The Mahaffay Cache located in Boulder Colorado is a pretty amazing find…a true treasure for the archeological world. What was once lost, but really buried is now something that helps people better understand the people of our past. For more information check out https://www.colorado.edu/coloradan/2024/03/04/mahaffy-cache
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Fascinating!
I do appreciate how intuitive and resourceful our ancestors were. Stone tools are quite amazing to me. The fact that these ancient people butchered whole animals with these tools is astounding to me. But I have to say, as a butcher in modern times, I am so happy we found out how to create steel blades. I could not imagine processing the volume of meat that we produce using stone tools lol
I found the mid section of a paleo point made from Wyoming tiger chert next to the Dent site years back. Archeologists recently asked to borrow it for study. Same exact material as on your video thumbnail. We found some really nice Kremmling chert tools and projectiles up in Summit County this year, not to mention a bison skull.
Sure glad my friend took me to see the cache
you should go to israel. there are areas there that are very easy to find arrow heads, and hand axes, also good chert. i myself found once a beutiful arrowhead near the carmel mountain, which i donateed to a friend's collection. they have a good record of paleao-meso and neolithic cultures in the same area..
Pay close attention.
These tools were used by people after a catastrophe.
The people of the Amazon bason were wiped out by European diseases when the first Spanish Explorer passed through. Only one in a hundred were not killed. The survivors didn't have the population to continue as they had. They had to go into hunter-gatherer mode.
In 1859, the earth was hit by a coronal discharge that caused the telegraph wires to work after being unplugged, and many switch operators were killed when the electricity went from their headsets into their brain.
If we got hit by that much electricity from the sun, we would find every electrical appliance melted.
We would have to be educated by the Amish or die.
Can you survive in the wild for many years alone with the knowledge you have today?
Our ancestors had to.
Hey Donny, I was in Fallujah in 07-08, working for MEF I&II doing route clearance. Where were you at?
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Pretty cool ! I saw the video of when they found it , in boulder , awesome , thanks for showing .
Love the video! I'm curious though how someone might look for and find the right kind of stone that can be shaped into these tools. Things like, what does it look like just out in the wilderness, areas it might be commonly found, that sort of thing. Thanks for making your videos man, very educational, entertaining and interesting!
Thank you for your service.
Go on joe rogan
Just came over from Metatron doing a reaction video you did. Good information.
You know what's more exciting to have in your yard than a coy pond? A team of archeologists digging up history!
Just in time for our birthday. Sick video dude.
Just subbed! Awesome channel. Just found you through Metatron.
I love your channel and common sense aprouch. I just wanted to say thanks.
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Great video man love your channel
Metatron sent me.
So horses were here longer than Columbus etc . The rational for hunting and killing off the wild horses in the west were as not native. Re: WEF for getting rid of wild horses
I remember that day. I was aboard the USS Nimitz in the Persian Gulf. Its pretty cool knowing we were out there supporting you guys at the same time!
Heard about you from Metatron… subscribed. You are awesome! Going camping with this guy would be like going to the College of Survival.
A distant relative of the Neanderthal named Metatron sent me here
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Subbed from Metatron's channel!
I've never had any formal education in archaeology but I have hunted points and blades for over 35 years and I've just had an epiphany about the different styles of flaking from the different periods. I'd heard the woodland flaking called random but I'm beginning to think that it's not so random after all.
Hello Donny, I watched Metatron’s reaction to your video and so I thought I’d subscribe and take a good look. It’s fascinating to think that man has used stone tools longer than any metal. A comparison between tools used in different continents would be an interesting and educational video.
I think the camel blood they claim to have found is a bad test. Proving that tests aren't perfect. Camels aren't native to North America. Also tools that old been in the ground that long. How can there be any testable DNA left? A lot of the test results might be conjecture? Police can't test DNA that's only 10 years old in a murder case so how is the reports of what kind of blood was found on 13,000 year old tools when it was contaminated with other blood and who knows what else?
Donny, great video, but it irks me to hear someone exaggerate facts by using the phrase "razor sharp". I've heard everything from cat, bear, and shark teeth to stone tools called razor sharp. Yeah, no. If they were truly razor sharp, which they're not, you could shave hair off your arm, or, heaven forbid, your face as you could with a real razor. I see you have limited experience with shaving, but let's stay real.
Stone tools should be in their “final resting place”. Interesting subject matter and I like your videos. But wow. I’m still shaking my head wondering if I heard that correctly.
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Thanks for sharing always enjoy your videos
We find all of them Mississippi.
After the war my dad received a glass knife from a Northern California native friend in the fourties’. Many years later my mom and dad where in Guatemala where he purchased another blade though this was from fine light brown flint . These knives were double ended and as like as two peas in a pod , though the flint was thinner and of beautiful work and thin . Flint holds up to rough better then glass.😊
This was excellent dude!!!
I love that giant oil/tiger chert biface. Beautiful. There's a another nice one like it in the museum in Price UT too, but they've mis-labeled it petrified wood.
Thank you for not only sharing your knowledge, but also teachiing/showing me how to knap my own tools.❤❤❤
Hey I’m in Colorado and find/sell high quality petrified wood I have some stuff that would be amazing napped I’d trade u materials for a point I have 100+ oplized / full chalcedony pieces as well dense non cracked “Parker” wood !
As a kid I also broke rock all day.
But, I had to use a sludge hammer.
And then all of the rock went on the driveway to house.
This is currently my 46th consecutive archery season. PA didn't allow flint arrowheads back when I made my own bows and arrows, or I'd have gained that skill. I have done it many times and have a small stock of stuff for another day.
After learning of how the natives in Africa killed elephants by cutting their achilles tendon I believe that is how the clovis did it. No one believed me. I did more research. I found out a mammoths tendon is their "achilles heal" (pun intended). Turn out the Romans focused on it against war elephants. Low and behold one turned up. (I'm sick of being right all the time). Lerick Allen wrote a paper called "Did Clovis hunters hamstring the Bowser road mastodon?"
He mentions an old American Indian tale of it.
Btw I use the word "Native American" the correct way, that is a person born in America. In the early 70s it was forced down the American Indians throat to take it, which I didn't like then nor now. I mean no disrespect to anyone but I'll use it correct if I'm the last one. Unless I know their tribe they are American Indians AND Native Americans while I am only a Native American.
I think one of the most amazing things about the discovery is the workers actually recognized the stone tools and alerted the homeowner. Most people would not have done that. Good for them!
I'm always looking for a native artifacts on our farm here in Southern Michigan. About 7 or 8 years ago I found a axe head made of Bloodstone, of a shape completely unlike Potawatomi whatsoever. Its unlike any axe heads of chippewa, Sioux, Sauk, Fox, Iroquois, or any other bands that were known in Michigan as far as my research has led me, even sending photos of it to various universities as well. 3/4 the size of a normal large male human hand, it has a rising point forward, the entire stone literally flaked into shape, and worn enough on its entire flaked surface, that its age must be quite considerable. The forward Cutting Edge would have been considerably sharp, and is still quite impressive. For the readers reference I have found other Potawatomi Axe Heads, and seen many that were found in this area various types many of them are similar to each other except for mine. It is very unique and it is definitely much older. I have not yet seen another one like it. All of these finds of stone tools are so very interesting. Thanks for loading this information
What theories are there regarding why these cashes ended up where they did ? I too watched Metatron's review and was pleased that he enjoyed your presentation as much as I did. That said, I have a yard to go dig up !