Hunting with Clovis. Full Documentary

[@huntprimitive9918]

New Clovis Documentary using what we learned in this project is available at this link kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2PImKicr6l7pc0

[@storyart2990]

잘봤습니다.그런데 아메리칸바이슨은 보호종이 아닌가요?

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

The information in this documentary is just incredible! Great job putting this together. 👍

[@mammothnostalgic10kbc24]

The greatest team-up

[@RobertWoodward-k5d]

Chad u are special ; wish i could have ben with u on that video making the bow & all , I didThat when young , u did much better job

[@sibturn7656]

This is quite possibly the best KZbin video I have ever watched

[@DennisTaylor-tk7qf]

The best I've ever seen I'm into this kind of hunting 😊

[@williamhart8087]

Amazing historical information! Nobody does it any better than Ryan and I appreciate the opportunity to learn.

[@Flintknappingadventures]

AmazIng to see anyone doing this in modern times

[@ProxyMaestro]

Some of the best content on the internet. Thank you.

[@Flintknappingadventures]

Agree

[@jimajello1028]

This is the most comprehensive & informative video I have ever seen on the history of the Clovis culture in relationship to an actual hunt. A great tool that takes theory & puts it to the test. Very detailed documentation system that is a great value to reconstructive archaeology. Also a wonderful dedicated team of people that worked together. I have spent 20 years on the manufacture and fracture mechanics of Clovis tools using only organic materials. I have had the privilege of studying with Dr. Errett Callahan, Bob Pattern, Bob Winters, Scott Silsby & Jack Cresson. This would make them all very proud of the work & research you have done on this project. Thank you for all your hard work & sharing of your team effort to make this so incredibly informative. Vincent James Ajello (Lithic Technologist/Researcher 32 yrs.)

[@shawnwalker4936]

The part where they’re spearing the bison is phenomenal! Like you could see that exact thing happening centuries ago.

[@Flintknappingadventures]

I thought the same

[@jimajello1028]

Clovis hunts were happening thousands of years ago. Bison hunts continued into centuries ago, even though the hunting tools they used changed from the original Clovis equipment used.

[@christianlaesser9079]

I had an adrenaline rush while watching. Specially when all where chasing it and someone shouted to the woman filming that his spear must be somewhere near her. She picked it up while running and continued. Beautiful! Everybody was fully integrated in the hunt - and in its rush.

[@shawnwalker4936]

@@jimajello1028 so i totally get what you mean, I know that these were used by a culture that existed an unfathomably long time ago for regular hoomans like myself to comprehend. It’s just easier to say “hundreds of years ago” instead of giving an exact date, that’s my bad.🤣

[@fellipedasilva99]

The bison: “Wait I’ve heard they haven’t done this in millennia.”

[@brettsmith4962]

This is an incredible documentary. Television discovery channel quality. Thank you for all your hard work!

[@dennisstolte1103]

What a tremendous documentary on Clovis, Ryan. What an interesting and illuminating project. Once again I learned more from one of your videos than I did in a semester of anthropology classes lol. The relative effectiveness of small vs large projectile points was particularly fascinating. Congratulations on your and your team’s great work. I hope you submit it to major archeological institutions and universities. You all deserve honorary degrees!

[@Flintknappingadventures]

Agree on sending to academics

[@earlshaner4441]

Good morning from Syracuse NY everyone thank you for sharing your information and adventures in history

[@galdanith]

When it comes to kinetic energy, you were definitely always correct about smaller projectiles. There's a reason in baseball that corking bats to cheat was a thing- it's a lot more efficient to make a small thing go super fast than it is to make a medium size thing go kind of fast. It's also worth mentioning that the overhand throw is the fastest action a human can perform(the fastest throw in all of nature!), and making the spears massive and heavy completely wastes/negates that strength.

[@kyledexheimer6548]

There are limits to everything and points of diminishing returns. How light can you make a spear before it doesn't have sufficient momentum to penetrate a hide? Blow darts are going at a much higher speed than an atlatl dart, but it would lack the mass to deliver that energy into the target. How light can a spear be before it lacks the rigidity to effectively deliver the energy into the target? You can't shoot pool with a piece of rope. I think you are ignoring that Ryan mentions that the longer heavier spears also had more flex and wobble to them, which makes the delivery of the KE in them less efficient in addition to all the other problems they had. The shaft is absorbing some of the energy of impact by bending like a spring rather than forcing the body of the animal to absorb the impact. I am sure if you had darts with the mass of these heavy darts, that were stiffer and had the same shaft diameter of the lighter darts, the heavier darts would have better penetration. "Primitive" people were limited by the physical properties of the materials which were available. Much like Ryan acknowledges with the Ashby Experiments, ancient hunters created the optimal designs for the technology and materials they had at their disposal.

[@jillatherton4660]

Almost my bedtime in UK, LOL. Something to accompany my Sunday 'Full English'. TY Ryan. 👍

[@shanereep1065]

I think that I have been wait ing on this documentary my whole life! Thanks Ryan Gill and Hunt Primitive crew that were involved absolutely amazing !

[@martinfletcher6250]

I love the fact that you don't hide your mistakes, great video as always.

[@lindseyzacek5211]

You're just incredible and to make a Clovis point and hunt with it that's just great... and very impressive

[@Flintknappingadventures]

Agree

[@demoncore5342]

Awesome document. Actual hunt and processing, instead armchair experts sharing the general consensus in big production... Super informative and captivating, the hunt footage really got my blood pumping!

[@memorycamp4990]

Unbelievable. What a wonderful demonstration of what it took to thrive back then. It really does take a village. I found the processing section extremely fascinating. You never quite think of all the hands and workflow needed to get the job done. Props to you and your Hunt Primitive tribe and all our ancestors that came before us. ❤

[@dillonrobertson6372]

This is fascinating, amazing to see how our ancestors crafted weapons and worked together on a hunt to bring down such a beautiful creature

[@SchoolOfSauzule]

This is absolutely fantastic. Ever since I've found your channel/website I've been entranced.

[@mchervino]

Watching now. Fantastic. Makes me appreciate my one Clovis even more immensely!

[@realtaiter3991]

I can’t get over how sharp he can get his skinning blade. It’s so satisfying to watch.

[@stevew2347]

This is awesome content. Thanks for sharing your knowledge Ryan 👍

[@austinlong7700]

Great Documentary!!I boots on the ground always teaches more than theorizing/speculation. I was glad you put this together and shared it for the data’s sake not caring what a certain type of person might say about it. Very important!!

[@pistolpete1332]

I wish you had been my history teacher would of took more notice found your videos maybe 2 years ago and I've learnt more from you than I did at school

[@lancemcilwainoutcastmetald5398]

Ok. This is the greatest documentary i have seen on clovis And i have been flint knapping for 29 years. Good job

[@user-mb4se6km5p]

Wow great for tonight, thank you

[@larryreese6146]

Fascinating Ryan. As I watched the hunt I could see a real reenactment of what must have been taking place 15000 years ago. I've been around enough bison and cattle to realize the potential danger your hunters were facing and the real danger faced by early hunters. Good entertainment, good information, good job all the way around. Thanks.

[@Flintknappingadventures]

Imagine it with mammoths 😮

[@Frozenwinter84]

This is amazing, fantastic video. Those flint tools were incredibly effective at butchering.

[@Scrap5000]

This is the most epic thing I've ever seen in my entire life, and I wish I could give it 1,000,000 likes!!

[@SkeeterMcBeater]

The Clovis people were smart & tough. Whatever took them out must have been something powerful. Such a cool channel.

[@bobskywalker2707]

Nothing "took them out". The culture simply changed over time.

[@keithricketts4867]

Clovis is the name of the area the first points were found.. it's not even where they originated from.. so, "Clovis people" is extremely inaccurate..

[@bakters]

That pack of top predators chasing the prey! Unforgettable, and I wasn't even there.

[@veteranironoutdoors8320]

My excitement has now come to fruition! Time to watch

[@nadiaetheridge3863]

This is the most bad ass stuff I’ve seen in my 20 years of life.

[@andrewflorek4533]

Amazing film, youre helping more then the guessing games archeologists will play. Putting tools to the test is such an awesome thing to see.

[@MrJsv650]

Not something you see everyday, very interesting. Those spears are massive imagine a huge 🐘 crazy. Cool that health primitive joined in as well.

[@ericschultz2730]

Probably one of the most historically accurate hunts I've ever seen. Between the team work, communincation and the not so ideal situations going on during the hunt. One can definitely see how very similar if not damn near identical hunts going on since the dawn of our ancestors becoming hunters. But also, Ryan have you heard of the tactacam? They make a head mount that's decently low profile that I feel would give you an awesome POV angle of your future primitive hunts.

[@sagnorm1863]

Not exactly. These guys were amazing. But compared to real stone age hunters, they were absolute amateurs.

[@johnbosley4485]

This is exactly how I have always pictured the mastodon Hunts in my head. This is really great to see in action

[@Sheepdog1314]

my favorite style points - fluted... ..thank you...

[@fellipedasilva99]

The bison: “Wait I’ve heard they haven’t done this in millennia.”

[@coleyslone4988]

Great job! The most educational thing I've seen. Everyone needs to watch this.

[@earlshaner4441]

Outstanding job everyone and thank you for sharing your hunting video and everything else you have shared

[@mountaingoattaichi]

So excited to watch this. Love it!!!

[@janrobertbos]

Wooooooooow.........paleoarcheology in its finest form..........................thanks Ryan and team, greetz from the Netherlands!!!

[@williamwarner6036]

The hunting group dynamics are some of the more interesting parts of all of this, and were probably far more similar to what happened in antiquity than many might think. Humans are pack animals, and having recently watched both wolf and lion pride hunting & takedown of large animals, the same pack dynamics were in evidence. That also speaks to why humans were so successful. A pack of relatively slow modern humans still have the instinctual pack hunting behaviors and even with non-optimized pointy sticks can bring down a large animal. Excellent work!

[@YooperScooper]

Loved every minute of this.

[@Saber23]

I’m glad I’m here so early, thanks Ryan for everything you do I can already tell this is going to be great 🙏

[@Bhartrampf]

What a tremendous set, top rate craftsmanship

[@earlshaner4441]

Outstanding experiment with friends and writing down the data everyone

[@HipposHateWater]

This is wonderful. The point at about 30 minutes in about comically-sized points vs reality from excavations reminds me of a lot of parallels with the late-Medieval & Renaissance. People envision these big, hulking broadswords being used, but during the 1300's -1500's, it was mostly all about narrow, almost awl-like points so that thrusts could make it through thick doublets and all that multi-layered woolen clothing in general. (Wool & linen are a lot harder to cut/pierce through than most would think!)

[@dougkenney8807]

Ryan, amazing job as always! Wish I could give you more than 1 thumbs up.

[@Will-No-Co]

Your hard work is really advancing our knowledge base of prehistoric man. I like the real world testing done here.

[@fishboy4532]

Very cool documentary thank you for doing this

[@user-np8nx5r]

عدنا إلى العصر الكلكوليتي أحسنتم تحياتي لكم من فلسطين 🇵🇸✌🏿

[@veteranironoutdoors8320]

Just finished watching, loved this documentary and especially the hunt, that being a group hunt with each member getting a good slice of the action. Would love to see this done again with members armed with atlatl of your previous construction/use on bison or bow and arrow. Really looking forward to the future data set results from this hunt!

[@hottellz]

Thanks for what you do!

[@jmwnycprr]

Fantastic video and very informative. It gives me new prospectives on primitive life.

[@jadeddragon4254]

Wow., Amazing. You can clearly see how effective this method was and still is. It almost seems familiar even though I've Never done it

[@bracoop2]

Hey Ryan, thanks for this!

[@shanereep1065]

Nicely done from Hunt Primitive!

[@coltonkizziah-lc5pu]

Thank you for videos like these! I love primitive arts and people like you reteaching them just amazes me! I've learned most of my flintknapping skills from you and I thank you very much!

[@pamtnman1515]

You are so cool, Ryan. Very very cool

[@brycehutchens133]

Been waiting for this! Excellent so far!

[@armyman29340]

Just curious, but have you ever thought about investigating other aspects of stone age hunting and living? Like, for example, shelter, and other aspects? I'm thinking about a hunting trip including living, while on the trip, in the stone age immersion.

[@lancemcilwainoutcastmetald5398]

Best video on KZbin

[@jacobopm]

Amazing. Great work. Thank you.

[@northicaotearoa8706]

Awesome documentary thanks for all your hard work!

[@midwesternoutdoorsandnatur8272]

Pretty cool. As a seasoned hunter of 35 years watching this got me wanting to get a knife in my hand to join in slicing up the kill. Real world techniques, not just literature- nice work!

[@markbranham8100]

Like stepping back in time love the videos keep it up

[@grahamkerr2803]

Just discovered your channel Ryan, fantastic ❤❤.

[@johnpalmer447]

Been really looking forward to this.

[@xT1NK]

Really awesome 👍👍 this is my new addition to my bucket list super jealous haha!!

[@humperdink46]

Amazing, great work guys

[@xserpnt8468]

I'm so glad you mentioned the younger dryas

[@stephenmillard4973]

Important stuff. Thankyou!!

[@sharpfactory3705]

There is so much wisdome in this video its amazing

[@uncletoad1779]

Absolutely impressive!

[@07huaste]

great documentary , amazing!!

[@Woodswalker27]

Absolutely phenomenal. I’d love to hear reaction videos from all the anthropologists and academics after watching this.

[@brycehutchens133]

Me too!

[@thejackal5099]

I've seen North 02 refer to HuntPrimitive's content. He's a KZbinr though, probably not an academic, but puts out interesting content.

[@PatrickSmeaton]

Amazing work!

[@angusmcprepper9379]

outstanding video! thank you for posting. subbed.

[@chucklearnslithics3751]

Interesting observation for excurvate geometry. I've assumed deep hafting, and resharpening in the haft, as a plausible explanation, but sometimes a little ex-arch can produce some new thoughts. Thanks for bringing up protein residue analysis. I think that's such an important technology. It's cool to see data building about what kinds of animals various point types and assemblage were in contact with.

[@vikingskuld]

Thank you for the video. I feel the absolute worst and most disturbing thing academics could ever do is write papers about opinions that they have NEVER TRIED IN THE FIELD. like man killing off all the mega fauna that comes from no common sense and life experience lol. Thanks for the video. I really appreciate what your doing and how much effort you put into your work. I really can't commend you enough for actually doing what your studying. I think it's the only proper way to study a topic .

[@kyledexheimer6548]

Many of the species had survived climatic changes on par with what happened around the time humans showed up. Human hunting likely was a factor, maybe just not the only one.

[@brianramsey3824]

Great vid. Idk just a question just like u say the arrow shafts are long gone. With your experience of using these tools are u convinced they used non handled tools or mignt they been able to accomplish more work with handles that are gone?

[@csluau5913]

That was a great project. Top notch marks for experimental, archaeology, and learning to understand our ancestors and how and why they did things the way they did. Better than you would ever learn in any archaeology class. I think archaeologists are starting to understand that experimental archaeology is where the action is :-) that being said, that was a really good hunting and butchering exercise. It’s amazing how much you learn doing things hands-on. I dabbled in learning how to hunt with a bow and arrow once upon a time over 20 years ago, and found I was terrible at it. I kind of wish I had stuck with it, but I didn’t. I’m starting to lean back towards it again now, but I would really love how to use an atlatl and a bolo. I did actually learn how to use a sharp stick, a staff, and a thrusting spear with a cutting edge on the end of it. There’s a technique. It wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. I have dabbled in amateur archaeology on and off for years. I found quite a few stone tools and leftovers from ancient people when I lived in England years ago. We found a tool manufacturing site at the bend of a river flood plain that the archaeologists on the project dated all the way back to the ice age, so there were artifacts found in the river valley from the upper Paleolithic, meso lithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Viking invasion and settlement periods in England. It was amazing. So much history in one place. It’s a little bit different here in North America. The ancient people, ancestors of the Native Americans did indeed, and still do use the ribs. They have an ancient tradition, which is older than they can even say about how they do not waste any part of the animal. Nothing. Every single part of it is used for something, even if they only use it to feed their dogs. The ribs even now are added into the stew pot, so the marrow and any meat clinging to the bones would’ve been consumed. Also, the rib bones themselves were used for tools, and believe it or not sometimes in later years for body armor. Especially with some of the earlier incarnations of defense against arrows. If you are able to tie them together, close enough and also add other things to them which caused them to deflect arrow points they actually work pretty well. Where do you think the idea of Breastplates came from? They are pretty much just a ritualistic thing that is used now in dancing to honor the ancestors, but they are not just a beautiful work of art. They served a purpose. The same as a gorget which went over your heart and your throat tied to a choker. It’s amazing. We have all these things right in front of us and for so long we didn’t know what they were, and how they came to be. I love your channel and I love watching what you all do. It would be nice to get a chance to participate in something like this, but I need to be in better shape, physically first.

[@rodmartin62]

It’s likely the amount of meat, bone, and hide taken from the animal would depend on how plentiful game was at the time. I don’t think there were any intentional ethical concerns involved. That’s a first-world concern. They would have been concerned with practical behavior. Plus, when you really think about it, nothing really goes to waste. Humans, predators, scavengers, insects etc will eat what’s left and even if the whole animal just died and decomposed into the soil it would still fertilize the grasses and trees in that area. So being concerned about meat waste etc is more about arrogance and being critical of others. Another first world problem. It really gets tiresome on the various hunting forums. 😀🏹

[@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat]

Atlatl* not “out lateral” 🥴😂

[@csluau5913]

@@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat don’t you just love voice text

[@csluau5913]

@@rodmartin62 there’s no way we can know exactly why people who lived in ancient times, developed their approach or existing philosophy about wastage or staying in balance with nature. We can only make assumptions and the rest we have to take on faith by what they tell us…but if you didn’t have to live through it, you’re not going to understand it. nothing to do with First world concern. I was taught not to waste water when I was a child on a farm. It’s nothing to do with politics or the amount of wealth that you have. It’s to do with the fact that if you wasted the water and you live off of the natural water coming from a well you can run the well dry. That actually happened. It’s more to do with her Bible, and you are correct… Existing conditions at a certain time. However, a lesson learned is a lesson learned. We are all basically, the sum total of the lessons and life experiences of those who came before us. We are taught certain things, practical, and otherwise by our parents who learned them from others when they were growing up, and so forth all the way back to early mankind. It is prudent to not “waste “anything if you can find a use for it. When I first started learning to make stone tools many years ago, I encountered these funny little quirky things that the archaeologists would call tools of convenience. They were dismissed them as artifacts, which I thought was stupid. They would say oh that’s just something that somebody picked up that was already naturally broken and they may have modified it a tiny bit so we don’t consider it an artifact. What a thing to say. So it doesn’t mean that we have to create a tool from scratch in order to use that thing as a tool. I can pick up a piece of wood and use it as a hammer or I can use it as a club to hit something. I can also sharpen one end of it slightly to make it into a weapon or to stick it into the ground for a purpose. I didn’t make the stick. I just used it for something. there are too many rigid barriers and rules when it comes to what we think and how we see ancient human beings. I don’t really think they were any different than we are. They just didn’t have the same types of technology or access to the materials that we do now. we should take more time to go back and rethink what we are doing to ourselves and each other now. Our ancestors survived because they were smart and resourceful and resilient, and they paid attention to what was going on around them at all times. How many people can say that now.

[@andreikovacs5943]

👍good informative hunt

[@C-24-Brandan]

Steve Rinella and the guys from meateater did a bison hunt using primitive weapons & blades . Was fascinating seeing the archeologists and people recording the data on it all & also the native tribe member who was repairing and resharpening the stone points etc. You should do a collab with them, do a hunt on maybe a elk or whitetail /mule/acis deer species and record it all. Maybe even do the meateater podcast as well

[@earlshaner4441]

I'm ready for the next video

[@davidsimpson2685]

This is living history and amazing.

[@jeffchandler8813]

A wealth of data for the Archeologist to study!

[@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat]

Before people complain about the hunt, remember no ones forcing you to watch 🤙🏼

[@HuntGuy101]

The miss one 3rd or second throw was hilarious 😂

[@2anonymous]

Adrenaline will do that.

[@makemoroccogreatagain8628]

Great vidéo thank you !

[@ianbruce6515]

That is an amazingly informative documentary! You have produced invaluble data. Congratulations! Thank you so much for doing this. This does a lot to deflate the Hollywood depictions BTW--it is pretty much established that hyenas are highly efficient predators--and lions are much, much more often scavenging on hyena kills. Hyenas hunt at night--which is why it took a very long time to determine that they were top predators

[@justinbressler7773]

Nice to see the casts of actual kill sites in a human hand. Makes sense that smaller points would penetrate deeper into the big critters, all you’d need to do is wound them…. Tracking a mammoth seems very doable, especially if it is mortally wounded. Even if it took days to die, the reward would be huge. Thank you for sharing all of this with us.

[@YoriMayoTvv]

Very nice videos 👍💪😃

[@savage_joe_plays9307]

I love this

[@Canadiancromagnon]

Excellent documentary. As a bison rancher and Cro-Magnon aficionado I endorse this documentary. Next trial should be 14 foot Comanche bison lance off horseback. Just a suggestion. The horse changed everything for humans. I would expect that the Magdalenians in Western Europe or perhaps the Solutreans in Eastern America had the horse under domestication. Heresy maybe, but probably true.

[@Wheelinhunter1776]

I'm only an hour in and it's yet another amazing video man. Watching you work together made me think how lucky we are that a pack of wolves can't throw an atlatl because that's exactly what this reminds me of lol.

[@Hidetannerslife]

I haven't got that far in the video but it would be interesting to see how the tools went through the hide and see the nicks and cuts as well as point holes in it. TY

[@bryce4934]

I’ve seen Tim Wells videos where he spears big animals, but that had to be one of the most insane, thrilling, amazing hunts I have ever watched. They talk about how dangerous grizzly bear hunts are, but this was on a whole ever level. Amazing work, everyone. I’ll glad everyone was okay. It was perfect work