Artifact Identification and Analysis Part 1: Lithics

[@Jeonex]

I just want to say that the way you present information on the screen is so so good in allowing it to be understood. I think a lot of people overlook that but it genuinely really helps

[@juicebox86]

Love finding projectile points and other lithic tools along the Chesapeake Bay and her tributaries. Great video Professor!

[@MyBoomStick1]

Which tributaries do you prefer? I’ve been thinking about starting to look along the Potomac but haven’t followed through so far

[@juicebox86]

@ Any of them! Truly. If there is enough beach area to walk, check it out at low tide. Best place to look is where there are elevated plateaus of land directly above the waterfront. Look for a lot of erosion and fallen trees. Depending on if you are in Maryland or Virginia, you can walk the Potomac without worry of being on private property. Maryland law says you can be below the high tide line, but Virginia all states you need to be below the low tide line. In other words, if you’re in Maryland at low tide and you’re walking where the water meets the beach you are in public property. Just don’t share your spots if you find anything or else you won’t have it to yourself for long. I found many many along the Potomac.

[@cyberpunkchloe9]

I LOVE learning for free!!😍

[@marambula]

each video is like a strike of the stone, refining and reshaping into something more useful.

[@WorstofTrishula]

I really like how Professor can create a whole topic using only points and shapes alone

[@AnarchoReptiloidUa]

A comment to support this great educative video and channel. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@billsisler6589]

Cool, I'm an artifact.

[@glennpearson9348]

LOL! Me, too. Apparently, I've been an artifact for seven years now.

[@mattmurphy4635]

Me three!!

[@ThommyofThenn]

You are NOT trash. You are BEAUTIFUL OK.

[@ThommyofThenn]

Oh he just said objects over 50 are artifacts..well i can't dispute science sorry!😅

[@Rob_W]

Not trash, refuse.

[@Cryatrix]

one of my favorite videos you've made surprisingly and thank you so much for all this work you do for everyone, you are genuinely awesome

[@conwayfitzgerald]

Hurray! New Professor Dave vid!

[@Arkin647]

Imagine people 10,000 years later that found artifacts that are used today.

[@gunpowdergelatine6358]

These idols (Funco pop) seem to be figures of worship, as they are kept in perstine condition, placed in some kind of unopened box. Hmm yes and this one detecting a female horse has reproductive material on it, horses were used as labor in grain harvest perhaps a form for fertility and grain god

[@DaveWasThereMan]

Don't write your name on your sex doll.

[@nicksweeney5176]

​@DaveWasThereMan But, why not? Just askin'. It doesn't matter to me, anyway, cuz I always write your name on my "Party Dolls".

[@Gxlto]

I imagine them reading this comment.

[@infinidominion]

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[@twalt_twr]

This is cool but what do you think about the Final Experiment stuff

[@billmorse5724]

I remember having a reference book in high school that went over a lot of this. It was very basic, but interesting stuff.

[@janerkenbrack3373]

You rock! I should have gotten stoned before watching. And it's always best to get the hard tools out of the way first.

[@roncarney7445]

He definitely wasn’t knapping during this

[@innovationsanonymous8841]

F dude. I wanna get lithic so bad

[@ThommyofThenn]

You could say he was stone-cold about it!

[@TheDude0fLife]

We have flint ridge chalcedony here in Ohio. Millions of points have been made of it and are found all over the state and beyond. It can be very colorful when chunks were heat treated in a fire. The high silica content makes it very glassy and translucent. It's called the Vanport flint vein and it extends for miles and was formed metamorphically from thick built-up layers of ancient sponges on the sea floor.

[@kalkat02]

Hey it’s the guy from the mutahar video! Kidding, I’ve been watching your videos for quite a while now.

[@luthfil2728]

Wait, which vid?

[@kalkat02]

@ mutahar shouts out Dave in mutahars flat earthers video.

[@mattmurphy4635]

A lot of good info for beginners. I have over 500 artifacts from Northern Illinois. From thumb scrapers to drills to points. Most are broke but i have some killers too. My guess is the women did a lot of the knapping. Guys were out killing things to eat. And some are made so beautiful that I don't think a man would have the patience. Who knows. I also have points made from material that only comes from Montana. How did that get here 7-10 thousand years ago. No horses here. They had to walk. Or ride some king of animal. But nothing better than your heart skipping a beat when you lay eyes on a smoker sticking out of the ground.

[@higherdimensionaldes2042]

What’s your opinion on the drone sightings in New Jersey?

[@mattmurphy4635]

Nobody cares truthfully. Jersey is the armpit of the United States.

[@ezekielrohde9074]

As a kid I would write hundreds of letters to the future and throw them in the trash, because when I was a kid, my mom told me that archaeologists love garbage .😂 I really wanted some future archaeologist to find me lol

[@aaronarroyoofficial]

Hello Professor Dave! First I want to say I'm a new fan, as I was referred to you for basic Humanities courses (History, Philosophy, Language, etc.) I have a question. So I notice you have courses on Latin and Italian, do you plan on making courses for German anytime soon, if it is on the radar? Regardless of what the answer is, just want to thank you for the courses you do have on other topics 😊

[@b.jellis]

I'd be interested in your take on batons with holes in them.

[@galloe8933]

I have this old hand held tennis game from 78' and soon, it shall be an artifact!

[@NanikoBlossom]

I LOVE YOUR CONTENT, I CLICKED ON THIS WHEN IT WAS OUT 10 SECONDS AGO, DAVE FURINA, MISTA FURINAAAAA

[@Leeside999]

Please debunk Bright Insight

[@DaveWasThereMan]

Joe Rogan called him an expert.

[@Leeside999]

@@DaveWasThereMan That tells you everything you need to know about Rogan.

[@theonewhositsabovethetable]

Professor Dave what do you make of all this drone activity 😮

[@marambula]

it’s weird to me that people ask this. the videos he makes are great communication and very informative. why do we need his opinions on the news flavor of the week? his channel appears to “teach” not opine

[@theonewhositsabovethetable]

@ odd thing to say

[@jamiegallier2106]

Thanks Dave. ❤

[@ThommyofThenn]

2:47 freefolk be like "uhh dON't yA mEaN d rAgoN gLaSs?"

[@DarkColdfridge]

Please do a video on "the final experiment Dave"

[@deotank]

Great video! however, debitage is a more common term than lithic refuse..

[@DinorwicSongwriter]

Only one point I want to make, there is nothing anal about analyze. 🤣🤣🤣 just having a laugh Dave. Great video, thanks for the info.

[@gregorybarber8923]

How can I get a consultation

[@SanRafaelSwell]

Your description of darts and their use with atlatls is off. Obsidian lithics can be directly dated using obsidian hydration.

[@robchasing3140]

Yes that’s a dating method possible, the point was that if you radiometrically date a piece of obsidian, you’ll get the age of the obsidian, not the artifact. It’s noted there’s many other methods like thermolumanaciance that aren’t discussed. Also, I’ve always heard that atlatl projectiles are called darts. What do you call them?

[@SanRafaelSwell]

@robchasing3140 only the foreshaft and point are darts the whole thing is a spear. And dart points are more like spear points than arrow points. Clovis is a prime example.

[@NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi]

Where did you read this from? Wikipedia?

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

From the script that an archeologist wrote for me.

[@NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi]

@@ProfessorDaveExplainsoh that was nice of him

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Well I paid him.

[@Krutkneckt]

In his book, Atland eller Manheim, Olof Rudbeck The Elder proves that Sweden was the origin point of humanity and of all civilizations, what do you have to say about this?

[@BloxxingDinosaurus]

Analithis

[@MrMulleteer]

Day 1 of asking to debunk Unzicker's Real Physics

[@starry_wizard22]

I second this

[@montyspa6950]

In 50 years, my goon cave will be an artifact

[@magi7067]

jo man, fire vide. Thanks :)

[@pagjimaagjinen9733]

Imagine people 10 000 years later finding the tools we used to analyze old tools

[@TazPessle]

I worked abroad at a site that's attracted multiple phases of digs over the last 140 years or so. For some trenches, the most significant finds were modern trowels because it proved that they'd found the previous digs and then knew where the undisturbed archaeology was. I conserved these finds and they have their own museum case now.

[@jordanthomas4379]

GRAHAM HANCOCK video on the way??

[@Floridamantryinglife]

@ProfessorDaveExplains I’m always being constantly forced to be around Christian’s and listen to them no matter how much I don’t want to. But anyways, I gained the courage to ask “if god is omnipotent and omnipresent why does he punish me eternally for something he knows I’m going to do and made me how I am?” I worded it differently but that’s around what I said and they told me, before I say it, just know I don’t buy it but they told me, “God gives you free will, he’s omnipresent and he sees everything, Ok now, Picture a guy with multiple path ways and he has to choose. God has given you free will everytime you make a decision he sees every possibility but he gives you free will to choose.” Again I don’t buy it, but what were they even trying to say? I don’t know, because if he’s omnipresent then he would still know what decisions I would choose, so like? What were they even talking about??

[@spinnetti]

Had to look up what "BP" meant - Before 1950?.. that's really arbitrary, but useful I guess!

[@dr.KaalinLetos]

❤

[@AlexSchlessman]

50 years old is the criteria? Wow

[@Error_404_Account_Deleted]

Hell yea Flint Dibble 🤘

[@jaront6771]

I know this is unrelated, but I heard you got permanently banned from Twitter for some reason.

[@markc3197]

Who else thinks the Gobekli tepe needs more attention?

[@Zane-It]

My house is full of artifacts

[@ICTPerformance268]

🇦🇬 I AM an artifact.😢 🙇🏾‍♂️

[@EliotNess-c5b]

Tool Hancock debunk is cumin

[@tonywilliams1493]

Do the flat Earthers know you have made this video about state of the art flerf technology?

[@TheMoneypresident]

Paul Cook makes Terrence look smart.

[@RamPageMMA]

44 second no likes… you fell off lol

[@AlgisBogomol]

Heeeloooo

[@boboshoddmore]

aye it’s my major

[@glitteryroses]

7 minutes in, I have never been this earlyyy🥹🥹🥹