The complete opposite of flint knapping
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- Petros spheres were made during the  neolithic period mainly in Scotland and they are a bit of a curiosity that remains a talking point for anyone interested in trying to understand how people thought back then
I mean its an interesting way to spend your time and every aspect has to be recreated for the intricasies to be understood. But i cant shake the feeling of this meeting/conversation happening like this 9000yrs ago.
I never tire of granite ball making conversation. The various techniques employed are limitless. One particular granite ball maker i know actually uses a different flint for every individual tap of the granite. Granted even after 15 years the granite ball still looks like a random chunk of stone but as far as hobbies go it has everything.
Granite ball makers of the world unite.
Interesting!
A hand-held time sink, like a pre-historic smartphone! XD
the utter confusion is funny as hell, i guess humans have always found ways to waste their spare time
Yep!
This is one of the most bizarre videos I have ever watched. I will definitely watch several more times because I know that it has profound significance and I need to try to figure out what it is. Will’s bewilderment with these two progressive primitives is palpable and fun to watch.
I've been working on a celt myself, doing a full groove about got it done. Just have to grind the edge and polish now.
This entire video is bloody brilliant!
That’s pretty cool. The natives here in the US used chert to peck stones. For sure. I’ve found pecking stones made from just about every available stone here in the Midwest.
Love your vids, brother! You’re an amazing talent.
"There Aint Nuthin Wrong, With Uh Little Peck N Grind" ~ Arrgh Kelly 😂
Arrrh indeed 😂
@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival 🤣😎🏹
Stay away from them Will, it might be catching
😂😂🙄👍 flint blunters
Very interesting I never knew such objects where made in the past. Very mysterious objects and fascinating piece of history. Thanks Will really good work.
Such a Coincidence, I was just thinking about the potential purpose of those stones, my initial idea was they are some kind of weight for a net, imagine you was trying to make like a web net for casting on fish or birds, this would be in the centre allowing the netting the web out if any of that makes sense 😅
Those grooves definitely would be very helpful when trying to tie a string around the stone.
I'm thinking some kind of throwing weapon, though, like bolas, where you need both a well-rounded weight and a well-secured one.
Though I imagine nets are also a good candidate.
@@gustavchambert7072 thanks 😁 I’ve never actually shared that with anyone before because it’s so far from what other people are suggesting, but I think some evidence that supports its would be that they are usually found in lakes, streams, rivers and marsh and I think the diet of most Neolithic people in that area would of been things like trout salmon ducks geese and even seagulls. It also gives a reason why sometimes they were decorated, perhaps as a way to distinguish and determine the owner of net by each having their own unique markings, similar to what stone workers did in the past. Oh and one more thing is the size and weight of them, just the perfect size and weight for throwing which I think rules out that they was made for ritual purposes because they are just so practical, like a tool. Often when we find things that were used for ritual purposes they are not made to the same quality. Lol I dunno I’m a complete novice to all this stuff but I have been interested in these balls since i first seen them in a museum
It's great that the people of the past took so much love and care, shame that's nearly a thing of the past. Great idea fishing net weights.
I want to see them make the granite spherical first, my best guess is they are neolithic bearings using tree's as the hub for winching.
Ah yes, timetraveller here. We used to leave those laying around so people would find them, and if someone were inclined to try making them they would get totally immersed in the mystery and their bloodline would go extinct. They went obsolete with computer games. Or so I thought. Powerful magic.
This is amazingly funny.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅
lol cheers 😂
Underappreciated comedy take at 1:13. 😂
seems like an analog to japanese clay balls, dorodangos, cool
This felt so genuine.
I look across my desk & there are plenty of useless things with a satisfying weight & interesting shape. I’m not sure that prize feeling is worth a hundred hours of annoying pecking though 🤪
Some tap granite with flint. We Janners use carbon-tipped steels and pneumatic machines on Jack legs. That's what we call "tapping and Tommy-knockers"🏴☠. Hold-tight!💪🤣👍
That are prehistoric baseballs.
Thank you🙏🦋🙏
As a man with northern European ancestry I am so proud of those, in my line, that came before me. Even though I don't live over there, when I see the Irish and English countryside with the standing stones and various different styles of tombs built by the ancients it always seems to awaken something in me. For my kin still living there please don't let it disappear.
Man ! I see them tapping away like unhinged sewing machines but did not see the result. Oh ! Maybe they were just making a pile of chips ! Naw. That couldn't be it. :O)
Each clan had one of those balls and the chiefs would meet to have a contest, throwing their balls in the air and listen carefully which one created the richest "THUMP" upon impact. It was sort of like football, but quieter.
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Oooh that's how !
well, they've certainly got stones, don't they?
Couple of real Peckers there.
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Now, if these things were really based on archeological neolithic finds (hmmmm!), then it may be worth making one to assess the time and labour required but I think figuring out what they were for should take priority over going into production.
I think the neolithic conversation to which you refer would have gone along the lines of:
"What the fuck are you doing??"
"I dunno. Just killing time"
"Yeah? well how about killing some time knapping a new edge on that flint chisel you just turned into a screw driver (whatver that is!)"
They are based on archeological finds.
Looks like a stone cannonball.
It was used for religious purposes or that’s what archaeologists say when they don’t know what it was used for. Maybe they’re rocking horse eggs
lol don’t you know it 😂
But they made the flint blunt…☹️☝️ whhyyy??
Blunt it’s bloody blunt 😂😂😂😂
You know what they say , opposites attract 😂😂😂
so funny
Having read about these off artefacts, and all the lazy theories about "ceremonial uses", I'm more of the opinion that they were used for some secular purpose like some sort of ball-game popular in pre-history, maybe something similar to Pétanque which still to this day is played with balls with geometric carvings on the surface. It may well be that each player carved their ball with a unique pattern so they could easily tell it was their ball after it was thrown.
Well we make aluminium foil balls today so who are we to talk...
True. Just for fun
Will, ask them if they can make a clear quartz crystal skull doing this?
I literally do that too😅
I want one of them rock so I can do that where do you get one at?
so they are the reason the flints got blunt in the first place
They should have been. In the Monty Python and the holy Grail 🤔🧐🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
But it's gone blunt! The intonation and everything just carries the incredulousness he feels.
These balls were found in neolithic sights and are in Museums. No one knows what they were for. May have been Ceremonial (which covers a multuede of sins!).
How much?
All of it
Surely you bought one ?
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Latin for stone. If he wanted to use Greek, he would call it a lithosphere.
Petros and Petra are both Greek words for stone/rock. Like lithos.
Not Latin.
pétra, Greek, meaning “rock” many thanks for the effort in trying to prove me wrong tho😅👌
That had to be made for a ritual purpose /paleoanthropologist
Haa
You should buy one so you can use it as a hammer in flint knapping... Ohhh! Getting meta now 😆
I don't see the value of it except make g stones for slingers
How peculiar a product.
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you can use them to make a Bolo, That's it, all I can think of
I don't like it...seems unnatural