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Great Experiment! The proposal and experiment by the dutch archaeologist is published here: www.sidestone.com/openaccess/9789088909382.pdf Page 123 - 126

Er cool Thanks

Great video

Fantastic video! What did you make the crucible from? If clay, what did you dp with it to make it wothstand the temperatures?

even if you hack through the visible roots, there are still plenty more roots underground so you would have to dig more and more as you go. that's a whole lot more work compared to just chopping at the trunk. not only that, but you can work standing up which would make it a lot easier. I see that they dug around the roots that you can see, which helps but still they're doing it the hard way by going for the roots. I assume neolithic man would have done it the way that requires the least effort, and this is definitely not that way.

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Stunning flint, and a wonderful museum! I’d love see the three stages of axe production!

Have you finished the polishing process? I would really love to see the final results, and know as well how many hours it took to completely even the surface. In the video it’s clear the enormous amount of effort and time that you’re putting in this piece, and I can’t even imagine how hard it must be, congratulations for your struggle through this gorgeous and amazing work of art :)

The flute is truly a masterpiece but what kind of lamp is that?!

Should wear a mask for protection from all that dust

Nice work. I found bronze flat axe, and i think is the shaft made same ways as that winged axe shaft?

What is your mold made out of?

just goes to show how advanced cavemen really were

... as German Biologist - I am 100 km from this site - and I wonder- was this Art traveling from Northern Africa with Migrants 40 000 years ago - bringing with them even more of their origins, cults and traditions?Makes it even more intriguing for me...

When I do this I will be debarking the trees a year ahead. I’m sure it will be easier to fell dry wood!

LION MAN OR JUST LION? "The Lion Man is a masterpiece. Sculpted with great originality, virtuosity and technical skill from mammoth ivory, this 40,000-year-old image is 31 centimetres tall. It has the head of a cave lion with a partly human body. He stands upright, perhaps on tiptoes, legs apart and arms to the sides of a slender, cat-like body with strong shoulders like the hips and thighs of a lion. His gaze, like his stance, is powerful and directed at the viewer. The details of his face show he is attentive, he is watching and he is listening. He is powerful, mysterious and from a world beyond ordinary nature. He is the oldest known representation of a being that does not exist in physical form but symbolises ideas about the supernatural." ------------------------------------------------ FACT CHECK: Mostly false. Granting that it is 40,000 years and skillfully carved it is clearly 100% lion and 0% man. This is easily confirmed by comparing the proportions of the sculpture with those of a lion and a man. There can be no question it is a lion. Lions in nature are known to stand upright on hind legs for a variety of reasons as any lion observer could tell us; doing so does not make a lion human. Not "from a world beyond ordinary nature", rather it is very much from the world of ordinary nature. It is common for archeologist to see "supernatural" or "spiritual" significance where none exists, telling us more about the archeologist than ancient man. Wild speculation has no place in science and that is no less true here.

Without words ... very nice!!!

Amazing

Nice, I currently also working on the very same thing. Winged axe but with the wings a lot more towards the back. What material did you use for the mould? I tried using fine sandstone but it is horrible to work with, the deep, narrow grooves just refuse to be worked on with simple tools.

That is some awesome work!!!

Good video and even better work!!

mix the ash with the pitch !

If you slide your hand up to the base of the axe head on the back wing, leverage won't be working against you. It also allows you to slide your hand down the shaft during the main swing, building up more speed. It takes longer for each swing in total but each chop is more effective and easier on your body. Please stop using a full axe like a tomahawk, your elbows will thank you for it.

The people using these were likely building waddle and dob structures, doesn't really make sense to take a tree that big at the roots when you could just take a 4-6" tree a few feet off the ground for good straight timber and next spring when the wood is seasoned the tree will have sprouted shoots for your woven walls. It's easier to move the timber of smaller trees as well as remove their roots for clearing farmland. Far better to just clear out all the small trees you can, leave what you want and burn out the big boys.

Not likely they'd fell the trees like that with those axes. They were alot smarter than that, and evidently smarter than todays modern man. There are many ways to take down a tree, this experiment shows the one technique they probably didn't use.

where did you buy /find all that flint ? :D

lsd flint ?! wow never saw anything like it, truly amazing, as is this video - cheers !

Selbst für einen gerne meckernden Misanthropen wie mich, gibts nix zu nölen ! Man sieht selbst als Laie, das da EINIGES an Übung und Expertise hinter steckt!

If the timber was planned to be used for construction and splitting... makes no sense why they would cut it down at the roots to fell the tree... if someone wanted a root from the tree afterwards they's still be free to go and harvest one but... cutting them all to fell a tree just to have to cut the root section off to split and get timber in an added time consuming step makes no sense unless... felling a tree with roots intact was for ritual/social reasons, like the one wooden henge found on an eroding seaside in Scotland or Northern England some years ago that was felled roots intact then moved & centered root side up in the air in a split timber henge. That would be the only reason I can see for felling a tree with most all primary roots intact.

It doesn't help that they don't know how to swing an axe

So now we know. Very good.

This truly is a great video thanks Wulf!!!

Nice work! I started grinding an axe 2weeks ago. It's small in scale but harder than a woodpeckers pecker. I'm 41 years old and I expect to be finished when I'm 81. :-) It was near impossible to Knapp so I had to peck it into a rough shape. It's solid and only quarts and granite stone seems to work in grinding it. Thanx for all your experimental history videos. They are very inspiring and fascinating.

That's real nice. I bet it will cut real sharp when it's finished. Thanx

Very nicely put together can't wait to see more. Just subbed.. thx

Whoever came up with the root theory knew nothing about felling trees.

Likely Created By Richard Wagner's Great Great Great Great Great Great Great (however many Generations) Großvater ...

Maybe the most impresive exhibition comes from realistic experience, just like your team makes. We send great applause from Korea. We wish to go Germany and see those exhibition. And meet you again in Jeongok. Thank you for awesome video.

Sad to see a tree cut down but nice experiment and tools none the less.

If you cover the pot with a layer of soil or sand or clay it will still heat through enough to distill the oils but won't take the direct heat which as you know can crack pots. Great work though. I think this is possible without fired clay pots using a simple formed fresh dried clay container made in ground and covered for protection from direct fire.

Very beautiful, and it answers my questions of how they were made!

What is the approximate age of the original auragnation flute from the cave?

It's a great interesting experiment. I enjoyed watching the your video. In Korea.

Great work and beautiful sound.. Are the numbers on a dimension mm or inch?

Danke, Wulf - schönes Video, toll gemacht. Und ein elegantes Ergebnis!

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing this!

Sympa la flûte mais c'est du bois ?

Where’d you get the ivory?

How fast was this compared to using comparable steel hand tools?