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Metal hammers and anvils pull heat away from the metal being forged. That makes it take much more fuel to forge something, since you have to keep re-heating it.

odd as it may seems, a stone still works. stone anvils were also used in medieval europe, and to make an iron anvil requires a lot of labor that probably won't be viable in the long run. why make an anvil that requires a ton of iron, a steel face, tons of fuel in an area with not much fuel sources, and keep maintained for decades to prevent rust when you can polish up a stone?

The project director Dr. Nic David actually addressed this. Using a hafted hammer can be more efficient in some contexts, but making it requires casting technology, which was not available to the smiths of the Mandara Mountains.

I mean, this process was abandoned for a reason in ancient Europe and Asia

​@samuraikyokkan to be fair, bloomery furnaces were still being used up unil the 18th or 19th centuries if i remember. in europe too.

These are rural people who try and preserve their ancient cultures. Africa has beautiful modern cities all around Africa. You must be trolling or indoctrinated by Western Colonialism.

@@lifeinlife24 He swings and he misses. Ancient culture is something you see in a museum. Iron is so cheap in the West that many developed countries found it unprofitable to produce it and thus the production moved to Asia where the cost of labor is comparatively cheap. We throw away steel and iron in the trash. Yet somehow the ignorant elite like you think this is the peak of civilization, something commendable . Not true. These Africans are forced to smelt their own iron because the of despotic African government constraining economic growth. There is nothing noble about a dirt poor African forcing to smelt iron like they did 4000 years ago, while just a plane ride away, cities are electrified with running water, sky scrappers built from cheap steel. This video is a tragedy.

@@2Phast4Rocket Nope. Countries like China, India and Japan still to this day preserve their ancient cultural practices everyday unlike Europeans who have long assimilated their ancient cultures and basic have no ancient continuity of their ancestral past. There are industrial facilities all over Africa. So your point is moot.

@@2Phast4Rocket Also there would be no need to take a plane when they can just get in a car or walk to their city areas. As stated before Africa has modern cities, but unfortunately your to low IQ and uncultured to simply figure this out on your own.

@@2Phast4Rocket you sidestep years of colonial exploitation (after all who put those despotic governments there when they left?) the "unprofitable" lies about Western Domestic steel production are a sham, greedy director's boards were not happy with giving people a decent wage and safety regulations so they sold out (and they were not the only industry to do so, the clothing industry was even worse). the Chinese mills (particularly their biggest ones) would not exist if it wasn't for Soviet investments. Not to mention the many cut-throat deals of corperations affecting Africa (Esso's death squads in Nigeria spring to mind).

They used stone or wood to make simple blade until they decide to make iron hammers.

Yes this process was the same In Europe and Asia 3000 years ago. Much has changed since

@@samuraikyokkan They skid straight to the heart stuff.

​@@samuraikyokkan3000 yrs ago Europe were barbarian savages, Europe only became civilised in the medieval era, before that it was tribal stone age savsges without fire,

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I'm not Christian but YiKes read the fuckin bible mate

Note also the inherent hot air blast used here. This is actually quite a 'late stage' refinement, saving energy and improving the furnaces' efficacy. Whoever first stumbled upon this innovative internal tuyere arrangement improved the typical bloom smelt success rate tremendously.

Impressive yes, it's even more impressive to make when Europe and Asian discovered steel and made enough of it to build cities, and to forge pipes that deliver water and handle our waste. And to discover that metal is conductive of electricity.

​​@@samuraikyokkan yea but both Europeans and Asians studied and learned in ancient Africa . These are just tribal Africans not the Africans of the great Ghanaian Empires,Moorish Empires,Axum Empires,Egyptians Empires and many more. All of which had master craftsmen and black Smiths .At the hight of Africa's power,Europeans and Asians were soo jealous they had to band together and topple her empires and steal their wealth.

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Today involving God means being backward. We have lost all our humility.

Even worse African spirituality is always conflated with witchcraft or devil worship nowadays.

​@@africanhistoryhumility can exist without god or religion

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