Minorca a stone's throw away (Documentary about Talayotic Culture of Minorca and Balearic slingers)

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[@terryjacob8169]

While on Menorca, in September, I watched a demonstration of Balearic slinging; downright awesome. No wonder the Romans keenly employed Balearic slingers as auxillaries to their Legions.

[@1788468]

Well done on this highly interesting and concise documentary. Greetings from Malta, a sister Mediterranean Island.

[@guitarockr]

Amazing so important is everyone's opinion in this video I don' t know why there aren't more views! well done you guys!

[@destmenorca]

+Huntsman Sling Thank you so much, We are glad you like it!! We did our best and it seems that there are not many viewers. Perhaps we should improve our SEO skils! Thanks for watching and sharing, Luis ":o)

[@kevinlazo6607]

Yo entiendo inglés! Hablo mucho inglés!

[@MrSanjayV]

I love this kind of thing, keep up the great work. Fascinating culture. Would those white projectiles be around the size of the projectiles used by the balearic slingers? Also was the Talayolic culture maybe started because of trade and interactions with empires like the Egyptians, like the palatial period for the Minoans? The introduction of advanced society from that direction seems a common theme in Mediterranean areas of the time, like Crete or Greece, maybe Minorca was similar.

[@destmenorca]

+RekturRectus 420 thank you! You are very kind and we are grateful you enjoyed the video! You can see the size of the original projectiles in this video. There is an image of them in 7 min 23 seconds. They are smaller than the ones you see in the watermelon shots! I suppose you are right about the origin of the Talaiotic culture as is evidenced by the discoveries!! Thanks for watching and sharing!! Luis ":o)

[@guitarockr]

It's pretty clear to me that Balearic slingers are the strongest slingers ever to walk the world. I evidence my opinion by the fact that they are the only slinging culture that has resisted the test of time to modern times. They have outlasted ALL other slinging cultures and that is a FACT.

[@destmenorca]

+Huntsman Sling I don't know if Balearic slingers were the strongest, but they were recruited so often!!

[@jeffyoung60]

I think you're right, but I read that slinging is still practiced in the rural regions of Peru as it has for well over a thousand years. But everywhere else for example, in the British Isles and in the Hawaiian islands where the indigenous warriors were ferocious slingers there is no remnants of the slinging culture, not even for cultural reasons as practiced in the Balearic Islands. There were reasons for this. The Welsh and English longbow evolution proved far more effective than slings. In Hawaii the introduction of the flintlock musket, the military unifications of the islands, the resulting long-lasting peace and introduction of Christianity spelled the end of tribal warfare and with it the sling. Yet no one in those places practices slinging for cultural preservation reasons. Also slinging needs a lot of open space for practice and safety. You'd be surprised to find slinging in places one never considered. I learned that ancient Mongolian shepherds used the sling to protect their livestock, despite Mongolia being the land of recurve bow archery. Slinging continued in Europe as late as the early 13th century where Flemish? slinger mercenaries operated in France against the English.

[@kickslinging]

@@jeffyoung60 Tibet as well still has slinging and a number of places in Africa use slings in herding. It could be argued that the Balearic Islands is one of very few places that retained slinging culture that treated the sling as a weapon of war, other cultures maintaining it as a herding tool primarily. Some Pacific Islands have very strong cultural connections to slings, particularly Guam which, in recent years, has made a big push into reviving its use.

[@primitivetechnologysling5420]

11:10 kill shot. You're welcome.

[@primitivetechnologysling5420]

That melon didn't stand a chance! Take a look at primitive technology sling vs melon!

[@vgamedude12]

400m!?! Wow

[@paullee5449]

Been there and have images of the stone burial chambers really spooky in one image I swear that there is a cloaked figure but there was nobody around when I took the picture !

[@leeloosaasindustries2295]

show se picture

[@raulloperagarcia7929]

español?

[@destmenorca]

Si lo quieres ver en Español tienes que buscar el vídeo "Menorca a tiro de piedra" y activar los subtítulos del KZbin, ya que al principio hablan en menorquín. Pero con los subtítulos no tendrás problemas! Espero que te guste! Luis ":o)

[@raulloperagarcia7929]

muchas gracias, por lo del menorquin no es problema, yo soy, hondero y menorquin

[@destmenorca]

+Raúl Lopera García Hola de nuevo! Qué bueno!! Entonces no tendrás problemas en entender a nadie y supongo que ya conocerás a Luis Pons Livermore! Te dejo el enlace al vídeo en castellano: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHvYiHiMmrGMiZI Nos vemos por la isla!! Un abrazo, Luis ":o)

[@raulloperagarcia7929]

Claro que lo conozco, somos amigos, y compañeros de equipo

[@raulloperagarcia7929]

un abrazo destmenorca

[@cara-de-montserrat]

THE MINORCA "TAULA": A SYMBOL OF RELIGIOUS SHIPWRECKS Many prehistoric fishermen from the Catalan coast, which were worshipers of the bull, after his shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea accidentally, reached the island of Minorca, due to the extraordinary violence of the North wind (called “Tramontana”, which can last a week). webspace.webring.com/people/or/ramonetriu/minorca-taula.html