The Mystery Of The 4,300-Year-Old Tools Frozen In The Yukon
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 29. 08. 2022
- A mystery is emerging out the Yukon ice: human hunting tools hidden for as long as 9,000 years have started to melt out. And each new find is another piece to the puzzle of who these people were.
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This is a great documentary! I could go on and on but suffice to say I've seen hundreds or probably thousands of documentaries and this one was really great, congratulations to everyone involved.
love the story archeology can tell, the answers and new questions it brings forth.
I LOVE documentaries like this! So tastefully done!! This is why it's so important to preserve history rather than destroy it. It's the only way we learn to preserve the future.
you are so right about documentaries like this @stacy
They totally destroyed the body of the ice-man.
As long as the government approves of it
Wow those blinds are amazing!
That last piece is stunning. What a find! (And loss)
Yes! The blinds were fascinating
ALL I can say is WOW!
This is so visceral and honest showing our heritage and how they lived and survived so long ago.
I'm of VIKING HERITAGE but both sites are just amazing to me. They show that they were so parallel to their way of life.
A GREAT TANK YOU for this. I hope you keep following this and make another video/documentary that updates more of what they continue to discover.
The ancient Americans were Scandinavian! Proven by DNA of the most ancient human remains recovered but here in North America, it is illegal to say this. The bodies are claimed by laws to be "Native American" and passed back into the custody of the modern "Natives" to be reburied and concealed from science!
You can see the craftsmanship in these pieces. They have an artistic beauty besides being a necessity of life. This is so cool.
True craftmanship of an object or tool, hand made out of necessity, no matter how old have always been coveted and admired by people the world over, since man first appeared on this earth. The makers of these ancient tools and the everyday items of necessity they made, required a huge investment of the craftsman's time! They spent this time learning where and how to acquire the correct materials, as well as learning and perfecting the skill necessary to make each and every weapon, object or tool for each of their various crafts. However, in the beginning, how well these objects were actually made had a direct relationship with the maker and his ability for self defense, survival and food procurement. The most well made tool was always the most desirable, yet surely not the easiest to make, and most certainly not very durable.
The words "craftmanship" and "beauty," have always been synonymous with each other when used to describe well crafted, hand made objects, even when those tools, weapons or objects were made for....the ugliest of jobs!
@@k1j2f30 its just basic wood work nothing special
This is wonderful and inspiring. We can't forget where we came from. I live in a place now where it's not uncommon to reach down and pickup a piece of history at least 2-3000 years old. It's awesome to think that someone long ago made it. Thank you for this.
In Europe farmers still turn up human bone fragments from the bodies that nurished the soil.
Weâre all from Africa and the from Africa come all to us now.
They are our brothersđđđ
@@michielderuyter6011 Out of Africa is a fairy tale. But a stubborn one due to financial incentives, career incentives, and intellectual pride. Human settlements were discovered in Mexico and California dated by 4 different dating methods to 250,000 to 300,000 years ago.
Sheep skull 5000 years old , dude go back and watch the whole program 50 times and report back, student of duh
@@iamhudsdent2759 The first migration out of Africa was about 2 million years ago.... moron.
Otzi was found on the border between Austria and Italy, and I learned about it in class in Slovenia, so it seems the whole area kinda claims him. He is also covered with tattoos and is a fascinating story. "The best investigated human body the world has ever seen." Quote from the Forensic Pathologist who's in charge of keeping the 5000 y/o Iceman, they keep the world regularly updated about him.
I read somewhere, a test they did on him showed he had been living with lymn disease as well. Crazy to think thousands of years ago they had tics to worry about as well they just didnt know what they caused back then
I've watched many shows about him. I think him and his story are absolutely fascinating.
He had fire mushrooms in his right side satchel. They were important!
My family ancestors dna results said we are from that northern Italy alps area... I often sit here and wonder if otzi knew my ancestors...
@@JohnSmith-yh5bd and how in gods name could that be proven. Please illuminate us.
29:40 those spiral fletching are cool. I wonder why they don't discuss that more. It just boggles the mind that someone, probably many times came up with --"Hey we need to make this thing fly, and fly straight. How can we do that? Oh, feathers, of course." What a piece of work is man. Sometimes so high, sometimes lower than all the other animals.
Lower than all the *_other_* animals, perhaps. We're animals, too.
@@bartolomeothesatyr If they would have us.
Amazing! I love these videos and love the excitement of ancestors and archaeologists alike. So many treasures!!
Astonishing! I completely lost track of time watching this fascinating documentary. Wow!
wow so fascinating @kathryn
The idea that those Caribou just fell over when hit is Crazy. Those Hunters tracked them for miles before harvesting them.
Something I learned from my Indian friends is the fact most of those arrow heads were coated with a neurotoxin made from snake venom. Normally the hunters assistant usually a younger man or woman carried it in a bladder bag and when animals approached the arrow spear was dipped in fresh stuff. The spears & arrows were soaked in it for many days before the hunt so the toxins stayed in the wood and the wood did not soak up all the fresh toxin. Hope I helped. The Asian plains & mountain hunters did the same thing. South American and Siberian hunters like in North America relied a lot on snares and pits to capture game. Those hunters only resorted to the snake venoms when trying to eliminate a say a Griz or a Mountain Lion that was attacking their live stock or horses.
@@thekingsilverado3266 Sorry, don't buy it but it does make a cool story.
One reason. Refrigeration. None of those toxins stay viable without refrigeration.
Your not a bowhunter I presume.
And you're not an English teacher I presume. đ
@@couerl and your a reject I presume
This is inspiring! I am in the camp of Native American and First Nations people were incredibly sophisticated, civil and honorable. Occupying Europeans were the barbarians.
Probably some were and some weren't. Just like all the other cultures.
We have those here ( 7.09 ) in Australia. Here they are called womeras. The womera was used not so long ago by our first Nations people. I find the correlation fascinating.
WOOMERA...2 O's...like the rocket range and town in South Oz.
Ok hold on.
True! The Australians where isolated and never learned of the bow and arrow. They used the original and sophisticated tech of the atlatl and it worked well for them.
How can you be sure they are in fact the first nation?
@@jarniwoop Likely the Northern Americans learned from the Australians, Th Koori spears don't need feathers, the also havs fishing spears like the trident, designed to allow for waters optical illusion.
That antler arrow is definitely something I could see someone going back to find.
Cussing and trying to figure out where you might have dropped it.
Like misplacing a tool you've had for years today.
We think that way......it would be exactly like losing your hammer.....ten minutes to replace. He probably made a thousand of those
@@blindingshadow3463 no that was definitely a special piece. If it was that common, theyâd be all over the ice field, just like the stone arrows. Itâs clearly not. Theyâve been at this since every year since 1999.. and thatâs the *first* one theyâve come across. Pieces like that were ones that were definitely more highly prized that ones that were made out of just stone- and if it was dropped, they would have gone back to look for it for sure. Whoever lost that, lost a beautiful piece.
@@PiXie232 I do not disagree the owner of the tool was upset to lose it. Only your failing to understand my point, let me give you an analogy....ten thousand years from now archeologists discover a highly decorated golden bullet......now someone comments.....whoever lost that must of looked for hours and been so mad. The assumption that he had it for years adding more "value" then someone else might reply, that guy didn't see the bullet as art as you do......he did not see it as irreplaceable and unique. You are assuming this man thought Like you do, but he didn't, he was far more capable than us combined. He didn't care about antlers that much
@@PiXie232 if you think that piece is special, you have seen nothing. In my personal collection I have these tools, and some FAR more interesting. I have arrowheads and spear points carved from wood that have petrified......not to mention bifacial Clovis in design.....but from wood. I have a skull effigy with a crystal embedded within so that when held to the sun the eyes glow bright. I have stone knives and tools of all kinds covered in corals and concretions. The antler arrow is common as antlers
@@blindingshadow3463 I agree.. I have many pieces myself that are far more intricate and older than this.. but what Iâm saying is that for this area, and location, they havenât found anything else close to this, meaning itâs rare in this area- meaning it was likely a very prized piece whoever owned it. I totally understand what youâre trying to say. But you also have to understand where theyâre at. Did you see the pieces in Norway? Countless metal arrowheads-meaning they were far more common there.. but here, they were not. Theyâve been doing this for the same amount of time, yet this is the first one theyâve found compared to Norway, which has found countless of them. Do you see what Iâm saying now?
Fantastic, as Always Thank You
This episode is so beautiful... thank you.
I have loved studying ancient weapons over the years. The atlatl is a new discovery. Thank you for this documentary.
New? I learned about the atlatl as a kid in the 70âs. Dad showed me his collection of dart points heâd found. Also, there was a display of it at the Natural History Museum in Albany NY.
@@twocyclediesel1280 maybe he means new to him
It's pretty cool to be able to connect with ancestors from thousands of years ago. It's also beautiful that the First Nation people are reclaiming their heritage.
Except for native people, we don't tend to dig up or 'reclaim' our ancestral heritage. No offense, but mostly only non native people tend to do that. 'Digging up', removing and transporting for a 'collection' the accoutrements, tools or textiles of my ancestors is sacrilege. It's not any different than going to a centuries old castle graveyard and digging up the people to have a look at their burial items, bones or teeth. When natives have to get involved, it's not to collect archaeological points, trinkets, or popularity or to rework history. It's to assure to the best of their ability, that precious artifacts that should have been undisturbed forever are handled with the dignity, the respect, and the reverence they deserve. And we are already connected with our ancestors. It's literally the way of life.
Except the "Natives" are not the FIRST to populate the Americas and THEY know this and so does the government. There were peoples here long before the "Natives" supposedly crossed that land bridge and scientists are finally having to admit that!
@@HELLRZR-nm3vv Thank you for sharing your opinion as a native person.
How do you know it's a native?
Awesome!!!
So beautifully done!
Thanks đ
Finally a real history channel this is great
Gosh that was amazing, so much looking back on the past, something good out of the ice melting
Interesting that the same thing is happening in different parts of the world. Thanks for this film.
Thinking about it, it does kinda make sense: we're used to the continents being separated, but even the ancestors of indigenous Americans migrated from Siberia/Asia, so prior to that there could've been interaction with indigenous European peoples. Even long after the split, enough cultural memory could've remained that they made similar tools despite being so distant.
Plus, even with all different cultures, people are still people.
I also enjoy learning about distant cultural similarities (for example, a little while back I read something about similarities between the Celts and Indian--from India, not outdated term for indigenous Americans--cultures).
Regarding the hunting animations, the animals would NOT just drop after being struck by a spear, arrow, or dart. The point is to make the animal bleed out, which takes time. The animals would have run away, needing to be followed by the hunters.
Welcome to "dumbing it down for the childlike". It's called "science communication"; just like the rest of "journalism" today, a story doesn't have to be accurate, just free-wheeling, imaginative and ENGAGING!
Fabulous documentary!âđž
The technology and way of life that changes with the change of earths climate and how people changed how they lived and survived. Itâs amazing the discovery of how our ancestors lived in the past.
Thank you for uploading this
Wow!...thankyou for sharing
WOW! No other words. Thank you for a fabulous video.
In Australia aboriginal people have used the woomera for 10s of thousands of years. Amazing how different cultures come up with the same ideas a world apart
Western Australia here too. đ
Because the Atlatl is 70k year old technology.
Wow, amazing finds. The first people must be delighted with these items.
I wonder what else is hiding under all that ice and snow? WOW!!!
A ton of artifacts there
The ice age covers with ice and warming covers continents. Check out the lost continents of the planets. We know nothing of our origins.
@@achillesbuilds2432 u mean there's more than 7? Is this including the one that was divided into the 7 continents?
@@kenyettaready I'm not sure about all of that tbh my friend. I was mainly referring to the content of Mu. I've been on that lately. It supposedly connected Hawaii and the Easter islands. Supposedly the reason for the statues at Easter was to keep the water back. Researchers believe they may have sailed then to what is now Peru and migrated north.
@@kenyettaready Pangaea
This is an amazing documentary
One of the absolute best!
This is insanely cool !
Timeline I LOVE HISTORY â„ïž I love Arrowhead Hunting Rock Hunting and Collecting etc.... I'm addicted to Arrowheads & Arrowhead Hunting â„ïžđ I love Arrowhead Hunting â„ïžđ
As do I. Though, I've never found any, my luck bad luck I guess. I do, however, have a few that a buddy gave me from Arkansas.
Fascinating đ I'm in love with "History Hits" đ Please tell me you'll never stop!
I love history such as this I can't get enough.
That was fantastic!
That was great ! I've found many many arrowheads , possibly spearpoints , pieces of pottery , parts of cultivation adzes but this stuff is absolutely to be cherished.
Nice cinematography , great narrative ! Huuay and thank you !
Great comment , Jeanne . I myself have found many arrowheads as well.
Intriguing and fascinating!
Awesome finds
AWESOME!!!
Love this .
An absolutely great documentary
Wonderful documentary.
Thanx for the Reminder ! i recall it now .
wow! great show, thank you!!!
WOW i am so happy that there are people with knowledge and locals making an effort to collect , study and preserving this objects that tells the history of truly Americans for future generations to come . Greetings from Minneapolis Minnesota đđ
Simply amazingâŠ
Absolutely enthralling. đ€Ż
Wow! Thank you for sharing this fantastic information. And so good it is appreciated so much by its present inhabitants.
Beautiful Story!
most wonderful video thanks for sharing
From what I've learned about the climate and north America we are seeing the earth change the climate.
Amazing. Some really beautiful items recovered and I love the story that it tells us about the people who were here before us in North America. Itâs not so easy to sell this story to the archaeologist in the south eastern United States. I think sometimes they have cotton inside their heads. I found some artifacts and other people I know have found artifacts and anytime we take them to the archaeologists they just downplay it and say that theyâre not that old I even caught one archaeologist not identifying one artifact that he had already identified earlier. Sometimes I think it says if they are frightened and they donât want to know more because they are comfortable in their little bubble. I always thought that science was supposed to be about learning more and advancing knowledge but sometimes in the United States if I didnât know better I would say that some of the people I have met are trying to keep a lid on things and deliberately frustrate the efforts of normal people like myself from being involved in archaeology anthropology or the history of my own country. Itâs disheartening and frustrating. It also makes people not trust archaeologists.
Fabulous!
was excited to here about research about the Sami. part of my ancestors were Sami. i want to know more about the ancestors.
I was also happy to hear that. I hope they are able to lay claim to artifacts found like the First Nations of the Yukon have. The Sami people have lived on that land for 100s of years. They live with Nature and their culture should be respected. They and First Nation people have a lot to teach those of us who are less connected to our past.
Excellent Doco, This Research should done in Antarctica & Greenland more, as well ..
Lol. There weren't people living in antarctica at all.
The animals were ...
Great video
Beautiful story of Beautiful people finding themselves again.
Usually Iâm more interested in historic artifacts versus prehistoric ones, but this was fascinating.
I'm the exact opposite, but I can certainly see why you are. I guess I see more mystery of things that are just coming to light after thousands/tens of thousands of years. Take care Robâđ»đčđč
cool stuff so where did all the branches they made these come from ? how far were the forests ?
so they are being exposed as in they were lost and at some point covered :) so its more like just going back a bit in time to what it used to be like and seeing the places ancient people used to be walking on and now we are walking on the same ground they did
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!
Ancient Mayans along with other ancient civilizations used those exact same darts/spears as well..Kinda crazy..
U'r Correct But as to Video...
Disagree! An Atlatl weighs Less 1/6th of a Football. From High Sch, NCAA, NFL - accurate throw of >65 yards by many Quarter-backs, Landing a Football right on a Running Wide RECEIVER's hands is easier than Atlatl throw exactly into running game - when human hunter is Hungry. U say 20 yrds - it is idiotic!
@@SchrodingersPussyCat so how many yards do you think the atltal can soar for hunting ?
@@MainStreamRegimeDemocrats u asked
Keep in mind ALL those ancient people's were to SHORT , so definitely they need something to to help hunting and kill the prey.....
Thanks to the web and CZcams and those make and post these shows I am able to travel around the world and learn about ancient people's. I am truly grateful.
How many warm and cold periods affected their living patterns? So AWESOME!!!
Amazing.
Mesmerized. Fascinated.
Wow . This is amaizing
That's like finding a Clovis point down here in Texas.
I think it is much more!
I just sobbed watching this!
Thank you
Amazing artifacts
Finally! Back to the ANCIENT history! Itâs about time đ
It's Paleolithic and Mesolithic. Not ancient.
That his DNA matched people who still live in the area is mind blowing. What a great feeling it must be to have found such an old relative on the family tree.
Just a few hundred years.
This is so cool!đŻđ
I wonder how his family feels? Iâm glad they were able to get DNA from him and find out something helpful.
"I'm just going to the store for some milk."
@@dianesmigelski5804 history is clown scientist selling a story to the people.
This is so cool idk why more people seen this video
This was amazingly beautiful thank you so much from Milwaukee Wisconsin USA
I'm surprised the darts can be thrown so accurately considering how crooked they are and how flexible they are when thrown.
Perhaps the weight of the stone point keeps it on target.
It's the feathers that keep the back of atlatl behind the front of it. Not the point
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"
very good
I don't know if you can say a 5-9,000 year old body is your relative because your people may have lived there a few hundred years. Look at ancient Egypt or other old civilizations, they were different, some of their genes may live on somewhere, but people have always been travelers, they may intermingle or just push others out. Ancient civilization is very fascinating and should be preservered.
What size was the moccasin? This is the most interesting video I've ever seen. I love a more natural approach to living.
Dang...they had penny loafers 1500 years ago đ
So the "wobbling" movement created by the atlatl works like the rifling in a gun barrel, creating rotation that keeps the projectile stable in flight. Fascinating technology that has stood the test of time.
I hate it when everyone says "it's all melting". then this happens.....May 2022
The May 1 survey shows snowpack continues to be record-setting in the majority of Yukon basins, due to both historically high snowfall throughout the winter and a colder than average month of April delaying the onset of snowmelt.
Eight of eleven monitored basins have the highest recorded May 1 basin snowpack estimate, while the remaining three basins have well above average snowpack.
The record-setting snowpack in many watersheds creates a high potential for spring snowmelt driven flooding in Yukon communities.
But the stock answer is that the higher snowfall is more evidence of global warming due to bigger storms. When you know how to spin things you can spin them into whatever you want or need.
As the earth warms the moisture in clouds increases causing heavy rain or snow.
That's why you hear more about flash floods and heavy snow world wide.
It's on the news all the time now.
Don't forget glacier national park that is growing and the road to it this summer blocked with twenty feet of snow and the park service had to remove ALL the signs saying the glaciers would ALL be gone by 2020. I guess global warming has nothing to do with science at all. Oh and the greenland ice sheet that grew by gigatons during the melting season. Oh the the great barrier reef that's been growing for years now and the Pacific that has been cooler at the equator for the last three years. What happened to that trace gas they cry about? Oh yes. It's increasing while the earth cools. Odd.
@@beachbum200009 well if warm causes snow then snow causes warming. We better heat up the earth quickly
@@woodspirit98 Your kidding... right???
I love that everyone is so professional and providing education, and that Ol'Timer just comes along with his lack of F@*ks and says, "All the $@IT in these hills proves it." Perfectly said, sir. No notes.
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How deep would the ice have been at the time these items were lost?
Probably ranged between 10-60 feet deep, with varying thicknesses in different areas, Iâm guessing. Maybe a bit thicker than that.. but not much, because it would then turn into glacial ice instead due to the weight of the thickness of the ice, which in turn wouldâve destroyed the artifacts. Thatâs something Iâd like to know the info they have on that as well. But based on what I know about geology and glaciers, as I studied geology, and from what one could see in the video, I think thatâs a fairly good estimate:)
At 7-00 minutes they show something similar to a weapon we used as kids. We called them sling arrows and we used string to throw them.
Very interesting! May be another Ătzi is found there in future? ;)
I think this is Amazing coming from a nation my self with a civilization 60,000 years strong!! We have to learn our history for sure. But once we have learnt enough of an item and what it was and does. Then that's it!! The experts need to leave the remaining to be apart of the Earth. I hope that makes sense. Thankyou for some beautiful parts of history. When one lived to survive with his or her group. But who lived in a world I'd give anything for to have lived. Purity in its most beautiful form.
WAY cool. A lone hunter or traveler in a region with scant written or even oral records, and he can be connected with 17 live humans living in the region today. Oriental, Middle Eastern, Eastern and Western Europeans, even New World cultures have enough documentation to trace lineage back hundreds of years. Now First Nations can also!!!
It's amazing to me how closely related the spear is to the modern hybrid bullet design. They even behave the same ballistically.
i just pushed play on this here and im watching till the end my friend....
Man was not meant to live the way we live today for thousands of years man hunted and moved around and live in the wild then man got tame and now wonders why things are not working in his favor
Its a great documentary but an old one. I believe i watched this particular one 2 years ago.
I wonder why everything found seems to come from a block of time, considerably later than human activity in these same areas. It seems to me that there must have been a warm period that melted the ice, thus destroying items that were, say, ten thousand years old. Perhaps during the Roman Warm Period.
They do get modern stuff also it's just pretty easy to tell which is old
Oh no doubt. There could have been things lost that are 10-20 thousand years old as the earth does go through significant warming-freezing periods.
Right after the younger dryas it was much warmer than it is now.
Proves my ancestors indeed crossed the land bridge
I am interested in the geological history of this area they are showing. The rocks would be glacial debri, but they are not worn down like the ones I've seen, they have acute angles and some are sharp. The mountains have very sharp angles to them.
They aren't worn round because it's an ice patch that doesn't move down the hill.
We made these as kids but used a knotted string fitted to a small groove cut in the arrow which gave us leverage to hurl the arrow many meters.
Over the years i been hunting and gathering ive stumbled on soo many stone tools especially Atlatl and arrow points. I was told to respect such items and not to disturb them for they are my ancestors toolsđđđ