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The Birth of a Tool by John Neeman

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Beautiful!

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I am impressed by these series of videos, but even to this day, I do wonder how one fashions a stone flint axe with only the environment as their set of tools to procure such a woodcutting tool.

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sda, one didnt really use stone in the same sense as cobblestone, they used flint. flint can carry an edge to such extent that you can make axes or spearpoints out of it, via knapping (or in case of an axe, bifacially knapping) it. All you do then is create a stick heavy enough to supprot the head, tie them together, and voilah

 

(these tools didnt last long you know, only enough for a few trees, and the knapping process is a LOT more extensive than one would think from TFC, here its just 2 rocks, wheras they used parts of animal to increase the control they had over a piece of flint, like punches or antlers to hold the rock in place. (flint knapping alone could easily take 10 seperate tools to improve, the first axe was probably just a very sharp piece of rock one banged against a thin tree for whatever reason, to see it fall over)

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sda, one didnt really use stone in the same sense as cobblestone, they used flint. flint can carry an edge to such extent that you can make axes or spearpoints out of it, via knapping (or in case of an axe, bifacially knapping) it. All you do then is create a stick heavy enough to supprot the head, tie them together, and voilah

 

(these tools didnt last long you know, only enough for a few trees, and the knapping process is a LOT more extensive than one would think from TFC, here its just 2 rocks, wheras they used parts of animal to increase the control they had over a piece of flint, like punches or antlers to hold the rock in place. (flint knapping alone could easily take 10 seperate tools to improve, the first axe was probably just a very sharp piece of rock one banged against a thin tree for whatever reason, to see it fall over)

 

Besides the flint part (I have forgotten about that one) I am pretty much aware of these things. I was simply expressing how impressed I am by how, despite their very limited use, flint tools were created by our ancestors, whose minds, though they haven't reached the level we have today, were very advanced for their time.

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IMO our ancestors were more advanced, they created new things from mere coincidences all the time, whereas it takes great effort to create something truly new nowadays :)

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IMO our ancestors were more advanced, they created new things from mere coincidences all the time, whereas it takes great effort to create something truly new nowadays :)

 

To be fair, we're talking about innovations that occurred over thousands of years, and which were probably made by what were likely the best and brightest of our species. Da vinci and thomas edison are probably good examples of modern(ish) people who have made comparable ground-breaking discoveries/advancements on their own.

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s/thomas edison/Nikola Tesla/

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