Oh very cool! Huntsville is my hometown... I just saw the 2nd part show up in my recommendations so now I'm watching the first! Good stuff and welcome to Huntsville!
Awesome brother. Fascinating to me. Always like to hear what other people hypothesize versus what I think. But I didn’t study this in school but as everyone does I think some of the things I find were used for other purposes than what others think. Who knows for sure on some but it’s great to hear from someone who has a lot more knowledge👍🇺🇸
I don't know about western bow woods availability. However, the premier wood in NA is the osage orange which I believe is mainly found in Oklahoma. Black Locust is next(southern Midwest, Appalachia), followed by the widespread hickory and honey locust,
Hello! From Southern California here... Osage orange is found in Arizona and other places in the southwest, too. Don't see it as much in California, though. Ever seen a site/app called "Inaturalist"? Useful, if you're interested in real and potentially current data across the biological world. Have a great day! ✌️
Thank you! I really appreciate your presentations. Always enjoyable and very informative. I have a huge personal collection of artifacts from Randolph County, Missouri, collected in my youth that I should do something about, so I have a long standing personal interest.
That spear versus arrow discussion made me think: did anyone tried to create an classification AI for that? That seems like exactly the type of cases where such an algorithm should perform well. Assuming you have a big enough training set, though that will not remove your objection that the training set might be biased in the first place because of the need for wood to be conserve for any data point in it
There is no classification honestly. Saws, knives, spear points, arrow heads, drill points etc are all made from the same items at times. They just get smaller and smaller over time from breaking, re-finishing and recycling. Sometimes they're made as originals depending on the sizes of the material available. So basically an arrow head might be originally constructed as an arrow head or an arrow head could be a well used knife repurposed as an arrow head. There's no real way to tell which are which and what's even worse is you have specialized tools which may look exactly the same. Like that one arrow head with the big teeth in this video...........could very well be just an actual spear point repurpose and refaced to knock arrow shafts. One purpose but looks like other things. It's not very cut and dry. I imagine a lot of it depends on the availability and volume of stone available. Humans are less likely to re-use and re-cycle if there is an easy to access plentiful supply near by. More so if not.
Love to hear your opinion on citizens plundering ancient sites that are being exposed in their neighborhoods after housing construction. There’s a bunch of us now.. please advise!
Nate! That "Some Dumb Reason" was that I saw your intelligence and ability. We did good work down there! Also, thank you for citing the report- that was years of my life lol. ALSO- We looked at more than just the Shott method. Do you have a copy of my paper from the SEAC symposium?
I'm recently interested in cultural/type overlap - how long a particular lithic types persists into the next cultural/type preferences. I think this mainly is about the idea of how long did the old ways persist into the new ways and/or how long did they reuse of old points persist before their use fades nearly completely away. If you guys did any analysis like that I'd be curious.
I’ve found a village site of a hunter gatherer band where I’ve found the fire pits that were cylindrical sand stone rings that were exposed to a lot of heat. I’m in southern MS and I’ve found a Gary Mabin point and a knife made of talahata quartzite. The only other finds have been pottery and charcoal and minimal flakes. My question is would these villages have a place where folks would nap stone away from the village. Like a designated area away from walking paths so people aren’t stepping on those sharp flakes. Do yall find concentrated places throughout the village that has flakes and points? Because I’ve been at this for over a year now and I’ve only got two points to show for it. Having fun though! Don’t get me wrong it’s amazing to uncover old remains of intact carbonized logs and you can still see the ax marks and rings in it and right on top is a piece of decorated pottery and small tertiary flakes. Any advice would be much appreciated. I love your videos!
The Mississippi and tributary mound complex is vast. Lightning strike fixes nitrogen. Other useful metal reductions can occur in surrounding trenches as well.
The number of skulls on the couch behind Nathaneal increases from one at the beginning to three at the end. Is that trend going to continue through the series? 😊
It occurs to me that the 'amount of knowledge' that the folks whose artifacts you are digging up had to acquire about their environment and what could be done with it was probably pretty close to, if not beyond, the 'amount of knowledge' that someone with a doctorate in the modern world would acquire. I am continually amazed at how they 'did so much with so little' (which is a very biased phrasing, but that is where I am).
Love your channel Nathanael. I've always imagined the peoples of The Americas coming in with sewn clothes, decorated clothes and bodies, a wide choice of lithics, boats, large and small. and even different working dog breeds. I've also thought they would have had spears, throwing sticks, harpoons, and bows and arrows from the start, however, without continuous use could they have retained bow technology for long periods? I personally doubt they could have, and yet I personally (maybe just because it would be beyond me!) equally doubt the bow was invented multiple times in human history. Sorry if this is a fanciful dilemma of mine but do you believe the bow was invented independently (from say, much earlier in Africa) in The Americas?
Thanks so much. An upland site? Interesting for sure. I'm familiar with the Middle Woodland time period in East Tennessee/Western North Carolina.Connestee and garden creek triangles. But I don't think those are late middle woodland like this site.Not sure. Aware of sites like Icehouse Bottom,Tunacunnhee, Garden Creek,and Biltmore.I believe those are bottom sites.Look forword to hearing more about this site.Appreciate it.
You mentioned that at the end of the Early Archaic Period, there seemed to be an exodus of tribes. Could you expand on that, or point to some literature that describes this? Thanks for all you do!
data dense and well presented. Question about drills: You mentioned several different types including bow and pump drills. Could you elaborate on where, when the various types were used? I was under the impression that the bow types were late innovations, perhaps introduced by the Inuit. We often see claims in the FB artifact groups about dimpled stones being "fire starters", which of course is non-sense. However was stone in fact used as a bearing block for bow drills? My thought has always been that they would use low friction materials such as green wood or bone in this application Thanks!
Probably the important difference being noted is the bit: a tube whose edge is used to drive grinding grit (similar to an Egyptian copper-tube drill), vs. an angular stone cutting tip. The tube wears up as the work wears down. We have evidence of the latter from 70kya in Siberia.
@@sciptick I'm familiar with hand held cane drills (and fire starting techniques). I'm referring to bow drills and there usage in ancient america. But thanks anyways
Having worked at Redstone for about a year, I know these soils and potential contamination. I should have kept up with Ben being local I might have been able to help on this project. I know they were working at site next to the water plant, but am unsure if that's this one. Alexander Archaeology originally worked part of that site and came up with some interesting data. I heard that site was an incredible project. I wonder if I will ever run into you on a project.
my brother Paul has sets from previous collectors, for his rock shop/ custom jewelry silver smithed. no documentation known from ranches that saved from area,, or things could have been imported prior, if not recorded find documented years ago.
Question, off-topic, sorry... Tim Rowe suggests dozens of known mammoth sites similar to his 37kyo Hartley have gone un-excavated because they were considered too old to be cultural sites. Some of those must be in your eastern woodlands domain. Would a mammoth site there, of such age and cultural, be nonetheless too early to be professionally interesting to you? Or do archaeologists adapt to the age of the find? (This is no kind of criticism! I understand that people have to specialize.) For such a mammoth there, already dated, how would work on it begin? I imagine grant administrators with a long backlog of much more recent sites still undug not welcoming new competition, but that is just speculation.
The only mammoth site I know of over here is the Grey fossil site in East Tennessee and it shows no evidence of human activity. The paleontologists are all over it though. It's not that they're too old, but that there's nothing cultural associated. I've worked on sites that had mammoth remains on them, but they're well below anything human related.
After a quick search of Tim's work, I'm not convinced those "butchering" marks on the bones are actually anthropogenic. I'm a zooarchaeologist and this is what I specialize in. Hard to say from the pictures but those cuts look to have a U-shaped profile, which points to animal teeth, not blades. It's possible, but I wouldn't call it likely.
@@NathanaelFosaaen Thank you. I think the features they consider most diagnostic of cultural activity are cooking fires to extract marrow, with fish bones mixed in, and bone chips showing use-worn edges. (They found only six chert microflakes.) But anyway if no more mammoth sites spring to mind, he might mean in other places. Do I correctly recall you mentioning proboscidean protein residue from a lithic found in Virginia or a Carolina?
Yeah that's from a Chris Moore paper from early last year on the proboscidean proteins. As for New Mexico, It's not out of the question as far as I'm aware, but a few things. First, you don't use fire to extract marrow. you can use it to boil out collagen and fat from bone fragments though. Second, use wear on bone is extremely difficult to identify, so I'd need to see that evidence. If there's fish bones in the mix that's interesting, but did they date those fish bones and do they also date to the same age as the mammoth?
@@NathanaelFosaaen Thanks, I will try to pull up Moore's paper. An interesting wrinkle is use of bones for fuel. Predators are not known for splitting proboscidean skulls and stacking other bones on top.
I just watched the talk you had with Dr Christopher R Moore about the younger dryas. I didn't notice y'all talking about the Carolina Bays. Are they considered as evidence of an extraterrestrial strike?
@@ferengiprofiteer9145 He is, unlike a good scientist, not interested in evidence that contradicts his model. Unfortunately for his model, there is a lot of it. The legitimate mystery there, why the bays are so consistently elliptical when karst lakes are commonly irregular, and why their orientation varies systematically with latitude, must wait for someone else to explain.
@@NathanaelFosaaen We must note that one cannot date construction of a stone house based on age of the rocks. While not enough stratigraphy has been performed to be conclusive, inverted stratigraphy evidence suggests YDB provenance.
Animals seek out salt, too, and when they find it they return to it again and again, forming trails many species recognize and use. So, animal trails led them to salt. Fun fact, pre-modern human trails often also followed the same routes, because besides leading to salt, they are easier walking. Roads often start as widened trails. The trails converge from all directions, making a salt lick also a crossroad. Towns often spring up at crossroads. Our modern towns and cities are frequently on the site of salt licks, and roads between them often match the old trails. A town in England whose name ends with "-wich" may be at a salt lick, although town names are often copied.
Lol. "When the analysts did a Spearman's Rho test...." I'm a plurality now! Also, with the transition between bow and arrow, see the SEAC paper. If you need a copy, I'll send one. I'm not saying it is 100%, but until we have a better methodological approach, I throw the gauntlet down for you to do better. If I'm wrong, we need to ID the fallacy in three separate methods- which would be a real contribution.
I don't have the SEAC paper, but you did another analysis in the report. It was just really math heavy and not easy to communicate quickly. It also produced generally similar results so I decided to skip it.
I can practically taste your (pseudo-frustration?) at not being able to ask the folks who made and used these tools what was really going on. I think that you probably have some pretty darn accurate assumptions about what was happening, but the difference between 'excellent guesses' and 'actually knowing' is tantalizing.
One should never merely guess in Archaeology. It's a bad habit that leads one to twist facts to suit their guesses rather than follow the line of facts to a sound deduction.
@@NathanaelFosaaen Working hard to compile robust lines of facts is extremely desirable in all walks of life, and one can come up with some pretty reasonable/sound deductions as a consequence....but at a remove of hundreds to thousands of years even the most well-supported and carefully phrased deduction inevitably takes at least a millimeter step into 'guess territory'. One example would be that an artifact which appears to have accidentally been broken during manufacture may instead have been intentionally broken for any of a number of perfectly ordinary human reasons (pettiness, revenge, symbolic, etc.). We can learn a lot from compiling multiple robust lines of facts, but there are always going to be details of the history of an object or location that elude us.
When you say 'that you can talk about' are you telling us that you are not permitted to speak about many things and sites that you have and or are working on? Can I ask why the secrecy and why do they not want you to speak about things? In University I ran into this problem all the time in Archeology and what I discovered is that much was covered up or altered in interpretation to suit a false narrative, anything that questioned their linear timeline was quickly put away!
The reason I can't talk about them is the analysis isn't done yet and it would be irresponsible to put half-baked information out prematurely. I've got a few other sites I've personally worked on that i have videos about, but most of these excavations take about a decade to be picked over.
@@NathanaelFosaaen That makes sense. I'd love to see your other videos where you delve deeper into the areas that archeologists don't ever want to discuss. I would love to know your other sites. Thank you for your channel!
Oh very cool! Huntsville is my hometown... I just saw the 2nd part show up in my recommendations so now I'm watching the first! Good stuff and welcome to Huntsville!
This is like a sip from a firehose.
The sheer quantity of work being summarized in so few minutes is dizzying to contemplate.
Awesome brother. Fascinating to me. Always like to hear what other people hypothesize versus what I think. But I didn’t study this in school but as everyone does I think some of the things I find were used for other purposes than what others think. Who knows for sure on some but it’s great to hear from someone who has a lot more knowledge👍🇺🇸
Very informative...I always enjoy the analysis. Looking forward to seeing your next installment.
As a young knapper myself, this is like mana from heaven
This is fantastic, Nathanael. I can't wait to see Part 2. Bravo!
I don't know about western bow woods availability. However, the premier wood in NA is the osage orange which I believe is mainly found in Oklahoma. Black Locust is next(southern Midwest, Appalachia), followed by the widespread hickory and honey locust,
Hello! From Southern California here... Osage orange is found in Arizona and other places in the southwest, too. Don't see it as much in California, though.
Ever seen a site/app called "Inaturalist"? Useful, if you're interested in real and potentially current data across the biological world. Have a great day! ✌️
Great video, can’t wait to see how reviewing the rest of the report comes together!
Great video rlly appreciate the little trowel editing pointers
Well presented data man! Good job.
Thank you for this informative Video, can't wait to the next one comes out. Well done young Man
Thank you! I really appreciate your presentations. Always enjoyable and very informative. I have a huge personal collection of artifacts from Randolph County, Missouri, collected in my youth that I should do something about, so I have a long standing personal interest.
That spear versus arrow discussion made me think: did anyone tried to create an classification AI for that? That seems like exactly the type of cases where such an algorithm should perform well. Assuming you have a big enough training set, though that will not remove your objection that the training set might be biased in the first place because of the need for wood to be conserve for any data point in it
There is no classification honestly. Saws, knives, spear points, arrow heads, drill points etc are all made from the same items at times. They just get smaller and smaller over time from breaking, re-finishing and recycling. Sometimes they're made as originals depending on the sizes of the material available. So basically an arrow head might be originally constructed as an arrow head or an arrow head could be a well used knife repurposed as an arrow head. There's no real way to tell which are which and what's even worse is you have specialized tools which may look exactly the same. Like that one arrow head with the big teeth in this video...........could very well be just an actual spear point repurpose and refaced to knock arrow shafts. One purpose but looks like other things. It's not very cut and dry. I imagine a lot of it depends on the availability and volume of stone available. Humans are less likely to re-use and re-cycle if there is an easy to access plentiful supply near by. More so if not.
I enjoyed the the frog joke lol . Its was like a long norm mcdonald set up. Good info. Opeths out with a new album soon
Thanks for this. Even a rank amateur like me understood most of it (looked up the rest).
Very interesting. Thank you
I process the word tertiary in a rural southern English accent exclusively. This series is off with a fascinating start. Thank you again.
Love to hear your opinion on citizens plundering ancient sites that are being exposed in their neighborhoods after housing construction. There’s a bunch of us now.. please advise!
So damn cool,all the good info. Thanks!
Nate! That "Some Dumb Reason" was that I saw your intelligence and ability. We did good work down there!
Also, thank you for citing the report- that was years of my life lol.
ALSO- We looked at more than just the Shott method. Do you have a copy of my paper from the SEAC symposium?
I'm recently interested in cultural/type overlap - how long a particular lithic types persists into the next cultural/type preferences. I think this mainly is about the idea of how long did the old ways persist into the new ways and/or how long did they reuse of old points persist before their use fades nearly completely away. If you guys did any analysis like that I'd be curious.
I’ve found a village site of a hunter gatherer band where I’ve found the fire pits that were cylindrical sand stone rings that were exposed to a lot of heat. I’m in southern MS and I’ve found a Gary Mabin point and a knife made of talahata quartzite. The only other finds have been pottery and charcoal and minimal flakes. My question is would these villages have a place where folks would nap stone away from the village. Like a designated area away from walking paths so people aren’t stepping on those sharp flakes. Do yall find concentrated places throughout the village that has flakes and points? Because I’ve been at this for over a year now and I’ve only got two points to show for it. Having fun though! Don’t get me wrong it’s amazing to uncover old remains of intact carbonized logs and you can still see the ax marks and rings in it and right on top is a piece of decorated pottery and small tertiary flakes. Any advice would be much appreciated. I love your videos!
The Mississippi and tributary mound complex is vast. Lightning strike fixes nitrogen. Other useful metal reductions can occur in surrounding trenches as well.
The number of skulls on the couch behind Nathaneal increases from one at the beginning to three at the end. Is that trend going to continue through the series? 😊
It occurs to me that the 'amount of knowledge' that the folks whose artifacts you are digging up had to acquire about their environment and what could be done with it was probably pretty close to, if not beyond, the 'amount of knowledge' that someone with a doctorate in the modern world would acquire. I am continually amazed at how they 'did so much with so little' (which is a very biased phrasing, but that is where I am).
Love your channel Nathanael. I've always imagined the peoples of The Americas coming in with sewn clothes, decorated clothes and bodies, a wide choice of lithics, boats, large and small. and even different working dog breeds. I've also thought they would have had spears, throwing sticks, harpoons, and bows and arrows from the start, however, without continuous use could they have retained bow technology for long periods? I personally doubt they could have, and yet I personally (maybe just because it would be beyond me!) equally doubt the bow was invented multiple times in human history. Sorry if this is a fanciful dilemma of mine but do you believe the bow was invented independently (from say, much earlier in Africa) in The Americas?
Thanks so much. An upland site? Interesting for sure. I'm familiar with the Middle Woodland time period in East Tennessee/Western North Carolina.Connestee and garden creek triangles. But I don't think those are late middle woodland like this site.Not sure. Aware of sites like Icehouse Bottom,Tunacunnhee, Garden Creek,and Biltmore.I believe those are bottom sites.Look forword to hearing more about this site.Appreciate it.
You mentioned that at the end of the Early Archaic Period, there seemed to be an exodus of tribes. Could you expand on that, or point to some literature that describes this? Thanks for all you do!
Andy White has a piece on this on his blog, but the main text on it is Ken Sassaman's The Eastern Archaic, Historicized.
data dense and well presented. Question about drills: You mentioned several different types including bow and pump drills. Could you elaborate on where, when the various types were used? I was under the impression that the bow types were late innovations, perhaps introduced by the Inuit. We often see claims in the FB artifact groups about dimpled stones being "fire starters", which of course is non-sense. However was stone in fact used as a bearing block for bow drills? My thought has always been that they would use low friction materials such as green wood or bone in this application Thanks!
Probably the important difference being noted is the bit: a tube whose edge is used to drive grinding grit (similar to an Egyptian copper-tube drill), vs. an angular stone cutting tip. The tube wears up as the work wears down. We have evidence of the latter from 70kya in Siberia.
@@sciptick I'm familiar with hand held cane drills (and fire starting techniques). I'm referring to bow drills and there usage in ancient america. But thanks anyways
Having worked at Redstone for about a year, I know these soils and potential contamination. I should have kept up with Ben being local I might have been able to help on this project. I know they were working at site next to the water plant, but am unsure if that's this one. Alexander Archaeology originally worked part of that site and came up with some interesting data. I heard that site was an incredible project. I wonder if I will ever run into you on a project.
I spoke too soon, yep that looks like the site in question. I am jealous.
Yeah it was a good one!
my brother Paul has sets from previous collectors, for his rock shop/ custom jewelry silver smithed. no documentation known from ranches that saved from area,, or things could have been imported prior, if not recorded find documented years ago.
Question, off-topic, sorry... Tim Rowe suggests dozens of known mammoth sites similar to his 37kyo Hartley have gone un-excavated because they were considered too old to be cultural sites. Some of those must be in your eastern woodlands domain. Would a mammoth site there, of such age and cultural, be nonetheless too early to be professionally interesting to you? Or do archaeologists adapt to the age of the find? (This is no kind of criticism! I understand that people have to specialize.) For such a mammoth there, already dated, how would work on it begin? I imagine grant administrators with a long backlog of much more recent sites still undug not welcoming new competition, but that is just speculation.
The only mammoth site I know of over here is the Grey fossil site in East Tennessee and it shows no evidence of human activity. The paleontologists are all over it though. It's not that they're too old, but that there's nothing cultural associated. I've worked on sites that had mammoth remains on them, but they're well below anything human related.
After a quick search of Tim's work, I'm not convinced those "butchering" marks on the bones are actually anthropogenic. I'm a zooarchaeologist and this is what I specialize in. Hard to say from the pictures but those cuts look to have a U-shaped profile, which points to animal teeth, not blades. It's possible, but I wouldn't call it likely.
@@NathanaelFosaaen Thank you. I think the features they consider most diagnostic of cultural activity are cooking fires to extract marrow, with fish bones mixed in, and bone chips showing use-worn edges. (They found only six chert microflakes.) But anyway if no more mammoth sites spring to mind, he might mean in other places. Do I correctly recall you mentioning proboscidean protein residue from a lithic found in Virginia or a Carolina?
Yeah that's from a Chris Moore paper from early last year on the proboscidean proteins.
As for New Mexico, It's not out of the question as far as I'm aware, but a few things. First, you don't use fire to extract marrow. you can use it to boil out collagen and fat from bone fragments though. Second, use wear on bone is extremely difficult to identify, so I'd need to see that evidence. If there's fish bones in the mix that's interesting, but did they date those fish bones and do they also date to the same age as the mammoth?
@@NathanaelFosaaen Thanks, I will try to pull up Moore's paper. An interesting wrinkle is use of bones for fuel. Predators are not known for splitting proboscidean skulls and stacking other bones on top.
hey, where is the music in the beginning?
thx; fascinating
moonlightgemstones show some collections saved from local rock hound or early ranchers find.
Why? that material has basically no contextual information and doesn't really do anything archaeologically.
I just watched the talk you had with Dr Christopher R Moore about the younger dryas.
I didn't notice y'all talking about the Carolina Bays. Are they considered as evidence of an extraterrestrial strike?
I've talked to him about those before, and OSL dates indicate that they're mostly older than the YDO.
@@NathanaelFosaaen Thanks for the response. There's a guy that hawks them but he's a little too Von Danikenesc for my taste. (Hancockish, Carlsonian)
@@ferengiprofiteer9145 He is, unlike a good scientist, not interested in evidence that contradicts his model. Unfortunately for his model, there is a lot of it. The legitimate mystery there, why the bays are so consistently elliptical when karst lakes are commonly irregular, and why their orientation varies systematically with latitude, must wait for someone else to explain.
@@NathanaelFosaaen We must note that one cannot date construction of a stone house based on age of the rocks. While not enough stratigraphy has been performed to be conclusive, inverted stratigraphy evidence suggests YDB provenance.
@@candui-7OSL shows early dune formation to be closer to 20 kya, which is before the YDB by thousands of years.
could you explain how indians were able to find salt. I very much enjoy your videos
Animals seek out salt, too, and when they find it they return to it again and again, forming trails many species recognize and use. So, animal trails led them to salt. Fun fact, pre-modern human trails often also followed the same routes, because besides leading to salt, they are easier walking. Roads often start as widened trails. The trails converge from all directions, making a salt lick also a crossroad. Towns often spring up at crossroads. Our modern towns and cities are frequently on the site of salt licks, and roads between them often match the old trails. A town in England whose name ends with "-wich" may be at a salt lick, although town names are often copied.
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Lol. "When the analysts did a Spearman's Rho test...." I'm a plurality now!
Also, with the transition between bow and arrow, see the SEAC paper. If you need a copy, I'll send one. I'm not saying it is 100%, but until we have a better methodological approach, I throw the gauntlet down for you to do better. If I'm wrong, we need to ID the fallacy in three separate methods- which would be a real contribution.
I don't have the SEAC paper, but you did another analysis in the report. It was just really math heavy and not easy to communicate quickly. It also produced generally similar results so I decided to skip it.
@@NathanaelFosaaen The generally similar results was the point, though! However, for public consumption, I get it.
You arent allowed to tell us about the ancient alien sites? Haha
I can practically taste your (pseudo-frustration?) at not being able to ask the folks who made and used these tools what was really going on. I think that you probably have some pretty darn accurate assumptions about what was happening, but the difference between 'excellent guesses' and 'actually knowing' is tantalizing.
One should never merely guess in Archaeology. It's a bad habit that leads one to twist facts to suit their guesses rather than follow the line of facts to a sound deduction.
@@NathanaelFosaaen Working hard to compile robust lines of facts is extremely desirable in all walks of life, and one can come up with some pretty reasonable/sound deductions as a consequence....but at a remove of hundreds to thousands of years even the most well-supported and carefully phrased deduction inevitably takes at least a millimeter step into 'guess territory'. One example would be that an artifact which appears to have accidentally been broken during manufacture may instead have been intentionally broken for any of a number of perfectly ordinary human reasons (pettiness, revenge, symbolic, etc.). We can learn a lot from compiling multiple robust lines of facts, but there are always going to be details of the history of an object or location that elude us.
When you say 'that you can talk about' are you telling us that you are not permitted to speak about many things and sites that you have and or are working on? Can I ask why the secrecy and why do they not want you to speak about things? In University I ran into this problem all the time in Archeology and what I discovered is that much was covered up or altered in interpretation to suit a false narrative, anything that questioned their linear timeline was quickly put away!
The reason I can't talk about them is the analysis isn't done yet and it would be irresponsible to put half-baked information out prematurely. I've got a few other sites I've personally worked on that i have videos about, but most of these excavations take about a decade to be picked over.
@@NathanaelFosaaen That makes sense. I'd love to see your other videos where you delve deeper into the areas that archeologists don't ever want to discuss. I would love to know your other sites. Thank you for your channel!
When archaeologists who can't flintknap, make spears, or hunt with bows start talking about ancient projectile morphology, it makes me want to puke.
If you're gonna spew, spew into this:🪣