Stone age people would know that you need wood that has been split, is dry and not green. Of course you need half a ton of wood if you have zero knowledge about firewood.
This video is quite inaccurate in how it shows neolithic people. We know from a body recovered from a glacier in Italy that they wore very sophisticated well tailored clothes. Their coats were not just animals skins pulled over their shoulders but much closer to a leather jacket seen today. They would have had much better access to quality fur and hides. Shoe and sandals were just as good as Roman or Medieval footwear and likely more plentiful. Also do not complain about stone knives till you see how sharp a flint knife can easily outmatch a steel scalpel blade.
I find it mind boggling that the "scientists" wondered about this because that is exactly how cremations are done in India. They must have gotten a government grant to recreate what is still being done.
Thats not how to set a high intensity fire. The woods must be vertically arranged in circular manner and the outer covered with stones. The fire is lit from the buttom with dry grass. The evaporating water from the wood creates an upward drift of the fire make it extremely blazing and fierce. It devours everything including the very rocks that is used to fence it leaving only ashes. Temperature can even reach over a 3000 to 4000 if the weather is cold enough. Thats how we cremated during the neolithic era and yes i still remember. You can examine this by lightning a match and turning it downward. It burns different and fierce
Haven’t you guys heard or seen indian cremations ? They do it the primitive way still. But cremations aren’t good for the environment and this is why the banks of Ganges river and air in the area is so polluted.
So is this pyre simply a neat stack of logs placed in perpendicular layers,then stuffed with kindling? I am sincerely interested in learning more about the construction method.
This is so common , these kind of cremations still exists in India and probably bad for the environment. Un embalmed natural burial is the option that won’t damage the environment.
Source? Also, depends on the fuel (pine/conifer burns hotter) and the ways in which they position the body/fuel, perhaps even if they used some sort of earthen berm to concentrate the heat.
"the same temperatures as a house fire" well, there you have it. They were burned with wood. That is no surprise at all. There was plenty of wood. No mystery. Everyone, please watch my little nature videos. There is no talking in them. Shhh!
Agreed - flint napping is an art that I suspect most modern humans couldn't even begin to master. They would want to churn out their arrowheads, atl-atl heads & spear heads on their 3-D printers....
WWZenaDo Tried doing it with glass as its the same priciple, got to where I was happy and one bad strike, crack whole arrow head ruined, it was a skill not many could get these days takes years.
I'm baffled people are baffled that they could built hot fires.
Stone age people would know that you need wood that has been split, is dry and not green. Of course you need half a ton of wood if you have zero knowledge about firewood.
The Hindus always have been using this method. It's not something unique.
Anyone else notice the buzzfeed unsolved music playing?
Seriously
This video is quite inaccurate in how it shows neolithic people. We know from a body recovered from a glacier in Italy that they wore very sophisticated well tailored clothes. Their coats were not just animals skins pulled over their shoulders but much closer to a leather jacket seen today. They would have had much better access to quality fur and hides. Shoe and sandals were just as good as Roman or Medieval footwear and likely more plentiful. Also do not complain about stone knives till you see how sharp a flint knife can easily outmatch a steel scalpel blade.
I find it mind boggling that the "scientists" wondered about this because that is exactly how cremations are done in India. They must have gotten a government grant to recreate what is still being done.
Got government money; to celebrate they have a roast pig, but left it on to long.
Okay. Fire is hot. No matter what time period. I can’t believe they spoke about the heat the way they did..
Not only the role of scientists , Historians play the major role in depicting what it was like back then.
They are scientists? , Seriously?
Send them to India
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Thats not how to set a high intensity fire. The woods must be vertically arranged in circular manner and the outer covered with stones. The fire is lit from the buttom with dry grass. The evaporating water from the wood creates an upward drift of the fire make it extremely blazing and fierce. It devours everything including the very rocks that is used to fence it leaving only ashes. Temperature can even reach over a 3000 to 4000 if the weather is cold enough. Thats how we cremated during the neolithic era and yes i still remember. You can examine this by lightning a match and turning it downward. It burns different and fierce
Finally a video wich is available in my country
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And UK too.
...the struggle
Haven’t you guys heard or seen indian cremations ? They do it the primitive way still. But cremations aren’t good for the environment and this is why the banks of Ganges river and air in the area is so polluted.
this has the buzzfeed unsolved music in it
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Are you guys BBQing? Nope science... crap...
I wonder if they got a government grant to study the effects of fire on cave man cremations!
I think they get a lot of things wrong bout this period of history.
mecca for Neolithic pilgrims....lolz
1:40 wha- that's buzzfeed unsolved
It most certainly is
fahrenheit 😂😂😂
Bacon
So is this pyre simply a neat stack of logs placed in perpendicular layers,then stuffed with kindling? I am sincerely interested in learning more about the construction method.
post more history prehistoric/ancient people vids like this one!!!!!:)!
I am object... how dare she let that bacon go to waste!
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These videos r always cut to short!
that's deforestration
The voice over is about as bad as it gets.
This is so common , these kind of cremations still exists in India and probably bad for the environment. Un embalmed natural burial is the option that won’t damage the environment.
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It takes about 2 tons of wood to cremate a body
Source? Also, depends on the fuel (pine/conifer burns hotter) and the ways in which they position the body/fuel, perhaps even if they used some sort of earthen berm to concentrate the heat.
"the same temperatures as a house fire" well, there you have it. They were burned with wood. That is no surprise at all. There was plenty of wood. No mystery.
Everyone, please watch my little nature videos. There is no talking in them. Shhh!
So basic they were not even using metal tools ?, have they ever seen flint napping... basic 😂
Agreed - flint napping is an art that I suspect most modern humans couldn't even begin to master. They would want to churn out their arrowheads, atl-atl heads & spear heads on their 3-D printers....
WWZenaDo Tried doing it with glass as its the same priciple, got to where I was happy and one bad strike, crack whole arrow head ruined, it was a skill not many could get these days takes years.
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