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Good morning.
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Nice to meet you, man.
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They had literally more lion-like teeth.
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We think of modern humans as the most successful species that ever lived.
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This lineage really did expand all over the world.
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This is the weapon that not only the Aztecs, but other Mesoamericans used in warfare.
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Oh my god.
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We're about to test some weapons.
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This thing is serious.
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Yes!
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Kill shot, hopefully.
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Ancient surgery.
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We are in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA to go meet with North.
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North has a channel, North02, where he covers paleontology, anthropology, history, basically everything that made us who we are.
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Very interesting stuff.
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I believe paleontology and anthropology are linked together because before we became human, we were coming from something else.
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The more you learn about the past, the more it helps you
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understand the present and Some time to predict the future because you quickly find out that life on this planet Follow a pattern a recurrent pattern and things always come back.
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It's very fascinating You know what I like about that project is that It's like going back to school, but I choose the topic of
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and the person that I want to learn from.
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It's exciting.
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Mr. North, good morning, how are you?
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Yeah, okay, perfect.
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I'm coming right now.
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Okay.
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Good morning.
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Nice meeting you, man.
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Thank you for having us.
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Yeah, yeah, of course.
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That's your dad office?
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Yeah, so my dad owns this office.
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He has an Amazon company.
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And then my office is over here, but we'll be shooting in my shop.
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Okay, okay.
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Let's talk about the prehistoric animals.
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So right here we have a Smilodon Fatalis.
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So this isn't even close to the biggest Smilodon.
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Fatalis is like the medium-sized species.
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And this animal probably weighed five, six hundred pounds.
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About the size of a modern lion, but built completely differently than how a modern lion is built.
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Fatalis lived in North America, right?
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In Populator South America?
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Yeah.
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You know, it's really crazy when you look at it.
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Because watch, you open up the jaw, and that's about as far as it goes.
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So somehow they use this amount of motion to be able to stab into their prey animals.
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And...
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They were built with extremely strong arms and chest, and everything in their upper body was extremely strong so they could grapple their prey, hold it down, and then stab it with their giant, giant canines.
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So this is the American lion.
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So this is the biggest big cat of North America during the Ice Age, and you can see just the size difference is absolutely insane.
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It's much larger than a modern lion.
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I mean, they were...
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Almost tied with Populator is some of the biggest cats that ever lived.
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They were up to 1,000 pounds, even exceeding that in some instances.
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Instead of those massive canines, they had literally more lion-like teeth.
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You know, it looks just like a lion.
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They're not extremely long, but this is for clamping down on the windpipe of prey or, you know, bleeding them out or suffocating them is usually how lions kill.
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But absolutely massive.
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Just look at that thing.
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So the short-faced bear, this is Arctodus simus.
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This is the North American species, and they can weigh up to 2,000 pounds.
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You know, three times the size of the average modern grizzly bear.
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Not only were they larger than almost any bear alive today, they were also built differently.
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You may have seen pictures.
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They have these longer arms,
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and longer legs that may have allowed them to, you know, run down prey more efficiently.
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Their diet may have actually been mostly vegetation and scavenging actually.
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They may have not been direct hunters like researchers first thought, but either way, a 2,000 pound bear is a 2,000 pound bear.
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But believe it or not, we actually have evidence that humans not only interacted with short-faced bears, but ate them and butchered them and took their hides actually.
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So there's some remains from, I believe it's like Iowa or something.
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There's multiple sites, actually.
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And there's short-faced bear hand bones, and you can see cuts around the hand bones.
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And the only reason you're usually cutting an animal's hands is you're taking off a hide because you're trying to get everything and turn it into a garment or something.
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But there's also other sites that show that their bones were burnt in fires, suggesting they were eating them.
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How they actually procured the short-faced bear, we have no idea.
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We think of modern humans as the most successful species that ever lived, but there's ancient human species that lived much longer than we live, right?
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Well, it'd have to be Homo erectus because they appeared around 1.8 million years ago.
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And then within a matter of only a blink of an eye in evolutionary terms, they spread out all the way into Europe, all the way into Asia.
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And we see skulls just like that in Africa and Asia and Europe at the same time, meaning that this lineage really did expand all over the world.
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They were doing something that no other hominid could do before them, whether it be advanced tool use or social communication or something.
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But they're arguably the most successful human species, especially because Neanderthals and our own species descends from them.
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These are tools.
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None of these are real, by the way.
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These are all reproductions.
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And this is an Oldowan hand axe.
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So what it is is essentially just a flake of stone.
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It's just a rock.
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But you can feel the edge right here.
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Be careful because it's sharper than you think.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Yeah, so these tools gave us the ability to cut.
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They take down an animal and they can only eat so much of the carcass because, you know, look at their dentition, right?
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They can just like scrape meat off.
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They have those big tongues to scrape meat off.
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But there's all this meat left over in the nooks and crannies of the ribs or in the skull there's the brain and stuff that these other predators can't access.
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But these tools right here gave us the ability to go in and cut that meat, which they couldn't get off.
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And they've done studies about it.
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There's like 20,000 calories in a zebra carcass, even if it's been fully eaten by multiple predators.
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So we were able to extract meat, which is super valuable, you know, back in the day.
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These kind of style tools appear at least 2.8 million years ago, but there's some from 3.3 million years ago.
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And we use the same kind of tools for, you know...
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over a million years.
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This is how my rectus appeared and they created what's called the Acheulean hand ax.
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And it's essentially a similar thing, but instead you work both of these edges, you knock flakes off both of these edges.
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So you have a cutting edge here, a cutting edge here, and a stabbing point.
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So it really helps you to cut meat, also work wood, and you could also probably use it as a weapon, you could imagine.
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Technology stayed like that for a very long time.
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It wasn't until around 300,000 years ago that they developed this technique called the Valois technology.
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And how this works is, so you take a core like this.
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So this is essentially the same thing.
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It's a core stone.
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And so you knock off a flake here, knock off a flake here, and then you knock off a flake in the middle and check this out.
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Ha!
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Yeah.
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It's a ready-made spear point.
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And it's pretty sharp.
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Oh my God, yes.
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It's sharp as a razor, really.
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Interesting.
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And this is like an example of a larger, this one's really sharp, spear point.
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And you can imagine, and this is just one of them that's on a stick, this is kind of a Neanderthal style spear point, and obviously it's not a full length, but you can imagine.
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What do they use to make it stick here?
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This right here is pine tar, which they use pine tar and birch glue, Neanderthals.
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And they would also probably use cordage as well to attach them.
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And they just need to stay there long enough to, you know, stab into an animal.
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Is these compounds accessible in nature, but it needs to be refined with fire or...
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah, you typically need heat in order to not only like refine it and make it better, but also to justify it.
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So Neanderthal did that before us.
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They probably sort of engineer glue or material.
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Yeah, independently of us, yeah.
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Wow, they're the sharpest one that I've seen.
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So this is called right here a blade core, and it's essentially the same thing that the Aztecs were doing.
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And instead of taking off these big points like this, you see, modern humans learned how to make these more, these tiny little blades that are much longer than they are wide.
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And with that technology, you can knock off hundreds from these types of cores, right?
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And you can just put that on the end of a spear and that will do the job fine.
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But they also learned how to do things like this.
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create weapons like this where you put those stone flakes into a bone or antler haft and then you put this on a spear.
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I actually have, here's a better example right there.
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Like a steak knife, right?
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Yeah, look at that atlatl dart right there.
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So that's an example of stone flakes into the side of a bone point and they found one of these in the side of a man of vertebrae.
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Wow.
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Yeah, absolutely brutal weapons.
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So this right here is a one-to-one replica of the only Mekwawit that's in existence right now.
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The other one burned down in the Spanish museum, but this one was found in Mexico City without any blades in it, it was just the wood.
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But so this is the weapon that not only the Aztecs, but other Mesoamericans used in warfare.
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You gotta be really careful because it's pretty sharp.
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Oh my god, yeah, I feel it.
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Yeah.
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That wouldn't take much to cut my fingers.
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And the conquistadors claimed it could cut a horse's head off in one swipe.
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So yeah, extremely deadly weapon.
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And there's a misconception that these were only used to injure enemies, then sacrifice them, which is partly true.
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They did injure a lot of enemies so they could go sacrifice them.
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That's kind of how you moved up in some of these warrior societies.
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But they also fought wars, and they were the biggest empire in Mesoamerica, right?
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So they had to kill people, right?
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And this was the weapon that many people preferred.
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Well, what's the main reason why all those, like the Aztec...
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the Maya disappears because disease of the Europeans?
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Yeah, I mean, conquest, disease, and basically assimilation with the new societies that formed after.
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So all the people are still there.
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You know, there's people still speaking the language of the Aztecs, Nahua.
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There's still plenty of people, Nahua people, speaking, I guess it's Nahua, which is like how you're supposed to say.
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You know, all these words are hard to pronounce for people.
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Like this is, a lot of people call it the Makuhuitl, but it's supposed to be the Makualitl.
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a different weapon.
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This is called a tepochtili, and this would have been on a spear, right?
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This is a spearhead, and it's essentially like a halberd spear-type weapon that you would cut enemies with.
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Oh my god.
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Yeah, and you can see I have plenty of blades here to make more of them in the future, so you can see they're transparent, like...
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They're sharper than any steel edge, really.
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Where did those stones come from?
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They actually, the Aztecs in their area, they had access to some of the largest obsidian deposits in the world.
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South America?
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That was in Mexico, so... Mid-Orient, North America.
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But yeah, so a lot of, there's a lot of volcanoes in that region, which is where, you know, you get obsidian from.
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So that's how they had access to so much of it.
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But they also had metal weapons as well.
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The Aztecs had little bronze axes that they would fight with and so did other people.
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When the Europeans arrived in America, what is the estimation of...
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the population that died from that encounter.
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It was, I mean, 90 to 95%, and that's...
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Millions?
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Yeah, and purely from disease, really.
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Like, the amount of people that died in direct conflict is probably negligible compared to just smallpox and measles, all these viruses that we were...
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creating in Europe or Eurasia for so many years of so many stuff that they're completely unprepared for it.
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Do you think it could have happened also in ancient prehistoric world when one species of hominid meet another one, they give each other disease?
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Yeah, it's definitely, definitely possible.
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And it's definitely something they consider.
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It's just hard sometimes I feel like for them to, you know, identify these diseases or, you know, prove that, but they probably had much more of an effect than we could even, you know, realize.
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We're about to test some weapons.
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Some ancient weapons and some more recent weapons to see their efficiency on this guy here.
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A real replica of a human being.
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You know, I'm a fighter, so everything that I'm obsessed about, it's always conflict, war, violence.
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So here we have all the Oshelot darts.
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Some of them are nine feet long.
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You can see that they flap around quite a bit, but that's how they're supposed to be made.
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If it's too stiff, it won't fly right.
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And these are made of like cane, which is very light.
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You can feel it.
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It's hollow.
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Oh, wow.
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It weighs almost nothing.
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Oh, this is much better than what I have.
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The one I have, it's not the same quality, I think.
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And this is a little heavier.
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It's made of just wood, but it's still a lot lighter than it looks.
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Oh, yeah.
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That's really what they used back in the day.
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Yeah.
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Like you talk about how far back we have to go to.
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Well, the thing is,
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Darts like these obviously decompose very quickly.
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So all we really have are, you know, the stone points that tipped them like this.
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And then the oldest evidence are actual spear throwing hooks.
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So let me show you over here.
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I have an example of kind of the oldest spear throwers that we found look like this.
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They're like, this is just 3D printed.
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So they had hooks like this made of bone that you hook the dart into.
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So you get a dart like this that has usually a hollow back, and then you put it into the hook, and then it's ready to throw.
224
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I actually am not as good with this spear throw.
225
00:15:02.917 --> 00:15:05.759
I'm going to use a different one.
226
00:15:06.300 --> 00:15:07.901
So this is just the same thing but with wood.
227
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Wow.
228
00:15:08.901 --> 00:15:10.442
And it just gives you more leverage.
229
00:15:10.823 --> 00:15:12.904
It's like throwing with an arm this long instead.
230
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And it allows you to throw, what is it?
231
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It's three times as far and twice as fast is what you can do with this.
232
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So you can see I can throw it.
233
00:15:22.765 --> 00:15:24.446
I need to warm up the shoulder a little bit.
234
00:15:24.526 --> 00:15:29.110
But, and keep in mind too, I can only throw a javelin maybe 100 feet.
235
00:15:29.150 --> 00:15:31.212
And some people can throw javelins 300 feet.
236
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So I am an absolute amateur compared to the people who actually use these to hunt.
237
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But you go, oh, oh wow.
238
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Yeah.
239
00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:43.721
And yeah, I can throw the longer ones too.
240
00:15:43.741 --> 00:15:46.984
They look a little, look a little funnier because they wobble so much.
241
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In terms of energy, it's, it might be kind of comparable to a hand thrown spear.
242
00:15:51.784 --> 00:15:56.308
but it's more about the speed and the distance that makes it really like revolutionary.
243
00:15:58.731 --> 00:16:01.514
Oh, nice.
244
00:16:01.814 --> 00:16:02.775
I'm going a lot farther.
245
00:16:03.496 --> 00:16:05.177
See if I can hit that deer in the head for me here.
246
00:16:05.898 --> 00:16:12.384
Probably not first try, but these are a lot simpler to make than a bow and arrow too, because you just need a stick and another stick.
247
00:16:12.504 --> 00:16:15.027
That's really all you need to make a spear thrower.
248
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That is crazy.
249
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Not quite his head.
250
00:16:22.061 --> 00:16:22.762
First shot.
251
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Might not be a kill, but it's pretty damn good.
252
00:16:26.364 --> 00:16:29.387
I mean, that's in the organs, but I want to get that head shot.
253
00:16:31.828 --> 00:16:32.609
Oh, come on.
254
00:16:33.029 --> 00:16:34.810
And I've barely really practiced this.
255
00:16:34.930 --> 00:16:37.172
I mean, think of someone who did this every single day.
256
00:16:37.492 --> 00:16:37.772
Yeah.
257
00:16:37.813 --> 00:16:38.033
Right.
258
00:16:38.793 --> 00:16:41.315
So it's, you know, you've done it a little bit before, but.
259
00:16:41.575 --> 00:16:41.875
Yeah.
260
00:16:42.636 --> 00:16:45.138
And you don't hold it with two hands, only one hand.
261
00:16:45.398 --> 00:16:45.558
Yeah.
262
00:16:48.783 --> 00:16:49.444
Okay, okay.
263
00:16:49.764 --> 00:16:50.765
That was pretty good though.
264
00:16:51.325 --> 00:16:53.367
I need a lot of practice with this.
265
00:16:55.409 --> 00:17:01.815
Imagine you're an antargetter, you're hiding in a bush and then you see a, I don't know, a deer or anything.
266
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A bison.
267
00:17:02.776 --> 00:17:03.277
A bison.
268
00:17:03.397 --> 00:17:04.438
Yeah, you can't miss.
269
00:17:04.498 --> 00:17:04.718
No.
270
00:17:07.080 --> 00:17:07.200
Ah!
271
00:17:07.460 --> 00:17:07.941
Terrible!
272
00:17:08.201 --> 00:17:09.122
Oh my god, that was bad.
273
00:17:09.923 --> 00:17:10.283
It's like...
274
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flicking it forward like this instead of like this.
275
00:17:14.129 --> 00:17:16.430
You know, it's, I don't know, it's kind of hard to explain.
276
00:17:16.450 --> 00:17:17.171
Maybe like a punch.
277
00:17:17.631 --> 00:17:18.732
Yeah, yeah.
278
00:17:18.852 --> 00:17:20.373
And, but it's with the wrist too.
279
00:17:20.413 --> 00:17:22.795
A lot of it comes from the flicking it, yeah.
280
00:17:22.815 --> 00:17:23.316
Okay, okay.
281
00:17:24.677 --> 00:17:26.458
Yeah, I guess that would have been a kill shot right there.
282
00:17:26.478 --> 00:17:27.258
Right in the lung.
283
00:17:27.459 --> 00:17:28.119
Yeah, yeah.
284
00:17:29.600 --> 00:17:31.622
Yeah, I think it could have hit the spine maybe.
285
00:17:32.442 --> 00:17:39.588
And you know, the, the, so the Aztecs still use these weapons for war, even until, you know, a couple hundred years ago.
286
00:17:40.630 --> 00:17:42.330
And that's why they're called atlat.
287
00:17:42.510 --> 00:17:43.891
That's an Aztec word.
288
00:17:44.971 --> 00:17:46.751
And they use these weapons basically like javelins.
289
00:17:46.771 --> 00:17:49.152
They'd start every battle with three of these.
290
00:17:49.352 --> 00:17:56.934
So they'd carry two or three of these darts, and you see a line of enemies, and you throw your spears, and then you pull out the sword, and then you go to work.
291
00:17:57.274 --> 00:17:57.474
Wow.
292
00:17:57.694 --> 00:18:01.035
You just need to develop the skill to use them.
293
00:18:01.155 --> 00:18:01.435
Yeah.
294
00:18:02.215 --> 00:18:05.536
And do you grab with two fingers?
295
00:18:06.136 --> 00:18:06.336
Yeah.
296
00:18:06.904 --> 00:18:09.045
Okay, me I was doing it like this, that's why.
297
00:18:09.165 --> 00:18:11.567
So you grab only with the two fingers like this?
298
00:18:11.587 --> 00:18:12.667
Yeah, that's how I used to do it.
299
00:18:12.687 --> 00:18:14.308
And then you just flick the wrist.
300
00:18:15.289 --> 00:18:18.811
So you go at the end of the lever here, with the two fingers.
301
00:18:22.473 --> 00:18:23.773
Woo, that was good though.
302
00:18:23.973 --> 00:18:26.074
Yeah.
303
00:18:29.276 --> 00:18:30.077
Ah, that was close.
304
00:18:30.597 --> 00:18:32.598
My family is gonna starve, no.
305
00:18:33.118 --> 00:18:34.339
I'm not gonna let that happen.
306
00:18:37.533 --> 00:18:38.574
Oh, that was close.
307
00:18:38.654 --> 00:18:39.355
That was close.
308
00:18:39.395 --> 00:18:40.976
Right in the antlers.
309
00:18:40.996 --> 00:18:41.656
Yeah, here.
310
00:18:41.696 --> 00:18:48.762
Let me start with this one.
311
00:18:48.782 --> 00:18:50.503
Yeah, some people can definitely be really accurate.
312
00:18:53.805 --> 00:18:53.965
Oh!
313
00:18:55.486 --> 00:18:56.147
It's close.
314
00:18:56.947 --> 00:18:58.128
Hey, I almost got that.
315
00:18:58.268 --> 00:18:58.629
Oh, did you?
316
00:18:58.649 --> 00:18:58.969
I didn't know.
317
00:18:59.049 --> 00:19:00.550
Oh, bro, it was the closest one.
318
00:19:00.850 --> 00:19:02.211
And it was with good velocity.
319
00:19:02.231 --> 00:19:03.212
It was, it was, oh yeah.
320
00:19:12.188 --> 00:19:14.729
But now I understand the mechanic of it.
321
00:19:14.909 --> 00:19:16.790
It's just the precision.
322
00:19:17.070 --> 00:19:17.290
Yeah.
323
00:19:18.151 --> 00:19:24.013
Australian Aboriginals, you know, we're still using these types of weapons upon contact with the British who colonized them.
324
00:19:24.794 --> 00:19:35.738
And there's a lot of accounts of British people being speared right through the chest with one of these completely like it passed through the entirety of their body.
325
00:19:35.938 --> 00:19:36.298
Wow.
326
00:19:36.438 --> 00:19:36.739
Yeah.
327
00:19:37.299 --> 00:19:38.499
It's they're really brutal.
328
00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:39.560
It comes out on the other side.
329
00:19:39.780 --> 00:19:40.060
Yeah.
330
00:19:43.294 --> 00:19:44.215
Oh, that was close.
331
00:19:44.315 --> 00:19:45.075
Right by his head.
332
00:19:47.897 --> 00:19:49.098
Oh, that and the leg.
333
00:19:49.138 --> 00:19:50.399
You would have cut the leg.
334
00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:51.580
Yeah, he would have been limping.
335
00:19:52.220 --> 00:19:53.121
No head shot yet.
336
00:19:54.362 --> 00:19:55.182
That's awesome, huh?
337
00:19:56.043 --> 00:19:56.543
Crazy.
338
00:19:57.364 --> 00:20:03.988
How does it make you feel being a vegetarian and seeing us trying to kill a poor little deer?
339
00:20:04.789 --> 00:20:08.772
I try to convince him to switch to eat meat that he doesn't want to.
340
00:20:09.672 --> 00:20:12.314
George, if you don't hit it this time, you have to go vegan for a week.
341
00:20:12.607 --> 00:20:13.228
Hell no!
342
00:20:14.669 --> 00:20:15.830
I'd rather starve!
343
00:20:17.931 --> 00:20:18.692
Come on!
344
00:20:20.273 --> 00:20:21.815
I think I actually touch it, no?
345
00:20:21.835 --> 00:20:24.217
Okay, if you hit this one, I'll eat a steak with you.
346
00:20:25.037 --> 00:20:25.718
You're serious?
347
00:20:25.918 --> 00:20:28.380
Yeah, if you get a clean headshot, I'll eat a steak with you.
348
00:20:28.761 --> 00:20:29.781
It stays between us.
349
00:20:32.944 --> 00:20:33.524
Oh man!
350
00:20:34.105 --> 00:20:35.326
That would have made my day.
351
00:20:35.406 --> 00:20:36.007
Yeah, man.
352
00:20:58.201 --> 00:20:59.722
Oh, whoa!
353
00:20:59.762 --> 00:21:02.204
Definitely a lung shot right there.
354
00:21:02.564 --> 00:21:04.005
Oh, yeah.
355
00:21:04.125 --> 00:21:10.249
My deer decoy might be decomposing a little bit, but... That's crazy.
356
00:21:10.269 --> 00:21:11.390
The mice are eating.
357
00:21:12.211 --> 00:21:12.611
Oh, God.
358
00:21:12.631 --> 00:21:13.832
Oh, we're antler down now.
359
00:21:15.273 --> 00:21:16.433
Yeah, that's good enough.
360
00:21:16.754 --> 00:21:16.994
Mmm.
361
00:21:19.195 --> 00:21:20.716
It's the same spot.
362
00:21:21.197 --> 00:21:23.038
So I hold it here, and I...
363
00:21:23.567 --> 00:21:26.088
with the tip of my two finger.
364
00:21:26.268 --> 00:21:27.148
That's how it's done, right?
365
00:21:27.509 --> 00:21:33.411
Yeah, that's the one without the knock on it.
366
00:21:33.431 --> 00:21:34.411
Oh, too far to the left.
367
00:21:35.112 --> 00:21:36.132
Too far, yeah, yeah.
368
00:21:36.172 --> 00:21:37.753
So I have to center myself.
369
00:21:42.715 --> 00:21:45.055
Now I was centered, but not strong enough, okay.
370
00:21:45.496 --> 00:21:46.716
Now I think I got this one.
371
00:21:50.618 --> 00:21:50.918
Oh!
372
00:21:59.274 --> 00:22:09.882
And you think that those priests or human were, I mean, if they practiced that every day because it was depending on their survival, they must have been quite accurate with that, right?
373
00:22:09.942 --> 00:22:13.565
Yeah, I bet easily they could probably hit that thing in the eye right now if they were here.
374
00:22:16.607 --> 00:22:17.688
Oh, wow!
375
00:22:18.348 --> 00:22:19.429
That was the same dart too.
376
00:22:19.449 --> 00:22:19.669
Wow.
377
00:22:21.831 --> 00:22:22.372
Watch out, guys.
378
00:22:22.392 --> 00:22:27.816
I think I need to buy a new one of these soon enough.
379
00:22:28.586 --> 00:22:29.747
I just have to drag this over there.
380
00:22:31.629 --> 00:22:34.331
This is the stand for the big dummy guy.
381
00:22:34.351 --> 00:22:36.933
I think it's serious.
382
00:22:36.953 --> 00:22:44.619
All right, Reyes, just grab a... Good?
383
00:22:45.060 --> 00:22:46.161
Is he bleeding a bit already?
384
00:22:46.661 --> 00:22:47.081
Something.
385
00:22:47.162 --> 00:22:47.662
Oh no.
386
00:22:48.022 --> 00:22:49.323
He must have burst or something.
387
00:22:50.024 --> 00:22:51.865
All right, this is gonna be hard to get it on top of that.
388
00:22:52.466 --> 00:22:53.227
Make it stable.
389
00:22:53.707 --> 00:22:54.107
This way?
390
00:22:54.247 --> 00:22:54.428
Yeah.
391
00:22:54.768 --> 00:22:55.549
All right, slow.
392
00:22:58.461 --> 00:22:58.661
Yeah.
393
00:22:59.522 --> 00:23:00.422
What's leaking already?
394
00:23:00.442 --> 00:23:00.882
I don't know.
395
00:23:00.902 --> 00:23:01.062
Yeah.
396
00:23:01.903 --> 00:23:03.644
Bob, we're going to call it Bob.
397
00:23:04.084 --> 00:23:05.284
You got to get him with that left hook.
398
00:23:05.985 --> 00:23:09.286
Yeah, it's got full, you can see it's got all the bones in here, shoulders.
399
00:23:09.807 --> 00:23:10.327
What's up, Leon?
400
00:23:10.347 --> 00:23:12.148
You want to try some weapon on it?
401
00:23:12.368 --> 00:23:13.589
Yeah, spear thrower first.
402
00:23:13.809 --> 00:23:16.650
So the thing about this camera too is you have to press stop.
403
00:23:16.710 --> 00:23:20.352
I'll have raise to it, but you have to press stop on it right after you take your shot.
404
00:23:20.372 --> 00:23:22.173
Because it just continuously records now.
405
00:23:22.773 --> 00:23:24.354
So it records the last 10 seconds.
406
00:23:38.538 --> 00:23:39.979
Oh man, that's in the bone.
407
00:23:40.039 --> 00:23:40.519
Yeah.
408
00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:42.340
Yeah, that one sucked.
409
00:23:42.460 --> 00:23:43.100
Hey, George.
410
00:23:44.361 --> 00:23:45.721
It broke inside of his body.
411
00:23:45.781 --> 00:23:45.961
Oh yeah.
412
00:23:46.001 --> 00:23:47.302
It made a sharper new edge.
413
00:23:50.223 --> 00:23:50.984
Oh!
414
00:23:51.024 --> 00:23:52.004
Broke his spear in half.
415
00:23:52.284 --> 00:23:52.924
Oh no!
416
00:23:53.685 --> 00:23:57.907
No, that's what they did.
417
00:23:57.947 --> 00:23:58.427
Oh, nice!
418
00:24:05.533 --> 00:24:08.614
And this one is a target practice.
419
00:24:08.694 --> 00:24:08.994
Yeah.
420
00:24:09.935 --> 00:24:11.415
I really want to have this cause for that.
421
00:24:11.435 --> 00:24:12.916
Yeah, with this, look at this blade.
422
00:24:13.756 --> 00:24:18.478
I haven't had a kill shot, so I'm pretty much to zero so far.
423
00:24:19.038 --> 00:24:20.039
But it takes practice.
424
00:24:20.699 --> 00:24:21.619
North is pretty good.
425
00:24:22.019 --> 00:24:24.620
He had two on two with the deer.
426
00:24:25.701 --> 00:24:33.884
Doesn't take many shots for him to get a kill shot with the dummy, so he's a...
427
00:24:34.568 --> 00:24:38.812
I would say I would rate him with a good 8, 8.5.
428
00:24:39.953 --> 00:24:40.774
Like that?
429
00:24:41.434 --> 00:24:42.515
Alright, it's your turn though.
430
00:24:48.981 --> 00:24:50.102
Oh no, this one.
431
00:24:50.222 --> 00:24:51.884
I hit the pole.
432
00:24:52.044 --> 00:24:53.345
Actually, I hit the pole.
433
00:24:53.545 --> 00:24:54.606
You should keep the...
434
00:24:54.626 --> 00:24:57.549
So when you're throwing it, keep the tip aimed at the target down.
435
00:24:57.909 --> 00:24:59.110
Sometimes your tip is rising up.
436
00:25:00.340 --> 00:25:04.323
So yeah, make sure the tip is in line so you're just like pushing it in line.
437
00:25:04.423 --> 00:25:04.763
I see.
438
00:25:07.505 --> 00:25:08.746
Oh yeah, yeah.
439
00:25:08.766 --> 00:25:08.986
See?
440
00:25:09.026 --> 00:25:10.087
That was much straighter.
441
00:25:10.968 --> 00:25:11.148
Aim.
442
00:25:13.810 --> 00:25:15.251
Yes!
443
00:25:15.471 --> 00:25:15.811
Yes!
444
00:25:16.952 --> 00:25:17.412
I did it!
445
00:25:18.973 --> 00:25:20.134
Kill shot, hopefully.
446
00:25:20.154 --> 00:25:21.255
Oh, I gotta get the so-mo.
447
00:25:27.778 --> 00:25:29.859
Yeah, it's not an immediate kill shot.
448
00:25:30.500 --> 00:25:32.241
Slow and agonizing death.
449
00:25:32.701 --> 00:25:41.546
I know you're gonna get a hard shot here, I can just feel it.
450
00:25:41.566 --> 00:25:41.866
No, no, no.
451
00:25:41.886 --> 00:25:42.107
Okay.
452
00:25:42.827 --> 00:25:45.789
Joe Rogan had a clip of my spear thrower on his show.
453
00:25:46.513 --> 00:25:52.615
It was unrelated to what they were talking about, but he, so it was equipped with me with the same setup right here.
454
00:25:53.135 --> 00:25:56.136
And I was throwing the spear and you know, how it wobbles around.
455
00:25:56.717 --> 00:25:59.358
It was wobbling around and he was like, look at that bullshit.
456
00:26:00.138 --> 00:26:05.160
He didn't understand that, you know, it's like actually a serious hunting weapon or, and it's supposed to bend like that.
457
00:26:05.180 --> 00:26:06.720
You know, that's how it, it's just like an arrow.
458
00:26:06.780 --> 00:26:09.021
It has to flex in order to fly straight.
459
00:26:11.602 --> 00:26:12.522
Oh, there we go.
460
00:26:12.882 --> 00:26:13.623
Let me, let me get it.
461
00:26:23.506 --> 00:26:24.166
Nice!
462
00:26:24.186 --> 00:26:26.127
Alright, I'll stop the slow-mo for that one.
463
00:26:26.147 --> 00:26:26.287
Nice!
464
00:26:32.629 --> 00:26:35.450
Alright, that's a hard shot right there.
465
00:26:35.890 --> 00:26:36.530
Definitely.
466
00:26:39.431 --> 00:26:47.734
This one died for sure.
467
00:26:51.175 --> 00:26:52.135
Work this thing out.
468
00:26:54.039 --> 00:26:55.020
Ancient surgery.
469
00:26:56.601 --> 00:26:59.784
But with leverage, wow, you just fall back like that.
470
00:27:02.826 --> 00:27:04.227
Oh, it bounced off of him.
471
00:27:08.031 --> 00:27:08.671
There we go.
472
00:27:13.515 --> 00:27:18.039
And it's a whole lot easier to hit the dummy with that than the sling you can imagine or the otlot.
473
00:27:18.940 --> 00:27:22.983
So yeah, you can see why crossbows were such a huge advantage.
474
00:27:23.497 --> 00:27:25.898
When did the crossbow first appear?
475
00:27:25.938 --> 00:27:27.479
That's kind of unknown.
476
00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:31.920
I mean, because they could have been made of wood so long ago and we would have hardly any proof.
477
00:27:32.040 --> 00:27:32.701
Ah, I see.
478
00:27:32.841 --> 00:27:34.861
In Europe, they came to dominate only in the Middle Ages.
479
00:27:34.881 --> 00:27:37.122
In China, they've been used a whole lot longer, actually.
480
00:27:37.542 --> 00:27:39.243
Yeah, it has a very heavy trigger pull.
481
00:27:39.403 --> 00:27:39.683
Okay.
482
00:27:39.723 --> 00:27:40.984
Which is, I guess, kind of the safety.
483
00:27:41.124 --> 00:27:42.724
So you push that?
484
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Yeah, you pull that down when you're ready.
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Okay, I go here.
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Yeah.
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Boom!
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Yeah, I guess I'm better with the crossbow than...
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Then with the javelin.
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You would have survived the Middle Ages.
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Not the prehistoric time.
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Maybe not.
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Oh, it's going to dye my hands red.
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So the Australian aboriginals use massive swords made out of wood to fight each other.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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You can imagine that could go right through your skin and flesh.
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If you go one-on-one combat, you make sure you don't miss because when you miss, the other guy can counter you.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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You can see right here the damage it did.
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So it doesn't really look much, like much.
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It's on our bone, right?
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Yeah, it went right to his collarbone.
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It's essentially just a sharp club.
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Damn.
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It's an Australian fighting pick, and it's essentially just a really sharp shard of stone hafted horizontally onto a stick.
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So yeah, you can see how,
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Attacking a guy with that easily.
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You puncture a big hole in his sternum.
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Yeah, I think it will hold up well enough to hit his head.
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We'll see.
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Oh yeah, that's a one.
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I think we should take the sword club to the head now.
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Yeah.
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Big old club.
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And this dummy is exactly like a human body.
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It's supposed to be 95% accurate.
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Wow.
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For a real human body, the gel and bones.
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Interesting.
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So yeah, that would do that to a person.
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That's crazy.
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I actually bought this shirt five years ago, so I can prove that I'm a real fan.
526
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You can tell it's been worn to death.
527
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But now I'm a fan of your channel.
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Oh, yeah.
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And one thing I should do, I should throw a kick to the dummy.
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Oh, yeah.
531
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So in conclusion, my boy, North, was able to kill it with the ancient weapon, but I wasn't able to succeed.
532
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However, I'm gonna use the most ancient and effective weapon I have, my body.
533
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Rush, rush, rush, yeah!
534
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If you like our content, please hit the subscribe button or the like button.
536
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That stuff really help us a bunch.
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Thank you and have a great day.
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Good morning.
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Nice to meet you, man.
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They had literally more lion-like teeth.
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We think of modern humans as the most successful species that ever lived.
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This lineage really did expand all over the world.
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This is the weapon that not only the Aztecs, but other Mesoamericans used in warfare.
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Oh my god.
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We're about to test some weapons.
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This thing is serious.
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Yes!
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Kill shot, hopefully.
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Ancient surgery.
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We are in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA to go meet with North.
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North has a channel, North02, where he covers paleontology, anthropology, history, basically everything that made us who we are.
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Very interesting stuff.
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I believe paleontology and anthropology are linked together because before we became human, we were coming from something else.
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The more you learn about the past, the more it helps you
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understand the present and Some time to predict the future because you quickly find out that life on this planet Follow a pattern a recurrent pattern and things always come back.
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It's very fascinating You know what I like about that project is that It's like going back to school, but I choose the topic of
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and the person that I want to learn from.
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It's exciting.
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Mr. North, good morning, how are you?
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Yeah, okay, perfect.
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I'm coming right now.
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Okay.
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Good morning.
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Nice meeting you, man.
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Thank you for having us.
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Yeah, yeah, of course.
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That's your dad office?
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Yeah, so my dad owns this office.
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He has an Amazon company.
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And then my office is over here, but we'll be shooting in my shop.
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Okay, okay.
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Let's talk about the prehistoric animals.
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So right here we have a Smilodon Fatalis.
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So this isn't even close to the biggest Smilodon.
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Fatalis is like the medium-sized species.
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And this animal probably weighed five, six hundred pounds.
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About the size of a modern lion, but built completely differently than how a modern lion is built.
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Fatalis lived in North America, right?
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In Populator South America?
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Yeah.
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You know, it's really crazy when you look at it.
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Because watch, you open up the jaw, and that's about as far as it goes.
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So somehow they use this amount of motion to be able to stab into their prey animals.
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And...
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They were built with extremely strong arms and chest, and everything in their upper body was extremely strong so they could grapple their prey, hold it down, and then stab it with their giant, giant canines.
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So this is the American lion.
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So this is the biggest big cat of North America during the Ice Age, and you can see just the size difference is absolutely insane.
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It's much larger than a modern lion.
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I mean, they were...
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Almost tied with Populator is some of the biggest cats that ever lived.
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They were up to 1,000 pounds, even exceeding that in some instances.
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Instead of those massive canines, they had literally more lion-like teeth.
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You know, it looks just like a lion.
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They're not extremely long, but this is for clamping down on the windpipe of prey or, you know, bleeding them out or suffocating them is usually how lions kill.
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But absolutely massive.
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Just look at that thing.
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So the short-faced bear, this is Arctodus simus.
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This is the North American species, and they can weigh up to 2,000 pounds.
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You know, three times the size of the average modern grizzly bear.
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Not only were they larger than almost any bear alive today, they were also built differently.
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You may have seen pictures.
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They have these longer arms,
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and longer legs that may have allowed them to, you know, run down prey more efficiently.
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Their diet may have actually been mostly vegetation and scavenging actually.
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They may have not been direct hunters like researchers first thought, but either way, a 2,000 pound bear is a 2,000 pound bear.
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But believe it or not, we actually have evidence that humans not only interacted with short-faced bears, but ate them and butchered them and took their hides actually.
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So there's some remains from, I believe it's like Iowa or something.
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There's multiple sites, actually.
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And there's short-faced bear hand bones, and you can see cuts around the hand bones.
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And the only reason you're usually cutting an animal's hands is you're taking off a hide because you're trying to get everything and turn it into a garment or something.
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But there's also other sites that show that their bones were burnt in fires, suggesting they were eating them.
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How they actually procured the short-faced bear, we have no idea.
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We think of modern humans as the most successful species that ever lived, but there's ancient human species that lived much longer than we live, right?
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Well, it'd have to be Homo erectus because they appeared around 1.8 million years ago.
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And then within a matter of only a blink of an eye in evolutionary terms, they spread out all the way into Europe, all the way into Asia.
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And we see skulls just like that in Africa and Asia and Europe at the same time, meaning that this lineage really did expand all over the world.
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They were doing something that no other hominid could do before them, whether it be advanced tool use or social communication or something.
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But they're arguably the most successful human species, especially because Neanderthals and our own species descends from them.
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These are tools.
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None of these are real, by the way.
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These are all reproductions.
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And this is an Oldowan hand axe.
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So what it is is essentially just a flake of stone.
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It's just a rock.
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But you can feel the edge right here.
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Be careful because it's sharper than you think.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Yeah, so these tools gave us the ability to cut.
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They take down an animal and they can only eat so much of the carcass because, you know, look at their dentition, right?
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They can just like scrape meat off.
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They have those big tongues to scrape meat off.
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But there's all this meat left over in the nooks and crannies of the ribs or in the skull there's the brain and stuff that these other predators can't access.
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But these tools right here gave us the ability to go in and cut that meat, which they couldn't get off.
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And they've done studies about it.
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There's like 20,000 calories in a zebra carcass, even if it's been fully eaten by multiple predators.
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So we were able to extract meat, which is super valuable, you know, back in the day.
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These kind of style tools appear at least 2.8 million years ago, but there's some from 3.3 million years ago.
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And we use the same kind of tools for, you know...
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over a million years.
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This is how my rectus appeared and they created what's called the Acheulean hand ax.
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And it's essentially a similar thing, but instead you work both of these edges, you knock flakes off both of these edges.
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So you have a cutting edge here, a cutting edge here, and a stabbing point.
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So it really helps you to cut meat, also work wood, and you could also probably use it as a weapon, you could imagine.
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Technology stayed like that for a very long time.
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It wasn't until around 300,000 years ago that they developed this technique called the Valois technology.
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And how this works is, so you take a core like this.
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So this is essentially the same thing.
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It's a core stone.
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And so you knock off a flake here, knock off a flake here, and then you knock off a flake in the middle and check this out.
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Ha!
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Yeah.
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It's a ready-made spear point.
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And it's pretty sharp.
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Oh my God, yes.
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It's sharp as a razor, really.
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Interesting.
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And this is like an example of a larger, this one's really sharp, spear point.
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And you can imagine, and this is just one of them that's on a stick, this is kind of a Neanderthal style spear point, and obviously it's not a full length, but you can imagine.
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What do they use to make it stick here?
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This right here is pine tar, which they use pine tar and birch glue, Neanderthals.
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And they would also probably use cordage as well to attach them.
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And they just need to stay there long enough to, you know, stab into an animal.
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Is these compounds accessible in nature, but it needs to be refined with fire or...
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah, you typically need heat in order to not only like refine it and make it better, but also to justify it.
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So Neanderthal did that before us.
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They probably sort of engineer glue or material.
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Yeah, independently of us, yeah.
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Wow, they're the sharpest one that I've seen.
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So this is called right here a blade core, and it's essentially the same thing that the Aztecs were doing.
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And instead of taking off these big points like this, you see, modern humans learned how to make these more, these tiny little blades that are much longer than they are wide.
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And with that technology, you can knock off hundreds from these types of cores, right?
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And you can just put that on the end of a spear and that will do the job fine.
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But they also learned how to do things like this.
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create weapons like this where you put those stone flakes into a bone or antler haft and then you put this on a spear.
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I actually have, here's a better example right there.
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Like a steak knife, right?
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Yeah, look at that atlatl dart right there.
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So that's an example of stone flakes into the side of a bone point and they found one of these in the side of a man of vertebrae.
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Wow.
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Yeah, absolutely brutal weapons.
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So this right here is a one-to-one replica of the only Mekwawit that's in existence right now.
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The other one burned down in the Spanish museum, but this one was found in Mexico City without any blades in it, it was just the wood.
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But so this is the weapon that not only the Aztecs, but other Mesoamericans used in warfare.
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You gotta be really careful because it's pretty sharp.
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Oh my god, yeah, I feel it.
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Yeah.
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That wouldn't take much to cut my fingers.
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And the conquistadors claimed it could cut a horse's head off in one swipe.
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So yeah, extremely deadly weapon.
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And there's a misconception that these were only used to injure enemies, then sacrifice them, which is partly true.
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They did injure a lot of enemies so they could go sacrifice them.
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That's kind of how you moved up in some of these warrior societies.
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But they also fought wars, and they were the biggest empire in Mesoamerica, right?
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So they had to kill people, right?
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And this was the weapon that many people preferred.
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Well, what's the main reason why all those, like the Aztec...
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the Maya disappears because disease of the Europeans?
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Yeah, I mean, conquest, disease, and basically assimilation with the new societies that formed after.
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So all the people are still there.
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You know, there's people still speaking the language of the Aztecs, Nahua.
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There's still plenty of people, Nahua people, speaking, I guess it's Nahua, which is like how you're supposed to say.
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You know, all these words are hard to pronounce for people.
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Like this is, a lot of people call it the Makuhuitl, but it's supposed to be the Makualitl.
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a different weapon.
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This is called a tepochtili, and this would have been on a spear, right?
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This is a spearhead, and it's essentially like a halberd spear-type weapon that you would cut enemies with.
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Oh my god.
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Yeah, and you can see I have plenty of blades here to make more of them in the future, so you can see they're transparent, like...
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They're sharper than any steel edge, really.
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Where did those stones come from?
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They actually, the Aztecs in their area, they had access to some of the largest obsidian deposits in the world.
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South America?
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That was in Mexico, so... Mid-Orient, North America.
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But yeah, so a lot of, there's a lot of volcanoes in that region, which is where, you know, you get obsidian from.
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So that's how they had access to so much of it.
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But they also had metal weapons as well.
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The Aztecs had little bronze axes that they would fight with and so did other people.
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When the Europeans arrived in America, what is the estimation of...
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the population that died from that encounter.
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It was, I mean, 90 to 95%, and that's...
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Millions?
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Yeah, and purely from disease, really.
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Like, the amount of people that died in direct conflict is probably negligible compared to just smallpox and measles, all these viruses that we were...
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creating in Europe or Eurasia for so many years of so many stuff that they're completely unprepared for it.
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Do you think it could have happened also in ancient prehistoric world when one species of hominid meet another one, they give each other disease?
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Yeah, it's definitely, definitely possible.
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And it's definitely something they consider.
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It's just hard sometimes I feel like for them to, you know, identify these diseases or, you know, prove that, but they probably had much more of an effect than we could even, you know, realize.
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We're about to test some weapons.
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Some ancient weapons and some more recent weapons to see their efficiency on this guy here.
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A real replica of a human being.
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You know, I'm a fighter, so everything that I'm obsessed about, it's always conflict, war, violence.
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So here we have all the Oshelot darts.
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Some of them are nine feet long.
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You can see that they flap around quite a bit, but that's how they're supposed to be made.
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If it's too stiff, it won't fly right.
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And these are made of like cane, which is very light.
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You can feel it.
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It's hollow.
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Oh, wow.
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It weighs almost nothing.
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Oh, this is much better than what I have.
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The one I have, it's not the same quality, I think.
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And this is a little heavier.
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It's made of just wood, but it's still a lot lighter than it looks.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's really what they used back in the day.
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Yeah.
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Like you talk about how far back we have to go to.
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Well, the thing is,
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Darts like these obviously decompose very quickly.
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So all we really have are, you know, the stone points that tipped them like this.
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And then the oldest evidence are actual spear throwing hooks.
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So let me show you over here.
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I have an example of kind of the oldest spear throwers that we found look like this.
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They're like, this is just 3D printed.
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So they had hooks like this made of bone that you hook the dart into.
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So you get a dart like this that has usually a hollow back, and then you put it into the hook, and then it's ready to throw.
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I actually am not as good with this spear throw.
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I'm going to use a different one.
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So this is just the same thing but with wood.
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Wow.
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And it just gives you more leverage.
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It's like throwing with an arm this long instead.
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And it allows you to throw, what is it?
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It's three times as far and twice as fast is what you can do with this.
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So you can see I can throw it.
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I need to warm up the shoulder a little bit.
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But, and keep in mind too, I can only throw a javelin maybe 100 feet.
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And some people can throw javelins 300 feet.
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So I am an absolute amateur compared to the people who actually use these to hunt.
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But you go, oh, oh wow.
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Yeah.
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And yeah, I can throw the longer ones too.
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They look a little, look a little funnier because they wobble so much.
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In terms of energy, it's, it might be kind of comparable to a hand thrown spear.
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but it's more about the speed and the distance that makes it really like revolutionary.
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Oh, nice.
244
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I'm going a lot farther.
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See if I can hit that deer in the head for me here.
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Probably not first try, but these are a lot simpler to make than a bow and arrow too, because you just need a stick and another stick.
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That's really all you need to make a spear thrower.
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That is crazy.
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Not quite his head.
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First shot.
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Might not be a kill, but it's pretty damn good.
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I mean, that's in the organs, but I want to get that head shot.
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Oh, come on.
254
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And I've barely really practiced this.
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I mean, think of someone who did this every single day.
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Yeah.
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Right.
258
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So it's, you know, you've done it a little bit before, but.
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Yeah.
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And you don't hold it with two hands, only one hand.
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Yeah.
262
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Okay, okay.
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That was pretty good though.
264
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I need a lot of practice with this.
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Imagine you're an antargetter, you're hiding in a bush and then you see a, I don't know, a deer or anything.
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A bison.
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A bison.
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Yeah, you can't miss.
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No.
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Ah!
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Terrible!
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Oh my god, that was bad.
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It's like...
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flicking it forward like this instead of like this.
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You know, it's, I don't know, it's kind of hard to explain.
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Maybe like a punch.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And, but it's with the wrist too.
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A lot of it comes from the flicking it, yeah.
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Okay, okay.
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Yeah, I guess that would have been a kill shot right there.
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Right in the lung.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, I think it could have hit the spine maybe.
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And you know, the, the, so the Aztecs still use these weapons for war, even until, you know, a couple hundred years ago.
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And that's why they're called atlat.
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That's an Aztec word.
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And they use these weapons basically like javelins.
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They'd start every battle with three of these.
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So they'd carry two or three of these darts, and you see a line of enemies, and you throw your spears, and then you pull out the sword, and then you go to work.
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Wow.
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You just need to develop the skill to use them.
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Yeah.
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And do you grab with two fingers?
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Yeah.
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Okay, me I was doing it like this, that's why.
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So you grab only with the two fingers like this?
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Yeah, that's how I used to do it.
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And then you just flick the wrist.
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So you go at the end of the lever here, with the two fingers.
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Woo, that was good though.
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Yeah.
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Ah, that was close.
304
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My family is gonna starve, no.
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I'm not gonna let that happen.
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Oh, that was close.
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That was close.
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Right in the antlers.
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Yeah, here.
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Let me start with this one.
311
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Yeah, some people can definitely be really accurate.
312
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Oh!
313
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It's close.
314
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Hey, I almost got that.
315
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Oh, did you?
316
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I didn't know.
317
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Oh, bro, it was the closest one.
318
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And it was with good velocity.
319
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It was, it was, oh yeah.
320
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But now I understand the mechanic of it.
321
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It's just the precision.
322
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Yeah.
323
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Australian Aboriginals, you know, we're still using these types of weapons upon contact with the British who colonized them.
324
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And there's a lot of accounts of British people being speared right through the chest with one of these completely like it passed through the entirety of their body.
325
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Wow.
326
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Yeah.
327
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It's they're really brutal.
328
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It comes out on the other side.
329
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Yeah.
330
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Oh, that was close.
331
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Right by his head.
332
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Oh, that and the leg.
333
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You would have cut the leg.
334
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Yeah, he would have been limping.
335
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No head shot yet.
336
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That's awesome, huh?
337
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Crazy.
338
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How does it make you feel being a vegetarian and seeing us trying to kill a poor little deer?
339
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I try to convince him to switch to eat meat that he doesn't want to.
340
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George, if you don't hit it this time, you have to go vegan for a week.
341
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Hell no!
342
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I'd rather starve!
343
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Come on!
344
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I think I actually touch it, no?
345
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Okay, if you hit this one, I'll eat a steak with you.
346
00:20:25.037 --> 00:20:25.718
You're serious?
347
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Yeah, if you get a clean headshot, I'll eat a steak with you.
348
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It stays between us.
349
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Oh man!
350
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That would have made my day.
351
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Yeah, man.
352
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Oh, whoa!
353
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Definitely a lung shot right there.
354
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Oh, yeah.
355
00:21:04.125 --> 00:21:10.249
My deer decoy might be decomposing a little bit, but... That's crazy.
356
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The mice are eating.
357
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Oh, God.
358
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Oh, we're antler down now.
359
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Yeah, that's good enough.
360
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Mmm.
361
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It's the same spot.
362
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So I hold it here, and I...
363
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with the tip of my two finger.
364
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That's how it's done, right?
365
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Yeah, that's the one without the knock on it.
366
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Oh, too far to the left.
367
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Too far, yeah, yeah.
368
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So I have to center myself.
369
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Now I was centered, but not strong enough, okay.
370
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Now I think I got this one.
371
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Oh!
372
00:21:59.274 --> 00:22:09.882
And you think that those priests or human were, I mean, if they practiced that every day because it was depending on their survival, they must have been quite accurate with that, right?
373
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Yeah, I bet easily they could probably hit that thing in the eye right now if they were here.
374
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Oh, wow!
375
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That was the same dart too.
376
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Wow.
377
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Watch out, guys.
378
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I think I need to buy a new one of these soon enough.
379
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I just have to drag this over there.
380
00:22:31.629 --> 00:22:34.331
This is the stand for the big dummy guy.
381
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I think it's serious.
382
00:22:36.953 --> 00:22:44.619
All right, Reyes, just grab a... Good?
383
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Is he bleeding a bit already?
384
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Something.
385
00:22:47.162 --> 00:22:47.662
Oh no.
386
00:22:48.022 --> 00:22:49.323
He must have burst or something.
387
00:22:50.024 --> 00:22:51.865
All right, this is gonna be hard to get it on top of that.
388
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Make it stable.
389
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This way?
390
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Yeah.
391
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All right, slow.
392
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Yeah.
393
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What's leaking already?
394
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I don't know.
395
00:23:00.902 --> 00:23:01.062
Yeah.
396
00:23:01.903 --> 00:23:03.644
Bob, we're going to call it Bob.
397
00:23:04.084 --> 00:23:05.284
You got to get him with that left hook.
398
00:23:05.985 --> 00:23:09.286
Yeah, it's got full, you can see it's got all the bones in here, shoulders.
399
00:23:09.807 --> 00:23:10.327
What's up, Leon?
400
00:23:10.347 --> 00:23:12.148
You want to try some weapon on it?
401
00:23:12.368 --> 00:23:13.589
Yeah, spear thrower first.
402
00:23:13.809 --> 00:23:16.650
So the thing about this camera too is you have to press stop.
403
00:23:16.710 --> 00:23:20.352
I'll have raise to it, but you have to press stop on it right after you take your shot.
404
00:23:20.372 --> 00:23:22.173
Because it just continuously records now.
405
00:23:22.773 --> 00:23:24.354
So it records the last 10 seconds.
406
00:23:38.538 --> 00:23:39.979
Oh man, that's in the bone.
407
00:23:40.039 --> 00:23:40.519
Yeah.
408
00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:42.340
Yeah, that one sucked.
409
00:23:42.460 --> 00:23:43.100
Hey, George.
410
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It broke inside of his body.
411
00:23:45.781 --> 00:23:45.961
Oh yeah.
412
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It made a sharper new edge.
413
00:23:50.223 --> 00:23:50.984
Oh!
414
00:23:51.024 --> 00:23:52.004
Broke his spear in half.
415
00:23:52.284 --> 00:23:52.924
Oh no!
416
00:23:53.685 --> 00:23:57.907
No, that's what they did.
417
00:23:57.947 --> 00:23:58.427
Oh, nice!
418
00:24:05.533 --> 00:24:08.614
And this one is a target practice.
419
00:24:08.694 --> 00:24:08.994
Yeah.
420
00:24:09.935 --> 00:24:11.415
I really want to have this cause for that.
421
00:24:11.435 --> 00:24:12.916
Yeah, with this, look at this blade.
422
00:24:13.756 --> 00:24:18.478
I haven't had a kill shot, so I'm pretty much to zero so far.
423
00:24:19.038 --> 00:24:20.039
But it takes practice.
424
00:24:20.699 --> 00:24:21.619
North is pretty good.
425
00:24:22.019 --> 00:24:24.620
He had two on two with the deer.
426
00:24:25.701 --> 00:24:33.884
Doesn't take many shots for him to get a kill shot with the dummy, so he's a...
427
00:24:34.568 --> 00:24:38.812
I would say I would rate him with a good 8, 8.5.
428
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Like that?
429
00:24:41.434 --> 00:24:42.515
Alright, it's your turn though.
430
00:24:48.981 --> 00:24:50.102
Oh no, this one.
431
00:24:50.222 --> 00:24:51.884
I hit the pole.
432
00:24:52.044 --> 00:24:53.345
Actually, I hit the pole.
433
00:24:53.545 --> 00:24:54.606
You should keep the...
434
00:24:54.626 --> 00:24:57.549
So when you're throwing it, keep the tip aimed at the target down.
435
00:24:57.909 --> 00:24:59.110
Sometimes your tip is rising up.
436
00:25:00.340 --> 00:25:04.323
So yeah, make sure the tip is in line so you're just like pushing it in line.
437
00:25:04.423 --> 00:25:04.763
I see.
438
00:25:07.505 --> 00:25:08.746
Oh yeah, yeah.
439
00:25:08.766 --> 00:25:08.986
See?
440
00:25:09.026 --> 00:25:10.087
That was much straighter.
441
00:25:10.968 --> 00:25:11.148
Aim.
442
00:25:13.810 --> 00:25:15.251
Yes!
443
00:25:15.471 --> 00:25:15.811
Yes!
444
00:25:16.952 --> 00:25:17.412
I did it!
445
00:25:18.973 --> 00:25:20.134
Kill shot, hopefully.
446
00:25:20.154 --> 00:25:21.255
Oh, I gotta get the so-mo.
447
00:25:27.778 --> 00:25:29.859
Yeah, it's not an immediate kill shot.
448
00:25:30.500 --> 00:25:32.241
Slow and agonizing death.
449
00:25:32.701 --> 00:25:41.546
I know you're gonna get a hard shot here, I can just feel it.
450
00:25:41.566 --> 00:25:41.866
No, no, no.
451
00:25:41.886 --> 00:25:42.107
Okay.
452
00:25:42.827 --> 00:25:45.789
Joe Rogan had a clip of my spear thrower on his show.
453
00:25:46.513 --> 00:25:52.615
It was unrelated to what they were talking about, but he, so it was equipped with me with the same setup right here.
454
00:25:53.135 --> 00:25:56.136
And I was throwing the spear and you know, how it wobbles around.
455
00:25:56.717 --> 00:25:59.358
It was wobbling around and he was like, look at that bullshit.
456
00:26:00.138 --> 00:26:05.160
He didn't understand that, you know, it's like actually a serious hunting weapon or, and it's supposed to bend like that.
457
00:26:05.180 --> 00:26:06.720
You know, that's how it, it's just like an arrow.
458
00:26:06.780 --> 00:26:09.021
It has to flex in order to fly straight.
459
00:26:11.602 --> 00:26:12.522
Oh, there we go.
460
00:26:12.882 --> 00:26:13.623
Let me, let me get it.
461
00:26:23.506 --> 00:26:24.166
Nice!
462
00:26:24.186 --> 00:26:26.127
Alright, I'll stop the slow-mo for that one.
463
00:26:26.147 --> 00:26:26.287
Nice!
464
00:26:32.629 --> 00:26:35.450
Alright, that's a hard shot right there.
465
00:26:35.890 --> 00:26:36.530
Definitely.
466
00:26:39.431 --> 00:26:47.734
This one died for sure.
467
00:26:51.175 --> 00:26:52.135
Work this thing out.
468
00:26:54.039 --> 00:26:55.020
Ancient surgery.
469
00:26:56.601 --> 00:26:59.784
But with leverage, wow, you just fall back like that.
470
00:27:02.826 --> 00:27:04.227
Oh, it bounced off of him.
471
00:27:08.031 --> 00:27:08.671
There we go.
472
00:27:13.515 --> 00:27:18.039
And it's a whole lot easier to hit the dummy with that than the sling you can imagine or the otlot.
473
00:27:18.940 --> 00:27:22.983
So yeah, you can see why crossbows were such a huge advantage.
474
00:27:23.497 --> 00:27:25.898
When did the crossbow first appear?
475
00:27:25.938 --> 00:27:27.479
That's kind of unknown.
476
00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:31.920
I mean, because they could have been made of wood so long ago and we would have hardly any proof.
477
00:27:32.040 --> 00:27:32.701
Ah, I see.
478
00:27:32.841 --> 00:27:34.861
In Europe, they came to dominate only in the Middle Ages.
479
00:27:34.881 --> 00:27:37.122
In China, they've been used a whole lot longer, actually.
480
00:27:37.542 --> 00:27:39.243
Yeah, it has a very heavy trigger pull.
481
00:27:39.403 --> 00:27:39.683
Okay.
482
00:27:39.723 --> 00:27:40.984
Which is, I guess, kind of the safety.
483
00:27:41.124 --> 00:27:42.724
So you push that?
484
00:27:43.225 --> 00:27:44.525
Yeah, you pull that down when you're ready.
485
00:27:44.885 --> 00:27:45.826
Okay, I go here.
486
00:27:46.166 --> 00:27:46.426
Yeah.
487
00:27:48.507 --> 00:27:50.027
Boom!
488
00:27:50.067 --> 00:27:52.128
Yeah, I guess I'm better with the crossbow than...
489
00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:54.400
Then with the javelin.
490
00:27:55.561 --> 00:27:57.982
You would have survived the Middle Ages.
491
00:27:58.002 --> 00:27:59.163
Not the prehistoric time.
492
00:27:59.223 --> 00:27:59.623
Maybe not.
493
00:27:59.883 --> 00:28:02.785
Oh, it's going to dye my hands red.
494
00:28:03.405 --> 00:28:09.109
So the Australian aboriginals use massive swords made out of wood to fight each other.
495
00:28:09.129 --> 00:28:10.630
Oh, yeah.
496
00:28:10.790 --> 00:28:11.110
Yeah.
497
00:28:11.470 --> 00:28:14.852
You can imagine that could go right through your skin and flesh.
498
00:28:14.953 --> 00:28:20.816
If you go one-on-one combat, you make sure you don't miss because when you miss, the other guy can counter you.
499
00:28:20.876 --> 00:28:21.617
Yeah, that's right.
500
00:28:21.637 --> 00:28:21.977
Wow.
501
00:28:21.997 --> 00:28:22.077
Wow.
502
00:28:31.773 --> 00:28:33.594
You can see right here the damage it did.
503
00:28:34.996 --> 00:28:36.557
So it doesn't really look much, like much.
504
00:28:36.597 --> 00:28:37.177
It's on our bone, right?
505
00:28:37.197 --> 00:28:39.099
Yeah, it went right to his collarbone.
506
00:28:43.322 --> 00:28:44.923
It's essentially just a sharp club.
507
00:28:45.684 --> 00:28:46.144
Damn.
508
00:28:46.805 --> 00:28:55.832
It's an Australian fighting pick, and it's essentially just a really sharp shard of stone hafted horizontally onto a stick.
509
00:28:56.632 --> 00:28:58.534
So yeah, you can see how,
510
00:28:59.318 --> 00:29:01.600
Attacking a guy with that easily.
511
00:29:01.640 --> 00:29:03.821
You puncture a big hole in his sternum.
512
00:29:04.001 --> 00:29:08.384
Yeah, I think it will hold up well enough to hit his head.
513
00:29:08.624 --> 00:29:16.769
We'll see.
514
00:29:16.969 --> 00:29:18.110
Oh yeah, that's a one.
515
00:29:21.932 --> 00:29:23.913
I think we should take the sword club to the head now.
516
00:29:24.173 --> 00:29:24.474
Yeah.
517
00:29:24.494 --> 00:29:25.094
Big old club.
518
00:29:37.110 --> 00:29:41.113
And this dummy is exactly like a human body.
519
00:29:41.233 --> 00:29:43.714
It's supposed to be 95% accurate.
520
00:29:43.954 --> 00:29:44.195
Wow.
521
00:29:44.215 --> 00:29:46.716
For a real human body, the gel and bones.
522
00:29:47.156 --> 00:29:47.637
Interesting.
523
00:29:47.737 --> 00:29:49.638
So yeah, that would do that to a person.
524
00:29:49.678 --> 00:29:52.060
That's crazy.
525
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:55.822
I actually bought this shirt five years ago, so I can prove that I'm a real fan.
526
00:29:55.842 --> 00:29:58.163
You can tell it's been worn to death.
527
00:29:58.404 --> 00:29:59.865
But now I'm a fan of your channel.
528
00:29:59.965 --> 00:30:01.265
Oh, yeah.
529
00:30:02.126 --> 00:30:04.387
And one thing I should do, I should throw a kick to the dummy.
530
00:30:04.508 --> 00:30:05.068
Oh, yeah.
531
00:30:06.458 --> 00:30:14.848
So in conclusion, my boy, North, was able to kill it with the ancient weapon, but I wasn't able to succeed.
532
00:30:15.028 --> 00:30:21.776
However, I'm gonna use the most ancient and effective weapon I have, my body.
533
00:30:22.196 --> 00:30:23.818
Rush, rush, rush, yeah!
534
00:30:33.435 --> 00:30:34.737
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