The complete opposite of flint knapping

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  • Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
  • Petros spheres were made during the  neolithic period mainly in Scotland and they are a bit of a curiosity that remains a talking point for anyone interested in trying to understand how people thought back then

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  • @Max-ek4dn
    @Max-ek4dn 4 місяці тому +32

    I mean its an interesting way to spend your time and every aspect has to be recreated for the intricasies to be understood. But i cant shake the feeling of this meeting/conversation happening like this 9000yrs ago.

  • @alexanderkutschera149
    @alexanderkutschera149 4 місяці тому +13

    This is one of the most bizarre videos I have ever watched. I will definitely watch several more times because I know that it has profound significance and I need to try to figure out what it is. Will’s bewilderment with these two progressive primitives is palpable and fun to watch.

  • @rappar9673
    @rappar9673 3 місяці тому +6

    Interesting!
    A hand-held time sink, like a pre-historic smartphone! XD

  • @Bullsquid592
    @Bullsquid592 4 місяці тому +18

    the utter confusion is funny as hell, i guess humans have always found ways to waste their spare time

  • @Tradbow85
    @Tradbow85 4 місяці тому +4

    I've been working on a celt myself, doing a full groove about got it done. Just have to grind the edge and polish now.

  • @robertfrancis7767
    @robertfrancis7767 3 місяці тому +3

    Very interesting I never knew such objects where made in the past. Very mysterious objects and fascinating piece of history. Thanks Will really good work.

  • @Ratel90Gunner
    @Ratel90Gunner 4 місяці тому +9

    Stay away from them Will, it might be catching

  • @M.Campbell
    @M.Campbell 2 місяці тому +2

    "Is there a profit margin in this?" ROFL!

  • @ajwilliams514
    @ajwilliams514 4 місяці тому +2

    They should have been. In the Monty Python and the holy Grail 🤔🧐🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

  • @2862Gunny
    @2862Gunny 3 місяці тому +2

    This entire video is bloody brilliant!

  • @NocturnalIntellect
    @NocturnalIntellect 4 місяці тому +9

    That’s pretty cool. The natives here in the US used chert to peck stones. For sure. I’ve found pecking stones made from just about every available stone here in the Midwest.
    Love your vids, brother! You’re an amazing talent.

  • @BLenz-114
    @BLenz-114 3 місяці тому +2

    Underappreciated comedy take at 1:13. 😂

  • @MaxWattage
    @MaxWattage 4 місяці тому +2

    Having read about these off artefacts, and all the lazy theories about "ceremonial uses", I'm more of the opinion that they were used for some secular purpose like some sort of ball-game popular in pre-history, maybe something similar to Pétanque which still to this day is played with balls with geometric carvings on the surface. It may well be that each player carved their ball with a unique pattern so they could easily tell it was their ball after it was thrown.

  • @baronbullshyster2996
    @baronbullshyster2996 4 місяці тому +4

    It was used for religious purposes or that’s what archaeologists say when they don’t know what it was used for. Maybe they’re rocking horse eggs

  • @simonmorris-p7m
    @simonmorris-p7m 4 місяці тому +2

    I look across my desk & there are plenty of useless things with a satisfying weight & interesting shape. I’m not sure that prize feeling is worth a hundred hours of annoying pecking though 🤪

  • @jimferry6539
    @jimferry6539 4 місяці тому +6

    Such a Coincidence, I was just thinking about the potential purpose of those stones, my initial idea was they are some kind of weight for a net, imagine you was trying to make like a web net for casting on fish or birds, this would be in the centre allowing the netting the web out if any of that makes sense 😅

    • @gustavchambert7072
      @gustavchambert7072 4 місяці тому +3

      Those grooves definitely would be very helpful when trying to tie a string around the stone.
      I'm thinking some kind of throwing weapon, though, like bolas, where you need both a well-rounded weight and a well-secured one.
      Though I imagine nets are also a good candidate.

    • @jimferry6539
      @jimferry6539 4 місяці тому +2

      @@gustavchambert7072 thanks 😁 I’ve never actually shared that with anyone before because it’s so far from what other people are suggesting, but I think some evidence that supports its would be that they are usually found in lakes, streams, rivers and marsh and I think the diet of most Neolithic people in that area would of been things like trout salmon ducks geese and even seagulls. It also gives a reason why sometimes they were decorated, perhaps as a way to distinguish and determine the owner of net by each having their own unique markings, similar to what stone workers did in the past. Oh and one more thing is the size and weight of them, just the perfect size and weight for throwing which I think rules out that they was made for ritual purposes because they are just so practical, like a tool. Often when we find things that were used for ritual purposes they are not made to the same quality. Lol I dunno I’m a complete novice to all this stuff but I have been interested in these balls since i first seen them in a museum

    • @Vanlifeleicester
      @Vanlifeleicester 3 місяці тому +1

      It's great that the people of the past took so much love and care, shame that's nearly a thing of the past. Great idea fishing net weights.

  • @kelvinsparks4651
    @kelvinsparks4651 4 місяці тому +2

    You know what they say , opposites attract 😂😂😂

  • @RedEyedPatriot
    @RedEyedPatriot 4 місяці тому +4

    "There Aint Nuthin Wrong, With Uh Little Peck N Grind" ~ Arrgh Kelly 😂

  • @grassypants4450
    @grassypants4450 3 місяці тому +2

    I never tire of granite ball making conversation. The various techniques employed are limitless. One particular granite ball maker i know actually uses a different flint for every individual tap of the granite. Granted even after 15 years the granite ball still looks like a random chunk of stone but as far as hobbies go it has everything.
    Granite ball makers of the world unite.

  • @LeoniFermer-vi4dc
    @LeoniFermer-vi4dc 4 місяці тому +1

    These balls were found in neolithic sights and are in Museums. No one knows what they were for. May have been Ceremonial (which covers a multuede of sins!).

  • @exyou-fd7eu
    @exyou-fd7eu 3 місяці тому +1

    seems like an analog to japanese clay balls, dorodangos, cool

  • @ByronAgain
    @ByronAgain 4 місяці тому +1

    well, they've certainly got stones, don't they?

  • @bluenoteone
    @bluenoteone 4 місяці тому +1

    I don't see the value of it except make g stones for slingers

  • @kwindafidler7728
    @kwindafidler7728 3 місяці тому +1

    so they are the reason the flints got blunt in the first place

  • @HeritageCraftsKnowledgeReposit
    @HeritageCraftsKnowledgeReposit 4 місяці тому +4

    This is amazingly funny.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅

  • @NOTHING-AT-ALL.
    @NOTHING-AT-ALL. 4 місяці тому +3

    But they made the flint blunt…☹️☝️ whhyyy??

  • @Vanlifeleicester
    @Vanlifeleicester 3 місяці тому +1

    I want to see them make the granite spherical first, my best guess is they are neolithic bearings using tree's as the hub for winching.

  • @mrsteve170
    @mrsteve170 4 місяці тому +1

    I don't like it...seems unnatural

  • @jerrylong381
    @jerrylong381 3 місяці тому +1

    Couple of real Peckers there.

  • @rontocknell
    @rontocknell 3 місяці тому +1

    Now, if these things were really based on archeological neolithic finds (hmmmm!), then it may be worth making one to assess the time and labour required but I think figuring out what they were for should take priority over going into production.
    I think the neolithic conversation to which you refer would have gone along the lines of:
    "What the fuck are you doing??"
    "I dunno. Just killing time"
    "Yeah? well how about killing some time knapping a new edge on that flint chisel you just turned into a screw driver (whatver that is!)"

    • @Bearfoot-e3e
      @Bearfoot-e3e 3 місяці тому

      They are based on archeological finds.

  • @verfuegbarerAlias
    @verfuegbarerAlias 4 місяці тому +1

    Each clan had one of those balls and the chiefs would meet to have a contest, throwing their balls in the air and listen carefully which one created the richest "THUMP" upon impact. It was sort of like football, but quieter.

  • @stefflus08
    @stefflus08 4 місяці тому +2

    Ah yes, timetraveller here. We used to leave those laying around so people would find them, and if someone were inclined to try making them they would get totally immersed in the mystery and their bloodline would go extinct. They went obsolete with computer games. Or so I thought. Powerful magic.

  • @BROTRRer
    @BROTRRer 4 місяці тому +2

    Well we make aluminium foil balls today so who are we to talk...

    • @ewokFTW
      @ewokFTW 4 місяці тому

      True. Just for fun

  • @yobb89
    @yobb89 4 місяці тому +1

    so funny

  • @uncletiggermclaren7592
    @uncletiggermclaren7592 4 місяці тому +4

    That had to be made for a ritual purpose /paleoanthropologist

  • @hermocrasbreadlord9557
    @hermocrasbreadlord9557 2 місяці тому

    Muggrub uses the flint as hammer and hammer stone as flint. The forest has truly fallen 😢

  • @KernowekTim
    @KernowekTim 4 місяці тому +1

    Some tap granite with flint. We Janners use carbon-tipped steels and pneumatic machines on Jack legs. That's what we call "tapping and Tommy-knockers"🏴‍☠. Hold-tight!💪🤣👍

  • @Ein_Kunde_
    @Ein_Kunde_ 4 місяці тому +2

    That are prehistoric baseballs.

  • @digitaIgorilla
    @digitaIgorilla 3 місяці тому

    You should buy one so you can use it as a hammer in flint knapping... Ohhh! Getting meta now 😆

  • @SumNumber
    @SumNumber 4 місяці тому +1

    Man ! I see them tapping away like unhinged sewing machines but did not see the result. Oh ! Maybe they were just making a pile of chips ! Naw. That couldn't be it. :O)

  • @Kargoneth
    @Kargoneth 3 місяці тому +1

    How peculiar a product.

  • @samcummings9895
    @samcummings9895 4 місяці тому +1

    Haa

  • @LeeBybee
    @LeeBybee 3 місяці тому

    I want one of them rock so I can do that where do you get one at?

  • @Andy-gs1sm
    @Andy-gs1sm 4 місяці тому +1

    How much?

  • @anvilbrunner.2013
    @anvilbrunner.2013 4 місяці тому +1

    Surely you bought one ?

  • @peterfireflylund
    @peterfireflylund 4 місяці тому +1

    Latin for stone. If he wanted to use Greek, he would call it a lithosphere.

    • @idjles
      @idjles 4 місяці тому +2

      Petros and Petra are both Greek words for stone/rock. Like lithos.
      Not Latin.

    • @skotbiscuit2499
      @skotbiscuit2499 3 місяці тому

      pétra, Greek, meaning “rock” many thanks for the effort in trying to prove me wrong tho😅👌

  • @banzaicheng7565
    @banzaicheng7565 4 місяці тому +1

    Looks like a stone cannonball.

  • @kivie13
    @kivie13 4 місяці тому +3

    As a man with northern European ancestry I am so proud of those, in my line, that came before me. Even though I don't live over there, when I see the Irish and English countryside with the standing stones and various different styles of tombs built by the ancients it always seems to awaken something in me. For my kin still living there please don't let it disappear.

  • @thermonuclearwarhead
    @thermonuclearwarhead 4 місяці тому +3

    But it's gone blunt! The intonation and everything just carries the incredulousness he feels.

  • @ewokFTW
    @ewokFTW 4 місяці тому +1

    This felt so genuine.

  • @cordellkent4790
    @cordellkent4790 3 місяці тому

    Will, ask them if they can make a clear quartz crystal skull doing this?

  • @oferbechor1579
    @oferbechor1579 4 місяці тому +1

    Thank you🙏🦋🙏

  • @AncintArt2ndColony
    @AncintArt2ndColony 4 місяці тому +1

    Oooh that's how !

  • @__--JY-Moe--__
    @__--JY-Moe--__ 4 місяці тому

    😁👍👍💪

  • @shadowcrusader2283
    @shadowcrusader2283 4 місяці тому +1

    you can use them to make a Bolo, That's it, all I can think of