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Think of a toaster, something that I can buy for 15 dollars at Canadian Tire, would be impossible for me to build. it is in a way not an object but a system. which is a really cool way to think of it, any given object being more representative of the system that made it than it is of itself. Chomsky wrote some great stuff about class inequality and labour specialization, i think he said something along the lines of "specialization is for ants". i bet youd love to read it. anyway great vid much interest!

I second this recommendation!

Love this channel. Thanks for the knowledge you share and for the recommendations to check out others doing the same.

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This is the sort of 4th of July content I'm here for!

Woot nice to see a shoutout to a smaller channel! I liked Aztlan's video on metal in the pre-colonial Americas. That's another rec for people here.

Thanks for the recommendation!

no, thank YOU

Note, Aztlan has a lot of videos on indigenous Mesoamerican history, but the focus of his channel is Latin American history as a whole!

I appreciate your video and channel recommendations. It obviously really helps surface content and what not that I may not otherwise be aware of.

This is fantastic, thank you!

I'm very interested in Mesoamerican history, will be checking this out

good stuff

So I have been curious but how did the Mohawk view diseases like small pox. I know in Japan they believe it was a terrible trickster spirit from China, and Europe it was seen as the wrath of God that killed your children. Did they have any supernatural beliefs on it or did they just chuck it up to being something normal to Europe like horses?

Keep giving us good recommendations. It's really important to learn Native history from actual indigenous people, often when I search something or get recommended it's mostly some conservative gun nut white dudes with comments filled with unfiltered racism justifying the cultural genocide.

Thank you for the recommendations. Here's a few of mine if anyone's interested: Cambrian Chronicles - Does videos about Welsh history and ancient history of British Isles. Baltic Empire & Gold and Gunpowder - Baltic Empire does videos of Scandinavia, Baltic Sea and Europe from pre historic to early modern period also videos of the viking age. Gold and Gunpowder does videos about golden era of American sea roving. Both run by same Swedish guy. Anttimation - Very small channel that does animation videos about Finnish history. (what I like about Antti is his animations are not those generic overly simplistic boring animations that poorly educate very surface level learners) Those are on top of my head what I could think of.

It's like if the Nazis had succeeded with Generalplan Ost and then 200 years later the German settlers of Eastern Europe blamed all the massive deaths from forced labor and extermination campaigns on the flu.

thanks for the recommendation

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The advent of "civilization" (whatever that means) can also be argued to be something catastrophic to human quality of life--organized agriculture enabling the first class divisions and mass warfare, slavery, etc.

Interesting idea. 1) I'm pretty put off by the existence of women in the story only to nag their male family members. 2) once you have the basic technology, getting together the whole community for a big work day was probably a way to solidify group solidarity. There's evidence in some of the massive earthworks in the Americas (I want to say Cahokia??) that instead of having a few specific skilled workers doing the work over time, the communities deliberately did it all in a couple days using as many people as possible. Modern research shows that people who sing or march together have more fellow-feeling and loyalty; and then you can all point at the henge or pyramid or whatever and say, "yeah, I helped make that."

Also many native nations wore winter mocs. Made of hair-on hides resembling modern-day uggs to a certain point. Us Navajo say the best ones were made of buffalo skins. But we also made them from sheep pelts in the historic period. Hard sole and pucker toe mocs are purely for spring/summer and very light snow. Maybe your ancestors utilized moose or elk hides. I know the east had their own subspecies of elk back in the early days. Or maybe even deer hide with the hair left on and stuffed with grass. Like Otzi 🇮🇹

I wonder if crafting armor as somewhat of a trade was ever practiced during this time period. Perhaps the groups with the best armor were simply those who took the craft the most seriously, and thus used it to trade for other goods.

Any thoughts on the Horizon?

Do you have community posts? I can't seem to find them in the comment* section. Edit: *channel section 🤦‍♂️

I randomly got recommended this video and it was fascinating. Thank you. I hadn't considered the economic statement that metal vs wooden armour has, but you're reasoning and explanation totally makes sense.

this is so cool

Very helpful, but you reversed the blue and Norway spruce. Norway spruce cones are generally much larger than those of the blue spruce.

In your "Beaver Wars" video you made a flood analogy in explaining events. Would like

Thank you for this. Are there any movies set in the American West you might recommend?

Haven’t seen your channel in awhile but am happy to see your back giving the world some good knowledge on Kanienkeha history! Need my RUclips algorithm to show more of you!

Dude my age of empires game is gonna be fire after researching this vid

Best channel on yt

Just looking at it, I can see how it could have very easily been adapted to metal Without muskets, seeing where this technology could have gone would of been so fascinating

Very well and articulately put. Reminds a bit of "I, Pencil" by Leonard E. Read which discusses all the collective effort it takes to make a pencil.

6:07 Me pullin up to the battlefield with perfect heavy wooden armor bc my baddie gf loves me 💪🏾

My family has Iroquois mixing. We have a family history book made. In it are letters and memos from New France as they came over in the 1600s. One family member was taken as a slave by the Iroquois and had to work the corn fields. He managed to escape and go back to France for a decade before coming back!

Just a big thank you for your “experimental research”. As far as I know, I don’t have first nation heritage but I have the chance to live a mile away from the Wendake community in Quebec city. You have all my respect for your passion on the subject.

The Yuki Mono war was fought over a quarrie of obsidian. Many tribes from what I've read had land rights to specific quarries and would gard them with there lives. They had absolutely no sympathy for trespasser's. I even read one account of inca empire having shortages of obsidian during there war with the Spanish.

We used to use a small drill for the knock then cut it. This prevents the arrow from accidentally splitting. This is a pretty good video brother I enjoyed it.

Your posts are very interesting. I just finished a 1/9 scale model of fully armored Comanche and horse. Will be posting it shortly on my channel. This is such an interesting topic!

This was a really great reconstruction, my jaw actually dropped seeing the versatility you discovered in both packing, ways the shoulder plate could be used, mobility, etcetera. This reconstruction was incredibly well made, kudos to the work you put in!

Is there any sells of legwraps you recommend? And if not what are the best lengths of material if one is to make a set.

No one else seems to appreciate the Morrowind references, so I guess I'll have to be the first to mention how legendary they are. Amazing, interesting, and informative analysis of an otherwise mediocre game. 10/10

Perhaps it could be made to be more resistant to splitting by getting oil or fat deep into the wood? I’m not an expert but the armor here looks pretty dry so i’m interested if it would make a difference

Such an insightful video! Subbed

Armour makes sense for why stone heads wont be as popular, from 1050 onward in europe spears became less common following armour as clubs and blunt weapons increased In prehistory the very most you may find in terms of reliable armour found is hides and possibly dense cloth which with peoples practicing making these weapons most of their life will find the most durable stones and the best way to sharpen them before metal usage took hold

I imagine there is a bit of convergent evolution, if you'll allow the analogy, but when you described and showed how the tomahawk would bounce on the ground ahead of a charging warrior, I was immediately reminded of the Frankish axe, or Francisca. The Francisca was generally a throwing axe that could either be thrown directly at an enemy, or be thrown in a way to cause it to bounce on the ground ahead of Frankish charge, disrupting the enemy formation, or defensively, to disrupt an incoming charge. Looking at examples on the Wikipedia page for them I saw a lot of similarities in design and presumably construction. Some examples, and many reproductions, seem to be forged from a flat bar in a manner similar to a tomahawk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisca Viking axes are similarly constructed as well - I guess when you are creating axes in large number from flat steel plates, for economy of material you're going to end up with that sort design a lot of the time. The pipe axe, however, seems to be uniquely North American. I thoroughly enjoy your videos and find your insights fascinating. Thank you for your time and effort on these.

good to know the creator doesn't have Imposter syndrome.

Great story, now Im going to go search hermit thrush song and see what happens