The Archeology of Fire (Short Documentary)

A brief Archeological and ethnographical study of primitive fire-making. This is my first documentary, Usually I don't make documentaries, instead I make bushcraft styled videos and I tried to make it as professional as possible because I am very passionate about this topic. This video was made for educational purposes. Video is non-profit.
All media displayed in this video is displayed with either permission from the copyright owner, fair use, or is creative commons. If I failed to give credit, message me! (Rest of footage/ photographs are taken by me)
Music Credit:
-Deep Ambient (Version 60s) by Lesfm
- Ancient Ambient by SamuelFJohanns
Skyrim Soundtrack Far Horizons by Jeremy Soule
-Skyrim Soundtrack - Secunda by Jeremy Soule
-Tribal Music with voices by ? (From Pixabay)
Stock Footage Credits:
1.City night, Amit
2. Furnace blacksmith, Tima Miroshnichenko
3. Cooking food on stove, Cottonbro studio
4 .Microwave, Aghyad Najjar
5. Powerplant, kelly
6.Fixing a light bulb, Ricky Esquivel
7. Lighter in hand, kelly
8. Men making fire, Ton Souza
9. Bonfire at night, Yaroslav Shuraev
10. Grass burning on the field, Karamvir Jakhar
11.Thunderbolt, Pixabay
12.Footage of an active volcano, pressmaster
13.Drone Footage of Winter landscape of pine trees by Zlatin Georgiev
14. Head of an Bald Eagle by Mohammad Jabbar
14. Breathtaking timelapse view of meteor shower, Dmitry Varennikov
15. Bird on the seashore, Anthony
16. Ice Bear, Polar Bear by dianakuehn30010
17. Seal baby seal mammal beach sand by u_pv0eeuec71
18. Whales dolphins sea ocean water by Rockey223
19. Walrus Zoo splash hamburg thick by dianakuehn30010
20. Desert landscape dry hill by Kelly (pexels)
21. Timelapse of Joshua Tree National Park by Kindel Media
22. Sunlight Through the trees in old dark forest by One Seven
Information Sources:
-www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
- www.researchgate.net/publicat...
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www.scientificamerican.com/po....
- -www.sapiens.org/archaeology/n...
- Photographs sourced from Google images.
-Photographs and ethnographical information is majorly sourced from the book 'Primitive Fire: An Ethnographical Study of Firemaking Methods' by Walter Hough, Ph.D.

[@PaleoPassion]

Note from the creator, I may be overthinking this but Sorry if I was a little awkward through out the video, I wanted to use my professional voice, but I now realize the style doesn’t suit everyone. I am a bit camera shy and I’m willing to work on that by doing videos like these for practice. I will try to be more loose and more like myself in the next video project. Thanks to those understanding

[@catastrophee1]

Just be yourself! I think you did a great job. Keep creating, I love learning this stuff

[@newkurai9997]

Bro you did a fine job just maybe try a less professional vocabulary it would fit really well

[@joemccallister4883]

Heya, is that music from one of the elder scrolls games? Sounds familiar. Anyway, the music level is too high. Just a little bass-boost or high-pass filter on the mic would help too. Good video.

[@patmanly3215]

I agree. This video has fascinating and thorough info I was specifically looking for. But your tone was flat and bland. You sounded like you were reading from a script. (Of course, all narrators read from a script, but it is the interesting narrators that sound like they are winging it from memory.) Tex of the Black Pants Legion makes AMAZING documentaries. He will be a great mentor to follow. He's super generous with his wisdom so hit him up personally (BPL- Tex BPL ) and I'll bet he'll be delighted to help a new documentarian. I'll message him and let him know about you. Keep up the good work! I'll be watching more of your stuff for sure.

[@SkepticalZack]

I think it’s fine

[@johnp3937]

My son runs survival courses in south Africa. He's got the fire bow down to a fine art. I never get used to seeing fire started in this way. Always seems miraculous

[@lizziebrown326]

Great video! Learned a lot!

[@bauhnguefyische667]

If I ever get a Time Machine, I’m gonna take a case of Bic lighters back in time. Then I’ll sell them fire extinguishers.

[@Zoroff74]

Pro tip in general, forget Bic's, Clipper's cost essentially the same, but are refillable, plus you can change the entire spark mechanism, or just the flint. What Bic's can be better at is the flatter shape and smaller size of the minis.

[@aapex1]

Good work. Thanks!

[@PaleoPassion]

Thank you for watching!

[@goyoelburro]

I *LOVE* Anthropology and Paleontology!!! Just subscribed. Look forward to more.

[@PaleoPassion]

@@goyoelburro Heyo! Looks like we have something in common, I’m an anarchist dad myself! Thanks for stopping by, I’ll be checking out your content too when I get the spare time!

[@terrybrady1644]

Thank you 😊

[@PaleoPassion]

@@terrybrady1644 no thank you for watching

[@HipnoDark]

Ryan started the fire

[@UncleNiikii]

I found it very interesting and informative!

[@DoogiesEarthworks]

Great documentary brother.

[@pieinthesky4106]

Enjoy learning, thank you.

[@nickmendez5546]

I've always thought that the difficulty of starting fire is where the idea of an eternal flame came from. Once you get a fire going, you've got to keep it going. If there is at least one flame that's maintained in a village, everyone can use it to light their personal hearth.

[@nickmendez5546]

Also, in the Promethean legend, he stole it from the forge of Hephaestus on Mount Olympus. He was punished for this by the gods. I think this is an allegory for someone capturing an ember from a volcanic mountain, then becoming ill from the toxic fumes he was exposed to.

[@PaleoPassion]

Yes the prehistoric movie A Quest For Fire portrays this with hominids and other Native American cultures practice this too in some regions like the Pacific Northwest. Prometheus is a interesting story, it could be borrowed or influenced from an even older culture just like many other myths.

[@PercisePerception]

Amazing video. Thank you for the in depth knowledge. (perhaps next time you could make the music quieter so i can hear you clearer?) Again, fantastic video.

[@hammerheadtheseawing3263]

Been seeing this video in my recommended a couple times, wish I hadn’t sat on it for so long cause I thought it was pretty good! If you plan on doing more archeological/historical videos in the future, I would recommend citing the sources you use. You don’t have to cite literally everything, but just the general places you got your historical information, or whenever you quote something. It helps keep historical videos more professional and honest. Hope this helps!

[@PaleoPassion]

Hey I really appreciate this! I’ll cite some sources in the description! Next one is gonna be the Atlatl

[@sebastiansochanski]

👌

[@bardmadsen6956]

Looks like you are interested in fire. I know something about it that very very few know. Prometheus's First Fire from Heaven is about the destructive phenomena of The Taurid Meteor Stream. When we cross the nighttime Halloween Fireballs, The Taurids, they seems to emanate from The Pleiades, this is the Ancient New Year and all the fires would be put out to simulate impact winter and then New Fires would be made by old methods. BTW, it is global, also, said stream is estimated to be ~20ka.

[@Luschenjaeger]

I really enjoyed the video and hope to see more :) The only thing I would say is that the music is very slightly too loud for my taste, but again, great video and I subscribed either way :)

[@franckorphanos2998]

Just a question. Why are hominids always portrayed as dark . I would have thought it made more sense this skin was lighter.

[@PaleoPassion]

@@franckorphanos2998 great question, so our ancestors like our hominids and hominins here originated in Africa, there was lots of sun and would have been on the equator line. Light skin didn’t appear until human species migrated up north and far north there is a lack of vitamin D and this took thousands of years to happen. This is genetic mutation and This was the case for Neanderthals, experts think they were light skin and some had red hair

[@franckorphanos2998]

@@PaleoPassion I was thinking of the hairy ones. Most animals are white under fur . I do understand sun etc . And noses .

[@SiyakhaMolefe-m2j]

Stay curious my friends, focus on science.

[@960random]

Teach the women how to make fire, smh.

[@olg.__]

Soooo since no one said it I will. Love the Skyrim music. Immediate sub🫡👌🏽

[@PaleoPassion]

@@olg.__ thanks it fits the vibes