Interesting. I like the comparison you made with apes and showing that they use tools too. It also made me wondering about slingshots and when did they start to being used, but I guess that be almost impossible to find out.
I just subscribed after watching your latest video. After I went to your channel I found this one. I like your style. Last year was my 43rd consecutive archery season and its probably the only subject in which I consider myself an expert. I've made my own equipment since around 1990, (bows, arrows, etc.) and have had a life long infatuation of this subject. Additionally, I am pretty much a hermit and live alone in the woods that I love. I must say that I feel the most popular, effective, and ubiquitous weapon in human history is totally overlooked today; that is, a common rock. I am sure that several common rocks were taken up into the trees and dropped on the heads of many prey. I believe that homo Naledi lived by this method. I could sites many example of 17th and 18th century English explorer killed or repelled by natives with only simple rocks. Your William Bligh, from Mutiny on the Bounty, for example, had the man beside him killed by one whereby saving Bligh's life. I will go farther and speculate our ancestors possessed an improve method of throwing rocks resembling an atlatl. I look forward to more of your videos.
Thank you for this very nice summary. 🙂
Superb channel - one of the best I have seen on archaeology. Please continue.
Thank you for your kind words :)
I guess the very earliest weapons were made of wood and would no longer be around.🤔
Interesting. I like the comparison you made with apes and showing that they use tools too. It also made me wondering about slingshots and when did they start to being used, but I guess that be almost impossible to find out.
I just subscribed after watching your latest video. After I went to your channel I found this one. I like your style.
Last year was my 43rd consecutive archery season and its probably the only subject in which I consider myself an expert. I've made my own equipment since around 1990, (bows, arrows, etc.) and have had a life long infatuation of this subject. Additionally, I am pretty much a hermit and live alone in the woods that I love.
I must say that I feel the most popular, effective, and ubiquitous weapon in human history is totally overlooked today; that is, a common rock.
I am sure that several common rocks were taken up into the trees and dropped on the heads of many prey. I believe that homo Naledi lived by this method.
I could sites many example of 17th and 18th century English explorer killed or repelled by natives with only simple rocks. Your William Bligh, from Mutiny on the Bounty, for example, had the man beside him killed by one whereby saving Bligh's life.
I will go farther and speculate our ancestors possessed an improve method of throwing rocks resembling an atlatl.
I look forward to more of your videos.