Archaeological Experiments on Blades Made From Frozen Human Feces
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
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Abstract:
The ethnographic account of an Inuit man manufacturing a knife from his own frozen feces to butcher and disarticulate a dog has permeated both the academic literature and popular culture. To evaluate the validity of this claim, we tested the basis of that account via experimental archaeology. Our experiments assessed the functionality of knives made from human feces in controlled conditions that provided optimal conditions for success. However, they were not functional. While much research has shown foragers to be technologically resourceful, innovative, and savvy, we suggest that this ethnographic account should no longer be used to support that narrative.
It just shows that even archeologists need a good laugh from time to time 😅
This little old lady that was in the nursing home I worked at would often make "biscuits". She would take her own...dough...and roll it up and pat it out into biscuits that she would line up, usually on her evening dinner plate. We constantly has to scrub her hands and under her fingernails because of it. On the big holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter, her family would come get her and take her home for a few days. A couple of us were in her room helping her pack for her visit home one Thanksgiving and her daughter-in-law started talking about how Mama loved to help them cook the holiday meals and that her biscuits were a family favorite! I had to leave the room. The other nurse was able to contain her laughter and we never had the heart to tell her daughter-in-law that those of us at the facility might have to disagree about the baked goods! 🤣🤣
human's relationship to poop is so fascinating.
Experiemental archaeology at it's finest!
Pure shenanigans.
I really enjoyed the humor in this video. 😄 This video brought a memory back for me. I work with various fossils from around the world. Some years back I was doing some dinosaur bone work for some folks who built the frames and mounted the dinosaur bones in a life like positions. When I completed my work the main guy ask me "Do you like dinosaur shit?" I thought he meant dinosaur "stuff, things, teeth etc. I told him yeah I did, to which he handed me a 5 inch across, 8 inch long dinosaur coprolite (aka turd) saying: "take this shit home with you" I laughed so hard. I could tell I wasn't the first person he'd pulled that on, his delivery was perfect. It's a real beauty that I still have on a shelf in my shop today. 💩
And they make a great smoothie when you're done with the work
I had to keep watching over and over because my loud ass laughing kept me from hearing what was being said😂
This need to become an Ignobel award!
Imagine the face of the guy as he was molding the blade.
This just made me laugh so hard my dog ran away! 🤣🤣🤣
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I heard the old adage as; "You can only get that shit so shiny when you're polishing a turd." (It was used in the same sense as "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear".)
I was previously unfamiliar with the "knife" part, but I'm adding it to my wheelhouse... Folk-sayings are like that; it depends on what your Grandparents said, and where they were from.... (Apparently, my great grandmother's name was "Puddin'-tane"; I asked her again, and she told me the same... My Grandpa was "older than the hills, and twice as dusty".)
*Sharpening an old bone would make **_LOT_** more sense,* _AND,_ most likely work just fine for the project at hand!
*Frozen feces? Total silliness!*
What thaws from glaciers and permafrost,,,,
Sounds like some good material for a Monty Python skit.
This was your sh*t show. We all need to laugh a little more. Thanks for this.
Wow... I've seen some $#!+ ex-arc experiments, but that steals the show!
No Mr Hanky blades for me!
😂🤣😂 They need to add this Poop Knife to survival games. Maybe Frostpunk since it's set in winter.
God bless the algorithm that decided Hobby Lobby would be a good sponsor for this video.
😂😂
Sounds like a good bathroom read.
I would love to see the grant application that was used to obtain the funding for this study.
I'll bet the archaeologists fought over who got to be listed as the #2 author.
I wonder if they tryed different poos to find out which one works better, like a poo after taco bell is prolly weaker than a poo after a steak dinner lol
It does make one wonder how much bourbon was drunk for these folks to even think this was feasible.
My sense is that they were pretty sure it was bullshit and wanted to prove it. Also #CommitToTheBit.
Oh shit...are you kidding 😂😂😂
Hysterical
Holy shit!
Oregon has oldest shit.
Only if it's blessed
Body heat would melt the excrement, what a mess.
peter freuchen used a version of the shit knife take in his great book, Vagrant Viking. Freuchen , a Dane, was the real deal, spoke inuit, married an inuit woman, lived with them. in his tale, he takes shelter under his dog sled from a blizzard. when it abates, the snow has frozen and he must break his way out of his coffin-like situation. the solution? yep, a shit knife. when i read that part of the book i photoed the paragraphs and put them on my facebook page as the most incredible thing i’d ever read. wow, was i naive. worse yet, now everything he’s written is in doubt.
That's actually kinda different. A shit chisel might actually work because it doesn't depend on the edge remaining intact on a microscopic level.
@@NathanaelFosaaen ok, i see your point. butchering a mammal with a shit knife is completely ineffective whereas using a shit chisel to help break thru ice is marginally possible. in freuchen s case, first we have to assume a seasoned dog sledder would not have on his person or within reach any article more solid than frozen turd. what comes to mind is: would a shit chisel be any more effective than an ice chisel? i mean if he could move around in his situation enough to fab a shit chisel , i suspect he could have scraped enough condensation softened snow from the inside of his prison to fab an ice chisel, or even few of them. i’m wondering if the shit chisel tale is sort of , as has been suggested , a joke on outsiders. or an amusing tale to tell young people before they’re old enough to get “in on it”. freuchen may have “gone native” to the point of playing the joke on the rest of us. at any rate, his knowledge of inuit culture and language and his many years spent among them makes it quite possible had heard a version of the “story” related to Wade Davis and was recycling it for his own narrative.
There's a poop knife in Balder's Gate 3. I have to wonder if the devs were inspired by this one.
Has actual ice, chooses to butcher an animal with frozen shit anyway
White guy visiting village: I am here to record your oral traditions.
Inuit guy: (This guy again 😒) Wanna here the story of the Poop Knife?
That's hilarious I love the idea of a poop knife! 😂
Habba habba
Seems like I've seen some Reddit stories about poop knives but I don't think it's the same thing🤔
How could the shit knife melt if it was being used to butcher at -20 C
Not the whole thing, just the few molecules that formed the edge. It left shit streaks on the pig flesh instead of cutting through it.
@@NathanaelFosaaen Wouldn't that add flavour though? 😏
I'm not convinced. The story was he killed a dog with it. Dogs aren't that big and you could finish the job with a frozen shit spike. It wouldn't even have to be that sharp if you really jabbed it in there.
The story isn't just that he killed the dog, but also that he skinned and defleshed it with the shit knife. The killing part is obviously plausible.
Nathanael, have you seen the experiment done by the crew from MeatEater in conjunction with palaeontologists to study the efficacy of stone tools in butchery? They butchered a buffalo with nothing but clovis era tools.
The palaeontologists tapped the MeatEater guys in because theyre experienced wild animal butchers so they more closely replicated the early hominids skills and knowledge.
Ultimately with only a couple people doing the butchery and skinning work and one person knapping to re-edge the tools they found it to be pretty efficient and not too dissimilar from steel tools. The whole experiment is posted in their youtube channel and theres an almost 2 hour podcast on it as well.
Id love to hear your take on it.
Funny shit.
Love it! 😂
ahaHahahAhahaHaAhahaAAA
(too funny for words...except these. onevermind)
+++++++++++++++++++ Amazing! ++++++++++++++++++++++
That knife aint worth sht 😅
So many shitty science jokes went through my head while watching this.
😅🤣😂
I like your voice and so listen to all your videos. But I don't discount the value of such revelations as the certain results of trying to cut anything gristly with a knife made of super-frozen s**t.
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......Say what?.....125.
I imagine the pressure would, ahem, soften the edge.
LMAO
Experimental archaeology shitposting.