Inside Ohio's Experimental Archaeology Lab | Atlas Obscura
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- In a quiet corner of Kent State University, scientists are exploring innovative ways to study the past. We joined our friends at Gizmodo to visit Kent State University's Experimental Archaeology lab, where scientists recreate the artifacts they dig up, and then they put them to the test to see how they might work in the real world. It’s a way to learn about these ancient technologies, not only by making them, but by using them to see how they might have been used in centuries gone by.
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I had a archaeology teacher when I was in grade 12 and he had us make atlatl spear throwers and test them out out side. He would also create his own board games to teach things like trading in certain civilizations or migration of hunter-gatherers. It was super interesting and fun to learn about history by experiencing it in some way.
Amazing! That sounds so fun - and a really good way to get a hands-on feel for history.
I've always thought that way, get the kids out of the classrooms and show them why they're being taught what they're being taught, let them get their hands dirty so to speak, it's all well and good teaching Pythagoras for example but I always wanted to know what the reason was. If I'd been shown and been able to do practical stuff I might have done better at school, I couldn't have done worse lol
@@seanreign9623 lol wtf dude
I had to make one in 5th grade. Mine sucked. At least the bamboo stick and duct tape was pretty.
Has any of you even TRIED "Fire Polishing" :
I was hoping to ask if there were any one of the viewers and researchers who have run into the
tradition of "Fire-Polishing," the early skill of making wooden spears harder and sharper by
repeatedly burning then polishing with certain stones...
I remember reading something about it a long time ago, but these days it seems to have been
totally forgotten...
So much is said about stone and early metal sharps ( tips of arrows and spear weapons ) but
a much earlier form before there were metals available and before learning the craft of working
stone, the very earliest hominids had this ability...
From what I could discover, the continual repeated burning and rubbing eventually produced
a kind of natural glaze formed by the heat in reaction with flakes of the stone, which may have
been either a clay or schist, and clung to the wooden surface, then the heat would form a combination
material with the natural pitch, the wood and the glaze, which would in turn eventually create a
hardened surface...
A native American practice similar to this is the continual rubbing and firing of ceramics by early
potters, resulting in the powdering of the surface of the rough pottery to a fine glaze, which then
would be re-fired to a harder and smoother surface...
This skill is still practiced today by native American potters...
Therefore I was curious as to whether any one else with more resources than myself had been
pursuing this line of research...
Thank You,
J.P. Van Gordon
van42@hotmail.com
Wow this video makes a lot of sense I really enjoyed it thanks
2 things that came to my mind:
1) Dr. Berber looks like an Indiana Jones character
2) Why did it took so long to find out about this channel. Not even in my recommendation. Basically my path to find out about your channel video games-kids react to video games-kids react to food-kids show and tell their fav books and one kid showed her fav book which was an Atlas Obscura. Then I search Atlas Obscura on CZcams and now here you are
Dr. Bebber looks exactly how you'd imagine a palaeontologist would look
??? She's not a paleontologist though. Paleontologists study dinosaurs. Archaeologists study human artifacts.
Looks like fun! Who’d have thought.
It really is a fascinating way to look at the archaeology field. Excuse us while we, uh... investigate new career options...
Wow, 30 seconds in and I’m already questioning my choice to watch this video. Didn’t see frozen human poop knifes/brown crayons, slicing meat, coming. I’m bewildered, but now I have to see what the hell else is in this video. I guess good job?
It blows my mind that thousands of years of knowledge can be lost in a few generations
Can be lost in a single generation.
Flintnapping is done by hundreds of ordinary people every day. There are websites dedicated to flintnapping.
Lol I'm not sure I would describe knappers as ordinary! (I'm a flint knapper btw)
@6:08
So you're saying you have a theory about early man's musical relationship to igneous rock formations?
Early rock 'n roll!
Can you make a video on the mercury pools found in ancient tomb?? Did they place it there to use them as gold for the gods
This is so cool!! 🤩
6:07 does anyone know more on this subject of study of the creations of music? i always wondered where music came from and what sounds it was trying to imitate.
If this didn't already happen, these folks should be put in contact with HTME and Primitive Technology. xD
Where do you think HTME and Primitive Technology learned how to do it?
Michael Bebber Ph.D., Resident doctor babe
Another reason to be proud of my alma mater.
@3:03: Clearly not biologists. Antlers backward.
Any of you 'guys' ever belong to "Society of Primitive Technology" ? or EXARC?
Experimental archaeologists cringe at the term 'primitive technology.' But these researchers are undoubtedly aware of/apart of EXARC
@3:42: Flawed reasoning. Just because a tool in the archaeological record has a similar break does not mean it necessarily represents a "wood impact". That's the fallacy of affirming the consequent. Different causes can lead to similar outcomes. Ph.D., huh? Hmm.
I didn’t get the impression that they concluded ‘wood impact’ based on one experiment done by the reporter. I’m sure a bit more science went into it.
Yeah no shit. She wasn't going to give the guy a formal logic lesson for a five minute video. Simplifying things for public consumption is what good scientific communication looks like. Obviously her and every other archaeologist understands that different causes can lead to similar outcomes and that experimental archaeology proves possibilities not certainties. I'm sure you're super fun at parties tho
@@angelorobledo1536: Good scientific communication = flawed explanation? You sound smart, "tho".
"A few dozen experts". What lunacy. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of flint knappers who are very much experts. Typical academic snobbery.
Oh, so scientific data are divided into MEANINGFUL and MEANINGLESS. Who decides it? Some kind of World Scientific Commission for Classification of Meaningfullness of Scientific Data? Or an International Institute for Meaning in Science?
So who's the fecalpheliac?