Palaeolithic Crafts at Creswell Crags
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- Опубліковано 11 сер 2021
- Sally Pointer and the Ancient Craft team demonstrate palaeolithic crafts at the ice age heritage site of Creswell Crags.
For more information about the site, please see
www.creswell-crags.org.uk/
Dr James Dilley/Ancient Craft has his own UA-cam channel, please have a look at his excellent videos, he's well worth subscribing to! / ancientcraftuk
A special thank you to Mark Randall for some of the images, and to all the staff and visitors for making it such a lovely event. - Навчання та стиль
oh wow, great to see James and Sally working together, two of my favorite creators and educators!
these things fill my soul up to tears. It really is regenerating. I WILL have to look if anyone is doing something like that where i live...
My mother raised me doing pioneer days and “sheep to shawl” exhibitions in the US south. She would demonstrate spinning (drop spindle and wheel) and sometimes weaving. I would sit teasing wool and carding rolags for what felt like hours, being insanely jealous the whole time of my friends who would be running around footloose and fancy free in jeans and t-shorts while I felt totally conspicuous dressed as Laura Ingalls. Lol. I watch this now and for the first time something more positive stirs in my memory of those days! And then too, I can still after all these years work a mean drop spindle 😜
Thanks for sharing!! Loving your channel ❤️
I can only just imagine a harried young mother with too much to do telling her middle kids to just "sit over there by the fire and put a dragon on that thing your dad's been making!" Upon coming home from hunting, dad would be pleasantly surprised by the thoughtful gift and mom would be relieved that the children would sit down and be quiet for a few blessed minutes to give her some peace. Whether homo sapien or neanderthal, we all need a break once in a while!
I love the Paleolithic actress wearing glasses!
Of course, I'd have the same problem... I'm practically legally blind without them.
Only when there weren't any visitors around, we always work without modern spectacles when the site is officially open!
i am very jealous of those visitors. looks like a wonderful time was had by all.
That was GREAT !!
This is amazing! I am currently reading The Earth's Children series and being able to see how some of the things the books talk about are created is really helpful. I love this channel and I hope to learn everything about ancient skills that I can from it! :D And even if it was the rules you had to follow, I still appreciate you guys being careful to not contaminate the cave with modern flint chips and such.
I read that whole series, as each book was published. It started me on my path towards loving herbology and all Ice Age technologies! Best advice though... Stop reading at Mammoth Hunters. After that it goes sharply downhill.
I agree, it still has many good points, especially given the information available when it was written, but there are also aspects that haven't aged at all well. The first three remain the most readable and evocative.
Brilliant, What more can I say. Sally you are a star.
I wish I could do what you are doing! I'm fascinated by ice-age technology and lifestyles. So grateful to have living historians recreating ancient techniques like this!
I hope you have a video up about how that basket was woven. I'm very curious to try the technique!
I do have a video on that, it's in the basketry and cordage playlist, look for the 'looped around a core' video
@@SallyPointer TYSM! Watching that video now!
That was lovely to see thank you 😊
Oh lovely, I just watched a video of an experiment done to partially re-create the quartzite sarcophagus of Tutankamun using flint flake chisels and granite pounders rather than copper or bronze chisels, done by one of the masons working on Yorkminster Cathedral I believe. Fascinating to see the ability to shape such hard stone and get such beautiful detail on stone with just little flakes of flint and a mallet. The stone lanterns reminded me of it.
I like the fact that you were all working on genuine tasks while remaining available, and visitors presumably could dip in and out depending on their interest. Looks great, especially for children. What kinds of questions did people ask?
We had a huge range of questions, many about the nature of the evidence and how archaeological interpretation works, others about craft skills and the practicalities of the tools we used. Visitors were everything from keen toddlers to experienced historians, so we were kept nice and busy!
fantastic demonstration! i always love historical demonstrations, and as someone who studies archaeology, it's great to see how these artifacts we dig up and study are made and the care and attention that goes into them. it makes me think so much more about the individual artifacts, and appreciate them for what they meant to the people who made them. lovely video!
Thanks!
This was absolutely fabulous to see snippets of living in the paleolithic period demos. And thank you so much for documenting and sharing this. As I'm in Canada, I'm unlikely to be able to attend one of your wonderful workshops. I've watched many of them here and just loved them. You are a fantastic teacher, Ms Pointer. I've been very interested in archaeology for a couple of decades now, since reading the The Earth's Children series (as many others here have mentioned too). I've followed James Dilley's work since finding him interviewed on a paleo podcast channel a couple of years ago, so was delighted to see him turn up in a cave near you too. I just can't thank you enough for all the information, demonstrations and encouragement your work gives me.
So beautiful Sally. Looks like a great time you had. I’m so fascinated with caves. I live in buckhaven right by the weymss caves. Big love and thanks for sharing ❤️
So great
Brilliant work….thank you 👍
The clothes look so adaptable for daily wear. Super interesting crafts
It's so good to be back demonstrating how people lived way back when. I'm a viking reenactor, yet a lot of the information you give is still relevant. Thank you.
Thank you for this video, Sally. This was quite useful to demonstrate paleolithic mateiral cutlrue to my class in Ontario, Canada. Not only are your stockings and caps wonderul, but so are your videos!
I'm very glad it was helpful!
Wonderful 😊
Love Cresswell crags super interesting, only thing I'd change is maybe some of the tours where abit more in depth and more for adults already slighlt knowledgeable about the neolithic era and the museum had couple more bits to look at apart from that excellent place.
Absolutely delightful as well as informative.
I'm very late, but this is so good, it's really nice when visitors can actually participate in living history things. Thank you for your work
What a great way to spend the day. 👍 Will have loved to come along to see this going on. Maybe next year if you can do it again.
beautiful!
Such a lovely video! Thank you so much for sharing 😊
My mum used to play on the crags when she was little.
This is so cool! Thank you for sharing. What a lovely idea to gold demonstrations & workshops in the cave :)
Brilliant really love this, well done.
How wonderful!
Really Amazing!
Wonderful!
What a wonderful event! I hope it really whetted the whistle of some people, for a further taste of Paleolithic crafting! It looks such fun!
In theory, iron pyrite (fool's gold) has the potential to be an amazing solar cell energy collecting material (90% vs the current (pun intended) standard of 20%). So far, researchers haven't managed to pull off that theoretical hat trick, though they're looking into it. But if they ever do, it would be doubly awesome: this mineral which was used for thousands of years to create energy in the form of fire, would then get to be used to create energy in the form of electricity!
I would like to visit here
How did the clothes stand up to a day's wear? Was it comfortable? How is it different to wear from modern clothes?
They are extremely comfortable. Whilst we can't currently know for sure whether we've got the styling right, one test of plausibility is that garments must work well for the intended purpose. We all wore different possible styles, but we were all comfortable. All leather in this case, so quite different from later textile based periods
Tell James to strike the rock on the steel. The steel striking the rock sends the sparks up and away.
I think he is striking the flint against the pyrite nodule isn't he? It's not easy to see in the clip but he was consistently getting good sparks on the tinder fungus, it was a popular demonstration and got done quite a lot of times over the weekend 🙂
I love this and will make a point of visiting if you are there next year. How did you make the fake fire? This would be really useful in the classroom when we study stone age
It's a silk flame effect on an led lightsource
This just makes me ache to come and spend hours hanging out, watching and learning, without barging in like a mammoth! You are all wonderful in your knowledge and willingness to share. You mention that you can’t have a fire in the cave mouth for “conservation reasons”. I can see it marginally for a several day exhibition and large fire. However having a single ember? Do you mean conservation or contamination of site?
Both, the cave is an archaeological site in a wider heritage landscape. Primary importance is not contaminating the archaeology, but care of the wider landscape is important too. We'll be back there next week if you are in the area!
@@SallyPointer my husband was a spelunker and my first trip to England in 1976 was to the World Spelunking Convention. We got dorm rooms in Bristol, had the welcome banquet in Wookey Hole Cave (catered by a local restaurant that did a good job at Medieval food - my personal hobby with about a thousand other lunatics in the z English speaking world).
Is the area very dry this hot year? I live in western Oregon where we have always considered ourselves in the gift of a Temporate Rain Forest. But not in the last three years when fires destroyed whole towns and thousands of acres on forested mountains, and along the Columbia River gorge, coming close to the outskirts of the suburbs of Portland itself (biggest city in Oregon, which is only impressive to us😃)
@@reginaromsey incredibly dry at the moment, fire is a real issue in many areas
Is this a regular event? I've made my own bow and arrows under the tutelage of Will Lord, flint snapper and Bowyer and would love to see the more domestic side of paleolithic living
We'll be there again this August 🙂
A while back I heard of something called a caveman spindle where a rock was used to spin cordage. Has there been any new developments in how this may have worked I was curious?
I'm not aware of any new research into cord making in early prehistory that uses rocks, but have you seen the ivory cord laying device found a few years ago in Germany? Here's a newspaper article on it, but there should be a proper paper out there too, this was just the first one to hand amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2020/aug/01/mammoth-tusk-drill-holes-make-rope-change-history-stone-age?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16672204909621&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fscience%2F2020%2Faug%2F01%2Fmammoth-tusk-drill-holes-make-rope-change-history-stone-age
@@SallyPointer Thanks for the link that was interesting.
I can't believe I missed this!!!!! Are you coming back to Cresswell Crags again? 🙏
Yes, we'll be there again in early August
@@SallyPointer great! I will definitely not miss it this time! Such a magical and ancient place, to see you work in such surroundings, I can't imagine a more perfect spot! 😁
Are you doing an event this summer?
Yes, first weekend in August I think
What length and loop count did you use to make that sprang cap?
The cap I'm wearing is simple looping, not sprang
Oh no, they showed you making the basket and we couldn't hear what you were saying because the mic was too close to James
There is another video just on the basket technique