perfect
Putting the lessons of the musical instrument episode to good use i see. The band is getting back together!
Next episode: Late Bronze Age & Slavery
Do the interns count?
@@graywolfdracon as long as they are unpaid and poorly treated I would count them.
@@canaan5337 Hey, slaves don't HAVE to be unpaid & poorly treated. They just have to jump before you're finished saying "jump," even if they don't want to. Which is why unpaid & poorly treated has always tended to be pretty common.
So guys I've just arrived in Somalia
aaaahhhh ok BOOMER!
It's always fascinated me how the ancients knew how to work with metals, to be able to differentiate the various ores, how to refine them, and mix them in certain ratios to make alloys.
When you get to the iron age, are you going to be following crafting from the iron rich sources of the west (i.e. broadswords) or from eastern iron poor sources (i.e. japanese folded metal)
Probably bog iron would be the easiest Iron ore to acquire.
@@canaan5337 he isn't talking about ore, but the uses. The west had an abundance of iron and thus used it heavily. The east, not so much, so they made thin, master craftsman-only tools.
PersonalPerson you do realize that katanas are thicker and heavier than equivalent European swords, right?
@@MsHumanOfTheDecade/videos Considering his current smelting and blacksmithing skills he should probably stick to the west methods. Produce a large bloom, pick the best bits of metal, and make something that does the job despite being unrefined.
@@sandervanduren2779 this was done to make up for their poor quality iron. Japan has really low quality iron ore. Europe had some of the highest quality iron ore. That's why traditional European swords were better than traditional Japanese swords, and why it took the Japanese months to create just one katana. It took a lot of time and skill to turn bad iron into decent steel and then into a good weapon.
new series is just amazing, good job and keep it going!!!!!
7:19 That techtree is super cool!!!
7:15 is so Dr. STONE
jurian0101 Good job mentalist
Of course there is a reason Senku skipped this age, Japan is rather lacking in tin
Andy, y'all are nailing it with this reset. I love these episodes. I found you way back when Grant Thompson mentioned you in one of his early videos and have watched your progress. You are a hero in my eyes.
Man, I really wish I could support you! This channel, PrimitiveTechnology and a few others are my favorite channels as you are exploring primitive technology and showing everyone else, basically how to do it from scratch! Keep up the amazing work!
4:00 "My late father's shaving brush." Is he late because he couldn't find his shaving brush?
HAHAHAHA
2:40 Cassiterite is an ore that yields tin. So yeah, it would be complicated extracting copper from it. 😜
alchemists were just built different
i love seeing otzi the ice man! i remember studying him briefly in my ancient history class in high school! he was lactose intolerant (normal at the time because humans had only just started domesticating cows and didn't drink milk past infancy) and had grains, meat and plant matter in his stomach which suggested an omnivorous diet. i forgot what the evidence was but something in combination with the arrow wound in his shoulder suggests he was shot at a distance from uphill while running away from attackers.
Love the reset of the channel man, super interesting seeing you going thru the stages of evolving technology.
All raw materials used in thus series so far
Basic reources:
Wood-Local
Stone-Local
Pine Resin-Local
Cattails-Local
Hemp-Local
Clay-Local
Bamboo-California
Turkey Feather
Grown In His Garden:
Gourd-His Garden
Flax-His Garden
Rocks, Minerals and Metals:
Obsidian
Galena-Illinois
Native Copper-Michigan
Malachite-California
Casserite-Cornwall, England
Flint-England
Smelting the copper makes him an alchemist... a full metal one, one might even argue.
He's still missing a few elements to earn that designation
I kinda want to make a knife like the one he made in this video but I don’t know if I should extract copper from Malachite like he did in the video or just get copper ore because I am a bit concern about the toxicity of malachite
i liked the restart so much that after a 1 to 3 years of watching your vids, i finally subbed and turned on notifications!
I do enjoy this tech reset you've done. It makes for a great combination of history/primitive survival and chemistry/technology. I look forward to seeing you work into the iron age and all the challenges that entails.
This was pretty cool. Greetings from South Africa
0/10. didn't eat the charcoal
that is a different channel.
You should use thinner blowpipes. Every time you blow, you have to replace all of the air that's currently in the pipe. If you put your hand at the ends it probably feels like it's not outputting as much as your inputting. A thinner pipe helps that.
YES! THANK YOU! A DAGGER HAS BEN MADE!
I can’t wait till episode 500 when he goes to space 😂😂😂
It's important to point out that the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age system is is in fact NOT a system or measurement of technological progression, it is merely a way European and Middle Eastern history is retroactively divided up. Other parts of the world and other civilizations did not necessarily follow the same pathway: Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztec and Maya for example used stone tools, yet had cities larger then anything you saw in Bronze or Iron age Eurasia (Tenochtitlan, the Aztec Captial had 200k people and covered 13.5 square kilometer,s vs Uruk, the largest Bronze age city, having 40k people and covering 4 square kilometers), with their largest cities rather being comparable to the biggest cities of Greece and Medieval Europe: Other then Tenochtitlan, El Mirador, Teotihuacan, Tikal, Calakmul, Caracol, etc were all other large metropolises matching or eclipsing large Iron and Classical European cities; Teotihuacan in particular outright being larger then Rome in expanse; while Tikal had a huge suburban sprawl covering around 100+ square kilometers.
And all of these had very complex, interconnected water management systems with canals, reservoirs, drainage networks, aqueducts, etc. The region predominately operated on a city-state system, like in Greece, and stuff like political marriages, vassal states, etc were common, and there were even a few republics with senates, such as Tlaxcala. The Aztec had circles of philsophers and poets who taught at elite schools; too. In a couple of ways they were even arguably more complex then europe: Sanitation was taken to the extreme by the Aztec, for instance, with streets and buildings being washed daily and waste being collected by fleets of civil servents, while there were very high personal hygiene standards. They also had a fully formal taxonomic system for categorizing plant life, etc.
In conclusion Just because a society is more or less complex in one area doesn't mean they can't be in others, and moreover, human societies don't all progress in the same way: Beyond metal tools, Wheels for transportation seems like a basic thing, but they never bothered to use it either and achieved considerable complexity regardless.
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing MajoraZ.
bump
Great video. I have been a living history reenactor for 15 years and i would suggest a smaller blow pipe as it intensifies the air to make fire plume hotter. the bigger pipe allows to much room for air dispersal and you waste breath as a cause of it.
I heard of one way people made bronze things in the old days. They sculpted what they wanted to make from bronze out of wax, then put clay around it, and baked it the wax would get runny and drip out of the mold, while the clay hardened. Then that’s when they put in the molten metal, and when it was cooled, just... break the clay away.
Lost Wax
How to make everything is soooo educational.
I love it soooo muuch
Best channel on yt, hands down
I really appreciate the amount of time that goes into these videos. So much work involved.
Best channel on youtube we learn with you and really let's us appreciate history
Man those tools look so crude, but I love them. Must be very satisfying knowing you made them, in primitive conditions !
I used to live near Butser Hll, and went there for events many times. It's great seeing it get mentioned on videos like this, they do great work there.
Woah, I loved that tech tree at 7:16! Please do include it in future videos!
You should have visit Israel, where King Solomon's Mines at Timna is a highly studied archeological site -- and an active copper mine. The ore is bright green Malachite. Evidence of ancient copper smelting is all over the place, some of it Egyptian, some of it Edomite, some of it Israelite. But malachite isn't rare there. It can be found on the ground everywhere.
Archeologists speculate that copper was discovered in malachite because it was used as a glaze in Egyptian ceramics. At one point, a potter found that the green glaze had turned to copper, showed his boss what happened, and the rest is history. Humans discovered the concept of metallic ore: Heat applied to naturally occurring rock could turn it into something else.
I'm in love with this series, can't wait until they get to gunpowder xD
Brilliant video; magical to make pure metal out of stone! A small correction though: the wheel came already in the Late Neolithic, before bronze
I'm liking the Live Action Dr. Stone series!
Another great episode! Love watching the progression. Keep up the great work!
try making a bronze hammer and use it to forge the next bronze pieces into shape. casting should be used for like, a rough starting shape and smithing for the fine touches
“Unlocked” it’s like a tech tree in a game but human history. I can dig it
i really appreciate this series thank you for showing folks what it took to get civilization to where we are today
I am so freaking impressed. Time to join your patreon.
I think you should call the hemp string you made kush kordage, y'know, for that extra edge on the cutting tools you make with it... :)
19:16 "Bronze was discovered before more common-sense things like paper, written language and even the wheel"
You see, that's easy to understand really. You don't actually need the written language until your immediate contacts are so far away (and for extended periods of time) as to make spoken communication impractical (and for weird one-off cases pictures work just fine). But for that to be the case, you need a wide-spanning civilization to begin with, which already implies thriving economy, which is not really possible until you have a lot of other things, including, but not limited to, good tools. And as for the wheel... you see, for the wheel to be practical, you _really_ need to have roads first, and for roads to make sense, you again need a wide-spanning civilization. So yeah, "common sense" stuff isn't as common or sensible when you don't have such "common sense things" like work specialization, roads, cities, economy, and other stuff we take for granted nowadays.
10:17 - 10:21 I just got From Dust flashbacks.
Now you can repel tsunamis from your island village! :D
Super weird to think that almost every single person in the world has a knife in their kitchen that would have been the most valuable thing in the world just 3000 years ago.
Glad to finally see you be able to smelt copper like that!!
The most important relic of the Bronze Age: the Nebra Sky Disk (or Himmelsscheibe von Nebra) around 3600 years old, middle Germany.
Also today 09. November 2019 is 30 years Fall of the Wall (Called Mauerfall here in Germany)
Just an idea that might help; Maybe try baking your clay molds like your crucibles to drive off the moisture--or even incorporating the mold pattern into the bottom of a crucible? And, to prevent the mold from cracking when you pour hot metal into it, try to preheat it in the fire so there is less thermal shock. Lastly, for a more consistent mold pattern, make a wooden form to press into the clay.
Good luck with your future metal projects. I'm looking forward to when (and if) you get to aluminum.
I would look into work hardening the edges of the tools with a hammer stone rather than just sharpening for both bronze and copper. This gave them a much more durable edge and a simple way to sharpen them.
This is the best channel on youtube
18:50 "Cutting edge technology" Was the pun intended
this legit reminds me of the anime dr. stone.
ashley nickle yeah, but Andy isn’t as good as Senku and Dr. Stone kinda skipped the Bronze Age
@@hunterpatton1370 lol true, but the way he explained it reminded me of when Senku talks about rebuilding from the ground up lol
Blacksmith, iron worker here. Should be able to cook the moisture out of the clay. With what you have i would make a 3 inch thick "pot" or "form" for your casts. Bake the clay for many hours in the fire, maybe get a moisture meter to check to save failure. Of course fine sand is best for casting, but clay SHOULD be able to work.
I would really focus on perfecting your skill in creating tools now, in doing so that will directly affect the quality of future work and yes, it is more time spent now, but I promise you that you will get that time back and more in saved time later.
You can do it!
It's crazy that people figured out to do this with next to no knowledge of metallurgy!
I can't wait for you to get here to 1950, I'm trying to create my own microchips.
Why do I feel like every airport in the world has a shared page on this guy and every time he showed up at one all the airport employees collectively think hear we go again
You can pinch the air down to a smaller opening on the exiting side of the blow pipe to increase velocity.
Imagine Andy just kept going once he got to present day and ended up rapidly inventing advanced future technology
That James fellow is just wonderful!
Loved the episode! I just can't imagine how someone went I'm gonna burn wood covered over and ended up with charcoal, let alone oh these are nice rocks. What if i layered them with the charcoal and blew at them for a while....
It all happened accidentally and gradually.
Somebody accidently dropped ore in the fire and when it had cooled down they noticed it was useful.
Somebody else accidentally mixed it with charcoal and noticed that worked great...
Can't wait to see more! Great video!
Senku from Dr Stone had his full playlist on loop
yo i swear this channel is amazing and should get more views
"Tin have to be crushed to fine dust and separated from the calcite that way"
*happy macerator noises*
Nice joke :D
8:51 ah that's why it's called blow torch now days!
Right?
This is a brilliant series!
Before even thinking about entering the iron age you have to master the smelting and casting process, e.g. something obvious like a lid on the crucible ;-)
How about a collaboration with Alec Steele in Montana, In the future when it comes to the iron or steel age I reckon that would be right up his Street.😁
This group gives 'back to basics' a new take.....in our current climate something we might actually need soon😎🇦🇺
FINALLY.. The metal ages.
Dude, where's your tech tree at the start/end?
6 years later: Making a 3d printer from scratch