How To Make A Prehistoric Flint Axe | Stone Age Technology
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
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This is so interesting! Thank you for sharing.
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Fantastic video English Heritage! Thank you for making!
Flint itself is still a bit of a enigma, growing up in Norfolk i once assumed it was common enough to be found anywhere. Often have i wondered how far the flint bearing chalk reaches out into Doggerland. Perhaps when i gaze out at the wash im looking toward what was once a paradise for flint knapping.
Could it be that the flint artifacts, amongst other things, are to be found in areas currently under the sea?
@@sabbachoudry6965 In danmark we got alot of flint, and flint artifacts are a common found
Flint knapping are they kidnapping the flint
@@stevenjefcoat3793"flintknapping" is the name for the striking-and-chipping process you just watched in the video..
I got so interested in this! I got to do it. Thank you
I love this guy.
I’ve met James dilly the Flintknaper at the Bushcraft show!
Such a huge piece of flint! A stone age craftsman would probably use it to create at least 3 axes, dozen of blades and 50 arrowheads at least!
Very interesting!👍
p.s would have been cool to see it all the wat to the finished axe and see him use it!
Really interesting . Flint is such a beautiful rock. Mind your eyes mate
not every piece of flint is pretty, in america most of the flints are a filthy grey or brown color and nowhere near as good as the flint in england and europe
Really NICE.
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Nice vid 👌
Fascinating - first time I've seen a post-knapping grind of a flint axe demonstrated.. What rock were you using for the grindstone? Looked like limestone?
Wow!
cool so cool!!!!
Where do you normally find these rocks and what environment?
@christopher snedeker In danmark we got alot of flint, and flint artifacts are a common found
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Flint is a form of chert, which is a rock with near global distribution. It may not have the grey tones seen here and be whiter, but will knap much the same. Flint in particular is often found in chalk, which runs through the UK in a broad stripe.
I met James Dilly on a flint knapping course
Fascinating! well done
cool axe
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Flint was used with steel to produce sparks in flintlock guns, which were used in the 17th and 18th centuries.
And how did they make the support for the stone to turn into an axe?
you are so awesome👏✊👍
now lets see the tree come down... or at least snap some branches for firewood.
there's a mesolithic vs neolithic video taken from the time team program, the polished stone axe performs as good as a bronze one, leaving a nice clean cut
He's cute😍😍
Do you sell theses polished axes
His thigh must have been hurt
3RDY Vlogs I flint nap without even using a leather piece it's probably ok
After many years of knapping I would say I've lost some feeling in that leg. If I was ever to be cannibalised they'd love that leg as its been pre-tenderised!
Ancient Craft LOL
Imagine missing the flint and accidentally hitting yourself in the balls.
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I wouldn’t risk me children...
how did you make that?
Where do you get large pieces of flint/chert like that? I'd love to have one or two.
Texas
We have plenty all over. Green brown blue red sometimes black
Mannn, I thought it was Florida 😂
When are we gonna finally have a video of little known tools. There is a burin video out, we need the rest.
I tried to make one!(it didn't really work but still)
good show ! how about slower a longer piece on a spear point ,ad hoc ,a walking stick i can chuck at a deer ,how would a cave man upgrade his stick,?
ooh don't hurt yourself
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i have to make one for a college course.. Where I live flint is not a common thing... so i ended up just throwing hammer stone into the ground and hope i would get something lol
If your in USA Chert or obsidian are the best By the way obsidian is the sharpest material on earth 1200 times sharper than a surgical scalp
Ah he pulled a martha Stewart
I personally actuall suggest using a big, square rock as an anvil, you can do the blunt and crude flintknapping against the anvil that is much easier than hammer stones, as well as giving you a sort of table on which you can leverage hits a lot better than on your leg
Shame that there is very little flint here in Fife.
Isn't it supposed to be sharp? It's an axe, right?
this is so fascinating, but how in the world is that axe practical? the head would be getting stuck in things and popping out of the handle constantly I imagine.
very practical, having felled several trees including oak, ash and hazel using stones axes they cut effectively but with a wider cutting wedge into the tree. A good polished axe can get through a 40-50yr old oak in less than an hour. You end up creating a cut thats looks like a beaver's work rather than a cut wedge but does the job. The axe head stays in the handle because it fits well into the handle and the polished surface means there is very little hold from the tree when you make a cut.
Quite practical actually. But the technique in use is quite different from a modern axe, or it won't last long..
The axe head would be fixed into the haft with a combination of sinew or plant fibre binding and resin glue. Obviously it would have come out of the handle more often than a modern axe, but necessity dictated that our ancestors needed axes and would've just had to deal with it when that happened.
Still a great tool.
You couldn’t make that from a smaller rock? The south Asian casters don’t need big rocks to make stone axes.
:)
So I can't make one
He's kind of hamsum...
How come it would take them 60 hours to make an axe if it only took him such a short amount of time using the same materials??
This looks wasteful.
Couldn't you have created like 5 axes from spalling that huge rock?
It seems you’ve omitted the proper ending. Why not show us that the tool is even capable of doing any work? It looks absolutely
(to me) INcapable of cutting anything--certainly not felling a tree!
No offense intended. This after all, an educational site. I know nothing of such things so would love to be enlightened as to that ax’s abilities.
These axes can fell 12 inch wide oak trunks in around an hour (done it a few times!)
you started out with a massive chunk. You could hae used one of those earlier chunks, wasteful
It’s flint. It’s worth NOTHING. Wasteful to what? To whom?
you call flint worthless eh? explain how thousands of people in england pay for that stone for using as landscaping stone
Do you understand what he was doing here? To wind up with an axe head the entire process necessitates that you HAVE to work through excess material, there's no getting around it. I'm sure he found something to do with the chunks he knocked away.