Forgot to add this at the end. Big thanks to my top tier patreons! Chris Frampton Nick Ingvoldstad Sam B Layne Coppage www.patreon.com/stefanmilo
@thenbwkmtkspktrminc.46134 жыл бұрын
I don't hear much of the Ancient Germaic and Mongolian history. I'd like to see you break down those regions and how Asian technology merged with European countries.
@skellagyook3 жыл бұрын
Interestingly, there is also evidence of an independent invention of pottery in sub-Saharan Africa, in/around Mali, around 9,400 BC (around 11,400 years ago) before it was invented in the Middle East. (Pottery was also invented by Native Americans probably ca 7-8,000 BC in Central and/or South America). See: web.archive.org/web/20120306002155/www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Home/Archive/Swiss_archaeologist_digs_up_West_Africas_past.html?cid=5675736 And search (study on early Malian ceramics): "Archaeology of the Ounjougou Site Complex" by E. Huysecom (2014) It seems like pottery was independently invented in several places.
@EmperorTigerstar4 жыл бұрын
You really czeched your research for this one! ... I'll step out now.
@StefanMilo4 жыл бұрын
Now i'm going to spend all night thinking of a pun to go with Xianrendong
@Peter-ri9ie4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@Archangelm1274 жыл бұрын
Stefan's czechnological research is first-rate.
@Raventooth4 жыл бұрын
Huhuhuh Stefan thinks of xianrendong all night 〠
@Sk0lzky3 жыл бұрын
@@Raventooth my very rudimentary (and fairly random) Chinese vernacular makes me chuckle, i know xian as first and ren as person or people but I have no idea what dong means which leaves me with a dong of the first man >
@bouldersoundguy4 жыл бұрын
I think weaving would give pottery a run for its money. That gave us fish nets, baskets and advanced clothing. The sling, which allows women to use both hands while carrying young might be right up there.
@GotPotatoes244 жыл бұрын
That's a good point, although I'd point out that one needn't necessarily have weaving in order to have baby slings, which could also be made of first, just like clothing- or indeed, you could just go the route of many Indigenous American cultures and opt for a cradleboard, instead. Furthermore, you can have perfectly complex clothing with just furs and the ability to sew.
@russpaxman36604 жыл бұрын
bouldersoundguy I would have gone with weaving myself, if you hadn’t beaten me to it !
@carolnorton25514 жыл бұрын
@@GotPotatoes24 I saw an article about a sherd with imprinted crude knitted sling for carrying fire, apparently by nomadic hunter gatherers, who took fire from one encampment to the next in shallow mud bowls. But I cannot remember where I saw that. I was surprised at how early knitting was invented.
@orionnebula72884 жыл бұрын
AFAIK oldest pottery has imprints of weaving (straw maybe?) and since pottery wheel was invented much, MUCH later, there was only two options for clay forming - free 'kneading' and pressing into baskets/woven bags before firing.
@FerndaleMichiganUSA4 жыл бұрын
Yep. Weaving.
@DagarCoH4 жыл бұрын
3:00 haha, the lengths arecheologists go to just to get a date... I'll show myself out.
@StormofSteelWargaming4 жыл бұрын
Another good video, my wife studies Bronze Age Greek pottery and Serbian Neolithic pottery, so I am bloody surrounded by the stuff...
@StefanMilo4 жыл бұрын
Serbian neolithic pottery you say...???
@StormofSteelWargaming4 жыл бұрын
@@StefanMilo that's right. I'll ask her which site if you like?
@StefanMilo4 жыл бұрын
Definitely!
@StormofSteelWargaming4 жыл бұрын
@@StefanMilo She's going to email you, if your email address hasn't changed?
@pedjaperic41474 жыл бұрын
@@StefanMilo Starčevo or good old Vinča, I doubt it's something else... 😅
@globalance19483 жыл бұрын
Thanks Stefan!!! I started pottery in 1963 as a sophomore in high school in California. I was totally into it for 8 years! I've mined clay in Spain in 1974 and had a small studio there, and shared studios in Norway and elsewhere. We were taught in college that 2/3rds of the surface of our earth is made up of clay.....so no wonder that prehistoric peoples started discovering that there were hard bits of clay at the bottom of their fire pits....and BOOM.....off goes the history making stuff from clay! Making figurines.....is clay work man......no telling if the children of figurine makers started playing with clay and discovered "pinch pots" the easiest thing anyone can make with this wonderful material!!! Thanks for your video!!! D
@nataliehensold16163 жыл бұрын
This video was great for my 7th and 8th grade students- fast-paced, but not too fast, lots of visuals, a bit of humor- very well done! Thank you!
@PeterHarremoes4 жыл бұрын
I think it is worth mentioning that pottery was invented independently in America. The oldest dating is from Brazil 5630 BCE. In some areas there was a phase where they made baskets with clay and then burned the whole thing leaving a piece of pottery. Only later they started making pottery without first making a basket.
@HappyGM-R3 жыл бұрын
Cough cough. 23,000 years old pottery passing by.
@whoreofdragonstone10313 жыл бұрын
pottery was developed independently in most parts of the world lol
@sandro-schmitt3 жыл бұрын
5630 BCE from Brazilian pottery ? What region, Peter ?
@PeterHarremoes3 жыл бұрын
@@sandro-schmitt The oldest know pottery in the Americas is from Caverna da Pedra Pintada.
@sandro-schmitt3 жыл бұрын
@@PeterHarremoes Pará State ?
@pavelsanda31494 жыл бұрын
I am glad you mentioned The Venus of Vestonice. I learnt about it at school long ago but only when I visited Vestonice did I realize how old it was and that it was actually made by the people who completely disappeared from the area which was unihabited for a few thousand years. The whole thing is a way more interesting than I could have ever realised at school.
@IICJZII4 жыл бұрын
Amazing that you are still finding the time to make these videos as a parent to a newborn baby! Massive respect and thanks 👊
@phoule764 жыл бұрын
"I'm sure you're lovely."
@Archangelm1274 жыл бұрын
Me: "Now let's not jump to conclusions."
@peterkratoska36814 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video Stefan, I would like to add that like the use of fire made it easier to digest food the development of pottery made it easier to cook foods rather like stews or soups which helped the very young and old survive longer - as it made food more tender and easier to digest. Also I came across a theory that basket making might have been a transition to pottery in that it is only a step to line a basket with clay to make it waterproof and if ends up in a fire and the clay hardens it is just one more step to making a clay pot or bowl. Some cultures did cook soups or stews even without clay, such as the indigenous people on the Northwest Coast - who made cedar boxes that were watertight and would cook with fire heated stones dropped into the boxes.
@metralla4 жыл бұрын
According to Asterix in Britain, brits were drinking boiled water at 5 o'clock before tea was available.
@theconqueringram52954 жыл бұрын
I never knew the pottery first came from prehistoric China but I do now! Also, the figurines in Czechia were cool too. Cheers!
@bartdebondt86634 жыл бұрын
Correction, the oldest pottery FOUND...
@daca83954 жыл бұрын
"Use pottery to produce alcohol" Oh that's why czechs are in this video!
@arthas6403 жыл бұрын
also explains why pottery suddenly exploded across Eastern and Central Europe.
@matthewmann89693 жыл бұрын
Pottery is one of the finest art forms along with painting, drawing, sketching, coloring, sculpturing, sewing, tailoring, quilting, croacheing, knitting, rug hooking, latch hooking, and laniarding
@casteretpollux3 жыл бұрын
I've just finished a year in college doing ceramics, metalwork, weaving, drawing and metalwork. Mostly the techniques used thousands of years ago are still used, but much more crudely than they once were. Weaving seems to have lost the most. There are textiles in India and in South America that were very fine that just can't be produced now.
@b1laxson4 жыл бұрын
I find your definition of civilization intriguingly worthy of debate during tea time.
@dougsinthailand71763 жыл бұрын
I feel confident that basketry predated pottery, and as you might see in the Pacific Northwest, well-made baskets might double as cooking pots. I think there was one pottery figurine that had the impression of a woven mat on its base. Scooby-doo to you too.
@vcuheel14644 жыл бұрын
You’re wrong and a bad person. The plastic spoon was the greatest invention. It is known. Keep up the great videos and stay safe in this crazy new world!
@stripeytawney8222 жыл бұрын
How can you blaspheme like that, you curr? SPORK.
@NORTH024 жыл бұрын
Congrats man your channel has been blowing up!
@BodyTrust4 жыл бұрын
Hey Stefan, I enjoy your videos. A suggestion: Drop the patriarchal term "hunter/gatherer" (devised by 19th century male anthropologists) for the more accurate "forager/hunter." In most climes, most calories were obtained through foraging, which does include chasing predators off of their prey, stealing eggs and honey, and eating insects. Bringing home a deer was a stroke of good fortune. Animals run away. Plants do not. Be brave. Set the trend, my friend.
@StefanMilo4 жыл бұрын
I'll definitely give this some thought. No promises but will sincerely look into it.
@BodyTrust4 жыл бұрын
@@StefanMilo Thank you and keep up the good work, mate.
@stripeytawney8222 жыл бұрын
So if I go forage in the fridge hunting something to snack on.... Am I trending up or down? Seriously, I remember the lecture on who supplied the calories to the group in an anthropology class. Eye opening stuff!
@Shaden00404 жыл бұрын
Before pottery there were wooden boxes and woven wicker type baskets made from wood, wicker, and grasses as well as collected animal fur from muflon and Ibex. To store water they usedanimal stomachs and bladders.
@pansepot14904 жыл бұрын
I guess it’s way more difficult to find them because they don’t preserve as well as clay and stone.
@batsay62303 жыл бұрын
One of my hobbies is studying World History, and this channel is really amazing, I can get tons of great information, thank you, nice video, hope you enjoy your tea💕☺️
@shawnadyment4 жыл бұрын
Your kid is so lucky to have an interesting dad ! Good luck, being tired is part of the job. Oh and thanks for the video!
@nannyoggsally4 жыл бұрын
The only good video on my KZbin subscription feed this morning!
@Unintuitiv4 жыл бұрын
I love the way you present all of your videos. Never change!
@dahemac4 жыл бұрын
2:56 Statues of a woman interrogator punching a suspect in the face to get him to talk?
@eacalvert4 жыл бұрын
Also I missed mate! Glad to see you're still I'll around. Also also congrats on the baby (again). Sounds like you're an involved dad and that's awesome!
@TexRenner3 жыл бұрын
I have always maintained that beer was mankind's greatest invention, but pottery had to come first. This is why I watch for Stefan Milo videos.
@kazem7664 жыл бұрын
it's great that you keep posting despite your new full time job of parenting. An idea now that you're a dad: take a look at prehistoric parenting. earliest signs of giving cow milk to infants, possible toys, different burial practices...
@stephaniepaige26614 жыл бұрын
Great video. I'm hoping that because of the quarantine more of my favorite small KZbinrs will make more videos 😛
@himssendol65124 жыл бұрын
My guess is that they first used clay mud to cover meat before throwing it in the fire to stop it from burning while cooking. And found out baked clay hardens and can hold liquids. And you have the beginnings of pottery.
@Breakfast_of_Champions4 жыл бұрын
And then there only has to be a society sufficiently free from "conservatives" to actually allow progress to be made 😉
@Breakfast_of_Champions4 жыл бұрын
@@Nicholas_Bonato You're welcome. Why do you think did anatomically modern humans take 100.000 years to get out of the stone age?
@Gilgamesh5574 жыл бұрын
@@Breakfast_of_Champions they needed a global warning (continuing the political thread^^)
@KeganTheTowel4 жыл бұрын
@@Breakfast_of_Champions On an unrelated note why doesnt youtube let you dislike comments anymore?
@christopherellis26634 жыл бұрын
And metals were discovered when malachite was used to adorn a clay pot. It melted in the kiln, to reveal copper.
@kraekennedy4 жыл бұрын
You look great as a Dad! I thoroughly enjoy ALL your videos! Thank you so much for educating and entertaining us!
@WXRBL6664 жыл бұрын
2:47 xianrendong means Sage Cave or Wizard Cave, 'Dong' is cave
@Jake-ee5lr4 жыл бұрын
hehehehe... DONG
@LalitaLunaYogini4 ай бұрын
Oh man... I really miss this old style of your videos bro... 🥹 You're really an amazing person.
@absintheminded84663 жыл бұрын
I think writing is the most important invention. Great video!
@casteretpollux3 жыл бұрын
When you look at how much knowledge was transmitted and built on without writing... I think agriculture changed everything and is bringing about the devastation of the planet. Not so sure about writing. People used to have much greater powers of retention. Some Travellers today can sing hundreds of songs with in some cases dozens of verses. I struggle to remember one or two lyrics.
@chubbymoth58104 жыл бұрын
Great video Stefan, though for me clay will always be related to ashtrays. Probably due to a prominent blue one on my parents table the size of a soup plate. I would think though that main the prerequisite for pottery beats it. Fire makes us human, pottery is the ritual built around it. But it is great to find out about insights in the field I wasn't aware of. Pre-dynastic science in China is pretty solid if it doesn't fit into any narrative of political importance. Pottery lacks mobility, so those people must have had localised resources. I am curious what is known about the habitats of those people.
@richardsleep20454 жыл бұрын
Thanks Stefan. There are guys on youtube who seem to be able to stand naked in the wilderness and construct a battleship from scratch, but I'm going for Fire as the most important. Still pottery is pretty big deal too. Very informative as always.
@aloysiuseng80864 жыл бұрын
I’m guessing someone in deep time realised that the mud around the fire pit was hardened and could hold water, so eureka! First bowl made.. Just my 3 cents worth :)
@TheCaptaininsaino4 жыл бұрын
I think you're right. I also think it was probably women, busy with children, preparing food, scraping hides, tending the fire, who first fashioned makeshift bowls to catch precious fat from dripping into the fire. They probably didn't think much of it, it just made life easier. Bored men, I think, would have then started tinkering, making ever fancier pots.
@kadensmike81903 жыл бұрын
@@TheCaptaininsaino No.
@stanleytolle4162 жыл бұрын
Really it was baskets. The first pots were baskets covered in clay and fired in an oven. This can be seen with the earliest pots showing the texture of the basket they were made from.
@Heyitsaddie234 жыл бұрын
Congrats to you and your wife! Absolutely phenomenal content as always!
@HerrGesetz4 жыл бұрын
Dam it,,,, where's your plastic spoon microphone holder? Excellent content by the way and as someone living in the commonwealth I agree completely regarding tea,,, can't live without it.
@Brahmdagh4 жыл бұрын
checkout that paper from some years back, that was talking about how light coloured skin is a recent trait, like post agriculture trait.
@arthas6403 жыл бұрын
That makes sense, since even the whitest of white people will generally get pretty dark if you leave them out long enough, and people didnt have the buildings or firewood stores to spend much time inside before agriculture was invented. My family are about as white as wonder bread but my parents used to look Mediterranean (people thought my parents were Sicilian or Greek) because they both worked outdoors and spent alot of time either at the beach or on a boat during their down time, but once they got older, started working indoors, and spent less time on the water they reverted back to their wonder bread complexion. If I remember right there were some early hominids like Neanderthals that were blonde or red haired and described as fair skinned based on bodies recovered (such as ice mummies). Really pale skin is thought to have developed as an adaptation for the last ice age, when humans went north into Europe where there was less sunlight and thicker clothes were needed to survive, so paler skin would allow more sunlight in and boost vitamin D production. I've heard similar theories about blue eyes, which helped people see in places wiht lower light in places like the arctic as well as helping people to do things like hunt at night and see better in dimly lit buildings. Both traits evolved earlier but really took off right around the time agriculture popped up.
@lspthrattan4 жыл бұрын
Great video--fun to watch, info I was actually wondering about recently! So I finally hit the subscribe. Keep'em coming!
@Miloun3 жыл бұрын
Good pronunciation of Dolni Vestonice my friend. Also, thanks for the videos.
@francescoparma9792 жыл бұрын
Very great video, you didn't talk about the skeuomorphic patterns on the primitive pottery you shown, I personally found interesting how this patterns imitate the basketry
@jamesmccreery2504 жыл бұрын
great vid to enjoy with my cup of tea, thanks again Stefan Milo!
@senormoll2 жыл бұрын
Not that you're going to go back and fix an old video, but the Arabic at 1:48 is backwards, which is also why the script is separate letters instead of well...a script. But that's not all--it's also mis-transliterated from English. If you reverse the Arabic there, you get "baab ad-dihra", but the actual name for the place in Arabic is باب الذراع (baab ad-diraa3). The D sound is different, there's no H at all, and the final A is longer. It's pretty clear that someone just typed the English into google translate and pasted the result into photoshop (which will reverse the direction if it's set to LtR/English. Just figured I'd mention it in case you got the image from a source that you still trust. Great vid as always!
@saint-naive4 жыл бұрын
I’m glad I’m not the only one drinking my liquor in tea mugs :)
@singlesinceforever19644 жыл бұрын
It's so interesting to ponder on what they must've used them for.
@MrBottlecapBill4 жыл бұрын
The same things we use them for most likely.
@phoule764 жыл бұрын
They put their weed in it.
@wardop1234 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your wisdom on this lonely night
@nadinescott25094 жыл бұрын
Thanks nice to see you again. Congrats on the new baby.
@fionah49833 жыл бұрын
These early sculptures must’ve been able to see in the future........ I swear that Venus figure is of me 😂🤣
@PigeonDumplins4 жыл бұрын
Love your channel and very interesting. I’ve been learning flintknapping and recreating southeastern us native material culture Iike bows or weaving for a lot of my life and have been getting into pottery recently. It’s interesting to learn of the many things ancient peoples created and I love learning about the old world as well. Ancient austronesian and middle eastern cultures have been particularly interesting. Would love to maybe talk sometime but you must be a busy man. Much respect for your good work✊🏼
@PigeonDumplins4 жыл бұрын
Your channel has talked about many of the random topics I’ve craved more info for. Like Paleolithic and older hominids and underrepresented topics like African history
@stripeytawney8222 жыл бұрын
Hey Buff, how is your southern cult study progressing? I have my father's and uncles bows on the mantle. 'uncle emmitt' made them for them as children in the 1950s.... in Oklahoma. Supposedly Choctaw, but that's possibly myth. Have you followed any of the work connecting modern tribal recognition of southern cult motifs?
@PigeonDumplins2 жыл бұрын
@@stripeytawney822 are you speaking of modern southeastern-descendent tribes becoming more aware of an embracing old symbolism from the “southeastern death cult” then yes I am aware lol. Many people I know now have traditional tattoos or ad the style to their artwork like shell carving or painting
@stripeytawney8222 жыл бұрын
@@PigeonDumplins I think so. It was an article in archaeology mag if i remember right. Want to say it was winnebago myths and inktomi? I just am happy that there is some cultural continuity!
@MrBottlecapBill4 жыл бұрын
One thing I think that's important to point out is that while the rest of the world probably was behind when it came to pottery......it doesn't mean they didn't have cooking and storage vessels. They did, they were probably just made of much easier and plentiful to source materials like wood/bark/leaves/skins. Things that could be made while moving from place to place quickly and easily. Pottery is a time and resource intense project that would make little sense to a lot of humanity at that point in time. Context is everything. Heck we've even begun replacing it a lot in modern society because it breaks easily and it's expensive. In many cases (like a tea pot) there are far better alternatives.
@thomasf.57684 жыл бұрын
Great presentation as usual. 💛 Clay, pottery, & ceramics are a wonderful topic. A more detailed follow up would not hurt.... : such as storage vs cooking vs ornament. Then trade item vs personal consumption. Then, different ways to fire the clay. Ways to decorate. & paint: because sealing with a glaze is important ! Thanks 💚💚💚
@KipIngram4 жыл бұрын
00:05 - Actually Stefan, I do see it. Congratulations on starting a family - I have five daughters and they are absolutely the most important part of life for me. You will have many happy times. :-)
@altair4584 жыл бұрын
Great video!!! We love your channel. Very educational👍👍👍👍👍
@markeppley12874 жыл бұрын
Stefan, Great videos! I feel like my history education throughout middle school and high school (in the US) only focused on western ancient cultures. I really would love to learn more about the rise of ancient cultures in India and China
@countingcoup3 жыл бұрын
Basket weaving was a big deal. Imagine only gathering things with the limitations of what you could hold with your hands 🙌🏽
@arthas6403 жыл бұрын
I dont know, I remember seeing a historical documentary called the Flintstones and they seemed pretty capable of storing things inside pelicans and dinosaurs.
@kadensmike81903 жыл бұрын
Leather bags mate, animal skins and guts can also be used to bind stuff for carrying. Basket making is extremely useful, but it isn't necessary.
@forestdwellerresearch65933 жыл бұрын
I've always said the greatest human invention ever is the backpack. My life would be hell without it! Considering how it frees up our hands, which are arguably our most defining and useful feature.....i'll stick with that for now. Containers or fire you can scavenge but try finding a nice backpack in nature...nope. Some folks believe the wheel is more important but that's just sillyness. You can challenge me to a 10 km race carrying stuff in a backpack and i'll let you use handcarts or wheels however you please. You'll be eating my dust and would not even finish :)
@petrskupa62922 жыл бұрын
Greetings from Czechia 😊 Eye opener (generally) and funny context for Věstonice 😆 Could pottery making diffuse to the West from the Far East over the Eons?
@alecjones82354 жыл бұрын
Great video, you look absolutely exhausted, and a bit more roundy lol
@t.v.65034 жыл бұрын
Yesss finaly New video!! Thank you!
@lucydeantiguatarot89774 жыл бұрын
So, it was all about the cooking of food hugh? Makes total sense. Love your videos by the way!
@lmonk95174 жыл бұрын
the most interesting part of this video is how neolythic farmers in the middle east went so long without pottery. What did they store their water in?
@twintwo14294 жыл бұрын
Stone containers also.
@wodenravens4 жыл бұрын
@2manynegativewaves Please tell this to Graham Hancock. The 'gotcha' I keep hearing from the Hancock-ites about Gobekli Tepe is 'How could they have made it without drinking water???' I always say exactly what you have said -- skins and bladders.
@The503GlobeTrotters4 жыл бұрын
I dig the stroll through the neighborhoods of Portland.
@Aeyekay04 жыл бұрын
Interesting topic and great video 👍
@Itsjustme-Justme Жыл бұрын
It's kinda strange that pottery was invented that late. Technically, you can discover pottery by accident. When you burn a camp fire for an extended time ( e.g. for heating in winter) on soil that mostly consists of clay, you will create an upper layer that doesn't dissolve in water anymore. As soon as somebody discovered a possible connection between heat and waterproof, hardened clay, it only takes a bit of experimentation to get to the first, basic pottery. And once that initial success is achieved, there is a huge motivation to improve the method and to make more and more different items out of pottery. Pottery is just way too useful in way too many ways.
@Bashirbros Жыл бұрын
Very cool! Can you do a video about the discovery of fishing as well
@rybavresu99174 жыл бұрын
There is a mistake in the name of the article in the references - it seems that Czech "ě" turned to "ecaron" for some reason. Should be Věstonice or Vestonice I guess.
@peterforden59174 жыл бұрын
FIRE without a doubt.
@amedv4 жыл бұрын
I have another theory about Xianrendong cave mystery. Considering how good Chinese at counterfeiting.
@sacredweeds3 жыл бұрын
Love your videos, thank you very much. I did want to mention that figurines could be used to make tea just as rocks have been used to heat water. Seems experimental archeology has found this method of quick heating water works quite well, and it could imbue the water with the mother spirit (just a side thought). Keep up the great work.
@thinktonka4 жыл бұрын
Great video, thanks for easing my covid19 boredom! I just knew the sheep would entertain us!
@tristanroach58924 жыл бұрын
The legend strikes again
@nicholasburgess73174 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@andrewball98553 жыл бұрын
Mastery of fire allowed almost EVERYTHING to progress. I love your stuff. I agree ceramics changed everything! The original Tupperware! But control , mastery, enhancing heating of EVERYTHING advanced all well-established tech. This stuff had developed all over ...it's only when we all said "oooh, cool, I Have to HAVE that THAT!" Like I said...love your stuff...top notch...but I believethe ability to use hot temperatures to affect another process is pre industrial. People did a LOT of things locally and independently LONG before the "discovery".. And I'm betting on bread and beer as our instigator in progress. Just me thoughts....thsnks
@dingodog56773 жыл бұрын
Pottery led to kilns, which led to furnaces and metal smelting. The evolution of fire ie getting it hotter and hotter to do more stuff, would be a really interesting topic to cover.
@ThePartarar Жыл бұрын
When you have a random burning question and the search bar does you justice…
@felipesotoviterbo13724 жыл бұрын
And how about pottery in the Americas? I'd love to see if they developed it here, independently, because they were isolated, or if it were brought by the first people
@juanjuri61272 жыл бұрын
While the archaeological record of pottery in the Old World suggests there was a window of time where ceramic could plausibly have made it across the Bering Strait with the earliest settlers (whichever earliest date you're going with), most evidence points to a later independent development in the Americas. The oldest examples are from modern Brazil, but things really started picking up at around 3000-2000 BCE across the continent. Anyway, shoutout to Moche Portrait Vessels, gotta be one of my favorite potteries
@jonathanryals99344 жыл бұрын
I have many artifacts from central North Carolina. I was checking my points and axes with a magnet, and was surprised when a piece of old pottery stuck. I'm thinking they were using the stone powders from making other tools for material to enhance the clay.
@mpetersen64 жыл бұрын
First choice, The Eyed Needle. Second, textiles. Third, the spear thrower. Fourth, The Means to Preserve Food. This game is one that the player will never win. It will always devolve into "yah, but what if". The needle was required for fitted clothing required for humanity's expansion beyond our home range in Africa. Textiles which probably began as interwoven branches or foliage used for shelters meant that people no longer needed to rely on skins alone for clothing or to carry needed items. The Spear Thrower extended man's ability to kill game or deliver the same thrown shaft harder at a given distance. Preserving food. Drying foods in the sun. Salting etc. Pottery while critical IMO is only really useful once a band has a reasonably settled life. Pottery was not required to provide watertight containers for fluids. Skin bags and hollowed out gourds will suffice. Skin bags/pots can be used for cooking. The hafted axe or spear is a reasonable choice. Only spears do not absolutely require stone tips. Bone can work perfectly well. Besides how far back does the hafted tool go? 100KY? 200KY? More?
@revskull4 жыл бұрын
You English and your damn tea, I swear..the most melodramatic people on earth
@phrayzar4 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the brew benchmark, not referred to enough when discussing early ceramic for my liking.
@art4freak7954 жыл бұрын
The splinter, fidureing out how to take a stick, some lengths of cord or leather, and rapping that around a broken leg and taking care of that person long enough for that leg to heal fully
@Nembula2 жыл бұрын
Making bread. Processing grains by cooking makes them more digestible and thus more efficient. A very simple bread can be mixed, formed and cooked on the same flat rock. Not exactly Pepperidge Farm but effective.
@deepquake93 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣 everyone has to take a shot each time Stefan says alcohol 😂😂😂🥂
@joepenrose14 жыл бұрын
Really like this video mate, guess u can say it was my cup of tea lol
@innovativeatavist1593 жыл бұрын
That was perhaps the most British way to end a video ever
@PabloSanchez-qu6ib4 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure I want to see the video you made after that cup of tea.
@somaliandictatorship83724 жыл бұрын
You should make a video about the mystery behind the tartessian people
@josefkrakel91364 жыл бұрын
Ask for a tea pot in the US and you may get a tea kettle ....
@StefanMilo4 жыл бұрын
I know! I'm always shouting at my colleagues "that's a kettle, not a teapot!"
@johnmcginnis52013 жыл бұрын
Lets be real. You can't make a good beer without a pot to ferment it in. Beer production goes way back. Pottery --> Beer --> trade --> coinage --> Wealthy suckers --> revolution --> more beer needing more pots. :)
@Archangelm1274 жыл бұрын
The greatest invention in human history was alcohol, for a whole host of reasons. I guarantee you that booze came first, then they needed stuff to store it in.
@wodenravens4 жыл бұрын
Adam never would have banged Eve without a few beers first. She was a right munter.
@casteretpollux3 жыл бұрын
The Vikings in Ireland just dug a pit and put a whole lot of blackberries in it.
@grandmabente123 Жыл бұрын
Love your videos...❤
@dream_emulator4 жыл бұрын
Great channel 👍
@silvercomic4 жыл бұрын
How did people carry around or store bulk goods before this? Hide bags, woven containers, wooden bowls? Or did they just pick up everything in their hands and make several trips?
@karenzilverberg46994 жыл бұрын
Excellent.
@maurameng1332 ай бұрын
Clothing is the greatest invention of prehistory. Clothing is a sophisticated and critical technology.
@jbaccanalia4 жыл бұрын
Nope, Stephan I think you're wrong. I'm still waiting for you to make a video on "the most important technological invention" as a new parent you should get this. Ask your wife. Love the videos.
@jbaccanalia4 жыл бұрын
Boldersoundguy got it. The knot. Rope, string, clothing, baby sling, the spear, hammer, shoes, shelter, most of the other things you mentioned required being tied together. It predates fire by a lot. Find out more for us.