Check out some more footage from the Beltain Festival I visited while at Butser Ancient Farm this spring in the UK, on our secondary channel: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hGykxdeQp6vYeto.html

@224Jaman

4 жыл бұрын

I love the tech tree graphic

@lacybookworm5039

4 жыл бұрын

Will you be making a kilm? Do you have enough clay available locally? HTME ♥️

@MannyJazzcats

4 жыл бұрын

So cool that you came to the UK

@cretudavid8622

4 жыл бұрын

Try make a crossbow

@generalerich9196

4 жыл бұрын

Build a phone!

Fr tho what caveman was like “yo guys this rock is fricken green let’s burn it lol”

@HavokTheorem

4 жыл бұрын

I dunno, when I discovered how to make fire as a child I instinctively wanted to try burning all sorts of things to see what happened. Fire is fascinating and so are rocks.

@benjaminbarr8714

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe they made a fire pit with the green rocks cause they were a cool color

@FreeRangeLemon

4 жыл бұрын

I’m guessing it was an accident, like they just put them in a kiln for support and ended up with metal. That’s basically what happened with all inventions.

@colonelstriker2519

4 жыл бұрын

Now imagine inventing some food “Yo fam this white thing just came out of a flappy boi let’s eat it!” - egg

@ethank.6602

4 жыл бұрын

@@FreeRangeLemon that or they noticed that the rust on native copper was the same colour as malachite and put 2 and 2 together

That British dude was amazing, the humor was perfect 👌🏻

@SF-li9kh

4 жыл бұрын

Delightful guy. Felt bad for him though. His asthma is holding him back

@Xtreme4mil

4 жыл бұрын

Dude looks like he bout to make a park full of dinosaurs from an insect amber

@eidolor

4 жыл бұрын

Precious bastard that

@DeadwaterGaming

4 жыл бұрын

Dang, didn't expect to see you here @James Walker. I always seem to run into our subscribers on random videos I watch, somehow.

@LibertyTreeStudios

4 жыл бұрын

Deadwater Gaming Feels good to be semi famous 😎😂 Are you guys Minnesota Gang too?

I love this reboot. This is just amazing and exactly what I look forward to every week.

@gunnaryoung

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly! It's what I wished this channel was when I first stared watching, it's perfect!

@asshattery

4 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more.

@nopenope6750

4 жыл бұрын

@@gunnaryoung what was it before?

@gunnaryoung

4 жыл бұрын

@@nopenope6750, it was similar but he worked with modern tools so it wasn't a good portrayal of how technology progressed

I loved the British guy, he was just so genuine and kind. I hope the best for him

@rock3tcatU233

Жыл бұрын

Yep, plus he understood the importance of having slaves.

@kevbrand8824

Жыл бұрын

That was also a favorite part. Probably nice sitting and chatting with him.

"Cutting edge technology" Ah, I see where that term comes from :)

@juggleyourballsoff

4 жыл бұрын

more like good good

@mr.osamabingaming2633

3 жыл бұрын

Ye, nævr thüt œv thæt.

I love how MEL Chemistry sponsors like, every video. It really is the perfect type of sponsor for a channel like this.

@Greentrees60

4 жыл бұрын

And I am convinced! In 8 years I will be buying it for my little niece or nephew!

@Minikin1

4 жыл бұрын

@@Greentrees60 Roughly in that same boat. Basically biding time for my nephew to come of age.

@geoffreyfoster3595

4 жыл бұрын

If I had kids, I'd be all about MEL, real talk. And in the future, when i wanna teach my kids some science, bam, who am I gonna check out?

@josequiroz5902

2 жыл бұрын

I agree

5 years from now: This episode of HTME: Space Age is sponsored by SpaceX

@linecraftman3907

4 жыл бұрын

jokes aside, there is a crowdfunded company called Copenhagen Suborbitals aiming to send a human on a suborbital flight

@Vortex-zb6be

4 жыл бұрын

Linecraftman hey you wanna know who else sends people on sub orbital flights. Virgin airlines or any other plane company

@linecraftman3907

4 жыл бұрын

@@Vortex-zb6be oh ffs 😂

@walker9192

4 жыл бұрын

Linecraftman more like 25 years it took him 3 years to make a te shirts

@VexChoccyMilk

4 жыл бұрын

SpaceX: Find your forever home, on Mars!

“They had a power tool we couldn’t afford, slaves”

@sharonhamilton3095

3 жыл бұрын

HO HO HO SANTA IS HERE

@sharonhamilton3095

3 жыл бұрын

MINCRAFT UNSPEKABLE ARMY

@animationspace8550

2 жыл бұрын

Time

this is pretty cool to see. Im glad you are exploring these lost arts from a "from scratch" perspective. To answer your question about why Bronze was developed first over things like paper and writing well you just have to understand human nature first. Even today we have to "Establish a Perimeter" before we can do more delicate tasks like writing a document. Monsters, the dark, and other humans want to take your food. No time to write when there are constant threats lurking just beyond. Once you have the tools and the bodies standing guard only then can you take the time to create something that is not going to protect you, help you gather food, or make shelter.

@joshd2013

4 жыл бұрын

Its the long way of saying function over form form can be done only when you have time

that smelter guy was cool. he sounds like he'd be really fun to sit and chat with over a pint.

It always amazes me just how innovative and smart "primitive" people were when it came to making things and just how smart we sometimes think we are compared to them until we try to make the same items that they were making with ease.

@mortemsteam

4 жыл бұрын

Well as technology advances old tech is phased out

@gayusschwulius8490

2 жыл бұрын

They didn't do those things "with ease". It took them millennia to figure them out. They weren't especially smart, they were persistent. That's the key to all ancient technologies.

@azzgunther

2 жыл бұрын

@@gayusschwulius8490 In terms of raw intellectual potential, they were pretty much what we are. You could go back 5000 years and, after navigating language barriers, be impressed by their organization or philosophy or technique. In some ways their generalist skill set might actually put the average Bronze Age person ahead of the average modern person, since we in the West tend to be hyperspecialized in one thing and marginal at most things. It's an interesting thing to think about. A real eye opener for me was reading Marcus Aurelius' _Meditations_ some years ago. Ideas like those coming from somebody 2000 years ago really forced me to eschew some biases.

@harryniedecken5321

4 ай бұрын

We don't see it so much today, but sometimes those materials occurred naturally or very near each other. These people were very used to the idea of putting things in a fire and beating on them to make tools, even arrow tips and other tools

I love the progression that you show in technology. This reminds me of playing the computer game Civilization!

@OptimisticNihilist15

4 жыл бұрын

I denounce you

@llamallama1509

4 жыл бұрын

63 episodes from now, he builds an ICBM

@trevorhunting1211

4 жыл бұрын

OK BOOMER!

@Blutwind

4 жыл бұрын

Good thin Ghandi already left the server or else is playthrough would end badly

@cristianvillanueva8782

4 жыл бұрын

After watching this channel I started getting back into the civ series, so your nottjeonly one lol

This dude is just playing Minecraft in real life. Finally we too can punch wood into submission. Lovely

@-Kerstin

4 жыл бұрын

These videos are a pretty good companion to TerraFirmaCraft; a mod for Minecraft that makes you go through all these steps Andy does to craft tools.

@Goldiloxz

4 жыл бұрын

@@-Kerstin Ethoslab actually has, I think, 3 playthroughs of that Also quite an amazing modpack, really puts the Communist Manifesto in Craft

@-Kerstin

4 жыл бұрын

New episode today ^^

@Goldiloxz

4 жыл бұрын

@@-Kerstin Literally watching it right now

@redking36

4 жыл бұрын

@@Goldiloxz There is also a TFC+ which expands on TFC.

Heyy! When you get to the iron age, you can easily harden iron to high carbon steel with case hardening. It's just packing the ready tool head into an airtight clay vessel filled with charcoal and firing it. The carbon will seep into the iron. To finish off you smash the ceramic and quench it. Firing times can range from 30 min to a couple hours. Most tools only need to hold an edge so it's common to leave the core more flexible ~30/60 min firing.

@baddonkey6876

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, i saw Clickspring's vid on case hardening

@theFLCLguy

2 жыл бұрын

That's more the steel age than the iron age.

@59232

2 жыл бұрын

@@baddonkey6876 Clickspring is awesome

@rowanbcapr

Жыл бұрын

how do you get rid of carbon though? because most of the time you’ll get cast iron rather than wrought iron when you smelt down iron ore

I have a vision of you in five or ten years hosting a show where you set challenges like "make a copper ax" for teams of contestants with eliminations every week and an eventual winner

@TheFancyUmbreon

4 жыл бұрын

He should call it Primi-tech.

@gayusschwulius8490

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea, I'd absolutely watch it.

Might I suggest the book "Primitive Technology" by John Plant, available at all reputable booksellers near you.

OMG, what a great episode! I've cast a lot of bronze, but never made it from scratch! Hats off to you--this was quite an achievement!

7:15 is so Dr. STONE

@razorgodzz7898

4 жыл бұрын

jurian0101 Good job mentalist

@scottkrametbauer90

3 жыл бұрын

Of course there is a reason Senku skipped this age, Japan is rather lacking in tin

loved your show before the reboot, been around since about 100k followers, but now it feels more organized and easy to follow. great work!

I help my mom with homeschooling my younger siblings, (8 and 6 years old) and I remembered this channel, so I'm going to start showing them these videos and then doing a project related to them. Thank you SO MUCH!

Bread? Bread? BREAD? BREEEEEEAAAAD!!!!! I LOVE BREAD I'm into baking sourdough bread and artisan loaves so the next episode will be awesome

@-Kerstin

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I look forward to the bread episode too

My favorite thing about these episodes is scrolling through the comments and seeing people’s predictions for future episodes a few years down the line. Who the hell knows what they’ll do? I love it.

It's always fascinated me how the ancients knew how to work with metals, to be able to differentiate the various ores, how to refine them, and mix them in certain ratios to make alloys.

Could have also made wind drums for the blower. It's an old African way of folding hide on top of a special drum to create a one way valve

Will definitely try this myself. You inspire me to learn unwritten history. Thank you for uploading quality content on youtube. Just if there was more people like you.

When you get to the iron age, are you going to be following crafting from the iron rich sources of the west (i.e. broadswords) or from eastern iron poor sources (i.e. japanese folded metal)

@canaan5337

4 жыл бұрын

Probably bog iron would be the easiest Iron ore to acquire.

@tanszism

4 жыл бұрын

@@canaan5337 he isn't talking about ore, but the uses. The west had an abundance of iron and thus used it heavily. The east, not so much, so they made thin, master craftsman-only tools.

@sandervanduren2779

4 жыл бұрын

PersonalPerson you do realize that katanas are thicker and heavier than equivalent European swords, right?

@amefeu4259

4 жыл бұрын

@@tanszism/videos Considering his current smelting and blacksmithing skills he should probably stick to the west methods. Produce a large bloom, pick the best bits of metal, and make something that does the job despite being unrefined.

@ThePandaInTheTrash

4 жыл бұрын

@@sandervanduren2779 this was done to make up for their poor quality iron. Japan has really low quality iron ore. Europe had some of the highest quality iron ore. That's why traditional European swords were better than traditional Japanese swords, and why it took the Japanese months to create just one katana. It took a lot of time and skill to turn bad iron into decent steel and then into a good weapon.

@8:55 To hollow out bamboo with less cracking, take a heated rock (like really hot) and drop it down the shoot. Then use the seperate stick to push the rock through the nodes.

7:19 That techtree is super cool!!!

Next episode: Late Bronze Age & Slavery

@graywolfdracon

4 жыл бұрын

Do the interns count?

@canaan5337

4 жыл бұрын

@@graywolfdracon as long as they are unpaid and poorly treated I would count them.

@pneumarian

4 жыл бұрын

@@canaan5337 Hey, slaves don't HAVE to be unpaid & poorly treated. They just have to jump before you're finished saying "jump," even if they don't want to. Which is why unpaid & poorly treated has always tended to be pretty common.

@great-wall-of-nowhere9377

4 жыл бұрын

So guys I've just arrived in Somalia

@trevorhunting1211

4 жыл бұрын

aaaahhhh ok BOOMER!

Yeah! 7:15 A tech tree!! My wish from the last video was granted xD

Smelting the copper makes him an alchemist... a full metal one, one might even argue.

@timmorris8932

3 жыл бұрын

He's still missing a few elements to earn that designation

@JosueHernandez-nu5cp

2 жыл бұрын

I kinda want to make a knife like the one he made in this video but I don’t know if I should extract copper from Malachite like he did in the video or just get copper ore because I am a bit concern about the toxicity of malachite

Love the reset of the channel man, super interesting seeing you going thru the stages of evolving technology.

new series is just amazing, good job and keep it going!!!!!

You should use thinner blowpipes. Every time you blow, you have to replace all of the air that's currently in the pipe. If you put your hand at the ends it probably feels like it's not outputting as much as your inputting. A thinner pipe helps that.

All raw materials used in thus series so far Basic reources: Wood-Local Stone-Local Pine Resin-Local Cattails-Local Hemp-Local Clay-Local Bamboo-California Turkey Feather Grown In His Garden: Gourd-His Garden Flax-His Garden Rocks, Minerals and Metals: Obsidian Galena-Illinois Native Copper-Michigan Malachite-California Casserite-Cornwall, England Flint-England

This was pretty cool. Greetings from South Africa

I can’t wait till episode 500 when he goes to space 😂😂😂

4:00 "My late father's shaving brush." Is he late because he couldn't find his shaving brush?

@chrisbolland5634

3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHA

YES! THANK YOU! A DAGGER HAS BEN MADE!

Another great episode! Love watching the progression. Keep up the great work!

0/10. didn't eat the charcoal

@CarpetHater

4 жыл бұрын

that is a different channel.

Andy, y'all are nailing it with this reset. I love these episodes. I found you way back when Grant Thompson mentioned you in one of his early videos and have watched your progress. You are a hero in my eyes.

Putting the lessons of the musical instrument episode to good use i see. The band is getting back together!

i love seeing otzi the ice man! i remember studying him briefly in my ancient history class in high school! he was lactose intolerant (normal at the time because humans had only just started domesticating cows and didn't drink milk past infancy) and had grains, meat and plant matter in his stomach which suggested an omnivorous diet. i forgot what the evidence was but something in combination with the arrow wound in his shoulder suggests he was shot at a distance from uphill while running away from attackers.

This is a brilliant series!

i liked the restart so much that after a 1 to 3 years of watching your vids, i finally subbed and turned on notifications!

How to make everything is soooo educational. I love it soooo muuch

Can't wait to see more! Great video!

Man, I really wish I could support you! This channel, PrimitiveTechnology and a few others are my favorite channels as you are exploring primitive technology and showing everyone else, basically how to do it from scratch! Keep up the amazing work!

Best channel on yt, hands down

I do enjoy this tech reset you've done. It makes for a great combination of history/primitive survival and chemistry/technology. I look forward to seeing you work into the iron age and all the challenges that entails.

Great series!

I really appreciate the amount of time that goes into these videos. So much work involved.

this legit reminds me of the anime dr. stone.

@hunterpatton1370

4 жыл бұрын

ashley nickle yeah, but Andy isn’t as good as Senku and Dr. Stone kinda skipped the Bronze Age

@kittiesice

4 жыл бұрын

@@hunterpatton1370 lol true, but the way he explained it reminded me of when Senku talks about rebuilding from the ground up lol

2:40 Cassiterite is an ore that yields tin. So yeah, it would be complicated extracting copper from it. 😜

@cvspvr

10 ай бұрын

alchemists were just built different

I used to live near Butser Hll, and went there for events many times. It's great seeing it get mentioned on videos like this, they do great work there.

The thing I find most people don't realize about the wheel is that the metal banding around the wheel and the metal clamps that hold the axle in place are what give the wheel the durability and utility to actually function... Moderately advanced copper and bronzeworking had to be achieved before the wheel to create those parts.

3:03 "But they had a power tool that we can't afford, that's time. haha... and slaves, of course." Hahaha, the delivery is perfect

Senku from Dr Stone had his full playlist on loop

I'm liking the Live Action Dr. Stone series!

*9:00** Wrap the bamboo in vines, let them dry in the sun, it'll reduce the chances of splitting. Also, use the smallest dowel you can, then increase the size. A sharp pebble is better at piercing through. Drop it down and hit with the dowel.*

Best channel on youtube we learn with you and really let's us appreciate history

Loved this.

Glad to finally see you be able to smelt copper like that!!

i really appreciate this series thank you for showing folks what it took to get civilization to where we are today

Great video. I have been a living history reenactor for 15 years and i would suggest a smaller blow pipe as it intensifies the air to make fire plume hotter. the bigger pipe allows to much room for air dispersal and you waste breath as a cause of it.

Awesome episode!

I love this show!

I am so freaking impressed. Time to join your patreon.

This channel is popping off👌

You can burn through the segments in bamboo with charcoal rather than punching through it and probably splitting it in the process.

I'm in love with this series, can't wait until they get to gunpowder xD

Man those tools look so crude, but I love them. Must be very satisfying knowing you made them, in primitive conditions !

I love the tech tree!!!!!

I would look into work hardening the edges of the tools with a hammer stone rather than just sharpening for both bronze and copper. This gave them a much more durable edge and a simple way to sharpen them.

How about a collaboration with Alec Steele in Montana, In the future when it comes to the iron or steel age I reckon that would be right up his Street.😁

The most important relic of the Bronze Age: the Nebra Sky Disk (or Himmelsscheibe von Nebra) around 3600 years old, middle Germany. Also today 09. November 2019 is 30 years Fall of the Wall (Called Mauerfall here in Germany)

That James fellow is just wonderful!

"It actually holds an edge pretty well but it dulls super quickly" So which one is it HTME

@timmorris8932

3 жыл бұрын

Both. They are not mutually exclusive conditions.

@DH-xw6jp

3 жыл бұрын

@@timmorris8932 yes they are, "holding an edge" means it doesnt dull quickly, because it holds. "Gains an edge pretty well" can be used in this scenario though.

@timmorris8932

3 жыл бұрын

@@DH-xw6jp semantics. The OP pass talking about how it will take an edge but losses it quickly. That was pretty obvious.

Blacksmith, iron worker here. Should be able to cook the moisture out of the clay. With what you have i would make a 3 inch thick "pot" or "form" for your casts. Bake the clay for many hours in the fire, maybe get a moisture meter to check to save failure. Of course fine sand is best for casting, but clay SHOULD be able to work. I would really focus on perfecting your skill in creating tools now, in doing so that will directly affect the quality of future work and yes, it is more time spent now, but I promise you that you will get that time back and more in saved time later. You can do it!

FINALLY.. The metal ages. Dude, where's your tech tree at the start/end?

Woah, I loved that tech tree at 7:16! Please do include it in future videos!

Oh man, that tech tree is so awesome. I really hope you make a poster of it

Keep up the good work!!!!

I turn off Adblocker for this content! This is so cool!

you can also carve the molds on. talcum rock or soapstone

what a nice wholesome guy

Best episode yet.

yo i swear this channel is amazing and should get more views

It's crazy that people figured out to do this with next to no knowledge of metallurgy!

It's important to point out that the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age system is is in fact NOT a system or measurement of technological progression, it is merely a way European and Middle Eastern history is retroactively divided up. Other parts of the world and other civilizations did not necessarily follow the same pathway: Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztec and Maya for example used stone tools, yet had cities larger then anything you saw in Bronze or Iron age Eurasia (Tenochtitlan, the Aztec Captial had 200k people and covered 13.5 square kilometer,s vs Uruk, the largest Bronze age city, having 40k people and covering 4 square kilometers), with their largest cities rather being comparable to the biggest cities of Greece and Medieval Europe: Other then Tenochtitlan, El Mirador, Teotihuacan, Tikal, Calakmul, Caracol, etc were all other large metropolises matching or eclipsing large Iron and Classical European cities; Teotihuacan in particular outright being larger then Rome in expanse; while Tikal had a huge suburban sprawl covering around 100+ square kilometers. And all of these had very complex, interconnected water management systems with canals, reservoirs, drainage networks, aqueducts, etc. The region predominately operated on a city-state system, like in Greece, and stuff like political marriages, vassal states, etc were common, and there were even a few republics with senates, such as Tlaxcala. The Aztec had circles of philsophers and poets who taught at elite schools; too. In a couple of ways they were even arguably more complex then europe: Sanitation was taken to the extreme by the Aztec, for instance, with streets and buildings being washed daily and waste being collected by fleets of civil servents, while there were very high personal hygiene standards. They also had a fully formal taxonomic system for categorizing plant life, etc. In conclusion Just because a society is more or less complex in one area doesn't mean they can't be in others, and moreover, human societies don't all progress in the same way: Beyond metal tools, Wheels for transportation seems like a basic thing, but they never bothered to use it either and achieved considerable complexity regardless.

@greypaladin4560

4 жыл бұрын

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing MajoraZ.

@marv1n268

4 жыл бұрын

bump

A wonderful observation of the technology of man. Reminds me of the book Guns,Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond.

This is the best channel on youtube

Do you realize you just made a Glass Dagger from The Elder Scrolls Games! Legend

I'm enjoying this

“Unlocked” it’s like a tech tree in a game but human history. I can dig it

This has earned a sub from me! I love this kind of thing!

Great video i love your channel

Just an idea that might help; Maybe try baking your clay molds like your crucibles to drive off the moisture--or even incorporating the mold pattern into the bottom of a crucible? And, to prevent the mold from cracking when you pour hot metal into it, try to preheat it in the fire so there is less thermal shock. Lastly, for a more consistent mold pattern, make a wooden form to press into the clay. Good luck with your future metal projects. I'm looking forward to when (and if) you get to aluminum.