I once took a class in maya glyphs (no, did not learn to read them) but from what I recall, the maya would often use writing purely decoratively, the glyphs being very elaborate. For example, loads of cups have been found that just have the word "cup" written on them.
@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 yeah or arabic calligraphy in the islamic world or egyptian hieroglyphs. In societies were the ability to read and write was very scarce, access to it was a symbol of status and in some cultures (in pre-christian scandinavia if I'm not mistaken) mystical or even magical properties were attributed to the written word.
@@Oxtocoatl13 actually with runes it's more that the meanings were slowly forgotten but we're still appreciated for aesthetics. It was a terrible comparison in hindsight, all of your examples are far better
Lindy arrives in that outfit, "oh no it is the imperials again!" 4:45 oh my god that must be the most hilarious moment in Lindy history. I don't remember Lindy having that type of self ironic moment before.
The main reason the Maya never really used wheels on machines is that quite a lot of their empire is so mountainous that their roads have to have stairs. Which make wheels less useful than they might otherwise be.
They had wheels on small carts and toys. They knew of wheels, they used them sparingly, they simply transported most everything via rivers cause they lacked the beast of burden to justify larger carts
@@iannordin5250 Did they have wooden wheels? Or anything but stone? A stone cartwheel would weigh a ton (literally), and break the first time it fell over. On a soft road it would sink, on paving stones it would chip and on a perfect surface it could become a runaway nightmare.
I just genuinely love and thoroughly enjoy your videos Lloyd. You are to me, the ideal professor/instructor figure; oh to have had professors like you at University. Alas, that was years ago. Academia today is a shell of itself. Anywho, Cheers!
This guy reminds me of my hippy history teacher 10 years ago in highschool. If he teached me the last year I would have made it my proffesion. Other teacher were so boring. This way of bringing knoledge us so motivating.
My great-grandfather was a mayan from Yucatán México, he found in the 40s and 50s a lot of jade items in different archeological sites, until now me and my family still have those amazing objects.
Yeah man, the joke is Lindy and that other chucklefuck have run off with 150,000 pounds of peoples money, by pretending they were gunna release a book The joke just gets funnier as Lindy tries to distract and confuse his backers in the manner of one playing peekaboo with an infant AAHAHHAHAHHA, get it?
@@vonclaren1 You mean the graphic novel they keep releasing updates about and of which they have been very open about the progress? That one? www.insearchofhannibal.com/
5:00 The Japanese people I work with tell me about a cultural tidbit (for lack of a better term, this is like common knowledge there in Japan) where if you take a look at a full moon, the pattern made by the craters look like a profile of a rabbit. Maybe this carried over, or they made the same observation?
Yeah but they are really cheap here in Guatemala... My country may be a third world country with many many problems, but at least we have cheap avocados which is kind of nice
5:02 Jade statue of Moon Goddess with rabbit in Guatemala, pretty much on the other side of the world from China where there are also legends of jade rabbit living on moon. What a coincidence
There is actual evidence that there was contact with the Maya of Guatemala and the ancient Chinese. There are carvings on stelas that bare resemblance of Chinese emperors, both cultures used jade, and there are round giant stone carvings of a Pre-Olmec culture that looks so Chinese and these stone statues also have magnetism, which science for a long time have said the ancient Chinese first discovered it, but now science says this Pre-Olmec culture actually identified magnetism before the Chinese.
When remarking about the Mayans’ use of wheels, (or lack thereof) I believe that the verticality of the landscape may have played a role. (Ex. Tall jungle trees, mountainous or rocky terrain, thick patchy plant-life, etc)
(0:30) Look at that piece, polished in some areas as to give it a design. Very nice. (5:14) I have some great big lumps of obsidian. I particularly like the ones with streaks of red in them, but I don't know what that red is. In any case, they should always be handled with care, because they're very sharp. (7:20) Argh! Someone dogeared that page - it's a heresy!
The goddess of the moon, shown in minute 5:04 is also the goddess of the rabbits because is said in the mayan mithology, that at the beginning of times, there were two suns, and for distinguish one from the other, a god, painted one of them in white, but because of the bright light, they couldn't be differentiated. After that, the gods decided to throw a rabbit directly to the moon, and with that justify those strange darker dots that are at it's surface. I love this kind of histories
I m just posting that here : I think your dancing video looks amazing, love it. hope you make more. you deserve so much more sub, it blows my mind how underrated this channel still is.
Don't normally comment on UA-cam but I love this! As someone who does bioarchaeology farther south in Peru, I've always thought the "wheels on toys" thing was a bit baffling...until I saw the terrain in highland/jungle areas. Wheels can be used for lots beyond just transport...but it kind of makes sense that it never caught on, given the types of landscapes they were living in.
And why didn't they use wheelbarrows to be pulled by persons? Kind of a mistery why they didn't figure out that. Maybe it has to do with maintaining social differences. Mantaining the slave role.
@Emanuel Vanzetti One explanation I've heard is that the terrain in Central America is so difficult that wheels would have been of limited usefulness. Of course, after you already have developed the wheel for those kinds of uses, you probably would go through the trouble for building roads to use them on, but otherwise you might just figure "Why going through all that trouble, when we could just carry the stuff on our backs?"
@@quasicroissant: Wheels are not only for transport. But also for machinery. A water mill would use a wheel to harness the power of a running stream. Cogwheels are used to transer power in machines. If the Mayans were really so great, they would've figured this out.
A simple machine (like a wheel) isn't developed with an end goal. It's developed for the thing right in front of you. No people of mountainous, jungle geography developed wheels. People who lived in relatively flat areas developed wheels. Only after wheels existed in rudimentary forms like log rollers, were they applied to something like a wagon. Only after a wagon existed did somebody else think to use the strength of an animal to pull it. Development happens incrementally, usually w/o any idea of the next step. To think less of a people because they didn't develope the technology centered around wheels is pretty arrogant, when those same people were using rather advanced mathematics and developed efficient crop rotations that tool other parts of the world much longer to develop.
What a supprisingly random upload! I just found myself in Guatemala one day and hey presto! Now walking around Guatemala in full plate armour..... That would be impressive
A relatively new use for jade is in clothing. Duluth Trading has a line of clothing whose fibers are coated in jade dust and the jade has a cooling effect on the wearer. Kind of interesting
Translation of 5:28 for you curious folk -can't understand him (presumably asking what you need for a a place to be classified as an archeological sit) -if you find a single fragment then the place can be classified as an archeological site -with just one fragment? -yeah just one fragment is enough
Yes, there must be some sort of primordial connection between the Moon, jade and rabbits which percolated around the world and inveigled itself into lots of cultures. The Chinese called their recent lunar lander the Jade Rabbit.
You're right, its crazy, i just looked into this a little bit, but it turns out that China, Aztecs, and even northern native Americans all have a very similar folklore story involving a rabbit sacrificing itself to feed starving people, and then being sent too the moon by a god. The rabbit is also depicted as a companion to the moon goddess in both Mayan and Chinese cultures, i cant believe this isn't talked about more. I can understand these different cultures seeing a rabbit when looking at the face of the moon, but too have such a similar story to explain the myth? That goes a bit beyond coincidence in my opinion.
@@nickskizekers1906 No, seriously. Look at a photograph of the moon, like this one: www.oarval.org/MoonMapen.htm. The bunny's ears are Mare Fecunditatis and Mare Nectaris; its head is on the right, and it is facing towards the top of the moon (the moon's north pole). It's much more convincing as a rabbit than as a face. That part could be independently noticed. Could the ancestors of Native Americans have carried astronomical myths across the Bering Strait? Maybe. The constellation Taurus is clearly depicted as a bull in Lascaux cave paintings that are only a little younger than the first human explorers of America, and some Native American myths identify the Great Bear as, well, a great bear.
@@nickskizekers1906 I don't know why this seems like such a mystery, it's pretty clear why they share some basic folk lore considering Native Americans came from Asia.
Very cool. I recollect reading many years ago that the Chinese worked jade with a hacksaw like tool where the blade was a piece of string coated in sand. Probably more details escape me like glued on special "sand" but interesting still. It always made me appreciate the craftsmanship and man-hours that went into making jade thing-a-ma-bobs
@@stazz316 He does videos on paleontology, cryptozoology, and recently a lot of Anthropology. His videos on Mothman, recent paleontological discoveries, and issues of debate like Kennewick Man are a must if you want to learn and be entertained at the same time!
That mirror looks like a fun project. I think though that hematite would give me the result I would like. Hmmm where to find large chunks of hematite.....?
I love when he finds a piece of obsidian and the guy in background is saying "Si encontrás un fragmento ya lo podés clasificar como sitio arqueológico" translated to "If you find only one piece is already an archeological site"
A scalpel maker has started making scalpel blades out of obsidian, because the apex of its edge is 1 molecule thick and leaves a much finer cut that heals far cleaner and they are prized by plastic surgeons for facial incisions
Burma, which is now sometimes known as "Myanmar" Peking, which is now sometimes known as "Beijing" The Colonies, which are now sometimes known as "The United States" The Penal Colony, which is now sometimes known "as Australia" And British India, which is now sometimes known as "India"
Why hasn't a major network picked you up by now? Seriously Lindy you're one of the most entertaining people I've seen. I'd listen to you read the phone book. What's taking The History Channel so long to find you?
Garnet is used by the tonne to blast steel. Not sure how expensive it can be when a drydock might use a 500 tonnes of the stuff to blast the hull of a ship. I will state that slag is normally used but if the environmental policy requires it, garnet is used.
Ah that man. Bit of a unusual video request, but please could we see a video on the ‘mad mullah’ and the British expeditions into Somaliland. Splendid channel and keep up the sterling work.
I'd always been a bit curious, excellent episode. Seems perfect for a kind of natural stained glass or tasteful lampshade apart from swanky accessories. Curious what that marimba sounded like since it's semi-metallic precious marble of a sort, no? I bet it sounds as particular as hardwoods; seems prized for flutes.
5:01 That bit about the goddess of the moon being associated with hares/rabbits is very interesting to compare to the Chinese mythology about the moon goddess Chang'e and her companion Yutu (Jade Rabbit). I mean, it's not a mind-blowing surprise, given that the mares on the near side of the moon can look a bit like a rabbit. That might explain why far-apart cultures would associate rabbits with their lunar mythologies. Fascinating.
Maori (New Zealand) used the local Jade called 'Greenstone" or "Pounamu" to fashion Mere a sharp small club like weapon (very effective), ornate Tiki necklaces and ornate tools as artistic items only. They cut and fashioned the pounamu using water and sand to wear it down which could take generations of work which is why Pounamu items were highly valued and rare. I cut a small piece off a larger bit and rounded off the edges, it was incredibly hard and difficult to work with even with modern tools.
This was great! I love museum exhibits, but looking at pictures online just isn't the same. This wasn't as good as visiting, but it was the next best thing. And I didn't need to book a flight!
@@ubiquitouspanda4466 I dont know if its true or not as he hasnt confirmed it , But it seemed like he was insinuating that was the year he was born . Or he could perhaps be trolling us .
I had the camera in one hand and was flicking through a book with the other and trying to keep the conversation flowing. It was the first date I pointed to at random. I moisturise.
How similar are the compositions of the jade commonly used in China and Asia, and those used in Mesoamerica? Are there any notable differences based on the geology of the regions?
Lindybeige and the Temple of the Jade Idol coming this fall.
Tadicuslegion78 Lindyana Beige
If only..
False. He is a historian, not an archeologist
But they all belong in a museum
SUMMON AN EVEN LARGER MAN!
"We know it's a scribe because the inscriptions tell us so" Lloyd's Masterclass in Archaeology
I once took a class in maya glyphs (no, did not learn to read them) but from what I recall, the maya would often use writing purely decoratively, the glyphs being very elaborate. For example, loads of cups have been found that just have the word "cup" written on them.
@@Oxtocoatl13 a bit like runes in christianised areas of Scandinavia
@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 yeah or arabic calligraphy in the islamic world or egyptian hieroglyphs. In societies were the ability to read and write was very scarce, access to it was a symbol of status and in some cultures (in pre-christian scandinavia if I'm not mistaken) mystical or even magical properties were attributed to the written word.
@@Oxtocoatl13 actually with runes it's more that the meanings were slowly forgotten but we're still appreciated for aesthetics. It was a terrible comparison in hindsight, all of your examples are far better
And yes runes were also seen as magical
And I was expecting to hear about how the British actually produced mayan jade both earlier and to a higher quality than the mayans
lollll
@wood1155 I heard the first particles released in the big bang were in fact british
Cheap shots. Yeah, I got it: he’s too proud to be English and the achievements of his people.
Jade was actually made from microscopic Bren guns
@@geyotepilkington2892 actually it was "Bri", then "tish" was added
No beige jade? This is preposterous! I want my money back!
Its in the bottom right corner!
Got that book ready?
4:43 "I think they are overdoing the costume. " I died at this moment.
*in a salty British voice* "Burma, which is now sometimes known as Myanmar"
"Peking, which is now sometimes known as Beijing"
Yeah so that 150,000 for Hannibal has all been blown on Canadian whores and maple syrup hay?
The British couldn't wait to get rid of Burma: it was a net drain on their finances. Not as bad as Vietnam and the Americans though.
@@lukesampson3294 Would you mean the French?
@@Volunteer-per-order_OSullivan "The thirteen British colonies, or as some call them, the United States of America"
Lindy arrives in that outfit, "oh no it is the imperials again!"
4:45 oh my god that must be the most hilarious moment in Lindy history. I don't remember Lindy having that type of self ironic moment before.
The main reason the Maya never really used wheels on machines is that quite a lot of their empire is so mountainous that their roads have to have stairs.
Which make wheels less useful than they might otherwise be.
No draft animals either.
They had wheels on small carts and toys. They knew of wheels, they used them sparingly, they simply transported most everything via rivers cause they lacked the beast of burden to justify larger carts
Mayas in mountains? I think you confused Mayas and Incas XD
Or, if we were to ask Graham Hancock, definitive proof of an ancient super-civilisation, possibly with alien technology.
@@iannordin5250
Did they have wooden wheels? Or anything but stone? A stone cartwheel would weigh a ton (literally), and break the first time it fell over. On a soft road it would sink, on paving stones it would chip and on a perfect surface it could become a runaway nightmare.
Lindybiege could make grass growing interesting
Great idea for a vid!
I just genuinely love and thoroughly enjoy your videos Lloyd. You are to me, the ideal professor/instructor figure; oh to have had professors like you at University. Alas, that was years ago. Academia today is a shell of itself. Anywho, Cheers!
at the start, i was sure you heading towards saying "lumps of purest green"
@@cap5856 Blackadder
ua-cam.com/video/TkZFuKHXa7w/v-deo.html
This guy reminds me of my hippy history teacher 10 years ago in highschool. If he teached me the last year I would have made it my proffesion. Other teacher were so boring. This way of bringing knoledge us so motivating.
This is my favourite channel
1:10 Here we see a very unique Mayan artifact, found in the ruins of what was their equivalent of the Home Depot paint department.
Nice to see my second favourite Geordy UA-camr (after MightyJingles, obviously) talking about the False God of sciences, Geology.
Love you Lindy! Big history fan!
My great-grandfather was a mayan from Yucatán México, he found in the 40s and 50s a lot of jade items in different archeological sites, until now me and my family still have those amazing objects.
BRO that is SO awesome!
Any chance you have photos?
Lindy Field Trip videos are the best!!! Bring more nature sections! The one on forests was wonderful!
The Goddess Tlazolteolt @ 4:53 is almost the same as the Golden idol in Raiders Of The Lost Ark, that was an idol of a woman giving birth too
I would love to visit a jade museum, green is my favorite color. It would be a feast for the eyes. Great video.
That obsidian mirror is beautiful.
Lindybeige doing the Christian Bale Batman voice was probably the funniest thing I've seen/heard all week.
wow, those sculptures are stunning i love jade now, thanks lindy !
I'm starting to suspect every single line in this video has a joke and we're missing 90% of them.
So much Jade in the video - even parts of the comment section has become jaded.
Yeah man, the joke is Lindy and that other chucklefuck have run off with 150,000 pounds of peoples money, by pretending they were gunna release a book
The joke just gets funnier as Lindy tries to distract and confuse his backers in the manner of one playing peekaboo with an infant
AAHAHHAHAHHA, get it?
@@vonclaren1 what?
@@elaenashipp3417 Look into it
@@vonclaren1 You mean the graphic novel they keep releasing updates about and of which they have been very open about the progress?
That one?
www.insearchofhannibal.com/
5:00 The Japanese people I work with tell me about a cultural tidbit (for lack of a better term, this is like common knowledge there in Japan) where if you take a look at a full moon, the pattern made by the craters look like a profile of a rabbit.
Maybe this carried over, or they made the same observation?
They made the same observation.
Level 5 turtle
But a level 100 British lad!!
I really like these adventure videos
Avocados may as well be jade, they are expensive! About a dollar each here
Really cheap here, but im in brazil.
A. C
Laughs in New World.
Yeah but they are really cheap here in Guatemala... My country may be a third world country with many many problems, but at least we have cheap avocados which is kind of nice
They have them for $0.49 at an aldi by me.
A. C pffff they’re 1.6 dollars a piece here
Thank you so much Lindybeige
5:02 Jade statue of Moon Goddess with rabbit in Guatemala, pretty much on the other side of the world from China where there are also legends of jade rabbit living on moon. What a coincidence
And European mythology, and Middle Eastern mythology. It's a common theme.
There is actual evidence that there was contact with the Maya of Guatemala and the ancient Chinese. There are carvings on stelas that bare resemblance of Chinese emperors, both cultures used jade, and there are round giant stone carvings of a Pre-Olmec culture that looks so Chinese and these stone statues also have magnetism, which science for a long time have said the ancient Chinese first discovered it, but now science says this Pre-Olmec culture actually identified magnetism before the Chinese.
When remarking about the Mayans’ use of wheels, (or lack thereof) I believe that the verticality of the landscape may have played a role. (Ex. Tall jungle trees, mountainous or rocky terrain, thick patchy plant-life, etc)
(0:30) Look at that piece, polished in some areas as to give it a design. Very nice.
(5:14) I have some great big lumps of obsidian. I particularly like the ones with streaks of red in them, but I don't know what that red is. In any case, they should always be handled with care, because they're very sharp.
(7:20) Argh! Someone dogeared that page - it's a heresy!
The goddess of the moon, shown in minute 5:04 is also the goddess of the rabbits because is said in the mayan mithology, that at the beginning of times, there were two suns, and for distinguish one from the other, a god, painted one of them in white, but because of the bright light, they couldn't be differentiated. After that, the gods decided to throw a rabbit directly to the moon, and with that justify those strange darker dots that are at it's surface. I love this kind of histories
I m just posting that here : I think your dancing video looks amazing, love it. hope you make more. you deserve so much more sub, it blows my mind how underrated this channel still is.
As always, a wonderful mix of information and comedy.
Don't normally comment on UA-cam but I love this! As someone who does bioarchaeology farther south in Peru, I've always thought the "wheels on toys" thing was a bit baffling...until I saw the terrain in highland/jungle areas. Wheels can be used for lots beyond just transport...but it kind of makes sense that it never caught on, given the types of landscapes they were living in.
Excellent, as always. You've made me want to go to the jungle, which is something I don't think I've ever said in my life.
6:00 they didn't have draft animals to pull wheeled vehicles.
I thought they had dogs
And why didn't they use wheelbarrows to be pulled by persons? Kind of a mistery why they didn't figure out that.
Maybe it has to do with maintaining social differences. Mantaining the slave role.
@Emanuel Vanzetti One explanation I've heard is that the terrain in Central America is so difficult that wheels would have been of limited usefulness. Of course, after you already have developed the wheel for those kinds of uses, you probably would go through the trouble for building roads to use them on, but otherwise you might just figure "Why going through all that trouble, when we could just carry the stuff on our backs?"
@@quasicroissant: Wheels are not only for transport. But also for machinery. A water mill would use a wheel to harness the power of a running stream.
Cogwheels are used to transer power in machines.
If the Mayans were really so great, they would've figured this out.
A simple machine (like a wheel) isn't developed with an end goal. It's developed for the thing right in front of you. No people of mountainous, jungle geography developed wheels. People who lived in relatively flat areas developed wheels. Only after wheels existed in rudimentary forms like log rollers, were they applied to something like a wagon. Only after a wagon existed did somebody else think to use the strength of an animal to pull it.
Development happens incrementally, usually w/o any idea of the next step. To think less of a people because they didn't develope the technology centered around wheels is pretty arrogant, when those same people were using rather advanced mathematics and developed efficient crop rotations that tool other parts of the world much longer to develop.
Great video, they are getting better produced all the time.
Lindy you're a great narrator mate
What a supprisingly random upload! I just found myself in Guatemala one day and hey presto! Now walking around Guatemala in full plate armour..... That would be impressive
I like these short Videos a lot! =) At least I have time to actually watch them :D Good work Lindy!
06:02 İ think they didn't use wheels because there was no useful animal for dragging/carrying in the new world.
You can still drag a cartwheel yourself and save yourself a lot of effort. Feels like their rocky and uneven terrain also had a lot to do with it.
China used the wheelbarrow extensively in a period when they stopped building roads..
most wheel barrows are used on construction sites these days so perhaps the fact they they didn't have roads didn't matter @@bloodvue
A relatively new use for jade is in clothing. Duluth Trading has a line of clothing whose fibers are coated in jade dust and the jade has a cooling effect on the wearer. Kind of interesting
Perhaps that's be one reason jade is so popular for bangles and necklaces in East and South-Asia, as a cooling method in muggy hot climates.
Translation of 5:28 for you curious folk
-can't understand him (presumably asking what you need for a a place to be classified as an archeological sit)
-if you find a single fragment then the place can be classified as an archeological site
-with just one fragment?
-yeah just one fragment is enough
That makes the whole world an archaeological site.
@@lindybeige well that's a fun way to think about the world isn't it?
how many times the word "jade" was said in this video.
it is a video about jade tho
I would’ve thought you would’ve pointed out the coincidence that a Jade rabbit on the moon also appears in Chinese Mythhology.
Yes, there must be some sort of primordial connection between the Moon, jade and rabbits which percolated around the world and inveigled itself into lots of cultures. The Chinese called their recent lunar lander the Jade Rabbit.
Connected to seeing the shape of a rabbit in the moon markings. Also spread from China to Japan and other Asian countries.
You're right, its crazy, i just looked into this a little bit, but it turns out that China, Aztecs, and even northern native Americans all have a very similar folklore story involving a rabbit sacrificing itself to feed starving people, and then being sent too the moon by a god. The rabbit is also depicted as a companion to the moon goddess in both Mayan and Chinese cultures, i cant believe this isn't talked about more. I can understand these different cultures seeing a rabbit when looking at the face of the moon, but too have such a similar story to explain the myth? That goes a bit beyond coincidence in my opinion.
@@nickskizekers1906 No, seriously. Look at a photograph of the moon, like this one: www.oarval.org/MoonMapen.htm. The bunny's ears are Mare Fecunditatis and Mare Nectaris; its head is on the right, and it is facing towards the top of the moon (the moon's north pole). It's much more convincing as a rabbit than as a face. That part could be independently noticed.
Could the ancestors of Native Americans have carried astronomical myths across the Bering Strait? Maybe. The constellation Taurus is clearly depicted as a bull in Lascaux cave paintings that are only a little younger than the first human explorers of America, and some Native American myths identify the Great Bear as, well, a great bear.
@@nickskizekers1906 I don't know why this seems like such a mystery, it's pretty clear why they share some basic folk lore considering Native Americans came from Asia.
6:12 what good were wheels when you didn’t have any suitable animals to pull a cart?
Very cool. I recollect reading many years ago that the Chinese worked jade with a hacksaw like tool where the blade was a piece of string coated in sand. Probably more details escape me like glued on special "sand" but interesting still. It always made me appreciate the craftsmanship and man-hours that went into making jade thing-a-ma-bobs
Wow a new video by Trey the Explainer and Lindybeige in the *SAME hour?!*
Jolly good
You sir are a man of good taste
whats trey the expleainer
@@stazz316His name is Trey and he explains
@@stazz316 He does videos on paleontology, cryptozoology, and recently a lot of Anthropology. His videos on Mothman, recent paleontological discoveries, and issues of debate like Kennewick Man are a must if you want to learn and be entertained at the same time!
@@JTS21 you as well good man
That mirror looks like a fun project. I think though that hematite would give me the result I would like. Hmmm where to find large chunks of hematite.....?
Great episode thanks for all your hard work
Lindy, are there still more videos coming from Guatemala? I love them
Yes.
So happy for a new vid
just listened to a great courses about the maya and inca, among others. very topical.
Looks like an amazing trip, I was in Cusco and walked the Inca trail last year, it was amazing
I love when he finds a piece of obsidian and the guy in background is saying "Si encontrás un fragmento ya lo podés clasificar como sitio arqueológico" translated to "If you find only one piece is already an archeological site"
A scalpel maker has started making scalpel blades out of obsidian, because the apex of its edge is 1 molecule thick and leaves a much finer cut that heals far cleaner and they are prized by plastic surgeons for facial incisions
Burma, which is now sometimes known as "Myanmar"
Peking, which is now sometimes known as "Beijing"
The Colonies, which are now sometimes known as "The United States"
The Penal Colony, which is now sometimes known "as Australia"
And British India, which is now sometimes known as "India"
Great video . I was at the same place back in 2004 . I bought a small necklace and a pair of earrings .
Finally a video under an hour
thanks so much for the upload! i always enjoy your content!
I love the clay ashtray at 3:10
Why hasn't a major network picked you up by now?
Seriously Lindy you're one of the most entertaining people I've seen.
I'd listen to you read the phone book.
What's taking The History Channel so long to find you?
They put all their production budget towards Pawn Stars
Garnet is used by the tonne to blast steel. Not sure how expensive it can be when a drydock might use a 500 tonnes of the stuff to blast the hull of a ship. I will state that slag is normally used but if the environmental policy requires it, garnet is used.
Please PLEASE make this channel hit 1 million subs.
Was that figurine with wheels really authentic? That one actually raises a lot of questions.
Lindy is such a lost puppy in this world but I think we all have a part of lost puppy in ourselves which is why we love him
Ah that man. Bit of a unusual video request, but please could we see a video on the ‘mad mullah’ and the British expeditions into Somaliland. Splendid channel and keep up the sterling work.
I'd always been a bit curious, excellent episode. Seems perfect for a kind of natural stained glass or tasteful lampshade apart from swanky accessories. Curious what that marimba sounded like since it's semi-metallic precious marble of a sort, no? I bet it sounds as particular as hardwoods; seems prized for flutes.
5:10 also simmilar to the moon goddess in chinese mythology chang'e, where she also has a rabbit/hare
My dad just got back from Guatemala. Next time he goes he will definitely visit that museum.
Nice to see Lindy making videos about other cultures besides Europeans. I’m not Guatemalan by the way.
i really enjoyed watching this.
Hello, I was wondering if you could do a video covering frogmouth helms and your opinion on them? Love the channel!
5:01 That bit about the goddess of the moon being associated with hares/rabbits is very interesting to compare to the Chinese mythology about the moon goddess Chang'e and her companion Yutu (Jade Rabbit). I mean, it's not a mind-blowing surprise, given that the mares on the near side of the moon can look a bit like a rabbit. That might explain why far-apart cultures would associate rabbits with their lunar mythologies. Fascinating.
I LOVE Jade as a precious material..Its even better looking than gold to me
Would you ever do videos about historical fitness plans? Viking? Knights? Mongols? Ancient Greece? I wanna know so bad!!!
Are you going to do an update video for your sword and other gear? Ive been curious.
Also, wow. Just under 8.5 minutes... unexpected but still cool
Truly enjoy your videos...!
Maori (New Zealand) used the local Jade called 'Greenstone" or "Pounamu" to fashion Mere a sharp small club like weapon (very effective), ornate Tiki necklaces and ornate tools as artistic items only. They cut and fashioned the pounamu using water and sand to wear it down which could take generations of work which is why Pounamu items were highly valued and rare. I cut a small piece off a larger bit and rounded off the edges, it was incredibly hard and difficult to work with even with modern tools.
Really enjoyed this one, thanks. 👍
0:12 Avocado comes from the Nahuatl Aztec word "ahuacatl" meaning "Tree Testicle"
Thank you, I'm telling everyone.
This was great! I love museum exhibits, but looking at pictures online just isn't the same. This wasn't as good as visiting, but it was the next best thing. And I didn't need to book a flight!
6:10 like you said, jade is not suited to be made into bigger objects. So, no jade cartwheels :D
Lindybeige is 55 years old , I'm pretty shocked at the fact .
I assumed he was in his 40s to be honest .
Is that actually true? He seemed like a late 30 to me. If over 40 he's really on top of his game
@@ubiquitouspanda4466 I dont know if its true or not as he hasnt confirmed it , But it seemed like he was insinuating that was the year he was born .
Or he could perhaps be trolling us .
I had the camera in one hand and was flicking through a book with the other and trying to keep the conversation flowing. It was the first date I pointed to at random.
I moisturise.
Haha fair enough , Can you tell me where you buy this Miricle moisturiser ? 😆
A newspaper article in 2006 described him as aged 37. So if that was correct he would be about 50 now.
Love these videos.
Great video, Lloyd.
As usual, fun and educational!
The Olmec Head's eyes seems to follow the camera at 5:52 quite spooky.
Nicely done video about Jade.
I hope Lindy visited Maximon while in Antigua. That would be a fun video.
There's a Jade in my science class, should I inform them that they're from Guatemala?
Thank you for covering a topic literally at the time I'm studying Guatemalan Jade for a Pre-Columbian Art quiz
Oh thats where you get obsidian. I need some for my nether portal
How similar are the compositions of the jade commonly used in China and Asia, and those used in Mesoamerica? Are there any notable differences based on the geology of the regions?
"ulmecs and meya" *I'm triggered*
btw interesting video very
My take from this is..... Jade rocks are used for SFX for mining in movies and video games.
Wow. I guess that's like the Mayan Christmas. "It's that time of year. Let's decorate grandad. I'll get the shovel."
man they were incredible craftsmen i love it
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Percy... I think the point of gold being called Gold is that its gold... That however... Is green.
Percy- huuuuu its a precious green!