Ya know, that debitage is gonna confuse the hell out of a future archaeologist. Carbon dated to 2024 by the leaves underneath the flakes, they are gonna wonder just exactly WTF? But that’s okay! Making stone tools is just as valid in2024 as it was 100k years ago. Keep those archeologists on their toes and thinking outside anything that resembles a box!
@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracksyeah I was going to say imagine all the useful knives and tools that are just flaking off of that piece you're working on there! Be like a total tool box maybe even two or three tool boxes worth of tools and paleo terms I guess lying on the ground after you're done with that piece! 😂
I absolutely LOVE and appreciate and respect your hard work/art, 🎨❤️🙏🏽🥰🥰😊😊thank you so so much for sharing everything with us 😊😊💜💜🙏🏽🙏🏽🥰🥰keep up your amazing work and may our Father God 🙏🏽🙏🏽always keep you safe, happy and healthy, to you and yours 😊❤from me and mine here in North Carolina USA 🙏🏽🙏🏽😊😊🥰🥰💜💜👋🏽👋🏽
@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks no no, the pleasure is all mine, I've watched all of your videos and shorts, it's so interesting, entertaining, and beautiful, so thank you 🥰🥰🙏🏽🙏🏽💜💜
wow what a great stone to provide such a solid spearhead and countless blades. nice stone work Donny. happy for your success with the channel. be well!
At this point, it takes a lot longer to find a good blank than to actually fashion it into something useful, eh? This is why chert deposits were one of the most fought-over locations in traditional times.
@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks I'm sure human beings fought over resources of all kinds from my experience in paleontology and archeology from college we would visit sites around the United States and they would often mention as a side note that there were cashes of points of all sorts and raw Flint blanks and stuff and shirt or whatever from different areas all the way across the United States and Canada and everywhere else I guess! They were store these massive caches of points and a lot of times they were mistaken as burial sites and gifts but really they were just people burying a loved one and while they were digging in the ground they would also store some weapons and some useful tools for hunting that way they can revisit the site and generate their loved one that passed and grab some points and some blankets and stuff if they needed them and keep hunting they have them strategically placed around the areas that they would go and hunt on regular basis! 👍🏼✌🏼✌🏼 Very cool channel and I subscribed it's really really neat! 👍🏼😀
a detail i noticed from some other archeology channels, is that our ancestors seemed to have regularly used sites to butcher animals, and there always seems to be a surplus of related tools at those locations. i was wondering if you had any thoughts on what tools/materials you might keep on yourself as an every-day-carry, versus which tools/materials you might store at a regular fishing, hunting, trapping, or processing site. cheers
Great question. I have a couple videos that address the EDC, but processing sites were likely based on the size of the prey. Deer could be carried back….bison and elk broken down on site and brought back to camp. Appreciate you watching. Thanks 🤙
Howdy, great video,flintknapping is one of them essential skills to have while you're in the bush,and yeah I feel you about the cold weather,yup winter is slowly starting so we should be prepared anyhow can't wait for more videos, much respect and yeah, looking forward to meet you one day,I hope so,still,have a good one
The funniest thing to me is all these high tech redneck hunters that look at me like I'm weird and crazy for doing this stuff when they can't get a deer without a ton of fancy equipment and couldn't make three days in their own in the woods. Some people even look down on me like I'm an idiot.
My go-to guy for talking about flints and knapping is usually the inestimable Phil Harding, of former Time Team fame, but you've definitely shot somewhere to the top of my list!
Good show n tell.. Ha ha ha " moose in the morning" yup, that works real well....!? Awesome job on this piece...thanks for sharing your talents and artistic skills....! C ya along on the trail!!! 👍🪶🐺🧙♂️🦊🪶🤙
Woohoo! Your new videos makes me happy, the are really cool and i try to use it in forest, they are helpful. About rwo weeks ago i was bought your book, and its amazing! A lot of nice skills, usufull information, cool experience. And, its good practice for my English, and good motivation to be better in it. Thank you🖖
If I had to explain this video to someone who randomly stumbled across it with no context I would call it "Flintknapping hippy proves he could survive no problem if the shit truly hits the fan". Nice work, and very quick.
You make this seem so easy like "yeah i can make it" but damn i bet it takes a lot if patience and no where near as easy. Even if we try this and we struggle to make tools like this atleast youre giving us an idea how to craft them
Do you think people back then carried there tools around kinda like you in a bag or you think they were jonny on the spot to make spears. Your video are absolutely awesome
As we know, the human race is adaptable and resilient. From our ancestors' first kill to the first successful garden, we advanced rapidly in the world, acclimating to geographical environments, building and desytroying empires with lust and zeal. All this, the knowledge of survival has been passed down through generations of family lore and talent, around campfires, fathers with sons, mothers with daughters: hunting skills; cooking skills. Modern humans are becoming more and more complacent, relying on technology to fulfill personal desire and SURVIVAL. And they are experts, easily manipulating software. Your videos are a small but profound library of shelved techniques ( not lost nor forgotten ) that the modern man is totally ignorant of for why would they ever think the status quo will change. Recently came across your channel and explored numerous videos you've done. You've earned the tilte PROFESSOR of ANCIENT SURVIVAL and TECHNIQUES. Now I'm a subscriber.
Awesome... I've always wanted to learn the primitive technologies. Question... Where can I find/buy that poncho like you are wearing? Thanks for the video...
Hi Donny - love your videos but small practical question : why are you sitting in the shade when its gettin' cold and in the background the sun is shining. Something to do with visibility? Greetings from Flanders (Belgium)
Sometimes I think clearly and sometimes I don’t. The sun was still rising and I just picked a spot and went with it hahaha. Appreciate you watching. Thanks🤙
Hey Donny this is me Laiken your number one fan! What would I have to do for you to come down to Texas? You mentioned you coming to me what is the catch? Do I need to pay you or…?
I’ll be in Texas over thanksgiving and then again in December. Send me a message through donnydust.com and we can see what we can come up with. Appreciate you watching. Thanks so much🤙
If I was on a hike and saw this guy I’d immediately think he was a lunatic or homeless…then the moment he spoke I’d realize it would be wise to make him my friend in the forest
Sounded like you were a bit stuffy/ not feeling great in this video, hope you are doing alrigt buddy. I need to get a moose billet but i spend all my knaping budget on rock
Donny, uma pergunta: quantas cãibras vc tem nos dedos da mão esquerda, cada vez que "esculpe" uma peça dessas? Estou brincando, mas não deve ser fácil segurar dessa maneira o tempo todo com essa pressão... Parabéns!!!
Ya know, that debitage is gonna confuse the hell out of a future archaeologist. Carbon dated to 2024 by the leaves underneath the flakes, they are gonna wonder just exactly WTF? But that’s okay! Making stone tools is just as valid in2024 as it was 100k years ago. Keep those archeologists on their toes and thinking outside anything that resembles a box!
Hahaha. Very true. I place a hide down to collect them, but something could always slip out. Appreciate you watching. Thanks 🤙
Brilliant can watch more of this gentleman
Archeologist here, who knows if the internets around long enough its even possible they could find this video of him making the tool in 2024
@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracksyeah I was going to say imagine all the useful knives and tools that are just flaking off of that piece you're working on there! Be like a total tool box maybe even two or three tool boxes worth of tools and paleo terms I guess lying on the ground after you're done with that piece! 😂
Awesome work Donny. Its always amazing how our ancestors were able to fashion tools that in some respects are better than what we have today.
Nate
Absolutely. Couldn’t agree more. Thanks so very much for watching 🤙
Donny, I enjoy so much your videos. I consider you as the abo king of flint knapping
Wow, thanks. Thanks so very much for watching 🤙
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@@AnarchoReptiloidUa é sem dúvidas nenhuma um artista da pré história faz tudo nas suas mãos!
That is some nice quality flint you have there, Donny. Good job. 😎
Love this channel. Great content.
Glad you enjoy it! Appreciate you watching. Thanks so much🤙
Amazing skills showcased as always mate. Loved this video 💜
The tinking sound is somehow peaceful
Absolutely! Thanks so very much for watching 🤙
"Man your bag is so heavy, what did you put in it? Rocks?"
"Yeah... and horns"
Hahaha. So true.
I absolutely LOVE and appreciate and respect your hard work/art, 🎨❤️🙏🏽🥰🥰😊😊thank you so so much for sharing everything with us 😊😊💜💜🙏🏽🙏🏽🥰🥰keep up your amazing work and may our Father God 🙏🏽🙏🏽always keep you safe, happy and healthy, to you and yours 😊❤from me and mine here in North Carolina USA 🙏🏽🙏🏽😊😊🥰🥰💜💜👋🏽👋🏽
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@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks no no, the pleasure is all mine, I've watched all of your videos and shorts, it's so interesting, entertaining, and beautiful, so thank you 🥰🥰🙏🏽🙏🏽💜💜
Super video! Just those big flakes could make enough tools to survive the winter!
Absolutely. I couldn’t agree more! Appreciate you watching. Thanks🤙
I love that we got to see it all really gives you a understanding on how long it take
wow what a great stone to provide such a solid spearhead and countless blades. nice stone work Donny. happy for your success with the channel. be well!
Thank you! Cheers! Thanks so very much for watching 🤙
At this point, it takes a lot longer to find a good blank than to actually fashion it into something useful, eh? This is why chert deposits were one of the most fought-over locations in traditional times.
I believe that’s a fair assessment. Appreciate you watching. Thanks🤙
@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks I'm sure human beings fought over resources of all kinds from my experience in paleontology and archeology from college we would visit sites around the United States and they would often mention as a side note that there were cashes of points of all sorts and raw Flint blanks and stuff and shirt or whatever from different areas all the way across the United States and Canada and everywhere else I guess! They were store these massive caches of points and a lot of times they were mistaken as burial sites and gifts but really they were just people burying a loved one and while they were digging in the ground they would also store some weapons and some useful tools for hunting that way they can revisit the site and generate their loved one that passed and grab some points and some blankets and stuff if they needed them and keep hunting they have them strategically placed around the areas that they would go and hunt on regular basis! 👍🏼✌🏼✌🏼 Very cool channel and I subscribed it's really really neat! 👍🏼😀
a detail i noticed from some other archeology channels, is that our ancestors seemed to have regularly used sites to butcher animals, and there always seems to be a surplus of related tools at those locations.
i was wondering if you had any thoughts on what tools/materials you might keep on yourself as an every-day-carry, versus which tools/materials you might store at a regular fishing, hunting, trapping, or processing site.
cheers
Great question. I have a couple videos that address the EDC, but processing sites were likely based on the size of the prey. Deer could be carried back….bison and elk broken down on site and brought back to camp. Appreciate you watching. Thanks 🤙
Howdy, great video,flintknapping is one of them essential skills to have while you're in the bush,and yeah I feel you about the cold weather,yup winter is slowly starting so we should be prepared anyhow can't wait for more videos, much respect and yeah, looking forward to meet you one day,I hope so,still,have a good one
Well said and right on. One day we will cross paths. Appreciate you watching. Thanks 🤙
Thank you for sharing this enjoyable video with us six stars brother
Glad you enjoyed it. Appreciate you watching. Thanks 🤙
Your pretty much the ultimate prepper😂… you could live in any century with your knowledge! Love your content brother!!
I appreciate that! Thanks so very much for watching 🤙
We need to bring back if you can't live in the woods off the land for a month your not a man. To many grown children walking around. Nice work sir
You got that right! Thanks so very much for watching 🤙
The funniest thing to me is all these high tech redneck hunters that look at me like I'm weird and crazy for doing this stuff when they can't get a deer without a ton of fancy equipment and couldn't make three days in their own in the woods. Some people even look down on me like I'm an idiot.
Same goes with women. You’re not a real woman if you can’t fend for yourself.
Ive only heard of flint nodes that thin and nice ive never seen one in my life
Outstanding!
Nice piece of stone ! Amazing work gonna look great 👍
Thank you! Cheers! Appreciate you watching. Thanks 🤙
Question! Whats the reason you dull the edge of the stone after you break off a flake sometimes?
My go-to guy for talking about flints and knapping is usually the inestimable Phil Harding, of former Time Team fame, but you've definitely shot somewhere to the top of my list!
Good show n tell..
Ha ha ha " moose in the morning" yup, that works real well....!?
Awesome job on this piece...thanks for sharing your talents and artistic skills....!
C ya along on the
trail!!!
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Glad you enjoyed it. Appreciate you watching. Thanks 🤙
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U got it..n..u R
Welcome!!
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Wow! Your flintknapping skills are Master Level! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much! Appreciate you watching. Thanks🤙
Got some wood carving stuff today,carving little animals while bingeing your videos. Good stuff man.
Woohoo! Your new videos makes me happy, the are really cool and i try to use it in forest, they are helpful.
About rwo weeks ago i was bought your book, and its amazing! A lot of nice skills, usufull information, cool experience. And, its good practice for my English, and good motivation to be better in it. Thank you🖖
That is awesome! I’m glad it’s resonated with you. Appreciate you watching. Thanks🤙
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bark or rawhide shields for your eyes, with little cross slits in them to see thru, but (mostly) keeping stone shards from flying into your eyes.
Not a bad idea. Appreciate you watching. Thanks🤙
this is some amazing stuff, thanks for these videos! It's awesome to see how our ancestors might have gone about surviving
Wow very nice
5:10 I actually verbally shouted "Thank You" hahaha. That platform was staring at me begging to be taken 😅😅 💜🤙🏽🤤
Thanks for the help im building a homemade bow and going to start building arrows thanks for the ideas keep up with the great work
Good sounds.
Awesome work as always
Thank you! Cheers! Appreciate you watching. Thanks 🤙
i miss nature
Nature misses you. Appreciate you watching. Thanks so much🤙
Solid work
Thanks so very much for watching 🤙
If I had to explain this video to someone who randomly stumbled across it with no context I would call it "Flintknapping hippy proves he could survive no problem if the shit truly hits the fan". Nice work, and very quick.
Great video, thanks chief!
Any time! Appreciate you watching. Thanks 🤙
You make this seem so easy like "yeah i can make it" but damn i bet it takes a lot if patience and no where near as easy. Even if we try this and we struggle to make tools like this atleast youre giving us an idea how to craft them
Excellent man ❤
Thanks ✌️Appreciate you watching. Thanks 🤙
i like the poncho
Appreciate you watching. Thanks so much🤙
1:30 luck that its cold were you're at, hot and humid is misery incarernate.
Absolutely. Appreciate you watching. Thanks so much🤙
Let's say with a rock that size, could you get multiple spear heads with that?
Possibly, but the Debitage is the other option for smaller tools. Appreciate you watching. Thanks🤙
Do you think people back then carried there tools around kinda like you in a bag or you think they were jonny on the spot to make spears. Your video are absolutely awesome
@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks , Have you ever had a friendly visitor while you were crafting 🦌🦉? Have you had any unfriendly ones 🐺🐗🐊🐻🐆?
Just felt like a human again, for the first time in a long time
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Great video! Are you able to use most of the shards you broke off for arrow heads or other small projects?
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Thanks so very much for watching 🤙
I'm pretty good in the bush, but I'm curious: how do you choose the stones you want?
Waxy, glassy, smooth and featureless. Breaks in concoudal fractures has a slight ring to it. Appreciate you watching. Thanks 🤙
@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks Thanks! Happy Halloween, incidentally!
As we know, the human race is adaptable and resilient. From our ancestors' first kill to the first successful garden, we advanced rapidly in the world, acclimating to geographical environments, building and desytroying empires with lust and zeal.
All this, the knowledge of survival has been passed down through generations of family lore and talent, around campfires, fathers with sons, mothers with daughters: hunting skills; cooking skills.
Modern humans are becoming more and more complacent, relying on technology to fulfill personal desire and SURVIVAL. And they are experts, easily manipulating software.
Your videos are a small but profound library of shelved techniques ( not lost nor forgotten ) that the modern man is totally ignorant of for why would they ever think the status quo will change.
Recently came across your channel and explored numerous videos you've done.
You've earned the tilte PROFESSOR of ANCIENT SURVIVAL and TECHNIQUES.
Now I'm a subscriber.
Great show Donny, what material is that? It looks like a tablet chert, all coretext when you started on it.
Georgetown chert. It had a bunch of cortex…I knock off a couple pieces to test its quality.
Grt that, 100
Donny do you listen to the stones as you work 🤔?
Always. Thanks so very much for watching 🤙
Awesome... I've always wanted to learn the primitive technologies.
Question...
Where can I find/buy that poncho like you are wearing?
Thanks for the video...
I got this at a thrift store several years ago. Someone once said it was on Amazon. Not sure…Appreciate you watching. Thanks🤙
What’s the best type of antler to use?
I like moose and caribou. Both are incredibly strong and durable. Appreciate you watching. Thanks🤙
Damn, this guy gots skills!!!
Hi Donny - love your videos but small practical question : why are you sitting in the shade when its gettin' cold and in the background the sun is shining. Something to do with visibility? Greetings from Flanders (Belgium)
Sometimes I think clearly and sometimes I don’t. The sun was still rising and I just picked a spot and went with it hahaha. Appreciate you watching. Thanks🤙
nice spear! you gotta show us how to knap an axe out of chert
Coming soon! Appreciate you watching. Thanks🤙
Hey donny, would you be able to make a video on attaching atlatl dart foreshafts to the rest of the dart please? 🤙
Absolutely. No problem at all. Appreciate you watching. Thanks🤙
Any hand arthritis?
Nothing yet…fingers crossed it stays away. Appreciate you watching. Thanks🤙
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Lorel leaf point?
Yeah…a big one. Appreciate you watching. Thanks so much🤙
Hey Donny this is me Laiken your number one fan! What would I have to do for you to come down to Texas? You mentioned you coming to me what is the catch? Do I need to pay you or…?
I’ll be in Texas over thanksgiving and then again in December. Send me a message through donnydust.com and we can see what we can come up with. Appreciate you watching. Thanks so much🤙
Okay!
If I was on a hike and saw this guy I’d immediately think he was a lunatic or homeless…then the moment he spoke I’d realize it would be wise to make him my friend in the forest
Take that, you ol' Mastadon!
Sounded like you were a bit stuffy/ not feeling great in this video, hope you are doing alrigt buddy. I need to get a moose billet but i spend all my knaping budget on rock
Feeling great. Moose billets are pretty great in various sizes. Appreciate you watching. Thanks🤙
Donny, uma pergunta: quantas cãibras vc tem nos dedos da mão esquerda, cada vez que "esculpe" uma peça dessas? Estou brincando, mas não deve ser fácil segurar dessa maneira o tempo todo com essa pressão... Parabéns!!!
In all honesty I need to stretch and warm my body up before Knapping. It’s a thing. Appreciate you watching. Thanks so much🤙
Donny, I enjoy so much your videos. I consider you as the abo king of flint knapping
Wow, thanks. I do my part. Appreciate you watching. Thanks🤙